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Leslie Lamport – How to Write a 21st Century Proof (2012) [pdf](research.microsoft.com)
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by oskarth 12y ago
YC has a big advantage over US: they are not geographically bound to one place. Say nothing changes in a decade. There's nothing that's fundamentally stopping YC from starting branches in SE Asia, Europe or Canada.
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by oskarth 12y ago
Not to mention the higher approval ratings for NSA et al.
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by oskarth 12y ago
It's a shame https://justgetflux.com/ isn't available in the App store. As far as I know you have to jailbreak to install it (so it's not a technical limitation per se). Can anyone think of a good reason why
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by oskarth 12y ago
I downvote (and sometimes flag) mean comments. In my opinion they are toxic to the community and should not be tolerated. Other than that I upvote comments and stories that are thoughtful and/or contribute something new to the discussi
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by oskarth 12y ago
I find it hard to imagine how a moderator of a forum like HN could be more responsible, responsive, humane and just than dang. Keep up the good work.
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by oskarth 12y ago
Regardless of the content (which is interesting), the "discuss on HN" link at the end of the article prompts you to submit the article to HN, thereby giving it free upvotes. This is a dark pattern and not a practice we should enco
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More experiments, better performance, integrity constraints, zztrees(incidentalcomplexity.com)
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by oskarth 12y ago
That would make it more desirable to play non-zero sum games, which in my book is a good thing :)
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by oskarth 12y ago
This is a great idea! Well-executed too, from what I can tell after a few minutes of browsing around. I love Seinfeld and have studied some economics - the concepts are often very simple, but a lot of people seem to lack basic understanding
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Read-Eval-Print-λove v002 – UrLisp is go(blog.fogus.me)
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Women-only spaces are a hack(medium.com)
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If we aren't going to put any effort into testing, what's the best way to test?(danluu.com)
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Humans should learn maths(scattered-thoughts.net)
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by oskarth 12y ago
What I didn’t know at the time was the the HR Business manager was a good personal friend of Munira, and in what seems to be a betrayal of trust, informed my manager that I was trying to get a transfer. At my next 1:1 meeting Munira explai
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What people do at Hacker School(hackerschool.com)
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by oskarth 12y ago
Tweet them: https://twitter.com/euractiv and https://twitter.com/DominiqueOstyn EDIT: Interesting that people are downvoting a simple "talk to them, here's how" comment. Before going all liti
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by oskarth 12y ago
From the conclusion: The data indicates functional languages are better than procedural languages; it suggest that strong typing is better than weaking typic; that static typing is better than dynamic; and that managed memory usage is bett
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A Large Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in GitHub [pdf](macbeth.cs.ucdavis.edu)
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To be fair, how could they have known? They worked with the data they had at the time, and hindsight is 20/20. Hard things always seem impossible until someone does it, and then everyone else talk about how it was "inevitable&quot
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by oskarth 12y ago
I noticed something curious in the comment section: DARPA is mentioned exactly once in this article and then mostly as a tangential point. Despite this, it's mentioned several times in multiple critical top-level comments here in the c
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This is what happens when FlightFox copies your entire site without attribution(levels.io)
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by oskarth 12y ago
This is interesting. Are there any protocols or alternatives that you are aware of which push this % down to <<1%?
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by oskarth 12y ago
I posted the following in the now killed thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8444976 ): As many commentators undoubtedly will say, additional cases are to be expected. However, it's a problem that both in Texa
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by oskarth 12y ago
As many commentators undoubtedly will say, additional cases are to be expected. However, it's a problem that both in Texas and Spain, the people infected have been health workers. Health workers that are supposedly well-protected and w
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NSA Operation ORCHESTRA: Annual Status Report [video](archive.fosdem.org)
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by oskarth 12y ago
Good stuff! I had an extremely similar idea a while ago: 2. Brutal Outfit Advice Pay to get brutally honest feedback on your outfit. Give commission to (vetted) critics. Alternative name: What Would You Think? ( http://startupid
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by oskarth 12y ago
I know you make it out to be a selfish thing, and while that might be true on some level, it's fundamentally a selfless act. It's actions like these that are the opposite of the tragedy of the commons. If even 10% of people with m
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New Modern Theme is live(bestof.metafilter.com)
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National Nurse Survey Shows Hospitals Still Not Prepared for U.S. Ebola Patients(nationalnursesunited.org)
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