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by emhs 11y ago
I hadn't tried Magit before now, but on the suggestion of this blog I'm giving it a look through. Looks good so far. I also enjoy the style the blog is using: anyone know what backend the author is using?
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by emhs 12y ago
Somehow, even though Collapse is insane if you think about it hard enough, and even though Pilot-waves are semi-classical and seem to be adding an additional complication that may not be necessary, both of these seem to be more popular amon
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by emhs 12y ago
What's this about the death of SMTP?
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by emhs 12y ago
I've seen a couple new sites out here in the bay try paying "beta testers" $5 or so each to contribute a little content. I remember doing that with BlockAvenue (they advertised via Craigslist SFBay).
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by emhs 12y ago
Color me impressed. I do wonder if there's any way to reliably influence the pattern of the mutations. On the surface, with the differences in thread-scheduling patterns, I'd say it seems like a meaningful improvement on the rando
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by emhs 12y ago
Some of this (especially the new post indicators) can be provided by a Chrom{e,ium} extension I've been using called Hacker News Enhancement Suite [0]. [0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bappiabcodb
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by emhs 12y ago
The key is that it's just like normal web apps, except they talk to each other easily, despite possibly belonging to different suites, and don't put your data at as much risk by operating on an external server.
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by emhs 13y ago
I don't know if basing things on source is necessarily a negative. Perhaps better binary distribution mechanisms would be worthwhile, but maintaining the source-basis is a good way to ensure we're less susceptible to falling into
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by emhs 13y ago
They're right that people don't like creativity or dissent. There was a good post on Less Wrong about this [1], and about how the rejection of creativity, the rejection of what to you, is blindingly obvious, is key in the break be
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by emhs 13y ago
This is where the Less Wrong post on Occam's Razor [1] comes in handy. It helps make clear how to respond to someone who argues that backward perspective. [1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/jp/occams_razor/
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by emhs 13y ago
As far as Intelligent Design, Yudkowsky has another useful post [1]. It's part of his sequence "The simple math of evolution", and provides some interesting perspective on the subject. [1] http://lesswrong.com&#x2F
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by emhs 13y ago
Well, one could call "Christianity" a superset of individual religions that fit within a certain range, and do the comparison off of individual denominations. That has the further advantage of demonstrating how individual denomina
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by emhs 13y ago
Hashing is performed locally, probably via crypto.js, so you can verify it, I'd wager.
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by emhs 13y ago
Open source != free (libre) baseband hardware that you can directly modify the software on. Being able to compile and modify is fine and has no impact on the network if you're not able to run it on the primary network.
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by emhs 13y ago
> The source could be released for inspection and audit, Dude, that's exactly what he asked for.
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by emhs 13y ago
Does Cobb know the ring indicates dream/reality?
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by emhs 13y ago
Post-catharsis, pre-wake, in Limbo to get Saito, he has the ring. If letting go of Mal got rid of the ring, it wouldn't be there on him in Limbo.
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by emhs 13y ago
Well, they're using the static, known density at 4 degrees Celsius to produce water with a known mass, and then test what the measurement of that mass comes to. Basically they're using a known mass of water as a calibration aid. B
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by emhs 13y ago
Because that maintains the imprecision. Multiplying won't somehow scale the precision up as you go. It will in fact magnify the imprecision.
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by emhs 13y ago
The key difference is that we no longer posit that we know everything. We assumed we knew things we didn't, in ancient times, and in the process relied on hand-waves to keep moving, until some scientifically minded folks got too frustr
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by emhs 13y ago
What Fedora is planning is leaving /usr/bin/python pointing to Py2, but making all their tools explicitly depend on and request Py3. This is distinctly different from the Arch decision, which instead resulted in fixing everyt
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by emhs 13y ago
This is what I get for commenting about movies I haven't seen yet.
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by emhs 13y ago
E.g. the Robert Downey Jr movie where he controls a fighting robot. Bigger and nastier risks allowed than human boxing. I still haven't seen that, though...
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by emhs 13y ago
The nature of email is that the government's methods would simply collect all users' data, regardless of whether it was the target's or not. This would be true regardless of Lavabit being designed with user protection in mind
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by emhs 13y ago
As the cryptocurrency community solves the problems of easy access on the go and easy acquisition of the coins, it is inevitable that bitcoin, litecoin and the like penetrate deeper into consumer markets. A problem in this, however, is that
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by emhs 13y ago
They are implicit, though, as the copy about small sample sizes is paired with a photo of a nervous child.
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Ask HN: GPG. NaCl. NSA. Thoughts?
5 points by emhs 13y ago|3 comments
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by emhs 13y ago
Say what you will about quality differences in the tools, but the availability of the tools comes down heavily in Android's favor. Further, getting through the developer-license-acquisition process is hit or miss -- some people have it
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by emhs 13y ago
This is referring to all the push to use "The New Google Maps". One is not currently obligated to use it, but it's there and being pushed. He seems to be using it.
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by emhs 13y ago
I dug a little further. Not only is there "Detective Stu Pitt", there's also "Laughlin Foo" for the next day's presentation, and the link at the bottom is for the North Dakota State Attorney's Association,

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