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by pflats 10y ago
A few years ago, France passed a Law to protect small companies such as Nexedi against large companies that try to impose unbalanced contracts. [...] Not allowing the publication in Apple's AppStore of web browsers that are not based
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by pflats 10y ago
Google also said that their new messaging app would be end-to-end encrypted by default, and then quickly changed their mind when business reasons prevailed. Business reasons will always prevail. But even beyond that: > For the lazy, a sn
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by pflats 10y ago
Analysis generally suffers when you stop reading a third of the way into a sentence. 'About half of millennial tech workers say it’s important (26.5%) or very important (19%), but the number declined to 10.2% among the Boomer generatio
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by pflats 10y ago
I'm going to be a little bit contrarian and disagree. I totally see where the author is coming from, but it comes across of mathematical self-aggrandizement. I especially disagree with his interpretation of the layman's experience
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by pflats 10y ago
This reminds me of some worm/virus/??? I'd see on people's computers back in the Kazaa days. It seemed like it would copy itself into the shared folder, picking filenames based on what was already there: e.g. Alanis Mori
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by pflats 10y ago
So here's the deal: I'm gainfully and happily employed in public education. Math and computer science. If you're really changing the world, let me know. I know my stuff to the point that I've been called as an expert wit
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by pflats 10y ago
Because there doesn't have to be another pair that satisfies that relation. Counterexamples are trivial: Color the pair blue if its elements are 1 and 0. Color the pair red otherwise. Color the triplet blue if its elements are 1, -1, a
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by pflats 10y ago
A number of people are saying the same thing, but I'll just respond here. >The only time this would be a problem is if the bootleg trailer were uploaded before they uploaded the ContentID data, and Fox wanted to then upload the Cont
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by pflats 10y ago
I agree that this should not be happening. But your solution is unworkable. Upload priority is not proof of ownership or creation. If you upload one of Fox's movie trailers before they do, they should still definitely be able to take y
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by pflats 10y ago
It is also available on OS X in the Keyboard prefpane; so long as it's a menu item, it can get a shortcut. System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Application Shortcuts -> [+]
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by pflats 10y ago
Perhaps I was educated wrong, or perhaps I've forgotten almost everything from my math degrees, but I can't wrap my head around this blog post, let alone how it was upvoted so highly. Asking why the logistic/sigmoid function
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by pflats 10y ago
>(can your method handle that?) It's not "my" method. I'm not quite sure what I did to merit attitude and hostility, but to answer your question: Yes. Third-graders are expected to do it with 3-digit numbers. You&#x27
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by pflats 10y ago
>You end up with a you-know-how-to-learn-for-life idea, but that's always been unsatisfying for me. Public schooling (in the US) will always feel like it's torn between the two extremes of giving a strong liberal arts, "le
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by pflats 10y ago
And walking into someone's place of work uninvited, expecting them to drop everything and meet with you isn't rude? I'd be rightly ticked off if someone did that to me, and I'm not one of the worlds richest and most secr
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by pflats 10y ago
If he's seven, he was probably coloring in ten frames, which are used to build a stronger conceptual understanding of our base-10 number system. The model starts out with physical objects, moves to visual representations of those objec
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by pflats 10y ago
>My feelings now are that there really shouldn't be any mandatory homework. Been there, tried it. Didn't work. I wish it did, but it didn't. There's a reason teachers assign homework. We're not a craven group tha
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by pflats 10y ago
>We made the decision to call all the startups we’d consider taking on through Apply HN and make a decision on fit. […] Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a good rapport with Maciej. Regardless of the vote situation, I’d make the same decisi
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by pflats 11y ago
>Which people? Currently, high schools students taking the PARCC, SmarterBalanced, and other web-based standardized tests. And whoa man is it terrible to watch them struggle with it.
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by pflats 11y ago
>I wonder why NyQuil is outside of quotes. Did a professor of medicine really make such an unbelievable mistake? It's more likely the professor either talked about NyQuil in a follow-up question where the direct quote did not flow n
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by pflats 11y ago
> Likewise, whites are more likely to use low-penalty drugs like hallucinogens, and blacks are more likely to use high-penalty drugs like crack cocaine. Why is it, then, that crack cocaine is a high-penalty drug, and hallucinogens are lo
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by pflats 11y ago
>In my thesis work, the main issue I encountered was that RK4 was a vector operation, but GPUs are matrix processors. The bottleneck in the application was the memory bandwidth, not the GPU itself. We ended up with a speedup of 16 w.r.t
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by pflats 11y ago
It's definitely a recruiting strategy. Heck, until fairly recently, Google Pittsburgh was on the CMU campus. Apple, Intel, Disney, and a bunch of others still are. http://www.cmu.edu/corporate/partnerships/cic
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by pflats 11y ago
>It's exactly the sort of thing that leads to mandated programs like common core. What exactly is wrong with the common core?
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I somehow dug Cindy out of the crypts of my brain. The squeeze theorem is sometimes also called the sandwich theorem, so that one threw me off. It's also sometimes (in Italian and Russian, according to my professors) called the Theore
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by pflats 11y ago
>Is any industrial worker going to be seen dead wearing this thing, given how it appears currently? Yes. I worked for two years as an industrial electrician. Industrial workers will generally eschew PPE in general when they think it&#x27
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by pflats 11y ago
>Now, I do not understand why a flashing switch should create stress. "Oh, shoot, no, I don't want that switch to flip!" I wonder, though, if after enough use, you'll acclimate to the device being "smart", a
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by pflats 11y ago
Apple's official monitors double as docking stations, with USB/Firewire/Ethernet being carried over thunderbolt. The most recent ones also half a decade old and still quite expensive, so I can't imagine buying one, but A
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by pflats 11y ago
We're the odd folks out in wanting the matte screens. Glossy looks way better in stores (especially since Apple controls the lighting to make glare incredibly unlikely) and in pretty much any case where you do not have direct light. It
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I thought @csoghoian's take was interesting. The FBI doesn't want one specific phone unlocked, they want precedent. https://twitter.com/csoghoian/status/699841360963108864
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by pflats 11y ago
"He also complained of denial-of-service attacks against Coinbase and others, while The New York Times reported that some developers had received death threats. [...] But he raises a good point—denial-of-service attacks and death threa

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