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by tmalsburg2 12y ago
> Would companies based in the US not ship a different version of their products that are exported? They can of course try that but their clients have little reasons to trust them. Apart from that it might be very costly to develop, tes
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by tmalsburg2 12y ago
Not destructive all all, this will rather bring us much-needed diversity to replace a US-centric monoculture. It will also pave the way for the triumph of free software which will prove to be much more resilient against such efforts than p
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The difference is that the vast majority of IT products used in Europe and elsewhere are from the US not China.
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As a European, I'm totally in favor of a mandatory backdoor for the US government. It would do wonders to the development of the European IT industry because many governments and cooperations could not continue using US-based IT produ
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One issue with this regulation is that hacker news is an international community and there are strong cultural differences in what is perceived as being too negative. In the US, people have a very low threshold and there is always a high p
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by tmalsburg2 12y ago
You are implying that the rest of the review, which we haven't seen, was useless and shallow. However, the author himself said that the reviews were actually "helpful and constructive". I agree that cases of bike shedding e
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The author writes that the software wasn't the focus of the manuscript and that the reviewers should not have commented on the software at all but that it actually not true. If you look at the preprint manuscript, you'll find tha
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by tmalsburg2 12y ago
Which part of what he wrote is wrong? Please explain.
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What is this fleet of Teslas doing on days with good weather? Either they'll have too much capacity when the weather is good or too little when the weather is bad.
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> The startup wants to help Amazon competitors think about pricing in as sophisticated a way as Amazon does. The catch is that if several big retailers apply the Amazon strategy, a self-reinforcing feedback loop will drive the prices fo
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> a proposal that we get rid of all administrative staff and replace them with academics This is similar to how Colleges in Oxbridge are administered. They do have full time administrative staff but only the bare minimum and the academi
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Why did they include studies that have already been replicated innumerable times? There's is no value in doing so apart from biasing the results toward an outcome more favourable for psychology.
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> The Swiss bit sounds interesting, but I know nothing about Swiss law ... Switzerland has already famously succumbed to US law enforcement: http://www.forbes.com/sites/irswatch/2014/02/03/swiss-b
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by tmalsburg2 12y ago
The potential of Emacs comes from the huge number of excellent third-party extensions not from the ability to evaluate lisp code in the scratch buffer. Many of these extensions are not very visible. Did you know that there is a really pow
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by tmalsburg2 12y ago
You shouldn't blame him. The truth is that Emacs does a great job at hiding its potential from users. Editors like Atom are ultimately much less powerful but they make it easy to discover and use the features that they provide. When
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by tmalsburg2 12y ago
I stopped using Python in my research, too. Now I'm using R which is so terrible as a language that for the first two years I felt insulted every time I wrote code in it. However, I stuck with it and even like it now because it has a
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Ok, agreed. However, I'd guess that engines like Stockfish and Shredder beat most of the chess playing population even when running on an iPhone. Advanced players may not be impressed as they are familiar with methods specifically de
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I really like this work but the performance of the network against Sunfish is not particularly informative. What I'd like to know is whether this evaluation function captures any non-trivial properties of the board. If it only captures
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You say that Wave was just an experiment, nothing more, implying that it was never meant to be a product and to attract users. It didn't appear this way when Google announced that Wave would be discontinued. Instead of saying "h
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I'm interested in the reaction of the US public. Will they suddenly start to be concerned about total surveillance? Reading German tech forums, I get the impression Germans are just as concerned about German surveillance as they are a
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Lines of code changed is confounded by syntactic properties of the languages: For instance, languages that make a lot of use of indentation, like Lisp, will have more changed lines of code but that doesn't necessarily reflect more acti
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by tmalsburg2 13y ago
This initiative reminds us painfully that Bitcoin still hasn't found its kill application (apart from Silk Road). If it had, they wouldn't have to give away BTC for free but these MIT students would queue up to buy BTC.
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In Emacs, one way to enter these characters is to use `M-x ucs-insert` and then enter the hex code of the separator: M-x ucs-insert 1c M-x ucs-insert 1d M-x ucs-insert 1e M-x ucs-insert 1f for file, group, record, and u