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by mayank 14y ago
Hate to be pedantic, but "kbps" is actually kiloBITS per second, and including packet headers, it would take closer to 10 seconds on an ISDN line.
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Take Instagram filters to the next level with Maxstagram(github.com)
37 points by mayank 14y ago|11 comments
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Show HN: Newstandoff, my weekend project(newstandoff.com)
2 points by mayank 14y ago|0 comments
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by mayank 14y ago
Genetic programming; type that into google scholar and look at the late-80s and early-90s papers.
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by mayank 14y ago
Also, it doesn't have eye tracking.
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by mayank 14y ago
It certainly appears to be. Here's a former Harvard prof who wrote a pretty interesting blog post: http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/11/why-im-leaving-harvar...
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by mayank 14y ago
> i wish at least that the efforts would get published in new papers You mean like this very large list? http://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html > and open source software Or this also very large list? https://code.google.c
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by mayank 14y ago
I think the inside joke is kind of the point.
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by mayank 14y ago
Fascinating. Looks like there were only 10 of those f/0.7 lenses made, 6 of which went to NASA to photograph the moon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Zeiss_Planar_50mm_f/0.7
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by mayank 14y ago
Great idea and execution, but it's somewhat telling that some of the "side projects" people are posting really don't look like side projects.
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by mayank 14y ago
Eric Schmidt, not Sergey Brin.
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by mayank 14y ago
It's a natural progression in tech predictions. I remember the same thing in the late 90s with VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language, with a plugin available for Netscape). I never quite got how walking through a "virtual 3D store" was a
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by mayank 14y ago
Go to any Mountain View bar? Use LinkedIn to find FoFs who work at Google? Attend a public Google event and talk to employees? Of those, I'd go with finding social connections to an employee. Google has over 30k employees -- if you're more
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by mayank 15y ago
The religious faith in free markets you seem to imply is a bit naive. In reality, startups would be crushed by the biggest player sucking up their innovations and broadcasting it faster and to a larger audience. Let's not forget that patent
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by mayank 15y ago
I think the problem here is that there is no universally agreed upon definition of trivial. Many things are trivial in hindsight, there is prior art for almost anything, and your trivial is my innovation where there was none. The change has
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by mayank 15y ago
Or you could have just held up a footrule and done some math. Ratios are all you need, but the cardboard is more fun.
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by mayank 15y ago
Yeah sorry if that was obnoxious, I've deleted one.
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by mayank 15y ago
The methods used to target ads can be more intrusive than you realize (speaking as a data mining person). I wrote a short piece about it: http://blog.twodeg.net/when-your-data-sings
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by mayank 15y ago
It's not always a moral objection to advertising per se, but to the methods that enable targeted advertising. I wrote a short piece about the scope of modeling and mining algorithms if you're interested: http://blog.twodeg.net/when-your-da
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by mayank 15y ago
To answer you, yes actually it is. Innocent until proven guilty, and all the language patterns in the world can't change that?
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by mayank 15y ago
That's very cynical -- can't she just be articulate and feeling violated?
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by mayank 15y ago
That's why we use a fresh salt for each password. Bcrypt incorporates a fresh salt into each new hash. Your and the GP's concern in this area is not warranted.
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When Your Data Sings (Or, how to milk a social media data cow)(blog.twodeg.net)
8 points by mayank 15y ago|2 comments
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by mayank 15y ago
They're called "roadies"
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Open-source barcode scanner for *real* zebras(msnbc.msn.com)
2 points by mayank 16y ago|0 comments
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Chicago's most famous chef held back by Internet Explorer(chicagotribune.com)
1 points by mayank 16y ago|0 comments
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by mayank 16y ago
You mean it's a hipster product.
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by mayank 16y ago
Google has a lot of smaller projects that are very useful and well-written: - Closure Compiler for Javascript: http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/ - Sparse hashtable: http://goog-sparsehash.sourceforge.net/ - Chromium - Android - V
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by mayank 16y ago
I'm not an ecologist and didn't claim to be one (I'm a computer scientist), and my comment wasn't about the benefits of elephant culling. As a last resort, yes it can sometimes be necessary, but there was no indication that it was necessary
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by mayank 16y ago
As someone who has worked with ecologists in the field on a number of wildlife projects in rural Africa, I find this to be truly repugnant. There are many ways of controlling "problem elephants" other than killing them -- in fact, killing a

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