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I'd just like to encourage people to apply. I work with @cbanek on the LSST EPO team. Working on a large science project is amazing. Every day is interesting. There is a shared goa…

I thought the same thing and had to check the wayback machine. He wasn't on the leader boards, at least at that URL. http://web.archive.org/web/20070302084140/http://news.ycombi...…

An aside, pg isn't on the leaderboards, and never was, since he was always far ahead on points. But, it looks like tptacek has finally passed him. https://news.ycombinator.com/user…

Norvig's "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation" is also worth reading and covers the higher level problem of bad research and results. Including mentioning bad s…

Yeah a mod changed it, thankfully.

The actual interview: http://mentalfloss.com/article/53216/mental-floss-exclusive-... It was submitted earlier today but never got to the front page.

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Check out msys/mingw. It's a challenging setup, minimal and supports gcc. Key difference with cygwin: no attempt at posix compliance. http://www.mingw.org/

Unless they have credit for writing the song, or self publish, the band makes most of their money from touring and merchandise. BitTorrent isn't a zero sum game. It's difficult to …

On anonymity and privacy... I always thought this was an interesting fact: Birthday, Gender and Zipcode is enough to identify someone uniquely approximately 85% of the time. And a …

This is my favorite John McCarthy story. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803627 I like how one simple succinct relevant question can say so much about Norvig's claims. It seem…

This is from the Think Different campaign (1997+): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Different I really shouldn't admit this but /cough circa 1997 I had abandoned Apple. I had a P…

I started coding .NET around 1.0. Completely anecdotal but out of the dozen+ people I knew that dove in at the time - zero are still actively involved in .NET. I rarely take a .NET…

I thought the goal was to motivate users and IT organizations to stay current. This frees up Mozilla developers from fixing bugs in N many different old versions of Firefox. To me,…

D3 and ClojureScript: http://keminglabs.com/cljs-d3/ http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/...

Think Andrew Carnegie. I know I directly benefited from a Carnegie library as a kid. With philanthropy at this scale there is potential to benefit humanity in a way that may otherw…

Buying and owning a gaming laptop or desktop is similar to owning a hot rod. There are as many different philosophies to how and what to buy as there are gamers. On one end of the …

Yep. For further explanation: http://codebutler.com/firesheep

There's a 2005 Bentley Continental GT for $29,800. Seems like a good buy. I think someone forgot a zero? http://www.cars.com/go/search/detail.jsp?tracktype=usedcc&#3... Your app ma…

I thought his comment implied it. In addition his profile has his website which makes it quite clear he works for Wolfram (about and github): http://taliesinb.net/ If someone posts…