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by jkn 11y ago
Seems like another problem that would be solved by introducing basic income. There are already people working on news reporting, Wikipedia and other public goods and services on their free time. Decrease the pressure to make a living (i.e.
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by jkn 11y ago
I think esturk meant that AlphaGo is barely beatable now, so by the time anyone else gets a chance, it will have improved in the meantime and even a stronger human player won't be able to beat it.
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by jkn 11y ago
Right, but isn't "impossible" too high a bar? Or is the ability to comply with a warrant worth nothing? It's not like iOS is impossible to hack now and it would be terrible that it becomes possible. There are other aspec
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by jkn 11y ago
Does Apple do an amazing job protecting their users' privacy? Yes! But frankly in this case I find the FBI makes more sense than Apple. Apple says: All that information needs to be protected from hackers and criminals who want to acce
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by jkn 11y ago
The story seems to be that when Janet writes with George, her colleagues infer that George deserves the credit. That might be a reasonable inference if women were more likely to join research collaborations as the junior partner, but in fa
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by jkn 11y ago
It's too bad indeed that the labels are rounded to one digit, but at least the plot bars are from unrounded data (as the second figure with 6%, 7% and 8% bars makes it clear), so I think readers still likely get the right impression of
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by jkn 11y ago
Given that Google is creating a Python 3 / Python 2 situation, due to their Java fork, I fail to see how their actions are less damaging to the Java eco-system than what Microsoft did. Right, so they are damaging the Java ecosystem.
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by jkn 11y ago
Ah that is a good point. It's an important difference between Android on one side and Harmony, GNUStep and Wine on the other side. However I would put Linux together with Android then: Linux was similarly replicating Unix APIs for the
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by jkn 11y ago
But apparently Google gets a free pass while Microsoft not, because "hey it's Google and they are sooo cool". Interesting indeed how the two cases are perceived differently. I wonder to what extent they really were similar,
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by jkn 11y ago
Google's actions with Java's APIs were quite different from any other API implementation that I know of How were Google actions different from what the Apache Foundation did with the Harmony project (which Google used for their
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by jkn 11y ago
2. Ctrl+o will bring you back to previous locations in many cases (e.g. after a search).
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by jkn 11y ago
Maintaining a low temperature requires continuous work as you can't stop heat transfer completely. This consumes energy and requires some machinery to produce or deliver the coolant. Establishing and maintaining a high pressure on the
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by jkn 12y ago
I have come to appreciate that enjoying the craft you do is the most important thing. After family and friends. Indeed... This reminds me of a dialogue in Iain Banks' Use of Weapons, between a stranger and a woman from the Culture, a
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by jkn 12y ago
Pretty impressed with the negativity here. Just a year ago, I remember all the stories on HN with people lamenting that the FCC doesn't have the guts to regulate broadband as a utility under title II [1,2,3] (admittedly with a minority
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by jkn 12y ago
It's actually mentioned at the bottom of the article: Timeline: December 2, 2014 — Reported the vulnerability to the Android security, @natashenka confirmed the repro works January 6, 2015 — Response form Android security sayin
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by jkn 12y ago
I don't get why you lump iOS and Android together when they make so different trade offs in terms of quality, polish and security vs. functionality and freedom. Bluetooth is a good example... You can use regular (even Apple's) wir
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by jkn 12y ago
What about the stat found in the next paragraph: This left over 100 wealthy foreigners remaining in the canton. Depending on how much wealth they had and how it was distributed, 55 ended up paying more tax and 47 less. Their total cantonal
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by jkn 12y ago
The URL points to the second page of the article, can someone fix it?
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by jkn 12y ago
Thanks for the links. But really, it would be terribly wrong to institutionalize people just because their choices seem irrational to us.
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by jkn 12y ago
Can anyone help me with this most emphasized sentence, "Hemisphere is law enforcement sensitive!"... what is it supposed to mean?
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by jkn 12y ago
There is an odd contrast between this article and the announcement in January of broad support for VP9 from hardware manufacturers: As Google announced today, however, virtually all major hardware vendors will soon support VP9 natively in
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by jkn 12y ago
I'm surprised by this comment. Google is still very supportive of open source, I don't think there is any comparison with other big tech companies. It's not just the still growing Google Summer of Code and Code-in programs[1]
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by jkn 12y ago
The OTR option is still there, see the "Hangout history" checkbox in the Hangout's settings. They did remove the global option to choose the default setting though. By default history is on for regular accounts and off for Ap
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by jkn 12y ago
You're making a good point with the "there is no getting back". I kind of trust Google based on their track record but you can never be sure about the future[1]. But all in all what matters is not whether I can trust them per
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by jkn 12y ago
Why is that? The data are anonymized. But then even if they weren't anonymized, I think Google would be one of the company I would trust the most for that. They know what they're doing in terms of security and of all the companies
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by jkn 12y ago
Sundar Pichai gave some numbers during the I/O keynote, saying that 67 of the top 100 startups, 58% of the Fortune 500 and 72 of the top 100 universities have "gone Google": https://www.youtube.com/watch?feat
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by jkn 12y ago
And Onnes hastened to make observations with the small container of -271°C fluid before it all evaporated away. He found it had a lower surface tension than any previously observed liquid, and just 1/8th the density of water. The mode
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by jkn 13y ago
This is quite unfair. Android has had a huge impact on the phone market in terms of openness, for manufacturers as well as for end users. I took advantage of this when I put CyanogenMod on my phone using the unlocking tool provided by HTC.
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by jkn 13y ago
Both the original article and the Wikipedia page state that WebP support lossy and lossless compression. I guess using lossless WebP would not make sense for JPEG files as the result would probably be bigger than the original JPEG, but it m
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by jkn 13y ago
What I would do to get this on iOS devices. If you're willing to go as far as leaving the walled garden, you can get e.g. Twilight on Android. Not what you asked for of course but this is actually a good example of where the closed

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