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by todd8 8y ago
> It's obviously an intentional choice to avoid too much screen clutter... I’m not sure. It seems the maps are much less usable for visual delivery of information. I can barely see the streets because of the contrast choices, the
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by todd8 8y ago
I just checked the stats for seatbelt use in the United States. Interesting, in most states it’s over 90% to 97%, but in New Hampshire it’s only 70%. New Hampshire (I always liked its Live Free or Die motto) has no law requiring seat belt u
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Foreign Service Institute’s Experience with Language Learning(state.gov)
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by todd8 8y ago
I know what you mean. I borrowed a car from a fraternity brother to pick up a date once. Before departing he explained that if it didn't start I might have to use the crank! It was a Citroën if I remember correctly. I'm sure it re
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by todd8 8y ago
I've noticed that my daughter, despite being an engineering student, isn't nearly as comfortable with the properties of logarithms as I am. Of course, she studied them in Calculus classes, but they were just abstract functions to
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Oracle Executive Chairman Larry Ellison Slams Amazon Over Cloud Security(fortune.com)
1 points by todd8 8y ago|0 comments
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Amazon's move off Oracle caused Prime Day outage(cnbc.com)
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by todd8 8y ago
Yeah that’s a great example of memoization. Also, the surprising: phi = (1 + sqrt(5))/2.0 def fib(n): return round(phi**n / sqrt(5))
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by todd8 8y ago
HN is great. There are so many fun algorithms listed here. My favorites are already mentioned but a few important ones are missing: Boyer-Moore fast substring searching. Simple to understand and has great performance. [1] Alpha-Beta game tr
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by todd8 8y ago
I learned this while hanging out in the library (Martin Gardner’s column in Scientific American). I put it to good use years later in college: I decided to implement a Nim playing circuit (out of RTL logic gates, yuk!) for my digital design
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by todd8 8y ago
I don't have an informed opinion here (on how other elite universities would handle such an event). Do you have a citation? I did find an MIT retraction and not a cover up in the recent past though. See [1]. [1] https://retr
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by todd8 8y ago
We need all the help from our programming languages (and tools) that we can get. Donald Knuth is a remarkable programmer and computer scientist. Interestingly, he kept a list of all the errors in his program TeX[1], which starts in March of
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by todd8 8y ago
I suppose many readers of HN already know this, but CPython is the name of the original and most popular implementation of Python; it is the implementation found at python.org. It is written in C and hence is called CPython.
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by todd8 8y ago
Why? LaTeX is good at what it does, and there are predefined templates for high quality resumes in various layouts (for example see [1] and [2]). I've written more using LaTeX than Word, so it's easier for me (and others I presume
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The down side to wind power(news.harvard.edu)
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by todd8 8y ago
Crumb . Its about the iconic counter-cultural cartoonist Robert Crumb (creator of the 1960s/1970s underground comics Fritz the Cat , Keep on Trucking , etc.). The Wikipedia entry for it[1] says (along with other accolades): "Cr
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by todd8 8y ago
I would feel a lot more comfortable with these spheres being used in construction if they were 1000 larger in diameter. The size cited is 50nm to 100nm, roughly the same size as another non-reactive compound that is believed to have real ri
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by todd8 8y ago
Oh sorry it wasn't something simple. I just enabled it on my laptop yesterday and it worked (Firefox 62.0.2 running on MacOS 10.14). At first I thought that I hadn't enabled right. After checking the setting again, I found the pro
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by todd8 8y ago
U2F is by default disabled in Firefox. You have to turn it on before using your Yubico (or other FIDO) key for a service being accessed though Firefox. It’s easy to enable. See https://www.trishtech.com/2018/07/ena
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by todd8 8y ago
Something dramatic started to happen in the late 60's at US colleges. Student demonstrations over the Vietnam War were raging across the country in 1968, 1969, and 1970. MIT, like other schools, found itself with a student body and fac
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by todd8 8y ago
I assume that it would be the mother’s immune system (sensitized by previous pregnancies) response affecting the fetus while in utero.
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The Global Terrorism Database(start.umd.edu)
1 points by todd8 8y ago|0 comments
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by todd8 8y ago
Yes, I've had to delete my most played IOS game, Wurdle. It doesn't run on IOS 11 and the developer has never updated it. It was a remarkably simple game, finding as many paths on a 5x5 grid of letters that formed words in two min
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by todd8 8y ago
I’ve had similar, surprising conversations with well educated women who believe that differences in physical strength between men and women have no biological basis. Maybe they were taught that; they didn’t have first hand experience traini
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by todd8 8y ago
From https://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/teenagers/fatalityfacts/t... “About 2 of every 3 teenagers killed in crashes in 2016 were males.”
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by todd8 8y ago
The headline exaggerates the gains for women. From the article: This year: total. = 135992 up 31% over last year female = 38195 up 39% over last year From this we can calculate last years numbers: Last year: t
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by todd8 8y ago
One problem facing insurance companies is the asymmetric information between buyer and seller. Should we be able to keep our age secret when buying life insurance? How about sex or weight? My teenage son is in all likelihood a less safe dri
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by todd8 8y ago
They x-ray (or even gamma-ray) every cm of welds on the natural gas pipelines that crisscross the country. These pipelines can be over a meter in diameter and perhaps (from my recollection) a couple of cm thickness. Consequently, the x-ray
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by todd8 8y ago
Wirth’s early languages, Euler, Algol-W, Pascal, and Modula did not have garbage collection—memory management was up to the programmer. Later languages Modula-3, Oberon, and Component Pascal do have garbage collection.
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by todd8 8y ago
I used to write assembly language programs back in the 70s while working on process control computers (Texas Instruments 990, TI 980, TI 960 etc). At one point I was using an assembler that supported complex macros (macros that could be exp

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