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by dsjoerg 12y ago
neat! the drop at the end could easily make a reader think that immigration has dropped recently. to avoid giving that misimpression, i'd recommend to multiply the last datapoints by 10/4; equivalently, think of your y-axis units
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
link doesn't work for me. hug of death?
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
To those who can access the paper -- how large was the discovered effect?
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
I like your honesty and your brevity.
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
404 as a service!
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
If I had a nickel for each time I heard a guy bitching about "hydrogen embrittlement", I'd fund this space program myself!
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
Are you referring to the reduction fallacy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_the_single_cause )? I looked around for a "reductionist fallacy" but couldn't find anything. Or are you instead sayin
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
This article gets some important things backwards in order to take on its overconfident alpha dog tone. Notably absent is how goals are chosen. Certainly some goals are better than others? And won't we be more motivated to pursue goo
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
the relevant number is not their net income, but the gains they think they are making by wi-fi blocking.
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
If your goal is to understand who is doing what, then you want to be smart about how you draw conclusions. If, on the other hand, your goal is to flame people who have done bad stuff when the opportunity arises, then yeah, go for it.
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
came to the comments to say this
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
the semantics you'd like the OS + standard library to provide would be some kind of gettime() call that returns a time thingie, and a secondsbetween(a,b) call that reliably tells you the time between the two time thingies. the fact tha
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
If you want your readers to follow your advice, tell them _why_ they should, and not simply _what_ to do. See what I did there? Are readers of this piece supposed to follow the advice, like sheep, simply because they are told to? Or becaus
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
Very cool! Have you looked into the legal issues, for example ToS and copyright? I wonder if Blizzard would be within their rights to force a takedown of the code whenever they want.
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
Eww. What made you think to try? Does that work on Stripe in general or just this site?
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
It's not always laziness; since nobody can read everything, people need help deciding which stuff to read. I need a TL;DR and other's people's feedback on the piece to help me decide which one it's going to be. Furthermo
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
Addiction is a serious and life-threatening issue for some, why do you make light of such a seriously dangerous thing? Pythons, on the other hand...
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
Maybe skinny data is the opposite of big data? And you are a "skinny data" nerd?
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
Don't worry, everyone on HN is wrong.
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
"Security through obscurity" is a weak concept, however the goal here is not security but fraud detection. Obscurity is a legitimate component of a fraud detection system, for the same reason that hiding your cards is an important
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
Even if the article were instead titled with the more accurate "How to refute..." it would nevertheless be interesting and worthy of further discussion.
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
but why those attributes and not race or height or credit score. not to make too big a deal of it but it's interesting to note which attributes are considered notable/identifying.
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
Please do share!!!
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
perhaps, or perhaps even a healthy but normal mind behaves like an "old" one simply from the weight of memory and experience.
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
ᴅᴏᴇꜱ ᴀɴyᴏɴᴇ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ɪꜰ ᴩᴏᴩᴜʟᴀʀ ꜱᴇᴀʀᴄʜ ᴇɴɢɪɴᴇꜱ ᴅᴇ-ᴜɴɪᴄᴏᴅᴇ ᴛᴇxᴛ ᴡʜᴇɴ ɪɴᴅᴇxɪɴɢ?
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
Glad you put "correct" in scare quotes, because that "correct" answer is certainly not correct.
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
Another group of folks who pay for the 1% cash back are the merchants who pay fees well over 1% for transaction processing. http://www.cardfellow.com/blog/credit-card-processing-fees/
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
Kenneth Regan et al have done comprehensive and persuasive work on rating the intrinsic performance of chess players by measuring move strength itself. From one of their papers: "We have shown multiple, separate, and novel pieces of e
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
I skimmed it and failed to find an explanation of what problems are caused by thinking of a pixel as a little square. Anyone?
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
The shocking news here is that Tim Cook is religious.

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