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by bdhe 15y ago
They've stopped the invites. In fact, they essentially revoked invitations ... i.e. people I invited last night couldn't use their invitation email this morning. Is that true? I was under the impression that the invites were not guarantee
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by bdhe 15y ago
From wikipedia: Robert Morris was the author of crypt the UNIX encryption tool. ViM uses (to the best of my knowledge) crypt when called with -x.
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People will stop caring before anyone gets a chance to use it. This point is brought up often, but I thought it worth reiterating here. One of the biggest differences between GMail and Wave was that even though GMail ended up being releas
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by bdhe 15y ago
Most Indian computers I've seen are standard American or British layouts. India has a lot of English speakers [1] and most computer-savvy folk, especially the kind that use Groupon will definitely know enough English to use English username
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This article has got me really conflicted. On one hand, I am a CS graduate, but on the other hand, I work in theory, and I would always point out to people that computer science and computer engineering are two completely different th
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by bdhe 15y ago
A country like the US, especially with vast suburban areas, it isn't necessarily a strict dichotomy between public transport and driverless cars. We can have both. Especially in the west coast, American cities were built to be navigated by
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Diminished Reality: Removing objects from video streams.(tu-ilmenau.de)
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PG Essay from 2004: What the bubble got right.(paulgraham.com)
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by bdhe 15y ago
I think things were far worse not so long ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company Although it might be a stretch to compare them to a modern-day corporation, they were a private company and had territories, a ( edit : govt. c
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by bdhe 15y ago
Not very surprising because India is 10th by GDP (4th by GDP(PPP)) and has 28 states. On an average each state would have a GDP of $53 billion, equivalent countries rank approximately 60th in the world. A much better comparison is the tab s
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by bdhe 15y ago
There is a joke that goes: "On an average about a handful of people end up reading your thesis, and you hope your committee is among those few :-)" The subject of scientific publishing is a very interesting topic. There are multiple issues
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Edsger Dijkstra's note on starting array indices at 0 (pdf, 1982)(cs.utexas.edu)
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He's also inconsistent. He capitalizes 'I' and Emacs and Lisp (among other things). I remember a study that said people read based on shapes of words, particularly ascenders, descenders and edges (i.e., first and last letters). Does capital
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by bdhe 15y ago
Be that as it may, I do however sincerely hope that widespread adoption of their technology will not lead to PR being even more bloated and filled with meaningless feel-good phrases and buzz-words. I, for one, appreciate concise, straightfo
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by bdhe 15y ago
I think a better measure of understanding is how well you are able to explain it to a layperson. As Einstein once said, "If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself." As a researcher, who has also TAed classe
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by bdhe 15y ago
Sorry, my mistake.
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Paper sheets and butter may be anonymous too, but its difficult to store it in digital form. Yes, he completely misses the point. It is digital and distributed. Moreover, the old adage about newspaper titles rings true here: If a newspape
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This discussion reminds me an awful lot about side-channel attacks against cryptosystems and the steps taken to make crypto implementations secure against leaking information. In particular, one of the simplest defenses is to make sure that
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by bdhe 15y ago
He has also written a book: http://www.amazon.com/Filter-Bubble-What-Internet-Hiding/dp/...
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by bdhe 15y ago
Yes, incognito windows and tabs share cookies. The cookies are deleted once you close the incognito window of course and are not shared between the incognito window and the regular browser window. But as long as one incognito window is open
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An amazing new way to browse through the world's newspapers (via Maps)(newspapermap.com)
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Given recent events I take it we're no longer emphasizing stability and security as features of bitcoin. I understand where such a snarky statement comes from, but let's take a step back. Bitcoin has generate such enormous debate because
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Kindle E-Book store slammed by spam "authors"(arstechnica.com)
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DDoS attacks are pointless. All they point out is how a site has limited resources for dealing with so many concurrent connections. This point was raised a few months back in relation to PayPal and Visa getting DDoSed because of Wikileaks
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This is a reason, but is it a good enough reason to divert resources from other areas for? Considering that Facebook's most important end goal is to make users stay on their website, an optimized and pleasant-to-use app for the iPad and o
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by bdhe 15y ago
Another HN thread with lot more discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2659326
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Being rude is also largely cultural. Sometimes American niceties although superficially are very pleasant can get tiring to people who tend to be more introverted and are from cultures that are more straightforward. Many people I've persona
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This is very common among natural satellites. Here's the phenomenon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking (Look at the list of tidally locked bodies)
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You mean like ... lawyers? I think this is silly. Lawyers do not make money by suing people. People sue people and lawyers represent them. You can be your own lawyer, although it will probably not work out in your favour almost all cases.
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There are a lot of things that America does to other countries that would be taken as acts of war if they were done to America. Is this the foreshadowing of a second Cold War, albeit with a different super power and in completely new batt

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