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Http 402: “my time to shine”

Was the word “inflammable”?

From the article, she says they tried "1.0 / (1 << mj)", which turned out to be slower than the lookup table. May or may not be equivalent to java.lang.Math.scalb, I dunno.

I've found this tool to be super-helpful: https://github.com/dvorka/hstr It's like ctrl-r, but it shows you many candidates at once.

Would -XX:-UsePerfData also work? I noticed jankiness in my eclipse and adding that flag seemed to help.

I'm confused by the discussion of multi-lingual corpora. Is it common in topic modeling to consider documents drawn from disjoint vocabularies, or is it just a kind of thought expe…

Dear lazyhackernews, What would the night sky look like with the milky way subtracted out? Thanks in advance!

http://www.hhmi.org/news/new-microscope-collects-dynamic-ima... http://vimeo.com/user33367262/videos/

I'd be interested in learning more about this.

Why wasn't the DLL signed? Is this not a thing?

Did the strength of the ssl decryption change? Do some browsers not support 256 bit ssl encryption?

For me, chrome still beats this webkit and the latest firefox for deep learning mnist in the browser: http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/convnetjs/demo/mnist....

Could the same effect be achieved in software for computer displays?

I really wanted prismatic to be the replacement for google reader, but after a year with it I still feel like I have lots of unmet needs.

The article doesn't offer much on how it became a hit. I learned about Papers Please from nerdcubed on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV-6YSye2Vo I bet he hasn't spent an…

This isn't always possible or desirable: "you should always try to hire someone better than you". Building an organization is really challenging; I don't know how to draw a line be…

Salesforce runs buses too.

Were you already serving thumbnails over https? Or were they served over http? edit: I was also wondering whether you can skip downloading some thumbnails based on the velocity of …

Why does anyone lend credence to speedtest.net scores, particularly in the context of a net neutrality discussion?

I love project euler, but I've come to the realization that its purpose is to beat programmers soundly about the head and neck with a big math stick. At work last week, we were wor…

cotap could not be more annoying.

James Hamilton's blog is not to be missed: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/

What are the access paths that presto uses (full scan, range scan, skip scan, ...)? Does it understand indexes?

I know there's a family of compounds found in wine that can smell like cat urine[1]. If this laptop has a rubberized component, some googling[2] indicates these same compounds may …