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Looks like you re-posted your own old submission. Nothing wrong with it I guess since people are still interested judging from upvotes. But that would be one of the reasons "the quality of HN threads is going down" as many complain. Some older users don't even want to comment anymore, since it's all the same thing re-posted all over again. Well that and bitcoin/NSA "news".

Pavel, folks here are being hard on you guys because historically, 9 out of 10 times "independent thinkers" who roll out their own crypto stacks get something wrong. That's why if you want to market your app to this crowd, you'll have a hard time selling something that is not what is a currently recommended crypto stack. Emphasizing that it is the NSA who recommends it is just a pasive-aggressive conspiracy theorizing. It may very well be the case that the NSA have ways of cracking their "Suite B", but we have no evidence of that, and if they do, do you really think that your ad-hoc solution would do much better against them?

> It is better than Facebook in every possible way.

Even if it were true, your statement still doesn't contradict GP's assertion.

Many people here don't like to see HN turning into reddit

"One weird trick that made pure mathematicians hate him"

My vote is for the needle: humans were much more restricted about where they could live without being able to sew clothes

Causality is a notoriously hard thing to prove. I challenge you to find a study or two that demonstrate a similar relationship proving causality beyond any doubt.

Working in psychiatry research myself, I definitely don't trust a single study out there that claims to have found a simple relationship between such incredibly complex things as moods, bioactive substances, person's environment, genetics, etc (same goes for nutritional science, environmental science, economics, and so on).

To me much more compelling evidence are anecdotal cases from my personal life. I know people who have smoked all the time since their teenage years and who lead happy lives, but I have also seen how people can get really messed up from pot and how it goes away when they stop (although occasional episodes and mood swings can persist long after stopping). Other huge factors no one seems to talk much about are interactions between everyday stress and smoking, between coffee consumption and smoking, alcohol and smoking. The list goes on forever.

>I really can't understand it when people claim to be addicted to weed.

Well, I really can't understand how people can be addicted to gambling. Doesn't mean it's not a problem for some.

Just the first few results from Google Scholar.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890856709...

http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/180/3/216.short

http://www.bmj.com/content/325/7374/1195.1.short

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022395607...

adverb - hard work?

Wow, that must be the least professional promotion video I've ever seen

Who the fuck are "we"?

Doesn't sound like you understand what the discussion is about.

Because facial recognition is a very difficult problem.

I don't know much about bacteria and antibiotics, but the strategy you described is the reason HAART is so effective and HIV patients live much longer lives than they did even 20 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_of_HIV/AIDS

As a programmer you may not need to use algebra or analysis on a daily basis, but as a rule I've been noticing that the solutions that are more mathematically elegant also tend to be more pragmatic.

Wired coverage: http://www.wired.com/business/2012/04/ff_abtesting/

What is the state of the art in sentiment analysis? I tried their demo page, and it seems completely useless (could not interpret the query "Not the greatest movie"). Are the algorithms used on Wall st. for predicting market behaviour based on twitter stream significantly more advanced?

That's what I've been doing, but not because I believe it to be a better way, but because I'm to lazy to implement my own FreezeGun. I don't think the production code should contain unnecessary complexity that is only used for testing.

Please... A clever use of GA + Wolfram Alpha can reveal a lot of potentially identifiable information already. You can't expect the Internet to become a big part of our society and, at the same time, remain a place for complete anonymity.

Another similar excellent resource: http://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/

Is there any advantage (speed?) in using something like Awk over something like Python?

I don't really understand it.

How is this the top comment?

Not sure what you want to hear from us. If you want to learn to go through with things, just.. go through with them!

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