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The Rule of 3 and 10(sequoiacap.com)
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Handy Raises $50M Led by Fidelity, Reportedly at $500M Valuation(techcrunch.com)
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Wait Didn't Homejoy Shut Down?(medium.com)
8 points by aleyan 11y ago|5 comments
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Netflix Culture: Freedom and Responsibility(slideshare.net)
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by aleyan 11y ago
Since BBC decided to talk about propaganda, I will call them out on their own coverage of civilian deaths from the war in Eastern Ukraine. When civilians were killed in Kiev controlled areas BBC described their deaths as result of rebel act
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Daylight saving time explained visually(mail.python.org)
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by aleyan 11y ago
This is well known known effect. S&P rebalances it index through out the year and there are always people trying to predict adds and drops and make some money. The real diseconomy happens in the Russel indexes. They are rebalanced annua
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Supernational European Bodies(en.wikipedia.org)
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by aleyan 11y ago
TL;DR of the parable. Incumbent businesses will lobby and use professionalism as an excuse against individuals using their own resources to do ad-hoc business. Article makes an argument that this is bad. I found this article as print out on
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The parable of the parking lots (1971) [pdf](nationalaffairs.com)
76 points by aleyan 11y ago|19 comments
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AT&T's “You Will” (1993)(youtube.com)
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Bir Tawil – Terra Nullius(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by aleyan 11y ago|0 comments
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by aleyan 12y ago
When I think I'm finished with an article, I set the print speed to Slow. This runs the printer at about 100 words per minute, or roughly the pace of reading aloud. I stuff my ears with earplugs and then lean
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Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design(spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu)
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by aleyan 12y ago
1) Perceived Risk. AI makes any activity 10 times scarier than same activity without. People will irrationally fear that their AI PA turns into HAL 9000[1] or their self-driving car turns into Project Satan[2]. 2) Actual Risk. Software has
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by aleyan 12y ago
To get pleasantries out of the way, I am glad to see Matt Turck here on HN. The meetup he hosts, Data Driven NYC, attracts a large number of both very high caliber of guest speakers and attendees. The several times I have been there, I enjo
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by aleyan 12y ago
For those of us using macports, the port file was updated an hour ago: https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/devel/git/Por... sudo port selfupdate sudo port upgrade git git -
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by aleyan 12y ago
Ran the Mac OS version on Yosemite with 0.4.2 version of the Oculus SDK on a DK2. Loved it. Awesome job. Feels like a haunted house that moves around you instead of you moving through it. Very immersive. Will show this off to other people.
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by aleyan 12y ago
> It's part of a broad government push to repatriate American funds into American banks. Not exactly. US government wants to repatriate taxes earned by American people and capital abroad and making foreign banks accountable to US is
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Handybook Rebrands as Handy(techcrunch.com)
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Arctic Sea Extent 1980s to Present(ijis.iarc.uaf.edu)
1 points by aleyan 12y ago|0 comments
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by aleyan 12y ago
Has anyone actually answered this question on the spot without help and without knowing it? Probably not without help, but then how do we judge the amount help given to an interviewer? I have been going through my own crises of interview qu
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by aleyan 12y ago
"They were called khrushchevkas — five-story buildings made of prefabricated concrete panels. "They were horribly built; you could hear your neighbor," says Edward Shenderovich, an entrepreneur and Russian poet. The apartment
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by aleyan 12y ago
That makes sense. There is also a question of will though. IANARS (I am not a rocket scientist), but it seems to me a lot of political investment behind rockets in USA and USSR was military in origin. This meant the rockets and rocket engin
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by aleyan 12y ago
Well done. I have been working with animating 2d images with a hand constructed depth map in the past to a decent 3d effect[1]. The illusion when guided by your mouse as in the OP seems to be much stronger then in left-right strafing that I
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Three great virtues of a programmer(threevirtues.com)
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by aleyan 13y ago
Congratulations to the quantopian team. Trading on real data is very different from simulated trading on historic data. There are a lot of leaky abstractions and assumptions that happen during simulations that cause problems once you put re
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by aleyan 13y ago
Trust is something hard to come by and when dealing with foreign sources you have to rely on translators and their issues. What is worse, even if the translators are reliable, alterations can be made after the fact, but verification is diff
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by aleyan 13y ago
I like the labor reducing (and cheapening) idea of printing on the canvas first and then painting on top. This removes the sketching time and eliminates the whole class of problems relating to proportion and perspective. The idea of shippin
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by aleyan 13y ago
I first encountered this line of reasoning in Bulgakov's excellent 1925 book, Heart of a Dog when a doctor advises one of his friends: If you care about your digestion, my advice is—don't talk about bolshevism or medicine at

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