billwilliams

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by billwilliams 5y ago
Why is there only one comment on here about Feynman's pretty obvious sexism? Why are the rest attacking the author or anti-sexism in general? Or commenting on how his actions or similar action push women out of STEM fields?
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by billwilliams 10y ago
This is great. The structure and simplicity is bomb and the data will be easy to mess around with while still being easy to clean up even if you mess around with verb usage like "scarfed" instead of "ate".
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by billwilliams 10y ago
No comments yet supporting the maintainer? She experienced real prejudice from issues at these orgs. No matter what the cause likely needs to be changed. But of course, I'm sure the super diverse community of core fsf and gnu did nothi
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by billwilliams 10y ago
So uh, no actual experiment here. Even with the methods they're using we're not really getting causality. Seems like they're just saying cat people (or raw meat eaters) are more into BDSM.
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by billwilliams 10y ago
It is straight up weird that Assange is going after Hillary because he's a bit butthurt about her. Its funny when a whistleblowing body is explicitly partisan for personal reasons. Don't have strong feelings one way or the other
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by billwilliams 10y ago
Weird metaphor. 1 Billion people on Facebook daily. Most of twitter's interactions are read only. So according to this idea Facebook is a nightclub the size of china and twitter is one of those weird sex clubs where you watch people be
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by billwilliams 11y ago
Build yourself a hut. Pretend to live off nature while women from the town one mile away bring you pies. Thus is self reliance.
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by billwilliams 11y ago
Awesome, great work. This is one of those situations where I wish massive bribes were part of the open source ethos.
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by billwilliams 11y ago
Any easy way to run remote kernels?
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by billwilliams 11y ago
Thank you for bringing us the future.
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by billwilliams 11y ago
This article is straight up more nuanced than I was expecting.
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by billwilliams 11y ago
Usually I'm very pro internet.org with the basis for my response being "people who can't afford internet don't care about your politics, why should we get to deprive them of useful services based on a message only we car
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by billwilliams 11y ago
None of the comments here really capture the importance of this book in my mind. Hadley-headed projects have dominated the data-science space for years - defining how open source and commercial platforms are expressing data processing + vis
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by billwilliams 11y ago
Also, am I the only person in this thread who actually works in ads? Ctrl + F did nothing to answer this question
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by billwilliams 11y ago
I like how much heat this topic on the hacker news. I wonder if its extra touchy given how much "hacker" culture overall developed with online advertising - the big tech successes often depending on sweet sweet ad money. Everybody
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by billwilliams 11y ago
Its disproportionately high for the publisher. Niche sites with demographics that overlap with adblockers demographic get hit harder than other sites. The ad company will find other places to serve their ads (unless its a product catering t
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by billwilliams 11y ago
To continue said yelling, a point that I haven't noticed mentioned on here yet - since when do consumers get to decide how much they pay for a service? Or how? If I want to sell you x for y - we don't live in a society where you g
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by billwilliams 11y ago
While I like your poetic verve, this isn't true. Ads were always garbage. Old ads lied just as much and tried to instill the same feelings. They just had less direction since they didn't know how to measure and optimize on outcome
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by billwilliams 11y ago
And as long as we're all whining in one direction or the other, the average U.S. citizen still watches more than 25 hours of tv per week. So we're all just yelling into the ether of the tech-haves for the next 20 years while that
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by billwilliams 11y ago
More importantly, no big publishers / ad networks really care about adblock. A vocal minority use it and think their convenience is socially progressive. The only people feeling the burn are niche sites that happen to have a core demog
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by billwilliams 11y ago
How is this a new point? This is literally why everybody uses adblockers.
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by billwilliams 12y ago
Nice work.
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by billwilliams 12y ago
For the record, when people talk about "Brands" on Facebook, we're not talking about janky startups. We're talking about big old companies that blow >10 Million dollars in ad buys.
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by billwilliams 12y ago
Fun little idea. Tuesday all I eat is hot sauce. Monday I only drink lemonade. Wednesday I end my fast with the varied loaf.
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by billwilliams 12y ago
Not sure I'm convinced the effort of switching streaming frameworks is worth it as opposed to switching to a jvm compiled language.
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by billwilliams 12y ago
My grammar is an atrocity. I literally have no idea what a comma is, or why I should trust it. I will report back if this book helps.
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by billwilliams 12y ago
The reason for this acquisition is clear. Its why Nest was bought, its why Dropcam was bought. For Eric Shmidt's whole life his brother would turn down the thermostat and Eric would be too cold. He would accuse his brother and his brot
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by billwilliams 12y ago
Looks like it has a lot of potential for data scientists. Relatively simple set up with little maintenance is key for data science, especially those with less hardcore dev experience. I'd be interested to know if there is any support f
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by billwilliams 13y ago
I used to do this until I found drake. Drake is the truth and the light. Use it.
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by billwilliams 13y ago
No.

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