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by Fede_V 13y ago
I'm fine with abolishing almost all those regulations - they are a huge barrier to entry, and they serve very little public good. However, hotel rooms are highly taxed, while most AirBNB rooms are not - apartment rents are often rente
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by Fede_V 13y ago
Is this even a discussion? Anyone serious about analyzing data will use either R, Python (with Pandas/SciPy, etc), or Julia. For truly immense data sets that require pipelines, you'll use tools like spark, hadoop, etc - but SAS
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by Fede_V 13y ago
pfft, as if SWAT teams would accidentally brutalize an innocent person..
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by Fede_V 13y ago
That blog post is exactly the reason why people automatically assume anything coming out from someone who identifies as an 'advertising expert' is instantly dismissed. Lots of words without actually addressing a single point from
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by Fede_V 13y ago
From a distance, C# looks like an incredibly awesome language, but the way it's tied so closely to Visual Studio and Windows really crimps its growth. I love it's syntax, the libraries look great, and apparently the performance is
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by Fede_V 13y ago
It's worth doing both. Sometimes someone is doing something which is really stupid, and the solution is 'stop doing it'. Being constructive is important, but being realistic is even more important.
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by Fede_V 13y ago
Fantastic effort, I'll play around with it as much as I can. I am not exactly a coffee script expert, but I might poke around internals.
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by Fede_V 13y ago
That would be fantastic, and I'd love to see that.
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by Fede_V 13y ago
I doubt ESR was genuinely interested in changing GCC policy - that seems to be like a well written piece of concern trolling. If you want to make suggestions, you discuss it politely with the stakeholders, you don't make intentionally
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by Fede_V 13y ago
This is way to simple a model for that - it's a very nice toy model, which is useful to get a quick intuition, but you cannot just add pieces to it and hope to get meaningful results.
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by Fede_V 13y ago
There is no need to strawman the article. You can be a huge advocate for technology, while still be concerned about the poisonous effects that winner-takes-all dynamics can have on societies.
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by Fede_V 13y ago
Everyone I've ever seen who has talked about how much they 'get' Social Media Advertising has been a snake oil salesman.
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by Fede_V 13y ago
There is a similar statement by Higgs (the guy who won the Nobel prize for physics for the discovery of the boson named after him) about how the insane pressure to constantly publish and produce papers comes at the expense of being able to
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by Fede_V 13y ago
Yeah, that's what I got too. On a more substantive note, it's actually absolutely amazing what Feynmann managed to pull off using 'just' calculus. Especially if you read the Feynmann lectures, when it comes to integrals
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by Fede_V 13y ago
Ok - what about the NSA paying RSA 10 million dollars to use a flawed algorithm for encryption that they had a backdoor for?
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by Fede_V 13y ago
Is there any possible justification under 'national security' for wiretapping Merkel or the president of Brazil? Unless people think that Merkel is secretly in cahoots with some kind of extremist group, it's obvious that this
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by Fede_V 13y ago
I understand this, but couldn't you simply wrap print itself in a function, and do that in Python 2.7 already? Granted, your method saves you one line and it's more 'natural'.
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by Fede_V 13y ago
I found the entire post really bitter, but yeah, that part was incredibly interesting. Wikipedia is basically in the hands of an incredibly pedantic bureaucracy which is far more obsessed with process and incredibly obscure rules rather th
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by Fede_V 13y ago
Excellent attitude, and good luck. Honestly, when the ratio of 'business people' to technical people in a start up is that high, that raises all sorts of red flags to me.
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by Fede_V 13y ago
While Korra is still ok, it's nowhere near as good as the Last Air Bender for reasons that have nothing to do with the gender of the protagonist.
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by Fede_V 13y ago
I think you make a very principled distinction between 'de-jure' compulsion, and 'de-facto' compulsion, but in practice, things aren't always so clear cut. If I were to offer a single mother a large lump sum for one
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by Fede_V 13y ago
I was generalizing, but I think it's safe to assume that average HN poster has higher than average income/education.
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by Fede_V 13y ago
Automating these jobs is excellent, and I'm looking forward to it. I do wish that the benefits of automation would be shared more widely though - although the average poster on HN is paid very well, and has an intellectually challengi
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by Fede_V 13y ago
Excellent. For sparse storage, do you use Scipy Sparse, or you have your own custom built solution? I know continuum was working on a version of memmapped numpy (blaze, iirc) arrays which looked really interesting.
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by Fede_V 13y ago
Awesome to see tech like numba being used like this. Are you guys going to write a more 'techy' version of how you accomplish all of this?
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by Fede_V 13y ago
Not in the slightest, I'm afraid I'm a plain ol liberal. I also have a great job that I love. I just think it's interesting how, aside from a few moral rules which are fairly common to all of humanity (don't steal, don&
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by Fede_V 13y ago
It's funny how once you are inside a certain ethical paradigm, you automatically take it for granted. For example - Samurai in Edo Japan were forbidden from working, and if you didn't have a master to defend, the honorable thing
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by Fede_V 13y ago
Fluoride is not used to kill pathogens, but because it is a substance that is good for your teeth, that a lot of people do not get in sufficient quantity otherwise. Consider it the equivalent of putting vitamin pills in foods, not putting a
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by Fede_V 13y ago
The relationship between the immune system and cancer is incredibly complicated. There is, however, some fascinating research dealing with using pathogens that somehow preferentially infect cancer areas of the patient, to stimulate the imm
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by Fede_V 13y ago
That's incredibly nice of you Zed. Seriously - it's pretty fucking awesome. Oh - and I suggested Python the hard way to a bunch of people, and those that stuck with it, found it great.

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