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That was a summer project after my last semester of undergrad, posted at the beginning of my first semester in a PhD program in AI (lucky timing there). Graduated in 2017 and have …

Shameless plug of my old dead project: this is great, it reminds me of my Android app "Smozzy" which let you browse the web via SMS/MMS. I apparently posted it on HN exactly 10 yea…

I tried GP's example, and in this particular case both --patience and the default (Myers) work the same, both doing the thing you want them to. Which perplexes me, because I know I…

Both your URLs go to the same page (was going to say they were the same URL, but they're not). Maybe [1] was supposed to be the below? [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/254307…

I agree that repair costs and depreciation grow (probably roughly linearly) with miles driven, but those would have been factored into the $9100 median separately from the car paym…

> But it's not like his car payment magically disappears when he becomes a Lyft driver. Or magically stop having to carry insurance. Right, my point is that those costs are essenti…

> According to this Consumer Reports article, “the median car costs more than $9,100 a year to own” over the first five years of ownership driving 12,000 miles a year. That means t…

Ah, cool, my mistake. Thanks for the clarification!

"Works like a debit card when you swipe it" - I'd probably get this if I wouldn't effectively be paying several hundreds of dollars per year for it in losses of credit card rewards…

> One thing that annoys me about closed ranges (and it's not much talked about) is that it is impossible to express the empty range: in python [i:i] is an empty range, while closed…

Scenario A: The setup is (1) lose $100, gain 1 ticket (current state is -$100, +1 ticket); (2) lose 1 ticket (current state is -$100, 0 tickets). The choices are (a) lose $100, gai…

For what it's worth, The Social Network as a movie was very well-received by critics [1]. Jobs , not so much [2]. [1] http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the-social-network/ [2] http:/…

Texting was pretty mainstream popular in the US for at least 3 years before the iPhone came out...

Are all the bot reservations actually made with the intention of a human going to the restaurant? I wouldn't be surprised if some people used these bots just to prevent anyone else…

What's wrong with 80% effectiveness? I didn't know anything about the effectiveness of vaccines, but 80% effective struck me as being 'pretty good'. I looked up the effectiveness o…

Interesting, can you give any examples of these issues?

As someone who's never done any game development at all, can you give me some sense of the work that would be involved to port a Windows-only OpenGL game to Mac or Linux? What piec…

> What people lack of understanding is that prisons are not real punishment for those who are actually there. Some of them might even like it. So, prisons are not efficient in puni…

You're absolutely right - I agree that voter turnout "should" be highest at exactly "50% chance my guy wins" and diminish from there in either direction. I think I just got a bit t…

You're definitely right, and it really didn't make sense to me that they were doing that. I guess it's probably just a human nature thing more than anything else. I think my point …

Throughout all the criticism from pundits of Nate Silver et al. as a liberal/commie/whatever for predicting that Obama would win, I couldn't help but wonder if there was even any m…

> The hard part for scraping is that it's both against their TOS and you wouldn't be able to have accurate availability and price information through manual data entry. The nature …