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by squigs25 12y ago
If people had a problem with this comment: 1. This was removed from the homepage shortly after I posted this comment. 2. An answer explaining to me why this is appropriate would have probably been more helpful.
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by squigs25 12y ago
Really cool! But why is this on Hacker News?
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Bill Gates: Many Jobs Will Soon Be Replaced By Software Bots(businessinsider.com)
2 points by squigs25 12y ago|0 comments
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by squigs25 13y ago
Sorry - was away for a while. The drag FORCE will be the same, but the lighter car will deaccel faster as I clearly stated above. F=m*a thus: F/m = a Think of it like this: it's really easy to push a car that weighs one pound. Mu
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by squigs25 13y ago
TO answer everyone's questions below, think about the following example: You have one car that's 1,000 lbs and one that's 10,000 lbs. When you start each car, it will take a lot more energy to bring the 10k lb car up to the s
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by squigs25 13y ago
exactly my point - this is purely a marketing stunt.
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by squigs25 13y ago
Actually, nope! While it requires more initial force, that extra energy due to added mass is stored in kinetic energy, and contrary to popular belief, it does not affect efficiency. There was actually a myth busters episode about this. Elec
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by squigs25 13y ago
It's really difficult to emphasize how excessive this is. As a mechanical engineer, I knew just by reading the title that this is really excessive, because the titanium alloy used is definitely a marketing stunt. Titanium has unbelieva
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Cracking China's Skype Surveillance Software (2013)(businessweek.com)
2 points by squigs25 13y ago|0 comments
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by squigs25 13y ago
Wow! This is really cool. In statistics and machine learning this would be considered an unbalanced data set: predicitng who will start a company when the vast majority of people will not is a very difficult task. It's similar to predi
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by squigs25 13y ago
This is a really good point. In the context of the headline however, it's listed in a string of characteristics which would normally be considered obstacles which the founder overcame, and I do not see gender as an obstacle.
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by squigs25 13y ago
This is a really impressive story. I wish we got more background about the 2010 era, before she hired engineers in San Francisco? Was this site completely freelancer developed initially? How many users did she get before shipping out to cal
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by squigs25 13y ago
Why is it relevant that she's female?
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by squigs25 13y ago
"because it's the right thing to do" The right thing to do is fund the best concepts that exist. I don't care if they're all women founded or all men founded. The reason there aren't more women founders is the
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by squigs25 13y ago
Haha, yeah I guess they found that architecture might be a bit too valuable to open source
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Sergey Brin's Home Page(infolab.stanford.edu)
145 points by squigs25 13y ago|60 comments
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by squigs25 13y ago
Regarding munis, Lumesis is trying to hack this space... Not sure what their penetration is, although I think there's potential here.
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by squigs25 13y ago
good points, and great article! Maybe you know better than I do, were Neal Goldman and co-founders originally Bloomberg guys?
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by squigs25 13y ago
This IS the reason capital IQ started. They've done reasonably well. There are a couple reasons why it's really difficult to disrupt this industry: 1) An mvp won't cut it. If I'm a trader with 300MM in my pocket, then I
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by squigs25 13y ago
If only they had made this more ergonomically possible
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Identity Resolution: matching and deduping entities (2010)(himss.eu)
1 points by squigs25 13y ago|0 comments
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by squigs25 13y ago
It's been about 15 minutes now: https://twitter.com/search?q=%40pinterest&src=typd
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Pinterest is down(isitup.org)
1 points by squigs25 13y ago|2 comments
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by squigs25 13y ago
really cool? yes. Impractical? probably? Scanning earth using satellites is really cool. Maybe they're outsourcing this to a central company, and paying a hundred bucks per store per month. fine. But to be honest, there are some more
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by squigs25 13y ago
I think there's way too much emphasis on volume here. Sure, if price swings wildly, there will be a large volume associated with it, but if there's a large spike in volume it doesn't necessarily mean a big change in price. So
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by squigs25 13y ago
Kx's Q is used widely in finance. Pretty funky, but I used it a bit in my last job.
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by squigs25 13y ago
I agree with this. Look, if you don't enjoy programming/data/technology then you're probably in the wrong field. But I think it's ok to have to force yourself to work on the stuff you don't enjoy as much. You j
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by squigs25 13y ago
I think human brains are probably wired for speed over accuracy too. This might have a lot of potential in machine learning and eventually AI, where information processing speed is often more important than accuracy.
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by squigs25 13y ago
condensate on the ice will add to the glass, making it impossible to answer this question without knowing the humidity and temperature.
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by squigs25 13y ago
It's always shocking to me how many people just assume that a login/password system should store everything in plain text. This was a pretty good explanation of the right way to hash. One problem though with this guide, some exper

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