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by verroq 8y ago
I thought we already accepted that JS is bad. It is objectively a bad language, with the weak typing, quirky edge cases and a hundred bad libraries, and some backdoored ones available on npm as well. We've also accepted that Electron i
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by verroq 8y ago
Is there a native Signal client that isn’t an Electron abomination? It is clear at the point the Signal desktop people has no idea what they are doing and cannot be trusted to write a secure desktop application.
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by verroq 8y ago
Also the ethereum ICO get-rich-quick “investors” are easy marks.
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by verroq 8y ago
Can someone explain to me, what exactly is wrong with the UK? Where did it all go so wrong?
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by verroq 8y ago
You can find an example here https://twitter.com/BitMEXdotcom/status/997099326714335234 The first post is from an official exchange. The rest isn’t. Take careful note of the usernames and like counts
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by verroq 8y ago
You call up krebs and the FBI and they'll dox/arrest the attacker.
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by verroq 8y ago
I can't wait for automated phone spam to be weaponized so that we can receive verbal Turing tests when we call the customer service hotline.
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by verroq 8y ago
Funny how none of the news mention that pro-black groups started the vote manipulation, which resulted in trolls escalating the manipulation.
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by verroq 9y ago
I was under the impression that gender equality in Chinese society is much better than the west in some respects, espescially the amount of women in STEM.
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by verroq 9y ago
Technically solvable if somebody writes a LSP proxy server that merges together backends.
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by verroq 9y ago
I'd think that anyone that's bitter about being rejected won't send them an email so they can make more money.
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by verroq 9y ago
Whois is no longer such a good idea in this age of doxing anyway. I don’t know anyone who isn’t hiding their whois details and writing fake names and addresses. I had the misfortune of using namecheap and entered my real details once. Their
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by verroq 9y ago
How is this “unavoidable” when existing cars already have automatic emergency breaking when they detect a collision is imminent?
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by verroq 9y ago
Can you explain how you can make millions with this?
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by verroq 9y ago
>Why she resorted to gun violence is much awaited Because from a game theoretic POV it creates the biggest impact. The media cycle will after every shooting will surely keep her message in the spotlight for weeks to come.
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by verroq 9y ago
We're (hopefully) about to reach a critical mass where people realise how much power these companies have simply by having our data and you're worried that Facebook dies in the collateral damage?
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Until they grow to become facebook size.
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by verroq 9y ago
How much bounty would Apple pay, say if somebody steals one and sends it to them? Is it illegal to them to make such an offer?
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by verroq 9y ago
How many of these large grand “tutorials” actually get completed? I am still waiting to write my compiler in haskell [0] and to learn linux inside out [1] [0] http://dev.stephendiehl.com/fun/ [1] https://git
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by verroq 9y ago
Where is the part where he admitted it was bullshit?
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No one said unwashed CS nerds treat women any differently to other men. The point is that the distribution of genders is likely overwhelmingly male. Thus even if a small percentage of that male population exhibit sexist behaviour, the tiny
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by verroq 9y ago
The point is that even with this assumption it still fails.
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by verroq 9y ago
>I am so glad someone on HN is here to enforce rigorous standards when it comes to this topic, in particular. I am so glad someone on HN is here to tell us exactly why we aren't allowed to have a rigorous discussion when it comes to
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by verroq 9y ago
I'm not new to HN, I've been here for far longer than you have. And yes some of those stories have merit, but this is not one of them.
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by verroq 9y ago
"Rude people are sexist" or "Sexist people are rude" is about the only conclusion you can draw here (maybe not even that, correlation != causation etc etc) It doesn't even come close to showing how "sexism is e
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by verroq 9y ago
Except this is a RTS and when players want a unit to get to a place it should get there without taking a detour across half of the map, especially when the player can visually see an optimal path. So no, there are no downsides to better pat
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by verroq 9y ago
Parameters are probably the lowest hanging fruit in any machine learning optimisation, being a trade secret is a big stretch. Also use LBFG so you never worry about learning rate.
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by verroq 9y ago
“Soon”
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Bitcoin.org removes “fast” and “low fees” from Bitcoin description page(github.com)
249 points by verroq 9y ago|245 comments
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by verroq 9y ago
Because when the crypto bubble pops NVIDIA will be holding the bag on a new line of unwanted products.

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