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Can this idea ("hot fusion") be energy's holy grail?(cnn.com)
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I'm not a lawyer, but: the cops can still hassle you even if you know you're in the right. Consider this case: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-05-08/news/bs-md-herma... Eventually a judge ruled for him, but imagine the heartburn ove
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by ajays 15y ago
The article mentions 2 apps, but I'm sure these are not the only ones. It would be nice to know about others too. One note of caution, though: some states are 2-party consent states, which means, both parties have to consent to an audio rec
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by ajays 15y ago
Contempt of Court is a serious business. You can be jailed indefinitely for it. For example: this guy was jailed for 14 years because he couldn't (or wouldn't) turn over information about missing assets during his divorce: http://www.judic
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by ajays 15y ago
What is Microsoft doing about this? As the acquirer, they may still be able to "do the right thing" and make some of these guys whole. Sure, it may cost them a few million bucks; but can you imagine the goodwill it will generate for Micros
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by ajays 15y ago
Most countries today _are_ based on ethnicities. They may not purely be of a particular ethnicity, but their basis is some ethnic grouping. There's a reason why all Germans speak German, and all Finns speak Finnish (to name a couple). This
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by ajays 15y ago
I'd dispute the "country you don't know" part. He keeps using the Filipino language. Having spent 12 years there, he isn't exactly a stranger. If, as a young 12-year old, he could adapt to the US (a country he _really_ didn't know), then wh
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by ajays 15y ago
You're assuming the companies who got the spectrum did something with it. From what I've heard, most of them just grabbed the spectrum and are sitting on it, to collect the $39 Billion that would otherwise have gone to the government. Imagi
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by ajays 15y ago
One thing that a lot of analyses fail to account for are the number of Groupons that go unused. I would love to see some figures on how many Groupons are never redeemed (for whatever reason). I had some friends visiting SF, and they had bou
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Even if it's "Google hype", so what? In the end, superior tools will win on their own merits. People are not idiots to be just blinded by Google's logo; Google is a teenager now, and the hype has worn off, IMHO. Given _any_ language, I can
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by ajays 15y ago
FTA: "the Apache MapReduce clustered data-processing architecture, ... is written in C++" Really? Hadoop is pure Java.
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My dad used to tell me about the time he was in a cold, remote location (military), and he was the only one in their group who would take cold baths (from a snow-fed stream nearby); the others would warm up water and then bathe. The entire
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by ajays 15y ago
I can understand their passion, but I think it is misplaced. This is like ringing the doorbell of some prominent person and running away; yeah, you'll cause him some loss of sleep, but in the end, it changes nothing. You know what could cha
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by ajays 15y ago
Dated: 15-May-2002 . Just sayin'. There's been a lot of work in the last decade on this subject.
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A dating site is more than just an algorithm; its main asset are the users. Match, PoF, etc. have no fancy algorithm, but they are still among the top because of their users. It's the "network effect".
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OKCupid is already going downhill post acquisition. Friends that are on OKCupid (exes) who were ~70% match earlier, are now ~90% match. It's a shame that OKC tweaked their algorithm just to make a few bucks. Based on their general demeanor,
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by ajays 15y ago
Regarding #4: with Facebook, at least I know where my data is going. I put it on Facebook; obviously they'll have access to it. But I don't like the idea of taking that perfectly curated data (for me) and handing it over on a platter to som
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by ajays 15y ago
Wow. Earning $83,969 per year with just a HS Diploma (and CHP academy training) ain't bad at all.
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by ajays 15y ago
This is HN! Post the darn thing!!
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by ajays 15y ago
That is an interesting link; but it will probably catch a lot of flack. I believe that instead of making poverty "unpleasant", we should structure the reward system so that it drives the poor towards self-reliance using positive rewards. Fo
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by ajays 15y ago
Instead of going to someone else's blog post, here's the original link, by the artist Eric Fischer: http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/7215762420915863... It includes a description of his methodology.
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by ajays 15y ago
Notice how Republicans are all for "individual rights", until these rights start to cut into Corporations' profits?
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His wife's fortune comes from the same security establishment that her (soon to be ex-) husband was needling. Maybe her parents threatened to cut her off unless she ditched him. Who knows? In any case: it's really lame for her to ditch her
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by ajays 15y ago
It's obvious to you, dear HN reader. But please step out of this little bubble, and ask random strangers on Main Street (or whatever the equivalent is in your domicile) if they know how the "like" button appears on their web page; if they k
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by ajays 15y ago
It's simple, really. It's not their money. If they run short of funds, they'll just dig into the taxpayers' wallets.
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by ajays 15y ago
I'm totally illiterate when it comes to music, but I do like electronic music. If you do end up creating something you really like with Beats, please do share the source code. Thanks!
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Awww..... group hug! :-)
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The main selling point is that Cassandra has replaced HDFS as the underlying filesystem for Hadoop. I'm curious: what are the performance implications of using CFS instead of HDFS? Is it faster/slower/more fault-tolerant? (It appears to be
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by ajays 15y ago
I have spoken to a few cab drivers. They would love to drive their own cabs in the City, but don't have the license (i.e. medallion) to do it. What is to stop them from buying rickety old smog-producing cars and clogging up the city streets
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I generally agree with you; but you do need some controls, otherwise SF would be overrun with such drivers. The capacity of the streets is limited, you know. The idea in general is to have more people using public transportation, as it is h

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