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by tacos 10y ago
Like early OneDrive and Windows 8, I really hope a couple people got fired over this debacle. But like today's OneDrive, Windows 10 and .NET Core, I'm glad it's finally moving forward. I know HN has an anti-Microsoft bias fro
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by tacos 10y ago
Writing histrionic nonsense like this does not advance your cause. Apple did not "steal" your music any more than "rm -rf" or 300 million poorly manufactured Seagate drives did. "Matches found, press OK to delete [l
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by tacos 10y ago
Flounce level 1000, a new high score. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Flounce
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by tacos 10y ago
Not illegal at all. The DMCA expressly allows the Librarian of Congress to override this stuff, for exactly the reasons you raise. https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/10/28/2015-272...
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by tacos 10y ago
You linked to a 234 page report that does not contain the phrases "copy protection" or "DRM" or "digital rights management." You did an amazing job making my point for me. The report somewhat misleadingly names
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by tacos 10y ago
Because libraries are full of tomes written by cocksure counterculturists. If we knew what the future of media distribution looked like we'd be making billions pushing it there, not bullshitting about "how it's obviously gonn
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by tacos 10y ago
Why should breadth of distribution affect rights status? You don't even need to publish something to gain copyright protection. Yeah, yeah, can't use it in a library in 100 years, blah blah. Hasn't proved to be an issue. You
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by tacos 10y ago
When sane restrictions are implemented properly as part of a product or service, and the resulting scarcity generates value that is perceived fair to all parties, then these sorts of debates do not naturally arise. It's the fact that i
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by tacos 10y ago
There remain significant markets where DRM improves ROI. There are countless others where it doesn't and the people involved are too stupid to see the writing on the wall. Regardless of the end game, the people playing the DRM game are
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by tacos 10y ago
Indeed the financial support of open source by many users is atrocious. Beyond that you're proselytizing. This issue didn't get solved particularly quickly, either. Nor was "source to the whole stack" required -- kernel
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by tacos 10y ago
pg was downright addicted and glued to this site, and pulled levers at all hours.
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by tacos 10y ago
"securerandom.rb will consume too much entoropy if /dev/urandom is used directry." This is a quote for the ages.
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by tacos 10y ago
I get all my science from motherjones.com! From fluoride to sugar to weed, this is where Pulitzer meets Nobel. Seriously though: a motherjones.com post of this quality as #1 on HN is a new low. I miss the days of pg obsessively micromanagin
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by tacos 10y ago
It's reaching the point where you have to consider external motivations to damaging Bitcoin's credibility. The only thing keeping me out of full-on tinfoil hat mode is that this stuff just felt shady and douchebag riddled from day
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by tacos 10y ago
A quick Google pulls up tons of recent papers and GitHub projects. But more to the point of this discussion: the celebrated online class that builds the first principles that the creator of this article flubbed uses Matlab (and Octave).
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by tacos 10y ago
In the spring you have a specific number of weeks to prep and plant. The amount of food you can produce is directly tied to the horsepower you can apply. It's also the difference between spending 15 hours a day in the field versus 8.
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by tacos 10y ago
Ah yes. Wake up a few extra hours before sunrise to load crisp, clean-burning coal into a furnace. Then fiddle with dials waiting for it to come up to pressure without exploding. Then drag a cast iron boiler and tons of water (!) on tiny wh
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by tacos 10y ago
I'm sure the electric planes, tanks and aircraft carriers would've made for some interesting historical footnotes in 1939. Assuming we hadn't already all starved due to the lack of food being produced by the electric farm tra
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by tacos 10y ago
Honestly, please report back with a plan that gets the USA from 30 million people in 1860 to 300+ million people today without using the internal combustion engine.
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by tacos 10y ago
That password is potentially ten lines down in the keylogger report. Depth isn't as deep as you think.
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by tacos 10y ago
Commit signatures do nothing to verify that his device wasn't hacked, it just verifies that someone got access to his key. Geeze this is just stupidity all the way down.
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by tacos 10y ago
I can't fix this guy... he's off in the weeds doing his own thing. However I can provide constructive input by providing broader perspectives and alternate viewpoints. This technically weak, mis-titled post sat at the top of HN fo
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by tacos 10y ago
If exploring neural nets in a REPL is the spark that finally lights a fire under Octave, I'm all for it! But I think they already lost the battle to Python. > Matlab looks really cool, but I feel it unfair to advocate un-Free softwa
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by tacos 10y ago
The course also uses Matlab. Perhaps we can avoid the Octave vs Matlab debacle by linking to this previous discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10232595 Consensus (I'll use the term loosely) was that you ge
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by tacos 10y ago
I'm not sure I'd call Atkinson Dither "sophisticated" (the author does). In fact it's a mathematical error that happens to look very cool on certain material. Sadly, the effect falls apart when scaled. You can craft
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by tacos 10y ago
Good chefs are obsessed with technique . This transcends cultures--from French to Japanese. Moreover, they actually prepare food. In contrast, enthusiasts spend six months obsessing about different types of knives. And then write a blog po
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by tacos 10y ago
NN is flavor of the month at HN but these core toolkits don't really do much. They're all running the same Fortran code and MIT FFT libraries Matlab's been using for 20+ years. It's the base that the cool experiments hap
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by tacos 10y ago
Naive backprop is just another way of expressing the same algorithm. This corollary was actually used to analyze early nets in the 90s. I can't pull up papers for some reason, they're out there though.
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by tacos 10y ago
+1 for python however good luck building fundamentals given the sea of chaotic products. The whole point of the Matlab recommendation is that, like Amazon S3, they haven't really touched the damn NN toolkit in a decade. While y'al
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by tacos 10y ago
A fundamental misunderstanding of the space, focusing on the wrong things, thinking he can visualize (or should visualize) the mechanics, hyperfocus on topologies, misunderstanding of key distance functions, sigmoids, training/overtrai

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