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by fiveoak 10y ago
Using Slack is like a dream compared to Skype for Business. Sure Slack may have some dumb default settings but Skype for Business finds a way to somehow sabotage 5-10 mins of most meetings with some sort of technology issue.
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by fiveoak 10y ago
Sensor quality shouldn't be used to justify driverless cars being safer than a regular person driving a car. It's useless unless the car can actually use it to make a better decision than a human.
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by fiveoak 10y ago
Eventually, it might be. However just because the car has better sensors doesn't mean it will react better than a human would with less information.
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by fiveoak 10y ago
I'd be interested to know how much of that is from political spending during this crazy election year.
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by fiveoak 11y ago
You could also use a subresource integrity check if you are worried about the security but still want to use Google's hosted version.
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by fiveoak 11y ago
Seemed to work for me, although it took a while to load and said "All systems operational" edit: Now says "19:32 Eastern Standard TimeWe're investigating connectivity problems on github.com." edit2: "19:47 East
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by fiveoak 11y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10329782
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by fiveoak 11y ago
In the picture of the linked article he's clearly holding Strang's book - see a picture of it on Strang's site here: http://math.mit.edu/~gs/linearalgebra/ . Also, the campus newspaper reported that
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by fiveoak 11y ago
To put it in perspective: there are more people who want a job but aren't looking for a job than there are people in the entire US prison system (2.6 million vs 2.4 million).
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by fiveoak 11y ago
Yep, although it is slightly worrying that there are 2.6 million people who want a job but aren’t looking. If I had to guess, probably a lot of that is due to a lack of marketable skills.
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by fiveoak 11y ago
For anyone wondering since I didn't see it in the article, it seems like the $76 book is "Introduction to Linear Algebra" by Gilbert Strang. Not sure about the free book though.
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by fiveoak 11y ago
I have 100 tabs open right now across 12 windows... I think I have a problem.
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by fiveoak 11y ago
In the US this is incorrect, it's classified as barter income: http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc420.html "An example of bartering is a plumber exchanging plumbing services for the dental services of a dentist.
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by fiveoak 11y ago
In general, it's in your best interest not to disclose it.
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by fiveoak 11y ago
Suggestion: if a customer pays for an annual subscription of the software, grant them a perpetual license for the corresponding major milestone version of that product. For instance if I paid for an annual subscription of IntelliJ in 2015,
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by fiveoak 11y ago
It's pretty cool to finally have a discount option to subscribe to all of the JetBrains products. When my existing IntelliJ license free upgrade period expires I'll probably subscribe to the "all products" option. That s
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by fiveoak 11y ago
Is the source for these projects on GitHub?
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by fiveoak 11y ago
Probably because they can't legally disclose the reason.
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by fiveoak 11y ago
I use Mint, and of course I don't think providing your bank credentials to a 3rd party service is a good idea. That said the company backing Mint currently (Intuit) also does TurboTax, so at least they have some experience with handlin
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by fiveoak 11y ago
Pretty cool, I wonder how the features compare to IDA pro. The graph view from the screenshots looks nice.
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by fiveoak 11y ago
A little off topic, but is there any benchmarking software to compare embedded databases? For instance SQLite vs H2.
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by fiveoak 11y ago
Here's a link to the actual journal article in Nature: http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.149 (unfortunately probably pay-walled)
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by fiveoak 11y ago
As a Python newbie, Anaconda helped out a lot. Getting SciPy/NumPy/Pandas etc working on a regular Windows machine was a huge pain compared to just installing a single application.
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by fiveoak 11y ago
Not a bad idea, but I thought ASICs basically killed the profitability of mining on standard computer hardware? Still, if the electricity is free then at least it's something.
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by fiveoak 11y ago
I like using mechanical pencils over pens for everyday notes, although I'm probably in the minority. My goto one is the Uni-ball KuruToga Mechanical Pencil http://amzn.com/B0026ICM1E There's also a slightly more e
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by fiveoak 11y ago
This is really bad advice, especially for young people when they can benefit the most from compound interest.
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by fiveoak 11y ago
I'm surprised the article doesn't mention Ultimate Online's private servers (though I guess their legality is probably a gray area at best). Most of the people still playing UO are on those servers where they're running
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by fiveoak 11y ago
> Look at the whole Hatred debacle. Some people think it's the most offensive game of all time and should be banned, but Gabe himself came out and said that that's no reason to pull the game. Someone at Steam did initially pull
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by fiveoak 11y ago
FYI, it looks like this was released ~3 months ago on Feb 17th of this year: https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-14...
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by fiveoak 11y ago
Nice reference. It's interesting how intuitive the examples are even though I've never learned a functional programming language before.

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