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by gyom 15y ago
My bad. =)
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by gyom 15y ago
The jobs page doesn't say where Duolingo is geographically. I see Carnegie Mellon being mentioned in the "terms" section, though.
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by gyom 15y ago
Note also that only one side of the vehicle has the cloaking. The other side is just ugly cameras and we can see that at the very end of the video (1:15). It's not quite the invisibility cloak yet.
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by gyom 15y ago
Tried it on Hacker News and IGN. Hacker News looks better without it. IGN becomes an empty page that shows one banner and nothing else. They do say that it's meant to work on a page with only a single block of text, though, but based on the
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by gyom 15y ago
Having studied maths and computer science, I've seen something happen like that in both fields. In a real analysis class, we were asked to give an example of an irrational number, without proof. My friend wrote "sin(1)" and, even though we
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by gyom 15y ago
From the looks of the article, it seems like it's meant for people who are interested in popular science, but then the author uses degrees Fahrenheit everywhere.
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by gyom 15y ago
The one about the "mathematics of beauty" is just a formula to combine linearly different objects with different weights w_i that are renormalized to 1. It's pretty meaningless/generic if you don't specify what the y_i stand for, and I don'
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by gyom 15y ago
Clicking on that link I expected something more than just the kind of information given by every math textbook covering Euclid's algorithm (with a sketch of proof).
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by gyom 15y ago
I'm guessing all these neighbors really wished they had gone into the house and squatted. Think about it, they were right there, right close to the big $300,000 bounty, and they just didn't know that it was there for the taking (legally).
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by gyom 15y ago
I'm with you on that black battery thing. We all know that Apple is a bit dishonest when they show their Macbook Air from the front and it looks as thin as cardboard (optical illusion), but when you look at a Macbook Air from the side it's
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by gyom 15y ago
I'm beginning to suspect that people report cases of Linus insulting people regardless of whether the discussion was interesting or not. Linus insults someone on a forum -> first page on HN !! Just a thought.
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by gyom 15y ago
Sounds like a convenient rule for law enforcement to incriminate people when they have a "hunch" about their illegal actions. When I was 12 y.o. I had that sort of money in my bedroom (years of saving money from my paper route job, and fact
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by gyom 15y ago
They could put advertisements wherever they wanted. They're not limited to piggy-back on real-life billboards. Theoretically, they could cover the sides of buildings with advertisements, but it would kinda suck if all that augmented reality
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by gyom 15y ago
I'm glad you pointed this out. We all know how easy it is to come up with ambitious New Year resolutions and not stick to them, even though they made complete sense at the time. People on their death beds say stuff that belongs to the realm
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by gyom 15y ago
I read something in a book about the history of England that's somewhat connected to this : In England somewhere around the 18-19th century, members of parliament got no salary. The highest aspiration that you could have was to make enough
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by gyom 15y ago
It's funny how the word "coin" in that name is essentially used to refer to this distributed computational process whose purpose it is to get people to agree on some version of the state of things (i.e. what is "real"). Next thing you know,
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by gyom 15y ago
I got a relatively hard foam mattress after I realized that I needed better support for my back (I won't get into how I found that out). As far as I can tell, it's the best mattress that I've ever slept on. It's hard enough so that it doesn
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by gyom 15y ago
You can find the proof by looking for documentation about the zeta function.
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by gyom 15y ago
I learned that lesson at Halloween a long time ago. My mother helped my friend and I sew our costumes (she basically did all the work). When my friend offered to give her some money for her help, she just replied that he wouldn't have enoug
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by gyom 15y ago
I agree that these are two ways to parse "The Selfish Gene" and the first one that you listed is more accurate, but what I don't like about the title is that is sounds a bit like an excuse that someone would use. "Hey, that's just the way m
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by gyom 15y ago
I'm not expert, but this is a good read. However, I disagree with his bullet point stating that "Bitcoins are less convenient than paper currency". For buying a hotdog, yes. For online purchases, I don't know yet. Sending paper currency in
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by gyom 15y ago
The word "dishonest" comes with a baggage of connotations. Most people aren't going to read the book and they'll misunderstand the purpose. To give an example : as much as I think that "The Selfish Gene" is an awesome title, I feel like I h
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by gyom 15y ago
And then you need to explain how hash functions work to a bunch of people who dropped out of high school to work on the farm so that they don't feel cheated by the new electoral system. In the long run, though, it shouldn't be so hard to ge
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by gyom 15y ago
Bitcoins ! :P
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by gyom 15y ago
I know. That bothers me too, to think that we'd have all these computers churning bitcoins instead of computing gene-folding and whatnot. However, you could argue that mining for gold or diamonds is even worse. You ruin the land with strip
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by gyom 16y ago
The comment about people who wished that they had written books, in opposition to wishing to actually write one, resonates with me. "But it’s like those people I meet on airplanes who find out what I do for a living and tell me they would r
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by gyom 16y ago
It seems to me like most people commenting here see this as transparent TV instead of seeing it as futuristic window that displays stuff ! I'd like to have this kind of stuff on certain windows, and not as a replacement for a TV, that big p
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by gyom 16y ago
And adding to that, it seems to me like the main idea here is that "eventually you'll get lucky, but it'll take time" and not really the expertise required. If the moral of the story was about expertise, you'd expect that any game developer
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by gyom 16y ago
Just so you know, before clicking on the link, it's just an online commercial about yet another bottled water product. I thought she'd step in and make a point about how she could convince us that water is a precious resource, joking that s
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by gyom 16y ago
I really wish they had picked another cover, though. I know that all these characters are just there to give the various books some sort of identity (like O'Reilly does with animals), but I don't really enjoy seeing a dirty homeless drunkar

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