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The constitution of Germany published as Open Data, with all changes (German)(gg.docpatch.org)
3 points by a_bonobo 13y ago|0 comments
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by a_bonobo 13y ago
Coincidences... I thought "How come Warren Toomey (one of the guys of the Unix Heritage Society [1]), has never posted this?" Turns out, this Github-repo is just a mirror/copy of his work, but with attribution [2]. Still worth reading throu
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by a_bonobo 13y ago
I disagree, this video was educational about his product , so there was a commercial interest behind it. As such, this isn't a fair use case; there have been cases in the past where copy-shops copied parts of books for educational purposes
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by a_bonobo 13y ago
The Autobahn-system was actually started by the Weimar Republic, but was halted due to WW1. The Nazis initially opposed it but took over the building once they came to power. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsautobahn
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by a_bonobo 13y ago
There are many known ways in which plants communicate (if you want to call that communication): - ethylene is a gas, but also a plant hormone that causes (among others) ripening of fruits. So if you got a field of apple-trees, when the firs
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by a_bonobo 13y ago
I was under the impression that slices, maps and channels are reference types - i.e., if you pass them to a function using (foo) you'll pass "only" the reference like in Python, but that might be old information. Is that still valid?
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by a_bonobo 13y ago
Actual paper: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu... Ed Yong on the same paper: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/12/flesh-eat... I'd be careful in comparing this to the human genome, both organism
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by a_bonobo 14y ago
To expand on this point: The Go-documentation has a couple of great examples [1] that could easily happen in the real world (before the first coffee). [1] http://tip.golang.org/doc/articles/race_detector.html
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by a_bonobo 14y ago
For some reason I can't edit my post, but after some "Internet sleuthing" (basically just WHOIS and some googling) I think "Long Xinming" is an alias.
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by a_bonobo 14y ago
Especially because the author Long Xinming is the founder of http://bearcanada.com/ , which is (if you take a look) a rather extreme anti-US, antisemitic blog... I'd not trust OP's article.
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Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, sues him for $3.4m(thenextweb.com)
8 points by a_bonobo 14y ago|2 comments
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by a_bonobo 14y ago
When you work in science as a post-doc or research assistant, you (usually) have a 1 or 2 year contract, tenure is just for a select few professors. If you cheat, that's the end of your contract. Where do you see corruption in this?
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by a_bonobo 14y ago
As someone who works in science, I've never ever ever met someone who confessed to making up data (nor have I made up data myself). Generating data and passing that of as measured data = fraud = loss of contract.
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by a_bonobo 14y ago
150 million people out of 7.079 billion possible candidates? In my view that is narrowing it down a lot!
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by a_bonobo 14y ago
I'd like to speculate that the name of the founder(s) is a small hint towards them being US-Americans: The Dread Pirate Roberts is a fictional character from The Princess Bride (book and movie), who in the novel turns out to be not one pers
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by a_bonobo 14y ago
What I don't understand about this quote is this: >disgraceful that they spent their whole life as a company arguing that they were the next big thing in open publishing Mendeley is not a publishing company.
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by a_bonobo 14y ago
One minor caveat is: >This tool only searches the Kissinger Cables (1973-1976) dataset Would have loved to play around with Iraq-related terms... But maybe that's still to come.
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by a_bonobo 14y ago
Here's the original paper: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/04/03/science.1...
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by a_bonobo 14y ago
You're right, posting the paper and not that blog-post would have led to a much more interesting discussion. One of the strangest things in that SimSensei is the automated interviewer - when I talk to a recorded voice instead of a real pers
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by a_bonobo 14y ago
Another thing is that this needs a properly trained interviewer, and it's not based on the Kinect's measurements alone but also on the questions asked (and the reaction is then measured). The behaviour of the interviewer is a great confound
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by a_bonobo 14y ago
It's a fairly large research area, the effect in question is called "benevolent sexism", in which women are portrayed as being "weaker" (where the definition of weak is NOT purely physical strength) and need help to get along in life. The i
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by a_bonobo 14y ago
Susan Sontag wrote a famous essay in 1966 about this: "Against Interpretation" [1], arguing exactly the same thing as OP's link does: >Sontag is strongly averse to what she considers to be contemporary interpretation, that is, an overab
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by a_bonobo 14y ago
I'm one of the guys who uses gemcanary for one (open source) repo and so far I have to say I'm impressed, was informed some time last night about the new vulnerabilities and already updated the project. Thank you for the service!
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by a_bonobo 14y ago
Depends on your definition of "suffering" - if it's >Physical suffering or discomfort caused by illness or injury it has to be communicated to you, which in the case of animals is quite hard. On the other hand, if you define "suffering"
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by a_bonobo 14y ago
On the legality of terminator-seeds: >Initially developed as a concept by the United States Department of Agriculture and multinational seed companies, Terminator seeds have not been commercialized anywhere in the world due to oppositio
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by a_bonobo 14y ago
To develop free software, all you need is a PC, Internet and free time. To develop free GM plants, you need workers, material (host microorganisms, plant fertilizer), green houses, lab time, machines (PCR, sterile workbenches, ideally a seq
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by a_bonobo 14y ago
>A computer or a car or a lamp or soda is different from a plant because they do not propagate Which is why Monsanto and other companies tried to introduce "terminator seeds": plants who are sterile, so they a) guarantee more profits an
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by a_bonobo 14y ago
Self-censoring is in my view an important, but largely ignored phenomena that should be more researched. There is some evidence that people stay away from research that is considered controversial by the public [1]. In my own experience (bi
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by a_bonobo 14y ago
I think one can assume that the funding comes from the IDEA from this sentence: >This research was conducted as part of Carnegie Mellon University’s Initiative for Digital Entertainment Analytics (IDEA). The IDEA is apparently a think-t
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by a_bonobo 14y ago
I think some of them are definitely from Wikipedia, if you search for "Brisbane" you'll get a couple of job-descriptions, as well: Arthur Morgan (Queensland politician) ---- Paddington, Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia And that o

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