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by jcrites 13y ago
Completely agree about big integers. I expect that the next generation of programming languages will offer a "number" type that's big integer or decimal by default, and then allow engineers to refine the type as an optimization. One trouble
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by jcrites 13y ago
> Only recently have researchers developed learning procedures that can learn these deep architectures efficiently, using some clever unsupervised learning techniques. Would you mind naming some of these techniques, if you're familiar w
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by jcrites 13y ago
I have not been following the conflict closely. (Note I'm not the grandparent poster.) What picture should I have?
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by jcrites 13y ago
> E.g. the exchange occurs as soon as the two parties agree. Although this eliminates counterparty risk it poses significant (insurmountable?) problems for the way automated trading currently works today. Could you elaborate on this? I'
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by jcrites 13y ago
I am personally a proponent of rebasing, but I'm reading through the recent Hacker News threads to get a sense of the arguments on both sides. > If you're dealing with a large code base with many submitters, you have to demand that indi
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by jcrites 13y ago
Is there any way to track both concepts with Git? The logical commit history, like what rebase will produce, and the physical Git history. The reflog tracks this locally, but is there any way to push it alongside commits centrally so that t
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by jcrites 13y ago
> local merge commits (e.g. when closing off a feature branch & getting ready to push the merged results Why not rebase the feature branch onto the master branch? Then the merge from feature to master will be a fast forward commit r
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by jcrites 13y ago
One concern I saw mentioned was that after receiving advertising revenue, Wikipedia might become reliant on it, which would allow an advertiser to exert influence over the organization, such as demanding for articles to be removed that are
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by jcrites 13y ago
> There's no strong reason to suggest that this difference is due to anything other than social pressure. Not entirely true. Differences between male and female behavior and interest can be demonstrated on the first day of life in human
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by jcrites 14y ago
And indeed, "a green greatdragon" sounds quite fine :-)
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by jcrites 14y ago
I have seen continuous exponential decay applied to this problem.
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by jcrites 14y ago
The prices of the three treatments advertised on that site's front page seem a little odd: https://watsi.org/profile/e86bdd4cc545-yai-min "... but they need help raising the $1500 needed to get him the surgery he needs to walk again" htt
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by jcrites 14y ago
Would a spending limit require terminating the user's EC2 instances, deleting their data in S3 and DynamoDB, etc.? If not, these things could continue to accrue cost. Not sure if it was mentioned in this thread, but AWS launched a billing a
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by jcrites 14y ago
> Unfortunately, double blind studies of acupuncture are impossible It doesn't seem completely impossible. You could have someone put the same needles in randomly, instead of in whatever location acupuncture claims they should be put in
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by jcrites 14y ago
If they have so many Titans, why not bring out ten of them and sweep the battle?
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by jcrites 14y ago
I believe the concept/term you're looking for is VO2 max: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VO2_max
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by jcrites 14y ago
> yet unable to appeal openly to us for the financial help he needed to fund his defense Was this a court limitation? Why couldn't he appeal openly for his own defense?
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by jcrites 14y ago
If it makes them look good, and doesn't hurt, by what measurement is it not the right size anyway?
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by jcrites 14y ago
The OP said: "I hate living on credit as do most of my countrymen." That is a sweeping statement. I agree with roel_v that the tone seemed smug.
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by jcrites 14y ago
I thought that most scenes in The Hobbit 48 fps were fine, but a few scenes /seemed to be playing in fast forward/. Especially in the opening scenes, Bilbo was walking through his hobbit-hole at faster than natural speeds. I have a distinct
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by jcrites 14y ago
Is it not true that the problem of waiting years for one's patent to be examined could be solved by hiring more patent examiners?
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by jcrites 14y ago
> APL basically started as math notation turned into a programming language. The same is also true of Lisp. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language) Interesting that a number of languages around this time started as ma
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by jcrites 14y ago
A single machine is never going to be completely reliable. At any time it can halt for a variety of reasons: power loss, hardware failure, disaster in the data center like flooding, etc. Thus, a configuration that relies on the availability
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by jcrites 14y ago
Not really. No apps are allowed to link to places where purchases can be made for that app. The purchases need to happen within the app itself, at which point Apple gets a cut. If the app decides not to allow in-app purchases and cut Apple
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by jcrites 14y ago
RecordStream is a great solution for manipulating JSON log files: https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream - makes it easy to perform relational-style operations, such as grouping, counting (recs-collate), and even joins (recs-join). It
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by jcrites 14y ago
> The capability doesn't exist in their software, and it would be a massive effort to enable it. What makes this a massive effort? I assume that GoDaddy has existing software to register a domain name given the name, and some fixed conf
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by jcrites 14y ago
I approach all computer usage as if it's inherently harmful to my body, and I must minimize that harm if I expect to work with them the rest of my life. I have had excellent results avoiding repetitive strain from the following two products
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by jcrites 14y ago
What does it tell you? I am trying to understand what you mean. Do you believe every person the author met over the age of 50 is in fact capable of building compelling social products, and that the author has misjudged them?
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by jcrites 14y ago
In the case of an app that grows over time: isn't there an element of luck at play every month in the user base? Maybe you just got lucky 12 months in a row, and then you were successful enough to show up on the front page of the app store.
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by jcrites 14y ago
One reason that interviewers ask the same question to many candidates (i.e., seem to have a "pet" problem) is because they have calibrated the question. A strong interviewer has asked that question to respected colleagues at various levels,

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