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   by NewEntryHN 8y ago

   > Our field of view is incredible, and if we’re going to admit we like watching movies we may as well do the best we can to make the experience immersive. Except that the actual part of our field of vision our brain can focus on is relat
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   by NewEntryHN 8y ago

   Be it with video or music, any level of resolution/quality is satisfying as long as you never got used to better.
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   by NewEntryHN 8y ago

   Trusting the binary is a one-time effort. Here you have to trust the JS everytime you authenticate.
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   by NewEntryHN 8y ago

   A bias is simply a non uniform distribution among the values of a feature of what you're trying to predict. Since the data used by Google in training AI comes from users, it's likely to contain all sorts of human and social bias a
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   by NewEntryHN 8y ago

   There are plenty of opportunities to discuss the ethics of Facebook, but them suffering a data breach is not one.
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   by NewEntryHN 8y ago

   Once the target IP is resolved and the actual request to the site takes place the ISP can see the SNI of the resolved host.
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   by NewEntryHN 8y ago

   Just wait for the business to install Duplex on their end, and realize that we have just created the least efficient computer communication protocol ever.
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   by NewEntryHN 8y ago

   GET requests aren't supposed to be idempotent. They're not supposed to change state in a first place.
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   by NewEntryHN 8y ago

   I'm curious about the transition from C/C++/C# to Rails/React/Angular. What did make you switch?
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    by NewEntryHN 8y ago

    DuckDuckGo and Google, although I barely use any search engine. I use Firefox search keywords to emulate DuckDuckGo's bangs (and much more), download, browse and search documentation on disk when possible, and use the location bar&#x27
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    by NewEntryHN 9y ago

    The comparison is odd to me. Somehow building bridges seems more of an exact science to me than making cars drive themselves. I sure wouldn't step on a bridge if its engineer doesn't dare going under it. Shit is supposed to stand
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    by NewEntryHN 9y ago

    The article says it includes image capture and computation time. How does image capture identify the color of the tiles at the center of the faces, hidden behind the motor's arms? Or is the cube initial orientation known?
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    by NewEntryHN 9y ago

    Funny you mention Anthropomorphism when that's precisely what the article does by saying AI has "hallucinations".
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    by NewEntryHN 9y ago

    There's no need to completely solve it. It just needs to happen statistically less often than human failures. And I believe this won't be hard.
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    by NewEntryHN 9y ago

    I agree about not forcing the distribution. I think positive action either solves no issue (no sexism in the industry and the current distribution is simply the "natural" one); or doesn't solve the deeper issue (sexism in the
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    by NewEntryHN 9y ago

    LaTeX for scientific documents, Markdown for lightweight text documents, and ODT from a text editor for everything else.
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    by NewEntryHN 9y ago

    I use the program, find an idea of some detail to change or improve, and crawl my way into the code to achieve that.
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    by NewEntryHN 9y ago

    The @route decorator in Flask has only the side effect of registering a route with the function as handler. I prefer to have a map for big projects where I can see with a glance what routes directs to what functions, but for getting started
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    by NewEntryHN 9y ago

    $ time python -c '' real 0m0.071s user 0m0.064s sys 0m0.000s $ time python -c 'import functools' real 0m0.073s user 0m0.052s sys 0m0.016s I mean...
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    by NewEntryHN 9y ago

    > Are they saying O(n) operations where each operation operates on O(log n) bits Yes, as in any other claimed complexity about an algorithm. According to your proof finding the maximum in a list is Ω(n log n), which isn't the common
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    by NewEntryHN 9y ago

    What makes it so hard for CPython to drop the GIL is keeping backward compatibility for the CPython C API. If you're willing to break the API there's no need for a new language.
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    by NewEntryHN 9y ago

    I think as an extension developer he is particularly sensitive to the tech behind Firefox, which makes him understand some of Mozilla's decisions. For example, the move from legacy add-ons to WebExtensions is surely one less maintenanc
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    by NewEntryHN 9y ago

    There was a time when web developers went to great length to make their site compatible with every browser. Now they just make it work on Chrome.
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    by NewEntryHN 9y ago

    Those are tech-y reasons that might have repelled tech-y users like us on Hacker News, but the bulk of the market are laymen who don't know the difference between a browser and a search engine on whom marketing is very efficient.
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    by NewEntryHN 9y ago

    FYI, this admin was Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit. https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev...
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    by NewEntryHN 9y ago

    Most of the performance loss is due to using a frontend framework at all. Differences in such frameworks is then little. You need two round-trips at each page-load because you need the base HTML page then the data and rendering in the brows
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    by NewEntryHN 9y ago

    Good work with the spreadsheet! It states about Stateful Session cookie that it's "supported by all web frameworks and browsers.", but Flask is an example of popular web framework which doesn't support them. The "se
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    by NewEntryHN 9y ago

    Google use cookies to authenticate API requests?