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by yohui 9y ago
Previous discussion from yesterday based on the original WSJ article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15092139
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by yohui 9y ago
As you probably know, that's impossible since fossil fuels (as the name suggests) are formed from the remains of prehistoric organisms. Since the Moon is lifeless, it has no fossil fuels. But I wouldn't mind if the moon did experi
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by yohui 9y ago
The CIA is an independent agency, not part of State or Defense or any other executive department.
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by yohui 9y ago
You can also view Figure 8 online: http://make.girls.moe/news-img/fixed_noise.jpg But as the online article states, that figure represents a case where the model is explicitly set to "generate images [which] have
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by yohui 9y ago
Well, "make.girls.moe" is the URL and name of the tool. According to the technical report [1], they used character portraits from Getchu [2] for training data. A cursory glance shows that the overwhelming majority of the charact
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by yohui 9y ago
> Chromium-based browsers do not support user styles Does anyone know what gorhill means by this? Stylish for Chrome seems to work fine: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish-custom-the... Am I mi
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by yohui 9y ago
There's strong bipartisan opposition to civil asset forfeiture: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/session... The only question is whether Congress or the Supreme Court will strike
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by yohui 9y ago
Baidu has long had an uncluttered, Google-like homepage, e.g. in Jan 2010: https://web.archive.org/web/20100101155014/http://www.baidu.... It's true that before its departure Google China was losing
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by yohui 9y ago
The GTX 1080's current MSRP is also $500, though, and it's been on the market for over a year already. Also, those numbers only represent the "minimum FPS range" for select titles. While minimum FPS is important, the pic
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by yohui 9y ago
While the technology exists, so-called "terminator genes" have not been implemented due to opposition from anti-GMO activists and other groups: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_use_restriction_techno...
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by yohui 9y ago
Update: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/07/google-denies-claims...
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by yohui 9y ago
Perhaps the BBC spoke to someone at Google who said the news feed would be available via the web – à la https://news.google.com or https://newsstand.google.com/ – which the reporter misunderstood to mean Google.
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by yohui 9y ago
Google's blog post talks about introducing the newsfeed to the Google app, but I don't see any mention of Google.com: https://www.blog.google/products/search/feed-your-need-know/ Anyone know where t
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by yohui 9y ago
China also restricts democracy and access to the internet, but that's not to say the US wouldn't be harmed by a move in that direction. China has different strengths and weaknesses; the US would be ill advised to give up its own s
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by yohui 9y ago
They're bringing it back: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/onedr...
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by yohui 9y ago
> Can anyone explain why 999 is not the best emergency number ever chosen? Numbers with widely separated digits such as 911 in the US or 119 in Japan are less likely to be accidentally dialed than numbers with similar or identical digi
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by yohui 9y ago
Stargate being a notable exception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Program#Stargate_Comm... Which reflects how in real life the Air Force does have more to do with space than the Navy.
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by yohui 9y ago
Abe isn't an American conservative. Even European conservatism isn't a one-to-one match with the American version, much less Japanese conservatism.
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by yohui 9y ago
> I don't make any particular claim about how the government identified the source. They also have access logs and apparently only 6 people accessed the document. Thanks for pointing that out. I've edited it to simply say &qu
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by yohui 9y ago
I think tanderson92 is claiming that the source was actually identified via other methods, so the material provided by the Intercept played no role in identifying the source. Hence the Intercept did not accidentally reveal their source but
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by yohui 9y ago
Mute tab seems to be enabled by default now, so they must have changed their minds a while ago. EDIT: Found an article: https://venturebeat.com/2015/10/20/you-can-now-mute-tabs-in-...
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by yohui 9y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14463732
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by yohui 9y ago
Something like Google Contributor, which was just relaunched today? https://contributor.google.com Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14467702
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by yohui 9y ago
Eh? I don't see much content in revelation's comment? As for the images you posted, I checked out EasyPhotoEdit and thetop10antivirus.com and neither site appears actively harmful (the former looks like an online photo editor and
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by yohui 9y ago
Doesn't the "Do not allow any site to show notifications" setting cover that? chrome://settings/content#notifications-section
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by yohui 9y ago
> I'm on chrome right now, and copy and paste is hidden away in a menu. And the keyboard shortcut for it isn't mentioned. How do you think people learned the keyboard shortcut in the first place? Copy and paste are also in th
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by yohui 9y ago
That's not what I got from the article. It says the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit based its decision in this case on the precedent set by one of its own previous decisions in 1990, which apparently ran contrary to the l
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by yohui 9y ago
paulmd already put up a list, so I won't repeat it. Ars Technica sums it up: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/03/amd-ryzen-review/ > Indeed, Ryzen's 95W TDP looks impressive compared to
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by yohui 9y ago
Google Voice still does offer free domestic US calls. They kept renewing the one year free offer until they just declared it free indefinitely.
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by yohui 9y ago
Mostly agree, but AMD's TDP estimates are slightly optimistic and in reality Ryzen's power usage is much closer to its Intel counterparts.

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