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Arachnio – Arduino with Integrated Wifi(kickstarter.com)
2 points by nkoren 12y ago|0 comments
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by nkoren 12y ago
"Gödel, Escher, Bach" was near the top of my reading list as a 14-year-old. "A Pattern Language" was another. Also: "The City and the Stars".
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by nkoren 12y ago
The former: http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/98jan/climate.ht...
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Mobile Phones, Participation and Political Accountability in South Sudan(stabilityjournal.org)
1 points by nkoren 12y ago|0 comments
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by nkoren 12y ago
This is a beautiful machine. Once again, Apple excels at hardware. But what the living hell is going wrong with Apple's desktop software? OS X and Apple's applications suite have been getting steadily worse with every release. Loo
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by nkoren 12y ago
I'm Nathan. Henry is my brother.
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by nkoren 12y ago
I'm actually the author's son, but I can confirm that yes, he's still happy with it. Remarkably, it seems to have resulted in a permanent remission of what had previously seemed like terminal audiophilia (remodelling the hous
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The Emperor's New Amplifier (2003)(normankoren.com)
57 points by nkoren 12y ago|50 comments
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Meat, deconstructed(ideas.ted.com)
2 points by nkoren 12y ago|0 comments
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by nkoren 12y ago
The intellectual climate at Arcosanti waxes and wanes quite considerably. It has gone through numerous ups and downs since my time there. I visited for a couple of days last summer and found it to be mid-swing -- couldn't tell if it wa
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by nkoren 12y ago
It's very different. Much of this is due to the fact that it's a very small population (fluctuating between 60-100 people during the time I was there) living about 35 miles from anywhere remotely consequential. So much of its flav
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by nkoren 12y ago
Well well! Funny to see this on Hacker News. This is something I can speak towards: I lived at Arcosanti for five years, and knew its founder well. I wrote his obituary in Architectural Record: http://archrecord.construction.com&
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The Plane-Builder of South Sudan(m.bbc.co.uk)
40 points by nkoren 12y ago|2 comments
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by nkoren 12y ago
Well, believe it or not, but that's the wage that built Gandhinagar. (Note that due to inflation, that would be the equivalent of about rs.250/month today). Perhaps on paper the workers were making quite a bit more, but this was
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by nkoren 12y ago
No, we're both right. I was writing about the situation in semi-rural Gujarat in 2001. The wages on the construction sites I went to were indeed rs.150/month. Today the labour situation is very dramatically improved -- largely bec
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by nkoren 12y ago
I'm an American with a left-wing upbringing and still broadly left-wing politics. When I graduated from architecture school in 2001, I wanted some international experience, so I moved to India. What I saw there utterly transformed my p
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by nkoren 12y ago
Yes, the encoding was UTF-8. No worries: I'm a developer too; I know these things happen. Given some of the regressions I've been dealing with recently, it was entirely believable that but was in my software -- otherwise I would h
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by nkoren 12y ago
Earlier this week I wasted 45 minutes trying to figure out why the software I've been writing was producing Chinese CSVs, before I finally thought to open them in some software other than LibreOffice. Thanks, Libre!
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by nkoren 12y ago
Not a brilliant article, but it gives something to riff off. I think there's a crucial distinction to be made between self-guided and externally-guided AI. An externally-guided AI -- with hardcoded objectives that are malign -- could b
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by nkoren 12y ago
Vividly, yes. "The Internet is all about Push now!" That was 17 years ago. Makes one jaded.
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by nkoren 12y ago
Yes, I've just done it. I was already based in the UK, on a Tier 2 (sponsored) visa, but was wanting to turn my side project into a full-time job, which meant switching to Tier 1. The £50k threshold isn't available for people swit
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by nkoren 12y ago
> Capitalism requires, at a minimum, very low taxation, few economic regulations, strong protections on property rights, low friction for trade, and very little government intervention into the economy. The US has almost the opposite of
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by nkoren 12y ago
Translation: "We have no idea how this attack was perpetrated, but would sure like to find out." (Nudge nudge, wink wink, you know what I mean, know what I mean?)
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Return to Civilization(youtube.com)
1 points by nkoren 12y ago|0 comments
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by nkoren 12y ago
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy is apparently being made into a TV series now. This guy must work on the visuals for that. He gets it; he really, really gets it.
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by nkoren 12y ago
I think that semantic-ui.com looks gorgeous. I also think it eats a full core on my 2013 Macbook. This, unfortunately, is a poor advertisement for the framework.
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by nkoren 12y ago
You said "no business", as in n = 0. I provided a significant counter-example. n >= 1; therefore your assumption is false.
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by nkoren 12y ago
https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/managing-macs-googl...
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by nkoren 12y ago
> There's a reason that no business will use Apple computers. You may wish to update your assumptions. That was a relatively viable statement to make in 2012. In 2014 -- with businesses like Google going effectively Apple-only -- it
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by nkoren 12y ago
London, UK | well-rounded JavaScript developer Futurescaper Ltd. is a small but growing company developing online tools for strategic planning, focusing on foresight, horizon scanning, and scenario planning engagements. Major clients have i

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