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by physcab 17y ago
Sergey Brin gave a few maybe-helpful links: http://too.blogspot.com/2009/10/journey-of-lifetime.html
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by physcab 17y ago
The rule is meant to be a deterrent. I doubt there is any terrorist who has a bottle of liquid explosives and reads the TSA sign and thinks, "damn, I guess I gotta throw this away". While I'm on the topic, I read recently (can't remember w
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by physcab 17y ago
I couldn't really tell what their technology is, but it looks like a deviation of ion mobility or gas chromatography. Either way, it probably isn't robust enough for widespread use, since it looks like it has to ingest a sample, and that j
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by physcab 17y ago
Fido isn't for airport security. It's for small applications where you want to inspect explosive traces in particular situations. As far as I know it's single use, and you have to replace the polymeric/chemical sensor on each application.
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by physcab 17y ago
Note: I do research in explosives detection With the exception of the last one, banning box cutters, requiring people to take off their shoes, and limiting explosives are actually quite reasonable for security. Current detection technolo
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by physcab 17y ago
Although I haven't really delved into it that much, HBase (and other "NoSQL" databases) supposedly address the latency and structured data points. I brought up HBase as opposed to Cassandra or Redis because HBase sits on top of HDFS and ha
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by physcab 17y ago
Well, they do. They buy seats fairly regularly and when the space shuttle is discontinued next year the Soyuz will be the primary rocket for doing space missions. The problem is that the rocket has a very limited payload capacity compared t
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by physcab 17y ago
What's interesting is that despite the consevatism, the space shuttle program, I think, has the worst mission success record. They've had what--14 deaths in the past 20 years? From what I learned on my recent trip to Kennedy Space Center, t
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At TeleBrands, a Chance to Pitch the Next Big Thing(nytimes.com)
2 points by physcab 17y ago|0 comments
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by physcab 17y ago
Does anyone have an HTC and enjoy it? I use an IPhone but I've had to opportunity to use both the Droid and an HTC phone and I only liked the Droid. The HTC seemed super cheap, almost as if it were designed for kids.
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by physcab 17y ago
The models right now come across incomplete at best, so spending trillions on that risks destroying a lot of health, wealth, happiness that those resources could be deployed to instead. If there's global warming, what's the extent of it? H
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by physcab 17y ago
Wow this is cool. I thought you were in the deadpool. Your pricing scheme is a bit confusing. It's very Microsoft-esq.
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by physcab 17y ago
Competition validates the market exists.
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by physcab 17y ago
hah. yah. I've never produced a video like this and I'm sure it's harder to pull off so it makes the viewer feel like you are completely genuine. I wonder if there is a service that sells voice-overs? Getting the Apple commercial guy woul
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by physcab 17y ago
I can't quite put my finger on it, but the voice in the video sorta bugs me. It has that infomercial-ist tone which leaves me with the impression that the product is worse than it seems.
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Collider Sets Record, and Europe Takes U.S's Lead(nytimes.com)
1 points by physcab 17y ago|0 comments
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Google Living Stories(livingstories.googlelabs.com)
16 points by physcab 17y ago|12 comments
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by physcab 17y ago
Although mine was implicit, I don't see what's wrong with casually thanking people in the HN community for submitting good articles from time to time. Today was especially noticeable because I enjoyed all the articles that came from the sa
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by physcab 17y ago
This is an aside--fogus, you are on fire today. 5 posts in the top 30? Where do you find all this good material. :)
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by physcab 17y ago
In Florida, the Sunshine law permits any resident to obtain consumption information of any household if they are serviced by a municipal utility. I can walk into Gainesville Regional Utility and ask for a copy of all residents' consumption
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by physcab 17y ago
I was thoroughly confused testing this out. What's with all the words on the front page? You need to distill your goal to one to two sentences max. Second, I didn't understand the questions and answers even though I know AI techniques qui
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by physcab 17y ago
Music
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by physcab 17y ago
It's an interesting piece of software. I look at massive amounts of data all day and I'm constantly trying to glean out features of the dataset. Having a visual tool that can instantly represent the dataset in various forms would be indis
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by physcab 17y ago
Kinda confused. The user who submitted that Ask HN is an older member, so they technically should know the rules. Or perhaps you meant the discussion taking place?
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by physcab 17y ago
Two big advantages as I can see (there are undoubtedly more): 1- As experimentalists do experiments they often arrive at these same conjectures, but after years of trial and error. Throughout history there were probably mountains of data t
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by physcab 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=550719
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by physcab 17y ago
The appeal of TC (for me atleast) is that they produce a lot of content. The subjective nature of the content is one aspect I won't address, but the simple fact is that they are very active reporters. Like it or not, it is often the first
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by physcab 17y ago
I majored in Physics in undergrad. When I was taking the physics GRE for grad school, it dawned on me about halfway through the test that I didn't want to do physics anymore (likewise it also dawned on me that I wasn't very good at physics
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by physcab 17y ago
I agree. If its something technically interesting, I'd be happy to help as well. I'm also a skeptic by nature, so while this is maddening for some people, I think it helps bring focus.
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by physcab 17y ago
While slightly cumbersome, I think you can create a folder for specific people and then apply a filter to have those e-mails go directly to those folders.

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