lixtra

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by lixtra 8y ago
> Why does 500 years matter? Again, that's the survivor bias. If you compare why in the last 10k years the Himalaya and Venice Beach did not reach the same altitude you may say that's survivors bias. But it's not. One thi
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by lixtra 8y ago
Could you give examples of other goods that were durable and valuable over a period of time of say 500 years but are no longer? I can think of salt that lost about 80% of its value since ancient time. The loss is mostly due to the fact that
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by lixtra 8y ago
My point is that they can very well manage their processes if they want to. They could run proper retail for B2B if they wanted as well.
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by lixtra 8y ago
But now imagine if the owners had invested into a well diversified ETF back then!
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by lixtra 8y ago
Are you related to "Informed decision-making with and for people with dementia - NCBI" [1]. If not then this sounds like an unfortunate name clash. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29271251
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by lixtra 8y ago
Only if they know about the product.
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by lixtra 8y ago
> Amazon with supplying mission critical parts to spec I thought AWS is fairly successful also for HN users.
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by lixtra 8y ago
> - packaging and deployment of Python applications and libraries Talking about it, can you recommend a resource for that? Related: https://xkcd.com/1987/
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by lixtra 8y ago
My understanding of the US prisons was that many people with mental issues end up there instead of proper mental health care [1]. I can imagine that people with mental issues are also more likely to end up in inns and brothels. These people
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by lixtra 8y ago
I find the infinite loop much less troublesome than the wrong data that apparently this bug may cause as well.
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by lixtra 8y ago
> If disaster comes, you will find that all the myths you once cherished are of no use to you. This spring I visited Notre Dame in Paris. I saw four soldiers patroling the street, spread out a few meters apart from each other, one finger
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by lixtra 8y ago
Let’s assume that it is indeed the hash of the URL as they wrote. There are much more than 2B URLs on the net. Assume google flagged 2M as malicious (a 8MB db). So on average you get a hit for 1 in thousands URLs. For each hit you query go
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by lixtra 8y ago
> A four byte hash is unique to two billion sites Due to the birthday paradox collisions happen much earlier.
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by lixtra 8y ago
> So then it semi-randomly sends Google URLs you visit? No, it computes a 4 byte hash of the URL (domain?) and if this matches a local DB entry then it asks google for all malicious URLs with that hash (explained in the link of parent).
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by lixtra 8y ago
Getting good at skills fast would be my first pick.
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by lixtra 8y ago
It's more the side effect of upvoting the whole thread that makes me wonder. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/705782/why-shouldnt-data...
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by lixtra 8y ago
Is this a GET request? What if my browser wants to peek ahead on some links?
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by lixtra 8y ago
I'm always stunned by the confidence with which forensic analysts state their conclusions (or is it just the journalists portraying them?). For other professions (doctors, archaeologists, even mathematics if you think of the crisis in
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by lixtra 8y ago
* Make your stuff visible on github. If I read an application with a github link I always check there. If it looks good you will get invited. * Do voluntary tech work for your local (church/religious) community. This will give you conn
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by lixtra 8y ago
"data Artisans Streaming Ledger [...] [extends] Apache Flink [...] to perform serializable transactions from multiple streams across shared tables and multiple rows of each table." [1] This sounds like a hybrid approach if you nee
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by lixtra 8y ago
I saw some reviews that claim the books just presents common knowledge. Keep in mind it is aimed at undergrads. I personally think the author is to harsh on "tactical programming" (solving problems locally without the big picture
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by lixtra 8y ago
I'm not the guy for trigger warnings but I find the choice of data unfortunate. There is a big percentage of people I won't recommend the page because of the dataset.
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by lixtra 8y ago
I write a lot of sql and it is generally a nice language. But for my taste the language is to close to English and therefore redundant and inconsistent in an annoying way. Example: Select x from tbl ... Delete from tbl ... Update tbl set x=
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by lixtra 8y ago
Because USB-C is still a mess.[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17285411
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by lixtra 8y ago
On HN, if you present a technical hack, everybody likes it and thinks it's a interesting proposition. It does not matter that it is usually illegal to exploit it in real life. However if you come with a business hack, people tend to po
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by lixtra 8y ago
Our HR asked me to personally call people and thank them for their declined application. But at the same time requested to not give any feedback because of fear from litigation. Sad world.
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by lixtra 8y ago
Somehow I would expect pipes to be connectable and nestable. This does not seem to be the case (by studying the source). Then you could have some function to build and parametrise a sub-pipeline and connect them to something bigger. I'
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by lixtra 8y ago
Warning to data plan users: The page is 11MB.
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by lixtra 8y ago
[1] reminded me of Utu which I cannot get out of my head for years. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17848353
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Utu: Saving the internet with hate(2007/2018)(weblog.masukomi.org)
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