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by olfactory 8y ago
To those who view this story as political (such as HN moderators), think about it. Press freedom is a much more fundamental issue than political affiliation. Much of the discussion that has been suppressed by mods on HN has had to with the
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by olfactory 8y ago
It's not surprising that home prices have gone through the roof, since many government policies are intended to keep home prices rising.
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by olfactory 8y ago
Someone could say that about an opponent's chess strategy only to be beaten.
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by olfactory 8y ago
Considering that we have known about Stuxnet for nearly a decade, why are we still using OS technology that makes such changes/intrusions/phoning-home so easy to conceal?
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by olfactory 8y ago
Also, what does "flaky" mean? Maybe Steve was willing to reorganize his priorities rapidly enough that some found it flaky or mercurial, but in hindsight it worked.
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by olfactory 8y ago
Ahh. Well, if you consider price a function of supply and demand, then complaining about a price is likely actually a complaint about supply or about demand. If I say "Wow, the price of a Tesla Model S is too high", I am implicit
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by olfactory 8y ago
Those points are true of SF rent control, however rent control has the side-effect of leading to people being able to afford a bigger place than they would otherwise afford, which in turn reduces the number of people who can afford to live
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by olfactory 8y ago
Exactly. Some such policies/laws may be "worth it" because they have other socially desirable outcomes that we rank more highly than affordable housing. What's odd when seeing my comment get down-voted to oblivion is tha
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by olfactory 8y ago
It's frankly pretty silly when people complain about prices (housing prices, prescription drug prices, gas prices, etc.) The issue with housing prices is that there are a lot of government policies that have the (intentional or uninten
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by olfactory 8y ago
When we think about what actually matters when it comes to institutions (public or private) one very important thing is trust. The NSA has eroded much of the trust it once had. This reduces its effectiveness as an organization and puts all
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by olfactory 8y ago
This is very cool. I have been thinking a lot about ideas in this space for a few years.
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by olfactory 8y ago
> What in the world makes you think that you would be aware of any success whatsoever of intelligence gathering in the Middle East? What makes you think that the situation couldn't have gotten much worse that it did? To the extent t
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by olfactory 8y ago
I think the bottom line is that the American people do not really mind the NSA doing this. I suspect this is because most people do not realize just how powerful and privacy-invading metadata surveillance is, or how the dataset does not ne
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by olfactory 8y ago
Since primes are themselves a deep structure of the integers it would not seem possible for a neural network to offer any advantage. The concept of prime "finding" being searching the larger space of positive integers for primes i
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by olfactory 8y ago
So could a time crystal be viewed as a source for time information in a system?
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by olfactory 8y ago
Why does anyone use 7-Zip? Does it have any advantages over the more widely used alternatives (tarball and zip)?
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by olfactory 8y ago
Indeed. I’ll be moving my coins out ASAP now.
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by olfactory 9y ago
Just curious if that is from a residential internet connection.
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by olfactory 9y ago
I suggest three interesting exercises: - design a QA process for a software product. How important is "blame" vs team learning? What are the tradeoffs of a blame-oriented approach vs a systems oriented approach? - build something
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by olfactory 9y ago
Craigslist personals offered us a very clear view of the utter failure of authorities to combat sex trafficking.
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by olfactory 9y ago
> Yep that exposure control / sensor quality of the dash cam in the video was rubbish. Is that the same cam used by the AI to detect obstacles? I would expect a safe self driving car to include IR cameras that can be more cautious a
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by olfactory 9y ago
While that (excellent) episode is perhaps a bit hyperbolic, why would a business not want to use any segmentation techniques at its disposal. Marketers call this attracting "qualified" customers, and it's why fine dining res
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by olfactory 9y ago
It's a dark pattern nudge , not a hard rule.
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by olfactory 9y ago
This sounds horrible, but the "Real Name" movement for online services (such as Facebook) is an equally insidious American version. When a "real name" service becomes a financial services company, we have a merging of so
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by olfactory 9y ago
- Any of the Sinatra-derived frameworks (flask, express, etc. Language isn't a major factor as the API is small). - Neo4j graph db instead of a relational db. Simple crud stuff is easy, and you can encode most business logic (if there
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by olfactory 9y ago
Is anyone aware of a GAN example using propel or deeplearn.js ?
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by olfactory 9y ago
Why is Google investing in its own?
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by olfactory 9y ago
What is the hardest thing to accomplish with something like a TPU? Is it the IP or the fabrication? How does the TPU design offer improved performance? By leveraging IP or fabrication improvements?
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by olfactory 9y ago
If political discussions that evoke partisan loyalties end up being classified as “flame wars” due to the definition in the article, then if those involved in the so-called flame wars are censured (throttled etc) then effectively the topic
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by olfactory 9y ago
> politics short circuits people's brains. I think this is a very cynical view. To some extent the demagogues and "ruling class" among us try to oversimplify things and create emotionally potent talking points. But ultima

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