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by igul222 13y ago
Ishaan from HackMIT here. Regarding interest, in the past week, we've gotten over 1500 signups –– more than we can handle, to be honest. But there's definitely no lack of interest.
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by igul222 13y ago
Whether you pay to opt out of ads is a function of how much you hate ads and how willing you are to spend money in general. I think the latter factor is more significant.
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by igul222 13y ago
The problem is if Google were to do that, the value of their ads would plummet since the kind of people who would pay to opt out of ads are the same people who would be most likely to pay for things in ads. Not 100% sure but I think this is
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by igul222 13y ago
> Travel times between the US and China, or between Australia and Europe, are now comparable to those of the great age of sail in the 19th century. If this is true, why don't we all just use sailing ships, which require no fuel and
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by igul222 13y ago
I'm not suggesting replacing the second for scientific work-- that would be a mess, I agree. But since it seems the day is already good enough for casual timekeeping, why not replace the non-scientific, imprecise, everyday uses of seco
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by igul222 13y ago
What makes the metric system appealing is that each physical quantity has exactly one "base" unit, and you can make easy conversions– just multiply or divide by 10. The thing about time is, there are two important 'natural&#x
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by igul222 13y ago
Has any hacky workaround like this ever held up in a court?
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by igul222 13y ago
How's this? git clone https://github.com/whatever; heroku create; git push heroku master
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by igul222 13y ago
The problem with this and most similar projects is that I probably don't want all of these defaults, and I don't have time to look through each one. In fact, on average, these defaults are probably worse than OS X's default defaults. If som
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Why I Left Finance(medium.com)
4 points by igul222 13y ago|1 comments
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by igul222 13y ago
Does anyone know what algorithm this CP implementation is using behind the scenes? I'd be a lot more impressed if it were using dynamic programming than plain brute force.
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by igul222 13y ago
There's a big difference between corporate hackathons and collegiate hackathons, I think. The former are exploitative and weird; the latter are inspiring and awesome. (I organize HackMIT, our big hackathon)
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Hackers At(hackersat.tk)
2 points by igul222 13y ago|0 comments
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by igul222 13y ago
I disagree. Google's recent efforts to narrow its focus (i.e. Google+, killing Reader) have been miserable failures. Being able to do 50 things at once, on the other hand, lets them come up with truly groundbreaking things like Glass and th
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by igul222 13y ago
Question: if jQuery 2.0 only cares about modern browsers, can't they drastically improve performance by using these equivalent native functions behind the scenes?
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by igul222 13y ago
Could somebody explain what I'm listening to?
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by igul222 13y ago
I don't get the point. If you trust them, isn't it okay to reveal your identity to The New Yorker anyway since they're legally protected from being compelled to reveal your identity? And if you don't trust them, why should you trust that th
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by igul222 13y ago
It's software that lets you mount Dropbox as if it were a network drive. It's advantageous to just Dropbox because it doesn't consume disk space. It doesn't have a cloud component; it uses the Dropbox API to interface with Dropbox's servers
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by igul222 13y ago
Meteor is one vision for the future of CRUD applications, I think.
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by igul222 13y ago
Not exactly. D-Wave quantum computers (like the one in the article) use "adiabatic quantum computing", which is more limited than normal quantum computing (it can't run every quantum algorithm). We're still a little ways off from breaking R
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by igul222 13y ago
There isn't much point, but that's perfectly fine. It's interesting just to know that it can be done, and it's a fun hack.
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by igul222 13y ago
True, they have a bigger talent funnel than smaller companies, but don't forget that they also need far more new hires than smaller companies. I wonder which factor dominates.
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by igul222 13y ago
The problem is that poking around under the hood shouldn't be necessary. If the sprinkler system worked well enough without ever needing to open the hood, then everything's fine. But it looks like that's not the case.
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by igul222 13y ago
Pieceable was acquihired by Instagram, dude. They're probably not relevant to Facebook's mobile strategy any more.
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by igul222 13y ago
Hackathons are also like gyms in that too much of them results in injury. Be careful not to get too carried away, folks. Last semester, I went to around a dozen hackathons. I had a lot of fun and made some great connections, but I don't thi
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by igul222 13y ago
The post is about hackathons, but I'd argue that all of these reasons apply to hacking in general. Of course, that makes it a much less controversial thesis (this is Hacker News, after all), but it raises the question: what's the value of h
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by igul222 13y ago
As of 6pm PST, nothing.
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by igul222 13y ago
I don't understand why water is such a scarce resource: the price of water will never increase past the cost of desalinizing seawater with energy from, say, solar panels.
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by igul222 14y ago
Common misconception: Google Glass does not augment your entire field of view, as this article implies. It only occupies the top right corner of it, and looking there for more than a few seconds at a time hurts your eyes. So no, Glass isn
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by igul222 14y ago
Mining bitcoin on a CPU these days is like digging for gold with a garden shovel. Once upon a time it may have worked, but today it's basically useless (even if you do it on a million computers at once).

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