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You wonder? They tell you every day. They want to show you ads and grow their network.

Seriously? Fire up picasa or iphoto or Facebook and then tell me whether facial expression is any part of facial recognition all. Recognition works because it uses immovable bone structure.

Wow, does instagram illegally solicit and publish personal data from preteens?

A can of refried beans is cheaper, healthier, and tastier than a dollar burger.

What movies have this?

Posted by grellas (and ignored) 4 years agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=689223

Which newscasters? They don't all sound the same to me. And where can I buy that book of "correct" grammar?

What the heck is "Minnesota redneck"? Redneck isn't the same as rural.

Everyone thinks their native accent is "accentless"

The math should be trivial to fix, the expensive collected data is still valid.

65 is younger than 90

You skipped the dollar number for entitlement spending. It may surprise you how much it costs to give $15k/yr to 50million people.

It is far easier to psychologically comply with a concrete immediate severe allergy diet than a vague "analog" weight loss diet.

Having a bite of cake is still low carb.

Haskell maps, being persistent, aren't anywhere close to efficient for mutable maps.

The same applies to C, of course.

Where possible, GHC does not compile Haskell via C anymore.

Who is that guy saying that publishing in arxiv is career suicide? Why are there ML people playing paper chase at universities when they can quickly make a fortune in industry and retire to a life of academic leisure. Of all people, ML researchers should have noticed that the 21st century has arrived.

Weird. Terry Tao posting a note on his Google+ feed saying "this is a good paper", with few relevant +1s, should be more of a resume booster than any journal publication.

Boeing has some long safety checklists too. How many cars is an airplane worth? How many car companies is an airplane company worth?