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by hideo 8y ago
(Not Ben, but - ) outside of academia, the main thing that seems to encourage people to do supervised ML is that it's the only thing that seems to work. I haven't really heard of any success stories with using unsupervised techniq
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by hideo 8y ago
Has anyone on HN bought and/or sold a house on OpenDoor? Do you have thoughts on the experience? (And if you've also bought/sold through the traditional route, how does OpenDoor stack up?)
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by hideo 8y ago
PSA: I'm a fan of static analysis tools but if you are in the position of making decisions about technology at your organization, please be aware that they are NOT a substitute for nuanced and detailed design. In my personal experience
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by hideo 8y ago
I think GP meant COPPA, not COPA https://people.apache.org/~jim/NewArchitect/docs/new10136361...
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by hideo 8y ago
For some reason your comment shows grayed out to me, making me think it's been downvoted. I don't know why this would be downvoted. FWIW I've seen the same behaviors you described in most developing economies where people don
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by hideo 8y ago
I'll miss the Focus RS hot hatch the most. Fords sedan/hatchback line wasn't something that stood out but MAN the RS hot hatch was a brilliant car. With the Subaru WRX STI hatchback gone and the Focus RS gone - is the VW GTI
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by hideo 8y ago
Yeah, I was/am a huge fan of his books. Anathem is just an incredible work of art and deserves every bit of recognition it got if not more. But REAMDE and Seveneves were just terribly disappointing and a huge letdown to me. They both s
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by hideo 12y ago
You might enjoy Vernor Vinge's Zones of Thought series. The recurring protagonist-ish character, Pham Nuwen, decides to become a "programmer archaeologist" - the most lucrative job in the universe and also the job that's
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by hideo 12y ago
I've noticed a few things that seem to differentiate autos and taxis. Perhaps I'm overestimating their importance, and these are definitely just anecdotes and not data, but these might be worth considering: - Relationships. Almost
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by hideo 12y ago
Direct link: http://www.catananytime.com/ Looks OK, I hope this has a better interface than PlayCatan. OTOH PlayCatan is a breeze to play fast once you get used to its peculiarities.
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by hideo 12y ago
I mean I haven't seen releases of libjingle anymore.
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by hideo 12y ago
Also, there's a wonderful open standard called ICE - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_Connectivity_Establ... - that 'properly' encapsulates STUN and TURN into a very effective NAT traversal mecha
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by hideo 13y ago
Maybe this will also answer some of the other questions: 6LoWPAN is not an implementation, it's a term used to describe a suite of open standards maintained by the IETF. The Working group is also called 6LoWPAN, IIRC. The suite primari
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by hideo 13y ago
I was fortunate enough to attend a talk of his organized by the LUG at my alma mater. He was a passionate and engaging speaker with an amazing presentation style. That one talk did more to spread FOSS popularity at my college than a lot of
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by hideo 13y ago
I think this was posted on HN a few months ago: http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/paper.html They ran their own botnet to map the internet, and then discovered other malware already running on insecure home routers.
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On India, one chart at a time(datastories.in)
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by hideo 14y ago
Seconding this recommendation. In addition to being super powerful they have great potential as a research platform.
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by hideo 14y ago
Just a heads up: Your website looks strange on Chromium "24.0.1312.56 Built on Ubuntu 12.10, running on LinuxMint 14" http://i.imgur.com/zXmcCwC.png
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by hideo 14y ago
I think you meant to reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5391963
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by hideo 14y ago
Embedded hackers of the world unite? Everytime u-boot barfed on me or I messed up the serial port I ended up having to scan through screenfulls of ASCII junk scrolling by at full speed to get my commands and results out. The closest I ever
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by hideo 14y ago
offtopic: "Don't play the combative divisiveness game. It's for suckers. It serves the politicians, it doesn't serve you." I wish someone would say this every time people start yelling at each other over political decision.
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by hideo 14y ago
I think there are two opposite angles at play here. A) Some people who make these statements are asking questions from a talent perspective - i.e. "if these guys are good enough to solve hard problems in the US, why can't they put their ski
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by hideo 14y ago
JustFYI, I'm getting an excellent 40fps-70fps. Thinkpad E420 (intel GPU) running 64bit Linux Mint 14 $ uname -a Linux XX 3.5.0-17-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 9 19:31:23 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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by hideo 14y ago
http://www.iheartubuntu.com/2012/11/ppa-for-netflix-desktop-... Just FYI - that should help you with netflix on linux. Worked for me, and I haven't had to boot to Windows in a week ;)
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by hideo 14y ago
The title made no sense, then I read this: LISP: Locator/ID Separation Protocol (essentially a way to separate network location information from user identification information). For a moment before I read that I thought the OpenFlow folks
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by hideo 14y ago
From the article: "the Marvell server SoC is unique in its ability to deliver the low power consumption, high storage and computer density" Does anyone know of any numbers on these? This is pretty much the crux of the reason to switch to AR
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by hideo 14y ago
You may be interested in http://www.mobiperf.com/ . Most of their data is available for research purposes, and there are many researchers who have used this for their tests.
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by hideo 14y ago
I've been trying to get over a slight dip in productivity, and wanted to take something small and finish it. Part of my research needs me to jump through a ton of RFCs, so I made this tool to help me track my own progress a bit. I thought H
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Show HN: A small side project - Visually navigate dependencies between IETF RFCs(srikanthnv.net)
1 points by hideo 14y ago|1 comments
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by hideo 14y ago
This is a trademark, not a patent.

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