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by blahedo 14y ago
Fun trivia: the Keith Winstein that authored this article (in 2005) is the same one that is now lead developer on mosh ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3819382 )
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by blahedo 14y ago
> You don’t sue us and we give you the power to disable any song you choose immediately without having to go through us. There, I fixed that for you.
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by blahedo 14y ago
Kind of like how it took months before I stopped cringing every time I pressed Ctrl-Alt-Delete just to log in .
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by blahedo 14y ago
WTF with all the title changing? This one was originally posted as "On why Y Combinator Demo Day does its companies a disservice", which is what I clicked on from the main page, but now is retitled to "On YC Demo Day, and those graphs", wh
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by blahedo 14y ago
> I still don't really understand why US places don't include sales tax like we include VAT. A lot of people seem to be under the impression (false as far as I can tell, in every jurisdiction that I know of) that businesses are legall
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by blahedo 14y ago
They've made a tea cosy for the Standard Teapot! Fantastic.
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Camouflage robot changes colour for disguise(bbc.co.uk)
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by blahedo 14y ago
This article tells us that the lawsuits are killing startups, but not so much how they're doing so. I guess we can sort of fill in the blanks, but then why read the article?
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by blahedo 14y ago
Check again: 4680+2797 is 7477 and 4680/7477 is 62.591%, for CM, and 4703+2833 is 7536 and 4703/7536 is 62.407%, for Baskerville. The raw number of Baskerville agreements is higher than the raw number of CM, so its bar is higher, but that
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by blahedo 14y ago
There are a lot of problems here. The bar charts used to illustrate that article are terrible. They present raw counts for each font, but each font was not presented to the same number of people---they varied from 7,477 (CM) to 7,699 (Helv
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by blahedo 14y ago
One big issue with gathering this kind of data over the phone is the frequency cutoff on voice-only lines—above a certain frequency (I want to say 4kHz? maybe I'm misremembering), the information is lost. It's basically as if you took a Fo
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by blahedo 14y ago
> I have never ever come across a person who was hesitant to buy an app just for the fear that it would be shelved by aqui-hire some day. Give it time. The number of consumers burned by an acquihire is still relatively low, but it's
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by blahedo 14y ago
Acquihires always make me feel like this, even for apps I don't use or have never even heard of. From the perspective of a consumer, acquihires send out one, very consistent, message: "we're going to hunt for the best, coolest, most intere
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by blahedo 14y ago
> I'd point out that LaTeX does kerning independent of number of spaces after a period. This is misleading. Yes, LaTeX ignores how many spaces you put after the period in the source; but it does lay out extra space after sentence-e
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by blahedo 14y ago
One of the things I teach in a unit on information retrieval is the notion of precision and recall, and tradeoffs between them, and the idea that a single "accuracy" rate is almost never useful for these kinds of identification tasks. I've
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Chinese engineer to be sentenced for stealing Motorola secrets(chicagotribune.com)
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by blahedo 14y ago
Or exponential? You want the steep cost if they do it a lot , not for someone who does it once in error. Logarithmic scale would decrease the fine for subsequent infractions.
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by blahedo 14y ago
I remember being confused by this before, but don't remember the resolution: how is it that we're supposed to interpret that ring chart on the lower right? I think I understand the numbers written next to the countries on the ring (namely,
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by blahedo 14y ago
This is nasty: I got halfway through the article and then got lightboxed into a signup form for an email list; the lightbox had no "close" button, and the now-background text no longer scrolled. FAIL.
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by blahedo 14y ago
I don't think you need to be embarrassed about it, and I get the sense that avoiding smartphones (or at least, being able to not become welded to them) is at a higher rate among techies than in their peers in the population at large these
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by blahedo 14y ago
I agree with your underlying point, but due to a weird quirk of Wikipedia history, Catholicism in particular was for quite some time way over-represented; in the initial land-rush to populate Wikipedia with content, they grabbed a number
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by blahedo 14y ago
Are you sure that's true in every jurisdiction?
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by blahedo 14y ago
And surely they'll have to bump it again or introduce a new level; they're already back down to 800 remaining (currently out of 10,000), still with 29 days to go. The $99 pledge level wasn't even in there initially; I think they were expec
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by blahedo 14y ago
I read the Kickstarter page, then read the HN comments, and then went back and refreshed the Kickstarter page, and in perhaps twenty minutes, it had jumped almost a thousand pledges and over $100,000. That's... impressive. EDIT: Another ho
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by blahedo 14y ago
> Also: how the heck is Ouya pronounced? From the FAQ: OOO-yah. Apparently it doesn't have the most pleasant meaning in Swahili.
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by blahedo 14y ago
Specifically, somewhere around 30% of it. The Kickstarter levels say to add $30 (to $95 or $99) if you want an extra controller.
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by blahedo 14y ago
> In the US, many car manufacturers take a different approach. The security key is provided by the manufacturer, not the on-board computer, so you can't simply walk up and re-program a key. And the consequence is that a replacement ke
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Apple patents head-mounted display(chicagotribune.com)
3 points by blahedo 14y ago|1 comments
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The history of the remote control: why are they so awful?(slate.com)
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by blahedo 14y ago
It's a lot longer than 23 days; the core issue dates back to February. I'm actually not sure what has changed about their situation since February; most of the stuff on the OP was not new.

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