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781.
by tacon 11y ago
Who knew it was so easy to hack the duplicate algorithm on Hacker News? Just toss in any query parameter, such as "&again" to a previously submitted link. Brings new life to something that was previously submitted less than
782.
by tacon 11y ago
About ten years ago I sat through a funding pitch for a monitor that detects sudden changes in residential water flow rates. Cost was about $250/home, and part of the pitch was that insurance companies would help cover the cost to sav
783.
'Hedgehog' Robots Hop, Tumble in Microgravity(jpl.nasa.gov)
3 points by tacon 11y ago|0 comments
784.
by tacon 11y ago
It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are.
785.
by tacon 11y ago
How to Protect Your Life Savings from Hyperinflation & Depression, 2nd edition by John T. Reed http://johntreed.com/hyperinflationdepression.html
786.
FBI Wants Better Automated Image Analysis for Tattoos(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by tacon 11y ago|0 comments
787.
The point everyone misses about working smarter instead of harder(petershallard.com)
24 points by tacon 11y ago|5 comments
788.
HDTV Flat-Panel Test Pattern(arachnoid.com)
2 points by tacon 11y ago|0 comments
789.
by tacon 11y ago
What a total waste of ProPublica's time. A recent Mixergy interview[0] of MD Insider[1] paraded useless Yelp interviews of doctors as one of the reasons for starting their company. In one of the cleverest applications of big data I&#
790.
How to Reject Engineering Candidates(code.dblock.org)
37 points by tacon 11y ago|47 comments
791.
Measuring Learning in Dollars: How to Calculate ROI Without Forecasting Revenue(medium.com)
2 points by tacon 11y ago|0 comments
792.
Life Lessons from Differential Equations(johndcook.com)
8 points by tacon 11y ago|0 comments
793.
15 Career Trends Every Young Professional Should Understand(barrettbrooks.com)
1 points by tacon 11y ago|0 comments
794.
Five Startup Investors to Avoid Like the Plague(golomb.net)
1 points by tacon 11y ago|0 comments
795.
by tacon 11y ago
I once read how strong spices were one of the few techniques available to keep rotting meat edible for a little longer, before the advent of refrigeration. Otherwise, it was salting, drying, etc. to keep meat edible.
796.
Watson's Next Feat: Taking on Cancer(washingtonpost.com)
43 points by tacon 11y ago|12 comments
797.
by tacon 11y ago
I ran across this comment[1] from four years ago by an accomplished radiologist claiming computers will never be reading images anytime soon, certainly not in his career. Since I worked on an IBM filmless radiology system for the US milita
798.
Medical Sieve(researcher.watson.ibm.com)
2 points by tacon 11y ago|1 comments
799.
Find the Genius in Your Dog(dognition.com)
3 points by tacon 11y ago|0 comments
800.
by tacon 11y ago
According to a recent Mixergy interview with founder Casey Fenton, Couchsurfing tried for years and years to be approved as a 501(c)3 organization (basically, a charity) so they could receive grant money to support cultural exchanges. Even
801.
by tacon 11y ago
And often a good crisis shifts more power into elite hands: http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine
802.
by tacon 11y ago
I think it is rather poor academic research to mention "utube.com" as soundsquatting on Youtube.com, since it is actually the reverse that is happening. When his traffic "problem" hit the news in 2006, I called and talk
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Soundsquatting: Uncovering the use of homophones in domain squatting [pdf](lirias.kuleuven.be)
1 points by tacon 11y ago|1 comments
804.
How to Be a Better Sleeper(scientificamerican.com)
6 points by tacon 11y ago|0 comments
805.
by tacon 11y ago
The Houston public radio station aired a segment on how the City of Houston was all for installing one of these air quality monitors, at an elementary school no less, but it needed some funding from the state Texas Commission on Environment
806.
Village Green Project (public air quality display)(villagegreen.airnowtech.org)
2 points by tacon 11y ago|1 comments
807.
An App That Helps Drivers Earn the Most from Their Trips(nytimes.com)
2 points by tacon 11y ago|0 comments
808.
The Science of Patterns(forbes.com)
1 points by tacon 11y ago|0 comments
809.
by tacon 11y ago
I took Caltech's "Learning from Data"[0] (machine learning) MOOC a couple of years ago. Of course, one of the classic ML applications is loan approval. In one lecture, Prof. Abu-Mostafa mentioned he was a consultant to a la
810.
Frank Wang's Quest to Put DJI Robots into the Sky(forbes.com)
13 points by tacon 11y ago|5 comments

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