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by Cowen 13y ago
I didn't even see that part of the FAQ. That makes sense. Thanks for making this. It's definitely better to have some data than none.
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by Cowen 13y ago
Facebook's hands are probably tied on some of their reporting here, but there's still some interesting stuff about the US in this report. 1. The US is by far the one requesting the most data. I'd have to run the numbers to be
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by Cowen 13y ago
Servo right now is more of a Rust reference project than a serious engine. They use the most up-to-date features of Rust and don't worry about having to rewrite the code with the next version because they know they're working with
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by Cowen 13y ago
This isn't the first time nanotechnology has been connected with an ancient civilization.[1] It's always interesting to find out which areas ancient civilizations were truly advanced in. We're still not 100% sure how Greek fi
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Saudi prince defects: 'Brutality, oppression as govt scared of Arab revolts'(rt.com)
3 points by Cowen 13y ago|0 comments
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by Cowen 13y ago
If it were still that way today, most of the startups that this site revolves around wouldn't exist.
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by Cowen 13y ago
> NSA recruits from engineering universities. They are quite good at it. Given the nature of the technical problems they face, they would have to be pretty incompetent to not be good at recruiting from engineering universities. "W
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by Cowen 13y ago
> It's a real pity that many good legislative ideas seem to be susceptible to simplistic populist attack if you yell loud enough. I'm having trouble finding it now (so please take it with a grain of salt), but I remember once r
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by Cowen 13y ago
Might want to edit the title. This article really isn't about Netflix using GMail. It's about Netflix's use of OneLogin and SAML to manage single sign-on for their corporate cloud apps. That umbrella includes Google Apps like
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by Cowen 13y ago
/r/askhistorians and /r/askscience are some of my favorite subreddits if only for the way that they emphasize level-headed discussion instead of just memes and overly-polarizing comments. Just yesterday, /r/ask
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by Cowen 13y ago
The fact that America's two largest political parties are not inherently ideological is part of what's wrong with them. The fact that they might change eventually does not help those who want change now.
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by Cowen 13y ago
This is excellent news. Hartl's Rails Tutorial was easily one of the best tutorials for any full-stack framework that I've ever read. Too many tutorials come up with overly-simplified examples that have no real utility. I hate loo
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by Cowen 13y ago
> One of the reasons given by Thomas Jefferson for the separation from Great Britain was a desire to rid America of the evil of slavery imposed on them by the British. That is blatantly false. Jefferson wrote several times about possibl
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by Cowen 13y ago
There's nothing in the US legal code that creates consequences for disobeying the judicial branch's judgement. Obeying them is a strong suggestion, and disobeying could conceivably be used as evidence in an impeachment trial, but
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Former NHL GM attempts to sue Internet forum posters(www2.macleans.ca)
2 points by Cowen 13y ago|0 comments
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by Cowen 13y ago
Will this ever allow for international transfers? If so, is there an ETA?
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by Cowen 13y ago
Without actually be able to see either script, I would assume that his Go implementation took advantage of some of Go's more natural concurrency features. The only reason I'd assume the Go version was concurrent and the Python one wasn't is
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by Cowen 13y ago
I'll paraphrase something Andrew Gerrand said about this at a golang meetup last night: Because race conditions are so hard to detect, the race detector is obviously prone to false negatives. Just because the tester doesn't find any race co
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by Cowen 14y ago
> I think what set Ebert apart is that he consistently judged films in the context of their ambitions. A great example of this was his review of The Human Centipede. He said that the film perfectly accomplished its ambitions, but those
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by Cowen 14y ago
> This is the very same critic that was (and still is) made about perl. It's funny how similar the arguments are. They can both be described as a language with some serious gotchas, but that's simple enough and has such a great package
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by Cowen 14y ago
I'm not saying this was done on purpose, but I find this name and concept eerily similar to the music analytics startup Next Big Sound.
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by Cowen 14y ago
I took Geoff Hinton's Intro to Neural Networks course a few years back. After class he would have optional Q&A sessions where he would answer anything about anything. They were amazing. I think we even asked him once about his views on
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by Cowen 14y ago
I unconsciously talk to myself even without a phone in sight, so I'm used to looking like a nob in that sense. :) But in this case, I was clearly talking into a phone even though I wasn't always holding it at my ear. And I think in most lar
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by Cowen 14y ago
> The state of the art on voice input, frankly, really sucks on both Android and iOS. Have you tried to compose a message that wasn’t “ok” or “coming home” via voice? Especially in a noisy cafe or on the bus? Just yesterday I had a long
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by Cowen 14y ago
I have no idea about the Pixel, but my Samsung Chromebook's keyboard feels just as good as my older Macbook Air's. The touchpad clicks really loudly, but the Pixel has a new glass touchpad so that might not be an issue anymore.
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by Cowen 14y ago
If medicine floated with the cost of supply and demand, then outbreaks and epidemics would be an ethical nightmare and a commercial blessing. Medical supplies during epidemics always fail to match the huge spike in demand, so the price woul
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by Cowen 14y ago
Echoing what you're saying, on my Nexus S, Chrome is unbearably slow. I would bet that the majority of Android smartphones -- the ones that aren't the marquee, top-of-the-line products -- all have a similar quality of experience with Chrome
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by Cowen 14y ago
My understanding of modern airlines is that unless your plane is in the process of taking off, landing, or crashing, it's already essentially pilotless. There's always been too much at stake in the airline industry to allow a lot of room fo
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by Cowen 14y ago
To clarify, I was trying to use "specious" as a synonym of "flawed." I thought this was the common usage, but apparently not. As to your point, obviously no one should be making any decisions off of flawed benchmarks, but flawed benchmarks
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by Cowen 14y ago
I was using "specious" as a synonym of "flawed." Perhaps that was the incorrect usage. But in the case of advertising a new library/project, which is arguably one of the main functions of the frontpage, flawed benchmarks (though not so far

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