amitparikh

8 ms·

31.
by amitparikh 12y ago
In general, I agree with you. The nature of internet commenting is such. There should be no expectation that the parent comment will continue to live -- the comment itself should be considered "owned" by the original poster, who
32.
by amitparikh 12y ago
Because content creators are trying to maximize the revenue generated from that content. We can't fault a company (or non-profit organization for that matter) for following their optimal strategy, can we? Sure it's an annoyance t
33.
by amitparikh 12y ago
Yes, agree. Another section header in the blog post could very well have been "Unshiny = Opportunity"
34.
Russian Government Launches New Search Engine(calvertjournal.com)
3 points by amitparikh 12y ago|0 comments
35.
by amitparikh 12y ago
I love this attraction. They have a duplicate at Epcot in Orlando called "Soarin'". I think an Oculus-concept could also be implemented for "Mission Space", which already simulates g-forces by way of centripetal f
36.
by amitparikh 12y ago
The TVs aren't "Smart" for the consumers. They are "Smart" for the producers/advertisers/etc that want to data mine your television consumption (now including various streaming services).
37.
by amitparikh 13y ago
I find it fascinating that the precedent for the decision -- to vacate charges due to improper venue -- is established by the court by going all the way back to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The proper place of colo
38.
Ford to ditch Microsoft Sync technology(seattletimes.com)
2 points by amitparikh 13y ago|0 comments
39.
by amitparikh 13y ago
The Great Circle route looks like it just skirts past the Canary Islands: http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=FOR-LIS
40.
by amitparikh 13y ago
Note that the $120k funding is broken into $20k cash and the option for an additional $100k convertible debt note.
41.
by amitparikh 13y ago
Unless it's noisy at or near the desired communication frequency, it is trivial to isolate the signal and completely mute out the noise. In this example, at ~19 kHz, a properly configured high-pass filter could easily remove any human-
42.
by amitparikh 13y ago
No it's not. All classified material is provided on a "Need to Know" basis. You can't just have a clearance and get access to every classified document out there, that's ridiculous.
43.
by amitparikh 13y ago
Another similar option is Mailinator: http://mailinator.com/
44.
by amitparikh 13y ago
Originally reported and published by Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/09/us-usa-security-ns...
45.
by amitparikh 13y ago
From PHP documentation ( http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php ) 5.5.0 The /e modifier is deprecated. Use preg_replace_callback() instead.
46.
by amitparikh 13y ago
> SpaceX is doing great implementations of pretty conservative designs. Like the other reply mentioned, they are certainly working on some technologies that are starkly less conservative. One example is the Grasshopper [1], a reusable f
47.
by amitparikh 13y ago
I disagree with your interpretation that the Executive Branch has "totally unchain [sic] itself from the Constitution." Congress has voted a couple times in the most recent decade to approve extensions for the FISA Amendments Act
48.
by amitparikh 13y ago
"Everyone is a creator in one way or another - and it’s important to know someone cares about whatever it is that you’re creating." Couldn't agree more. My grandmother, in her last few months, used to love to sing b
49.
by amitparikh 13y ago
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5946362
50.
by amitparikh 13y ago
I'm not saying it's the smartest thing to do, but Excel can most certainly handle data on the order of tens of thousands of rows. It's not blazing fast, but Pivoting that much data is not a problem at all.
51.
by amitparikh 13y ago
Closed captioning has always seemed to me to be a notoriously bad data set due to misspellings and misphrasing. Has anyone tried to do (a better) speech to text of a cable news channel, for instance? Doing frequency and sentiment analysis
52.
by amitparikh 13y ago
Exactly. And the example given (cron) was designed with the Unix-mentality of writing a program that does one thing really well and does it without breaking. Yeah, sure, some may argue that cron is fairly complicated, but it doesn't suffe
53.
Twitter Now Has a Two-Step Solution(wired.com)
3 points by amitparikh 13y ago|0 comments
54.
by amitparikh 13y ago
I don't think they mean to suggest that all users "enjoy" advertising, but it IS a reality of the current state of Internet monetization economics that advertising plays a large role in allowing, in IAB's words, the "long tail" of the web t
55.
by amitparikh 14y ago
Almost a year ago, the author, Matthew Yglesias, wrote nearly the exact same article with respect to Washington, D.C. ( http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/04/d_c_... ). Washington, D.C. is an interesting & relevant cas
56.
by amitparikh 14y ago
No mention of Ask.fm? Seemed like the European clone had been picking up a lot of steam lately. (see http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/27/ask-fm-claims-its-overtaken... )
57.
by amitparikh 14y ago
> "But in the interest of helping anyone who may ever face a patent troll on these topics..." Precisely the point of his blog post.
58.
by amitparikh 14y ago
Isn't this just a technical error (bug) that is a game dev's (or infrastructure engineer's) responsibility? I understand the frustration at the DRM concept, but you can't blame this on the larger entity as a whole when it was likely just a
59.
by amitparikh 14y ago
I agree. Those that know the right questions to ask are those that understand their problems, understand their deficiencies, and are just looking for a targeted piece of knowledge that they may be missing.
60.
by amitparikh 14y ago
Yeah, I tend to disagree, mainly for the many reasons pointed out in this fantastic article: http://geoit.posterous.com/41latitude-google-maps-label-read... . I do believe that vector graphics are far superior to GMaps' tiles.

More ›