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Ask HN: Are there voting rings on HN?
1 points by sendos 13y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: What's the state of machine learning, and should new entrants pursue it?
6 points by sendos 13y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Migrating from Posterous to Tumblr and keeping your old post urls alive
1 points by sendos 14y ago|0 comments
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by sendos 14y ago
This is related to the recent "Why the Fuck?" thread ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5088815 ) and is something I wrote a couple of years ago
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Web startups are just attempts at social engineering(startuptrekking.com)
2 points by sendos 14y ago|1 comments
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by sendos 14y ago
The following modifies only the file size: ls -l | perl -pe 'while(s/^((\S+\s+){4})(\d+)(\d{3})([^\d].*)?$/$1$3,$4$5/){}'
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by sendos 14y ago
Clickable: http://prespredict.com Clickable 2004, for the historical perspective: http://prespredict.com/elec2004.html
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Show HN: Calculating the probability of winning the US Presidential Election
4 points by sendos 14y ago|1 comments
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by sendos 14y ago
Thanks for catching that! I just fixed it.
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by sendos 14y ago
In this plot http://imgur.com/BAEie you can see the difference between a gaussian model and the model I use for the translating state poll differences into probabilities of winning that state. I prefer to have the flat region of 50% proba
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by sendos 14y ago
FYI, I use the data from electoral-vote.com to turn it into a probability of winning the election at http://prespredict.com
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by sendos 14y ago
I searched for those tweets mentioned in the Techcrunch article (first from GoDaddy and first from AnonymousOwn3r on this topic) and the time stamps are: * GoDaddy: 10:35 AM - 10 Sep 12 * AnonymousOwn3r: 11:57 AM - 10 Sep 12 So, AnonymousOw
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by sendos 14y ago
> So Anonymous0wn3r or whoever was just claiming responsibility for something they had no hand in? Yeah, with a name/handle like Anonymous0wn3r they sound very trustworthy. If they claimed they had a hand in something, it must be true
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by sendos 14y ago
What do people think of the idea of removing down votes and allowing only up votes? Has this been shown on other discussion boards to work?
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by sendos 14y ago
> I think of looking at new submissions as a kind of "service to the community" Why not have the 10 or so newest submissions on the top or bottom of the main page, so that everyone gets to see them, without having to explicitly click
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by sendos 14y ago
Got fed up with lack of way of changing the number of months displayed by Emacs' calendar, and after a fruitless web search for a solution, wrote the fix myself. So, I decided to share. FYI: * Adds the new function 'calendar-set-num-months'
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Show HN: Update of Emacs' calendar to enable changing number of months displayed(gist.github.com)
2 points by sendos 14y ago|1 comments
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by sendos 14y ago
I'm not too sure, since I can't find the exact model used by FiveThirtyEight. If any of you can point me to a post of theirs where they describe their model in detail, that would be great. From the few things I have found out, some differen
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by sendos 14y ago
Does this always work? If you think that company X should be valued at $10 billion, but is currently valued at $5 billion because the market is being irrational, are you claiming that it's always a safe bet to invest in this company? Are
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by sendos 14y ago
> According to you, the odds of Obama losing are now higher by a factor of 58 Just to be clear, this is not strictly speaking "according to me", that is I don't use my personal opinion to come up with these numbers. I just take daily
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by sendos 14y ago
Even if we assume my predictions are very accurate, I'm not familiar enough with Intrade to know whether it's mostly guided by fundamentals vs technical analysis. That is, Obama's value may go up because many people think it will go up, due
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by sendos 14y ago
Clickable: http://prespredict.com
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Show HN: Predicting the winner of the US Presidential Election
7 points by sendos 14y ago|11 comments
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by sendos 14y ago
I'm interested in what you guys have to say about this topic. A recent post on HN, "A good day's work" ( http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3180-a-good-days-work ), reminded me of this issue, specifically the problem of not being able to mental
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Jobs with memory (and their effect on our well-being)(andrewoneverything.com)
4 points by sendos 14y ago|1 comments
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by sendos 14y ago
I disagree. Jobs achieved the greatest comeback in business history. He was ousted from his own company, the company almost goes bankrupt, he returns, and with one innovative and wildly successful product after another manages to make it th
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by sendos 14y ago
What I was referring to with the greater fool theory is that the investors who put in ~$50 million, for a valuation of ~$500 million thought they'd find a greater fool to sell the company to, to make money off of (since I don't think Instag
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by sendos 14y ago
> I'm more convinced that we're in a 2nd bubble now more than ever. I agree. So far I've mostly dismissed talk of "the next bubble", but this pretty much solidifies it. Of course no one knows when the bubble will burst, so I guess inves
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by sendos 15y ago
I see this as a dichotomy between people who are doers vs thinkers/creatives[1] If you are a thinker/creative and not a doer, you need to align yourself with a doer, in order to make great things happen. [1] http://andrewoneverything.com/i
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by sendos 15y ago
Do you have to open each of them in turn, or can you see results scrolling in real time?

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