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by whym 6y ago
As long as I can remember, Gentoo manuals always assume you to use nano by default (although you can of course choose another). It's a distro that asks you to edit dozens of files in the installation process, and nano is definitely up
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by whym 6y ago
Ask HN: Why did delicious.com fail? (2017) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15493212 After some digging, the above thread seemed like the most informative one as to what happened to Delicious (with a top comment from jo
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by whym 6y ago
My understanding is: Photographer published a photo on their own website. Tweeter posted it on Twitter. Twitter trimmed it, removing the credit line. Retweeter retweeted it. Photo was still trimmed. Photographer sued Retweeter for
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by whym 6y ago
One thing I have been wondering about - speaking of changing URIs, did they (W3C) change/merge the domain name from w3c.org to w3.org at some point? Some old documents seem to point to w3c.org instead of w3.org. (e.g. http:/&#x2F
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by whym 6y ago
> if you expect them to use Unix sort you should somehow imply a situation where that is the best approach. I think the implied question is whether the interviewee is aware of the fact that trying to load a 1 GB text file could use up to
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by whym 7y ago
... to which Twitter Support says: > Hi Ian, muting these keywords won't actually change the number of suggested Tweets in your timeline. We are exploring ways to improve suggestions to allow you to further customize your timeline.
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by whym 7y ago
Any information on traffic from different language users and regions? I'm impressed by DDG's search results for non-English queries. I remember it was almost unusable in Japanese a couple of years ago. It's not bad now even i
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by whym 7y ago
For Japanese, I hear about Nadeshiko (なでしこ) a lot. It has a thriving user base, apparently. [1] [1] https://nadesi.com/top/
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by whym 7y ago
Previous HN thread (386 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7141532
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by whym 7y ago
> I think they must count ~100 engineers? https://wikimediafoundation.org/role/staff-contractors/ has the names of 379 employees. I believe (perhaps astonishingly) that is all - engineers and non-engineers comb
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by whym 7y ago
The Japanese transcription in that link can be misleading because it seems to redact the manner he speaks. (They do this kind of editing a lot when they transcribe dialects.) Here is a recording of how he speaks: https://youtu.be
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by whym 7y ago
Relevant context: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973#c57 > Update: We have rolled out a partial fix for this issue. We generated a new intermediate certificate with the same name/key but an updated
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by whym 7y ago
As someone interested in algorithms, Erik Demaine's work (and that of other researchers in the domain) on computational origami is fascinating. It basically boils down to, given a 3D shape, find a way to fold a 2D sheet to reproduce it
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by whym 7y ago
The issue seems to be skewed incentive towards false negatives vs false negatives. If leaving false positives (materials being taken down based on a false claim) give much lower risk to the platform than false negatives (materials that shou
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by whym 8y ago
> Three Body Problem - Ken Liu This isn't entirely wrong, but it's written by Liu Cixin in Chinese originally. Ken Liu is the translator. I haven't read it yet, but I'm looking foward to it. Stories in "Paper Men
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by whym 8y ago
I use a HHKB and its solid response on key press is irreplaceable for me. I wonder how I can reduce the noise, though. A 5mm shock absorbing mat beneath helps to some extent (cheap one, like $2 USD), but apparently that's not enough.
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by whym 8y ago
I wonder what it might affect other apps developed by (one of) the developers in cases like this. Do they ban apps or people? Should the developers worry about increased scrutiny to their other apps?
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by whym 8y ago
The article is written in Japanese, but I thought the idea would be obvious enough from the picture (and the linked source code) even if you don't read Japanese. In case you are wondering, here is a translation. ---- 111111111111222111
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There is a prime number which contains Super Mario (2017)(akiyah.hatenablog.com)
2 points by whym 8y ago|1 comments
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ICANN Files Legal Action in Germany to Preserve WHOIS Data(icann.org)
76 points by whym 8y ago|58 comments
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by whym 8y ago
HN thread on the announcement (May 1): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16967865 Has preorder been open since May 1? At least I see domains created as early as May 2: $ whois mail.app Domain Name: mail.app
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by whym 8y ago
EDIT: I guess I misread it. On reflection what I wrote really doesn't make sense so let me retract.
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by whym 9y ago
"but I kinda feel like, I dunno, maybe I should have had, like, some email in my inbox about this?" I think this is what happens when you are a product not a customer...
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by whym 9y ago
Neat. As a Firefox user, it appears that this does the trick: sqlite3 ~/.mozilla/firefox/$YOUR_PROFILE_ID/places.sqlite "SELECT datetime(visit_date/1000000,'unixepoch'),url FROM moz_historyvisit
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by whym 9y ago
Not all the shareholders oppose it. The image of the company "doing the right thing" would be favorable to its shareholders. In fact, the same article suggests that apparently many of them agree with Cook: > "If that'
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by whym 10y ago
Their papers mentioned in the article: Federated Learning: Strategies for Improving Communication Efficiency (2016) https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05492 Federated Optimization: Distributed Machine Learning for On-Device
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by whym 10y ago
This article does a great job at presenting a gist of the Japanese sentence structure. Nevertheless, it makes me want to point out that it's not the whole story. If you take into account topics such as modality and conjugation, some of
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by whym 10y ago
The source code includes this notice: "Copyright 2017 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved." I wonder if the couple of dozens of lines of assembly code could be trivial enough to be public domain. Assuming a straightforward implementat
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by whym 10y ago
It's refreshing to see a page with Last-Modified actually showing the date the document was last modified. Nowadays, too many websites report the current date even when no single byte of the content is changed since publication.
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by whym 10y ago
A long-time English learner here. I'd say variety is your friend. I don't know any learner who has mastered a language by sticking to a single technique. You would do everything, maybe with varying levels of comittment - read text

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