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Ask HN: Online MasterMind Groups
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by ylem 15y ago
I think the problem is what happens with time. Imagine that you have a graduate in a time when the economy is doing poorly. There will be lots of people out of work and competing for jobs, so salaries (in general) should be less generous.
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by ylem 15y ago
sympy would be another alternative--it's light, it's python, but has a web interface and has a very active community.
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by ylem 15y ago
But you can still do a brute force attack--that's part of why SHA1 has some issues--you can beat it with brute force and enough GPUs.
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by ylem 15y ago
This is a legitimate question--but what if you need to support different versions of open source packages and you need to be sure that they will exist years later. This is something that I'm facing now in that I may be using numpy 1.2.x, b
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by ylem 15y ago
I find tortoise git to be fairly useful for basic commits.
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by ylem 16y ago
Staffed by who? There are actually some user facilities for materials synthesis--the problem is that if someone is making someone else's material instead of working on something that they're interested in, then I don't think that you're go
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by ylem 16y ago
For a fun read, check out: "The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, The Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Feats of Genius" I think it's fu
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by ylem 16y ago
But can you also include the arxiv?
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by ylem 16y ago
I'll believe it when I see it in a peer reviewed journal--published by more than one group. Until then, it's a USO (unidentified superconducting object). If it were real, then reports would be all over the March Meeting of the American Ph
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by ylem 16y ago
What area of physics do you want to know about? There are some free books (for example I know of one on small angle neutron scattering that you can find at NIST)--also there are many lecture notes online. For texts, though do you think it
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by ylem 16y ago
matplotlib has an excellent plotting package and I've been using it in publications.
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by ylem 16y ago
What about J1 visa holders? A number of people come in to universities and national labs from abroad on these...It's already a great step--if J1 holders were added, it would be even better.
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by ylem 16y ago
You might talk to some of the people at the Diamond Synchrotron facility in the UK. They are using it to allow scripting for control of their instrumentation. In my own use, I do remember there being some annoyances with getting a ^C into
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by ylem 16y ago
I think part of the nightmare for an internet company is dealing with the myriad of tax laws--not at the state level, but at the county/city level. Sometimes some cities for example declare tax holidays on certain goods. How do you deal w
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by ylem 16y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. I'm someone who sleeps on average 6 hours/night. When I have experiments, then I sometimes drop down to 4 hrs/night. I've found that I can manage with 4 hrs/night for about a week (it has gotten a bit ha
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by ylem 16y ago
This is rather scary--How does this effect public domain code? For example, if I release some public domain code, can someone else copyright it with a minor variation and then stop me (and others who use the code) from using the original c
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Physics Journal allows Creative Commons License(prb.aps.org)
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Interesting article about the decline of outsourcing(arstechnica.com)
12 points by ylem 16y ago|1 comments
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by ylem 16y ago
I currently have the first generation iPad. The thing that tempts me about the iPad 2 is the front facing camera for video conferencing. I think I'll wait and see what the reviews are like first...
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by ylem 16y ago
However, is it fair to compare student pay to professional pay? On the strictly fiscal side, there is the general unemployment rate to consider as well.
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by ylem 16y ago
I though Singapore, Japan, etc. have government managed schools that seem to be doing rather well...I can't even argue the locality issue because Switzerland seems to be doing rather well also. I think one of the difficulties in US schools
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by ylem 16y ago
Will you guys have an API? Also I guess the problem for the infrequent user who wants to receive a fax is the id problem...Say for example that I want state farm to fax me a document. If you go with a pool approach and match by phone # ex
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by ylem 16y ago
All I have to say is, Thank God! I look forward to using this the next time I have to deal with sending a fax. And once you can receive faxes and do everything in one place...For the dedicated fax #, do you have any plans to do this for i
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by ylem 16y ago
I was in France not too long ago and had to go to the emergency room for stitches. The wait was not much longer than in the US--we started talking about payment (I didn't have my insurance card on me...doh!. Finally, I asked them what th
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by ylem 16y ago
This is cool! I have some equipment at work that I'd love to take kinect images of and broadcast :>
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by ylem 16y ago
I saw it bite some people where I work. It's now used for discussion with potential hires.
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by ylem 16y ago
I find tortoisegit to be rather good for simple merges/commits on windows. For linux/macOS I just use the command line.
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by ylem 16y ago
Or consider a service. Suppose you're ODesk or eLance--do you offer a money back guarantee months later after you've paid a contractor for their work?
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by ylem 16y ago
I am a researcher who's fortunate enough to have found a permanent position at a place that I love doing work that I enjoy. I've served on program committees of conferences, organized workshops, etc. However, I must admit that some of the

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