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by galactus 14y ago
Good lord.. The original comment was about both false negatives and false positives: "it doesn't go into rates of false positives [...] or false negatives" Pc86 pointed that we actually know the rate for false negatives, if we assume that
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by galactus 14y ago
Pc86 knows the meaning of false positives and false negatives, you should read his original question again.
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by galactus 14y ago
wow, amazingly simple/useful idea! Thanks!
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by galactus 14y ago
Does twitter honor the the oauth_callback parameter? Otherwise, how can those keys be used by an attacker?
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New Lower Pricing for Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances(aws.amazon.com)
1 points by galactus 14y ago|0 comments
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by galactus 14y ago
I dont think the unemployment affects the stats that much but anyway the US has a higher GDP per capita and higher GDP per hour worked than France. I was just replying to the common stereotype that France is significatively less productiv
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by galactus 14y ago
France is one of most productive countries in the world, when measured as GDP per hour-worked: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP...
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by galactus 14y ago
I love it how The Economist often runs articles trying to prove that excellent living conditions in nordic countries are all about "pro-business reforms" and have nothing to do with their well known welfare states. Ahh, The Economist...
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by galactus 14y ago
I'm pretty sure working for google for 200K is NOT the worst case scenario for a computer science PhD.
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by galactus 14y ago
If it was really the only thing I used, then yes, I would not count myself as an active user of a social network. It is OK to say google+ has N number of active users, what irks people is when they say it is the largest or second largest s
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by galactus 14y ago
Would you find normal to be counted as an active user of Microsoft's social network just for using Skype (supposing you could use the same account)?
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by galactus 14y ago
Why is it considered a "fallacy"?
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RMS' comment on Aaron Swartz's death(stallman.org)
3 points by galactus 14y ago|0 comments
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by galactus 14y ago
What is the advantage of using domain-specific calendar/docs over using them with your personal google account?
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by galactus 14y ago
I read people saying "duh, this is obvious". Of course it is, and everybody knows it, but it is still important when political personalities start to say it publicly.
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by galactus 14y ago
Alcohol and tobacco are taxed heavily in most countries, and most people still prefer to buy it legally.
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by galactus 14y ago
At first I thought it was a fake account, then I saw the verified account logo. Scary stuff.
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by galactus 14y ago
Yet another article about the adventurous kind of retirement. Is it me, or do all personal finances magazines seem to have one of those these days?
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by galactus 14y ago
How you dare questioning the sacred idea that an income tax bracket of 70%+ would destroy the economy?
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by galactus 14y ago
I guess Amazon is forced to do that to the extent that someone else would do it first if they don't.
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by galactus 14y ago
Am I the only one who thinks Stripe might be the most important YC startup ever?
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by galactus 14y ago
Are you doing it just for fun, or is there any benefit over using something like w3m-emacs? (it could be nice to have emacs search HN for the currently selected word and make it a link, or something like that)
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by galactus 14y ago
The genes? Like, if the kid of a miner is adopted by a couple of lawyers, his miner genes would still push him to a life of digging?
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by galactus 14y ago
Are you also fine with racist jokes?
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by galactus 14y ago
(sorry for the offtopic). Any news from the beta version of Stripe in Canada? Has any canadian here used it? Edit: hadnt seen this https://twitter.com/stripe/status/245159999674933249
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by galactus 14y ago
They have been profitable since 2009, apparently ( http://www.wired.com/business/2009/12/twitter-earns-first-pr... )
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by galactus 14y ago
"Tu quoque" http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
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by galactus 14y ago
I guess twitter thinks it is big enough to stop worrying about pissing third party developers off. In the short term it probably won't hurt them much.
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by galactus 14y ago
RPG's sequels to the original text are worth reading: http://dreamsongs.org/WorseIsBetter.html
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by galactus 14y ago
I don't know, keeping such a huge code base simple enough to be able to add new features without breaking stuff sounds indeed amazing to me.

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