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by epsylon 13y ago
They're a perfect example of Poe's law. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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by epsylon 13y ago
> Ask HN: I was thinking the other day, someone should make an Oculus Rift app that is just a giant conference room of people staring at you. People with stage fright could use this to practice public speaking and hopefully improve. This
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by epsylon 13y ago
Or to prevent annoying witnesses from testifying: http://boingboing.net/2013/12/04/dhs-stalls-no-fly-list-tria...
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Remembering Aaron(eff.org)
4 points by epsylon 13y ago|0 comments
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by epsylon 13y ago
Which isn't popular with the average Joe, because in contrast to MB, where all the types have somewhat positive names (Architect, Healer, Protector, Mastermind, Champion, Inventor, ...), the big 5 measures personality traits that can b
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by epsylon 13y ago
It's not just you, it looks horrible here as well. The font "chaparral-pro-display" seems poorly hinted (at least on my firefox) and has hideous geometry (big blobs / spots on letters like 'r' and 'u'
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Battlecode - AI Programming Competition(battlecode.org)
2 points by epsylon 13y ago|0 comments
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by epsylon 13y ago
Remember the homeless guy who coded an app? Imagine what a basic income could do to the millions of people whose brainpower is mostly dedicated to surviving day to day, week to week, month to month. (Because indeed, poverty taxes our brain
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Why we should give free money to everyone(decorrespondent.nl)
147 points by epsylon 13y ago|164 comments
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An 8086 PC emulator in 4043 bytes(ioccc.org)
196 points by epsylon 13y ago|38 comments
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by epsylon 13y ago
I know people on HN enjoy being hyperbolic, but I certainly wouldn't call a piece of tech journalism art .
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by epsylon 13y ago
Quiet by Susan Cain The Art of Meditation by Mathieu Ricard (I've read it in French, though) The first changed profoundly how I view myself, the second shows me how I can improve.
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by epsylon 13y ago
> I doubt that their experience will translate very well into the long tail of musicians. Oh I'm sure it does. I certainly wouldn't know as many bands as I know today without piracy - and this translates very much into buying C
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by epsylon 13y ago
uTorrent is fine if you stick to version 2.x. That's what I do. I've tried Deluge and Transmission, but they really suck compared to uTorrent 2.
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by epsylon 13y ago
Good old Signal Intelligence.
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by epsylon 13y ago
Have to mention that your blog is pretty awesome as well: http://jvns.ca/blog/2013/10/23/day-15-how-gzip-works/
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by epsylon 13y ago
> If you need bigger screen, chances are you do not want a phone - you want a tablet. This kind of remarks is really annoying because it suggests that you know better than us (the people who want larger screens) when you really don'
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by epsylon 13y ago
There's a huge difference between a tablet and a screen size larger than the iPhone's.
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by epsylon 13y ago
Unfortunately I haven't seen it for sale on Massdrop since I've registered months ago... Of all the mechanical keyboard designs I've seen, that's the only one that makes sense to me ergonomically.
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by epsylon 13y ago
That'd be for the better of 99% of the other living species on Earth.
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by epsylon 13y ago
The angry customers aren't "getting" 300$. They're getting their money back. Virtuous giant lose virtually nothing in the process (perhaps the cost of the transaction and some man-minutes for processing the refund). An
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by epsylon 13y ago
Only if you know you don't take them into account. Mathematically speaking, you can have a perfectly unbiased output from a biased input, if you know the bias model and account for it.
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by epsylon 13y ago
I second that, it's been the best course I've taken up on coursera so far (with Dan Boneh's crypto). The lectures are great, but the best for me was the high quality provided course notes. I read those in my morning and eveni
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by epsylon 13y ago
snprintf is C99 IIRC. Which means legacy C89 compilers (or worse!) don't have it.
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by epsylon 13y ago
Even O(1) operations on lists can break cache locality. Since you're chaining using pointers, all bets that your cells are nearby are off. With vectors, they always are.
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by epsylon 13y ago
As far as automated trading is concerned, performance is critical, which is why C++ still is king in this domain.
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by epsylon 13y ago
Actually, there's a very elegant solution to the diamond problem. Eiffel does this with a renaming mechanism. Martin Odersky certainly knew about Eiffel's solution when he designed Scala, but my guess is that, he chose the simpler
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by epsylon 13y ago
There are no democracies, only oligarchies.
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by epsylon 13y ago
To further prove the point about cache locality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iWb_qi2-uI&t=44m50s
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by epsylon 13y ago
Gold was chosen historically because: 1. It's shiny: it can be used for jewelry and thus display wealth and power to fellow citizens. 2. It doesn't corrode, which means it keeps it value over time. You can store it in a a chest or

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