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by tiplus 9y ago
I am not sure about UFO sightings because it seems unlikely to me that aliens would approach us like this. However, given the huge amounts of exo planets discovered everywhere around us in the last year or two, I consider it highly unlikely
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by tiplus 9y ago
Biomolecules are remarkably fast (picosecond timescales) at dissipating excess heat into the solvent, like heat from an excited vibrational mode. In order to cause serious damage through unfolding, I think, you would need much higher inten
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by tiplus 9y ago
If I got hit by a bus tomorrow - dying in the streets - I would not want to think about how I put 2.2 M$ in my savings account. To get you started... you could try to think about the cliche "how to be the person selling shovels in the
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by tiplus 9y ago
Congrats on your project! What a fantastic idea for (almost) passive income. You might even try to make the payment recurring and sell updates.
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by tiplus 9y ago
I had similar fears in my last appartment building (12th floor) after a deadly fire in the neighbouring tower. I ended up buying a long rope at a climbing outlet and some used climbing gear. There are also more expensive fire proof rope lad
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by tiplus 9y ago
If I understand correctly, the product is the database and its Tensorflow API? I am wondering how this compares to the TALOS-N [1] server from Ad Bax (NIH) with 9000+ proteins in its DB? This, too, uses machine learning to 'fit' a
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by tiplus 9y ago
I am worried about the dust this type of paper might produce when it is shredded or ripped, similar to the dust from rockwool insulation materials made from stone fibres. If I remember correctly, the persistence time of rockwool dust (curr
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Ask HN: Are there any good alternative Google Cloud Platform docs/examples?
3 points by tiplus 9y ago|1 comments
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by tiplus 9y ago
I was puzzled when I first saw cross tab communication in impress.js for their slide control tab (slid.es) and I am still wondering about the proper use case of this feature today. Isn't this a security nightmare?
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by tiplus 10y ago
- FLAVOR: server / all - HEADLINE: remove sha1 PPA signatures - DESCRIPTION: remove the warning "signature by key uses weak digest algorithm (sha1)" and ban sha1 for PPA signatures - ROLE: user
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by tiplus 10y ago
I would estimate the cost for three years like this: - 1U single socket Supermicro Xeon E5v4-2630 10core+1GTX1070 GPU = 1500EUR - operation costs (power+cooling) over 3 years = 1500EUR - cost of 2 hardware admins 160k/year - renting lo
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by tiplus 10y ago
It's phase two (2020+). Once the tech is ready, Uber will have to order at an enormous scale with large discounts from whoever gets the contract. There were rumors that Uber considers Daimler as a car hardware platform partner. http:&
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After the 2015 hype: GnuPG donations total only 9245€ in 2016(gnupg.org)
1 points by tiplus 10y ago|0 comments
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by tiplus 10y ago
The thing that worries me the most is that there is no public mirror of (important) OSS Github projects outside of the US, is there? It is all centralized in one place under one jurisdiction.
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Build the Personal Food Computer v2.0 – OpenAg(openag.media.mit.edu)
2 points by tiplus 10y ago|0 comments
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by tiplus 10y ago
The guy is a physics teacher who invented a small wire bending device which is used to make the glasses locally anywhere at material costs of 1$.
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One Dollar Glasses – Help for 150M people(onedollarglasses.org)
323 points by tiplus 10y ago|114 comments
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by tiplus 10y ago
Thanks, I guess I deserved the down votes for not reading this before.
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by tiplus 10y ago
I fail to see how this is HN related. Any hints are welcome.
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by tiplus 10y ago
Competitive Issue would be my guess...
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IBM Files DMCA on OpenLava Scheduler(github.com)
3 points by tiplus 10y ago|2 comments
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by tiplus 10y ago
That is all fine if your product sits on a shelf somewhere. However, if I understand the process correctly, they run physics based simulations of all the optical components in the assembly, order the parts and assemble on-site at the custom
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by tiplus 10y ago
Sounds interesting, do you guys have a blog at mashtime? What kind of hardware/software do you use for training? Tensorflow? on AWS or bare metal GPUs?
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by tiplus 10y ago
Impressive tech, no question. However, I find it difficult to praise the technological advance of autonomous systems in any killing machine. I could care less about any cost savings for the tax payer in this context but I am glad that the p
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Festos fantastical flying robots(spectrum.ieee.org)
4 points by tiplus 10y ago|0 comments
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by tiplus 10y ago
Yes, I agree (in part). This stuff makes a lot more sense when you add climate / light control. Some plants are very difficult to cultivate, coffee for example (it needs constant temperature and will drop all leaves if you leave the wi
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by tiplus 10y ago
A classic example of an "overspecific dementi",a complex answer where a simple one would have sufficed. However, in their defense, maybe this is the type of statement that expensive legal departments deliver by default as they con
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by tiplus 10y ago
"Snell’s Youtube channel advertises many of the ship sounds he has collected as a sort of relaxing white noise for the geek set" It works! :-) how cool...
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by tiplus 10y ago
I feel that the comments here are too negative, which ST2/3 does not deserve. ST is still a supreme editor and using/paying for ST is not a bad thing. Wasn't it ST which introduced the cool look&feel and features which At
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by tiplus 10y ago
Why does VSCode need a 'Pricacy Statement' (Help menu) which explains how Microsoft shares personal data? I get that it was written by MS, but why would I want a code editor that calls home? Or better ask does it send user/sy

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