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by nswanberg 13y ago
My particulars aren't very interesting, but having lived in northern Minnesota near Fargo and Minneapolis, and having spent three weeks in Minneapolis in December (I live in sunny Boulder), running outside each night during that damn c
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by nswanberg 13y ago
It is not a problem in Minneapolis either.
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by nswanberg 13y ago
Are you concerned that every employer would begin do follow these practices and require auditions? How likely do you think that is?
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by nswanberg 13y ago
At this point in Jeff's company he is looking for someone who wants to get paid to work on Discourse, not simply have a job. Someone who wants that would not think much of following the easy instructions to get Discourse, install it, a
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by nswanberg 13y ago
This is a great topic for a site that uses some "wisdom of crowds" mechanisms as part of the story and comment ranking. Though HN is different in some significant ways: in the experiment, subjects are asked carefully worded questi
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by nswanberg 13y ago
This is a fantastic book and explains most of the questions currently in the thread about the circumstances where large groups of people produce more effective answers than any one of its members and the cases where they do not. If this art
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by nswanberg 13y ago
Maybe he didn't see it? No one else responded to the comment either: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6727029 It's hard to take many interesting ideas out of this implication of bad faith on Chris's part.
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by nswanberg 13y ago
I didn't have an opinion on basic income before (though a while ago I came across http://philip.greenspun.com/politics/welfare-reform.html , which seemed interesting), and I didn't come away from the article a
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College Textbook Prices: Out of Control(cliffmass.blogspot.com)
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by nswanberg 13y ago
Here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3972635#up_3974503 My personal single biggest objection, though, is that the review appears to be used as a sort of conversation-ending trump card, usually posted with very
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by nswanberg 13y ago
And here is the paper covered in the original post: http://fraden.brandeis.edu/publications/papers/PNAS(2014).pd... with notes at http://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2014/03/06&#x
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by nswanberg 13y ago
I meant to refer to that particular review, not his reviews in general. It's been a long time since I've poked through those, and they seem reasonable, which makes the review of Wolfram's work that much stranger. Anyway, the
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by nswanberg 13y ago
His wasn't an informed comment but it's best responded to with just the links you posted. Turing seems to be sort of a personal hero to Wolfram, so I'm sure that he'd have some interest in the results in the post. And fo
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by nswanberg 13y ago
I love the contrast between the super informal language of the intro and the apparently tremendous potential social cost the intro implies. It's like covering an M-16 with Hello Kitty stickers. Has anyone written a novel of manners for
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by nswanberg 13y ago
What is good about the response? What is new in it? The author has two main points: 1) that Tufte had information dense slides in his presentations, and because PowerPoint can be used to show information dense slides, Tufte is wrong, and 2)
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by nswanberg 13y ago
Not since Game of Thrones has there been that much male nerd interest in weddings.
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by nswanberg 13y ago
Wikipedia is a good start: "By his senior year of high school, Parker was earning more than $80,000 a year through various projects, enough to convince his parents to allow him to skip college and pursue a career as an entrepreneur&quo
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by nswanberg 13y ago
Both your site and the original post are great starts. Anyone reading or writing these sorts of fundamental web programming tutorials should look at Philip Greenspun's books Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing and Softwar
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by nswanberg 13y ago
Very nice! This looks very useful and easy to use. How much boilerplate text do you need on either side of a token in order to identify it? Put another way, how much can the template emails vary? If the template format changes is there any
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by nswanberg 13y ago
Fans of shady government games should check out Floor 13, an early 90s game where you are in charge of a secret British agency charged with keeping the Prime Minister popular by any means necssary. I vaguely remember manipulating the press
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by nswanberg 13y ago
Oh. I'd assumed pmarca went on a tweeting rampage one too many times.
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by nswanberg 13y ago
This is wonderful, especially comparing the kind of experience you get here http://openxcplatform.com/vehicle-interface/hardware.html vs the soul-crushing experience of finding anything useful here: http://w
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by nswanberg 13y ago
It's strange that it took so long for someone to mention pg. Viaweb was written in lisp, and the site we're on is in arc, a lisp dialect.
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by nswanberg 13y ago
Good point. My estimate was a naive upper bound, ignoring things like efficient storage and assuming all data is included, and was focusing on how much storage is available on portable devices (that sometimes stretch the bounds of portable)
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by nswanberg 13y ago
It's over 400GB uncompressed, so currently this person would have to settle for a subset on a 128GB MicroSD like http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IIJ6W4S/ . I think there are larger SD cards. And certainly there ar
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by nswanberg 13y ago
Thanks. It took a little while to find, but if anyone is interested in comparing Mono to the CLR for themselves (and likely do some work to adapt the system to Windows), here's where to start: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.de
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by nswanberg 13y ago
There's very little that's obsolete. The newer versions almost exclusively bring additions.
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by nswanberg 13y ago
Wolfram's The Mathematica Book is a great reference and has some good examples for learning Mathematica (plus, used editions are really cheap: http://www.amazon.com/s/?field-keywords=mathematica+book ) You can lo
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by nswanberg 13y ago
Don't worry about it. Every thread needs a kids' table, and in some threads they're just more prominent.
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by nswanberg 13y ago
There's a start of an open source implementation of Mathematica called Mathics, which is written in Python. Javascript would be an interesting choice for a toy implementation, especially because there are orders of magnitude more javas

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