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A New Effort Has Doctors Turn Patients into Donors(nytimes.com)
1 points by japhyr 11y ago|0 comments
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by japhyr 11y ago
This is great. I've seen this tool before, but now that I'm considering a new laptop I find it really helpful. I found a couple laptops I hadn't been aware of, which will make me much more confident that I've made a good
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by japhyr 11y ago
I've never thought of a nonprofit as a foundation. Are they equivalent? The primary appeal for me as a nonprofit is declaring unequivocally that profit is not the goal of the project, and to facilitate donations to support ongoing deve
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by japhyr 11y ago
I have an open source project that's in an early stage, and I'm trying to figure out whether structuring it as a nonprofit is a good idea. I'm quite curious to hear more about the reasoning behind this decision as well.
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by japhyr 11y ago
I think much more clearly when writing on paper than when typing at a keyboard. I can get into a mindset, and the pen and paper don't ever distract from my frame of mind. If I try to think through something at the keyboard, I often dri
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by japhyr 11y ago
When I want to see what good Python looks like, I browse the Django source code. I like the style, the structure, and the approach to documenation. https://github.com/django/django
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The Bail Trap(nytimes.com)
186 points by japhyr 11y ago|201 comments
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by japhyr 11y ago
If we don't die from an acute event or illness, we can expect to live somewhere around 75 years. How many of those years do most people take full advantage of? My heroes are people like Fred Beckey [0], who keep living fully through al
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Funding OSS(lukasa.co.uk)
2 points by japhyr 11y ago|0 comments
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by japhyr 11y ago
My code is cleaner, and much more intelligible after attending this talk.
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by japhyr 11y ago
I lived in a tent for a year (long bicycle trip), and I started sleeping in a hat because it was cold most nights. I started pulling the hat slightly over my eyes at night, and my sleep has been better ever since. I probably couldn't w
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by japhyr 11y ago
And when you haven't worked on a project for a while, improving the test coverage is a great way to get back into it.
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by japhyr 11y ago
I'm always interested in what Katie Cunningham has to say. http://therealkatie.net/blog/
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by japhyr 11y ago
Sure, but it seems inevitable that some major player from the late 90's/ early 00's would have a significant influence on the state of the internet in 2015. I'm happier with where Google has brought us than if, say, Yaho
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by japhyr 11y ago
I used to find hope in this idea of going to another planet, so if we nuke one planet we're still okay as a species. But heck, if our species is inclined to wage destructive war on ourselves, we're probably going to do it a second
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by japhyr 11y ago
The milky way galaxy is about 200,000 light years in diameter, but only about 200 light years thick. Given this thickness, I imagine you'd need to look beyond the 200-light-year range to notice a significant influence of the plane of t
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by japhyr 11y ago
But I really expect that simple organisms (like, you know, plankton) will evolve to survive What makes you confident of that?
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by japhyr 11y ago
Would if affect me if I go swimming in the ocean? No, because you're a large adult organism. But if you were a tiny crustacean, you wouldn't be able to grow a shell. This affects tiny crustaceans, but also the young of large spe
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by japhyr 11y ago
I did a BS in physics in the early 1990s, but I haven't kept up with current research. Can someone recommend some good reading to catch up on what's been happening since then? I'd love a decent book about qm or cosmology that
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by japhyr 11y ago
The images we've been seeing the last few weeks, which grew by a few pixels every day or so, were exciting. I read about how much higher resolution the images would be as the probe reached its closest point in the flyby. But I had no i
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by japhyr 11y ago
I love HN for things like this - personal accounts of people associated with groundbreaking projects. Thanks for sharing. Most of your post is about visiting planets and exploring the solar system, but you close witha comment about disrupti
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by japhyr 11y ago
Are you talking about high school students?
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New York City Introduces Bail Reform Plan for Low-Level Offenders(nytimes.com)
1 points by japhyr 11y ago|0 comments
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by japhyr 11y ago
I just picked up my father's old copy of vol. 1, Fundamental Algorithms . It's amazing that a book published in 1973 (second edition) can still be worth studying. I'd like to work from the copy I have, largely for sentimenta
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by japhyr 11y ago
- Lisp has not succeeded on a relative scale. Let's not discount that. Is there a clear reason for this? I've only ever heard good things about lisp. My impression, as a hobbyist programmer, is that lisp appeals to people who ha
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Ask HN: Recommended non-technical reading
1 points by japhyr 11y ago|1 comments
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by japhyr 11y ago
I like how she states her position so concisely in the last two lines: We don’t ask you for free iPhones. Please don’t ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation.
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by japhyr 11y ago
The fine, which AT&T says it will fight, is the largest ever levied by the agency. Does anyone know how likely this fine is to stick? It sounds like a significant fine to me, but I wonder if these kind of fines are often appealed down
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by japhyr 11y ago
That's the LGPL, right?
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by japhyr 11y ago
Are you sure that's correct, from a legal perspective? If I release an MIT project, someone makes a GPL fork with a significant new feature, wouldn't pulling that feature back into my project make my project GPL?

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