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by voronoff 12y ago
Groupon itself was the one pushing poor metrics for valuation and hiring a bunch of salespeople they never intended to keep more than a year past IPO. They artificially pumped their price, and should be derided for that even if they made mo
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by voronoff 12y ago
Wikipedia is notoriously poor on science, particularly cutting edge. That's the wrong model.
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by voronoff 12y ago
The car won't start because you are wearing a personal EMP that is disabling the electronics. While older cars work fine, and some newer ones can fall back to just using analog mechanics, more and more require the electronics to work.
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Ask HN: How to store/record one time use scripts?
3 points by voronoff 12y ago|2 comments
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by voronoff 12y ago
I'm wondering how much of the difference is due to what you're drinking, rather than eating. Cmd-f in the journal article found no "drink", "juice", "soda", or "beer", so it seems likely the
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by voronoff 12y ago
Do note that this measure is of people aged 16+, so it decreases with both longer education on average and an aging population (where a greater % of people are retired.)
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by voronoff 12y ago
Do you have any links to writings on this (Anarcho-collectivism from a complexity perspective or vice-versa)? Did both a quick journal search and a Google search and didn't find much.
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by voronoff 12y ago
Having actually done research in this field, I feel confident in saying that you are wrong about the state of consensus. Here's a decent overview of the ongoing debate (assuming you are aware of what Skinner and Chomsky's theories
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by voronoff 12y ago
While the XKCD comic has a lot of truth to it, it's mainly about many different individual experiments (as well as some poorly done ones.) When running large sets of correlations, standard operating procedure is to use one of several t
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by voronoff 12y ago
Criticizing the stats of an article that hasn't been published b/c of science news reporting on it is an exercise in madness. Criticize the science news instead.
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by voronoff 12y ago
To be glib, it has been done. We call it language. Seriously, though, take a look at the link I posted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8180924 One of the techniques used is to computationally create a space of possi
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by voronoff 12y ago
For anyone who is interested in what an ideal language would look like, particularly in respect to brevity vs. informativeness I'd highly suggest looking into Terry Regier's work: http://lclab.berkeley.edu/ I work
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by voronoff 12y ago
Anyone else concerned that there seems to be a permanent confirmation code for resetting pw sent in plain text over email? "Keep this code SAFE. Anyone with this code and your username can gain access to your account" Where I&#x27
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by voronoff 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournament_theory is an economic theory for explaining that.
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by voronoff 12y ago
We're getting there. mifki's working on getting multilevel rendering for basic tilesets ( http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=138754.105 ) and then that will be exploring 3d. Stonesense itself is hea
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by voronoff 12y ago
You can play in Stonesense, though it's still early days yet and only works on the last patch. http://www.wired.com/2014/07/dwarf-fortress-3d/
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by voronoff 12y ago
This is cool, but it really needs a better metadata section than just tags. Weather station data becomes a lot more interesting with it's location.
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by voronoff 12y ago
I'm not talking about the subjectivity of value at all, though I can see how that might be unclear. I'm talking about the assumption of perfect information that is inherent in your statement.
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by voronoff 12y ago
"when people trade freely, they are both better off (otherwise they wouldn't trade!)" isn't true. Instead, it's that both people think that they are better off when they make the trade. A subtle distinction but also
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by voronoff 12y ago
You do realize this is a loot system for a roguelike, right? Not a story driven CRPG.
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by voronoff 12y ago
Changes to Gmail's spam filtering algorithms, however, do happen without your consent or knowledge. Similar to how changes to the algorithm governing FB's News Feed happen without your consent or knowledge, but you know that it ex
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by voronoff 12y ago
What exactly is it that you think chemicals do when consumed by humans?
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by voronoff 12y ago
1) That is where a significant portion of their revenue comes from. 2) News feed has been around for a long time in a form beyond what's newest. This has been well publicized. 3) Every company with durative engagement tests on users. I
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by voronoff 12y ago
Stock markets also consider risk, so when a new CEO pushes for a new direction, that's penalized initially even if it's the correct long term approach because more is unknown.
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by voronoff 12y ago
This is reminding very much of the debate around the Efficient Market Hypothesis, as to whether traders can be systematically good vs. just repeatedly lucky. There is a lot of lit on this issue.
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by voronoff 12y ago
Care to do a write up of what you're doing as far as fraud prevention goes? However you feel about Airbnb, this was an interesting post. It's not ground breaking or earth shattering, but it shows the tech stack that a large compan
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by voronoff 12y ago
This is right, but isamuel is also right in that there is the separate effect of the price of control, such that in reality it's harder to say what would happen in the AirBnB case because of the interaction effects. It would be interes
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by voronoff 13y ago
There is a difference between doing hard work and working hard. Hard work (of various sorts) for an extended period of time often has a long term negative impact on one's health. The people who do it should be respected, definitely, b
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by voronoff 14y ago
In my experience, all a man needs to do in order for someone to ask if they are, in fact, an engineer, is to dress well. Nice leather shoes and a well fitting suit worn casually will instantly create doubt about engineering interest and cap
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by voronoff 14y ago
You're missing the point of his post - he was saying that while path recalculation exists, it's hard to make an AI that makes proper choices when it comes to following the current path and creating a new path - especially when it's opponent

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