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by kanzure 12y ago
> Why not an IRC channel? Yeah, if I wanted to discuss "strong AI" with others, I would probably pick #lesswrong on irc.freenode.net instead of skype or hangouts. And prior to #lesswrong there used to be #sl4, see logs here: h
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by kanzure 12y ago
> patents were up and going long before it was written.. the US constitution does not contain the idea behind patents. Yeah, I find it very interesting how the US constitution is often assumed the origin of patents, but the same people
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by kanzure 12y ago
> The US constitution gives the reason explicitly as to "Promote the Progress of science and the useful Arts" though Yeah, I agree. The entirety is: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited
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by kanzure 12y ago
> The real purpose was to promote disclosure of how to make things. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_patent_law By the 16th century, the English Crown would habitually grant letters patent for monopolies t
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by kanzure 12y ago
I ranked top 30 on typeracer at least once[1]. Here's one of the tricks: there's usually a countdown before each race starts, and anyone who cares about gaming the "words per minute" measurement will just paste the first
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by kanzure 12y ago
Look at this ~6000nm Intel plant from the late 1970s. It was extremely high tech at the time, but nothing there seems inherently like it cannot be fully automated, simplified and shrunk down to my $1M FAB machine. You can get down much lo
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by kanzure 12y ago
> but was there really no place to spend that better? Maybe. Consider all of the competing opportunities that might be discovered in a short window, like say a week. Out of all of those options, which ones are still early stage, which on
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by kanzure 12y ago
> I worked on the firmware for the "Applied Biosystems ABI Prism 310 DNA Sequencer". Do you have copies of that firmware or know where I could pick it up? I'd like to poke around, try some reverse engineering, etc.
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by kanzure 12y ago
> Part of the high cost of mobile delivery of last mile services is the requirement for this heavy infrastructure to service a small number of people. How much of that infrastructure cost is regulatory cost versus just the cost of people
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by kanzure 12y ago
> So in software land, we have licenses which include patent protection clauses. Why haven't hardware hackers embraced similar practices? Copyright is one of the three main types of intellectual property in the world-wide WIPO syste
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by kanzure 12y ago
Ha! That's cute. The joke is that anyone can send any relevant transaction hash that they see straight by email. Obviously, if they were serious, they would offer a unique Bitcoin address to each prospective buyer.
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by kanzure 12y ago
> Gameboy games were written in the assembly language you're seeing disassembled. Obviously there are no comments and labels, These look like labels and comments to me: https://github.com/kanzure/pokecrystal&#x2
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by kanzure 12y ago
Originally the game was written in a variant of asm resembling z80.
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by kanzure 12y ago
Repo owner here. Yes, it's a disassembly, but also it compiles back into the original ROM if you follow the README (it's not a "dump and flee").
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by kanzure 12y ago
Much of the work was before that, but there's also https://github.com/iimarckus/pokered and https://github.com/kanzure/pokecrystal to consider now (working source code).
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by kanzure 12y ago
> How do I go about finding out enough about malaria to be able to actually contribute to the problem? Read as much as you can: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=malaria
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by kanzure 12y ago
Slightly off-topic, but here's what Wikipedia says (in part): """ Consciousness — The having of perceptions, thoughts, and feelings; awareness. The term is impossible to define except in terms that are unintelligible wit
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by kanzure 13y ago
> There's some hopeful results from noninvasive variants as well including "transcranial ultrasound stimulation", http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/ultrasound/
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by kanzure 13y ago
> What are the names of these proxies? http://diyhpl.us/wiki/articles
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by kanzure 13y ago
Your stirplate.io mail server is rejecting emails ("kgonzales" from your HN profile). I was going to invite you to irc.freenode.net ##hplusroadmap (we do some non-academic do-it-yourself neurophysiology stuff on occasion).
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by kanzure 13y ago
> an altcoin that actually manages to crack the problem of CPU only mining You may be interested in: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/asic-faq.pdf
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by kanzure 13y ago
> If I'm reading that correctly, could I give myself infinite StrangeCoin? I don't think it will work with just a single strangecoin, but instead have one strangecoin per user (or more, but at least one strangecoin asset type p
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by kanzure 13y ago
> Does Google Play have a public API for downloading APKs? Does it work for paid apps as well? There's no "public API" but have fun: https://github.com/kanzure/googleplay-api (because otherwise how do
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by kanzure 13y ago
And each of the bots require a separate Spotify subscription?
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by kanzure 13y ago
I wonder if there's a safe way an insider from maxpages, coolfreewhatever, trident, geocities, etc. could provide this data maybe by email address without violating the privacy of everyone ever? I have the exact same story, including t
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by kanzure 13y ago
Would you accept an answer that complains about how hard it is to hire programmers? :)
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by kanzure 13y ago
Approximately how much would it cost in DigitalOcean time to cover 10%, 50%, 90% of their data?
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by kanzure 13y ago
> I suspect it would be possible to build up a wrapper that emulates the entire NodeJS javascript API in PyV8 http://pyv8.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/demos/node.py But I think node itself can be used with pyv
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by kanzure 13y ago
That's funny, I'm actually running scallion in the background right now. I am thinking about spinning up some ec2 instances to just pay $10-$50 to finish sooner. Pretty sure this is what TorBroker did too..

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