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by ynniv 14y ago
Yes! They were not available to me, but I am glad they exist. HOPE could be improved by easing up the 3.0 requirement for GT, tho.
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by ynniv 14y ago
Strange that a technically capable engineering student would be at UGA when GeorgiaTech is of similar cost (and both free to Georgia residents who maintain a 3.0 though the HOPE scholarship). Not saying that you won't find good people at UG
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by ynniv 14y ago
NO. OMG NO. This (artistic) class of algorithm makes things look pretty, but does not add information and ABSOLUTELY does not add evidence. Any serious mention of generative algorithms in the context of evidence is at best negligent. Humans
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by ynniv 14y ago
Yes, there are other high performance candidates that work well with line art. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hq3x
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by ynniv 14y ago
This doesn't actually add information, it just creates a magnified image that looks nicer than bicubic.
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by ynniv 14y ago
This isn't a story. Google's current self driving cars are normal cars with an especially intelligent cruise control. They are at all times legally driven by a person, (s)he just might not have their hand on the wheel. Without any additiona
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by ynniv 14y ago
Say I come up with a new power control loop for wireless devices. ... If I put it in a radio and sell it, someone can reverse-engineer the firmware and copy the design of the power control loop. Trade secrets won't protect me. ... Imagine
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by ynniv 14y ago
It is a mistake, in my view, then, to swing too broadly in trying to fix things I feel that a natural line to draw is computability, which rayiner has argued against in another comment. He cites an old communications patent[1] as well as
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by ynniv 14y ago
You're taking an edge case and making the debate all about that edge case. Sadly, I see this the opposite way. Quantity-wise good, innovative architecture patents are in the vast minority. If we are to deal with software patents one at a
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by ynniv 14y ago
Why should software libraries be protected when software algorithms aren't? Independent invention. > They can also license the math (which is not patentable) and have another team actually write the code. You can license it, but yo
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by ynniv 14y ago
It will take them a good deal of time and money to clean room reverse engineer a non-trivial algorithm. During that time you can profit from your invention, and advance your product. It will probably cost more money from them to clean room
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by ynniv 14y ago
Do you agree that this software should be patentable? No. Maybe you'd say that the software isn't patentable, but using the software with the machine is? No. If you design a better blender, it is an visible improvement that can be immed
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by ynniv 14y ago
That's almost offensive - you seem to have a very ignorant viewpoint. Have you never heard of licensing? Research teams regularly build libraries that become incorporated into products that they do not sell. They can also license the math
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by ynniv 14y ago
Any idea can be modelled mathematically, but that doesn't meet my criteria. Modeling is an estimation of how something works, but it isn't the mechanism by which something works. The current state of software patents results in people filin
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by ynniv 14y ago
a) You probably didn't come up with something new and awesome worth the court's protection (sorry) b) If you did, HTC is going to use it anyway and bury your suit in the courts until you run out of money (sorry) c) Either way, your example
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by ynniv 14y ago
It's for Indirect grammar is comparatively weak. It isn't "for consuming", it "consumes". consuming content No one "consumes content". They read, listen, watch, and play. relaxed A good writer conveys by action, not by description. If
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by ynniv 14y ago
What does a builder sound like? "When I write in emacs, it's inconvenient to share that with my team. When I write in the Wiki... well, I don't write in the wiki because it's annoying. I have been more productive doing X, and I think you
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by ynniv 14y ago
Man those mods like changing titles. I called this "A Comparison of Boston and Silicon Valley With More Depth", which I think is a better summary.
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Why I had it all wrong about Boston's high-tech scene(news.cnet.com)
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by ynniv 14y ago
That's because you read it in the future .
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by ynniv 14y ago
OMG the physical size of the title bar might be taller than the skinny nonsense it currently is? EATING ALONE CRYING INTO MY FOOD DOES NOT CONVEY MY DISAPPOINTMENT Does anyone remember 9" 72 DPI screens? The title bar was 20px high on a scr
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by ynniv 14y ago
Good catch! The image is 668x222, but the img tag is width="667" height="221". <img src="http://images.apple.com/ios/ios6/images/title.jpg" width="667" height="221" ...>
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by ynniv 14y ago
cheald has an excellent comment regarding MessagePack, JSON, and Protocol Buffers in the post from 15 hours ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4091051 MessagePack is not smaller than gzip'd JSON MessagePack is not faster tha
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by ynniv 14y ago
I am amazed! But probably not in the way the author intended. The web is not paper, stop screwing it up. We fall on skeuomorphism because design takes time to coalesce on new forms, but good design will emerge. Skeuomorph designs age quickl
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by ynniv 14y ago
Ah, my fault for not recognizing pragmatism at work. Rare events are definitely not worth optimizing for.
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by ynniv 14y ago
Quite off topic, but I'm always sad to see really poor scalability: To my surprise, this blog post hit the top spot on HN at least briefly. My blog started throwing some app errors. I've had a couple of hit HN stories on my blog without a
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by ynniv 14y ago
Is this sarcastic, or did you just now realize the point of the GPL?
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by ynniv 14y ago
This is a survey at best. It jumps to strange or unsupported conclusions like "the irb shell is not a true REPL" and "Rails is probably the best way to go about a complex web application", and impressive WTFs like "Perhaps to get the best o
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by ynniv 14y ago
Harvard recently developed an improved manufacturing technique for similar robots based on self-deforming materials and origami construction techniques: [ http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/press-releases/pop-u... ]
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by ynniv 14y ago
This is one of those ideas that gets suggested on a frequent basis. Those who suggest it often think that the problem is one of complexity management, like managing source code changes. The actual problem is one of power and intention. Yes,

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