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by metamemetics 16y ago
http://jacobian.org/writing/django-apps-with-buildout/ Buildout. Like virtualenv but handles downloading correct required package versions too. gives you an isolated shell and django manager in your project directory. You can then distrib
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The Eudaemons and their Roulette-beating Shoe Computers(physics.ucsc.edu)
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Excuse me, UCSC students in the 1970's. Those interested can read more here: http://physics.ucsc.edu/people/eudaemons/eudaemons.html
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The iPod Just Turned 9 Years Old(businessinsider.com)
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Roulette can be beaten by a shoe computer. Basically you tap your foot each time the ball passes a certain number. The computer uses the time between taps to compute the velocity of the ball, which is used to predict where it will stop. The
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When Microsoft launched Live search (pre-bing) they needed someway to inflate their search usage to tell advertisers people actually use the site. So they launch Club Live, which has a series of word games offering points and prizes for win
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Microsoft is making a ton off of Xbox Live subscriptions. So much that it has made their entire entertainment division profitable (even though they lost money on xbox and xbox360 hardware sales). Let's not forget that Microsoft was the firs
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Include more details about how your data is stored and accessed. Is the timeline viewed through your website, if so is the data exportable? Or is your entire timeline sent back via SMS as well. You don't have to describe it in words, maybe
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> We applied to YC (rejected by email), studied "how to pitch to TC" You can't count on a blessing from above. Those are venues for pitching to investors, not pitching to users. You gotta go ground up with forums, blogs, twitter, email
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If I started a business and someone in their late 20s is still talking about how they went to Harvard rather than how they've used their time since graduating, I wouldn't hire them. The only thing the degree does is get you an interview you
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> blue whales > Quaking Aspen grove in Utah > Giant Sequoia named General Sherman. He's too good, I've read the wikipedia article for each of those within the past couple years :/
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Perhaps the military? Small embedded neural nets could be highly useful for visual recognition algos on missiles and drones [ the majority of military planes now being built are unmanned ]. However I believe the military is now trying to mo
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Yep pretty much all simulation is currently being done with Phil Goodman's Neocortical Simulator (Matlab/C) and NEURON (C + recently a python api) on Blue Gene super computers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain_Project . So the myst
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Kaczynski's thesis rests on the idea that technological progress is intrinsically evil or intrinsically results in evil. I think the evidence shows that technology is always ethically neutral. When early humans begun welding rocks as tools
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My initial thought was: high density, asynchronous cores -> brain modeling. You treat each asynchronous core as a neuron. Reading up on Charles Moore this may indeed be the intended case: http://www.pcai.com/web/ai_info/pcai_forth.html
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http://wordoid.com/ great site for helping come up with names
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"144 computers"=="144 core parallel cpu" ? I'm guessing this is not x86 and targeted at academic researchers looking to build custom, massively parallel, computational clusters on the cheap [ computational neuroscience? ]. If anyone could
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Use Buildout and get a python shell for any version you want in your project directory. Then add a few things to your .gitignore and distribute/deploy.
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Seems to confirm the subthesis of Carl Schramm's The Entrepreneurial Imperative. That is, established firms are having to become increasingly entrepreneurial in order to compete. This is largely good news for those doing startups. Since t
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I visited pg's arcforum today http://arclanguage.org/item?id=12563 and got this info by "fallintothis": http://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/help/arc.arc is from Anarki, a community-maintained branch of "vanilla" Arc. They wrote such
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> Chrome's more minimalist approach I find Opera to be far more minimalist than Chrome from a user interface perspective. Chrome doesn't even let you remove the tab bar. [ Here is a screenshot of me switching "tabs" in Opera http://
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Opera is getting extensions, in the mean time you can use the built-in functionality: Preferences > Advanced > Content. Uncheck Enable JavaScript to disable it globally. Then when you want to manually enable JS for a single site: Ri
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Reposting from: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1790843 Why you should care about Opera: 1. More minimal interface than Chrome. New-tab Speed-dial can be a solid background [or image] with no extra cruft. Unlike Chrome which adds book
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They get the population median income. Without having to have acquired any skills before joining, all training and living costs are paid for after enlistement. Base pay is still far higher than minimum wage work. I'd say the problem in this
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> police have to deal with a wider range of psychological issues Not nearly as much as those serving in the military whose salary is vastly less (closer to the population median income).
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> Training is similar to boot camp I somehow doubt it's harder than real boot camp in the marines, and their base pay is at least 5 times less!
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No caffeine\supplements (2-4 weeks off to account for any withdrawal effects) or knowing friends who are also up late, I default to 10 hours of sleep and am also less productive. [If you want to live an Erdos lifestyle, I imagine you can ma
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In my early 20s and "nature" has definitely not blessed me with any productive hours of energy to forgo sleep. I attribute it all to caffeine, D3+Calcium, B12, and being in an environment where its socially normal to be heading to a coffee
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Flag Reason Field: When a submission gets flagged, a "reason" string is entered by the flagger. This could be done via javascript event binded to the flag link, or by redirecting to a "flag" page that gets the id of the submission being fla
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What? We usually get some good submissions from throw-away accounts with 0 prior karma, like people seeking out advice on how to deal with cofounders etc. Or people are long time readers and what to create an account to show us the project.

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