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by rfurmani 15y ago
Thank you!! I've been searching for this inside Gmail and was very confused. I never thought of looking for it inside Plus Edit: I spoke to soon. This controls who appears in the Chat inside Plus, but the chat inside GMail still shows ev
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by rfurmani 15y ago
Incredibly so. I am a bit disappointed about the content of the info page: I don't think it tells much to somebody hearing about it for the first time.
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Even profitable firms fleeing California(ocregister.com)
15 points by rfurmani 15y ago|8 comments
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by rfurmani 15y ago
> x^y should be zero if you approach (0,0) along the x=0 axis, and it should be one if you approach along the y=0 axis. Technically, 0^y is 0 only if you approach it from the right: y>0. To the left of 0 it is indeterminate or inf
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by rfurmani 15y ago
Most topics yes, but is it hard to accept that education and degrees are useful when talking about math or physics or whatnot? If both sides are well written I'd like to know if one side is an expert in the area and if the other side just
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by rfurmani 15y ago
Good point, although I feel that real names would make things better on Hacker News by giving (1) accountability for comments (2) credentials and justification for opinions. By the latter, I mean that it constantly seems that (for example)
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by rfurmani 15y ago
Actually, Buffet has time and again said that if he had only 0.5-1.0 million to manage he could consistently get 50% a year. His greater capital does give him special access to management, but also greatly restricts where he can invest. I
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by rfurmani 15y ago
Are you thinking Robert Kiyosaki's adamant distinction between asset and liability? Wealth is a different thing and cars are a form of it.
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by rfurmani 15y ago
I'm confused. Are you saying that if you have a DP table A then to compute A[i+1] you are only allowed to use A[i]? This question is classic DP. A[i] stores the segmentation of the first i letters if it exists (or it can just store a bool
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by rfurmani 15y ago
Ah right, I was a bit too quick to challenge. Dictionary: aa, aaa, aaaa, ab Word: aaaab
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by rfurmani 15y ago
bzzt wrong. >>> re.findall('(a|aa|aaa|ab)', 'aaab') ['a', 'a', 'a'] The correct answer would be ['aa', 'ab'] but unfortunately findall works greedily and so will not find the optimal solution. It is possible to specify it as a
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by rfurmani 15y ago
The "obvious" selection of stages does work. When you are at position j you check all i<j until you find one where there is a segmentation up to i, and the substring [i,j) is a word. Memoization is just syntactic (semantic?) sugar on to
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by rfurmani 15y ago
No no no, there's no way a Facebook phone would take off (especially in the already crowded market). Facebook's environment is built around iterating quickly, with okay solutions, and checking for bugs by pushing it out. It's a great hack
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by rfurmani 15y ago
Plus there is this comment: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2330342&cid=367... "Facebook is an American company. Since when did any American ever use the term "advert"? Seriously, Americans do not say this. The shortened form
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by rfurmani 15y ago
I can understand getting downvoted for tone, but I disagree with the downvoting as I was just trying to state facts. The thought process here seems to be: Terry Tao is a brilliant researcher, therefore why he wrote here must be great. I t
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by rfurmani 15y ago
It's not that impressive, he performs okay. I hear he spent the first few years mostly playing games, until he finally buckled down and got a thesis out.
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by rfurmani 15y ago
It should have been. Still it's the best learning source I've seen, especially when combined with docs.python.org, particularly the tutorial, what's new, and brief tour of the standard library
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Python for C++ and Java programmers(aleax.it)
18 points by rfurmani 15y ago|4 comments
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by rfurmani 15y ago
Okay my bad, that looks very much like what I was asking for. I'm still wondering about the language, PHP might not be ideal :) Thanks.
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by rfurmani 15y ago
With Wikipedia you can update the main text content, but there is no direct access to the backend or even to the templates/css/etc. Unless you meant MediaWiki being open source? That's an interesting datapoint. Do you know how quickly Med
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Ask HN: Are open-source websites possible/practical?
4 points by rfurmani 15y ago|5 comments
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by rfurmani 15y ago
Then you should have read a bit further: "Now, literally selling something you do not have as if you already have it is not advisable. That ad network I worked at went out of business and pissed a lot of people off along the way. But the
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by rfurmani 16y ago
It is checking for capabilities and not version: try { gl = canvas.getContext( "experimental-webgl") ; gl.viewportWidth = docWidth; gl.viewportHeight = docHeight; } catch(e) { } if (!gl) { alert("This website requires
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by rfurmani 16y ago
Okay, the church is not perfect, but Hitler Stalin and Mao did inconceivably more evil in a few years than anything out of the church in the past century or two. What atrocities are you referring to?
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by rfurmani 16y ago
Prague and Shanghai (Igor, the author, was also at Shanghai)
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by rfurmani 16y ago
How about the problem of, given a polynomial equation in at least two variables and integer coefficients, figuring out whether it has any integer solutions. This has directed a lot of modern mathematics and, on the face of it, doesn't seem
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by rfurmani 17y ago
This does not apply here since we are looking at the last digits, and not the first, so different rules apply. The bigger your price is, the more uniform the cents will be (aside from psychological factors like: 00, 95, 99 being very commo
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by rfurmani 17y ago
Amazing how there are five 22-year-olds that make $1,000,000
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by rfurmani 17y ago
There's quite the business lesson here: Up until recently, the GMAT exam had a virtual monopoly over business school standardized exams. That all changed on Jan. 1, 2006, when GMAC cut its ties with the Educational Testing Service (ETS), wi
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by rfurmani 17y ago
I use GoodReader on the iPhone to read some math textbooks that I have in pdf form, and it works great (very legible, navigable, and no problem with battery life)

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