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thinkwearables.com 12y ago

First week with Google Glass

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techcrunch.com 13y ago

Pinfluencer is now Piqora - launching social Gallery

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Who sent out GitHub's security notice during the iPad3 announcement?

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troysimpson.co 15y ago

Google +1 will be Google's first success in social.

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troysimpson.co 15y ago

Evolving from online hunter-gatherers

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troysimpson.co 15y ago

The medium is the message

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troysimpson.co 15y ago

The importance of branding - you don't get fired for buying IBM

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troysimpson.co 15y ago

Outsmart your brain by knowing when you are wrong

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troysimpson.co 15y ago

Branding - Why I ate McDonald's in Kuala Lumpur

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troysimpson.co 15y ago

BlackBerry Tablet announced - video and links

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troysimpson.co 15y ago

Why Apple mice suck, and what they could do to fix it.

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techcrunch.com 15y ago

Google acquires Toronto startup SocialDeck (social gaming platform)

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lifehacker.com 16y ago

Impressive 37 signals pitch video explains the problem and solution

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www.wavegigs.com 16y ago

Wave Gigs

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news.ycombinator.com 17y ago

Review my twitter app - twitpare.com

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Ask YC: Founder agreements

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news.ycombinator.com 17y ago

Ask YC: Advisors

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www.technologyreview.com 17y ago

Teaching robots

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www.gameroo.nl 17y ago

Waste an afternoon...'programming' with this game

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gizmodo.com 17y ago

Birds-nest BSOD during Olympic cermonies

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AOL Officially Worthless?

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www.reuters.com 17y ago

Google sells Performics search marketing to French company Publicis

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www.torontolife.com 18y ago

Trader hacks the system - and gets squashed by the giants

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news.ycombinator.com 18y ago

Ask HN: How to keep organized and on target

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Ask YC: SEO/Google results

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www.davidcramer.net 18y ago

Django - Database logging for exceptions.

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www.djangosnippets.org 18y ago

Solve your character encoding woes for all your Django models

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effbot.org 18y ago

Windows' annoying characters, and how to abolish them (in Python)

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digg.com 18y ago

Digg comments about how to disagree, slightly different from News.YC

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news.ycombinator.com 18y ago

YC Advice: Travel

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Why is that all considered "money laundering" rather than investing? There was a forcing function on getting money out of HK prior to China taking over, but that seems more diversifying than "laundering".

Similarly, many Canadians own rental properties (often bought without viewing them) in Florida and Phoenix. Planes full of these folks used to head to those regions for a few weeks or a month in winter months.

Imagine you were able to find the magical instrument to bet on this event. Let's simplify and say its based on shorting both RMB:USD and these secondary foreign real estate markets. (the details don't really matter much for this argument)

I first heard this IDENTICAL storyline in 2002. This magical instrument has been shit over the last 20 years. RMB:USD is suspiciously flat by design. Real estate in Canada as mentioned has skyrocketed.

The long term bet you are proposing has failed 4 for 4. Your near term bet has failed 10+ out of 10+.

I think the part that Elon, and the engineer, are trying to express that you are looking past is "A dot product with some memory attached" is what they need to do low latency image inference on the camera data.

They don't need a multipurpose CPU/GPU, they have a single well defined task that dominates their compute needs. They built a chip to do this that is cost and power effective, and redundant for safety.

Their rates are far lower than whole genome sequencing because it is a "Genotyping chip" or SNP Array.

They don't sequence your genome, they look for about 600,000 common SNPs.

If you do get your whole genome sequenced (as opposed to the outdated exome sequencing), you will get a lot of data but it will be difficult to utilize. 23andme has survey data + lots of customers, and can do this type of statistical genome-wide association studies (GWAS). With your whole genome, you will have much higher resolution data about yourself, but limited ability to leverage the additional data.

Why don't you like the guy? I am always surprised that people could have a net negative opinion on someone who is trying hard to push technology forward in multiple directions.

I agree this move is brilliant, and could be a huge competitive advantage when self-driving bad press liability kicks in.

The rules for driving in snow are pretty simple. Go slow, pump the brakes, give a bigger safety cushion for obstacles.

The problem is likely around vision. A lot of winter driving is done at an unsafe level of visibility.

It is probably better having non static rules for roads. Snow should reduce speed limits, and white out conditions should be used for emergency travel only.

Unless you can utilize radar to obtain better visibility than human drivers, in which case you could probably drastically reduce the number of winter accidents.

I have several friends who have said that they feel more safe walking around alone at night due to the cameras, when compared to major north american cities.