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by nemo1618 12y ago
relevant: http://i.imgur.com/2LvD6jv.jpg
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by nemo1618 12y ago
thanks, I really needed this. I had similar feelings about computer hardware for years.
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by nemo1618 12y ago
"I used to be an atheist until I realized I was god." - J. Krishnamurti http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism
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by nemo1618 12y ago
http://www.simulation-argument.com/
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by nemo1618 12y ago
fair point. And on the flipside, we have projects like Hurd and DNF that were hidden away for far too long to ever become relevant or successful. I guess what I'd like to see is a breakaway from the notion that there can only be one, u
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by nemo1618 12y ago
It worries me to see people describe Bitcoin as the "IP layer of payments." I have serious doubts about Bitcoin's ability to scale to a global audience. Transactions are too slow, the blockchain is too heavy, etc. I see Bitco
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by nemo1618 12y ago
http://github.com/NebulousLabs/mkvsynth Non-linear script-controlled video editor for Linux; basically Avisynth reimagined for the 2010s. Our scripting system in particular is a massive upgrade from Avisynth's blo
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by nemo1618 12y ago
my first thought was "@shit_hn_says is gonna love this..."
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by nemo1618 12y ago
I'm not sure why the author goes out of his way to avoid saying "monad," but this is certainly a monad analogy blog post whether he wants to call it that or not. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing; I think this arti
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by nemo1618 12y ago
I wouldn't scorn such "shortcuts." It's difficult for people to put sustained effort into something without having some sense of what the payoff will be like. "Cheating" once or twice can provide sufficient mot
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by nemo1618 12y ago
"The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself of the chains that shackle the spirit... the arbitrariness of the constraint only serves to obtain precision of execution." - Igor Stravinsky
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by nemo1618 12y ago
Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1011656 (no, Descartes did not say this)
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by nemo1618 12y ago
If you're like me and love this sort of hacker folklore, here's another great story: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html and of course, everything on folklore.org is great
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by nemo1618 13y ago
I have a strange fascination with knowing exactly how I discovered a particular artist, film, website, etc. I'd really love a browser extension that could keep track of how the user reached a given site. Then they could go back later a
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by nemo1618 13y ago
From the article: >the discrimination that I identified is not intentional by scientists or engineers or simply the product of cultural values. It is a byproduct of a research and innovation cycle that has significant consequences as soc
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by nemo1618 13y ago
I tried reverse image searching the photo, but got nothing. However, a simple YouTube search for the song name turned up a bunch of cover versions. This one matches the length shown (4:17): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty
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by nemo1618 13y ago
Psychedelics are certainly not drugs in the antibiotic sense; they don't seek out depression-causing neurons and cure them or anything remotely like that. Rather, psychedelic drugs offer a means for the user to "get out of their h
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by nemo1618 13y ago
Though I've never used an Apple product, I adore folklore.org. So many great tales of engineering. When I hear the word "hacker," these people come to mind. A shame they didn't play a larger role in the company's di
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by nemo1618 13y ago
I used Flex/Bison for writing my first interpreter, and I definitely recommended for beginners. I think when you're starting out, it's more important to focus on writing a proper grammar and traversing the AST than to do all
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by nemo1618 13y ago
^H is the escape sequence for the backspace character. Since the days of BBS it has been used to comedic effect in the manner you see here.
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by nemo1618 13y ago
See also Thomson's lamp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson%27s_lamp
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by nemo1618 13y ago
There's actually a bunch of really interesting predictions by McCarthy here: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/future/index.html But the hit counter only shows 66 hits since 1998! What a shame.
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by nemo1618 13y ago
Nice to see that they've got Steve Mann onboard. That inspires a lot more confidence than flashy marketing videos.
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by nemo1618 13y ago
I chuckled when I realized you could just copy and paste the expression and it will pass the equality test. Obviously you don't learn anything this way, but I'll admit I used it once or twice when I got stumped.
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by nemo1618 13y ago
The suckless.org people (creators of dwm) are working on a fully static Linux distro[1]. I'm quite interested to see how it turns out, but at this point it's starting to look like vaporware. [1]: http://sta.li
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by nemo1618 13y ago
Lisp + JVM = Clojure I'm sold. This is really cool! (Though it's worth noting that a Google search with the same terms returns the exact same result...)
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by nemo1618 13y ago
Previous discussion of an asm.js fork: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5709128
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by nemo1618 13y ago
These posts are great, pheelicks, keep it up! Your previous post inspired me to make this: http://github.com/lukechampine/algo My 3D renderer still suffers from faulty compositing (polygons are rendered in arbitrary or
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by nemo1618 13y ago
Inspired by that post[1] on Go a few days ago, I made a few animated parametric plots: http://i.imgur.com/gUm1T5S.gif http://i.imgur.com/xR5uqle.gif http://i.imgur.com/SVvuRII.gif [1]: htt
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by nemo1618 13y ago
Hey guys, I made a userscript at HackMIT last weekend that adds article summaries to the HN front page. It doesn't use the TextTeaser API (for the time being, at least) but the summaries seem to come out about the same anyway. Check it

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