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by hackerblues 16y ago
I think you can get daily summaries quite easily, eg: http://www.google.com/finance/historical?q=NASDAQ:GOOG and from memory when the markets are open you can see the order book stuff: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ecn?s=GOOG+Order+Book Bu
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by hackerblues 16y ago
What is your point? Presumably the correct response to bullshit is to call it out as such rather than producing your own.
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by hackerblues 16y ago
Is this like the time you threw the paralyzed kid into the ocean and then blamed her drowning on her parents for not teaching her better car dodging skills?
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by hackerblues 16y ago
This is somewhat misleading. Yes, it's true if 3 * 123456789 counts as one multiplication. But if you're doing the 'old' version you implement it as 9 single digit multiplications: 3*9, 3*8,....,3*1 all written down with a
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by hackerblues 16y ago
As far as I know every child in England is currently being taught this method. I'm not sure that I would leap to calling it retarded. I agree that it takes up more paper but paper isn't the most expensive thing in the world. What it does do
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by hackerblues 16y ago
"But with frequentist methods it's not even clear what kind of assumptions you're making." I don't understand what you mean by this. For a simple, concrete example: take the problem of fitting a distribution to a sample of real random varia
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by hackerblues 16y ago
I have a bilingual friend who claims after spending few weeks in Australia or Japan his dreams switch to the local vocabulary.
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by hackerblues 16y ago
Do you have any reason to believe that this trend has not held throughout history?
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by hackerblues 16y ago
If I go into debt that year does that mean the fine gives me money?
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by hackerblues 16y ago
Original: def double(x): return x+3 BUG REPORT: double(4) returns 7 instead of 8. Fixed: def double(x): if x == 4: return 8 else: return x+3
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by hackerblues 16y ago
An interesting perspective, I've copy-pasted this to my blog.
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by hackerblues 16y ago
tldr version; right-wing skeptic triumphs over strawman climate change advocate. CCA: Hi, I think global warming is going to destroy the planet. RWS: Oh no! Why? CCA: All the scientists say so. RWS: What about all the scientists who disagre
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by hackerblues 16y ago
My take on the money sink comment: If there are n people in the market moving money around in a closed system then the combined wealth of those n people is constant. If another person joins in and is making a net profit then it must be the
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by hackerblues 16y ago
If she's doing good work but is a net drain on everyone around her then yes, the possible solutions are to 'fix' her or isolate her.
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by hackerblues 16y ago
The feminist script she describes is 1990's notion that a couple can obtain a satisfactory sex life through a process in which the woman overcomes the mans negative sexist conditioning by using a verbal contract to stipulate her limits. The
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by hackerblues 16y ago
Figure out a way to get real evidence of whether or not it will work before the decision is made purely on the basis of your internal beliefs. Reframe your criticisms from "This is bad." to "This aspect needs improving because of the follow
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by hackerblues 16y ago
" I used to love drinking soda. Drank it by the gallons. I stopped due to weight gain. Now I don't crave it, I am mostly repulsed by it" I've had a similar experience. A few months ago I moved overseas and as a result have drastically chang
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by hackerblues 16y ago
"I'm smart enough to discount my own bias" I am genuinely interested, how did you establish that you have the ability to correctly compensate for your biases?
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by hackerblues 16y ago
This is partially true but irrelevant. People don't join a club so they can experience body language. I assume they go so they can form a community and interact with people who share the same interest. If visual contact was essential for fo
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by hackerblues 16y ago
Out of interest, what would this mean if I don't have a Facebook account but my friend posts a picture of me?
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by hackerblues 16y ago
I don't think logic means what you think it does. Logic is about using deductions to reason about a thing. For example, in sudoku, "If I write a 5 in this cell then the column will contain two 5s. Therefore, this cell can't contain a 5." Co
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by hackerblues 16y ago
I would agree that there is no benefit to a person who comes from HN to read just that specific article. However, if I was a regular visitor to the guys blog and came across the article that way: - Him posting the full text rather than a hy
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by hackerblues 16y ago
Everyday I breath in tons of chemicals like nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, water vapor, etc. My height and, so I assume, lung capacity hasn't increased much over the last few years so I'd estimate that I've been taking in a constant amou
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by hackerblues 16y ago
For a different approach: from a scientific/logical perspective the result has no bearing on the truth of his claim. The only possibility which we can remove from consideration is the claim that "The coin will always land tails."
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by hackerblues 16y ago
I am 23 years old and today I watched a youtube video to learn the proper way to cut up an onion. I cook a lot with onions, maybe two or three times a week, and before today I didn't know how to dice an onion except to slice it into rings a
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by hackerblues 16y ago
If you want to live forever you will certainly need to solve the problems which normally come with aging. You will also need to deal with the problem of the sun burning out in X billion years and the heat death of the universe. I hope you h
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by hackerblues 16y ago
It appears that you think loving your neighbour means trying to generate an artificial emotion, as if the goal is to become so smitten you spend all day writing them poems and blowing kisses. To see that this is ridiculous, try substituting
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by hackerblues 16y ago
I have been told that it might be a cultural thing by someone who has studied in the UK and the US. US = overplay amount of work done, UK = under play it.
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by hackerblues 16y ago
Given grades are correlated with having understood the material, I assume the implication is that the material you might have learned but didn't hasn't been at all relevant.
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by hackerblues 16y ago
I'm fairly introverted myself so I can relate to the notion of just spending time by myself and feeling quite happy about it. However, you miss out on so many opportunities. I just moved overseas to a new university and I've been forcing my

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