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by jkldotio 11y ago
The advertising is going to be extremely targeted too. If person is going to the shopping mall to see an optometrist then the stores at the same mall could bid to pitch to them. They would literally be showing their ads to someone who is ab
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by jkldotio 11y ago
It's such a ridiculous line. Even putting aside that many laptops and desktops cost over $1000 Intel spends over $10 billion a year on R&D and machines.[0] Add to that the kind of engineering that goes into the physical form of a T
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by jkldotio 11y ago
But it's still more http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ than http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ it doesn't take much to get a pleasant design for reading.
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by jkldotio 11y ago
Also the guy who designed the smoke extractor system wasn't actually an engineer. Stern broke the story last year.[1] My German is pretty basic, but "Geschasster BER-Planer war nur technischer Zeichner ... Doch di Mauro ist kein I
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by jkldotio 11y ago
I wasn't aware of that rule and I've been on here for many years, it should perhaps be made more prominent. I also genuinely think it's wrong, people should be able to flag things which are inaccessible for them. To expand on
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by jkldotio 11y ago
It is for me: http://i.imgur.com/Zq1gvgw.png
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by jkldotio 11y ago
I have flagged this because it's paywalled. edit. unflagged, apparently that's against the rules (that I disgree with but will follow)
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by jkldotio 11y ago
I've told this story before on HN but I'll tell it again here. On current Google Maps statistics I used lived 18km/24minutes from the airport in Melbourne while the CBD is 23km/22minutes away (faster roads to get to the
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by jkldotio 11y ago
>And no, it's not pointless definitional games Actually it pretty much is exactly that. You clearly didn't read the article or don't care about the article and only care about the headline. You aren't even discussing
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by jkldotio 11y ago
It took me a long time to get set up in Austria, over a month and seven visits to various agencies compared to two days with a single online process in my native Australia. They also had mandatory "social insurance" payments. Thes
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by jkldotio 11y ago
Titles are titles: they need to be short and are only an indication of the content, not a full summary. I don't know where anyone is getting the idea that the title can always be perfect summary from. Some degree of ambiguity is theref
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by jkldotio 11y ago
>This is one of the most uninformed titles I've read. Well then perhaps you should read the article. Yours is a classic HN pedant response where some minor technical issue, which frequently isn't even an issue, becomes a fixati
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by jkldotio 11y ago
Very poorly named given Requests has a branch using Gevent that's already called grequests. https://github.com/kennethreitz/grequests
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by jkldotio 11y ago
Isn't the Wolfram "Language" more like a cloud computing service? Almost all of the magic they do in the demos I've seen so far seems to be just neatly wrapped APIs to their web services. That's fair enough for thos
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by jkldotio 11y ago
And? This is like MapReduce, which scales well for certain problems, particularly those involving counting. If I am counting up the words in 25 TB of text in one case and counting up the words in 1250 TB of text in another, but in the first
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by jkldotio 11y ago
"If you think polling 16 million people in a rich country is more complex than polling 815 million people in a poor one, please sit down and have a rethink. It is very very hard to fathom that difference in scale." I think you hav
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by jkldotio 11y ago
"I think for places like Aus, NZ - with small populations and a handful of population centers, what you are saying makes a lot of sense. For a place like India, the problems pretty much require electronic voting. I am old enough to sti
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by jkldotio 11y ago
To thin the herd on the Senate ballots they could just up the number of people required to register. They could also up the deposit a bit, although doing that by too much would be undemocratic. I personally don't have a problem with a
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by jkldotio 11y ago
Putting the Athenians aside, because their system is significantly different and different throughout the 500BC~338BC period as well, counting happens in parallel so there is no substantial difference between Australia's 24 million and
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by jkldotio 11y ago
I've never seen the need for voting machines, even if they were open source and not plagued by scandals constantly. Counting votes can be done mostly in parallel. If you can't get enough volunteers and auditors to watch them then
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by jkldotio 11y ago
I recall reading that at one point game programmers were using portions of their code as textures. Which reminds me of the story of Mel. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
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by jkldotio 11y ago
Ars has never been too serious. The same author has an article titled "Is the Internet a failed utopia?".
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by jkldotio 11y ago
My favourite quote like this is "great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people" which is usually attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, but this is disputed. However the nature of the quote highligh
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by jkldotio 11y ago
Better call Darl McBride to make sure..
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by jkldotio 11y ago
I wanted to have a look at how much PyPy might speed up the task so I generated a one million line x 20, 287M, big-data.csv of my own with the following. import random with open("big-data.csv","w") as f:
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by jkldotio 11y ago
Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications by Toby Segaran is a bit old now but is excellent, 4.5 stars on Amazon from 100+ reviews.[1] A bit of overlap with this one, but there are some great explanations. [1]
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by jkldotio 12y ago
You are right to call me out on that it seems. I just looked into it further and this study[0] seems like pretty good evidence - double blind randomized crossover study with 48 "sensitive" and 48 control subjects - that there isn&
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by jkldotio 12y ago
Yes this is an interesting thought. Something like Aspartame, at least in a subset of the population, induces headaches. So it's interacting with something related to the brain in some people at least. Doing some digging there are some
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by jkldotio 12y ago
I once had a taxi driver berate me at the end of a journey for not taking a long enough trip in from the airport. It was a 25 minute journey, Google says at the moment the same trip is 20 minutes and a trip to the center of the same city is
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by jkldotio 12y ago
There's nothing wrong with the original at all, it should stay. In fact the original is far superior to the Ars "summary" because it provides a more neural headline, also provides link to the paper up front, provides the abst

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