Watanabe's Theorem of the Ugly Duckling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_duckling_theorem
came across this while studying statistics.
audyyy
Re:Ask HN: Movies every aspiring entrepreneur should watch?
on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @03:21PM (#2490705)
Primer
Re:Poll: How fast do you type?
on Friday March 25, 2011 @08:08PM (#2370893)
programming: 1 wpm, copying text: 100 wpm
Re:Interesting but lesser known data structures
on Thursday March 24, 2011 @09:55AM (#2364054)
Sneaker neat is to Transport Layer as Filing Cabinet is to Data Structure.
Re:Show HN: Crimsonti.de
on Saturday February 26, 2011 @10:07PM (#2267192)
how about notafath.er?
Re:Warn HN: How to accidentally, irreversibly nuke your Facebook account
on Thursday February 24, 2011 @11:49AM (#2258674)
Finally, a way to delete your facebook account without that impossible to pass 2-week grace period.
Re:Show HN: Breakup Notifier
on Monday February 21, 2011 @11:30PM (#2248741)
You could monetize this by charging to see if your SO has used the site
Re:Domainzomg: Super fast domain availability checking using WebSocket
on Monday February 14, 2011 @01:31AM (#2215627)
This website was responsible for me compulsively buying a domain. Congratulations.
Re:Google Axis
on Monday February 14, 2011 @01:20AM (#2215587)
This would be more fun if I could use it with my NES gun
Re:Show HN: My little app Owe.to
on Monday February 14, 2011 @01:18AM (#2215583)
I like how they kind of poke fun at their own use of stock photography.
Re:Show HN: My little app Owe.to
on Monday February 14, 2011 @01:05AM (#2215528)
I didn't know Toronto had a TLD.
Also, I hope no one I know finds out about this app ;)
Re:Show HN: Codr.cc
on Friday January 14, 2011 @04:44PM (#2105556)
I think it's more like a hash than a "shortened" URL. Kind of like thingler.com
Re:Rio 2016 Logo
on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @07:02PM (#2069156)
It's pretty. Then it turns into a nipple (like on a baby bottle).
Re:Ask HN: Who launched something in December?
on Saturday January 01, 2011 @03:21PM (#2058306)
http://www.haikuwik.com
I wouldn't call it a launch but I made it during my break. It's microblogging for haikus.
Re:Microsoft registered fuckbing.com
on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @06:11PM (#1766072)
What's the benefit of registering a hate domain?
Someone goes to Bing.com to search, doesn't like it, and then goes to Fuckbing.com to read up on all the Bing hate?
Re:Ask HN: How much does the Internet weigh?
on Sunday September 26, 2010 @06:29PM (#1730147)
The internet doesn't weigh anything, Jen.
Re:Tell HN: I accidentally ran up a $1000 Heroku bill
on Monday September 13, 2010 @09:40PM (#1689063)
If you could get away with turning up your dynos and workers in anticipation of a traffic spike and then not have to pay; it wouldn't be fun any more.
Re:Ask HN: Heroku or Not?
on Monday September 06, 2010 @01:02PM (#1666988)
maybe I will!
Re:How HTML5 Will Save Podcasting and Make it a Billion-Dollar Market
on Sunday September 05, 2010 @01:47PM (#1664825)
Voice recognition algorithms aren't "getting better everyday." Development is actually kind of stagnant.
Re:Ask HN: What Sucks About Facebook?
on Friday August 06, 2010 @12:40PM (#1581524)
I deleted mine a few days ago. Hopefully I'll make it through the 14-days where I can re-activate.
## My Facebook Rants:
* __Friends__ - A social network should just sense the people you're interested in and give updates accordingly. This would do away with your creepy co-worker demanding that you be his/her "friend." You wouldn't have to delete, and offend, that kid that you never spoke to in the 5th grade. In fact, Facebook kind of requires that its users adopt a kind of 5th grade mentality towards social interaction. "Will you be my girlfriend?"
OkCupid gets this part right. You can add people as friends but updates from people you've recently stalked show up in your feed automatically. If OkCupid wasn't a dating-oriented site, it wouldn't make a bad social networking site.
* __The e-mails__ - I block Facebook emails on gmail. There really should be a way to opt-out of this. It's annoying.
* __Tagging__ - This seemed neat at first and was what probably made Facebook popular in the Facebook but it was a mistake. When I had Facebook, I just blocked anyone from seeing pictures I was tagged in. If I went to a party or something; I would avoid cameras because I didn't want to have to worry about a picture of me drinking and playing dice in an alley to show up on my wall.
* __Vendor Lock-In__ - You can't download your own profile pictures, status updates, etc without the use of some ephemeral 3rd party tool that probably won't exist for very long.
* __The 14-day re-activation period__ - I quit smoking after 6 years; it was easier.
(Just pretend that HN supports markdown :)
Re:Ask HN: How do you automate your life?
on Sunday July 18, 2010 @06:18PM (#1526901)
sleep 60*5 && say get off your butt
IMac Cluster?
My boss keeps asking me to take a bunch of iMac intel/G5s and turn them into some sort of cluster. Despite the fact that I know this won't lead to anything useful (I already have access to a cluster), I would still like to try it.When you lay an iMac on its face, it becomes a "blade" does it not?I am free to install any OS.Hopefully, I would be able to run some bioinformatics software on it...