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by mjn 13y ago
The US also doesn't have nearly the problem with paramilitary groups that the Weimar Republic had. Their official control over even the capital was so tenuous that they in effect resorted to setting up their own "pro-government&qu
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by mjn 13y ago
RMS certainly agrees with the first part of your comment: he doesn't in any way argue that the software is an adversary of other kinds of software. Rather, he argues that the makers of proprietary software are acting adversarially
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by mjn 13y ago
I don't think it's much of a departure from original principles. The original impetus for the FSF was the "closing off" of some previously public code by MIT AI-lab spinoffs, who hired away developers and withdrew from t
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by mjn 13y ago
Winters are shorter, but the temperatures drop much lower than in Denmark, anyway (perhaps not colder than Finland). Here are the nightly low temperatures in Chicago for the next 5 days: -17 C, -20 C, -25 C, -22 C, -13 C. I have never see
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by mjn 13y ago
The average property tax rate is 4x California's, though. On the other hand, the average property value is lower. How all those factors combine depends on your income/location/etc. The group that comes out worst is the middle
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by mjn 13y ago
Having grown up in the midwest, one of the main things keeping me from moving back (besides particularities of jobs/etc.) is the weather. Really really cold winters, hot & humid summers. Nice springs and autumns, though, if I could
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by mjn 13y ago
Agreed on Google Scholar. I actually prefer the interface of Microsoft Academic Search, but the coverage is just not good enough. Google Scholar indexes nearly everything , often within a day or two of it appearing on the internet. Whereas
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by mjn 13y ago
Perhaps equally importantly as people speaking English, it's also culturally the norm to speak English (and hire English-speakers) in corporate settings, especially tech companies. Pretty much to the point where speaking Danish doesn&#
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by mjn 13y ago
I'm not sure I agree with the second sentence. Any kind of crunching on large data sets has I/O bottlenecks as one of its main issues. When you're crunching on a terabyte of data, pretty much the most important thing is your
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by mjn 13y ago
Ah interesting, thanks! I didn't see that meta-region mentioned on the Pricing page ( http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ ). Is it priced the same as the two lower-cost U.S. regions (N. Virginia / Oregon) th
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by mjn 13y ago
S3 is locally redundant; buckets live in a specific region you put them in. You could roll your own geographically redundant storage by mirroring the same data into buckets in two or more regions, though. With the new pricing, two-region mi
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A Peek at Emacs 24.4: Auto-indentation by Default(emacsredux.com)
82 points by mjn 13y ago|34 comments
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by mjn 13y ago
That brings up one common conflation that I see a lot: equation of Wikipedia and "popular wisdom". People assume that because "anyone can edit" Wikipedia, it must be some kind of average of everyone's views, the &qu
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by mjn 13y ago
Rather than only doing it via technical means like permissions, I'd be more comfortable with auto-updating but with some kind of human quality assurance. Two systems that manage to pull that off from very different cultural/econ
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by mjn 13y ago
It looks like it came out only in the UK in September on paper, but the ebook launch wasn't region-restricted, so it's already available on U.S. Kindles. But if you look at the U.S. dead-tree editions, January 2014 is the U.S. har
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by mjn 13y ago
As a foreigner observing Denmark (not sure about the rest of Europe), I think Danes are actually pretty ambitious, but often in a non-commercial way. It's definitely not cool to slack off and do nothing, so there is ambition in the sen
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by mjn 13y ago
My impression of Scandinavian startups (though I could be wrong) is that those who move to the U.S. really are mostly concerned about the business side of things (investment, customers, vendor/partner relationships, and at strategic ti
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History of PC Graphics Hardware(arcsynthesis.org)
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by mjn 13y ago
Not quite that slow in 1994. I had a CompuServe account with a 9600bps dialup around then...
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by mjn 13y ago
That's been a view of some Wikipedians as well. The Wikipedia Zero program is generally popular, but has still caused some worry. One reason is that Wikipedia is not supposed to be only the website, but a free-as-in-freedom encyclopedi
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by mjn 13y ago
If someone were to mock a conspiracy theorist by saying he was like the "Jews did 9/11" people, I wouldn't have any problem with that comparison.
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by mjn 13y ago
I can think of a few examples, but none of the ones that come to mind are only the repository as its own company. Instead the repository is hosted by a for-profit company that is also primary host of the language itself. For example, D&#x
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by mjn 13y ago
I'm not sure if you're American or not, but it's a fairly common meme of sorts in U.S. discourse. "But what about 9/11" is shorthand for "I'm bringing up some random political point that is irrelevant
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by mjn 13y ago
Same here, lasted around 2005-08 for me. Completely non-transparent. My name was put on some kind of list without my knowledge (it's a common name), and I was repeatedly delayed every time I tried to fly. Nobody would actually acknowle
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by mjn 13y ago
Yeah, that doesn't fit my experience either. I meet plenty of people with PhDs who aren't in academia but who are perfectly well respected by academics. Many of them still do research and come to conferences, too, because in CS ma
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by mjn 13y ago
Some kind of machine/human integrated medical system is a common goal of current research. Where many AI people think the lack of uptake is coming from, besides just general resistance to AI diagnosis, is that current systems don'
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by mjn 13y ago
It only works for certain kinds of sites, but if it's a site you can host on third-party hosting (as opposed to needing DDOS protection of your own network or VPS), Nearlyfreespeech.net has a pretty good track record with mitigating DD
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by mjn 13y ago
HN's local PhD-holders are interesting examples of how having a PhD doesn't really mean you have to do any specific thing (or pursue an academic career). When I was doing a little research on the most prolific HN posters [1], I fo
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by mjn 13y ago
I agree there's a reasonable amount of that, but in technology research specifically, my impression has been that publications trump degrees. If two people without any recent impressive publications are being compared, then the person
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Patrons of Game Criticism(theconversation.com)
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