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by noam87 10y ago
Just yesterday (msn). Headline: "Not a Drill: SETI Is Investigating a Possible Extraterrestrial Signal From Deep Space" Actual SETI website statement: "The chance that this is truly a signal from extraterrestrials is not terr
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by noam87 10y ago
We're using Elixir + Phoenix at http://udio.ai/ (with Postgres and Mongo). It's an absolute dream to work with. Best backend environment I've ever used. There are just so many niceties one runs into at every
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by noam87 10y ago
As a happy user I second this. I've never been let down by their sync -- set it and forget it. Also: thank you for Linux support :) I would add: * They only offer one service. I consider this a feature: they're not off building
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by noam87 10y ago
I love working from home. But it's because in the Summer I can choose to split my day in two, spend a sunny afternoon riding my bike around the city with my girlfriend, grab a beer with a friend, and finish my work in the evening; or I
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by noam87 10y ago
Hooli strikes me as a Google-sized Uber.
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by noam87 10y ago
Thanks! :)
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by noam87 10y ago
Before I discovered that math and programming were actually a whole lot of creative fun, I got my kick writing poetry. Conversely, if you've never tried, you might discover you'll get the same rational / problem-solving kick
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by noam87 10y ago
Irrational? The problem isn't replacing "engineered via slow selection" corn vs "efficiently GMO'ed corn". The problem is replacing over 300 unique varieties of corn, and over 40,000 unique varieties of rice
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by noam87 10y ago
This is t-shirt worthy.
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by noam87 10y ago
On corruptibility, true, it's not been tested so one can't say one way or the other. But at least in principle it rules out many of the common paths to corruption. Let's take four major forms corruption takes: (1) a big bag o
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by noam87 10y ago
The same could have been said of the horse until someone tried a train for the first time. We've never tried sortition on a large scale, and on smaller scales it's already been shown effective. A perfect opportunity to experiment
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by noam87 10y ago
I have just started working on a serious Phoenix project after watching from the sidelines for a while. It takes a completely different approach to Rails. First of all there's no magic (everything is completely explicit). It's ext
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by noam87 10y ago
As someone about to start PD-1 inhibitors after failing Ipilimumab (now in lungs (1))... well it'd be just plain stupid to die now with all these treatments on the horizon. --- (1) This just happened this month. The Doctor called me wi
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by noam87 10y ago
> But a more telling reason for the rise is that humans, on average, live a lot longer than they used to. "If you live long enough you will get cancer," says Biankin. I keep hearing this, but do we have data that shows that can
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Systemic Change, Effective Altruism and Ahilanthropy(egtheory.wordpress.com)
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by noam87 10y ago
> iTunes has been a constant bafflement since its release. Back when I was on Mac (~2007), iTunes was extremely simple. There was a left menu with playlists and artists, a top menu with settings like "import", and a bunch of f
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by noam87 10y ago
> Yet it's puzzling how much it fails to improve its basic product. What's there to improve? As someone else said here on HN "Twitter should have been an RFC." The only thing that's broken here is not Twitter, it
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by noam87 10y ago
Is the depression inherent to the disorder, or is it caused by the unrelenting stress brought on by living in an environment that is actively hostile to this individual? Either way, it's just something to consider based on personal obs
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by noam87 10y ago
On the question of whether "mental illnesses" are diseases or simply arise from behaviour (as discussed in comments below). My personal theory is that they are neither. Most mental illnesses are actually social illnesses. That is:
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by noam87 10y ago
Elixir/Phoenix gets this right. Working on a side project right now and so far it's a very enjoyable experience. I find the abstractions much more intuitive. The framework as a whole is just as "magical" for fast prototy
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Ask HN: IPFS, DHTs, torrents, blockchains, oh my: best books/papers to catch up?
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by noam87 10y ago
Yup, Google literally saved my life. If it were up to both doctors (yup, I did get a second opinion), I would be dead today. My condition is neither rare nor difficult to diagnose. My symptoms might as well have been lifted from a textboo
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by noam87 10y ago
As someone who's experienced the medical system for the past 6 years (family and personal illness) and know many medical professionals, the level of arrogance, ignorance and lack of professional integrity frankly borders on criminal. I
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by noam87 10y ago
Agree wholeheartedly. I'm a linux/GPL proselytizer among my friends. I've customized my development environment beyond recognition; I love it. That's what technology is to me: the ability to transform the world around me
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by noam87 10y ago
For the immediate future at least, federation seems much more feasible than wholly decentralized systems. At least for websites / applications that are expected to gain any mainstream traction. Building a federated Wikipedia, Reddit, T
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by noam87 11y ago
> one only needs two or three news sources. But society as a whole needs more. If the available pool of profitable resources for quality journalism keeps getting smaller, then a) the number of stories that fall through the cracks get lar
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by noam87 11y ago
Compare Reagent code with JS React code (React being about the most elegant solution possible in JS). Not only more beautiful, but much easier to understand, AND with an added performance bonus: https://reagent-project.github.io&
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by noam87 11y ago
My biggest regret as a programmer: starting when I was 25 instead of 15.
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by noam87 11y ago
I assume it's the equivalent of skimming?
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by noam87 11y ago
The same is now happening in Toronto. It's truly awful. So many great communities being destroyed by greed. Especially if you're someone who loves city life and does not want to move away. CBC did a great piece on it: http:/

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