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by eslaught 10y ago
But user agents already identify the browser, right? I agree that implementing this first in Tor is probably not a good idea, but if Firefox were to do it first, then I don't see the problem. "They're a Firefox user" isn
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by eslaught 10y ago
> no non-scientist can evaluate the claims of [...] To be more precise: No non-expert in field X can evaluate claims with respect to field X. The phenomenon you're talking about is with respect to lay people. But there is a parall
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by eslaught 10y ago
It's nice that they're being explicit about breaking changes, but it's still a pain that they're doing them in the first place. I understand the argument for moving quickly, but projects that use LLVM suffer as a result.
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by eslaught 10y ago
A while back GPG announced their Kickstarter campaign for a game to be named Human Resources . It was later announced that they actually didn't have enough funds to survive if the Kickstarter didn't go through[1]. The campaign st
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by eslaught 10y ago
What would you recommend to try next for someone who liked Steins;Gate (the visual novel)?
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by eslaught 10y ago
I can't speak to the anime, but I enjoyed and recommend the visual novel version. I got into it because I wanted a break from more traditional games (such as RPGs) which may claim to have a story but often don't go deep into chara
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by eslaught 10y ago
Steins;Gate[1] contains references to John Titor[2]. I actually thought they had made him up until I looked on Wikipedia and discovered he was a real ("real") conspiracy theory. An English version of the game is now up on Steam. H
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by eslaught 10y ago
Do you really think any reasonable person is going to mistake this couch for a cat? https://rocknrollnerd.github.io/assets/article_images/2015-0... The software does: https://rocknrollnerd.github.io&#x2
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by eslaught 10y ago
I buy clothes that follow fashion trends because when I go to the store there is often literally nothing else to buy, even if I don't particularly like it. I know a lot of people who behave similarly. Yes, I'm choosing to prioriti
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by eslaught 10y ago
It sounds like lots of people here have taken breaks, but have any of you taken actual sabbaticals (i.e. with explicit employer permission and with the intention of coming back afterwards)? How did you negotiate it and how did it go for you
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by eslaught 10y ago
The algorithms themselves may not 'choose' to discriminate, but they certainly can be used in a way that causes discrimination due to an oversight on the part of the algorithm's designer, even if not intended. See e.g.: Fairn
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by eslaught 10y ago
Spotify switched their policy back to accepting signups via email: https://www.spotify.com/us/signup/ If you already have an account, I'm not sure there's a way to de-associate it, but you could probably
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Announcing Rust 1.11(blog.rust-lang.org)
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by eslaught 10y ago
I'm in CS (at the intersection of PL/compilers/HPC), and I've never heard of anyone in my field doing that. In fact, the only papers I've read on arxiv have been ones linked on HN.
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by eslaught 10y ago
I wonder what this would look like applied specifically to housing. I suspect that people in expensive areas are paying significantly more (both absolute and as a percentage) on housing. In some ways, this is just a side effect of that phen
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by eslaught 10y ago
> It's a hobby, and like any other hobby, it's profoundly stupid. I profoundly disagree with your definition of hobby. My "hobby" is writing a science fiction novel. I don't get nearly as much time to do it as wh
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by eslaught 10y ago
> If you want to be fancy, you can make the on-disk VM-image format a database (SQLite, LevelDB, whatever) so as to avoid writing it all out every time. I took this approach in a game engine I developed at one point. Common Lisp has a ve
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by eslaught 10y ago
From the abstract: > There is no relationship between county-level racial bias in police shootings and crime rates (even race-specific crime rates), meaning that the racial bias observed in police shootings in this data set is not explai
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by eslaught 10y ago
Perhaps this is just me, but I just don't like cities. I agree that the things listed in this article need fixing, but I also feel like they're missing the point. I grew up in a small college town (in a house), but have spent mo
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by eslaught 10y ago
There is a certain danger with obscurity in it can obscure to your own vulnerabilities. I believe this is most well-known with crypto, where essentially any proprietary crypto algorithm should be assumed to be broken (because crypto is just
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by eslaught 10y ago
> > The correct solution: Cache tab history completely [...] This is not a solution for the majority of users. The problem with keyboard shortcuts is that most users won't know what happened. All they'll know is that suddenl
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by eslaught 10y ago
> PS: who cares if the devs are using unsigned software downloaded over HTTP? I care about using signed software (and then I suppose the transport doesn't really matter), but that's totally unrelated to what the devs do on thei
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by eslaught 10y ago
We'll see a lot more co-design of hardware and software. So far, outside of major trends (e.g. multi-core CPUs, GPUs), authors of different abstraction layers (programming languages, compilers, OSes, etc.) have worked towards improveme
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by eslaught 10y ago
How many people/companies did it take to build GPUs? A lot of people, to be sure, but as a fraction of all software engineers, that number is incredibly tiny. The vast majority of software engineers---even if we filter to just the set
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by eslaught 11y ago
Can you explain that for non-cryptographers, please?
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That assumes that failures are uncorrelated. My personal concern is with correlated failures, like those that occurred in GCE. What if cars from some manufacturer all fail simultaneously in the same way (say, because of a software push that
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by eslaught 11y ago
It's because the companies have different goals. Tesla is just trying to make a good car. Others are trying to differentiate. (Hint: the easiest way to something look different is to make it ugly.)
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by eslaught 11y ago
See also some of the cool work going on at UC Davis; e.g. a phenotyping robot for reconstructing various plant geometry on the fly: http://ucanr.edu/sites/dcslaughter/UCDavis_High-throughput_P... (Disclaimer: rela
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> One thing that would be useful to this debate an analysis of a language ecosystem where there are only "macropackages" and see if the same function shows up over and over again across packages. Look no further than C++, where
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I think public services in general have a different concept of what advertising means, compared to the private sector. It's almost like the advertiser is a donor rather than a client. With private sector advertising, I almost expect th

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