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by mrmaddog 13y ago
I have not yet seen "Her", but this strongly reminded me of Ender's communication with Jane from the "Ender's Game" sequels. One of the most interesting facets to their conversations is that Ender could make su
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Mentally controlled quadcopters: Mind over Mechanics(youtube.com)
1 points by mrmaddog 13y ago|0 comments
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Circuit Scribe: Draw Circuits Instantly(kickstarter.com)
4 points by mrmaddog 13y ago|0 comments
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Weightless Project(weightlessproject.org)
21 points by mrmaddog 13y ago|9 comments
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The last question - Isaac Asimov(filer.case.edu)
3 points by mrmaddog 13y ago|0 comments
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by mrmaddog 13y ago
Once you do decide to use an assert in python, there are a couple things to consider. The first is to make sure you are expressive in your message. Your assert may very well hit one day, and it may only occur at the most unpredictable times
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Reverse Debugging with GDB(sourceware.org)
76 points by mrmaddog 13y ago|19 comments
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Arista-Cisco Brawl Heats Up(businessinsider.com)
1 points by mrmaddog 13y ago|0 comments
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Vanish(evan.creatavist.com)
1 points by mrmaddog 13y ago|0 comments
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by mrmaddog 13y ago
Well this is silly. Stanford graduation rates have been increasing over the past 10 years: ( http://ucomm.stanford.edu/cds/2012 - search for point B11). 1998-2003 were all in the 90-93% range. This last year had a gradu
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by mrmaddog 13y ago
I like how you can click on a person's representative dot and follow them through the different sorting metrics. One point stood out to me: how does Assistant Treasurer Ms. Collier get $289,534 in "other" pay? The raw data pr
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by mrmaddog 13y ago
Ah, I didn't realize this was done as a manual process back then. I assumed the engineers were working on an automated system to do the segment tuning for them, and that system was the new "feature" that Mr. Gates thought the
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by mrmaddog 13y ago
Not exactly. I am a huge fan of code modularization, but what modularization offers you is the ability to decrease the exponent (i.e. to be devTime^1.01 instead of devTime^2). Some features though (including segment tuning, from the sound o
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by mrmaddog 13y ago
I think the real lesson here is that every time you add a feature, you are adding development overhead to every other feature, leading to exponential development time. I'm sure if segment tuning was one of the first thing to go into wi
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by mrmaddog 13y ago
Here is a link to the live demo: http://nlp.stanford.edu:8080/sentiment/rntnDemo.html This is really fun to play with, and I'm surprised how well it can parse the sentiment of sample sentences I threw at it. I&#x2
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by mrmaddog 13y ago
I really enjoy Gruber's holistic reviews of Apple's new devices. He doesn't attempt to be Anandtech (whose reviews I found thoroughly engrossing and well written), but rather he paints a picture of how the device feels and
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by mrmaddog 13y ago
Why is harvesting fingerprints such a catastrophic possibility? The government already has your fingerprints if you've ever left or entered the country, and they've likely been taken during other periods in your life as well. Hell
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by mrmaddog 13y ago
Sounds like something VXLAN is well equipped to handle - VLANs tunneled over IP to create private networks in large cloud environments: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Extensible_LAN I wonder if DO will be using s
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by mrmaddog 13y ago
What are your thoughts on joining a big company vs joining a startup (as opposed to starting a company yourself)? On average, it seems one would still learn faster and be able to take on many new roles as an employee at a startup, but an em
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by mrmaddog 13y ago
You can also drag any file or folder onto your terminal, which will paste the absolute filepath at your cursor point.
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Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements(507movements.com)
370 points by mrmaddog 13y ago|66 comments
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Bebo Founder: "It's time to come clean."(youtube.com)
3 points by mrmaddog 13y ago|0 comments
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by mrmaddog 13y ago
The problem here is that you need to know the other person's encryption key. Since I'm not warned whenever you get a new device, I have no idea how many keys are assigned to you. Hence, the key distribution problem still remains
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by mrmaddog 13y ago
Since you brought it up, there are great things happening in the Ethernet Switching space, just nothing that makes it to the front page of a site like Hacker News. I'm an engineer at Arista Networks, where I get to work on some reall
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by mrmaddog 13y ago
Exactly. You can find more information here: https://developers.facebook.com/support/beta-tier/ "Every week, usually on Sunday evenings, we stage our weekly push, which happens on Tuesday evenings, on the bet
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by mrmaddog 13y ago
One of the things I remember from an internship there a few years ago, Facebook does its main "push" of new code to its server farms on Tuesdays around 5pm (i.e. around this time). It would be interesting to read a postmortem on w
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by mrmaddog 13y ago
I think John is referring to one of these two stories, and I don't see any anomalies in either of their trajectories: http://hnrankings.info/5833716,5833388/ In my opinion, sitting at rank 22 with 90 points over 5 hours isn't half bad, an
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by mrmaddog 13y ago
If I were in the hospitality industry, I'd be buying adjacent shops next to every Tesla charging station. Having a captive, wealthy audience for ~30 minutes seems like a ripe opportunity, whether it is restaurants, masseuses, or cafes. I'd
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Why you should join a mid-size private company(blog.wealthfront.com)
2 points by mrmaddog 13y ago|0 comments
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by mrmaddog 13y ago
I really like how readable the overview paper is [1]—I'd recommend reading it if you want to understand what is being proposed here. I especially thought the section on a passive operating mode was interesting. The idea that you can hide an

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