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College students take to Wikipedia to rewrite the wrongs of Internet science(latimes.com)
2 points by lorax 10y ago|0 comments
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Venezuela Is Falling Apart(theatlantic.com)
5 points by lorax 10y ago|0 comments
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Simple social skills that will make you more likable(businessinsider.com)
9 points by lorax 11y ago|1 comments
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Century old Antarctic images from the Ross Sea Party discovered(nzaht.org)
2 points by lorax 13y ago|0 comments
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by lorax 13y ago
Before filling out the postcard I would want to know how much it costs to send it and what pictures I can put on the front. Neither of those seem possible
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by lorax 13y ago
It is pretty cool that I could see a difference in coverage between when I read the article and when I got home from work. A bunch of people must have installed the app after reading about it here.
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by lorax 13y ago
Yes you can, you still have to have a powerful enough military to defend your claim. In fact, given a large and powerful enough military you don't have to buy the land before claiming it.
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by lorax 13y ago
And yet, that regulation was probably created for a good reason, to protect consumers from car companies selling cars that they had no way of servicing effectively if something went wrong with the car or if there was a recall. Maybe Tesla h
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The Japanese have embarked on an intriguing and desperate monetary policy(businessinsider.com)
50 points by lorax 13y ago|71 comments
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by lorax 13y ago
You should also support xmp. It is an XML format that gets embedded and isn't quite as much of a mess as exif. It also is a common metadata standard that applies to more than just image files.
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Washington Attorney General disputes T-Mobile's "No Contract" claim(atg.wa.gov)
1 points by lorax 13y ago|0 comments
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by lorax 14y ago
3M Healthcare Information Systems, Bethesda, MD Java Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, NLP Engineer We are building a medical NLP engine to extract medical facts from medical records and assign codes (ICD, CPT, etc). The engine is writt
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by lorax 14y ago
It is likely that googlebot is running the chrome browser, so anything you can do in chrome, googlebot can do too.
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by lorax 15y ago
It certainly will keep the recruiters away.
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by lorax 15y ago
If you aren't taking into account the length of the word, then it looks like the optimal choice of 5 consonants and 1 vowel. Look at his section titled "First refinement" the most common letters were (in order) "ESIARNTOL" Eliminate all
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by lorax 15y ago
An even better strategy would be to weight your guesses towards the most information gain. If a letter appears often, but is in the same position most of the time, getting it won't help you as much as getting a letter that appears in fewer
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by lorax 15y ago
If you ask for demographics you will not only get increased abandonment, you will also get a lot of incorrect information, would it surprise you to know that I'm a 95 year old sumo wrestler? Your users don't care that you will get higher
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by lorax 15y ago
A bit old (2003) but nice to have another example of exploiting hash table weaknesses.
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by lorax 15y ago
Most of these changes seem focused on improving small, short-lived connections. IRC and SSH are mostly long-lived and I don't think it will have a noticeable impact on them. For large bulk data transfers (like sep or ftp) the Proportional R
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by lorax 15y ago
Why do you think multiplexing multiple independent streams at the application layer instead of the transport layer is a good thing? Now that people are using it they find they have to re-implement the other things the other things the tran
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by lorax 15y ago
"BitTorrent is also quite popular in the workplace, and some people are even installing Tor clients on their work machines to conceal details of their Internet usage, the study found." Some writers don't do their homework. Confusing bittor
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by lorax 15y ago
On one hand, you have tcp, which already allows you to multiplex multiple streams, every bit of software understands it, and your back office web application servers fully support it. Yes, it has limitations (slow start applying to individ
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by lorax 15y ago
VPN's don't use TCP because having a reliable protocol with retransmission inside another reliable protocol with retransmission can cause lots of extra traffic when a packet is dropped and the data gets retransmitted multiple times, once fr
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by lorax 15y ago
Agreed to a certain extent. The real question you have to ask is "If they hit their scaling targets, would it be successful", for Amazon, the answer was yes (thought there were significant doubts whether or not they could hit their targets
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by lorax 15y ago
I wonder how that plant compares to electronics plants Tory. Would it still seem up to date or would it be hopelessly outdated.
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by lorax 15y ago
If you own the books and you aren't planning on sharing them then you are just format-shifting which is perfectly ok.
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by lorax 15y ago
I bet there are a lot of people out there that see parallels between RIM and the companies they work for. Sadly, I don't think RIM is in any way unique and is more the norm than the exception.
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by lorax 15y ago
This seems like a change similar to the perl 5.000000000008 to 5.8 change (yes, I know it had fewer 0's in it but there were a lot).
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by lorax 15y ago
Here's how to avoid the block: Read a different newspaper. It's not like New York Post has a monopoly on news, if they don't want your pageviews, give them to someone else, don't bother trying to trick them into showing you the article any
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The miracle of autotune, surfer interview remix(boingboing.net)
1 points by lorax 15y ago|0 comments

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