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541.
by scribu 11y ago
I don't understand how your claim (that users want the products that data collection enables) refutes my claim (that data collection has not helped with government transparency).
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by scribu 11y ago
So let me get this straight: 1. Corporation collects user data. 2. Government wants access to that data, in secret. 3. Corporation lets people know when the government accesses data about them. 4. Hurrah, the government is more tr
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by scribu 11y ago
To be an effective sysadmin, you have to be able to work well under pressure. If you have anxiety, you will definitely not work well under pressure, so programmers and sysadmins have different personality traits, methinks. Regarding biologi
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by scribu 11y ago
From my experience, engineering is intelectually challenging in a very narrow sense - you tend to use a few core skills over and over. Even when you learn a new paradigm, like functional programming, it's still within your comfort zone
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Embattled Max Planck neuroscientist quits primate research(news.sciencemag.org)
2 points by scribu 11y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 11y ago
A "responsive" audio format seems interesting. Not sure about how good - in an aesthetic sense - it can sound, though.
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The Mathematics of Misery(theviewfromhell.blogspot.com)
2 points by scribu 11y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 11y ago
What? The brain is nowhere near the butt. /s
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by scribu 11y ago
> The benefit of remote work is that you can have much more choice in the company you work for That would be true if most companies allowed remote work. In my experience, only a few do. Even fewer have a "remote first" culture,
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by scribu 11y ago
> You’re not limited to small ideas, either: part-time volunteers in the open source community have built huge parts of the modern world. Am I wrong in thinking that, in fact, all major open-source projects continue to thrive because the
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by scribu 12y ago
> Joe Briefcase just loathes the strain of the self-consciousness which so oddly seems to appear only when other real human beings are around, staring, their human sense-antennae abristle. Joe B. fears how he might appear to watchers. Th
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by scribu 12y ago
I think that's kind of the point the author is making: westerners don't expect Singapore to feel like a western country; they expect it to be "exotic". > And from what I understand, Hong Kong is richer than Singapore
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by scribu 12y ago
Why?
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by scribu 12y ago
> You won't be granted access to secret information if you happen to look like the CEO. Tell that to this startup: http://onevisage.com/ovi-technology-page/
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The NSA Is Going to Love These USB-C Charging Cables(gizmodo.com)
12 points by scribu 12y ago|5 comments
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by scribu 12y ago
That's not quite the point being made, since the site didn't even attempt to block indexing via robots.txt or a meta tag.
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by scribu 12y ago
The tricky part would be getting the molecular breakdown for each ingredient. I'm not sure if that sort of data is readily available.
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by scribu 12y ago
If you're trying to imply that it's dishonest (that's what I thought when I read "scheme" in this context), please explain why you've reached the conclusion that it's dishonest.
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by scribu 12y ago
Fair enough. So you're saying that it's acceptable for a data storage service, which is used for storing important data, to occasionally (and silently) not sync some of that data?
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by scribu 12y ago
> claim that the service is irredeemably flawed and should not be used. The author doesn't suggest that it shouldn't be used at all, just not for critical data.
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by scribu 12y ago
I like the idea, but how did you end up calling it "Unqualified"? I don't see the connection.
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by scribu 12y ago
That's the main drawback of PCA - the principal components are linear combinations of all the original features. An attempt to remedy this is callled Sparse PCA (you can look it up on Google Scholar), in which the principal components
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Building Great Products Through Anarchy(theguardian.com)
32 points by scribu 12y ago|12 comments
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by scribu 12y ago
It seems like a neat idea, but I just get a blank rectangle where the site to record is supposed to show up. Nothing in the console; using latest Chrome on latest OS X.
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by scribu 12y ago
As the post mentions, the node.js app that servers the initial HTML would be separate from the API server. The code in the API server can, as before, be implemented in whatever language you want.
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by scribu 12y ago
Upvoted for the fun "growing glasses" phrase.
567.
by scribu 12y ago
This reminded me of the ever-failing WiFi at conferences. I wonder if anyone is working on a relatively easy to set up system that could be rented out to small conference organizers.
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Community Detection in Graphs(jeremykun.com)
16 points by scribu 12y ago|1 comments
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by scribu 12y ago
> "Learn Once Write Everywhere" I can't help but think about that other chestnut, "A determined programmer can write Fortran in any language." Of course it makes sense to apply a pattern that you know worked grea
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by scribu 12y ago
It seems that the "Watch in couch mode" button on the album page is what I was after.

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