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by MattHeard 12y ago
> after government spying came to light It's complicated. Mr. Snowden and Mr. Greenwald released proof about plans for mass surveillance, but most voters were satisfied with Prime Minister Key's explanation that the plans wer
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Null next pointers?
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I've found that a lot of people are using Facebook to share airline deals with each other.
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Langton's ant colony eBook cover generator: each word in the eBook title seeds the initial parameters (location, direction) of an ant and the simulation is run for a large, constant number of steps, producing an interesting and reprodu
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by MattHeard 12y ago
I think that Thomas Kuhn would disagree. The scientific community works within paradigms which adequately explain their experiments. There may be some weird results, but as long as they remain few, new scientists will remain convinced of th
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by MattHeard 12y ago
Correct me please if I am wrong, but doesn't the Five Eyes agreement prevent members from spying on each other in exchange for better exchange of intelligence? Being in a Five Eyes country would likely reduce the amount of surveillance
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I'm in NZ and have downloaded it and signed up. I've never really gotten into SnapChat because my SnapChat network is slightly too small to keep me using it regularly. As far as I can tell, the success of these similar apps boil d
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by MattHeard 12y ago
I see that I have confused the order of the 49ers' odds.
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While software should be designed with accessibility in mind, ideally this could be managed by the display, allowing applications to be agnostic to the needs of colour blind users. Would it be possible for displays to insert a colour-transf
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This is only tangentially related to the topic, but I noticed the following note on the first page: > Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided tha
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Or instead of a single number representing the average, show a distribution of the mean total spent by each centile of users. You'll likely see a long flat line at 0 for the first 95% and then a steep curve up for the last 5%. If an ap
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There is an even bigger difference between accessing a website via Chrome and via a native app which costs 99c.
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If you consider brain development to be iterative over many generations of brains through human and pre-human history, the training datasets are a lot larger.
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Wouldn't increasing the progressivity of taxation improve redistribution without removing the efficient incentives that capitalism provides?
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> Disabling user-scalable (namely, the ability to double tap to zoom) allows the browser to reduce the click delay. In touch-enable browsers, when the user expects the double tap to zoom, the browser generally waits 300ms before firing t
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How would one construct a smell mirror?
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> In his 1974 book The Ultra Secret, Group Captain F. W. Winterbotham asserted that the British government had advance warning of the attack from Ultra: intercepted German radio messages encrypted with the Enigma cipher machine and decod
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It sounds like the altitude existence assumption caused cascading errors which in turn exhausted the system memory.
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Could a user "fake" additional site visits in between each real visit in order to obfuscate the actual visits to GA sites?
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From the article: > Google also won’t even use the data that moves through the platform or display ads in Classroom, either, in accordance with its new policy announced last week.
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It is likely that there are exceptions.
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I have been in the same boat as you when it comes to side projects, but I'm curious about your use of the metaphor of "sucking the marrow from the bones" because that metaphor is typically used to describe completion to an ex
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> You might suspect this is actually a clumsy attempt on Facebook’s part to get people to change their settings from “friends” to “public.” But it isn’t, at least for now: A Facebook spokesman told me the only people seeing the pop-up bo
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by MattHeard 13y ago
Should the priority on the ubuntu-security page be higher than "Medium"?
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Link sharing?
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> In talking with Jiajun Zhu (manager of the Google car team), it became readily apparent that they still encounter situations where they are fully confident in their system (such as on streets with too much brush/foliage). Sorry, b
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Google Now is not something you can briefly "test" because the benefits really only develop after giving it time to learn your habits. The longer I have used it, the more useful it has become. There is a trend away from discrete c
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by MattHeard 13y ago
Good points, but as for restricted controls, Google is trying to emphasise voice control and context-aware notifications.
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"99% Invisible" by Roman Mars did a very good, 24-minute radio show on this: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-76-the-modern-...
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Mock execution, apparently.

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