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by HillRat 12y ago
Appears that the JAVELIN homepage has now moved to https://mu.lti.cs.cmu.edu/moin/Javelin_Project . However, the code and data page appears to be locked behind an authentication wall.
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by HillRat 12y ago
[I]f you crash at a friend's house for a few months without paying rent, you're supposed to count the amount you didn't pay in rent as gift income. You're fundamentally correct, but it's worth unpacking the logic
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by HillRat 12y ago
I think the issue there is that car-hailing networks lack exclusivity and have limited lock-in. This suggests a race to the bottom is inevitable: customers want faster rides and lower prices; drivers want more customers (either larger netwo
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by HillRat 12y ago
To be fair, the line about "Act in Netflix's best interest" seems to apply to expense account reporting ( http://voiceglance.com/netflixs-anti-establishment-pro-cash-... ), which seems like a reasonable rule. O
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by HillRat 12y ago
Back in the '90s, I met a guy who made quite a bit of money off specialized construction projects in the developing world. He invested a fair amount of that into a rather popular religious children's series, doing very well in the
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With a $10K watch, Apple is preparing for a future of inequality(fusion.net)
3 points by HillRat 12y ago|3 comments
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by HillRat 12y ago
I've just gone through a rather prolonged search and hiring process, which involved hiring and then having to (regretfully) release some candidates (near the end, we were bringing them on as contractors so as not to create too many exp
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by HillRat 12y ago
This leads me to wonder if there actually might be some value in revisiting Jaynes' Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind . I'm also reminded of a monograph -- can't recall the name -- by a 1970s psy
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by HillRat 12y ago
Yeah, there's so much wrong with this paper that it ceases to be wrong and just enters a realm of academic Dadaism. It's basically impossible to even formulate a working hypothesis without having a deep understanding of the soci
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How to live forever: The philosophy of brain uploads(newyorker.com)
4 points by HillRat 12y ago|0 comments
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by HillRat 12y ago
[A]nyone graduating from an America college should get a greencard. I think a new class of non-employer-dependent work visa for foreign graduates of US colleges and universities would be a great idea, if coupled with H1-B reform. For exam
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by HillRat 12y ago
You make some solid points, but let me take issue with a few: Army should not do police work. There should be para-military units (gendarme) composed from locals, but from different regions. US did great job at Philippines with this strate
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The alarming health risks of workplace stress(theatlantic.com)
2 points by HillRat 12y ago|0 comments
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by HillRat 12y ago
My homegrown front-end library has a similar pub-sub mechanism (probably a bit more heavyweight than the OP's implementation) and uses it extensively for UI coupling, data-binding and asynchronous call management. It's certainly a
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by HillRat 12y ago
(In reply to Icebraining ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9030542) ) I think the key here is whether the ATS requires a cause of action to arise in the US in order to enable a claim under ATS (any international-law spec
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by HillRat 12y ago
Even non-transmitting devices can be "unintentional radiators" as per the FCC. Using pre-licensed components doesn't exempt you from testing and appropriate certification -- you're on the hook for the entire product. Fur
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by HillRat 12y ago
Arguably, the penalties aren't really punitive enough, otherwise we wouldn't still have an industry of bleeding-edge tax dodges. I know -- professionally and not closely -- one guy who specializes in complex tax mitigation for the
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by HillRat 12y ago
I only know what was in the trade press! However, I've familiar with how both government and enterprise projects in general evolve (or, to put it another way, I've been kicked by that mule more than once).
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by HillRat 12y ago
Just like healthcare.gov, the reality is you start with an absolutely trivial problem and turn it into a nightmare. I wouldn't call hc.gov "trivial" -- it started with all the fun of a massive-scale website, added X12 EDI w
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by HillRat 12y ago
It will be interesting -- and by "interesting" I mean "terrifying" -- to see what the thwarting of internalized expectations does to our social fabric. It's the same essential motivation that fueled the rise of Isla
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The national security elite: unregulated, unaccountable(theatlantic.com)
3 points by HillRat 12y ago|0 comments
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by HillRat 12y ago
Very good explanation! I'll also add that some Amish (and somewhat more Mennonite) communities actually OK laptops and cellphones, while desktop computers and landlines are eschewed. (Or, to use a somewhat older example, some communiti
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by HillRat 12y ago
By the way, my understanding is that it was never as simple as two countries colluding to share raw data with each other; there had to be essentially a "laundering" of the data by turning it into analyzed intelligence, so that an
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by HillRat 12y ago
Well, I'm sure the Soviets printed quite a few. :) Actually, the role of the Soviet political officer ( zampolit ) was by then subordinated to the commanding officer -- political officers were expected to function as field officers (pi
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by HillRat 12y ago
There was also the B-59 incident during the Cuban Missile Crisis[1], when a Soviet sub -- its officers exhausted, out of contact with Moscow, and uncertain if war had broken out -- almost launched a nuclear torpedo against US forces. XO Vas
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Why Some Teams Are Smarter Than Others(nytimes.com)
119 points by HillRat 12y ago|89 comments
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by HillRat 12y ago
If I understand you correctly, I think you have it backwards -- as I read it, Bell Labs saw math as having "lasting value," while computer science was just a practical application. Morris didn't want to look foolish, so he pe
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by HillRat 12y ago
No one's talking about "UberX for garbage;" the idea here is to let local companies with a relatively small number of trucks syndicate to compete against the large, national companies for contracts they otherwise wouldn'
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by HillRat 12y ago
Intent (or "mens rea"), not motive. Some killers don't have a motive; see the Louisiana murderer who confessed to killing a child who came to his door to sell candy -- he confessed, saying only that he "had a bad day.&qu
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by HillRat 12y ago
I should point out that my academic background was political science and econometrics, with only a smattering of comp. sci courses in college, so I'm also an autodidact in computer science -- my recommendations come from my own experie

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