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Impressive work! I wonder: is the inertial tracking sufficient to cover for occasional occlusion of the markers?

More details: https://books.google.com/books?id=fRqKreZFVTYC&pg=PA22&lpg=P...

I am delighted to have the chance to learn what the Hacker News community thinks about capitalism.

Pushes are failing for me. (To one repo, at least.)

I am no expert on this, but Wikipedia cites four sources for the claim that "further examination of the Perot vote in the Election Night exit polls ... showed that Perot siphoned v…

I second the criticism of using violin plots here. A violin plot is a kernel density plot. It is designed to show a distribution at a scale much larger than variations in the data.…

http://comicsalliance.com/scott-adams-plannedchaos-sockpuppe... http://blog.dilbert.com/post/102881515756/planned-chaos

Pulling data from prediction markets into Guesstimate is an exciting idea. A few thoughts: * Prediction markets are usually for binary outcomes. I imagine the most useful role of b…

Thanks for the link! FWIW, part of what I am trying to do with this gallery is show the power of images to illustrate /concepts/ (or ideas, or systems, or models, ...), rather than…

I am impressed by how quickly the notebook goes from raw data to interesting patterns. Nice. If I wanted to be picky about statistics (I generally do), I'd note: 1. Equating enforc…

I'm surprised (and disheartened) to hear that psychedelics served as your gateway into harmful drug use. Can you tell a bit more about the role psychedelics played?

That article says nothing about preloading pages. The speed gains are purely a UI thing -- if you're clever about keeping submenus open even when the mouse leaves the submenu's ent…

Wow -- you've described my situation to a T. Except that you decided to do something about it. I'm looking forward to trying this site and seeing if it works for me. Thanks!

I think you're trying to say something like "as long as developers are primarily men, marketing to developers means marketing to men". I see logic in that. But what you're leaving …

As much as I personally enjoy the demo the creator chose for the main page, I wonder whether said creator could have found a "flo-mo" view of something captivating for reasons othe…

It's actually quite useful to have talks like this spreading across the Net. They act like chemical tracers, flowing through the memetic channels of crackpottery -- once a blog pic…

Not gonna lie; the MindMaze theme brought me back in a powerful way.

I am sympathetic both to your comment, and those replying to it. I think what this suggests is that modern psychiatry does not have a rich enough understanding of the enormous vari…

This appears to be totally broken in Firefox (9.0.1, on Linux)... don't know what's up with that.