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by m-i-l 11y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10141795
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by m-i-l 11y ago
I don't think the concern is about foreign ownership per se , but rather the lack of transparency associated with the offshore companies, particularly in relation to potential tax (Stamp Duty) avoidance and money laundering[0]. [0] h
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Smallest distance you can select seems to be 5km, and I live in central London, so that's a few million people "nearby".
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Not to mention: That’s the dirty secret of the ETF industry. All of the innovation has led to a lot of failure... The bottom line: Most ETFs live in oblivion. Like many other areas, you tend to only hear about the success stories, and are
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by m-i-l 11y ago
I was setting up one of those new fangled web sites at the software company for which I worked back in 1995. It was just two of us doing it in our spare time, with me doing the software side of things and a colleague looking after the hardw
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by m-i-l 11y ago
A colleague of mine did get one for the tube strike the other week. Took him about 1.5 hours to commute about 4 miles on it that day, partly because he was unfamiliar with it, and partly because there only rough potholed cycle lanes for som
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by m-i-l 11y ago
The countercultural trickster has been pressed into the service of the preppy tech entrepreneur class Concern has been expressed that the new generation of artists (musicians, actors etc.) in the UK seem to primarily come from upper middl
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by m-i-l 11y ago
In Nvidia's deep learning lab last week [0] they described setting up on Ubuntu as "the easy way" and Windows the "not so easy way" [1], adding that their developers are on Linux so no-one has really tested it on Wi
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Plus the large sources of pollution are typically further away from major population centers (i.e. fewer people directly breathing in the output from the smoke stacks), while the small sources of pollution are in the major population center
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by m-i-l 11y ago
See also "China's Island Factory" at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29107792
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Supercomputers: Obama orders world's fastest computer(bbc.co.uk)
163 points by m-i-l 11y ago|174 comments
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by m-i-l 11y ago
" ... given my experiences with Tesla and SolarCity, I am hesitant to foist being public on SpaceX, especially given the long term nature of our mission ... Public company stocks, particularly if big step changes in technology are invo
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Claiming we're not going to be able to simulate the human brain this century is a little bold. That is 85 years away. Eight five years is a long time in technology. Compare for example where we are now with where we were 85 years ago.
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Quote of the day for me so far: "According to Bitcoin Watch, the aggregate power of the bitcoin network is about 4.8 x 1021 FLOPs. Using your own estimates, this would be enough to simulate 4 or more brains." I have been wondering
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by m-i-l 11y ago
According to thetrainline.com you can get a train from Carlisle to London a week from now (Thu 30 Jul) for £35 if you are prepared to go at one of the less popular times (e.g. depart 14.49 and arrive 18.10).
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Better to have ghost trains than the short-sighted Beeching Cuts[0]. For example, the town I grew up in once had two stations where it was possible to catch trains to both Glasgow and Edinburgh, but by the 1960s these were both closed, and
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by m-i-l 11y ago
I depends on what the networks have been trained to recognise - if they have been trained to recognise images of dogs then they are more likely to detect dogs in clouds. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9818077
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Silicon Valley: 'Centre of the universe' – but for how long?(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by m-i-l 11y ago|0 comments
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by m-i-l 11y ago
"In the past, almost everybody travelled on the left side of the road because that was the most sensible option for feudal, violent societies... Furthermore, a right-handed person finds it easier to mount a horse from the left side of
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Peeking into the brain's filing system(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by m-i-l 11y ago|0 comments
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Slides 28 and 35 suggest it was 3 servers, each with 4 GPUs, i.e. 12 GPUs total. If that's the case, then you can probably build a Google scale network (1 billion parameter, 9 layer neural network, which needed 1,000 machines and 16,00
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by m-i-l 11y ago
... I had more than one hundred sites. I hired a tech guy to manage my sites... I hired a couple of writers to write the content for all my sites, I hired a few sales guys to manage... social media management, SEO link sales, copy writing
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Skimmed and semi-skimmed milk tends to freeze better than full fat milk.
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by m-i-l 11y ago
If anyone is interested in the "mole man" from London that the article references: Since the early 1960s, the man who owns and lives inside the £1m Victorian property has been digging. No one knows how far the the network of burr
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Not much information in the video on how this was achieved, but a quick search for "gruv algorithmic music generation" returns the following: https://sites.google.com/site/anayebihomepage/cs224dfinalpro..
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by m-i-l 11y ago
This story has been picked up by The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/18/google-ima...
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Seedcamp is "€25k for 5% w/ optional further €50k for no more than 2% (totalling €75k for 7%)" [0], which at current exchange rates is around £18K for 5%. [0] http://seedcamp.com/our-deal-terms/
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Millionaires Who Are Frugal When They Don't Have to Be(nytimes.com)
78 points by m-i-l 11y ago|143 comments
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by m-i-l 11y ago
That's how I read it too. The article didn't say whether the person under the bus benefited from, or suffered extra as a result of, the actions of the crowd. But rather it was how an exception to the http://en.wikipedia
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by m-i-l 11y ago
And the 18650 is about to be produced on a massive scale in the Tesla Gigafactory. Personally I've recently switched from conventional AA rechargeable NiMH batteries to low self-discharge NiMH batteries (branded Eneloop) and am very im

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