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by necubi 14y ago
The initial claiming process is automatic. But as noted in the article, the uploader then has an opportunity to dispute the claim. The rights holder is then supposed to manually verify it and either approve or dismiss it. The problem is tha
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by necubi 14y ago
Seriously? Google has owned Motorola Mobility for fewer than two months[0]. And in any case, though it seldom matters to people insistent on seeing the Android manufacturers in a bad light, Microsoft started this war by demanding licensing
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How software-defined radio could revolutionize wireless(arstechnica.com)
19 points by necubi 14y ago|4 comments
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by necubi 14y ago
They still have an office there, but the headquarter moved to Cupertino.
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by necubi 14y ago
It's pretty quiet. There were several large tech companies that set up here in the 90s but most left after the bubble imploded. There is, however, a surprisingly vibrant indie gaming scene, and a few start-ups here and there. I've long foun
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by necubi 14y ago
It's not a matter of repaying the debt. It's a matter of being able to afford future debt. Sovereign debt is generally sold as bonds, which either pay interest or are sold at a discount. The question is: how much interest should they pay, o
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by necubi 14y ago
This is what makes r/AskScience so good. "Free of anecdotes" is a rule for posts, and it is vigorously enforced.
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by necubi 14y ago
It's unfortunate that they decided to save 2 bytes by using onkeyup instead of onkeydown. That choice makes the game nearly unplayable for me. Compare the version in the demo to the one here: http://micahw.com/tron.html (221 bytes). In an
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by necubi 14y ago
Something I haven't seen discussed: how are web browsers going to handle somebody typing a generic keyword that is also TLD into the address bar? The chrome-style omnibar that every browser has since adopted is predicated on the fact that U
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by necubi 14y ago
Backbone and its ilk are full MVC themselves. Typically, you'd have models on the backend which are synced to the frontend via XHR/websockets/etc, so that both sides have a representation. Backbone also has controllers (in the Cocoa sense r
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by necubi 14y ago
And from experience, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah is certainly an achievement, not merely a coming of age ceremony. It was certainly the hardest thing I'd done by that age (13), and involves leading a full service in hebrew and reading from the Torah,
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by necubi 14y ago
Sure, but that doesn't make telegraphs a "fad." Nothing lasts forever--particularly not when it comes to technology. But I don't think you've refuted the parent's statement that facebook won't "be easily displaced." It took a vastly superio
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How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit(theatlantic.com)
19 points by necubi 14y ago|1 comments
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by necubi 14y ago
Which is why humans have been drinking alcohol since the dawn of history[0]? I don't think they had billion dollar psychological ad campaigns in ancient mesopotamia... [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_beer
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by necubi 14y ago
TVs with integrated computers have never made much sense to me. How would this ever be preferable to a set-top box, which, incidentally Apple already sells? Good TVs are very expensive and people tend not to upgrade them very frequently (10
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by necubi 14y ago
No, it is much more than that. You should watch the video, it demonstrates the platform solving some very hard problems with very little code. The key here is (I believe) operational transformation ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational
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by necubi 14y ago
Apple invented none of that. My first smartphone, the Treo 300 (released in 2003) had no carrier garbage, was a much more open platform than iOS, and at least on Sprint came with an unlimited data plan. Those features were unusual in the du
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by necubi 15y ago
This NY Times article has a lot more information: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/science/space/in-pursuit-o... . It's wonderful to see people spending huge amounts of money to expand the reach of humanity instead of our capacity for nar
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by necubi 15y ago
I find that I do the same thing, except with Ruby for data processing instead of Python. It may be that I just don't know R all that well, but there are so many tasks that are incredibly awkward in R, often requiring a third-party library l
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by necubi 15y ago
I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but there's no such thing as an "impartial" ranking of things. Any ranking will put importance on certain factors which are chosen from all the possible factors by the designer of the ranking. You have
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by necubi 15y ago
Yeah, I remember (perhaps too fondly) selling software on Handango and the others in middle school and the amazing experience of getting my first royalty check from them ($500--an almost inconceivable amount of money at the time). I remembe
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by necubi 15y ago
Interestingly, the chat session where the name "ruby" was chosen has been saved for posterity: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/... (and the HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2954764 ).
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by necubi 15y ago
I wrote a tool along those lines: http://github.com/mwylde/slinky . It runs a static file server that transparently compiles resources as they are requested (so you request main.js and it finds main.coffee, compiles it, and sends it back).
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Roadmap to Scala 3(groups.google.com)
3 points by necubi 15y ago|0 comments
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by necubi 15y ago
If you have not watched the talk ( http://vimeo.com/36579366 ), I highly, highly recommend it. It's a very worthwhile and inspiring hour. In it Bret Victor ( http://worrydream.com ) discusses living life according to an overriding princip
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by necubi 15y ago
That can't be it, as 0mq is also LGPL. From the footer of zeromq.org: ØMQ is free software licensed under the LGPL And in every source file: 0MQ is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of t
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by necubi 15y ago
According to the NYTimes byline, he is a "Goldman Sachs executive director and head of the firm’s United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa." That doesn't sound like a lowly VP. It's rubbish that he has
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HNHiring.me: A pleasant interface for the monthly hiring posts(hnhiring.me)
116 points by necubi 15y ago|21 comments
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by necubi 15y ago
On similar lines, I wrote an unofficial API for Amazon's CloudPlayer: https://github.com/mwylde/cloud_player .
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by necubi 15y ago
Really, the issue is that the news feed is broken. Even following a relatively small number of people and projects (10 and 29 respectively) my news feed is dominated by the many updates (issues and commits) from a couple of popular projects

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