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by lambda 11y ago
> I don't want to be a brat, but what is the possible overlap between people caring to use Tor (for whatever reason) and people using Windows 10 as the host OS ? Journalists. There are many journalists who need to cover sensitive to
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by lambda 11y ago
You seem to be arguing against a strawman. What math communities are closed communities of insiders? While it's true that many parts of math are fairly inaccessible to the beginner, that is more due to them relying on foundations built
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by lambda 11y ago
Opus was actually a similar combination of two codecs, CELT from Xiph.org and SILK from Skype. So similarly, there are now two projects, Daala from Xiph and Thor from Cisco, which are both preliminary but being worked on in the same group,
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by lambda 11y ago
adware is a type of malware.
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by lambda 11y ago
The "or the like" was the end of the list of ways in which you could model the divergence between Unix time and the number of SI seconds between January 1st 1970 UTC and the present. One way of modelling it is as saying that secon
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by lambda 11y ago
Unix time is awful, since converting it to UTC is a real pain, as it doesn't count leap seconds which are included in UTC (thus, some seconds in Unix time are longer than others, or all of them are longer than standard SI seconds and t
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by lambda 11y ago
I think the main thing to remember is that dates and times have very different semantics when used for different purposes. If you are referring to an instant in time, then just using UTC is reasonable. If you are referring to a past event a
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by lambda 11y ago
Yeah, I got that you were agreeing about the word "criminal"; it just sounded like you were objecting to her using the term "criminal" for her treatment as well, and I was pointing out that since this is one of the few w
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by lambda 11y ago
I wouldn't presume anything. There are lots of reasons this could have happened, and not just due to lying on the application. Perhaps they had not been denied the J-1, but were just having trouble meeting all of the requirements in ti
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by lambda 11y ago
Actually, I can't think of many other civil offenses that warrant detention; so it is somewhat out of place that a civil offense such as using the wrong type of travel authorization by accident results in treatment that is generally re
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by lambda 11y ago
> She was treated like a criminal (ignoring the fact that she was, in fact, a criminal, accidentally or not). No. Simply making a mistake on a visa application is not a crime, nor is overstaying a visa. It counts as "Unlawful Prese
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by lambda 11y ago
I wouldn't characterize the way he was acting as seeming drunk. Rather, he seemed animated, probably because this is stuff he so deeply cares about.
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by lambda 11y ago
And for anyone who's not familiar, rapeseed oil is sold as canola oil in the US and Canada.
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by lambda 11y ago
Why wouldn't you be running TextSecure?
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by lambda 11y ago
Because moderate social pressure can be a good way to change habits? If you regularly see people drinking soda on a daily basis and hear nothing against it, it's a lot easier to fall into the habit. If you hear about people who stopped
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by lambda 11y ago
> Because it is "okay". Why do people think it's okay to tell others what is okay? Culturally, we consider coffee and alcohol to be things that should generally only be consumed by adults, and in moderation. Alcohol we hav
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by lambda 11y ago
What I'm saying is that culturally, we need to shift away from thinking that sweets are something that should be consumed on a daily basis. Based on my personal experience, avoiding having sweet drinks on a daily basis can help you los
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by lambda 11y ago
> Why do people think that it's OK to allow kids to drink coffee? Actually, most people I know don't consider coffee to be an acceptable drink to give to kids; but they don't think twice of serving them soda with the same
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by lambda 11y ago
Why do people think that it's OK to allow kids to drink soda? In fact, why do people think that drinking soda is something that anyone must do? I used to drink soda. Gave it up many years ago. Have not missed it. Have much less of a sw
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by lambda 11y ago
Most likely because their "C++ developers by platform" statistic does not include an "other" category, while there are actually developers working on platforms than Windows, OS X, or Linux (such as Solaris, BSD, etc). Si
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by lambda 11y ago
HN does not use standard Markdown. It uses a very simple markup language possibly inspired by Markdown, but with much more limited functionality. On HN, only two spaces are necessary for code: example And it only supports asterisks f
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by lambda 11y ago
> they have root on your box Or they have your discarded dead drive from your backup disk that you forgot to enable full disk encryption on. Or they rooted a machine that you were using "ssh -A" on to forward your agent, and ha
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by lambda 11y ago
As long as % formatting still works, it is in many ways more convenient that format. '"Foo: %s" % bar' is a lot shorter to write than '"Foo: {}".format(bar)'. And % formatting is still built into logg
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by lambda 11y ago
Lots of good stuff in here. Python 3.5 may actually be what finally convinces me to move to Python 3 (that, and the end of Python 2.7 support coming up in a few years). The new async stuff, finally fixing some of the problems with byte stri
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by lambda 11y ago
Hmm? Where does it say that?
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by lambda 11y ago
> It's a matter of if you think about it for a bit it makes no sense, it's logically impossible. Let's take a look at a dictionary definition of culture: "the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, o
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by lambda 11y ago
> they didn't immigrate and expect to receive special treatment because they were a member of group X. No one is asking for "special treatment". They are asking not to get special treatment that consists of being killed
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by lambda 11y ago
> Apple serves its Users not Developers, most of whom appreciate there's only 1 icon they need to click on to access the Internet. Only developers think that having multiple browsers to choose from is a value-add - for most users it
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by lambda 11y ago
For anyone curious, this section is on SAT solving. It's section 7.2.2.2 of TAOCP, and is over 300 pages long. Pretty thorough for a section of backtrack, within a section on generating all possibilities, within a full chapter on combi
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by lambda 11y ago
Hacker News does not support markdown. It supports just italics with asterisks, blank lines for paragraphs, code blocks by indenting with two spaces (while markdown uses 4), and auto-linking URLs. https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2

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