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by egjerlow 10y ago
FWIW, I've found the Leechblock plugin (and probably many others like it) to be a great help. I'm only allowed on FB and similar time-sucking sites (HN not included....) after 9pm. But I think it ultimately doesn't help unles
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by egjerlow 10y ago
Idea for 'genetic software development': every n time units, run this tool, and the poor bastard who deletes a file has to rewrite it from scratch. Presupposes that on average, the rewrite will be better than the previous version.
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by egjerlow 10y ago
> Any number of dimensions could have worked equally well at this point; there wasn’t really any way to tell the difference between a universe with one dimension and a universe with seven. What is that supposed to mean? Presumably you co
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Apple issues Xcode security update(scmagazine.com)
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A new variant of Locky leaking out(blog.fortinet.com)
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by egjerlow 10y ago
I think what is troubling, if anything, to the 'old people' (and probably not just those), is that when arguments such as this starts getting validity beyond being appeals to civility - i.e. when someone is effectively able to sto
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Malory Isn’t the Only Imposter in Infosec(mumble.org.uk)
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by egjerlow 10y ago
Exactly. In what way did roofman engineer the toys-r-us store? What kind of regularities did he exploit in his burglaries?
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by egjerlow 10y ago
It's worthwhile to note that when Norway found oil they were not exactly a developed country yet. I think that what has set them apart from other oil nations is the strong social conscientiousness (I.e leaders are punished by loss of h
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by egjerlow 10y ago
> and if A < 1 we do the following: > Produce a random number \chi from 0 to 1 > Calculate m=A + \chi > Accept the move if m >= 1, otherwise reject I'm guessing people have their own ways of doing this s
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by egjerlow 10y ago
You might be right, I hadn't really thought of those, mostly since I've never actually used the photo tag option. I'll experiment a little!
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by egjerlow 10y ago
This is the second article in a short while I've seen about this FindFace app: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11491264 I am still amazed at how it is possible to match people in the way this app purports to do. D
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by egjerlow 10y ago
Totally agree - if I didn't look specifically for what you're mentioning, I would have certainly taken it as real people giving endorsements and scrolled on.
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by egjerlow 10y ago
So let's discuss here! I think these issues are very interesting, and it's fascinating that there exists views that differ so radically when it comes to how wealth should be redistributed (if it should), and when it comes to wheth
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by egjerlow 10y ago
I really look forward to the day (because it seems it must come) when the whole publication system is restructured into an open system. I have no idea what it will look like (I.e. how merit will be calculated in such a system), but for the
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by egjerlow 10y ago
I think the point the article was trying to make was that 'our kind of intelligence' is neither a single, well-defined entity - for example, the author points out that chimps might be more 'politically' intelligent than
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by egjerlow 10y ago
And do you want your gut bacteria to be part of you? Only the part of them that doesn't make your stomach upset when you eat <something>? Though I instinctively think this definition sounds good, I think in the case of gut bacter
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by egjerlow 10y ago
>this lets you finesse the question of "what do you mean 'control'" I'd say that this is one of the most difficult things about it, so as long as we're not answering this question, I agree it's not that
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by egjerlow 10y ago
>If you take the metaphor far enough anything that exists separately from the cosmic background radiation has a means for separating itself from its surroundings for some period of time. >A star has gravity and gas pressure in equilib
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Life Expectancy Drops for White Women, Increases for Black Men(npr.org)
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by egjerlow 10y ago
Well, for the thought model I mentioned the manager would not get the benefit of increased exposure and fame, so an increased pay seemed an easy replacement incentive. If a good manager is somehow 'rare' (I have no idea) then I su
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by egjerlow 10y ago
This is something I have thought about often, living in Norway. Seemed like there must have been some period in the 50s-60s when building the most mind-crushing office buildings / hospitals / apartment blocks was the goal. Maybe t
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by egjerlow 10y ago
For vimmers: https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive is awesome, especially for only adding only parts of a file to a commit.
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by egjerlow 10y ago
The problem of a given leader or manager having to carry through some kind of reform in order to put his or her stamp on their reign is frustrating. A model where there are multiple top managers (a board or similar) is better in this respec
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by egjerlow 10y ago
I think it might be one of those cases where you're either a) supposed to know what the author has in mind or b) supposed to get a sense of what he has in mind from the article itself. Being a former university employee, I think I know
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by egjerlow 10y ago
It's still merit based, though it might not yield the world's best candidates, since they might not have the time. And that's going to be a problem, of course, but other things you might do to demonstrate merit except for act
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by egjerlow 10y ago
In a merit-based system, though, that reputation actually does translate into a "resource" that you can leverage at some point, so even though it's money-less work, it does pay off. And, of course, if you're having fun a
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by egjerlow 10y ago
The mention of the availability heuristic reminds me of the book 'Thinking, fast and slow' by Daniel Kahneman. Read it just a month ago and it was a real eye-opener. It's a book whose points I would like to have condensed int
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by egjerlow 10y ago
Seems the NBA have upped their data collection game recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_tracking_(National_Bask...
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by egjerlow 10y ago
I agree that this seems very far-fetched. From what I know about facial recognition (admittedly very little) for an algorithm to be able to recognize these profiles in such different conditions as displayed in the article seems very unlikel

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