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by nmc 13y ago
Interesting history lesson about the Egyptian's use of the duodecimal system. I believe the last argument is understated: one big advantage of base 12 over base 10 is division by 3. This offers many ways of dividing a time interval int
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by nmc 13y ago
TL;DR: The answer is Brams-Taylor's "Envy-free Cake Division Protocol" [1]. [1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~arielpro/mfai_papers/BT95.pdf
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by nmc 13y ago
Fun fact and objective analysis. However, irrelevant in countries like The Netherlands, where freely downloading copyrighted music is not illegal.
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by nmc 13y ago
Could not find any original information in there. The visit has been planned for long, and the affair was revealed several days ago already.
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by nmc 13y ago
When Paul Wolfskehl offered a prize of 100k German marks for Fermat's "last theorem", the University of Göttingen had to print generic rejection forms saying: "Thank you for submitting a proof of Fermat's theorem.
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by nmc 13y ago
You are right, the demonstration is only partially constructive. The functions are well defined: they are the canonical projectors of the Hamel basis. The trick is, the basis itself is not constructible.
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by nmc 13y ago
Sadly, there is no known method of constructing such a Hamel basis — but we know there is one contained in the Cantor set [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor_set
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by nmc 13y ago
Fun fact about considering R as a vector space over Q: the Hamel basis A mentioned in the post is not only infinite, but even uncountable.
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by nmc 13y ago
What about the git plugin of Oh-My-ZSH? https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh
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Easy Loop Progress-meter in Python(github.com)
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by nmc 13y ago
Who would keep such a site up to date? How would the validity of the information be checked?
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by nmc 13y ago
Like a social network for lawyers to post updates of their cases? When will lawyers start tweeting from the courtroom?
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by nmc 13y ago
Very interesting (and frightening) about NTP, but I am afraid the first part of this claim about SNMP is not accurate: “ Luckily, there are few open SNMP servers on the Internet and SNMP usually requires authentication (although manly are p
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by nmc 13y ago
Trusting a doctor with stuff like your health, but not trusting them with information about what you eat, comes from a very obscure reasoning.
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by nmc 13y ago
You may be underestimating the stuff people post on facebook these days.
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by nmc 13y ago
Two pieces of advice: Read "horror stories", like a crazy bug introduced by an innocent commit, or how forgetting a single line of code can lead to a massive security breach. This will give you some "subconscious awareness&qu
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by nmc 13y ago
Not to my knowledge (this could vary greatly from one country to another). They must not disclose private information concerning their patients, but this is precisely because they sometimes need to know very personal stuff in order to bette
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by nmc 13y ago
You want to ban Google search?
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by nmc 13y ago
TL;DR do not look for fancy names like "4k" and "UHD", just check the tech specs by yourself. Spotted a mistake: when explaining that "4k" designates a resolution of 4096×2160, they incorrectly label 4096 as th
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by nmc 13y ago
A fun, excellent, interactive place to learn git: http://k.swd.cc/learnGitBranching-ja It is hosted in GitHub pages (so in git itself).
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by nmc 13y ago
Yes. Why is that in reply to my own previous comment? I cannot see how this is "replying" (maybe you intended to post a regular comment).
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by nmc 13y ago
Seems fixed in French: http://translate.google.com/#auto/en/combien%20de%20kilom%C3... But works with yards too! (including French) http://translate.google.com/#auto/fr/how%20many%20yards
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by nmc 13y ago
Broken link
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by nmc 13y ago
Why is this on HN?
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by nmc 13y ago
Hum... if you can run a browser, you can already run executable files (ELF or the Windows-crap-equivalent), including all TeXLive tools. Thus, running in a browser does not bring portability. However, as "JoshTriplett" pointed out
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by nmc 13y ago
I have lots of remarks, but this is not a psychology essay. The most important part: the style is brilliant and adequate.
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by nmc 13y ago
Because TeXLive is already pre-compiled for any distribution you may want to typeset LaTeX with.
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by nmc 13y ago
Thank you! I too quickly forgot that JS makes client-side computation easy.
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by nmc 13y ago
Yes it was!
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by nmc 13y ago
Despite the website being back online, the root URL still redirects to the error page (at the time of writing this). So https://news.ycombinator.com/news works, but https://news.ycombinator.com still redirects t

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