superkarn

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Automatic Mechanical Self Replication(vimeo.com)
2 points by superkarn 17y ago|1 comments
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by superkarn 17y ago
I'm tempted to upvote this post just so the other people can see the comments. Specifically the burritos link and the explanation by barrkel.
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by superkarn 17y ago
The company I work for provides coffees, sodas, and spring water. Most of the time I'm happy with just water. But I asked for some healthier alternatives and they started offering fruit juices =)
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by superkarn 17y ago
You could do that domestically also. This could be a way to scale it. Allow people to sign up for "mailer" accounts, where they can print out the letters and mail them for a small compensation. You'll have to work out the privacy issue th
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by superkarn 17y ago
pg's experiement http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=844979
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by superkarn 17y ago
Direction of the TOP of the steering wheel. Doesn't work if you look at the bottom.
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by superkarn 17y ago
St pete, too. But I work in Clearwater, FL.
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by superkarn 17y ago
I think the control would be more intuitive if you can drag the screen like a pdf instead of controlling the camera.
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by superkarn 17y ago
For some reason, I find "4 quarters" to be "cheaper" than than "$0.99". Maybe it's because I associate quarters as disposable and any dollar amount in $x.yz format to be more significant. I wonder what the effect would be if in the App St
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by superkarn 17y ago
i think there are other factors involved also. e.g. in the first example, if he were to say "you should pay because..." instead of "I should pay because..." or in the second example, if he were to say the exact same thing but to a table fu
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by superkarn 17y ago
I've always wonder why we needed to get rid of nuclear waste. If it's radioactive enough to harm you, then obviously there's some kind of energy there. We just need to find out how to extract and use it (which is what the article is about
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by superkarn 18y ago
I tried searching for "pink horse" and "horse" with pink color option and got slightly different result sets. It seems like the first search returns anything related to "pink horse", including titles and captions. Whereas the second optio
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by superkarn 18y ago
Would you find such a feature to be useful?
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Ask HN: Is there a way to know if someone has commented on any of your (old) posts?
5 points by superkarn 18y ago|4 comments
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by superkarn 18y ago
The streaming video example is pretty to understand. But I don't quite follow the encryption one. Don't you need to be precise with the calculation to encrypt/decrypt? Or would the advantage here would be mainly for generating random num
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Microchip: 7x faster, 30x less power(rice.edu)
24 points by superkarn 18y ago|5 comments
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by superkarn 18y ago
Except the Kindle's entry price is still quite high (at least for me).
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by superkarn 18y ago
That picture should really be on your "about us" page =)
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by superkarn 18y ago
There are trade offs between reading time and reading comprehension. For example you can skim through a short story in one minute and come away with 75%. Or you can read through the same story in 5 minutes and come away with 90% (made up
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by superkarn 18y ago
I think a lot of it has to do with your interests. For example, you're a HN reader and you come away with "Yellowstone == supervolcano." A new mom would probably read the quoted text and think "Yellowstone is dangerous, don't take the fam
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by superkarn 18y ago
Shout out to Loc and Ben too. How are you three doing?
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by superkarn 18y ago
Imagine a similar but slightly different scenario: We now have two contestants: Mr A and Mr B. Mr A is the contestant in the original story. He gets to pick a door. The host then opens a door with a goat (and removes it from the stage).
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by superkarn 18y ago
I'm Thai and have been back there a few times the past few years. One time, I stayed at a resort on Koh Chang (Elephant Island, a few hours east of Bangkok). It was pretty nice, and relatively cheap. And it had wifi. Make sure the room y
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Posterous.com (YC Summer 2008) launches custom domain name(blog.posterous.com)
5 points by superkarn 18y ago|2 comments
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by superkarn 18y ago
Props to those guys. This reminds me of Wufoo who are also known for excellent customer service. Kevin came to talk to us yesterday about their company's focus on the customers. I hope that our industry as a whole starts moving in this di
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by superkarn 18y ago
I like Hacker News comment system (though presentation could be better). I like the fact that you see the most relevant comments first. Whereas most other comment systems (even those with points) are chronological. ps Digg just updated th
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by superkarn 18y ago
It's a form of censorship, albeit a subtle one with possibly good reasons. That's reason I voted for "Remain visible to Yahoo, MSN search." Had option two been "Be invisible to all search engines.", then I would've voted for that one. But
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by superkarn 18y ago
I voted to remain visible. I assume that resource is not a problem for YC. This fact, coupled with YC not having a search feature, leads me to believe that it's better for YC community that this site is indexed by more than just one search
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by superkarn 19y ago
I agree that good ideas shouldn't die just because people can't find co-founders. ...But then again, some people don't want or are better off without partners.