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571.
by a3_nm 14y ago
> 6x seems like a big difference From the user's point of view, maybe not. If you do not do anything which requires much CPU power, then the difference may be between waiting 6 milliseconds and waiting 1 millisecond. I believe the paren
572.
by a3_nm 14y ago
Do you have any evidence to suggest that the absence of 9/11-like attacks has anything to do with the TSA?
573.
by a3_nm 14y ago
I'm about to start a PhD in computer science. One might also think that CS research is something where you just live anywhere you want and solve interesting theoretical puzzles all day, but it's surprising to see how much communication is i
574.
by a3_nm 14y ago
I feel like the Web is evolving too fast right now for this kind of things to happen. It's already ridiculously hard to keep up with all the innovation, so there is no time to stop and reflect and build a browser from scratch with a clean a
575.
by a3_nm 14y ago
> put in some code that tries to detect whether parts of an article have been deleted and, when in doubt, keep the old version it live Unlike deleted pages which are hidden from non-admins, deleted parts of articles are almost always re
576.
by a3_nm 14y ago
It would be interesting to have access to this by telnetting (or sshing) to duckduckgo.com.
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by a3_nm 14y ago
> There was a time (first 6 months in the life of StackOverflow) where pretty much all questions would get answers within minutes. This is now the case on younger sites of the StackExchange network. For instance, < http://french.sta
578.
by a3_nm 14y ago
> Millions of kids saw that episode and went on to pirate movies and music anyways, because kids don't really derive their ethics from cartoon series The point of such propaganda would not be to ensure that people don't pirate, but to p
579.
by a3_nm 14y ago
As a general rule, using secret sharing protocols, for any choice of n and k, you can split any illegal piece of information a into n pieces such that k of these pieces together can reconstitute a but <k pieces will not give any informa
580.
by a3_nm 14y ago
There is a mirror of the Wayback Machine (which isn't all of archive.org's content, but still): http://www.bibalex.org/isis/frontend/archive/archive_web.asp... Ironically enough, it is hosted at the New Library of Alexandria, Egypt. :)
581.
by a3_nm 14y ago
There is a paper which explains how it works: http://mllab.inginf.units.it/publications/international-conf... Note that there are other (non-genetic) approaches to learn regular expressions (some are cited in the above paper).
582.
by a3_nm 14y ago
Interestingly, there is much to say about the theoretical problem of finding the smallest regular expression for a set of positive and negative examples. A nice overview: http://cstheory.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/on-learning-regular...
583.
by a3_nm 14y ago
I know of no CalDAV and CardDAV synchronization apps which are open source and actually work.
584.
by a3_nm 14y ago
Now, if only Android supported CalDAV and CardDAV synchronization (with your own server) instead of only offering Google account synchronization and Exchange synchronization...
585.
by a3_nm 14y ago
The article mentions solar panels.
586.
by a3_nm 14y ago
I find the "Writer" column strange. Sometimes it's the author of the screenplay, sometimes it's the author of a book from which the film was adapted, or out of which the film was inspired. It's strange to see Tolkien as the "Writer" of the
587.
by a3_nm 14y ago
> This. The Firefox OS license for carriers should be "you can modify our OS however you like, but you must take no steps to keep users from installing a clean one, nor penalize them for doing so." If Firefox OS is to be open source (OS
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irctk: a versatile command-line toolkit for IRC(a3nm.net)
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589.
by a3_nm 14y ago
> It's begging for a machine vision application, which records video and... A simpler use case for computer vision I could think of with Openstreetmap would be to automatically extract roads and building shapes from satellite imagery (t
590.
by a3_nm 14y ago
> An exclusive look inside Ground Truth, the secretive program to build the world's best accurate maps. Meanwhile, there is another program to build the world's best maps, which is quite the opposite of secretive, involves hundreds of t
591.
by a3_nm 14y ago
Interestingly, there are some circumstances where you actually want "cat file | program" and not "program < file". The case I have in mind is when file is actually a named FIFO which was not opened for writing. If you use cat, program w
592.
by a3_nm 14y ago
So the data is collected by volunteers... Sadly, there seems to be no indication of the license, no API (yet), and no way to download dumps...
593.
by a3_nm 14y ago
I have fond memories of discovering nice indie music with something called Indy, which was released in 2005 by Ian Clarke (of Freenet fame) < http://blog.locut.us/2005/04/17/indy/&#62 ; and featured a nice recommendation engine. Sadly,
594.
by a3_nm 14y ago
Not the only occurrence of this problem, see http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/16350/which-sed-vers...
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by a3_nm 14y ago
Does this mean that you ping them whenever you ssh? Does this mean that if their service is down you won't be able to ssh anymore?
596.
by a3_nm 14y ago
> We're the first generation to document our lives so thoroughly ... but we don't know yet if all the data that we create will still be around in a few generations, and it's far from obvious to me. It seems unlikely to me that the platf
597.
by a3_nm 14y ago
This already exists, to some extent. The Blender Foundation has produced three open source animated short films using their open source Blender engine. They are pretty cool.
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by a3_nm 14y ago
> A lot of people don't want to be the product and believe ... It seems to me that the vast majority of people do not care and will just use whatever everyone else is using. If open-source, federated alternatives such as Identica do not
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by a3_nm 14y ago
RMS is only concerned about the freedom of software on computers. He does not care as much about the freedom of object designs and artistic works.
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by a3_nm 14y ago
Black magic is "A technique that works, though nobody really understands why." http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/black-magic.html

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