ghoul2

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Gmail (finally) the worlds largest webmail provider(gigaom.com)
2 points by ghoul2 14y ago|0 comments
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An integrated map of genetic variation from 1,092 human genomes(nature.com)
1 points by ghoul2 14y ago|0 comments
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by ghoul2 14y ago
It seems clear enough. Quote from the article: What about tablets? No dice. The Librarian "found significant merit to the opposition’s concerns that this aspect of the proposed class was broad and ill-defined, as a wide range of devices mig
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by ghoul2 14y ago
I'd say more likely its equivalent to particle filters. Mold probably shoots spores all around the petri dish, and the spores that have better access to nutrients grow more, thus putting out larger proportion of spores in the next generatio
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by ghoul2 14y ago
links please?
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by ghoul2 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3766484 Similar experience from a while back. At that time, this problem only manifested on the India side.
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by ghoul2 14y ago
Not entirely correct, its slightly more complicated than that. Say you write an short story. And you file a copyright for it with the copyright office. Now, an anthology editor reads your story and wishes to include it in a collection of sh
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by ghoul2 14y ago
I have found quite a few people recommend this, and never understood the point - if all you want is a "cloud" backup of your opaque data, simply use tarsnap. cheap, easy, brilliant piece of engineering. Or heck, use backblaze with their unl
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by ghoul2 15y ago
1. Its not simply about they not being able to "do anything" to my account. Its the linkage. Maybe I use my real name on twitter, and I do not wish to use it with the service I am trying out (or the otherway round). The linkage extends even
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by ghoul2 15y ago
These are all really just UX-focussed _improvements_ to make it easier for a user to fill out forms. From a _users_ perspective - well, at least my personal perspective - the reasons are a lot different: 1. I am not convinced you need the i
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by ghoul2 15y ago
I had read this in the dead-tree version of the Indian Financial Daily, Mint ( http://www.livemint.com ) a couple weeks back. http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-04-07/news... refers to a report from Nasscom (an Indian sof
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by ghoul2 15y ago
continued: After this, the HR exec comes in, hands me a google t-shirt, tells me there is a taxi waiting to take me to my hotel. I go out, find the taxi, ask him if he could take me to the airport instead, he says he can't as he is only all
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by ghoul2 15y ago
As an Indian, who lived in the US for a while and now back in India, this isn't surprising at all. For a foreigner who deals with working systems mostly, I can see how this is hair-tearingly painful, and it was for me when I returned for th
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by ghoul2 15y ago
profit when unfit is not $270 - $150 - $150, its simply -$150. When the basket is unfit for sale, it goes unsold. Which means the man is out $150 (as it says in the question). The $270, sale price, does not even enter the picture as the bas
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by ghoul2 15y ago
find the store_types such that at least one store of that type exists in at least one city? this is probably nerd sniping :(
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by ghoul2 15y ago
is there any way to get these to download on Ubuntu?
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Tell HN: Midway review of Stanford online ML, AI, DB classes
15 points by ghoul2 15y ago|4 comments
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by ghoul2 15y ago
Very well put. Could not have said it better. Well, except the "Because Stallman said so, that’s why." And now, ffs, lets stop this love/hate fest about RMS. Enough. Al you Steve Jobs fetishists - you guys too! Just enough.
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by ghoul2 15y ago
True. Though thats not a generic storage service in the sense of S3 or Google Storage. Some also think its a "trojan" to detect pirated media :-) On that note: I could not find any real detail about this - do they encrypt your files? what k
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by ghoul2 15y ago
The blog post provides some fascinating data, thanks Backblaze! $2100 per month for an entire rack worth of Pods (space, power, connectivity) $74,000 is the cost to build 10 Pods to fill that rack. If the Pods are assumed to have a lifetime
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by ghoul2 16y ago
I hav every little (greater than zero) hands-on experience with it. The thing about such options is that it makes everything very theoretical. They do not deal with device "geometries", device specific hacks, Fmax targets etc. They might as
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by ghoul2 16y ago
Don't buy a board yet. Grab a hold of a copy of Xilinx ISE (I think there are student editions out there as well). Learn verilog/vhdl a bit. If you do not have a digital logic background, first spend a bit of time getting comfortable with t
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by ghoul2 16y ago
I am very interested. Especially about mass production costs, information about contract manufacturers/design firms for NFC components/designs friendly to startups, tech challenges in noisy (as in EM noise) and crowded (as in dozens/hundred
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by ghoul2 16y ago
Well, it depends on what exactly your design entails. Some hardware devices can be prototyped on pre-built development boards/platforms typically made available by the core chip manufacturer. If you need to build a demo to raise money, this
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by ghoul2 16y ago
the others are even easier than these. I think if you are really trying to get back into math you should not lose patience so easily and spend a bit more time trying, and don't ask for help even if it takes many days to get these questions
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by ghoul2 16y ago
heh, come to think of it, so is the first one: it is given that log((a-b)/4) = log sqrta + log sqrtb, thus (a-b)/4 = sqrt(ab), thus, ((a-b)/4)^2 = ab, thus, (a-b)^2 = 16ab, thus a^2 - 2ab + b^2 = 16ab. Adding 4ab to both sides, a^2 + 2ab +
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by ghoul2 16y ago
the second one is easy: it is given that X^2+Y^2=8XY, thus, X^2+Y^2+2XY=10XY (i.e, added 2XY to both sides) thus, (X+Y)^2 = 10XY. Taking log of both sides: 2 log (X+Y) = log 10 + log X + log Y = log 5 + log 2 + log X + log Y