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by orborde 16y ago
You could read the paper itself. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pd... It's probably behind a paywall for you, though.
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by orborde 16y ago
I don't know about anyone else, but I tend to make arguments on rational grounds before I try ethical ones. Ethical arguments are less reliably convincing because not everyone is in agreement about what is ethical, and some people don't hav
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by orborde 16y ago
Could a startup trigger a similar 'white flight' in an established service by intentionally appealing to the most economically valuable demographic? Can we build good niche businesses by creating things like race-specific Twitter clients?
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by orborde 16y ago
This is a stupid thread. It's addressing a problem that most HN readers would love to have, but don't, so it's simply a bunch of pleasant daydreaming, not a useful discussion of how to solve a real problem. I understand that people on HN wa
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by orborde 16y ago
You are very different from the bulk of GED takers, and thus your experience isn't really helpful as a basis of comparison.
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by orborde 16y ago
The process involved here seems to be a backtracking search: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Backtracking
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by orborde 16y ago
They're a startup in the sense that they're starting something new from scratch; they're a few people taking a risky voyage into the unknown in the hope of it paying off big (in this case, via social benefits).
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by orborde 16y ago
I wonder how F/OSS-friendly their licensing will be. I know that Pidgin is pretty ambivalent about their Skype plugin due to licensing issues: http://pidgin.im/pipermail/devel/2009-April/008070.html
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by orborde 16y ago
Does anyone have a similar trick for Windows? I can't seem to access anything but the horrible "Download Manager" extension/ActiveX using IE or Firefox on Windows.
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by orborde 16y ago
Is this a lightsaber or just a powerful laser? If the latter, I am less than impressed, particularly at the quality of reporting in this article.
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by orborde 16y ago
Despite ignoring Feynman's advice, Wolfram seems to have done well enough, at least financially. Whether his sanity has lasted is another question entirely.
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by orborde 16y ago
I'd like to explicitly point out that Macrovision, engaged as it has been in copying restriction technology (even getting their standard to be required by law), probably meets the definition of "evil" for a lot of hacker types. I'm not real
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by orborde 16y ago
That is precisely what the article is talking about: math library functions that seem at first glance to be superfluous, until you happen to need exactly the thing they are designed to do.
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by orborde 16y ago
It's a romance story where everyone dies at the end. People seem to think "Romeo and Juliet" was pretty good.
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by orborde 16y ago
I got silence after about 400 generations. Maybe throw a gain balancing step in there somewhere?
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by orborde 16y ago
A poignant reminder that Tor is just one of many tools and practices necessary to maintain security and privacy. I remember during Wired's "Vanish" contest ( http://www.wired.com/vanish/2009/11/ff_vanish2/ ), the guy on the run was using
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by orborde 16y ago
The underlying link was originally submitted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1380721 I don't think this blog post adds much, honestly, but this submission seems to have mysteriously caught fire while the other thread languished.
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by orborde 16y ago
Your argument reminds me of the security industry's maxim that "No security is better than bad security." If you think you are protected (from threats or from bad information) when you actually aren't, you'll exercise much less caution and
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by orborde 16y ago
There was an animal exactly like this being served at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
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by orborde 16y ago
Unlike men, women pay attention to detail and tend to get the job done, she said. "They are more willing to do whatever it takes," said Malcom. "Men want to delegate the nasty part of the job, like handing off the baby when it's
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by orborde 16y ago
Whoops. My bad.
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by orborde 16y ago
It's a little odd to think about at first, but remember: gcc is written in C.
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by orborde 16y ago
Who in his right mind wears a Goatse shirt?
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by orborde 16y ago
Interesting point. "Brave" is usually considered to be a virtue, and people don't want to attribute virtues to scoundrels.
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by orborde 16y ago
I'd be cagey about building one of these; that little charge of gunpowder may well be enough to inject that little ball a nontrivial distance into me.
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by orborde 16y ago
This is true, but you wouldn't know it from the common rhetoric. We praise the comeback kid; the author points out that we need to remember that it's a far better bet never to fall behind in the first place.
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The Myth of the Underachieving Genius(skorks.com)
39 points by orborde 16y ago|34 comments
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by orborde 16y ago
Yes, it seems quite plausible that RescueTime is best known among technology types, who tend to be male.
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by orborde 16y ago
I might have committed a protocol violation in submitting this; I got this link from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1300347
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General intelligence factor, a Statistical Myth(cscs.umich.edu)
4 points by orborde 16y ago|1 comments

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