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by apetresc 10y ago
Popularity, I assume; which is probably why he put "beat" in scare quotes.
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by apetresc 10y ago
If by "required to" you mean "legally and constitutionally required to", then that's still at least somewhat ambiguous and hasn't been fully tested in court. If by "required" you mean "to get on
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by apetresc 10y ago
I might be wrong about this, but I'm pretty sure I read that AWS pays Canonical for a support contract on the official Ubuntu AMIs, to make sure they stay stable and up-to-date with the new Xen versions AWS uses, etc. Anyway, even if t
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by apetresc 10y ago
The difference is that Ubuntu is already the de-facto dominant player here. As far as AWS goes, the Canonical Ubuntu AMI is the most popular one, except maybe the default Amazon one.
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by apetresc 10y ago
I don't think this change invalidates it. What they're basically doing is moving the list of reply-to's out of the body of the text into another field, which is being shown differently in the UI. What remains in the text fiel
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by apetresc 10y ago
> You have to have editors maintaining these pages which (if they are being deleted, generally) are not notable enough to have significant reputable sources devoted to them. But Wikipedia editors are completely non-fungible. The guy who
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by apetresc 10y ago
I don't think anyone in this thread has actually opened the link. This "new home" isn't some sort of platform like Google Code, it's just a website that lists all of Google's open source projects (mainly on Git
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by apetresc 10y ago
What's 2 years max? Google's contributions to open-source? They've been doing it for a decade now.
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by apetresc 10y ago
You did a full restore of "terabytes" in <7 hours?
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by apetresc 10y ago
That's exactly how their recommendation system works. If it just surfaced the highest-rated movies globally, everyone's recs would be identical. Collaborative filtering implicitly weighs the opinions of those similar to you more h
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by apetresc 10y ago
Certainly it's not _as_ dangerous.
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by apetresc 10y ago
The guys running the dictionary didn't even know what was on the test, judging by the fact that they had to guess them by looking at traffic logs. So it's highly unlikely they settled on a fake definition that just happened to mat
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by apetresc 10y ago
> Cheating is such a fluid concept anyway, and it's inconsistently applied. Some schools will suspend students for using calculators on a math test; some force students to bring calculators to their tests. Some give out the question
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by apetresc 10y ago
Ah, that's pretty cool. Still, I don't think any of the other browsers have it that way, and Safari's desktop market share is ~2%.
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by apetresc 10y ago
No, these aren't common words at all. The definitions the site is giving here are their more commonly-used analogues. In the same way that "domicile" in English means "home", but it doesn't mean you don't
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by apetresc 10y ago
These aren't commonly-used words, these are very obscure words the students are being asked to define. If a bunch of students all settle on the same completely-wrong definition, it's a fair guess they were cheating.
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by apetresc 10y ago
I feel like the Hacker News hive mind is short-circuiting here, the "anti-censorship" impulse is overriding rationality. This isn't some Orwellian conspiracy to compromise language, it was a three-hour redefinition of a small
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DeepStack: Expert-Level Artiﬁcial Intelligence In Heads-Up No-Limit Poker(fermatslibrary.com)
125 points by apetresc 10y ago|39 comments
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by apetresc 10y ago
Those notification APIs still get triggered by Javascript running in those tabs. As far as I know, there's no equivalent to the mobile notification APIs where there's a single dedicated socket listening to a central server.
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Stop Cheapening [Toronto's] Tech Sector by Quoting Our “Cheap” Engineers(rubikloud.com)
3 points by apetresc 10y ago|0 comments
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by apetresc 10y ago
Everyone at Google knows about that. There's nothing scary about it, it's a work laptop.
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by apetresc 10y ago
Does anyone have any intuition around how this affects a variety of typical workflows? I imagine that these two syscalls are disproportionally likely to affect benchmarks more than real-world usage. How many times is this syscall happening
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by apetresc 10y ago
Unless I'm missing something, this is just an emacs style, equivalent to a syntax coloring theme. Collaborative environments have nothing to do with it - it will be checked into SCM in the normal way, and the guy running this emacs plu
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by apetresc 10y ago
The article specifically said "authorized".
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by apetresc 10y ago
Can you be more specific? What's in between those lines?
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by apetresc 10y ago
What is there to "actually look into"? The driver added exactly 0 new information to Travis' view on the business. His entire job is basically a constant process of "looking into" this question. Acting as if the dri
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by apetresc 10y ago
That would seriously be an AI milestone that makes AlphaGo look like 'Hello world'.
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by apetresc 10y ago
You must be joking.
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by apetresc 10y ago
Presumably that you can add up to 6 Google accounts (i.e, your family members in the same household) to the plan for the listed price. They have a similar deal going for Google Play Music, Netflix has it, etc.
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by apetresc 10y ago
My conscience is assuaged by the fact that I am already paying for Google Play Music, which would include YouTube Red at no additional cost, if I lived a few miles away on the other side of the Canada-USA border. And anyway, despite the n

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