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by jliechti1 13y ago
At the same time, Huxley's Brave New World also appears to be becoming more and more true. "In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might
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You can see some reasons from one of the core developers here [0]: "We (i.e. the Python core developers) predicted when Python 3.0 was released that it would take about 5 years for 3.x to become the "default" choice for new
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PTT is still heavily used in Taiwan by university students. The numbers today might not be quite as high as the quote from Wikipedia below (due to the rise of Facebook), but the system is definitely still extremely active. "PTT is arg
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Indeed, I wanted to mention this as well. Furthermore, I think Python (actually Jython) is starting to become for prevalent in the enterprise space. I've seen a few different enterprise software suites from companies like IBM and HP th
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Poll: Do you read the "new" page on HN?
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Yes, every time I visit.
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Yes, most of the time.
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Yes, rarely.
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No.
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Healthcare.gov has disappeared from CMSGov's GitHub account(github.com)
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Didn't see this in the article - the paper is entitled "The projected timing of climate departure from recent variability". Direct link: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v502/n7470/pdf&
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by jliechti1 13y ago
How significant is this though? A quick wikipedia search shows the government has shut down 18 times (including this one) since 1976. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdown#Federal_gov... In fact, the governm
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Definitely - contact me at the email in my profile and I can tell you more about my specific approach for Mandarin. (Don't want to sidetrack the thread too much.)
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I have been using SRS to learn Mandarin Chinese for the last 2 years now and I can also verify it is extremely effective when used correctly, and when understanding its' advantages and limitations. I think sentences are also a much bet
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Given the costliness of most colleges in the US - why not consider getting your degree outside of the country? There are many great universities in Asia, for example, that have a much cheaper price tag. I have not seen very many (if any) US
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by jliechti1 13y ago
This how I feel about every version of Skype (for OS X) since version 2.8.x. The Skype UI had two windows - one for contacts and one for conversations. This made it easy to tuck Skype in a small corner of your screen. I think starting at ve
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by jliechti1 13y ago
Sure - let me answer that with my post for the "Everyone does not need to learn to code" thread. When I say getting more non-programmers programming, I mean it from more of a practical standpoint. My previous post: "From a pr
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>> What we need is not more programmers. What we need is to enable non-programmers to participate in the creation process, not just the ideation process,” says Kenneth Kan, CTO of a company called Pixbi and a recent convert to flow-ba
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From a practical standpoint, I really wish everyone was taught enough programming to know how to automate basic manipulation of text data. I see way too many people editing long lists of data by hand, when there are much better ways to go a
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>> This brings me to my fascination with Morse code. Granted, learning Morse code today may be a futile exercise. After all, I don’t know a single person who speaks it! From what I understand, ham radio operators still use morse code,
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>> So let's forget about computers for a second. We don't even know how humans process discourse... >> It seems more practical to do work on stuff that could actually benefit from machine learning, as opposed to trying
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But at the same time, people use sentences like this very frequently and there seems to be some sort of heuristic we are using to disambiguate it. It's not the case that every time an ambiguous sentence is used in real life people wi
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by jliechti1 13y ago
I'm confused...I thought the Robinson Projection [1] has been the standard for quite some time. Obviously not the best for navigation, but considered the best compromise for viewing the entire Earth in two dimensions. [1] http:/&
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The rule of thumb among VCs is about 15 per year. Assuming $100+ million is considered a "big success". The cap for big success might be higher. See more here: http://www.paulgraham.com/invtrend.html Actually, thi
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I think you are missing part of the results of Ericsson's research. He makes a very specific point to distinguish practice from deliberate practice . 10000 hours of practice is very different from 10000 hours of deliberate practice.
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Does Upton have any way of dealing with JavaScript or ajax calls? For a lot of the scraping I do in Python, this is crucial for me. I use Selenium's Webdriver (along with beautiful soup or lxml) now for that - definitely open to other
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PG posted a 3D printer poll about 3 months ago. Poll: Do you have a 3d printer? Yes, I already have one. 245 points I don't have one now but I may buy one. 1767 points I'll probably never buy one. 891 points Thread: https:&
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"He's a very lucky boy, but as parents we just have to say no to a lot of things to give him a normal life. The most important thing is that he can relate to his peers and not be seen as any different." It's interestin
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by jliechti1 13y ago
Part 1 of Douglas Crockford's On JavaScript gives a really nice history of the many programming languages leading up to JavaScript. Chapter 1: The Early Years : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxAXlJEmNMg Chapter 2:
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I wonder if Jimmy Carter realized it would come to this when he signed the FISA into law back in 1978.

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