Hacker News: kernel_sanders

New comment by kernel_sanders in "Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot"

kernel_sanders — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:01:40 +0000

My kids learned to tie their shoes this way from this site and never knew differently. They're 20 and 17 now.

New comment by kernel_sanders in "Amazon SageMaker – Build, train, and deploy machine learning models at scale"

kernel_sanders — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 18:27:37 +0000

SageMaker

{1G}

Human Druid - Sage

{G}, Tap: Create 0/1 Plant Token named Seed of Knowledge

Sacrifice {X} Plants: Look at the top X cards of opponent's library

1/1

New comment by kernel_sanders in "Half-Life and Team Fortress Networking"

kernel_sanders — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:15:43 +0000

I made my own simple multiplayer 2d game to understand this stuff and just want to let you know that your site was invaluable to understanding client side prediction and server side reconciliation! Thanks so much for that!

New comment by kernel_sanders in "Show HN: Airborn – Private Google Docs Alternative"

kernel_sanders — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 02:52:34 +0000

How about airborndocs?

New comment by kernel_sanders in "VIZIO to Pay $2.2M to FTC"

kernel_sanders — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 21:09:11 +0000

Yeah, I don't understand this. I read the FTC complaint and it hinged on the issue of collecting the data w/o explicit user consent, ie a pop up or message. Wouldn't nearly all internet companies fall in to this bucket? Ie, log aggregators, analytics SDKs etc?

New comment by kernel_sanders in "22 years in, Magic: The Gathering is the brainiest it’s ever been (2015)"

kernel_sanders — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 19:15:20 +0000

This is how I got in to MtG, and can confirm that its super fun. If you're lucky enough to find a group of friends that will participate, don't let the opportunity pass you by.

New comment by kernel_sanders in "How Two Seattle-Area Brothers Made Dwarf Fortress"

kernel_sanders — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 16:53:55 +0000

This is one of my favorite DF stories bar none. The last time you posted it here and I read it, I laughed so hard and showed it to so many people.

Since then, I lost the link and forgot the terms to search for it! I'm so glad you reposted it. =)

New comment by kernel_sanders in "AWS S3 Having Problems Again? (Monday 12PM Pacific)"

kernel_sanders — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 19:17:14 +0000

Same for us

New comment by kernel_sanders in "AWS S3 Outage"

kernel_sanders — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 07:58:13 +0000

Can't launch instances in EC2 in US-East-1 at the moment.

New comment by kernel_sanders in "Markov Chains Explained"

kernel_sanders — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 12:19:48 +0000

Awesome. Thanks! Again, very clear. This is interesting stuff. It makes me curious about applications of stochastic processes in general - time to read the course notes you linked. They look like fun problems to program and model.

Edit: Wikipedia, of course, has a good overview of applications of Markov chains. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain#Applications

New comment by kernel_sanders in "Markov Chains Explained"

kernel_sanders — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 01:40:14 +0000

Thank you for the clear explanation.

In a previous comment, I sought to further understand how the Lottery possesses the Markov property. Based on your definition above, I can see that it does simply because the distribution X_t of winning numbers has the same dependence on X_{t-1} as it does on X_1, ..., X_{t-1}, that is, zero. Do I have that correct?

New comment by kernel_sanders in "Markov Chains Explained"

kernel_sanders — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 01:35:45 +0000

I'm interested in the above article and the above two comments, however, I don't understand the Lottery example. Can you clarify how it does have the Markov property?

I'm not seeing how the distribution of possible winning numbers relates at all to the current state. I'm trying to phrase this in the language of the above two comments. Help me out if I've got it all wrong. =)

New comment by kernel_sanders in "Time POY: Snowden's 200,000+ votes go missing, now behind Miley Cyrus"

kernel_sanders — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 13:58:14 +0000

This is hilarious. I voted yesterday and Snowden had 99% of the vote. He deserves to win.

Someone should conduct a real, independent poll an award a POY award from the Internets.

New comment by kernel_sanders in "Show HN: Encrypted end-to-end file transfer"

kernel_sanders — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:55:01 +0000

I love how simple and relevant the idea is - great job!

New comment by kernel_sanders in "Grey Apocalypse"

kernel_sanders — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:43:26 +0000

infinite { repeat(10){ = while(<128){+}++ >=^ = while(<128){+}++ v } v }

Grey Apocalypse

kernel_sanders — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:33:04 +0000

Article URL: http://nick.geek.nz/greyapocalypse/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6359880

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by kernel_sanders in "Don't Even Think of Using Encryption Software to Escape NSA Scrutiny"

kernel_sanders — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:48:50 +0000

What if some percentage of the torrents there were used to transmit secret information?

New comment by kernel_sanders in "Ultimate Tic Tac Toe"

kernel_sanders — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:30:27 +0000

My Dad, a physicist, taught me that game as a kid. I have great memories of him producing a pen at any restaurant we might have been at, and he and I passing any waiting time playing sprouts on napkins or paper scraps. I since play it with my kids.

New comment by kernel_sanders in "Why MongoDB is a bad choice for storing our scraped data"

kernel_sanders — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:36:46 +0000

Got a link? I can't get enough bike.

New comment by kernel_sanders in "Why I am building a product with a tiny market"

kernel_sanders — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:49:52 +0000

This kind of valuable feedback is why I like HN so much. It's kind of you to take the time to organize and share your thoughts, asimjalis.