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Austin Can’t Learn to Share(texasmonthly.com)
1 points by arcanus 10y ago|0 comments
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71% of Americans believe economy is 'rigged'(money.cnn.com)
4 points by arcanus 10y ago|0 comments
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by arcanus 10y ago
Bayesian here. 'The theory that would not die' is a wonderful read, and notes how many scientists used Bayesian techniques (subjective probability) in a variety of contexts while the field was still unpopular (arguably, heretical)
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Stop using Google trends(medium.com)
2 points by arcanus 10y ago|0 comments
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by arcanus 10y ago
Steve was a humble guy
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by arcanus 10y ago
> Why didn't they talk about it? They did. Just in places where there is no audience, only participants Isn't it interesting how many forms of public forums are not providing a greater venue for the exchange of ideas? As you im
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by arcanus 10y ago
Anyone catch a reference to alchemy? I saw some doodles around page 100 but most of the text is hard to read.
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by arcanus 10y ago
Any word on who is running this botnet? I'm guessing it is not a hacking ring inside the USA, and would guess China or Russia, but that is based on reputation, not any specific knowledge.
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by arcanus 10y ago
"the new study, published in the journal Nature, suggests that infectious cancer is common among three different kinds of shellfish" So no risk to human beings, but the implications are that infection is a common vector for other
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by arcanus 10y ago
> why should anyone care what young people think when they can't be bothered to vote The answer is as you suggested: no one cares. It's really a double whammy, since not only do they not largely vote, but those that do contribu
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by arcanus 10y ago
I'm reminded of msft's first generation kinect, which had much more trouble identifying a players face if it was African American, versus caucasian. Unintentionally racist, although I would hardly blame the algorithms.
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by arcanus 10y ago
Fences are generally quite poor for wildlife. The entire character of the American West changed as we fenced it in.
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by arcanus 10y ago
Interesting study! As a primary maintainer on some libraries and a casual contributer on others, I'm not surprised at all to see that 48% of all contributions are from the non-principle developers. I was surprised to see that C and C++
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by arcanus 10y ago
> my hunch is it has roots in feelings of intellectual superiority As well as good old fashioned, 'fear of people with different values and culture than your own'
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by arcanus 10y ago
> A man in the suburban South watched a chimney fire burn his house to the ground as he waited for the fire department, which billed him anyway and then sued him for $15,000 when he did not pay. Is one typically billed when you have the
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by arcanus 10y ago
Is kali linux still considered the best out of the box pen-testing env? I played around with it a few years ago and always have wanted to get back into it.
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by arcanus 10y ago
> made fun of constantly on TV This. I've heard far too many charges of racism and xenophobia, as if many legitimately believe 52% of England are racists. Heaven forbid an electorate that has not been a beneficiary of globalism vote
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by arcanus 10y ago
> but another to lie and cheat people Wasn't the site explicitly created to enable liars and cheaters?
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by arcanus 10y ago
You could find yourself having a great deal of trouble coming back across the border. So kiss vacations or business travel to the USA goodbye. If you can live without that, I suspect you are fine.
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by arcanus 10y ago
Would recommend that for posts like this you provide a simple one paragraph intro to radare2, since as someone who has never heard of it, I couldn't pick up its purpose from the article.
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by arcanus 10y ago
C. Nothing else has the right mix between a high level, portable programming language, and the low, system level call capabilities of C.
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by arcanus 10y ago
Software is eating the world. I can't put it better than the article, “Coding is the new literacy: Like the ability to read, what was once optional will soon be a basic requirement.” I can speak to my field: in the sciences, coding is
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by arcanus 10y ago
More petrolheads on HN than I expected!
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by arcanus 10y ago
I've got a Honda cbr600, love it. But a top Ducati sport bike costs 40k, not 400k.
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by arcanus 10y ago
See that's my point: you can buy a track car for a fraction of the price that is objectively more bleeding edge. The track car has faster lap times, which is the reason one is buying the car. You can argue it's the fastest car t
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by arcanus 10y ago
Has Lamborghini ever made a car that had actual technical merit as a racecar? I'm general, supercars are vastly overpriced for what you get. You can easily crush most for a fraction of the price with a dedicated track car. But simultan
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by arcanus 10y ago
Should be a very interesting few years in the supercomputing community. China now appears to be leading the USA on that path to exascale, which is projected to be attained in 2023ish. This does have serious technological implications, for
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by arcanus 10y ago
The sad truth of the matter is that ML is more applied research at this point than a sensible set of programming problems. From that standpoint, graduate mathematics is more useful for a practitioner than any robust programming experience.
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by arcanus 10y ago
I'm skeptical nevertheless. In my experience, most programming is very different than r+d, which often does require significant concentrated training or even the smartest will spin their wheels. It's hard to describe, but research
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by arcanus 10y ago
Why not a distributed, not for profit, crypto, gawker? No one can stop wikileaks or the Pirate Bay.

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