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The Magnetic Lasso Algorithm(rivit.cs.byu.edu)
6 points by ncarlson 17y ago|0 comments
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by ncarlson 17y ago
Well, if the price gets to $40, he would have roughly 40,000 users. That's roughly $800,000 in gross revenue. (20,000 * $40.) Assuming the operating costs are low, this site could bring in a life changing amount of money for one person. Edi
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by ncarlson 17y ago
> And yes, it has happened . . . several times! Citation?
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by ncarlson 17y ago
Am I the only one tired of the "Let's go shopping" meme?
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by ncarlson 17y ago
>but ultimately one that has been soundly disproved by the success of public health systems in most of Europe and Canada. Yes, but the success of those systems is dependent upon the (semi) free-market health system in the United States.
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by ncarlson 17y ago
Health care is just like any other product or service. It will be sold at market prices.
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by ncarlson 17y ago
The improvement really is quite noticeable. Just check out: http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/balldroppings/ Run it on the current stable Chrome, then try the new beta.
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by ncarlson 17y ago
Correlation does not imply causation.
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by ncarlson 17y ago
I think the sensible option is to eliminate income tax completely.
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by ncarlson 17y ago
I really hate to be "that guy", but his incomplete sentences are killing me.
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by ncarlson 17y ago
> A safe variant of C wouldn't have been that hard to create, but the culture wouldn't permit it. C is a non-language. It's a tool used to give developers complete control of the hardware. It's just one step up from Assembler (to make t
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by ncarlson 17y ago
> I'd prefer my libraries be rock solid secure even if I lose some (or even a lot of) performance for it. Then don't use C. People don't seem to understand that C is just a step up from Assembly Language. There are no "types" in the sen
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by ncarlson 17y ago
You're right....we need a fourth law.
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by ncarlson 17y ago
I lived in Japan from 2002 to 2005. I have to say, one of the first things that struck me was how crazily advanced their cellphones were. Not only that, but _ everyone _ had one.
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by ncarlson 17y ago
That a very sly move on the developers part. Next time I submit a pdf, I'll just us a url masking service.
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Off-topic: Why do people put [scribd] in a post title when linking to a pdf?
1 points by ncarlson 17y ago|12 comments
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by ncarlson 17y ago
I've started mine in erlang. I'm going to run 10 dollars worth of ec2 time and see how far I get.
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by ncarlson 17y ago
Here's some math: http://www38.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%281000+choose+12%29+... The real killer is the allowed capitalization of any letter. If we assume that the average word length will be 6 characters, then we can assume that the ave
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by ncarlson 17y ago
My thoughts exactly. Also, there are enough additional permutation rules to balloon the result space way beyond the reach of even a modest super computer. One approach would be to lease a massive cluster of cloud computers to carry out the
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by ncarlson 17y ago
Thank you! Scribd is so annoying.
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by ncarlson 17y ago
I took down the semi-protected stub. I've been trying to assist in writing this article for the past few days. Needless to say, there are a few admins that would rather see us not succeed (or so it seems).
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by ncarlson 17y ago
Do you have a source?
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by ncarlson 17y ago
Wow, that sounds horrible.
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by ncarlson 18y ago
Wow, that's actually really impressive.
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by ncarlson 18y ago
Why? I disagree. If you go over there to teach English or engage in an unrelated job, sure, it's not a healthy career move. But there are plenty of large multinational companies working out of Tokyo.
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by ncarlson 18y ago
I'm not sure I understand the question. I'm not quite fluent in Japanese. Close, but not there yet. However, one's ability to pass the JLPT Level 1 with relative ease is a pretty fair indicator of fluency.
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by ncarlson 18y ago
Tokyo is on my list. But it seems to have taken a back seat for the moment. Getting a working visa in Japan is rather difficult (unless your an English teacher or highly sought executive). The process basically boils down to a company decid
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Ask HN: Where should I move to maximize my career potential?
7 points by ncarlson 18y ago|16 comments
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Any hackers in Denver?
5 points by ncarlson 18y ago|4 comments
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by ncarlson 18y ago
Did he link to Apple's Keynote software as a "load testing managed service provider"?

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