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by jcl 17y ago
There was someone, maybe a Dreamhost employee, posting on HN a month ago with justifications for this practice... He explained that there are customers who want passwords e-mailed to them, presumably even if you explain that it is not secur
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by jcl 17y ago
It's one thing to "make sense" after changing a name to 'animal' it's another for it to mean the same thing. I got the same impression as korch. In several ways, it does mean the same thing. They've got a bunch of people "studying his
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by jcl 17y ago
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1181324
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I found a copy of the paper here: http://www.columbia.edu/~cp2124/papers/computer.pdf The homework assignments are not described, but given that many students do not have computers, it is reasonable to assume that the assignments at least
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by jcl 17y ago
I took a look at the paper, and that is not an unreasonable explanation... It seems that the increased computer use did indeed reduce the time spent doing non-computer homework a bit, although the data is quite noisy and may not be statist
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by jcl 17y ago
Not surprisingly, with all that game playing going on, the authors find that the voucher program actually resulted in a decline in grades This is a little surprising, actually. The study showed the amount of homework done is pretty much
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by jcl 17y ago
There used to be several paragraphs, e.g. explaining the choice of name, but it's been taken down. I guess this wasn't the launch they were hoping for.
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Probably not. There are a number of image inpainting, texture synthesis, and reconstruction algorithms that can be applied, with different behaviors regarding noise, color correction, detail scale, handling of regularity/irregularity, temp
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by jcl 17y ago
Makes sense, but I'm not sure I like the way it's headed. Scheme is so named due to a Lisp system called Planner. "Scheme" and "Planner" (and, I suppose, "Gambit") have mostly neutral connotations. "Swindle", "Larceny", "Heist", and now
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That was actually one of the less impressive things the demo did, since it replaced the tree with what is essentially a smooth gradient. This is something that can be done by early image inpainting algorithms, such as this one from SIGGRAP
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I didn't mod the comments myself, but it is common here to mod down a comment that doesn't add anything to the discussion -- that is, both "Great article!" and "Terrible article!" comments that lack further content or commentary would be mo
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by jcl 17y ago
Pretty much for the same reasons that graffiti is illegal: Public places are often private property. Someone has to pay to sandblast or paint over those eyesores. And the broken window theory says crime increases in areas that are not wel
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No, the point of the stickers is to ruin the effectiveness of illegal postings through disinformation; it has no effect on the event itself. (Although, if enough people think the event is canceled, and no one shows up...)
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by jcl 17y ago
I was going to say the same thing regarding sous-vide, but according to Wikipedia, sous-vide was originally invented in 1799, well before microwaves or 3D printing. While it was "rediscovered" more recently, I'd give the authors the benefi
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by jcl 17y ago
One of the references in the Wikipedia article is this long interview covering the major points of his life and work: http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/mfb21/interviews/m...
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This article reminded me of a bit in an article that was on HN a couple weeks ago: Starbucks evolved from a small chain of cafes to a huge one by consistently introducing new products, constantly pushing the envelope. Right? So what the he
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by jcl 17y ago
Not only that, but there needs to be some way to detect the bounced beam -- implying a ridiculous degree of accuracy in the placement of the satellite, the smoothness of the glass, and the strength of the laser. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by jcl 17y ago
I liked the part telling you that satellites can record your conversations from space by bouncing lasers off of your windows. And the part advising you to bring along any police dogs you might happen to kill, to keep from leaving evidence.
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On the other hand, their wiki is hosted on "The Common Lisp Wiki", all the libraries they mention are exclusively Common Lisp, and their mailing list description says "The purpose of this list is to provide community to Common Lisp game dev
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But perhaps the most important benefit to a culture of quitting is that it effectively flushes out the residue of unskilled employees. Of course, that only works if there are other companies who are content to accumulate them. If everyo
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by jcl 17y ago
Yes, but this is precisely the kind of term they will choose, regardless of appropriateness; "piracy" was not exactly a textbook definition of copyright infringement, either. I am pointing out that "stealing" is not an improvement over "pi
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People wouldn't associate pirates with Johnny Depp if they hadn't made a movie showing how cool pirates are, starring Johnny Depp . Hollywood likes to make movies glamorizing criminals -- public enemies, goodfellas, princes of thieves: cr
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There are a few typical examples that are given whenever this question comes up: - ITA Software does airline scheduling in Lisp. - Naughty Dog Software created a Lisp-derived scripting language for several of its games, including Crash Band
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Moreover, the first comment on that page points out that the self-threading needle is ill-suited for typical sewing because the eye is so big. And the side-threading needle in the article seems to have an even larger eye.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the reason might not have something to do with the fact that the birds do not chew their food but rather swallow it whole. It may also have something to do with the bird's gizzard: some species of birds regularly
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Not that it invalidates the article's points, but there's a certain degree of irony in writing a blog article about how no one uses Scheme and then posting it on a Scheme-powered website. :)
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Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1017363
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by jcl 17y ago
FWIW, from the original article (see m_eiman's link): Reputation can also have a positive effect as in the United States, 86% of HR professionals (and at least two thirds of those in the U.K. and Germany) stated that a positive online repu
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by jcl 17y ago
It is a dirty lie. Try: # aptitude -v moo # aptitude -v -v moo etc.
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by jcl 17y ago
I thought the "networked tree" thing was actually quite clever. Think of it this way: Suppose you were living in Kurzweil's post-Singularity future, where you have absolute command over biological and nanotechnological mechanics, and you w

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