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by laarc 11y ago
Probably recruitment. It makes a lot more sense when viewed from the perspective of a researcher who's considering whether to join the NSA. None of us want patents, and the whole system is absurd. But at one time, it was considered p
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by laarc 11y ago
Thank you. Apparently I'm blind.
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by laarc 11y ago
Not really. Readers here tend to judge by merit rather than origin. I was hoping to read this, but the encumbered download process prevented that.
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by laarc 11y ago
jpg2000 is unfortunately encumbered by patents. I was going to use it for a certain project a long time ago, but had to abandon the idea due to that. It's a shame, because many of the ideas in jpg2000 are very valuable for the world.
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by laarc 11y ago
In my experience, they're usually more talented than their counterparts who have degrees. That seems to become less true with time, though.
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by laarc 11y ago
It's true. My first role was to work an unpaid intern for a year. Then my first salary was $20k, followed by $35k only after working there for a couple years. It was going to be $30k but I was able to negotiate. I think pg is correc
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by laarc 11y ago
You know, when I saw your original comment, it was so helpful that I wanted to respond to you and say thank you, but I suppressed my instincts because I thanked someone else, and it felt like the community would react badly to me saying &qu
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by laarc 11y ago
It seemed promising to do some experiments with sewing a BP sleeve into a shirt, then setting up an Arduino to trigger it to inflate/deflate. It should be possible to record the result digitally. It'd be slightly uncomfortable,
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by laarc 11y ago
You know, I didn't expect this to be on his Wikipedia page. My apologies for not doing the most basic of searches. (The topic was uncomfortable enough to want to avoid it, but I still should've checked.) Thanks!
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by laarc 11y ago
It should be socially acceptable for Internet Archive to ignore robots.txt. They have to respect it because we, collectively, say so. Obeying robots.txt is the minimum acceptable behavior for any robot, short of the Asmiov laws. But archiv
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by laarc 11y ago
An accusation this serious should be accompanied by evidence, or dismissed.
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by laarc 11y ago
I was hoping the product would pivot to passive blood pressure monitoring. I want my blood pressure to be recorded every few seconds, logged and cross-referenced against what I did, ate, and drank. For correlation purposes, knowing those
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by laarc 11y ago
Databases are usually sharded by the first letter of the username. Devs like to start their usernames with a number, which causes problems. Also, usernames are injected into their code. Therefore they must be valid identifiers. Don&#x27
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by laarc 11y ago
I wanted to give you a status update of what new users currently experience. Or at least what I'm experiencing. After creating an account, I was redirected to the front page with no notification about whether it succeeded or failed.
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by laarc 11y ago
This paper introduces the Bayesian program learning (BPL) framework, capable of learning a large class of visual concepts from just a single example and generalizing in ways that are mostly indistinguishable from people. This is one of th
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by laarc 11y ago
The company has said that ads targeted at logged-out users - or people who view tweets without a Twitter account - would bring in $2.50 in average revenue per user (ARPU). Its logged-in user base brings in more than $4 in ARPU. What'
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by laarc 11y ago
I take the opposite view: it's wonderful that it happens. Most professions have very few choices regarding tools. Having hundreds or even thousands of options is simply delightful.
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by laarc 11y ago
How'd you make the artwork in less than five hours? It's pretty good! Pixel art is currently beyond my abilities, which I need to fix. Whatever your process is, I was hoping to osmose it, if possible. Any pointers to start bui
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by laarc 11y ago
I needed this for my projects. Thank you.
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by laarc 11y ago
I'm not sure, to be honest. That would be an interesting Ask HN question. I think a lot of people would like to know. One reason the financial sector might be easier for H1B visas is that they sometimes treat their employees very poorl
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by laarc 11y ago
Ah, I see. In that case, the financial sector may be the way to go. They're always looking for people to improve throughput, and there are a variety of fun tasks to do related to low latency market data processing. I would say your bes
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by laarc 11y ago
Hey, Jacques. I wanted to say that I'm happy you're still around HN. Thanks for sharing a lot of interesting stuff, and experiences regarding business and life in general. I was just thinking how emptier HN would have felt without
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by laarc 11y ago
Perfect. Thanks!
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by laarc 11y ago
Hello. Nice work. I noticed that your submission isn't getting much attention, so I wanted to let you know it's common for Show HNs to languish even though they're worthy. So don't give up or feel bad about it. There are
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by laarc 11y ago
C++ might not be necessary. It's possibly a harmful career choice. I speak from experience, but others would disagree. It could be good to focus on one axis: personal career value, or affecting the world and helping people. They seem t
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by laarc 11y ago
As for an effective A* algorithm, bidirectional A* turns out to be both rugged and efficient. Basically, grab some graph paper. Put your left index finger on start. Right index finger on end. Move your fingers towards each other, avoiding o
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by laarc 11y ago
Does anyone know of some resources for implementing PCA? I need it for some research regarding graphics.
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Show HN: Monki – `cp` for github. An alternative to Git submodules(github.com)
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by laarc 11y ago
It is a huge pain to use rlwrap to edit Lisp. Someone, please write a "lispwrap" program which solves this pain point once and for all.
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by laarc 11y ago
(Trying to figure out how to reply without sounding like I'm challenging an idea or putting someone on the defensive... All I can think of is: Thank you for the reply. Know that I respect everyone's viewpoint, and that we'r

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