Estragon

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by Estragon 15y ago
Oracle has certainly disgraced itself with this case, but as the article makes plain on the first page there is a clear legal basis for assuming that Java development is safe from Oracle's interference in almost all use cases.
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by Estragon 15y ago
You're kind of missing the point. Tao is under the impression that most "gamified" math education software is based on rewards for solving entire problems. He believes that rewarding smaller steps on the path to the solution of more compl
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by Estragon 15y ago
Pferreir, hellbanning is where your posts appear normally when rendered for your account, but do not show up for anyone else. Try viewing this thread using a freshly created HN account. Don't know why this has happened to you...
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by Estragon 15y ago
My professional field is statistical genetics. I don't actually want to bet, but if I did I'd give odds of three to one against this replicating, and ten to one against it having anything at all to do with the genetic architecture of human
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by Estragon 15y ago
I agree, but I think this could be a good way to get raw material.
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by Estragon 15y ago
Is someone actually proposing to update the email network protocol to support todo lists, or is that just a straw man?
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by Estragon 15y ago
There's enough ideological fervor about reading that someone is likely to provide this service for free.
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by Estragon 15y ago
Thanks.
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by Estragon 15y ago
Meteor mixes server- and client-side code, and in general the two sides will interact so intimately that as I understand the GPL, simply separating the server-only code into its own files won't be enough to avoid the requirement to provide
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by Estragon 15y ago
What licence is it released under?
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by Estragon 15y ago
I'm curious about this too. The individual tests should be identifiable regardless of the proportions in which they were assigned.
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by Estragon 15y ago
Your comment doesn't address the "as one sees fit and without being tracked" part. Both twitter and facebook track everything, and facebook is directly and opaquely influencing discourse through its feed filters. But no one is talking abou
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by Estragon 15y ago
When those things become essential to civic discourse, the line between need and choose gets blurry. How many people choose to go without cell phones without being branded as RMS-type weirdos? And the recent thread on RMS's rejection of f
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by Estragon 15y ago
> His movement has consciously coopted the word [freedom] > for ... something ... less important I don't think you realize how ubiquitous and critical to everyday life software is becoming. It's not just "freedom to play
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by Estragon 15y ago
I bet windows is the place to be if you're developing grandma-proof applications which you hope to see widespread use (such as clients for file sharing networks.)
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by Estragon 15y ago
My main concern, if I were running a business, would be the ongoing severe fluctuations in BTC purchasing power.
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by Estragon 15y ago
The caption on the page linking to it makes it even funnier. Still, I don't think this has anything to do with the thread.
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by Estragon 15y ago
Came back from a talk by a Facebook Data Team member a little while ago. Don't have time to look it up now, but he cited Bakshy et al 2012 as a paper describing Facebook research in which a proportion of "Likes" from friends were censored
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by Estragon 15y ago
What is the law regarding copying the fine-scale structure of a book but rewriting it/redoing the pictures?
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by Estragon 15y ago
The ancient Irish used slave girls http://books.google.com/books?id=GYhajCQU8XIC&lpg=PT345&...
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by Estragon 15y ago
Why would it? The capacity to manipulate the national currency is a major source of government power. Plugging into bitcoin would only dilute that power.
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by Estragon 15y ago
This comes up pretty often, but it's worth noting that it's built-in scarcity. Deflation in the sense of increasing purchasing power will only happen if it is more widely adopted as a medium of exchange (which is definitely possible.) I
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by Estragon 15y ago
Thanks, that makes sense of the contradictory info.
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by Estragon 15y ago
Anyone know whether go can compile to NaCl binaries? I'm finding contradictory claims about this, and no detailed instructions about how to do it.
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by Estragon 15y ago
Who cares, really? It's all play money.
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by Estragon 15y ago
There's actually a bunch of copycats. The libcoin library has actually made it very easy to make your own.
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by Estragon 15y ago
I can't imagine how it would be worthwhile to go to that much technical effort for the sake of ranking on HN.
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by Estragon 15y ago
Do you mean a XSRF-style attack on upvotes? Could be, but I can't imagine why...
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by Estragon 15y ago
Your post raises a couple of questions for me: 1) If you know how to nuke the bitcoin system for profit, are you doing so? It's not clear to me that you personally would be able to corner and squeeze as easily as you think, because I belie
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by Estragon 15y ago
I learned roughly the same way, except in my case it was a TRS-80 color computer, 6809 assembly, and Forth. I was absolutely fascinated with data compression back then. The CS classes at Uni seemed really boring, so I went into mathematic

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