David

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by David 13y ago
In the Huffington Post article, you wrote: "Years of working with NGOs and government aid programs were convincing me that handouts are a dead end, temporarily soothing the acuteness of the injustice but taking donor and recipient down
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by David 14y ago
Maybe there's always a bottleneck to the wealth you receive, but there's no such bottleneck to the wealth you create. You're not limited in in your creation just because some other startup is doing well. That's also true of working at a lar
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by David 14y ago
This is very similar to the 14-sensor emotiv headset (emotiv.com), which is a little pricier, but closer to a full EEG in scope. One thing I'm not sure of--are the behind-the-ear sensors in the Muse intended to be reference sensors? Because
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by David 14y ago
What is the distribution like among the top 1000 channels? Presumably the top of the top 1000 channels far outproduce the bottom, just like the top 1000 far outproduce the rest of youtube. Given such a distribution, what are the top few cha
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by David 14y ago
It is widely accepted that hippocampal replay occurs during sleep and is an important part of memory consolidation. It is not widely accepted that this activation is, or even leads to, the subjective experience that we call dreaming. The ar
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by David 14y ago
The article claims way more than the paper does. It's pretty widely accepted that during sleep, the hippocampus replays patterns of activation that were produced during the day. In this case, that means that the rats are essentially travers
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by David 15y ago
Just put more of your point in your original post, and people will realize that you actually have a point. They'll be less likely jump to conclusions about your intelligence. >.> For example, "Are you a scientist? If not, why not? I
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by David 15y ago
Dropbox has traction and paying users. Why do they need $200 million? Of course it's not just a two-man gig anymore, but... what is it for? If their business model isn't supporting the growth they want and they're not going to change it, is
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by David 15y ago
My bank limits you to 20 characters, which I'll grant is decent. But: NO non-alphanumerics, and, get this, is case insensitive . This may just convince me to switch banks...
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by David 15y ago
You can do it pretty easily by successive halving. 10%, just move the decimal over add 5% which is just half of 10% add 2.5%, which is half of 5% and add 1%, moving the decimal over twice ...of course you either naturally think that way or
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by David 15y ago
A note, HN's user system is case sensitive and this is not, which at first led to some great confusion for me. me: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=David not me: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=david
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by David 15y ago
Carnegie Mellon's intro CS course has been in python for a couple of years, and we're switching to ruby for the coming year. Of course, that's followed by (Our own version of! =/ ) C, and then SML. Question for those who know more than I: w
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by David 15y ago
I'd never heard of a break-up fee before. It makes sense, but it's a gesture of good faith that I honestly never would have expected to see in the business world. (This also makes sense in the context of a close-knit and trust-based communi
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by David 16y ago
Violent agreement. You and GP seem to be saying exactly the same thing -- because the original still exists, there is no subtraction of property, and it is not stealing.
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by David 16y ago
From the article: "I’ve seen many similar pleas recently whenever any popular, free web service has problems: “Please, let us pay you so there won’t be any problems!” But it’s an impossible dream. If a web service is popular enough that you
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by David 16y ago
Please tell us more! I'm very curious about this, because I know that if I don't have something regularly scheduled for morning or early afternoon I tend to sink into depression, and now I'm wondering if I could perhaps be getting too much
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by David 16y ago
So you chose a name that was actually a word in another language (tl;dr: pinkeln = peeing in german), and it was embarrassing when you found out. But then you say, "Did it hurt us in the end? I don’t think so." And this is evidence that Col
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by David 16y ago
Actually, tetris battle pitts you against replays of other people's games, unless you actually challenge another player. Even then it's not 100%... A friend of mine once challenged me and ended up playing a replay. (Actually, he let me play
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by David 16y ago
"...continue swapping until you get the idea you actually want." Looks like this is an intended use case. They should maybe make it easier to do.
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by David 16y ago
But despite that it's a joke deck, it fits with everything I've seen about them so far.
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by David 16y ago
I think from Color's perspective, that's the idea -- only figuring that "adding" implies an acquisition. Actually, I guess it would depend on whether market validation is worth $10m -- which I doubt, because it's just a feature to them, not
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by David 16y ago
On the one hand, a story like yours of success through sheer determination is awesome and uplifting. On the other hand, the idea of working that hard, for that long, is overwhelming to many. A lot of people don't think themselves (and may n
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by David 16y ago
Even so, it breaks the flow of the sentence. It's actually quite jarring to read. I think it would be clear what they were even without the extra indication -- perhaps personal preference, though. (This is not to belittle the content you've
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by David 16y ago
I think it sounds odd because it's disconnected from its preposition. In fact, I'm not sure I've ever heard a sentence starting with "whom."
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by David 16y ago
As a new vim user, I'm still trying to figure out what to do with them. What do you find yourself macroing, generally?
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by David 16y ago
Same problem, but I cheated my way past -- hints at the irc channel (including a link to solutions to every problem, but I was on the last one by then ;)
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by David 16y ago
Dupe. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2081211
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by David 16y ago
You'll note that neither Bill Gates nor Warren Buffet is among the 20. That particular statement may be wrong -- but it's actually unrelated to the thrust of the article. In fact with Bill Gates and Warren Buffet the author was giving examp
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by David 16y ago
Well, I'll buy it. If other people use blog to mean linksharing with discussion, I'll amend my mental definiton. =P
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by David 16y ago
"And it has become a cult phenomenon as the idea spreads through Facebook, Twitter, the Hacker News blog and other social media." HN is a blog? Who knew?

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