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by mjn 13y ago
I think this part is slowly changing, but it was in legal limbo for years, so many universities have been insisting on the course-packs-with-copyright-clearance option out of risk-aversion. Most of the cost of the course packs ends up being
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by mjn 13y ago
Other discussion of the same post that's also on the front page, with more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7452231 (Looks like HN doesn't canonicalize all the blogspot.tld URLs.)
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> that accept contributions (e.g. chapters) from reputable academics from around the world. As someone currently doing something like that, I'd say it massively complicates the process of getting a coherent book finished this decade
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> Professors who write textbooks receive 15-40% royalties off the cover price. I'd like to know where to get that kind of deal! I have only one experience publishing a textbook (currently in progress, with Springer), but we get 6% t
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I think it is important to avoid using the term STEM and specifically dissect it in the discussions about shortage. Computer Science is a very peculiar part of STEM and not all of the STEM fields face the same challenges. I think there&#x
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It's sad that the Shalizi review is the first thing people refer to (it's sort of the Huffington Post of reviews). Do you base this on just this one review, or more generally? I've mostly found his reviews informative and m
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I acknowledged that I didn't have kids, but I also made <$50k. I could've paid for kids, and lived quite well doing so, if I had an extra $250k/yr!
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Find me a market today where four weeks off and a sub one hour drive to a truly nice rental beachfront single family home is a realistic expectation. Also, the home neighborhood is totally safe and good schools are in walking distance. Ho
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That was my reaction; I'm not sure how someone could have any historical knowledge and think that. My grandparents were, I think, fairly typical middle-class Americans. They raised 2 kids in a ~1200-sq-ft house in the Los Angeles subur
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by mjn 13y ago
Yeah, the reporting is a bit strange, though the Turing paper covers a wide range of subjects, so that's not too surprising. Turing's theory is so broad it would be difficult to "confirm" it with any single study, becaus
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Answer-set programming: Prolog doesn't have well-defined declarative semantics.
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For that there are already several good, stable JVM lisps, though. I assume people are moving to Clojure because they specifically want Clojure, not just a lisp on the JVM; otherwise the more conservative choice would be to use ABCL (if you
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by mjn 13y ago
That kind of "retreat" is a bit more conventional I think. It's fairly common at large companies to occasionally send a team to Vail or Hawaii or a cruise or something for a week for team-building / brainstorming /
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That's more or less my view. I think if I had a blog that was part of some community, like a blog discussing issues of interest to Americans in Copenhagen or something similar, I might have comments. But for my personal site, which i
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Houston is a weird mix of both, perhaps as a result of its impressive sprawl. There are dozens of abandoned malls, and dozens of thriving ones. Perhaps land is so cheap that it's just easier to build a new one than to renovate an older
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> Of course, he did the statistics backwards. He started with the successful companies and looked for common traits. He should've started with the traits and evaluated how companies with-and-without those traits performed. I don&#
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I agree that's true, but I think that's more or less the problem this essay is tackling also (which I guess is why it ended up here). There is a pretty long history of anti-authoritarian political movements running into the proble
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Bit of a nitpick, but > given how important mobile browsing is to every site I find my own sites get ~5-10% mobile visitors. It's even pretty simple text-based stuff that renders fine on mobile (at least on my own Android phone), so
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by mjn 13y ago
What's not true about what I said? Princeton isn't one of the schools that has tuition reductions for middle-income families.
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I agree with your general point, but Stanford and Harvard in particular aren't great examples, because for many people they're considerably cheaper than public universities, if you can get in. Both schools have pretty generous tui
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It looks like he (accidentally?) included a gigantic scanned image in the post. However most of the comments on the last pvk.ca post submitted here were also about how it's down ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=728
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Putin might see this as an added bonus, since many of the "oligarchs" are not on friendly terms with the Kremlin.
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The Danish Social Democrats have lately been transitioning to this view (in earlier years, they much more strongly emphasized state ownership of the means of production). The buzzword "flexicurity" is a banner under which they&#x2
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> We're based in Cape Town, so perhaps reader geography plays some part. I did a bit of geographic canvassing of HN, and while I only went through the "top 100" posters due to it being a pretty manual process, it does inde
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I haven't followed progress recently, but one question that's gotten some research is how to make GPU-ized raytracing work on dynamic scenes. Static scenes can be handled fairly well by preprocessing data into efficient spatial da
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It looks like you can still put down your own location. I know some of these people, whose Kickstarter lists them as being in Copenhagen: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2128128298/expeditions-... I believe i
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My 2nd-hand (but family) knowledge about the energy business is that there're no royalties for patents there either. You get paid anywhere from $10 (really) to a few $hundred for a successful patent filing. My impression is that the av
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> With AWS, amazon doesn't care if I spawn out a 1000 node render farm, as long as I'm paying, it's all fair game. For smaller numbers of instances it's true that you can spawn whatever you want and use them for whate
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I'm not sure where was actually first; I think at this point they exist in a lot of cities. I noticed them in Copenhagen some months ago, e.g. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fisketorvet+Shopping+Cente...
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by mjn 13y ago
The cited papers do seem a bit narrowly authored... Here's a paper by different authors I found interesting, "Dark Patterns in the Design of Games", http://www.fdg2013.org/program/papers/paper06_za

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