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by plg 9y ago
I don't understand how I'm supposed to verify the checksum if I've already installed (and run) the HandBrake.app ... and long since deleted the .dmg installer file ????
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by plg 9y ago
I tried iPad Pro 12.9" for a primary portable device ... but like many others it was just too clumsy (software was clumsy) for getting stuff done, in particular if one is also dealing with a desktop or laptop with a shared file system.
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Reproducible research in the Python ecosystem: a reality check(blog.khinsen.net)
2 points by plg 9y ago|0 comments
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by plg 9y ago
Pretty sleazy indeed. Honest question (not trolling, I swear), is Gmail any different? I guess (I'm guessing though?) google doesn't sell users' info to third parties? (But I guess it does use the info within alphabet compani
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by plg 9y ago
"Using an email digest service it owns named Unroll.me, Slice collected its customers’ emailed Lyft receipts from their inboxes and sold the anonymized data to Uber. " Can someone explain to me the mechanics of how this happens? I
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by plg 9y ago
Does this mean simple for-loops in R will be faster? Currently R can be order(s) of magnitude slower than MATLAB / Python. Does one have to do something specific to use the JIT or is it automagic?
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Naylor Report on Strengthening the Foundations of Canadian Research [pdf](sciencereview.ca)
1 points by plg 10y ago|0 comments
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by plg 10y ago
I love LaTeX in general, but man alive, the default choice of font style/size/face for headings & sub-headings looks god-awful
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by plg 10y ago
never heard of Air Canada offering cash ... only ever heard them offer Air Canada vouchers (which expire in 1 year and have a whole lot of other esoteric rules)
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by plg 10y ago
re: bathroom --- what about Japanese-style auto-clean, auto-dry toilets?
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by plg 10y ago
I am opposed to the Mac Pro it is not what I need. Should I buy a fully-dressed iMac or MacBook Pro? Mostly need CPU speed, not so interested in GPU speed. multiple cores a plus
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Ask HN: fastest mac today: iMac or MacBook Pro?
4 points by plg 10y ago|7 comments
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To Be a Genius, Think Like a 94-year Old(nytimes.com)
4 points by plg 10y ago|1 comments
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by plg 10y ago
The doctors who live on my street drive Porsches, Mercedes-Benz and Audis. Two docs on our street own multiple Porsches each (summer, winter, racing). Maybe it's family money. Then again maybe it's taxpayers paying their salaries.
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by plg 10y ago
Can't believe they didn't cite/discuss the book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" (1962) written by philosopher of science, Thomas Kuhn. From the wikipedia article about the book: "Kuhn challenged the t
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by plg 10y ago
logical fallacy - these people are famous/successful - they also have characteristic X - therefore if I want to be famous/successful I should aspire to characteristic X it's a logical fallacy
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by plg 10y ago
isn't this an obvious one? we can insert youtube videos but not LaTeX equations???
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Ask HN: LaTeX equations on GitHub Markdown??
1 points by plg 10y ago|1 comments
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by plg 10y ago
The reason I ask is that the sheer puny proportion of the web view devoted to (a) the actual text of the message, when viewing a message, and (b) the text of a message when one is composing a message, are both infuriatingly small. Terrible
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Ask HN: Is it time for the Gmail web GUI to change?
1 points by plg 10y ago|1 comments
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by plg 10y ago
doesn't work on online version of Pages (iCloud), no way to insert an equation equations created on desktop version show up in online-version as low-res jaggedy bitmaps, un-editable and un-pretty so much for vertically integrated &quot
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Apple Pages 6.1 adds equation support using LaTeX or MathML(support.apple.com)
337 points by plg 10y ago|61 comments
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Thunderbolting your video card(blog.codinghorror.com)
120 points by plg 10y ago|33 comments
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by plg 10y ago
What are some compelling examples of Lisp languages in use today in apps/situations/use-cases that we might all know about? A lot of people (likely mistakenly) think that it's just a language you learn in CS classes and then
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by plg 10y ago
I'm really not being a troll here, I'm just confused: Google Talk : what is that? Is that the little box on the left hand side of the page on gmail that lets you chat with other gmail users? Google Hangouts : different? I know it&
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by plg 10y ago
carbon footprint
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by plg 10y ago
the news here isn't the new specs but the price point, which is low apple is trying to expand their market share in the tablet space even more
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Controversial “liberation therapy” fails to treat multiple sclerosis: study(news.ubc.ca)
2 points by plg 10y ago|0 comments
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by plg 10y ago
I don't know how low volume or rare they are but for about the same $$ as a Tesla I could buy a brand new Mercedes S-class. Likely best service experience one can ever have, not to mention arguably the most luxe car ever
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by plg 10y ago
I know one can do it indirectly using pandoc ... but is there a LaTeX-native solution?

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