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by antics 15y ago
Matt, you should know better. You've scared everyone who doesn't read HN out of the class.
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by antics 15y ago
This was the lecture for Matt's scripting languages class today. If you'd like a head start on the material, take a look at the materials section of the course page: http://matt.might.net/teaching/scripting-languages/spring-20...
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by antics 15y ago
"Very bad"? I think you're being a bit dramatic. Leaving your server unpatched is "very bad". Storing passwords in plaintext is "very bad". Spam detection at this point is so good that leaving your email out in the open does not even cause
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by antics 15y ago
I agree that the story is perhaps less important than an in-depth account of the DPRK's human rights abuses would have been, but I have serious doubts that millions of people are persistently imprisoned. What is your source?
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by antics 15y ago
It is possible to both know that the Google blog is hosted on Blogger and to find this disorienting. When I first saw google.com listed as the domain I initially just assumed it was official Google communication, temporarily "forgetting"
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by antics 15y ago
In most normal applications, the only thing that would change is what your features are. For example, if you wanted to find Waldo using the shape of his face and/or hat, you would probably just find some SIFT points (or something), and then
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by antics 15y ago
> If you want this place to remain special, you have to keep it special. I agree with, but this is also #1 story on the frontpage right now, which makes your statement not indictment a flood of "bad" content in the "new" section, but an
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by antics 15y ago
There is some truth to what you say, but who is going to be the arbiter of what is "hacker" content and what is not? You? And where does it end? Is a blog post detailing how to deal with stock options really hacker content, for example? HN
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by antics 15y ago
And Hotmail et al did?
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by antics 15y ago
I agree that they probably didn't need Facebook, but a generation ago, it would have been an email address that they required, and I would have just used a "junk" account. I'm honestly wondering, for people who don't like Facebook, what is
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by antics 15y ago
Yeah, he was one of Manuel Blum's students, with whom he invented CAPTCHA. Do you know if he did a post-doc somewhere?
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by antics 15y ago
Technical note on the terminology here. Just FYI, this is not strictly speaking crowdsourcing. Just like outsourcing refers to replacing local workers with workers in a foreign country, crowdsourcing refers to replacing people who have a jo
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by antics 15y ago
I wouldn't call it sensationalist. This is an important paper. And CS is not particularly unique in hiring people who are popular. A lot of being a good professor is getting gathering money, which enables you to do good work, and brings pre
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by antics 15y ago
A bit more context: Scott Aaronson called Ryan Williams' discovery "one of the best of the decade". He recently got hired as professor at Stanford, and his advisor was the legendary Manuel Blum, who teaches at CMU, where both his wife and s
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by antics 15y ago
Argh, English. If this is the case, then I do apologize indeed.
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by antics 15y ago
The "arts" in "Bachelor of Arts" refers to liberal arts, not to arts in the modern sense, as you are implying. The liberal arts are subjects that people who were free to pursue earthly endeavors (i.e., not slaves) were expected to study in
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by antics 15y ago
People are probably downvoting you because it's totally off-topic, in addition to be a really well-worn question. This is something you can easily Google and get hundreds of answers for. That said, the answer IMO seems to have something to
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by antics 15y ago
This book does not exist as a published volume, at least not in the way it is presented in this draft. This is why it tends to circulate as a draft, rather than as (say) an Amazon link.
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by antics 15y ago
This is a totally fair complaint. Sometimes it is a mystery to me why HN-ers downvote things.
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by antics 15y ago
Oh I don't know, it's not completely obscure. Tools like DrRacket need a community to exist, they don't come from nowhere. It's used at a reasonable number of schools, and even has a book about interpreters written with it (by Shriram Krish
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by antics 15y ago
Hmm. Did we read the same article? The Jobs presented here is a narcissistic, tantrum-throwing, deluded hypocrite -- a man whose many personal flaws served as (sometimes very significant) advantages in his environment. Even the question of
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by antics 15y ago
What is argued in this article was argued much earlier this year on Quora. http://www.quora.com/Apple-Inc-2/What-would-be-a-good-use-of...
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by antics 15y ago
Inevitably when you develop web technology at scale you end up asking the question of whether you should degrade the experience of the common case to make it ~comfortable for, e.g., netbooks. Usually the answer, at least for a service like
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by antics 15y ago
Oooooh man, Latent Dirichlet Allocation is cool stuff, especially in the context of topic modeling (which is what Chen is doing here). OP actually wrote a pretty accessible blog post about how he does this sort of thing which you can see a
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by antics 15y ago
Just before people get all excited, to clarify, the great pyramids have 4 sides that are visible and 1 side that faces the ground. Not 5 sides that are visible.
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by antics 15y ago
If you're going to spread FUD, then you must prove these very strong claims that you are making . Hand-waving dissent away and pretending that you've proven your point is doing no one favors, especially not the people here who may be misle
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by antics 15y ago
Adding to the above, when we talk about monitoring people, most people have in mind a model that requires O(log n) monitors; monitoring 300 people is like keeping 300 bookmarks in a book, as it takes only a few people to monitor those 300 b
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by antics 15y ago
WHOOOOOAAAAAA, that is definitely wrong. The FBI is definitely not actively monitoring 300 million people, and is certainly not going to start anywhere near soon. In fact, it is not even close to being ready to take that on, and certainly n
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by antics 15y ago
Just to ameliorate possible confusion, we've known about the bodies since at least the 90's, though possibly earlier. True, that's relatively recent given how old they are, but it's not desirable for readers to come away having concluded th
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by antics 15y ago
That's actually a really interesting characterization of conservatism. But, I can't help but think that when you phrase it like that, pretty much everyone would identify as conservative. I guess that means that the problem is that unreasona

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