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by fhars 16y ago
No, momentum is conserved, that is one of the fundamental laws of physics, right up there with the conservation of energy. In the beginning, the OMFG particle is at rest, and the protodisk particles orbit symmetrically around the center of
842.
by fhars 16y ago
The simulation is quite bad numerically. If I start with a proto disk and then put an non-moving OMFG particle immediately to the left of it, the whole system that is initially at rest will end a with a considerable momentum to the left, ev
843.
by fhars 16y ago
But then the described service is useless, because you can only trust the confidentiality of your mail in so far as you can trust the honesty of the service provider not to hide backdoors in the js they send to your browser. But then you ca
844.
by fhars 16y ago
No, he meant the rel="canonical" links.
845.
by fhars 16y ago
Of course it was necessary for the Guinea to be worth more than the pound, since it was made of gold, not of silver. There is a method in the insanity.
846.
by fhars 16y ago
Giving people responsible for performance tuning access to user data is almost inevitable if you run anything remotely like unix. After all, it may require tweaking kernel parameters, changing init sctripts or reinstalling applications comp
847.
by fhars 16y ago
R and S already have completely different scoping rules (S is dynamically scoped, while R has static scope, although quite broken according to the article). So it might be totally possible to develop a third language with mostly the same sy
848.
by fhars 16y ago
That is exactly why the lackof in-archive compression is bad, with tar you lose tje whole rest of the archive on a single bit error, with in-archive compression you lose just the file the error is located in.
849.
by fhars 16y ago
Not exactly the same variables, but similar enough: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2007...
850.
by fhars 16y ago
What has that got to do with the chart in the article which has clearly labeled axes?
851.
by fhars 16y ago
That is the beauty (for the lender, that is) of the american student loan system: they are mostly immune to bancruptcy of the borrower, see for example http://chronicle.com/article/Lawmakers-Introduce-Bills-to/65... for the current discus
852.
by fhars 16y ago
The only real data we have are the effects of the 1859 solar storm (ask your favorite search engine, my stupid phone still has no copy and paste), which carried enough EMF to burn up telegraph lines. So we have one dangerous event in 150 ye
853.
by fhars 16y ago
Yeah, Opera Mini 4 not being available on android is a major consoling factor when I decide once again to keep my crappy Symbian phone and spend the money on something else instead. (Opera Mini 5 is available, but it is a horrible usabilit
854.
by fhars 16y ago
Moby Dick is very short compared to a normal server logfile.
855.
by fhars 16y ago
And now it is at -12, as you can see by looking at the total karma of -13 for this one-comment throwaway account. (Ha, I found an information disclosure vulnerability in the HN codebase ;-))
856.
by fhars 16y ago
Actually, if you do your dishes in the sink, your water consumption will be four to ten times and your energy consumption up to four times higher than in a modern dishwasher, see table 2 on page 9 of http://linusov.info/wp-content/uploads/
857.
by fhars 16y ago
Sun bought several of these, especially the developers of Strongtalk, a compiled, statically typed dialect of Smalltalk. So if there is any prior art on this, chances are that all the related patents are now in Oracle's portfolio.
858.
by fhars 16y ago
If something an obviously intelligent person says sounds preposterous, maybe you should question your own reading before assuming malice? Confirming the reception of an unpublished paper is basic scientific courteousness, and citing these c
859.
by fhars 16y ago
Just like he wouldn't mention the font size of the paper in the original announcement. I seriously doubt that any of these confirmations did confirm more the the receipt of a paper that seems to look legit, nobody can verify 66 pages of adv
860.
by fhars 16y ago
Confirmation as in "Thank you, I have recieved your paper which looks interesting and will read it when I find time", not as in "I have read your paper and fond that all details are correct", obviously.
861.
by fhars 16y ago
But there are no rockstar programmers, there are only rockstar astrophysicists, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Harold_May
862.
by fhars 16y ago
Which gives you 125 tons for 5TB on 80g/m² paper single sided, which gives you about the same cost as the 119 tons double sided in the GP, but without paper jams in the duplexer unit.
863.
by fhars 16y ago
Neither tape nor SSDs will last 50 years. Within about 10 years, tapes will loose magnetization through thermal movement and capacitors in SSD storage cells will flip due to cosmic radiation. Over some decades the plastic the media and/or c
864.
by fhars 16y ago
Yeah, especially since debian freezes come so often that the resulting deluge of announcements has a very spammy feeling to it.
865.
by fhars 16y ago
Didn't we have a discussion on the dangers of tribalism just the other day http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1561607 ? Why should it be a good idea this week just because your tribe comes with a cheap data plan and a fancy credit card?
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by fhars 16y ago
Here is a citation (in german legalese, sorry for that): http://www.jurpc.de/rechtspr/20000026.htm
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by fhars 16y ago
If they can convince the judges that the cards cannot be skimmed, than the very existence of a record of a transaction with a skimmed RFID is legal proof that you did in fact authorize that transaction with your authentic card. There is abs
868.
by fhars 16y ago
Why? Because there seems to be a short attention span downvoting cabal on HN. Any post that is mildly controversial and requires people to think has a moderate to high chance of going to -2 within the first 45 minutes, only to bounce back t
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by fhars 16y ago
They could either repurpose the old U+20A8 RUPEE SIGN or (less stupid) try to get one of the unallocated Slots U+20B6 to U+20CF following the allocated currency signs.
870.
by fhars 16y ago
Pick an easily measurable quantity related to your goal (like weight or waist circumference), measure it regularly and try to figure out how your behaviour influences it. Will regular exercise reduce weigth? How do the changes in weekly ave

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