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by skwosh 11y ago
I was thinking more along the lines of: instead of daydreaming about planets > 1000 ly away, we might find a system nearby that we can study in detail...
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by skwosh 11y ago
Indeed, Kepler covers only 0.25% of the sky, and is only capable of detecting systems that are edge-on (around 0.47% probability for Earth-like planets)[1]. The mind boggles at what we might discover with a more complete picture... [1] htt
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Ask HN: Do you support IE8?
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by skwosh 11y ago
> Is there any reason to use monads in (let's say) Javascript rather than promises? Not intrinsically, IMO. The main value of monads is the shared interface, and its utility is contingent on tools that recognise that interface. In t
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by skwosh 11y ago
I agree, and I actually think a better word for `bind` is `then`. For anyone unfamiliar, the `then` of Promises corresponds to the monadic `bind` or `flatMap` (if the given function returns a Promise) or the functorial `map` (if the given f
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by skwosh 11y ago
I hope not, both for the reasons @ufo pointed out above (uncertainty about what kind of function you have and how many arguments are yet to be supplied), and that I find partial application (à la `bind`) to be more in line with JavaScript&#
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by skwosh 11y ago
I haven't used either but since they're based on Haskell I would assume that currying is inherent to the language (functions are curried by default).
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by skwosh 11y ago
I like the idea, though with corporations it's clear where the intentionality comes from: the CEO, the board, etc. It doesn't seem to "emerge" as much from lower level entities à la neurons. Not that that invalidates a g
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by skwosh 11y ago
While we're here, the article you linked recommends equality comparison w.r.t. "the maximum number of possible floating-point values between the two values". Any idea on how to go about this in JavaScript? The binary represen
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by skwosh 11y ago
If only there was a way to submit both the original title and some kind of summary...
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by skwosh 11y ago
Along similar lines to Primer (both in terms of story and production), you might enjoy the film Coherence...
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by skwosh 11y ago
The key employee was Victoria Taylor, Director of Communications who was fired without notice. Discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3bw39q/why_ha... One can only speculate on t
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by skwosh 11y ago
I somewhat agree about computer music, though it appears to be an extension of the process driven composition that has been part of western (art) music for a while now (e.g. modulation). Sometimes I wonder if linguistics has more to offer c
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by skwosh 12y ago
For me the correct position is to recognise that the law isn't fixed and absolute, but dynamic (as interpreted through the courts) and evolving. Without privacy (or with pervasive surveillance), we might never have achieved the critica
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by skwosh 12y ago
I was going through your stuff [2] today and developed a much better intuition for the universal property and initial/final-ness than I had previously (from the beginning of Awodey, Mac Lane, etc), so thanks! j2kun's site [2] is h
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by skwosh 12y ago
I would have liked to have seen: * Skinny arrows as a shorthand for functions (for methods and constructors that don't get 'this' from outside. * Rest parameters with trailing arguments, e.g.: function zip (...xs, f) {
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by skwosh 12y ago
I was going to mention this also. I'm currently working around it with conditional comments (serving /fonts/ie/9+/index.css, etc). Anyway, thanks for your service, bookmarked... (I've been thinking of doing som
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by skwosh 13y ago
Onanism?
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by skwosh 13y ago
Yeah, that show [1] suggests that there are number of positive effects to limiting calories and protein intake, such as reduced risk of cancer, heart disease, cognitive disorders, and an increase in (neuronal) cell-repair and longevity. Som
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by skwosh 13y ago
Fasting (< 500cal) two or three times a week is rapidly decreasing my volume, and bringing increased mental clarity and alertness. It's a good rhythm to get into, has a pretty dramatic (positive) effect on how I feel, and it's
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by skwosh 13y ago
I don't think that whether it's humour or not is relevant. Just as it makes no difference if a derogatory caricature of a jew is a "cartoon" or if The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a "work of literature".
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by skwosh 13y ago
Good point. You might say that this kind of thing validates a particular way of thinking for people who already lean that way. It's not likely to inspire rape, but it has the potential to reinforce a negative perspective of women.
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by skwosh 13y ago
> Right now, though, d3.js gives me 80% of my income. It's something I like, and I noticed a lot of demand Very interesting. If you don't mind my asking, what kind of work are you typically doing with d3? Visualising what kind of data a
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by skwosh 14y ago
For me, there's a pretty big gap between the available educational materials and research papers. My understanding of the academic stuff is mostly intuitive. It isn't until I read a paper like Monadic Parser Combinators [1] or sigfpe's blog
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by skwosh 14y ago
Hope this goes into a lot of depth ... My main issue with existing books and tutorials is that I'm left in the dark about the more interesting/advanced parts of Haskell. Some of the areas I would like to have a better understanding: - More
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by skwosh 14y ago
Can anyone comment on the impact of this result on the theory of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG)? My understanding is that one of the predictions of LQG is that photons of higher energy are likely to lag behind those of lower energy due to propa
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by skwosh 14y ago
Regarding the existence of life... Seems all that's really required to kickstart life and evolution is any self-replicating structure. Chemicals are well suited for creating complex structures, but it doesn't rule out self-replicating forms
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by skwosh 14y ago
Other applications of long URLs: - Unique and unforgeable references for capability-based security (e.g. the Waterken Server) - Serialized continuations, or unforgeable references to server-side continuations (as in continuation-based web s
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by skwosh 14y ago
I would be interested to hear how piracy can justified, not for multi-million dollar corporations and defunct organisations, but for small businesses and individuals. Adobe and Microsoft can sustain their products being pirated wholesale pa