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by rflrob 16y ago
That's the one! Thanks!
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by rflrob 16y ago
There was a post a while ago on HN about how a very large of the people applying for a given job are in the bottom fraction of the total talent pool. Essentially, the good people get hired quickly (or are never looking for someone else to p
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by rflrob 16y ago
With 5,000 owners, it seems like it would be difficult to schedule enough time on it to become type certified. On the other hand, it might be worth it to be able to go through your keychain and say, "... and these are my MiG keys".
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by rflrob 16y ago
Even if you had a continuous wifi connection, they only fly for about 10 minutes before the batteries run out.
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by rflrob 16y ago
I really don't know how good the "offensive to large groups of people" standard is. If there were a Qur'an app, might not a large group of (racist, xenophobic) people find the idea of a book dictated by an angel to be offensive? Fortunatel
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by rflrob 16y ago
I think it's better to say that in science, many of the primary sources are closed. There's been a huge boom in open access publishing in the last 10ish years, so now well over half the journals I read are open access, and PNAS has an ope
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by rflrob 16y ago
The thing is, if you look at the new terms of service, they aren't prohibiting new clients, nor are they shutting down old ones without cause. They just think that this particular niche is already filled, and suggesting that developers purs
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by rflrob 16y ago
As much as this does seem like a bad bill, Congress is specifically prohibited from passing ex post facto laws, so at the very least, "infringing" copyrights that were later de-public domain-ed shouldn't be a violation. It doesn't seem l
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by rflrob 16y ago
It isn't too likely to catch on, I think. Unlike the modal alert()s, changing the address bar doesn't prevent one from just closing the tab that has the page in it. Sure, you lose whatever history got you to that site, but I find my histor
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by rflrob 16y ago
Seems like the kind of thing that Google might want to test before actually implementing. Surveys are notoriously inaccurate and fraught with other concerns, but a "Would you have been willing to have paid a $25 application fee" question o
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by rflrob 16y ago
And it wasn't that hard to find those examples, was it? The problem with the statement in the original article is that it's not clear if they're referring to blocking torrent sites, or links to Diaspora. In the age of hypertext, it's just p
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In Praise of Luddism(nature.com)
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by rflrob 16y ago
In my experience, the Kindle resolution is sufficient to be like printed text. My guess is that because it's black and white only, you don't need to worry about the sort of sub-pixel font rendering that LCD's do.
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by rflrob 16y ago
> Sideways motion perhaps? Now that I have some time to read the paper, on the second page there's this sentence: "The Fourier decomposition of a PIB consists of plane wave components whose k-vectors form a cone that make an angle Theta
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by rflrob 16y ago
How does this not violate the conservation of momentum (and/or energy)? It seems like the outgoing photon must have some increased momentum (proportional to h/lambda), which also means it will have increased energy (~ h * c/lambda), which i
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by rflrob 16y ago
Get matplotlib working and I'm there!
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by rflrob 16y ago
> The wrong kind of reform. I am curious why, in light of software and gene patents becoming increasingly more relevant and flawed, the order in which patents are filed becomes "the first overhaul of patent laws in six decades".
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by rflrob 16y ago
Part of the problem is that his last name contains a couple problematic letters for transliteration. ق (Qof) is often transliterated as Q, but it's pronunciation varies widely in the Arabic speaking world. In Egypt, depending on the contex
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by rflrob 16y ago
I'm not convinced that brute force is such a bad approach, as long as a) you start with the greedy approximation, and b) stop once you know you're doing worse than the greedy approximation. My python brute-force solution runs in .035 s.
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by rflrob 16y ago
> For the $500 that they normally charge, I felt it was too much. Some time this year, they seem to have put their prices at $199, down from $499. Personally, I'm waiting until whole-genome resequencing is down to about $300 from a comm
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by rflrob 16y ago
> not exactly what you'd call "safely" manufactured for an existing fanbase. I'd say a film having a budget of $22k[1] is pretty safe, as far as the rest of the films on that list are concerned. While not a non-trivial amount of debt fo
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by rflrob 16y ago
I think it's fair to say that the Toy Story movies (and possibly Pixar movies in general) is an exception to the Polarizing Sequels trend, similar to the Batman franchise. I'd be curious to see a filter that lets you select films by studio
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by rflrob 16y ago
A neat idea, although I think the pie chart isn't really the right format. I'd prefer to see a bar graph, with the y-axis as (swears/million messages) or similar.
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by rflrob 16y ago
> What other place can you get a more dramatic scene when you finally tell your parents: “Mom, Dad: I’ve decided to quit school & work, and move to hollywood to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming an actor”. Change Hollywood with “
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by rflrob 16y ago
> For example if we have 'n' objects then the first object could collide with n-1 objects (since we don't check if an object has collided with itself) the second object could collide with (n-2) additional objects not counting the possib
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by rflrob 16y ago
If your opinion does a 180 within 60 seconds , though, it's probably for the better that your old one doesn't count.
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by rflrob 16y ago
I think it's neat how, at times in the second video, the wings are phased with the camera, so it looks like they are completely stationary.
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by rflrob 16y ago
> This is a common problem to all passionate people more than only "scientists". It just seems that you find a lot of passionate scientist in academia. The reason you find a lot of passionate people in academia, I think, has a large par
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by rflrob 16y ago
Ah, but the beauty of "This sentence is false" is the self reference, which of course breaks when you make the subject anything else. What you could do is say "this is not a waterwheel", and attempt to get at the whole "This is not a pipe"
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by rflrob 16y ago
To be fair, he's using anecdotal evidence to refute an overly broad, unsupported generalization. Some evidence is better than none at all, but only barely.

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