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by smanek 18y ago
That would be an interesting AI problem - "Does this picture contain a female areola?" ;-) Although, it does kind of raise the sexism question - why is a topless male OK but not a topless female? Didn't NYC recently lose a lawsuit for that
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by smanek 18y ago
This will be my last response in this thread - it seems to be degrading into a flame war. If you want more info email me (my address is in my profile). I wasn't saying 'statistics' as a magical name, I was just using it as shorthand for the
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by smanek 18y ago
Correlation != Causation Is it any surprise that the kind of people who save up a huge amount of money to make a down payment and are consistently responsible enough to always make large mortgage payments are 'good' people? By 'good' I simp
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by smanek 18y ago
Of course a large number of random events do tend to form known patterns/distributions. Go read any introductory statistics books - and pay particular attention to the chapters on random walks and outcome distributions.
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by smanek 18y ago
"It is well known that wealth is shared out unfairly" We know no such thing. We know that wealth is distributed unequally (see, for example, the Gini coefficient). Whether or not an unequal distribution of wealth is unfair is a decidedly no
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by smanek 18y ago
That's just as arbitrary (and even worse, inconsistent). Consider the following: xxxxxxxxxo 0123456789 Where 'x' represents a person who has been served, and 'o' represents someone who hasn't. Your rule suggests the person at posit
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by smanek 18y ago
H.L. Mencken: Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
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by smanek 18y ago
I actually want more code links ... there have been depressingly few of them lately. Currently only one of the top ten is about code (talking about code community or drama of the moment isn't code ...)
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by smanek 18y ago
If that's the case, then this would be a much smaller improvement for DB's that can be stored entirely in-memory or on SSD, right? I think that most small db's are mostly in memory, and most large ones will be on SSD soon, so do you think t
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by smanek 18y ago
NAT
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by smanek 18y ago
Be more specific throughout your resume. For example, the years you attended school and GPA are probably necessary for a new graduate (5 years down the line, you probably won't need them, but now you do). Also, these lines are useless (but
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by smanek 18y ago
It's particularly amazing how high functioning people who lack basic logical reasoning skills can be. I have to admit: sometimes it takes me weeks (or even months) to realize that someone I know is a complete idiot. The problem is that day-
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by smanek 18y ago
On that note, any other HNers planning to be at the demo in Cambridge on Tuesday? http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009/04/wolfram It seems like it's worth going to - and it's directly related to something I'm doing at work (inference
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by smanek 18y ago
Your link said that they vaccinated 40 Million people, and accidentally caused 25 deaths. If that's the downside, I'm willing to risk it ... To be ultra conservative, assume there's a 0.1% chance that this becomes 10% as bad as the 1918 flu
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by smanek 18y ago
How? I'm not disagreeing, I just don't see any obvious ways that the human response would cause a lot of deaths - so I'm curious.
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by smanek 18y ago
They would be profiting by curing the suffering of others. The only way they make money is if they make people better. And if they make people better, they deserve money. In fact, money is a damn good incentive to make sure we have anti-vir
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by smanek 18y ago
It spreads human to human, not pig to human. And you can't get it eating pork (so says the CDC). http://www.cdc.gov/media/transcripts/2009/t090423.htm
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by smanek 18y ago
He doesn't have any ads on his site, so it isn't like the traffic to the blog makes him money ...
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by smanek 18y ago
I hate teachers' unions. My highschool's highest paid teacher was a gym teacher (who had been around for 40 years), who made ~$150K. While I had a great calculus teacher who only made $60K. The Calc teacher had a masters in math, and had ov
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by smanek 18y ago
Why not link to the actual articles, instead of a blog that adds little original content? http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/04/27/090427fa_fact_... http://radian.org/notebook/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/brain-...
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by smanek 18y ago
"sudo ifdown eth0"
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by smanek 18y ago
http://www.whois.net/whois/rubyonrails.org.com It seems like the owner info was changed a few hours ago to http://buydomains.dk/
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by smanek 18y ago
Then you should know the law allows everything Youtube/Justin do and that your complaint has no validity.
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by smanek 18y ago
You are wrong. Youtube/Justin.tv don't "exploit copyright content." The law explicitly allows what they do. The Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act creates a safe harbor for online service providers. It specifically says
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by smanek 18y ago
I don't think that's a feed-forward system ... Sounds more like a positive feedback loop.
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by smanek 18y ago
Thanks, that answers my questions. Your snapshot system reminds of a reference counting GC - neat trick.
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by smanek 18y ago
Is there anywhere I can read more about Tarsnap's features/architecture? You're obviously a bright guy, and you say you've been working on it for over 2 years, so I'm just curious about what exactly you built ... For example, what advantage
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by smanek 18y ago
You don't understand. The point wasn't to use a proxy to make illegal downloading untrackable. It was to use a proxy to access US-only (legal) media, like Hulu or South Park.
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by smanek 18y ago
There's an old joke that a new MD at Goldman is looking to hire 5 new analysts for his department. The new MD goes to his old boss and asks, "What should I do? I have 10 resumes from 10 great candidates, who all went to Ivy League school, g
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by smanek 18y ago
I think it's a sample size issue - I don't know anyone over 30 who uses it. Although, admittedly, I've been using it much less lately (less time to procrastinate than I did as a pure student, and I use MeFi, YC, and Reddit more)

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