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Mea culpa. I did miss the point.
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From what I can tell searching relevant dates, I believe the Washington Post published the PRISM piece before Bezos purchased the newspaper.
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There's a replica of Stonehenge in Maryhill, Washington: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryhill_Stonehenge
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by nhebb 10y ago
Search for just about any desktop software with the words "crack", "serial", "torrent",... and search engines will show results. Most of it will be virus-laden crap, but that's a separate issue. Same goes
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With the affiliate link to the VPS host, it's essentially just a marketing page.
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As mentioned elsewhere, he was a Program Manager for Excel. His story ("My First BillG Review") about spearheading the effort to bring VBA into Excel is a great read: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006&#
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> It happened with the index fund – easily the most important financial innovation of the last half-century. John Bogle launched the first index fund in 1975. No one paid much attention to for next two decades. That's in part beca
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If the Bureau of Labor stats are to be believed, the software industry workforce has doubled every fives years. Assuming new entrants to the field are younger, industry growth is the probably largest factor in the age distribution of progra
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In defense of math: Statistics was the one ongoing use of math in my former roles as a manufacturing engineer. Beyond that I haven't used much math directly. However, I have replied upon my knowledge of engineering core courses to unde
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I don't have a problem with the affiliate links. If I buy one of these books, should all the money I spend go to Bezos & Co., or should a small portion go toward the person who took the time and effort to compile the weekly list of
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by nhebb 10y ago
You too? I just logged in for the first time since 2013. It turns out that in 2014 I was really into children's gaming sites. Who knew?
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by nhebb 10y ago
> as usual, the PR is excessive I think articles that over hype lab results make it to the top of HN because there is no downvote button and flagging them doesn't seem appropriate. I wish there was a "meh" option.
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> the photographer has relinquished her copyright From the article: "Highsmith says she never abandoned her photo copyrights"
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I don't know anything about AI or machine learning, but your comment reminded me of this: http://norvig.com/chomsky.html HN discussion of related article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4290604
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by nhebb 10y ago
Fair enough, but that's still "projected to generate" not "can generate".
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The Joules/year on the graph is a flat line from now to 2040. It ought to read "does generate" instead of "can generate'.
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Playing devil's advocate, shouldn't this work in reverse? Providing their IP address, shouldn't someone be able to send Facebook a cease and desist order to stop trespassing on their system by running Facebook javascript in t
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> I'll actually Google the word "bing" in this case. That's funny. I'm going to start doing that. I get frustrated w/ Google when I do a search and the top results do not have a single instance of one of my
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by nhebb 10y ago
If you're going with mobile in mind, would you consider replacing "-" and "+" with "collapse" and "expand"? Trying to hit one character on mobile can be frustrating.
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The DoJ filed a motion on Wednesday to delay the release of the Clinton Foundation emails for 27 months. The reason cited was that there were errors in how the search was conducted. Given that, it sounds like there is also a fundamental pro
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Did you read the article? It specifically cited a costly NASA error due to mixing measurement systems: The use of two different systems was the root cause in the loss of the $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter. NASA specified me
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Freedom of speech protects you from government prosecution, with certain limitations like yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater, etc. It doesn't mean that others (e.g. Reddit) have to give you a platform for your speech. Freed
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Thanks for the summary. I tried reading the linked page, the articles, and the home site, but there's a certain type of language that I have trouble wading through. My eyes glossed over at all the platitudes and bureaucrat-speak. The g
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No real surprises there. Except, personally, I didn't know the military academies were considered liberal arts schools.
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The deprecation of SHA-1 is an issue, though. Timestamps after January 1, 2016 must be SHA-256, and SHA-1 signed files will be blocked after January 1, 2017. However, Microsoft has blogged that they may block them starting this June. Pre-Wi
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They are lucrative. Portland State University probably isn't widely known outside of Oregon, but their fundraisers make pretty nice salaries: * Foundation President / CEO: $278,000 * Chief Development Officer: $170,000 S
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Clearly you never watched Death Race 2000 - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072856/
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Related Reddit post, with one of the authors answering questions: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/4e15fa/the_largest_... Also, from that thread, someone posted that USC does an annual film gende
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Apparently I'm using one. It's called NoScript. ;-)
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"Chris Clark [...] was Mayor of Mountain View.View" Is that a typo or a file name? Hmmm, I might just add "Creator of the Universe.txt" to my resume.

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