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LinkedIn Back Up in China After Yesterday's Block(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by joshes 16y ago|0 comments
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Zimbabwe Professor and Others Tortured, Charged with Treason for Watching Videos(wired.com)
19 points by joshes 16y ago|0 comments
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by joshes 16y ago
"1970s: Want to use the computer? Take intro CS. 2000s: Intro CS course relevant only to future cubicle-dwellers" This is a serious problem. When I speak to students from programs other than Computer Science, even from other scientific disc
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Facebook co-founder Saverin: Who cares if The Social Network is true?(venturebeat.com)
13 points by joshes 16y ago|0 comments
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by joshes 16y ago
Question: How do you control false positive rate mining correlations? Answer: We use false positives as a negative feedback mechanism which refines our models. We have dials for precision and recall depending on how much we want to risk loo
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by joshes 16y ago
Turning on the legend and the magnification of an individual boid (by clicking "Decorate") is very helpful. When you mouse over the magnified boid, you see the vectors immediately adjust, providing a very handy visual description of what is
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by joshes 16y ago
The most fascinating portion of it, to me: "The technology is also more accurate than current diagnostic tests, the scientists said. The portable diagnostic device achieved 96 percent accuracy, compared with the 84 percent rate associated w
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by joshes 16y ago
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/0223/12242906... According to the Irish times, there are a total of 112 different English spellings of the name. Transliteration from Arabic to English is always tricky, it seems.
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by joshes 16y ago
This was a perspective altering read for me, and I still have some 200 pages to go. It is extremely dense, in the sense that there is just so much packed into each page, chapter and dialogue that you have to pace yourself. So many times hav
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by joshes 16y ago
I wonder how well the color blind can detect second to second changes in hue? Not a complaint, just a genuine curiosity. Any color blind out there care to comment?
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by joshes 16y ago
My immediate thought is, "I would prefer not to be employed by a place who is actively in the business of suing their own employees for contributing to open source." Then I tried to see it from the employer's perspective... And I came to th
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by joshes 16y ago
This intrigues me as well due to the fact that many news and sports websites simply post official Associated Press material. I would think that this sort of thing is not frowned up as strongly as simple content farming due to licensing agre
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by joshes 16y ago
The author claims that Google doesn't "get" social because social relies on messiness and Google's forte is providing order. However, Facebook, an organization who does seem to understand social exceedingly well, is known for its emphasis o
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by joshes 16y ago
I agree with your comment about the exaggerated brevity. But I am not so certain he is commenting that AI will never be capable of thought. My reading of his comment, and of the original Turing paper which he is citing (Computing Machinery
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by joshes 16y ago
No matter the intent or implications of the post or the poll, the fact remains that 20% of the people control 85% of the wealth . This seems horribly lopsided to me. Plutocracy seems to be an apt description.
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by joshes 16y ago
Brin and Page are not exactly the prototypes of profit-seeking corporate overlords, either. This is their type of move. Bravo.
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by joshes 16y ago
Agreed. This was absolutely stunning to witness. Extreme kudos to Mr. Andrew Carol for resurrecting a technological gem.
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by joshes 16y ago
This is frightening. The biggest threat to the United States is the actions of the United States. Who the hell thought that this was a good idea? In what way does this curb terrorism? It is far more likely to encourage and enhance false pos
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by joshes 16y ago
Absurd. You have no proof that his lawyers are encouraging anyone to break the law. You're trying to have it both ways by saying "If the State Department believes..." immediately followed by "They are..." They are defending a client, which,
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by joshes 16y ago
This is immediately what I thought when I read the title as well. Misguided puff piece.
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by joshes 16y ago
Let us not conflate computer science with software engineering.
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by joshes 16y ago
The problem with his Wikileaks theory, in my opinion, is that he fails to account for the fact that only ~0.1% of the cables have been released at this stage. The philosophy behind a staggered release? As stated by Wikileaks and Assange, r
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by joshes 16y ago
I'm quickly becoming disturbed with what is happening in the US. I was reading the last few chapters of 1984 last night, for fun, and with what has been happening in the past few months, particularly with the TSA, I am starting to feel as
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by joshes 16y ago
If only because you could fit all of the Haskell programmers into a barrel of standard size? I think that's the point of the article, actually.
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by joshes 16y ago
This is completely and utterly preposterous. If you are a citizen of Connecticut, or, hell, anywhere , please email Lieberman and tell him that his actions and comments are completely ludicrous and, in fact, anti-Democratic. http://lieber
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by joshes 16y ago
I'm a fan of Chrome, but let's remember the demographic here before we get out of hand: Techcrunch, and similar websites and blogs, cater to the technologically savvy elite. The people visiting websites like Techcrunch are very much in tune
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by joshes 16y ago
> These leaks are not specifically about the war(s) at all, and most seem to simply be a broad swath of the everyday normal secrets that a security state keeps from all but its most trusted hundreds of thousands of people who have the
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by joshes 16y ago
17/19. Missed Erlang and Groovy. The ones which came to me quickest upon seeing the name(s) were Python, Lisp, C, Java, C++ and Go (because of the year). The one which was the hardest to recall was Scala. And the bonus was quick to memory,
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Ask HN: What is the first thing you do when trying a new programming language?
5 points by joshes 16y ago|10 comments
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by joshes 16y ago
When you comment that these cables are mundane in nature, you are assuming that you yourself are indicative of the audience as a whole. If you do not believe that millions upon millions of people will read this, you are mistaken. And many,

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