Ask HN: Freelancers in the US: What do you do for health insurance?65 points·by patientfrog·11년 전·101 comments
Newsonomics: 10 numbers that define the news business todayniemanlab.org1 points·by patientfrog·11년 전·0 comments
YASKAWA BUSHIDO PROJECT / industrial robot vs. sword masteryoutube.com4 points·by patientfrog·11년 전·0 comments
Why the Bladeless Wind Turbine Has Its Skepticstechnologyreview.com1 points·by patientfrog·11년 전·0 comments
Fixing Engineering's Loyalty and Longevity Problemfirstround.com34 points·by patientfrog·11년 전·69 comments
patientfrog·11년 전·discussI know this wasn't what you are saying, but it's worth pointing out that higher education funding and professor's pay are two very different things.
patientfrog·11년 전·discussIn a sense, facebook does pay us: it let's us use its platform for free.In exchange we give facebook our data and usage patterns and the right to put targeted ads in our feed.
patientfrog·11년 전·discussI learned go (igo) a number of years ago while living in Japan, and when I returned to the US had trouble finding people to play with.Ever since online-go.com started I have been getting back into it. I love being able to play asynchronously.My username on that site is "rob.doherty.127" I'm happy to play anyone beginner to advanced (I am an intermediate level player).
patientfrog·11년 전·discussThere is a historical precedent for corporation-backed security forces in the US.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_union_busting_in_th...
patientfrog·11년 전·discussJohn Cook is pretty well-known for doing this sort of thing: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/top/His blog is always a good read to boot.
patientfrog·11년 전·discussCould you describe in a little more detail what you mean by this sentence:> "... use HyperLogLogs to encode these MinHash structs gaining a great deal of speed with a marginal error rate, all while allowing for arbitrary N-levels of intersection"Thanks
patientfrog·11년 전·discussThere's a plugin for intellij, but I suspect most folks just use a text editor.