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by davi 18y ago
There's an angle to this that I see on the ground as a graduate student in neuroscience that I've never seen anyone talk about, including Greenspun. It's that there are way more training positions for graduate students than there are jobs
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by davi 18y ago
See first post on this reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7vbai/game_of_l... Please don't encourage HN's convergence to reddit-style discussions.
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by davi 18y ago
Googling around to find out if the logo is in fact a real Game of Life (it seems to be), I run into this description of the hashlife algorithm which enables high performance Game of Life simulations: http://www.ddj.com/hpc-high-performance
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by davi 18y ago
This rant seems like it's more about the difficulty of compiling & configuring open source tools on the Mac than it is about Mono in particular. For a non-specialist programmer like me, almost no open source tools Just Work on the Mac.
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by davi 18y ago
Hey mechanical_fish, drop the meta and come back to talking with me about Drupal: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=467926 (Perhaps you've already seen this & chosen not to respond, but I think it's more likely you haven't seen it s
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by davi 18y ago
The only sentence in the article* that quantifies the magnitude of a color dependent effect is: And while red guests reported feeling hungry and thirsty, yellow guests ate twice as much. This is a pattern in science journalism: 1) scienti
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by davi 18y ago
My opinion of Time and Newsweek has been consistently low for about 15 years. When I was in high school, I thought they were "serious" newsweeklies. I went so far as to keep a crate of them my library was discarding, with some vague idea
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by davi 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=466965
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by davi 18y ago
I dusted off my previous experiments with Drupal and started messing around. I pretty quickly ran into barriers with the 'out of the box' snap together model, but I see what you mean, the infrastructure could work with some customization.
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by davi 18y ago
I want to be able to share some stuff with group A (e.g. old friends), other stuff group B (e.g. project collaborators), with the option of having stuff I post to group A being invisible to group B (and vice-versa). I don't think FriendFeed
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by davi 18y ago
I often click on the username of someone whose comment I'm replying to, and glance at the age of their account, their karma, and sometimes click through for a look at their comments. I don't know exactly why I do this -- just want to know a
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by davi 18y ago
Focused on professional networking, not creative sharing.
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by davi 18y ago
Only interesting thing about this article is that it may be part of a larger reversal of sentiment toward Facebook by the main stream media. But I have felt for a while that the way you share on Facebook is geared toward kids & college
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by davi 18y ago
Some crazy comments getting left there... Are these people for real? How did they see the post? Is it getting attention anywhere besides Hacker News?
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by davi 18y ago
Scan down page for heading: Should The Times Charge for Online News?
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by davi 18y ago
The procrast thing always seemed insanely odd to me. Agreed. I imagine an ad, seen by a character in a Philip K. Dick novel: "Noprocrast! The best way for current you to impose your will on future you, guaranteed! For the disciplinaria
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by davi 18y ago
You'd also be surprised that watching TV actually increases mental activity I bet it increases it in the occipital cortex, where primary visual processing is going on; this doesn't mean it's doing anything for these kids' cognitive capabi
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by davi 18y ago
From a comment on Greenspun's site: "First, to those who didn’t realize it. This is a patent application. It has not yet been granted. I believe your page contains a similar enough idea, such that it should be considered prior art. ... Fina
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Crowd-sourced biology reading list from Carl Zimmer(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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by davi 18y ago
DNA not the whole story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics
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by davi 18y ago
Very cool. Deeper info on project page: http://www.weizmann.ac.il/complex/EMoses/projects/NeuralDevi... This shows an oscillator built of diodes. On to the Nature Physics article, now.
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by davi 18y ago
From Steve Jobs talking in 1985 I learn something about color vision: "You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of the great inventors of our time but, more important,
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by davi 18y ago
Carl Zimmer, biology: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/
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by davi 18y ago
Nice. Maybe let user build rules like: When a Terminal window is in the foreground and has an open ssh session --> amber When Firefox in foreground, displaying news.ycombinator.com --> green. Never automatic red, though: I would wa
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by davi 18y ago
I like it, but your idea only works if your back is to a wall. My wife did the boolean version of this, though, when I told her I wanted to spend $100 on a fancy board from National Instruments. She folded a piece of paper in two, wrote "D
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by davi 18y ago
Hm, I wonder if you are married...
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by davi 18y ago
This link is much more interesting than the posted article. I saw a jellyfish aquarium years ago and thought it was one of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen. I wish the site had some indication of price ranges. Get your roommate to p
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by davi 18y ago
Looks like fun to me. I know very little about hardware hacking but I had an idea the other day: I wanted to rig a mini-stoplight up (green, amber, red LEDs) that I could plug into my computer's USB port and hit hot keys to change which LED
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by davi 18y ago
"I just finished building a Drupal system that stores content until a user with a particular email address logs into a site, then shows it to them." Interesting -- public code? "like so many Drupal problems, this will require some custom co
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by davi 18y ago
I did some looking around a while ago and couldn't find anything that gracefully gives users ACL-like, fine-grained control over who can see which of their postings. This seems like a clear hole in the space, too me. I'd like to be able to

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