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Jennifer Widom's db-class Retrospective: From 100 Students to 100,000(wp.sigmod.org)
90 points by chl 15y ago|4 comments
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Is Writing Style Sufficient to Deanonymize Material Posted Online?(33bits.org)
82 points by chl 15y ago|40 comments
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by chl 15y ago
They're breaking all kinds of internet laws with that.
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by chl 15y ago
Any idea what the "redirecting links" clause means for URL shorteners and other redirect-based services?
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by chl 15y ago
"Two years ago we appeared to have discovered an exciting and enigmatic new predictor of success in a first programming course. We now report that after six experiments, involving more than 500 students at six institutions in three countrie
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by chl 15y ago
My impression was that the course was designed to give someone with little or no background in machine learning a maximally useful amount of practically relevant information given a multitude of constraints (ergo the focus on Andrew Ng's fa
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by chl 15y ago
If you are an Instapaper "subscriber", you get access to a "Send to Kindle immediately" bookmarklet. I use it all the time (and vastly prefer it over the timed, once-a-day-at-most send-a-batch-of-stuff option).
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by chl 15y ago
Ah! HN doesn't display [dead] when you're the submitter of the story. Now I only wonder _why_ it was killed ... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3088810
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by chl 15y ago
Is there a way to find out whether a story was killed (besides noticing a sudden drop in the ranking)?
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by chl 15y ago
I maybe would if I could still edit the item.
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by chl 15y ago
Animated (in Display PostScript) by Keith Ohlfs, designer of much of the NeXTSTEP user interface; text by Steve Jobs.
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Animation: NeXT Computer Introduction (1988)(vimeo.com)
5 points by chl 15y ago|1 comments
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by chl 15y ago
Experts are clueless. Customers cannot tell you what they need. Jump to the next curve. The biggest challenges beget best work. Design counts. You can’t go wrong with big graphics and big fonts. Changing your mind is a sign of intelligence.
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Why was the first Kindle so ugly? Because Jeff Bezos loved his BlackBerry ...(venturebeat.com)
3 points by chl 15y ago|2 comments
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by chl 15y ago
Since the link on that page is broken, here's the full interview: http://www.princeton.edu/~hos/mike/transcripts/mcilroy.htm
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by chl 15y ago
I'm pretty happy to see mutations and variations like Subjot, and, yes, even Heello to appear; Twitter seems to have become too large to do a lot of experimentation themselves (not surprising: every change of the fundamental format would ha
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Usury and the collapse of empires(lemire.me)
19 points by chl 15y ago|9 comments
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by chl 15y ago
The HN layout is so good and scannable, it almost makes me want to read TechCrunch again.
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by chl 15y ago
Thanks! I wouldn't qualify that as a proper review, altough it's hardly surprising that Radford Neal wouldn't spend more time on a book he clearly considers inadequate.
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by chl 15y ago
Introduction to Probability with R: "Based on a popular course taught by the late Gian-Carlo Rota of MIT, with many new topics covered as well." http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/kenb/stochas/index.html
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by chl 15y ago
I seriously hope this is good enough even for the lawyerly folks out there. It's probably the biggest thing to happen in this space since the release of the iPhone version of Shazam!
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by chl 15y ago
Given how threat-, or, let's say, notification-happy Landmark was just a while ago [1], does anyone have an idea regarding the patent situation? Is this implementation different enough to be considered (reasonably) "safe"? [1] http://www.r
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Echoprint: Open-source music fingerprinting(echoprint.me)
201 points by chl 15y ago|53 comments
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by chl 15y ago
According to the most recent information on hand, even the British are considered Europeans. (More seriously, I wish people wouldn't submit interesting articles and then sullen them with dumbed-down, incendiary headlines.)
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by chl 15y ago
Because we invented the web and since then ... Farmville.
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About Linkrot: Proportion of Working Links on Pinboard.in, 1997-2011(blog.pinboard.in)
118 points by chl 15y ago|34 comments
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by chl 15y ago
I prefer to think of it as stored-up innovation.
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by chl 16y ago
I recently read "More With Less", Paul Ciottis biography of Paul MacCready; if you want to dive deeper into the fascinating story of the creation of the Gossamer planes (starting with MacCready's unique background and network, the team re-s
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Sean Parker as Jim Clark 2.0, and the return of the dotcom boom (2006)(public.numair.com)
1 points by chl 16y ago|0 comments
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Johnny Chung Lee to donate $5k for Khan-style linear algebra lectures(procrastineering.blogspot.com)
58 points by chl 16y ago|20 comments

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