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by rweba 14y ago
EDITED: The original title was "Paypal once refused to hire someone because they liked to play 'hoops'" It has now been edited to the less informative "Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 5 Notes Essay" The original title pointed out a
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Roller Coaster Simulation in 1533 bytes(acko.net)
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How the Wikileaks founder alienated his allies(newstatesman.com)
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Demystifying the Fourier Magic(xrds.acm.org)
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Buffeted by the web, but now riding it(nytimes.com)
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Feynman's Restaurant Problem(feynmanlectures.info)
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Trent Reznor To Fans: “Steal, Steal and Steal Some More” (2007)(wired.com)
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by rweba 14y ago
I'm in the same boat : Just because I like an article doesn't mean I want it saved to my permanent list. I would be very interested if there is a way to change this behavior as I would then upvote far more articles.
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Critics Eating Crow: Google+ Becomes Second Largest Social Platform(huffingtonpost.com)
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by rweba 14y ago
I found this interesting because it's something I hadn't heard of before a few months ago but it's apparently quite famous and important. It also seems relevant to the usual HN topics of how new products get adopted into the marketplace, ef
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Bass Diffusion Model(en.wikipedia.org)
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by rweba 14y ago
Just to be clear I am pretty sure this is not meant completely seriously (John the Baptist is listed as Jesus' "academic advisor"!) What I found myself fascinated by was the first 50 names on the path who were all on the "philosophy tree",
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Chemist traces academic genealogy back to Jesus Christ(plus.google.com)
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by rweba 14y ago
I think there is an interesting gray area here actually that I haven't seen discussed. Randi posted the picture as "friends only" but due to Facebook's policies it turns out that people other than those friends could see the picture. First
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by rweba 14y ago
Not sure if you are kidding but I am pretty sure Kenya wasn't THAT bad. It's actually a fairly stable country, even with the high level corruption scandals and occasional election violence.
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by rweba 14y ago
Article is from 2011. I think by default articles which are not from the current year should be noted in the title.
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Why "Dynamic Programming"?(arcanesentiment.blogspot.fr)
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by rweba 14y ago
He prefers to interact with many people at a distance(email, blog posts, phone calls, occasional visits etc.) rather than many people face to face (lunch meetings, networking events etc.) It is just a matter of personal preference, being ve
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The state of Computer Vision and AI: we are really, really far(karpathy.ca)
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by rweba 14y ago
I liked his last sentence "This is how you get made" as it seems to simultaneously allude to the concept of "Made Men" in the American Mafia and to Horowitz's penchant for putting quotes from gangsta rap in his blog posts :-)
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by rweba 14y ago
What language(s) did you learn, how long have you been learning (them) and what level of fluency have you reached? I have been using the Pimsleur Spanish CDs for almost 6 months. I have made a lot of progress (especially with vocabulary) bu
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by rweba 14y ago
The point is (1) Is all this stuff true? How true? (2) Is it really all good? Seems like they have a very free wheeling engineering culture. Are there downsides to this? Is it sustainable as Facebook grows? From what I've heard Google is co
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by rweba 14y ago
"with few exceptions" I can't back it up with facts but I do have the impression this sort of thing is significantly more common in the US than in any European, Asian, African or South American country. I guess you would have to compile s
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by rweba 14y ago
As the article says, it is not hard to MEET people - I meet plenty of people mostly through work and a few through book clubs, running clubs, bike clubs or just at the coffee shop. And a lot of them are actually legitimately cool people tha
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by rweba 14y ago
I recently did some informal research and found that Canada has by far the most positive public opinion towards immigration among "rich" Western countries. Many European countries view immigration in almost entirely negative terms (largely
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by rweba 14y ago
I am also a computer science assistant professor like Cal Newport so I can relate to what he is trying to say here. An academic paper in computer science usually consists of applying a well defined "technique" to a well defined "problem." F
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by rweba 14y ago
I think 300 miles is plenty for most people (for me definitely). Most people drive less than 30 miles a day. I could even drive from DC to Pittsburgh without having to recharge (about 240 miles).
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by rweba 14y ago
GUYS! I am pretty sure those little Stonehenge references are are just humor. The author is not REALLY suggesting that future civilization would be puzzled by Manhattan's grid. The comparisons with Stonehenge are just an amusing way of poin
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by rweba 14y ago
One FT employee easily costs more than $100,000 when you include benefits, expenses and so on. Also GM sells a few dozens models of cars, I could easily see the salaries for the staff who do daily updates for all these models and the advert
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by rweba 14y ago
Parenthetically, I get rather irritated with people who like to criticize everything as "not novel." Depending on how you look at it almost nothing is completely "novel" ("nothing new under the sun" and all that). What is important is the e

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