harryjo

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by harryjo 11y ago
AirBnB has never been one to follow the rules, from the earliest days of Craigslist spamming and flouting lease agreements and hotel regulations. You don't do handshake deals with people whose fundamental business model is "cuttin
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by harryjo 11y ago
It's actually Haskell's `over`. (Not `under`, interestingly) http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens-4.12.1/docs/Control-...
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by harryjo 11y ago
There's no need to perform a speculative autopsy on HN; I request the mods dispense strong guidance to posters in this thread.
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by harryjo 11y ago
Related: https://soundcloud.com/the-story-collider/bradford-jordan-th...
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by harryjo 11y ago
glyphosate is on 45% of acres, so approximately half of the wheat you eat.
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by harryjo 11y ago
> osteopath which ended up making the discovery. > PCP prescribed a 4-week regimen of heavy meds to kill off the parasites and fungal infection nice teamwork!
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by harryjo 11y ago
Why would your work allow you to use a not-yet-existent Java shell, but not Clojure?
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by harryjo 11y ago
These are great. Always funny what these "make toys at home" folks think people have lying around their homes: http://arvindguptatoys.com/toys/Heartpuzzle.html
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by harryjo 11y ago
This was abandoned by Google shortly after launch. Several previous discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=bug-prediction-at-google.html&...
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by harryjo 11y ago
If you give that 503(c) $10, that will cover email storage forever.
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by harryjo 11y ago
I think you mean the opposite of "copper-bottom": http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_eng... >>> Thoroughly reliable; certain not to fail: a copper-bottomed guarantee <&l
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by harryjo 11y ago
Memento
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by harryjo 11y ago
That is a highly politicized/editorialized paper, though, with a clear opinion that really belong separate from a scientific paper. It counts every death that could have been prevented by perfect care, not only harm caused by treat
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by harryjo 11y ago
In the show (and the stereotype; I have no idea if it is true), "burning trash" refers to burning trash at home , not at a controlled municipal facility. http://www.epa.gov/solidwaste/nonhaz/municipal&#x
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by harryjo 11y ago
The article says that the notation is for beginners. I am surprised all the JavaScript programmers on HN are so opposed to an accessible notation for beginners.
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by harryjo 11y ago
Worse, physical. The author is claiming that body exists to serve the mind, and as no needs of own. Nutrition and exercise/atrophy and vitamin D production give the lie to the claim that playing outside is equivalent to playing minecra
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by harryjo 11y ago
That's because society as a whole isn't mentally capable of assigning more than one salient feature to an event.
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by harryjo 11y ago
Thank you! I forgot the name of the game, and it is totally unsearchable.
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by harryjo 11y ago
Veritasium covered this classic puzzle / bias test nicely, last year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKA4w2O61Xo
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by harryjo 11y ago
http://www.math.harvard.edu/~mazur/preprints/when_is_one.pdf "When is one thing equal to some other thing", by Mazur
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by harryjo 11y ago
Conway's opposition was to computer- generated proofs (not computer- verified proofs), because the software of the time wasn't high quality (for accuracy), and because they were so complicated that people couldn't get confi
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by harryjo 12y ago
Go was an evolution of a language developed years earlier, but with a new name because it was different enough or because the inventor got a new employer/copyright-holder
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by harryjo 12y ago
If you don't want Google to know about catphotos, you can download all the fonts from google every day, so they stay in your cache and don't relate at all to your browsing.
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by harryjo 12y ago
Because they are language professionals, who enjoy studying languages and packing as much power as they can into a language -- computer or human.
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by harryjo 12y ago
Sure, but once you allow local administrator access to your machine, the "guest" can modify your data and software however it wants, so you've already lost.
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by harryjo 12y ago
I'd love another source for this story, with the information presented clearly and not in the unreadable gonzo NYT style.
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by harryjo 12y ago
> The meter showed the fair price Error: 'fair' is undefined.
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by harryjo 12y ago
You are correct, but I don't know that the author is interested in fixing it, since the web page was published so long ago that the author could have since had a child who is now capable of writing something like http://l
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by harryjo 12y ago
Indeed. The first step to grokking Lisp, from Haskell (or any typed language), is to realize that Lisp's "list" is not equivalent to any single data type you've used before, but it's really a general weakly-structur
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by harryjo 12y ago
Thank heavens the era of the text-adventure is long dead. This is why GUIs were invented, folks. >help "Do this: >>(define twentyseven 27) >>(define twentyseven 27) That's not a verb I recog

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