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by terramars 11y ago
http://www.virginearth.com/finalists/
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by terramars 11y ago
probably too late for a meaningful comment - any screening you do on basic income recipients totally invalidates the point of studying basic income (and basic income itself), beyond some really basic stuff. my suggestion : pick a town &#x2
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by terramars 11y ago
The advantage of THC / CBD is that they have comparatively benign side effects and even help the side effects of chemo and radiation. That being said, there's a lot of pie-in-the-sky stuff around weed and I wouldn't take it
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by terramars 11y ago
(2) seems like obviously the right answer for you. unless you really really love security (you crazy paranoid fucker), (1) will have extra crazy politics and higher probability of getting stuck somewhere you didn't expect / don&#
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by terramars 12y ago
Totally agree with this. Have a friend who had a successful kickstarter and decided to go with China - he shipped a year late after spending most of his time in Shenzen and going through multiple suppliers. In the interim, they lost the f
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ESA Singing Comet Song rendered with my visualizer(youtube.com)
1 points by terramars 12y ago|0 comments
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by terramars 12y ago
This is an awesome networking hack! If you're looking to "meet" a bunch of employers, check out Hired - http://join.hired.com/x/WF25Mp . We placed someone with a very similar background to you (18 years
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by terramars 12y ago
Hired just opened in the UK! Check us out - just London so far, but we'll be expanding. One of the key things for us is supporting the local tech community. http://join.hired.com/x/vn2ki8
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Memo to Microsoft CEO(crainsnewyork.com)
6 points by terramars 12y ago|1 comments
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by terramars 12y ago
re: #2, that's why god invented derivatives. contrary to popular belief, you CAN write derivatives on your private stock options - the derivatives will just also be worth nothing if the engineer leaves early / company folds &#x2F
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by terramars 12y ago
not sure how helpful this will be since we won't have a ton of activity at first, but Hired is about to launch in the UK. we'll be taking candidates all over Europe although we'll only have a London office until sometime nex
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by terramars 12y ago
Full work day interviews where you do actual work for the company are technically illegal. If you want to mess with them, you can file a suit in small claims court for whatever hourly rate you feel like, and it'll be a huge pain in th
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by terramars 12y ago
I might have mis-spoke, I think there were a couple other factors we used, but Aline is right we did a dimensionality reduction before running the regression.
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by terramars 12y ago
You can see the model's fit (when using only the 1st variable, relative salary) in this graph https://plot.ly/~elliotk/17 - there were more variables in the regression but only those 5 had significant coefficients
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My friend was a homeless grad student this past year(lupestan.wordpress.com)
14 points by terramars 12y ago|3 comments
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by terramars 12y ago
Nigeria is the only African country where I'm familiar with the tech industry, they have some jobs available in Telecom and Petroleum for trained locals - though getting one of these is far from guaranteed even with a degree. Both ind
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by terramars 12y ago
Have you checked out Hired yet? We're currently searching for a VPE, and some of our clients have started to use us to look for directors as well (still much less common than engineers or PM, but may be worth a try). We've had 1
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by terramars 12y ago
looks suspiciously like hired.com - but as a resume aggregator rather than talent marketplace. maybe you can convince companies to pay $350/mo for your book, maybe you can't. good side project though :)
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by terramars 13y ago
before i say anything directly about the book, i'd like to point out that for simple systems (like these), the most challenging parts are overwhelmingly data collection, normalization / featurization, and model testing, rather tha
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Planetary Resources to host Asteroid Detection Software Contest for NASA(nasa.gov)
1 points by terramars 13y ago|0 comments
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by terramars 13y ago
totally agree with you. i'm usually on the applications side of things, and you benefit enormously if you can understand the math behind an algorithm (it's also pretty much required for implementing most papers). that being said
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by terramars 13y ago
I would be HIGHLY cautious of using this data as the basis for any sort of decision making process.. There is a lot of heterogenity in the engineering world, and without any sort of statistical or methodological information it is very hard
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by terramars 13y ago
the partner control thing is interesting, but it will be more interesting when you have 2 of them operating synchronously with some sort of feedback loop...
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by terramars 13y ago
This is not "Computational Synesthesia" - it's nice but that is much harder. This is computational synesthesia - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVOD0X4KbYk I'm currently looking for someone to work with
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by terramars 13y ago
i can vouch that facebook was recently hiring people from Cornell for ~$100-$120 starting + $30 signing bonus ($50 if you interned) that admittedly you had to return if you quit in less than a year for any reason that wasn't explicitly
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by terramars 13y ago
Yes I agree. I did see something very interesting a couple months ago about favorable temperatures in subterranean donuts near the Mercury poles. Regardless, Moon and Mercury are both "high gravity" - L4/L5 or cis-lunar ast
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by terramars 13y ago
this is about magmatic water, which is stuff trapped underneath the crust in the liquid planetary interior. you'd hardly call the stuff liquid since it's going to manifest itself as hydroxide or other hydrated minerals once relea
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by terramars 13y ago
Just FYI - I have full copyright to this (never signed it over to anything). Haven't decided what license to use, thinking GPL with commercial option although it's hard to ship Python. If you want to use it or want me to modify
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Show HN : startup failed, here's source (CV/ML for demographic analysis)(github.com)
2 points by terramars 13y ago|1 comments
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by terramars 13y ago
agreed Lagrange point asteroid is much easier than any of the other options. you don't even need a big one, you just need enough of a continuous supply of resources to build a really big space station. centripetal gravity really doesn't w

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