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by yoha 12y ago
I want to explain why you are getting down-voted: Hacker News don't like onomatopoeias like “hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”. In general, a neutral tone is preferred and tongue-in-cheek is acceptable (like parent). This is an import
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by yoha 12y ago
For those who do not know about Kanzi, I recommend the documentary “Kanzi: An Ape of Genius” ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBlDGX95eys ).
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The Unbalanced Design of Super Smash Brothers: Part 2(forrestthewoods.com)
1 points by yoha 12y ago|0 comments
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by yoha 12y ago
This is an interesting concept but this implementation seems rather inefficient. It should be possible to exploit spacing, punctuation and case more effectively. Related web comic with a similar idea: http://cube-drone.com/2
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by yoha 12y ago
It's actually a very good point when you take into consideration the origin of the image. From [1]: “Lena Söderberg […] appeared as a Playmate in the November 1972 issue of Playboy magazine” and it is referring to this particular photo
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Kanzi, the bonobo who understands English(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by yoha 12y ago|0 comments
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by yoha 12y ago
Physics isn't mandatory in high schools in the US? I could not find much about this so any information is welcome: are there federal laws that set the mandatory courses in high school or is it state-dependent? where can we find what th
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by yoha 12y ago
The actual link to get the .tar.gz archive is http://cpudb.stanford.edu/cpudb.1416196069.tar.gz (on the download page, both links points to the .zip file). They are basically the same size anyway (~728kiB). A few interestin
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by yoha 12y ago
People who adopt IPv6 addresses tend to keep an IPv4 address as well.
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by yoha 12y ago
It would be nice to be switched to the next level automatically.
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by yoha 12y ago
Here is the previous discussion for those interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6148347
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by yoha 12y ago
Oh, right! I had not read the sentence correctly.
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by yoha 12y ago
> It's not part of the public API, so it looks like it can simply be removed. https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#int So that is actually standard. Maybe I just don't know what you mean b
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Debian: A plea to worry about what matters,(changelog.complete.org)
3 points by yoha 12y ago|0 comments
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by yoha 12y ago
You are looking for the Dunning-Krunger effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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by yoha 12y ago
The Unicode trick was fun and interesting per se . Don't use it to promote unrelated content.
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by yoha 12y ago
It's available in Debian repositories as `livestreamer`. Command line for Rosetta live stream is: $ livestreamer "http://new.livestream.com/accounts/362/events/3544091" best
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by yoha 12y ago
http://xkcd1446.org/ Go back a few frames and notice that Randall's counter was in synch until T-50min when it suddenly rose to 75min.
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Frame by frame xkcd's Rosetta landing(xkcd1446.org)
16 points by yoha 12y ago|3 comments
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by yoha 12y ago
I am in a similar situation. I do remember having mis-clicked on a "flag" link once.
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by yoha 12y ago
This is not about nuclear hazard. Bombing a nuclear plant may not cause a fallout, but it will still disrupt its functioning. Power sources are critical sites. Imagine the havoc of a general outage. Now, consider this from a strategic persp
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by yoha 12y ago
Direct link: https://pay.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2lda53/amd_is_...
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by yoha 12y ago
A pretty good explanation for laypeople, featuring: * One Time Pad (OTP) * symmetric ciphers * asymmetric cryptography (minus signatures) * homomorphic encryption (at least, the overall principle) * side-channels attack Giving more practica
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by yoha 12y ago
Nuclear engines are not practical for lift-off. They can, however, be used for inter-planetary travel for a big enough payload.
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by yoha 12y ago
Starting from a ground propulsion is a priori a bad idea due to friction forces in the atmosphere. An almost plausible design though, would be to have a first stage taking advantage of the atmosphere (i.e. using jet engines with oxygen fr
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by yoha 12y ago
May it be coding, writing or another skill, there is one thing that matters most when learning and perfecting it: * practice * observe how others do * practice * practice even more Obviously, you won't be good at first, but that's
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Huge increase of traffic on HN?
1 points by yoha 12y ago|1 comments
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by yoha 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8414859 …
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by yoha 12y ago
I like the philosophy behind Markdown: you write a simple text file and this is your article. If you want, you can fire up `pandoc` and convert it to HTML to make a nice website. Then, make it a PDF for constant rendering. I personally star
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by yoha 12y ago
WYSIWYG can be counter-intuitive. I would prefer a large textarea for entering Markdown and a live preview aside (like the Reddit Enhancement Suite does). A good think with Markdown is that learning can be incremental: at first, you just wr

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