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by unabst 9y ago
> 12. IT ADDS A SENSE OF PROGRESSION And entrapment. Many users are afraid to hit the back button when they're in the middle of submitting information. This design leverages Back Button Anxiety. It forces the shopper to make a decis
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by unabst 9y ago
You're adding an element of your own subjective knowledge/awareness. You could not know a secret or something kept private. The only thing that is the same is your not knowing. What you don't know could still be a secret, som
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by unabst 9y ago
No. I corrected it. The analogy is wrong. (edit; to be more accurate, bathroom activities are no secret)
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by unabst 9y ago
Maybe this was meant to be a joke, but an officer's superiors would be the one's looking over the stalls. No secrets no privacy. Privacy is a courtesy. And a right to courtesy. Secrecy should be all that is related to security. It
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by unabst 9y ago
No. They can tell us exactly. And they can be accountable. We just don't get to see them with their clothes off. It's odd because apparently citizens get to have no secrets. Laws protect government secrets, but as far as I know th
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by unabst 9y ago
This. The military has secrets, but should have no privacy. Same with the government. Privacy is the opposite of transparency. We can have secrets while we know exactly what we are keeping secret, such as Private Keys and passwords. Secrets
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by unabst 9y ago
The problem with phone computing is that it's still the weakest option: Phone < Laptop < Desktop I used to have a Sony Vaio that I would hookup to big screens at each work space. Now I use dropbox to sync desktops. My main machin
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by unabst 9y ago
But there sort of is. They're all just unique. But formulas are suppose to not be unique, so that's the paradox. I think one way to solve it though is with degrees of detail. At the end of the day most companies that succeed just
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by unabst 9y ago
I would go with CyanoDB just off the top of this list. http://www.ranker.com/list/the-top-10-oldest-living-things-o... But if there were two similar products, one named Roach, I would go with the other without much tho
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by unabst 9y ago
Our language alters how we reason with reality because words are the smallest unit of reason. Reason is not experience. However, we do experience our reasoning, and we also act upon it.
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by unabst 9y ago
Intelligence is not consciousness, nor is it conscious. When I make a decision, I tap into my data and my knowledge, but the "I" is not inside that data nor did I emerge from it. The topic of artificial consciousness would be Arti
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by unabst 9y ago
Right. But that "software brain" will be completely deliberate. > subjected to all kinds of experiences, which, in turn, will result in this brain becoming conscious - gradually. Again, there is no evidence that "all kinds
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by unabst 9y ago
> Similarly self conscious AI can emerge without people having good understanding of the source of the consciousness. Any evidence? It's fun to think about, but most people who think this are guilty of one of the mistakes I've
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by unabst 9y ago
> Whether or not it's conscious along the way is largely irrelevant. Exactly. It's the distinction between programming consciousness and physically reproducing it. The latter is for physicists and biologists. Equating abstracti
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by unabst 9y ago
> feature-negotiation It's words like these. We should not be looking to negotiate with anyone -- not as an author, and not as a consumer. If someone builds an auto-login browser, or an auto-login feature, then fine. But when Mozil
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by unabst 9y ago
Ah yes! But the shift or scramble would be at the font level. So URYYB would read HELLO. Or rather, the reader reading HELLO will have no idea the document actually says URYYB as the contents of that text because the font renders URYYB as H
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by unabst 9y ago
Couldn't we scramble the font? It would look completely normal, except the letters and their symbols would be swapped. When I type "a" it would show as "z" and so on. The scrambled webfont could be embedded, and the
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by unabst 9y ago
Exactly. My rant was lopsided, but to be more accurate: The browser should facilitate the communication between the author and the reader of the page, and not contaminate it. All these features are great. They just need to be made explicit
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by unabst 9y ago
> when the UA is, say, a screen-reader for a blind person? The blind person explicitly turns on blind mode. This is not a difficult problem. Trying to guess if the user is blind is a hard problem. If the user wants bigger fonts, they can
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by unabst 9y ago
Code should be explicit. There should be no "in between the lines" and the browser should not be guessing what the developer or consumer wants, let alone override what was explicitly declared. Then having to "politely suggest
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by unabst 9y ago
> The browser could recognize a Log In link, follow it in the background, and log you in, As a web developer, this is exactly what I don't want. Just the other day I got bit by font boosting on Mobile Chrome. Couldn't figure ou
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by unabst 9y ago
> just as when you choose between two candidates preselected by entrenched political parties (No. 7—Choice is not freedom). This. This and gerrymandering. Politics is run by magicians. > Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell
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by unabst 9y ago
I looked at Backblaze, but they haven't sold themselves as a sync platform. If I just needed backup I'd use them immediately! My main machine has 32GB of RAM, and I bet this helps alleviate the burden of large sync tasks, but here
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by unabst 9y ago
I wrote this 448 days ago, on why I moved to Google Drive. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11030171 But now I'm back. Google Drive is unusable. I upgraded to a paid plan so I'd have no storage limits. But the
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by unabst 9y ago
The part about amae is a bit off. I would go a step further than translating it just as "to wish to be loved." That's still normal even in western culture. Amae is closer to "nagging to be pet over the head while doing a
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by unabst 9y ago
It's not that simple. > Most people think that IQ, the ability to memorize, etc., are the key metrics for determining the future of a child. In Japan this is definitely true. It's what most people think, as dictated by what is
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by unabst 10y ago
I took 6.001 in 1999 (I think). Hal Abelson taught it along with a professor who took off his sweatshirt to reveal a Microsoft tee at his final lecture (he went to Microsoft). What was great about Scheme (Lisp) is that most programs are bas
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by unabst 10y ago
Just pointing out that you are not contradicting the scientific method or in any conflict. In fact, the way you arrived at divide and conquer is though the scientific method. Tried and tested, it was better. The point is, the scientific met
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by unabst 10y ago
I suspect if you counted the hours they were thinking about their work, the conclusion would be the exact opposite. Granted, we are talking about "thinkers" here. We can think sitting on the toilet or taking a shower, and maybe ev
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by unabst 10y ago
> The goal of the proposed team would be to collect evidence and examine alternative hypotheses. But they exist. They are all the scientists already working in the field. Which is why the next statement is suspect: > No one is proposi

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