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by raphman 15y ago
Ok. This means that even more authors might republish the same research in different venues - just in order to avoid their research being ignored because of their choice of journal. Seems like another danger of an Elsevier boycot to me.
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by raphman 15y ago
Don't search engines already penalize duplicate content? Maybe it would suffice to 'just' put all papers online, convert all references to hyperlinks, and let Google sort out what is important and what not. Actually, (at least in computer
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by raphman 15y ago
EFF on countermeasures: 'Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices' (December 2011) https://www.eff.org/document/defending-privacy-us-border-gui...
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by raphman 15y ago
Absolutely agree. It seems to be really hard even for experienced researchers to assess which papers will be seen as important in the future [1]. However, maybe something like PageRank might work out well. The more citations your papers get
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by raphman 15y ago
That would mean sacrificing basic scientific principles - "cite at least the most relevant stuff" - for political reasons. I don't think this is a good way for improving scientific publishing.
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by raphman 15y ago
I stand at least partially corrected. Sorry and thank you.
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by raphman 15y ago
Minor correction: Elsevier's headquarters are in Amsterdam for historical reasons, not for tax reasons.
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by raphman 15y ago
It seems this Google IP address was associated with a blog spam scanning bot some time ago: http://www.techjournal.info/2009/12/who-is-abuseiampromcorpg...
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by raphman 15y ago
More or less same technique, presented at UIST in October 2011: http://chrisharrison.net/index.php/Research/TapSense
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by raphman 15y ago
Agreed. Unfortunately, this seems to be pretty common in online tech journalism. My own experience: We published a paper on another touch sensing technique last year which got featured in a short article for Technology Review. The author i
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by raphman 15y ago
Maybe we should distinguish between the doctorate you get awarded for you PhD thesis (the proof that you can perform research) and the stuff you do during your PhD studies (what you learn). Depending on you advisor(s), your topic, your own
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by raphman 15y ago
One thing to note: There are a lot of differences between PhDs in different fields of research. Especially in biomed research, PhD students often seem to do extremely specialized research. Therefore, what they learn during their PhD may be
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by raphman 15y ago
I guess "Lasting Impact" awards are a much better metric than "Best Paper" awards. There is evidence that best paper awards are not actually indicative of a paper's future impact (if defined as the number of citations): Judging quality rem
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Wiley’s Major Reference Works available for free (sort of)(raphaelwimmer.wordpress.com)
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by raphman 15y ago
From DataInfo.rtf in the iap: StopWords: common words in languages: Swedish, English, Mandarin, Italian, French, German, Spanish Japanese, Russian, Finnish, Dutch. Special Word: discard pronouns/trigger keywords in all of above languages.
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by raphman 15y ago
Is there any legal and simple way of obtaining the ipa file without using iTunes (i.e. on Linux)?
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by raphman 15y ago
I guess, this would mean that a user can remove the ads from the ad-supported Kindle and save $40. This would mean that Amazon loses almost 30% in revenue each time they sell a Kindle Touch that is to be jailbroken.
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by raphman 15y ago
No. This shows that Facebook has no robust security model at all. Either they do not have any mandatory access control for private data, or someone approved of circumventing such access control measures for this feature. Both is in my opin
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by raphman 15y ago
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3203340
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by raphman 15y ago
For reference: Battlelog: Modern Web Applications are Here (blog post by Werkzeug/Flask dev) [1] and HN discussion [2]. [1] http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/11/15/modern-web-applications-a... [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=323682
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by raphman 15y ago
Nice: found a spark line generator at http://sandbox.kidstrythisathome.com/louis/ : ⡠⠞⠉⠙⠦⣀⠴⠋⠉⠳⢄⡠⠞⠉⠙⠦⣀⠴⠋⠉⠳⢄
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by raphman 15y ago
Discussed previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3160180
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by raphman 15y ago
Might I suggest adding at least this sentence to the training set: "We sell your private information." Your Policizer happily tells me that the sentence means "They DO NOT sell your private information."
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by raphman 15y ago
Actually, we (me and a student) have built exactly such a device this year. Did not have time to finish and evaluate it yet, however. Some papers on grasp interaction with spherical objects: Tango: www.cs.mcgill.ca/~kry/pubs/iser/iser.pdf G
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by raphman 15y ago
German anecdote: A few years ago my 2yr old son seems to have dialed 112 by accident. We learned about this a minute later when the fire department called back to check if we needed help.
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by raphman 15y ago
What are these incentives? (I recently learned that examiners at the European Patent Office have no direct incentives for granting a patent and may internally bill more working time if they reject a patent application instead. However, as r
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by raphman 15y ago
'Patent 5,893,120 reduced to mathematical formulae': http://paulspontifications.blogspot.com/2011/04/patent-58931...
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by raphman 15y ago
I agree. Actually, the secret needs to be something that can be remembered well but not described well. Smell and maybe taste are very well suited for this. Anecdotal evidence: I recently learned how a dead mouse smells but cannot think
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by raphman 15y ago
Given that it comes out of a Fraunhofer Institute, I highly doubt that it is open source. I would also assume that this product is actually only a tech demo, not a fully implemented solution.
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by raphman 15y ago
In the meantime, several federal states have admitted to using this software. The software analyzed by the CCC had evidently been used by the Bavarian police.

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