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by Tossrock 14y ago
Interesting. I saw the founders at ycombinator's Work for a Startup day, where a bunch of YC companies basically pitched their companies, but to engineers instead of investors. The rap genius guys were there, but with handmade signs, and di
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by Tossrock 14y ago
I liked three beers about an hour ago and my recommendation page is empty. Is the queue backed up due to an HN traffic spike?
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by Tossrock 14y ago
> "A trip to Alpha Centauri would take about two weeks. Traveling as fast as we are now currently able, it would take tens of thousands of years." This isn't true. Nuclear pulse drives built with currently available technology could ach
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by Tossrock 14y ago
There's much more information in the linked forum thread: http://www.s2ki.com/s2000/topic/975497-wait-that-isnt-an-f20... For example, he also built a keyless entry system with an arduino board and an iPod. This kid is pretty amazing.
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by Tossrock 14y ago
Why would you never get to go outside? A pressure suit would be fine. Also, if colonization was an ongoing thing, there'd probably be new colonists to meet in waves.
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by Tossrock 14y ago
Oppa actually means 'elder brother', but is sometimes used for respected elder male friends as well
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by Tossrock 14y ago
A substitution cipher wasn't secure even in 1846 [1]. This is probably part of an ARG [2] or just the original poster trolling for attention. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gold-Bug [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_real
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by Tossrock 14y ago
This was actually touched on in Neal Stephenson's novel REAMDE.
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by Tossrock 14y ago
Google Navigation doesn't announce reroutes, it just continues with the new directions. I think you may be overstating the problem.
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by Tossrock 14y ago
Quantum entanglement cannot be used to transmit information. This would fundamentally violate relativity and all modern understandings of physics. Additionally, sending a signal to Mars takes much longer than 15 seconds (still over 4 minute
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by Tossrock 14y ago
I don't think the Voyager probe uses IP datagrams, and as the furthest manmade object from Earth, it's not even outside the heliosphere. Perhaps I'm missing something?
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by Tossrock 14y ago
Why would she have shares? If she wasn't an employee I don't see why she would. I mean Mark might have given her some as an anniversary gift/etc at some point, but you don't get shares in a company just for dating the founder. Although I su
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by Tossrock 14y ago
Relevant pg essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html The power of PR can be pretty amazing sometimes. Especially scary given the susceptibility of the masses (ie, the Reddit firestorm).
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by Tossrock 14y ago
It seems like there are three fundamental business models for tech startups right now, the first and most profitable being to impose oneself as the middleman in a real money transaction, the second and less profitable one being reselling AW
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by Tossrock 14y ago
I'm reminded of a quote from Neal Stephenson's Anathem: > "But Raz, you are /educable/, you can learn 'this kind of thing', if by that you mean how to assemble a Cold Black Mirror. You've spent your whole life, ever since you were Colle
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by Tossrock 14y ago
In case you don't know, the BBC is pretty happy to take down sites hosting their content. Be careful. I'm pretty sure Mixriot tried the same thing and got burned. Feedback-wise, you might want to look into more flexible search for non-stand
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by Tossrock 14y ago
I am reminded of a comment tree I participated in back on Reddit several years ago [1]. I guess at a certain size all organizations have to have a meta discussion about themselves. [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/9j8vh/i_was_at_wo
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by Tossrock 14y ago
Anyone actually using this is almost certainly committing a heinous premature optimization.
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by Tossrock 14y ago
For those unfamiliar, this is Daniel Loeb's MO [1]. When he first purchased his share in Yahoo he fired a similar round at the board of the time, headed by Roy Bostock. [2] Still, lying about your education is pretty serious, and Thompson s
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by Tossrock 15y ago
This article seems heavy on vague predictions and light on data? And also phrasing everything as a question? Which alleviates them of the responsibility actual assertions? That aside, it ignores the obvious other domain which is largely imm
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Neal Stephenson's reply to a Slashdot QA [1] is definitely one of the better things I've read on the internet. [1] http://slashdot.org/story/04/10/20/1518217/neal-stephenson-r...
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Well, in a rather meta turn of events, searching for my username on this returned a link to hackerbra.in, which appears to be some kind of HN mirror.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
The takeaway I got from this article is that if I use solder to attach my heatsink to the spreader on my Core i5 2500K instead of thermal paste, I could get a big jump in heat conductivity. Now if only I had the tools to create a solder poi
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by Tossrock 15y ago
What does engineering sample mean? I could go to Microcenter right now and buy a Core i5 3570K right now if I wanted to. Are they selling engineering samples? That seems like a somewhat shady move.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
This headline isn't very descriptive; more useful might be "John Carmack discusses the practical benefits (and limitations) of a functional programming style."
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Man, I've never heard of Evernote before but it sounds exactly like a service I was mentally designing (which I tentatively dubbed "thoughtbank"). If only I'd started executing a few years earlier I could be a billionaire!
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Sounds similar to Quixey: https://www.quixey.com/
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by Tossrock 15y ago
More accurate headline: "USC research team claims level of order found in Viking data set is indicative of biological processes, rather than prevailing consensus view which holds it was geological in nature."
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Completely unimportant quibble: That song is actually by David Guetta, and /features/ Akon.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Did hindi take "guess" as a loanword or is that just a massive coincidence

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