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by chalst 10y ago
Wikipedia has an article about one of the authors of the study, Satoshi Kanazawa, that explains why he is so controversial - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Kanazawa
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How intelligence, population density, and friendship affect modern happiness(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
4 points by chalst 10y ago|0 comments
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by chalst 10y ago
Much though I hate voting up a Daily Mail article, this is interesting. I've posted the abstract of the study behind this story at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13836648 but that is just the abstract.
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Bayesian networks without tears [pdf](pages.cs.wisc.edu)
1 points by chalst 10y ago|0 comments
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by chalst 10y ago
Maybe make an AskHN out of your question? Or ask on the Emacs Stackexchange - http://emacs.stackexchange.com/ - Link back here if you do
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Lessons in Discipline – Book Review of “Rework”(nfib.com)
3 points by chalst 12y ago|0 comments
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Black Triangles(rampantgames.com)
5 points by chalst 12y ago|0 comments
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by chalst 12y ago
I use some systems without seq, and they have Bash with version 2.x or 3.x on them (eg., OSX). seq has the nice property that writing a shell or executable replacement is easy. I think the 2nd example is fine. It might be cut and pasted fr
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by chalst 12y ago
If it was "I have a valid license", then I would agree - in fact, I could cite http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml as an explicit assertion of permission from the creator . But the actual wording is "I have
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by chalst 13y ago
They should be regarded as expensive today, because key exchange is one of distinct parts of the attack surface of an SSL implementation. The less often this exchange is visible to eavesdroppers, the better.
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by chalst 13y ago
Your analysis of the issue of not being able to pass arrays as arguments is compelling, but I'm not so sure about "All it needs is a little new syntax" as a solution: you say how to keep backwards compatibility with existing
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Insider Threats vs the Customer (2013)(siliconbabble.blogspot.de)
1 points by chalst 13y ago|0 comments
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by chalst 13y ago
With just my eldest, 10-yo daughter, I have subscribed to 9 mailing lists at 3 different schools in two countries, to discuss things with various groups of parents, with none of these lists being started by tech folk.
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by chalst 13y ago
The smart-card based banking systems I am aware of don't run in the browser (not saying they couldn't have chosen to work via a plugin, they just don't seem to). Gnucash has for several smart card systems, and at least HBCI&
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by chalst 13y ago
Since I think it might not be clear, Amir Sufi's analysis concerns wealth, not income - so the 3rd graph in the article is about wealth, but the first two are about income. The Atlantic article is pretty bad about making this clear, t
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by chalst 13y ago
"Bent"? Analogy to bent money seems apt.
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by chalst 13y ago
I think it's easier to have such an exploitative regime in sciences that depend on "big lab" research: a higher body of graduate-student subordinates trying to get PhDs makes it easier to treat them as interchangeable compone
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by chalst 13y ago
"Gutted" seems strong to me: the military has lost its influence over the judiciary, but they are a very strong, well-funded and influential arm of the state, and they seem to be gaining some measure of public respect that they lo
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by chalst 13y ago
The Turkish military sees itself as the guardian of the Kemalist constitution and is unhappy with Erdogan. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat Rising conflicts between popular groups would,
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by chalst 13y ago
Two of the older posts of this article did say it was old: 1. From that time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=58444 2. Says (old article): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=288749 3. Says (2002): h
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by chalst 13y ago
The first comment is the echo of the author posting to Twitter at https://twitter.com/legostormtroopr/status/44287331642916044... - it isn't part of the article itself.
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Airgapping Tor: How to separate applications from Tor proxy(blog.erratasec.com)
3 points by chalst 13y ago|0 comments
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by chalst 13y ago
Negativity that suppresses distractions is good.
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by chalst 13y ago
I trust Lua sandboxing. See, e.g.: 1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1224708/how-can-i-create-... 2. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4134114/capabilities-for-... I find it easier
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by chalst 13y ago
Projective geometry: even in the simple case I outlined, you have lines being circles of infinite diameter. That infinity is just an additional closure point on the plane for shapes (and you can think of the similar projective line providi
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by chalst 13y ago
Since fidotron has been piled on, let me defend the point in his/her post. Good mathematics has come out of being worried that what other mathematicians have done isn't quite right, and I think the perspective of the article does
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by chalst 13y ago
Well put; a little quibble: these are the two notions of infinity that most interest set theorists, but there are many other notions of infinity in mathematics, e.g., 1. Representation of geometric entities "at infinity" in, e.g.,
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by chalst 13y ago
Good parallel. One of the points for having patents was to reduce the amount of secrecy in technology IP rights allow companies to share knowledge without fear of competing against their invention. This is covered by a form of IP: trade s
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by chalst 13y ago
Wrt. early social experiments: there clearly was a well-developed code-sharing community by the mid 1960s dealing with scientific computing in Fortran, with textbooks offering incremental refinements of programs to solve problems of shared
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by chalst 13y ago
I think I said that, with the caveat that different jurisdictions have varying stipulations about what the fiduciary obligations of companies are, and there has been some legal controversy about the idea over the years. There has been, unf

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