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by aik 11y ago
"EPIC’s “natural color” images of Earth are generated by combining three separate monochrome exposures taken by the camera in quick succession. EPIC takes a series of 10 images using different narrowband spectral filters -- from ultrav
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by aik 12y ago
Cool. I still don't know of a good website that does this well (RT comes close, except some of their filters are broken). For some constructive feedback, after using it for a few min, my thoughts were that this would only become usefu
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by aik 12y ago
Alternatively, perhaps people are responding because they are having (or have had) similar experiences. Personally I have been very frustrated with iOS in the past year or two due to crashes and other bugs. Granted, a good number have bee
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by aik 12y ago
It's a feature, and why passengers didn't even bother. It's a dangerous game. With the cost of ride essentially being an unknown, ranging from cheaper than a cab to many times the cost of a cab, I often wouldn't bother
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by aik 12y ago
Very interesting. There are some other articles by Einstein there as well. The Science and Religion one is particularly interesting: http://www.onbeing.org/program/einstein039s-god-einstein039s...
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Ask HN: Books/Resources on Product Development?
1 points by aik 12y ago|1 comments
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by aik 12y ago
My main issue is that the article spends an inordinate amount of time discussing the learning process as something that primarily happens within the confines of a teacher-student relationship in a subject-driven, classroom environment. Huma
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by aik 12y ago
Interesting. Are you aware of ways of teaching new modes of learning, or even have a list of modes? And whether it can be done with reasonable success (ie. given that people think in different ways, can one person become as competent in o
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by aik 12y ago
Thanks for the response. What I wonder then is when does a startup reach a point of hiring a dedicated compliance officer (so that argument becomes relevant)? Now we split the work and pull in 3rd parties as needed. Even for medical or h
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by aik 12y ago
We have a HIPAA compliant dedicated server with another company, and including bandwidth for 100,000+ / month visits, it is around $1500. We could easily host another website (e.g. Complaint server) on the server with extremely little
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by aik 12y ago
Wow, cool idea. Though $3,499/month is WAY above what a small company like mine can afford. We're considering paying a one-time cost of ~$10,000 for a consultation to get us there and won't have to do another one for (hopef
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by aik 12y ago
I write software used by organizations that help individuals with developmental disabilities. Sometimes the organizations have to babysit the individuals (day programs), or have them help with work, while their guardians are out working du
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by aik 12y ago
I believe the "skip university" trope is sad. I also believe "everyone has to go to college" is sad. There is a huge disparity between universities -- I went to an average state university, and in most aspects I firmly
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by aik 12y ago
I can very honestly say I never learned how to learn in college. I was finally forced to learn as soon as I finished and entered the "real world".
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by aik 12y ago
Commencement address video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wug9n5Atk8c
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by aik 12y ago
You have two options: Change your mindset or continue burying/ignoring your ambitions. Burying your ambitions can make you relatively satisfied in life, but I believe they will always haunt you regardless of how hard you try. You can
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by aik 12y ago
There's a difference between reading 20% of 100% and 100% of 20%.
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Coinbase: Overstock.com results with BTC are in(blog.coinbase.com)
4 points by aik 13y ago|0 comments
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by aik 13y ago
Muck-raking for sure. Using SpaceX as an example of "rent-seeking" because they won a government contract and are doing things 100x cheaper than NASA? There's a big difference between taking people's money, and being the
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by aik 13y ago
That's awesome. Just yesterday I did a web search and Hacker news search for this exact thing, and now boom, you've delivered! Great UI, awesome background activity, relaxing music, timers -- exactly what I was looking for. Well
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by aik 13y ago
Yeah I understand that, but why highlight it to such a degree? Most stories don't get to sit right next to the logo.
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Why USAToday added Bitcoin to their logo?
1 points by aik 13y ago|2 comments
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by aik 14y ago
He's not paying everything out of pocket, therefore he is not a great entrepreneur? My understanding is that great entrepreneurs find ways to distribute the risk.
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by aik 14y ago
This looks great. I have no experience with selling physical products and so not sure what it takes, but I would think selling these on various specialty websites and specialty stores could work great. Thinkgeek.com is one that comes to m
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by aik 14y ago
> Touch typing on the full size iPad is extremely pleasant. I don't find it especially pleasant. The keyboard takes up more than half of the screen, and typing quickly on it is much more difficult than any regular keyboard (though much
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by aik 14y ago
This is about Japan in general as well. Specifically it's in Okinawa where people supposedly do live an unusually long time, with the rest of the country more unspectacular. I would like to see whether this is true in Okinawa as well.
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by aik 14y ago
Interesting. So the idea is that critical thinking boils down to a combination of domain knowledge and specific metacognitive strategies, and so critical thinking isn't actually a skill. I sense that "critical thinking" has become somewhat
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by aik 14y ago
Few ideas: 1. Part of the issue today I believe is the standardization. Inherent in standardization is depersonalization, lower standards, skewed values and incentives, which leads to a mediocracy, and demoralization ensues, which leads t
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by aik 14y ago
This reminds me of Peter Thiel's lecture on the question of luck.[1] A focus and care for topics like what this article discusses often falls into the optimistic indeterminism quadrant that he outlines -- ie. we're optimistic about a future
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by aik 14y ago
I think it can be sleazy if done subversively, however it can be a less-abrasive than a regular cold call if intention/purpose is stated up front. Finding the right person in an organization can be hard, and it's much less of a waste of ti

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