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by eykanal 15y ago
lars's comment ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3371968 ) is right on target. I recently finished my PhD in biomedical engineering, and the hot field that everyone wants to go into is what we're calling BMI - Brain-Machine Interfaces
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by eykanal 15y ago
I'm sure you're joking, but unfortunately, not only is that approach wrong, the statement is wrong also. If anyone will lose, it's probably not going to be the law.
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Open letter to Tumblr - Let me use my name(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
2 points by eykanal 15y ago|1 comments
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by eykanal 15y ago
Pretty naive question here, but how large is the difference between base versions (i.e., debian vs. redhat)? I'm not a linux user so I have no experience with this stuff... can you run the same software on each? If this is too broad of a qu
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by eykanal 15y ago
At the risk of completely derailing the discussion, sometimes the UI simply just needs to be learned. People who are unfamiliar with elevators would have no idea how to use one.. there's no instructions anywhere, just a panel with numbers.
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by eykanal 15y ago
I just started working at a 31-story corporate office with sixteen elevators (A-H for 1-15, I-O for 15-31), and the elevators here incorporate a genius move... outside the elevator are little panels with numbers, and you choose the floor yo
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by eykanal 15y ago
I'm curious what Paul Graham and other top VCs think about this. This would be a pretty big shift in how companies expand early on, and it could potentially change the personality of the first employee.
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by eykanal 15y ago
From my experience, this is immensely helpful in dealing with the problem of procrastination, which has come up a lot here on HN. I found it to be most useful in two scenarios: 1) You have a complex problem that will require a complex solut
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by eykanal 15y ago
The techdirt article repeatedly makes reference to seizure laws as they apply to confiscated PROPERTY. Is there legal precedence for the blog to immediately assume that such laws apply to digital domains, where nothing physical was confisca
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by eykanal 15y ago
Kind of funny to have this making front page while the "Don't be a free user" link ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3320931 ) is the top story. What is the business model here?
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by eykanal 15y ago
Unfortunately for them, I closed my PayPal account last night. One too many stories like this for me, thankyouverymuch. If I ever need them again to buy something I'll purchase without logging in, anonymously, like most people do, manually
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by eykanal 15y ago
Their statement actually isn't nearly as bad as you imply. They mention that there was a problem, that they handled it incorrectly, and that they were multiple conflicting factors associated. They even admit at the end (again) that they wer
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by eykanal 15y ago
Paypal may have a point, they may not. Regardless, freezing thousands of dollars on a whim because "they're worried" and then freezing the individual's personal account is just boneheaded. You can't run a bank like that.
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Learn Git progressively(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
5 points by eykanal 15y ago|0 comments
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by eykanal 15y ago
There seem to be two points to this article; (1) CTR is a terrible metric for ad effectiveness, and (2) the web is an extremely rich medium for displaying ads, and there's still potential that has yet to be discovered. I'm not sure why the
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by eykanal 15y ago
What's with all the hate? The author has a lot of valid points. 1) If it's supposed to be the "encyclopedia that anyone can edit", then it should be easy to use. If the "anyone can edit" is marred by insane levels of bureaucracy, making it
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by eykanal 15y ago
This (extremely well-written) document has made the HN front page at least once before. I think this is a testament to how useful this information is for entrepreneurs. I didn't have time to read it in full last time, glad it's back again.
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by eykanal 15y ago
A very good point; what's good for the goose may not be good for the gander, so to speak. I would love to hear an Android developer's take on the usefulness of specs.
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by eykanal 15y ago
A computer is a tool, like a hammer. Have you used different hammers before? There are differences between different brands, and those differences are typically subtle. Computers are similar; they're mostly identical, and the differences be
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by eykanal 15y ago
Your point about over-trivializing is a good one. I had a hard time figuring out what sector to use as an example.
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Coke computer vs. Pepsi computer(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
53 points by eykanal 15y ago|42 comments
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by eykanal 15y ago
This is a good article, but the spec has been dead since the release of the first iPhone. (Maybe earlier, but that was when everyone talked about it.) Apple showed that users don't really care about spec unless everything else looks the sam
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by eykanal 15y ago
Some merchants may use Groupon this way. Others use it the same way that they do any other advertising service; as a technique for getting their foot in the door, so to speak. For those who use this as a way to get fast cash, this article -
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Interviews are all about failing gracefully(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
1 points by eykanal 15y ago|0 comments
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by eykanal 15y ago
I disagree; I think the tl;dr is a combination of (1) Math is hard AND (2) Teaching methods and student support optional are optimized for a minor subset of the student population Point 1 is fixed; for most people, math is hard, and that'
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by eykanal 15y ago
There are two other significant problems here. 1. Job security . Most people seem to appreciate having a steady source of income. For a company to regularly outsource their jobs to the "smartest person" means that all the other "smart bu
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by eykanal 15y ago
I own and have read Pearl's book "Causality", and it does not relate to finance at all. It's a good book otherwise, though.
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How to rob a bank(csoonline.com)
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Marry your clients(alistapart.com)
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Prepare for the inevitable crisis(alistapart.com)
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