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by bdhe 15y ago
What usually puzzles me in all these discussions is the concept of keyboard shortcuts. They're a middle ground between GUI and command line (stretching the definition of middle ground a little). But my personal experience with people like m
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by bdhe 15y ago
Does anyone else feel the word undermine is not appropriate in this quote (due to which, I'm unable to understand the point behind the comparison): It’s OK for Google to undermine Microsoft’s for-pay OS licensing business by giving Andro
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by bdhe 15y ago
In these sort of arguments I don't really understand why civility in and of itself is valued. It only makes sense in a social situation that affords civility. For that you can make "giving up anonymity" opt-in , rather than opt-out (wh
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by bdhe 15y ago
Silly question, but aren't the patents on MP3 almost due to expire? Isn't one of the biggest problems with the mp3 format the fact that there are multiple patents owned by multiple corporations in different markets? According to [1] some
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by bdhe 15y ago
I guess the specific points to note to those who haven't seen the episode: a. IV uses shell companies to sue others, by selling their patents to these companies, get a cut of the eventual payout in any lawsuits, but I guess in the process h
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by bdhe 15y ago
Although I understand the title mirrors the article, is it too pedantic to note that "Fail" is grammatically incorrect in this context and it should read Censorship Failure... ?
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The CS department at Stanford has a weekly Theory Lunch during the academic year and we're fortunate enough to get Don Knuth to speak at least once every quarter[1]. His talks, although they start off from basically very little quickly beco
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by bdhe 15y ago
And that's why keys of one byte are a bad idea. Bad in symmetric, bad in asymmetric, just plain bad. This same attack is true for any block-level encryption - it doesn't make them insecure. And homomorphic encryption needs, if I remember r
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by bdhe 15y ago
This is not a criticism, just a curious enquiry. How does Apple manage to get so much support and discussion that seems very organic and grassroots in nature about its product releases, but somehow Microsoft and Windows get the short end of
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I wonder why the concentration right at the bottom-right of the page (which contains site links and FAQ) is present for experienced users but absent for others.
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This is not the same thing as the Simpson's paradox. Specifically, as stated in wiki, you need to show a grouping (that is classically anti-causally related) with one correlation, but overall, upon combining the data, the correlation is rev
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by bdhe 15y ago
Interesting point: It's the messy, opportunistic, gestalt-driven activity of thinking that we still don't know much about. I have a couple of questions that I would love someone well-versed in AI to answer: 1. Does the difficulty of syste
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by bdhe 15y ago
I now get why I don't like Twitter. It's impossible to have a conversation or debate on it. This post was a direct result of that impossibility. Slightly OT, but the New Yorker recently profiled Jarod Lanier[1] where he critiques social n
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by bdhe 15y ago
I'll take a shot at this: I think G+ is possibly the most comprehensive (in terms of design and functionality) new product in the social space right now. Since it comes from Google, who have the history of "revolutionizing" various aspects
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by bdhe 15y ago
Interesting way of putting it. I would have said "removing the data from his possession" This is part of a standard narrative to treat copyright infringement as theft analogous to theft of "tangible" traditional property. You will also no
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by bdhe 15y ago
Just some feedback. 1. The signup form has a checkbox that is opt-out and after the submit button. As someone who "tabs" through forms I don't want to go through a few extra steps so that I don't get unsolicited email (since it is opt-out
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by bdhe 15y ago
I was just curious about Apple's mergers and acquisitions, which lead me to this[1]. Interestingly Lala.com at $17MM is much smaller than recent acquisitions; they spent $250MM for Quattro Wireless and $121MM for Intrinsity semiconductors.
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by bdhe 15y ago
A very interesting article! It neatly articulates why API lock-ins are analogous to other "traditional" monopolies. This paragraph was particularly illuminating: Social networks are a critical layer of infrastructure for a wide variety of
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PM of India uses Hotmail to issue a statement condemning the terrorist attacks.(bloomberg.com)
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I think this is to score political brownie points, but it still an interesting idea. It comes in the wake of what has been a very eventful year in India against corruption[1] which included fasts by a prominent social activist to pass India
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by bdhe 15y ago
The Tatas have consistently impressed me. They're like Andrew Carnegie of India. The patriarch Jamsetji Tata ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamsetji_Tata ) help setup the Indian Institute of Science (it is so intimately connected that in lo
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by bdhe 15y ago
A smart fellow indeed. He is one of the few people I know who has an insanely prolific online presence. His blog, What's New ( https://terrytao.wordpress.com/ ) has hundreds of detailed articles on various math topics and occasionally I f
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by bdhe 15y ago
You can see I've posted at least one pg article I found insightful but wasn't voted up, so anecdotal evidence suggests people don't vote it simply because it is written by pg. And towards your second point, as someone who has been on this s
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by bdhe 15y ago
Here's an interesting piece of evidence to support the article from the field of CS. To a lot of graduates who aren't interested (primarily) in teaching, but rather research, research labs like MSR, IBM, and even recently Google Research (t
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by bdhe 15y ago
How come such absurd article is third item on HN? (edit: grammar) It is becoming increasingly clear that Google+ is ushering something fundamentally different. Lot of people, hackers especially are very keen on understanding the implicati
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Race conditions in security dialogs; why you must wait before installing addons(squarefree.com)
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by bdhe 15y ago
...And your gender. I presume you are referring to this: https://plus.google.com/111588569124648292310/posts/SeBqgN9Z... That's Randall Munroe's note on gender being public in Google+, which spurned a lot of discussion online, for those
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by bdhe 15y ago
For those already actively using GMail, Google Calendar and other Google services (including Search), the fact that the Plus Bar on top allows you to share links and keep notified across the web is a very big difference over Facebook. In
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Moreover, as far as I can tell, there is no way to change your birthday (without involving a credit card #). Heaven forbid you accidentally entered your birthday wrongly the first time, you're locked out with little recourse!
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It's too much work to maintain multiple social networking accounts If you truly believe it is going to be all or nothing Google, then this article ( http://www.allfacebook.com/the-one-google-plus-feature-faceb... ) and the HN discussion (

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