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by mjn 13y ago
Even with a VPN, there's quite a bit of data-mining that can be done just by looking at the total traffic, ignoring destinations. An interested ISP could probably still guess when you're watching streaming video, when people in yo
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by mjn 13y ago
Around here most of them have a place where you can eat, but conference-calling is more of a problem. Some libraries do have private "study rooms" or "meeting rooms" you can book (intended for students working on group p
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by mjn 13y ago
This is one place I think Solaris (and Illumos) is still ahead. Not only do they have a full privilege system, but there is an easy to use CLI tool, ppriv(1), to control privileges on a per-process basis. You can start a process but drop it
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by mjn 13y ago
In addition to the restaurant/cafe culture, the quality and quantity of space provided by the local library systems is another factor. I sometimes work in coffee shops in Copenhagen when I don't want to be in the office, but compa
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by mjn 13y ago
Yeah, I think this is completely off-base in blaming the axes. The axes are perfectly fine in showing the actual correlation that's present here (almost certainly due to a third common causal factor, of course). There's no really
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by mjn 13y ago
Harvard no longer charges anything (no family contribution, no student contribution) if your family is below ~60th percentile in income (currently around $65k/yr). Not sure if that's the range you have in mind with "mid-middl
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by mjn 13y ago
Huh, I only hear of them as they're shutting down; I've wanted something like this in the past. Interestingly the German and Danish postal services have been offering such a service for a while, partly out of a desire to reduce th
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by mjn 13y ago
> The developer is Gregory Maxwell, aka nullc. This guy seems to be everywhere! He's a prolific Wikipedia contributor (administrator + many thousands of edits), and was also the guy behind the dump of a ton of pre-1923 JSTOR documen
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by mjn 13y ago
If society didn't exist, maybe. But in real, functioning societies, people care about their standing, and being seen as a fraudster is not a positive outcome. If "being seen as a fraud and outcast for life" is a possible outc
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by mjn 13y ago
A pretty low-tech system I saw in use in the '90s, without having to go all the way to serial cables, was just FTP with delete/overwrite disabled, to a machine with no other network services running. You dump a snapshot and FTP it
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by mjn 13y ago
AT&T Labs wasn't too bad at capitalizing on their inventions, though they didn't do equally well on all of them. For a pretty long time the lab was definitely in the black, though. Their most profitable invention, which came a
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by mjn 13y ago
I see that in academia occasionally. People will semi-publicly mention that they didn't get the job at MIT, which is a kind of roundabout way of advertising that MIT was considering them for a job.
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by mjn 13y ago
Huh, I hadn't made the connection to mycorrhizae. I just read microryza as straightforward micro-ryza, "small root", with a meaning of building up science from small contributions. A pun on myco (fungus) vs. micro (small) tot
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by mjn 13y ago
http://ycombinator.com/hackernews.html
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by mjn 13y ago
I'm European, and in Europe there is quite a bit of a problem as well. It's quite relevant, and if you aren't aware of why, you should educate yourself. Also, maybe people wouldn't think you were a macho jerk if you didn
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by mjn 13y ago
"White knights"? "Smells like virgins"? Are you 14 years old? If you are over 14, maybe the reason people care about misogyny in technology is folks such as yourself providing a good object lesson.
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by mjn 13y ago
Interesting, I forgot about them. It looks like that case was never really resolved legally, though. They lost one injunction in a District Court, and then shut down, so the underlying issues weren't fully litigated (and not consider
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by mjn 13y ago
My guess is that the Supreme Court will be skeptical, because it looks too much like an attempt to get around streaming rules with a sham antenna that exists solely to get around streaming rules. I'm not that confident in that predicti
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by mjn 13y ago
As an AI academic who used to have a bunch of game-AI industry contacts at big companies, my anecdotal impression is that a lot of people are indeed taking this advice. Either that or I'm unlucky, because my contacts are disappearing a
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by mjn 13y ago
Interesting point. Looks like the board bought back $200m of Carl Icahn's stock a few months ago, a pretty big cash outlay (equal to ~10% of total stock outstanding): http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/26/inves
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by mjn 13y ago
If that's true, then it'd make Ken Levine just an asshole. If he wants to leave and do something different, fine, but why set the building on fire on your way out? It doesn't require firing a successful team for you to go d
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by mjn 13y ago
Kind of a strange letter, especially given that Irrational Games is a subsidiary of Take Two. It makes it sound like Irrational is doing great, and Ken Levine just wants to try something different. But if that were the case, demolishing Irr
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by mjn 13y ago
Yeah, to me some evidence that the person has attempted to understand what I do and why this product would actually help me (considered honestly) is what distinguishes interesting contacts from spam. I'm in academia rather than industr
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by mjn 13y ago
The MERGE itself is atomic, but it doesn't prevent duplicate insertions without a lock: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9871644/is-merge-an-atomi...
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by mjn 13y ago
That was part of the initial motivation for tying insurance to employment, but the main reason it's persisted is that it's a way of solving the adverse-selection problem. If you let individuals choose when to buy insurance, on ave
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by mjn 13y ago
He still posts but his comments are auto-killed. You can see the comments if you turn on showdead in your preferences.
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by mjn 13y ago
Two relevant articles from a few years ago, on the culture around taking pride in being overworked: "The cult of busy": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1187353 "The busy trap": https://ne
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by mjn 13y ago
One thing that's quite improved it in Denmark is that a company came out with a whitelabel hosted-health-portal SaaS product ( http://www.mithelbred.dk/ ) that has really caught on. Doctors can sign up with it and reskin
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by mjn 13y ago
> We will soon have a tiered system - if it already isn't here That has indeed been the case in the U.S. for years. The three most common health-insurance structures, EPOs, PPOs, and HMOs, each have very specific lists of doctors wh
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by mjn 13y ago
A few years ago, Reznor tried a kind of shareware-style "first episode is free, buy the full version" model with the Ghosts 4-disc set: Ghosts I was free, but you had to pay if you wanted Ghosts I-IV . You could buy either ph

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