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by mizzao 11y ago
Met with the pope and then surprise resignation? I don't understand exactly what happened here, but it seems to have parallels to the meeting of Pope Leo and Attila the Hun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_I
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by mizzao 11y ago
For some reason, despite the fact that keeping a Li-I battery near full charge and in high temperatures drastically decreases its capacity over time, most laptop (and phone) manufacturers don't bother to have battery management softwar
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by mizzao 11y ago
The publisher that couldn't stop paywalling itself...
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by mizzao 11y ago
I think you just solved your own problem.
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by mizzao 11y ago
> creating megabyte long PDFs with colliding MD5 hashes is not even a difficult challenge anymore. Source, please? Suppose the hashes and PDF were provided over HTTPS. How would it be easy to create another document that collided with a
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by mizzao 11y ago
According to http://www.cheatsheet.com/features/how-does-apple-invest-its... : Cash, money market instruments, and other types of fixed income. Basically lots of things that can be turned into cash quickly without much
817.
by mizzao 11y ago
For those who really don't want to install Meteor, you can even run it right in your browser: http://meteorpad.com/ (JSFiddle-type thing for Meteor)
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by mizzao 11y ago
React native + Cordova, seems like it would be pretty great for everything except 3D games...
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by mizzao 11y ago
Has been resolved since over 2 years ago: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/History.md#v060-...
820.
by mizzao 11y ago
I imagine a lot of customers will avoid getting the "fix" in order to maintain the performance of their cars. There's not much that they can do to force these people to bring their cars back.
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by mizzao 11y ago
You should check out how Meteor ( https://www.meteor.com/ ) works. It makes REST pretty much unnecessary.
822.
by mizzao 11y ago
Instead of making the whole REST API, perhaps we could consider using something like Meteor (or at least offer ways to skip the API altogether in favor of some other mechanism.)
823.
by mizzao 11y ago
Clearly India is a culture where it's acceptable and not awkward to pay in cash. In North America people don't like handling cash, so it will probably stay the way it is.
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by mizzao 11y ago
It seems like if 95% of rides are cash, then there may not be enough to deduct...
825.
by mizzao 11y ago
Wow, that is hilarious. I actually didn't realize it was a joke until I tried to decipher what the command was doing and got thoroughly confused.
826.
by mizzao 11y ago
Another way of looking at the article is that it's more important to have the right data than just having lots of data. So it's very important to think about the questions that one would want to answer and design data collection
827.
by mizzao 11y ago
Maybe another lesson is that security by obscurity is never going to work in this age. If someone steals your code, which is incredibly likely with the amount of digital infiltration happening constantly, your security mechanism still bette
828.
by mizzao 11y ago
The price of computers dropped because of returns to technology investment, not because of deflation.
829.
by mizzao 11y ago
The MPAA spends who-knows-how-many millions of dollars hiring lawyers and PIs to go after volunteer programmers in countries all over the world, when they could just be spending that on an online distribution system for movies that would
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The More I Learn About Breast Milk, the More Amazed I Am(thestranger.com)
6 points by mizzao 11y ago|1 comments
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by mizzao 11y ago
CPU bottleneck, not graphics card.
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by mizzao 11y ago
For a little more diversification, I would amend that to buying shares of ITOT and IXUS in a 3:2 ratio (60% domestic/40% foreign), without paying commission if possible (e.g. https://www.fidelity.com/etfs/ishares )
833.
by mizzao 11y ago
People who use their google accounts and Chrome ubiquitously already get spied on by GA at a much bigger scale through all the sites they visit in their browser. Why is it a big uproar when it happens at the OS level? Seems like it's p
834.
by mizzao 11y ago
I suppose this is true, but in my experience a low quality bug report is usually either user error or not familiar to the developer. In both of those cases more investigation would help, and often the user corrects him/herself. Only in
835.
by mizzao 11y ago
Seems like an awesome place to blow off steam. Thanks for the suggestion!
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by mizzao 11y ago
Ugh. This post and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8712035 just gave me some incentives to do the following to these types of GitHub issues on my OSS projects: https://github.com/mizzao/meteor-auto
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by mizzao 11y ago
Interesting given this prediction and rather heated discussion two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6642893 Updated original link: http://blog.differential.com/meteor-killin-rails/
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Meteor surpasses Rails on number of GitHub stars(github.com)
2 points by mizzao 11y ago|2 comments
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by mizzao 11y ago
It's great that git is super fast, but it seems like it would be pretty horrible at handing the binary files that would be needed for actual filesystem applications.
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by mizzao 11y ago
Uh, so is this going to be able to host the massive database used to store the training data/model for some really large deep neural network or latent variable model? Because it seems that's most of what the "algorithms"

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