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by frisco 16y ago
What is this implemented in?
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by frisco 16y ago
Why is this dropping off the frontpage so fast? It's way uncharacteristically down. Is there some kind of hidden penalty at play? It's not spam, and has 50 points in 53 minutes, losing to posts with way less than that...
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by frisco 16y ago
I'm sorry, but Fabricly isn't "radical innovation". Radical innovation in the sense we understand it right now, as espoused by Peter Thiel and company, means taking the focus off of social shopping and the rest of all the crap that does
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by frisco 16y ago
That's kind of part of it though. It's a living, working institution. The best work is going on now. It's not a museum that people come and visit for historical purposes. Normally when something becomes a tourist attraction it's well pa
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by frisco 16y ago
Relevant: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
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by frisco 16y ago
In fact, they're supposedly the single largest user of S3 by data stored.
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by frisco 16y ago
Deep-brain stimulation is different than cortical microstimulation. DBS is injected into the basal ganglia and excites an area of the brain that's effectively atrophied. This can be done relatively safely for things like Parkinsons, even
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by frisco 16y ago
So I totally want this to actually happen. However, they gloss over all of the actually hard parts. Cool, DEKA's built a sweet anthropomorphic robotic arm. I have no doubt that part works. But you don't just jump to running a human stu
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by frisco 16y ago
I wouldn't want to work in Zappos's office. It just doesn't look appealing to me at all. On the other hand, the 37s offices feel cool . The Zappos offices are Office Space-like cubicles covered in random crap. The 37s offices send a ve
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by frisco 16y ago
Tor should raise a fund to host a series of $10-20k prizes for deanonymizing Tor users. That would drive a huge amount of attention to the code and build credibility over the long term as prizes are awarded increasingly rarely.
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by frisco 16y ago
A head crash (assuming that's what you're describing when you say, "the head was scraping the platters") is good example of "it's always recoverable with enough money". For example, if you're really willing to spend money, there are spec
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by frisco 16y ago
There are a few banks whose business is specifically startups; the two most well-known are Silicon Valley Bank ("SVB") and Square One. I'd start a relationship with them and deposit there if I were you. I've personally worked with Square O
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by frisco 16y ago
Is this a "real" subdomain or a userpage? Oddly, the user "cloud" doesn't seem to have a cloud.github.com repository.
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by frisco 16y ago
http://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/account/index....
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by frisco 16y ago
See: Halliburton's Patent Trolling Patent http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Se...
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by frisco 16y ago
Every time I read one of these articles I wonder, "who is Gruber?" Not in the, "who is this hack?" sense, but in that there must be more in his relationship with Apple than is immediately apparent. He's very much Apple's style, continua
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by frisco 16y ago
Evidence to support this claim? Facebook has around 600 million active users today, giving them several billion more prospects. Their core product, the graph of human relationships, might very well be the single most valuable business pro
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Ask HN: If I go to Old Pro and buy a few pitchers, how many HNers will show up?
6 points by frisco 16y ago|1 comments
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by frisco 16y ago
Same: PHP 5.3.2 (cli) (built: Aug 7 2010 00:04:41) Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies Mac / Snow Leopard
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by frisco 16y ago
>> Will you help us set up something like [WikiLeaks] in our town? >> There already is a WikiLeaks in your town: WikiLeaks. The corruption exposure business is [global], not regional. It's often forgotten that WikiLeaks isn'
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by frisco 16y ago
The Barnes and Noble I used to go to all the time in Manhattan will be closing January 3rd. It's really sad. The economics are fairly straightforward: physical stores cannot compete with the internet for goods sold. However, I'd only b
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by frisco 16y ago
This will give you an upper-bound, which is the worst case. You're right that you'll end up not giving the students as much as they "should" have, but its still infinitely better than just truncating it without warning.
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by frisco 16y ago
char_lengths_in_px = {"a": 9, "b": 7, "c": 8, ... } px_per_line = 768 current_length = reduce(lambda x,y: y+char_lengths_in_px[x], my_text, 0) space_left = (px_per_line*num_lines)-current_length FTFY
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by frisco 16y ago
Do you really regularly visit billions of sites?
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by frisco 16y ago
Bruce Schneier isn't some random academic. He's extremely highly respected, and is the Chief Security Technology Officer of BT Communications. He has tons of experience with securing systems in the real world, and to say he "obviously [
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by frisco 16y ago
Fine, substitute "Apple" for "Google" in my post. My point remains.
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by frisco 16y ago
The only thing I noticed is that it translates the text to all caps, and the slides were all caps, so you didn't notice anything in the video. But that's really not material; to obsess over that is missing the point that it translates text
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by frisco 16y ago
Did you watch the video? Apparently it's all client-side.
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by frisco 16y ago
These guys are going to have some hard decisions to make in the next few months. This has such incredible potential I'd be really sad to see it get bought and languish as a side-feature at Google. Run as a business, rather than a free tec
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"Invisibility cloak" can shield macroscopic objects in visible light(nature.com)
40 points by frisco 16y ago|9 comments

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