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This is what I do. I actually made a bookmarklet with the following pasted into the URL, so you can do it in a single click: javascript:void(open(' https://archive.is/?run=1&url='+…

Forbes website shows a blank page if you are using adblockers or noscript or some other extensions. Open the link in an incognito window and it will work.

When you are learning C++ at that kind of speed its natural that you will have to lubricate yourself to reduce risk of injury

+1 for DataTau, I didn't know about that. http://www.datatau.com/ Check out this too: http://www.pyquantnews.com/

Less detail than I hoped but a lot of sources. Be wary of tCDS - no long term studies. Also 'no such thing as a free lunch' - see gwern : http://www.gwern.net/Drug%20heuristics Not…

Looks great, thanks for this. Some of us are going to be putting our own on http://reddit.com/r/deepdream

Controls on speech were necessary for Singapore to move from a third world country to a first world one in just 30 years

The right wing news sources I read made it look bulletproof that she was manipulating things and would lose. I didn't even read the tech news as SV has a crazy liberal bias. Steve …

> 1 in a million company with a 1000x return Sounds like a terrible expected ROI ;)

Thanks for all your insight here in this thread. I went through all this myself and haven't really been able to talk about it. Its reassuring to see others have been through the sa…

> created a loop in the comment tree; I caused an item to be its own grandchild. Ah, the online forum equivalent of going back in time to kill your grandfather.

> continue their trajectory Nice.

Its a type of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativist_fallacy

Finally somebody I can get behind; we need to get this guy into office. Does anyone know of any other examples of if-by-whiskey being used today? Is it useful for politicians or wo…

Is it possible to stream from the glasses? If so then a criminal would be deincentivised to murder a witness wearing the glasses - as everything they have seen is already online. O…

Half the front page of today's The Times in the UK is a picture of Zuckerberg. Though I think it might be more to do with giving the paper a "we're down with tech" image.

The current top comment by Matt Mullen is being upvoted at a rate of about 3 votes/second! He appears to work at discus - did he use admin powers to comment on the article? edit: "…

Its numbing how you don't realise how much somebody on the other side of the world has affected your life until you find out until something tragic enough happens to them that it m…

> I, for one, don't care Goddamnit, have some sensitivity, he only just died and many people on here know him personally. If this is a troll then why don't you go reevaluate your p…

FYI: you can connect regular lego with duplo!

Even if the topic is not something you care about the techniques and methods gwern uses are not often talked about here and useful for a variety of text processing tasks. His metho…

No no no, 3 is yellow, didn't you get the memo? This is what it was for me when I was about 7 (no mental illness): 1- Red - Sharpness 2- Blue - Blunt/powerful 3- Yellow - Soft 4- G…

> I have to buy clothes made for fat people and just deal with the extra room in the midsection. You should honestly consider learning some basic tailoring. I'm starting it myself …

> And he's the guy who calls the shots. When a child grows into a teenager it becomes harder to blame the father for their actions.

Just wanted to say thanks for this great post. I've not heard this viewpoint and now need to swot up on it. Glad there are optimists wrt the possible impending class divide.