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The Transitive Grace Period Public Licence(thunk.org)
4 points by yungchin 17y ago|0 comments
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by yungchin 17y ago
A couple of days ago I was really looking for everyone's insights on this patent application by Google: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1042128 ... but the original title I put on it didn't make clear what it was (I think it said "Goo
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by yungchin 17y ago
Thanks, yes, I meant "repeat common views" - without necessarily meaning "groupthink" though. For me, groupthink implies uncritical thinking, whereas repeating (and repeatedly reading) common views is only inefficient. So I might down-vote
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by yungchin 17y ago
I'm relatively new here, but if I may offer a suggestion: I don't care much for the points on comments at all. Comments that float to the top regularly defend commonplaces, and while they certainly deserve a positive vote, there's not much
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by yungchin 17y ago
Agreed - I don't think the speed-limiting factor when reading code is how fast it transfers from screen to brain. That's totally different with prose, where you often skip over almost 90% of the characters because the choice of words that f
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by yungchin 17y ago
This would be nice. As Canonical is more or less London-based, I'd rather expect them to partner with 7Digital than with Amazon or Apple, as was suggested. There's a problem though: if they stick to shipping Ubuntu without MP3 codecs (and I
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by yungchin 17y ago
Ah, that makes more sense! Thanks.
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by yungchin 17y ago
The result is (almost) exactly http://xkcd.com/688/ I loved that one before, but I didn't realise that the panels also described the xkcd logo itself. It's beautiful.
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by yungchin 17y ago
Just remember: you only measure what you measure. This data suggests that Central England temperatures have only been slowly rising. It doesn't say anything about average world temperatures. (The Gulf Stream might be one of the reasons Nort
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by yungchin 17y ago
I was actually looking for a description of how Google News "clusters" stories about the same topic, when I ran into this. The first illustration shows, well, a computer network. The next one, a standard pc architecture. Then... a table. I
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Google patent application for ranking news(freepatentsonline.com)
1 points by yungchin 17y ago|1 comments
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by yungchin 17y ago
"Ideally, you'd have to compare generalists who are mediocre in lots of fields with a specialist whom is very good on a field." Isn't the whole point of the essay to suggest that generalists need not be mediocre at all? It's not obvious tha
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by yungchin 17y ago
While pretentiously written in scientific-journal format, the paper doesn't seem to have any hard data supporting the assertion that modern scientists are really dull.
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by yungchin 17y ago
Actually, Google Docs is not too suitable for it either: you can add to the list, but where do you leave comments for entries you disagree with, etc etc? Would become a strange hybrid discussion split between HN and the Google Doc... This i
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by yungchin 17y ago
By that logic, we shouldn't teach chemistry or physics in schools either. I would have loved to have been exposed to some CS in school. For some reason, my otherwise rather privileged schooling didn't feature any computing, and nobody in my
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by yungchin 17y ago
Edit: nevermind what I wrote below. I just figured out I didn't understand the controls. Would it be impossible to create "drag and drop" for units? I tried a single-player game in Firefox (3.5), but it hardly reacts to my input (even thoug
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by yungchin 17y ago
I'm not sure if advertisers will sort _themselves_ out... but I hope websites that care about their readership will learn what ads to refuse.
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by yungchin 17y ago
Just to be sure we're talking about the same thing: the article above is advocating that we all publish every detail of our research proceedings online. What I'm saying is, that doing that would jeopardize your position as a researcher: the
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by yungchin 17y ago
As for the "climategate" part of that uhm, rant, I'd say Ars' commentary provided a more balanced, real-world view on matters: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/11/uk-hack-puts-cli... - to me, like to the Ars editor, the CRU emails
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by yungchin 17y ago
Well, if you believe some of the stuff behind the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shettles_Method for choosing the gender of your children, you could come to all kinds of theories as to the causation... E.g., maybe men with beautiful wives d
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by yungchin 17y ago
The way I read it, it can also contribute to improving neutrality: you can now try to commission the same amount of bandwidth to each user. Whereas with individual package-handling a user could impact other users by sending lots of packages
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by yungchin 17y ago
"there's an incentive for readers to withhold more valuable information to others (instead of spreading them and making money with Google Adwords)" There are two problems. The first one is that you make an assumption here, that individuals
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Offline programming: teaching children computer science(blog.sybreon.com)
1 points by yungchin 17y ago|0 comments
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Team claims Netflix' $1M recommendation-engine innovation-award(readwriteweb.com)
1 points by yungchin 17y ago|0 comments
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by yungchin 17y ago
As I told a buddy earlier, the piece is below RMS' usual standard: "This is a serious danger, and only fools would ignore it" - poisoning the well rather than arguing the case properly...
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NRC wants government to support venture-funded businesses(arstechnica.com)
1 points by yungchin 17y ago|0 comments
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by yungchin 17y ago
Even as a Dutchman, I'm sometimes amazed how far we take our pseudo-socialistic tendencies :) Seriously, if we implement this now, nobody will be bothered to ever come up with an innovative new business model for news. A big news corporatio
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Test-Driven Design: not for the early stages of development(tbray.org)
35 points by yungchin 17y ago|11 comments
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Bing and Google Agree: Slow Pages Lose Users(radar.oreilly.com)
4 points by yungchin 17y ago|0 comments
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by yungchin 17y ago
1. I see your point about it coming down to his job definition - the question then is, is there a difference between consulting and being tenured? 2. I think it's not about books being out of date, it's about the ideas not originating from

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