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by jre 13y ago
I think if you take the babies of the smartest X% people in the world and raise them in poverty then yes, their average IQ will be lower than if they were raised in a middle class household. Poverty means you have to skip meals, you can&#x2
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by jre 13y ago
I was kind of wondering if it was 'y', 'js' or 'p'. The 'p' of the older logo was more readable in my opinion. Overall, I like the new logo more.
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by jre 13y ago
I think Julia ( http://julialang.org/ ) might be a better alternative to Scientific Python than Go. I'm not sure you can get the same flexibility/expressiveness you get in Numpy/R/Matlab in Go.
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by jre 13y ago
To be fair, they should both have taken your advice. Felipe made is point in hist first post, refuting the arguments that needed to be. The following posts (by both Olav and Felipe) are just noise. The whole thread turns into a silly "I wan
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by jre 13y ago
Really impressive. Very creative and quite polished.
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by jre 13y ago
My understanding is that the garbage would be burnt anyway so better use it for heating.
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by jre 13y ago
We already have the laws to handle that kind of witch hunt behavior (it's basically defamation), it's just that we need to have them enforced. Sadly, a lot of people seem to think that their responsibility for what they do stop once they're
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by jre 14y ago
I spent many of my student holidays hacking on stuff. That was really great and I learned many technologies/languages that we never touched at university. But I also did two internships, one at a big, one at a small company. They were incre
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Colout - Color Up Arbitrary Command Ouput(nojhan.github.com)
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by jre 14y ago
This is pretty cool ! I worked on a similar problem during my bachelor thesis[1] : I wrote an algorithm to remove clouds from NDVI images (used for deforestation detection[2]). We used fourrier, moving windows and some ugly hacks to detect
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by jre 14y ago
This is insanely cool ! Is it also possible to call Julia from Python ? This would allow me to switch to Julia instead of C for the heavy algorithms.
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by jre 14y ago
As a programmer with little knowledge of internet-scale networking, this was a very interesting read. Thanks !
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by jre 14y ago
This is pretty cool and I like the concept. The problem I see is that by requiring a working internet connection on your smartphone and the computer you use to present, this add a number of points of failure. I'd feel safer with just a USB
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by jre 14y ago
Is this even legal ? In Switzerland, I don't think an employer can claim ownership of a piece of work that was produced on the employee spare time (and on his own computer and so on).
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by jre 14y ago
Regarding the black box criticism, it seems to me that most popular algorithms (SVM, Random forest, ...) become black boxes once you go past the simple 2D example and apply them to real problems. Real-world decisions trees are pretty unread
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by jre 14y ago
FlatUI was inspired by another website. In this case, both websites seem to have copied all the assets up to the javascript from gocardless since they received sentry notifications.
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by jre 14y ago
Works fine on Chrome 25.0.1364.97 on Ubuntu 12.10. Is this a browser issue or something with the underlying platform font rendering libs ?
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by jre 14y ago
I share your sentiment of frustration. I've read "The China Study" by Campbell and various other articles about paleo-diet and others and there is a lot of contradictory informations. Although they go in opposite directions (Campbell advoca
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by jre 14y ago
Apple's clock was an exact copy of the swiss railway clock. In this case, the rounded corners are different, the color is different, the shadow is different, the lengths of the lines are different.
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by jre 14y ago
This immediatly reminded of about Ballmer's reaction to the first iPhone [1] : he started laughing explaining it's too expensive, doesn't have a physical keyboard. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U
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by jre 14y ago
The root of the problem is the Indonesian institution hosting the book, not Google. A search engine should show you what's publicly available on the internet with as little filters as possible, otherwise it opens the doors to a lot of abus
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by jre 14y ago
I had the same initial reaction, but the killer is the hard drive : 32 or 64 GB SSD... That's a bit short to do local development. Maybe you can change it though.
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by jre 14y ago
I don't work at Google, but I've found that working from a different location in the office for some time helps me refocus during the day. So I sometimes just take my laptop, ssh to my desktop and go find a table/couch somewhere. Also, mult
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by jre 14y ago
This reminds me about an undergrad C course I had. One test was about printf formatting. We were given a serie of crazy format strings (using format specifier I've never encountered again since) and had to know what it would output. This wa
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by jre 14y ago
I try to stay away from *Office suites as much as possible. It seems that whenever I use them to do anything more complicated than typing a short letter, everything starts to fall apart and I wish I had used Latex/R/python instead. On the o
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by jre 14y ago
I love the design and usability of hacker news. It's minimal, efficient, non-distracting, consistent and puts content first. I wish more news website would be like that. The libreoffice website, on the other hand, has a lot of visual elemen
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by jre 14y ago
A little bit of context here : The graphene project[1] is one of the two "flagship" research projects in which the European Union just announced it will invest €1B over ten years. The other winner is the "human brain project"[2]. Those two
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by jre 14y ago
This makes me wonder : a lot of FB users are always logged in, even when they aren't on FB (to use the like button and other stuff). Shouldn't Facebook be able to offer something like AdSense with much better targeting capabilities ?
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by jre 14y ago
I really love what Mozilla is doing and they would be pretty close to #1 on my trusted companies list. Sadly, the post is so misleading and borderline dishonest that it just makes them seem a bit less trustful. I mean, the study's categoriz
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by jre 14y ago
Python has some nice tools to interface with R when needed (rpy2 for example). On top of that, scipy/numpy/matplotlib provides a lot of scientific routines.

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