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by jere 13y ago
>They could make computers do everything for them... helping them select the best photo to show to potential dates. Hmm. What are those tweets about anyway: >Considering writing some software to use MTurk to rank my self-portraits. It
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by jere 13y ago
Agreed. I'm not even a big anime fan and Hikaru no Go really kept up my motivation when I was first starting. It's hard to believe how exciting they made Go look, when it's actually just two people quietly placing stones on
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by jere 13y ago
Finally an original app stock photo. Instead of (wooden desk, mac air, moleskine, coffee) it's (wooden desk, mac air, moleskine, beer). In all seriousness, I really wish I lived in London. For stuff like this and also it seems to have
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by jere 13y ago
>Handford generally shies away from putting Waldo near the bottom or top of a page, which leads me to theorize that Waldo placement is largely a function of two factors: aversion from extremes and aversion from the middle. Perhaps the me
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by jere 13y ago
They're the real sets/hosts, but not real broadcasts of those shows.
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by jere 13y ago
Ok. I was getting confused by the delay and the initial lack of control. I couldn't tell the difference between a delayed change and an automatic change. Thanks.... point still stands that it's simply a bunch of fake tv clips, pro
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by jere 13y ago
Seriously?? It's just a few fake TV show clips they recorded specifically for this video. And for me, the channel buttons do nothing but bring up a description of the current "channel." [edit: the channels do change after a d
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by jere 13y ago
On a rainy, cold day and very early, I don't see why it's so hard to believe. Especially if you're willing to wait for the stragglers to walk out of the frame. Also, consider the clustering illusion. Even with a fair number o
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by jere 13y ago
>There are plenty of existing general-purpose computer languages. But their vision is very different—and in a sense much more modest—than the Wolfram Language. Indeed.
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by jere 13y ago
You're right in a way, but I was surprised by how even the worst algorithms you learn in school have some properties that are better than the ones considered the best (e.g. bubble vs quicksort, quicksort isn't stable). This websit
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by jere 13y ago
That's just awful. You have to look in 4 different places to understand one data point. If they really wanted to use a circle, why not a curved timeline? I've actually always visualized the calendar year as an oval. It would be
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by jere 13y ago
To be fair, this is the same language used by the proponents of basic income, as noted in the article. That's probably what inspired the title. >Charles Murray of the conservative American Enterprise Institute... suggested guarantee
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by jere 13y ago
I wouldn't say to stop playing. I was losing a lot of games because I had the wrong notion about how beams worked. It was fairly easy after that. And fun! But you are exactly right that calling the game "perfectly balanced" i
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by jere 13y ago
You read the article right? Especially the part where the creator of Infiniminer is tired of people saying that?
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by jere 13y ago
>>There is no way to ever prove or disprove whether any encryption was ever happening at all, and whether it was or not makes little difference. I get that Lavabit was fundamentally flawed, but I don't know about this part. Lavab
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by jere 13y ago
>Then you said that this guy did it working out for four hours a day Nope, that's not what I said. I even linked to the article that has that exact claim; apparently, you didn't read it. >just that it would take at least 600
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by jere 13y ago
Just because I find it interesting, let me just point out a couple examples Ferriss gives (and is up front about) to elaborate on "loopholes": -Winning a kickboxing championship by 1) pretty drastic water loss to fit into a lower
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by jere 13y ago
1500 kcal/lb is a conservative estimate, considering the caloric density of fat vs protein and that the vast majority of muscle mass is water. I've heard the number 600 kcal thrown around quite a bit on body building forums. I&#x2
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by jere 13y ago
Original article for reference: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/04/29/from-geek-to... >Gaining 34 lbs of muscle in 4 weeks is impossible I'm not so sure it's impossible. Claiming s
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by jere 13y ago
So what? The previous 34lb gain happened about 8 years ago and that was probably his main focus at the time. Then, he was in his late 20s. Now, he's in his late 30s and obviously spread thin. I love HN, but damn the negativity and di
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by jere 13y ago
Yea... I started hearing "doe" a lot recently and got pretty irritated in a "get off my lawn" kind of way. Then I realized there's a 1993 Ice Cube song called "Really Doe" and I can't get mad about &q
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by jere 13y ago
Hmm... really thought that part was oozing with sarcasm.
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by jere 13y ago
Troll, yes. Deceive? Eh, everyone knows I'm clueless, but I can now maintain a conversation.
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by jere 13y ago
I don't know the ins and outs completely (tried to be up front about that), but I do think it's very possible to win a week in FF and have all your players be on losing teams in real life. Depending on the league and how points ar
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by jere 13y ago
Ha! You mean TCD? It is pretty addictive, but the crazy part is I couldn't convince hardly any of my friends to play. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it. I'm pretty active on the forums if you have any questions.
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by jere 13y ago
Of course. I think the idea of the 2-3 person indie team or even solo developer is quite romantic. For instance: http://jere.in/sneaking-into-rohrers-castle-part-1 With that last comment though, I was mainly referencing AAA
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by jere 13y ago
As you go back in time, the number of people working on a game drops dramatically. Crash Bandicoot was released in 1996 and had 2 programmers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_Bandicoot_(video_game) Three years earl
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by jere 13y ago
Definitely an interesting story. One connection I never made before was that 1) the worm gave computer security a shot in the arm and 2) Morris's father was a computer security expert. I'm sure it's completely unrelated, but
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by jere 13y ago
Your answer is a little unclear. If you're essentially printing money (i.e. "credits") and then guaranteeing to buy them back at the same rate, it seems like you would net nothing. Unless you're counting on credits never

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