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Ask HN: Is there a way to access kindle content for a speed reading app?
1 points by freefrancisco 13y ago|5 comments
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by freefrancisco 13y ago
Any open source version? Also, to people who have implemented their own language interpreters before, is the description enough to attempt an open source version of it? Might be a fun exercise to try to implement it in jison.
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by freefrancisco 13y ago
It would be cool if you could use coffeescript instead of js.
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by freefrancisco 13y ago
Needs the ability to filter by city, select San Francisco only and don't see Mountain View or San Jose.
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by freefrancisco 13y ago
Give a fish a ride and you transport him for a day, but teach a fish to drive and you transport him forever.
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Fish on Wheels(youtube.com)
11 points by freefrancisco 13y ago|1 comments
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by freefrancisco 13y ago
{ {because;} {language;} {improves;} {when;} {you add;} {curly braces;} {and;} {semicolons;} {to it;} }
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by freefrancisco 13y ago
Worst idea ever! It's like "upgrading" humans to walk on 4 legs.
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by freefrancisco 13y ago
awesome, thanks for doing this, bookmarking it!
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by freefrancisco 13y ago
Just because we don't trust ISPs it doesn't follow that we can trust the FCC. ISPs still have to make a profit so they have to have some sort of accountability to their customers, but what accountability will the FCC have to the
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by freefrancisco 13y ago
"the private language of the nerds' table in the high-school cafeteria, where the kids cared more about being smart than being popular." Damn right!
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11-Year-Old Girl Told To Beg Instead Of Selling Mistletoe(ijreview.com)
1 points by freefrancisco 13y ago|0 comments
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by freefrancisco 13y ago
Can they finally let me select groups of cells that are not adjacent to each other for charts?
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by freefrancisco 13y ago
Thanks for your reply, the index of finite size is the part where I was confused. I have actually done some googling about this before, and never caught it, because I wasn't exactly sure where I was uneasy. This has bothered me for
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by freefrancisco 13y ago
This actually helps a lot with the intuition, thanks! So in a sense every irrational number is an infinite number because there is no way to actually represent it in a finite way.
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by freefrancisco 13y ago
Thanks for the response, a few of my friends in Facebook told me the same thing, the constructed number is infinite, so it is not a member of the set and my argument is invalid. Do you have any insight as to why my attempt to show that the
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Was Cantor Wrong? Are the real numbers countable?(medium.com)
8 points by freefrancisco 13y ago|25 comments
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by freefrancisco 13y ago
The diagonalization argument has always bothered me, this is why. Countable sets are shown to be countable by providing a mapping between the natural numbers and that set. Uncountable sets are shown to be uncountable by assuming they are a
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by freefrancisco 13y ago
Naval was an economics major in college besides being a techie, so he is certainly qualified to talk economics. You might not be aware that Keynes is not the last word on macroeconomics, read something by Ludwig Von Mises to round up your
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by freefrancisco 13y ago
In fact, a true meritocracy in a very competitive field is more likely to exacerbate the differences that already exist in society and result in an extremely uneven distribution. In a non-merit based industry uncle Bob can get a top job fo
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by freefrancisco 13y ago
Also, apparently women from other countries didn't get the memo that the tech industry is sexist, and they come in droves to Silicon Valley to kick ass and chew bubble gum.
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by freefrancisco 13y ago
There is a huge difference between saying "tech industry, you are so innovative, why don't you look at this problem and see if there is something you can do to fix it" and saying "tech industry, you are racist, sexist, m
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by freefrancisco 13y ago
Why is that a problem? Because someone who can say with moral certainty "this is my money, I earned" is not an easy mark for the sort of people who produce nothing but demand an equal share of the work of others? Because they wo
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by freefrancisco 13y ago
So just because white men predominate in a field that automatically makes the field less meritocratic? If you live in a society where white men have more access to the tools that will allow them to forge their merit, when those white males
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by freefrancisco 13y ago
That's an interesting question, is there an institution or subculture in the world that is more meritocratic than Silicon Valley? If there is, then the author's argument has some merit. If there isn't, then the author is wa
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by freefrancisco 13y ago
' Helene Ahl found that in business discourse 70 percent of words used to describe entrepreneurs were male-gendered — these included “self-reliant”, “assertive”, “forceful”, “risk-taking”, “self-sufficient”, “leader”, “competitive”, an
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by freefrancisco 13y ago
And here is the manual for the T language http://web.archive.org/web/20060925104715/http://mumble.net/...
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Salesforce.com to hold mobile app 'hackathon' with $1 million prize(pcworld.com)
2 points by freefrancisco 13y ago|0 comments
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by freefrancisco 13y ago
The government has a credit card that is almost maxed out and it has been making its minimum payment every month. They spend more than they take in, so in order to make their minimum payment they have to get cash advances from the credit c
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Listen to a brain seizure turned into music(io9.com)
4 points by freefrancisco 13y ago|0 comments

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