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by mayank 16y ago
> "I wonder who will answer that phone number?" Thanks for that. After reading that line on TFA, as well as the rationalization for the lack of color on the card (seriously??), I had an image of a misty-eyed fanboy staring longingly at
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by mayank 16y ago
> So henceforth begins my reverse marriage proposal! Careful, that might be confused with "arrogant douchebag". What you look for in a for-profit company aimed at maximizing profits is not necessarily what you'd want in a husband. For e
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by mayank 16y ago
I had to google for that: http://www.birdhouse.org/etc/kibosig.txt
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by mayank 16y ago
> the game is what you the player want to make it Interesting -- I know nothing about it, but it sounds like it might appeal to people who want to learn video game programming, at least perhaps the ones that don't want to go into hardco
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by mayank 16y ago
> webapp IDE The closest I've seen to this is Aptana Studio ( http://www.aptana.com/ ) , which is far from what you suggest, but is at least is on the same track. > Flashy feature is showing structure of html pages (block-level e
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by mayank 16y ago
> This usually means spam, but it can also mean if a node is acting in bad faith (ie, it's revealed that AppleBook is selling non-local user data), or if they're abusing the protocol. That can act as a certain type of social "shunning"
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by mayank 16y ago
That's an interesting algorithmic problem. Assuming that you knew the structure of ad-hoc networks in terms of wifi range in a smallish region (for example, by wardriving in a dense urban area), you could pick geographical regions to target
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by mayank 16y ago
Yeah I went back and read your comment again and see how you meant "evolution", which is perfectly valid (i.e., special case of emergent behavior). However, I know this is going to get increasingly pedantic, but evolution usually implies so
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by mayank 16y ago
> This is the first (global?) distributed wireless network that evolved on its own. Not really. It's emergent behavior in a complex system. You have a lot of entities (in this case, unpatched Windows XP SP2 and below systems), and a set
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by mayank 16y ago
I'm running on Ubuntu with a side-by-side MacOS X in a VM, and I couldn't help think "aahh...shit". Some habits die hard.
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by mayank 16y ago
Which might also be an effective recruiting tool. I used to sit next to someone who used to hit the restroom at 1pm every day, like clockwork, and come out reeking of whiskey. Also kept a bottle of Wild Turkey on his desk that slowly dimini
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by mayank 16y ago
I stopped reading here, when numbers started being pulled out of orifices: > Out of those 200,000 followers, you’d easily get 10,000 to pay $1 to get the premium app to stay “in the first circle of friends” of their idol
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by mayank 16y ago
It's a costly business for the people doing the actual reviewing, ie the scholars who essentially work for free. Academic publishing is, I hope, the next industry to be reformed by open access web archives, although I'll be the first to adm
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by mayank 16y ago
Umm...how can you claim a loss in quality without looking at the original? The linked page shows two lossily compressed versions of an unknown original image. You're commenting on which image subjectively LOOKS better to you, not on compres
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by mayank 16y ago
You raise a good point -- when I was writing reasonably small programs, it was gvim all the way for me. However, the minute you have to interface with a library like wxWidgets, for example, the IDE really shines through with auto-completion
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by mayank 16y ago
They will think: (1) that we write equations in white markers on glass windows (like John Nash in Beautiful Mind) prior to whipping out PHP to build a website, (2) that Zuckerberg intended from the start for Facebook to become the photo-an
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by mayank 16y ago
> I'm sure CS PhD's are in good shape but breaking into ML from another programming discipline seems pretty hard. That's because ML isn't a "programming discipline". It's pretty much pure statistics, optimization algorithms, and linear
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by mayank 16y ago
> There's very little about neural networks, for instance, or genetic algorithms For good reason. Outside of neuroscience, there's very little reason to use neural networks for classification or regression problems, and outside very ill
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by mayank 16y ago
AARGGH! I paid close to a hundred bucks for the Tibshirani book a few years ago! On the plus side, I think it's a beautiful, beautiful machine learning book that is a welcome replacement to Tom Mitchell's book, which is showing its age. I h
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by mayank 16y ago
I never understood why I couldn't find an OO fork that trimmed all the fat, took a "Google approach", and tried to be really good at basic word processing. This includes elements like an uncluttered UI, responsiveness of pagination, collabo
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by mayank 16y ago
> 4) Don't ride a Segway around U of I in January. I'm so very sorry for you! Didn't it ring a bell for anyone where you work that outdoors + Chicago area + January = frostbite? No wonder the place rented you a Segway! You don't see a l
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by mayank 16y ago
People seemed to have misunderstood the title of the link -- I meant it as a declarative statement, not a surprised exclamation. Perhaps I should have added "consequences of" to the beginning, but my point was just to share a particularly u
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by mayank 16y ago
> but it's long established that there's no expectation of privacy in a public place My point with sharing that link was to point out a particularly nasty consequence of that.
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No expectation of privacy on public transit(chicagotribune.com)
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by mayank 16y ago
> Perhaps you should break down that problem into solvable small ones? Then you could determine how I was able to teach myself each of those with only a high school education. This is something I've heard a lot. I don't mean to disparag
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by mayank 16y ago
Guns are banned in the Ol'Pejeta Conservancy, except for the staff (I just have a research permit), and even then only to use against poachers. I've seen some serious firepower at the research center, but strictly for use against poachers.
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by mayank 16y ago
Those elephants can run very, very fast if they're pissed off, and among other reasons, the savannah isn't straight-line driving for the most part. Elephants like to frequent parts that are heavy scrub, which limits straight-line speed. Bes
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by mayank 16y ago
I work fairly often in the field in Kenya, and am frankly just shocked that they were offered a "walking safari". At the Ol'Pejeta Conservancy where I work, the rules are simple: stay inside the vehicle at ALL times. There simply isn't the
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by mayank 16y ago
> Another subtlety I noticed is this generation's concept of Self is becoming contorted into your number of 'Friends' and quantity of 'Likes'. Not really this intelligent HN crowd but, more so the other 99% of society that unconsciously
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by mayank 16y ago
Has anyone noticed an abundance of ranty blog posts (with authors who cannot distinguish between their/there) on HN lately? Here's the issue in brief: > The email from twilio informed me they had, without warning switched off all intern

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