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by maze-le 8y ago
> accountability is akin to a police state Not akin, the US is a police state. If you have ever been in a real police-state (Brazil, Israel, Cuba) you will immediately spot the similarities. And the US is not alone, just the most advance
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by maze-le 8y ago
>> Since adding noise is a critical part in many neural network training models Our brains do not work exactly like neural network models. Neural Networks are a model, on how nervous systems could work. It doesn't follow, t
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by maze-le 8y ago
No, you shouldn't. And don't listen to people trying to shame you because of it. >> It's inefficient Well, its at least as efficient as python or ruby (I think its even slightly better). If you work on the backend side,
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by maze-le 8y ago
This has much to do with the transformation of the Green party. The greens are no longer a leftist radical force of a eco-revolution, like they were in the 80ies. I personally know a few people who are conservative, have had enough of the C
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Made up places and costly mistakes: a history of unfortunate maps(theguardian.com)
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by maze-le 8y ago
This might be a ghost discussion. I have worked in scientific publishing for quite some time and have seen citations in the form of: * personal correspondence * emails * facebook profile pages and my personal highlight * google search queri
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by maze-le 8y ago
>> They could always tap your phone, read your mail, follow you, find out some secret about you ... I think this is a false equivalency. It was the case that you could be targeted, but this would be one case and a lot of resources wer
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Ask HN: Architectural Decision Records
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Data driven projections: Darwins world(beta.observablehq.com)
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by maze-le 8y ago
It just one major assault away... In europe too for that matter.
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Yes, and there are also neutrino telescopes. I wait for the detection of an high energy neutrino event from beyond the CMBR. I think the opportunity, our understanding of physics and technology give us right now are immense. The fact that g
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by maze-le 8y ago
>> We should have been working on the development of a 386 for the past year, but so far it has not been possible for us to turn up even one such machine. I guess that has been true for everything.
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by maze-le 8y ago
From the outside, it would never cross the horizon, it would look as if the matter would travel towards the horizon infintly long. After trillions of trillions of years the information that made up the inbound matter from the horizon will b
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by maze-le 8y ago
R-Trees for spatial indexing. What?: Quite powerful data structure for geographic data. Why?: I dabbled with geodata for quite a bit before discovering PostGIS and the R*-tree. Operations that took me several seconds before (geojson+ruby) c
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by maze-le 8y ago
Misinformation and harassment also exists on smaller platforms, it is a matter how to deal with it. Smaller platforms usually have a more tightly bound user-group and moderation, so it is detected and prevented earlier. But this also means
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by maze-le 8y ago
It has an impact on public opinion. It's just that public opinion doesn't have an effect on the policy that is being implemented.
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by maze-le 8y ago
I do like: Clean Architecture[0], its pretty much language agnostic and has some nice examples on overall structural decision making -- from small to large projects. >> The goal would be to end with as least amount of tech debt and co
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by maze-le 8y ago
A colleague from sales told me an anecdote once, that she is not going to use the word 'Startup' again during sales pitches and general customer interaction. I worked in publishing at that time and customers in this sector tend to
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by maze-le 8y ago
Exactly, I've worked in 3 companies in Germany that you might call startups without venture capital. I think it is also a cultural issue, with investors and founders alike. Its like, a small company with an independent revenue stream a
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Japanese rovers send back first video from asteroid(theguardian.com)
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by maze-le 8y ago
>> Very few countries can boast to such a peaceful political turnaround. I'd say most countries in Eastern Europe and some in South America certainly can boast that. Political changes don't nessecarily have to be bloody, vio
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by maze-le 8y ago
Yep, I concur. As an atheist I am as detached from religion as you can get, and I still think this article has some valuable insight. I know it from experience, as I am from Germany and most workers actually do have Sundays off (there are e
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by maze-le 8y ago
As member of the public, you should never trust intelligence agencies about anything. Disinformation of the public is part of their job description. If you are a member of the executive or the military, then it might be something different,
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by maze-le 8y ago
No, its not even a single bit outlandish, it is the normal procedure how cooperations operate that are too big to be affected by markets or laws. Google, and Facebook are big enough to have a virtual monopoly in their respective domains, so
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by maze-le 8y ago
>> Convention for the Protection of Human Rights >> Article 14 – Prohibition of discrimination: >> The enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set forth in this Convention shall be secured without discrimination on any ground
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by maze-le 8y ago
>> students there can graduate in CS on a course based on Java at his institution without ever having to demonstrate a program actually That is absoluteley not limited to China. There are some CS grads that can't write code, and
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by maze-le 8y ago
It is one thing to share a movie and possibly be fined with XXX$ because of "piracy". Its quite another thing to risk your respectability, career and future research funding -- all hanging in the balance when a federal felony char
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by maze-le 8y ago
Yes, overall work-life balance is certainly better than in other places, but mental health is still an issue here. 13 % of all days absent due to illness are attributed to mental health problems[0]. Especially in jobs, where you have lots o
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by maze-le 8y ago
Because they are beginning to move faster than c, when these objects are at the very edge, due to the space between us and the edge expanding faster than c. This is called the cosmic horizon of the universe - sort of like an inside out even
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by maze-le 8y ago
Nice. Very thorough article, that touches more concepts of functional programming than just Y like tail recursion. For someone who never had contact with functional programming, the concept of the Y combinator can seem a bit... strange. But

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