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by romanows 10y ago
I stopped keeping a personal daily journal when ohlife shut down. It was a service that would email you every day and you would respond with your journal entry. I don't know why it worked for me-- i could just email myself each day--
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by romanows 10y ago
tl;dr, sleep deprivation can help quickly alleviate symptoms of major depression but symptoms return after a few days. Author thinks that using light therapy may extend the symptom relief, long enough for antidepressant meds to start workin
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by romanows 10y ago
Same thing happened to me, also right when I encountered "cut". However, rather than considering Prolog a leaky abstraction, I started thinking of it as a concrete implementation of a particular kind of useful search algorithm.
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by romanows 10y ago
As a casual observer, their whole business actually seems based on lobbying and lawyers.
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by romanows 10y ago
It's not just the storefront, Oculus sells headsets too. But even more than making money right now on software and hardware, they want to capture the emerging VR market, dominate it for years, and make even bigger profits when the mar
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by romanows 12y ago
Is there some set of standardized benchmark objects that different companies and owners could print and compare? Maybe something that requires increasingly high precision as a function of volume so you could say "my machine goes out-o
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by romanows 13y ago
The bit-contract idea is neat, although it seems like it could be misused. A group of dishonest buyers could gang up on an honest seller and inflict a worst-case N x (penalty + item_cost) damage at a cost to each buyer of (penalty - item_c
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by romanows 14y ago
He might be a good guy who has chosen to work within the system, and he might be defending the system to strengthen his influence over others that are also in the system. But there's no reason software patent critics should believe that he'
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by romanows 14y ago
You included Craigslist to get pageviews. Your own linked articles about that topic are a user only complaining about the legal takedown of a useful tool [1] and another complaint about UX with an included blurb asking startups and users to
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by romanows 14y ago
Honest question, what devs are you thinking of that put profit above everything else? Newcomers during the dot-com bubble?
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by romanows 15y ago
Location often determines how quickly you can expect to find a job. I don't know what the St. Louis job market is like, though, but probably not fantastic? You can consider determining whether the bug is with St. Louis or with some (impro
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by romanows 15y ago
Are you limiting your job search to specific locales? Are you applying at top companies only?
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by romanows 15y ago
The Coderwall site scrapes your public Github information but doesn't show you any "achievements" until you tweet about "@coderwall". Seems like a shady way to kick start a developer community.
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by romanows 15y ago
The worst thing is probably publishing or acting on something that is, in order of importance: succinct, damaging, hard-to-refute, and true.
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by romanows 15y ago
Could it be that MacDo just called the SF city council's bluff? I'm not sure this is evidence that the city council sucks at intervening: the council did something straightforward to communicate their intent. The company brazenly thumbed
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by romanows 15y ago
It sounds a bit like it's also the shock of encountering such hard math. I'm jealous of other countries that work their high school students hard. I remember meeting international students that had learned all of my engineering college mat
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by romanows 15y ago
Did they actually replace the HMM with a neural network? I'm only going by the abstract, but it seems that they just replaced the usual Gaussian mixture models with their neural networks. The link in the article didn't work for me; I'm ref
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by romanows 15y ago
The difference in error rates is in large part due to the to the difference between dictated speech and spontaneous, informal conversational speech. Switchboard ( http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=... ) is a set of
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by romanows 15y ago
Sell more copies of Mathematica? There is this comparison chart, but it seems to confuse the document itself with the editing framework: http://www.wolfram.com/cdf/compare-cdf/how-cdf-compares.html
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by romanows 15y ago
A simple statistical model is probably not the only thing human infants are using when they learn language. Linguists make a pretty good case that there must be some structure in-place for infants to acquire language robustly, quickly, a
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by romanows 16y ago
People just want to make sure it is you requesting the money and not a scammer. You just need to convince people that you are you and then HN/reddit will be happy to help. Hope you get well!
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by romanows 16y ago
This looks like most academic CVs I've seen. This is a domain-accepted/encouraged practice. Moreover, this guy is a newly minted academic; you should see how long they get when you stick around: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/vi
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by romanows 16y ago
New data is usually costly to obtain. Most application ideas would be unapproachable by a garage-style startup due to the expense of data collection and the lack of proof-of-concept results. Same idea as exploiting an underpopulated niche
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by romanows 17y ago
Who needs color graphics to comprehend percentages? If they were pie charts instead of fancy squares, they'd be obviously redundant.
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by romanows 17y ago
In fact, if your submission helps prevent murders, you would tend to lose the contest.