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by mcbits 10y ago
Maybe an auto-clicker could use ABP's acceptable ads filter to focus on reducing the effectiveness of "unacceptable" ads. (But the ad networks are just going to figure out how to detect the clicks and mark them fraudulent any
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by mcbits 10y ago
It's similar to writing build(): string { ... but they generate different JavaScript. The way it's written will give each instance its own reference to the function. The "build(): string" above will add the func
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by mcbits 10y ago
The low contrast is on self-posts (Ask HN, etc). Aside from being more difficult to read, I always get an instant "negative" vibe when I see them because it looks like they've been heavily downvoted.
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Yes you should understand backprop(medium.com)
8 points by mcbits 10y ago|0 comments
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by mcbits 10y ago
Have they decided not to support FreeBSD, or it's just extremely low priority? I could swear I remember that being listed as a supported platform early on in the project. Edit: Ahh, okay, "Support the community extending CoreCLR i
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by mcbits 10y ago
My favorite was Metasearch or Metacrawler or something like that. It would show you what other users were searching for in real time.
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Why is reflection slow?(mattwarren.org)
3 points by mcbits 10y ago|0 comments
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by mcbits 10y ago
Where I live, there are at least a couple hundred stop signs and two (2) traffic signals. That's probably closer to a typical ratio for suburbs and smaller towns. I doubt there's ever been a serious accident at most of those inter
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by mcbits 10y ago
I might trust a video chat today to verify an identity, but only because it would be a relatively new method. Definitely not in a few years if it ever took off. It's already possible to forge a talking head and fall back on "sorry
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by mcbits 10y ago
A list of emails + IP addresses would be valuable to web surveillance companies that already have trails of data for the IP addresses and emails separately.
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Creating videos of the future(news.mit.edu)
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by mcbits 10y ago
> as for actual employed writers, again these guys sort of make their own money through ad code. He's probably just one of the contributing writers.
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by mcbits 10y ago
Risk analysis is just an implementation detail that aids price discovery in a competitive market. If an insurance provider can identify customers with lower risk than the consensus, they can offer lower premiums and attract that business. I
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by mcbits 10y ago
A small population needs a relatively small amount of resources to feed and physically sustain itself, but the amount of resources needed to build and feed an ever-growing population of robots is virtually unbounded. As computers get smalle
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by mcbits 10y ago
The remaining people can try to create an economy around the resources that aren't also walled off and guarded by robots.
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by mcbits 10y ago
The whole purpose of insurance is to normalize the price. Without insurance, people who take the most risks with their health/driving would be more likely to pay (or at least owe) millions, while the health-conscious and risk-averse wo
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by mcbits 10y ago
Yes, it wasn't clear, but I don't think ad blockers should be so agressive against harmless static ads. Being able to create custom rules should be enough. That was just an example of why I don't thinking browsing "shiel
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by mcbits 10y ago
> The thing is, if you're using an ad blocker on all the time, how can you argue that your blocking something for a reason, if you haven't seen any ads yet ? A few weeks ago, I was reading a long-form Guardian article (pretty s
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by mcbits 10y ago
Here is some math notation. What does it mean? x It means nothing. Or it could mean anything. The surrounding text is what explains the meaning you're supposed to derive from mathematical glyphs. Of course there are convention
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by mcbits 10y ago
Facebook's job is to show you what people in your network are sharing with you, filtered to what seems most likely to keep you engaged with the site. It's not to act as peer reviewers for the "news". All these people sud
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by mcbits 10y ago
Marijuana legalization is a step in that direction that I previously thought would never happen in my lifetime.
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by mcbits 10y ago
We know a lot of ways to replenish CO2, and if that's not enough, our two nearest neighboring planets are swimming in it. Maybe the others weren't so lucky!
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by mcbits 10y ago
I don't think it's fair to be upset when editing those files breaks things, either. To be surprised? Yes, definitely. It is fair to expect software labeled "beta" to break in surprising ways, so I hope they're not g
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by mcbits 10y ago
I don't think it's fair to blame people for thinking they could edit simple text files under that folder, well-hidden as it is. How many people already knew there would be any issues beyond line endings (not counting those who lea
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by mcbits 10y ago
Another thing to watch out for is how you have git configured to handle newlines. Usually the recommended config under Windows is to have it transparently change them to \r\n when you clone a project, and back to \n when you push. This trip
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by mcbits 10y ago
The phrasing is not a sign of bias specifically. It's just a peculiarity that I've seen in this style of journalism going back to the Cold War era when "KGB" was a household word. Maybe I've binged too much on 1970s
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by mcbits 10y ago
It was in reference to that, in the context of the larger body of text that has been written about intelligence services. Even when the CIA is the subject, I don't think I've ever seen them presented as America's version of [
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by mcbits 10y ago
Red scare material packaged as a human interest story, now with a Democratic slant to adjust to a new Republican who is reportedly chummy with Russians. It's funny how they always say the KGB/SVR is the counterpart to the the CIA
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by mcbits 10y ago
TypeScript generates some code that's unlike what a person would write directly in JavaScript, which probably does impact performance to some degree. Enums can become integers where a human might decide strings are good enough and more
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by mcbits 10y ago
If the recipient explicitly asks you (or your partners) to text them this and that, and you text them this and that, you're not a spammer. Anything more and you've become a spammer. Seriously. Not cool. Receiving a spam text costs

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