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Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions [video](ted.com)
4 points by ntoshev 16y ago|2 comments
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by ntoshev 16y ago
These stars are called white dwarfs.
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by ntoshev 16y ago
I like them too, the problem is when you want to use (paste) some code that is not yours - you need to re-indent it.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
What I really want is a search engine for articles I've seen on HN. All current solutions ("site:", Google CSE, searchyc.com) are just indexing the titles of the stories and the comments, but not the actual text of the article.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Hindsight is 20/20. Being a lawyer didn't help him to put any contracts in place before committing to the Crunchpad project...
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Blippy seems to be all about conspicuous consumption. I can see how it has a chance to be very profitable, I just don't think the world needs any more of this.
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Coding as Performance(prog21.dadgum.com)
2 points by ntoshev 17y ago|0 comments
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by ntoshev 17y ago
So you're using node.js on the server? How do you store the model of the world: Redis?
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Google can take the approximation of the social graph that they have (in Gmail & Orkut) and improve search results based on that. I doubt they haven't at least tried to estimate how much does this help.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Tornado web server. It's extremely good code solving hard problems with a great attention to detail and in a minimal way. Highly recommended.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
I think drinking 2-3 liters of water per day (~100 ounces?) is seen as beneficial for the health. People usually don't drink that much because they don't feel thirsty, but they would like to. I don't live in the US so I don't know what I'm
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Right, I had this theory as a teenager, reading popular physics. I'm sure lots of other people noticed the big bang / black hole symmetry. A pretty model should not be enough to make it significant... otoh, relativity theory was once just a
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by ntoshev 17y ago
He is just saying that existing mindshare and support tools matter a lot, and it's a week spot for NoSql.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
If you aren't going to query on a property, make sure to store it as a TextProperty and not a StringProperty. Don't do this, use StringProperty(indexed=False) - works with the other property types as well.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
They are not half finished databases (ok, some of them are), they are just databases that operate under a different set of constraints and optimize accordingly.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Interesting. How many words is your corpus? Right now I'm playing with a way to tokenize text in an unsupervised, language-independent manner - my current line of thought is "try to predict the next letter from n-grams, if the model has no
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Yes, if you refer to the original concept by Google (the element corresponding to your page from the eigenvector on the link matrix of the web). The understanding of page rank as it has been dumbed down by bad SEOs is mostly irrelevant. A s
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Wow, are the metadata of Tarsnap that demanding?
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by ntoshev 17y ago
the iPad is not a laptop. It’s not nearly as good for creating stuff. On the other hand, it’s infinitely more convenient for consuming it I wonder if there is a killer app in algorithm-assisted sketching and drawing with your fingers on t
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Reading the title I hoped someone finally built a car audio that auto-adjusts the volume depending on background noise.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
So you're asking for OOP, no generic programming / templates? I know template metaprogramming magic becomes madness real fast :-) I tend not to ask direct language questions anymore, everything is related to the code written on the intervie
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by ntoshev 17y ago
Thanks, my boolean approximation for abbreviations so far is: def abbr(short, full): return re.match(''.join(c+'.*' for c in short), full) Actually what I'm doing now seems to be working, so far I can't see any pattern in the t
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by ntoshev 17y ago
I have a programming problem, and I'm pretty sure I'm aware of the basic components of the solution... it's just that I get swamped in complexity pretty quickly when I try out different combinations. I know this is a very meta question but
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Ask HN: How do you solve hard problems if you can't make incremental progress?(ravimohan.blogspot.com)
65 points by ntoshev 17y ago|48 comments
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by ntoshev 17y ago
This is pretty common for people living under some sort of dictatorship. They rationalize and justify the status quo. All the propaganda reinforces this effect.
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by ntoshev 17y ago
With Bayesian average ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1219154 , http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_true_Bayesian_estimate_m... ) you can easily put a slider saying how much the missing votes count (or how much preference do you giv
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How Not To Sort By Average Rating(evanmiller.org)
141 points by ntoshev 17y ago|31 comments
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by ntoshev 17y ago
What about Google Cache?
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by ntoshev 17y ago
"Cultural fit" is probably more important in other industries - ones that require softer skills. They are in NYC, so - advertising, publishing, PR, fashion, etc
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by ntoshev 17y ago
This paper gives you some structure if you think about integrating game aspects in whatever you are doing. Here is a link to the Google PDF Viewer if you don't want to deal with browser extensions: http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A

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