starkness

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by starkness 11y ago
I mean http://comma.ai is the self-driving car company. (Reactions was a hackathon project, not a real co.)
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by starkness 11y ago
He has a company: http://comma.ai .
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by starkness 12y ago
Sure, but a lot of the people taking classes at the Extension School don't want a degree. For example, I had students whose employers were paying for them to take a single course to give them some background knowledge or insight into t
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by starkness 12y ago
As a grad student at Harvard I was involved in teaching several courses at Harvard Extension School. While the students were generally motivated and enthusiastic about the course material, it was a very different academic environment, one t
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by starkness 12y ago
Policy is always about tradeoffs. Is it your stance that the creator of Reddit tip bots should have to register fingerprints with the FBI, hand over personal financial info, send quarterly reports with to the Superintendent with audited fin
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by starkness 12y ago
Or tell that to Linus Torvalds, as it's his law.
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by starkness 12y ago
And one of the key questions is, does this make sense for, say 1000 abandoned dogecoin (current value $0.24) on tipdoge.info? This is why we proposed de minimis exceptions.
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by starkness 12y ago
We're in the process right now of writing up a more in-depth policy proposal, but you're spot on in terms of different levels of risk management. And we're not at all against security testing, which is also one of the great b
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by starkness 12y ago
Part of the problem is that the regulations aren't just seeking to cover companies that hold peoples' funds (aka private keys), but instead any technology touching the ecosystem. New York doesn't have to and shouldn't co
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by starkness 12y ago
Indeed he's attempting to apply an existing regulatory framework to new technology, which rarely works well. The point of the article was not to focus on the consumer protection issues, but instead to point out how it could kill startu
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by starkness 12y ago
It certainly is an "ask for the moon" type proposal, which is how regulators often like to start. Part of the problem, though, is that it's so far skewed to one side that getting it back to even somewhat reasonable is going t
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New York to Bitcoin Startups: Get Permission(techcrunch.com)
64 points by starkness 12y ago|58 comments
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by starkness 13y ago
You're missing the point here—we're grateful that people in the jailbreak community release things as FOSS, but the majority of jailbreaks as you yourself mention are not FOSS themselves, which is part of what motivated Chris, who
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by starkness 13y ago
To our knowledge, no one was working on an open source jailbreak, and given that the site I'm building is designed to incentivize things like free and open source software, this was a huge component. I've also been told there are
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by starkness 13y ago
Hi Saurik, I'd love to hear your response to the substantive aspects of my email as opposed to an ad hominem attack. I didn't send it until this morning because I was sick and traveling for the holidays.
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Rep. Rush Holt introducing legislation to repeal our "surveillance state"(app.com)
7 points by starkness 13y ago|0 comments
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by starkness 13y ago
That text is referring to section 512(f) of the DMCA, which states that any person that knowingly misrepresents a claim of infringement is liable for any damages including costs and attorneys' fees of the alleged infringer. Basically it's j
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by starkness 14y ago
CodeHS is well on its way to that, providing help from live tutors and feedback on coding projects -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4835649 .
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by starkness 14y ago
Let's replace "code" with "write." Please don't learn how to write. Only writers do this, and we really don't need more of them anyway. There was a time when this wouldn't have sounded crazy. Learning to code teaches problem solving, new wa
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by starkness 14y ago
There was a bad link from the front page before, and now the story is down altogether. Looks like they're trying to fix the problem.
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by starkness 14y ago
Down for me as well--looks like TC is having some issues. Clearly they could use some coding help too.
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by starkness 16y ago
Your experience sums up the research in this article to a tee: http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/ "Dweck discovered that those who think that innate intelligence is the key to success begin to discount the importance of effort. I am sm
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Internet blacklist bill COICA one step closer to becoming law(news.cnet.com)
77 points by starkness 16y ago|30 comments
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by starkness 16y ago
How should we send in updates/corrections? Seems that the doc is read only.
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by starkness 16y ago
There's a significant price differentiation between living in Manhattan and in other boroughs. One really can't lump them all together. I have friends that pay $6-700/mo for rooms in reasonable apartments in convenient locations in Brooklyn
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by starkness 16y ago
A good example of perfect being the enemy of the good (or at least less bad).
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by starkness 16y ago
What strikes me as ridiculous is that you can't fill out a form online and pay electronically. But then again this is the US government. There should be some kind of amnesty for those that do pay the fee now, so as to avoid this kind of tro
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by starkness 16y ago
Exactly. That's what this is all about -- an issue of a technicality where people did not pay the fee and register an agent with the copyright office, even if they did have a link in the footer.
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by starkness 16y ago
Different countries have different laws regarding safe harbors for secondary copyright liability. But if you're operating overseas, it would be hard to pin you down with this DMCA issue unless you have employees, an office, etc. in the US.
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by starkness 16y ago
There is actually a debate as to whether photographs of paintings in the public domain can be copyrighted. The current consensus in the US appears to be no. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_... . If it was a

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