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by rm999 12y ago
This wikipedia article point to some good sources on the topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_risk_from_global_war... The tldr is that many scientists do believe that a significant % of species will go extinc
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by rm999 12y ago
Almost all my stories are on the very right side, with one or two on the very left, and not much in the middle. You should either use percentile score to determine the location (so the median scoring story is right in the center) or apply s
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by rm999 12y ago
And the Daily Mall's only source seems to be "unnamed' TSA officials. And the article lacks any real detail. Also, they threw this obvious false-hood in their article: "The Transportation Security Administration will not
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by rm999 12y ago
Good write-up, but IMO these kinds of posts are not useful for most people (despite there being many just like it) - the 30,000 foot view is too much information for a beginner but too basic for someone who is knowledgeable in the field. In
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by rm999 12y ago
AT&T - and most major ISPs in the USA - already offer TV service. It's true that these consolidations will only give the big players more power, but the conflict of interest already exists.
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by rm999 12y ago
> But rules can be converted into features, which you use as primitives in an ml model "Rule" has a very specific meaning in this industry, and it's basically a manual decision that exists outside the ML model - usually wr
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by rm999 12y ago
>I am not sure that a purely data centric approach with no rules even makes sense. Fraudsters generally follow fairly specific patterns that can definitely be picked up in a rich enough dataset, and the consortium-based approaches of Fal
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by rm999 12y ago
UT3 was reviled because it was designed for both consoles and PCs, so everything was a compromise - sort of the windows 8 of the UT series. I know what you mean about the split, but as someone who loves both series I think either way will l
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by rm999 12y ago
This is much more usable than google maps for manhattan (on my iphone), I'm very impressed! Google maps is a great app, but it's clunky for the specific use-cases of city-dwellers. I really like how you don't have to specify
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by rm999 12y ago
Google wishes it wasn't 95+% an ad company. It's a highly profitable space, but it leaves them vulnerable in the long term. Google is entering into the delivery space (Google Shopping Express) and into self-driving cars, both whic
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by rm999 12y ago
I highly recommend RescueTime, which tracks exactly this - it looks at what software you are interacting with/what websites you are on, and reports many hours a week you were on your computer and how much of that was productive. For ex
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by rm999 13y ago
How much of this can be explained by exchange rates, i.e. the falling US dollar vs other major world currencies in the last 10-15 years? Those plots are all in US dollars, so I would expect if all else is equal that non-US salaries would go
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by rm999 13y ago
It doesn't seem optimal for sex because there's no bed or bathroom in the room. Especially regarding the bathroom - who wants to get dressed and walk through a commercial space right after having sex just to use the restroom? Mean
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by rm999 13y ago
In my Environmental Engineering class we learned that in the USA, unlike much of the rest of the world, water is chlorinated during the treatment process. The residual chlorine left in the water makes tap water less susceptible to contamina
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by rm999 13y ago
This is an old article - Jay Porter's tipless restaurant, The Linkery, has since failed. This is my comment from the last time the Linkery came up on hackenews ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6127536 ): >Back w
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by rm999 13y ago
I came here to say exactly this - the purposeful imprecision in plots doesn't come from squiggly lines (which I consider unprofessional in many contexts), it comes from the lack of axes numbers. That first xkcd plot is the worst possib
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by rm999 13y ago
Honestly, I think you're the one missing the bigger picture. Look forward a few years; do you really think oculus is going to be the only player in VR? There are already several companies seriously working on VR, and many more will fol
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by rm999 13y ago
I think the only losers will be cloud storage companies if the industry is commoditized and margins are pushed towards zero. The industry is only going to grow, and there will always be competition. Meanwhile, cheaper cloud storage is bette
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by rm999 13y ago
>It's one thousand times better to fail when trying to predict the flu epidemics than successfully using technology to bomb weddings. That's a pointless and irrelevant comparison. There's a cost to false positives, e.g. cr
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by rm999 13y ago
>The rule of thumb is that hedge funds charge a 2% per year management fee and keep 20% of all profits, >All returns shown are net of fees So, subtract 20% from the 3 positive numbers, and that's about 6% in fees (this may be off
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by rm999 13y ago
Honest question: how does a prominent person quitting publicly make it more clear that there's a concerted effort (which insinuates an arranged effort, basically a conspiracy) to mislead people? If anything I took it as the opposite, t
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by rm999 13y ago
> Unless I'm mistaken and the cable bundler services of Time Warner / Comcast pay big bucks to have CBS in their packages Yep, in the form of "retransmission fees" paid by the cable companies. CBS currently makes abou
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by rm999 13y ago
He probably made a mistake evoking Ponzi's name (although he never actually called it a Ponzi scheme, which it clearly isn't). But I think when people bring up Ponzi and bitcoins, the idea is closer to a bubble mentality where ado
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by rm999 13y ago
What you're saying insinuates I must turn on the sprinkler when it rains, which is not true. Just because I have my whole life doesn't mean I will for eternity. It's simply a correlation - I tend to turn on the sprinkler when
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by rm999 13y ago
From what I can tell, that presentation is assuming a certain class of graph structures in its DACB example - for example that there isn't an element E that can causally link the other nodes, emulating a causal relationship without the
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by rm999 13y ago
In general, no. Simple counterexample: everyday it rains my grass is wet, and everyday it doesn't rain the grass is dry. Does the rain cause the grass to be wet? Well, probably. But maybe my grass is in a greenhouse, and I only turn on
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by rm999 13y ago
It would be interesting to compare this to the equivalent metric for companies that went public: the market cap per user at IPO (or maybe X days after the IPO if there's a lot of volatility?). I'm curious how the valuations differ
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by rm999 13y ago
>I think keeping it to one page shows respect for a reader's time A well-laid out resume does this for the reader. Basically, the reader should be able to get a high-level idea of the applicant by quickly reading the top of each s
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by rm999 13y ago
Just a note, this article isn't about the length of a paper resume, it's about students using online portfolios to store information on projects, verified transcripts, etc. Basically, a more thorough replacement for a resume. But
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by rm999 13y ago
I'm by no means an expert on this stuff, but what about this paper? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1932817/ > In this work, we used a new mixture of selected sourdough lactobacilli and f

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