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by bhickey 15y ago
Finally, an actual pyramid scheme on HN.
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by bhickey 15y ago
You're welcome! :) Much of the credit goes to Danny Yoo for Moby -- http://github.com/dyoo
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by bhickey 15y ago
Originally we had planned to include a structured editor, along the lives of DivaScheme and Scratch. This was shortly before widespread support of HTML5, so working with what we had I implemented it on top of `contenteditable`. In the end i
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by bhickey 15y ago
I didn't see any mention of cost of living adjustment. Could it be that plumbers living in Boston are more likely to have college degrees than plumbers living in Salem?
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by bhickey 15y ago
Not sure how legally feasible this is... Suppose the (ex-)employee sells the company an option on his options. If he exercises prematurely, the company sits on its option and the employee can't flip the shares onto the secondary market. Whe
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by bhickey 15y ago
The short answer on this is no. Check out unicity distance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicity_distance
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Solving CAPTCHAs using Probabilistic Programming(naviablog.wordpress.com)
14 points by bhickey 15y ago|2 comments
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by bhickey 15y ago
There is competition. People might take buses, or trollies, or BART. They could also walk, carpool or hitchhike.
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by bhickey 15y ago
Their drivers aren't taxi drivers in the sense that they don't drive medallion cabs. Medallions in major cities are a scarce, and outrageously expensive on secondary markets. Uber's interests here are aligned with their drivers, not traditi
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by bhickey 15y ago
It isn't just you. I've missed daily reminders.
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by bhickey 15y ago
Optimization Algorithms for Planar Graphs: http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs250/lectures/lectures.html
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by bhickey 15y ago
For 5%, I'll dump $1,000/day on MtGox and send you the balance. Feel free to e-mail me.
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by bhickey 15y ago
The efficacy of Gerson Therapy not supported by the evidence and it can be harmful to patients. Coffee enemas can damage the large intestine. Foregoing demonstrably effective traditional treatments can lead to reductions in life span and qu
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by bhickey 15y ago
Hm. I should clarify. Runs of Z or S don't prevent lines, but they do guarantee that you'll always leave an eye. It is the accumulated eyes that prevent line formation and lead to a loss.
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by bhickey 15y ago
I believe that this feature is generally known as 'Grab Bag.' In a Tetris implementation where tetraminos are sampled uniformly, the player is guaranteed to lose. Given a sufficiently long run of Z or S blocks it's impossible to make any li
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by bhickey 15y ago
Something similar happened to a co-worker of mine. The company maintains offices in New York and Boston, with significant expansion at the Boston office. The powers that be decided it would be a good idea to have another experienced dev in
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by bhickey 15y ago
Kidney failures are highly correlated. The 'backup' really isn't all that useful. This is still a terrible idea.
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by bhickey 15y ago
Dying on Everest isn't a matter of sensibility. Most people who die are stricken with altitude sickness[1]. HACE and HAPE move fast, and the only effective treatment is reduction in altitude. Hyperbaric chambers can buy time, diamox isn't s
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How Robots Can Learn From Your Pathetic Failures(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by bhickey 15y ago|0 comments
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by bhickey 15y ago
My biggest complaint with Wikipedia isn't deletionism, but epistemology. Stating that the sky was blue in London on Monday May 30, 2011 demands less rigorous verification than claiming that the rulers of some state did or did not commit gen
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by bhickey 15y ago
Gold is used in jewelry because: * It is malleable * It is resistant to corrosion/tarnish
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by bhickey 15y ago
Aleynikov was convicted, not just accused. Teza came in with a low offer and then bumped it up to $1.2m when he offered to give them Goldman code.
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by bhickey 15y ago
That's really attractive. Did you automate the layout and color assignments? (Mmm! Even the font makes me happy! 'something people want')
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by bhickey 15y ago
For an industry founded on the bedrock principle that the efficient allocation of capital is king, IPO mechanics strike me as inefficient: Money on the table, expensive fixers, etc. Auctions seem like a superficially more efficient mechanis
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by bhickey 15y ago
I strongly recommend using Pentadactyl (formerly Vimperator). It removes a lot of UI kludge and simply makes browsing a better experience. http://i.imgur.com/UwhLg.png http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/
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by bhickey 15y ago
This name collision is even worse than you suggest. Lindenmayer systems (L-systems) were invented back in the 60s and have been called L-systems for years.
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by bhickey 15y ago
Can you elaborate on your question? I don't think what you're saying is intrinsic to FP. There are static analysis tools for non-functional languages. At the end of the day, everything is getting turned into an abstract syntax tree, so styl
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by bhickey 15y ago
I used AirBnb in Paris and my mobile didn't work. The host was gracious enough to send someone around to find the confused looking foreigners when she couldn't reach me.
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by bhickey 15y ago
Smallpox is a weird virus. A couple years ago I asked Tom Knight about the risk of someone ordering Smallpox oligos and making a viable virus. The problem is that it needs its own proteins to replicate. In other viruses it's sufficient to h
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by bhickey 15y ago
Smallpox is "easy" to get rid of because it's visible. The infected present with lesions. It also isn't contagious while it incubates. Contrast this with polio, where there are about a thousand infections per every paralysis. Thanks to a co

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