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by rplevy 18y ago
Wow, this is really amazing (to me at least because I had not seen or thought of this before). [ Warning: Spoiler! :) ] It's in base 1 (tally system). The first part up to the "|" matches the case where number 1 is the whole string, coverin
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by rplevy 18y ago
Obama. Two words: network neutrality. McCain would end network neutrality. I recommend checking out Obama's comprehensive technological plan to open up government to grassroots democratic processes. Also see Lawrence Lessig's arguments f
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by rplevy 18y ago
One thing this made me think of is the notoriously badly written voting machine software. I wonder what would be required for someone to compete with existing providers to make better software for voting machines.
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Galaxy map hints at fractal universe(space.newscientist.com)
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by rplevy 18y ago
Arc-speed development in action, right?
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Two Decades After His Death, Visionary R. Buckminster Fuller Continues to Inspire ...(democracynow.org)
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OLPC News: Did Microsoft Fake XP on XO Press Media?(olpcnews.com)
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by rplevy 18y ago
There's also open courseware, which goes a lot deeper into the material than Wikipedia can or would want to go. And then there's public library. My grandfather, who was a civil engineer often made the joke of giving the abbreviation for th
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by rplevy 18y ago
I know what you mean about how genetics is often thrown up as the answer without much discussion on the complexities of human development. The discussion on intelligence often suffers from this. There's a level where we are talking purely
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by rplevy 18y ago
This reminds me of pg's "Why Are Nerds Unpopular?". Obviously these "negative"-- and innate [directly or emerging from other innate behavioral] dispositions, are present and purposefully developed and honed extensively by individuals who p
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by rplevy 18y ago
When scribd loads a pdf as a flash only page (the links from Hacker News for example go to the flash only) there is no way to download it. But I have seen scribd pages where they have a row of icons above the embedded flash and one of them
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by rplevy 18y ago
You learned the rules of chess in one day, but how many chess games will you win with only one day of experience?
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by rplevy 18y ago
I was about to say "what's the bid deal? there is a download link etc etc" but then I checked and realized these links go right to a view where the flash pdf viewer occupies the whole page. There's no obvious modification of the URL query
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by rplevy 18y ago
The debate topics were supposed to be focused on tech issues.
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by rplevy 18y ago
I can understand the entrepeneurial angle that makes this interesting to some, but porn aside, it's just as uninteresting (to me) as a lot of the startup-related news that gets posted here. I think there is a sizable wing of HN readers who
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by rplevy 18y ago
I think this would be easier to do if they would improve Ruby's syntax to have all expressions be enclosed in 2 delimiter characters of some kind (the first would signify the beginning of an expression and the second would close it). Expre
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by rplevy 18y ago
LinkedIn seems to be an all-around stubborn and inconvenient site. I had the same experience, but in my case it was in deleting my account. The deletion process was unnecessarily difficult, so I deleted all my contacts (I think the accoun
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by rplevy 18y ago
A while ago I tried out various facebook applications to list books, but none of them make it possible to organize reading lists and subsets of your collection, and so on. If you plan on making a bookhuddle Facebook app, I think that would
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Ask HN: Code Reuse or Just Plain Well-written Code?
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by rplevy 18y ago
Upmodded this, downmodded its parent. Bottom line is that we read other feeds to learn about general news, and expect a higher SNR on this site, restricted to relevant domains. Downmods != disagree is correct, but I would not want to inhib
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World-record Supercomputer Mimics Human Sight Brain Mechanisms(sciencedaily.com)
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by rplevy 18y ago
Not all religious systems are based on faith. It seems to me that the faith aspect of some religions is a side effect of the fact that religion is motivated by a desire to explain and/or celebrate human purpose. To logically argue that (h
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by rplevy 18y ago
For one thing, this would make the free/open versus proprietary software issue a lot more crucial than ever before. I can imagine accepting software updates (for software I have opted into) from a well-run open source project. Of course th
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by rplevy 18y ago
Just curious, has anyone here ever been in a situation where a company tried to enforce an NDA/non-compete on them? How common is the actual enforcement of these things? My guess would be that most companies would only consider this worth
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by rplevy 18y ago
One approach is to invent a mnemonic system for constructing secure passwords. The passwords should be systematically related to the specific site (including variables that are only known or relevant to you), but the patten should not be o
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by rplevy 18y ago
Just a thought about Boston. I live in Boston and it definitely is as described, though I have heard that it (especially Cambridge) bloomed culturally more when overgentrification was prevented by rent control. To the extent that there sti
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How to Recognize a Dark Age(loper-os.org)
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Boston Lisp Talks (Podcast)(robertplevy.net)
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by rplevy 18y ago
The only problem with identicons I have seen is that the algorithm used causes a majority of them to look like swastikas. But that seems like an easy thing to fix. Most of the identicons are quite pretty (including a large number of swast
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by rplevy 18y ago
Seems like a pretty elegant language but it needs more parentheses.

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