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by megalodon 10y ago
Agreed. The reason I became a programmer is because of all the wonderful people who decided it was worth their while to share their code for free. Being able to do the same for others is a privilege.
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by megalodon 10y ago
This solution is the opposite of "slowing down and learning how to write better web software".
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by megalodon 10y ago
It's also possible that the threshold for innovation would be lower because of the cap.
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by megalodon 10y ago
> Cats and dogs are engineered to be happy as pets. Cats and dogs have evolved to be happy as pets. Let's leave the use of 'engineered' to the creationists :)
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Noodl – Connected experience design platform(getnoodl.com)
2 points by megalodon 10y ago|0 comments
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by megalodon 10y ago
I'm 23, coding since 12. Probably echoing a lot of comments here, but contribute to open source! Not only will it help your prospects of getting a job, you will be helping others which is just as rewarding (if not more). I have only st
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by megalodon 10y ago
Ever wondered why they exist? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
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by megalodon 10y ago
> ... hedging and differentiation ... How is the distinction hard to understand? Socialism is a system characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to capitalism, which is characterised by private ownership of
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Show HN: Matplotlib plotting for Node.js(github.com)
2 points by megalodon 10y ago|0 comments
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by megalodon 10y ago
You're right, of course. I realised my mistake after the delete link had disappeared. My bad!
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by megalodon 10y ago
This write-up by CitizenLab [1] describes the Trident iOS exploit chain. Excerpt: CVE-2016-4657 [2]: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to arbitrary code execution CVE-2016-4655 [3]: An application may be able to disclose kerne
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Accessing JavaScript binary data in C++(casualjavascript.com)
1 points by megalodon 10y ago|0 comments
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by megalodon 10y ago
> Dismissing it out of hand does a disservice to all those people. Or maybe they all know its impossible, but continue because they are perfectly happy with the amount of funding thrown at them. Not saying it's true, but it's t
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by megalodon 10y ago
Assuming the recently announced deep space travel project [1] works out and their estimates are correct (unlikely), it would take 20 years of preparation + 20 years of travel + 4 years of data transfer. Also mentioned in [1] is that if Voya
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by megalodon 10y ago
Have you read the guidelines? > Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait. This paragraph has been there as far as I can remember.
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by megalodon 10y ago
You seem to know a bit about web standards, was minification ever formally accepted by the W3C or did it just happen?
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by megalodon 10y ago
I just hope that when it happens we will be able to view and read the source of WASM in the same way we can with javascript now. This is one of the foundations of WWW, please don't turn it into a closed source app store.
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by megalodon 10y ago
Thanks for the warning, will not visit Wired again. Auto-play video ads, anti-adblock screens and clickbaity, capitalized titles are all diseases of the "modern" web and should be dealt with accordingly.
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by megalodon 10y ago
Feels like a clever combination of an ad and a CV, masked as a praise for open source.
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by megalodon 10y ago
I think you are generalising my comment quite a bit, it was just a reaction to the poster above. We are never "done", that's kind of the point I was trying to convey. I completely agree that we should use science to help us d
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by megalodon 10y ago
I'm sure most theoretical physicists would call themselves mathematicians. I don't agree physics should favour creating testable predictive models, because who are we to say what's testable in the future? Take the theory of r
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Ring buffers and moving averages(casualjavascript.com)
3 points by megalodon 10y ago|1 comments
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by megalodon 10y ago
It is most certainly not a waste of time! According to a recently published article [1], researchers managed to crack ATM PINs with 80-percent accuracy on the first try using the motion sensors on smartwatches. [1] http://phys.or
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by megalodon 10y ago
Are you by any chance comfortable with sharing your thesis here (if you still have it around)? It sounds interesting. I would have asked via email if I had known where to send it!
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by megalodon 10y ago
Made this roughly a year ago (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9652913 ). Originally I let the neural net output a charcode array (either 4 or 8 bits, depending on if the output was a number or a character) which cou
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Show HN: Neural network OCR in JavaScript(github.com)
4 points by megalodon 10y ago|1 comments
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by megalodon 10y ago
I'm not an expert, but jogging every day for an hour seems excessive. Running for half an hour (~5km) 3 times a week will get you a long way and it is one of the best exercises there is. I'd argue it's better than weightlifti
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by megalodon 10y ago
Okay, wow. Just clicked the https://www.bankid.no/en/ link and it looks like it's two entirely different companies using the same name? In Sweden we use https://www.bankid.com/en/ which doesn
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by megalodon 10y ago
You are probably right, I added that part in because I read somewhere that not all countries maintain lists of personal identities as comprehensive but that might have been a long time ago, in that case my mistake. For more info: https:&#x
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by megalodon 10y ago
This is what we use here in Sweden as well. The reason it works is that all inhabitants are given a personal identification number upon birth, that consists of our birthday + 4 digits which are loosely based on where we are born and if we a

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