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by frooxie 14y ago
I actually read HN for the thug tears.
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by frooxie 14y ago
Does anyone have a link to a web page (or to a book) that would be useful if you want to learn to program a Deep Belief Network?
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by frooxie 14y ago
Taubes has responded to the wholehealthsource critique (I have not read it, but it was referred to as a "thorough multi-part smack down"): http://garytaubes.com/2011/09/catching-up-on-lost-time-ances...
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by frooxie 14y ago
Reminds me of Eliezer Yudkowsky's comment that "I've seen people severely messed up by their own knowledge of biases. They have more ammunition with which to argue against anything they don't like."
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by frooxie 14y ago
The best book on cognitive biases that I have read is Irrationality by Stuart Sutherland.
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by frooxie 14y ago
In related news, you always hear about drug-related violence but never about all the drug-related kisses and hugs.
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by frooxie 14y ago
I've never tried a barbell, partly because people seem to have someone helping out when they use it. Would you recommend using one alone, or should I stick to dumbbells to avoid possible injuries?
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by frooxie 14y ago
In 2000-2002 I was a member of LunarStorm, a (now defunct) Swedish community where at one time 90 percent of Sweden's high school students were members. What I liked about it was that it gave you much more opportunities to interact with - a
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by frooxie 14y ago
If the pen input is comparable to that of a Wacom tablet, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Its closest competition sells for $2,200 in Sweden.
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by frooxie 14y ago
> I thought paying over $100/month for a smartphone didn’t make a lot of sense. I pay $10/month for mine (including the cost of the phone). > but my assumption is that you are like me, and constantly near a wifi hotspot No, I'm hard
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by frooxie 14y ago
I've used Vista until now, but I'm planning on buying a new stationary computer soon, and I'll probably buy Windows 8, mainly for the improved security features (but also the improved speed/boot time, file copy dialog, Reset & Refresh a
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by frooxie 14y ago
They cover this. "What simpleCart(js) Does Not Do: Is Not: Foolproof Clever hackers can change prices of simpleCart(js) items before checkout. This is a known security flaw that exists with ALL javascript shopping carts. It is highly recomm
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by frooxie 14y ago
I am now standing in a corner, bowing my head in shame.
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by frooxie 14y ago
I've been creating web sites since 1994, but still I learned some new things from this short piece.
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by frooxie 14y ago
A bridge doesn't have to be anywhere near water. I would have answered "Shaded Areas" - why wouldn't a bridge or an overpass that's lit by the sun keep warm longer than an area that's in the shade?
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by frooxie 14y ago
Not if it's a story. I don't want the ending spoiled.
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by frooxie 14y ago
I bet most people NOT on Facebook have one person in their social circle that they would not hire base on what they've seen them do in real life - people they might have considered hiring if they'd interacted on Facebook instead.
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by frooxie 14y ago
"Young, rich, handsome, and fat. One out of four ain't bad." -- Tim Siedell
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by frooxie 14y ago
Even pirates usually think that the original creators deserve credit, and many frown on taking other people's creations and earning money from them. As an example, some people have called Inman a hypocrite for downloading Game of Thrones (b
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by frooxie 14y ago
I doubt that this is a "pirate levy" at all. The fee on storage media is usually supposed to cover media shared with family and close friends, which is legal in many countries and does not count as piracy.
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by frooxie 14y ago
$20/£12.20 was for the 3D version (where you can borrow glasses - do you have to buy yours?). I checked, and in smaller towns the price seems to be $17.50. The 2D version (which isn't available everywhere) is only $16/£10. That's actually n
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by frooxie 14y ago
> Whilst I begrudged paying £16 (~$26 US) for me and the girlfriend Does this mean that you only had to pay $13 per person? In Sweden, a single ticket sells for $20.
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by frooxie 15y ago
That argument doesn't work nearly as well for people who live outside the US. The 1 cent price doesn't take into account the $12.49 international shipping costs (as well as the up to six week wait for delivery) I have to deal with if I buy
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by frooxie 15y ago
My point was that understanding a certain percentage of the words is very different from understanding the same percentage of the sentences in a book.
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by frooxie 15y ago
David Moser, in his text "Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard", points out that Even though you may know 95% of the [words] in a given text, the remaining 5% are often the very [words] that are crucial for understanding the main point of the text.
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by frooxie 15y ago
It's probably some intern, and that's JUST THE POINT: "This kind of casual copyright infringement, with no malicious intent, is exactly the kind of thing that SOPA was after. (...) SOPA covered so many cases of fair use, remixing, commentar
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by frooxie 15y ago
I don't think in any language either, but I often have trouble translating my wordless thoughts into any words at all, even if it's my native language.
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by frooxie 15y ago
I disagree. I have complex, multiple-step wordless thoughts.
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by frooxie 15y ago
Am I missing something? My reasoning is that the lion will easily catch the lion tamer by moving straight towards him/her. If the tamer moves in the same direction, he/she will eventually hit a wall. If the tamer moves in any other directio
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by frooxie 15y ago
I'm looking to buy a Windows tablet with a Wacom pen (for drawing), but at the moment they sell for $2100 in Sweden. I'm hoping there'll be more competition when Windows 8 is released.

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