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by zck 17y ago
This seems partially explained by selection bias -- the slackers from "India, China, and Latin America" don't come to America for college at the same rates as American slackers do. However, this doesn't explain the actual statistics she giv
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by zck 17y ago
>Causation without correlation. ...Suppose the value of y is known to be caused by x. The true relationship between x and y is mediated by another factor, call it A, that takes values of +1 or -1 with equal probability. The true process
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by zck 17y ago
The bike counter serves merely to feel like you're making a direct impact -- "hey, I made that counter go up. Cool!" It just needs to make people feel good about biking, so they're more likely to do it in the future.
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by zck 17y ago
>...you don't put in language features assuming a good programmer. Interesting design goal.
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by zck 17y ago
I watched maybe eight minutes of it. It's pretty much the same as the beginning -- her voice is in a register that, when encoded, is very frustrating to listen to. Also, she spends much of it apologizing for Emacs's extra features, like Sna
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by zck 17y ago
Sent after a minor typo. So if anyone can get austin@beatnix.com, you can get a wave invite.
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by zck 17y ago
Invite sent!
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by zck 17y ago
Invited!
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by zck 17y ago
Sent!
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by zck 17y ago
Sent!
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by zck 17y ago
Sent! The other invites I've been sending out got through pretty quickly, but not necessarily immediately.
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by zck 17y ago
Yeah, I don't really think too many people will need an invite, but I wanted to double check.
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Does anyone still need Google Wave invites?
8 points by zck 17y ago|19 comments
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by zck 17y ago
Not for me. Can you browse http://ycombinator.com/images/y18.gif ?
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by zck 17y ago
Well, a government has to follow its own laws. For example, the U.S. government could conceivably bring its troops into a house under gunpoint and have them sleep the night there. It wouldn't be legal, since it's directly against the Third
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by zck 17y ago
The lack of women in CS is a problem because the CS field is missing out. There are a whole lot of intelligent women that could make important breakthroughs. The field is slowed because half the population is discouraged from joining it.
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by zck 17y ago
As far as I know, that's originally from Yogi Berra. From wikipedia: "On why he no longer went to Ruggeri's, a St. Louis restaurant: 'Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.'". ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra )
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by zck 17y ago
A good answer is something that gets you to the right order of magnitude that would be absolutely correct if your assumptions are correct. For example, the number of piano tuners in New York: So there are eight million people in NYC. Let's
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Encoding data in the last two digits of a check -- flags or a checksum(ln.hixie.ch)
4 points by zck 17y ago|0 comments
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by zck 17y ago
Exactly. >I always had a sneaking suspicion that the "manly" feeling that comes from driving a sports car was nonsense promoted by car companies. But I guess it may have some truth. Correlation != causation. If feeling manly makes testo
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by zck 17y ago
People are being accused of raping their children (source: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/programs/transcripts... ) based on facilitated communication, while these same children can't tell you what a key is if the facilitator didn
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by zck 17y ago
Additionally, from my time at TotalFark, the $5/month weeded out many of the reprobates, and the quality of discussion was much higher. This was five or so years ago, however.
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by zck 17y ago
It's about hacking childhood. It's interesting to think about what taboos society is creating. That's enough to get on this site.
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by zck 17y ago
Well, yeah. I was just making a joke about how applying the verb "boil" to a human doesn't make sense.
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by zck 17y ago
When he blinks, his left nostril dilates, and that bothers him, so he cuts the videos so it doesn't happen. He describes it in this video: http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/05/051006.html
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by zck 17y ago
Well, a watched child won't boil either.
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by zck 17y ago
It's interesting they don't want symbols. For example, Prince might be better represented by his "love symbol" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Symbol ) than a picture of himself.
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by zck 17y ago
I agree that it could be more user friendly, but here's the function of delay (from http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html ): >There's a new "delay" field in your profile that lets you specify the delay (in minutes) between when you cr
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by zck 17y ago
Hrm, in the HN source v3.1, there's a function canonical-url that strips off anything after a ? in the url, but only when the site is in stemmable-sites * . If used to find dupes, this would work. However, there are only two places in
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by zck 17y ago
The money they give to everyone is the same, but the percentage varies: "We usually invest $11,000 + $3000n ... in return for between 2% and 10% of the company. The average is 6-7%." ( http://ycombinator.com/w2010.html )

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