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by derrida 15y ago
Any intelligent and sufficiently motivated individual could bypass airport security with a weapon. Why does it exist?
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by derrida 15y ago
Actually, I think pyre is right. If you go to videos surrounding summit protests on youtube, by an large the comments that are against the protesters are from police, you can tell by the fact that they have police videos in their own accoun
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by derrida 15y ago
If you assume a view in which syntax produces a predictable semantics, then yes. The number 123321 contains more information than 3. But natural languages do not have a semantics produced by a syntax in an easily predictable way. I think it
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by derrida 15y ago
I don't understand Hipmunk. I see a simple user interface. But that user interface doesn't help me search anymore than any other site. I live in Sydney, and I use this api-mashup here destmapper.com. It opened my eyes!
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Seeing a Facebook photo without permission is like 'stealing a TV': Police(smh.com.au)
34 points by derrida 15y ago|8 comments
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by derrida 15y ago
The problem is either the student or the teacher and I wouldn't rule out the teacher if a student couldn't manage to write a program as simple as that.
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by derrida 15y ago
One way is to commit to using emacs for everything, now, and then slowly 'dig your way out'.
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by derrida 15y ago
You are right.
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by derrida 15y ago
That would be remarkable given that the Nobel prize is awarded by Sweden he is also facing extradition to Sweden.
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by derrida 15y ago
rimantas: That is not wikileaks fault, but the traditional medias. Did you know that Obama was waging war in Yemen? Wikileaks contains proof of this. Where is the media? Surely knowing about a secret war that we didn't know about before giv
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by derrida 15y ago
I can't wait until all of the old media go behind a paywall: imagine what grand ambitious projects will fill the void!
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by derrida 15y ago
Because in common law there is a principle of 'natural justice' that is designed to make sure that all parties have equal and uninhibited access to the legal system. A conviction in absentia would be considered by most lawyers to be as bad
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by derrida 16y ago
That is an excellent way to think of it.
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by derrida 16y ago
If you know how to program allready I really don't recommend 'Learn Python The Hardway'... it might bore you.
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by derrida 16y ago
Wow. I thought Microsoft were too uncool to include stuff like this in their code.
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by derrida 16y ago
A little off topic, but I was wondering if you do away with any sort of GUI on your primary desktop and only use emacs, does that get you a distraction free environment?
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The Meaning Of Life for C Programmers(jones.wordpress.com)
10 points by derrida 16y ago|5 comments
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Has anyone noticed this before? HN: Best Of(news.ycombinator.com)
101 points by derrida 16y ago|23 comments
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by derrida 16y ago
Would anybody be interested in this? I have relaun.ch. It's free for a month. If you get over 100,000 uniques it's yours forever. Otherwise I give it to the next company with a good idea, with similar conditions. I don't care about the mone
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by derrida 16y ago
Then Zynga(18) is worth less than Geezeo(16), which ain't the case!
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The Inventor's Paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by derrida 16y ago|0 comments
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Graph Visualization in Python(nodebox.net)
79 points by derrida 16y ago|2 comments
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by derrida 16y ago
Here is MHO: Machine learning may work tracking faces, balls or household objects, but food looks so different that I imagine an accurate program that could do this is many decades into the future. Think about how many ways that you can coo
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by derrida 16y ago
Does it work?!
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by derrida 16y ago
Is there a field, "neuro architecture" etc? What is the possibility for parallelism vs a human brain? How much smaller can it be than a human brain? How much faster? If it is smaller+faster+more parallel then are they smarter? When can I st
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Functioning Synapse Created Using Carbon Nanotubes (Synthetic Brain!)(neurosciencenews.com)
2 points by derrida 16y ago|1 comments
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by derrida 16y ago
I've always found a connection between brilliance and "yelling at cars on the side of the road." Take the good with the bad.
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by derrida 16y ago
Its all innocent when it is Amazon. But I am sure there must be similar phenomena taking place in the financial markets, but the algorithms that determine pricing there are more complicated than multiplying by a simple factor.
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by derrida 16y ago
No previous experience in programming? Wow!
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by derrida 16y ago
I went to press on "add accompaniment" and it said that content is not ready yet. Why not source accompaniments from the user, then users can vote up or down accompaniments based on their quality? Users then have incentive to give you free

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