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by dhs 16y ago
I must say that I love it this way. I see a headline that seems interesting, and there's a discussion, I read the skeptic first comment before all else, because it usually states quite clearly what the author of that headline is trying to
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NASA Expanding Tests of Star Wars-Inspired "Droids"(nasa.gov)
2 points by dhs 16y ago|0 comments
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by dhs 16y ago
I like that. And in breadth first search, one could use a filter on a saw wave to have the breadth of the frequency spectrum manipulated by the search.
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by dhs 16y ago
Not that I wouldn't like to be as optimistic, too, but Nature does seem to have made enough use of unreliably folding proteins to have come up with BSE, Parkinson's disease, and some others < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_folding
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by dhs 16y ago
Protein folding is suspected to be an NP-complete problem < http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/cmb.1998.5.27 >, so it seems to me that having reason to believe it will someday be solved equals having reason to believe tha
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by dhs 16y ago
However, humans - male, female, and variant - often lust for the anatomical features of other humans, and the associated emotions often trump any rationality. And there is danger in not noticing this. And a surprising number of humans, he
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by dhs 16y ago
After checking out that PUA stuff, it appears to me that the goals you call "questionable" are not grounded in rationality at all - it's all about not meeting the emotional needs of the women involved, and they mostly smell like men whose e
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by dhs 16y ago
Looking at the headline, the theme here is "dirty tricks". Evil intent. And while I agree that you can use dirty tricks to make people not do something they'd better do, I fail to see how the examples given by the GP speak of evil intent.
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by dhs 16y ago
Oh but these are examples for making people not do stuff (like not flag, vote, or even come back to the site). I don't feel like that's evil at all.
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by dhs 16y ago
Citation, please.
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by dhs 16y ago
Here's an intro into media queries: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/
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by dhs 16y ago
"I thought it was commonly known and accepted that it was in large part German banks that were being bailed out when bailing out Greece." That's how I - I'm German - understand it, but I think it's pretty much the minority report around h
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by dhs 16y ago
Don't panic, and a ship powered by an infinite improbability drive will pop up. Happens all the time...
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by dhs 16y ago
The point is that, when dealing with people who's sense-of-self is pathologically affected, I suggest you steer away from the "victim" concept, because it is ideologically loaded. Whether depressive or not, people often want to think that
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by dhs 16y ago
No, they are not victims - they are patients. This "victims/non-victims" meme is just wrong, and it's toxic. Please don't spread it.
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by dhs 16y ago
You obviously have no idea how often and prominently thoughts like "I must not be a victim!" or "I must pull myself together" feature in the compulsive thought patterns of a depressive's experience, deepening the depressive state, espec
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by dhs 16y ago
Thanks a lot. Your "It's like taking a word frequency (output of MapReduce) and building original text with that? You just don't have data to do that" made me understand what doesn't make sense to you. Your last paragraph made me understa
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Ask HN: Does the idea of a "reduce-map" function make any sense?
1 points by dhs 16y ago|2 comments
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by dhs 16y ago
+1. Case in point: Today I was thinking about a problem: "Maybe I need a something like a "reduce-map" function here; maybe that would be the right metaphore for what I want the program to do here." I wanted to know whether this thought had
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by dhs 17y ago
Probably selling CDOs.
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by dhs 17y ago
From where I see it, it looks like people who call themselves capitalists would generally like to reform the regulatory/legislative system so that it only supports the capitalists.
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by dhs 17y ago
I think it's definitely better than nothing!
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by dhs 17y ago
Here's an interview with Rob Janoff, the designer of the original Apple logo, in which he debunks this and other stories about its design: http://creativebits.org/interview/interview_rob_janoff_desig...
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by dhs 17y ago
My experience is that different personalities stay stressed in different ways. E.g., I very much tend to do the former, and have repeatedly picked partners who tended to do the latter. It sure makes for dysfunctional relationships.
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The Social Network screenplay ("The Facebook Movie")(wiscreenwritersforum.org)
1 points by dhs 17y ago|0 comments
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by dhs 17y ago
It's not at all clear that they can. According to German news media (e.g. http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/0,1518,670897,00.... ), the European Commission doubts that Google's alleged "dangerous dominance of the market" is real,
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by dhs 17y ago
So Microsoft VPs want to find out why people do not accept their products. Could be a good thing, if they would then insist on improvement of the products guided by the data that the "dev evangelist" provides. You, though, make it sound lik
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Cat-size brain simulation(modha.org)
1 points by dhs 17y ago|0 comments
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by dhs 17y ago
Found the PDF. Thanks for giving that clue :-)
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by dhs 17y ago
In a bout of major depression, creativity is just lost. The feeling that I will never get it back was a main source feeding suicidal thinking. Luckily, I sought treatment, and an analyst told me that this is normal, that it's part of the il

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