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by jfasi 11y ago
That's only if you're storing one copy of the video.
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UK citizens may soon need licenses to photograph some stuff they already own(arstechnica.com)
255 points by jfasi 11y ago|135 comments
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Google open-sources DeepSee neural network hallucination tool(googleresearch.blogspot.com)
3 points by jfasi 11y ago|0 comments
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by jfasi 12y ago
Thiel makes some interesting points, and I don't necessarily disagree with the substance of what he's saying. However, I'd like to offer a reframing of the college debate that goes beyond the views put forward by Thiel et al.
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by jfasi 12y ago
Google gets a customer and free advertising, the company gets 100k worth of free computing resources. It's called a "win-win." It's not quite a "free lunch," but it's "one of the main ways in which he
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by jfasi 12y ago
> Ad Hominem Def.: Any attempt to discredit a view by calling attention to the character, actions or personal circumstances of those who hold it rather than the reasoning they provide in support of it. "Ad hominem" is Latin for
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by jfasi 12y ago
As of my writing this we're six top-level comments in and already a full third of them miss the point of the article, going on to complain about The Economist advocating not punishing companies for malfeasance. For their benefit as wel
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by jfasi 12y ago
No, and I should have address this in my initial comment. I expanded on this in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8119589
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by jfasi 12y ago
To your second point, oversight is orthogonal to my original point: no matter where you land on the breadth of collections spectrum, more oversight is better. I agree with you there and in hindsight I could have done better to point that ou
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by jfasi 12y ago
This provides a useful way to frame people concerns' about Snowden's revelations. Every intelligence service exists at the intersection of two completely opposite goals: in order to fulfill their mandate to protect their country f
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by jfasi 12y ago
Whenever Google puts out a product, you can bet your bottom dollar the comments will be dominated by the cynical view that every product Google releases is somehow the product of a group of shady, hunched-over people with wild eyes rubbing
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by jfasi 12y ago
Is it just me, or did they really just fit a quintic curve to theirs "Fraudsters are Sneaky" plot? There had better be a good reason for their using such a high-dimensional polynomial.
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by jfasi 12y ago
This is why I love C++. It turns even the most basic programming tasks into orgies of systems programming pedantry.
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by jfasi 12y ago
Naturally, a complete answer will depend on your advertising goals, and any serious advertising campaign will want to be prefaced with experiments and cost/benefit analysis, etc. That being said, you can check out these ad networks. I
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by jfasi 12y ago
This underscores what appears to be an interesting strategic move by Facebook: build an ecosystem of applications, which in turn encourages people to use their other products. In turn, this provides continued competition against Twitter, Tu
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by jfasi 12y ago
> "The balloons are delivering 10x more bandwidth, 10x steer-ability, and are staying up 10x as long..." I find the scale of these improvements simultaneously inspiring and troubling. What does it imply that you can make this s
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by jfasi 12y ago
Hm. That's actually a good point.
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by jfasi 12y ago
Let's face it. Silicon Valley has hit the big time. The sheer size of our industry coupled with the impact it has on everyday non-technical citizens means we are a political force to be reckoned with. Monetarily speaking, we're no
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by jfasi 12y ago
> The good thing about Science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it. There is a sort of anti-religion and anti-pseudoscience zeitgeist in American society, and scientists like Neil deGrasse Tyson and Richard Dawkins make up
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by jfasi 12y ago
I love this article. Despite the multitudes of news sources telling us about how commerce is now global and business is no longer tied to a place and the internet is changing the world, there is still an ocean of enterprises of which we U
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by jfasi 12y ago
The author could have played this completely differently. Instead of thinking of himself as being surrounded by idiots, he could think of himself as a fox in the hen house. Put it another way. He's the only person in the organization w
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by jfasi 12y ago
Say what you will, but while Boyer-Moore can be tricky to implement, it's not exactly a fancy algorithm.
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by jfasi 12y ago
While I appreciate the high-mindedness of the EFF's approach, I wonder if it would be more effective to borrow a page from the Buzzfeed school of attention grabbing. The primary challenge is getting people who aren't techies to ca
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by jfasi 12y ago
I agree with you when it comes to clients . Clients want to hire you to do a specific piece of work, and in that case vague, open-ended agreements are indeed poison. When it comes to partnerships, however, the mutually beneficial agreement
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by jfasi 12y ago
> I don't know if I maybe lost a few nice business opportunities because of my attitude regarding this, but maybe at least I had more time programming new features for my customers that way. This is an awful attitude to have. Firs
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by jfasi 13y ago
> Tor's Bleeding Edge nodes (guards and exits) [1] Seriously, the choice of Heartbleed as a name is genius. It makes for so many awesome derivative names. I mean c'mon, "Bleeding Edges?" That's brilliant. [1] ht
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by jfasi 13y ago
A few questions in the way of exploration rather than accusations, feel free to answer or not answer however you're comfortable. Could you elaborate on what led to these circumstances? Did you find the courseload too difficult? What pe
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by jfasi 13y ago
While is commentary makes an excellent case for dishonesty on Zidisha's part, I wonder if some context is necessary. Looking beyond the dishonesty, this commentary talks about a 25 percent interest rate in the implicit context of the c
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by jfasi 13y ago
Whenever I read an article about income inequality, I can't help but ponder the phrase "the rich get richer." Consider the process by which people acquire extreme wealth: invest your money in various vehicles, hopefully colle
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by jfasi 13y ago
I think it would be helpful to try to understand the perspective of management. Consider an extreme stereotype: the "business school guy." He went to XYZ school of management, where he learned that a business is an organization th

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