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by kozikow 8y ago
> On the other hand, most of the commercial applications I've seen are around using drones for mapping. So basically taking pictures and then processing them (create orthophotos, build a 3D model, detect objects, etc...). In my opin
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by kozikow 8y ago
> E.g. the agricultural sector in the US has enormous power on this front. They already use lots of drones as well as e.g. helicopters to dry cherry trees, crop dusting planes, etc. There is a bit of a chicken and egg problem here. As lo
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by kozikow 8y ago
Having spent some time on business applications of drones, especially imagery, I am actually quite bearish on startup application of drones. Even if there are some locations that accept innovative experimentation with drones (e.g. Switzerla
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by kozikow 8y ago
> Automate that which is easier to automate: the long distance highway driving Long distance highway driving except that one highway exit on 101 that kills you. I'm just saying that when human lives are at stake, bottoms up approach
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by kozikow 8y ago
Eh, I checked it out and it's indeed full of xenophobic trolls. I am bummed again that there are so few "regular" people that care about free speech.
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by kozikow 8y ago
Gab is "open source Twitter". This seems like "open source reddit" which, IMO, is more needed.
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by kozikow 8y ago
I'm bummed that at multiple occasions it says that tildes does not support free speech. What would stop someone from forking tildes and creating free speech version?
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by kozikow 8y ago
So it seems it was already fairly easy and legal to build and own a very high-quality firearm with general attention-grabbing features mentioned in the article? Not a legal advice or suggesting you should do so: 1. CNC the Remington 700 act
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by kozikow 8y ago
> make your own firearm from readily available parts I am not a legal expert and it's not a legal advice, but in case of a bolt-action rifle, I think the action is still legally treated as a firearm. So you can buy most parts withou
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by kozikow 8y ago
In my opinion, the effects of this are overblown by both pro and anti-gun crowds. The gun at the core is a relatively simple mechanical device, especially manual action. Barebones essentials include just a rifled tube and a little hammer to
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by kozikow 8y ago
I and a few of my past co-workers have been suspecting that the facilities team in a big tech company I used to work for had an evil genius plan to reduce costs: 1. Pick the most popular snack (e.g. nachos) 2. Replace it with less tasty alt
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by kozikow 8y ago
My passion used to be programming. I went back home and programmed or read stuff about programming. After close to 10 years in job market, I think it's not so great idea after all. It was much harder to de-stress. I took problems at wo
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by kozikow 8y ago
I find it surprising, but indeed, firearms per capita amount is pretty high for Saudi Arabia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_guns_per_c... .
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by kozikow 8y ago
It's funny that at the time I wrote this comment another front page post is about people escaping high taxation areas: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17476342 .
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by kozikow 8y ago
The revolting side was well armed as well. It's not the case in Saudi Arabia.
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by kozikow 8y ago
Never mind - see other comment by minimaxir. You have to use table bigquery-public-data:hacker_news.full rather than comments for up-to-date results.
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by kozikow 8y ago
My problem with disjoint forums is that I can't get a digest of "top stuff happening across all subjects I am interested in". I have to visit each forum individually.
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by kozikow 8y ago
HN comments are in bigquery. It's a simple query to extract that data, I just wrote it: https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/savedquery/1008801496706:d... . It seems to be outdated tho...
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by kozikow 8y ago
If anyone is interested in that type of data, our startup ( https://tensorflight.com ) extracts information like footprints and 10 other property factors for insurance (including bing imagery). More info: https://tenso
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by kozikow 8y ago
It eventually ends on a reinsurance company that can shoulder insane amounts of risk, e.g. Munich Re, Berkshire Hathaway, Swiss Re etc.
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by kozikow 8y ago
You may think it's terribly wrong, but that's how at least half of America thinks about the issue. So far, you only provided (soft) ad hominem attack. Attempting to break a law is not much worse than actually breaking a law.
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by kozikow 8y ago
We have been using GPUs with GKE for a while. At some point, we used 20+ GPUs in an production workflow without any problems. Everything generally works well, maybe except the initial phase when some containers won't port well from nvi
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by kozikow 8y ago
It's not just research. Android improves battery by 30%, no one bats an eye. But 1/3 of that improvement is thanks to machine learning - off to the Google IO we go! 30% and 1/3 not the exact real numbers, just showing a conce
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by kozikow 8y ago
I would move into such place.
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by kozikow 8y ago
I had the same with programming. When I was younger, both my work and hobby were programming related. Regardless how much you enjoy your job, having the same hobby as the day job is not a good idea.
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by kozikow 8y ago
We've solved this problem by running 4 instances of pgbouncer and placing them behind a load balancer.
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by kozikow 8y ago
Great. There will be plenty of people willing to take Google's place.
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by kozikow 8y ago
You can use "kubectl run" in k8s for one line run. Now if it runs it runs. Go figure why your borg job is getting preempted.
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by kozikow 8y ago
If someone thinks kubernetes is complicated, they would cry during their first month with the borg.
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by kozikow 8y ago
I think it's obvious to anyone who ever did AI/ML demo. Let him/her who never picked the best example out of 20 for their demo cast the first stone.

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