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"Things happen to people by accident," she used to say. "A lot of nice accidents have happened to me. It just HAPPENED that I always liked lessons and books, and could remember thi…

Freaky fast bare bones code editing with evil-mode (vim keybindings): http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil Do stuff in the terminal from inside emacs---I imagine this would be super…

When a lot of my friends say "privacy" they really mean: "the barriers I put up around my content, which is of course online". Then there's "privacy" in the sense of being a privat…

Have you considered that some of it is just mad cabin fever? Sounds like you've been in the same house for at least 6 yrs. Why don't you take a term or two off to work and travel, …

Even then (1) the users would have to be diligent & savvy enough to encrypt everything themselves before passing it to the service (remember Lavabit?), and (2) the service still ho…

Whoops, you're absolutely right about the 30k. I'm leaving my poor arithmetic up there for posterity. So. So so so. First of all, I gotta say, you are very good at writing how you …

If I read all that right: - you are making $60k/year post-tax off non-angel investments - your yearly expenditures are about $2.5k * 12 = $60k - you are about to quit your job (or …

Look up evil-mode. It puts vim keybindings into emacs, and it works nicely alongside org-mode. You can edit and navigate vim-style but you still get all the org-mode commands (coll…

Someone posted this link to an explanation a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6492366 It looks like that blogger will be writing more on Urbit soon. At the very …

Haven't bought one yet, but I really want to get a Rite in the Rain pocket notebook for $4.25 and see if the legends are true / how much water damage it can stand. http://www.ritei…

Surprisingly simple math (like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5854593 ), the data you just described, and also IP addresses. I wouldn't be surprised if they also use browsing…

Nice! Yeah, I think it's really important not to be intimidated by stats & data science. I mean, as ihnorton said, if you want a career in academia, you need an academic degree. Pe…

Basic prob & stats: 1. _Stats: Data and Models_ by De Veaux, Velleman & Bock 2. _Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability with Solutions_ by Mosteller 3. http://yudkowsky.net/rati…

Yes, absolutely! Are you thinking a curated list of curators, or a social network where anyone can be an expert? Or something in between? It's great you're tackling the whole learn…

I'd love to read the YA novel of this. Larry Wall teaches Hermione archery and Scheme... But I wonder if this will ever happen in real life? It has been 7 years and while there are…

Yes! Games are great. A fun easy framework for game-making is LÖVE. https://love2d.org/ You can show the kid some games made using LÖVE ( https://www.love2d.org/wiki/Category:Games…

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I assumed the lag was because DDG doesn't let result pages know what search terms you used to find them, and was sending you through som…

I mean, how "extremely difficult" are we talking? So long as it isn't esoteric, it can't be so difficult... otherwise no one would learn it, and it would become by definition esote…

After an actual desire to learn (which several others here have mentioned), the biggest obstacle to learning is bad teachers. I don't want my teacher to be a vast self-curated back…

I don't know, I kind of liked it. Is it poking fun at how these loosely-allied movements (Bayesian rationalism, transhumanism, etc.) are actually quite been-there, done-that, in an…