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by new_test 13y ago
This isn't any different than being a patent troll.
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by new_test 13y ago
Looks like you re-posted your own old submission. Nothing wrong with it I guess since people are still interested judging from upvotes. But that would be one of the reasons "the quality of HN threads is going down" as many complai
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by new_test 13y ago
Pavel, folks here are being hard on you guys because historically, 9 out of 10 times "independent thinkers" who roll out their own crypto stacks get something wrong. That's why if you want to market your app to this crowd, yo
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by new_test 13y ago
> It is better than Facebook in every possible way. Even if it were true, your statement still doesn't contradict GP's assertion.
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by new_test 13y ago
Many people here don't like to see HN turning into reddit
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by new_test 13y ago
"One weird trick that made pure mathematicians hate him"
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by new_test 13y ago
My vote is for the needle: humans were much more restricted about where they could live without being able to sew clothes
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by new_test 13y ago
Causality is a notoriously hard thing to prove. I challenge you to find a study or two that demonstrate a similar relationship proving causality beyond any doubt. Working in psychiatry research myself, I definitely don't trust a single
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by new_test 13y ago
>I really can't understand it when people claim to be addicted to weed. Well, I really can't understand how people can be addicted to gambling. Doesn't mean it's not a problem for some.
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by new_test 13y ago
Just the first few results from Google Scholar. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890856709... http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/180/3/216.short http:/&#x2F
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by new_test 13y ago
adverb - hard work?
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by new_test 13y ago
Wow, that must be the least professional promotion video I've ever seen
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by new_test 13y ago
Who the fuck are "we"?
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by new_test 13y ago
Doesn't sound like you understand what the discussion is about.
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by new_test 13y ago
Because facial recognition is a very difficult problem.
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Tell HN: Hacker news is now #5 search result for "hn" on Google
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by new_test 14y ago
I don't know much about bacteria and antibiotics, but the strategy you described is the reason HAART is so effective and HIV patients live much longer lives than they did even 20 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_of_HIV/AI
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by new_test 14y ago
As a programmer you may not need to use algebra or analysis on a daily basis, but as a rule I've been noticing that the solutions that are more mathematically elegant also tend to be more pragmatic.
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by new_test 14y ago
Wired coverage: http://www.wired.com/business/2012/04/ff_abtesting/
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by new_test 14y ago
What is the state of the art in sentiment analysis? I tried their demo page, and it seems completely useless (could not interpret the query "Not the greatest movie"). Are the algorithms used on Wall st. for predicting market behaviour based
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by new_test 14y ago
That's what I've been doing, but not because I believe it to be a better way, but because I'm to lazy to implement my own FreezeGun. I don't think the production code should contain unnecessary complexity that is only used for testing.
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by new_test 14y ago
Please... A clever use of GA + Wolfram Alpha can reveal a lot of potentially identifiable information already. You can't expect the Internet to become a big part of our society and, at the same time, remain a place for complete anonymity.
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by new_test 14y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer_ideas
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by new_test 14y ago
Another similar excellent resource: http://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/
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by new_test 14y ago
Is there any advantage (speed?) in using something like Awk over something like Python?
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by new_test 14y ago
I don't really understand it.
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by new_test 14y ago
How is this the top comment?
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by new_test 14y ago
Not sure what you want to hear from us. If you want to learn to go through with things, just.. go through with them!
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by new_test 14y ago
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