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by oskarth 13y ago
For what it's worth I still think the name is great. The meaning of words change. The identity of Hacker School is strong, and I could easily see it deciding what hacker and school means in the future, not unlike YC and the words hac
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by oskarth 13y ago
Thank you for your detailed response. I understand that there are technical limitations when it comes to permission, but it still makes me uneasy when I have to give that many permissions to a new app. Maybe it's the granularity at Twi
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by oskarth 13y ago
This is a cool idea, but can someone explain why this requires the following Twitter permissions? - Update your profile. - Post Tweets for you. - Access your direct messages. In general I'm at loss why so many apps require so many perm
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by oskarth 13y ago
This seems bigger than Altair Basic to me. If this thing works well it's huge already. Battery time is one of the biggest problems for people working out of the office (along with decent internet and peace of mind).
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by oskarth 13y ago
There's an interesting meta pattern here. pg has obviously thought a lot about this change, he's the creator of HN and he's the one who knows the site the best. All pg is saying is this: let's try it out and see if it w
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by oskarth 13y ago
While you may be right that future generations will condemn us for them, none of those things are remotely controversial enough. You can say any of them in almost any setting and people will mostly yawn. Many people think prisons should be
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by oskarth 13y ago
I'm just paraphrasing Musk's vision. It's not a dream; he's actively working on getting to Mars within the next decade or so. People seem to forget their history. It wasn't that long ago America was (re-)discovered.
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by oskarth 13y ago
I'm not sure what the point of your argument is, but this strikes me as short-sighted reasoning. Going to Mars is just the first step. It's about making (human) life multiplanetary. It's a long term game and extends beyond th
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by oskarth 13y ago
If it was about money Musk would have retired already. Tesla and SpaceX are both hugely risky endeavours. It is not unlikely that them being for profit makes them more likely to succeed in the long term.
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Two types of errors(blog.oskarth.com)
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How to beat confirmation bias in any given domain(blog.oskarth.com)
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by oskarth 13y ago
I think Airbnb has the potential - and wants to - be as equipped as hotels are in most of those dimensions. That's why they reimbursed the person whose house was vandalized, and why they do keep banking info on file (IIRC). It is true
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by oskarth 13y ago
You are saying: (a) This could never happen a hotel room. (b) Since Airbnb is illegal in NYC, it's not Airbnb's fault someone is trusting them and their vetting system in NYC.* Both seems false to me. * Obviously it's not the
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by oskarth 13y ago
Stop the hating, please. It has a hugely negative effect on HN in general and on creators specifically. Don't use it if you don't like it. Whenever I come across people who really hate me and my work it takes every ounce of energ
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by oskarth 13y ago
Hi, Michael. Both of us are now in a labelled graph database of identities, were the label signifies how strong the connection is. Right now it's 2/10, but by responding to you it's now 3/10. And if you (yes, you) are re
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by oskarth 13y ago
This way of thinking about it is interesting. For many people, me included, entrepreneurship is first and foremost a existential choice. Do you have some examples of what this middle path might look like? For the entrepreneurial-minded, is
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by oskarth 13y ago
An implant plug-in named CAPTIVATEDAUDIENCE, for example, is used to take over a targeted computer’s microphone and record conversations taking place near the device. Another, GUMFISH, can covertly take over a computer’s webcam and snap ph
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by oskarth 13y ago
This is what pg tweeted earlier today: Banning Tesla is an index of the corruptness of state governments as banning Uber is of city governments. ( https://twitter.com/paulg/status/443469758369767425 ) A very astut
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Payment channel JSON-RPC protocol(gist.github.com)
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Journeyman Project Trip 1 United Kingdom(jacquesmattheij.com)
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Kill the Snowden interview, congressman tells SXSW(news.cnet.com)
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by oskarth 13y ago
I would argue that it's generally a massive failure, and that history will view these models as extremely naive when it comes to judging risk. Comparing it to Newtonian mechanics is unfair. Newtonian mechanics actually work, just not f
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Bitcoin in two years – worth 1000x or nothing(reddit.com)
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by oskarth 13y ago
Interesting. But why on earth is Black-Scholes equation on that list? It's not like Long-Term Capital Management took over the world with it. It's a fragile model and does not deserve to be on the same list as these beautiful and
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Dear Newsweek: RTFM(thoughtcrook.wordpress.com)
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by oskarth 13y ago
No you don't. If you do, just don't be that guy :)
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by oskarth 13y ago
Here's what I would do if I stole 750k Bitcoins. 1. Split the wallet up into as many wallets as possible. Preferably by transferring them through a couple hundred compromised (but not emptied) accounts. 2. Sell each individual wallet o
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by oskarth 13y ago
I agree with most of these, but this one stuck out. > I believe that translating documentation is a really important step towards helping people learn to program. Someone shouldn’t have to learn Programming and English at the same time.
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by oskarth 13y ago
How come you are using all three of those languages in production rather than just one of them?
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by oskarth 13y ago
I found that it mostly works great, but sometimes it gives really wrong results - without any warnings. My professor complained about various errors too (mostly in dynamical systems, some control theory, but the problems seemed to be of a g

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