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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 695 posts.
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Jonathan Coulton strikes back by re-releasing his own song
This went up in the iTunes store a lot faster than I expected (nice work there Tunecore), and some of you have already found it:
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Will Your College Go Out of Business Before You Graduate?
I’ve been getting a lot of questions from High School kids asking whether or not they should go to college. The answer is yes.
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License Haiku
I think that people really use software licenses to express intentions, and don’t really read the details of the licenses. So I think that licenses should be made as simple as possible, so that they don’t disagree with intentions… thus, haiku licensing:
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How an unsigned rapper changed music
The relationship between label and talents has been drastically changed, and if we don’t see an adequate response on both sides, the music industry might never be the same.
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The Psychedelic Experience FAQ
A Frequently Asked Questions file about Psychedelic Experiences
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The sorry state of neighbourhood design in America: a mother writes
A mother who moved to the USA from Germany paints a depressing picture of the car-dependence of American neighbourhoods.
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Meet a Shenzhen Maker: Mr. Chen
Meet a Shenzhen Maker: Mr. Chen | Automate ALL the things!
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Edward Tufte’s defense of Aaron Swartz and the “marvelously different”
Data visualization pioneer Edward Tufte relates how he came to defend Aaron Swartz in the JSTOR incident and how he, Tufte, was a hacker himself.
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The forbidden railway: Vienna - Pyongyang (2008)
ABOUT ME My name is Helmut and I was born in 1980 in Graz (Austria). Trains were my hobby since childhood. My 2nd hobby is travelling. Du...
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MIT Legal repudiated Xbox hacker too
I am joining three academic research web sites, SIFT and Polyphen (websites for predicting disease mutations) and CRAVAT (a website for predicting cancer mutations), in a moment of silence to mark Aaron Swartz’ passing. On January 25, we will bring down our sites for the day to honor his contributions and mark the…
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The Prosecution of Aaron: A Response to Orin Kerr
Aaron Swartz committed suicide last week. He was 26, a genius and my friend. Not a really good friend, but someone I had worked with off and on for 11 years, liked a lot, had laughed with frequently, occasionally shaken my head over and deeply admired. When I first met him he looked like this.
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A Few Notes on the Culture, by Iain M Banks
Link to: Main page | About Me | Puzzle | Book Reviews | Essays and Short Stories | Babylon 5 | Space School UK | Gallery | Links
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I conceal my identity the same way Aaron was indicted for
According to his indictment , Aaron Swartz was charged with wirefraud for concealing/changing his "true identity". It sent chills down my ba...
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