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by lbenes 12y ago
It's more than intuition. Both chess and jeopardy are subsets of the human environment. Watson couldn't handle tic-tac-toe, never-mind chess. Change one rule of chess, and human could cope but Deep Blue would need to be rewritten.
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by lbenes 12y ago
While I agree with your point that intelligence must be defined rigorously. We don't need to leave it to the philosophers. After categorizing the types of definitions, Shane Legg successfully used "Property of an agent that intera
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by lbenes 12y ago
There are a number of ways to help people in China gain access to the open Internet. One easy way to help is to setup an obfsproxy bridge to alleviate the shortage.[1] The quickest and easiest way is to setup your free Amazon EC2 account wi
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Self-repairing software tackles malware(sciencedaily.com)
29 points by lbenes 12y ago|7 comments
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by lbenes 12y ago
The linked webpage doesn't have a good overview or about section for the project. I found the Wikipedia article to be a good introduction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenotype
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by lbenes 12y ago
Am I the only one that finds the MS Windows ping more useful for quick troubleshooting that the Linux/Unix variants? A few weeks ago I was dealing poor performance on my cable modem. When I pinged a valid IP, I was seeing the successfu
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by lbenes 12y ago
> That's hardly related to TOR, but most probably a misconfiguration of the web-server or application which leaked the IP. According to http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-did-the-fbi-find-the-si... "He
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Grad Student Rigs Cheap Alternative to $1,000 Air Purifiers in China(scienceblog.com)
61 points by lbenes 12y ago|32 comments
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by lbenes 13y ago
Yes, that's exactly how this article gained my upvote. For misclicks and link-bait, I would love to see HN add the ability to retract votes from articles. I have many "saved stories" that I'd love to remove from my list
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by lbenes 13y ago
Both qBittorrent and deluge both already fill this open source, minimalistic libtorrent space. There's actually over 20 other GUIs for libtorrent.[1] I've tried most of them and we don't need yet another µtorrent 1.6 imitator
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by lbenes 13y ago
I really miss the + operator in Google searches. Back when Google disabled it to make their Google+ easier to search for, someone posted some good examples of where " " fails to reproduce the + search behavior.
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by lbenes 13y ago
Sorry for the confusion. When I came back to edit my original post, I also changed peaked -> piqued per Johan's suggestion. Not sure of the Internet etiquette here, but next time I'll be more clear.
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by lbenes 13y ago
Valve has the resources; it's more a issue of internal commitment, which I agree they don't seem willing to make. To make SteamOS a serious contender to NXE Dashboard or CellOS they'd need to: * Develop a XrossMediaBar like U
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by lbenes 13y ago
Are these atomic counters related to the atomic object feature that was promised with OGL 3.0 and then dropped? Is there a template model now in OGL or is it using a different method to create immutable objects across multiple threads? Plea
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by lbenes 13y ago
After working Solaris and AIX for years, I still prefer BSD's userland to Linux's, but Linux's overwhelming HW support eventually won me over. Would anyone else here be interested in a distro with a Linux kernel with FreeBSD&
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by lbenes 13y ago
As a hardcore SC2 player, I'd only be interested in a native version of this game. Even the latest ASM.JS demos like Epic Citadel run chopping on my system. Hardcore gamers like myself won't sacrifice performance for a the luxury
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by lbenes 13y ago
Back in 1994, my 486 had no issue rendering the Star Wars opening crawl in a sweet game, Star Wars: TIE Fighter. Fast forward 20 years, and thanks to the wonders of web, my computer can't even render it correctly. I get a blank screen
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by lbenes 13y ago
Yes, but he cleverly avoids the fact that a few thousand dollars put into Apple stock in late 90's could have made you a millionaire today, but same in MS would have actually lost value from inflation.
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by lbenes 13y ago
"In my experience with LabVIEW, it was really great for making things like concurrency easy" Absolutely. Ever since my stint with G, I've longed for a general purpose solution for handling flow control in concurrent code. If
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by lbenes 13y ago
This article is full of hyperbole and exaggerations. I downloaded the latest filezilla with the offer-installer "malware" and scanned it with Avira free antivirus, and MS Security Essentials. Both of them reported no problem. I th
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by lbenes 13y ago
Edge gestures are so fast and intuitive to use, I don't think they should be reserved for apps. The two I find particular useful are the top-edge down to access messages and the bottom-edge up to access your Task Manager. Have you used
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by lbenes 13y ago
In a resource/power constrained device, the last thing I want is to have all my apps restricted to a heavy-weight VM. Jolla and Ubuntu both offer native applications. I haven't used Jolla yet, but I love the gesture based Ubuntu a
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by lbenes 13y ago
The real disappointment to me is that this decision was made over an irrational licensing issue instead of technical merits. If Clang was superior to GCC in the vast majority of benchmarks, then I would support this decision. But that’s not
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by lbenes 13y ago
CSS is the epitome of design by committee, only worse. It’s worse because some members had a vested interest for the standard to fail. As a result, we get threads like this from designers, and programmers; they're in a worse bind. It’s
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by lbenes 13y ago
In my experience, the worse bugs I have encountered are deadlocks and race conditions. Saying just use a “non-blocking algorithm” is no silver bullet to the difficultly of working with threads. If we don’t come up with a new system, I can’
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by lbenes 13y ago
I had some experience with GnuPG and Symantec PGP and Outlook a few years back. All non-public information like CAD files were supposed to be PGP encrypted. Yet, even the engineers would send most files in plain text. I remember many times
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by lbenes 13y ago
It all boils down to using the right tool for the job. If you need performance, C will blow python out of the water. If you need a quick solution that’s light on data acquisition and heavy on algorithms, python will probably be a better cho
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by lbenes 13y ago
I don't read Chinese on my phone, but I do care about gaming and battery life. In both those cases, an equivalent 720p phone will outperform a 1080p phone. Shuttleworth is making the right trade-off in this case.
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by lbenes 13y ago
Wow, I expected better from people on HN. I suppose you are also one of those smug people with a 20 megapixel point and shoot who thinks it takes better pictures than my 12MP DSLR. Well I have news for you buddy. It doesn't and your 10
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by lbenes 13y ago
No, they are not plausible. The whole idea of using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as the back end technology for a low-end smartphone is nuts. Even the best HTML rendering engines are CPU and memory hogs. CSS was never designed for and is nearl

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