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The Value of a Degree(blog.martinsvanberg.com)
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by msvan 12y ago
Here's a captcha idea: make people write a 100-word essay on a specific topic. If it's good, you're accepted and you won't have to do it again. If it's bad, you're either a computer or cheap Nigerian labor. Whe
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Curiosity and Mathematics(blog.martinsvanberg.com)
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by msvan 13y ago
Good job! Here's a similar one, but animated: http://wagerfield.github.io/flat-surface-shader/ . It was on HN a few months ago.
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What's an efficient way to change my 200+ account passwords?(superuser.com)
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by msvan 13y ago
What a fascinating convergence of math, music and Python. Many people I meet who don't specialize in math but have taken university-level courses in it seem to remember the Fourier transform as a highlight, probably because of its many
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Coq in a Hurry(cel.archives-ouvertes.fr)
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by msvan 13y ago
Blockchains create scarcity among bits, enforced by a distributed network. The most well-known usage is in Bitcoin, but there are many different applications. Many systems that were previously very difficult to create without a central auth
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by msvan 13y ago
I live in Northern Europe. It's arguably superior to the US in many ways, but there are some things which we cannot get here. One thing is size. The US has 300+ million people, whereas my country only has a few million. All communities
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by msvan 13y ago
It's not a scrapeability problem; it's a freedom problem. The article mentions this. Why should the app stores decide what can and cannot be on our phones, and why should they add a 30% tax on everything that is published on mobil
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A not-so-brief aside on reigning in chaos (2012)(chester.id.au)
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How Do You Know If A Startup Will "Make It"?(fastcolabs.com)
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by msvan 13y ago
And even if he were to write the operating system from scratch, he would still have "cheated" by not designing the hardware. I wonder how long it would take in man-years to recreate the entire chain all the way up to a simple C-li
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V8: a tale of two compilers(wingolog.org)
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Static Single Assignment for functional programmers(wingolog.org)
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Ωmega Users' Guide(code.google.com)
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Learning JavaScript Design Patterns(addyosmani.com)
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by msvan 13y ago
Table of contents, possibly out of date but should give you a general idea of what's in it: http://pastebin.com/w9isSyer .
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Ethereum(ethereum.org)
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by msvan 13y ago
Fun factoid: His domain name is "kurzweilai", presumably standing for "Kurzweil AI", but it can also be read as "Kurz Weilai," where "weilai" means future in Chinese. For a moment there I thought he h
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by msvan 13y ago
I'd say the person should decide himself if he is a part of the minority or not. Did Steve Jobs ever identify as Arab American? I've never heard of it.
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by msvan 13y ago
Agreed. I find that Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain has too much pseudo-science in it and that the results you get, while they may be impressive to a complete beginner, are only superficially impressive. Getting good at drawing takes
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by msvan 13y ago
Same here. Cross-border calls are still unreasonably expensive without Viber/Skype. Is it there some limitation to the GSM infrastructure that prevents cheap international calls from ever becoming a reality, or are the phone companies
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How come 32.5 = 31.5?(math.stackexchange.com)
1 points by msvan 13y ago|0 comments
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HTTP/1.1 418 I'm a Teapot (RFC 2324)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by msvan 13y ago
I always find it interesting how different the rhetoric in US politics is compared to, for instance, Northern Europe. It's more pompous and dramatic; certainly more interesting to listen to than what I hear here on a regular basis. Oba
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by msvan 13y ago
Now that I have the frontpage's attention: where do HNers meet in Stockholm? There are a lot of startup organizations around here, but it's hard to keep track of them all and to know who's who.
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Why do chocolate chip cookies have 37% (1/e) chocolate in them?(math.stackexchange.com)
51 points by msvan 13y ago|23 comments
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Machine Learning: A Love Story(infoq.com)
6 points by msvan 13y ago|1 comments
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The Generic Dilemma (2009)(research.swtch.com)
1 points by msvan 13y ago|0 comments

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