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by bnegreve 13y ago
It doesn't remove the top 1M results, it removes the top 1M most popular websites from the index.
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by bnegreve 13y ago
The fact that HN is trying to fight so hard against negative feedback is actually a good illustration of that. For me, this has always been strange.
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by bnegreve 13y ago
Is that true? It sounds like a crazy privacy issue, so I would be surprised. But maybe I am too naive.
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by bnegreve 13y ago
When you've been relying on a service for a while and the TOS suddenly change it seems fair to complain: OP would have probably picked a different service if he knew.
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by bnegreve 13y ago
"Sir, you're a bit low on drugs and alcohol" :)
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by bnegreve 13y ago
Yes, except that you cannot expect people to be able to answer this "question" anymore. There is no doubt that you can uniquely identify the world population with 33 bits, so I guess the problem is to do it with questions people c
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by bnegreve 13y ago
That would work if people birthdays were uniformly distributed among the dates. But that's not the case. (Most people born 100 years ago are now dead.)
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by bnegreve 13y ago
> Does the author really think that Apple put this much thought into not letting certain journalists into new coverage. Techniques to control public image over social networks are getting more and more attention. For example academic
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by bnegreve 13y ago
It seems that they already are. From the article: > Novelis has seen a 25% increase in demand from the motor industry in the last year, most of it coming from one of its biggest customers, Jaguar Land Rover, which has just begun manufact
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by bnegreve 13y ago
> Not surprising, there is no free speech in France. There is, with some restrictions like in most countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country#Fr...
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by bnegreve 13y ago
> When was the last time you saw a stat/math paper in machine learning with comments/structure? And guess what, its as undecipherable as code without comments/structure. What do you mean? Academic papers are usually writ
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by bnegreve 13y ago
So, what exactly is a two-way binding javascript templating framework built on top of semantic HTML ?
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by bnegreve 13y ago
I just read the comments, some people like it, some other discuss whether it really makes sens. What's wrong with that?
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by bnegreve 13y ago
> Everything they make says "Designed by Apple in California," not "Designed by Apple and a hundred other companies." Agree or disagree with the strategy, that is the reason they did their own maps. What do you mean
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by bnegreve 13y ago
Yes 4K is default page size. Sorry.
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by bnegreve 13y ago
If you only touch one byte, the system will only allocate one memory page. A memory page is typically 1024 KB so that wouldn't suffice.
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by bnegreve 13y ago
Right, but Linux won't bind any physical memory page until you actually read or write in it. So if you malloc() and mlock() 1GB of memory without reading/writing in it, that will not use any bit of physical memory.
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by bnegreve 13y ago
There is usually very little value in individual papers. You have to read a lot of them, not entirely though. If you don't know anything about a topic, start with wikipedia, check the references, also check google and google scholar wi
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by bnegreve 13y ago
The claim is: "most published scientific research is probably false" and the evidence for that claim is: The number of false negative "might easily be 4 in 10, or in some fields 8 in 10" (quoted from th
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by bnegreve 13y ago
The size of the animal doesn't really matter, the resistance of its body isn't function of its size. According to the second answer the Eel is more resistant because it has a layer a fat. Unfortunately, there is no evidence of tha
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by bnegreve 13y ago
> Protesting against these things [..] without sacrificing your entire livelihood If you invest your time and money into say, an iPhone application, you're heavily supporting the Apple store. Once you've done that, the fact
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by bnegreve 13y ago
I had one as well. Same experience with a brand new AMD Athlon XP 1800+.
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by bnegreve 13y ago
It's not just a heat dispenser, it's a peltier [1] a device that can produce cold from electricity. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect
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by bnegreve 13y ago
> the US is by far the most benevolent. This is debatable. Roman hegemony has created 400 years of peace whereas US has been involved in wars since WW2. I am not a us citizen but I don't have a problem with US trying to improve th
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by bnegreve 13y ago
> What justifies it is the fact that it is by far the most benevolent hegemon in the history of the world. What you call "American hegemony" is about 60 year old, so this is not exactly the history of the world .
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by bnegreve 13y ago
> it would be cheaper for me to rent in Mexico City and commute to my job in Los Angeles. Is this serious? Because that's the whole point of this blog post: flying everyday between London and Barcelona it's actually doable,
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by bnegreve 13y ago
> anyone [...] can see an obvious weakness here: the procedural algorithm will produce a pattern that can be found and used to break the key. [...] But what if the algorithm isn’t specific? What if the key describes the algorithm? If th
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by bnegreve 13y ago
@Karunamon: >I was more referring to compatibility, here.I was more referring to compatibility, here. Yeah I know, but I got carried away :)
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by bnegreve 13y ago
Well, that actually a very important point. Clearly adoption of free software is much lower than one could expect. What I mean is: you can argue that Gimp is not as good as PhotoShop, LibreOffice not as good as Office, or that Linux is not
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by bnegreve 13y ago
Apparently not always. With this logic, free software should have 100% of market share. Edit (in response to jgreen10) > Are you suggesting no one has a car? No, I am suggesting that the logic "cheaper stuff outsell more expensive

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