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by superbatfish 10y ago
Downvoted for ...language, I guess? I dunno, when faced with a somewhat troubling and frankly just bizarre concept like described in the OP's article, I think a recaction of "WTF" isn't exactly off-base...
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by superbatfish 10y ago
What the fuck is wrong with people.
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Ask HN: Where can I find a list of flagged HN submissions?
8 points by superbatfish 10y ago|4 comments
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by superbatfish 10y ago
Yes yes yes. We read "Story of Your Life" in my Sci-fi reading club, and several people came away with the misunderstanding that the aliens could see the future or something like that. But your interpretation is correct (IMHO).
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by superbatfish 10y ago
That's interesting, because Chiang himself doesn't view "Liking What You See" to be his best work. In fact, he turned down a Hugo nomination for it, "on the grounds that the story was rushed due to editorial pressu
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by superbatfish 10y ago
I felt the same way, but ultimately decided it's a good attribute for an interviewer to have, even though it didn't work out this time. A good interviewer should understand his interviewee's work, have ideas about it, and the
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by superbatfish 10y ago
This piece isn't great. Sure, I agree that the election outcome was bad. In fact, I think it was an utter disaster. This piece tells young people (presumably, "millenials") not to worry, it'll be okay in the end. But
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by superbatfish 10y ago
>You realize this same logic could seemingly dismiss any regulation Well, kinda, but not to same degree. Wired money is obviously way easier to smuggle than physical goods...
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by superbatfish 10y ago
Great points. It's true that whatever algorithm they end up with will definitely use ML. And it's also true that "interpretability" is one of the great challenges for ML in the coming years. But interpretability of a m
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by superbatfish 10y ago
>I'm not comfortable with any given group of people doing such sort of approval Historically, that's exactly what newspaper editors did. The algorithmic approach has the potential to offer greater transparency, but not if the
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Facebook is harming our democracy(vox.com)
91 points by superbatfish 10y ago|52 comments
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by superbatfish 10y ago
>In python you can go from attribute access to using a property (getter/setter) without breaking anything. True, but that should be avoided if possible. Python 'properties' violate the principal of "explicit is bette
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by superbatfish 10y ago
The reviews for the car I looked at (Honda Fit 2008) all looked legit.
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Support for 0-indexed and arbitrary-indexed arrays(github.com)
1 points by superbatfish 10y ago|0 comments
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by superbatfish 10y ago
At least that totally rad cliff diving video that YouTube queued up afterwards was a nice chaser.
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by superbatfish 10y ago
This whole article is a little misleading. It makes it sound as if anyone who happened to own Dell stock at the time of the buyout could have sued to get some extra cash. But only in the footnotes does it mention this: >To be eligible f
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by superbatfish 10y ago
It sounds like these people did put their money where their mouth was. They owned the stock. If you think the market is over-valuing a stock you hold, you sell it. If you think it's worth more, then you keep it, and refuse any of
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by superbatfish 10y ago
The link lists interesting stats about their revenue . Does anybody know if they've published estimates on their costs (team size, developer hours, etc)?
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by superbatfish 10y ago
You're right. These were all good tips except for #10, where the "solution" is not thread-safe. Checking for null is better.
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by superbatfish 10y ago
Crap, I upvoted this before I noticed which publication it's from. How do I downvote it?
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by superbatfish 11y ago
This seems like a huge deal. How does this not have 100's of upvotes on HN? Am I missing something?
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by superbatfish 11y ago
And one last point. In the blog comments, I wrote this, which I think sums up my view of the performance discussion: ...it's worth noting that many of the tricky things about tuning hdf5 performance are not unique to HDF5. For storing
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by superbatfish 11y ago
I liked the post (well, as an HDF5 user, I found it depressing...). My main qualm with it was the claim about 100x worse performance than just using numpy.memmap(). To the author's credit, he posted his benchmarking code so we could t
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by superbatfish 11y ago
This article omitted one interesting part of the story, which is how AMD led the way to the x86_64 architecture while Intel was attempting to migrate to a conceptually radical architecture in its own products (Itanium). As I understood it
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by superbatfish 11y ago
You clearly do not understand software.
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by superbatfish 11y ago
I'm very excited to start using it. It will be the thing that finally pushes me to Python 3. >Few people are using it in any case Probably true, but it's only been out for 2 months now, and most people who needed this feature
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by superbatfish 11y ago
I saw this article, enjoyed it, and then said to myself "Now let me go read the inevitable well-meaning but misguided comments about the GIL." And sure enough, the very top comment is a well-meaning but misguided comment about th
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by superbatfish 11y ago
OK, clearly some Julia fans down-voted my comment, perhaps because they misunderstood it. I was trying to say something about human psychology. We can admit that it is silly, but we can't pretend that it doesn't exist. This may
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by superbatfish 11y ago
Sure, we should examine the features of languages past, keep the good things, and leave out the bad things. I thought that Julia was aiming for Python's niche, i.e. good at numerical stuff, but also decent at inter-operating with other
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by superbatfish 11y ago
Trying to come up with an appropriate response to your comment reminded me of this: http://goo.gl/KqXXDV

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