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by nikhilgk 15y ago
Another user of Zim Desktop Wiki. Almost as simple as notepad, stores as txt files, built in todos and calendars and plugin support. I just store the files in my Dropbox folder, that way I can get to the files even when I do not have zim in
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by nikhilgk 15y ago
> lot of organic stuff The organic compounds produced by the Miller Urey experiments were mostly amino acids and some sugars ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_experiment ). These are the building blocks for most of the
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by nikhilgk 15y ago
Makes one wonder if their monikers are really tightly tied to real persons. Maybe the core group uses their names interchangeably and when one of them is ousted with a raid, some one else from the group assumes the online identity.
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by nikhilgk 15y ago
This is the more significant source of information for moving data out of Google products: http://www.dataliberation.org/
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by nikhilgk 15y ago
This is not exactly an apples to apples comparison. [hq4x]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hqx ) is meant to magnify by a factor of 4. The comparison images use it for 16x magnification. Would be interesting to run this algorithm after magnif
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by nikhilgk 15y ago
Nice idea and implementation. However my first thought after reading the title here and the domain name was that it was an analysis tool for Salesforce Chatter ( http://www.salesforce.com/chatter/whatischatter/ ). You may want to check if t
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by nikhilgk 15y ago
Exactly. An AI machine made by digesting all of human knowledge and then capable of advancing it will not do it unless it was built with the specific "motive" of advancing that knowledge. Without that "purpose" it will just sit in an idle s
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The reason we reason - To win arguments, not for the pursuit of truth.(wired.com)
7 points by nikhilgk 15y ago|2 comments
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by nikhilgk 16y ago
Industrial revolution lead to the popularization of democracy and the emergence of socialism and communism which are all ultimately means for adapting society and economy to the revolutionary changes. Information revolution will have to bri
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by nikhilgk 16y ago
Be aware that since all of these are very Javascript heavy, their performance will depend a lot on the browser you use. For eg YUI data grids lets you reorder columns by drag and drop - try that in IE 8 and you will see what I mean. Off the
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by nikhilgk 16y ago
Can't remember where I read it, but another way to look at the Zones was that it breaks the idea and occurance of a technological singularity from a temporal to a spatial dimension.
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by nikhilgk 16y ago
For the sanity of anyone who may want to read this, link to the print version: http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=35058&...
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by nikhilgk 16y ago
Thank you for posting this, could be useful to someone. But let me remind you that this post does not fall within the general guidelines for HN posting. For your reference: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Hacker News Guidelines
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by nikhilgk 16y ago
I usually let the following quote - "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." -- Eleanor Roosevelt - guide me before I upvote stories, even if the topic is not of particular interest to me. I wo
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by nikhilgk 16y ago
Instead of a dedicated server, use a router that can run DD-WRT or Tomato. I use a cheap(35$) refurbished wireless router from Linksys[1] and I am sure there are other models. These will be more energy efficient and easier to maintain than
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by nikhilgk 16y ago
That first link just gave us some analytics about the people here on HN. Offtopic: It reported Chrome on Ubuntu as Browsers: Ubuntu
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by nikhilgk 16y ago
There was some initiative to create an archive of shortened URLs if the provider were to close down. http://www.archive.org/details/301works . But looks like it did not gain much traction.
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by nikhilgk 16y ago
I think two other variables needs to be factored in: cultural influence of the native speakers of the languages and the age at which you acquire the. I can attest to the second factor because I learned four languages before I was six (typic
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by nikhilgk 16y ago
This was the link I was looking for when I posted that, a slightly more "authoritative" source. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/business/13digi.html
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by nikhilgk 16y ago
The only example I have seen is plentyoffish.com. According to this: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/and-the-money-comes-rol... the guy who owns this works barely an hour a day and earns more than 4M$ in revenue of it.
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by nikhilgk 16y ago
Public work in the US cannot be a good comparison. Workers in communist Russia must have other motivations to be efficient - patriotism and pride in their work for some, but more likely, fear of the state and lack of alternatives. Either w
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by nikhilgk 16y ago
In a communist society, the state owns everything. They own all natural resources, the industries that processes them, the supply chains, the labor and the economy. Profits and margins are not the objectives and there is no competition. So
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by nikhilgk 16y ago
But this argument may be underestimating other human traits like curiosity and spirit for exploration. Even if we were wired to "simputers" at birth, many of the hacker types here would want to explore what is beyond those constructs once m
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by nikhilgk 16y ago
A and B may not be sufficient reasons either. Here is a counter example from my home state: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala_model#Human_Development_... Economically Kerala is a third world economy, but in Human Development Index and b
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by nikhilgk 17y ago
Capital punishment, though legal, has been reserved for the ["rarest of the rare"]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_India#Law ) cases by the Supreme Court of India. There have been instances when even serial killers have