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by lbrandy 17y ago
Uh. No. The answer is the former, for the absolutely overwhelming and unspeakably vast majority of them. And for the rest, there are a dozen equally qualified people ready to do that job for them.
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by lbrandy 17y ago
I appreciate your optimism but I fear you haven't been following this very closely. This is not the first time this guy and his work has been completely tossed under a bus. The antivax people have known for a LONG TIME that this guy was bei
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by lbrandy 17y ago
I've worked at a face recognition startup for 5 years now. I've already solved this guy's problem. You have the correct answer. My response is slightly modified in that I open with "I work at a software startup... we do face recognition". A
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by lbrandy 17y ago
I have no idea how appropriate this is for HN but anti-science makes me really mad and so I upvoted it. I can't help but feel like this issues gets so little emphasis. I can't believe serious presidential candidates can admit they don't "be
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by lbrandy 17y ago
Sentences make more sense in context. In this case, the context is under the tongue-in-cheek reference to the "well-equipped greek" which is someone who, presumably, wants to have all the "must-have" gadgets. For someone who considers that
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by lbrandy 17y ago
When I read this article, I got hung up on the part about the scientists studying the biochemical pathways of the placebo effect. How interesting. It saddens me to think he doesn't get much funding. And then I had this thought: What if he d
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My 8 hour journey to a single character(lbrandy.com)
176 points by lbrandy 17y ago|40 comments
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by lbrandy 17y ago
Randall's comment is simultaneously correct and misleading on a particular point. A laptop battery may have quite a bit of energy density, but that's not entirely relevant, as he points out in the next sentence. The speed at which the ener
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by lbrandy 17y ago
They can't mention google wave in every post to their blog. Try: http://labs.mozilla.com/raindrop/faq/ >How does Raindrop relate to Google Wave? >Google Wave is attempting to create a new form of messaging. We applaud their effort
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by lbrandy 17y ago
Maybe, but not necessarily. The heat on Europa would not come from the sun but from the gravitational friction (tidal flexing) caused by Jupiter. This would likely cause quite a bit of volcanic activity under the surface and possibly create
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by lbrandy 17y ago
If you are anything like me you read this article and went "wait... they discovered magnetic monopoles?" Here's some wikipedia goodness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_monopole#.22Monopoles.... which leads you to... * http://www.s
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by lbrandy 17y ago
Don't want to be a stats-nazi, but no sample size is adequate when the respondents are self-selected :)
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by lbrandy 17y ago
> Paul later told me that the big difference was that he recognized me from Hacker News and that I said smart things there. So if that was the critical difference, the question is, “Why was I saying smart things?” Another question migh
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by lbrandy 17y ago
Definitions certainly get muddled. Revisionism, skepticism, and denialism. You have to be really careful about labels, but we should all agree that skepticism (esp. of the scientific variety) is good but when it becomes denialism, we've lef
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by lbrandy 17y ago
Here's an addendum to my story: I called my Dad, a lawyer, as I was walking out of the courthouse to brag that I was officially 1-0 in trial and planned on keeping it that way. I told him that I was upset all my preparation went to waste. H
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An almost perfect real-world hack(lbrandy.com)
129 points by lbrandy 17y ago|27 comments
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by lbrandy 17y ago
You should read the links I provided (in the blog post). Your argument requires that the treadmill prevents the plane from moving. It cannot do this unless the plane operator cooperates. Matching the speed of the wheels at any given time DO
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by lbrandy 17y ago
Why are you changing the subject? How is this relevant? You said young earth creationism was uniquely an American phenomenon. You said that nowhere in the Western world does young earth creationism approach 40%. Except.. that's -exactly- wh
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by lbrandy 17y ago
> Turning that into "40% of people think that the earth is 6000 years old" is called twisting your statistics. You clearly did not read what I linked you. Asked whether it was true that "God created the world sometime in the last 10,00
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by lbrandy 17y ago
> I can't stand this nimrod. A professor at Oxford and the man who wrote The Selfish Gene, one of the best science books EVER, is many things. Nimrod is not one of them. > Outside of the US, there is nowhere on the planet where that
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by lbrandy 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)
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by lbrandy 17y ago
As a trivial example, the entire first point he makes is basically no longer accurate. Rails does allow you to do joins, and eager loads of associations. It also allows you to override the default expected foreign-key names, etc, for declar
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by lbrandy 17y ago
Threatening to cut off his API access if he doesn't acquiesce sounds, to me, more like "demand" than "offer". To the OP: looking at the pulse of just this thread, don't underestimate the size of the PR shit-storm they'd set off by strong-ar
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by lbrandy 17y ago
Disclaimer: Please don't take my (or anyone's) advice at face value without spending some serious time considering the best option for you. I can't help but think there's something you aren't telling us, otherwise they've made a colossal er
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by lbrandy 17y ago
> As far as connections, I mean no offense to the author of this article but it's foolish to assume people will acquire connections as valuable as those Paul Graham has simply by showing up. You should go one step further because you do
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by lbrandy 17y ago
Ugh. The strawman canard. I didn't -say- that was his argument, therefore its not a strawman . I was simply providing an example to illustrate (with hyperbole) the comment I made in the previous sentence. The one you snipped out. You've ess
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by lbrandy 17y ago
The article operates under the assumption that all dollars are equal. The effect of being invested in by YC versus, say, my grandmother, are not the same. There are alot of other intangibles in play that are almost impossible to quantify. B
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by lbrandy 17y ago
Eh. You should read the original, if you haven't: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=928 Your anecdote about linksys does not undermine ESR's central thesis, at all. He argues that under the presumption open-source is more efficient, the market wi
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by lbrandy 17y ago
I just checked and the web form appears to be working correctly. Someone mentioned we had a glitch recently. Feel free to submit it again.
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by lbrandy 17y ago
Luckily I also provided a link, which, should you visit, mentions a paper. It might help. We also have an entire website describing the technology stack built on top of the basic algorithm that allows it to be extended to entire videos for

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