Tossrock

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   by Tossrock 13y ago

   reminds me of this... http://lesswrong.com/lw/6z/purchase_fuzzies_and_utilons_sepa...
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   by Tossrock 13y ago

   I disagree. The current volunteer-only military service means that only people with that mindset join in the first place. If there were compulsory military service, that would mean everyone else, regular people with no desire for glory&#x2F
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   by Tossrock 13y ago

   The "which events to attend" thing is already up and running
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   by Tossrock 13y ago

   There's plenty of live aspects in electronic music, see for example Robert Delong, Beardyman, Booka Shade, Pretty Light's current tour, etc.
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   by Tossrock 13y ago

   Uber tells you your average speed for your trip, and mine have all been between 10 and 15 miles per hour.
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   by Tossrock 13y ago

   We use our own highly customized fork of Hadoop to generate traffic graphs [1] and demographic information for hundreds of thousands of sites from petabytes of data, as well as building predictive models that power targeted display advertis
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   by Tossrock 13y ago

   Static eats an ordered state: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,10,1,3,3,0,5,3,...
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   by Tossrock 13y ago

   Under Bayesian inference, past performance is the ONLY indicator of future performance...
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   by Tossrock 13y ago

   I submitted the actual study for this yesterday and got no traction :\ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6679443
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    22% of Sun-like stars harbor Earth-sized planets in their habitable zone(pnas.org)

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    by Tossrock 13y ago

    > "On August 25, 1953, with a cheap jury-rigged hand drill, Scoville carved two holes in Molaison’s skull, one just above each of his eyes. Molaison was given only a local anesthetic, so that he could be awake to report on his sensa
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    by Tossrock 13y ago

    http://dresdencodak.com/2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/
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    by Tossrock 13y ago

    Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/139/
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    by Tossrock 13y ago

    It makes an interesting case for Facebook's paid messaging service. Combined with some well crafted / personalized messaging, you could probably get a large number to click through. Even if the seed group is a million users, at a
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    by Tossrock 13y ago

    While the idea is interesting, the poor writing is really distracting from his points. I know writing in English while being an ESL is hard, but I'm sure there are plenty of native english speakers who would be willing to proof-read a
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    by Tossrock 13y ago

    So the meta-story is that that's what medium.com is doing right now, right?
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    by Tossrock 13y ago

    As bad as things are in America vis-a-vis the surveillance state, I've always thought that England is actually worse. I guess it explains why they have such a rich history of dystopian thought. When I saw the "Secure beneath the w
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    by Tossrock 13y ago

    Well, a table is conceptually equivalent to a list of rows
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    by Tossrock 13y ago

    "Oceania"
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    by Tossrock 13y ago

    One of the benefits of a high-paying software industry job is that I can afford to support causes like this now. I suspect many other HN readers are in a similar position. I encourage everyone to give what they can, as standing up for our r
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    by Tossrock 13y ago

    Well, there's two parts to this question really. What makes a newly founded company a startup in the first place, and when does such a company stop being a startup? The other comments addressed the first part (scalable business centere
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    by Tossrock 13y ago

    This idea already exists for women's fashion, it's called 99 dresses: http://www.99dresses.com/
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    by Tossrock 13y ago

    I found this site morbidly interesting many years ago: http://planecrashinfo.com/lastwords.htm
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    by Tossrock 13y ago

    pg has an essay about this in fact: www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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    by Tossrock 13y ago

    Well, Quantcast is free, unlike kissmetrics. And it offers demographics information about visitor composition (ie age/gender/income/etc breakdown), unlike Google analytics (as far as I know). Many companies use both Quantcast
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    by Tossrock 13y ago

    Obvious answer, but targeting is much more effective for online companies, and success is much easier to measure. An online advertising company can give much better, more quantifiable ROI by targeting specific users more likely to convert:
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    by Tossrock 13y ago

    Sometimes though, you really do have lots of data and need appropriate solutions. At Quantcast, our cluster processes petabytes per day and our edge datacenters handle hundreds of thousands of transactions per second. In fact we recently op
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    by Tossrock 13y ago

    I was born in and raised in California and got The Inland North: > You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from
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    by Tossrock 14y ago

    >The third-person action-adventure game from Flying Carpet Games is “set in a fairy tale about a little girl trying to escape from an ancient castle ruled by an evil queen. The castle is filled with hordes of steam powered antique robot
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    by Tossrock 14y ago

    The odds are much lower than that. Average conviction rate for federal crimes stands at 80+%.