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This article is not complaining about facebook privacy. On the contrary, it's claiming that facebook will become an unexpected force for good in the struggle for gay rights by merging people's circle …

It is a very difficult thing to argue for the correct amount of credit to give a historical figure. I respect anyone who tries.

I don't agree with the parent, but I also don't think backfitting the theory is absurd. What I've discovered from using machine learning in practice is that it's far more important to degrade graceful…

I've had a lot of success explaining "easy to check a solution, but hard to come up with one" to people. It really doesn't matter whether people understand NP-complete and how polynomial reductions wo…

The games I've enjoyed recently are mostly indie for this reason. Braid, World of Goo, Osmos, Lugaru. I'll check out the free ones you mentioned. I've heard of Cave Story but not the rest.

I hope that in the future game designers start designing short games with a higher content/time ratio with the intent of targeting them at adults. Adults in general have more money than time, and are …

>There are no problem sets, however. This is one problem, the other problem is that there isn't a good way to sort the articles by prerequisites. There's also no easy way find out what you don't k…

They even patented turmeric http://www1.american.edu/ted/turmeric.htm

>The majority of any engineering or maths curriculum is available on Wikipedia and mathworld in great detail. I'd love to believe that someone could do this, but I haven't seen it happen. Most of …

Nice to have some actual information in one of these posts. I'd be interested to hear the experience of android app developers who have had to deal with different phone models. Android's biggest marke…

>they aren't saying "Show me a map with all the sushi places in Stockholm". They are saying "I want to know more about getting sushi in Stockholm. Can you show me a webpage that can show me that?"…

I wish he'd elaborate on that in a future post. Even if his reasons turn out to be idiotic, it's still an important thing to understand why developers like him are hesitant to move to the platform.

This seems like an interesting proposition to me. Are there true things that society as a whole is better off not knowing? For instance, one epidemiologist estimated that 75% of SIDS cases are actuall…

It disturbs me that you feel "direct quotes" are sufficient evidence rather than the emails themselves and the context in which they were sent.

I don't understand what part of their results you are disagreeing with.

This might clear up your confusion: http://www.skepticalscience.com/Mikes-Nature-trick-hide-the-...

If you put any stock in "ClimateGate" as a legitimate controversy then you certainly only read snippets out of context.

Which neighborhoods are considered poor has changed drastically over time in most American cities that I'm aware of.

I always thought the western side of most cities was poorer as a result of having to look into the sun each way on a commute.

Every time I start a project in C, I end up switching to c-style C++ when I realize that I'd really like a standard library of type-safe containers.

Thanks for the links, though I don't think the numbers are really comparable since the studies refer to two wholly disjoint populations (US and UK.)

Neat, but how do you insert links with it?

One of the two of you should link to an actual study before I'll believe claims like that.

You asked what I would do, so I answered. :) More seriously, the biggest barrier to laypeople coming up with practical solutions to this is that all of the forces involved are orders of magnitude outs…

Defer to the experts.

Google's strategy for most of it's projects for the last few years has been to subtly improve them without anyone noticing. Typically a half-dozen changes a week to search alone: http://www.nytimes.c…

I think people could do a pretty good job of that for Avatar. The characters were nothing if not archetypical.

Note that the range for the "barrels per day" number is entirely contained within the range for the BP spill, so it isn't really reasonable to say that they released at the same rate. This spill was 1…

Wow, you've had a pretty straight and narrow life. :)

Don't fight it, embrace it. :) My strategy has been to try to spend my time in places on the internet that promote deep engagement with the subject matter. To that end, I started this: http://www.red…