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by icambron 13y ago
Two moons of Jupiter were found in 2011, and also two in 2010. So we're going strong there too.
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by icambron 13y ago
One of the examples contains a 21K loc JS file. That's excessive. If I used this, I'd keep the HTML generation but skip the JS generation.
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by icambron 13y ago
Languages aren't just syntax rules; they're ecosystems. And unless you want to build everything from scratch, you're going to need to use libraries and frameworks from that ecosystem, and you'll have to play by their rul
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by icambron 13y ago
Yes, what you're describing is niching . See, e.g., http://architects.dzone.com/articles/algorithm-week-niching-...
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by icambron 13y ago
I have a different theory on why people jump into gaps: they're bored. Traffic jams are really dull, and the illusion of progress is much more entertaining. So not really greed. And it's more ignorance/self-centeredness than
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by icambron 13y ago
I guess I don't really understand "national security is compelling". National security, like basically everything else, is a matter of degree. There are presumably compelling and uncompelling national security risks. If the c
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by icambron 13y ago
Do you have a source for that 75% number? He's one for 22%: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations#Funding
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by icambron 13y ago
2007 Obama lead us precisely here.
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by icambron 13y ago
I consider myself unusually sensitive to slippery language and have called out--on HN--several fishy denials by tech companies that I thought were laughably weasely, including Facebook's previous statements. But I'm not seeing it
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by icambron 13y ago
I'm not so sure. In what way are this guy's phone records a state secret?
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by icambron 13y ago
> A blanket warrant covering thousands of customers cannot possibly comply with the Fourth Amendment How about a blanket FISA order?
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by icambron 13y ago
We need to start thinking of lying as "attempting to deceive" instead of "making a knowingly false statement".
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by icambron 13y ago
Right, that mostly paraphrases his arguments. But it doesn't convincingly eliminate a few possibilities for how this works. One possibility: Google obviously has some capacity to honor search warrants and NSLs. And presumably that invo
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by icambron 13y ago
Well said. The not-a-choice argument has always bothered me for exactly these reasons. I'll also point out that it's utterly unconvincing on the sufficiency front, too. Pedophilia isn't a choice either, but that doesn't
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by icambron 13y ago
This denial is a lot stronger than Page's, which was full of weasel words. Unless Zunger is just lying, which somehow seems unlikely (forgive my naiveté), it'll be interesting to know how PRISM actually works. But I will say that
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by icambron 13y ago
This is absolutely crammed with weasel wording. With notes: First, we have not joined [Maybe you didn't "join", but instead merely participated in?] any program that would give the U.S. government—or any other government—dire
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by icambron 13y ago
> The unauthorized disclosure of a top secret U.S. court document threatens potentially long-lasting and irreversible harm to our ability to identify and respond to the many threats facing our nation. > The article omits key informa
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by icambron 13y ago
> If your "opinion" is stated in the form "x is y," then maybe you are the one who should be more conscious of the way people communicate. I don't think that's true. Some examples: "That place smells bad." "Red is too bright a color for
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by icambron 13y ago
> Turns out you don't live in a vacuum ¡social context! Is that social context that women are considered purely emotional creatures incapable of logical thought? I ask because you seem to be suggesting that women should get a pass for e
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by icambron 13y ago
Pretty neat that it's still identifiable as a bird, though. Like an 8-bit version of the Twitter icon.
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by icambron 13y ago
I think you're missing the point. The argument is not, as far as I can tell, that fancy schools provide no signal at all. What it's saying is that they're unfortunately the best proxy historically available, but that it's possible to improv
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by icambron 13y ago
The question this raises for me is what the acceptance rate is as a function of the number of pull requests, or of the number of stars. A scatter chart would be cool here. I strongly suspect the acceptance rate goes down as the project gets
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by icambron 13y ago
> The quip about his name is not an ad hominem because the quip is immaterial to the argument. That's backwards: ad hominem attacks are considered bad precisely because they're not relevant to the argument. Note that the GP's argument i
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by icambron 13y ago
To add to that, if Google didn't think BlogThis! would be valuable, why would they build it? And to whatever extent it achieved its goals (i.e. was actually used), it would give Blogger an advantage. That it actually failed is hardly a defe
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Such as his name?
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by icambron 13y ago
> It's not obvious how you could have full control over your phone without rooting it. It could come with root access enabled, just like your computer does.
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by icambron 13y ago
Nor did it indirectly state it. It's certainly true that those events resulted in increased sensitivity towards school violence and explosions, so it's worth asking what context the GP's actions happened in-- doesn't imply the sensitivity i
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by icambron 13y ago
I'm a total outsider to the security community. Of course I understand that are plenty of hackers selling exploits to shady government actors, but I'm to understand from this article that the practice is generally not considered abhorrent
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by icambron 13y ago
I liked Endless Space. Also Sins of a Solar Empire.
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by icambron 13y ago
I took a quick crack at the correlation implied by table 5 in that paper you linked. Assuming wealth was constant across the ranges specified, I came up with a correlation of 0.45. So meaningful but not high. I personally suspect that it's

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