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by bencpeters 14y ago
First of all, really like the tutorial, gave me a great sense of what a Meteor app would look like and how it would work! As an extension though, I was wondering if this tutorial could incorporate a discussion on how to secure a Meteor app.
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by bencpeters 14y ago
A BIG part of SLC's air quality problem is that we have so much industrial pollution in the area. Kennicott operates one of the largest strip mines in the world in the valley, and their operation alone accounts for ~1/3 of the air pollution
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by bencpeters 14y ago
I was with you until the extracirricular comment. I can see how some extracirriculars are irrelevant for an engineering job, but I think that it's important to remember that you're hiring a person, not a machine. For many people, extracirri
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by bencpeters 14y ago
I also wondered this. In this particular case, the story came out a good 10 months after the initial incident, so they clearly put some thought and time into it! I have seen a lot of links/comments on that story in a wide variety of differe
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by bencpeters 14y ago
Agreed with this - all it checks is whether you've redirected from a NYTimes page to get to the article you're trying to get to, so it's very easy to spoof... But I believe that NYT reporters are providing a pretty important public service,
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by bencpeters 14y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/ VERY detailed and well-written article about the Stevens Pass avalanche last February. Agreed 100% though - amazing presentation. Just the right amount (and format) of multimedia in a way th
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by bencpeters 14y ago
Agree 100%. One of the things that pushed me into software over EE in the first place was the ability to do some non-trivial portion of work remotely and have more control over where I live. I'm currently living further south in the rockies
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by bencpeters 14y ago
IIRC Outside Magazine did an article about it in the past few months too, although I have not read it.
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by bencpeters 14y ago
The overwhelming reaction I had to this was of how bad the group dynamic sounded. I don't really agree with "severe lack of training and practice caused deaths". Everyone involved had some degree of backcountry experience - many of them had
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by bencpeters 14y ago
Gun control certainly won't solve everything, but that does not imply that it's not worth doing. You say so yourself - "Sure the number of mass killings with decrease because it won't be as easy". I agree, and that seems like a pretty decen
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by bencpeters 14y ago
The only "serviceable" camera and lack of LTE are deal breakers for me on what otherwise sounds like a pretty awesome phone. I really wish more android phones (especially high end ones) would realize that, after basic phone functionality an
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by bencpeters 14y ago
...but this whole thread was prefaced on room temperature superconductors. Hypothetically at least, this high voltage advantage wouldn't matter if you could have 0 transmission losses with DC at low voltages.
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by bencpeters 14y ago
It's a cool hack, but with 32 bit ARM chips as cheap as they are, I'm a bit skeptical that anyone really wants an 8-bit phone that's "only" a phone when you can get a smartphone for a similar hardware cost. Also, I'm trying to envision the
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by bencpeters 14y ago
I've always had a few questions about the move toward fully automated cars (and I don't mean to raise these as luddite objections, I'm just curious how it will play out, and what steps are being taken to address this) 1)How will manual cars
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by bencpeters 14y ago
No, look at the data more closely. The top 20% numbers are skewed by the fact that the top 1% is included. The real story is the top ~1% pulling away from everyone else, NOT huge gains in the top 20% as a whole (another way to say that is t
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by bencpeters 14y ago
This strikes me as somewhat misguided. As a modern, wealthy society, we shouldn't have to content ourselves by just easing the pain of not being in the 1%. Furthermore, while it's certainly true that the tech revolution has brought about so
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by bencpeters 14y ago
Another important argument against self-correction is the extent to which institutions of government (and by extension regulation) have been captured by the lobbies and proxies for the wealthy. Add to that the fact that one of the only voic
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by bencpeters 14y ago
They aren't, IMO. They don't weigh much more (and seriously what kind of commute do you have that weight matters that much? This isn't the tour de france...) The ride of a decent steel bike is much softer (less harsh) than an aluminum bike.
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by bencpeters 14y ago
We consume more than ever, but does that mean we're richer? (especially in terms of wealth per unit work, given that this generation has vastly more participation of women in the workforce). The fact that we have bigger houses and more cars
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by bencpeters 14y ago
In this case, numerous things in the article seem to imply that Keen was/is working out of the house, and that the author was living with the CEO (and possibly other founders?). Given that, it seems like the most straight-forward way this "
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by bencpeters 14y ago
Agreed. To my mind, this is one of the things that makes it so hard to REALLY achieve artificial intelligence - we don't even know exactly what we're supposed to be creating. It seems to me that CS types who are actually working on AI (as o
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by bencpeters 14y ago
For many classified ads, this is true. However, for most people "location" being defined on a city-wide (or for some rural areas) state-wide basis is nowhere near an effective location filter for apartment/housing. Most people I know have a
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by bencpeters 14y ago
I had a few questions about the actual implementation of this stuff. I took the coursera ML course, so much of the terminology and techniques are familiar after that, but Professor Ng structured the exercises in the course around Matlab/Oct
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by bencpeters 15y ago
I think this is a matter of "our" perspective being different. I also don't have hard stats, but I'd be willing to bet that the average HN reader is much better educated, with many more valuable job skills, and much more entrepreneurial tha
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by bencpeters 15y ago
Definitely makes some sense. I don't know that this is actually a bad thing though. I personally care more about quality (read: relevant) search results than the details of how they are created. If Google is able to use a social network lik
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by bencpeters 15y ago
This kind of thing happens all the time in the scientific instrument market as well. In some cases it's justified - many instruments/sensors have near endless customization options. But much of the time I've been asked to call for a quote e
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by bencpeters 15y ago
I think car-sharing is a hard sell and is going to remain that way for a long time in the majority of this country. With the exception of a few areas (Manhattan, and maybe a few other urban centers on the east and west coasts), most US citi
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by bencpeters 15y ago
It certainly is easier to get a stipend for a PhD in the STEM fields, but that doesn't mean they don't exist outside of it. I have several friends doing PhDs right now in subjects including English and Philosophy who are getting full stipen
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by bencpeters 15y ago
C++ and (unrelated project) starting to play with ruby and rails...
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by bencpeters 15y ago
One thing that I think is quite important to building a good, productive team is personal similarities. The article touched on it, but I think it deserves more emphasis. In my experience, I work far better with people who share my interests

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