mkyc

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by mkyc 16y ago
http://stats.grok.se/en/201009/Soul_food
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by mkyc 16y ago
All else aside, calling the person who turned the phone over to Gizmodo a thief might amount to slander, so Craig should be careful. This would be something for a court to decide: e.g. http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/mca/45/6/45-6-302.htm .
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by mkyc 16y ago
You should track at what times the people click next. Your like button is too far away from the next button, and neither has keyboard shortcuts.
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by mkyc 17y ago
It seems to have gotten us h264. The variant that isn't patented is clearly inferior - look at the screenshots.
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by mkyc 17y ago
Good move, you now have one more user to not-track. I'll be trying DuckDuckGo out as my default search. I'll give you feedback if it doesn't work out. I hope others will give you a try by setting you as the default, too - you can always swi
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by mkyc 17y ago
A lot of people make the mistake of thinking that Godel's result suggests a superiority of human over machine, or something of the sort. There is, however, no reason to believe humans aren't themselves subject to Godel's theorem. Formalizin
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by mkyc 17y ago
Yes, and a short, unsearchable domain name that I can't type either. Allows invalid characters: http://séó.com/! ]
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by mkyc 17y ago
The students and parents are also presumably fully aware. If on the other hand they were unaware, the student's mistake of opening a webcam program would not reduce culpability.
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by mkyc 17y ago
I get the feeling that you have no idea how science works, or what he's saying. He's not saying that the 3rd law is faith, he's saying that you take it on faith. A statement of faith is one that rests on no proof or evidence. Someone who
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by mkyc 17y ago
Nice soundbite, but that's nonsense. They're not trying to compete with Apple. It's just a demo they had lying around (probably from back when everyone was going crazy about chrome os), which they released because everyone's going crazy ove
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by mkyc 17y ago
Yes, it feels like "vinyl" - like I'm listening to vinyl except I'm in a little storage closet and I just tipped a box of records all over my face and my face is bleeding. You broke your site. This is a visualization with an interface crowd
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by mkyc 17y ago
The US government is allowed to exempt itself from intellectual property restrictions, especially in the interests of "national security".
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by mkyc 17y ago
Surprisingly, the South Butt is not selling butts, so tarnishment is not a serious claim. (Unless, of course, butts are "unsavory" in the jurisdiction - had a sufficiently rude word been used, tarnishment would be likely). In fact, they are
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by mkyc 17y ago
You can't summarize that paper. The responses to the various objections are vital; they are part of the central argument, not tangential to it. The positive argument is also much richer than you portray it, and therefore much more convincin
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by mkyc 17y ago
I like the clean interface. Your gear image looks ugly. Remove the period after "...wage right now". Set up a comet-based common chat that everyone sees, and sit in it. This will let you help users learn to use your system, and will give yo
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by mkyc 17y ago
$300 is accessible to "hobbyist" researchers (hackers) - this is the main point of this story - and hackers will crack DRM.
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by mkyc 17y ago
Great, I'm finding it readable, and pretty well-selected. I look forward to seeing the next issue.
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by mkyc 17y ago
Why waste 20 minutes of a professional developer's time, multiplied by the average number of reviewers, with a bonus for bad advice due to inexperience? You know those clients who think programming is easy? Writing and reviewing copy is har
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by mkyc 17y ago
http://ieng9.ucsd.edu/~mfedder/zombies.html (story link, without spoiler) Also read: http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/scifi/byhisbootstraps.html
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by mkyc 17y ago
Awesome, some real information, rather than pointless and obvious speculation as to what happened. He links a news story: http://www.thetimesherald.com/article/20091211/NEWS01/912110...
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by mkyc 17y ago
That argument's hardly better than the "he helps cats therefore he's innocent" quip at the bottom of the link. Quit thinking of there being two sides: there's no "other story", there's just "insufficient information". All we know is that he
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by mkyc 17y ago
This isn't a webapp, it's a wizard for naive prediction of the date of the singularity (you seem to mix AI with a very narrow form of IA). You're not quite "modeling" a future world. Java sucks for this - why use it, given the current state
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by mkyc 17y ago
I agree, but yes it is: 1) you can't unscramble variable names, and 2) you have to prettyprint all js, even well-written js, or create a 'compression detection' algorithm.
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by mkyc 17y ago
No, the example given was voice clips. Your idea of a "trial run" is interesting, but I doubt that they're doing this to get some extra logistics practice. Unlike gmail or wave, mass mailing is a well-explored domain. They're doing it to pu
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by mkyc 17y ago
Cheating is now easier. That's good, for two reasons: 1. The steps are small and have clear documentation. Copying a wall of numbers does nothing. Copying delimited steps while being told exactly what they are helps. Actually, it's a lot li
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by mkyc 17y ago
Have a look at the source: <div class="utterance"><div class="name">Iwata</div> <div class="message">In this interview, we're going... I would have chosen "speaker" rather than "name", but this
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by mkyc 17y ago
http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/ (2007) has the best account of this effect that I've seen. one page version: http://www.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&...
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by mkyc 17y ago
For those, like me, wondering why this sounds eerily familiar: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=124386 http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/02/my-favorite-lia.html It's great to see it posted again - though I do prefer that original ov
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by mkyc 17y ago
Because it is possible with a Turing machine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Turing_machine http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:CgFC04CcivAJ:folk.uio.n... The idea (iirc, and poorly translated into more familiar vocabulary) is th
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by mkyc 17y ago
Whoa, no, don't do this. dsc-450.jpg > user/acbdddc1ab1b73536fabbd3f4ffeea4e dsc-450.jpgsalt > f043ce111eb398cd280b67c80c6c8ca6 usersaltdsc-450.jpg > 272ed08a85fc1e47b97462fb053a7c29 You'd need at least a secret site salt, as we

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