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   Rank languages on many axes(therighttool.hammerprinciple.com)

   6 points by snth 16y ago|0 comments
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   Dijkstra: Why numbering should start at zero [pdf](cs.utexas.edu)

   15 points by snth 16y ago|0 comments
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   Ray Jardine: Retired aerospace engineer, adventurer(rayjardine.com)

   2 points by snth 16y ago|0 comments
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   by snth 16y ago

   Prior experience/information always trumps no experience/information. In fact, it does not. Your sample of experience may not be representative. This is complicated by various cognitive biases, including confirmation bias as mentioned
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   by snth 16y ago

   Of course you're free to listen to whomever you like; I wish you would take my comment more as an alternative viewpoint than as an insult. I do appreciate the sentiment of your story, that people should help others, but personally I think
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   by snth 16y ago

   Once, my car died near an intersection; as I jumped out to push, two guys appeared out of nowhere alongside me to help push. It took about 15 seconds, and they waved off my thanks and were gone again. It was shocking how unexpectedly help
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   by snth 16y ago

   I appreciate the sentiment, but "it'll all work out in the end" seems like a warning sign of wishful (poor) thinking.
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   by snth 16y ago

   I guess "Entrepreneurial" is "Entrepreneur-like". Otherwise a person could just say "Entrepreneur".
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   Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk [pdf](singinst.org)

   3 points by snth 16y ago|0 comments
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    Cognitive biases - Eliezer Yudkowsky [pdf](singinst.org)

    5 points by snth 16y ago|0 comments
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    SHA-3 Finalists Announced(jonkatz.wordpress.com)

    54 points by snth 16y ago|4 comments
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    by snth 16y ago

    A nice post, but I agree with sumasmreq's comment (on the site). After reading this, it seems odd that their streaming video service uses Microsoft Silverlight.
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    Quotes criticizing significance testing(indiana.edu)

    1 points by snth 16y ago|0 comments
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    by snth 16y ago

    So you're assuming Google is editing out the porn sites. I was assuming porn sites legitimately didn't make the page, and I was surprised by that.
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    Ggplot2: a plotting system for R, based on the grammar of graphics(had.co.nz)

    22 points by snth 16y ago|5 comments
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    by snth 16y ago

    So does pornography not count as entertainment? I'm surprised not to see porn represented on this page at all.
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    by snth 16y ago

    The images (I assume they're graphs?) are broken for me.
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    by snth 16y ago

    Predictably Irrational was okay; the experiments were the best part. I was annoyed that the author made many conclusions beyond the support of his evidence though.
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    by snth 16y ago

    I agree that this seems to be exactly in the style of an Onion article; however, I think The Onion has put out some hilarious stuff. For example: http://www.theonion.com/articles/fuck-everything-were-doing-...
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    by snth 16y ago

    I actually thought he was parodying the standard way to make fun of Haskell.
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    by snth 16y ago

    So the fireball would still engulf the buildings? Doesn't that still seem too close?
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    by snth 16y ago

    What's the problem with that? Maybe elephants and magpies are smart.
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    by snth 16y ago

    Yes; in particular, Matlab's restriction of ONE outside-callable function per file is a huge pain.
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    by snth 16y ago

    This ties in well with the Scott Adams blog post that came up recently. "Wireless Voice Calls Are Obsolete" http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/wireless_voice_calls_are_o...
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    by snth 16y ago

    > putting your monitor above the parallel plane of vision is probably a big deal. Parallel plane = straight ahead. Ergo(nomically): you should look upward to your monitor. This will encourage your posture All the ergonomics guidelines I
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    by snth 16y ago

    Let Over Lambda does not seem to be free. Am I missing a link somewhere?
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    by snth 16y ago

    Though I'm a fan of Feynman anecdotes, I've always disagreed with the point of the one used in this article. Names are important. You know what you get by knowing the name of the brown-throated thrush? You get an identifier by which to
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    by snth 16y ago

    First of all, I think your comment would have been more effective and to-the-point if you had left off your first paragraph. Second, I'm surprised to see a regular contributor to Hacker news saying something like this: > there are relig
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    by snth 16y ago

    I don't know if many people would buy this for themselves, but it would make a great gag gift for someone.
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    by snth 16y ago

    Are local economies somehow more worthwhile than distant economies? I don't quite understand that argument.