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by pitchups 11y ago
Intersting that the split of correct/wrong answers from the HN crowd is 78%/22% - the exact opposite of the general population : 22% / 78%! The HN community does think different :)
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Federal personnel agency hacked, potential scope of breach unknown(cnn.com)
7 points by pitchups 11y ago|0 comments
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by pitchups 11y ago
The biggest challenge we found in working with a globally dispersed team, is the time difference - between say, India/Thailand and the US. When it is working hours in one zone, it is bedtime in the other. How do you deal with that?
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by pitchups 11y ago
How does Magic Leap compare with Microsoft's Hololens? It appears that both are implementing AR is slightly different ways. Was completely blown away though by the demo videos of the Hololens - https://www.microsoft.com&#x2
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by pitchups 11y ago
Heh, and for a moment there I thought Pre-Sense was some Google Tech - similar to Adsense - for monetizing 3D VR :)
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by pitchups 12y ago
Great - thanks! We will be certainly signing up soon. We have a couple of other projects in the works that can benefit from this as well.
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by pitchups 12y ago
This looks great! We recently setup an e-commerce site in India that is using the ICICI payment gateway and it took us over 2 weeks for all the paperwork, setup and integration. Plus the initial setup cost was substantially more than 5K. Ju
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by pitchups 12y ago
Just finished reading Zero to One for a second-time, and it was interesting to see that Peter Thiel's contrarian approach to investing in startups ("What valuable company is nobody building") is very similar to PG's thes
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by pitchups 12y ago
With 20/20 hindsight it is easy to connect the dots that led to Microsoft's dominance of the PC industry. And although the Altair Basic may have led to it - it in itself was not enough to catapult them to their future success. The
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by pitchups 12y ago
Great advice for startups. Except I would say start with a problem rather than just an idea - a problem that no one is solving and that you think is important. That would hopefully lead to building something people want.
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by pitchups 12y ago
The article misses a more likely reason for the declining sales: maybe sales of the iPad are declining - not because the iPad has lost its appeal - but because the market is saturating and most people who wanted an iPad, have already got o
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by pitchups 12y ago
A few gems in there for entrepreneurs: "The public should always be wondering how it is possible to give so much for the money." - Henry Ford In other words, the best way to get more customers may be to delight them by providing
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by pitchups 12y ago
There is an additional attribute that goes a long way in staying an expert in a changing world - humility or acknowledging that you do not or cannot know the future. PG hints at this when he says.. "...admit you have no idea what the
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by pitchups 12y ago
An associated problem caused by a change in the mental model due to reading is the "Curse of knowledge" principle - which essentially states that "....better-informed parties find it extremely difficult to think about problem
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by pitchups 12y ago
Remarkably, 3 of the top 8 executives that run Google - the so-called L-Team (Larry's team) are from the IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology): Amit Singhal(IIT Roorkee 89), Sridhar Ramaswamy (IIT Madras '89) and Sundar Pichai (I
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by pitchups 12y ago
For anyone interested in this subject, highly recommend reading Steven Johnson's book "Where Good Ideas Come From". To get a summary of the book you can also view his TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/st
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by pitchups 12y ago
The argument presented here is almost identical to the one by Doug Hofstadter first in his book "Godel, Escher and Bach" and later in more detail in "I am a Strange Loop". In other words - consciousness or the subjective
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by pitchups 12y ago
Kudos on your success! This may be a bit off-topic but reading your post, was struck by the low cost of your dedicated servers at OVH : $116 per month, for a server with "64GB ECC RAM, Xeon E5 3.7 Ghz, 360 GB of SSD (at RAID 1) and 5
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by pitchups 12y ago
There is a fascinating TED talk about a surgeon who demos a 3D printer that uses living cells to "print" a kidney: http://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_printing_a_human_kidn...
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by pitchups 12y ago
Great interview that reinforced some of PG's ideas that I am familiar with from his essays. The one that intrigues me the most though is that all really great ideas look like crazy ideas to begin with. While very counter-intuitive thi
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IBM Chip Inspired by Human Brain Can Sense Images, Cut Energy(businessweek.com)
1 points by pitchups 12y ago|0 comments
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by pitchups 12y ago
From the Wikipedia article: "This approach differs from the scientific method, which begins with thoroughly defining all the parameters of the problem in order to create a solution. Design thinking starts without preconceived problem
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by pitchups 12y ago
And the listing for the Lunar Lander is here: http://authors.library.caltech.edu/5456/1/hrst.mit.edu/hrs/a... The AGC program, called Luminary, was coded in a language called Mac, (MIT Algebraic Compiler
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by pitchups 12y ago
And remarkably, the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) operated at just 0.043 Mhz (43 KHz) and had just 64 Kilobytes of memory. There is more computing power in modern toasters and by comparison the smartphones we all carry around today are sup
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Listing of the Apollo Guidance Computer(AGC) program that landed man on the moon [pdf](authors.library.caltech.edu)
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by pitchups 12y ago
> Can you provide the full url from which this pdf is referenced? http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102712693
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APPLE COMPUTER INC. Preliminary Confidential Offering Memorandum (1978) [pdf] (archive.computerhistory.org)
2 points by pitchups 12y ago|3 comments
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by pitchups 12y ago
Funny story - when I first started using Twitter a few years back, I had tweeted about some AI news. Pretty soon after that , I had a new follower that was trying to have a conversation with me - it was retweeting stuff randomly and sendin
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by pitchups 12y ago
Not exactly a control group, but among the group of 22 patients who did not follow the diet, 13 or 62% had some sort of adverse event (stroke/heart-attack etc), compared with just 1 out of the group of 177 (0.6%) who did follow the
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by pitchups 12y ago
This is a pretty ground-breaking study, and do hope it gets much wider coverage in mainstream media. I had earlier read the book by the lead author of this study Dr. Esselstyn, "Prevent and reverse heart disease", which describes

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