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azag0 0 minutes ago | parent | on: Did Microsoft Just Manually Patch the Equation Edi...
How does this go with the often quoted mantra that you can only beat compilers today
if you're an extremely skilled asm programmer? Or is the problem you describe just
about executable size rather than speed?

baldfat 0 minutes ago | parent | on: I still love Kierkegaard


Also it is common in English and most other countries to have dierent spellings for
the same name. In English it is called Anglicisation. https://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/Anglicisation
Jesus was never called Jesus (probably). His name was Yehoshua (Joshua but Hebrew
has no J) but when translated to Greek we get Jesus. In French Jacob is pronounced
James due to some name meaning of James being having a limp. The New Testament
Book called James in English is Jakob in Greek. These things happen for a thousand
times.
Also I went to college in Minneapolis and Swedish is used as frequently as Spanish is in
most Northeast cities. I met dozens of Sorens and none of them pronounced it
dierently.

Fifer82 0 minutes ago | parent | on: The Eect of Cold Showering on Health and Work: A...
Not sure. If I do I have always had it. I don't go the doctors often. How would I know?

mlevental 0 minutes ago | parent | on: The Coin Flip: A Fundamentally Unfair Proposition?...
you know what always screwed me up in stats? conditional probability. your expansion
makes perfect sense (you've constructed a new measure) but I'm left here wondering
if just dropping the rst two terms is really the right way to nd the conditional density
(conditioned on the rst two ips coming out the same).

snowAbstraction 0 minutes ago | parent | on: Cquery: highly-scalable, low-latency language


serv...
Is this like https://github.com/Andersbakken/rtags but for vscode?
Any key dierences?

dawnbreez 0 minutes ago | parent | on: Did Microsoft Just Manually Patch the Equation Edi...
Not just writing assembly, rewriting a compiled object le without letting any of the
addresses change, without having the source to work with, and presumably with
almost no documentation, to patch a program that has been left untouched for almost
20 years.

sandos 1 minute ago | parent | on: Did Microsoft Just Manually Patch the Equation Edi...
x64dbg can also produce nice graphs and is open-source!

revelation 1 minute ago | parent | on: Shock as $140m bike-share startup CEO goes AWOL ah...
They are much better for commuting use than any Walmart mountain bike ever was.
And the bluetooth lock without the company monitoring it.. that's just another wheel
lock. They are not very secure at all.

hnaccount91 1 minute ago | parent | on: Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take th...
Yeah, but it's all inside one region isn't it? Comprising of China (obv), HK/Macau,
Taiwan and parts of Vietnam maybe (not sure). Like everyone likes citing this fact to
me as though it is mind bending, but if that language is never going to spread out,
then what's the point of counting it as a "widely" spoken language.

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VLM 1 minute ago | parent | on: TechShop shuts down all U.S. locations, declares b...
There's a political angle or herd mentality that makes it hard to go to CC. If you can
get past it, they are great places for an individual to learn, but if the social or social
media stu is a signicant fraction of being in the makerspace, then its not going to
work.

kharms 2 minutes ago | parent | on: Silicon Valley thinks it invented roommates. They ...
A datapoint: there was a startup in Boston named Bridj that folded because it turned
out to not be a viable model.

mhd 2 minutes ago | parent | on: GNU Music and Songs


I remember the rst two .au les I found on sunsite way back when: Linus pronouncing
Linux, and RMS singing the free software song in glorious 8khz.
I never cared much about lk, though.

jabretti 2 minutes ago | parent | on: Silicon Valley thinks it invented roommates. They ...
Serviced apartments typically aren't "permanent", though, they're rented by the night
like a hotel rather than on a longer-term basis, so they cost a lot more, to compensate
for the high vacancy rate.

matt_s 2 minutes ago | parent | on: Ask HN: Fastest/easiest framework to build a web a...
If your goal is fastest to get a production ready MVP built, go with Rails or another
similar mature stack in a dierent language. Chances are the majority of problems you
encounter will have been solved by someone.
If you want to learn something new or want to be on the hype curve, don't expect to
have something production ready fast. Expect to have challenges learning how things
work beyond a blog/to-do list tutorial for new-to-you tech.

jsoltren 2 minutes ago | parent | on: Tesla Roadster


No side view mirrors! That helps tremendously with aerodynamics. I wonder if they
used cameras and displays. Even the new Ford GT has mirrors.

Nullabillity 3 minutes ago | parent | on: Microsoft joins the MariaDB Foundation as a Platin...
From a MS blog post that was on the front page today[0]:
> .NET Core is optimized for building highly scalable web applications, running on
Windows, macOS or Linux. If youre building Windows desktop applications, then the
.NET Framework is the best choice for you.
Nope, it's still the same MS as always.
[0]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/11/16/announcin...

hdhzy 3 minutes ago | parent | on: Run and Debug Java 9 in Visual Studio Code
> Actually some basic features such as getters, setters
Do you mean generating getters and setters based on elds? Because I can't nd this
option (tried searching for "getter", "java", "generate", no luck) and I've got Red Hat
LS installed (alongside the entire Microsoft's Java Extension Pack).
Thanks for you hard work! Language Server Protocol is a hidden gem of VS Code, the
most important feature in my opinion.

be5invis 3 minutes ago | parent | on: Did Microsoft Just Manually Patch the Equation Edi...
You have to know that the MSFT may not have the source code of Equation Editor,
since it is a simplied version of MathType.

