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by studer 16y ago
So what's your definition of "social graph"? In what way is "my list of my group subscriptions" a social graph? Is there a bigger graph? Who has access to that?
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by studer 16y ago
You cannot scrape their prices because they keep bumping them by a cent for each N tickets (so they can say that "only N seats left for X euro, book now before it's too late" all the time), and also because you cannot reliably reverse engin
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by studer 16y ago
She's a voice teacher. I'm sure you can find, say, some opera connoisseur who hates all other music as a principle, but she's talking about how these singers are using their "instruments", not about what kind of music they're performing. (
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by studer 16y ago
PNG uses a predictor tuned to image data, though, so it's a bit tricker than that. But it's good enough for this purpose.
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by studer 16y ago
If your incentive for commenting is to be seen by others rather than provide feedback to the author, you're exactly the kind of commenter he wasn't interested in seeing: "I know some people think that blogs are conversations, but I don't. I
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by studer 16y ago
Did you just read his moderation guidelines? The actual proposal is further down on the page. I'm not aware on any blog using that approach, so I'm not sure what you mean by "well-followed".
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by studer 16y ago
So can someone with more math knowledge comment on how "Brand New" this theorem is? Comparing the Geekosystem post with the tone of the original APS article, it sure feels like a certain amount of breathless hyperbole was added to the form
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by studer 16y ago
> or they'd say it's still under investigation. It still is under investigation, though. Whatever happened is not serious enough for a rape charge with the current evidence, but as I mention below, molestation or just general asshatter
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by studer 16y ago
Yeah, you're right. Also see my other comment.
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by studer 16y ago
According to the interview with one of the victims, it was a consensual situation that got out of hand (in two separate cases). That description is perfectly consistent with the behavior of the prosecutors here; under Swedish law, depending
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by studer 16y ago
Both prosecutors are women. And it's the original arrest warrant that has been withdrawn; the investigation is still open.
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by studer 16y ago
s/enough/as many/
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by studer 16y ago
Well, if you don't spot the reference (I didn't), it just looks like the developers have a somewhat distorted view of other humans, especially women.
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by studer 16y ago
"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be" in English, usually attributed to writer Peter De Vries.
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by studer 16y ago
Bonus exercise: find the shortest string fragment in that screenshot that returns the mail address if typed into Google. My best out of three quick tries is 14 letters, but I'm sure that's possible to beat.
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by studer 16y ago
If you made a serious attempt to solve the problem, and got three alpha-numeric characters followed by a null byte, I'd say you're pretty much guaranteed to have the right answer. If you want to triple-check, I registered an HN user with th
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by studer 16y ago
Nah, it's actually true for Germany too (where do you think the Americans got the idea? :-), but I guess you hear enough stories about German lawsuits over there as I do here...
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by studer 16y ago
Yet, the jury put part of the blame on her, and further attempts to sue corporations for serving (or making) hot coffee has gone nowhere. The temperature issue is probably just a legal McGuffin here; in reality, she got the money because M
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by studer 16y ago
Yeah, but the Kindergarten cutoff mechanism is irrelevant -- the point is that if you group young kids by some system that's aligned with the calender year rather than their actual age, they're not really peers. You'd get the same effect i
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by studer 16y ago
The title is somewhat misleading -- it's not like Kindergarten causes ADHD. The key observation is that if you grab any group of young kids with an age spread of a full year, "younger children may be mistakenly diagnosed as having ADHD, wh
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by studer 16y ago
Where is "here"? Afaik (but I'm no expert), the diagnosis is used in large parts of Europe (even if some countries use other acronyms). The Swedes even came up with their own version of ADHD, called DAMP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Def
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by studer 16y ago
He just posted a new version of the draft, and added this blurb to his home page: "Vinay Deolalikar. P is not equal to NP. 6th August, 2010 (66 pages 10pt, 102 pages 12pt). Manuscript sent on 6th August to several leading researchers in v
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by studer 16y ago
"people in Berlin yell at each other all the time to resolve conflicts" Oh, I thought the real German stereotype was that you sued people if they annoyed you even the slightest.
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by studer 16y ago
If you read the entire section from the beginning, you'll notice that you don't really need to know what a Hamiltonian cycle is to understand the explanation. A made-up property would have worked equally well.
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by studer 16y ago
It doesn't do that on all your requests, does it? I thought everyone did that via local bloom table (or similar structure), and checking with a central backend only when it gets a potential hit.
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by studer 16y ago
"no soul and no will for the enhancement of human knowledge" Yeah, that's why I wrote "legal" :-)
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by studer 16y ago
They don't necessarily agree with each other, though, so I'm not so sure how "authoritative" individual blog comments are (see e.g. Bradfield's followup to Jutla -- "And I don’t understand your comment about it not being known whether mu-c
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by studer 16y ago
Or maybe HP legal told him he couldn't use their web server to host unpublished material...
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by studer 16y ago
From the thread: "We think that the reported RLZ ping behavior (that request to "/tools/pso/ping...") is a regression -- RLZ pings should not be happening in Chromium or non-promotional Google Chrome builds, so this is not the intended beh
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by studer 16y ago
The blog post he links to: http://blog.chromium.org/2010/06/in-open-for-rlz.html says "Chromium will also continue to exist as it always has, without any RLZ library included. And, you can still download a Google Chrome with no RLZ behav

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