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by lell 15y ago
I'm usually surprised and inspired by the optimism and constructiveness of comments on HN. I sometimes view reading HN as a salve against cynicism. What the heck is happening in these replies? Usually when HN comments are critical, they are
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by lell 15y ago
there's "find ./ -type d", also (find directories only.)
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by lell 15y ago
This is a very nice list. I didn't know most of these tools before, and they look very useful; I'm going to try and learn some of them. I found the link in the topic a bit disappointing. It mostly contained tools for system diagnostics r
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by lell 15y ago
It's true, Newfoundland is a good corner case for this app. 1) It has its own timezone which involves a half hour offset, (called NT) which is UTC−3:30 and 2) its capital is St. John's. This city name is common in the maritime provinces a
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by lell 15y ago
How about "Short story about privacy has daughter sued in the womb (ftrain.com)." I've been reading HN for around 6 months and lots of people have been suggesting that content quality is falling recently and there've been a lot of meta dis
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by lell 15y ago
I wonder what would happen if you did (undo (discrete-log y g)) or tried to undo some other trap-door function. In cryptography, a trap door function has linear complexity in one direction, but in the other direction it is either exponenti
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by lell 15y ago
I read her text book 'introduction to consciousness' in a fourth year course in cognitive science. Probably the reason she was able to study parapsychology early in her career was that it was during the cold war when there were branches of
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by lell 15y ago
Are you referring to the link in the title? It is true that the company was hosting cardiac patient monitoring on EC2. This was not life threatening infrastructure, but that is not implied by the HN title. How is it linkbait? The poster
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by lell 15y ago
Proponents of the FSF desire the hegemony of free software with the same uncompromising fervor as revolutionaries in russia desired communism in 1917. And the analogy does not end there. In many ways, free software is a communists dream.
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by lell 15y ago
Agreed --- looks like the rankings of the variables are the same for each country, and even the ratios vary only slightly. This information would be better presented in a table (with standard error reported) or a bar graph. The original O
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by lell 15y ago
Interesting comic. I was thinking about giving it to my kids, but it gets a bit too complicated starting on page 4. And there are no simple examples. It would be nicer as a longer series that explained how to make some simple circuits in
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by lell 16y ago
there's a separate folder in C:\Windows for every supported language? that seems so messy.
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by lell 16y ago
It's possible --- and the customer service manager he was talking to just said anything to get off the phone, even if it meant lying about something he didn't understand. Maybe he didn't even realize it would paint his company in a bad lig
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by lell 16y ago
Oh, no wonder no one has heard of it. Oh well, RMS has it harder "I made Ga neeew plus lin ex?"
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by lell 16y ago
Sounds like he doesn't know how to present himself. "So what do you do?" "Have you heard of linux?" I'm SURE they'd say yes, it's in wallmart, even. so, "yeah, that's for computers!" "yeah. i made that. most of the web runs on it too.
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by lell 16y ago
A lot of people in this thread are concerned about the TOS and whether or not it is enforceable. But did anyone notice that he claims wolfram served apple a DCMA notice for the app? That law was supposed to be for copyrighted artwork. Ar
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by lell 16y ago
"To translate the English term for computing resources that can be accessed on demand on the Internet, a group of French experts had spent 18 months coming up with "informatique en nuage," which literally means "computing in cloud."" http:
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by lell 16y ago
Maybe he should get 1/sqrt(log(N))% of the reward.
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by lell 16y ago
I noticed you included planetmath in your list of encyclopedias. They used to be an excellent source for definitions and theorems in pure math. But for the past 3 years, their search has been broken and their rendering has been slow (each
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by lell 16y ago
Ferrucci's explanation of Watson's reasoning is very interesting. But the article quickly descends into marketing. How should this mistake make us any MORE confident about Watson's utility as a diagnostic aid? I'd suggest that its perfor