BjoernKW 3 minutes ago | parent | on: Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take th...
GWT was quite complex. You had to write a lot of code for achieving very little.
There also was a huge impedance mismatch between Java and JavaScript at the time.

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Nowadays you can write decent functional code in Java but back then you needed
anonymous classes for that.

emiliobumachar 3 minutes ago | parent | on: Silicon Valley thinks it invented roommates. They ...
> Earlier this year, for instance, the ridesharing start-up Lyft launched Shuttle, which
allows you to Ride for a low xed fare along convenient routes, with no surprise
stops. [...] As was quickly pointed out by numerous people this is basically a bus.
Just, you know, without the poor people.
Implicit Nirvana fallacy. Yes, ridesharing is worse for society then using (and voting to
improve) traditional public transportation. But it's still much better than the popular
default of each person owning and solo driving a car, which sits idle most of the time
taking up valuable urban space.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy

erikbye 4 minutes ago | parent | on: Did Microsoft Just Manually Patch the Equation Edi...
If anyone wants to give it a go they can use v5.0, which is free for non-commercial
use.
https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1817/...

lotsofpulp 4 minutes ago | parent | on: Silicon Valley thinks it invented roommates. They ...
When your biggest expense is employees, it's obvious that you're not going to get
anywhere without increasing revenue or decreasing # of employees.

rayiner 4 minutes ago | parent | on: Silicon Valley thinks it invented roommates. They ...
> Hey, let's not stigmatize the upper middle class actually hiring people to do
worthwhile work. That's how jobs, small businesses, and economic growth happen.
It should be at least a little stigmatized. Having upper middle class people be able to
aord lots of labor intensive services is a sign of an unhealthy society with too large
an income gap.

0x4a42 4 minutes ago | parent | on: Show HN: The awesome Git cheat sheet, a tiny Git c...
You should remove the "cursor: pointer" CSS property from the "li" elements. It make
them look like they are clickable while they aren't.

tosh 5 minutes ago | parent | on: Using Python to Code by Voice


Demo starts about 9min into the talk

nl 5 minutes ago | parent | on: North Korean defector found to have 'enormous para...
Tapeworm and other parasites are fascinating things.
One of the most interesting cases was when Laurent Fignon, at the height of his
powers in 1988 withdrew from the Tour de France (which he'd won in 1984, and would
just lose in 1989).
The pundits at rst blamed Fignons problem on a return of the hypoglycemia that had
plagued him in the past but, after the eighth stage in Nancy, he suddenly discovered
the real cause of his fatigue when his trainer pulled six feet of a tapeworm out of
him.[1]
SIX FEET OF TAPEWORM!
[1] http://www.bikeraceinfo.com/riderhistories/laurent-gnon.ht...

rccaglia 5 minutes ago | parent | on: Startup Ideas


Well I would argue it has all the same goals and steps of a traditional contract, but
automated and electronic. Your points are all valid today...but I recall similar points
about e-commerce and e-banking circa 1999. I can hardly be considered a blockchain
fanboy (I own precisely 1.0 ETH for experimentation only). But I do sense that the
problems you mention can and will be solved by someone or several someones with
enough time and money since there are real pain points here. Maybe 5 years, or 15.

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But I think our kids will nd this post in the 2020s in their AR equipped Waymo and
laugh at how we did things now.
And the lawyers I know personally love to litigate new things in civil court. Like robbing
banks, that's where the money is!

empath75 6 minutes ago | parent | on: Tesla Roadster


There are no gears in an electric car, and doesnt more weight make it easier to stay
on the road, not harder?

chrisseaton 6 minutes ago | parent | on: Silicon Valley thinks it invented roommates. They ...
No a mess is not really like serviced apartments. It's more like one big communal
house. Most of the areas except bedrooms and bathrooms are communal and you
would normally eat together with sta waiting on. It isn't a new idea but most techies
probably have not experienced that kind of lifestyle, so will be new to them.
I'd love to live in a living space like a mess if I wasn't married.
I've always thought that a mess for politicians would be a good solution to the
parliamentary expenses problems in the UK as well. Could build a mess for the
politicians in Westminster where they can all stay. Could be nicely appointed but
ecient as they're all together.

SmirkingRevenge 6 minutes ago | parent | on: The Eect of Cold Showering on Health and Work:
A...
My guess would be that it exercises your will and discipline, more than anything else.
Basically, maybe it toughens you up mentally a bit.

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