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Anyone up for collecting all his 'contributions'? This would be a goldmine for forensic text analysis and authorship attribution studies/ proof that they are all sensitive to context of the text. Prof. Patrick Juola, if you&#
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Hi, I spend at least $60 x 12 months /year on a NoSQL database that HN absolutely loves to hate. I don't mind the service, but my first love was SQLite (thanks to Android, and Python), and my second love was JSON (partly why I
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Salman Rushdie all the way! My favorite is satanic verses, by far. Midnight's children is his most popular work though. For both books, having even a basic knowledge of Indian history would make the experience much better. The ground b
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I'm not sure I agree with you completely there. Tinder hasn't created a lot of 'I want sex, and I want it NOW' -- there's still a gap between communication and hookups, in general [here, I'll accept anecdotes a
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I left facebook because it was too tiring. I HAD to have SOME way of connecting with friends. The part I like about snapchat the most is that there's no history -- you send an image, and it's gone, so there's no particular &#
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SIGGRAPH 2015: Dynamic 3D Avatar Creation from Hand-Held Video Input(youtube.com)
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There's something I've been wondering lately. The concept of modern 'social' internet, to me, seems to presume that the majority of the users share at least some core liberal values of acceptance of a diverse set of idea
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Ask HN: Where can I find similar CS papers?
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There's been a lot of talk of the decrease in 'cost' of sex, etc in this thread. I want to chip in as someone who has spent a LOT of time on tinder. Last month, I was spending SEVERAL hours a day swiping on friends' beha
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I thought I agreed with you about 'cheaping of human communication' until a couple of years ago. I believed that Snapchat was the worst thing to happen to human communication, and somehow that human interactions had been fundame
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...it's like saying "if you aren't poor, you don't know how poor are treated and how unfair life is". The position of privilege one lies in makes it difficult for them to see biases happening against others, and the
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My college professor used to (still does I bet) proudly put the stack overflow 25karma point sticker and a letter of thanks from the admins on the door to his office. And this was a man with tenure etcetera.
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Exactly. Is it me or has there been a noticeable increase in Google gate-brigade posting on HN recently? Things like these, very integral part of the existing internet framework are used for pointless 'big scary Google, Google is the n
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I may be late to the party, but finally my time to shine! As has been mentioned earlier, the field gou are looking for is called stylometry, and has almost a century of history behind it, and also the field if my thesis. After looking at wh
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Why would it be 'extremely unlikely as a normal behavior'?
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1) Are you a sleep researcher? Links to research? 2) Do you have ANY proof/citations to back your claim? 3) To call ANYTHING in history 'utter bullshit' and 'never existed' is the kind of BOLD CLAIM that professio
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Great work you guys! Once things start settling down, you guys should expand this effort to colleges and high-schools. I know there's a lot of other mapping effort involved too (saw it on twitter, don't remember): if you guys all
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Yeahhh, after this Winter... fat chance. I ~looved~ Boston before this Winter. Now I'd rather be in Atlanta.
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I feel dizzy reading this, the same way New York makes me dizzy with its crowds and noise and what not. I like New York, but only the New York at 4 in the morning on a weekday. Still surprisingly busy. I will use this comment of yours (with
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...but... that's what literary theorists literally do, isn't it? Read books and articles and write about them, and attend meetings. Having spent a reasonably long time in the University system (as a student, mind), I have a genera
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~~indentured servants~~ Or slaves (sigh. I really don't want that world cup to happen in Qatar. Related to the post because Gulf countries can afford tall buildings because they can morally afford slavery.)
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I can also understand that. Now these people, not making a lot of money. They at least had a social support system, happy with friends families etc. They had a place they could call their own, and the pride that comes with it. You've t
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Right. Now imagine you live in one of those cities. You're living comfortable as an engineer, etcetera. You have a community going on. Your city has its budget, its school system and so on. The city wants to allow permits to build as m
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Thank you! I can see how one might feel 'just move' is a good argument, but really NO! In chinatowns all over the country, whenever low-income residents are being priced out, the argument is always 'you can just find another
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And besides, the subsidies would be crazyyy because of the existing prices. What would help those in need without affecting the prices is building/assigning/requiring certain percentage of new housing projects to include low-incom
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I don't think the solution is as simple as 'building more housing'(aka giving permits). It would drive down the prices somewhat, but what's to stop more engineers from moving in/shortening their own commutes etc? I
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Imagine you are an editor, and get two proofs (500 pages each) of an unproven hypothesis. One is written by someone who's on top of the field, published 200 papers, and all his papers are cited hundreds of times. Another from an underg
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Ahhh, you mean you prefer other 5-Star hotels in Kathmandu such as Soaltee Crowne Plaza, Hyatt Regency, or Everest? ; ) Jokes aside, great to hear good work coming out of Kathmandu! We're behind the Southern part of the subcontinent, b
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Under the hood of project Ara – the modular-hardware Android(the-digital-reader.com)
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Hope I'm not late to the party...Does anyone have an implementation(s) to recommend in Python?

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