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www.independent.co.uk 4y ago

Bitcoin price crash: Crypto plunges by 9% as billions wiped off market

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www.sixthtone.com 5y ago

China's Newest Computer Science Student Is a Computer

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www.harihareswara.net 5y ago

Not the First Time We Tried (FSF, GNU, RMS, etc.)

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aroberge.blogspot.com 5y ago

Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advanced features

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www.ctvnews.ca 6y ago

A Canadian company spotted the coronavirus outbreak before health officials

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www.cbc.ca 9y ago

The world's fastest human is Canadian

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www.wsj.com 9y ago

Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal

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www.huffingtonpost.com 10y ago

The Legal Problem That Could Crash Uber

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www.theglobeandmail.com 10y ago

Supreme Court to hear Google’s appeal in B.C. search injunction case

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Best way to provide client-side internationalization support to single-page app

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dustycloud.org 11y ago

How Hy backported “yield from” to Python 2

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arstechnica.com 11y ago

Court agrees that Google’s search results qualify as free speech

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aroberge.blogspot.ca 12y ago

Collaborate on Reeborg's World using Mozilla's TogetherJS

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www.theglobeandmail.com 12y ago

Long-life laptop battery the tech industry doesn’t want you to have

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: Best editor theme for screencasts? (dark on light or reverse)

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www.mathcortex.com 12y ago

MathCortex: nice online calculator for linear algebra

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reeborg.ca 13y ago

Show HN: Learn programming with Reeborg

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www.bbc.co.uk 13y ago

Planck satellite: Maps detail Universe's ancient light

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business.financialpost.com 13y ago

Canadian researchers,Intel, and Plastic Logic to create ‘paper tablet’

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www.reddit.com 13y ago

U.S. Representative crowdsources a domain name seizure legislative proposal

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news.slices.ninemsn.com.au 14y ago

New usb key: dropbox on steroid?

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: one-year college certificate curriculum

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www.stanfordalumni.org 14y ago

Body hacking trick: cooling the hands for better performance

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www.cambrianexplosion.com 14y ago

Cambrian explosion: genetic algorithm experiment

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If I remember correctly, unlike the standard Python interpreter, ptpython does not support the replacement of sys.excepthook by a custom one. I know that I look at seeing if I could have it support friendly-traceback but couldn't.

In my experience (in a different field), it is common for researchers to acknowledge the source of their funding. In particular, researchers are keen to acknowledge funding from government grants, as this is perceived to be helpful in applying for future research grants.

I glanced through the paper and I could not find any mention indicating who funded that study.

I'm also very sceptical of single studies that support the status quo for very large industries -- even more so when there is no indication of who funded the study.

electron volts is a unit of energy. Using E = mc^2, one expresses masses in the equivalent energy quantity. It turns out that electron-volts is a convenient scale for the (energy equivalent) mass for elementary particles -- much better than trying to express the mass in kilograms.

Up until a month ago, when I searched Youtube using the "latest" filter, I could reliably get the latest videos uploaded that were relevant to the search terms. Now, it shows a couple of recently uploaded videos followed by many which are for weeks ago, while I know that many more had been uploaded in the recent days.

Perhaps a better approach is to click on "favorite" at the top. I personally find it easier than trying to go through my comments history.

I write programs as a hobby. For most of my career, I have been teaching Math and Physics courses. The whole point of teaching is to get someone to learn something and use it as they see fit, with no constraint imposed upon them. I view the code I write the same way: if anyone finds something useful in it, I want them to be free to use it without constraint.

I write with other humans in mind, not companies.

I occasionally like to read other people's code to learn. However, in order to avoid any problems, this means that I stay away (much to my regret) from reading any GPL licensed code, no matter how interesting the project might look to me.

I admit to have been occasionally disappointed in the past when large parts of some of my work were plagiarized with no attribution (including by one commercial venture) ... but I prefer for my work to be free of barriers so that anyone interested can either learn from it or (more likely) get in touch with me with suggestions as to how to improve upon it.

I disagree: I find that she makes an excellent point about the choice she made in the video linked above. She is a designer, exploring ideas about body augmentation. She is not (and nor is anyone else) at the stage of perfecting a design so that it become the most performant. "Premature optimization..." and all that.

"Curvature" in physics generally refers to the "intrinsic" curvature (see from within the space) as opposed to the extrinsic curvature (seen from a larger, embedding space). A cylinder has zero intrinsic curvature, the same as a flat sheet of paper.