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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Of all the screenshots, mine looks the ugliest. ( http://i.imgur.com/zX3tG.png ). Chrome Beta on OS X Snow Leopard.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Try this book ( http://www.amazon.com/Operating-Systems-Design-Implementatio... ). It is written be Andrew S Tanenbaum, the author of minix. The book contains whole of minix source code. Nothing beats learning from reading actual codes.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
The symbol was  [Edit: Image link http://i.imgur.com/Pf0Br.png ] The domain name was .ws
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
You are probably talking about Cosine similarity ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosine_similarity ) , a commonly used technique in the field of IR/NLP.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
One of my friend had a similar domain but he got it refunded because it didn't worked in all browsers etc and would not in future either according to him because of ICANN's specs which go against symbols in domain names.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Levenshtein Distance ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance ) is a standard algorithm taught in algorithm courses as a standard example of Dynamic Programming. Some discussion here : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/156418
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Spelling Corrector in 21 lines of Python (norvig.com)
181 points by l0nwlf 16y ago|27 comments
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
I wonder why a bogus post full of false claims is even posted on HN. > He is in 5th semester which means he hardly knows anything about computer science or programming languages till now. To quote Linus, "Numbers talk, Bullshit walks" C
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
There are very few computers, fewer with internet connections while Television and newspaper are everywhere. Since a month Assagne have been in news, almost daily but FB rarely gets any press. What you see are occasional coverage. Faceboo
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
> Asked another way, looking back 3 years from now, who will most people has made a bigger impact on the world? This is about this year IMO. Also think about masses, people from afghanistan and pakistan who don't know/care about FB kno
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
> Aside from their content publishing offerings almost every one of their product offerings is fourth class, or third at best. You forgot the fact that MapQuest too is an AOL product.
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Ask HN: Why can't we comment on some posts?(news.ycombinator.org)
2 points by l0nwlf 16y ago|1 comments
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Google is organizing similar event aka Google Code Jam ( http://code.google.com/codejam ) for years. Facebook Hacker Cup feels like a clone of it. Similarities: 1. Annual algorithmic competitions. 2. Various online elimination rounds.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Seems like, having it free was not enough. Also if you read the article, you'll realize that it is a test machine for devs.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
> To quote wargames, the best way to win is not to play. How is this relevant here ?
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
> As someone who has spent a considerable amount of time studying NLP I'm quite interested in how will you approach this problem ?
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Score:9. Consolation points: Did BASIC and Ada which many seemed to miss. Old memories refreshed, LOGO followed by BASIC. When I first read about C, I wondered how things ever worked without 'goto'. What the hell is this thing known as re
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
And how many of them will read the dump ? Will it create the impact as it is doing now ? Doesn't this fails the purpose of existance of wikileaks or say any whistleblower site.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
I am graduating from CS, currently in my final year. GPA does matters a lot when you are a fresher. Companies which visit universities for hiring (Campus recruitment drive) places a GPA cutoff, henceforth making low GPA fellas ineligible t
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
After a bit of googling I found out that I was wrong in assuming that search-team of Google is reserved only for veterans and freshers are not allowed. Also it's a fact that you learn more from industrial exposure than that of textbooks. A
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
I am not convinced though. I don't think nooglers are assigned to Google Search team. They won't expose their search-algorithm to a rookie.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
> I find most programming books to be boring and discursive. I was of the same opinion until I read "Programming Pearls" by Jon bentley. The way it opens up a problem statement, thereby making you think is truly fascinating. If you h
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
I was unable to find any reference regarding this. Personally gocr worked better for me than tessearct/pytesseract. Google docs inbuilt OCR gives pretty satisfactory results too.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
The NLP section too is worth looking into. [ http://nlp.stanford.edu ]
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
I do not get the context of two hours here. AFAIK, ACM Programming contest consist of ~5 hours. FWIW, I am also participating this year. My team was ranked #11 in prelims and we are competing for qualifying world finals at IITK, India. (
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Can't wait more to see the algorithm behind Google Wave. It may have failed(?) as a commercial product, but as a technical product it was kick-ass.
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Attachmate To Acquire Novell For $2.2B Cash(boston.com)
2 points by l0nwlf 16y ago|0 comments
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
I liked the way the content is presented. I had Parallel Computing as one of my elective this semester, and the subject isn't kool any more when you dive into it. Parallel Computing is tough IMHO and it takes some brainstorming to solve e
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
"Without a Steve Jobs, Facebook is going to become the new Google. A technical powerhouse that can't build usable software" I disagree that. Google have made some usable softwares. Before Gmail came, webmail was a mess. I guess people re
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Tried: Q: What does Python prompt look like ? Desired Answer: >>> Answer Given: None.

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