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   by dreeves 17y ago

   Thanks! You could use that script yourself to keep a copy of the pdf live on the web. Then your collaborators could edit the LaTeX on etherpad and keep re-fetching example.com/foo.pdf for the pdf of what they're editing. If they're not h
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   by dreeves 17y ago

   I hacked up something for LaTeX collaboration: http://etherpad.com/latexmk
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   by dreeves 17y ago

   Other: Mathematica
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   Google acquires AppJet/Etherpad(etherpad.com)

   258 points by dreeves 17y ago|98 comments
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   by dreeves 17y ago

   ditto Manhattan, if you don't mind getting woken up at 7am by a 2-year-old. PS: as someone below says, ditch the car!
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   by dreeves 17y ago

   I think that article is pretty crazy apologetics for a bad mechanism. There's an elegant mechanism design solution to the inefficiency inherent in HFT: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/07/31/solving-the... See also the first pa
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   by dreeves 17y ago

   Perhaps not quite as big as you're imagining though. If there's, say, a spamassassin rule for it (we actually wrote one for our initial version of the centmail protocol) then it might be worth your while as a sender to sign up, to help avo
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   by dreeves 17y ago

   Correction: Dan Ariely
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   by dreeves 17y ago

   I just blogged about the whole "rent vs buy" thing: http://messymatters.com/2009/06/01/buyrent/ If you don't believe in timing the market then the rent vs buy decision just doesn't matter nearly as much as people act like it does. The bi
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    by dreeves 17y ago

    Yes, writeboard.com by 37signals. It's not real-time though. Something very much like SubEthaEdit but totally web-based is etherpad.com. I'd be interested to see a feature-to-feature comparison between SubEthaEdit and EtherPad.
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    by dreeves 17y ago

    It has been unscathed so far despite the layoffs at Yahoo. The attitude seems to be to double-down on basic research while cutting elsewhere. And it does seem to be a highly regarded research lab (if I do say so myself, being part of it)
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    by dreeves 18y ago

    I have a potentially silly question: When you buy stock in a public company you have specific protection from liability -- the worst that can happen is you lose your investment. As an angel investor the worst case is worse, in theory. If
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    by dreeves 18y ago

    Holy crap, that's handy! Thanks so much! Out of curiosity (and in hopes of eliciting a reply to see if it shows up in my new Hacker News Responses feed!) would this also be easy to do with Yahoo!Pipes?
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    by dreeves 18y ago

    The economist Steven Landsburg tried to come up with a word for this and decided to co-opt the word "gumption", redefining it as consisting of the following: 1. Sensitivity to know what needs doing. 2. Inventiveness to figure out how
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    Email Event Horizon(scottaaronson.com)

    3 points by dreeves 18y ago|0 comments
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    by dreeves 18y ago

    This is not quite as interesting as it sounds. Ie, they're not using Tipjoy as a way to have real-money prediction markets (which would be wonderful and, sadly, illegal in the US). I wonder if an unspoken agreement could be reached among li
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    by dreeves 18y ago

    I use mathematica for general scripting tasks. It takes a little hackery to do things like use it in a pipeline and such: http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/dreeves/mash/mash.pl
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    by dreeves 18y ago

    What you're actually trying to do is known as price discrimination. In other words, you want people who value the spaces more to pay more. Airlines, for example, do this by charging more if your trip doesn't span a Saturday (since that me