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The Incredible Bread Machine - Hacked
Re:Ask HN: Name my iPhone App (helps dating), receive equity
on Monday June 29, 2009 @09:54AM (#678929)
Lip Balm.
A Saint, Demons and a Leap of Imagination
Re:Operating Systems Lecture Notes by Martin Rinard
on Thursday June 25, 2009 @06:47AM (#673434)
I'm interested in operating systems research and I haven't seen this before (perhaps only because I'm just getting started). So, this is useful to me; it may not be for you.
Besides, the biggest value of HN is not the links or 'news' posted here but the discussions around them.
Surely, not everything on HN is always useful to everyone. But on days when the front page isn't that appealing to me, it reminds me to get back to my work and try and apply what I've learned so far.
Re:I, Toaster
on Thursday June 25, 2009 @05:31AM (#673393)
Very good point.
Your total life expectancy went up by 18 years just by virtue of having made it through the first 10 years.
Aubrey de Grey makes the same point in talking about extending life further in this talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can...
Re:Resurrect your dead blog by importing it to Posterous
on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @06:40AM (#670111)
The point is that using posterous removes the added effort that 'blogging' seems to be.
By redefining the problem as email, it's much easier to just sit down and write. For example, I had been thinking of tracking my moods for a very long time. Finally, what I did was sign up for posterous and set up a google calendar reminder. All I now have to do is hit reply and type a couple of lines. It's been working great for two months.
Ten Predictions
Re:Ask HN: Recommended visualization software?
on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @05:12AM (#659837)
Re:How to Retire On $500 Per Month
on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @05:00AM (#659831)
there's a meme in the USA that it's the "greatest country in the world"
There's the same meme in India, and perhaps in other countries too. It is a bit silly to think like that, especially when most people haven't really travelled to many countries. I used to think the same but once I started travelling my views changed. Definitely worth a try.
Re:What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory
on Monday June 15, 2009 @09:33PM (#659372)
HT to Jacob Gabrielson -
http://a-nickels-worth.blogspot.com/2008/05/ulrich-dreppers-...
What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory
Re:Ask HN: Technomading?
on Monday June 15, 2009 @03:36PM (#658934)
the stereotypical American with no accent
:D
The two meanings of mathematical terms
Re:Let's reimplement Eurisko
on Sunday June 14, 2009 @01:04PM (#657272)
>Most of his articles on it seem to be very tl;dr.
This is a good start: http://www.singinst.org/upload/artificial-intelligence-risk....
These videos are good intros to EY's work too:
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=611451877200179691...
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-82119137046281951...
Re:The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)
on Sunday June 14, 2009 @12:41PM (#657243)
This TED talk about aging by Aubrey de Grey is very interesting: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can...
And please do think about cryonics once again: http://lesswrong.com/lw/wq/you_only_live_twice/
Re:Use of LSD-25 for Computer Programming
on Friday June 12, 2009 @10:21AM (#654671)
Re:Ask HN: Word tips?
on Thursday June 11, 2009 @08:40AM (#652625)
I might try that. Thanks.
Ask HN: Word tips?
I use Word a lot from time to time to write big reports and it is quite frustrating. I know Latex is superior and I have started using it for my PhD work. But I still don't know enough to use it in my workplace where I don't always have the time to tinker around.So, if you use Word to write big documents, do you have any good tips to share? I find that as soon as documents grow beyond a few...
Re:Postmodernism disrobed by Richard Dawkins
on Sunday June 07, 2009 @08:32AM (#645871)
This essay by Stove is a very interesting read too: http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/wrongthoughts.html
Re:Pricing a Simple, Useful Desktop App
on Thursday June 04, 2009 @11:43AM (#641595)
Can I buy one?
Re:Ask HN; Do animals laugh?
on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @08:01AM (#639599)
You might find an answer in The Symbolic Species by Terrence Deacon.
Re:New Arc Logo
on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @07:22AM (#637632)
i like it.
Re:Orwell: Politics and the English Language
on Monday June 01, 2009 @03:21PM (#636610)
This is nicer: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79e/part42.ht...
And for Orwell's other essays: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79e/
>The other 99% of the populace...
It's more like the other 99.999%.
Formal Proof
The Coyotos Secure Operating System
Re:Meditation: Why Bother?
on Sunday May 17, 2009 @06:21AM (#613257)
Obviously if you go to a party to relax, you are going to be disappointed.
Have you noticed the similarity with the magic business model?
1. Sit down and watch your thoughts 2. Magic! 3. "harvest your crops of faith, morality , mindfulness and wisdom"!!!!
When you are happy, you are not really happy. If you observe really closely (I mean like really closely), there you will spot it. The horrible horrible evil undercurrent of all-pervading universal sadness.
When the car is moving, it's not really moving. If you observe really closely, you will see that actually it's not moving at all!
>the essence of life is suffering, said the Buddha.
Well perhaps, he was wrong?
It's like saying the essence of the electromagnetic spectrum is red.
Even before we ask whether to bother with meditation or not, let's ask what is the probability that Buddha even formulated the problem correctly?
The first step to solving a problem is to state it correctly.
Two Eggs and a Kidney: Regional World Cities
Re:How Violent Are You? [video]
on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @05:28PM (#607691)
oops! sorry didn't know that.