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by saintx 13y ago
Software developers are as responsible for this guy's address book getting spammed as fork and spoon makers are for making people gain weight. Someone built a tool. And someone else used that tool to do an unethical thing. I doubt a softw
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by saintx 13y ago
Or philosophers--specifically logicians.
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by saintx 13y ago
The biggest difference from when I was a starving 19 year-old is that I don't need to use recruiters to find work anymore. It's strange that this article comes from LinkedIn and it does not mention the power of having connections. My hope
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by saintx 13y ago
Unsubtle with a capital B.
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by saintx 13y ago
I repeated the experiment and got different results than yours. (woot, science!) http://imgur.com/ghYKH7K shows my results. I can't reproduce the ones you describe. Regional variations might account for the differences. Do you live in
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by saintx 13y ago
How can they trademark the words "Liquid Helium"? The first search I did on Samuru was for Liquid Helium and it brought back about a half million results, all of which I assume are violating its purported trademark.
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by saintx 13y ago
I definitely sympathize. It feels that the world is accelerating toward the end of some century-long slide from value creation to value capture, where fortunes aren't so much built as they are acquired or harvested from the people who build
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by saintx 13y ago
I've found that programming in Scala is the sort of thing that I have to do on nights and weekends, because it's definitely not a day-job sort of language in my neck of the woods.
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by saintx 13y ago
May the s-notation be with you.
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by saintx 13y ago
Specifically, datamancy.
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by saintx 13y ago
http://xkcd.com/312/ Always makes me smile.
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by saintx 14y ago
The difficulty with being perfectly honest is that you might find out that you're honestly wrong. When technology amplifies our voices to the whole world, those private revelations become public spectacles.
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by saintx 14y ago
Cool, with caveats. Although this is interesting for people who know how neural network structures are built and generally how backpropagation and its successor training algorithms work, it isn't particularly _informative_ as a visualizatio
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by saintx 14y ago
The existence of this thread is the difference between high availability and disaster recovery.
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by saintx 14y ago
When I was learning how to program, I asked the friend who was teaching me the rudiments "How long does it take to learn how to code?" He replied "Eight hours." "Eight hours?" "Yep, eight hours, every day. It's pretty much just like driving
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by saintx 14y ago
I am enjoying this part of the discussion. One of the things that struck me a few years ago was how the design of the web was so heavily oriented around trying to reproduce the print media industry in a browser. Thus, we get the "markup"
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by saintx 14y ago
I bet they could increase the throughput if they modulated the plasma coils.
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by saintx 14y ago
The problem with online privacy, is that people believe it exists.
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by saintx 14y ago
Certain details about the images on the photostream at http://cdn.thenextweb.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2013/... , such as the image that reads "We are Anonymous", leads me to believe that "Anonymous" is, in fact, the culprit in thi
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by saintx 14y ago
A potential solution to their problem is to establish a WP editing aberration detection mechanism, which would run quietly all the time and establish statistical baselines for editing frequency, and recognize when an unusually large number
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OpenStack vs CloudStack vs OpenNebula vs Eucalyptus (2013 Q1)(qyjohn.net)
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by saintx 14y ago
The more I look into this, the better it looks. In particular, I appreciate that you used good existing solutions on the backend (EJML, Apache commons math, etc) where appropriate.
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by saintx 14y ago
By sparse vector support, do you mean the Sparse Fast Fourier Transform reported by MIT last year? http://www2.technologyreview.com/article/427676/a-faster-fou...
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by saintx 14y ago
I was sort of sad to learn earlier this year that the scalala project had become inactive, and when a friend pointed me at Breeze, the first thing that concerned me was that it seemed to "do ALL the things!", rolling in a bunch of other fun
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by saintx 14y ago
Seeing people reason about this subject in the main article and the subsequent comments brings me back to my college "literary theory" courses. Instead of tossing up pithy declarative statements like "The best X is no X", or "The best Y is
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by saintx 14y ago
I wonder how they're going to get around the problem of malicious collectives and Sybil attacks, given the anonymity constraint. You should be able to set up dozens of fake accounts to vouch that you're a "good" person, or that someone els
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by saintx 14y ago
The queen is dead. Long live the queen.
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by saintx 14y ago
It's a revealing commentary on the nature of the project and its developer community that this entire conversation seems to be about one dude. Suddenly, the "ember.js" brand collapses and becomes subsumed by the "trek" brand. All other fac
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by saintx 14y ago
Yeah, this is unworthy of HN.
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by saintx 14y ago
Perhaps the reason this resonates so strongly is that it's a painful reminder that, after all of the enthusiasm and excitement of living in the information age, we still live in a world where ideas can be bought and sold. Nothing, not even

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