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by frisco 13y ago
Just to clarify, I followed up "you can have people who are bad at science but are good at fundraising in public," with "and you can have people with very good science who are bad at fundraising," and I think you probabl
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by frisco 13y ago
Actually, most aeronautical charts use the Lambert Conformal Conic Projection. I'd guess that the reason it looks straight on flight aware is just that the distances are relatively small.
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Online Video Game Plugs Players Into Real Biochemistry Lab(news.sciencemag.org)
1 points by frisco 13y ago|0 comments
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by frisco 13y ago
Potentially, but not for this role. A startup isn't a place to learn, unfortunately; it's a place to execute on the skills you already know cold. However, do we have one opening for a PhD-level staff scientist that we could cons
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by frisco 13y ago
Transcriptic: Full-stack developer (emphasis on frontend) Menlo Park, CA Transcriptic is "Amazon Web Services" for the life sciences. Rather than carry out wet-lab experiments by hand, researchers can code up (or visually configur
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by frisco 13y ago
Cool, I will check it out. Congratulations on shipping! While it seems like most of HN believes Glass's aesthetics to be garish and unwieldy, they are futuristic and I think that's a positive thing. Some day we might do better
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by frisco 13y ago
I have Glass. I wore it for about a week when I first got it and then stopped; while cool, it's not very useful. It struck me that it's more of a status symbol right now than a legitimately useful device. I've changed my mi
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by frisco 13y ago
I personally like the theory that Satoshi is Nick Szabo and Hal Finney, with maybe one other. Nick Szabo was way ahead of the curve on the design of a proof-of-work based cryptocurrency. When Dan Kaminsky looked at the Bitcoin source earl
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Inside the secret robot lab that's shaking up science(theverge.com)
15 points by frisco 13y ago|0 comments
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by frisco 13y ago
I guess I'm not asking about the implied cap from the future conversion into preferred, but the EV stemming from the mere ownership of, say, a million dollars by the company. We use restricted stock that vests by lapsing a right to re
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by frisco 13y ago
What does this imply about the valuation of the company from an employee stock plan perspective? One of the nice things about convertible debt is that the investment is offset by an equal liability, providing a reasonable justification fo
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by frisco 13y ago
> I must have overfit You did overfit.
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by frisco 13y ago
Externalizing the cost onto the visitor could allow you to drive the costs past the cost of power and be ok, making it uneconomical for the GPU farm who pays their own way. I don't know how ASICs fit into this, but I see a bunch of
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by frisco 13y ago
That's actually a very interesting use of Bitcoin: post-advertising monetization. Eyeballs are directly monetizable by mining, which of course continues even after all BTC has been "mined" via transaction fees. I've be
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by frisco 13y ago
I don't think that a robot like Tempo Automation's is the issue. We have low cost cncs and pick-n-place machines, and more importantly places like sierra circuits. The harder problem is, like ChuckMcM described it, an easy to use
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by frisco 13y ago
You can use PCR to check for the presence of viral DNA or RNA (the "viral load"). It's a direct test for the virus and is relatively cheap.
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by frisco 13y ago
I saw an article about this a little while ago. If anywhere in the world could support a wide scale mesh network, it would have to be the Bay Area. It would be a really cool experiment to blanket a part of the Valley in mesh wifi: I imagi
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by frisco 13y ago
What a silly article. PageRank is based on eigenvector centrality[1], which is one of a number of well-understood centrality measures that have been around for a long time. Google's innovation was noticing the importance of the link
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by frisco 13y ago
> Very few companies can purchase anything in that type of system. Our customers are not individuals but organizations that have more complex requirements, i.e. approval chains, inspections, contract negotiations, etc. All of the major a
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by frisco 13y ago
I don't think that's true. eBay is ridiculously overpriced compared to DoveBid. I've gotten things on DoveBid that would have been 10x more expensive on eBay. Also DoveBid provides other services, holding inventory and ope
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by frisco 13y ago
I'm a huge user of stuff like this... There are definitely big opportunities in this market. It's not sexy, but it's really valuable. One thing that's not clear is how Asseta is better than DoveBid or Equipnet. All the
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by frisco 13y ago
As a very frequent flier, I want more power tools, not prettier interfaces. When I had the status on Delta, I ended up booking most of my tickets through the Diamond Desk simply because they had tools that let us much more efficiently sear
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by frisco 13y ago
You should reconsider. GPLv3 has much stricter "copyleft" requirements that make it difficult to use GPLv3 code with code under less radical licenses.
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by frisco 13y ago
That's such a weird request. What, Portugal or France were going to shoot down the Bolivian president's plane if it didn't comply? Yeah, ok. I find it odd that this was demanded, and also odd that it then happened. Anyone h
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by frisco 13y ago
Congratulations Jayant and Adam!
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by frisco 13y ago
I've been thinking this for a while and have really come to believe it recently, but I'd be amazed if the NSA didn't have quantum computing down, either at scale or about to get there. Historically they've been, and sim
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by frisco 13y ago
I'm interested to see how the Tea Party deals with these issues. It could be a huge opportunity for them... As crazy as they are, if they take up the mantle of getting government out of peoples' personal lives, it could propel the
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by frisco 13y ago
Switzerland is a direct democracy.
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by frisco 13y ago
I can't update my original post now, but I stand corrected. I "remembered" uploading the private key with the CSR last time I went through the process, but must have misremembered. Well, that's some good news I guess
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Computer Security(maxhodak.com)
1 points by frisco 13y ago|0 comments

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