michael_fine

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Intro to Machine Learning on Coursera was pretty great, just the right level of difficulty for a novice high schooler.

Does anyone know of a list similar in scale and scope for Mac users?

That's the problem, you can't make a convincing argument on an individual basis without invoking altruism, because this seems like an example of tragedy of the commons.

I'm going, also taking a friend to introduce her to the tech scene.

A Song of Ice and Fire

I always loved cooking, but the long hours, high stress, and low wages turned me off from becoming a chef.

I'd also love to test/promote the game, email is in my profile.

With YCombinators investment in Watsi, is it a charity investment, or do they actually intend to make money off Watsi, and if so, how?

Unfortunately, I'm not yet 18, which prevents me from taking part in SoC.

Clickable: http://michaelfine.me

The hedgehog strategy there worked, brilliantly, but it is a strategy, a strategy designed around not losing. In the case of the American military, most of our missions now have specific aims that can't be accomplished by simply avoiding disasters.

Hey, I'm 15 and feel like I was just in your position. Emails in my profile, if you'd like to talk, or you can Skype me at michaelhfine

Also, filtering options would be great, for example only viewing tweets from independents, or only ones that mention Romney.

I love the whole concept and execution, except I think the tweets should scroll by slightly slower, as sometimes you don't have time to read a tweet before it disappears.

Hi, I'm Michael Fine, a 15 year old web developer. I'm not it the bay area, but maybe we could talk? My email is in my profile.

The point of Fizzbuzz is to save time and money weeding out the clear incompetents so you don't have to take time to interview them later.

It's not coding, in the strictest sense that it has no computer science or is solely syntactic, but it works at weeding out people who can't build anything. At least this level of analytical thinking is necessary for any programming task, and therefore Fizzbuzz serves its purpose.

Yes, but the first one is still universal, just it's assumed that we are talking about base 10.

What's the youngest age of any student you've ever had? I'm a high school student but I'd love to do this over the summer?

A better version control system. I really like git a lot of the time, but a good deal of the time I get really frustrated with the complexity, and it was even more frustrating when I was learning it.

I want a version control system that I can pick up and use, one that is intuitive to use and doesn't get in the way of writing. It would be similar to word's track changes, but with branches.

I've been giving this some thought, but I don't even know if it is technically possible, let alone feasible.

I find that paradoxically, the biggest problem with Hacker News right now is the hot algorithm we use. It's great for bringing good stories to the attention of the community and having a burst of short lived discussion over those stories, and then dying out. What it's not great for is long term discussions.

For example, with Quora, when someone answers a question, or posts a comment, you never care how long ago it was posted, because there are notifications, and the front page is based on what you follow, not how popular the questions are.

This is a hard problem to fix, but a couple suggestions I have are to improve the threads feature, such that it resembles a real notification bar. Secondly, I think a new page should help, a mixture between the front page, and the saved stories, which shows active discussions, and an emphasis on one's that you have upvoted.

I think those might help reduce the ephemerality of the discussions here.

That's one of the paradoxes of Euclidean geometry, where a line/line segment is made up of an infinite number of points, but those points have no length or width, and infinity times 0 is still 0, so technically a line should have no length. Clearly, it does not.

Actually, it's not true in mathematics either. A line is something which has one and only one dimension, and a point is something which has no dimension. A zero length line would not be a line, as it would have fewer than one dimension. So, there is no such thing as a zero length line.

I'm still getting it.

Similarly, that's why almost always, the first thing I do when building a web app is to design it, because it makes those 40+ hours far more enjoyable to be staring at an attractive program.

What a lot of people miss when comparing the returns of a home to say, the stock market, is that a home also provides a place to live. Of course a home would return less, because if it didn't the price would quickly shoot up because people see the inherent value in having your (lackluster) investment put a roof over your head.

Also, the hover effect is very distracting.

Isn't measuring by average valuation a little dissonant with how the valuations play out? If startup valuations follow a power law, and most of the money is made from a few successful exits, wouldn't it make more sense to judge incubators by say, their top 10%, while also showing the total number of startups for comparison?

Why's that? What makes it a nightmare?