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by rm999 14y ago
There's a company that's been working on swappable car batteries for some time now: http://www.betterplace.com/ I agree with you that this is the only realistic mainstream future of electric vehicles as long as batteries remain in their c
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by rm999 14y ago
This is not a new trend, it extends back to at least the late 70s. As a child of the 80s my 'bag of legos' is full of specialized pieces like castle flags, pirates, and spaceship hoods. I still fondly remember building futuristic space pira
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by rm999 14y ago
I actually assumed it was an impartial list. I don't believe he's trying to be misleading, but a disclosure would be nice.
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by rm999 14y ago
>this is not at all like gift cards On a superficial level they seem almost identical, but I don't understand the idea behind Amazon coins well yet. What makes them so different? I've always considered gift cards a sort of currency, lik
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by rm999 14y ago
Untethered (permanent).
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by rm999 14y ago
Sorry, I meant that's how much the student gets paid (and is how I did my math).
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by rm999 14y ago
>this article speaks quite positively about the benefits of doing a PhD. That's not at all what I got out of it. I read that phds provide no material advantage and that they're really tough (in every way, including from a psychological
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by rm999 14y ago
I think the attitude of your comment is what he is dissenting against. Why should we ignore the fact that prominent people in our community have committed suicide? Why should people who bring it up have to deal with anger? My take on this b
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by rm999 14y ago
I'm curious to see how facebook's external advertising network plays out. It would have, for example, been silly to judge google's potential profitability before adwords was established. Facebook's data isn't as valuable (from an advertisin
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by rm999 14y ago
It's deflation. With inflation the amount you can buy with a set amount of your currency goes down (i.e. your currency is dropping in value). Right now the bitcoin is rising in value.
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by rm999 14y ago
As someone who is ambi in several of those categories I still think there's utility in the classifications. It's definitely pop-pseudo-science, but I'm not convinced proper science can even distill something as complex as personality into s
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by rm999 14y ago
It's not a perfect solution, but what do you think of the rear view mirrors? A few people I work with have them: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/2940/?rkgid=275668648&c...
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by rm999 14y ago
Major car companies probably don't want to evolve their cars too quickly at the risk of confusing their customers. Tesla, on the other hand, must quickly turn its funding into entirely new cars. The needs of new and established car compan
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by rm999 14y ago
Bloomberg went to Hopkins as an undergraduate student, and that experience is largely why he donates so much money to Hopkins. A big chunk of his current and past donations went to non-research aspects of undergraduate life (scholarships, i
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by rm999 14y ago
I switched from a job with 3 weeks of vacation (that would be 4 by now if I had stayed) to one with no policy. My take on it is I can take 3-4 weeks a year without feeling guilty. I honestly think every responsible and competent adult (and
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by rm999 14y ago
Wow, it's worse than I thought. Rockyou doesn't allow 4 character passwords so they were extracting the numbers from WITHIN longer passwords. 'asdf1975' would equate to a 'pin' of 1975, or 37489 would equate to two pins, 3748 and 7489. What
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by rm999 14y ago
I wonder about the 2580s (vertical numbers on a PIN pad). It makes perfect sense for PINs, but not a computer keyboard. It could be people keeping their passwords consistent with their PINs e.g. using their ATM PIN for their online bank acc
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by rm999 14y ago
Is it fair to compare a major law firm with an independent software engineer? At my last company (~3000 employees) when I did billable work they charged the client 300/hour. From a few minutes of googling I am reading that typical lawyer fe
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by rm999 14y ago
According to the article, Bloomberg has promised to veto the legislation.
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New York City Employers Can No Longer Ask If You’re Unemployed(observer.com)
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CS would give you the most bang-for-your-buck, especially a program that can let you specialize in machine learning. You may be able to leverage your software engineering positions to skip an additional degree. I've heard people argue that
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by rm999 14y ago
You don't need graduate level math, but if you want to use machine learning it's basically mandatory to have a solid understanding up to calculus, linear algebra, and probability/statistics. At least if you want to understand the underlying
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by rm999 14y ago
>And ridiculous creativity isn't helpful either, what's needed in life is good ideas. I think the point is to separate creativity and intelligence as two orthogonal concepts. A creative person will filter out fewer thoughts, an intellig
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by rm999 14y ago
The idea that scientific research is infallible is exactly what the article is arguing against - in fact, it claims this attitude is a bigger problem than the scientists or the media. Human-performed studies with limited budgets and unreali
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by rm999 14y ago
> Critical analysis of research is science You missed the point in the name of semantics, but I'll bite. Finding flaws in a scientific paper my be taking part in the scientific process, but it is by no means a science in itself - e.g. a
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by rm999 14y ago
I think this is an important article for the HN crowd. Educated STEM people usually have a strong devotion to science, but science very often fails at revealing the truth (dangerously, in a misleading manner). The article points out the pro
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by rm999 14y ago
Yeah, I should have been clearer, I mean activities that aren't relevant to the job - working on an open source project would be relevant to me. But you are right that some things could be positives, like a leadership position in an honor s
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by rm999 14y ago
>I wouldn't be surprised if this guy gets at least a call from every bank out there I think that's funny. My brother works in finance, and I work in engineering. We both interview candidates and we were discussing our approaches recentl
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by rm999 14y ago
It's been a long time since I used Mathematica, but I always used it for symbolic computations (e.g. "derivative of x^2 = 2x"), especially when I was learning calculus and differential equations. As far as I'm aware R doesn't even natively
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by rm999 14y ago
I'm surprised R is on there but ggplot2 isn't. R is great for working with data, ggplot2 is great for actually visualizing that data. I believe Wickham is considering redesigning ggplot2 to use D3 to enable interactive visualizations.

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