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by hawkice 10y ago
I've thrown people in the spam filter for a lot less. "re: twitter" as a subject line is even more objectionable to my personal tastes -- but I dislike journalists who are intentionally trying to mislead their audience, even
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by hawkice 10y ago
Develop tech to make alternate feed cheaper without dropping milk production or quality compared to alfalfa. Improve water distribution in soil (I think there is a way to optimize this, varying by soil type and many other factors, that woul
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by hawkice 10y ago
Honestly, English language material isn't a huge priority for censors in China most of the time. You'd have to be _extremely_ prominent and cover issues relevant to the CCP's interest before I'd assume "sold out&quo
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by hawkice 10y ago
Essentially, water is subsidized by the Californian water pricing rules in order to provide low-cost feed that boosts milk production in cows (this is why alfalfa in particular probably won't be pushed out). Californian dairy is a surp
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by hawkice 10y ago
I mean, that's pretty optimistic, but perhaps: At some point you can assume that, if people get your updated code in 2017, they'll have an update from many years ago. Depends on how releases are managed, but that might be much muc
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by hawkice 10y ago
I mean, kernel bug or no, if that's how it actually works, then it isn't actually safe to be handle signals while executing these functions. If people are still working to change the code and standards we hold the code to, then yo
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by hawkice 10y ago
It was a legitimately tricky scenario. Without justifying it, here is why I consider that a borderline call (one I disagree with, but a borderline call I think he's qualified to make): Imagine Congress calls you in to testify under oat
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by hawkice 10y ago
I got bizarrely excited when I saw they'd mischaracterized his opinion of James Comey. I share a tremendously positive opinion of the current FBI director, but his handling of tech issues [1] and hiring/firing [2] have been less t
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by hawkice 10y ago
> We have a 1–2 year average retention span of developers in companies. This is not sustainable. This, and the twisted incentives around targeting advertisements, seem to be at the heart of the problem. I think we need an industry of peo
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by hawkice 10y ago
I lived in Santa Monica and didn't even need public transport, walking was enough.
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by hawkice 10y ago
Presumably because it allows a workflow that skips over parsing (and possibly error prone generating code). Also allows generators to e.g. lint things without a bananas workflow.
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by hawkice 10y ago
I'm not a Googler, but I imagine memory usage would be a more meaningful constraint than speed per se on the mega-sorts they are doing. Completely speculative, but in service of a point valid even if the statement isn't: in those
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by hawkice 10y ago
The comments here are borderline nonsense. I kept up a pace of releasing a working web widget (didn't charge for them, but all meant to be useful) every four days for months. Last year I released at least three dozen without burning ou
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by hawkice 10y ago
Legal risk sounds like a bad thing. That being said, it doesn't put discrimination in the hiring process per se, only the referral process, which may not be protected by federal law. I am not a lawyer.
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by hawkice 10y ago
Yeah, I'm with the scientists on this. They had built the first bombs only a couple years after the first nuclear pile (a sustained nuclear chain reaction), and it was clear what they were trying to do was massively in excess of that.
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by hawkice 10y ago
> So the AP is finally getting around to doing their job This is a report by Reuters.
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by hawkice 10y ago
You don't need the type of fixed points that cause the issues with circular pointers. Recursion can be done with (appropriately for HN) the Y combinator. The kind of tricks I'm talking about rely on laziness and are pretty complic
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by hawkice 10y ago
Had a complicated discussion here, but it's ridiculous, because: Church-Turing thesis says lambda calculus is turing complete and it is purely functional with no pointers at all.
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by hawkice 10y ago
If something is purely functional and doesn't have any fixed point loopholes or other nonsense, you can know that there is no program with circular pointers.
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by hawkice 10y ago
Administration does take a lot of money, but instruction is somewhere in the 35-53% range. That may sound low, but that's still quite a lot considering it buys only ~60% high school graduation rates -- worse than, for instance, Chile,
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by hawkice 10y ago
I like it. :) Simple, and quite pretty once I understood what it was doing.
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by hawkice 10y ago
This is like stepping into bizarro-world. You're saying _there is an active ingredient_ yet denying that there was a claim that it did anything! There is no active ingredient! It's email spam! It doesn't work by any means at
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by hawkice 10y ago
They would, upon being shown evidence of them. That's my point.
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by hawkice 10y ago
Luckily, there are already legal standards for 'what a reasonable person would believe' in a given circumstance, so this part may not be a tricky legal puzzle at all.
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by hawkice 10y ago
As I point out somewhere else in this thread, we'd want a standard that distinguishes between getting something obviously wrong and getting something wrong. We're all on the same page on that one.
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by hawkice 10y ago
Sadly, this is also wrong. Many parts are outside of quotes or indirection and state false things. For instance: "The gum works by slowly releasing compounds contained in an extract from a plant called Pueraria mirifica." That&#x2
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by hawkice 10y ago
Talking about taking pictures from India and just lying about them, this is a nice collection of reporting where people are saying they're catching pictures of Chinese injustice towards Tibetans but are actually seeing things not happe
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by hawkice 10y ago
Let's be clear: places like the BBC do _both_. Case and point: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002051.h... discusses this article http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
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by hawkice 10y ago
A botnet isn't just a fancy name for a distributed system. You're hacking into people's computers and using them. The FBI might not prioritize more innocuous usages, but it's a crime either way.
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by hawkice 10y ago
Not sure if the tilda is meant as a negation (unfortunately, many people also use it for "approximately", which is a near-antonym), but: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1769642.stm http:&#x

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