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In the Netherlands, there's a difference between universities (which are a form of scientific education, and often set you up for an MSc), and what they call "universities of appli…

But if you apply statistics, you will see that the open rates only differ significantly 5% of the time, if you use a 95% confidence interval.

For my website, normally I'd be in favor of allowing users to create multiple accounts with variations of email addresses (e.g. foo@example.com, foo+bar@example.com, f.oo@example.c…

I have recently launched https://www.softwareonlinux.com with the aim to map the demand for specific programs on Linux. I believe that given sufficient demand, software vendors may…

I use Linux, despite the absence of these essential tools. In my ideal world software vendors would start supporting Linux, and this is why I created SoftwareOnLinux.com - to creat…

I found this on namecoin: https://bit.namecoin.info/ Looks interesting.

Thinking about GNS and the Sci-Hub issues got me wondering. Isn't there an interesting application for blockchain technology as a DNS "ledger"? Is this a feasible application? Do t…

> Whether this price is appropriate depends on your confidence in the forecasts and their respective probabilities. Did I miss something or did the authors not mention a discount r…

> ... it's only interesting to such companies in the public markets where you can act on your beliefs by going short. I disagree. As Keynes stated, the market can stay irrational l…

Armin isn't the author of requests; that's Kenneth Reitz.

It is interesting how this blog-post directly follows the "The Post-YC Slump" post [0]. One can easily make the mistake of considering time spent on financial statements "fake work…

Same. And I'm still surprised to see how often this is the case.

Could it be that it is slow because localStorage is updated on every keypress?

I share your skepticism, but there's one thing you might be overlooking. Canals can act as a buffer in case of heavy rainfall. This requires the canals not to be connected to open …

The simulation actually follows a binomial distribution, meaning the standard deviation can be calculated as sqrt(npq), where n is the number of trials, p is the probability of suc…

Using equally spaced points doesn't produce an unbiased estimator, while a monte carlo simulation does.

True. And the people objecting against the whole G+ / YouTube integration are probably the early adopters that could lead the herd.

Of course, users can also simple adopt a modern browser, rather than updating their system. Additionally, if Microsoft doesn't support modern browsers for old operating systems thi…