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I read through some of the Beginner section that I thought seemed inappropriate for beginners and found a number of grammar and punctuation errors. While trying to navigate the file I found that the page numbering shown in the Table of Cont
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A line chart would forgo the act of scrolling which would eliminate the narrative feel of the graphic (scrolling through time to see what happened next). Considering that the content of the graphic is somewhat complex I think the "nois
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This article is a great reminder of how to work with others but I think it is unlikely to be received well here. Hacker News loves to dump on junior developers and hates literary subtlety. This article uses the latter to admonish the former
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According to the Wikipedia page for proportionality[1], the values "can also be viewed as a two-variable linear equation with a y-intercept of 0". Direct (as opposed to inverse) proportionality is a type of positive correlation bu
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Wouldn't that mean that the probability is always 100% because the company is always 100% of its current proportion?
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Is it possible this was done for a reason? Users on the linked page report that it's not just keydown but also keypress and keyup. If the first two were disabled but keyup still worked that decision may have some (limited) justificatio
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Right, but that's not the point. I am referring the sushi standard defined in the article based on the cube illustration. In reality there is sushi that conforms to nearly all of those designations. Furthermore, tacos are filled, not w
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Lasagna does not have pasta (its starch component) on the bottom or the top. A wrap (such as a falafel wrap, as it is pictured on the site) is a taco, not sushi.
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If you are small and have no government support you have to learn in order to survive. If you are monolith like Equifax and you only have to explain yourself to people who are openly soliciting campaign contributions (read: bribes) then lea
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It also begins a day before the advent began.
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A better title would be "A Summary of Responses to Freedom of Information Requests About Student Housing Policies". There is no survey (scientific or informal) of students to find how or if these policies affect the friendships th
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You didn't read the Hacker News comment guidelines.
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These is an incredibly short-sighted point of view. Consider, if you will, the slaughtered goat and the butchered goat; both of which are precursors to the cooked goat. There are many types of good goat, all being dead of course.
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There is a distinction between domestication and permanent indoor confinement. Horses are domesticated and so are dogs, donkeys, cows and cats. Just because some of them are of a convenient size to be kept indoors at all times or tied to a
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If you have to trap an animal inside of your home at all times because if it had the chance it would run away forever and you would never see it again, what is the best word to describe relationship? I don't think "pet" is th
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Brad is very specific about the problems with facial recognition and he generalizes an approach to regulation that seems sound. The argument that the government is always going to abuse power and should therefore not attempt to regulate any
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> USA handicap requirements benefit someone, but I'm not sure it's the handicapped. In general terms that is a difficult statement to defend. The ADA goes to much greater lengths than setting a required toilet height. For the r
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I agree and I'm glad that it was taken down. However, an appeal to popularity, "Everyone uses the wifi at starbucks" is strange to see from someone who is advocating better security practices. Most phones should have certain
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I've seen setups like this but have never really understood the point. You're either left sitting far away and scaling everything up (reducing the resolution) which defeats the purpose of having a larger display or you're exp
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It is common to publish the layouts and dimensions of mazes in such studies. The mazes[1] themselves often reflect the nature of the study (e.g. a simple fork to test desicion-making or a complex maze with dead ends to test navigation and&#
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Research is often funded by firms that want the study to serve as a “scientific” basis for the efficacy of a product or service. Experiments that cannot be replicated are meaningless. That standard should not be compromised.
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I had the same thought. For the sake of clarity, Spectrum is not a cable company unto itself. It is a brand owned by Time Warner Cable, a thin facade to escape their reputation for costumer dissatisfaction.
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I can relate to him. I used to think that adulthood was a permanent state, that I would feel the same age at 30 as I did at 20. That is not the case, I feel exactly the age that I am and I learned just as much in my last ten years as I did
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It is difficult to take someone seriously when they introduce themselves by saying something like that. Experiencing life is not a competition, nor is it a valid bragging point. I guess it is good to know that there are some painfully obvio
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‘Ostensibly’ does not mean what you think it means.
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This pretty neat. I liked the visual aspect of the maze generation but how annoyingly long it is depends on random chance. For me it was just a little too drawn out (Firefox). Anyway this is a good implementation of a cool concept. Matchmak
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How is this device anything like Theranos? Theranos promised a world with less of a need for lab testing and claimed to empower individuals to analyze their own vital statistics. This is a product for disease detection in labs. They are mor
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One who takes offense to the phrase "Tell me about yourself" does not have the ability to function as a member of society. Based on some of these comments you would think that asking the typical Hacker News commenter about the we
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Whenever a topic like this comes up I find it meaningful to mention the number of people who lived in North America in the year 1500. The population is thought to have been roughly one hundred million. Now the indigenous peoples are nonexis
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My android phone (which I have stopped using) sends ads as notifications based on my location. Usually it's just asking me to review something nearby but they have suggested that I visit somewhere (McDonald's, for example) then le

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