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Goldee Smart Light Controller(getgoldee.com)
1 points by ible 13y ago|0 comments
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Smarter traffic lights win global recognition for U of T grad(news.utoronto.ca)
4 points by ible 13y ago|0 comments
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Linearity(scripting.com)
2 points by ible 13y ago|0 comments
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NanoLight - the world's most energy efficient light bulb(kickstarter.com)
2 points by ible 14y ago|0 comments
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by ible 14y ago
We judge and punish actions by their consequences. We give some consideration to how likely the consequences were, and some to how socially acceptable the actions were. Examples abound, including drunk or dangerous driving, getting in a fis
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Cutting their own throats(antipope.org)
131 points by ible 15y ago|68 comments
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by ible 15y ago
I had a project/startup working on dealing with link rot for a while. It would not just tell you a link was 404ing, but recognize when the content of the page had changed significantly and let you know. The fun part was to automatically rec
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by ible 16y ago
That's funny, but I'm not sure it's true. Your first link seems to say (it's worded awkwardly) that Japanese women in the US have a 84.5 year life expectancy. This isn't quite as high as the 85.66 life expectancy Japanese women have in Japa
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by ible 16y ago
Measurably worse than the rest of the G8, according to your source ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Canada ) at least on life expectancy, infant mortality, per capita expenditure, costs as % of GDP, and % of government revenue
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by ible 16y ago
I've been seeing similar comments to this around recently and I've been trying to identify the argument behind it. My best effort is something like: 1) Businesses will act in their economic self-interest to capture regulations/regulators. T
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by ible 16y ago
"Go with the flow" - it's ok for being friendly, but crap for making the life you want to live "Run away from a fight" - A knife fight sure, but in grade school and in metaphor it's pretty bad advice. "Smart is sufficient" - it's not even n
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Eric Fischer maps the top 40 US cities by race, using 2000 census data(pricetags.wordpress.com)
23 points by ible 16y ago|5 comments
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by ible 16y ago
Java developers, business analysts - Vancouver, Canada Elastic Path Software - A bootstrapped Vancouver company which makes eCommerce software for BIG companies. We're growing like mad and need smart, experienced Java devs. We don't do tele
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by ible 16y ago
He also takes the "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place." quote out of context, as so many did at the time. Schmidt was pointing out that the government can demand acce
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by ible 16y ago
Check out padmapper.com does a nice maps mashup of craigslist plus other sources. May still not work if the data in your city is too poor, but works great for me.
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by ible 17y ago
I suspect that in many, especially larger, organizations excellent people need to hop to advance. Think about how co-workers and bosses react to a junior employee who quickly outstrips more experienced colleagues. Promoting someone junior r
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by ible 17y ago
Kind of aside the main discussion, but the Canada line was approved at 1.35 billion, cost 1.9 billion, and had it's scope significantly reduced in order to manage that. It being a p3 allowed hiding 'competitive' information such as cheaper
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by ible 17y ago
I'd love to have most of the things you mention, and some are on their way such self driving cars but there is lots of interesting work out there How about - pranav mistry's sixth sense project - bio printers creating organs with ink jets
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by ible 17y ago
I find the type of salaries discussed here downright surreal. I live in Vancouver, BC which has some of the best 'quality of life' according to various random surveys. This translates into an median annual FAMILY income of ~$60k CAD and a m
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by ible 17y ago
Causation, Prediction, and Search by Spirtes and Glymour is much more accessible than Pearl's Causality, and they cover a lot of similar material. Video lectures has a workshop from NIPS '08 with talks by Pearl, Spirtes, et al at http://vi
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by ible 17y ago
I think the implication was that having any human drivers on the roads negates a lot of the potential benefits and safety provided by robotic cars. The drivers don't have to be bad to be worse than a robot. Driving a car yourself might go t
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by ible 18y ago
S3 for data backups, storage. Bunch of EC2 instances with EBS for crunching data and running web crawler.
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by ible 18y ago
I think you'll find two major problems with a blackboard competitor. 1. Low value of products to users Blackboard, WebCT, and other similar 'Learning Management Systems' are products of a standard response to new technology in an establishe
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by ible 18y ago
While corruption and error are certainly major factors in privacy, there are some things that are just private. I don't want people, even people I know and trust completely, to know about the details of my sex life. Not because my sex life
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by ible 18y ago
The author spends much of the article quoting things which are relatively innocuous, then claiming they mean something far more extreme, and far more easy to attack, than the original. A rather disappointing bit of intellectual dishonesty f
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by ible 18y ago
I think there is a more positive side to this in software than in other forms of automation because software has massively lower capital costs than robotically automating a manufacturing plant. Simplistically, when it requires a large amoun
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by ible 18y ago
Lying politicians. I want all video of politicians to come with live fact checking, comparison against previous statements, and colour coding of statements for truth values. The comedy shows do it a bit, like The Daily Show's penchant for h
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by ible 18y ago
The perceptions of the customer makes a huge difference. A friend works at software company which sells software to corporate and government clients. Their pricing varies from $50,000 to $300,000 with the size and type of the organization t
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by ible 18y ago
One tactic I use is to consider things which are 1000 times better than something which already exists. You don't have to invent something completely new, if you make something 1000 times better its uses will change in transformational ways
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by ible 18y ago
I've been excited by the possibility of in wheel motors ever since I first heard of them because of the combination of simplicity of the motor, and the massive simplification of mechanical systems of a car. You no longer need all the bits w

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