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by ntoshev 18y ago
This assumes that there is a simple, coherent way to describe life - the source code. There doesn't have to be such a description. Maybe we were just lucky with physics and the ability to describe the universe with simple equations (until w
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by ntoshev 18y ago
Experts in specific areas develop blindness to problems in certain areas of their solution. Usually the framework they use to approach the problems makes certain simplifying assumptions, and these assumptions become their blind spots. These
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Leveraging Cognitive Bias in Social Design - Joshua Porter, Dconstruct 2008(madebymany.co.uk)
1 points by ntoshev 18y ago|0 comments
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by ntoshev 18y ago
To me, financial news is on topic for hacker news, as long as they provide some insight into what is going on. Plain facts are borderline, silly jokes and complaints are offtopic. Personally I'm going to submit posts from Nickbs's and Mattm
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by ntoshev 18y ago
Someone could implement continuations-capable Python web framework with this. Tried to bolt it on top of Google App Engine, but Python runs in restricted mode there so it does not allow bytecode generation on the fly.
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Generator_tools: copying and pickling of generators in Python(fiber-space.de)
2 points by ntoshev 18y ago|1 comments
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Eric S. Raymond: Why Alternative Energy Isn’t(esr.ibiblio.org)
39 points by ntoshev 18y ago|103 comments
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by ntoshev 18y ago
http://www.simplecdn.com/ (from the list) seems substantially cheaper than Amazon S3 if your bandwidth/storage ratio is high enough (actually typical for serving web content). They also have price comparisons with other CDNs, including Ak
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by ntoshev 18y ago
How does this contribute to your understanding of anything? Flagged.
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by ntoshev 18y ago
In this context, college confidential. See great-grandparent.
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by ntoshev 18y ago
I hadn't noticed that Google has started to tokenize properly things like C, C++, C#. Probably because I don't use them recently.
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by ntoshev 18y ago
Statistical language processing is a good way to go, but he must have enough data for it to be useful. I'd recommend to start by gathering the data.
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by ntoshev 18y ago
You don't have complete information, so the market may know something about the stock that you don't. Even if you're right, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. So you do need to know the market.
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by ntoshev 18y ago
From the Hacker News Guidelines: Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or egregiously offtopic, you can flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "fla
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by ntoshev 18y ago
In order to exploit the "inefficient market hypothesis", you need to know what information is reflected in stock price and what is not. This means you need to know the market, not just the stock.
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by ntoshev 18y ago
Doesn't CSV work for you? I think Excel even parses formulas in CSVs.
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by ntoshev 18y ago
They are using fb for internal communication. This is cool, but I don't see fb as a general intra-company communication platform, even with the right apps. Does anyone imagine how such a thing would work?
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by ntoshev 18y ago
Good point, but no - XOR is clearly better. It is simpler and its constant factor is less than the constant of a Radix sort.
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by ntoshev 18y ago
What is the level of support of conditional get for blogs and RSS readers? I always assumed most readers would do conditional gets and most refined services (like blogger.com) would implement that too, since it is saving them bandwidth. It
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by ntoshev 18y ago
I don't know why the parent gets downmodded, he is right. What is considered morally right and wrong is culture specific, it is not absolute. For example, some cultures used to sacrifice children to their gods. We may consider this wrong, b
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by ntoshev 18y ago
Your original statement would apply to itself if it didn't have the word "almost".
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by ntoshev 18y ago
The original link was on news.YC recently: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=284413
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Visualization techniques for networking (and not only) data(hype.free.googlepages.com)
7 points by ntoshev 18y ago|1 comments
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by ntoshev 18y ago
You can try Passenger and Enterprise Rails combination before multi-threaded Rails. It's interesting that in his announcement dhh actually downplayed the importance of this contribution, saying it is just another item in the enterprise-read
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Monitor110: A Post Mortem(informationarbitrage.com)
1 points by ntoshev 18y ago|0 comments
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by ntoshev 18y ago
This looks like the result from selection bias: did you include data from failed startups in your survey? If you tried to account for this, how did you do it?
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by ntoshev 18y ago
You don't need to keep in memory the page you generate either.
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by ntoshev 18y ago
You don't have to store every page you generate.
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by ntoshev 18y ago
This means they miss big opportunities to improve their search results.
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by ntoshev 18y ago
People who are just trying to govern themselves, rather than be governed. That's the heart of nationalism. This is very wrong. Do you think nationalistic parties suddenly seize to be nationalistic in the moment they get the power to rule

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