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If you just listed the core principles outlined here for anyone I don't see how they could find anything disagreeable. This sounds great, especially points a and b.
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Great news. The more rational and intelligent people stop boycotting and actually start debating and working to convince / give their good advice to the POTUS the better. At the end of the day, he and his team are making decisions for
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This article started off interesting, but didn't really go anywhere IMHO. I don't think saying "thanks|thank you|awesome|:)" is a good metric for being "happy". It seems like a much better metric for "than
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The whole premise of there being a single function or main function of sleep seems slightly far-fetched IMHO. For example, is the brain's function to think rationally? To speak and understand language? To unconciously regulate bodily f
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Two points from the "In Comments" section: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html 1. There is nothing on "substance-free". 2. Commenting "threatening to be banned from making comments&quot
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There is no way your comment could be concieved as a violation of HN guidelines. You didn't submit the article and you didn't violate anything on the HN guideline list. Humans are driven by emotions and we are no where near as rat
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you can also use the aptly named fivenum() func in R :)
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This is a great read. I've been thinking alot about these basic concepts myself lately, especially the idea of central tendency. Essentially, we can make up any method we want to summarize data and give us a single value that represent
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100℅ this. There are literally millions of news sites where you can go talk about politics all day. I really like the fact that HN stays out of it.
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For JavaScript there are a lot of great devs but these two are the guys who I like reading the most, IMHO they write code thats beautiful to look at and well designed. 1. Jeremy Ashkenas - https://github.com/jashkenas 2. Na
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Why Does Adding Equations to Solve a System Work(mathforum.org)
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> Blender is a nice project Sorry, but Blender is an amazing project. Its single-handedly the best graphics software the FOSS community has produced by a long shot, and can compete with the likes of 3DS Max and Maya which are owned by th
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Exactly this. I've never encountered any well-defined problem outside of a textbook. In practice, I've always had to discover the goals / problems and then the underlying processes that define them, and only then can you begi
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> Do you also find things like art, literature and film pointless because they don't help you solve problems? The point of philosophy is to discover answers to questions. Such as how does the mind work? Is there a mind? What is the
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As an undergrad there was a brief point where I got really into philosophy i.e. its core disciplines such as metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, because I had never encountered it before but after about a year and a half I got co
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> it's merely generally harder and for less money. My experience has been the opposite in terms of difficulty. In most EU countries the market of software engineers who can also speak the native country's language is really sma
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I can only speak for the countries I know about which are Germany, Poland and France. But generally I think these properties hold across Europe as a whole, at least from collegues or friends from other countries whom I've talked to, th
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IMO the biggest plus for rust is actually cargo. Building, versioning, and sharing modular code is essentially copy/paste in C/C++, and compared to that cargo is lightyears ahead. I actually wish rust would accept its systems nich
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I understand where you're coming from completely. I worked as a software developer for about 5 years before starting an MA in CS having previously gotten a BA in the humanities. To answer your question, the biggest knowledge gaps for m
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This is somewhat tangential but could some of you pythonistas opine on the status of concurrency in python as of 3.6? Are we talking JVM level goodness or even some message passing builtins like erlang or is python still meandering around p
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This is very nice artwork. I wonder if this is the same Chad Walker who worked on Age of Empires and BloodRayne? They've done some pretty cool stuff too at http://www.walkerboystudio.com .
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Phoenix Ecto Models Cheatsheet(ricostacruz.com)
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I agree with a lot of what you said. I do a lot of maths and development, and for me it boils down to using R when doing analysis, anything statistics based, and general prototyping, then I switch to python when I have to build an app, even
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Completely agree. I live in Europe, am a part of the tech scene, and am sitting in the contitental craziness you speak of in Germany. This report is largely nonsense. It talks about "top research institutions" are in Europe, negle
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A long time ago I was interested in finding out what the intersection of all languages sounds would be, would it be an empty set or was there enough overlap that someone designing the next esperanto could build it using universal sounds thu
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A Call with Jack: How Twitter CEO Restricted Advertising for Trump's Campaign(medium.com)
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True. And now I suppose I will go into slightly more detail :) First though, I never suggested that discussing the issue would solve the problem of ISIS just to be clear. Discussion is the first step down a very long road. However, I do thi
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Well, I disagree with you but appreciate that you took the time to give the reason for your downvote. I always try to do the same as well b/c I think if everyone did that we would never have a need for such EDITS as the one I made abov
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Why are you criticizing a straw man, getting upset at him, and then calling him me? If you read my comment I never said those issues where the most important issues of the moment. I never said that black people marching is equivalent to isl
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Care to back that up with any data, links, etc? It seems like you are saying that the freedom to speak about and openly discuss problems is not the most effective way for a society to learn about, discuss, and solve its own problems, but th

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