abrichr

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   by abrichr 13y ago

   someone has to be first According to whom? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity
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   by abrichr 13y ago

   This is assuming that the creators of the Dyson sphere haven't also figured out how to absorb the heat energy with extremely high efficiency.
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   by abrichr 13y ago

   The Wikipedia article defines a Dyson sphere as a system of orbiting solar-power satellites meant to completely encompass a star and capture most or all of its energy output.
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   by abrichr 13y ago

   What's your process/toolchain for transcription and storage?
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   by abrichr 13y ago

   Although not new, this submission is interesting to consider in light of the PRISM scandal. If you want, you can delete all past searches here: https://history.google.com/history/settings?hl=en Unfortunately, there is
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   by abrichr 13y ago

   Asked: http://discussion.guardian.co.uk/comment-permalink/24386192
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   by abrichr 13y ago

   Thanks for this. One question: why "stay single"?
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   by abrichr 13y ago

   Consider that In-Q-Tel, the VC firm whose sole purpose is keeping US intelligence agencies ahead of the game, [1] is one of the primary investors [2] into D-Wave, the first company to create a commercially viable quantum computer. [3] [1]
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   by abrichr 13y ago

   Thanks for the link, that was an awesome article. Well written and technically substantial. How did you come across it?
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    by abrichr 13y ago

    What do you propose people do?
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    by abrichr 13y ago

    I hug all my friends, male and female. If they seem uncomfortable, I just make a mental note to shake their hand instead in the future.
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    by abrichr 13y ago

    For reference, here's a video of him talking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
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    by abrichr 13y ago

    http://www.coursera.org/course/progfun
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    by abrichr 13y ago

    Theano [1] is developed at the LISA lab led by Yoshua Bengio at l'Université de Montréal. Pylearn2 [2] is developed by the same group, and is built on top of Theano. [1] http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/ [2] http://github.com/lisa
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    by abrichr 13y ago

    In that article under "Exemptions and Treaties" [1], it says that Canada is exempt. Does that mean Canadians can work at SpaceX? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_...
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    by abrichr 13y ago

    Any possibility of the relaxing the US citizen requirement in the future?
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    by abrichr 13y ago

    I think you should also try to cover how to respond when the reason for declining an offer is low compensation. Also, there seems to be some character encoding issues in the text.
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    by abrichr 14y ago

    You paint a pretty convincing picture, but all you have is circumstantial evidence.
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    by abrichr 14y ago

    Link for the lazy: http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/publications/salarydisclosure/20...
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    by abrichr 14y ago

    I appreciate your optimism, but I think perhaps you're underestimating the difficulty associated with decoding brain waves. Right now, the bleeding edge is just coming to grips with decoding signals in the somatic nervous system (the one th
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    by abrichr 14y ago

    Will you be offering the units for free to developers, like the Leap Motion, or should I just pre-order right away?
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    by abrichr 14y ago

    Electrical input from the body is extremely noisy. I wouldn't be surprised if they were using machine learning to train their algorithm to recognize which electrical patterns correspond to which muscles being activated.
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    by abrichr 14y ago

    In general I shower when my wife tells me I need to. I'm not here to judge you or your lifestyle, but if I were to rely on my significant other to tell me when I needed to shower, I would feel as though I was taking advantage of their goo
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    Ask HN: Is this fair compensation for Lead Developer at a start-up?

    12 points by abrichr 14y ago|10 comments
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    by abrichr 14y ago

    Interesting; I never thought of that analogy to Python. I've just had it drilled into my head from everything I've ever read about C++ that "using namespace std" is terrible, and I shouldn't use it. Great advice. Thanks!
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    by abrichr 14y ago

    but what can you do... using namespace std; map<string, vector<string>> foo;
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    by abrichr 14y ago

    Working link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Earth%27s_Location_in_the_...
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    by abrichr 14y ago

    SEEKING FREELANCER - Toronto or Remote I'm looking for a a full-stack front end designer. This includes everything from UI/UX storyboarding to graphic design and HTML/CSS execution. Although I started out as a jack of all trades in the web
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    by abrichr 14y ago

    Maybe I'm just impatient, but after the third consecutive cut-scene I just closed the window and uninstalled it. I think you should give the option to the user to skip the cut scenes altogether.
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    by abrichr 14y ago

    Very interesting article, IMO. I feel like the technical challenges involved in a distributed social network that the author mentions -- keeping profile views secret, for example -- could easily be overcome if the network were implemented o