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by mherdeg 12y ago
Heartbreakingly, the NPR story says "There actually are jobs – in industry, consulting, government and [other fields]", with [other fields] a hyperlink to http://www.whatcanyoubewithaphd.net/contact/ , which
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by mherdeg 12y ago
I wonder whether the FBI bypasses hardware interlocks. Presumably no. The Washington Post reported in December 2013 that : ""The FBI has been able to covertly activate a computer’s camera — without triggering the light that lets u
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by mherdeg 12y ago
Some interesting euphemisms in here: ""When it left it was preceded by a Station car and followed by another; their job was to determine whether the Soviets were escorting it to the rail yard. When it was clear that there were no
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by mherdeg 12y ago
Well-loved YCombinator startup Stripe spent a bunch of its early time wrangling with the complexity of the payments industry precisely so that their customers wouldn't have to.
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by mherdeg 12y ago
Some discussion about this method at http://derickrethans.nl/immutable-datetime.html
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by mherdeg 12y ago
This sounds like a good candidate for submission to the Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis, my favorite journal, http://www.jasnh.com/ .
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by mherdeg 12y ago
After spending years reading Web comics I now find that "C&H" maps to Cyanide & Happiness rather than Calvin & Hobbes. (Which is crazy; I read all the Calvin & Hobbes strips and grew up in Cleveland Heights for pet
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by mherdeg 12y ago
I guess "nobody ever tips them" is usually true re: bribing the front desk. But in Las Vegas, it's de rigueur. Look at the results for a Web search for [the $20 trick].
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by mherdeg 12y ago
Note that this text is in some cases censored. See Cameron Todd Willingham's statement: "Yeah. The only statement I want to make is that I am an innocent man - convicted of a crime I did not commit. I have been persecuted for 12 y
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by mherdeg 12y ago
Lovely. Reminds me of the posters on the wall at Shiro's Saimin Heaven in Oahu: "Dear Hearts, Marriage has its troubles like so many broken marbles. It can get broken, chipped and smashed. Don't ever get involved in other cou
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by mherdeg 12y ago
I'm surprised that this EFF report doesn't include Reddit.
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by mherdeg 13y ago
The patient in this article, Scott Routley, died in September 2013: http://www.macleans.ca/society/technology/beyond-words/
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Sure, so the author's advice boils down to: (1) If your child does something good, DO tell them that they are showing traits of a person who does good things (praise character). DON'T let them think that they're merely a pers
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by mherdeg 13y ago
The author writes "Weev is a good guy. I know him." Is that true? What about his behavior towards Kathy Sierra? (I agree that it is a problem for unjust things to happen to bad people.)
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by mherdeg 13y ago
I hope the name is in homage to Scribe, the markup language and word processor. There was a time when you might write up your thesis in Scribe (even as, in parallel, some people chose LaTeX).
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by mherdeg 13y ago
I did not know that there was an internal team at MSFT that was empowered to read messages in third parties' Hotmail accounts. That seems a bit scary. The blog post's source here is this Seattle P-I article : http://www
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by mherdeg 13y ago
That sentence is still present in today's published version of this article, http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/mar/10/slow-death-of-... .
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by mherdeg 13y ago
See previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7359519 (pointing to a 7 March copy of this article which was un-published).
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by mherdeg 13y ago
You know, I remember perusing Richard Stallman's "The Right to Read" in the early 2000s and thinking "this is all extremely unlikely and way too pessimistic, this stuff will never happen like this" — http:/&#x
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by mherdeg 13y ago
A number of pigeons have won the Dickin Medal, according to the enthusiastic literature we picked up at Bletchley Park the weekend before last.
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Cool, so can you trade on this? Specifically, is the SEC's turnaround time to Freedom of Information Act requests fast enough that you could make a viable trading strategy out of "ask for the last week's worth of trades and r
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by mherdeg 13y ago
I think the author is deliberately excluding interactive fiction from the kinds of "videogames" that are criticized here. Which is too bad; there has been great stuff in the genre for a long time. Photopia (1998) has a heartbreaki
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Looking closer — I think no?. Some of the European countries which criminalize forced marriage, according to this June 2012 survey ( https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm... ), inc
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Does Spain have an equivalent to the UK government's "forced marriage unit" ( https://www.gov.uk/forced-marriage ), an agency whose job is to help people in this kind of situation?
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by mherdeg 13y ago
In case the date at the end fails to register, the reference (19 October 1987) is to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1987) .
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Oops, sorry, you're right — I had misread the Guardian's reference to a different case in which the parents were in fact from Bucharest and their son was taken from them. No, I don't have any special knowledge about the nat
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Western Europe has its own problems. The U.K. has "superinjunctions" and aggressively punitive libel laws and press restrictions. In some places in Switzerland, relationships with non-Swiss residents are so strained that local aut
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by mherdeg 13y ago
OK, so on the one hand, Alfred the Great used less with counting nouns in 888 AD. But can we really trust this guy for historical precedent? He burnt the cakes!
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by mherdeg 13y ago
The YCombinator startup whose product you may be able to use to build the service you want is Lob.
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Like RIM and BlackBerry?

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