badfortrains

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by badfortrains 12y ago
Civil forfeiture. From wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture#United_States "In civil cases, the owner need not be judged guilty of any crime; it is possible for the Government to prevail by pro
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Ask HN: CS mentoring program in the bay area
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by badfortrains 13y ago
More is correct according to the US energy information administration [ http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=9991 ]. Only about 10% more though according to their graph
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by badfortrains 13y ago
Fun seeing what people do with their PIs. Really appreciate the time people put into documenting their projects. I've been running a custom mp3 media server[1] built around a similar stack (node,socket.io,express) and I was surprised how c
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by badfortrains 14y ago
It seems that the F-word/nipples moratorium is pretty much over. While it's true that broadcast tv still can't show it, cable/satellite tv is pretty ubiquitous and free to bath us in as many nipples and F-words as they please. As for 3-str
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by badfortrains 14y ago
There is no guarantee against this, which is part of what keeps web advertising prices low. Fraud is essentially priced into the product. The title is misleading, as it assumes all cost is bared by the advertisers. In truth part of the c
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by badfortrains 14y ago
The thing that NNs have in their favor that other "20 year old techniques" lack is their ability to model any mathematical equation. There is no fundamental limit to the complexity of systems NNs can model (as there is with other AI techni