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by samd 16y ago
Interestingness is quite complex, and those studies seem to be about absolute interestingness. I wonder what predictors would determine relative interestingness. For example, given a set of articles that a person found interesting in the pa
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by samd 16y ago
Has anyone actually done some studies about what the best predictors of interestingness are? We tend to assume that if our friends like something that we'll like something, but is that really the case?
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by samd 16y ago
It was entertaining and I found some of the clever ways he described syntax useful for remembering, i.e. the pipes form a chute which slides the variable into the block.
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by samd 16y ago
I don't think a lack of willpower is a moral failing, but let's suppose it is. How does that help somebody eat healthy? Wouldn't it be more effective to just tell people to avoid cheesecake if they can't help but eat it when it's around? If
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by samd 16y ago
It's a problem in general when we pin the fault of something on a moral failing. It's a cop-out that does nothing to solve the problem. If we want to discourage some behavior in our society we have to look at the causes and try to mitigate
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by samd 16y ago
But should I go with Alpo or Iams?
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by samd 16y ago
Why is that insanity? Is it because you expect that the future will be like the past and thus continuing to do the same thing that you've been doing will produce the same results? Well, why do you think the future will be like the past? Is
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by samd 16y ago
Try adding a few crushed cardamom pods to a pot of black tea, they add a fantastic flavor. Milk is of course required.
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by samd 16y ago
I think his point is that the next Facebook is going to be a paradigm shift from the current social networking climate, and you can't well start a paradigm shift if you're part of the current paradigm.
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by samd 16y ago
I think we all agree that it can be very useful to filter applicants by making them solve some puzzle, and there's nothing wrong with that. What bothered me was that it sounded like you were mocking people for trying but failing to solve yo
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by samd 16y ago
I agree, the ideal candidate, particularly for a startup, would have a wealth of knowledge and experience in addition to the drive to challenge themselves and the ability to learn new things. The problem that startups face is that they can'
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by samd 16y ago
"Many spent an entire afternoon working on this thing without success. I hope they liked the challenge, but I’m also glad we didn’t have to use our internal resources reviewing their resume." What a great attitude. People who work hard an
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by samd 16y ago
I would be disappointed if these machines were eventually decommissioned because of radiation safety issues. That's not why they're wrong, and it won't help us avoid these sorts of crimes against liberty in the future. They'll just come up
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by samd 16y ago
But that's ok, the server doesn't know what originally went into the algorithm either.
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by samd 16y ago
Breakfast may be overrated, pending double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled studies corroborated by multiple, independent research teams.
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by samd 16y ago
Creating a successful startup confers more than just financial rewards. There are a myriad of other rewards like recognition and professional freedom that factor into the risk calculation. Depending on how much people value those non-moneta
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by samd 16y ago
I thought your idea was great and then I tried out NewsBlur and came to the same conclusion you did. It seems to be filtering based on title, author, publisher, and tag rather than doing any statistical filtering of the text. That's not ver
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by samd 16y ago
Their documentation is inconsistent, but it one place it also says Chrome on XP causes the warnings. Maybe I should just bite the bullet and upgrade to their Custom SSL.
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by samd 16y ago
Thanks for the warning! Do you happen to be using Chrome on OSX? Heroku says the SNI-SSL service causes warnings in that browser, and the other SSL services that don't are way more expensive. But with all the worry about Firesheep I figured
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by samd 16y ago
I was inspired by the Offer HN trend and I thought it would be cool to have a place where people could go to offer their services to the community and ask for help with their projects. The site is pretty basic now and I'm sure it's missing
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by samd 16y ago
I don't think most researchers ever expect anybody to read their code. Woe to the graduate student who years later actually needs to use the code.
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by samd 16y ago
I'm a Matlab user myself, but I try to use Ruby whenever possible if for nothing else but to just get away from all the god damned matrices. I didn't realize Python had similar capabilities, I look forward to trying it out. But does Python
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by samd 16y ago
UX analysis and A/B testing go hand in hand. There'd be no way to know that the Company field was a UI mistake if it had not been tested.
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by samd 16y ago
I don't know what's more surprising, that one small change is worth millions or that A/B testing is still news to some companies.
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by samd 16y ago
That's a great resource, thanks for putting that list together. Some ideas for the next version: - Paginate the book listings. Most people probably aren't going to be looking way down in the list anyways, no need to give them results they w
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by samd 16y ago
Rails 3 has helpers you can use to prevent CSRF attacks. This is a good article for any Rails developer: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html
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by samd 16y ago
Well someone in 2010 is extremely grateful for your effort.
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by samd 16y ago
That's not the case, even the most widely cited research is dubious. From the Atlantic article: "He zoomed in on 49 of the most highly regarded research findings in medicine over the previous 13 years, as judged by the science community’s
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The Open Source Recruitment Thread
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by samd 16y ago
Anyone interested in understanding randomness should endeavor to understand what probability actually is. As a Bayesian I think that probability is not a property of any object but rather a subjective measure of your own confidence, your ow

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