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by Schwolop 15y ago
From the article: "(although there are generous raises and bonuses based on value to the company, as assessed by peers)".
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So You Want to Open Source Your Code?(kitware.com)
3 points by Schwolop 15y ago|0 comments
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Why TacoCopter needs to think safety(abnormaldistribution.org)
1 points by Schwolop 15y ago|0 comments
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by Schwolop 15y ago
They've just made it to the target - awesome!
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by Schwolop 15y ago
Nice example application... :-) Thanks for posting the video too, looks like a fun project. I totally get what you're saying, and although I'd love to pull off Steve Jobs' ability to make things people didn't know they wanted, I'd like to a
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by Schwolop 15y ago
A lot of the cost of a Barrett WAM arm (for example, they're popular in industry and research) is the controllers and motors. In order to get sufficient precision for pick and place you either move very slowly, or fast with extremely high g
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by Schwolop 15y ago
No, but they increase heat, energy use, weight, etc. Then you need more batteries, better cooling, bigger motors to carry the weight, etc. To do robust pose estimation of arbitrary objects (cups, books, shirts, crumpled up pieces of reall
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by Schwolop 15y ago
Its not so much that I think they're difficult (although, they really are!), rather that they dramatically increase the computational power required for planning, the sensing required for pose estimation and object tracking, etc. Take Willo
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Ask HN: What would you like this robot to do?
4 points by Schwolop 15y ago|11 comments
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by Schwolop 15y ago
I have one lead in this area - a former colleague in my robotics institute is clearly working with Sebastian Thrun now judging by the similar photos of bees both of them posted to G+ and FB recently. He also won't tell us which company he w
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by Schwolop 15y ago
Yep, it's my main procrastination tool. I like procrastinating in a way where I can at least post hoc justify that it wasn't a complete waste of time. On Quora I do regularly learn new stuff, some of which has even been useful to my life,
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by Schwolop 15y ago
It's worth pointing out (for those who read the HN comments before going to the link) that this article is by Walter Isaacson, who recently wrote a rather popular biography of Mr Jobs. It reads a bit like an errata to the biography, or perh
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by Schwolop 15y ago
This is absolutely awesome - thanks!
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Comment folding script for Hacker News(userscripts.org)
2 points by Schwolop 15y ago|0 comments
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by Schwolop 15y ago
Try Cmd+Tilde.
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by Schwolop 15y ago
We're miscommunicating, because I don't see how that invalidates what I said. Roughly speaking, the original guy to whom I replied said "YC doesn't provide enough money, so I can't solve hospital care through them." I suggested that this wa
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by Schwolop 15y ago
I agree with what you say for later rounds of VC funding (and this is valuable advice for naïve founders!), but I'm talking about YC and other seed rounds/incubators. The idea of this seed stage is to validate the business, getting it to th
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by Schwolop 15y ago
I can empathise with your situation, but I think you're right about some things and wrong about others. You're right that its difficult for a mortgaged family breadwinner to give up the stable income. You're right that YC's contribution of
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by Schwolop 15y ago
How about a circuit board layout diagram? It's been a long-standing tradition at my work to etch designs onto PCBs as gifts for employees who are leaving. These are beautiful, and would really raise the bar.
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by Schwolop 15y ago
Ok, I agree with this now, but it's different to what you originally stated; "Don't tell people what you are working on until you finish it." I'd say "Don't tell people what you are working on until you start it."
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by Schwolop 15y ago
The funniest part of this for me is that my friends' company is halfbaked.com.au...
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by Schwolop 15y ago
I cannot disagree more. Opening up my ideas to ridicule and critique has been the best thing I've ever done. I don't waste time on the bad ideas, people get behind the good ones, and people see that I'm always doing something . I don't hav
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by Schwolop 15y ago
Absolutely agree with this advice. It's how I fixed my last unfinished project - launching something completely broken and having people tell you they liked what they saw but could you please fix that one little thing, is a great way to get
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by Schwolop 15y ago
Despite the fact that you're writing on a website written by one of the two people whose opinions you're quoting, I really don't think extrapolating the future based on two opinions is going to fly here.
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by Schwolop 15y ago
Bryden is my uncle, and although I knew he'd climbed a lot of cool stuff in his time (Centrepoint Tower in Sydney, for example), I'd never realised he'd done Ball's Pyramid. Now I'll actually have an interesting conversation with him for on
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by Schwolop 15y ago
See also http://seethroughstudios.com/2012/02/28/and-now-paymate-have... for the dev's version of events.
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Paymate joins Paypal in irritating indie game developers(rockpapershotgun.com)
2 points by Schwolop 15y ago|1 comments
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by Schwolop 15y ago
Let's see now: CMU, Stanford, MIT, UPenn, USC, LAAS, USyd, Oxford, Caltech, just to name a few. All of these universities have already dropped at least that much building technology for the DARPA Grand Challenges or related research demonst
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by Schwolop 15y ago
Wow. When they start offering site licenses for this, every university in the world is going to buy one. (edit: my bad, they already do)
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by Schwolop 15y ago
Fair enough. My current plan when I've finished is to rewrite my collaborative blogging platform in Ruby (was Google App Engine + Python). It's got enough similarities to a twitter clone that I can base a lot of the infrastructure on railst

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