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Euclide ; the elements.

Unless you eat quinoa or advogado that may not be as expensive as meat, but are putting a huge stress on the environment. Conclusion: they only seem to be intoxicated with power.

You must have missed the part where a 50k$ Czech passive radar is defeating the F35 stealth capability. Problem of EM sensors is most often then not, are active (especially radars …

I have beaten most of the people here : - almost no more social networks - no smartphones (okay an old nokia with an unusable internet) - no more compulsive buying - getting so con…

I won. In a night bar in Pigalles with illicit activities happening all around, on an iphone 1G freshly jailbreaked to check if vim other ssh to edit a touchy bash script was doabl…

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1187043/ 3 idiots an indian "comedy" treats of this.

Totally fine with it. Giges parabole (platon) is about the fact that no morality can exists without the look of the others (hero finds a ring that makes you invisible and then kill…

maybe even more simple than reinventing a langage using lambda functions applying on path/value in a dict with an iterator (which can be consumed by filter/any/map/reduce) http://v…

Use hnranking to spot manipulation of votes when it is fresh http://hnrankings.info/16742391/

Pretty sure they have a NDA on the back with an abrupt termination of contract and a potential civil action if ever "the revelations harm the company". Plus they probably have the …

IBM has branch prediction (and Out of Order Execution) in their mainframe architecture: the Z series. I strongly suspect they are subject to a variant of spectre meltdown. Yet, no …

My experience is that it is hard convincing most CTO and developers (including one with a background in sound engineering) I met that moving average were not fit for most time seri…

Except with the right (obvious) non linear filter you can easily extract orders of magnitude smaller signals randomly inserted in a white noise That is the basics of how people in …

The scientist who coined the term Alpha (wolf) that inspired the "alpha" male BS thinks otherwise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNtFgdwTsbU He made an understandable mistake of …

Methodology, Signal processing, probability and statistic. Any monkey can make nice plots with R or python. Using a tool will not make you efficient. What matters is the brain of t…

Oh I thought it was about JS insanity. Well known caveats : don't use == but ===. What about cmp implicit operator in js? Well, it relies on == :) same with lt/gt "0" === 0 false "…

Vaccine being preventive care, I do agree it is better to let epidemy spread and let the weak die by millions, thus having a population as healthy as in middle age. We could also s…

Living proof narcissism is dead is the very existence of hackernews.

The "why I left google" brand seems to be more beneficial in terms of reputation and monetization than google itself. Bad time for google who pays already its employees a lot compa…

The work hour load measurement is the responsibility of the employer since UK shell crisis during WWI Amount of deadly defects are introduced in line of prodocution after more than…

When I was living in Montréal, the boss were already stealing the tips of my wife that was paid the minimum. It was a common practice there. They say sold it to their employees as …

Stealing the job of the jobless! We are at the point where there are enough poors that can be exploited that a 5$/hr jobless abusable cute worker is still less expensive, but for h…

Interest yourself in your interviewers. Met googler, APLers, and FBers, something was off. If you feel confident I am wrong, it will boost you anyway. So rather than prepare yourse…

There is a long history of censorship in HN. basic rules is everything that makes IT look bad or talk about corporate (toxic) culture tends to get flagged/removed. I tend to prefer…

oh the "I am a pedantic using and obscure feature thus I am a great dev"! Here comes back the variadic arguments from paleo C. This man hates people who will maintain his code and …