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aquarin··on Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments
Do I have to be a member of the Communist Party to get the comment approved?
aquarin··on Show HN: MightyName.com – Search over 4.7M available English .com domains
I have already done this, but it is difficult to squeeze the running algorithm memory. The current POS solution uses only 400MB memory. Also, 2grams are not that good as collocations.
aquarin··on Show HN: MightyName.com – Search over 4.7M available English .com domains
2gram corpus is not that easy to implement, but here is my implementation with POS and frequency sorting. http://buzzdomain.com
aquarin··on Favicon Cheatsheet
Here is my solution to the "problem". In Nginx config:

location = /favicon.ico { return 204; access_log off; error_log off; }

aquarin··on What a 600,000-megapixel-wide picture looks like
Hum, a lonely head :) http://360gigapixels.com/tokyo-tower-panorama-photo/?v=-0.5,...
aquarin··on Show HN: NameMonk – fast domain search using web sockets and Bloom filters
Verisign
aquarin··on Why babies in every country on Earth say 'mama'
Bulgarian: mama, tati
aquarin··on Common words translation sheet for indie game developers.
Microsoft have Language Portal with a lot of technical terms translations in a multiple languages. It gives you the translations in different context too.

http://www.microsoft.com/Language/en-US/Default.aspx

aquarin··on Douglas Adams' 61st birthday doodle by Google
Interesting is that the "Don't panic" is localized for the viewer. In my case in Bulgarian.
aquarin··on What's the next product that will disrupt the smartphone industry?
Merge between health monitoring devices and mobile phones.
aquarin··on Animated Factorisation Diagrams
I want a digital clock with dots instead of numbers.
aquarin··on Microsoft turns spoken English into spoken Mandarin – in the same voice
dropout paper: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/dropout.pdf

acoustics modeling: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/speechDBN_jrnl.pdf http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/DNN-2012-proof.pdf

aquarin··on Apple ][+ in HTML5
CALL151

I remember this from a cloned Apple II computer (Pravetz).

aquarin··on Google Dublin Employees at Street View
This is some kind of local filtering rule. If you travel along the street, outside of this small area all people faces are blurred.
aquarin··on Why time appears to speed up with age
Because you heart rate decreases. Other internal clocks also seems to be reflected with the age.
aquarin··on Ask HN: Developers often need to solve mathematical optimization problems?
My current app involves optimization (main point of the app actually) that fits squares in shapes in a certain way.
aquarin··on Ask HN: why do Twitter and Youtube use mottled/noisy background images?
I believe that in this way backgrounds look more like natural surface, where color is not constant but have some variation.
aquarin··on Flame Virus Update: UK Servers Used to Control Malware
Viena is defacto spy capital, where since Iron Curtan spys meet each other.
aquarin··on What programming languages were used by the Soviet Union's space program?
Just a minor note: "astronauts" in Soviet Bloc are called "cosmonauts" (Космонавт).
aquarin··on Scientist creates lifelike cells out of metal
Reminds me of movie "Terminator".
aquarin··on Man Supposedly Flies With Custom-Built Bird Wings
1) Missing square element in real footage. 2) What bothers me more is that shadow properties are not consistent. In CGI it is more diffuse and changes properties like if the Sun is positioned 10m above.
aquarin··on Did GitHub Suspend Egor Homakov account?
In most countries (including Russia) this is considered a criminal behavior.
aquarin··on Did GitHub Suspend Egor Homakov account?
This is really childish attitude. Egor grow up.
aquarin··on Vortex radio waves could boost wireless capacity “infinitely”
Ah SETI is exatcly what I think when I see things like this.
aquarin··on The secret history of the about:jwz url
I remember, inserting this in pages with hope to show compass without success.
aquarin··on Fuzzy string search
I have implemented TST (ternary search tree) in C to create fast dictionary (histogram) for counting words in Wikipedia. It is fast and memory efficient.
aquarin··on Unofficial Google Advanced Search
Another one www.google.com/ncr - sets default Google search domain from google.cc to google.com, where CC is country tld. Useful if you prefer to search in .com version and not the localized one.
aquarin··on 16 pixels For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake
Just checked. I read HN zoomed twice.
aquarin··on Spam Hits Lowest Levels Since 2008 (Did You Notice?)
Does this graph show some seasonal pattern?
aquarin··on 500k Bitcoins traded in 1h, Mt.Gox market hacked + crash
And you expect police to return you stolen bitcoins?
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