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by olympus 11y ago
A little bit of both. A US citizen can sue foreign nationals in US courts, but a judgement can't be enforced unless the foreign national steps foot in the US or has a US based asset. In this case, the .org domain is controlled on US
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by olympus 11y ago
The standard for physics reporting on things like this is "five sigma" or that the test statistic in their hypothesis test must be greater than 5. Since this is a one-tailed test, this corresponds to a p-value smaller than 0.0000
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by olympus 11y ago
Not observing any gravitational waves wouldn't prove that gravitational waves didn't exist, so there wouldn't be nearly as much fuss and news articles written. Imagine the press release: "Jury still out on existence of
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by olympus 11y ago
Several replies? Only one person addresses discretionary research funds. Every other commenter quotes the article but is focused on the subject of that thread (mistaking volunteer hours for money spent). MaggieL wrote: > So...how muc
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by olympus 11y ago
Weird that nobody has mentioned this yet: The article claims that Prof. Edwards spent $147k from his discretionary research funds and personal funds. He's still a good guy and has probably used a non-trivial amount of his own money
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by olympus 11y ago
That's harsh pinkrooftop. I'm not a startup employee or founder, and I read HN because I find the non-startup related submissions interesting. I was deployed at the end of 2012-2013 and my boss called ISIS as a big threat even a
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by olympus 11y ago
Also, yes. But considering that women are marginalized in several of the competing companies as well (Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc.) I don't think it's a differentiating factor.
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by olympus 11y ago
This makes so much sense that I am afraid it will happen. It's not like the US hasn't gotten in bed with unpopular countries before, and what the government really wants is for the major geopolitical power in the Middle East to b
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by olympus 11y ago
I obviously can't prove any of this since I don't have inside evidence, but my theory (explained below) is supported by a few ideas reported by the news: 1. When ISIS moves into a city they appropriate everything of value. During
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by olympus 11y ago
This is fun, but I see it as a little "unfair" to previous mathematicians because saying "it's never been done before" kind of says that people couldn't figure out how to do it. The traditional pizza slicing
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by olympus 11y ago
This issue is easy to blow off as "you know what I mean" but it's an important signal that someone has formed an opinion without being fully educated on the topic. Climate scientists would prefer to debate global warming with
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by olympus 11y ago
Not sure about this one, but the Liberator is fairly durable. The frame lasted indefinitely while the barrel needed replacing after just a few shots. It is pretty easy to print a dozen replacement barrels in a night. The design of this gu
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by olympus 11y ago
Short answer: No. Long answer: Looking at the code, this is written in pure Julia and nothing in place for running on a GPU. You could (re)write it but I'm guessing that's not what you meant when you asked. Look at Mocha.jl if y
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by olympus 11y ago
It's not enough to power a thermostat. µW is microwatts. WiFi radios need milliwatts. As jimrandomh mentioned, the levels of power here are the same as what a watch battery can provide for eight years. Watches don't even run o
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by olympus 11y ago
Is it really "game-changing?" You can only use it for low power devices which could also be powered by a small lithium battery for a year. So preventing me from having to change a battery once a year is now game changing?
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by olympus 11y ago
I know. I interpreted this article as: 6 year old kindergartners are more mature than 5 year old kindergartners. Perhaps they are as mature as 6 year old first graders. Delaying putting your kid into kindergarten is just giving them more
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by olympus 11y ago
From previous experience, having to exclude communications from a single entity (or single type of entity) is not going to shut anything down. Case in point: It is unconstitutional to conduct surveillance on US citizens without a warrant.
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by olympus 11y ago
Well if it's the only offer, then take it. Working for a bank is better than working at the local pizza joint for a summer job. The money is a lot better. The unique experience you'll get at a bank is the auditing (in the code
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by olympus 11y ago
I'll add my thoughts on the topic of "how do you know when you're out of the danger zone and can start marketing yourself as a machine learning expert?" Do competitions on kaggle (or find them on other sites, but kaggle
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by olympus 11y ago
Here are two low cost options (I recommend #1 for most people and #2 if you have an impressive beard): 1. The esp8266 like you have already mentioned. Get one with a u.fl connector and make your own cantenna to attach to it. You can use t
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by olympus 11y ago
Actually each ascii character takes up a byte (8 bits). You can get this down to just 7 bits if you aren't using the extended table, but a byte is very convenient and what most programs use for the size of a char. That means that with
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by olympus 11y ago
It comes from the fact that the Mainline DHT is specifically about BitTorrent nodes and who has which torrents. The client programs don't just pass information around willy-nilly.
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by olympus 11y ago
Yeah, but if other nodes aren't passing it around it won't get distributed right? The client nodes aren't passing around information for more than 10 minutes unless they have a good reason (aka announcing torrents) so it w
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by olympus 11y ago
You're probably better off using the BitCoin blockchain (which is a distributed network). It's well documented that you can include data in BitCoin transactions and pretty secure. But I'd bet you could store information in t
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by olympus 11y ago
What's your callsign? I'll see if I can pick you up with my RTL-SDR+Ham-it-up and maybe once I have my ham license I'll talk back. Every now and then I find a post on HN that really makes my day and I realize how awesome th
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by olympus 11y ago
Sure, you can hook up a low power serial transmitter to a Raspberry Pi's UART and have a text only console to operate over. But you are pretty much limited to text only and very slow file transer over a serial transmission like Kermit
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by olympus 11y ago
Like the author mentioned, these are new-ish/emerging standards and there isn't a de-facto board like Arduino just yet. Therefore it's kind of hard to recommend a board that I know has a ton of documentation and a big commun
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by olympus 11y ago
Something important to consider is whether this beat analyst expectations or not. Your earnings could grow by 20%, but if the stock had priced in 25% growth then you'll still see your stock drop after a report. Anybody know whether th
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by olympus 11y ago
Put aside for a moment the racist implications of the bylaws and consider just the legality of listing the house publicly: I think the league can legally prevent the listing. They own the land on which the house stands. In cases like thes
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by olympus 11y ago
But the SF86 isn't actually classified. It's just Privacy Act information and FOUO. The Privacy Act says how to protect other people's information and FOUO means "For Official Use Only," but he's not breaking

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