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by externalreality 7y ago
The title should be "Why bbc reads Hacker News comments to get ideas for its next article." I could swear I just read a discussion on HN (just hours ago) in response to an article about Amazon getting flooded with fake reviews. So
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by externalreality 7y ago
I remember participating in a food drive when I was in high-school. One of my teachers reminded me that gathering the food was only part of the problem. Transporting is an entirely different problem. I don't know if there is a food sho
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by externalreality 7y ago
> The mean of black household wealth is $138,200—for whites, that number is $933,700 I think these numbers are inflated, for both African American and European American households, by including the 1% in these numbers. If we just use the
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by externalreality 7y ago
No, people don't argue about stuff on web forums. That's crazy.
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by externalreality 7y ago
I agree completely. Why they just take everything away so that I don't actually own anything. Just give me a little set top box where the game gets streamed to me and I don't even own the disk my current game is saved on. Oh, wait
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by externalreality 7y ago
PHP is simple and rocks!
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by externalreality 7y ago
Cool, I just can't wait to run out and spend more money on a device that provides the same basic services as the one I already have! I can't wait!
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by externalreality 7y ago
Wonderful book, read it years ago, and read Grahams Common List the Language, and before that the little lisper, and before that ansi Common Lisp. I don't remember very few of any of those books but hopefully something beneficial remai
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by externalreality 7y ago
Nice article about data consistency. While I don't believe its a hard problem, It can easily trip you up and cause developers to have to spend time figuring it out. Nice article. About the picture of the office - every time I see devel
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by externalreality 7y ago
Programming/Technology or otherwise, if you spend that much time worried about 1 interview, you will end up just like Hyde that is, out of a job. You have to send out hundreds of resumes (pace yourself maybe 10 to 15 per day is good) a
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by externalreality 7y ago
I agree with you, but I don't have too much more to add. From birth non-blacks (and blacks alike) are classically conditioned by numerous socio-environmental stimuli to believe that blacks are inferior. I believe that all other issues
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by externalreality 7y ago
istjohn, I deeply appreciate your question. I've been sitting here for over an hour trying to answer so I'll just answer simply. Yes, I would rather have gone to a school in my neighborhood. I would have rather been around other A
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by externalreality 7y ago
If I was to setup such a service I would have a simple text bot scanning popular sites for occurrences of my brand name and when a hit occurs it would make an Amazon Mechanical Turk ticket so that workers in Nepal could log a system that cy
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by externalreality 7y ago
It's not just Amazon its everything. Companies spend large quantities of money on media control, we all know this. I probably a hand full of media companies in the USA, China, and India that are selling a review control service.
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by externalreality 7y ago
This a good thing! I am 100% in support of James' endeavor here. However, students doing better when put in a better environment should not be surprising. I was a lower income student who was shipped across town to a majority white sch
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by externalreality 7y ago
You really didn't describe the tool or its intended audience all that much. It looks like some kind of idea map. What is the innovation? Why would I pick this tool over any other such tool (there are many of them). However, I think you
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by externalreality 7y ago
I agree with you. However, without trying to take your points down a slippery slope, your points don't apply to safety concerns. We can't have robo-cars hitting black people because the designers neglected to test the pattern reco
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by externalreality 7y ago
This may be a bit off topic, but the world needs more people like you. From what you've described I say you are tougher yet more realistic than most. Fearless. I don't know why the job you left didn't realize that. Most would
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by externalreality 7y ago
> The computer vision systems could still beat real human vision systems. For pattern recognition, No, the computer vision system can't best a human.
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by externalreality 7y ago
I heard about different research like this about six years ago. So the algorithm wasn't tested on dark-skinned people. Is this really something new? Product developers in a wide variety of markets still neglect to take into account dar
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by externalreality 7y ago
Well, as a software developer, I don't mind my work being monitored as long as I am unaware that the employer is monitoring me. If I know the employer is monitoring me I will become self-conscious and the employer would then, in essenc
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by externalreality 7y ago
From what I understand individuals and groups are, in support of Assange, disrupting the lives of average people. The above link shows not the downed server of a some political organization but that of a high school (and a military high sch
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Hacking Attempts on Ecuadorians Not Ecuador(liceonaval.mil.ec)
1 points by externalreality 7y ago|1 comments
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by externalreality 7y ago
Forgive me if I sound as if I am against foreign investment. I am not. The degree of control that something like Jumia, a foreign entity, would have over these emerging economies is what is troublesome.
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by externalreality 7y ago
Sound advice but when you read a comment the tone is generally dictated by whether you agree with the comment or not, since voice inflection is absent. I do agree, you have to word thing more carefully in the absence of voice inflection.
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Three Rules for Developers
5 points by externalreality 7y ago|2 comments
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by externalreality 7y ago
You shop on Jumia because it's convenient. It's also convenient for foreign interest to setup an Amazon like business to skim millions off the top of an economy that can scarcely afford it. The point is, Jumia is not good for Ghan
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by externalreality 7y ago
I think this comment misses the point by speaking of Ubuntu in the face of the incompatible idea of capitalism. The company is not an African company in the sense that it is not owned (and thus likely not operated) by Africans. Africa is al
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by externalreality 7y ago
> Canada's largest chain of coffee shops (Tim Hortons) is owned by a Brazilian company. You are comparing apples and oranges. In many cases larger countries are able to conduct fair trade agreements. In the case of smaller countries
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by externalreality 7y ago
It seems "Africa’s largest e-commerce company" is not African at all. It always pains me to see this when I visit small countries. Jobs are one thing, but if small countries find that massive resources are leaving the country in t

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