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by eob 17y ago
That rebut makes no sense.
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The Irony of WikiLeaks(edwardbenson.com)
1 points by eob 17y ago|0 comments
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by eob 17y ago
Still, I think the idea of a small amateur (as far as spycraft is concerned) organization pressuring the DoD like this is insane. They're risking their own wellbeing.
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by eob 17y ago
Two reasons: First, the "confession" -- whosever they are trying to elicit -- has more value if given out of paranoia. Think about it this way: you have a brief glimpse into something wrong that happened, but you don't know the full story.
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by eob 17y ago
Would you mind sharing the strategy you took to storing the sites offline? I assume you grepped through the HTML source for external references (stylesheet, image, etc), downloaded each one of those, and then re-wrote the link before saving
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by eob 17y ago
This was particularly strong wording on China's part. Anyone want to bet what actions follow up the words? I don't believe that China doesn't care about Google leaving. I think, despite the party line, they are reluctant to ban access to Go
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MIT Develops Water Desalination Plant on a Chip(web.mit.edu)
2 points by eob 17y ago|0 comments
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by eob 17y ago
I never stopped to think this was a regional colloquialism, but I suppose it is.. I used it above to mean "I agree"
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by eob 17y ago
Seriously. It would be nice to see a widget like this that anyone could throw up on their site or blog. Problem would be getting the update -- you'd have to have a server in China pinging all the participating sites, I suppose. This could b
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by eob 17y ago
What happens when your ISP filters it? Do you see a "Connection Reset" page, or do they actually modify the HTML returned?
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The growing data-driven component to computer science(groups.csail.mit.edu)
30 points by eob 17y ago|15 comments
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by eob 17y ago
It's the trick luxury brands have been playing for years. Walk into a Tiffany's store and you see the same silver that was poured to make the jewelry at the department store, but the blue box costs you a 2000% premium. I've always wanted to
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Ask HN: How do HN comments get negative point values?
1 points by eob 17y ago|2 comments
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by eob 17y ago
I put the python scripts here if anyone wants to play with them: http://people.csail.mit.edu/eob/files/hn/ The code wasn't written to be anything more than a quick toy.. so don't zing me for its poor quality :)
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by eob 17y ago
I hacked together a quick script to generate new HN story titles from your list of existing ones. It is a pretty shoddy job -- no syntax-level modeling -- but some of the ones it generated are still pretty amusing: mark cuban: how to say fa
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by eob 17y ago
From what the video doesn't show, it appears that Flyfire is not actually a new display technology, it is just a neat "what if" idea that they turned into a concept video. The majority of the ML's output is a mix of creative dreams and pr
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by eob 17y ago
That is a great story about Feynman, and thanks for the Hamming article link.
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by eob 17y ago
Thanks yannis, these are some great comments. With regard to the social graph one, I've heard advice akin to this from several people: that the person is more important than the topic when it comes to advisors. When you look at the PhD as a
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Ask HN: PhD students - how do you find a remarkable research topic?
6 points by eob 17y ago|5 comments
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by eob 17y ago
Interesting read
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by eob 17y ago
Seeing this kind of rumor posted to HN always makes me wonder if it has jumped the shark.
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by eob 17y ago
Amix, I feel for you, man. This is really awful to wake up and see. China has totally different laws though -- do you know if this kind of copying is legal there? I have a number of friends who have told me that the whole web startup scene
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by eob 17y ago
Was that really the prime motivator in joining MS? How do you mean "be a voice for startups"? Cool. People usually cite this reasoning for joining the government -- an organization whose mandate is toward the greater good of its people, but
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by eob 17y ago
How does the bot AI work? Look for a lull in the bid rates? It seems like it would be hard to know when other people aren't also sitting there waiting to pounce on the auction.
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by eob 17y ago
Every year I have this realization that I need to put a week aside and re-lean Rails because it changes so fast. But I'll take that any time over a framework that just atrophies.
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by eob 17y ago
Impressive site. Looking at that was one of those "DOH! Why didn't I think of that!" moments, which is usually the indicator that you've got a good idea :)
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by eob 17y ago
Very cool. Apple of MS should hire him to make some skins!
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by eob 17y ago
Just chiming in with agreement on this one. If you are interested in business, CS can be a valuable background to have. Look for jobs that put you in the more administrative/management side of a software project, and then transition from th
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by eob 17y ago
Can someone who works on Wall Street explain how pagers are still used? I had no idea that anyone had pagers anymore.
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by eob 17y ago
Thanks for these links everyone

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