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hbar··on Computing 10,000X more efficiently (2010) [pdf]
It's a simulation showing how 1% FP error doesn't have much effect on the result. They look almost the same...that's the point.

If you don't know what the arrows represent then you maybe don't understand what tomography is after all.

hbar··on We Are Giving Ourselves Cancer
You should understand the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation.
hbar··on Ask HN: How would a new OS be different?
Look at Plan 9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
hbar··on Uruguay legalises production and sale of cannabis
Not legal, just "officially unenforced".
hbar··on A glimpse of undefined behavior in C
It's undefined in the spec. So GCC and clang are both correct.
hbar··on Ask HN: Where are the hard programming challenges/jobs?
I have a hard and interesting job. I do navigation & autonomous control systems for large mining vehicles. A couple of notes...

1. You want to do R&D. Developing new things is fun; maintaining existing things is boring. However, "getting in" to R&D positions is difficult without #2:

2. Domain knowledge. We almost never hire based on programming skill alone. Programming is a prerequisite, but specific expertise (guidance, navigation & control systems in my case) is the real value you need to bring. Graduate degrees are one way (but not the only way) to move in this direction.

hbar··on After a spectacular crash, Bitcoin makes a surprising comeback
Gold? (even today)
hbar··on RIM to cut 40% of workforce as another top exec resigns
It's not research they lack, it's motion
hbar··on Research In Motion is dead
Premature much? Apple was dead once too.
hbar··on Google Now Using ReCAPTCHA To Decode Street View Addresses
Usually if I input an address into Google maps, it places a marker somewhere near the actual address. If I use street view it seems to point me in a random direction and usually not toward the address I wanted. I think this is aimed at that.
hbar··on No longer loving Google
In a public corporation, this is always true. The first responsibility is to the shareholders. This point seems to be frequently overlooked.
hbar··on The Five Stages of Hosting
Search for colocation in your area, then call and ask. I'm paying around $70/month for a 1U server with a fixed amount of bandwidth. Reliability and support (aside from network issues) are up to you.
hbar··on Google's new privacy policy and TOS
Also, AdSense.
hbar··on Facebook Targeting IPO for Between April and June
GRPN is an embarrassment depending on whom you ask. The founders know exactly what they're doing -- they cashed out long ago.
hbar··on Nginx now within 1% of IIS's Active Site Market Share
...Read the HTTP headers? I think you answered your own question.
hbar··on World's 1st manned quadcopter flight
The plane containing all the propeller blades goes through the operator. It's cool, but I wouldn't go anywhere near it.
hbar··on The end of an era: Internet Explorer drops below 50% of Web usage
In Russia there is (or at least, was) mass pirating of Windows -- maybe MS turned off the updates.
hbar··on Solo founder or small team? Fix your life with a real-life non-virtual assistant
I've been seeing it as well, but have never spent any time digging to find out why.
hbar··on Is This the Future of Punctuation?
"opposed".

Normally I wouldn't correct you, but this being the grammar nazi thread and all...

hbar··on How My Popular Site was Banned by Google
The same could be said of Google's search engine itself: an autogenerated web site consisting of essentially nothing other than links to other places, many of them paid. But no one can deny that it's a useful site.

I think that is the issue here -- probably the vast majority of such sites are undesirable, but you can't discount them all.

hbar··on SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5
Facebook disconnect is a worthwhile extension if you're using Chrome. There is a FF equivalent as well.
hbar··on Show HN: Use Twitter to register domain names
Why not email? What's with the Twitter obsession?
hbar··on Ask HN: How do you promote your web apps?
The cost is very low through services like Mechanical Turk. Typically you'd ask them to complete a survey on usability of your site -- you get some useful feedback from them, and sometimes they return as users themselves.
hbar··on Facebook doesn't like privacy countermeasures
If you use Chrome(-ium), there's an extension for that. I believe there is an equivalent FF extension out there as well.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ejpepffjfmamnambag...

hbar··on Ask HN: Single founder seeks SEO/promoter for revenue share
bedmap@bedmap.com
hbar··on Ask HN: Single founder seeks SEO/promoter for revenue share
Maybe I should replace the word "marketing" with "promotion".