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by gmaslov 15y ago
Hmm, that's probably right. I thought that whoever visited the bottom of the Marianas Trench might be a contender, but again it turns out that there were two people in the bathyscape.
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by gmaslov 15y ago
I'm sure most everyone on HN has read it already, but "What Colour are your bits?" http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 is always a good reference in this sort of discussion. The system you mention sounds like what the Colour essay is railin
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by gmaslov 15y ago
Should be titled "The whole Pirate Bay magnet archive except this torrent" :-) I think a magnet link is based on the hash of the contents too, so it might be an interesting problem to include the torrent's own magnet link in itself.
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by gmaslov 15y ago
Having all that information (school, doctor, lawyer, pest control company, health insurer, employer, credit card company, ...) about one person or a family, together in one place, is a social-engineering / identity-theft cornucopia. Imagine
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by gmaslov 15y ago
Well, just because it really exists doesn't mean it wasn't a silly thing to ask for ;-)
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by gmaslov 15y ago
Oh dear. I like this article, but using XML parsing as the example for sed made me cringe hard. Please never, ever attempt to work with XML using regular expressions!
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by gmaslov 15y ago
Hmm, would the accelerometer really detect anything? I think the bullet would have to experience significant lift, otherwise it's in free fall and the only acceleration you'll see after it leaves the barrel is air resistance, which isn't in
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by gmaslov 15y ago
Off topic, but: To be considered for acceptance into the program, please print and complete the appropriate applications and fax the forms to +1-703-421-5828. Verisign, a company intimately involved with the Internet at every lev
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by gmaslov 15y ago
No one would ever attempt to prosecute a corporation for perjury (the penalty specified by the DMCA) if it sends out a piddling few hundred fraudulent takedown notices. On the other hand, I wouldn't put it past them to throw the book at any
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by gmaslov 15y ago
The actual website for the project is here http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/trillionfps/ , and has a great FAQ section and more videos.
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by gmaslov 15y ago
Stanislaw Lem wrote a pointed satire [1] on what might happen when new technology destroys all jobs. I think it's a brilliant distillation of the issues. (Alas, deploying Strong AI to solve the problem doesn't work out so well in this story
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by gmaslov 15y ago
I'm speculating wildly here, but I suspect a major benefit to going 3D like this will be improved chip layout -- no need to take a lengthy route around all the stuff in the middle just to get from the ALU to the L1 cache (for example), just
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by gmaslov 15y ago
This type of compromised-CA attack is why I never understood why browsers don't use the OpenSSH model: accept and store (prompting for confirmation) the certificate the first time you connect to a site, then throw up enormous red flags if t
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by gmaslov 15y ago
Agreed. The setup of this question struck me as a bit of an arbitrary "moving goalposts" problem.
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by gmaslov 15y ago
> Of course the energy requirements are virtually impossible to satisfy in addition to all of the other problems. That's what they used to say about powered flight ;)
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by gmaslov 15y ago
Well, worthless to everyone but ICANN.
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by gmaslov 15y ago
These are very similar to (and easier than most of) the Project Euler problems. http://projecteuler.net/ -- Highly recommended for everyone.
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by gmaslov 15y ago
What makes Lisp unique, in my opinion, is its elegant unification of code and data. The 'eval' function and of course Lisp macros are very powerful features that come out of this immediately, and theoretically you can implement any other la
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by gmaslov 15y ago
The future must be now. At least one of my subroutines of thinking already relies on an artificial machine. I call it my Google neuron; it's wired up directly to everything I don't know off the top of my head and fires whenever I feel unsur