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871.
by sesqu 16y ago
Well, unless you exclude it, and it's pretty biased not to. I think you need a better definition. 1913 Webster has: 1. Lack of ease 2. An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performan
872.
by sesqu 16y ago
There's a semantic difference between an element and an attribute. Unfortunately, XML is specifically used to model element-as-attribute relationships, so a lot of people start wondering about the exact, nebulous, distinction. Elements are
873.
by sesqu 16y ago
or TeX
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by sesqu 16y ago
In the code snippet at the bottom, there's this bit: for (i=2; i<fftFrameSize-2; i+=2) { for (bitm=2, j=0; bitm<fftFrameSize; bitm<<=1) { if (bitm & i) j++; j <<= 1; } if
875.
by sesqu 16y ago
I would use a CDN for the jquery, maybe http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min... - that way, people don't have to make sure you haven't hidden the maliciousness in your version of jquery, which most people might not
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by sesqu 16y ago
I'm not sure you can call -webkit-transition-duration CSS3. That said, the animations are really just sugar, and would be painful in any browser that doesn't handle them very fast (I used to hate lightbox). Since the effect may still be w
877.
by sesqu 16y ago
Right. I was about to comment that that's because you're assuming an infinite domain, but the above definition becomes useless unless you do. The point, though, was that the behavior characterized by the notation is perfectly reasonable eve
878.
by sesqu 16y ago
f ∈ Ο(g(n)) iff ∃c,n₀ ∀n>n₀ : f(n)≤c*g(n) No infinity required.
879.
by sesqu 16y ago
On the plus side, it'd be like a regular heart exam. If you can't access your account, you might have a bigger problem.
880.
by sesqu 16y ago
It's consistent, but consistently plastic. I feel like I have no hope of figuring out how the site works except by trial-and-error, because everything looks encapsulated in white plastic that might cover what's just underneath.
881.
by sesqu 16y ago
Thank you, but I think you need to be more explicit at stage 7. As I understood you, algorithms notice someone dumping stock and they pick it up. Then they hope you were selling for cheaper than market value because you were in a hurry, not
882.
by sesqu 16y ago
I too have noticed a large increase in volume recently, but I'm not sure that's the problem. Rather, I'd say the site needs less churn - top articles should stay on the front page for at least a day. That just means a different ranking, may
883.
by sesqu 17y ago
Right, it's "experience". Or, if you prefer, "nonrandomly sampled data". That means they aren't representative of high confidence, nor are they imaginary.
884.
by sesqu 17y ago
The article is from 2006. You may well know the tips.
885.
by sesqu 17y ago
It was a recurring theme. He dipped his hand into molten lead three times, getting burnt on the third time. He walked on coals five times, getting burnt on the fifth. He put liquid nitrogen in is mouth twelve times, seriously damaging is mo
886.
by sesqu 17y ago
I've occasionally been thankful for Google's PDF conversion. PDF isn't a lowest common denominator - there are computers without that capability (kiosks and terminals, for example). What's more, PDF viewers can be pretty heavy, especially f
887.
by sesqu 17y ago
Well, borrowing is just using future production for current growth, which is more efficient but less reliable. Assuming the future production will be there (and that otherwise someone will take care of it for a small fee), that's obviously
888.
by sesqu 17y ago
Good point. They aren't responsible for billions of dollars going poof , though (especially the bus driver). A lot of people put the value of a life at around the expected work society gets from it - and then try to argue that that's not w
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by sesqu 17y ago
It absolutely makes sense to make your fallbacks independent from one another, but implementing fallbacks at all is expensive. In evolution, you're pretty much guaranteed a breakage at some point that can't be fixed. That's not quite as tru
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by sesqu 17y ago
So then A's logarithm is twice as big as B's logarithm. I don't see the problem here, as long as you put your zero at zero and label your axes. A grid would help too, because logarithms are rarely perceived and the information consumer need
891.
by sesqu 17y ago
There's a popular, if a little contested, notion of scales that I won't source right now that divides scales into ordered, interval, ratio and absolute depending on things like whether there is such a thing as "twice as big". Fahrenheit is
892.
by sesqu 17y ago
I find this easy to accept: lim_{n->inf} 1 - 1/10^n = 1 But I'm not quite sure if I agree that 0.999... = lim 0.999... edit: according to Wikipedia, they're today defined to be equal. While convenient, it's not obvious to me. edit
893.
by sesqu 17y ago
And the three most common operators.
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by sesqu 17y ago
Grandparent wants to want to compare P(found guilty|unattractive) to P(found guilty) to reason about whether attractiveness and the jury's finding are independent. You want to compare P(found guilty|unattractive,guilty) to P(found guilty|gu
895.
by sesqu 17y ago
I haven't actually ever seen a 3-D movie. That said, I do think detective stories or other slow-pace movies could genuinely benefit from 3D. The first few would be hopelessly distracting, but eventually people might come to accept the conce
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by sesqu 17y ago
I would make that argument, especially if I'm personally involved in the building (not sure about the legalities here). Maintaining a house no one lives in is pretty expensive, so there's every reason to have someone move in as soon as the
897.
by sesqu 17y ago
I was always uncomfortable with stopwords. Ignoring some data smells like overfitting, or perhaps a naïve algorithm (as in, it has no concept of structure – which is often the case, for computational reasons). That said, the last time I dab
898.
by sesqu 17y ago
I saw this link here on HN a short while ago from a person more passionate than me when it comes to IQ: Spearman's g, a statistical myth http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/523.html
899.
by sesqu 17y ago
The most annoying feature of GNOME Ubuntu for me, after the look&feel, is the managers. I use a LAN; I don't want a network manager. I use a desktop; I don't want a power manager. I have speakers; I don't want a sound manager. If there'
900.
by sesqu 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1241479

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