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by jkn 13y ago
You're making a good point. Thanks for the answer.
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by jkn 13y ago
All kinds of organized crime I expect...
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by jkn 13y ago
Most contributors here seem to wish for widespread end-to-end encryption, to make wiretaps a thing of the past. I'm a bit surprised at this apparent consensus... What is the estimated number of people who have been significantly wronged by
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by jkn 14y ago
How is that the animals' problem? But note that I was referring to some discoveries. I just don't believe we're close to making an efficient "use" of the millions of animals subject to experiments every year.
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by jkn 14y ago
Scientists who don't feel strongly about animal rights defend the position that is most convenient and efficient for them. If using a monkey instead of spending months cultivating petri dishes is easier (e.g. more deterministically successf
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by jkn 14y ago
Maybe you're thinking of one of the experiments implementing the basic income guarantee idea [1]. The Wikipedia page mentions successful but limited experiments in Canada and India among others. It's also an interesting approach, but I thin
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by jkn 14y ago
I don't think this is about giving poor people a regular income, more like a one-time cash transfer. The idea is that money is a good "fishing pole".
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by jkn 14y ago
I wonder if Google will be able to use its own patents on VP8 to pressure Nokia into a deal. As I understand it, Nokia lost its license when it sued HTC in Germany over VP8 technology[1], since the WebM licensing terms say: If you or your
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by jkn 14y ago
This is a good argument but not a definitive one. For example, if "sousveillance" is pervasive, the wealth and power of the few might be balanced by the number of people watching on them.
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by jkn 14y ago
Note that 2007 is the iPhone's public debut. The project was started in 2004 [1]. Android the product was also announced in 2007, after the iPhone, although the project indeed started before the iPhone, in 2003 [2]. [1] http://readwrite.co
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by jkn 14y ago
GP says Google wants something "like" h264 without paying for it. Somehow paying $100M for the company that developed the codec, and employing its people to continue development for years now, doesn't count. rayiner: I think you made some g
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by jkn 14y ago
I can't resist mentioning the Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den poem I came across recently. The poet plays with the many tones and many variants of the sound 'sh' in Chinese: « Shī Shì shí shī shǐ » Shíshì shīshì Shī Shì, shì shī,
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by jkn 14y ago
It will make the Glass banned from corporate environments, planes and basically every place that has "no cameras" signs. Like supermarkets. What about mobile phones then?
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by jkn 14y ago
I don't see that. For most application the typical Wi-Fi access is enough, e.g. for music and movie streaming, working in Google Docs... Even if it was only working on home Wi-Fi, it would be far from worthless. People pay $200 for a Wi-Fi
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by jkn 14y ago
I would consider in this calculation that the chromebook comes with 1 terabyte free storage on the cloud for 3 years.
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by jkn 14y ago
Search, mail and maps consume advertising in the same way that newspaper and magazine articles do. Or Facebook pages, or TV series. Roger Federer earns 85% of his revenue from advertising[1]. Other parts of his business (tennis playing) con
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Clang based documentation generator for C and C++(jessevdk.github.com)
75 points by jkn 14y ago|20 comments
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by jkn 14y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but even if boring() was a much simpler function that returned after generating one value, if the timeout happened first it would be left hanging. Such is the case of the time.After() function, which easily solves
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by jkn 14y ago
Very valid concerns I think, but it's not quite that bad. A few points: - Goroutines are not garbage collected. - In this case and many others, you can just use a buffered channel. But of course in many other cases it doesn't solve the prob
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by jkn 14y ago
As I read it the whole SSH client is an OpenSSH port running in the NativeClient sandbox, which does make it safer in terms of SSH client exploits, in the sense that the exploit doesn't give you immediate control of the local machine. Secu
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by jkn 14y ago
What about the traditional SSH client as a zone of trust? It's unfair to ignore the client in the traditional case but count the browser and extension as two additional zones of trust in the Chrome case. Client-side exploits in SSH clients
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by jkn 14y ago
You're confusing copyright and trademark. If copyright was allowed to expire, people could freely share the earliest Disney movies, but they still couldn't infringe the Mickey Mouse trademark by printing t-shirts since the trademark doesn't
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by jkn 14y ago
Maybe you stopped reading after the first half of the article? The rest is about access to culture and teaching material. Also, "free" is not the only aspect of the question. Please don't ignore e.g. Saudi people being grateful for access t
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by jkn 14y ago
From OP's comment: I didn't even read the list and have no idea who's on it He might not be interested in Forbes' list, but care about the reaction from the HN community. I see no contradiction.
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by jkn 14y ago
This reminds me of a post by an author who had his own book's prize on Amazon decreased in a bidding war between bots [1]. It's a different matter but the post begins with this: Before I talk about my own troubles, let me tell you about an
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by jkn 14y ago
I dont know if there is a good way of saying this, but I would personally find such feedback useful and there are no private messages on HN so here it is: I do remember your username as maybe the second most Apple-biased contributor on HN.
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by jkn 14y ago
Well now you have five answers like mine :) Same version here though the UI looks very different. I can actually reproduce what you describe but only at low zoom levels, which makes sense: the temporary display of a bitmap at the wrong zoom
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by jkn 14y ago
Which version of the Maps app are you using? I don't see these blurred pixels on my phone, but note that this kind of rendering can also happen with a vector based map: The application has to convert the vector information to a bitmap anywa
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New Google Maps Android API(android-developers.blogspot.com)
12 points by jkn 14y ago|1 comments
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by jkn 14y ago
This is definitely an issue, however at some point the right of the people to appropriate their culture outweighs the right of the artists to control their creations. I think when your work has been in the wild for 28 years, it's time to le

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