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by throwawaybbqed 8y ago
Not everything useful has APIs. The most frustrating example in my life is WhatsApp. It is positively horrible. On IOS? Only way to backup your chats is iCloud. On Android .. only backup option is google drive. On an ipad without a cell pho
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by throwawaybbqed 8y ago
As an aside, what would be today's ideal intro to design patterns? Now .. on topic ... I had a roomful of books collected from my youth. I cleaned out my room at my parents house some years ago ... and pretty much everything got chucke
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Instagram founders left because of changes imposed from above(nytimes.com)
141 points by throwawaybbqed 8y ago|22 comments
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by throwawaybbqed 8y ago
What makes swarm computing different from distributed computing?
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by throwawaybbqed 9y ago
Thx for your comment. I must admit I just learned about FIFO/LIFO for stocks. Seems in the US, the regime is FIFO on stocks unless you declare otherwise .. but you have the option to change it (as I understood from a few hours of readi
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by throwawaybbqed 9y ago
I have two questions: 1) If one had used bitcoin as a currency (bought pizza, bubblegum, etc.), are these new "treatments" of cryptocurrency implying one has to report each of these purchases and the tax implication there in? 2) L
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by throwawaybbqed 9y ago
This one? "Principles of Mathematical Analysis"
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by throwawaybbqed 9y ago
Good question ... I haven't seen a great course on real analysis on Youtube/MOOC platforms. If anyone has recs, I would also be interested.
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Cambridge Analytica Files ‘I created Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’(theguardian.com)
88 points by throwawaybbqed 9y ago|32 comments
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by throwawaybbqed 9y ago
I wanted to echo the parent poster. I'm in my 30s and math made no sense as a kid - precisely because the problems were all artificial and uninteresting. I had to fight major math phobia in undergrad. For me personally, the most intere
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by throwawaybbqed 9y ago
This post is sort of timely for me to rant and share with the HN community. I'm a hobbyist with FPGAs .. been fooling around with Altera parts for over a year. I finally got my first Xilinx part and wow .. at least a part of the compan
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by throwawaybbqed 9y ago
Been done already. Sorry. Google for selfie drone. I think you can buy it from the Apple store. Also, people have done drones inside phone cases too. Not sure if this is a great business idea btw.
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by throwawaybbqed 9y ago
The parent comment is actually a good one. I think the spirit of shenzen is different or experimental. We have a lot of regulations in developed countries - many good but some to the point that the president criticizes them in the state of
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by throwawaybbqed 9y ago
Looks interesting .. as a SW Eng, I find Udemy very useful for these hw courses. Thanks for the pointer!
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by throwawaybbqed 9y ago
Cool project! I had always thought 3D printers needed steppers for more accuracy (as opposed to servos). Is it the 3 arm config of the 3d printer that makes lower accuracy servos work? Curious where you sourced the hw pieces?
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by throwawaybbqed 9y ago
My SW eng program did not even hint at these. Is there a good edX or coursera course that goes through more extensive material than the pdf? I'm also curious what tools are used by professionals? Matlab, simulink???
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by throwawaybbqed 9y ago
I'm a recent newcomer to the Bay area. What is the Tsunami situation for places like Mountain View? Places like the GooglePlex are pretty close to the Bay. Is there even any real high ground in the area?? If something happens for real,
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Ask HN: Shenzen tech tours?
1 points by throwawaybbqed 9y ago|0 comments
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by throwawaybbqed 9y ago
Haha ... or more than a million!! One thing I like about CES are the frank conversations with engineers. This year, I reached out to a few people. Had a very nice conversation with Karl Guttag (he has an optics blog http://www.kg
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by throwawaybbqed 9y ago
The companion robots were there last year too (in Sands IIRC). They were also working when I passed them .. singing a creepy old McDonald had a farm. I spoke to a rep and she said kids can get rough with these things so they are targeting s
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by throwawaybbqed 9y ago
Thank you for the info. I noticed that AR/VR seem to have a bigger presence this year .. very excited for that! I'm an early-career professional scientist (on the SW side) .. I must say, I learned a lot about the capabilities of c
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by throwawaybbqed 9y ago
You mentioned CES prep .. are you presenting or at a booth? Or just packing? :) I went for the first time last year and didn't get to see to much stuff in optics (the big wow for me was seeing Kopin modules). Would love to get your tho
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by throwawaybbqed 9y ago
MV real estate is so messed up that people from Google can barely afford it. Why the hell don't companies move to a more affordable place?
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Near ban on delivery robots in SF(thelibertyreview.com)
3 points by throwawaybbqed 9y ago|0 comments
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by throwawaybbqed 9y ago
This is neat. Thanks so much!
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by throwawaybbqed 9y ago
This is a nice toy application. Yay .. something other than MNIST! Is there a similar toy application for RNNs/LSTMs? I don't find the standard text generating application to be compelling. I've been looking for a simple data
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by throwawaybbqed 9y ago
Many knowledgeable people in this thread. I have a related question. I want to compile AOSP and run on hackable hardware (i.e. some dev board). The official instructions are for some slightly pricey board called HiKey/LeMaker. I was su
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by throwawaybbqed 9y ago
They can the webview change code on their platform?
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by throwawaybbqed 9y ago
I'm another big fan. Watched your videos some years ago and it started me on a fairly intense electronics hobby. Your videos on op-amps and radio are simply brilliant. Thank you!!
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by throwawaybbqed 9y ago
Thanks ... this is useful info. I was thinking I'll park the cash in a low-cost market tracking fund. I think markets are overvalued now but better to do this now than waste another decade :/

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