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by cowpig 11y ago
It sounds like you are well-informed on this issue. I'd like to ask you more about it but I can't seem to find any kind of private messaging functionality on HN and you don't have an email address in your profile :O
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by cowpig 11y ago
> The U.S. market size for palm oil is 2.6 billion pounds (1.2 billion kilograms) annually, he said. He expects that to increase by half a billion pounds a year once trans fats are eliminated. This is really, really bad news. http:&#x2F
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by cowpig 11y ago
> (Google and Apple specifically) aggressively optimized their business around labor and tax laws to the point of conflict with the spirit of those laws. This is pretty forgiving language to describe two companies that actively (illegall
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by cowpig 11y ago
Apple pioneered both the tax evasion schemes and "ecosystem lock-in" anti-competitive practices that Google has tried to replicate (the former successfully, the latter not so much). Apple is also much more actively litigious and c
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by cowpig 11y ago
Having to pay for this at all is problematic.
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by cowpig 11y ago
Hurray for science behind paywalls!
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by cowpig 11y ago
Whoa.... any chance you can write up something on how this works? I've never seen a working implementation of a recurrent net before. I would be very grateful!! Either way, this is very impressive :)
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Sexual Assault at UVA(nytimes.com)
2 points by cowpig 12y ago|0 comments
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To understand perverse military decision-making, follow the money(medium.com)
1 points by cowpig 12y ago|0 comments
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by cowpig 12y ago
Facebook HQ moves to a different building: the third most interesting or important thing happening in the world right now.
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by cowpig 12y ago
In the poker community, nobody ever writes a contract for anything, but people typically still pay off their debts. One strategy for dealing with outliers that has shown success is creating a website like this: http://www.stevenw
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by cowpig 12y ago
I got 7/10, but I think I would do better on prose with 3-4 sentences rather than a single one. Poetry is probably a bit tougher though. I don't find computer-generated snippets that impressive--I mean, a lot of it is just pumping
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by cowpig 12y ago
how does an article rife with political bias make it to the front page of hacker news?
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by cowpig 12y ago
Why do you we think we'll be replaced? Why wouldn't we be 'enhanced'?
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by cowpig 12y ago
Is there a way to read the paper without signing up or paying money?
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by cowpig 12y ago
Why are humans so special? Seems like we generally feel alright ravaging Earth's existing species, so why isn't it ok for some hypothetically superior intelligence to ravage us?
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by cowpig 12y ago
A lot of the article reads like some SV industry lobbyists' talking points (seriously lacking in clarity of perspective), but this particular quote make me really balk: "Though it would take a lot of careful thought, it might prod
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If CO2 Emissions Were Visible, This Is What They'd Look Like(vox.com)
9 points by cowpig 12y ago|0 comments
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by cowpig 12y ago
The problem is that Hawkins hasn't really found a comparable alternative. He's trying to throw away decades of progress in mathematics and reinvent the learning algorithms, which is great, but he hasn't succeeded (yet)
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by cowpig 12y ago
this is terrible advice
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by cowpig 12y ago
So foolish it is to enjoy one's work, share it for free. How stupid not to band together to spread misinformation about the nature of one's work in order to increase profitability. ^ What a crap culture that perpetuates this kind
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by cowpig 12y ago
It's easy to feel like you've figured it out, the question is whether your feeling turns out to be true.
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ISPs Using Man-In-The-Middle Attacks to Block Encryption(techdirt.com)
1 points by cowpig 12y ago|0 comments
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by cowpig 12y ago
I find this article interesting in that it describes a direct clash of motives between two major systematic problems in American government at present: corporate capture of politics, and the runaway NSA. What needs to happen is for both of
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by cowpig 12y ago
I feel like there's an in-between to be found
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by cowpig 12y ago
http://bioexpedition.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Peacock_... wrong http://totallygreencrafts.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/bac... returns ??? even http:/&#x
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by cowpig 12y ago
"Ekman now admits it was a mistake to define micro-expressions by duration, and describes them now as any facial expression that is very difficult to detect in real time." I can see why he regrets having made it--it's the onl
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Seeing the Invisible [video](nytimes.com)
3 points by cowpig 12y ago|0 comments
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by cowpig 12y ago
Is it possible that the 3-door box is not doing the same thing as the 1-door box? By this I mean that the 1-door box is measuring some hidden variable that the 3-door box is not measuring?
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by cowpig 12y ago
I also think it would be really nice if the position switched to an "analysis mode" after completion. Sometimes, especially if one gets a problem wrong, it's nice to examine the position more deeply. Bonus points if some open

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