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by jfager 16y ago
Contrasting the two papers, Bem's paper sticks very closely to the standard form and 'rules of engagement' (if you will) of published academic research. That's kind of the problem: published academic research is broken in a lot of ways.
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by jfager 16y ago
This is why I'm an advocate of accepting/rejecting scientific papers based solely on methodology, with referees being given no information about the conclusions and with authors being forbidden from post-hoc tweaks. A million times yes.
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by jfager 16y ago
That's getting at my point. The parent seems to be implying that copyright is forced on creators at the expense of other means of protection that would be more beneficial to them. I just don't think that's the case - there's not actually
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by jfager 16y ago
Is it actually not possible to bypass the copyright system and distribute material under contract instead? I'd imagine such an arrangement would be incredibly expensive to set up and do horribly in the market, but is there actually a legal
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by jfager 16y ago
I don't think I missed your point - you're saying that people confronted with a question they aren't qualified or interested in enough to answer thoughtfully will be biased towards responses that "sound good". I have no disagreement there,
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by jfager 16y ago
Cognitive biases are going to skew these numbers horribly I guess I thought the point of the article was to demonstrate exactly this skew. Where does a person's emotional reaction to tax cuts or welfare come from? If people casually thin
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by jfager 16y ago
I don't get how anything you wrote after "Nice try but no sale" disagrees at all with what the person you replied to said.
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by jfager 16y ago
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/05/invented-...
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by jfager 16y ago
Like any two implementations of a spec, they probably have different performance and stability characteristics. As for what those differences actually are, or if there are others as well, I'm really not familiar enough with Harmony to say.
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by jfager 16y ago
OpenJDK comes with a patent grant, so that's not the issue. It's about the GPL and Sun/Oracle's control over the project.
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by jfager 16y ago
For the same reasons any GPL'd software isn't enough. We could go back and forth forever about whether those reasons are good, but that's not a conversation unique to OpenJDK vs Harmony.
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by jfager 16y ago
I was being sarcastic.
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by jfager 16y ago
From the actual Oracle statement, and left out of the linked post: Earlier this week, by an overwhelming majority, the Java Executive Committee voted to move Java forward by formally initiating work on both Java SE 7 and SE 8 based on thei
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by jfager 16y ago
That's not what it assumes at all. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of what Assange explicitly states, that revealing mundane details has the positive effect of demonstrating how overused secrecy is as a tool of governance.
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by jfager 16y ago
All of my backend work is currently in Scala. I evaluated Lift for a while for my frontend, but I was turned off by it for a few (probably stupid) reasons: 1. The documentation is poor compared to other frameworks, and there's not anywher
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by jfager 16y ago
Thanks. I do understand the mechanics, but the article seemed to imply that there are some flakes that people do use traditional cams to climb. I was more curious in how the line between safe and unsafe gets drawn than the theory behind w
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by jfager 16y ago
Thanks. To clarify, though, I do understand why one would be safe while the other wouldn't; what I was interested in was the actual technique a climber uses to determine that. In other words: there are certainly rocks for which both vert
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by jfager 16y ago
It seems like there are a few climbers on here, could one of you please explain how a climber goes about deciding that a flake is too dangerous to apply a horizontal force to but safe enough to apply a vertical force to?
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by jfager 16y ago
That is beautiful, thank you.
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by jfager 16y ago
Very nice, but what I'd personally rather have is a two-pane navigator: explore the tree in the left pane, see file contents in the right, a la NERDtree, eclipse, and other IDEs.
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by jfager 16y ago
most likely the typed string will contain more of the user's mother tongue I assume? It's not like an attacker is going to be writing emails on the compromised machine. Anything they'd actually be typing would probably just be standard U
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by jfager 16y ago
That seems like a pretty big if when dealing with sophisticated attackers.
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by jfager 16y ago
The cables indicate that the American government has been fighting a pitched battle with intruders who have been clearly identified as using Chinese-language keyboards and physically located in China. Does anyone have insight into how key
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by jfager 16y ago
Nitpicking: Sean Parker. Fanning was the other Napster guy.
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by jfager 16y ago
Or she knew that the term "average" can just as validly refer to the mode as the mean, and was bored by the whole exercise.
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by jfager 16y ago
What is Facebook's reasoning, then, for providing an API to download complete friend lists, location, real names, and other data a user didn't wade through privacy settings to lock down? Handing information to a company with which a user ne
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by jfager 16y ago
So you think because he can turn around and buy something else with the dollars he just got, he's not taking a risk by passing through an actively devaluing currency?
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by jfager 16y ago
Yeah, because nothing says "I condemn the devaluing of this currency" like asking for 1.5 billion of it right as said devaluing is happening.
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by jfager 16y ago
How do you separate the credibility of a website on its own from the credibility lent to it by exposure on websites like HN? Ideally you'd hope that the reason something gets exposure on HN is because it meets a minimum level of inherent c
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by jfager 16y ago
It was only when an enthusiastic amateur (myself) reproduced the algorithm in the paper that the bug was discovered. But that's the actual problem, that nobody else tried to verify the data themselves before accepting it into the field.

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