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by mizzao 11y ago
3 days seemed like an accident waiting to happen. This updated policy seems a lot better; it would probably be great to ask people for secondary contact information such as SMS for emergencies.
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by mizzao 11y ago
One time my CC expired on DO because there was a fraudulent purchase on it and I had to get a new one. I got a brief e-mail from DO noting there was a problem charging my card, and updated it the same day. What if I was on vacation, and did
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by mizzao 11y ago
I'm more worried about the following post in that thread: <begin quote> -------------------------------------------------------- We were loyal customers of DigitalOcean for over 2 years. We showed up to work one morning and had a
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Pancake sorting and the burnt pancake problem(en.wikipedia.org)
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by mizzao 11y ago
In this case, the acquisition was by Microsoft's Technology and Research division, not a product or service group. It seems like the goal is to integrate SwiftKey technology into many of Microsoft's mobile applications.
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by mizzao 11y ago
As someone famously said to Will Smith: "You're going to war with a corporation that owns a day of the week!"
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by mizzao 11y ago
The West Side Yard doesn't look at all like the huge shopping malls that are owned by the MTR in Hong Kong...in fact, there's basically no commercial activity there.
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by mizzao 11y ago
The reason that mass transit is so profitable in those countries is because they can capture the externalities of their benefit through owning capital near stations. http://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013&#x
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by mizzao 11y ago
Having tried a few 3D scanners, they typically give very noisy digital reproductions of a particular object, usually one side is missing. Moreover, 3D printers are very limited in terms of the strength and material of objects. Given that mo
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by mizzao 11y ago
Matt Welsh used to be a tenured systems professor at Harvard. He probably knows more about academia than 99.9% of people in industry.
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by mizzao 11y ago
Guess that explains why some random payments showed up on my credit card (used for recurring billing) and I just had to it cancelled and re-issued. There were only a few other payments on the card - NYTimes, DigitalOcean. Are there any rece
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by mizzao 11y ago
Magic+ isn't going to be able to satisfy all of the copycat requests to meet Tina Fey and Amy Poehler...
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by mizzao 11y ago
Idea averaging is not an example of "the wisdom of crowds". It's a manifestation of groupthink. More specifically, it's an example of when a group of people will tend to agree on something that is the least objectionable
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by mizzao 11y ago
I thought microwaves (oven) mostly interfere with the 2.4 GHz band. That's why games of Starcraft always lag out when one of the players starts cooking a hot pocket. That's why it's preferable to use 5 GHz 802.11n or 802.11ac
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Hoverboarding priest suspended for forgetting his Ecclesiastes(theverge.com)
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by mizzao 11y ago
The link seems to be broken at the moment.
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by mizzao 11y ago
Interestingly, I think "the field" now refers to an intersection of not just economics and psychology, but also sociology, computer science, and others. More and more behavioral research is going to be done on the Internet and thi
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by mizzao 11y ago
We did see that effect! But, it was pretty minor. In fact, we saw all sorts of effects that would have been impossible to observe in a traditional lab experiment. One other interesting effect we saw was a day-to-day restart effect: just lea
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by mizzao 11y ago
My research group is currently writing up the results for a study where we experimentally studied cooperation that took place over an entire month. We found the very interesting result that cooperation was basically maintained at a high lev
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by mizzao 11y ago
I understand the argument about the sociological reputation trap, but a little more reading about Rossi's research turns up some very fishy evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Catalyzer In particular, t
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by mizzao 11y ago
As I read this, I can't help but think it might have taken a fraction of the time if implemented in Meteor.
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by mizzao 11y ago
Univelo NYC is a great app as well and pulls down updates very quickly.
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by mizzao 11y ago
Those are the old bike model. There are plenty of the new one on the streets now which have an extended rear fender. (I think the front fender is longer too.)
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by mizzao 11y ago
Not to nitpick, but it seems like what you did would have been much more suited for an IPython (Jupyter) notebook directly outputting with matplotlib rather than writing Python code to generate data for R?
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by mizzao 11y ago
Seems like Meteor can slot in another database next to the current MongoDB+MiniMongo implementation?
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by mizzao 11y ago
I've had the complete opposite experience with D3. It adds one layer of abstraction (data binding) that is a little hard to understand, but pays off reams once you "get" it. It doesn't do anything if you just desire to d
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by mizzao 11y ago
The same thought occurred to me; I think it's probably more along the lines of "faster and relying on more intuition". I don't think this is a new concept; Jon Gertner in his excellent book "The Idea Factory" w
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by mizzao 11y ago
The command prompt looks the same in Windows 8.1 and 10 to me. What terminal are you talking about?
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by mizzao 11y ago
Did anyone notice the rest of the site? It seems surprising that this entire project was done with $4,500 of crowdfunding. That seems very cheap. I wonder how much of the project funding came from elsewhere. https://experiment.co
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by mizzao 11y ago
I don't think there has to be a huge controversy here. It's perfectly plausible to build a system that contains a hybrid of human and machine intelligence, where the humans work on the more fuzzy questions that cannot be directly

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