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Rare footage of 1950s housewife on LSD [video](youtube.com)
4 points by yid 13y ago|0 comments
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by yid 13y ago
This bit makes me wonder about the entropy of the nanosecond clock, for adding entropy to an PRNG: > Given scheduling jitter and so forth, it's not clear what it means to get a timestamp with nanosecond resolution from the operating
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by yid 13y ago
Interesting. I have an iPhone so I'm never able to use the NFC feature. However, I find that opening the app and typing in the meter number is quite fast, since I can walk away while doing it. Also, the ability to extend my parking rem
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by yid 13y ago
How is it being skipped? As an example, parking meters in San Francisco are almost all NFC-equipped. Google's flagship phones have all been NFC-enabled. The future looks bright for NFC...
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by yid 13y ago
I just wanted to say that you shouldn't necessarily see his cynicism as a bad thing (he's probably just confused good journalistic skepticism with the cynicism that mediocre journalists think will make them "hard-hitting&quot
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by yid 13y ago
> going after tools that make users like Facebook more I suspect it has more to do with the fact that many of these tools strip ads.
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by yid 13y ago
Whether or not it is reasonable is besides the point here -- I was responding to a bad analogy.
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by yid 13y ago
I see. That's an interesting distinction. Presumably AMC exercised some sort of exclusive rights to Breaking Bad? Does that mean that the fact that Netflix has Breaking Bad right now has nothing to do with AMC?
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by yid 13y ago
Your points are valid, but the deal might make sense just for the syndication rights to Breaking Bad and Mad Men in the future, possibly as exclusives.
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by yid 13y ago
If they put that clause in their ToS, and then decided to kick you off Facebook for wearing tinted glasses, they'd be well within their rights.
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Microsoft swallows Nokia's handset business for $7.2 billion(reuters.com)
1 points by yid 13y ago|0 comments
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by yid 13y ago
Text from my friend: "The new Android version is apparently named Kitkat. HN is distressed."
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by yid 13y ago
You forgot Elon's lost twin, Sergey Brin.
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by yid 13y ago
The I-5 stretch is almost a straight line, spans a single state, is already very wide with a comfortable median, and sparsely populated along the way. Those things all have their advantages.
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Weird and Wonderful Things to do in San Francisco(lahiri.me)
1 points by yid 13y ago|0 comments
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by yid 13y ago
> Risk of derailment is also not to be taken lightly, as demonstrated by several recent fatal train accidents. Interesting. No comment on the potential outcome of a passenger-filled capsule being ejected from a burst tube on high pylon
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by yid 13y ago
An even easier task now: http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2010/07/end-of-the-r...
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by yid 13y ago
Woodside certainly isn't a consolation prize. It's beautiful, and features the stunning Skyline Blvd drive and Alice's Restaurant!
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by yid 13y ago
Two plugs in the same thread, come on!
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by yid 13y ago
First time I've heard of hipsters "broadening" someone's mind.
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by yid 13y ago
Nothing you've said contradicts anything I wrote. I mentioned bounding functions -- you've been a bit more pedantic, but essentially you've said nothing new.
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by yid 13y ago
> at most that of a function multiple I think you meant "constant" multiple of g(n)
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by yid 13y ago
Unfortunately, there are some misconceptions that are propagated in this article. Kudos on the effort, but some statements are just flat out wrong, such as this statement: "Big-O is all about the approximate worst-case performance&quot
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by yid 13y ago
Are there any plans at all for a dead-tree version, for us old timers? I love what little I've read of this book, but reading on screens just doesn't work for me.
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by yid 13y ago
See the reply by capnrefsmmat
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by yid 13y ago
Oh I'm sure the NSA has already picked it ;) NIST just hasn't yet...
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by yid 13y ago
What, pray, is "SHA3 key generation"
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by yid 13y ago
How does the other person differentiate between the two cases?
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by yid 13y ago
> I wanted it to be stateless and functional, whereas with space-partitioning trees, don't you need to maintain the tree (and not generate it on the fly for it to be scalable)? Yes, but it's essential to maintain some sort of s
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by yid 13y ago
I can see two problems with this: -- A naive linear scan for a lookup will not scale as the size of your database grows larger. You should be looking into space-partitioning trees, or approximate methods like locality-sensitive hashing. --

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