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by sqrt17 8y ago
GPLv3/AGPLv3 would still force Amazon and the like to share all the updates they make to the software itself, which is good for the software - forcing companies to be part of the software ecosystem - but not necessarily helping the (ma
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by sqrt17 8y ago
The Linux OS, even in 1993, was a combination of Linux kernel plus GNU userland tools and compiler plus X11 plus assorted goodies from the BSD world. Developed, at least the first bit of time, on Minix, a Unix-like operating system that a u
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by sqrt17 8y ago
> where developers cannot use AGPL in large enterprises developers who cannot use AGPL in large enterprises are probably forbidden to use non-open-source software distributed under a shared-source license that allows no commercial use. A
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by sqrt17 8y ago
> Oh, and the confusing name. Why is it called "Commons Clause"? Exactly. What is in effect crossing the boundary between open source and shared source (as Microsoft called the first source release of the .Netruntime) is made t
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by sqrt17 8y ago
I cringed a little at "many of our formalisms". The maths of thermodynamics is so useful yet it took and takes substantial effort to pry the useful maths away from the thermodynamics gobbledigook that surrounds it. But it's c
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by sqrt17 8y ago
Let's define here "being a scholar" as having a good sense of where your field is (and for anything people are interested in, there is a field). The standard way is that PhD students (often non-scholars) team up with more s
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by sqrt17 8y ago
It's important to keep in mind the exact quantity of "more practice". Current mechanisms of reinforcement learning are not very data-efficient, which means that often humans will learn faster than bots. It will still allow bo
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by sqrt17 8y ago
You sound like you didn't read the article. There's nothing about political correctness or try-hard inclusivity in that article but many (or indeed all) the things that common sense would dictate as a base of working code reviews.
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by sqrt17 8y ago
The answer, maybe the one you're looking for is that the schema you describe is suitable for blowing up into longform stories that could be equally well-suited to be treated in 400 words or less. The question would be, do we care for l
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by sqrt17 8y ago
Go's type system with limited polymorphism looks to me like someone took the (horrible) collections from Java 1.2 and applied a fix that solves 85% of the problem. Compared to the 95% solution we get with Java, it's not as refined
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by sqrt17 8y ago
broadcast video is delayed by 10 seconds. Apparently, that's enough to make the non-delayed stream extra valuable.
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by sqrt17 8y ago
If the dollar amounts refer to the training cost for the cheapest DL model, do you have references for them? A group of people at fast.ai trained an ImageNet model for 26$, presumably after spending a couple hundered on getting everything j
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by sqrt17 9y ago
Pushover is great for events that are delayed or infrequent - say you have a job running on an AWS server and want to be notified when there is a result, or you want some alert when your traffic reaches (say) 80% of the possible load. It&#x
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by sqrt17 9y ago
Quite a bit after the point where it pays to convert sed and awk one-liners into Perl one-liners and build a program around it. Perl may be as dead as sed and awk are now, but that was the initial use case for Perl before CGI (as in Common
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by sqrt17 9y ago
get a free 30-day trial of Bluemix. The Watson tools are accessible through Bluemix and there's a free tier that allows you to try out things for yourself.
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by sqrt17 9y ago
Anyone discussion of the (non-programmable, electronic) Atanasoff-Berry Computer will eventually segue into mentions of Zuse's (programmable, electromechanic) Z3, Babbage's (programmable, fully mechanic, only realized later on) An
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by sqrt17 10y ago
Numerical version numbers in Mercurial are a good thing until they start to differ in different repository copies, after which you have to educate everyone to refer to versions by their hash instead of the numeric version
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by sqrt17 10y ago
Before everyone got onto GitHub, there was SourceForge and GoogleCode. Both worked well for a lot of people for quite some while. Also, if you really want to, you can use the SVN interface of GitHub and never go through git. You could, in i
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by sqrt17 11y ago
Why not a one-time fee? It's probably nicer for people to have a software without a built-in kill switch that will magically activate if they stop paying money
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by sqrt17 11y ago
Apparently, Volkswagen's emissions regulating code was built to Volkswagen's orders by Bosch, who then delivered the code with an explicit note that that code does not fulfill the requirements to be installed in production cars. S
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by sqrt17 11y ago
> Yes, let's have money decide who gets or doesn't get into the country, who can and cannot get hired from abroad. Isn't legal bribery great... I'm pretty sure that people with enough money already have ways and means
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by sqrt17 11y ago
One thing that really grates me with the Idea Channel is that they (or he) usually start from conclusions and then work their way back to a one-sided myopic argument instead of truly exploring an issue. So instead of enjoying the fact that
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by sqrt17 11y ago
A clearer way to write this would be, pay-per-impression stopped being the default (or only) way of doing business sometime between 1999-2001. After a brief period where ads were predominantly text-based, ad inflation brought graphical ads
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by sqrt17 11y ago
Google ads used to be valuable because they were based on the content of the site you were currently watching. Doubleclick (later bought by Google) and others already did the tracking thing and didn't get mileage out of it. Retargeting
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by sqrt17 11y ago
ads stopped being pay-per-impression around 2001 or so. For actual money to flow, people need to click on ads. For the advertisers to want to spend money, people need to not just click on the ads but also convert (aka, go to the site and or
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by sqrt17 11y ago
Usenet news and maildir are cases where current operating systems already have to cope with that kind of load, so it's definitely possible. The question is, can this be useful without becoming a partial and bug-ridden reimplementation
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by sqrt17 11y ago
Interesting, hadn't heard of it. Thanks!
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by sqrt17 11y ago
There are several use cases where this is a sure-fire way of shooting yourself in the foot: * if you have many records (i.e. more than a couple hundred), the file system will have a lot of work to do and the whole thing becomes sluggish * i
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by sqrt17 11y ago
Is the use of fret marks (the player has a piece of cardboard with lines for certain notes) a common thing among Theremin players or is it generally not done for some reason? (Intuitively it makes sense, yet it's the first time I have
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by sqrt17 11y ago
What are the assumptions behind "log plots of parametrized experimental progress"? What do these mean in the real world? To give an example of why "pouring money into it and getting slower and slower progress" could tran

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