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Ask HN: Any siding spring comet livestream?
2 points by blaze33 12y ago|1 comments
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by blaze33 12y ago
Indeed, "ask most Parisians if they’ve heard of it, and they’re likely to shrug and shake their heads", living in Paris, that's simply not true. Still it's kind of "secretive" in the sense that it's reserv
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by blaze33 12y ago
Reminds me of the 4 pests campaign in China, 1958 [1]. "By April 1960, Chinese leaders realized that sparrows ate a large amount of insects, as well as grains. Rather than being increased, rice yields after the campaign were substantia
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by blaze33 12y ago
>That Arianespace, a French rival of SpaceX Well... almost as much as the NASA being a rival of SpaceX, Arianespace being the French/European initiative for space access. Arianespace was founded in 1980 to commercialize the Ariane l
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by blaze33 12y ago
Of course there's going to be conflicts when people have "appropriate" values while their "enemies" have "pervasive" ones.
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by blaze33 12y ago
Not really a default, but under Ubuntu I always setup the system load indicator, sits in the top bar, nice little colored charts of CPU/Mem/Network/IO. After a while you notice when something unusual happens. I used nethogs t
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by blaze33 12y ago
So they want you to contribute as much as an initial founder? Well, then they should give you as much equity as an initial founder, say like 30% and then you'll happily give 4% to extend the option pool. That's the upper bound you
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by blaze33 12y ago
Thanks! Jump to 40' for the "warning the future" chapter: http://youtu.be/y4sqFyCHcbg?t=39m53s
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by blaze33 12y ago
There's a documentary called Into Eternity[1] following the construction of the Onkalo waste repository in Finland which is designed to last 100000 years. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_%28film%29
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by blaze33 12y ago
I'll go for a 10-20 days hike, check the gr5, gr10, gr20 in France. I'll rent a room in a piso compartido in spain for a month, centers of Madrid or Barcelona have an amazing nightlife if you'd like to party, learn some spani
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by blaze33 12y ago
Instead of the linear, multi-active and cyclic times paradigm, another approach I found interesting is the one proposed by Philip Zimbardo neatly presented in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oIiH7BLmg It prese
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by blaze33 13y ago
In France I regularly had non-compete clauses in my employment contracts except here, it has to be specific, limited in time (1 to 2 years max) and you have to be compensated for it (usually 30% of your salary) otherwise it's legally v
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by blaze33 13y ago
I recently discovered vocalid.org thanks to a TED video[1]. They work to provide people having speech impairments with unique synthetic voices thanks to voice donors. According to their process, a voice donor need to read 2-3 hours of text
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by blaze33 13y ago
The wikipedia page of the 1906 earthquake[1] is quite instructive: > Capt. Leonard D. Wildman of the U.S. Army Signal Corps reported that he "was stopped by a fireman who told me that people in that neighborhood were firing their ho
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by blaze33 13y ago
The article doesn't mention that it was an Internet vote with no legal value. > It will be interesting to see what Rome does. Will they send an army to take their tax money? They'll still have to pay there taxes, this is either
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by blaze33 13y ago
Jared Diamond explicitly said that environmental issues aren't always a defining factor in the collapse of human societies. What kind of ideological beliefs are you talking about ?
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by blaze33 13y ago
You may be referencing two different kind of radiations: - the one emitted by the heated matter falling in / spinning around the black hole (the quasar referenced in the article [1]) - the Hawking radiation. Basically a pair of particl
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by blaze33 13y ago
Stephen Fry has an interesting take on the less/fewer debate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY
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Django-compressor needs help(jezdez.com)
2 points by blaze33 13y ago|0 comments
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by blaze33 13y ago
Okay, hipchat --detach works as well ^^
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Show HN: a dockerized Hipchat when you have multiple accounts(github.com)
3 points by blaze33 13y ago|1 comments
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by blaze33 13y ago
What if I send you to http://lvh.me:10000/some/resource/?method=DELETE/ ? edit: ok, it doesn't pass the socket.gethostbyname check
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by blaze33 13y ago
I was also going to suggest mini-maps. I would suggest you look at camptocamp.org, it's run by a french non profit (CC data, also has an english interface) and has a lot of users posting their hikes. It's pretty useful if you want
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by blaze33 13y ago
Just nitpicking over the website: loading the gif took some time... yeah, 18MB, it was a good occasion to test gfycat: http://gfycat.com/OblongSilentAndeancat it could have been reduced to 6MB. Related discussion from 2 wee
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by blaze33 13y ago
Thanks for your detailed answer! I wish you a Happy New Year and good luck with your project, definitely one I'll be following this year.
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by blaze33 13y ago
1. Is there some open protocol for a distributed storage of this kind ? 2. Or a plan to open the space monkey protocol ? À la dotcloud giving us docker. I don't believe you can change "how the world stores data, forever" with
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by blaze33 13y ago
You may also enjoy reading http://procworld.blogspot.fr/ for some interesting posts about procedural terrain, vegetation and architecture generation. I found the visual results are quite impressive.
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by blaze33 13y ago
Today, there's another thread on the front page [1] related to the Google Fiber "no servers" clause. So, be it information or energy I can't help but notice the similarities there. Our networks were essentially designed,
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by blaze33 13y ago
Ubuntu here, tried with LibreOffice, same issue. Had to reupload it to google drive, problem solved: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8MSXu_W6_e4ZE02ZUQ5dU03cXM...
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TaskFlow - A library to complete workflows/tasks in HA manner(github.com)
5 points by blaze33 13y ago|0 comments

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