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by lukeqsee 11y ago
Science aside, I found the authorship fascinating and encouraging; it is composed of individuals from five different countries and cultures (Sweden, Germany, UK, Spain, and China). Is this typical for science?
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Elon Musk Might Be a Super Villain [video](youtube.com)
1 points by lukeqsee 11y ago|0 comments
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by lukeqsee 11y ago
> I can imagine that it is really hard to maintain the codebase Can you elaborate on your reasoning? This stack seems like a fairly typical web-stack, with the addition of Solr.
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by lukeqsee 11y ago
I agree. However, downvoting is not the same as not upvoting. I think it makes sense for "thank you" comments to eventually find their way to the bottom of the comment list because they don't add substantively.
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by lukeqsee 11y ago
> Empty comments can be ok if they're positive. There's nothing wrong with submitting a comment saying just "Thanks." I've noticed downvotes recently on these style of comments. Like the above states, I think it&
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by lukeqsee 11y ago
> I live in Switzerland now How did you get into Switzerland? I've been considering / researching the possibility for a while, but it seems like a very long process to legally enter the country. Did you find it that way? Any re
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Jetman Dubai: Young Feathers [video](youtube.com)
2 points by lukeqsee 11y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Recalibrate, an app to make you feel at home, wherever you are(recalibrateapp.com)
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by lukeqsee 12y ago
> I'm starting to wonder if maybe Tim Cook is a better CEO than Steve Jobs. I don't know if this was ever in question. I never viewed Jobs as a particularly good CEO—charismatic and spiritual leader, yes. Good CEO? Probably not
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by lukeqsee 12y ago
> The license is meant to be tongue-in-cheek I assumed that. However, I think the notion of autonomous entities existing entirely in code is a fascinating idea. It reminds me of a fun game: http://www.emhsoft.com/singular
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by lukeqsee 12y ago
What server/platform is the code actually running on? I fail to see how the license can apply, unless there is no server owned by a human entity running the code, and there is no mention of how that works.
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by lukeqsee 12y ago
That is a worthy and unanswered question in the industry. I'm personally hoping that the data becomes free and open (OADA is an attempt to support that); I believe, along with at least a few of my colleagues, that the "secret sauc
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by lukeqsee 12y ago
Absolutely agree. Everything you just said I've heard or experienced in just a few months. > There's a lot of groundwork to lay before we can start applying state of the art algorithms to ag. We have experts in algorithms, embe
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by lukeqsee 12y ago
I don't. But if things go as planned, you'll be hearing about us soon. :)
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by lukeqsee 12y ago
We are specializing on one stage of the crop-growing cycle: pest management. In order to do that, we started by building a hardware tool to deploy in fields to monitor moth population. That's how incredibly specialized this industry re
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by lukeqsee 12y ago
Our current product was just released to address the needs of one market (scouting companies, if you aren't familiar with the term: http://www.farms.com/precision-agriculture/crop-scouting/ ). We are also buil
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by lukeqsee 12y ago
I work at a precision ag startup in the Midwest. I can speak from inside the industry: it's an incredibly exciting time. We have more people asking us to build tools than we could ever build, and most of the tools are basic management
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by lukeqsee 12y ago
> average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. (Emphasis mine.) I think independent is the key here. Often by chance, mishap, or a large, well-backed player legislation has the happy misfortu
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by lukeqsee 12y ago
To their chagrin, their job mostly consisted of catching people breaking the strict campus conduct policy as opposed to dealing with real problems.
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by lukeqsee 12y ago
He did not explicitly threaten me. However, because the administration pretty much just listens to what public safety says, things like enrollment were potentially at stake.[0,1] I was not willing to trade those potentials for a search that
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by lukeqsee 12y ago
I wish. Most of this force is criminal justice students, with a few GAs, and a few professional supervisors. I have heard they have a pretty good collaboration with local municipal police, so anything happening on the campus could be passed
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by lukeqsee 12y ago
> many American universities have police forces I attended a small private university (in the news recently, for the wrong reasons), and their "police" (aka public safety) force was almost completely on a power trip. I once was
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by lukeqsee 12y ago
Counter point: I find Arch Linux to be the opposite. I've spend more time tweaking it than any other distro. However, that may be because it is so tweakable. Also, things like to break in ArchLinux on normal updates more than other d
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by lukeqsee 12y ago
> In my opinion after a certain level, all knowledge is multi-disciplinary, and the boundaries of what constitutes roots, branches, leaves is extremely fuzzy. Also the distinction between theory and practice makes the boundaries even fuz
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by lukeqsee 12y ago
I found his comment regarding learning to be the most insightful. It is a more developed explanation of what I have found to be an effective strategy for me: > One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tr
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Sid: The Office Robot(sidigital.co)
3 points by lukeqsee 12y ago|0 comments
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by lukeqsee 12y ago
Location: Greenville, SC Remote: Doesn't matter. Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: - Fluent in Rails and associated web technologies - Experience in Haskell / functional programming and would love to get
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by lukeqsee 12y ago
What struck me about this piece is how effectively and with such clarity it was crafted: I could hear Tim saying every single one of these words in my head. To make the written word as convincing and powerful as the well-crafted spoken word
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by lukeqsee 12y ago
> both companies and the government lie And it's impossible for a 'normal' citizen to have an idea if and when they are. We simply have no clue or expertise to possibly pick apart statements made and then verify them—as yo
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by lukeqsee 12y ago
See https://www.lukeseelenbinder.com/compiler.pdf for a more detailed project description and documentation. This was an academic project, but it taught me an immense amount about programming, both applicationally and theor

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