Hacker News: seesomesense

New comment by seesomesense in "BYTE Magazine's Lisp issue (1979) [pdf]"

seesomesense — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 09:38:02 +0000

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-09 p.58 A -TINY- PASCAL COMPILER, Part 1: The P-Code Interpreter [theme Software] [author Chung-Yuen]

New comment by seesomesense in "Indictment of Marcus Hutchins aka "Malwaretech""

seesomesense — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 02:49:01 +0000

"Hours after Hutchins was arrested by the FBI, more than $130,000 (£100,000) of the bitcoin ransom taken by the creators of WannaCry was moved within the bitcoin network for the first time since the outbreak."

New comment by seesomesense in "PET scans show many Alzheimer’s patients may not actually have the disease"

seesomesense — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 10:14:28 +0000

Brain cutting and histopathology See http://www.bu.edu/alzresearch/brain-cutting-636x433/

"one of a variety of silver impregnation staining techniques, such as the modified Bielschowski or Gallyas technique, or the fluorochrome dye thioflavin S is typically employed to visualize neurofibrillary tangles

Because these techniques require either specialized equipment (the thioflavin S stain requires the use of a fluorescence microscope with specialized excitatory and barrier filters) or experienced histotechnologists (in the case of silver impregnation stains), most anatomic pathologists in general practice lack the capability to properly evaluate brain specimens submitted for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Such specimens are best referred to specialized neuropathology laboratories where the necessary experience and facilities are in place."

New comment by seesomesense in "PET scans show many Alzheimer’s patients may not actually have the disease"

seesomesense — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 10:07:33 +0000

It is around $2 USD here.

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New comment by seesomesense in "PET scans show many Alzheimer’s patients may not actually have the disease"

seesomesense — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 10:01:56 +0000

Alzheimers is a tauprotein disorder. Alzheimers without plaques is called Primary Age-Related Tauopathy, aka PARTS.

New comment by seesomesense in "⁠Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL"

seesomesense — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 07:57:06 +0000

Not surprised. I have been using BTRFS for years. Unfortunately, one gets the feeling that not too much development has been going into it.

New comment by seesomesense in "An Algebraic Language for the Manipulation of Symbolic Expressions (1958) [pdf]"

seesomesense — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 10:39:51 +0000

Another classic paper by John McCarthy, the father of Lisp and much of early AI.

New comment by seesomesense in "Microsoft is laying off thousands in a major global sales reorganization"

seesomesense — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 11:04:59 +0000

From the number of downvotes I have received, I can see that sarcasm is a foreign concept to many....

(Do not despair, Mr Trump will make all these evil foreign things go away )

New comment by seesomesense in "Microsoft is laying off thousands in a major global sales reorganization"

seesomesense — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 10:43:24 +0000

Anyone who dares suggest otherwise, must have been suborned by Mr Putin, ISIS or Mr Andrew Breitbart...

New comment by seesomesense in "SEC Files Fraud Charges in Bitcoin and Office Space Investment Schemes"

seesomesense — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 04:23:20 +0000

"If you don't come to HN to have your preconceptions challenged, then what are we doing here?"

Like other forums, HN is largely an echochamber for those who think alike. Break any of the largely unspoken conventions here, and see what happens to you....

New comment by seesomesense in "“Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”"

seesomesense — Sat, 01 Jul 2017 07:37:54 +0000

Sesame seed production – 2014 Country Production (tonnes) Tanzania 1,138,920 India 811,000 Sudan 721,000 China 629,900 Myanmar 519,400 Nigeria 434,990 World 6,235,530

New comment by seesomesense in "HMS Queen Elizabeth is 'running outdated Windows XP', raising cyber attack fears"

seesomesense — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 10:17:39 +0000

''Despite the concerns of some engineers, SMCS-NG was created as a port to Microsoft Windows of the SMCS infrastructure and applications, a move which some commentators have termed "Windows for Warships".

The UK's Defence Ministry later gave assurances, through questions in the UK parliament, that this is a low risk use of Microsoft Windows. However, some other suppliers have taken a different path.

The console for the new Sonar 2076 supplied by Thales Underwater Systems for the Astute class submarines, and which may be retro-fitted to other classes, are built as PCs running Linux rather than Windows.''

New comment by seesomesense in "HMS Queen Elizabeth is 'running outdated Windows XP', raising cyber attack fears"

seesomesense — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 10:16:46 +0000

The UK Trident strategic nuclear submarines also run Windows XP.

https://mspoweruser.com/uks-nuclear-submarines-runs-windows-...

New comment by seesomesense in "Sony open-sources NNabla – a simple, fast and lightweight NN library"

seesomesense — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 09:56:14 +0000

''NN Used as a substitute for an unknown name or one that the writer wishes not to reveal.

Etymology Latin nōmen nesciō ''

New comment by seesomesense in "Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O."

seesomesense — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 10:34:31 +0000

Borrow or steal, it is all the same, until the courts rule otherwise...

New comment by seesomesense in "Ask HN: People who completed a bootcamp 3+ years ago: what are you doing now?"

seesomesense — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 06:11:55 +0000

I am a physician and read HN regularly. Lambda the Ultimate is better but requires effort to read, while this is fairly mindless entertainment.

New comment by seesomesense in "Kazakhstan spells out plans for alphabet swap"

seesomesense — Sun, 16 Apr 2017 05:34:35 +0000

Erdoğan must be delighted at this move towards Pan-Turkism

New comment by seesomesense in "iPhone App will not stay open - just flashes when trying to launch"

seesomesense — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 13:48:12 +0000

The item has reached international media. British tabloids, Vice and a Polish site are all reporting on it.

Karma...

New comment by seesomesense in "AsciiMath – An easy-to-write markup language for mathematics"

seesomesense — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 01:29:01 +0000

At my kid's school, some children used Latex for their maths. Surely, adults can grok Latex too.

New comment by seesomesense in "Too Much Experience to Be Hired? Some Older Americans Face Age Bias"

seesomesense — Sat, 25 Mar 2017 22:28:21 +0000

I have found that some older employees have decades of valuable experience.Others have one year of experience repeated thirty times....