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Three years to safeguard our climate(nature.com)
1 points by pen2l 9y ago|0 comments
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by pen2l 9y ago
HN commenters , the more visible ones, are not that young (by young I presume you mean anywhere in the 20s). https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders I think the median age in the top 10, for example, is around 40.
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by pen2l 9y ago
What does "reproducibility" mean? I understand and appreciate the importance of reproducibility in the context of scientific experiments, but I don't understand what it means in terms of computer programs. I am guessing it ha
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by pen2l 9y ago
What you've said makes a lot of sense. There's a sea of researchers out there who do extremely complex PCA and all kinds of wizardry with Excel, mountains of complex systems are built atop Excel in both academia and the wall stree
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by pen2l 9y ago
> It is there on default Fedora installation. Come on, seriously? That's seriously your 'big reason' for switching? Guys it's 2017, it's not that hard to apt-get install $FAVORITE_EDITOR and scp your dotfiles, it
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All Creative Work Is Derivative(youtube.com)
3 points by pen2l 9y ago|0 comments
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by pen2l 9y ago
Isn't Satoshi probably a billionaire? Now THAT is an interesting story. The guy must go through the struggle of fighting against cashing in every single day. Fun to ponder.
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by pen2l 9y ago
> It feels so disheartening to see that these kind of responses not only exist in the industry but we are actually having arguments about it. It's disheartening. But is it surprising? Look at the things the dude sitting in 1600 pens
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by pen2l 9y ago
The readership of Science journal itself is literate and could use search engines. But they do the obvious task of linking to relevant references. If the Economist is in the business of distributing information, linking to a journal should
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by pen2l 9y ago
> >An analysis of Sci-Hub’s server logs, published in Science in 2016, found its biggest users were people in Iran, India and China. Such middle-income countries do not qualify for the subsidies big publishers provide to users in the
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by pen2l 9y ago
I would be soooooo happy if I got to see the code that began it. Does it happen to available anywhere?
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by pen2l 9y ago
> It makes more sense for the $1k investor to pick one stock they feel good about it and hope to get 10-20% or more return on that If you're going to invest $1k, does it even make sense to do it at all even for that 10-20%? I recent
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by pen2l 9y ago
How many shares did you buy, if you don't mind me asking?
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by pen2l 9y ago
> Amazon's rise as the dominant player in renting on-demand, web-based computing power and storage has put some competitors, such as Netflix Inc., in the unlikely position of relying on a corporate rival as they move to the cloud. O
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by pen2l 9y ago
> You should be skeptical of everything Google tells you, like every other organisation. If anything, this should be a pointed reminder of that fact. Okay so you're driving to your parent's house and open up Google Maps for dir
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by pen2l 9y ago
You bring up a good point, this is actually really bad. It's bad because the kind of position Google is in, because of its brand power, because of its authority in the modern world. They cannot joke around like this at this point. They
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Google's new job search pulls in listings from all the top sites(theverge.com)
1 points by pen2l 9y ago|0 comments
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by pen2l 9y ago
Beautiful explanation, thank you.
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by pen2l 9y ago
> You need some of the things ADHD people uniquely have, such as a tendency to try new things, or rather to try more things, than others might. Hm, people without ADHD can try a lot of things too... can you please explain why you feel pe
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by pen2l 9y ago
As someone who knows nothing about machine learning and nothing about PCA (well, until now :)), can someone please explain how the two relate to each other? Is one of them a subset to the other, or what?
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by pen2l 9y ago
The 'Fusion' source? I assume you mean share the 3d model file... and you used Fusion 360 software to create it. Just curious: can you share your experience modeling this? Why Fusion 360? Because it's free? Do you have experi
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A Waymo filing leaks lidar tech details in Uber lawsuit(techcrunch.com)
6 points by pen2l 10y ago|0 comments
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by pen2l 10y ago
I must have miscommunicated. Here is your website right now: https://i.imgur.com/CnChJns.png You need to make changes such that it looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/E2TsC1J.png
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by pen2l 10y ago
Up on the top right, there is language selection text: FR EN ES. Whatever language is currently active is underlined. This is a little bit fighting against convention. Please change that (i.e., active language should not be underlined; in
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Palantir will pay $1.7M to settle claims it discriminated against Asians(latimes.com)
2 points by pen2l 10y ago|0 comments
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by pen2l 10y ago
I think there's one way for them to rise and completely dominate the market: have some intel CPU based type phone which can run normal Windows 10 and all Windows applications. I feel like this is sort of like 10 years ago time... when
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by pen2l 10y ago
I think the author of this post is making the same mistake that a lot of other people (particularly smart folks) make whenever they are thinking about the ills of modern education system and what can be done to improve it. Like Peter Thiel
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by pen2l 10y ago
I love SVG in general... I am curious to hear, is there any reason not to use them? Maybe that it's not as well supported on older browsers?
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by pen2l 10y ago
I think it wouldn't matter in either case, really big svg would be only marginally bigger in size. It would be a different case for png and jpegs, not so much with svg.
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by pen2l 10y ago
I'd be so happy if some big entity (Google/Apple/YC) decided one day to relocate a big portion of their existence to a new place. That time when a city is just being born, when new things new restaurants new houses are being

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