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Cafe theft suspect nabbed after video goes viral(blog.sfgate.com)
41 points by spikels 13y ago|15 comments
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by spikels 13y ago
"There's a sucker born every minute" You have just been pwnd by Barry Diller and Sam Yagan.
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Ask HN: Are the people who forced out Brendan Eich bigots?
3 points by spikels 13y ago|1 comments
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by spikels 13y ago
Here's a few examples from at 2010 CNBC story of top HFTs. It's a pretty diverse group but most were programmers and most started (relatively?) small. http://www.cnbc.com/id/39038892
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by spikels 13y ago
Wow! That's hilarious. I must take a really skilled person to write something like that.
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Meteorite narrowly misses Norwegian skydiver(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by spikels 13y ago|0 comments
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by spikels 13y ago
Exactly! Humans are imperfect they lose "the ability to respect" for irrelevant reasons. Just like people couldn't believe in General Relativity because Einstein was Jewish.
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Obama's NSA overhaul may require phone carriers to store more data(mobile.reuters.com)
2 points by spikels 13y ago|0 comments
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by spikels 13y ago
They "evolved" like pond scum!
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by spikels 13y ago
So was Hillary Clinton until a year ago. And they both repeatedly raised money to candidates that were against same-sex marriage. I guess neither of them are qualified to run Mozilla. http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/the
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by spikels 13y ago
Sounds more like a politician trying to have it both ways. Prop 8 had nothing to do with civil unions and said almost exactly what 2008 Obama said he believed. Then as the polls changed so did his "beliefs". Just politicians being
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by spikels 13y ago
Also in 2008 "I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage." - Barack Obama
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by spikels 13y ago
Not a joke, possibly heartfelt, but certainly a great marketing coup for IAC.
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by spikels 13y ago
This is sad. I wish I lived in a world where your personal beliefs, even very unpopular ones, could be kept separate from your professional life. Unfortunately we seem to need to put people in a single box.
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by spikels 13y ago
These sorts of problems are so common is can get depressing. Clearly they have never even tried to use the data they are generating - just dump it and forget it.
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by spikels 13y ago
Rifkin has been pushing these ideas (basically advancing technology will require his preferred political positions) for 20+ years (see "End of Work" (1995)). He just updates the buzzwords and publishes it as a new book (see "
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by spikels 13y ago
Ciaran O'Leary, a partner in the Early Bird VC firm: "I think Berlin still needs a couple more years to really be one of the top one or two places in the world." A bit if VC hype. Berlin won't be as big as either SV or
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by spikels 13y ago
Anyone know DTZ's 2014 cost per workstation for San Francisco and Silicon Valley? In the 2011 it was much cheaper than New York and London and similar to Berlin. Not sure why the BBC author left it off the story.
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by spikels 13y ago
I understand and believe in the science - so why does this article trigger my suspicion I am being sold something. I know balance has gotten a bad name with because the crackpots in the global warming denier camp but this just seems so one-
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by spikels 13y ago
You seem to be unfamiliar with the meaning of "market" in an economics context. I highly recommend getting at least a basic understanding of economics and economic terminology. It is very helpful in understanding the world.
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by spikels 13y ago
If all the other Bay Area police departments offer similar compensation and benefits, as seems to be the case, SF will have a hard time finding new recruits at lower pay. So it's impossible to tell if it is a demand or supply issue. Th
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by spikels 13y ago
The ES6 changes are a mixed bag. We get some nice syntax improvements and an overly complex module system. I'm mostly positive on the new class syntax as it does simplify OO code. However as the author points out it is still the same J
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by spikels 13y ago
Which of the outputs do you think look like the original face? Note: the second column is not output. Note the cherry picking of the output for the bottom picture in the Yale press release (forth row in this image).
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by spikels 13y ago
Too bad the reconstructed faces don't look anything like the presented faces and I'm sure these two example are some of the best results. I suspect the algorithm always outputs some face generated by a paramaterized face model (
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by spikels 13y ago
This is a bad idea. Your personal views - religious, political, whatever - should have nothing to do with your job as long as you don't bring them to work. If it is acceptable to demote or fire someone because of their political views
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by spikels 13y ago
Interested in the world's population and got 43 minutes to spare? Joel Cohen of the Rockefeller and Columbia has an excellent discussion. You may be surprised what you learn. http://www.floatinguniversity.com/lectures-c
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Anti-Games Senator Accused Of Being A Grand Theft Auto Character(kotaku.com)
1 points by spikels 13y ago|0 comments
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by spikels 13y ago
Corrected Title: Very Small Chance Drug May Shrink Some Tumors, Might Know in Two or More Years Why is reporting on medical research always so awful?
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by spikels 13y ago
Soros is wrong here. Max Planck was actually strongly against the duality interpretation and his influence suppressed Einstein and others correct interpretation for several decades. http://books.google.com/books?id=xsSv3kSDE
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by spikels 13y ago
Don't waste your time trying to understand the rantings of this lunatic. Like many of the uber rich he made his money from being lucky and political connections not from actually learning anything new. His incoherent theories (e.g. ref

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