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Re:BYTE Magazine's Lisp issue (1979) [pdf] on Thursday August 17, 2017 @05:38AM (#15035124)
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-09 p.58 A -TINY- PASCAL COMPILER, Part 1: The P-Code Interpreter [theme Software] [author Chung-Yuen]
Re:Indictment of Marcus Hutchins aka "Malwaretech" on Thursday August 03, 2017 @10:49PM (#14925961)
"Hours after Hutchins was arrested by the FBI, more than $130,000 (£100,000) of the bitcoin ransom taken by the creators of WannaCry was moved within the bitcoin network for the first time since the outbreak."
Brain cutting and histopathology See http://www.bu.edu/alzresearch/brain-cutting-636x433/

"one of a variety of silver impregnation staining techniques, such as the modified Bielschowski or Gallyas technique, or the fluorochrome dye thioflavin S is typically employed to visualize neurofibrillary tangles

Because these techniques require either specialized equipment (the thioflavin S stain requires the use of a fluorescence microscope with specialized excitatory and barrier filters) or experienced histotechnologists (in the case of silver impregnation stains), most anatomic pathologists in general practice lack the capability to properly evaluate brain specimens submitted for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Such specimens are best referred to specialized neuropathology laboratories where the necessary experience and facilities are in place."

It is around $2 USD here.

"Hartmanns IV Solution AU$2.73 ex GST

Baxter 0.18% SODIUM CHLORIDE & 4% GLUCOSE IV SOLN 500ML AU$3.72 ex GST " https://www.medshop.com.au/consumables/intravenous-solutions...

Alzheimers is a tauprotein disorder. Alzheimers without plaques is called Primary Age-Related Tauopathy, aka PARTS.
Re:⁠Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @03:57AM (#14908726)
Not surprised. I have been using BTRFS for years. Unfortunately, one gets the feeling that not too much development has been going into it.
Another classic paper by John McCarthy, the father of Lisp and much of early AI.
From the number of downvotes I have received, I can see that sarcasm is a foreign concept to many....

(Do not despair, Mr Trump will make all these evil foreign things go away )

Anyone who dares suggest otherwise, must have been suborned by Mr Putin, ISIS or Mr Andrew Breitbart...
"If you don't come to HN to have your preconceptions challenged, then what are we doing here?"

Like other forums, HN is largely an echochamber for those who think alike. Break any of the largely unspoken conventions here, and see what happens to you....

Sesame seed production – 2014 Country Production (tonnes) Tanzania 1,138,920 India 811,000 Sudan 721,000 China 629,900 Myanmar 519,400 Nigeria 434,990 World 6,235,530
''Despite the concerns of some engineers, SMCS-NG was created as a port to Microsoft Windows of the SMCS infrastructure and applications, a move which some commentators have termed "Windows for Warships".

The UK's Defence Ministry later gave assurances, through questions in the UK parliament, that this is a low risk use of Microsoft Windows. However, some other suppliers have taken a different path.

The console for the new Sonar 2076 supplied by Thales Underwater Systems for the Astute class submarines, and which may be retro-fitted to other classes, are built as PCs running Linux rather than Windows.''

''NN Used as a substitute for an unknown name or one that the writer wishes not to reveal.

Etymology Latin nōmen nesciō ''

Re:Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O. on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @06:34AM (#14602527)
Borrow or steal, it is all the same, until the courts rule otherwise...
I am a physician and read HN regularly. Lambda the Ultimate is better but requires effort to read, while this is fairly mindless entertainment.
Re:Kazakhstan spells out plans for alphabet swap on Sunday April 16, 2017 @01:34AM (#14124511)
Erdoğan must be delighted at this move towards Pan-Turkism
The item has reached international media. British tabloids, Vice and a Polish site are all reporting on it.

Karma...

At my kid's school, some children used Latex for their maths. Surely, adults can grok Latex too.
I have found that some older employees have decades of valuable experience.Others have one year of experience repeated thirty times....
If you are not ashamed of your DoD connection, why do you feel obliged to state that you are not involved in weapon's development ?

If you are ashamed of your DoD connection, what have you done about getting alternate funding ?

Re:Molten Salt Reactor Claims Melt Down Under Scrutiny on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:52PM (#13864850)
Sounds like another would-be Theranos.
Kudos to ycombinator !
Re:Ask HN: Have you created a programming language and why? on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @04:45AM (#13819155)
Respect !

I bought a Newton in 2007 or so, just to be able to play with NewtonScript.

Re:How the Instant Pot cooker developed a cult following on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @01:08AM (#13818322)
Aldi sells a clone for around $40. I have had one for some years.
Softlayer is being IBMified into nonexistence:

"In the coming days, weeks, and months, you'll start seeing 'Bluemix' more and more where you're used to seeing 'SoftLayer'. Because the legacy SoftLayer offerings and legacy Bluemix offerings will be available from a unified cloud platform, we're bringing them all under the Bluemix brand," SoftLayer's digital content director Kevin Hazard said.

"IBM isn't planning on changing the substance of SoftLayer's systems, products, services, and support, but it will phase the name out as it moves everything, including the SoftLayer blog over to Bluemix domains.

A investment banker I know ( private equity, with a well know firm that has a AUM of $340 billion ) was asked :

"Why do you you hate the USA ?"

when he last flew to the US.

Re:Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal? on Sunday February 26, 2017 @05:39AM (#13736605)
"BMAP is the coolest.

Pulls up a global map with "near-realtime" locations of cargo ships, offshore oil derricks and wind farms, tropical depressions and hurricanes, uranium mines, all kinds of crazy stuff.

You can zoom in on the Panama Canal and see which oil tankers under whose flag are waiting in line to pass through, where they're going and how much oil they're carrying.

You can sort the world's ocean-going cargo vessels by commodity, to see where all the orange juice is."

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-coolest-functions-on-Bloo...

Re:Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal? on Sunday February 26, 2017 @04:56AM (#13736506)
Shipping Markets

SHIP Shipping functions menu

VSRC Vessel search

VSTK Vessel capacity data

FLET Aggregated fleet data

FIXS Research daily global tanker fixtures

BFX Baltic freight index

BMAP Generate energy-related maps

Re:Why is there ancient Greek text on Afghan banknotes? on Sunday February 26, 2017 @04:51AM (#13736500)
Was your clan of the Hazara group ?

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