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   by piokuc 13y ago

   Wasted £9.8b must be related to the state of the NHS, and so to the article, too.
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   by piokuc 13y ago

   Great text by Susan on very important issue. I'm a male software engineer and the predominance of male pears has been the only major downside of being in the business for me ever since i started studying CS almost 20 yrs ago. It should
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   Oracle's Ellison downplays threat of NSA database snooping(reuters.com)

   1 points by piokuc 13y ago|0 comments
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   Spotify joker earns £13,000 uploading rubbish tracks(gigwise.com)

   2 points by piokuc 13y ago|0 comments
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   EU telecoms market reforms threaten net neutrality and privacy(wired.co.uk)

   3 points by piokuc 13y ago|0 comments
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   5 Major Ways the Internet Will Change Without Net Neutrality(abcnews.go.com)

   2 points by piokuc 13y ago|0 comments
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   Google: NSA must reform(bbc.co.uk)

   2 points by piokuc 13y ago|0 comments
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   GCHQ and NSA targeted charities, Germans, Israeli PM and EU chief(theguardian.com)

   1 points by piokuc 13y ago|0 comments
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   by piokuc 13y ago

   I understand they reveal the algorithm so you should be able to encrypt any text of your choice if that helps.
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    by piokuc 13y ago

    There is an interesting Kaggle competition based on Conway's Game of Life going on at the moment: "Reverse the arrow of time in the Game of Life" http://www.kaggle.com/c/conway-s-reverse-game-of-life
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    by piokuc 13y ago

    Thanks, I didn't see that.
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    For 20 Years the Nuclear Launch Code at US Minuteman Silos Was 00000000(gizmodo.com)

    9 points by piokuc 13y ago|2 comments
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    by piokuc 13y ago

    Or CLOS. It's a similar problem with keyword arguments passed in hash tables, I think. The space occupied is less of an issue (unless in a deep recursion) but it's slower then constructing a list of pairs, plus order of parameter
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    Stallman: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?(gnu.org)

    3 points by piokuc 13y ago|0 comments
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    by piokuc 13y ago

    Watch migration of eagle Arnold from Slovakia to (probably) South Africa, on a google map: http://spravatanap.sk/web/index.php/component/content/articl... The page is in Slovakian but Google translate do
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    GSLL, GNU Scientific Library for Lisp(common-lisp.net)

    2 points by piokuc 13y ago|0 comments
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    Languages Used for Machine Learning(kaggle.com)

    7 points by piokuc 13y ago|0 comments
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    by piokuc 13y ago

    No worries, all the pictures will be safely archived by the NSA.
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    Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3?(quora.com)

    2 points by piokuc 13y ago|0 comments
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    Snowden 'Flight Of Liberty' Campaign To Begin(news.sky.com)

    9 points by piokuc 13y ago|0 comments
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    Edward Snowden's father writes open letter to NSA whistleblower in Moscow(guardian.co.uk)

    3 points by piokuc 13y ago|1 comments
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    by piokuc 13y ago

    No. I live in the UK, I don't pay the TV license, yet I still can't see the content of that page.
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    Snowden Spying Claims: US 'Bugged EU Offices'(news.sky.com)

    1 points by piokuc 13y ago|0 comments
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    by piokuc 13y ago

    Does it do garbage collecting in all the target languages? The question is mainly about C, cause I can imagine it can rely on native garbage collector when targeting Java, Perl, etc.
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    NSA's New Data Center & Supercomputer Aim To Crack World's Strongest Encryption(forbes.com)

    9 points by piokuc 13y ago|0 comments
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    Derek Sivers: Wood Egg Startup Guides 2013 released. Hiring for 2014.(woodegg.com)

    1 points by piokuc 13y ago|0 comments
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    by piokuc 13y ago

    I think the second point was completely unnecessary. I didn't find it amusing or funny, just sarcastic. Yes, sarcastic, but not funny. I guess you consider wise.io your competition, don't you?
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    by piokuc 13y ago

    It would be interesting to know how popular Google's prediction API actually is. They don't show off any testimonials or customers' success stories. The traffic on their forum seems rather moderate: https://developers.google.com/prediction
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    by piokuc 13y ago

    True, to some extend, but see the comment by gcr: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5781899
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    by piokuc 13y ago

    At least one aspect of the peer review process should be better now than in 1982, when the paper was published: resubmission detection. Detecting plagiarism seems easy these days, just google for "detect plagiarism". But are reviewers actua