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by SudarshanP 15y ago
A guy who implements a closed source idea as an open implementation usually ends up getting credit for taking the pain to implement the idea rather than coming up with the idea. The guys who created GNOME/KDE do not get credit for inventing
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
One of the spectators in that video talks about http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/Z.Kalal/tld.html which was discussed on HN before and a nice demo of what computer vision can do...
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3642570 is a relevant thread. It discusses "Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill". Once Feynman was diagnosed as mentally ill... Great care is needed before labeling people as "needing
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
Robots/Automation already grows crops, builds houses and produces goods we use. 6 people are involved in the production of millions of TVs at Panasonic. Foxconn is adding millions of robots to its workforce. While not a virtual world, it de
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
I have a suggestion for a hack that would make life a little more pleasant for those who do not mind running Javascript while not affecting those who want to use the site as is. The script can be implemented by the community and hosted on G
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
http://matternet.net/ Point to point delivery may not be such a far fetched idea technologically. Quadcopters are becoming more and more common. But legal and security hurdles may slow down the adoption of such services.
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
Did I say something inappropriate?
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
I think the author is fussing around the wrong problem. I guess the situation is something like this. Incompetent/bored math teacher < khan academy < better online learning platform < Good math teacher. The number of bad math te
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
Education is already structured like game with every every feature of gamification like points(scores) and grades(levels) and Leaderboards and so on... But it is a very boring and badly designed game. Playing a physical game like football a
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
Here is a suggestion for those who build a statup for getting acquired as a team. Build a start up centered around an opensource project that is awesome but not necessarily profitable. A Big$ company could acquire the group. They get a bunc
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
They rely on analysing your strokes. So images cannot be used .
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
Reading DNA without taking it out of a cell sounds like such an awesome idea. All you need is bunch of proteins to do that. All those proteins are just DNA sequences . possibly even Biobricks. So all that translates to "Just introduce a pl
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
What is the risk a mountaineer or fighter pilot or car racer facing? Should we ban these people from taking calculated risks? Are there some stats about how risky various adventure sports are compared to Space Exploration? Another question
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
The economy does a lot to give people a delusion of purpose. If u r scared that ur kids will starve, or ur wife will go without healthcare, ur focus is now on survival. If I know that "the system will take care of me and my family", I will
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
Can some arc hacker explain the algorithm for the rest of us here. As far as I know the rank of post declines exponentially over time and improves with upvotes. Does the decay also depend upon the rate of submission and the points earned by
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
like programmers/doctors/teachers?
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
Hollywood only allows a tiny fraction of people with talent to suceed... The remaining 99% who never got into hollywood would want to work if they could succeed. Probably becoming millionares rather than billionares.
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
Free Software is not Just Vi or Emacs. It evolves into Android, Firefox, Chrome, Eclipse, jQuery, etc. You may get to see work before it is fully ready... But finished products in Free software can also be user friendly and mainstream. And
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
Awesome! It would be nice to have prev and next button for the chart detail page. Even better if u could add a swipe for mobile devices
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
A useful service could be N washes per year with a minimum interval. The user chooses N. Out of this a fraction would be "on-demand". The others would be optimized for availability of resources like manpower and suitable places where there
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
When Google's employees started to become rich, they were taught the best investment was index funds; that investment firms like Goldman were just out to grab their fees and didn't perform any better over the long run. http://www.tradersna
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
The Economy is cyclical. The best time to grow is during a bubble. In a couple of years when all those me too incubators have burned themselves up there will be fewer people willing to tunnel him into the US... He could do his Graduation du
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Fluidinfo launches new tagging interface and browser extensions(blogs.fluidinfo.com)
1 points by SudarshanP 15y ago|0 comments
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
It would be awesome to have handlebars support.
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
The author claims "And I support record labels, because many of the albums I love would not exist without label financing, and I might not know about them if not for label marketing and promotion." While this statement may be true about "th
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
The blue arrow next to the arrivals and departures selection, acts like a radio buttion, but looks like an arrow. This is misleading... I was wondering why it said "Arrivals => Deprture" which looked weird... only after i clicked around
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Mozilla Launches Open Badges Project(blog.mozilla.com)
4 points by SudarshanP 15y ago|0 comments
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
http://seasteading.org/ is an idea on similar lines by the free market libertarians and http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/ for the more communist minded libertarians led by Jaques Fresco.
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by SudarshanP 15y ago
I tried starting a list of "shops in india that would be of interest to Hackers and Makers": http://www.listry.com/list/83050/list-of-shops-in-india-that... on the lines of "Coffee shops in Cambridge, MA"... And I added two shops that I h

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