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by dfranke 17y ago
I'd like to hear an opinion from a developmental psychologist about what something like this could do to infants. Basic physical intuition -- things fall when you drop them, things persist when they leave your line of sight, etc. -- is lea
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by dfranke 18y ago
This points to a release that came out a month ago. I suspect this is some sort of spam.
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by dfranke 18y ago
For the Storm botnet it'd be on the order of one hour.
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by dfranke 18y ago
This is just begging to be subverted by 4chan.
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by dfranke 18y ago
I don't see how you're getting this formula, but if it spends 13/27 on GC after a 2x GC speedup, then it was 26/40 before, not 26/27.
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by dfranke 18y ago
The one day timer for /noobs should start ticking when they make their first submission, not when they create their account. Otherwise spammers can just wait a day before submitting anything.
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by dfranke 18y ago
4chan is like the social equivalent of fuzz testing. If you want to see how your app holds up against weird unexpected input, you feed it /dev/urandom. If you want to see how it holds up against weird unexpected people, you feed it /b/.
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by dfranke 18y ago
http://lesswrong.com
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by dfranke 18y ago
When I run into ignorance about the hacker/cracker distinction and don't feel like going into the whole schpiel, I find that the phrase "relax; I work for the good guys" is sufficient to calm people down.
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by dfranke 18y ago
I'm a fencer. I fence three times per week for about two hours.
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by dfranke 18y ago
Utility functions are nonlinear with decreasing slope . When you don't have enough money to buy everything you want, you buy the most important things first. A 50% chance of gaining 2 x dollars is a worse deal than a 100% chance of gain
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by dfranke 18y ago
Actually, this was: http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/L...
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by dfranke 18y ago
That's because US citizens seeking VC who haven't moved to Boston or San Jose usually have no good excuse not to; for VCs, it's an easy way to filter out undedicated founders. Foreigners who want to move there but can't get a visa have a m
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by dfranke 18y ago
> you are not likely to get funding until you move here I think it's likely that if this visa existed, VCs would adapt to it by becoming more open to funding people who haven't immigrated yet.
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by dfranke 18y ago
Did we both think of this idea simultaneously? ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=544035 ).
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by dfranke 18y ago
I want an ant farm that comes with bottles of ant pheremones. Then I'd use them to build a Rube Goldberg machine out of ants and make them calculate pi or something. Edit: somebody should totally apply to YC with this idea. You could even
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by dfranke 18y ago
I think ARRA is a giant boondoggle, but this expenditure seems perfectly inkeeping with its intended purpose. Microsoft is the dominant economic force in the area, and this is an investment to allow it to conduct commerce more efficiently.
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by dfranke 18y ago
Still the same fallacy. We could put up the same CCTV cameras and get at least as good an outcome if the problem weren't as bad to begin with.
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by dfranke 18y ago
You said that we'd be better off if the problem became worse so that we'd be more motivated to solve it. How can that be read as other than advocating (in the short term) more spam? The point of the Broken Window parable is that even in t
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by dfranke 18y ago
It seems like a really bad idea to me. Learning from primary sources more-or-less forces you to learn things in the order they were discovered, which in turn requires you to repeat and then correct every mistake that was made along the way
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by dfranke 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_window_fallacy
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by dfranke 18y ago
If you'd ever been to a Conway lecture you'd know that this is entirely par for the course for him.
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by dfranke 18y ago
Aha. Thanks.
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by dfranke 18y ago
What? My question was about startup school, not the summer funding cycle.
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Ask YC: What's up with Startup School?
1 points by dfranke 18y ago|4 comments
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Mystery of honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder is probably solved(sciam.com)
119 points by dfranke 18y ago|27 comments
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by dfranke 18y ago
I'm uninclined to credit this sort of assertion without seeing application-specific benchmarks, and even less-so when the OP explicitly states that his application is memory-bound. On how many websites is system call overhead actually the
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by dfranke 18y ago
Have a look at mathopd: http://www.mathopd.org/ . Very lightweight and stable/mature, and unlike lighttpd, an excellent security track record.
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You're calling who a cult leader?(lesswrong.com)
70 points by dfranke 18y ago|22 comments
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by dfranke 18y ago
24 ounces of beans for one person? Do you mean for 2n, not for n/2?

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