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by zawerf 8y ago
> AFAIK PostgreSQL has no such built-in functionality Postgres actually has basic pubsub via "LISTEN" and "NOTIFY". I was planning on trying out rethinkdb as a real-time database but found that approach instead descri
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by zawerf 8y ago
Especially horrifying when they tell you they will shoot you anyway if you fail to comply with contradictory instructions, like in the case of Daniel Shaver. Even without any disabilities, you can't survive those encounters without bei
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by zawerf 8y ago
It might be this issue if you don't believe my anecdote: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2385621 I have also been using linux for over a decade and I still can't recommend it to any non-developers friend
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by zawerf 8y ago
Linux (specifically ubuntu in my case) also suffers from somewhat similar problems. Every time I update graphic drivers it's a diceroll on whether it will reboot into a black screen. Sometimes it's recoverable from blindly pasting
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by zawerf 8y ago
On AWS or GCP the cost per GB transferred is around $0.10. Even if you put a cheap CDN on top, it costs around $0.01 per GB. How is it possible that Hetzner (and other unmetered hosting) are giving it out for free? If you max out the 1 Gbit
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by zawerf 8y ago
> (especially) techniques for tabular data, start with the machine learning course. Do you think DL techniques are going to better than traditional techniques for tabular data in the future? This is in reference to your article: http:&#
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by zawerf 8y ago
Just curious, where are you going to move to? If someone really wanted to sue you, it's pretty cheap to issue subpoenas (<$100). The provider can quash the subpoena on the customers' behalf[1] but I don't know any who does
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by zawerf 8y ago
It seems like it was just a handful of users who posted their story multiple times. The users highclass, ethanwillis, kweks all had multiple comments only about namecheap on a thread that wasn't directly about namecheap. Can I get more
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by zawerf 8y ago
The evolution of their SQL schema (around ~45:00 on) is pretty cool. For example to implement undo/version control for files, they just added a single `prev_rev` column. There are some arguably better (but more complicated) ways to do
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by zawerf 8y ago
Note even though it's a delaware LLC, if you live in california you still have to pay CA taxes of around $800 yearly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16960172
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by zawerf 8y ago
> Now, is it worth discussing the enormous power Google has over people's perceptions as a result of their market dominance? Absolutely. There was a TED talk covering this titled "We're building a dystopia just to make peo
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by zawerf 8y ago
It is pretty interesting that he chose two people who don't need philanthropic funding. Satoshi made a ton of money off bitcoin Jordan Peterson is one of the top 10 earners on Patreon: https://graphtreon.com/top-patre
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by zawerf 8y ago
I know this as the Euclidean Steiner Tree problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steiner_tree_problem There are some videos doing exactly what you described: https://youtu.be/dAyDi1aa40E?t=95
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by zawerf 8y ago
In some sense everything is massive overkill for a "simple blog". You should just pay for medium/wordpress/ghost or use a static site hosted on github pages. I personally fell for these posts a while back and regretted s
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by zawerf 8y ago
The no-throwaway rule is probably to prevent people from making a new account for every comment. I am not at that level of paranoia yet, but I do rotate my accounts once a year to avoid accumulating too much information under one username.
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by zawerf 8y ago
Off-topic: You're implying that you have an admin UI that lets you see all our other logins? (matched on IP or cookies I guess?) Or did you do a one-off query just for that guy? Since YC applications are attached to HN accounts, do you
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by zawerf 8y ago
This is a very interesting hypothesis on the evolutionary origins of anti-intellectualism! So I agree that a homogeneous population will be much better at communication (no one needs to "talk" down to each other). But given that s
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by zawerf 8y ago
I think the coolest thing about this visualization is that it is now "broken". I remember when I first saw this, there were still visible red and green squares on the top rows. Today those numbers are so small, those squares are m
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by zawerf 8y ago
Anyone know how this relates to the Web Speech API[1]? Will they ship it with chrome to replace the existing speech synthesis api? (I believe right now it just uses whatever voices are available to the device or OS but chrome can fallback t
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by zawerf 8y ago
There is a much more convincing talk on the dangers of bioengineering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQDSgBHPfY News article if you can't watch: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jul
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by zawerf 8y ago
Looking at the bio it seems like the creator is just an university student. That's crazy impressive! I thought an app of this level of polish would require at least a small team of experienced devs/designers.
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by zawerf 8y ago
> Question for OpenAI: Is it more accurate to think of the bots as 5 separate minds, or a single mind controlling 5 heroes? They released their architecture: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments&#x2
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by zawerf 8y ago
A lot of machine learning datasets only include metadata with a link to the original source (e.g., a full resolution image which might be too wasteful to include with the dataset). So the first step is to write a crawler and async is a real
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by zawerf 8y ago
The article is paywalled but it's a pretty plausible result of group selection. The self-interested birds will force out the cooperative birds at first, but they are naturally self-limiting by cutting off their own resources. On the ot
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by zawerf 8y ago
The Polymath Project is another great example of crowdsourced research: https://terrytao.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/polymath.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath_Project
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by zawerf 8y ago
She tweeted about her motivation: > Yeah but if you look at my track record, no one that did it to me is going to dare do it to the next girl...that's what counts. That's why you do it, I "lose" every time- reputation
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by zawerf 8y ago
Do you rearchitect the code upon new research breakthroughs? Why use this over the Transformer model in tensor2tensor?
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by zawerf 8y ago
Why can't V8 deduce that the order of keys doesn't matter? It's pretty nuts that just rearranging the keys from { x, y, z } to { y, x, z } would cause a slowdown.
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by zawerf 8y ago
There's a frequently recurring thread on askreddit about exploiting loopholes. You'll be surprised at human ingenuity when it comes to cheating at corporate promos! https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comm
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by zawerf 8y ago
I wonder where you can find erratas based on the edition of education you got. (e.g., if you grew up in the 90s you should know pluto is no longer a planet) Mostly interested in basic scientific knowledge (say high school level) that has be

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