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by stillsut 10y ago
Here's some questions on the entrance exam for the most successful R&D lab of all time: http://mentalfloss.com/article/30000/thomas-edisons-eccentri... As you can see, "doesn't prioritize my fav
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by stillsut 10y ago
This comment is a great example of the true problem in tech staffing, which is not being mentioned in any of these exposes. Do-gooders are being instructed that the only way to "improve company culture" is to snitch on their colle
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Bill Gates: BioTerror could kill more than NuclearWar, and nobody is prepared(washingtonpost.com)
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by stillsut 10y ago
The traditional explanation for the economic usefulness of patents is that it incentivizes public disclosure of discoveries, and prevents trade secrets from dominating the innovation economy. (Imagine if the cure to cancer was kept as secre
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by stillsut 10y ago
There are two types of "jerk but productive" and what separates them is whether they are willing, even on the lookout, for things to learn from their more junior colleagues. Example: Un-curious jerk: please don't write anythi
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by stillsut 10y ago
First off, this comment should be flagged for its last paragraph Second of all, Massachusetts, yes Massachusetts, elected a Republican senator a month before the ACA went to vote, in effect cutting out the filibuster-proof 60-senate seats
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by stillsut 10y ago
Hacker: How dare you make me enable JS to view your website Hacker: It's simple: clone the repo, install gcc, then dependencies, open command prompt, compile, now you can do the same thing as Microsoft Word, well kind of. [This comment
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by stillsut 10y ago
This is a helpful brainstorm. But let me explain why I think these are far less worrisome. Take corporate espionage: sure proprietary files from my employer could end up on hard-drive. But that would mean the FBI is willing to in addition t
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by stillsut 10y ago
I really hate to be writing this but it seems like the only solution... Doesn't this whole situation and the threat thereof go away for 99.9% of the population if we decriminalize possession / "viewing" of child pornogra
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by stillsut 10y ago
Milton Firedman's most famous work is Capitalism and Freedom and yet within that work, he completely rejects Hollywood blacklists (or "boycotts" if you prefer). If you consider his main point is that under communism, people a
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by stillsut 10y ago
Here's how to do it: combine dev-bootcamps with FSF. People already pay big bucks to learn how to code, use that to fund the senior devs, the junior devs gain the experience they need to change their career trajectory. This guy should
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Boston Dynamics new robot(technologyreview.com)
23 points by stillsut 10y ago|3 comments
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An AI poker bot has whipped the pros(technologyreview.com)
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by stillsut 10y ago
Request for feature on HN: anytime you write 'Hitler', your comment starts out at -1 karma.
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by stillsut 10y ago
A studious freshman is usually on par with his calculus instructor (Math PhD) in the domain of textbook college calculus. Being advanced(PhD) or gifted usually means pursuing more open-ended type interests and research. The foundational ski
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by stillsut 10y ago
Here's a trick that used to work in 2005: You could search for people with a favorite movie, then filter by dorm. You'd write on their wall, invariably the person who listed the movie would own it on DVD, you'd walk over and
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by stillsut 10y ago
I'd separate hard work into two components: A. The rewarding part of your craft, e.g. the flow you get into when deeply programming all night. B. The sacrifices your craft requires, e.g. the living in the unheated apartment. One thin
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by stillsut 10y ago
BYU and the surrounding "culture" - no drugs, not even coffee!
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by stillsut 10y ago
The roles of statistician and data scientist are not substitutes but more like complements. This guy definitely is a data scientist. Here's some ways to tell: - Works on non-mission-critical components, e.g. he's not doing stati
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by stillsut 10y ago
I believe they did eliminate all loopholes for one day to see how it would affect traffic and subscriptions. I'm able to get this article but not others. I think they might be doing more cross-sectional A/B type tests along this l
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by stillsut 10y ago
Thanks, interesting examples. Could we drill into hyperloglog and how you use it? Is it a bioinformatics app? Otherwise why are you using this approximation technique on modern hardware?
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by stillsut 10y ago
As we know in math intense subjects, being familiar with != performs well on a contrived question, for example you'd probably fail your calculusII exam if you took it right now, at least I would. Even though you might have a better int
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by stillsut 10y ago
This rejection is symbolic of a large problem emerging in the tech talent pool, similar to the "not-an-MBA" that we've seen ruin the management culture. Large companies where you can learn a ton, and work with smart and moti
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by stillsut 10y ago
The analogy is variable naming. The skill they're testing in language arts on standardized tests is similar to skill of naming variables, objects, functions, in programming. Famously called one of the only 'hard' problems in
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by stillsut 10y ago
Getting a drone to play ping pong. More specifically using a tiny indoor quad to intercept a ping pong ball off the bounce. While I doubt it will be able to return the ball reliably, it could be used for beer-pong to defend your cups from a
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by stillsut 10y ago
Remember the author is talking about helping beginners learn programming. Not you, HN user with 10,000 karma, and maintainer of five python projects. There's a case study in the Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma where a c
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by stillsut 10y ago
Sure! That's why I don't get brunt everyday I'm outside between April and September. There's some tricky failure modes to sunscreen though, and inevitably you'll find one of those failures if you expose yourself to
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by stillsut 10y ago
I buy the cheapest CVS or Walgreens bottles that say "Aloe Vera [After Sun Moisturizer] ". Sometimes they're clear, sometimes green, sometimes blue. If this article is correct they probably don't have actual AV. But I&#x
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by stillsut 10y ago
Supermarket aloe vera is a product that changed my life. Seriously. With my cheap Irish skin, I'm sure to get a severe sunburn once a year. I've had one so bad it started to bleed; that one almost stopped me from going to highscho
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by stillsut 10y ago
> swallowing an entire bottle of homeopathic sleeping pills If you wanted to induce a placebo effect, playing up the potency of the sugar pill would be helpful - for example saying "Do not, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, take more than t

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