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andresgottlieb··on We know music is pleasurable, the question is why?
The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris (page 73)

https://books.google.cl/books?id=FB5Ddqv8nO0C&lpg=PA74&ots=w...

andresgottlieb··on The Octopus: Stable Genius
https://www.amazon.com/Consider-Lobster-Essays-Foster-Wallac...
andresgottlieb··on LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
andresgottlieb··on A Zero-Math Introduction to Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods
It's silly to say something like "Far too many people think equations are what mathematics is solely about". What you really mean is that far too many people think series of statements containing numbers and variables are what mathematics is solely about, and comments like this perpetuate that stereotype (ie. all math statements containing numbers and variables are equations)

And that's why arguing about word meanings is not a good idea. I think referring to written math as just math is reasonable, and referring to it as equations also is.

Edit: grammar

andresgottlieb··on Using loaded dice to cheat at Settlers of Catan, and p-values to avoid suspicion
FYI: https://www.wikihow.com/Load-Dice
andresgottlieb··on On Being Jewish in State Prison (2009)
You might find this article (1956) interesting: http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent...
andresgottlieb··on Tsunami carried a million sea creatures from Japan to US west coast
You're right, but the tsunami released a lot of debris to the sea near Japan, and the sea creatures where slowly transported for thousands of miles, on that debris:

"Between June 2012 and February this year 289 Japanese species attached to 600 pieces of debris washed up on beaches in the states of Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska and Hawaii, as well as in the Canadian province of British Columbia, according to the study."

andresgottlieb··on Show HN: Musikcube, a terminal-based music player, library, and streaming server
You might find this interesting: https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
andresgottlieb··on Sorting 2 Tons of Lego, Many Questions, Results
You should use https://www.cloudflare.com/. It's free and very easy to implement.
andresgottlieb··on How to build your own VPN if you're wary of commercial options
Are they so likely? Do you mean they keep logs of every attempted connection to every vps? Even in countries like Netherlands? I'd bet that's less likely than keeping a log of their paying customers' names
andresgottlieb··on How to build your own VPN if you're wary of commercial options
I had no idea of that requirement, kills the whole point indeed :(

edit: there's a list of providers allowing only bitcoin as payment method: http://cryto.net/~joepie91/bitcoinvps.html

andresgottlieb··on How to build your own VPN if you're wary of commercial options
Why shouldn't I?
andresgottlieb··on How to build your own VPN if you're wary of commercial options
Vultr (http://www.vultr.com/?ref=6979836) allows you to pay with bitcoin, making it more difficult to trace you
andresgottlieb··on Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking Arms Race
You're forgetting about companies whose business is not ad based (eg. Apple), they will make sure not to allow those laws to pass.
andresgottlieb··on Books that Aaron Swartz read, loved and hated
Most links posted on HN are "cynical" content that are "reaping clicks" for ad affiliate "bucks", welcome to the internet, Sir
andresgottlieb··on Hydrogen – An advanced drum machine for Linux
Works perfectly in macOS Sierra
andresgottlieb··on Show HN: fman – file manager for programmers
Just found this comment from years ago, I completely agree and cannot believe this system has been around for years! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5082918

PS. Great app, BTW!

andresgottlieb··on Show HN: fman – file manager for programmers
Is that Stripe modal asking you to enter your credit card number, without knowing what server is it going to, an official Stripe thing? I would never enter any sensitive data there.
andresgottlieb··on YubiKey 4C
It's a comment, not a logical proof
andresgottlieb··on Not Everyone in Tech Cheers the H-1B Visa Program
FYI: 'Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."'

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

andresgottlieb··on Visual Studio Code 1.9
Exactly, it never ceases to amaze me how often people arbitrarily categorize stuff as is/isn't
andresgottlieb··on Little Snitch 3 – Protect your privacy
Would they make more money if they let visitors from other platforms know it's a macOS app? No. That's why.
andresgottlieb··on Bringing Wide Color to Instagram
Note that the red test image is only valid for iOS devices, since in Android you can see the Instagram logo even though it doesn't support wide color
andresgottlieb··on Practical Deep Learning for Coders
They announced they'll start offering GPU instances in early 2017:

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/11/announcing-GPUs...

andresgottlieb··on Apple is reportedly putting Mac development on the back burner
The title does, the article doesn't
andresgottlieb··on Russian reality TV show Game2: Winter to 'allow' rape and murder in Siberia
The game gets good when there are only two players left. One of them can kill the other and go to jail, but would still win. This might end in an interesting black-mirror-ish social drama, in which public opinion could become a factor.

For example, what if both remaining players were trying to kill each other, does the winner deserve to go to jail?

andresgottlieb··on Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe
I think it represents the number of radio stations available for that city (each dot is a city, and you can switch individual radio stations using the list at the lower right corner of the screen)
andresgottlieb··on VLC 360° Technical Preview
Promised?
andresgottlieb··on Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It
If this article made sense to you, you should read the author's book on the topic. I've just finished it and really liked it.

http://amzn.to/2fdEaol

andresgottlieb··on PlantUML: Easily create UML Diagrams from simple textual description
The feature set is impressive. Here's the Wikipedia article for the tool: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlantUML
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