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by punee 12y ago
Possibly the most pretentious post I've ever read. The issue may be simple, but it doesn't have a thing to do with what you're talking about. Amazon operates in France. It's a local business. Next question?
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by punee 12y ago
Terminology quibble, but not all Nash equilibria are prisoner's dilemmas. Indeed, some Nash equilibria are also Pareto efficient ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_Nash_equilibrium ).
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by punee 12y ago
Yes, there could. It's not "silly", it's the basis of what separates science from religion. There's no final answer. Everything can be questioned. It's funny how purported skeptics are so quick to look for eter
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by punee 12y ago
OTOH, that "wh" is pronounced /hw/ only reinforces his main argument.
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by punee 12y ago
I am not sure either how he inferred from Andreessen's tweets that there was any paradox in Silicon Valley not paying for the safety net. From a (n admittedly somewhat utopian) techno-libertarian POV, couldn't Andreessen mean that
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by punee 12y ago
I can't count how many times I've had to tell designers that their great design idea of resizing the first "tile" to perfectly fit the viewport was a UI (and conversion) disaster. It's also a well known problem refe
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by punee 12y ago
Yeah, sure, Mr. "Smalltalk and C# developer", the Sistine Chapel is a tourist attraction. I am not sure if you have "delusions of a creator" but you sure seem to have other delusions. Some people on Hacker News are hones
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by punee 12y ago
Assuming I'm a marketer who's using A/B testing tools and who's only interested in getting "statistically significant" results, and assuming Bayesian methods provide some advantage in terms of regret minimizati
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by punee 12y ago
I guess that's as good a place as any to ask some more general (and naive) question : how come Bayesian methods still haven't taken over the testing market given their (as perceived by my narrow understanding) advantages?
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by punee 12y ago
I think the term of art is "accident de personne." I certainly heard it a few times myself. The SNCF can be blamed for a lot of things, including subpar service quality, but I don't think they ever tried hiding the nature of
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by punee 12y ago
Also interestingly, they will "translate" movie titles that are in English into a different title, also in English. So "The Hangover" becomes "Very Bad Trip".
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by punee 12y ago
A lot of subtitling in France? Nope. In fact, you'd be hard pressed to find any (by default that is, you can always turn them on). The overwhelming majority of shows are dubbed in France too. The explanation is some form of ingrained l
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by punee 12y ago
I'm not sure it's abandonment as much as a huge cognitive dissonance. Designers are always using that Steve Jobs quote about how design is "not how it looks, it's how it works", and the Dieter Rams principles, all o
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by punee 12y ago
The fewer words you use, the more that tends to happen.
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by punee 12y ago
Product looks pretty cool. However, I'll give you a -5/10 for another tiny font size and font weight product page. Even Apple who, as far as I can tell, originated that style, doesn't go for such extremes. There's no way
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by punee 13y ago
Your quotation talks about design, not about looks. Huge difference. Regardless, absolutely NO ONE who uses an application gives a shit about how it is implemented. All people see is the interface. That may include elements that depend on i
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by punee 13y ago
Well, isn't that the whole point? You're not sure because you _can't_ be sure. Because there's no competitive offer to help price discovery.
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by punee 13y ago
So, where is that quotation from? Oh, sorry, it looks like the "journalist" was just making shit up and putting it in people's mouths? What garbage.
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by punee 13y ago
Seems like a bad choice for a headline/title. You're advertising a gimmicky, non-essential feature of your app instead of one of its valuable benefits. But curiosity-based headlines can only be so efficient when they're not paired with a mo
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Fireside Chat With Peter Thiel [video](youtube.com)
1 points by punee 14y ago|0 comments
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Peter Norvig at the 2012 Singularity Summit(fora.tv)
6 points by punee 14y ago|0 comments
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by punee 14y ago
Another good reference, although less advertising oriented, The King's English, by H.W. Fowler, insists on solid principles: Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single wo
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by punee 14y ago
It is an issue that is found in other countries proportionately to the prevalence of socialism. The French, for instance, will not only blame everything on the government (or people who have had success), but expect everything from it (fi
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by punee 14y ago
I'm here to let you in on the little secrets of fashion so people think you're even more awesome than you already are. That's how this should read. That would make unprofessional copy look like lazy professional copy, although I suppo
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by punee 14y ago
Scikit-learn for Python, great tutorials/user guide covering various ML techniques, makes prototyping very easy: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/
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by punee 14y ago
Those of us in the rest of the world (since I, too, speak for the rest of the world) don't really think America is crazy about anything. Perhaps those of us in the rest of the world need to stop trying to lecture other nations about what th
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by punee 14y ago
That sounds more like what I'm used to seeing. I guess the parent was being a little hyperbolic, or simply hastily generalizing what may be true for professional photographers (i.e. conspicuously pointing large gear in the face of people wi
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by punee 14y ago
The preferred separator in French is a non-breaking space, so it in fact would be 1 000,01. But that is irrelevant because this article is not in French. It really should read 7,207 images per second, which incidentally is the name of the v
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by punee 14y ago
This is part of a larger tutorial available here: http://ufldl.stanford.edu/wiki/index.php/UFLDL_Tutorial
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The Manifest Destiny of Artificial Intelligence(americanscientist.org)
5 points by punee 14y ago|0 comments

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