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by zalzane 12y ago
why does buffet suggest 10% in short-term gov bonds? is it a security/diversity thing?
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by zalzane 12y ago
I'm not a designer and I don't know anything about anti-patterns, but here's what grinds my gears about it: -The layout switches between using icons and text as buttons/menu items on the same page -The homepage looks lik
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by zalzane 12y ago
project idea: machine learning program that decrypts legalese to find similar patents i wonder if uspo would be interested in licensing it if it was effective enough
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by zalzane 13y ago
I think he's trying to take the same approach that mobile game developers do - generate lots of smaller titles instead of one big one so you have more chances of hitting it big.
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by zalzane 13y ago
does the suggested temperature also eliminate toast sweat in different varieties of bread?
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by zalzane 13y ago
oh my god are you being serious? This isnt fucking reddit, take your sensationalism elsewhere. It's really easy to pick on transportation systems when you have absolutely no idea how spread out everything is.
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by zalzane 13y ago
>Downvotes and shaming are all these privileged white boys deserve. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
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by zalzane 13y ago
It keeps going. Somewhere in that thread, someone mentioned that they might post the thread on HN. Later in the thread someone says that would be a bad idea and links to the previous time someone linked a 4chan HN-satire thread on HN.
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by zalzane 13y ago
Note to reader: the supercaps in the article aren't being used for long-term energy storage. When a car brakes using magnets, a huge quantity of power is generated by the magnets. In a typical setup, this power value is much higher tha
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by zalzane 13y ago
here's another cool one; almost looks like an computer's interpretation of some video input http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,2,0,3,1,3,1...
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by zalzane 13y ago
Putting aside the irony of this article sitting next to the "Statistics Done Wrong" article, a cumulative average to detect a gender/race wage gap is absolutely insane. Here's a short list of factors that could contribu
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by zalzane 13y ago
you know how a few years back it became popular to say "kk" in online games instead of "k" or "okay" I suspect people use MM/mm for the same reason, some guy just made a typo one day and it caught on.
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by zalzane 13y ago
One tidbit that continues to bother me regarding the long-term viability of bitcoin is how long the encryption processes it relies on will stay secure. IIRC bitcoin relies on ECDSA for signing and SHA-256 for hashing. Pretty much all forms
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by zalzane 13y ago
>because people do not need $2000 Facebook and email machines Devil's advocate: if that is true, then why are macbook pros such a hot sell? I'm typing this here in a college library's lobby. When I look around, I see rough
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by zalzane 13y ago
It looks like the patent trolls have finally found their true calling.
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by zalzane 13y ago
I've never done it, but here's how I would do it off the top of my head. -Vectorize the image into a set of bezier curves that have endpoints at intersections -Walk the bezier curves so that the entire image can be represented by
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by zalzane 13y ago
Why wouldn't they? It's not like MIT/whatever uses special books that no other uni can use. It's not like prestigious universities follow some special program that makes it so their students gain a much better insight in
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by zalzane 13y ago
I think OP's post is tongue-in-cheek. Like you said, it's essentially 5 different gifs with lots of bootstrap and buzzwords in the title. But hey, it got on the front page too.
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by zalzane 13y ago
Yes, because privatization worked so well for the prison system.
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by zalzane 13y ago
>that most jobs in fact have no associated ad so what should he do then; go into google maps and drop off a resume at every nearby engineering firm?
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by zalzane 13y ago
Because pretty much everything that was possible to discover with earth based telescopes has been discovered. Sure, you can always do "science" with earth-based telescopes - reconfirming existing theories, making sure theoretical
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by zalzane 13y ago
If you like algorithmic-type stuff, give opencl/cuda a shot. It's amazing to be able to really feel the kind of power locked away in a standard desktop gpu. Writing gpu code is also much different than writing standard synchronous
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by zalzane 13y ago
http://bsamuels.net/upload/paste0051
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by zalzane 13y ago
>it HAS been used as a way to 'down vote' a thread. Sage as a method of downvoting a thread is insane and encourages even more shitposting. 4chan actually does have a "karma" that manifests in the way of replies to yo
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by zalzane 13y ago
I came across an excellent list of science fiction awhile ago; http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Science_Fiction
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by zalzane 13y ago
That's the point. He's pointing out how they're allowed to talk about women wanting to see men on campus, but if they were to talk about men looking for women on campus, a feminist would label it as turning women into sex obj
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by zalzane 13y ago
Valve often talks about trying to provide a service that is more convenient than pirating, and this looks like another step in that direction. If I'm playing a pirated game and want to share it with a friend, it would involve getting t
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by zalzane 13y ago
Symmetric encryption algorithms such as AES would not be compromised by any advances in factoring or quantum computation. I don't know of any asymmetric algorithms that are immune - but my knowledge of that domain is limited.
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by zalzane 13y ago
Change the question: What percentage of 35,000 cryptographers are willing to give up their jobs, families, homes, friends, lovers, and children to stand up for their ideals regarding the ethics behind code breaking. I find it regrettable th
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by zalzane 13y ago
I don't think it would even be financially feasible. If microsoft was to fund 500 internal startups tomorrow, what's the chance any of them would even produce any real revenue? Out of the thousands of startups that are active toda

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