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by hliyan 12y ago
Rather than releasing hormones into the entire bloodstream, isn't it possible to implant this closer to the reproductive system so that it can affect ovulation more directly? With the right sensors, it might even be possible to detect
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by hliyan 12y ago
An incredible amount of knowledge was 'lost' in the period between the Golden Age of Greece and the Dark Ages, including the ideas of spherical Earth and heliocentricity. Also, if Earth were to take a direct hit from a large coron
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by hliyan 12y ago
Last month attempted to integrate it into a product that needed something in between local storage and IndexedDB. All the fallbacks worked perfectly. But the lack of an index (and therefore the inability to do bulk reads) was a deal-breaker
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by hliyan 12y ago
There is another possibility we should consider: a society that has retained the capacity to operate and maintain technology, but not create or understand it. We seem to be increasingly moving toward such an era -- I don't have numbers
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by hliyan 12y ago
If the symbols are the problem, why not discard them entirely and demonstrate the actual danger in increments? What if we create concentric rings of gradually lower levels of radiation around the site? The closer you approach, the more you
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by hliyan 12y ago
I was initially worried when the headline said "psychiatric" research, but was pleasantly surprised when I read the article and found out that what they really meant was neuro-biology and its genetic origins, not study of patient
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by hliyan 12y ago
That won't help here. You cannot "undo" a workstation reset, or any other action that results in a state propagation.
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by hliyan 12y ago
I believe you're right!
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by hliyan 12y ago
I've reduced it to a series of equations: Happiness = Perceived Actual Life / Expected Life --- (1) where, Perceived Actual Life = Perception * Actual Life ----- (2) and in most cases, Expected Life ∝ Perceived
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by hliyan 12y ago
According to the original 2010 announcement (1), that's exactly why the phenomenon went unexploited for so long: “Most people, when they saw this effect, would say, ‘Oh, we had silicon-oxide breakdown,’ and they throw it out,... It was
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Micro-disassembly of a DVD player(hnleanage.blogspot.com)
4 points by hliyan 12y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 12y ago
This is great! Although if your goal is to make this more approachable, may I suggest that you include a diagram in your documentation, explaining how the layers look and how they are interconnected? I studied ANNs in university, but after
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by hliyan 12y ago
Seems "Magpie" is a common name for Git-related projects: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7378345
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by hliyan 12y ago
The office depicted in this article looks almost exactly like the office I used to work in before I moved to a smaller place a year ago. It was a nightmare for those who are sometimes loosely (and perhaps erroneously) categorized as type-A
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by hliyan 13y ago
I can attest to this, having gone through pretty much the same cycle of apps and wikis. Finally settled on plain text files with cloud sync. Except I use a bit of YAML to give the material some structure. But I use this to write down things
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by hliyan 13y ago
Sounds remarkably like this explanation: http://zen.lk/2013/11/28/how-i-finally-understood-bitcoin/ Disclosure: I wrote this last year.
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by hliyan 13y ago
Author here. All feedback welcome (including negative). Although there may be bit of a lull in replies because of my timezone. Google App Script developers might find this bit interesting: http://hliyan.github.io/magpie&#x2F
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Show HN: Magpie – A Github project management app using Google App Script(hliyan.github.io)
2 points by hliyan 13y ago|1 comments