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by jffry 13y ago
Wouldn't your insurance rate go up as well after a speeding ticket?
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by jffry 13y ago
The seasons are frequently described as unpredictable, but over the course of the novels it's suggested that in recent living history they have become elongated. Imagine the effects that a 9-year winter would have on a population. It&
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by jffry 13y ago
Wasn't the last big "server failure" due to a hard drive kicking the bucket?
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by jffry 13y ago
There are lots of different ways to build mazes [1]. My favorite is Prim's Algorithm, which "grows" a maze. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_generation_algorithm
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by jffry 13y ago
My first thought is that this could be used much like Lua for allowing customized script extensions to C++ programs.
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Randomized ensemble reinforcement learning in Mario AI(youtube.com)
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by jffry 13y ago
Here you go: http://jffry.github.io/2048-Meta/ (I admittedly did very little for this: https://github.com/jffry/2048-Meta/blob/master/js/html_actua... )
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by jffry 13y ago
It's FOSS [1], and the version they host says "FREE" all over the homepage. [1] https://github.com/hillelcoren/invoice-ninja
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by jffry 13y ago
Why settle for a single color when you can have the HN topbar in literally every color of the rainbow? @-webkit-keyframes hue { 100% { -webkit-filter:hue-rotate(360deg); } } body > center > table > tbody > tr:fi
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by jffry 13y ago
And then a multiplayer, followed by a browser benchmark!
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by jffry 13y ago
GitHub's main stated benefit for the proxying was to prevent things like this Proxying these images will help protect your privacy: your browser information won't be leaked to other third party services Source: https:&
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by jffry 13y ago
Depends on how obsessive you are about clarity. I've made apple cider and drank it after only a month in primary. It was still a little cloudy but otherwise fine. I also have ciders that I've aged for 1/2/3 years, whi
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by jffry 13y ago
Looks like Tesla is investing in a domestic battery cell factory. Its projected output in 2020 will be approximately equal to the amount of cells output across the entire industry last year. They estimate a 30% decrease in cost/kWhr,
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by jffry 13y ago
Maybe something more discreet than a large button at the beginning, like: <p>(Code samples are hidden. <label><input type="checkbox" id="showCodeSamples"/> Show code samples</label>)
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by jffry 13y ago
It would be nice to have Show Code at the top, along with a note that some of the code has been hidden. I like seeing code examples as I'm reading through.
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by jffry 13y ago
To use a friend's machine as an off-site secondary backup. They can store encrypted data, but cannot view or push changes to the data. I'm guessing.
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by jffry 13y ago
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7189334
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by jffry 13y ago
Didn't know about Wikipedia-over-DNS, that's pretty cool: https://dgl.cx/wikipedia-dns
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by jffry 13y ago
Step 1: Encrypt your data Step 2: base64encode it and store it in DNS records Step 3: Data is propagated and cached globally Step 4: ??? Step 5: Profit!
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by jffry 13y ago
There are a huge number of test flights as part of integrating and certifying new parts. Or even just new algorithms. After passing simulation, want to make sure this new cooldown algorithm doesn't make the engine explode? Apply it to
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by jffry 13y ago
This uses Selenium WebDrivers so that you can run your tests against actual browsers (instead of PhantomJS). Notably this means that you can run your tests in IE
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ppr.io
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by jffry 13y ago
If you're encrypting the data, you're encrypting it with some sort of key, which itself has to be stored on the device. Is that code sample using an Android library to get some secret key that is only accessible to the app in whi
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by jffry 13y ago
This looks extremely useful - thanks for sharing!
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Right, I was talking specifically about the integer case in Python
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Arguably, to a user of the language, these are imperceptible from independent. Changing one cannot change the other (except perhaps through some exotic double-underscore-prefixed function with which my vague knowledge of Python is unfamili
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by jffry 13y ago
"I'll pay you $1 million now. If anybody wins the prize, you're on the hook to give them the other $999 million. If nobody wins the prize, you get to keep the $1 million." edit: And where I say $1 million, do some hand
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by jffry 13y ago
I used to have Verizon FIOS, before moving away to somewhere without FIOS. I was on a 25 Mbit symmetric plan, but almost always got 35/35.
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by jffry 13y ago
At $50/yr to lease a modem from Time Warner, and replacement modems at $50-$100, then leasing a modem from TWC would only be cheaper if Time Warner upgrades their network more than once every 1-2 years (which I'm betting they don&
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by jffry 13y ago
Well OK then.

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