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by psycr 13y ago
Could someone speak to the various credentials of the authors here? I think this landing page would be substantially improved if there was further detail about the professional history of each of the authors. Perhaps a few words about any n
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by psycr 13y ago
Grey's Law: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"
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by psycr 13y ago
This is a much too deep a question to adequately address in this medium. A better starting question might be: Do capital markets have a natural or a constructed social utility? If their social utility is natural, then finding out what benef
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by psycr 13y ago
I've discovered this, for anyone else who might need similar help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_symbols
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by psycr 13y ago
As a former philosophy student, who cared little for mathematics in university, can someone point me in the direction of a resource that would allow me to understand the notation in this article? I understand the problem as described, but u
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by psycr 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Toronto Seeking short term contracts to supplement existing employment. I am a human/machine interface designer && developer. My work consists of "from scratch" UX and interface design, from t
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by psycr 13y ago
Thanks! I hadn't heard of this. Playing around with it for a few minutes, and it strikes me as, well, _complicated_. I think that's one of the difficulties in this space - just being able to reduce, reduce, reduce so much data int
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by psycr 13y ago
Fitbit has a reasonably good sleep API - as does Jawbone.
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by psycr 13y ago
Awesome work. I have been working on an open source API to accomplish similar things (specifically just re: aggregation of data from disparate sources): https://github.com/jdjkelly/quantify It's Rails + Postgres,
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by psycr 13y ago
Do you mean the regular meetup.com mailing list for NYC.rb or something else?
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by psycr 13y ago
Could you expand on why you believe the first real AIs will be suicidal? Is there a particular line of thought that has influenced your reasoning?
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by psycr 13y ago
Thanks for building that Sam, we use it all the time and it's proven invaluable.
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by psycr 13y ago
She.
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by psycr 13y ago
That's perfectly fine - but quite different from posting a list of recruiters.
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by psycr 13y ago
I like this alternative to titling. The original headline is preserved, and clarified by the editorial clarification in square brackets. It would be great for HN to adopt this as a solution to the modified headline problem, with the provisi
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by psycr 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Toronto I am a human/machine interface designer && developer. My work consists of "from scratch" UX and interface design, from the napkin to nginx. I have considerable experience with Ruby and
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Uniiverse releases app to get people away from screens and into ‘real life’(venturebeat.com)
4 points by psycr 13y ago|0 comments
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by psycr 13y ago
But... that's what these guys are building on top of, in which case I'm not sure I understand the sarcasm?
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by psycr 13y ago
Well, for the unenlightened, which one is that? Firefox? Chrome?
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by psycr 13y ago
She sounds totally and completely amazing. The most important thing I've accomplished, other than building the compiler, is training young people. They come to me, you know, and say, "Do you think we can do this?" I
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by psycr 13y ago
Downvotes exist. You just don't have enough karma to see them.
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by psycr 13y ago
So it sounds like there's an opportunity for someone here. If you read to the end of the article, you'll note that the actual scam is in spinning up discount code sites. We need a Rapgenius for online discount codes. Right now, it
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by psycr 13y ago
Whiddershins' comment has nothing to do with political correctness, but rather with actual historical correctness. The comment is polite, sincere, and provides a further source of information for those who seek it.
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by psycr 13y ago
They are a design agency in Toronto, noted for their work in the startup community.
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by psycr 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Toronto I am a human/machine interface designer && developer. My work consists of "from scratch" UX and interface design, from the napkin to nginx. I have considerable experience with Ruby and
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by psycr 13y ago
It's great to see an open sourced Ember.js project on the front page. I've spend most of the last year working with, around, and on top it. But, and this is a but of serious hesitation, why would you use Ember.js for a blog like
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Uniiverse releases Direct Payments so anyone can sell tickets to anything(venturebeat.com)
3 points by psycr 13y ago|0 comments
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by psycr 13y ago
Don't worry about it. The commenter here is wrong in assuming that using history to understand our own narrative implies something about the scale or scope of the original, or our own. Events need not be the same for us to try to use t
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by psycr 13y ago
Let's play the guessing game: by "encrypted" they mean MD5'd?
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by psycr 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote Human/machine interface designer/developer. From scratch experience and interface design, from the napkin to nginx. Frontend: HTML5 (Haml, Slim), CSS3 (Sass, Less), JavaScript (Vanilla, jQuery, Ember.js, Back

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