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From reading the documentation [0] I can't help but feel a bit underwhelmed by the feature set of a GIST index. Maybe I'm not looking in the right place, but what index provide nea…

You must all be very popular people since you have to have a strategy to get out of doing things with others. Most people have the opposite problem. You'll seem very unsincere afte…

A strong dev team will shine on any platform and in any language. A weak dev team, given the right tools, can at least be productive. Which is why business people who build busines…

Yeah that's the one, thx.

>I had a calculus book once that said, 'What one fool can do, another can.' A link to a pdf file of a copy of an old calculus book from early nineteen-hundreds showed up on HN a we…

Is Windows 7 abandonware to Microsoft? If so then this violation of terms might just fly under the radar of their massive team of lawyers.

Capitalism vs Dictatorship 1-0 Here is a similar statement: Since USA suck at [something USA sucks at] capitalism is clearly inferiour to [something that isn't capitalism].

I don't think what we need right now is a world police, especially not an American one. But, since you mention a region on earth that you seem to think is in need of integrating wi…

"hurt and bored by alpha males" But we should give most alpha males a break, I think. They're as insecure as you are, probably. Most alpha males I know are quite fun to be around. …

"Masculinity is defined by..." Masculinity is not always prefered, at least not as the stongest trait in a person. Shyness to me signals curiosity, a person with a healthy dose of …

> Shyness is a mental disorder and a severe disadvantage. No, and not always. E.g. from my experience, many intelligent and beautiful women prefer the shy type over the boastful sa…

I have a solution to the problem of having an ad network (Google) as the dictator of the internet. 1. Create a new browser where the concept of a URL is missing. 2a. Make terms, ke…

Yes and it was also a while ago since I studied. Your numbers seem correct. Extra health insurance is often provided to you by your employer though. With standard health care a bro…

Yes you are right. I mix up those to.

Yes, in Sweden we have laws that protect the employer to a much higher degree and we also have a very static work force. You can easily go this route: learn something, get a job, d…

>Don't exaggerate what I said Alright then. >When one does lose their job in Sweden, what happens when you break your leg next week? or get cancer? Care for children is always for …

I like pairing for those reasons as well. Also, I can keep my concentration up more easily when there is a requirement for me to do so, e.g. when I'm intercommunicating. It's when …

Nobody outside of NA are scared of loosing their jobs, is what you believe, because of how enslaved to the system Americans are? Households in Sweden take on heavy debt. If we loos…

Putting in 25-30 good, quality hours at work each week and then 30 more hours a week on my pet project, I would not classify an hour as good depending on if I produced code or not.…

Didn't now that, thx :)

What all HN readers know and need is a good balance of humourous as well as serious content. Humor is not easy. We should cut humor-aspirers some slack and never vote while angry.

I have built a vector space model implementation as a Lucene-like search framework and I want to implement word2vec. In a setting where you at querying time have in your reach a ch…

UX = UI + ? UX % UI = ? Is it a feeling or a thing perhaps?