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by DavidSJ 15y ago
They can also publish statistics about law enforcement requests by political region, as Google does in its transparency report.
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
at the rate of inflation that is likely to occur over the next several years, holding that much cash is a huge mistake Market expectations for inflation are usually factored into interest rates already. While the market could be wrong, A
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Microsoft Applied Sciences Group: High Performance Touch(youtube.com)
1 points by DavidSJ 15y ago|0 comments
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
Are checksums provided over HTTPS anywhere? If not, then this doesn't help with MITM attacks.
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
Is there a reason this comment was modded down?
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
How is it acceptable that SourceForge download links are HTTP and not HTTPS?
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
Whoops, you're right, they're both false positives, but one is number of false positives as a percentage of messages marked as spam, and the other is number of false positives as a percentage of messages that aren't spam. The ratios would
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
It's the same as the difference between "0.1% of non-spam messages are marked as spam" (false positive rate) vs. "0.1% of messages marked as spam are not spam" (false negative rate).
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
Yet another example of the confusion in popular science reporting between the probability of A given B with the probability of B given A. How is this acceptable? the Tevatron would be able to identify the Higgs with 'three-sigma' certaint
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
What are the other four?
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
It would only "leak" information which is already public.
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
They do write: the graph of the moduli contained in c distinct certificates consists, in an ideal world, of c disjoint connected components each consisting of two vertices joined by a single edge, for a total of 2c vertices and c edges ...
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
No one's claiming that every dollar saved will be directed back into lifesaving efforts, but the mere fact that we could be doing that is proof that what we're doing right now is not the best option we have available to us. Once we acc
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
Apple is trying to build a post-filesystem world. When was the last time you thought about file paths, or even folders, on an iOS device? Data is presented to users with a structure determined by the application. Apple's goal is not to co
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
People have been repeating this line that corporations have become people and money has become political speech, but that's not what's happened. Corporations are organizations of people. Money is a tool which can be used for many purposes.
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
pg, this makes me uncomfortable. While I strongly oppose SOPA, this seems like an attempt to intimidate people for expressing views we dislike.
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
I did not say SOPA was merely circuitously related to YC. I said it was merely circuitously related to YC's relationship with the blacklisted company. On the one hand, we may have: A) Avoiding a business arrangement because the counter par
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
The examples you gave are all of events which are defined by some belief or cause, whose opponents would simply be out of place if present. That's very different from what's going on here, where the bearers of a particular opinion are bei
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
I'm virulently anti-SOPA myself, have signed all the petitions, etc. But am I the only one made uncomfortable by a blacklist of people who have expressed certain opinions?
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
That reminds me of when I was 13: Me: I don't have my homework because I electrocuted myself last night and went to the hospital [true story]. Teacher: You should have planned that into your schedule [apparently serious].
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More than digital quilting: the maker movement may be new industrial revolution(economist.com)
2 points by DavidSJ 15y ago|1 comments
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
Indeed. A single chart with time on the horizontal axis, downloads on the vertical axis, and one line per operating system would have been far more comprehensible. Instead we get time inverted, bar graphs, and no way to visually compare the
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
For the other side, let's say I make $X but only need $X/2 to live. Try finding an employer who will let you work half time for $X/2. It's pretty tough, especially if you make $X at something "professional", rather than, say, digging ditch
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Both.
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As a kid, Star Trek was my concept video.
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If We Don't Let Our Children Play, Who Will Be the Next Steve Jobs?(huffingtonpost.com)
2 points by DavidSJ 15y ago|1 comments
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"US-based" means located in the US.
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
He didn't say everyone does.
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
Please clarify whether this is base pay or total compensation.
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Jobs proposed … that schools stay open until 6 p.m. and that they be open 11 months a year. "He had walked several kilometres over pavements, and his varicose ulcer was throbbing. This was the second time in three weeks that he had missed

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