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by mysterywhiteboy 14y ago
I consider HN to be an intelligent and well informed corner of the internet - so I would be curious as to what readers think of TPB, the Pirate Party and "illegal" distribution of copyrighted material in general. I don't agree with some of
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by mysterywhiteboy 14y ago
If you click on yourself then you switch to a ghost - in that state you can pass through objects. Explore away!
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by mysterywhiteboy 14y ago
Add to this Berners-Lee's rejection[1] from HyperText 1991 for his paper proposing the Web because it was a) too simple and [2], b) not really a very good Hypertext system [3]. [1] It was actually relegated to a poster. [2] http://www.w3.
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by mysterywhiteboy 14y ago
The Atlantic recently had an interesting POV that puts a positive spin on the high dropout rates of MOOC courses[1]. Essentially claiming that it is a by-product of the great fact that these courses are free and therefore have a low barrie
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by mysterywhiteboy 14y ago
Yeah - a common test law for 'passing off' in trademark cases is exactly along those lines. It's referred to as "A moron in a hurry"[1] i.e. even a moron in a hurry wouldn't confuse the two brands. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_moron_
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by mysterywhiteboy 14y ago
I would add near the top of your list the awesome (and free[1]) book by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg that accompanies their Cornell undergraduate course: Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World. [1] http:/
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ML voice-to-text? Apple needs your contacts & retains transcripts. (nakedsecurity.sophos.com)
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by mysterywhiteboy 14y ago
I'm going to avoid clicking too many times - Apple has previous in charging people multiple times, e.g. when Lion was released last year [1]. [1] http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/27/paypal_users_m...
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by mysterywhiteboy 14y ago
Does it crawl revision history as well? I can deal with the gigabytes - it's the terabytes that scare me! (i.e full revision dumps).
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by mysterywhiteboy 14y ago
Agreed - though without the slow animations I think you might be on to something. I know a lot of people who hate video/screencasts.
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by mysterywhiteboy 14y ago
I'm a big fan of horizontal scrolling as it is the only scrolling my Apple Mighty Mouse will do these days!
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by mysterywhiteboy 14y ago
It isn't perfect but you also unfairly set up a few straw man arguments. >>Greater recognition needs to be given to the value of data gathering, analysis and communication >By whom? I think most experimental scientists are prett