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by rm999 14y ago
It's worth pointing out that he wasn't a student or employee of MIT. Yes, he was a member of the hacker elite, but I would imagine any institution would be less likely to protect someone it can't internally discipline.
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by rm999 14y ago
The US uses an adversary law system, where a side 'wins'. It's basically a competition rather than an organized attempt at finding a 'truth'. As twisted as it is to frame a legal system as a form of combat, it usually ends up being pretty f
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by rm999 14y ago
> Doesn't this just prove or enhance the point that we should look beyond economic growth to drive our prosperity? You're creating a false dichotomy. It does not prove we must look beyond economic growth; on the contrary it shows that
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by rm999 14y ago
Or harder, especially if you use the existing code as a crutch when recreating the experiment. You're much more likely to overlook a bug and copy it than perfectly recreate it from scratch. Or worse yet, if you just run experiment.sh, see t
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by rm999 14y ago
A surgery can involve a lot of resources, they tend to have long wait times. For comparison, this article from 2007 says the average wait for a surgery in canada is 4.5 months: http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2007/10/15/waittimes-fra..
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by rm999 14y ago
Wow, what an incredibly sketchy family: http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-te.bz.groundrent11d... As someone from Baltimore, this kinds of stuff sickens me.
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by rm999 14y ago
Yeah, I was confused what the 'upper crust' section means. I know the top paid software engineers at google make way more than 180k in total compensation. Maybe they mean the top base salaries for people with 'software engineer' titles is 1
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by rm999 14y ago
That's an inane reason to throw out something that MAY have value to you. You might as well as never send out a resume or CV because there may be a mistake. Or you could just double check your dates... it's not rocket science. I think Micha
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by rm999 14y ago
I don't see this as a tech vs media issue. Companies like Google would love to have free access to old copyrighted material, but that's a minuscule part of their business. Newly created media is valuable but will always be copyrighted. Copy
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by rm999 14y ago
My takeaway from all this was that the RSC (Republican Study Committee) is somewhat disorganized, not that there is any political shift occurring. I think the tech world turned it into a bigger news story than it should have been because we
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by rm999 14y ago
Yeah my thoughts too, I haven't seen anyone improve on the top answer. No one wants to read the dialogue box, so make it as easy as possible.
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by rm999 14y ago
Your evidence that reddit is replaceable is you've used similar sites (most of which are basically dead in the water at this point). But in the same paragraph you exempt the new york times from that same reasoning. There are several large h
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by rm999 14y ago
When you see drastic and sudden changes in reddit, it's usually something external. In this case the beginning of December marks the end of the semester for college and high school students, who use reddit more during reading period/christm
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by rm999 14y ago
I hate to be so critical, but this article sucks. If I realized it was a forbes blogger site I would have skipped it; those seem to be consistently low quality. >each one of these functions could be a robust company itself. >3.) The
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by rm999 14y ago
This is an obnoxious page because the front page autoplays a video. This is an unpleasant surprise for someone like me who opens many links in new tabs before looking at them.
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by rm999 14y ago
Using OSX, working with files/data on a remote server: I use transmit to sftp files from the server. I usually code in textwrangler. I ssh into the server through terminal. I have a script that copies selected code from textwrangler and pas
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by rm999 14y ago
The 42% is Android. If they wanted to make a stronger point they could sum up Apple and Android and claim 66% of mobile is on unix-like OS's.
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by rm999 14y ago
Both underfitting and overfitting cause poor generalization performance. You can use cross validation to search for the parameters that give the lowest validation error.
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by rm999 14y ago
None of that is mentioned in the linked page or the pledge. What I see is: >In the coming weeks and months, we must come together around common-sense solutions that will prevent the gun violence that has become all too frequent in commu
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by rm999 14y ago
Even the NRA is (unsurprisingly) a supporter of 'gun violence prevention'. This moment of silence isn't advocating any specific solution, I don't see the controversy. I think almost every reasonable person can agree with "let's stop gun vio
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by rm999 14y ago
This is the first mass shooting in a long time that is sparking action. That's a good thing; the countries' aversion to discussing gun control may be part of the reason we are having a moment of silence to begin with. I think of it as "let
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by rm999 14y ago
The messages I get from non-friends are usually from old friends asking if I'm the correct rm999 (well, my real name). I think these messages do have a lot of utility, but I would never pay to send them. They also provide value to facebook
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by rm999 14y ago
>Several commentators and researchers have noted that imposing a financial cost on the sender may be the most effective way to discourage unwanted messages Sure, if you measure your performance on true positives. But what about false po
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by rm999 14y ago
Very legit, but they lost a lot of goodwill from me when they shut down their website for several days and announced they were going out of business. It turned out it was all a glorified prank/PR stunt; the whole time all I could think was
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by rm999 14y ago
Saints Row 3 is likely what sold many of the bundle copies. It's not an old game, it's a well-reviewed 1 year old AAA game that sells for 40 dollars on steam.
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by rm999 14y ago
I was surprised to see that microsoft paid very little to license the game, and even originally tried charging companies to include games.
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by rm999 14y ago
This part: > Why are so many crowdfunded projects blowing their deadlines? >Over and over in our interviews, the same pattern emerged. A team of ambitious but inexperienced creators launched a project that they expected would attrac
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by rm999 14y ago
Sorry for the slightly off-topic comment, but you should avoid shortening 'latent dirichlet allocation' to LDA without context because it also means 'linear discriminant analysis'. Linear discriminant analysis has historically been an impor
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by rm999 14y ago
I disagree with a few things about your comment. Your criticism of machine learning feels off-base, and is too specific to describe such a wild field. Who sells parameters? What does that even have to do with whether it is a science? I can
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by rm999 14y ago
Ooof, very dangerous use of appeal to authority. Markets are probably one of the last places you want to build an argument on "that's what this expert said" because experts are always disagreeing with each other. That's sort of the point of

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