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akovaski··on Study: people who grow up poor have a harder time regulating their food intake
I think you can find the article for free, hosted by one of the authors, at this link: http://personal.tcu.edu/sehill/Hill_Prokosch_PsySci_2016.pdf

A version with the paper which seems to have supplemental information at the end is available at this link: http://personal.tcu.edu/sehill/SES_Hunger_4_Nov_15.pdf

akovaski··on Senate encryption bill draft mandates 'technical assistance'
Another: it's like requiring safe manufacturers to have a master combination to unlock any safe.

(or, closer to what the article states: it's like requiring safe manufacturers to open any safe the government gives them, or at least require the manufacturer to provide technical assistance in breaking into their own safe)

akovaski··on Desmos Graphing Calculator – HTML5 with LaTeX editor
This is really cool. Two things, though:

1. Is there a way to do integrals? Are there plans to add that support?

2. Though the UI doesn't block up when you do a large calculation, the calculations do. e.g. I try to sum from 0 to 10^20, then realize I just wanted to sum 0 to 20. If I change the equation, it seems like it has to complete the first calculation to get to the new calculation.

akovaski··on If You Drive the Right Speed, This Musical Highway Will Play You a Song
"Wrong Way"

Sometimes I see people drive the wrong way down one-way streets, maybe this would help.

akovaski··on Solus 1.0 Released
Well, in the blog post that is linked, it does state that

  Solus is a Linux-based operating system built from scratch for the modern desktop and targeting the x86_64 architecture.
Yeah, it should probably should say on the home page, but the site seems to be partially unfinished in other aspects as well. (The "Why Solus?" and "Budgie" pages even state that they aren't complete)
akovaski··on Real-time GIF images
If I read the source code correctly, this is not actually streaming something continuously; instead, it is making a 30-frame gif that has a start-time that is dependent on when you loaded the gif.
akovaski··on Maybe Clockless Chip Design's Time Has Come
Looking at the waveform graph on the site, it looks like it turns the output to 1 when both inputs are 1, and turns the output to 0 when both inputs are 0 (In other words, it assigns the output to the inputs when the inputs are in agreement). Though, that's just a guess.
akovaski··on Asm.js Chess Battle
I think it rather means that the search time was short enough that neither search tree got deep enough to form advantageous moves. (When I check the detailed output, it seems that the asm.js version visits at least 2x as many nodes as the un-optimized version, independent of Time-per-turn)
akovaski··on $1 Unistroke Recognizer
I think this just recognizes your gestures (i.e. it does not recognize shapes you draw). I added an example of a clockwise triangle (using the site's "Add as example of existing type") and it was then able to recognize clockwise triangles.
akovaski··on Bézier Clock
The 4 actually becomes its true form at 40 (read the text below the clock), so what you were seeing was not 48 but rather 38.
akovaski··on Ask HN: Idea Sunday
There already exists legal search engines. Notably to me is WestLawNext[0] which has a legal search engine, which I believe is sold to large legal firms. There also seems to be a direct competitor called LexisNexis.

[0]http://thomsonreuters.com/westlawnext/

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