MrBuddyCasino

I guess that makes sense. Personally I find it annoying how mathematical notation seems so intractable today. Things that are easily understood in code for me are a mystery in math notation. But I gue…

This surprises me, what exactly is the point of encoding what are essentially different fonts in unicode? Isn't that the job of the presentation layer? (the Fraktur variant is awesome btw, and is…

That is quite impressive. No type annotations needed, and control flow is taken intro consideration (hence the name I guess). If I am not mistaken, this tech could be used to build IDEs roughly simila…

Wow, thats horrible. The US needs an organization that goes after the careers of politicians that pass those kinds of laws, thats the only way to stop them. Still, there must be ways to protect such i…

Well there are standards that can be checked against, and they go to the companies and talk to them. The good ones often already have CSR departments. If theres something shady happening, it is often …

I wouldn't count on that. In the financial market, its already happening. You can buy information from a ratings agency that assesses a companies ethical behavior. If they don't meet the inv…

Thats defeatist. We have labels for organic food, so why not have something certified asshole-free? You know, a certificate for ethical behavior or something. I'm only glad that he really looks…

I remember Google made public some very interesting statistics about hard disks and their modes of failure, which was unprecedented in scale. Google has lots of code in C++, Java, Python and Javascrip…

Not to rain on your parade, but as someone who grew up near Switzerland, thats where the good stuff comes from. Cadbury is decent though. On a related note, I have always wondered why food quality is …

You should mention that the train was junk after that, and the rail track too. Very expensive marketing.

It seems I didn't look thoroughly. "Stanford Alumni" was listed in one of her groups, and Stanford itself was listed in the "follow" section on her page - sorry, you're r…

Very interesting - do you have a quotable source for that? Because she's still claiming to be a Stanford alumni in her LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/munirarah…

His company won - they violated the NDA and misappropriated trade secrets, why would that lawsuit have been frivolous?

In Germany, you would be laughed out of court for trying to enforce an 18-month noncompete clause, at least if its too broad - that would be equal to an occupational ban. Is this really standard pract…

Why, it doesn't have a js interpreter or seem to use the same chips? Anyway, this looks like a nice middle ground between the cheap chinese 5$ ESPs that are kind of a pain in the arse to work wit…

So a random imbalance in a binary pattern triggers an oscillation, if the delay is big enough, because the hipsters all try to be non-conformists. I don't think the delays in real life fashion cy…

Yeah, that image looks like it was designed for easy recognition. Picture search via Google Goggles doesn't return any results, though.

Much better: "2562 units, 85 prefixes, 66 nonlinear units" Since it took me a moment to figure it out, heres how to install it: brew install gnu-units then run as: gunits So it lives happily…

Indeed, I just checked OSX - sadly, units doesn't know about millilightseconds ("586 units, 56 prefixes").

That was quite impressive, not sure I would have found that out. I know I'm stretching my luck, but since those were great reads - do you have a 3rd best TCP timeout story? :)

Good read. I guess now we'd be interested in hearing your 2nd best TCP timeout story.

Exactly.

He does have really odd political views. I know HN shouldn't be about politics, but this was a really interesting read: http://www.thebaffler.com/blog/mouthbreathing-machiave…

"As for encouraging adoption, I recommend you solve a problem in your spare time that your company has, in Erlang, and demonstrate how easy it is to maintain compared to whatever the accepted s…

Found this via a german article ( http://www.zeit.de/wissen/2014-11/computerindustrie-unpraezi... ). Apparently they call this "NPU" for neural processing unit, and …

The banking crisis was a result of de-regulation, caused by neo-liberal government agendas. After the great depression, the banking sector was stable and only became problematic again when the laws th…

Wow, my pro-Sweden bias just got another boost, that guy is quite talented. I usually don't like chiptunes, but he managed to make a pretty good one: http://www.linusakesson.net/m…

I remember a HN thread, Singapore was described as being described as sterile and without a lot of culture. Probably a good place to work, but to live? Not so much.

A great talk, had a good presentation to go with. Its a bit outside of what I can fully grok, and I do have to wonder - how much time does it take to get to that level of expertise? That seems such a …