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by bOR_ 12y ago
From the FAQ: "Do we know the exact locations of our servers, and, if so, do we have physical access to our servers?" "We do not know the exact locations of our servers.We do not have physical access to our servers." &qu
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by bOR_ 14y ago
Because many programmers are not in the website business. I'm a scientist, working with long-term simulation models. My problem is trying to find a good model representation of the data that I observe. I keep my eyes open towards probabilis
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by bOR_ 14y ago
He's a big data consultant, and all he has is a hammer :-).
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by bOR_ 14y ago
Isn't it actually the reverse?: don't the EU actions actually stop the previous practice of Telco's to subsidize the calling behavior of the majority by adding additional fees to a smaller group that heavily uses roaming? I'm not sure what
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by bOR_ 14y ago
I understand the the telco's are very competitive, but for some reason, free market competition appeared to fail to have an effect on prices like texting or data roaming. Oddly enough, you roam through various network using the internet, an
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by bOR_ 14y ago
She's great (or at least the dutch think she is), and did a good job as well when she was commissioner on competition, handing out some big fines to business cartels. see http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a854010e-dd84-11db-8d42-000b5df106... I t
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by bOR_ 14y ago
Wish there were a bit more instructions on how to get it running using lein2 / project.clj. Maybe that happens this weekend :-). I am a bit at a loss how to start the webserver used by c2 (and if its even included) from within emacs/slime/s
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by bOR_ 15y ago
So, can google put a patch in Chrome that whenever it runs at VUPEN, everything VUPEN has on that computer is shipped over to Google? :-). Google has/had the 'do no evil' in their philosophy, and disabling a scheme that misuses their softwa
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by bOR_ 15y ago
They test a few different schemes, but it is sort of embarrassing that in their final summary graph (figure 9), they use the arrowheads again to indicate which representation performs best.
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by bOR_ 15y ago
http://www.hiv.lanl.gov/content/index For sentimental value: HIV sequence data (and other data) from 1980 till now. Did my thesis on these ;-). In general, there is an enormous amount of gene sequence data around, not just HIV. http://ww
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Ask HN: name this topology? multiple star networks sparsely linked by leaves
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by bOR_ 16y ago
In my perception the wikileaks of iraq / afghanistan / cablegate got far more tv-news exposure throughout the year than facebook did. It is true that wikileaks itself became only an issue until nov/dec, but its leaks before that had high ne
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by bOR_ 16y ago
Its tricky to answer, as I am limited to browsing wikipedia pages on these topics and no more knowledgeable than you are on the topic :-). One obvious alternative to your line of thinking is that the matter+anti-matter that is created in a
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by bOR_ 16y ago
I am not a physicist either, but your concept of vacuum does need updating. The idea of matter and antimatter particles popping up out of vacuum has been around for some time, and appears to be the driving force behind black hole evaporatio
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by bOR_ 16y ago
The point the guy himself makes is that lisp allows him to be a great programmer. Of course the program could be rewritten into qbasic. It is getting your ideas and thoughts into a form that is not a compromise to the language which matters
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by bOR_ 16y ago
trying to understand the stream. Facebook emails' biggest feature is similar to gmails priority inbox?
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by bOR_ 16y ago
Dropbox works for me where bitbucket doesn't (jay to corporate firewall).
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by bOR_ 16y ago
Start educating your social circle then, they are part of the electorate. At least, that is my view. I don't like things being unmovable :).
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by bOR_ 17y ago
I think the Chinese government only arbitrarily declares that as they own the internet connections in their country, they can decide what information is allowed to flow through them, and they decide such which is in their best interest. Tha
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by bOR_ 17y ago
The end is when you die :). Money doesn't travel over that well. But as long as you're having fun finding ways to make more money, there's really not that much wrong with playing the money game. Just don't care too much about money :).
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by bOR_ 17y ago
Many times, apparently (see recent articles). There's just no explanation except fraud or misformed experiments that fits well with our current scientific understanding of the world, and those shouldn't be invoked just to keep your comforta
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by bOR_ 17y ago
Not the easiests of problems though. Do you know what statistics you would apply? IQ measurements seem to have a similar problem: doing test a, influences your score on test b, because you get more used to the problems presented.. but doing
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by bOR_ 17y ago
This sample-size too small thing is becoming ridiculous. You do realize that although something might not be significant, in a hundreds of situations in real life, you are perfectly willing to draw real conclusions from a sample-size of 1?
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by bOR_ 17y ago
Occam's razor is frequently misused. It is not a law, and using it to forbid something that cannot easily be explained is counterproductive. Occams Razor works nicely when deciding whether to use a linear or a nonlinear function to describe
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by bOR_ 17y ago
I agree to what you say :). Had pretty much the same line of thinking myself. Coming from biology: I know our brains are complex machines, and highly skilled and skewed pattern recognizers, and that therefore many things can be explained in
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by bOR_ 17y ago
I understood that people were asked beforehand about their beliefs. Afterwards would indeed be silly, and I would have been very surprised if 60 years of peer review would not have caught that. Just checked the two links I pasted earlier. T
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by bOR_ 17y ago
The mechanical principles that are referred to are our theories about those mechanical principles. They may be very accurate in describing them, but they are not 'fact'. I think the new age / hippies / spiritual / mysticism explanation is t
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by bOR_ 17y ago
So.. how do we know for a fact that in parapsychology the null hypothesis should always be true? We do not understand how it could work, but to therefore say that whenever we label some experiment as falling under the school of parapsycho
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by bOR_ 18y ago
Had the same impression. The most interesting advances I saw when visiting Alife XI last year was in cognitive robotics. Using MRI scan information from thinking persons to unravel the global structure of the brain, and then implementing th
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by bOR_ 18y ago
I jumped on ruby at the end of 2003. Wasn't that bad a choice either. Clojure seems a nice next thing to learn.

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