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by saltvedt 10y ago
We have index funds in Europe...
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by saltvedt 10y ago
No, it's a real problem, examples of the lefts "special brand of science denialism": http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/687863?jour... https://blogs.scientificamerican.
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by saltvedt 10y ago
Good article explaining complexity of refinements in Ruby: http://blog.headius.com/2012/11/refining-ruby.html
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by saltvedt 10y ago
I was surprised yesterday, by the high number of upvotes but lack of comments on "Wide and Deep Learning: Better Together with TensorFlow". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12003281 So I made this; make of it
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Show HN: Best Hacker News stories, sorted by score to comment ratio(gist.github.com)
1 points by saltvedt 10y ago|1 comments
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by saltvedt 10y ago
Can anyone give more examples of specific problems this could solve?
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As an English European, this is the biggest defeat of my political life(theguardian.com)
2 points by saltvedt 10y ago|0 comments
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by saltvedt 10y ago
Renowned British historian Timothy Garton Ash[1] wrote a very good comment in The Guardian, which takes a step back and considers some of the larger picture: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/commentisfree/2016&#
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by saltvedt 10y ago
This is a good introduction: http://natureofcode.com/book/chapter-7-cellular-automata/
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by saltvedt 10y ago
"AI: A Modern Approach (...) authors, Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, devote significant space to AI dangers and Friendly AI in section 26.3, “The Ethics and Risks of Developing Artificial Intelligence.” https://intelligenc
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by saltvedt 10y ago
Brooks' Law: "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%E2%80%99_law
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by saltvedt 11y ago
https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades
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by saltvedt 11y ago
If you think this is interesting, definitely read "Generalizing From One Example" at Less Wrong [1]. Turns out that people have varying degrees of ability to mentally imagine things, where the range seems to be from "purely
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by saltvedt 11y ago
Probably anti-virus software preventing malware from hijacking google analytics.
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by saltvedt 11y ago
The documents released were in response to Peter Kofod's request for information about the airplane itself. "Justitsministeriet kan ikke oplyse, hvorvidt ministeriet er i besiddelse af materiale omfattet af den del af din anmodnin
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by saltvedt 11y ago
There is no "firm evidence" in the documents as this article claims. There is no reference to Snowden there.
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Announcing Our $3.5M Philanthropic Growth Round(blog.watsi.org)
160 points by saltvedt 11y ago|20 comments
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by saltvedt 11y ago
Raise money from investors. Code the MVP yourself.
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by saltvedt 11y ago
Haskell and Yesod. Currently I'm a Rails developer, and I want to see if the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. It certainly feels that way. ES6 and React. I haven't really done any JavaScript development since I use
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by saltvedt 11y ago
Yes, check out the Nocebo effect[0] (Placebos evil twin) and related phenomena like Voodoo death.[1] From Wikipedia: "Voodoo death, a term coined by Walter Cannon in 1942 also known as psychogenic death or psychosomatic death, is the p
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by saltvedt 11y ago
You're not required to set yourself on fire to keep others warm. There is such an incredibly huge gap between what is considered good software craftmanship and what is actually happening in practice in the industry. Nobody really talks
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by saltvedt 12y ago
http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/
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by saltvedt 12y ago
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289606...
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by saltvedt 12y ago
It doesn't seem to be important now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law
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by saltvedt 12y ago
I agree strongly with this message. There is a lot more to web design than making a page "pretty". Wikipedias design is good; and certainly too good to justify a complete design overhaul. The biggest problem I have with it is th
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by saltvedt 13y ago
Slightly off-topic, does anyone know if there is progress being made on the proposed HTTP API for PostgreSQL?( http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/HTTP_API )
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VR and Steam days(3delement.com)
3 points by saltvedt 13y ago|0 comments
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by saltvedt 13y ago
There really is more than a dozen front-end frameworks to chose between. Check out http://todomvc.com/ for examples.
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by saltvedt 13y ago
Whats up with the number of Rails errors?
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by saltvedt 13y ago
Perhaps even more infuriating than this is the notion that by virtue of being a user of a system, the user knows how the UX should be. It's often repeated that "developers don't know UX", but some has taken that to mean

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