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by zck 11y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10881413
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by zck 11y ago
Can someone point out a video of Baryshnikov's dance that is so impressive? Perhaps it's a lack of training or interest in dance, but I just looked at a few videos on Youtube, and none of them seem all that amazing, just consistin
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by zck 11y ago
>Stack Overflow and the associated sites are public forums, the users posting code surely realise they're posting information into the public domain and as such it should be recognised as being in the public domain. Under current US
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So he was making music as Moby for a year before Hall made his first release as Moby? I think what's happening is that people aren't responding to "Motte was first" so much as to the claim that Hall "hijacked Frédér
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by zck 11y ago
Hall made his first release as Moby in 1990: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobility_%28song%29 . I can't tell when Motte put out what, but at least from his wikipedia page, he only started making songs and using &
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by zck 11y ago
Has anyone asked Murakami what he thinks? It certainly shouldn't determine what's moral or not, but it would be very interesting.
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by zck 11y ago
There's also the Emacs stack exchange^1. It's good if you have specific problems (this setting does X, I expected Y, what's up?), but not too much for advice (what do you prefer for task Z?) [1] http://emacs.stacke
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by zck 11y ago
I think it's because the flavor packets are also made from 100% Florida orange juice, even if it's just extracts processed from oranges, not the raw juice.
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by zck 11y ago
She gave a talk at Startup School 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSEeFxq2X_c
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by zck 11y ago
The author of this is giving a talk at the next New York Emacs Meetup^1, of which I'm an organizer. We'd love to have some HN people show up. We do record talks, so the video will be posted, although not immediately. If anyone wan
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by zck 11y ago
I don't use customize either, but there are very few things^1 that will be put in it without you explicitly customizing the variable and choosing to save it. So rather than typing elisp code out by hand, you can use the more user-fri
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by zck 11y ago
And that's the percentage! The article is dealing with raw numbers. The US population at large grew 9.7% between 2000 and 2010 ( http://www.census.gov/2010census/data/apportionment-pop-text... ). So it would be
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by zck 11y ago
Here's a view of why it might make sense for a teacher to emphasize one way over the other that doesn't focus on "it's the definition and definitions are important": > The teacher obviously knows (I’m assuming) t
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by zck 11y ago
At least on Ubuntu, vi is really VIM: zck@zck-desktop:~$ vi --version VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Jan 2 2014 19:39:32)
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About That Aunt Suing an 8-year-old(newyorkpersonalinjuryattorneyblog.com)
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by zck 11y ago
A car plus an airplane has downsides in both car and airplane mode that cars and airplanes do not have.
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by zck 11y ago
Great -- the very first button I press (the frowning cat) cleared out my entire painting. And I have no idea how to get it back. Clicking on every button shows that clicking the cat again brings it back. What does this cat actually do? Labe
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by zck 11y ago
But shouldn't Groupon just be a marketing expense? I'm not saying that the company should be ok losing money all the time, but it's common for companies to spend money to acquire customers. Do you avoid all "new customer
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by zck 11y ago
Either this was an invalid ruling or I don't understand trademark law.^0 A trademark is generic "when it no longer identifies a particular manufacturer or source of a product."^1 No one's using "Y Combinator" t
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by zck 11y ago
The claim showing survivorship bias is from this comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10181767 ): > ...if my siblings an I were brought up just fine in the 80's without being in a "smart onesie", I
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by zck 11y ago
I'm not the person you responded to, but survivorship bias is what you were originally responding to -- a claim like "we survived without the baby monitor, so it's unnecessary" falls flat because the people that didn&#x2
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by zck 11y ago
A "no true Scotsman" fallacy would be a response like "the people acting this way aren't true to the Amazon spirit". Instead, the response is "I don't see that happening at Amazon". That's a dire
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Well, that really depends on what your goal is. One reason for prolonging the game is that it gives your opponent more chances to make mistakes, turning some losses into either ties or victories. This is true for both human or AI opponents.
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>“It turns out that the one-eyed view of the world is deceptive,” says McKee. If you ask people with normal stereovision to close one eye and judge the position of objects along the line of sight, they are terribly imprecise, even if the
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by zck 11y ago
>...the rate at which we'd be able to build them in SF sans restrictions would at most keep prices stable year-on-year. Do you have any citations for this? It's unexpected to me. What's the limiting factor?
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Explaining graphic design to four-year-olds(medium.com)
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by zck 11y ago
Cool, I'd love to chat. Unfortunately, the "email" field in HN profiles is private, and you don't have an "about" filled out. My email is zkanfer@gmail.com.
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>Also, you can set up a secondary account and auto-forward emails relatively quickly to a forwarding address linked to Paribus. Oh, this is interesting, and should get around most of the privacy concerns. One question: how do you get the
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by zck 11y ago
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm pretty reluctant to let any company "View, manage, and permanently delete your mail in Gmail". Yes, I could create a new email address that I only use for purchasing stuff, but tha
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It seems pretty identical to me. In Blackjack, the easiest way to make someone win is to give them 21, and make sure no one else gets 21. So if the pseudocode is something like: if cheat_switch: if active_player == "COMPU

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