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Benford's Law anomalies in the 2009 Iranian presidential election(arxiv.org)
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by Kaizyn 17y ago
Start out simply. What sorts of things are you doing in your day job? What technologies do you use in your day-to-day work? At a more conceptual level, what sorts of problems does your work attempt to solve for its customers? From there
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by Kaizyn 17y ago
Have you looked at WGU's curriculum? It's all learning how to use specific Microsoft and other products. Very little of the fundamental topics is actually taught. Most disappointing.
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The university staff are all donating their time.
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Thanks for the links. This slideshow was also useful to me as it has a couple conceptual diagrams of what Twitter is doing. http://www.slideshare.net/Blaine/scaling-twitter
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Yeah, conquistadores such as Fernando Cortez didn't have any sort of overwhelming combat advantage against the Aztecs...
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What kind of 'manipulation'? They're basically routing messages, with a protocol change in the middle when the recipients' designated protocol differs (i.e. IM to text message). This can't be all that computationally expensive when the sy
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Be sure you actually understand the limitations to the existing solutions and what benefits convergence such as Google Wave may offer before you dismiss it out of hand. The merger of email, IM, and twitter into a new messaging system has tr
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by Kaizyn 17y ago
When you look at the entire human population, you will see very different statistics for marriage and divorce. Now many people who marry young will get divorced (at least in the United States), but then so will many who wait until later in
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The truth is that this is Hacker News. No matter how appropriate PHP may be as a tool for many web programming jobs, no one wants to admit to their cool 'Hacker' friends that they use it. Just like you won't hear many people talk about ho
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by Kaizyn 17y ago
You're kidding right? You're claiming that Lisp has more 'functionality' than PHP. By functionality, do you mean standard library? Or do you mean core language? Elegance != more functionality.
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It probably has more to do with what is used as a measure of status in the field. If your field uses money or prestige, then you are probably less likely to think you know everything about other fields. However, in fields like tech where
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Unless he puts something else up on the site. If they give him enough grief, he could easily stop referring to the Zillow service and put up something unrelated. Depending on how bad the negotiations go, the owner could be quite creative
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Fair enough, but Zillow can't be the only company out there. I'd go looking for a competitor of theirs and access the competing APIs if they cut off his access to their service.
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by Kaizyn 18y ago
You're mistaken, people of faith care just as much about evidence as secularists. Any respectable belief system, and Christianity is one of them, encourages you to look at the facts and decide for yourself. Asking hard questions and being
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I claim that many atheists if shown incontrovertible proof that God exists would rearrange their entire belief system simply to preserve their non-rational privileged belief that God does not exist and there is nothing after death. This is
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It sounds as if you are confusing agnosticism with atheism. The atheist asserts that God does not exist; the theist asserts that God exists; and the agnostic asserts that they cannot know if God exists or not. Skepticism is healthy and goo
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Your assessment of the argument is correct. At the base of any body of knowledge is a collection of axioms or assumptions that are taken as true without any proof required. Consider the scientific method. It is taken as a given that an e
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by Kaizyn 18y ago
If atheism is a falsifiable hypothesis, then so is theism (the belief that God exists). The same experiment that could be performed would prove one of these beliefs true and the other false. The statement that 'atheism' does not take anyth
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by Kaizyn 18y ago
You must not read much mainstream media. Nearly every piece contains little nuggets like the one(s) you mention. It isn't just Time; they all do it. Not surprisingly, newspapers are struggling with their readers now leaving in droves.
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by Kaizyn 18y ago
Bugtracking doesn't matter if you aren't working for a profit-seeking enterprise or other enterprises that pay people to write software for them. For these situations, telling the users to fix the bug themselves and send in a patch will ne
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Your definitions do not work. foo = (1,2,3) bar = (4,5,6) print cons(foo, bar) print car(foo) console output: <function <lambda> at 0x00B3F430> Traceback (most recent call last): File "./test.py", lin
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6.001 presumed the students had prior exposure to college physics and calculus mathematics. If your son has this level of foundational knowledge, then SICP probably would be the most efficient way to bring someone up to speed on programmin
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Go ahead and get this guy to give you a full copy of your source code as it now stands. Since he did not finish the project in two months as specified in the contract - you have a written contract, right? - you can terminate the business r
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Your body naturally produces melatonin to make you sleepy.
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Actually, the question has a simple and correct answer which is what PG provided. Just because sleep is a serious matter does not mean the advice/answer to the question must be complicated.
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They've likely not exceeded the SR-71 by very much since then. The last several decades have seen the trend where costs are more frequently taken into account when deciding whether or not to pursue a line of scientific research. This is a
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RFC: Changing how Hacker News displays links
1 points by Kaizyn 18y ago|0 comments
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Peter Schiff has an interesting take on things. As does Ron Paul. Both seem to understand what is really going on. The problem isn't really all that complicated to explain. However, no simple solutions have been presented yet. Instead,
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When you have more people voting, naturally each vote is worth less than when fewer people are around to vote.

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