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by hn12 6mo ago
I'd love to see a few examples of the current generation of "good reviews" and comparable "AI slop" from a couple of months ago. While it's entirely appropriate for an article such as this to quote sources&#x2
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by hn12 7mo ago
'Sure looks like a two-for-one deal to me: not only does the DoW announce clearly that only Big Man loyalty, not professionalism or morality, constrains it, _and_ it's a reminder that the Federal government more generally feels f
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by hn12 7mo ago
While I sure don't have a solution to offer, I'm glad at least that the Linux Foundation, The Register, and others are documenting the reality.
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by hn12 7mo ago
You have me curious, mountainriver. While I don't understand what you've written, I want to know more. Are you saying that open-source models can't be trusted as well as (some of the?) proprietary ones, and therefore aren&#
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by hn12 8mo ago
For me, the salient turning point was the Reagan administration, which began cultivation of the attitude that government collection of routine data on weather, railroad traffic, crime, health, ... was intrinsically suspect, expensive, and p
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by hn12 9mo ago
This is good reporting: that is, SJVN usefully summarizes crucial narratives from inside kernel maintenance. Commercial organizations would do well to make decisions about AI this wisely.
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by hn12 10mo ago
... and energy densities of batteries will _stay_ well below that of tanks of hydrocarbons, as https://web.archive.org/web/20130204210054/http://h30565.www... explains.
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by hn12 11y ago
I endorse everything Vasudev has written here. In the abstract a couple of other libraries of interest are Java-coded PDFBox and Python-based PDFMiner.
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by hn12 11y ago
No. Well, the correct answer to almost any such technical question is "yes and no". This one comes as close as any to a bare "no". It's a good question. PDF->SVG conversions are quite powerful--when they work.
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by hn12 13y ago
What's cool ? Ah, that's a different question. Prob'ly Go. See also http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/10-progra...
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by hn12 13y ago
I'm lost, absconditus. If you're waiting for a follow-up, please detail what you need. I think you might be saying something like, "Expect is cool, indeed, but why would someone post a link to its Wikipedia article in HN?" That one, I
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by hn12 13y ago
All true. One of the difficulties with Expect is that it's hard to explain its usefulness to newcomers. Expect itself is easy enough to understand; but a common initial reaction is, "So?" Part of the difficulty is that Expect particularly
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by hn12 13y ago
https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/jexpect is an example. 'Need others?
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by hn12 13y ago
I couldn't agree more. I'm sufficiently involved with Expect that I've collected enough material for an entire book on the subject (serious--I do a lot of writing, and am well aware of what's involved in such a publication); at the same tim
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by hn12 14y ago
I'm the author of the original article. I didn't think of the content itself as "contrarian", but the headline certainly turned out that way--and of course "contrarian" has different meanings to different people. Plenty went wrong. Plenty
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by hn12 14y ago
Yes and no. You're absolutely right to ask these questions, and they're ones the article would have addressed more specifically with just a bit more depth. Folklore has it that Google/Bing/... do give at least small bumps for correct use
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Microformats are easy to learn, and pay off well in SEO and mobile(blog.smartbear.com)
23 points by hn12 14y ago|4 comments
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What RFID Means to Your Career(h30565.www3.hp.com)
4 points by hn12 14y ago|0 comments
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Technologies ready to reduce annoying check-out waits(ec-bp.org)
3 points by hn12 14y ago|0 comments
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Minimize vendor lock-in in The Cloud(real-user-monitoring.com)
2 points by hn12 14y ago|0 comments
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by hn12 14y ago
I'm not responsible for the visuals. There is indeed nothing new; it's surprised me, though, to learn from recent conversations how few people understand Amazon's drive to compete on price, and what a tiny incident this really was. I felt
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Amazon outage as much choice as accident(real-user-monitoring.com)
2 points by hn12 14y ago|2 comments
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Installation-Free Programming in the Cloud(developinthecloud.drdobbs.com)
3 points by hn12 14y ago|0 comments
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Soar author speaks on cognitive architecture, human memory, Frogger, and more(spectrum.ieee.org)
4 points by hn12 14y ago|0 comments
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by hn12 15y ago
I 'll say that, absolutely: databases should NOT store authentication information, but only salted hashes. It's an equal certainty that there'll be implementations around for as long as humans remain that stupidly include un-hashed authen
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"Fixing the Brain With Computers": conversation with neurosurgeon R. Bucholz(spectrum.ieee.org)
9 points by hn12 15y ago|1 comments
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"Identity as a Service" promises more convenience and better security(h30565.www3.hp.com)
1 points by hn12 15y ago|0 comments
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What it's like at a local KenKen competition(pcworld.com)
2 points by hn12 15y ago|0 comments
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Government should open its data, sure--but how is that actually accomplished?(h30565.www3.hp.com)
2 points by hn12 15y ago|0 comments
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by hn12 15y ago
I'm the submitter. I'll write a little of what I know. joshu, you wrote, "notice that OP doesn't really post things they are not involved with". In this case, I think you intend me when you write, "OP". At this point, http://news.ycombi

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