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by skore 13y ago
Oh it gets better. I had to stop reading the thread on Phoronix out of fear that my brain would pop out of my head and leave for Portugal. > People with emotional insecurities are trying to make up something depressing and horrible, poin
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by skore 13y ago
> In the case of torturing someone, you are inflicting only pain (which is not as bad as death) on someone who is probably guilty of a crime (which is not as bad as inflicting pain on someone who is completely innocent). I'm afraid
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by skore 13y ago
If your service goes down, be sure to at least have some notion of what your service does on the homepage. Right now, it's only an error report and I had to skim through the blog for a while to figure out that it's a kind of Googl
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by skore 13y ago
> Since patent examiners rely so much on keyword searches, when you submit your application, if you can change some of the keywords in your patent to be different than the words used everywhere else, you might get your patent through eve
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by skore 13y ago
"Yes thank you for that haircut - hey if you don't mind, I'd like to sweep your entire floor for no particular reason, keeping the hair and do you happen to know a store that sells... tools for... farming, like large knifes a
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by skore 13y ago
To appropriate a quote from Adventure Time: Man, your view of the universe is pretty bleak .
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> But with the cosmic sadness there is no going up one level, it's all there to ponder and still real. No snapping out of it. There are two mechanisms to cope with this without discarding or distorting it. Both are linked to accepti
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by skore 13y ago
Sorry for being a bit tangential, but I'm always astonished how people are still using checks for business. Especially in the US, where it seems standard industry practice of assholes to bounce checks. (I read about France still being
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by skore 13y ago
No, I think "destroy" carries a clearly negative connotation. The people cited in the article talk about jobs becoming obsolete. The author talks about jobs being destroyed.
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by skore 13y ago
> Brynjolfsson and McAfee are not Luddites. No, but you try to force that argument by calling your article "How Technology Is Destroying Jobs". I don't see any citation in the article doing the same. They just matter-of-
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by skore 13y ago
> Software cannot generate random numbers. Can hardware? [0] [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generato...
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by skore 13y ago
Fake enthusiasm… for the sensors?
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by skore 13y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5432110 Including this alternative, built in AngularJS: http://sullerandras.github.io/SVG-Sequence-Diagram/
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by skore 13y ago
> Basically yes, I believe there are some novel ideas here worth patenting. Analogous to what Stallman once coined, you are now literally talking about patenting ideas[0]. > To date, I don't believe this idea has been suggested a
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by skore 13y ago
The patent thing, the licensing uncertainty, the use of public libraries and the somewhat overly enthusiastic comments here on HN (most from <300 accounts) give me a very weird taste in my mouth.
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> It's Minority Report without the psychics. Wow, that never occurred to me. Analyzing Metadata really is a lot like "pre-crime". Sure, in a sense all police or intelligence work can be looked at in a way that makes it s
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by skore 13y ago
Indeed. Obama blaming congress today is, unfortunately, a case of plausible deniability.
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by skore 13y ago
No, I think this is incredibly clever. Imagine how this release would have looked if the Australian government had thrown a fit and tried to make an example of the USs bad behavior[0]. If you're dealing with a criminal, having a slig
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by skore 13y ago
No, I think the logic is straightforward: If talking to "anyone, ever" can become a fatal problem involving the police, that makes talking to the police directly an even worse option. "You shouldn't talk to anybody, espe
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by skore 13y ago
> And I'm fairly sure that the complaint of too much focus on the ads industry isn't particularly rare either. It was actually the basis for my adopted quote: “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make pe
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by skore 13y ago
You are correct, I would include advertising in a strongly questionable moral territory. I think having the question "Is what we are doing morally virtuous?" hang there as a Sword of Damocles[0] is the way to go. Sure, few things
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by skore 13y ago
Agreed, sadly.
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by skore 13y ago
I particularly enjoyed the use of the word "holistic" in the sentence "a holistic approach to target discovery".
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by skore 13y ago
I saw the best minds of my generation write software to surveil and control the other minds of my generation.
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by skore 13y ago
> The people here are not day laborers looking for an odd job from a passing contractor. They load the trucks and stock the shelves for some of the U.S.’s largest companies—Walmart, Nike, PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay division > This syste
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by skore 13y ago
The Stasi has been around in some form or another until about 1990. A lot of us really have "been there".
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by skore 13y ago
https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router/wiki/Nested-States-%...
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by skore 13y ago
I live a terrible life in the shadow of a greater man with the exact same, exactly as rare name - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Deutsch (although my twitter does show up on page 2 when anonymous, page 2 when logge
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by skore 13y ago
a) Or he might just be a regular Nerd who cares about details. b) Or he might just be a regular Nerd who took a long time to think about this stuff. c) Or he might just be a regular Nerd with the typical emotional detachment from what he is
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by skore 13y ago
Careful, though - that might just be your filter bubble.

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