countersignaler

But they don't quack. Tokens do not represent a share of anything, nor any right to present or future anything, nor do the companies selling them ever claim such. They are disconnected from the success or failure of the underlying venture in a way that other stock-like instruments never have been. Indeed, the quoted paragraph specifically excludes currencies.

I read a scientific american article (or blurb if i recall) about boids when I was a kid. I wanted to have boids so badly after reading it, I stayed up on school nights teaching myself java. Haven't stopped hacking since -- still stay up on work nights, still trying to learn java...

anyways, just thought i'd share that little piece of nostalgia, how it all began for me

http://science.io was featured on HN recently. Not github, but at least a place to discuss and sift research.

This study draws conclusions about very coarse grain (month to month) multitasking, which I don't think is the common interpretation of the term. Multitasking to me is doing multiple things either simultaneously or within an hour time span or so. The two are very different things, so I would be careful extrapolating this to finer grain multitasking.

Is it not the case that all Google profits are eventually taxed again as capital gains or income taxes?

ummm, you can't use observational data to draw conclusions like these. period. you can use them to hint at causations and effects of changes, but you absolutely cannot make conclusive statements like those made in this paper. REALLY bad science.

Obviously any kind of discrimination sucks, but I have a hard time getting worked up over age discrimination. It is not like sex or race where you are hampered from the start and never have a chance to show your potential. Everyone is young then gets old. Systematic age discrimination just creates a market opportunity for businesses willing to hire old people. You could say the same opportunity exists in the sex and race cases, but they have the potential to be self-fulfilling prejudices--people locked out of the workforce from the start--whereas the age one doesnt really perpetuate itself.

signed entitled young white male

this is a statistical blog post written by someone who has no idea how to do statistics. and even when told how to do it properly by a commenter, fails to accept the simple and overwhelming conclusion. why is this on the front page?

The real risk is that they accidentally "update" my files out of existence or revert them to some point way in the past in a way that can't be undone. The change might push to all my devices before I realized it. I periodically tar my dropbox and put it on a backup disk.

> meaning half the country is working just to support the other half.

What? That's not at all what it means.

This is exactly why, in hindsight, I am extremely thankful I did not go to an ivy. I would almost certainly be stuck in a well-paying, soul-sucking finance job.

Whew.

without controlling for the cost of living, this is pretty meaningless

Just to reinforce, these are the top "most influential" algorithms in machine learning. Most are no longer state-of-the-art.