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by jkarni 13y ago
I'm convinced there's a one-line version of this article that is no less informative than the original. Somewhat ironically, I would have appreciated it if the author had been under SMS/Twitter length constraints.
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by jkarni 13y ago
Not to Edward Lasker: "The rules of go are so elegant, organic and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe they almost certainly play go."
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by jkarni 13y ago
But presumably the computing cost would be much lower for the new coin, since it'd be earlier on in it's mining history. Who knows where the respective expected values stabilize. Also, what if the new coin has some minor technical
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by jkarni 13y ago
One thing I never quite understood, but haven't really heard mentioned, is what makes this instance of a digital currency special. If I were to start another pool of bitcoins, with it's own mining etc. (like say, litecoin, but n
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by jkarni 13y ago
First, presumably you mean Qf4, not Qe4 - there was no Qe4 in the game - and h4, not hh4. Second, you're the only chess-playing entity (human or computer) I've come across who thinks after Qf4 anyone is clearly lost (and I think i
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by jkarni 13y ago
Pity. 27. Ne2 looked really fun. If 27...Bf5, 28. Nf4! b1=Q? 29. Rxb1 Bxb1 30.Nd5 +-. If 27...Qa5, 28. Nf4 also. Strangely, the move didn't get mentioned in the Chessbase analysis, or the official commentary.
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by jkarni 13y ago
Yeah - my point is that this password hint is basically telling you that the user uses the same password for other things.
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by jkarni 13y ago
Yup. For instance, what might "Standard" mean here? 78113633-|--|-ksfolso@nsa.gov-|-UnFEG3IXPX+rjFQssxpQEA==-|-Standard|--
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Far-Off Planets Like the Earth Dot the Galaxy(nytimes.com)
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by jkarni 13y ago
I don't think the existence of ELO means we should make more use of it - rather, it means we don't need a world championship if the objective is to measure who is best in the win=1 draw=0.5 loss=0 scheme of things (this is, I
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by jkarni 13y ago
For Haskell too, with ghc-mod[1]. [1] https://github.com/eagletmt/ghcmod-vim
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Actualvim – Sublime Text 3 input mode powered by Vim itself(github.com)
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by jkarni 13y ago
Are the first two points made in the article really legitimate? Central banks decrease interest rates in crises, so I wouldn't expect lower interest rates to be correlated with (or to be reason to increase your credence in) a bubble. A
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by jkarni 13y ago
I was thinking of H1B.
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by jkarni 13y ago
Yeah, sorry, I stand corrected.
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by jkarni 13y ago
This is pretty close to Knuth's discussion of Fibonacci Numbers in TAOCP. I'm inclined that's where this came from, and that this is missing an attribution. In either case, if you enjoyed this post add one to the "I-shou
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by jkarni 13y ago
Or: weeding out everyone who believes forms and bureaucracy shouldn't constitute a significant fraction of one's mental landscape, or who is offended by the extent to which the difficulty of the process makes it seem like the gove
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by jkarni 13y ago
What? It has to be brought up everywhere. That's the whole point behind trying to change usage: people are supposed to start doing it, and then it's likely to brought to your mind. Unless your point is that you're tired of
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by jkarni 13y ago
I don't get your point. Obviously if it's a really bad convention (naming all predicates '{something}Th1s1sAFuncT10nThatReturnsABooleanValueAndILikeCheese', say), it might be worth breaking, even if it's initially d
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by jkarni 13y ago
I'm a little disappointed in HN for the fact that this is on the front page. The wikipedia article on Gall-Peters is much more accurate and informative, and even the whole (misleading) "oh look what I just found out but barely any
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by jkarni 13y ago
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.0.1/html/users_guide/type-... has a decent explanation.
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by jkarni 13y ago
I've always hoped some language would have a prolog type system. Just today, I was pointed to liquid types [1,2] in haskell-cafe, and they look really promising in that respect. But the idea of having my compiler bail with a nice error
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by jkarni 13y ago
APL has its own codepage? I have to say, that's a better and simpler way of avoiding success at all costs than Haskell ever found. Not that I dislike the idea -- on the contrary, I'm inclined to conclude from my excitement over th
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by jkarni 13y ago
Side note: Looks like the clip was lifted from "Tree of Life".
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Show HN: xp – The pipe wildcard(github.com)
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by jkarni 14y ago
Yeah, I've also seen this pattern often enough to wonder what the underlying reasons for it are. My inchoate thoughts: When you study, say, biology, you'll probably learn about all the wrong turns that very smart people made along the road
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by jkarni 14y ago
edX - Cambridge, MA; Full time edx is hiring for several different positions; the full listing is at https://www.edx.org/jobs , but they include: Content Engineer Program Manager Software Engineer I've worked at edX for a couple of months,
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by jkarni 14y ago
I'm the OP, and work as a Content Engineer at edX - email me if you have questions @ julian@edx.org.