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by robertskmiles 15y ago
Streisand Effect though. Now people know that attempts were made to suppress the information, they are likely to take a much greater interest than they otherwise would, and the information will get a lot more attention and potentially do a
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
I've experimented with different types of music while working/coding, and I've found the perfect thing that works well for me, which is soundtracks from RTS games . They're instrumental, vaguely electronic, and specifically designed to fad
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
Two halves of the same coin. Programming something is 'teaching' a computer to do it. Except a computer is in many ways the dumbest student possible; you have to spell everything out for it.
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
The latest dropbox app (currently in beta) can be told to automatically upload all new photos and videos on a device to dropbox. Then a remote server anywhere can watch your dropbox for changes and do something with the files - encrypt them
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
We have had an unequivocal apology, made on national television by the Prime Minister himself, saying that the conviction was "horrifying" and "utterly unfair". I think that counts as "an acknowledgement that the laws of the time were injus
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
The key error the author makes is that he fails to Notice His Confusion . When something confuses you, you have to stop and figure out why you're wrong. You can't be confused and right at the same time. If you are confused, then somethin
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
It doesn't support '⊂'. It supports 'c' and 'C', but not '⊂'. Edit: It's amazing work by the way, but distinguishing those definitely needs more training.
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
Absolutely. If the exam is trying to assess how you would do in an environment where you are free to look things up (like the real world most of the time), then that makes good sense. The point generalises to this: Exams are an attempt to m
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
I found that section on 'cheating' completely bizarre. The reason something like a cheat-sheet counts as cheating is not that it's easier , it's that you haven't really learned it . The moral issue comes from the idea that the exam is mea
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
Yeah, it took me a long time to realise that that wasn't another demonstrative image http://i.imgur.com/uOyZU.png
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
I totally disagree that we should leave piracy out of it completely. The bill is called the Stop Online Piracy Act, if we don't mention piracy at all it will look like dodging the issue. We need to say something like "It claims to be ab
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
I have apparently not gained enough esteem in this community to have a down arrow, but that title is really bad. It's sensationalist and not descriptive enough to be useful.
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
I think the best of both worlds is to have whatever your giant designer brain thinks is best be the default, and include options to change whatever you want. So if you don't care, you get a good preset, and don't have to make any decisions,
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
I think Android as an OS has a major effect here, because its Intents system codifies that 'starting point for a task' concept. If I want to carry out a particular operation on some data, all of the apps capable of handling it can inform th
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
In case anyone from outside the UK is thinking "Wow, those brits are doing really well here, I wish my country could take such a sensible approach to computing education", well you're kind of right, it's an enormous improvement, but I feel
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
I don't think that the analogy between speculative physical projects and open source software projects is that strong. Kickstarter enables people who have the idea and the people, but just lack the funds. Generally with an open source softw
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
> My hypothesis is that, in the case of SOPA, it would end up meaning'enforced disproportionately against individuals and small corporations to the benefit of the large corporations' - but in these cases, you can never be sure that ther
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Stop Exaggerating SOPA(blog.robertskmiles.com)
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
There's a scraper here: http://hacksandthoughts.posterous.com/blanking-all-wikipedia... which is keeping a tally.
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
I recently got an android phone and I've been deeply impressed by Swype, which is an interesting idea. You put down your finger and move it over they keys you want to press without lifting it until the end of the word. The system then uses
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
The countries in the EU are known as 'Member States'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_state_of_the_European_Un... Edit: Also the author of the piece is a native of an EU member state Edit2: Also now that I look I don't actually see th
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
I like that HN tends to stay away from reddit-style sensationalist titles. I suppose here the OP is just copying the original title verbatim, but it's still misleading. Regarding the article itself, hopefully this will help popularise the f
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
Perhaps the political system, or a complex ecosystem with a lot of relationships, but I think software and economic systems are generally much less complex than London. The thing about a city like London is it's pretty much 'incompressible'
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
That's an interesting solution which I think would almost certainly work, though it kind of reduces the AI to a normal computer, you lose a lot of what makes an AI valuable. I mean if we have the hardware and understanding to create an AI a
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
The AI can always be switched on again, but it can never be put back in the box.
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
I suppose I am. Still, a really powerful optimising process will find a way to escape if any such way exists , so to claim that you could properly box the AI is to claim that you could box it such that no possibility for escape exists what
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
Ah, but of course he would say that, wouldn't he, for the good of humanity! The beauty of the argument is it gives everyone who witnessed the event a very strong motive to lie about it, so it's effectively un-falsifiable. I don't actually
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
I still don't understand how anyone can seriously claim that they could keep the AI in the box. Either your AI has no influence on the outside world (in which case why bother building one since it can't help you from inside the box), or it
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
Which means for example you could get that listing in any format, so you could for example spot changes in permissions or ownership if you included it in the listing.
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by robertskmiles 15y ago
I didn't know you could do that with rename. I would have done rename 's/jpg/png/g' /path/to/some/file.jpg

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