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by logjam 15y ago
Flagged. You are beating a dead horse.
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by logjam 15y ago
See also concept of "rapport talk" vs "report talk". It's often crucial to understand which mode you and others are in. Like in vim.
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by logjam 15y ago
I've been involved in research, and spent a lot less than 40% of my time "chasing grants" (although it's unclear what activities that one does might be considered "chasing a grant"). And there really isn't that much of a bureaucracy barrier
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by logjam 15y ago
If this story is true (and I have some doubts), you'd think this would have been a no-brainer to not try to keep critical data like this in the cloud. But even for non-critical medical data, non-tech savvy medical folks (and this includes s
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by logjam 15y ago
There is a small list of games (and other applications) written using Gambit-C Scheme at: http://dynamo.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/wiki/index.php/Real-w...
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by logjam 15y ago
Amen, and the way our business-friendly politicians try to frame these debates is revealing. Physicians have a duty to act in the best interests of their patients, on individual, community, and societal levels...regardless of the "profit-an
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by logjam 15y ago
Before even experimenting with this for patient data, I'd be interested in answers to at least the following basic questions: - what logging and auditing is in place for telling a physician (who is ultimately responsible to his/her patients
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by logjam 15y ago
Why not allow the user to choose?
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by logjam 15y ago
I've had several domains with Namecheap - never had any problems whatsoever with them, and as far as I know they don't have the lack-of-ethics baggage several of these other really questionable registrars seem to have. I estimate I helped 5
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by logjam 15y ago
Interesting application of the technology. Infections and acute illnesses in infants in general are scary for a number of reasons. These guys can go bad very quickly. They can't tell you if and where they hurt, so it's a little like veterin
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by logjam 16y ago
I originally came here because I respected pg's technical expertise, enjoyed a lot of his writing, and initially enjoyed an actual (and fleeting) "hacker" community. Since then, I've periodically left HN for periods of time because of the d
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by logjam 16y ago
Having grown up around guns and hunting, I can tell you this guy's story just sounds worse and worse. Laws and hunting ethics generally precludes use of artificial illumination to hunt by, cf: http://www.africahunting.com/hunting-africa/13
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by logjam 16y ago
Read my mind. Also stole some of the change I had laying beside my laptop. Impressive.
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by logjam 16y ago
Oh. This is a "real story" apparently based solely on a conversation with the guy who shot the elephant, who is now furiously doing damage control as best he can. This must be a new definition of "real story" I'm unfamiliar with.
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by logjam 16y ago
I find your reasoning faulty. Frankly, I think it's you without a leg to stand on. Tu quoque much? Murder, child abuse, blah blah, is widespread everywhere as well. Arguing this is somehow justifiable because something is "widespread" makes
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by logjam 16y ago
I will be on the phone with each and every person I know who has a domain. We will discuss whether or not they happen to be using this cowardly imbecile's business. I will describe this horrible little gutless advertising stunt. We will wor
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by logjam 16y ago
Wonderful. Here's a personal recollection of Claude Shannon I always enjoyed: https://www2.bc.edu/~lewbel/Shannon.html And here's his classic paper (PDF): http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pd...
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by logjam 16y ago
Oh really. Which views exactly do you find naïve? His views evolved considerably over time.
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by logjam 16y ago
My reaction to this story about a painting of Navy torpedo boat influencing someone to join the Navy? That very old Saturday Night Live skit: [opening scene of Navy ships in port] Announcer: Port of call, Bayonne, New Jersey. [Navy men are
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by logjam 16y ago
"Komarov was honored with a state funeral. Only a chipped heel bone survived the crash." I'm confused by what appears to be a badly burned form in the open casket photo - appears to be more than a "chipped heel bone."
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by logjam 16y ago
What exactly is the intent of changing the title of the article? The article linked with the graphic indicates over and over again that health risks are nil. Frankly, the only hysteria that seems apparent around HN is this spate of post aft
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Bulletin of Atomic Scientists on Japan Nuke Plants: "Unlearned Lessons"(thebulletin.org)
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by logjam 16y ago
Preliminary results, so caution is obviously warranted. The story of genetic therapy for conditions like cystic fibrosis included initial wide enthusiasm, followed soon after by an apparent therapy-related death during the first clinical tr
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by logjam 16y ago
I've had several peer-reviewed papers published. The reviewers (who are unpaid) often have excellent suggestions and often do the work of an editor. However, I have NEVER had an editor or other paid staff of a journal offer ANY assistance
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by logjam 16y ago
There are several examples in the manual: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~harmony/manual.pdf
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by logjam 16y ago
Sorry it's been a rough time. Losses you describe are stressful and painful - take care of yourself, exercise, lean on those close to you, and keep talking. We're all different, but I'm exponentially more efficient and creative when I can f
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by logjam 16y ago
I went looking in the preface for what's new in the 4th ed. - the only thing I found is on the back cover: "The fourth edition has been substantially revised and expanded to bring the content up to date with the current Scheme standard, the
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by logjam 16y ago
Related news from yesterday - and related to past repeated posts by some on Hacker News insisting there was a 'ClimateGate conspiracy': "An inquiry by a federal watchdog agency found no evidence that scientists at the National Oceanic and A
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by logjam 16y ago
As noted in Paul Hoffman's recent book "King's Gambit", after his matches with both "Deep Blue" and "Deep Junior" Kasparov was exhausted: "As with Deep Blue, he had once again let an encounter with a machine play games with his head. He had
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by logjam 16y ago
For we who have had to roll some of the same functionality piecemeal out of tools like the Stanford NLP Core, tregex/tsurgeon, Wordnet, Beautiful Soup, and python nlptk, this looks on the surface to be pretty sweet. BSD licensing. Here's a

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