noverloop

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by noverloop 16y ago
yes. The way I see it, the only way to have sustained positive impact on the world is to allow humans to be more human and entangle it in the worlds economic system so it remains in place. That construction can only be achieved by a busines
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by noverloop 16y ago
Well, that explains your lousy high-school teacher... The only metric we employ in our schools to measure teachers' performance is a. do they fit in and b. can they keep their classes under control.
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by noverloop 16y ago
you're failing until other people suddenly start to refer to you as successful
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by noverloop 16y ago
exactly. also, social norms don't blend well with market norms... nobody (sane) is going to pay to talk to their friends.
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by noverloop 16y ago
What is the advantage of this library over MDP? ( http://mdp-toolkit.sourceforge.net/index.html )
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by noverloop 16y ago
Would it still be productive when the 5th day is a company-wide hackathon?
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by noverloop 16y ago
start a corporate shell in the UK? (or some other cheap place)
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by noverloop 16y ago
finally! an accelerator that is friendly to graduating students...
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by noverloop 16y ago
Groupthink is not a situation where all members agree. Groupthink is a situation where members of a group self-censor their (critical) opinions in fear of retribution or loss of esteem.
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by noverloop 16y ago
I would have done this a long time ago if my country wouldn't levy taxes on companies that aren't active (dormant). I hadn't considered incorporating abroad seriously until now. Are there any gotcha's with a company abroad? e.g. annual tax
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PrimeSense releases Kinect-drivers as open source(willowgarage.com)
1 points by noverloop 16y ago|0 comments
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by noverloop 16y ago
probably the same issue that Belgium has, banks with a lot of PIGS-bonds.
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by noverloop 16y ago
I'm surprised by the anti-world bank sentiment here. You should read 'The Bottom Billion', which was written by the director of the Development Research Group at the World bank (2003-2008) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bottom_Billion
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by noverloop 16y ago
The person cited to support the 'ignore the competition' argument hasn't launched his product yet... Why should I even consider advice from such a person?
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by noverloop 16y ago
I heard Greece could use some money
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by noverloop 16y ago
yes, but these aspects are 'post-idea' Most don't have ideas yet, although there is an active effort from the university to match CS students without ideas with academics from non-CS departments (legal, economics,...) that have ideas. It ta
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Ask HN: Which speakers can inspire students?
5 points by noverloop 16y ago|7 comments
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by noverloop 16y ago
The internet, I wouldn't be who I am today without it.
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by noverloop 16y ago
Allow people to flag submissions if you want a working 'adult filter'
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by noverloop 16y ago
pseudocode will do as well
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by noverloop 16y ago
Facebook groups solve this problem. However I don't think you want to manage your closest friends on one platform. I communicate with the people I care about through all communication methods available, restricting this to one method would
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by noverloop 16y ago
The ability to satisfies ones needs. The entire economy is built around providing individual humans with the means to satisfy their needs.
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by noverloop 16y ago
I think it's more effective to train classifiers on users' voting logs and comments in order to maintain the quality and thoughtfulness of HN. This allows you to classify all your users into classes that resemble their characters. e.g. A ge
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by noverloop 16y ago
In heuristics, I like Asynchronous teams [ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/edrc-22/project/ateams/... ] In multi-robot coordination I like the free market system [ http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/projects/colony/architecture.shtml ] And
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by noverloop 16y ago
'Systems' is a very broad term. Every group of people that consistently does something has a system for it. while in programming a system is denoted by strict rules, in human interaction it's based on incentives (including social incentives
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by noverloop 16y ago
You should take a look at Charlie munger. video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Cy7UwsRPQ a more detailed overview of what you are looking for: http://www.focusinvestor.com/FocusSeriesPart3.pdf (from charlie munger wiki)
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by noverloop 16y ago
I'm working on a remote control for Google TV based on computer vision and gesture recognition. This is my masters dissertation and I'm currently researching algorithms and techniques that enable real-time detection and tracking of hands o
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by noverloop 16y ago
Ask his name, it's a common anti-corruption measure. This gives you two options - he'll give his name, great! go report him for corruption. - he refuses to give his name, great! tell his boss. (repeat until people get fired or your applicat
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by noverloop 16y ago
groupthink is a state where people self-censor in fear of rejection or repression. Only down-voting when disagreeing can cause groupthink since people who disagree with the consensus will stop posting disagreeing comments to preserve their
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by noverloop 16y ago
This app looks like a good candidate for some idea I and my gf had a while ago, I'm not going to implement this so feel free to take it. There should be a feature to rate (or like) recipes, so you can then recommend recipes based on what ot

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