tfh

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Yes. Or that's at least the professor's theory.

Correlation does not strictly mean causation. Our statistics professor brought this example once, he explained it that people who don't drink (in a western society) have often problems with their health or are taking medication. Statistics could be often misleading.

Another example was that people with bigger feet were more likely to be earn more money. Guess why?

tfhon This is engineering: Army Jeep torn apart and reassembled in 4 minutes

Perfection (in design) is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away.

  -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

tfhon Why is a bag of weed always $10 (man)?

This is an example of a bad misleading title.

tfhon How to Reset Your Sleep Schedule, Seriously

I think what helped him reset his sleep schedule is :

- Exercise

- The lack of artificial light

You don't have to go camping to have that.

tfhon Scotch as a Diet Hack

These Germans, always chasing the neighbours.

tfhon TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay – Away From Keyboard by Simon Klose

This reminds me of the story of Abbi Hoffman with his book "Steal This Book". The people who wanted it just did as title told them and stole it from the bookshelves. Bookstores didn't want to carry it if it's stolen half the time.

tfhon No visa required

It's almost impossible for someone with a decent job in Afghanistan (or a similar country) to get a tourist visa to the US or to Europe. The first problem is to afford the flight ticket. The second an more important problem is to get a tourist visa. They always assume you want to stay and work.

tfhon Ask HN: Will there ever be an eHarmony for finding friends?

Are they men or women?

tfhon Windows Phone 7 in-depth preview

Yes. And coincidentally it's the same colors as the engadget color scheme.

tfhon Ask HN: Best Philosophical Books?

The ones I've read and find good:

- Existentialism is a Humanism - Jean Paul Sartre : Very easy to read and is a very good introduction to existentialism.

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche

- Siddhartha - Herman Hesse

tfhon [dead]

dupe : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1492475

tfhon Prince: "The Internet's completely over,"

The Internet: "Prince is completely over,"

tfhon Basics of probability and statistics

> What's funny about this one though is that over half of the comments say "she's cute" or something similar, it's a bit creepy.

That's one of the main reasons because I like hn.

tfhon IPhone 4

It's not about _what_ he says but more about _how_ he says it. I'd rather read something like "Other companies don't take these things seriously" than "No other company gives a shit about things like this.".

tfhon IPhone 4

> No other company gives a shit about things like this.

There was a time where I really liked John's articles. Now he's sounding like just another fanboy...

tfhon Windows 8 Plans Leaked: Numerous Details Revealed

> couldn't find a contiguous 30gb slot on my 80gb free drive

I had the same problem last year and I used iDefrag to solve it.

http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iDefrag.php

tfhon Ask PG: Vim shortcuts for navigating HN?

Vimperator is the only thing keeping me using firefox and not another browser. The chrome version is just not as good.

tfhon Unix toolbox

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.... is your friend.

tfhon Peter Norvig's book reviews on Amazon

The author is Chris Bishop... who wrote one of the "essential" machine learning books :

http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Recognition-Learning-Informati...

tfhon Smartest Man In The World

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.

tfhon The Secret Cult of Office Smokers

I know some people who started smoking because of that. They only smoke at work. I contemplated starting too, but I know I won't do it because I really hate that smell.

tfhon HP Updates MacBook-Imitating Envy Range

Very few companies make the effort to provide linux drivers for their laptops. That made me buy a mac in the first place. It would be nice if some distro were backed up by a hardware company and feature a "bootcamp-like" easy way to install windows afterwards...

tfhon The Big Bang Was an Explosion of Space, Not in Space

From what I understood it's like this:

  class Universe:
    def __init__(self)
        self.time  = []
        self.space = []

  our_universe = Universe() # <== Big Bang

tfhon New Jailbreak for all iPhone OS 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3 devices (including iPad)

You should check out the alternative appstore :

http://cydia.saurik.com/

tfhon HN Members' Workspaces

nice. I have the same mouse/keyboard combination :)

tfhon Why I Canceled My Facebook Account

Money has proven to be very effective in bending ethics. Many people would do worse for a fraction of Mr. Zuck's money. I think judging him as a evil exploiter with weak ethics is a little harsh.

tfhon The Internet in 1969

> the future = the present + <some innovation>

That reminds me of this :

http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/2007/04/postcards-showing-y...

tfhon The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash

He has written some great books about singularity like :

Singularity Sky : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Sky

Accelerando: (free ebook) http://manybooks.net/titles/strosscother05accelerando-txt.ht...

tfhon If The Universe Is Expanding, What's It Expanding Into?

> time only came in to existence with the big bang

My brains segfaults imagining that there was a time where time didn't exist...