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by ilitirit 17y ago
> If you're logged in to Digg, every target link you click from Digg is a shortened URL of their own creation. Reddit's toolbar does the same thing. I don't like it because it means I have to get the URL by right-clicking and click "Vi
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Microsoft Research: Pex - Automated White box Testing for .NET(research.microsoft.com)
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I didn't get that from the article. From what I understood, the point he was making was that the AP systematically relinquishes control of the plane as conditions deteroriate. By the time human pilots get hold of the plane, the conditions
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by ilitirit 17y ago
Yeah, I should have made it clear that I was talking about autopilot. I have read other stories about the disaster that toyed with the idea that the Airbus autopilot cannot be overriden, and that the computers will always decide whats best
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by ilitirit 17y ago
Apparently idea that computers exclusively run the AirBus has been debunked: [...] THE SYSTEM WILL NOT FIGHT THE PILOTS. The system just gives me the best the airplane can do at the moment without me having to stop and consider my conditio
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by ilitirit 17y ago
Response on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8r04o/pwned_par...
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by ilitirit 17y ago
>> // We at anti-sec, hope you never heal :] I hope I'm not the only one who thinks that this is taking things too far. Compromising his server is one thing, compromising his health and delving into his personal life and exposing t
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by ilitirit 17y ago
As long as IT services business, the most cost-effective solution will always be considered best.
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by ilitirit 17y ago
Besides the fact that that this could all be completely untrue, it's a useless stat unless you know the number of burgers consumed/second vs google searches/second.
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by ilitirit 17y ago
Maybe it's because you're using a contrived example, but I don't quite agree. These sort of studies are usually undertaken at a higher, more abstract level. eg. How do various cognitive abilities differ between sexes? With the resulting
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by ilitirit 17y ago
Depends on what you're practicing. Contrary to conventional wisdom that movement variability is caused by muscle activity, Churchland's team found that neural activity accounts for about half the variations. In other words, training muscle
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by ilitirit 17y ago
> God forbid that someone make an argument and try to support it with data That's well and fine, but the author stated an opinion based on anecdotal evidence. On its own though, I think it's a really stupid thing to say but I think it
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by ilitirit 17y ago
> All this link says to me is that the people who hang in comp.lang.javascript are all a bunch of smug pricks. From my experience, that can be said of comp.lang.* I haven't been to any of the comp.lang groups in a while though, but it d
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by ilitirit 17y ago
On a related note, facial recognition works off a different set of regions in the brain compared to regular long-term memory. You can actually train yourself to memorize certain things using your brain's "facial recognition system". Chess
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by ilitirit 17y ago
Here's one possible explanation: Apparently, women are happy with their lot earlier in their lives, whereas men have bigger financial goals and tend to be unfulfilled during their 20s, both financially and in their family lives, which make
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by ilitirit 17y ago
I think the keyword here is "psychological". If you train yourself to control your mental state you can suffer all sorts of physical afflictions but psychologically you can still be as happy as ever. I used to think that balance was the ke
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by ilitirit 17y ago
Anyone willing to take up this challenge? http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1244601&cid=280...
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by ilitirit 17y ago
HN is just following the normal distribution in terms of it's community, just like virtually every other social news site out there. The problem is people under ends of the curve don't really mix that well with each other in terms of their
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by ilitirit 17y ago
I think that people should just start flagging posts they don't want to see. If people are already doing that, then it could mean the HN has grown beyond what the early adopters consider to be the critical mass.
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by ilitirit 17y ago
I think the BBC has a better article on the discovery: Dr Chris Beard, curator of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and author of The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey, said he was "awestruck" by the publicity machine surrounding the new fossi
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by ilitirit 17y ago
I'm not sure if they would have put it like that themselves though. They extracted the quote from USA Today.
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by ilitirit 17y ago
A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link.
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by ilitirit 17y ago
> one-half of 1% per year What's the intent here? Why not say "0.5% annually"? And why do people say "one-half"? Is this typical of economics journalism? [edit] The whole sentence seems redundant anyway. the average annual investmen
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by ilitirit 17y ago
> Don't bother reading the article. I suggest flagging it.
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by ilitirit 17y ago
Example of an interest calculation: http://www43.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=monthly+payment+for+a...
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Mendeley is gree academic software for managing and sharing research papers(mendeley.com)
4 points by ilitirit 17y ago|0 comments
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I hesitated to comment on this post for a long time but I think you're pretty much completely off base. I don't really see how the first 3 paragraphs has anything to do with the problem that I'm having, and I think that for some reason you'
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by ilitirit 17y ago
No, but there are several women I sleep with occasionally. Do you think having a girlfriend would help alleviate the problem?
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by ilitirit 17y ago
> But then if it is supposed to illustrate patterns of behavior, does it mean you do things with your social group that you don't enjoy? Yes, as they do with me. Compromise is part of what builds good relationships. To me, it's about w
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by ilitirit 17y ago
Much of what the author said on the two related blogs resonated with me: http://www.iwillnotdie.com/why-smart-people-fail/ http://www.iwillnotdie.com/why-smart-people-are-unhappy/ He may have a somewhat controversial tone (I'm sure he r

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