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by otoburb 10y ago
>> Unlike other devices, which are aiming to compress the entire raw HDMI signal over the air, Rivvr uses its proprietary tech to compress the much smaller video feed from the PC, sending just about 40-80 mbps of video signal over the
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by otoburb 10y ago
The GnuPG's 2015 financial summary (balance sheet and P&L statement)[1] indicates that the author is paying himself an annual regular salary of 47,400 EUR which includes mandatory social insurance, plus some subsidized rent for (on
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by otoburb 10y ago
In February 2015 donations GnuPG raised funds in a short period of time due to some well-deserved publicity, but the runway is probably close to running out.[1] [1] https://gnupg.org/blog/20150310-gnupg-in-february.html
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by otoburb 10y ago
>>[...] while now nobody needs M&A anymore: just bet on 20 great looking startups and one of them will become a monopoly. For early stage startups I agree, but the prevalence of acquire-hires and straight-up acquisitions in recent
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by otoburb 10y ago
Investment banking/PE, management consulting, and especially US startup culture all seem to tout similar hours during busy seasons or impending product launches (similar to programming death marches). Although more extreme, is this rea
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by otoburb 10y ago
Arabic and Korean both possess phonetic alphabets. If you define a glyph as a pictogram then you'd have to consider Arabic to be under the same umbrella. >>Arabic [has] different start/middle/end forms [...] As far as I
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by otoburb 10y ago
" Though most of these data scientists are anonymous, a small handful are not, including [named individual] of Buffalo, New York. " Most data scientists are anonymous, but they don't need to be. The datasets provided to the d
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by otoburb 10y ago
Sharing your side project and intentions with your employer satisfies "right of first refusal", which will become much more valuable to have brought up formally on the offchance emplyers attempt to sue for ownership. Also, this fo
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by otoburb 10y ago
Great question, but I don't see this much different from other industries or companies with millions or billions of dollars at stake. They don't all roll their own software inhouse, and most companies (hedgefunds or not, small or
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by otoburb 10y ago
Provided they can deploy the 3rd party solution onsite (aka "on premise"), this wouldn't be seen as a "huge risk".
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by otoburb 10y ago
Using the correct capitalization makes more sense for the HN title because "NO" in this instance and context means "network ordering", which the article then discusses (even though the expansion is at the end of the arti
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by otoburb 10y ago
If we believe the Cacti graphs, over the past several weeks the Montréal QIX peaked at 50Gbps[1]. Your comment implies that the QIX might be running over a mere 40Gbps link, but presumably their aggregate link capacity is (much?) higher tha
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by otoburb 10y ago
I agree with your comment, except for the part about PEI being one of the biggest equalization beneficiaries: Yukon, the Northwest Territories & Nunavut received $24K, $29K & $41K per capita[1], respectively, in equalization payment
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by otoburb 10y ago
Canada's federal government implements a policy of equalization payments[1] to offset & balance "fiscal capacity" (the ability to pay taxes). Prince Edward Island, the Canadian province in question, is a province that is
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by otoburb 10y ago
I love this quote at the 1:07 mark in the embedded video: "To get the [soft] bot to move, half-strength rocket fuel is pumped into reservoirs in the body." Depending on the strength, hydrogen peroxide[1] has a wide variety of uses
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by otoburb 10y ago
>>During the speech [1], Yann (surprisingly) didn't mention consciousness at all. I thought this ommission was deliberate to avoid distracting philisophical ratholes that weren't core to his talk.
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by otoburb 10y ago
Expensive VC capital[1] being the biggest factor for this move makes much more sense. Upon reflection, the other cost savings I listed are simply ancillary, or side-benefits, after addressing the underlying driver that you identified. [1]
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by otoburb 10y ago
Looks like they've shut down their trading platform and are shifting their entire focus to the money transfer side of the business, which allows them to purely compete against other virtual currency money transmitters like Ripple who c
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by otoburb 10y ago
Granted this a rather provincial point of view, but Circle and Coinbase are the only two companies I'm aware of allowing residents of the state of New York to convert bitcoins to cash and vice-versa. This is because the state of New Yo
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by otoburb 10y ago
InstaCalc is great! Love the natural language oriented input for calculations. Tangentially related to the article, did BetterExplained itself start out as a side project, or did you double-down from the start?
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by otoburb 10y ago
>>Looks more like they are copying the syntax (surface structure) of the valley rather than the substance. Echoes of cargo cult science[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_science
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by otoburb 10y ago
In case people are wondering, this is a draft version of the first 12 chapters of Andrew Ng's new machine learning book entitled "Machine Learning Yearning". He has a reddit thread dedicated to ongoing feedback on the book&
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by otoburb 10y ago
Thanks for the study - Figure 1 is impressively self-explanatory. It's interesting to note that the article's author Robin Hanson[1] worked in AI & ML industry roles starting at the peak of the last AI boom in '84 and wit
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by otoburb 10y ago
>>I delete any application that requires all-or-nothing location privileges; if Uber acts this way now I'm done using Uber. This is the calculated risk Uber is taking. Presumably they believe that they will only lose a tiny slive
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$100B Chinese-Made City Near Singapore 'Scares the Hell Out of Everybody'(bloomberg.com)
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by otoburb 10y ago
It's a gimmick that is currently hot, increases usage of the platform, and with most creative platforms could yield a video going viral. The same argument could be made with photo filters (e.g. Apple building them directly into iOS) bu
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by otoburb 10y ago
I chuckled so much after reading the last line in your dialogue that my mouse pointer took a good 2 seconds before accurately finding the upvote arrow.
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by otoburb 10y ago
Even if Antiguia launches the WTO-sanctioned piracy site, wouldn't the RIAA still be able to go after violators within their jurisdiction? In other words, I'm not sure how this "nuclear" option really affects or influenc
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by otoburb 10y ago
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13013281
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by otoburb 10y ago
No, unless you deliberately want to look like you just finished tussling with a toddler armed with a white paint brush.

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