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www.exploredata.net 14y ago

MINE: Maximal Information-based Nonparametric Exploration

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www.theregister.co.uk 15y ago

Schmidt preaches 'deep integration' desire with Facebook, Twitter

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language.home.sprynet.com 15y ago

Forty-Four Reasons Why the Chomskians Are Mistaken [2000]

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www.86dos.org 15y ago

Howard's Seattle Computer Products SCP 86-DOS Resource Website

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www.cfa.harvard.edu 15y ago

Astronomers Unveil Most Complete 3-D Map of Local Universe

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www.time.com 15y ago

WikiLeaks' War on Secrecy: Truth's Consequences

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online.wsj.com 15y ago

China's New Drones Raise Eyebrows

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www.nasa.gov 15y ago

NASA Expanding Tests of Star Wars-Inspired "Droids"

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: Does the idea of a "reduce-map" function make any sense?

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wiscreenwritersforum.org 16y ago

The Social Network screenplay ("The Facebook Movie")

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www.modha.org 16y ago

Cat-size brain simulation

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eis-blog.ucsc.edu 16y ago

Reverse Engineering the Brain and the ELIZA Effect: Is Believability Ethical?

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www.boston.com 16y ago

Why capitalism fails

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www.theregister.co.uk 17y ago

Microsoft to issue emergency patches next week

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www.theregister.co.uk 17y ago

Buzz Aldrin: Cancel Ares, reprieve shuttle, colonise Mars

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www.straightdope.com 17y ago

After the 1929 stock market crash, did investors really jump out of windows?

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sigint.ccc.de 17y ago

Is Teaching Hacking in Academia Ethical?

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nschum.de 17y ago

Colored parentheses highlighting for Emacs

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spaz.ca 17y ago

CRON-O-Meter is free, open source, and cross-platform dieting software

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www.privatehand.com 17y ago

Song & Animation featuring all Elements of the Periodic Table discovered until 1955

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www.theregister.co.uk 17y ago

Steve Jobs poaches IBM chip and blade geek

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www.theregister.co.uk 17y ago

Anatomy of a malware scam

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www.tscm.com 17y ago

CIA Textbook on Psychological Operations In Guerrilla Warfare

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knol.google.com 18y ago

The Decline of Women in Computer Science

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www.businessweek.com 18y ago

Viacom vs. YouTube: Beyond Privacy

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www.iphoneatlas.com 18y ago

Did Steve Jobs demo a Flash-enabled iPhone 3G?

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www.computerworld.com 18y ago

Berners-Lee: Challenge of the Web is 'creative connectivity'

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www.reading.ac.uk 18y ago

Captain Cyborg: Turing Test might be passed this year, at Reading U

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scobleizer.com 18y ago

Twittering the earthquake in China

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www.bbc.co.uk 18y ago

Twitter and the China earthquake

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I suggest http://www.copernico.net/ ,who are in Spain. I've no affiliation, other than being a customer; in my experience, the service is excellent, the boss, Miguel Angel, is very easy to reach, and I've come to know him as an independent spirit, who does not like governmental intervention at all.

Let me offer a counterpoint: I started out with Word 3.0 for DOS, in 1987. From there, I went through lots of office software for PC, Mac, and Atari. A good ten years ago, I installed OpenOffice, which I have been using ever since. I never had any .doc compatibility problems.

Today, I'm working for a small retail company in Madrid, Spain: Ten people, running Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. All of us are using OpenOffice. It already was that way when I came here a year ago. Until now, I heard nobody even mentioning our office software. And these people are not "computer geeks" by any measure; we sell clothes.

I guess it is the reliance on Excel macros, which are not compatible with OpenOffice Calc, that prevents lots of companies from switching. If you don't depend on any of those, I honestly see no advantages in using MS Office.

re. 2: Not many, according to the sources I can find on that. Example: "[M]uscle tissue has been observed to burn roughly seven to 10 calories per pound per day, compared to two to three calories per pound per day for fat. Therefore, if you replace a pound of fat with a pound of muscle, you can expect to burn only approximately four to six more calories a day."

Source: http://www.acefitness.org/fitnessqanda/fitnessqanda_display....

From the 5 sites I visited, it correctly flagged HN, WP and YT as visited, and gave a "whoops" for FB and Google (what does that mean?), which I both visited.

At least in Germany, as an artist, the only way to transfer your "Urheberrecht" to somebody else is to die. See §29 of the "Urheberrechtsgesetz" (copyright law) [1]:

"Das Urheberrecht ist nicht übertragbar, es sei denn, es wird in Erfüllung einer Verfügung von Todes wegen oder an Miterben im Wege der Erbauseinandersetzung übertragen."

(Translation: "Copyright is not transferable, unless it is transferred in execution of a testamentary disposition or to coheirs in the way of partition of an estate.")

[1] http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/BJNR012730965.html#BJ...

Take a look at the Red Wing 101 [1], a.k.a. "the Postman". Designed in the 1950s for people who had to walk a lot while wearing a uniform - I actually first spotted them on the feet of policemen in New York -, they combine comfort with a simple-but-neat look which provides a nice contrast if worn with straight cuffed selvedge jeans.

[1] http://www.redwingheritage.com/boots#&f=&m=/detail/1...

Edit - better link: http://www.b-74.de/out/pictures/1/red_wing_101_postman_oxfor...

I am nothing 15 years ago

I adopted the metaphor which works for me here from Ken Wilber, though I'm sure that the idea appears in the works of other writers, and much earlier: hierarchies of growth vs hierarchies of domination. The former (your "one hand") are nested hierarchies (inclusive); the latter (your "other hand") are conventional hierarchies (exclusive). The way I understand this is that "I am nothing" puts the "I" - whatever it is - at a leaf node if the reference is an exclusive hierarchy (a "hierarchy of domination"), whereas if the reference is an inclusive hierarchy (a "hierarchy of growth"), "I am nothing" appears at the root node.

Edit: typos.

Energy which, the parent argues, comes from un-clean sources - that's the complaint. How is this complaint not "useful", as long as you don't rebut it by listing those possible energy sources which you consider "clean"? Then I might be convinced and say: "He's right, dirty water doesn't matter, since we can just clean it, using this guy's clean energy sources."

I think this depends on the definition. If you define it as "Given any competition with n competitors, where n>1, then n-1 of the competitors are losers", and you find 0 persons who have won all the competitions they participated in (which I think is a likely result), then everybody is a loser. Why should I think this is "bad"?

I find this very interesting. If I understand this correctly, the suggestions are: (1) the "slate" is relatively "blank" to start with (abstract objects, for instance, do not "exist", in the sense that they are inheritable); (2) a generic ability to abstract could very well be inheritable; (3) the "slate" remains in a "writeable" state longer than previously expected - the right "nurture" can enable the unfolding of potential abilities even relatively late in life (abstract objects can become "real", even though they don't "exist", in the sense that they can become "meaningful").

I've researched this for my children, and there seemed to be significant differences. The amount of superstition in the Steiner teachings put me off big time ("Beware of right angles and potatoes!"). Montessori makes far fewer wild assumptions.

I'm a parent, and I'm interested in improvement, not latent billionairism. So to me, such studies are useful, even without broader claims.