jbpetersen

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by jbpetersen 10y ago
[citation needed]
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
Any resources fellow HNers recommend for understanding what value there is in non-voting stock?
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
Give the MJ industry a few years to spearhead experimentation with highly controlled farming techniques, then watch the tech scope out to custom strains of all sorts of different consumable plants as it comes down in price and people with r
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
Was it uniquely better suited to doing so than other trendy new media platforms?
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
Heroism is easy to observe compared to the more mundane yet more impactful day to day work. My perspective is we need to track better metrics for seeing the latter.
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
"Gishing" would be a useful word to have around.
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
It's a lot more likely that they do when you precondition on them living in SF.
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
Mass surveillance in the digital age is a Pandora's box that's been opened. Without comprehensively putting extreme restrictions on what people can put online, there is only ever going to be an exponentially growing trove of data
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
Survivorship bias?
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
Once you've maxed out your abilities with the resources available in one place, then you'd probably start specializing for different abilities in different places to the extent you can gain additional value through comparative adv
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
I think demoscene has met my bar for "good" rendering of fractals. Hopefully worth a quick search for anyone not already familiar with that corner of esoteric programming.
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
Please tell me you're making a game about being a quant.
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
Thank you
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
Coming back to it, using a background that contrasts more with the entries was cleverly done. It makes them a lot more visually distinct while keeping the site overall a lot more clean that what I suggested with more obvious separators. I&#
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
So where in the world are there services you can pay to negotiate your bills downward without keeping them on retainer?
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
I can't possibly be the only one here who wishes articles were presented in this format, with each of the points clickable for more details, such that the whole thing is a tree structure of summarized points.
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
I'm interested in seeing what you can come up with in the intersection of Snapchat and programming. It seems like a pretty odd combo.
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
I may have to take advantage of that book recently appearing on a nearby shelf. A modern take: My door refused to open. The sign displayed on the door's handle in my arhud grew more prominent than it had been when I was ignoring it a f
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
I imagine it being more like I say "computer, set the lights to forest green", that speech gets crunched by a well trained neural net (or sequence of them) to determine an appropriate reaction, then the fraction of a cent compute
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
Incorporate is so wordy though, why don't we just start saying "inc" for short instead of "hack" and call it a day? That way we can ironically signal to fellow incers on IN that we're part of the IN -group and
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
I'm waiting for pay-as-you-go automation services with good federation between them. That's the only model I see being practical long-term.
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
Ditto
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
The readability isn't that great so I tried tweaking the CSS around for higher contrast: http://imgur.com/a/Ohsav (values used: #F00, #00F, #777, #EEE) At that point I realized having visual boundaries for the dif
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
This is probably a better fit for reddit.com/r/askreddit. That said, I understand this as meaning superhuman skills in one or a few things vs. at least intermediate skills in everything. I think I'd take the latter.
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
Vimium - Adds vim-like controls My favorite parts: j and k to scroll, J and K to switch tabs, F to display 1 to 3 character sequences next to all links where typing one opens it in a new tab.
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
// since typing it out like this is preferable to reteaching myself LaTeX right now let favoriteEquation = arr => { let total = 0; for(let x of arr) total += Math.abs(x); let normalizedArr = [];
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
I'll bet many of these are the same jobs where people are expected to be responsive during their off-hours regardless of whether they're on-call.
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
Seems like you'd want to just have the users running the neural nets to avoid issues of either a single neural net being trained by all the users and converging to a single standard (still quite interesting but not a solution to the pr
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
There needs to be an "Ask YC" weekly. It'd also make for a great way to nudge the community in the desired direction by focusing attention (and away from becoming what's effectively a standalone subreddit).
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by jbpetersen 10y ago
Perhaps something like status.ycombinator.com for the briefly summarized current states of various things?

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