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by kmort 2y ago
And compared to lowest: 00000000 000003da 5849ade5 e2112447 73478c46 5fcdc744 9e247df4 11e97b28 (#1 of leaderboard) 00000000 00000000 0000fac0 39d91fc6 1db532f3 879ec244 15a2bff9 cd1d4efb (latest mined block right now -- another
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by kmort 5y ago
I've recently built a tagging system based on SKOS [1]. This supports hierarchical as well as associative relationships between tags (while not strictly requiring either), as well as ad hoc groups of tags. While SKOS was intended for m
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by kmort 12y ago
1 year-old and/or 3-year-old wake me up between 5:45 and 6:15. (If my 6:30 alarm wakes me instead, I get up quickly and search for diabolical mischief.) Make breakfasts. Shower & dressed. Begin commute and browse dailies. Fortunate
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by kmort 12y ago
Vim and Emacs are quite well-suited for textual manipulation of very large data files. Use of a macro is a very pleasant alternative to piping the file through sed/awk/etc. for a once-off transform.
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by kmort 12y ago
Not plain timestamps, but there is such as thing as a trusted Time Stamping Authority which will sign a document hash + timestamp to prove that information existed before a certain date. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tru
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by kmort 12y ago
Also see a recent discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7656154
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by kmort 14y ago
I was quite a fan of listening to pink noise at work but found after a while that I started to get aural hallucinations. It felt like my mind was finding patterns in the noise that weren't there. Probably harmless, but it did make me wonder
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by kmort 15y ago
The nose was "only" pitched 15 degrees up. The descent was at 40 degrees. With considerable turbulence, and a storm raging outside even the rapid descent may not have been apparent (body-wise).
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by kmort 15y ago
As the article mentions, aviation experts are rightly bamboozled by this. The closest I've come to flying was Chuck Yeager's AFT on the Commodore 64, but even then I knew presence of engine power does not preclude a stall if your pitch is e
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by kmort 15y ago
The author did touch on it: "According to Camilleri, not one of US Airway's 17 Airbus 330s has ever been in alternate law. Therefore, Bonin may have assumed that the stall warning was spurious because he didn't realize that the plane could
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by kmort 15y ago
Your alternatives are for the income that hosting advertisements may provide. They are not alternatives for the service that advertising itself provides. And for that I offer in place of unsolicited advertising: - Classifieds - Directories
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by kmort 15y ago
To be fair, their meaningless is their value. Using "real world" names may distract from the logic being discussed or unreasonably suggest that the logic may fit only a particular scenario. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variab
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by kmort 15y ago
Remember the old Windows time zone picker that let you click on the world map to select your zone? Geopolitical sensitivity about precise borders forced Microsoft to switch off the region-highlighting feature. (Info: http://blogs.msdn.com/
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by kmort 15y ago
From the Direct Connect help page: > A page’s eligibility for Google+ Direct Connect is determined algorithmically, based on certain signals we use to help understand your page's relevancy and popularity. In addition to this analysis, w
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by kmort 15y ago
test1234@example.com and tets1234@example.com yield the same background colour. Isn't the point of this to detect accidental transpositions? You may want to use a simple hash in your algorithm. The input field may need some explanatory text
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by kmort 15y ago
It seems your first comment to invoke the shadowban was a link to your own site with a (rather contentious!) post calling-out famous physicists as murderers. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2413485 I guess it got flagged rather than m
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by kmort 15y ago
Does it integrate with any HRMS or payroll systems? It may be a nice bolt-on to such systems which have rather dated interfaces, and would allow you to target past the small business focus you have at the moment.
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by kmort 15y ago
"There’s really only one way to solve an email reputation problem. You have to make an effort to clean up your list. Here again I was thankful for the awesome reporting built into Aweber. I was able to quickly track down which subscribers w
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by kmort 15y ago
This table is a round-up of C++0x support in various compilers: http://wiki.apache.org/stdcxx/C++0xCompilerSupport
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by kmort 15y ago
Perhaps "Software Sculptor" or "Crafter". I find "artist" a little broad. The end idea may well be an emotive expression, but there's a lot of disciplined craft that must go in to creating the piece. Similarly, an architect may design an ev
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by kmort 16y ago
It's a "Web 2.0"-style dropped-vowel spelling of "lanyard". (Lanyards being commonly used at conferences to hold ID cards.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanyard
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by kmort 16y ago
Good stuff. Sports like this are ripe for presenting their many statistics in interesting ways. I'm working on a hobby statistics/prediction site for Aussie Rules football at the moment and am having tremendous fun displaying interesting vi
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by kmort 16y ago
Your landing page is extremely light on details. This fails to entice, and the requisite login will immediately turn-away X% of visitors. Add a simple preview.
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by kmort 16y ago
That range is 58 characters which (perhaps suspiciously) is size of alphabet + 2^5. (Although a whitespace character is also encoded, making that suspicion a little less "round".) From comparing the multiple encodings of Quick Brown Fox,
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by kmort 16y ago
Perhaps this is something that may be mined from the Twitter firehose (which may be easier than marketing a new site). Let's be generous and say: Two mentions in the firehose would be sufficient for a correlation 8% of people twitter
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by kmort 16y ago
I've used Noisy for OS X and also Aire Freshener for Windows (which includes ambient recorded sounds such as rainfall) but notice that after an extended period I tend to have "aural hallucinations" -- I start hearing patterns in the noise t
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by kmort 16y ago
many startups reckon you are too expensive or less likely to work insane hours if you are over 23 Perhaps.
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by kmort 16y ago
They didn't say HTML5 is "mobile-only". They implied that including media, storage and extended graphics capabilities in the standard supports a better mobile experience. Sites and applications can target these capabilities without having t
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by kmort 16y ago
It's a design I've been tinkering with for while and have a bunch of notes about. Reputation would be handled by a transparent history of all projects worked on. The profit-sharing design does not prevent collusion. E.g., if there are a glu
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by kmort 16y ago
My thoughts about a collective have included a bidding system. For each project, the coordinating team identify the work units. For each work unit, the collective's members may submit a bid comprising of: * time available to work on project

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