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by szx 4y ago
I've been enjoying the somewhat similar Iceberg theme for a few years now: https://cocopon.github.io/iceberg.vim/
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by szx 4y ago
Honeyland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeyland There's this Godard quote which sums this one up for me: "All great fiction films tend towards documentary, just as all great documentaries tend towards ficti
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Bret Victor – The Future of Programming (2013)(youtube.com)
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by szx 7y ago
Code Ocean | Technical Product Manager | New York, NY We're building a computational research platform tailored to researcher needs and workflows, with reproducibility at its core. For more information, please visit https://
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by szx 8y ago
Code Ocean | Computational Research Meta-Researcher | New York City or remote (US/Canada) | Full-time | codeocean.com Code Ocean is a cloud-based computational reproducibility platform that enables researchers to run, publish, and shar
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by szx 9y ago
Shameless plug: looking specifically at the Dissemination Phase part, I can't help but thinking he would love Code Ocean ( https://codeocean.com ). It addresses each of his points: - distribute software (execute with a single
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by szx 9y ago
Honest question, did you read the article? While I haven't read this particular one, I'm familiar enough with the field to know that controlling for confounding factors is one of the most basic types of controls. Any half-decent a
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by szx 10y ago
Code Ocean | Junior Developer Advocate | New York City | https://codeocean.com Code Ocean is a Cornell-Tech startup company on a mission to make scientific code more accessible and reproducible. We're building a cloud-based
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by szx 10y ago
I would love to see motion and animation get more attention and love from the JS community, but at the same time I shudder at the potential for abuse. How do you build a powerful tool and avoid that side effect? D3 is one example I can thin
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Tax, not tech, gives Airbnb advantages in UK(theguardian.com)
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by szx 10y ago
FYI, HN's handy little "web" link, below the title, does exactly that (i.e. Google the headline)
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Up to a third of Airbnb's price gap with hotels is due to tax treatment(ft.com)
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by szx 10y ago
The financial system does not recognize fairness as a factor. Apple is playing the game to make money for its shareholders. It would be noble of them to behave otherwise, but I certainly don't expect it.
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by szx 10y ago
As long as they stick to flagging/marking posts while keeping them visible I don't see how that's different from how HN works. Are you opposed to that as well?
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Recapping Sherlock Offers a Clue to How Memories Are Stored(theatlantic.com)
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Who Will Command the Robot Armies?(idlewords.com)
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by szx 10y ago
The following appear on Google News, aren't on Wordpress, and contribute their fair share of misinformation: http://www.infowars.com/ http://usdefensewatch.com/ http://therealstrategy.com&#x
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Moving forward together: Our thoughts on the US election(blogs.microsoft.com)
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The Lost Civilization of Dial-Up Bulletin Board Systems(theatlantic.com)
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by szx 10y ago
Slightly OT: The Time Warner Cable (TWC) vs. Time Warner confusion in this thread and elsewhere will luckily be resolved soon as the TWC brand is being phased out in favor of Spectrum [1]. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news&
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by szx 10y ago
Contrarian? Skeptic?
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by szx 10y ago
So you own your data but they won't let just any app touch it. Apps need to comply with certain conditions and FB retains complete control. Where it gets interesting is when someone like this guy tries to circumvent this arrangement by
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by szx 10y ago
Yes, I understand that but obviously there's a trade-off here, the point being that by avoiding firing people at all costs you're missing out on some great developers. Like I said, it's a cultural/social issue disproport
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by szx 10y ago
"If you hire someone with a trendy background who’s good at traditional coding interviews and they don’t work out, who could blame you? And no one’s going to notice all the people you missed out on." How is it that fear of false p
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by szx 10y ago
From TFA: "Lessig told me I had to write an account that fit in five pages in order to hope to be heard, to which I reacted with some despair. I can’t! There is more than five pages worth of complexity to this problem! If I try to redu
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Are closed social networks inevitable? (2010)(danluu.com)
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by szx 10y ago
Nice talk! Sounds like there's no silver bullet... I'm curious to hear your opinion about a combination of digital signing with e.g. keybase/blockchain + reputation system, a sandboxed development environment (mitigates the &
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by szx 10y ago
Signing is definitely part of the answer but there's still the question of trust. A signed package doesn't really tell you that much. In the best case scenario it tells you the package you're installing in fact came from deve
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by szx 10y ago
When you think about it, how different is the destructive potential of an npm/pip install from curl | bash that (some) people tend to froth at the mouth about? It's pretty mind blowing how big of a blindspot package installers are
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Declarative Design Tools(jon.gold)
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