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by jkldotio 13y ago
I can't imagine many too many cases where they'd be useful in everyday situations because if the car can't handle everyday situations then it's not going to be a good car and is going to sink to the "we're concerned for safety" lobbying tha
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by jkldotio 13y ago
Broken on a full machine too, won't close when I clearly click the close button. Dreadful.
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by jkldotio 13y ago
The 81 upvotes (of 191 for the story as a whole) on my original post and the replies here with people overtly stating they'd like to work for the company but were immediately turned off by that phrase I think prove my point. If we consider
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by jkldotio 13y ago
Also in many VPS slices you have a guaranteed amount of compute power but when the others aren't using the CPU you can use more, burstable RAM allocations too, whereas a dedicated blade trying to compete with a Linode slice will have hard l
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by jkldotio 13y ago
Any business where people who use a different windowing system to get to their editor and shell "don't fit in" is not a business many high level hackers would be interested in at all. Even PG's Lisp versus Blub argument is tenuous. Language
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by jkldotio 13y ago
A word to the wise regarding your employment benefits, you say: "Shiny Apple Products Seriously, get whatever you want (PC users may have to justify themselves)." That will simply turn off some people and there is no reason for a self-inter
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by jkldotio 13y ago
I'm a politics junkie/anorak for Australia/UK as well as multiple other countries and polities. I have been completely dissatisfied with the precipitous decline, as well as pay-walling, of broadsheets over the last decade and a half that I'
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by jkldotio 13y ago
This is ridiculous. For those interested in the topic a much better discussion can be see here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2450424
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Ask HN: critique my failed news site pitch
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by jkldotio 13y ago
This is the person who subscribes to the nudge politics of micromanaging people's soft drink sizes.[1] Which comes from the same type of political theorists (Cass Sunstein chief among them) who believe it is a reasonable proposition to have
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by jkldotio 13y ago
Which is why I include statistics.gov.uk in my UK section of http://jkl.io/ I think we can get around more than just churnalism if people have direct access to academic, state, NGO and partisan materials without journalistic intermediarie
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by jkldotio 14y ago
> People have made this claim for years. Indeed, and this was published in the Linux Journal in 2002. It is an old boring argument, it even includes the words "I'm not just trying to start a holy war here", echoing the famous cut and pa
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by jkldotio 14y ago
You will perhaps notice if you look again that there is a caterpillar on her finger. Even if she was giving the finger I doubt that would count against her business given the the intersection between the set of "urban cyclists" they are tar
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by jkldotio 14y ago
I think there is a stronger case to be made that the topic simply doesn't fit hacker news.
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by jkldotio 14y ago
Near enough[1][2]. [1] http://www.vice.com/read/chinas-taking-over-the-world-with-a... [2] http://io9.com/is-china-selectively-breeding-a-new-generatio...
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by jkldotio 14y ago
It would be interesting to get object tracking placed onto all the available video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GhNXHCQGsM ).
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by jkldotio 14y ago
Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers: https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programmin...
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by jkldotio 14y ago
Not quite the same as that's mostly just news/events in the middle of the spectrum. Having Will Self on to rant about things occasionally doesn't really equal bringing in think tanks, academics and NGOs. So if I am funded I will go well bey
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by jkldotio 14y ago
This is why I am trying to build a non-profit news site with no adverts. I don't believe there is a real way around the corrupting influence of trying to maximize clicks when there are ads. My site is looking to bring in the underused resou
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by jkldotio 14y ago
High German Romanticism or not, your classmates may be proven right in the long run.
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by jkldotio 14y ago
My gmail account has been suffering a similar problem in that someone uses it for their throwaway signups for computer game forums and the like. Either that or it's a very effective form of spam to pretend to be the "initial registration" m
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by jkldotio 14y ago
Google has stated before they think of themselves as working on an AI. Like Google's scanning of books, reading all the academic articles isn't for popular consumption but for their knowledge engine. Think of IBM's medical engine. Zero chan
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by jkldotio 14y ago
I haven't added comments to jkl.io yet but they are coming and will have multiple filters to try to keep things sane. Watch this space.
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by jkldotio 14y ago
The fact is the news has never been what we believe it to be, there is no clear line that defines a journalist. My startup is focused on reinventing the definitions we normally take for granted to arrive at something entirely different. The
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by jkldotio 14y ago
I had DDG with HTML5 voice recognition on my site for a while, but after consulting with Gabriel decided it was a data leak to Google. Can't wait for voice to be a seamless part of the real web stack. Still, a keyboard shortcut gets you to
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by jkldotio 14y ago
Having worked with a lot of ML guys who were ahead of Google on numerous fronts I have to agree. With Knol's death Google failed to control Wikipedia, arguably one of more important ML datasets. People can fire up the common crawl on demand
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by jkldotio 14y ago
The list appears to be missing the great scikitlearn ( http://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/index.html ).
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by jkldotio 14y ago
Yeah I've noticed a few hidden ones, perhaps I need to make a script and go back to check the ones I thought didn't have one. niflet.com looks great, I like the minimalism.
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by jkldotio 14y ago
When I was building the source list for jkl.io noticed at lot of sites no longer offering RSS and even sites like Wordpress seem to be not offering it frequently (is this authors not turning it on, turning it off, or am I missing something?
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by jkldotio 14y ago
I think NLTK is pure python because it's supposed to work as a teaching tool as well. Perhaps pypy can come into play for that, although in real world situations I've only see marginal gains from pypy so far.

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