octatoan

> math books and physics books are works describing the world as it is, and in that case, are the closest glimpse of the divine that you're likely to get in this life

That's where I've settled. If you want a religious experience, learn math. The feeling when you get something that was previously incomprehensible is probably as good as, if not better than, religious ecstasy.

Isn't mine :)

Kik was the name of the npm package that is the source of all the recent hullabaloo.

"Kiked" is an instance of unfortunately misinterpretable verbing. I parsed it that way too at first.

There's a massive project going on in math using GitHub to write an open-source algebraic geometry textbook.

http://stacks.math.columbia.edu

I wrote this answer to a similar question in /r/math last year. You might enjoy it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/3ixyw3/how_can_i_begi...

Indeed, I wish someone could talk about how the value/policy thing works.

I needed this :)

> --cherchez-stackoverflow

I posted this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10539083

It seems timezones matter a lot. :)

See if you can bring a new approach to the problem. You could solve it in a completely different way by focusing on some other part of the process.

This is beautiful.

GP probably meant Nadella, if someone's wondering.

Re the point made at the end: there's a ton of fuzzy completion engines.

The author is a neoreactionary. Just thought you might want to know.

AFAIK someone did make adblocking glasses with image recognition software. :)

How was the header image made?

Does anyone familiar with the "paid-for certificate industry" know if anything major is going to happen? I'd guess they're going to be inundated with lawsuits or something.

Great work, by the way.

See "much needed gap". Also, RFC 2324, "Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)". [1].

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324