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by kirse 18y ago
While you may be hoping that the event appeared larger, these satellite photos were actually taken at about 1100-1130am, which would be pretty close to the peak attendance at the Inauguration. Using this map that utilizes the Washington Mon
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by kirse 18y ago
Also answered in this article: - Why exactly you're getting downvoted on HN for that unpopular opinion you just posted
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by kirse 18y ago
Welcome to HN, where the spam (and unpopular opinion) get down-voted. It's a completely legitimate comment, and one that I also agree with based on his other post substantiating it. Otherwise, I've noticed the bandwagon downvoting comes on
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by kirse 18y ago
As a school, we would like to know how to make all students more resilient, how to turn depressing thoughts into positive ones. The article really seems to treat depressive, angry, and other emotions as "negative", when in fact these emot
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by kirse 18y ago
explore one's mind This is the big lie of psychs, that they allow you to "explore your mind" as if somehow you're not fully understanding it while sober (and through meditation). Psychs rewire how the brain handles and deals with sensory
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by kirse 18y ago
These sensations are usually just a result of being stressed.
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by kirse 18y ago
That would be brilliant - A Mac/PC ad where PC is having fun playing games and Mac has to sit around and do boring stuff =) Of course it'd be completely false like all the other Mac/PC commercials, but that's the average consumer for ya...
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by kirse 18y ago
I use a similar site right now: http://camelcamelcamel.com/ I think their interface is a bit cleaner than RSSTalker and probably more developed right now.
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by kirse 18y ago
Unlike some corporate jobs where you might be looking for something to do (or not), there was no shortage of work to be done on my first day. This is what is so fun about a startup - never an empty to-do list - and they're always new chal
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by kirse 18y ago
Isn't it funny how we can intuitively identify almost every single object in this world as designed (or not), except somehow our intuition is only wrong about the very thing we know best -- ourselves? Highly logical there, isn't it? It's al
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by kirse 18y ago
"There's probably no God" I was going to be critical of that weak use of the word "probably" (especially in the context of atheistic belief), but then I realized it better explains the true situation - that it simply comes down to where y
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by kirse 18y ago
You can always claim you had brilliant performance, but failed due to the impossible odds. Where do we draw the line between making an excuse and being optimistic? You might do the absolute best you can but the timing just wasn't right.
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by kirse 18y ago
And money is not the critical constraint: the groups $35 million per year budget I think you may have gotten your numbers confused. They get $35m for a group of 260 people to write the software, not half a billion.
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by kirse 18y ago
I had a similar contest in school where I used a trick that I had learned just by goofing around with paper planes as a kid... You take the classic paper airplane fold and simply do a double inner fold... so crease in 2x before building the
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by kirse 18y ago
necessarily better It all depends on the audience. The first sentence is "better" for passing an exam the next day, but hardly enjoyable if one is to immerse themselves in a work of fiction.
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by kirse 18y ago
I never liked the idea either -- it usually just encourages most people to picture their "super self" and then set a ton of unachievable expectations for the next 365 days. I'll just be renewing my committment to simply do the best I can ea
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by kirse 18y ago
you'd be incorrect. (You'd also be kind of rude.) Sounds like someone needs a spine ;) On that note, though, I apologize for accusing you of something you did not do.
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by kirse 18y ago
Might be thinkcomp whining about how Zuckerberg stole Facebook from him... Only guy on here who seems to actively bring up his grudge. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=328235
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by kirse 18y ago
I thought the same, but then I realized I did the exact same thing when I was his age. At that age, you're just starting to get your name out there and want to be noticed, so it's not a bad thing. Besides, that website just looks like a r
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by kirse 18y ago
I especially could not stand the EU vs. Microsoft case where those jackasses heaped on tons of fines to basically siphon a few billion dollars away from a US corporation. As much as I know MS has their issues with anti-trust, boy did that p
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by kirse 18y ago
If anyone can satisfactorily answer these questions, chances are they have done science Coming straight from a distinguished neuroscientist: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=396215 ... this unempirical component of consciousness bei
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by kirse 18y ago
This is a great question, and one that will never be answered by scientific naturalism. The current worldview assumed by scientists is that the "natural" and "material" is all we have and all that can be used to explain everything. Unfortu
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by kirse 18y ago
Thanks! I understand the Amazon vulnerability fully, I was just referring to my own web-app development. It's not an issue though because I don't do the key/value pair splitting as they do.
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by kirse 18y ago
You seem to be knowledgable on these topics, so I have a question... If I take the query string parameters and then a ridiculously long pre-determined salt (30 chars) to create a SHA-256 signature for POSTing, what's the chance that this w
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by kirse 18y ago
I fully agree. This is why I can't stand using Meebo unless I absolutely have to. The app itself is amazing for what it does, but in no way will it replace my dedicated desktop AIM client. Most web-apps that emulate a desktop app are stil
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by kirse 18y ago
I think Facebook should put up a puzzle on their website called "Make Facebook Profitable" and hire based on the solutions to that. Somewhat a joke, but also somewhat serious... I wonder if that would net them a few good ideas. Maybe even
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by kirse 18y ago
What I'm saying was that if it was clearly identifiable that a country was responsible for an attack (ex. country declares war on Israel, fires nuke), then they deserve to be ruined. It's not that I'm advocating going around tossing nukes a
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by kirse 18y ago
That's why I'm never really worried by some specific country out East getting a few nukes. Good ol' MAD ensures they'll be turned into a glass parking lot as soon as they so much as breathe on the launch button. Obviously it becomes an iss
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by kirse 18y ago
5. Don't blow off you're non-CS/ECE/EE classes! This depends... I would not skip a Gen-Ed class if: - My grades depended (directly or indirectly) on my attendance. Surprisingly this wasn't too often, most profs had all notes posted via C
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by kirse 18y ago
aka. Dollar-cost averaging?

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