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by joyofdata 12y ago
The infamous - survivorship bias :-o
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by joyofdata 12y ago
> People with WS are empathetic, social, friendly and endearing but they tend to have a low IQ, making tasks such as counting money difficult. IQ is what a standardized IQ test measures. And there is no way such a person can effectively
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by joyofdata 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Munich, Germany - but also other large towns in Germany or simply home office --- Data Science and Data Engineering: - R - Pentaho Kettle / PDI - Machine Learning (Decision Trees, SVMs, ...) - Python - Data Visualization
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by joyofdata 13y ago
"Almost immediately, Freitas started building a more secure and robust alternative to Twitter, making use of code from two other massively successful online projects: bitcoin and BitTorrent." [ http://www.wired.com/
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by joyofdata 13y ago
The denial is the problem - the fact that people who do not live anymore committed a genocide is certainly nothing that people living now should be held responsible for. But a nation has to embrace its history even if it was a predecessing
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Is Erdogan going to start a war?
6 points by joyofdata 13y ago|2 comments
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by joyofdata 13y ago
"Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a presidential sex scandal." (IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120885/ ) This mai
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Turkey downs Syria military jet 'in airspace violation'(bbc.com)
1 points by joyofdata 13y ago|1 comments
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by joyofdata 13y ago
thoughts -> TWISTER -> http://twister.net.co/
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by joyofdata 13y ago
That means you are willing to receive have of your fortune?
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by joyofdata 13y ago
For me precisely this was the final reason I needed to simply erase Windows 8 64bit Professional (which I paid for half a year earlier) and install Ubuntu 13.10. I was worried about driver issues and spending too much time adminstering my s
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by joyofdata 13y ago
If this was a movie plot it would be bashed for being unrealistic ... "It doesn't make any sense somebody could hijack a plane that easily - you know, just deactivate the transponder and be gone - it's not that simple, of cou
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by joyofdata 13y ago
Instead of reading faster - I prefer to cut down on what I choose to read.
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by joyofdata 13y ago
Thanks for the kind words - you're most welcome
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by joyofdata 13y ago
Thanks - well recursive downloading of a web-page using wget is no big deal at all. And regarding particularly simpler - it is particularly shorter and pretty clear what's going on.
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by joyofdata 13y ago
Warning: Self-Advertisment! http://www.joyofdata.de/blog/using-linux-shell-web-scraping/ Okay, it's not as bold has using Headers saying "Hire Me" but I would like to emphasize that sometimes even c
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by joyofdata 13y ago
Why is stuff like this on HN?
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by joyofdata 13y ago
Hey Carlo! Kompliment für das neue Design von neues-aus-der-zukunft.de - wird immer chicer!
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by joyofdata 13y ago
As a German I also second that Bild is not a trustworthy source and I find it odd that such a charged information would be seeded to Bild instead of Spiegel, FAZ or Süddeutsche which all have a much higher reputation within Germany and inte
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by joyofdata 13y ago
Installed it today for the first time (just switched from Windows to Ubuntu) and I love it already! http://askubuntu.com/questions/423529/how-to-efficiently-swi...
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by joyofdata 13y ago
The meaning of this statement is that bubbling is basically covering up more of the body then the bikini. So, technically a bikini reveals more than a bubbled bikini.
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Ask HN: What was your smartest/funniest/most honest commit message ever?
1 points by joyofdata 13y ago|0 comments
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by joyofdata 13y ago
XYLITOL :) We use it for coffee, baking, cocktails, Sushi rice and more. Xylitol has less intensive impact on the insulin system and does not cause a glycaemic peak as strong as you experience it with sugar. Xylitol is also proven to direct
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by joyofdata 13y ago
Well "rare" ... the Wikileaks embassy cables are GBs of intra-governmental communication.
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by joyofdata 13y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1fwj66/u161719_t... This link has been just recently discussed here on HN and it seems like this will be the future of Turkey. Turkey never was a hotbed of fre
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Turkey cracking down on Internet usage(usatoday.com)
93 points by joyofdata 13y ago|36 comments
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by joyofdata 13y ago
Password Safe is the real deal because the master wrote it: https://www.schneier.com/passsafe.html It is convenient enough - and when it comes to such sensitive digital areas, then I defenitely prefer to take a conservative
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by joyofdata 13y ago
The reason why the US government prevents export even of a cultural kind to countries like Cuba and Iran is to reinforce and foster the believe in americans that people from Cuba and Iran are enemies.
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by joyofdata 13y ago
Quora is suffering badly from questions like: 1) "What was the most awesome thing a teacher ever told you?" 2) "Is coffee bad for you?" 3) "What is it like to live in Berlin?" ... and so on. The answers are usu
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by joyofdata 13y ago
Is a distributed and fully encrypted social networking service feasible at all?

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