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by 205guy 13y ago
Something is missing from this discussion. The sample problem in the xkcd comic is from a class of NP-complete problems, but being small, it has a solution in "pseudo-polynomial time"[1] that can be solved by a variety of tools, as demonstr
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by 205guy 13y ago
> The "Star Trek computer" interface that everyone wants can't function if it doesn't have a sense of the world and the person it's talking to. This does not make sense to me. And actually, it sounds a lot like employee cool-aid. Not ev
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by 205guy 13y ago
"People for whom some fact holds" IS the very definition of personal information. What's missing from the GP's example is showing the ad for medication to the same user on a later unrelated search. On any given search, I would expect an ad-
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by 205guy 13y ago
I find logistics and packing problems to be fascinating. However, while there are inherent advantages to the standardization that containers provide, this comment also shows that for some of the work (here loading and packing), the containe
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by 205guy 13y ago
The reuse of shipping containers is becoming a rather trendy thing. There are many projects for the 3rd world, and many design/architecture projects for the 1st world. I don't think containers make good building materials, for many reasons
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by 205guy 13y ago
I agree that there are other forms of business organizations, and perhaps other forms of companies. For example B-corps that have non-financial goals, or simply like these guys who essentially have a successful on-the-side business, and exp
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by 205guy 13y ago
I see what you did here. I had the same idea, but you beat me to it.
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by 205guy 13y ago
Yeah, I thought that was weird. I'd much prefer the transit being mapped out on it's actual path, with symbols for stops. In the video it does show a cool new feature where different transit options are compared in a timeline. As an aside,
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by 205guy 13y ago
To expand on your analogy, if a programmer advertized his services on uml-coders.com, he would be expected to show an example of his UML diagrams. I don't know if Etsy has fair policies or enforces those policies fairly. But the OP has a ho
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by 205guy 13y ago
The real question seems to be "who solders the components to the PCB?" The OP says "The knobs, potentiometers, and jacks were all secured by me. I did all of the wiring as well. Ordered the parts and soldered them all to the board too." The
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by 205guy 13y ago
"And no, that's not a Blade Runner screencap. That's Beijing." Same difference, as the kids used to say. The "gonkai" described in the article is essentially the proto-Blade Runner universe, so life is imitating fiction. It is fascinating t
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by 205guy 13y ago
Attitude and bad language aside, I understand the sentiment. But I haven't seen one rant on this topic that looks at the bigger picture: how much these shutdowns hurts other startups. When there are lots of shutdowns, especially high profil
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by 205guy 13y ago
This _sounds_ like great advice, and "I want to believe" too, but this article is not convincing. The way it's written, I just see some principles flatly stated and not even backed up with anecdote--it's not even a data point. The HN title
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by 205guy 13y ago
There is a word that hasn't come up in this discussion, and that's Asperger's. I know some people with Asperger's who are very oppositional and some who are not. Given that ADHD is sometimes considered the tail end of he Autism-Asperger's s
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by 205guy 13y ago
I could be wrong, but I always thought it was possible to "hack" the algorithm that the slots use, as in notice how it might not be totally random and exploit that (but not like that story of the poker-machine bug). For example, people are
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by 205guy 13y ago
I like this argument. When looking at the other analogies (ATM giving you too much cash, cashier giving you wrong change, etc), the missing detail is that a casino is sort of a morality-free zone for money when you think about it. The casin
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by 205guy 13y ago
This type of pattern recognition is a very interesting approach to fingering people, even anonymous ones. I've often thought that perfect anonymity is essentially impossible, mostly because nobody wants to enable it, and nobody is smart eno
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by 205guy 13y ago
Ob-title-gripe: shouldn't it be "Adium Reconceived"? I expect to see the result in about 9 months.
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by 205guy 13y ago
The whole article is really poor in my opinion. It ostensibly tries to disprove (or get you to believe that some research disproves) previous research that earnings beyond $75K per annum in 1st world countries does not make people happier.
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by 205guy 14y ago
Ditto on the irony. You'd think that with their stated mission, they would be more aware of the way they get publicity themselves. And if they choose to use the exact same methods they claim to fight, they would at least call themselves out
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by 205guy 14y ago
I think this method of averaging should hereby be called the Reinhart-Rogoff Average, RRA for short. I should program it into my business intelligence software, it's gotta be useful for something--like for cooking the books.
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by 205guy 14y ago
Indeed. I have to think that it's hardly like there are (or were at the time) no precedents. When you sell out^H^H^H your company, you give up ultimate control. However, I've thought about this space a bit (the idea-space, not the solution-
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by 205guy 14y ago
While you're taking editing suggestions, there are 2 points that are missing in the narrative: - Alice and Bob must have identical copies of the dictionary. Different editions could have slightly different definitions. The risk is not large
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by 205guy 14y ago
I don't know the history of aether theory (that spelling is easier to google), but I bet someone wrote something equivalent to InclinedPlane's comment about it at one time. Even if aether was contested and later disproved, the history of sc
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by 205guy 14y ago
You proved my point: needing to counter homeopathy every single time it (or something vaguely similar, such as anti-vax--and yes, that is bait) is mentioned off-hand is automatic thought. I didn't bring up homeopathy with arguments for or a
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by 205guy 14y ago
Pageviews which are counted and monetized by Google's other services. There was another HN submission recently ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5476812 ) that had a great quote: "I find that Google and SEO and tracking have soiled the
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by 205guy 14y ago
I don't know, he or others could volunteer the name of the offender, who may want to make amends for the sake of his professional reputation. On the other hand, I was kinda waiting for the twitpic to go with the story.
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by 205guy 14y ago
Given the article's opening paragraphs (small businesses and startups falling prey to the trolls), I'm surprised there hasn't been an organized attempt to inform people of the problem. Maybe I don't know about it and the author doesn't ment
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by 205guy 14y ago
This may be semantics, but I think of software engineering as the slightly larger scope of building real-world solutions with software and hardware. Civil engineering is not (just) about mixing the right cement and letting it cure at the ri
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by 205guy 14y ago
Funny that you mention Iowa, because I was just going to comment about that. I really think the OP and many commenters (including the parent) bring up a critical point: there are smart people and geniuses everywhere, and perhaps some of the

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