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by suchow 11y ago
If you're interested in the human side of age perception, we're running a study at http://testmybrain.org ("Understanding other people") where you judge people's age based on a photograph. We're loo
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by suchow 11y ago
Though I find it hard to relate to, many people consider their bodies to be essential to their identity — they wouldn't be them without it. These people find our intuition about what is essential similarly foreign.
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by suchow 12y ago
It wasn't until I saw the faux comments in the screenshot on the about page that I realized this was software for organizing college frats. Between the image of a cloud and the word "Brother", I thought it might be software f
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by suchow 12y ago
A ship whose captain would rather it sink than change course.
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The handshake conjecture(suchow.io)
1 points by suchow 12y ago|0 comments
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by suchow 12y ago
If there were a word that you regularly substituted in for a swear word, wouldn't it then become a swear word? Do you mean words like "heck" or "freakin"?
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by suchow 12y ago
This kind of language change can't really be accomplished by fiat, so it makes sense to look for the direction the language is heading in and push. More and more we see people using "they" as a singular pronoun. But a large p
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by suchow 12y ago
Hope this isn't pedantic, but I think you meant "1/1000th the blood". A 0.1% improvement isn't nearly as impressive as what you all have accomplished ;)
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by suchow 12y ago
Be careful with the phrase "feed the world", lest someone get the impression that the world includes people outside American tech companies.
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by suchow 12y ago
Your analysis is interesting, but it doesn't make sense to "prove" that an image is a certain color. Color is a construct of the mind. Given that so many people claim to see black and blue, you analysis proves only that your
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BuzzFeed's first substantive list: seven things they ought to teach in school(buzzfeed.com)
4 points by suchow 12y ago|1 comments
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by suchow 12y ago
> The media does light fact-checking, and it's exactly that fact-checking that allows institutions to set an agenda. This is true only of some media. For example, The New Yorker has a fact-checking department that holds their jour
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by suchow 12y ago
Soylent has a bigger vision. Here's a recent statement of it by its founder, Rob Rhinehart. Start 5 paragraphs in. http://robrhinehart.com/?p=1192
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Two tests of motivation(suchow.io)
1 points by suchow 12y ago|0 comments
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by suchow 12y ago
Does anyone know of a good demo of different frame rates that I can view on a laptop? Is this even possible with LCDs?
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by suchow 12y ago
That's surprising because if you pick up any professionally typeset book or magazine, you'll find ligatures all over. Some of them are quite subtle (e.g., the fi -> ﬁ ligature). I have to imagine then that your colleagues are g
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Ask HN: Is there a hiring season for tech companies?
1 points by suchow 12y ago|1 comments
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by suchow 12y ago
This pitch is already strong, but is actually improved by the suggestion (inspired by your comment) to cut it to half its previous length: "Setting up a dev environment takes a day. Sometimes you need one in a minute, like if you'
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by suchow 13y ago
The hover text (8000 years) should also update continuously.
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by suchow 13y ago
No. Joesmo mentioned it, but did not use it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinction
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by suchow 13y ago
Try removing the indentation guides or decreasing their contrast so that they are just barely visible. They appear to cause strong visual grouping between code blocks and make it harder to see what's what.
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by suchow 13y ago
+ The application is riddled with typos and grammatical oddities that are distracting and occasionally affect the meaning. You may have better luck if you have a second pair of eyes look over your written work. + When describing the poten
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by suchow 13y ago
I believe the underlying reason why people dislike statistics is because they dislike whichever statistics course they were required to take in college. The courses (and instructors) are often very dry. And for students in the social scienc
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by suchow 13y ago
In Data Science, the word "Data" isn't meant to modify "Science" in the way that food "Food" modifies "Eating" in your friend's example. It's more like Political Science, where "Sc
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by suchow 13y ago
The word "sorry" does not always signify an apology. For example, when a person says "Sorry about the rain," they do not usually mean "I am sorry for having caused the rain." Instead, they mean "The rain c
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by suchow 13y ago
Actually, there must be some legal issues here... anyone willing to advise?
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by suchow 13y ago
Just grabbed https://twitter.com/NullifyByJury , and did a search that suggests a steady stream of jurors: https://twitter.com/search?q=jury%20duty&src=typd . Let's do it?
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Show HN: Dissertate, a Pandoc+LaTeX PhD dissertation template(github.com)
2 points by suchow 13y ago|0 comments
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Visualizing the evolution of cancer: an interview with Josh McMichael(figured.io)
2 points by suchow 14y ago|0 comments
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Andrew Gelman's favorite plot(figured.io)
1 points by suchow 14y ago|0 comments

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