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Censoring Self-Harm on Facebook Might Do More Harm Than Good(motherboard.vice.com)
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by nkoren 8y ago
I find business failures of technically superior products to be absolutely fascinating and well worth studying. The Amiga and BeOS are two of my all-time favourite failures.
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by nkoren 8y ago
The tl;dr for you is that the Saudi people made more people faster than their cash could make more cash. And as an extraction-based economy they made more jobs even more slowly than that. So now they've got a glut of young people, not
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by nkoren 8y ago
The Antikythera mechanism likely was likely built in Rhodes. Rhodes itself had, by that point, been famous for its automatons for several hundred years.
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by nkoren 8y ago
My 2012 Retina Macbook was on its last legs. I was deeply uninspired by both the regressive functionality and excessive price of the of the latest generation of Macs. So after almost 15 years in the Mac ecosystem, I bid it adieu and got a D
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by nkoren 8y ago
The ships that this is prototyping will need to be able to land on Mars, have any needed maintenance or repairs done in-situ, and return to Earth. No clean rooms allowed. They need to be both tough and hack-able; more like an A-10 than an F
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by nkoren 8y ago
I would just like to point out that this story dropped 18 places in 5 minutes: http://hnrankings.info/18591766/ This is something I've seen before, but solely with stories pertaining to Elon Musk. It is very cle
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by nkoren 8y ago
This set off one of those "hey, didn't I read about this a long time ago? Like quite a few decades ago?" bells. A quick trip down memory lane, and here's an archive of one of the stories I was following, back in the day:
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by nkoren 8y ago
There are loads of insect structures visible from space. These guys, for example, are ALL OVER parts of Africa: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Nairobi,+Kenya/@-1.0892132...
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by nkoren 8y ago
Man, you need to get better co-founders! I agree that Silicon Valley often hits painfully close to home, but that's precisely what makes it so fantastic. My own startup has been mostly outside of America, but we get enough brushes wi
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A Mathematician's Lament [pdf](maa.org)
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by nkoren 8y ago
I've known some folks who've worked for SpaceX, and more who'v interviewed. My sense is that the webcasts are fairly representative of the youthfulness and diversity of the company. (Context: I started getting involved in spa
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by nkoren 8y ago
But that isn't what "majority" means...!
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Good article. The most hopeful thing in it is their response to the development of reusable rockets "We feel a strong sense of crisis." Good. They should. It's an innovation that is changing the industry with extreme rapidi
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by nkoren 8y ago
> One can be wary of, for example, the increased infrastructural strain of, say, large numbers of uneducated third worlders entering a country suddenly, without being hostile to or fearful of their culture. As somebody who is passionatel
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by nkoren 8y ago
I emigrated from America to the UK. Healthcare is the number one thing that would make me trepidatious about moving back, far ahead of the gun violence and even the general political lunacy.
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by nkoren 8y ago
If you are a young person in America, it is. Unless you were born into the top 10th percentile of wealthy households, you are pretty much guaranteed to grow up to be poorer than your parents, and you know it. This is something new for Ameri
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by nkoren 8y ago
In Singapore, 90% of the housing stock is public housing -- including plenty of fairly upper-class developments. They public housing in a variety of sizes and styles, and to suit every income bracket, thus ensuring that there is no stigma a
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by nkoren 8y ago
Huh, I recall seeing an article at one point (can't find the link) where it said or suggested that ML was involved. Of course this could have just been a journalist failing to make the distinction; I've seen everything from linear
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by nkoren 8y ago
Indeed it is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_design
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by nkoren 8y ago
I believe that Peter Jackson's recent endeavour in cleaning up WW1 footage employs significant ML for de-noising, frame interpolation, and colorising. I haven't seen the final film, but some of the clips are staggeringly good: ht
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by nkoren 8y ago
Podaris | Javascript developer | London, UK, | Remote | https://www.podaris.com/ Podaris is re-inventing how the world plans cities. We're developing a platform for urban infrastructure planning that combines elements
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by nkoren 8y ago
This. It says that "cosmic background radiation" dates to 1975, which is weird because that's 10 years after it was discovered. The Google ngram viewer shows it entering the literature in 1953.
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by nkoren 8y ago
Amazing work! But I find myself amused and distracted by the spurious correlations. Eg.: eyeglasses are apparently the domain of balding old men, not beautiful young women: https://imgur.com/a/99WUJ6J
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by nkoren 8y ago
I've put this proposition to my dad and it sounds like he's up for it! Might do so tomorrow.
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by nkoren 8y ago
I just asked my dad and he says that he doesn't have a good answer for you. Personally he doesn't do much video -- just still photography -- and professionally he mostly engages with OEMs way upstream from the actual products; oft
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Yeah he's a good egg. I'm sure it'll keep going as long as he does. His startup actually grew out of those articles -- which were basically supposed to be his retirement hobby -- and now it employs 20 people! I'm really
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by nkoren 8y ago
What the Pixel cameras are doing is staggeringly good. My father is the founder of https://www.imatest.com/ , and has a substantial collection of top-end cameras. He's probably in the top 0.0001% of image quality nerds.
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by nkoren 8y ago
Not the OP, but I'd just point out that all you should need to do is get the stem above the boiling point of water, which is well below the combustion point. What wavelength to use for that could be an interesting discussion. Makes me
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Care to expand on that?

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