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by barbarr 5y ago
Unrelated, but does anyone else feel that there are way too many non-descriptive proper nouns in tech? I had no clue what to expect from the title, or any idea of why I should be interested in it.
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by barbarr 5y ago
AdTech just shows ads from the highest bidder. If a bicycle advertiser overpaid for ads and decided that they need millions of impressions, whereas a highly targeted toothpaste brand decided they need 1000 highly targeted impressions, you&#
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by barbarr 5y ago
>It uses an ingenious mechanism to selectively pass liquid and very small particles to the small intestine, while keeping larger chunks in the stomach for further digestion Do you have an ELI5 for how this works?
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by barbarr 5y ago
Any clue as to what's causing it to crash?
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by barbarr 6y ago
Tried the grayscale thing for a couple months. I primarily consume text on the internet, so it didn't do anything for me.
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by barbarr 6y ago
The main value of Venmo to me is that it feels a lot less awkward than other alternatives. I think the main reason it's less awkward is because you can safely assume a friend will have it set up already (unlike with PayPal or even simi
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Day Trading for a Living?(papers.ssrn.com)
2 points by barbarr 7y ago|0 comments
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by barbarr 7y ago
I wonder to what extent the author is describing themself in the right column...
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Show HN: A bashrc function to send a Slack message after a process exits(gist.github.com)
1 points by barbarr 7y ago|0 comments
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by barbarr 7y ago
Your statement is literally ageism.
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by barbarr 7y ago
This was an interesting read. I played the game, too! Interesting to see how the optimizer converged on such a large ship size, even though you only allowed that case to verify whether the optimizer would successfully reject it.
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by barbarr 8y ago
if I point a flashlight at an object, does the target object move (in theory, if no other external force exists) because of the light hitting it? Yes, the target object gains velocity due to conservation of momentum. The photon goes
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by barbarr 8y ago
There's a nonzero chance that the investment could be a dud if people simply don't like the TLD, the same way how no one (except a few people [1]) like the .bike TLD. [1] http://poop.bike
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by barbarr 8y ago
Just to make sure, you can't get multiple domains with early access, right?
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by barbarr 8y ago
https://thejns.org/abstract/journals/j-neurosurg/113/3/artic...
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by barbarr 8y ago
It's an interesting control scheme to get used to.
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by barbarr 8y ago
This reads like Sokal's fake psychology article [1] - is this a prank? I'm sure there are many interesting concepts in here, but the author is going to have a really tough time reaching people with the article's current usage
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by barbarr 8y ago
On the contrary, I used to cycle often when I was around 10 or so, and then never cycled when I was older. Then, when I was 21, I needed to use a bike to travel around work, but it turned out for some reason I had completely forgotten how
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by barbarr 8y ago
How is this different from Rosetta Code?
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Ask HN: Best way to set up single domain for multiple projects?
2 points by barbarr 8y ago|3 comments
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by barbarr 8y ago
The way you sell it seems pretty effective. Do you have any "big boy" clients yet?
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by barbarr 8y ago
jscrambler.com. Sell the fact that you can do something that can already be done , slap on some business talk, and you've got $2m in venture funding.
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by barbarr 8y ago
I'm pretty sure this is their business model rather than an unwanted misconception. FB's growth in the US is slowing so it's to their advantage to monopolize traffic in developing countries.
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by barbarr 8y ago
Can anyone explain how figure 1 is y^2=x^3-x? I feel like I'm going crazy.
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by barbarr 8y ago
Well, it was bound to happen. Curious to see what comes of it.
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by barbarr 8y ago
Can someone explain this line to me? >In addition to setting the confidence threshold far too low, the Rekognition results can be significantly skewed by using a facial database that is not appropriately representative and therefore is i