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by anateus 17y ago
Ugh not this shit again. I want to stab the BBC's science writers a thousand times. Here's an analysis of the paper that article is based on by a linguist: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1869 Charts and voice spectrums ahead! So
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by anateus 17y ago
That looks like a damped harmonic oscillator to me. Which I guess makes sense :)
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by anateus 17y ago
The suggested system by this guy is very similar to the method employed by Southwest Airlines. Grouping is mostly by check-in time, and groups are let in, in order, but seats are chosen at random by people. This means that as soon as someon
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by anateus 17y ago
They did. I remember them as the first other YC team we talked to.
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by anateus 17y ago
I know people who have sent DTMF over skype. You just need to...try harder :>
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by anateus 17y ago
The article, as many of its ilk, presupposes that certain things are "good" and others are "bad". Purchasing power is used, rather than GDP as some other commenters have assumed, but it only tells you what is possible to purchase rather tha
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by anateus 17y ago
One of the reasons startups aren't for everyone is that most people strongly prefer a steady moderate income over a risky and sporadic one no matter how great (though they still buy lottery tickets). This helps explain #18 as well as #4 :)
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by anateus 17y ago
I would be interested to see a detailed comparison of the above and SQS which I've used to great success with the python library boto ( http://code.google.com/p/boto/ ). And yes, I googled and haven't found anything good :) I haven't used A
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by anateus 17y ago
In general, in the long term, immigration is vastly a net positive. The waves of migration from Europe in the early 20th century brought with them their share of crime and poverty. There was even a jewish mafia, but I'll stake that right ag
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by anateus 17y ago
Eh, I meant exactly what I said. An opinion from a person is an opinion from a person. There are ways to become an expert in something. I'd be stupid not to listen to at least some of the things he might say about browser design. This isn't
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by anateus 17y ago
Sometimes I wish educators studied some Machine Learning and similar things. Not to detract from the interesting finding, but it sounds to me like someone discovered that in supervised learning it is advisable to use a negative corpus as we
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by anateus 17y ago
Well, it was made clear from the start it was mainly a talent acquisition. Any technological merger is just a lucky bonus for us the users.
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by anateus 17y ago
Not sure why suddenly jwz is considered to be a consumer electronics guru? There's always churn and any particular device isn't for everyone. He's just very vocal about it. The Pre suffers from some slowdown issues which as some commenters
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by anateus 17y ago
This comes off as bitter, almost, but not quite as bitter as the linked-to diatribe from the actor who played Starbuck in the original BSG. There indeed have been some cultural changes about how sci-fi is handled on TV and in movies. But it
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by anateus 17y ago
In addition to the skill/change thing, there's something I've been told by a Linden Labs employee (when they closed the casinos in Second Life) is that there's a specific provision for "game tokens" versus real money. That is, as long as al
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by anateus 17y ago
Links are not mere links when they need to perform certain programmatic side-effects, so having them be just regular links wouldn't work. I am interested in the bug you are experiencing. Could you email me at support@hlcam.com with a more d
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by anateus 17y ago
Congrats dudes!
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by anateus 17y ago
Edit Actually, our Justin.tv page demonstrates what processing of high-motion videos looks like (source vids are 5mins long): http://www.highlightcam.com/justin.tv/ ----- The About page video is 60 minutes long, with motion for maybe 30
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by anateus 17y ago
HighlightCam works when there's continuous motion. Even at a busy party, the algorithm would pick out when people talked in front of the camera or some guy fell off a table. Think of it as smart time-lapse, rather than just a collection
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YC-Funded HighlightCam Makes It Easy To Remotely Watch Babies, Pets And Burglars(techcrunch.com)
101 points by anateus 17y ago|20 comments
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by anateus 18y ago
I think a large part in that teens already have strong texting networks. One of the reason twitter works is because subscribe-and-publish communication has low transaction costs per message. Teens engage in signaling behavior that has the h
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by anateus 18y ago
The main goal I have is to be able to figure out what it is that triggers the most ire. People will always complain, but something like this will let the MBTA prioritize appropriately, not just based on what a committee decides is most impo
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by anateus 18y ago
People don't seem to post about it! If they did, I'd be catching it. Besides the fact that it takes a really long time for it to arrive, I haven't had many problems with it.
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by anateus 18y ago
Currently there is only one mood tag "angry", which is handled with keywords and some simple rules. With more data, more complex and interesting rules can be derived. Then the rage quotient is calculated, i.e. what percentage of people are
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by anateus 18y ago
For those who don’t know, the MBTA is Boston’s public transportation authority, running subways, busses, commuter rail, and the like. To say the least, many people are unhappy with the way it is operated. So, as a subject near and dear to m
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MBTA Sux - capturing the public transportation zeitgeist(mbtasux.com)
10 points by anateus 18y ago|9 comments
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by anateus 18y ago
It depends on what you're using a KB for. I've had superb experiences with using TWiki. Both for storing project documentation and managing structured data using its forms and reporting features. Has real easy wysiwyg editor and a familiar
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by anateus 18y ago
The point that some may ignore is that this is intended to apply ONLY to banks which the government props up. In that light, I think that limiting flat pay is a very good idea. More emphasis should be placed on direct performance incentives
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by anateus 18y ago
Programming techniques, design patterns, that kind of stuff, is learned best from a hybrid approach, i.e. some of this, some of that. Hacker techniques however... can only be learned by hacking. Being as they represent the intuitive, "dirty
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by anateus 18y ago
From what I hear from people who have been interviewed in the media (including some ycombinator alumni), it's much more likely than the swimmer's words were twisted. Though it certainly seems she wasn't incredibly proactive in correcting th

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