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by apu 16y ago
Why'd you leave the ACLU?
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by apu 16y ago
Hello, submarine! http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by apu 16y ago
Well I don't know if Twitter is screwing this up or if the account's been hacked somehow, but the twitter page is currently showing raw JSON instead of a formatted page... http://i.imgur.com/Mmm8t.png http://twitter.com/OldSpice
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by apu 16y ago
One thing I'm curious about is what it's like for a hacker to become an angel investor. I get the impression that being a VC is not that much fun (from a hacker's point of view), and in many respects being an Angel seems closer to a VC than
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by apu 16y ago
Newsnight is very far from unbiased journalism. I agree that we need better reporters, but the way to do it is not to keep pretending that they objectivity, but for their biases to be out in the open. It's like bugs in software: rather than
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by apu 16y ago
I know it's not really the same situation, but this reminds me of couples who have a child to help protect/save their marriage. This usually hurts, rather than helps the marriage.
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by apu 16y ago
Haha thanks for giving me the perfect setup to mention my own research. I've been working on automatically detecting visually describable attributes in face images. These include everything from coarse attributes such as gender, age, and
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by apu 16y ago
To clarify/be pedantic, what facebook just added was face detection -- detecting where the faces are in an image. Face recognition usually refers to figuring out who a given face is of. Riya was one of the first sites doing detection
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by apu 16y ago
Hmm, I was under the impression that senescence is a little bit degrading (= getting senile), but perhaps not...
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by apu 16y ago
Except this is exactly what was said about the iPhone when it came out -- that it was amazingly designed. If good design is supposed to be timeless, how can once-beautiful pieces of design now be considered as "rounded blob[s] of plastic" t
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by apu 16y ago
Is "Hand-to-Mouth" a well-known idiom in America and Europe? In India, it means an existence in which you are constantly worried about getting enough food to survive for another day, and all the money you get from working ("hand") goes dire
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by apu 16y ago
Ha! I wonder if you're at my college -- I'm a PhD student at Columbia.
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by apu 16y ago
I see that you are looking for something quite different from what I expected -- you are thinking more along management lines than technical ones ("Program/Project Managers at Google/Facebook"). You're right that a PhD is probably not for y
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by apu 16y ago
OK, let me try to answer/comment on what you said. Excuse me if some of these sound blunt. 1. Your age is irrelevant. 2. Working at a management consulting company as an analyst is almost the definition of enterprise fizz-buzz programming.
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by apu 16y ago
I'm always amazed every time I read or watch interviews or talks by Catmull for his incisiveness. It's so rare to find someone who's both technically and organizationally brilliant, with a track record as phenomenal as he has had at Pixar.
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Drawings of Scientists by kids(ed.fnal.gov)
82 points by apu 16y ago|47 comments
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by apu 16y ago
The fact that I instantly recognized this problem case (having had it many times myself) makes me sad. I'm so incredibly happy that 95% of the code I write now is in Python.
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by apu 16y ago
It's not just in the math sense. Everyone I know who's met him (including some of the very smartest people I know) have been very impressed by his ability to quickly grasp the fundamentals and even the minor consequences of a particular ide
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by apu 16y ago
If you're frequently on-the-go, without your own laptop? If you're on a restricted machine where you can't install anything, or have other install restrictions (hello, iPad! ;-))? If you're on a shared computer where it wouldn't be nice to
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Best And Worst Decisions – Paul Graham(wingedpig.com)
54 points by apu 16y ago|0 comments
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by apu 16y ago
The talk was interesting, and I thought you sounded fine. Although Monica sounded slightly more polished, her contribution was also much more buzzwordy (and more vacuous) than yours.
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by apu 16y ago
This is quite similar to the way things work in India as well (or at least the parts of Northern India I'm familiar with).
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by apu 16y ago
Are you talking about Fractal Compression methods? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_compression
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by apu 16y ago
PCA is optimal from an L2 perspective, but with images, that is often not the metric you want to use. Of course I was a little bit confused by the fact that he's talking about lossless compression but then mentioning jpeg, which is lossy. I
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by apu 16y ago
I'd wager that if you added up salaries forgone by ycombinator participants and compared them against aggregate payout it would paint a fairly bleak economic picture. I'd take that wager at a 100:1 payout in a heartbeat! My guess is that
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The similarities between being a junior researcher and a high-tech entrepreneur(stanford.edu)
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Stephen Fry to judge Guardian Hay festival's Twitter competition(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by apu 16y ago|0 comments
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by apu 16y ago
I think you're wrong about the write-once run-anywhere software ecosystem that Windows had to deal with. There was an incredible proliferation of different hardware -- including drivers etc. -- and it was mostly up to Microsoft to make sure
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by apu 16y ago
July?
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by apu 16y ago
Doesn't this increase the time it takes to boot up a new instance, though? Boot, update and apply patches, copy over source & data, start running services... everytime you start a new instance

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