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Even for a simple app that it'd take me 20 - 30 hours If your entire job is doing small apps that take a week of work, these tools are not much better than the previous generation (personally I'd use Rails but that's just o
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Well I think many people would want those things to be illegal too. Censorship laws are not necessarily logically consistent, nor are they black and white. Changing these laws will always be contentious.
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how could anyone be harmed by you viewing those images? I think the argument is that pedophiles view existing media and it encourages them to do things to real people. The same reason why excessively violent movies are not considered acce
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By coincidence, I just finished Anders Ericsson's (the person mentioned in the article as arguing in favour of practice) book and he mentions pretty much exactly this. It's not that it's just about practice, but it's ab
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Joel Greenblatt's new funds that he set up since returning in 2009 haven't done well, they have performed below the S&P 500 Index from 2009-2015: http://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2015/07&#
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Joel Greenblatt's new funds that he set up since returning in 2009 haven't done well, they have performed below the S&P 500 Index from 2009-2015: http://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2015/07&#
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is generally understood to mean Is it? I didn't interpret it that way, and that isn't what the question says. And why would it be "understood" that is what is being asked? Logically, the answers would be "she i
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I don't see how either guess is generally less likely then the other one. How could A possibly be less likely than B?? The occurrences of B are a strict subset of A, there is no possible way B could happen more frequently.
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Maybe the exponent is really small, like 1.01
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We're going to have a lot more than 30 years of it. Electronic music has morphed into genres based on Sound Design (Timbre) rather than Melody and Harmony (Pitch) and we're still only beginning to explore that, whereas we've
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The neuron fired not only (say) when the monkey reached for a peanut but also when it watched another monkey reach for a peanut! These were dubbed "mirror neurons" or "monkey-see-monkey-do" neurons. This was an extrao
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The 1896 olympics were very amateur, both in facilities and level of competition, even compared to 4 years later. Many top athletes did not compete.
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Liskov Substitution: An object can be replaced by supertype without breaking the program Shouldn't that be sub type? Or am I misremembering this?
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Australia voted against the chance to replace its constitutional monarchy because of ambiguities and uncertainties about these questions. People know what they are getting with the existing systems and the constitutional monarchs have no r
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So what are you saying? Initially you were replying to a comment saying they are non political, claiming they targeted conservative groups. Then you point out they targeted "open source software" as well, and if you read the wik
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I find it remarkable how musical the final result sounds. Actually I find it remarkable how unmusical it sounds- when studying music theory there are often very simple rules you're mostly meant to follow, yet I've never heard an
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Within a standard deviation (just) of the hunter gatherers, but not for Western males. PAL is 2.26 +- 0.48 for Hadza male and 1.81 +- 0.21 for Western Male. That's an average 25% difference in activity. I'm not a biologist but i
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The person you are replying to didn't say "expend more energy", they said "exercise more", and the link you gave comfirms that: As expected, physical activity level, PAL, was greater among Hadza foragers than among
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Because it might not be interesting discussion? Voting isn't to reward/penalize people, it is to surface the best discussions at the top.
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dumping != giving money
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by mehwoot 11y ago
In pro races bikes have a minimum weight and it's quite easy to make a bike under that weight using modern materials. So you just make a really light bike and have the batteries and motor make up the difference.
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and head off mistakes early. What? On the codebase I work on, integration tests run every single commit, just like unit tests. They would both fail at the same time. Except the integration tests are much less brittle.
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but it's there if you want it and know what you're doing. Yeah, but there is a difference between a software feature that, once written, would generally take more effort to remove, and a hardware feature that costs money for eve
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Various government agencies are crooning that they should be able to knock down whichever doors they please because they're the government. Not really a sound argument but… they're the government after all. Various government ag
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I fear this is an overly mystical misinterpretation of neural nets. Isn't most human experience an overly mystical interpretation of physics/chemistry?
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Well he also said he basically didn't sleep for 10 days. I think that would contribute a lot.
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Kind of. I mean theoretically you could say the same about a train, but I still see most of the time I spend on a train as wasted even though I don't have to drive the thing.
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unless you want to date some overweight, uneducated woman who has 4 kids and talks about Jesus and guns all the time I think if I wanted to pick a comment as the canonical example what is wrong with people on HN this would be the one.
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is about 46.5 lightyears away I assume you mean 46.5 billion?
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Breaking: Bloomberg writes down write down of snapchat from 63 percent to 2 percent

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