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541.
by yarou 13y ago
Very interesting. I noticed the article mentions that the algorithm used is "similar to the techniques of spam filtering" (paraphrasing). Would it happen to be a Bayesian Network or a logical agent?
542.
by yarou 13y ago
Perhaps you could read the paper instead of being spoonfed by somebody?
543.
by yarou 13y ago
Ok, here's an experiment for you. Why don't you broadcast every single detail of your life, every minute of it, even the parts you don't want others to see? If you don't, you must be hiding something and be committing c
544.
by yarou 13y ago
Yup, Dropbear is great for use on embedded devices. I only heard about Dropbear because once upon a time I needed an SSHd for an old Unix (believe it was Tru64). Unfortunately, no PRNG shipped by default, so I ended up symlinking /dev&
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by yarou 13y ago
Hollywood is delusional, though. They are missing out on a huge potential revenue stream by having DRM-free distribution platforms. Why was Megaupload so popular if people really liked DRM?
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by yarou 13y ago
That's an interesting point, some people just want to disappear. I read a long time ago when I was younger, on a local BBS, a guide to fully disappearing. Some people just don't want to be found; this can be true freedom depending
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by yarou 13y ago
Not at all strange, people have gotten used to being surveilled is all. Maybe she can help find the missing node.js guy as mentioned here: http://blog.izs.me/post/72990767417/a-member-of-our-communit...
548.
by yarou 13y ago
Do humans "hallucinate" what is in front of them? It's fairly well understood that our visual cortex is the product of evolution. So we will see things as they are meant to be seen, by our visual cortex. This is completely di
549.
by yarou 13y ago
No more magic than: int main(int argc, char **argv) There is always a level of hand waving that will go on in any introductory course, for a lot of reasons. You have to keep in mind that the majority of students come from highly dif
550.
by yarou 13y ago
That's an extremely elitist and exclusionary attitude you have there. Your post is also "begging the question". According to you, people interested in said subject should already be experts by the time they reach university.
551.
by yarou 13y ago
And what's the alternate solution? Growing babies in pods so the machines can harvest their energy while they live in a complex simulation? Hey, wait a minute, that sounds awfully familiar...
552.
by yarou 13y ago
It's a shame how easily people get offended these days. Calling PG sexist is totally unwarranted, especially when what he said was taken out of context. I suppose these days certain kinds of people get off on controversy, especially wh
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by yarou 13y ago
It's interesting that there's renewed interest in a modern systems programming language. However, I feel as though the world doesn't need another ALGOL-like language. C# is very good at what it does, but managed code will alw
554.
by yarou 13y ago
It's interesting that there is renewed interest in finding a "modern" systems programming language. I'm not entirely sure if the world
555.
by yarou 13y ago
Cool list, will definitely check out when I have some free time. I really loved the lispy newsletter, looking forward to future editions.
556.
by yarou 13y ago
Maybe. That's the funny thing about human beings. We fear the unknown and uncertainty so we create familiarity through higher order structures like society. Yet we balk at this seemingly imposed order and crave novelty and uncertainty.
557.
by yarou 13y ago
One has to wonder if his heavy use of amphetamines caused his eccentricity; or if his eccentricity led him to use amphetamines heavily.
558.
by yarou 13y ago
Seems like the only one needing education to be a decent human being is you.
559.
by yarou 13y ago
> Are the executives at JPMC crooks? Yes. (Edited for reasons)
560.
by yarou 13y ago
> Why Western media keeps referring to him as a 'political prisoner' and 'freed dissident' ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25472250 )? Could it be that our journalists have zero integrity?
561.
by yarou 13y ago
The guy (or gal) above you is not marginalizing unemployment. They are trivializing the new leisure class as talked about by Thorstein Veblen. Except instead of conspicuous consumption, they are engaging in poverty tourism. Don't be fo
562.
by yarou 13y ago
These kids never worked a day in their life, though. Their parents provided them with all the tools to succeed, but they still managed to fuck it up. They have no desire to improve themselves, they simply want to continue to leech off of wh
563.
by yarou 13y ago
I guess it depends on whether or not you want your code to read like natural language. The refactored version reads like: Allow access to the site if the user is signed in or has a trusted IP. The original (DeMorgan's applied): Allow a
564.
by yarou 13y ago
Again, it's a matter of how you treat strings. Using the standard library functions to deal with strings is lazy, and eventually will cause problems(tm) in the future. It's better to be proactive about it and roll your own functi
565.
by yarou 13y ago
This is why I can't take Bitcoin seriously. It's a liquidity depth issue. Much like HFT, there is a _perception_ that the order book has depth. But there's no guarantee that you'll get execution at the price displayed. A
566.
by yarou 13y ago
I'm really starting to get suspicious that these types of commentary on Bitcoin are not intellectually honest. Rather, they're used as a way to induce some kind of desired market condition. Want to trigger a massive selloff? Start
567.
by yarou 13y ago
I used to believe a long time ago (when I was younger) that anything is possible -- so long as you work hard. But the reality is it's more complicated than that. Some people have pure talent; no matter how hard you work, you can never
568.
by yarou 13y ago
I always thought the target demographic for magical girl shows were the so-called "grass eater" or herbivore men. There's a reason why Akihabara is very popular, and I'd imagine most of the toy sales come from adult men
569.
by yarou 13y ago
I've been doing an interesting experiment related to this. For the past month, I took either 200 mg Modafinil (Generic) or 150 mg Armodafinil (Nuvigil). I noticed no increase or decrease in my productivity. However, my mood was noticea
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by yarou 13y ago
We need more leaders like this in the US. This man understood the debilitating condition of poverty, and despite all the odds, succeeded with no help from anybody.

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