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   by macrael 11y ago

   Isn't this more just a response to Twitter? People already find what the politicians are saying on their twitter feeds...
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   by macrael 11y ago

   The point isn't to have an actual manual but to show how complex things have grown.
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   by macrael 11y ago

   What's the first one?
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   by macrael 11y ago

   Such a delightful book
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   by macrael 11y ago

   Eh, it sounds like Athens had systems in place to deal with these problems. With cause you could remove people from office and there was some sort of test to determine if you were eligible for the office at all. Their tests for citizenship
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   by macrael 11y ago

   The one missing part of your understanding: grants are generally reviewed by researcher-peers, not really "funding institutions". Your proposal is read by other researches, scores are given to the grant and then a cutoff score is
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   by macrael 11y ago

   Some happy medium between this title and the original title could be found.
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   by macrael 11y ago

   The State of JavaScript on Android Is Poor ... we need to start considering alternatives for the Discourse project. Really buried the lede there.
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   by macrael 11y ago

   Another example of this: table views in Cocoa. Enough cells to fill the screen are allocated and then just updated instead of re-created as cells scroll off screen.
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    by macrael 11y ago

    I'll say though that I'm a fan of their new "While you were away" section. It complements the unfiltered feed.
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    by macrael 11y ago

    Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing. Who knows if things would have actually played out differently, but it seems like the next institution that Uber comes to partner with will be given pause by this news.
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    Carnegie Mellon Reels After Uber Lures Away Researchers(wsj.com)

    2 points by macrael 11y ago|1 comments
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    by macrael 11y ago

    I'd argue that a slot machine is spiritually the same as "gamification" in general.
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    The Bot Bubble(newrepublic.com)

    15 points by macrael 12y ago|0 comments
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    by macrael 12y ago

    I recommend reading Infinite Jest.
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    by macrael 12y ago

    I've been watching a bunch of the Star Trek movies lately, for the first time. My favorite was IV: The Voyage Home, written and directed by Nimoy. It stands out to me amongst epic Sci-fi movies as being dramatic and complex and wholly
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    by macrael 12y ago

    Both of those are pre-Challenger and the first paragraph of Kosmos article reads: "Kosmos 954 (Russian: Космос 954) was a reconnaissance satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1977. A malfunction prevented safe separation of its onb
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    by macrael 12y ago

    I'm confused, if after the first contact the lander expected to be stationary but was actually moving 20cm/s away from the comet, how is the lander still on the comet? 20cm/s seems like it would take it off into space pretty
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    by macrael 12y ago

    I've read that in general space agencies are very hesitant to launch anything into space with a nuclear generator out of fear that if the rocket exploded on the way up it could scatter radioactive material across our atmosphere.
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    by macrael 12y ago

    That might have the most chilling effect on a 3.0.
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    by macrael 12y ago

    "On or about October 7, 2013, the HSI-UC [the undercover agent] was invited to join a newly created discussion forum on the Tor network, concerning the potential creation of a replacement for the Silk Road 1.0 website. The next day, on
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    by macrael 12y ago

    I was giddy just watching this video! I'm sure his joy was genuine. It's just amazing to see feathers fall straight and bounce(!) when they hit the ground.
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    by macrael 12y ago

    Does a "typical" neural network not have any storage to speak of? When I've seen examples of neural networks working, it's seemed like they work in cycles in some way, with the states of each "neuron" affecting
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    by macrael 12y ago

    Funny though that they didn't change the name to "Reddit"
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    by macrael 12y ago

    This would be solved by public key encrypting and signing both sides of those messages. Nothing stops people from sharing your public key, so you could develop some kind of one off token for everyone instead, that way you can kill those tok
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    by macrael 12y ago

    Here's a reply he made to a twitter conversation about it: https://twitter.com/gruber/status/507305771265454080 It definitely seems shitty to take the name of his project without his permission, regardless of
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    by macrael 12y ago

    Yeah, weird. I remembered it being just an X but it had lines in all directions.
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    by macrael 12y ago

    That's @lonelysandwich, he is the director of a lot of tech startup demos: http://sandwichvideo.com
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    by macrael 12y ago

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    by macrael 12y ago

    I've been calling them hyper-rationalists. There's a line somewhere in the story where I think Harry is delighted to have found at Hogwarts a group of people who talk like people in novels instead of all the other people he knows