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by dskhatri 17y ago
I'm a big fan of hacker labs/collectives like Saul's Squid Labs. Here are some others I know of: Squid Labs (Bay Area): http://www.squid-labs.com/ Applied Minds (LA): http://www.appliedminds.com/ Syyn Labs (LA): http://syynlabs.com/ N
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Catchy app name! Some suggestions: - The "Start Building Stuff" menu is too wide (1/3 of the page width). When a user selects to build a contact form or a slideshow, you could hide this menu or offer a smaller menu instead. - I signed in bu
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NASA Embraces American Capitalism and Entrepreneurship(huffingtonpost.com)
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Here's a presentation to Congress by Molycorp, the company referenced in the article as the owner of the Californian mine (the largest rare-earth metal mine outside China): http://www.molycorp.com/pdf/MMCEMARCH09.pdf Two observations from
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by dskhatri 17y ago
The NYTimes piece linked to in this article is a shorter read, although it focuses on the environmental impact of mining the rare-earth metals : http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/business/global/26rare.htm...
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The Battle Over Rare Earth Metals(ensec.org)
32 points by dskhatri 17y ago|11 comments
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I noticed that response to an article varies predictably over time. The best time to submit an article to HN seems to be weekday mornings PST.
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Tuition-free University Gains a Following(businessweek.com)
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In the introduction note, Bill says: "I take a lot of notes, and often share them and my own thoughts on the subject with others through email" Besides email (which isn't that great if you don't have GMail style threads), I wonder whether h
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by dskhatri 17y ago
Just confirming.. built with Microsoft technology :) http://builtwith.com/?http%3A//www.thegatesnotes.com/
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Could you please elaborate? I'm sure a lot of hackers who give to the RedCross would be interested to understand your reasons so that they can make better decisions about donating to relief funds in the future.
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I actually like the animated links on Google.cn's page. How well would that type of search page fly in the US? I know Japanese media (news, weather, adverts) tend to use a lot of bright colors and cartoon like characters.
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Thanks
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".. in other markets maybe even a gain" Google may lose out in other markets as well. Authoritarian governments will become weary of Google even more now.
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Google handles 29% of searches in China (vs. Baidu's 62%) [1] Thanks to javed for the reference. [1] http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100112/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_googl...
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This is a huge development. I was just discussing this with friends by email (we should be using Wave) and realized the move, although incredibly noble, could be even more detrimental economically to Google's growth outside the US. Totalita
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It is a controversial statement but it would make sense if he elaborated further. One of my first memorable experiences starting out at college was walking into a computer cluster and finding that every machine ran a variant of Red Hat's Li
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How To Become A Hacker(catb.org)
70 points by dskhatri 17y ago|28 comments
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Unfortunately, I have seen these status-hacking methods work outside the improv/acting world. In a large company, the smarter but quiet and submissive employee will lose out to the obnoxious, high-sounding more social one. In social circles
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"Emergent" Images to Outwit Spambots(technologyreview.com)
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I have been a light Emacs user for a few years now. I was so thrilled about discovering Org-Mode through an HN post [1], I went out looking for other cool Emacs hacks and found this Stackoveflow thread that has a number of them. Generally,
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Useful Emacs Hacks(stackoverflow.com)
4 points by dskhatri 17y ago|1 comments
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The descriptions are on the right..
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Home energy monitors(news.cnet.com)
4 points by dskhatri 17y ago|2 comments
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Thank you for this detailed writeup. It's one of those gems that you find on HN every now and then that makes you appreciate this community all the more.
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Where are you getting the $300 figure from? Also, elsewhere in this discussion you say "Yet the iPhone costs more than twice that" (ie >$400, [1]). iSuppli estimates the cost to be $180 including manufacturing and "other" parts[2]. This
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Something like ladyada's Tweet-a-Watt? ( http://www.ladyada.net/make/tweetawatt/ ). Device level monitoring makes so much more sense! Especially when a utility provides variable pricing for the electricity. For example, an monitoring unit b
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by dskhatri 17y ago
Okay, I can see Wattvision being a useful tool for educating the consumer. I like that they also allow you to look at other households power consumption data. Someday it could lead to a conversation like: John: Hey neighbor! Jill: Hey John.
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Yes, but that's not suprising, and not something you need Wattvision to tell you. An iron, a toaster, an electric kettle all consume a lot of power, but you only use these items for a short period of time. A smarter device would be more loc
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I'm honestly really surprised (and a little appalled) at the number of upvotes your comment has received. There's a mob-like response whenever a story comes up about MA or TechCrunch. As far as I can tell, Fusion Garage's response (from thi

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