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by oskarth 13y ago
Why would he? And why are you asking this question? There's nothing in what he wrote that indicates that he would do that. Please don't bring negativity into this surprisingly positive and constructive sub thread.
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by oskarth 13y ago
Or perhaps he want women to apply because it's good for YC, you know, business-wise. You seem to be looking at this through a lens of hate. May I ask why?
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by oskarth 13y ago
Accidentally downvoted you, sorry about that. I meant to upvote it.
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by oskarth 13y ago
If you think it's that distasteful just don't contribute. There are a lot of things in the world one can find "distasteful" where the simple solution is to avoid it. How is this even a concern? (I know you put it in pare
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by oskarth 13y ago
Interesting! A few questions, if you feel like answering them: - Did you try a professional / teacher? - Did others also think you didn't become better with practice? - In hindsight, would you characterize your practice as deliber
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by oskarth 13y ago
I don't see a reason why playing violin would be impossible given a couple hundred or thousand hours of deliberate practice. Jumping higher than the WR is a straw man, since that goes for anything - there can only be one #1. However, p
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by oskarth 13y ago
This seems like a great pr story. Could someone with relevant experience explain how a story like this is planted in a reputable newspaper like WSJ or NYT? I don't quite understand the m.o.
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by oskarth 13y ago
Counterpoint: Snowden vs Manning. It's not that simple.
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by oskarth 13y ago
I believe this is possible with something like Truecrypt. http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/plausible-deniability
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by oskarth 13y ago
Sorry, yes. Typo and then noprocrast caught me.
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by oskarth 13y ago
This piece should have to be written. I think the same goes for the essay Foreign Accents. I'm not a woman, but I am a "foreigner", and it's completely obvious in both cases what pg actually said. That is, unless you hav
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by oskarth 13y ago
This piece should have to be written. I think the same goes for the essay Foreign Accents. I'm not a women, but I am a "foreigner", and it's completely obvious in both cases what pg actually said. That is, unless you hav
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Ask HN: Reverse asymmetry to combat dismissive comments on HN?
20 points by oskarth 13y ago|11 comments
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by oskarth 13y ago
I don't think you actually read the article. This article is good news, precisely because they show how willing they are to improve their service. EDIT: Of course it's good PR. So what? That's how Google, Apple and most oth
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by oskarth 13y ago
The developer who found the potential weakness has earned a reward of $100,000. We have contacted him to find out how he would like to collect his prize. This is great news. Contrast this with other security contests were finding out-of-s
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by oskarth 13y ago
Buy low and sell high? What a brilliant strategy. EDIT: If you think you've found a sure-fire way to beat the market, you are probably wrong. That or you are doing insider trading or high-frequency trading (arbitrage).
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How One Airline Convinced 42 Swedes to Change Their Names(theatlantic.com)
2 points by oskarth 13y ago|0 comments
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by oskarth 13y ago
This is a very common viewpoint among technical people, sadly. Kind of like how humanists think math is about counting things. I'm not implying Gates is of that variety, but, you know, his kind, our kind. Not that there's much p
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You might be a data scientist if...(blog.abegong.com)
1 points by oskarth 13y ago|0 comments
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by oskarth 13y ago
I don't think Taleb is presenting many of these as his original ideas, he's merely (in the original context - his book) using them as examples to drive his other ideas. If you ask Taleb himself, he would say that he's only ha
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by oskarth 13y ago
Don't you think there's a difference between isolated anecdotes and two dozen paragraphs with very similar content? Not to mention the fact that Dobelli reviewed Taleb's book, and that other authors have noticed similarities.
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by oskarth 13y ago
That's not a rebuttal. Look at the diffs for Taleb/Dobelli and Chabris&Simons/Dobelli for yourself. This is textbook plagiarism.
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by oskarth 13y ago
While I agree with the sentiment, Rolf Dobelli himself is a plagiarist. This whole reasoning is basically stolen from Nassim Taleb. http://fooledbyrandomness.com/dobelli.htm http://blog.chabris.com/2013&#x2F
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Why was this secret?(sivers.org)
7 points by oskarth 13y ago|2 comments
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by oskarth 13y ago
> I just searched this comment thread for "Taleb" Ha, I did the same thing. > I am partway through Antifragile and do not find it as compelling as The Black Swan, however. Personally I think Antifragile is much better, in t
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by oskarth 13y ago
This is exactly why people like Nassim Taleb [1] (Fooled by Randomness, Black Swan, Antifragile) are against things like GMO. We can't predict which tail risks will hit us and how much - the only thing we can do it to make ourselves ro
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The many flavors of concurrency in Clojure(adambard.com)
5 points by oskarth 13y ago|0 comments
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Treating people like adults(hackerschool.com)
23 points by oskarth 13y ago|3 comments
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by oskarth 13y ago
Small suggestion of the bikeshed variety: I think you should strongly consider to make the top bar height the same as the one on HN. I believe there are design reasons for why it is the that specific height - symmetry, contrast, margins, le
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by oskarth 13y ago
Presumably the goal of the bounty was to make Prezi more secure. OP found a serious security hole, without using a "violent" approach (spear phishing, cutting the power, etc). OP reported this security hole. In a legal sense, they

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