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by gjm11 16y ago
To whoever's downvoting Eliezer's comment above (I know at least two people have): If you think he was stupidly wrong to issue the original challenge, downvote that. If you think he was right to issue the original challenge and stupidly wro
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by gjm11 16y ago
Quoting a bunch of course titles and brief descriptions, many of which anyone who knows anything about mathematics could readily tell are perfectly reasonable, and then saying "This is why Asia is winning, by the way." -- yeah, I can see ho
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by gjm11 16y ago
No, of course not. I am , however, under the impression that if what you want to do (as here) is to minimize the probability that you get completely shafted by having had the test-setter choose answers complementary to yours, you should ch
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by gjm11 16y ago
And this, boys and girls, is why we have randomized algorithms.
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by gjm11 16y ago
I think "clutterbox" sounds better (perhaps because of its similarity to "chatterbox") and has better associations (perhaps it's a UK/US thing, but to me "bin" strongly suggests throwing stuff away permanently, which suggests a mere disposa
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by gjm11 16y ago
> most of the money goes into salaries. And, therefore, anything that makes your engineers more or less efficient goes directly to your bottom line. (I agree that the comment you're replying to underestimates the cost of migration. But
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by gjm11 16y ago
Part 2 of that FAQ (which regrettably seems not to be in the Google cache) links to another piece by Warren Sarle, which I consider to be the best description anywhere of a wide variety of optimization methods (some but not all specific to
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by gjm11 16y ago
You didn't lose all of it before you whined. I know that because I downvoted your whine about being downvoted, and didn't downvote your bah-it's-just-a-netbook comments. (I have a policy of always downvoting whines about being downvoted and
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by gjm11 16y ago
I'll hazard a guess that quite a lot of that bleeding isn't because people can't accept that, but because you whined about losing karma.
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by gjm11 16y ago
> Mozilla's Raskin says product placement is coming soon to Facebook photos No he doesn't. He says that if product placement starts appearing in people's Facebook photos then it may mess with people's memories. "What I think is goin
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by gjm11 16y ago
It's completely the wrong question, anyway, for two reasons. 1. If some flights have security procedures and some don't, obviously all malefactors will be attacking the ones that don't. So they'll be more dangerous than if no flights had se
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by gjm11 16y ago
There is a delicious irony in New Scientist , of all publications, complaining about sloppy and sensationalized science reporting in the media. Sloppy and sensationalized science reporting seems to be pretty much New Scientist 's reason f
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by gjm11 16y ago
So instead of printk("subtotals: a %d, b %d, c %d, total %d\n", a,b,c,a+b+c); you have printk("subtotals: a " COUNTER_T_FORMAT_SPECIFIER ", b " COUNTER_T_FORMAT_SPECIFIER ", c " COUNTER_T_FORMAT_SPECIFIER ", total " COUNTER_T_FORMAT_SPECIFI
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by gjm11 16y ago
> There is no trust fund. That's a different claim, of course, and a totally unfalsifiable one. (Suppose the Social Security trust fund did in fact take the form of a big vault stuffed with dollar bills, or something of the kind. It wou
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by gjm11 16y ago
Submitter: account 23 hours old. Two commenters, super-generic comments, both accounts 2 hours old, comments posted within minutes of account creation. Smells fishy to me. All flagged.
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by gjm11 16y ago
> the social security trust fund is empty. The social security trust fund contains something like $2.4 trillion. Current projections are that if nothing changes then it will continue growing until 2025 and not be empty until 2042. See,
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by gjm11 16y ago
User coondoggie 's only activity on HN is posting large numbers of links to networkworld.com, about one per day. If their scores are anything to judge by, this is not found very helpful by the HN community. They pretty much all seem to be
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by gjm11 16y ago
Please change the horrible broken-monitor-look background. I'm sure it's all artistic and stuff, but it's also extremely annoying. Thanks!
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by gjm11 16y ago
What the article says : Google wants to invest in wind farms. Article title : "Google wants to control wind energy". HN submission title : "Google now wants to control the wind". Presumably the next step is: "Google now wants to be God".
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by gjm11 16y ago
46) Pundits will produce lengthy lists of vaguely doomy-sounding predictions without any explanation of why they're making them or why we should believe them.
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by gjm11 16y ago
In what sense are Google "missing a trick" here? Before there's any prospect of getting all cars automated, car automation has to be good enough that that's a credible suggestion. Google has (presumably) good lobbyists and plenty of money,
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by gjm11 16y ago
Or: Google has the mightiest search engine ever created and they didn't find his language when they checked? It must have been so obscure that you can't really blame them.
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by gjm11 16y ago
You don't have to write recursion-heavy code in Lisp. You can if you want to, and it hurts less than doing the same in many other languages, but iteration in Lisp works just fine too. (The Common Lisp LOOP macro basically gives you a little
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by gjm11 16y ago
New rumoured Apple music subscription: $10/month. (The Ars Technica headline says it's a rumour. The HN headline doesn't. Naughty.)
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by gjm11 16y ago
Nobels per million people (population figures from putting "population of X" into Google): US 1.05; UK 1.91; Germany 1.25; France: 0.91; Sweden 3.04 The ordering is very different from the BBC's (12345 -> 52314). I wouldn't be at all
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by gjm11 16y ago
That doesn't say anything about whether making them happy in other ways reduces their assholishness. It might do. (Perhaps they have a certain happiness setpoint, and if they're not made happy enough by other things then they'll achieve it
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by gjm11 16y ago
> Some people are upset he's making a profit. Is that really what "some people" are upset about? That's not the impression I get either from the article or from comments here. Some people are upset that he, and others like him, are ma
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by gjm11 16y ago
What colour should the varnish on the bikeshed be?
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by gjm11 16y ago
The person who reviewed their paper did so in verse: http://research.google.com/archive/papers/review_in_verse.ht... .
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by gjm11 16y ago
Yes, of course I read it. Yes, the allocators are synthesized; so what? The point is that "synthesize a semi-customized allocator for each program" is a very different thing from "just use what the system provides you with; you won't be abl

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