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by jbay808 6y ago
If you wanted to read an article about Pinterest, it would probably be hard to search for it in any other way.
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by jbay808 6y ago
5 years is plenty of time for patenting some clever software trick that took a minute to think up and a week to implement (eg. minigames in loading screens). But some inventions take years or even decades of research (eg in materials scienc
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by jbay808 6y ago
How common is it across species that males are larger? It's definitely not universal.
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by jbay808 6y ago
This is great, but I wish there were a broader library that went beyond special functions. For example, last year I was doing some statistical modelling and ended up with a complicated integral that yielded to analysis much more easily than
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by jbay808 6y ago
Yes, this must be it. Real-world UI design aims to be as easily understandable and usable as possible, even if it falls short. In movies, they want to convey that the hackers/astronauts/super heros have deep expertise. It would be
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by jbay808 6y ago
I see this all the time now. My Kitchenaid kettle has a similar "designed in X" note on it. To me that kind of messaging just exudes arrogance.
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by jbay808 6y ago
Even Daiso has tons of made-in-Japan dollar store goods of superb quality.
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by jbay808 6y ago
Send them a $4000 bill for your time!
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by jbay808 6y ago
Some time around 2009 I met Enrique, the author of Skeinforge, a popular and extremely feature-rich software suite for slicing 3D models into 3D printer G-code. He said his dream wanted to someday 3D print a boat. I thought that was far-fet
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by jbay808 6y ago
It's certainly one of the reasons. (There are also others, like building a good reputation to help attract and retain talent). For example, in 2009, in the world of physics engines, Havok (acquired by Intel) and PhysX (owned by Nvidia)
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by jbay808 6y ago
Perhaps, but once you've been falsely accused of something and have no alibi to clear your name, it will probably reshape for the rest of your life how you make decisions on such evidence.
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by jbay808 6y ago
Were the options already vested at that point?
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by jbay808 6y ago
It would be nice if you could just pay the government a percentage of the shares themselves as a tax, rather than a percentage of a guessed-at illiquid value. I'm sure the government would have a lot more paperwork to do holding onto a
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by jbay808 6y ago
Is this in any way related to this earlier HN submission about Sony's patent on curved sensors? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25113755
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by jbay808 6y ago
Proposition 13, mentioned by a sibling comment.
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by jbay808 6y ago
That's a very interesting proposal, but I wonder how it would work out in practice. As all eggs have one X chromosome, that effectively creates a system three sexes: Female, Male (X-gamete predisposition) and Male (Y-gamete predisposit
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by jbay808 6y ago
I think the GP's question is not so much "where does it start", as "where does it end".
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by jbay808 6y ago
From the evolutionary perspective you "should" have about as many sons as daughters, which is why you do.
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by jbay808 6y ago
Right; so we seem to agree entirely that the entropy is relative to the attacker's generator.
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by jbay808 6y ago
That seems backwards to me. The entropy should be relative to how the password is guessed, not how it was generated. It doesn't make any difference to the attacker if I pick "bluecheese" out of a dictionary or as a result of
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by jbay808 6y ago
When I visited Japan I was astounded by the high price for animation. I naively expected that buying from the source would be cheaper but... think 5000~7000 JPY for one DVD disc of a seven disc series. For DVD at least, Japan is region 2 (s
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by jbay808 6y ago
Yes definitely; it comes from the four motor whines all slightly out of tune with each other. It's a very annoying and alien sound.
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by jbay808 6y ago
If you want to put them towards better ends, donations are tax free.
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by jbay808 6y ago
Some Japanese people I speak with who work in the marine industry believe that whales are a major threat to fish stocks and are gobbling up all the fish so that not enough is left for humans. I don't believe that's true and make a
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by jbay808 6y ago
I'd be more worried about the mercury that's already there
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by jbay808 6y ago
Ah, yeah the hardware probably won't still be running in 2107, but will be running in 2040. Of course, if New York's subway controls are anything to go by, 2107 is pretty reasonable.
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by jbay808 6y ago
I wonder how many transit systems worldwide are running on DOS right now?
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by jbay808 6y ago
That's especially a shame, because log2 of a floating point value is particularly easy to calculate, and most math libraries will internally calculate logs of other based (like ln) by finding the equivalent log2 first and then converti
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I remember first learning about it in elementary school in ~1997.
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by jbay808 6y ago
Nitinol and Terfenol-D are two good examples of military-developed materials that have broad commercial applications today.

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