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by Tarq0n 8y ago
Yihui Xie has been an incredible boon for the R & Pandoc ecosystems. Turning your R code into pdf or html is so easy I'm surprised language authors aren't scrambling to copy the feature.
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by Tarq0n 8y ago
Do you check your spam filter to see what it's been filtering still? Text classification has gotten very reliable over the last decade, the process just needs to be transparent. Valve also does something similar with their anti-cheat s
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by Tarq0n 8y ago
Functions having their own environment is actually pretty useful once you get your head around them.
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by Tarq0n 8y ago
R actually has pretty nice metaprogramming capabilities though. The tidyverse heavily relies on them to create its DSL.
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by Tarq0n 8y ago
*a very specific implementation of NLP. Not that this library isn't promising, but the name and presentation makes it seem far more general than it really is.
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by Tarq0n 8y ago
Altair does grammar of graphics on top of Vega-lite.
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by Tarq0n 8y ago
The R language that gets used a lot for machine learning is actually very Lisp-like. So maybe that's introducing a lot of people to Lisp without them realizing it.
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by Tarq0n 8y ago
The way this article fawns over Dubai's economic successes while glossing over the human rights abuses that make it possible is nauseating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Dubai
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by Tarq0n 8y ago
Same thing happened in the Netherlands. During a six-year period where they didn't recognize international patents, the country was able to rapidly catch up in industrialization. The technology company Philips owes its success to being
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by Tarq0n 8y ago
Netflix has an internal spot market for compute, letting them use their reserved instances somewhat optimally.
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by Tarq0n 8y ago
The main dissimilarity between python and lisp is that you can't use code as data in python, so there's no macros. In most other ways they're pretty similar.
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
Do you think that the social graph is itself valuable information? Data like this allows Facebook to assign weights to the edges of this graph.
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
At the very least people shouldn't upvote posts with non-descriptive titles.
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
Just like Amazon's search for a new HQ, taxation based on borders is broken in a globalized world. Megacorporations can shop around to find a tax regime they like, playing countries off against each other to get a good deal. [0] Reachi
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
Is this a parody of the engineer's mindset? One thing that always stands out to me on HN is how obsessed Silicon Valley is with money, from top to bottom. There's plenty people on here that would happily implement invasive trackin
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
If the title of his book is justified, maybe the fast and slow systems?
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
It's difficult to realize a structural benefit to society through charity.
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
It works both ways as well. Poverty causes stress and lowers self control and cognitive resources. This makes it harder for people in poverty to work their way back out, even if they may intrinsically have the necessary capabilities.
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
Don't take Gartner graphs too seriously. It's an illustration, not a quantitative display.
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
Gas is highly subsidized in the U.S.. Go look up European gas prices sometime. Also when referring to the full cost of cars, GPb probably means environmental (emissions) and political (oil wars) ones, not direct costs.
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
Isn't that the logical consequence of having laws that forbid disparate impact on protected classes? One could also argue that a person's attributes that are not the result of choice should not be used to assess them, because they
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
First website I've seen in a while that disallows viewing it with first-party cookies disabled.
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
Google might still incur a net benefit from keeping viewers on their platform where they'll also watch monetized videos.
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
In addition to what you're saying, it feels like YouTube is underestimating their leverage over advertisers. They hold exclusive access rights to either the biggest or second biggest audience for video content in the world. It seems to
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
And this is why the U.S. failing to adopt the universal declaration of human rights is such a travesty.
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
I wonder if some three letter agency is paying facebook to build them the biggest face recognition database in the world.
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
Have you considered that charity and donation campaigns are perhaps more necessary in the US due to lack of social safety nets and governmental disaster relief?
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
Why resort to such an indirect measure of responsibility? If they're missing client calls or deadlines then address that, don't manage by correlation.
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
iTunes is user hostile. I might try an iPhone if not for the terrible experience of managing one on Windows. I was also unimpressed by how difficult it was to get my family member's pictures out of their cloud offering, when asked to d
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by Tarq0n 9y ago
This seems to be a bot, but I can't find a way to report it.

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