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by hrjet 12y ago
>How do you punish someone who unwillingly commits atrocities I look at justice more as a "confinement of the criminal behavior" than "punishment of the criminal". Viewed that way, I don't see a dilemma in being
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by hrjet 12y ago
Thanks for the praise! Totally agree; it's not true NLP. Moreover, true NLP is currently not achievable. We would need an algorithm that passes the Turing test to infer the meaning of a free-form statement. Like my parent post said,
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by hrjet 12y ago
The autocomplete is provided by my parser-combinator library which is designed in a very generic way. It can be used for any application, not just natural language queries. About the parser generator: the ER description provides natural lan
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by hrjet 12y ago
Couple of years back, I implemented a natural-language-ish solution for querying ERP data. My approach was to a. have structured queries that can be precisely parsed b. provide query completion to guide the user while entering the query It
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by hrjet 12y ago
Indian govt websites have a pathetic sense of security. One prominent consumer facing website with logins and company data has a certificate issued to "Mohan Babu" (equivalent to John Doe) and expired 5 years back! I guess that&#x
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I am led to believe that human marriage is much more than just animal mating . In a liberal society, such as the western countries, where mating before marriage is common, I don't think there is any confusion between the two. Your c
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by hrjet 12y ago
Wow! Good to see the openness and glad I could make a small difference.
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by hrjet 12y ago
Genuine question: if we wrap an IC engine with a heat sink that captures the excess heat for re-use, what do we get? And is overall more or less efficient than using the sterling engine in article?
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by hrjet 12y ago
Didn't notice any of that. I use [httpsb]( https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/ ). For Firefox, NoScript should do the job.
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by hrjet 12y ago
IDK if it's too late to discuss this, but a third possibility could have been to use the second character or more of a # comment as a marker for diffscuss. Something like: #%%% You get standard diffs and parsability.
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by hrjet 12y ago
Having recently worked with a project employing Java 8, I whole-heartedly agree. The FP in Java 8 is so crippled as to be useless. Every time you use a lambda, you need to worry about checked exceptions and wrapping and unwrapping them. Als
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by hrjet 12y ago
> their marketing is increasing awareness of mobile security That I agree and I really hope that it works. But on that note, I don't like the name Blackphone. When I hear "black" I associate it with nefarious activities; a
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by hrjet 12y ago
Wouldn't character recognition be sufficient for Gregg? I don't know Gregg, but from the article ti seems like the interpretation of the characters could be left to the reader.
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by hrjet 12y ago
Without GSM, you only eliminate the excuse for a baseband backdoor. How do you eliminate their motivation for adding the backdoor? What if they put it it another chip connected to the bus?
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by hrjet 12y ago
Excited about this release, and I am going to try it right away. But I have to mention my pet peeve. The downloads are through mirrors, over http, with no checksums! What could go wrong?
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by hrjet 12y ago
Every system has its own set of drawbacks. A non-voluntary system has the drawback of forcefully extorting money from people with proven capability[1] and then handing it over to possibly incapable / lazy people. [1]: Assuming an uncor
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by hrjet 12y ago
Couldn't such a system be built voluntarily? Why should a startup founder be able to bet on someone else's money? If there is a group of people who need those benefits they can pool money by themselves and provide a safety net for
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by hrjet 12y ago
Moreover, adding more functionality to an application increases the surface area for attack. Adding it by default increases the risk for everyone.
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by hrjet 12y ago
> DEs were themselves busy switching to Qt. Interesting. I know only of KDE. Are there others? (Genuine question)
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by hrjet 12y ago
> But in a language with mutating side effects, and iterators, I'm not sure what this buys you... Side-effect free, functional style of programming.
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by hrjet 12y ago
Thanks for clearing up the terminology! I guess we muddled up the discussion by referring to DEX bytecode as Dalvik bytecode, and sometimes just Dalvik.
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by hrjet 12y ago
Apple controls and chooses the hardware targets by itself. Android is open and the potential number of hardware targets is limitless. It's not just about the size of the binaries; the app and the programmer should ideally be agnostic o
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by hrjet 12y ago
Either I am not understanding something, or perhaps you are not clear about the system side of Android. AFAIK, ART doesn't "use" Dalvik. It is an ahead-of-time-compiling run-time for Dalvik. IOW, ART wouldn't exist wit
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by hrjet 12y ago
That's my first thought too. Moreover, letting the water roll off the leaves and down near the stem would help moistening the soil near the roots, which would ultimately benefit the plant.
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by hrjet 12y ago
Android apps are meant to be platform independent. A pure Java Android app will run fine on both ARM (various flavours) and x86. I vaguely remember a MIPS implementation too. Without the intermediate step (bytecode), you are pushing the awk
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by hrjet 12y ago
Google sells ads on third-party website properties. The parent's argument is certainly not specious.
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> Doing that figure "8" when my GPS goes out for some reason is incredibly awkward. Is that some sort of recognized gesture on your phone, or is it a way to calibrate a sensor? Typically, the figure 8 is used to calibrate the m
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by hrjet 12y ago
I am not a database expert hence this question. RethinkDB looks better than MongoDB in many respects. But how does it compare to Postgresql (latest versions with document support)? If I were to start on a new project with modest scalability
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How do you know? Perhaps there are shareholders who would laud the CEO for his stance and make him CEO for life. Perhaps the goodwill will fetch a lot of customers and revenue.
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by hrjet 12y ago
I thought the article was trying to discredit the pop-nutritionists. To me, the point of all those quotes and anecdotes in the beginning of the article was to show the shallowness of their recommendations.

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