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by rm999 14y ago
I think the author's point is "do whatever you want" :P >Many intro classes also start with only using black and white to simplify the decision making process. That to me sounds incredibly boring, but I once did it, and I probably learn
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by rm999 14y ago
As I mentioned in another comment, I've used this script and it worked well. You can also migrate your data to libre.fm. http://encukou.github.com/lastscrape-gui/
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by rm999 14y ago
I've been worried about the same thing. A few months ago I scraped all my scrobble data from last.fm with a python script I found online: http://encukou.github.com/lastscrape-gui/ You can even move all your data to libre.fm. I didn't do t
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by rm999 14y ago
I had an engineering professor who programmatically created unique exams (random numbers + randomly shuffled types of questions). It actually made his job a lot easier because grading was done via scantron. What I didn't like is there was n
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by rm999 14y ago
This was discussed in 'Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors'. I don't remember all the details, but I think it discussed the same research as this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/701286.stm
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by rm999 14y ago
You're right that internet penetration is low, but I believe that is quickly changing. Almost every person under the age of 35 I know in India (which is a lot, I have a lot of family there) regularly uses the internet, and anyone in the mid
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by rm999 14y ago
I'm surprised at how well the UAE does (very close to the USA), especially when things like this happen: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8450722.stm
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by rm999 14y ago
As long as we are on HN, might as well as cite PG on what a startup is: http://paulgraham.com/growth.html >A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necess
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by rm999 14y ago
Appealing to an authority is not a fallacy unless it's misapplied. Saying "I'd rather learn about X from an expert in X" is completely legitimate; it's common sense, really. From your link: >Although certain classes of argument from aut
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by rm999 14y ago
The article links to a reddit thread that links to this thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/tedtalks/comments/1443ke/the_ted_nam... It looks like the issue was with the speakers at a specific event, not just a specific talk.
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by rm999 14y ago
And this was a huge factor in Steve Jobs' success - he understood the typical American better than almost any engineer.
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by rm999 14y ago
I like the Verge, and what I like about the Verge is what Ben Brooks doesn't, I think. The reviews don't hit you like an opinionated ton of bricks; the style of the Verge recognizes that there are nuances in reviewing any product that are u
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by rm999 14y ago
msy is not making a value judgment on Apple, he's saying this is nothing new. In contrast to the article: >I remember an Apple that bent over backwards to understand its customers’ point of view and stretched itself to meet the high exp
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by rm999 14y ago
I sort of agree with you, but Zynga is currently so dependent on Facebook that even small or expected news like this is major news for Zynga. I'd call a 6% drop fairly significant because investors already knew the relationship with faceboo
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by rm999 14y ago
Five figure fines are completely unreasonable, the fault lies with NYC and the hotels who lobbied for these laws. Short-term housing is really bad for a city whose economy benefits so much from tourism; tiny hotel rooms start at 250/night.
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by rm999 14y ago
I'm guessing this is related to what I just read in the new Economist: http://www.economist.com/news/21567361-google-apple-facebook... >Google is experimenting with a service that would let folk find goods online, order them and have
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by rm999 14y ago
But we don't understand the high-level 'physical rules' of the brain. While gravity could be explained by simple equations, the high-level operation of the brain has escaped us despite a lot of effort. This goes back to the top-down vs bott
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by rm999 14y ago
Thanks for the correction, my information is old. My friend in the XP days told me a company he worked with got licenses for something like 25 dollars each. I just did a google search and it looks like OEM prices have been rising and are mu
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by rm999 14y ago
It's great to see Dell doing something that resembles innovation, and it's great to see laptops that can run Linux out of the box. But honestly I just don't trust Ubuntu after they built advertising ('online scope results') into their inter
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by rm999 14y ago
>Unix philosophy has nothing to do with objects. I'm pretty sure it's an analogy. > It is about interfaces, streams and common intermediate data representation And this is what modularity is all about too. > There is nothing fro
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by rm999 14y ago
Curiosity is loaded with sensors, these can be used to draw conclusions they weren't designed for. Here's an admittedly absurd example: if Curiosity's cameras recorded a Martian puppy running around it, scientists would almost certainly con
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by rm999 14y ago
The tldr of the article is to write modular code. This is great advice, I hope most intermediate software engineers already live by this. If I recall my CS history correctly, Multics/Unix was one of the first major software projects that em
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by rm999 14y ago
This news is not being officially revealed by Apple. More than likely the news spread very quickly within Apple, and then naturally leaked out. At my last company when someone was laid off every competing company knew about it within 30 min
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by rm999 14y ago
He seriously downplays potential risks of global warming, and he's built his career on this single argument. I know objective science, and he doesn't practice it (most people who write editorial books don't). To be clear, I don't have a str
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by rm999 14y ago
My MBP and MBA fall back to 2.4GHz sometimes. This is annoying because microwave interference is common in my building. So now I keep separately named networks and can usually connect at 450 mbps (mbp) or 150 (mba). At least I believe that
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by rm999 14y ago
How is that possible when sea levels elsewhere didn't rise by 10s of feet? Even if you count tides it defies common sense; a lot of NYC is below 10 feet from sea level. Anyway, Lomborg is a controversial figure with an anti-global-warming a
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by rm999 14y ago
I've never been to Japan so I may not fully understand what you mean, but cutting in line isn't at all acceptable in the USA. The Black Friday riots that get press attention this time of the year are an exception, and usually involve a rare
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by rm999 14y ago
The first time I saw a paper on feasible deep networks was at NIPS 2006, specifically this paper: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/fastnc.pdf It's been awhile since I read the paper, but as I recall it involved training an unsuperv
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by rm999 14y ago
I was at the same point about a year ago. I never really found a single primer, and I looked. What I realized is the industry is complex because it is fragmented by tons of companies doing their own thing, not because of any real inherent c
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by rm999 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback, that's what I wanted to hear!

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