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JacobIrwin

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CubeSat constellations, intellectual property law, and off-planet econometrics.

In NYC, now, via CS at Columbia; by way of SF+Berkeley; formerly of Seattle; begotten in PDX.

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Who are these tech executives sitting with Obama?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: How to build a web app for a non-tech savvy client who wants to modify?

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www.bloomberg.com 11y ago

China Overtakes Japan as World’s Second-Biggest Stock Market

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www.nasa.gov 11y ago

Orion, NASA's newest spacecraft

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www.dailymail.co.uk 11y ago

Snapchat Hacked, Warns Thousands of Nude Images Will Leak Sunday

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dugupmoles.wordpress.com 12y ago

Anonymous poetry, drawings, unfinished works, journal entries, etc. Revived.

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jacobirw.wordpress.com 12y ago

YouTube Now Offering 2160p 4K Video Resolution

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: What is the best free programmer-friendly time tracking software?

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jacobirw.wordpress.com 12y ago

Bill Nye to USA: We Need More Engineers

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www.linkedin.com 12y ago

Entrepreneurship is Not About Creativity

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jacobirw.wordpress.com 12y ago

Emoticons Deceiving Mobile Users

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www.futurity.org 12y ago

Chemical ‘Program’ Controls Synthetic DNA

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jacobirw.wordpress.com 12y ago

MRI Neural Brain Overlay on Brain Parts Diagram

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jacobirw.in 12y ago

Merry Christmas 2013

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www.wimp.com 12y ago

Computer programmer teaches a homeless man to code.

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jacobirw.wordpress.com 12y ago

Quant's Desktop

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www.natureworldnews.com 12y ago

Einstein's Brain Hemispheres were Unusually Well-connected, Study Reveals

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newscenter.lbl.gov 12y ago

The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment | Lawrence Labratory Research

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jacobirw.wordpress.com 12y ago

Jordan Belfort – the Real Wolf of Wall Street

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www.chron.com 13y ago

PayPal looks to conquer space (payments)

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jacobirw.wordpress.com 13y ago

Analyzing Code in Movies – Tron Legacy Does Great

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jacobirw.wordpress.com 13y ago

Mac OS Screenshot does not Allow DVD Player to Appear in Captured Region

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jacobirw.wordpress.com 13y ago

The Beauty of Galaxy Formation (Simulation Videos)

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jacobirw.wordpress.com 13y ago

YouTube has 3D Option for Select Videos – I never knew…

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jacobirw.wordpress.com 13y ago

Two of the Best Web Apps I’ve Ever Seen (discovered this week)

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www.webmasterworld.com 13y ago

Chrome Extension (forces https) Gave me an Extra Benefit - Auto-SSL for Google

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jacobirw.wordpress.com 13y ago

Show HN: My Fascination with Finance and CS – Resulting App

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jacobirw.wordpress.com 13y ago

Autism and Quantum Computing

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chrome.google.com 13y ago

Save Your Eyes on Chrome

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jacobirw.wordpress.com 13y ago

Friedrich Nietzsche on Religion

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I hear you. I am almost up to 18k bookmarks. Not bragging either. Classification becomes increasingly difficult. However, I can rcmd a couple/few helpful plug-ins...

Mainstay:

[Use Chrome Extensions (or similar add-ons/apps in alternative browsers)]

0.) Search Bookmarks (Enables searching your bookmarks from Omnibox; type b-m-space in your omni and then term(s)/keyword(s) for the bookmark(s) you are searching for... they will appear in the suggestion drop-down... or, press return to search bookmarks using Chrome Bookmark Search, which will match the term(s) you've entered): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/search-bookmarks/m...

Two other worthwhile mentionables:

1.) Bookmark My Tabs: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmark-my-tabs/d...

2.) OneTab: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbo...

I submit that "anxiety" here could be better defined as: the mental taxation of evaluating the opportunity cost for turning down each of the available alternatives, given a person's position on Maslow's hierarchy of needs

That one pixel 12 years ago

Try learning the keyboard shortcut for switching between tabs - you get to keep you hand off the mouse this way :-)

[dead] 12 years ago

Great share, thanks!

Note: the 'NotebookCloud' tag near the bottom (in section: 'IPython HTML Notebook') points to a 404 page (http://notebookcloud%20.appspot.com/).

About Python 3 13 years ago

I think you are speaking to a large audience with this post. All python devs are continuously aware of the ongoing avoidance of using newer version. It's a problem that should be addressed even more directly with us all... what are the key transitional obstacles to overcome when upgrading from, say, 2.7 to 3.x? etc.

Thanks for shining some light on the issue.

cmake ..

should be typed in terminal, as above? or ".." should be, what? sort of a newbie with terminal...

is ".." a location ...? can anyone provide a reasonable example (to put in place of "..")?

I tried the install commands, as listed in the README (on the Final Term Github Source page)... and the install failed.

@acuozzo I was running dual monitors and was watching the movie on the tinier MacBook Pro screen. I had no intention of using an image from the film for anything at all. But I always open both screenshots (two screenshots are saved to your desktop when you are on two monitors; again, with the shortcut "CMD+Shift+3") to be sure I delete the one I don't want (i.e. the GUI of the monitor I don't care about), in this case, I just noticed this empty region (where the DVD Player app was running) in Preview right before deleting the image.

@mosteveryoneElse yes, it must be mostly related to DMCA BS. And Apple is just being overprotective here. Since the DVD Player App is native to the Mac OS, surely it is mpy difficult to hide 'designated app[s']' windows when a user takes a screenshot.

I really like the in-depth research that went into the creation of the map. An interactive version could save some clutter, which isn't to say that I didn't find this version thoroughly interesting!

Ask HN: NDAs? 13 years ago

Just a question... but why would you want a competitor to be your advisor? NDA for sure in this case.

Bringing him on board on as an investor, albeit that he is also as a competitor, creates a different relationship. If it is an investment arrangement then there is much to consider.

Best solution would probably be to discuss your business plan (and share any corresponding documents) which does not include overly-in-depth specs, proprietary code/algos, or aspects that differentiates your startup (that he could recreate with his current company, team, technology, etc.).

Inevitably, as the relationship progresses and becomes better defined, I would highly recommend some form of NDA/Noncompete (i.e., whether he takes on the role as either and adviser or investor).