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by gaika 18y ago
It was cheap and easy to "steal" microsoft's certificate in 2001. http://cc.uoregon.edu/cnews/spring2001/mstheft.html
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by gaika 18y ago
There are 3 aspects of "free will": religious, ethical and scientific. In the scientific case "free will" implies that the actions of the body, including the brain and the mind, are not wholly determined by physical causality.
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by gaika 18y ago
"human beings are sharply marked off from dogs by their capacity to act for reasons that they explicitly take to be moral reasons." According to them dogs do not have free will but people do. Probably talking about ethics and moral side o
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by gaika 18y ago
Because to admit that there's free will is to admit that there's something above physical laws.
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by gaika 18y ago
By this definition any control system will have a "free will".
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by gaika 18y ago
Free from whom or what is it then?
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by gaika 18y ago
Definition of "free will" is the ability to act free of the will of god. What do you mean by "free will"?
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by gaika 18y ago
This question of free will only makes sense if you believe in god. If you're an atheist then the question just doesn't make sense. Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will
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by gaika 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=196390 , society is using subjective reputation system so it is less affected by groupthink.
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by gaika 18y ago
No. Point system is broken and encourages groupthink. This place is still the best forum for hackers because most people are not here for points.
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by gaika 18y ago
It is alive and well in Russia, but even FidoNet is still active there :)
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by gaika 18y ago
I use Thrift and it is underhyped. I looked at Cassandra, and it offers more than HBase with a lot cleaner and smaller codebase. That's not just NIH, that's some really important thing happening here: standard tools like relational database
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by gaika 18y ago
"when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair." When your server fails, you know how to fix it. When the cloud fails, you hope that somebody will be able to fix it soon.
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by gaika 18y ago
This is the second major infrastructure component opensourced by Facebook. What's next? Search? How is Google going to respond to it? Should we expect BigTable opensourced any time soon?
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Hierarchical Logic and Multi-threaded Game AI(aigamedev.com)
1 points by gaika 18y ago|0 comments
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Amazon: Lack of Redundancy(webgadgets.ws)
7 points by gaika 18y ago|6 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
What's wrong with creating a subscription object and letting people manipulate it the usual REST way via /subscription/<id>? That way you can list your subscriptions, modify, delete in a very consistent way, without a need for "POST
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by gaika 18y ago
Does it mean that google still has less than 1M?
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Microsoft's video accidentally reveals that they have only ~200k servers(istartedsomething.com)
14 points by gaika 18y ago|12 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
Right, closer analogy would be object oriented programming, where some methods are standard (constructor->post, destructor->delete, copy->get, assignment->put) and some are totally type specific. The point of REST is that th
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by gaika 18y ago
You can think of RESTful approach as an extreme case of object oriented programming when your methods are limited to CRUD. Obviously there are cases when there's more than one way to change the state of the object that are only relevant to
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by gaika 18y ago
Sorry, but I asked about a service that doesn't FIT the RESTful model.
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by gaika 18y ago
Doesn't matter, any method of observation you choose will produce expected results. Unless you observe yourself, where you will not be able to observe expected results because you're dead.
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by gaika 18y ago
I'm talking about current winners in netflix prize. Their algorithms are a combination of hundreds individual recommenders blended together by another learning algorithm. There's no easy way to explain the result, but I guess one can cheat
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by gaika 18y ago
Any machine that you build will produce expected results, up to 10^-15 precision with current hardware. Failed suicide attempt is unlikely and provides evidence towards many worlds as a theory and not just interpretation.
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by gaika 18y ago
Do you have an example of an online service that doesn't fit into RESTful model?
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by gaika 18y ago
Have they bought renewable energy certificate for their own site? Yet another "IAmRich^H^H^H^HGreen" :(
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by gaika 18y ago
When your API is RESTful you have a lot less explaining to do in your documentation. It totally makes sense for services to conform to the same pattern.
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by gaika 18y ago
Metadata is useful when you need to interpret the results, and most people care about why something is recommended to them. Top netflix algorithms are black boxes from the user standpoint, that doesn't help when making a decision to buy or
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by gaika 18y ago
That what reporters are for :) If you read the news you will see an endless stream of highly unusual events, but unfortunately that doesn't prove anything.

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