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by noahlt 16y ago
For anyone else who didn't know: HBCU = "historically black colleges & universities".
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by noahlt 16y ago
To be clear, coasting while in gear still saves gas.
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by noahlt 16y ago
It seems like we get this story every week.
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by noahlt 16y ago
Idea: clicking on a sparkline opens up a lightbox with the larger and more detailed chart.
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by noahlt 16y ago
It is notable that this idea is the exact opposite of GTD - in GTD you write everything down to eliminate stress. Here, you use your stress to help yourself prioritize.
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by noahlt 16y ago
Likewise, everybody should do sales and user support.
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by noahlt 16y ago
Honest question - why is this article #3 on Hacker News? It isn't interesting to me at all; in fact, it seems like nothing more than a press release. Is there something I'm missing?
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by noahlt 16y ago
And to make it more concrete: those who take the risk are rewarded because investors need people who take risks, otherwise they'd have nothing to invest in.
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by noahlt 16y ago
iPhone, Android, and Mac clients. Maintaining as well as improving the web interface and the API. Lots more scaling - people check Twitter way more than they do Wordpress-hosted blogs. I'm sure there's more, this is just what came off the
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by noahlt 16y ago
An intellectual hackers' site like this one tends to be home to people playing with Scala, Erlang, Haskell, etc. Hacker News in particular was started by Paul Graham, so its seed community had a significant number of Lisp adherents. The s
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by noahlt 16y ago
Not quite. According to the article, the Japanese deployed a solar sail with a Venus probe. This, though, is the world's first solar sail on a probe designed for Earth orbit.
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by noahlt 16y ago
Yes, I certainly am aware of the technological solutions to this problem. Nevertheless, I am still baffled by the apparent stigma towards linking to your site in the URL field, which seems like the natural, obvious, and right thing to do
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by noahlt 16y ago
Why do some people consider it "bad form" to include your link in the URL portion of the HN submission form? I've been wondering this for a while, since I am always annoyed when I have to cut-and-paste a URL.
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by noahlt 16y ago
A tangentially related story: Talented secondary school kids all across America end up doing egg drop competitions all the time. But the rules of each competition are each slightly different. A friend of mine was in a competition which wa
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Google removing jpeg support from Chrome (satire)(dl.dropbox.com)
9 points by noahlt 16y ago|0 comments
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by noahlt 16y ago
Another good option: only integer answers.
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Why video chat will never succeed, by David Foster Wallace(kottke.org)
16 points by noahlt 16y ago|26 comments
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by noahlt 16y ago
One of his strategies (from the README on Github) is "favoring static compilation rather than a runtime interpreter", so I suspect that `eval` is not included in Mug. However, `apply` is included (cf. test/regression.js line 19). So your e
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by noahlt 16y ago
Ah, then my earlier comment is invalid. Thanks for the correction.
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by noahlt 16y ago
I guess this is a great example of founders never giving up. I had forgotten that Flock existed, and would have assumed that they'd called it quits, but here they are with what appears to be a successful exit. Kudos to them!
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by noahlt 16y ago
Investing in index funds has been lauded around here, but the goodness of that strategy revolves around its consistency in returning 10% over ten to twenty years. This graph makes index funds look much less consistent! Does this graph debu
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Visualization of stock market performance over time, adjusted for inflation(nytimes.com)
295 points by noahlt 16y ago|83 comments
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by noahlt 16y ago
I don't know what "ascendant time" is, but I'm guessing it's some virtual good whose scarcity is purely artificial, so that the makers of Obsidian Portal don't incur additional costs when it is used. If I'm right, then these guys are very c
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by noahlt 16y ago
Don't forget http://norvig.com/lispy.html
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by noahlt 16y ago
As the author points out, all those success stories are known because the worked out. He then goes on to lament the companies that failed because their founders gave up too early. But there are also companies that failed even though their f
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by noahlt 16y ago
The title of the paper is a bit misleading, and rhetorically clever if intentional. When I read this headline the first time, I parsed it as "Timeless (Decision Theory Paper) Released", so that "timeless" was an adjective describing the (n
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by noahlt 16y ago
Alternatively: be a good Jedi and write your own Lisp.
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by noahlt 16y ago
Norvig's Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach also has Python code examples.
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by noahlt 16y ago
It's also worth noting that, in Python 2.6 and higher, we DO have a ternary operator: x = 3 if foo() else 6
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by noahlt 16y ago
It's worth noting that in California schools, any fighting (even in self-defense) results in expulsion.

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