amitparikh

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by amitparikh 1y ago
Right, and by "reachable" they mean it is theoretically possible to get to this board position through a normal (albeit obviously methodically chosen) series of moves.
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by amitparikh 2y ago
The "projection" can be centered on any arbitrary point, actually. See https://vanderbei.princeton.edu/planets_webgl/GottPlanets.ht...
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Stripe sets one-year timetable to decide on going public(wsj.com)
179 points by amitparikh 4y ago|144 comments
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by amitparikh 4y ago
They already do. Example: https://www.tribpub.com/gdpr/baltimoresun.com/
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by amitparikh 6y ago
For what it's worth, I find third-party logins (e.g. Spotify via Facebook) to be a nice convenience feature that I use quite often.
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by amitparikh 7y ago
The real evil here is that the surcharges are "all on top of the price that regulators have agreed customers should pay for their electricity service." Utilities support basic human necessities. We need power for light and heat.
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by amitparikh 7y ago
Why are human missions so much more costly than robotic missions? Answer: Life Support. If our (very) long-term goal is to stake humanity's claim on other planets/asteroids/etc., then it makes sense to work on improving and
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by amitparikh 7y ago
Thanks. Another example is the Dutch DigID: https://www.digid.nl/en/about-digid/
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by amitparikh 8y ago
> "The Sola TS became concerned about the situation. However, because the Ingstad wasn’t showing automatic identification system (AIS) data, initially neither the Sola TS nor the traffic station on shore could identify the frigate t
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by amitparikh 8y ago
I will briefly add that Indonesian food is massively popular in the Netherlands ("East Indies" being a former colony). Rijstaffel [1] -- literally, "rice table" -- is a national specialty that is celebrated by the Dutch
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by amitparikh 8y ago
They are, it's one of the reasons they [Nielsen] bought Arbitron back in 2013. The PPM devices use low-frequency tones encoded into the audio stream at the time of broadcast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable
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by amitparikh 9y ago
To add to this (and to refute a specific example brought up in the blog post): "learning ops" is not a way to reduce the complexity of software deployment. In fact, Docker exists specifically to solve that exact problem -- in n
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by amitparikh 9y ago
I'm really happy to see commute time in your list (among the other points). I'm a big believer in increasing quality of life by decreasing commute time, something which is increasingly difficult in the largest metropolitan job ce
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by amitparikh 10y ago
This question is actually on the ESTA form: https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-US-visa-form-ask-seemingl...
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by amitparikh 11y ago
"The Super Bowl is designated a SEAR (Special Events Assessment Rating) level 1, an event that’s considered of national importance..." [1] Ultimate authority over law enforcement coordination during such events goes to the Departm
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by amitparikh 11y ago
If 'good enough' and 'usable' @ a price of 'free' is what's becoming ubiquitous, hasn't Mr. Skidmore just locked in on a new-ish market equilibrium?
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by amitparikh 11y ago
This reminds me a lot of a thesis (sort of) from Peter Thiel's "Zero to One". He calls it The Contrarian Question: What important truth do very few people agree with you on? The question asks us to escape from the m
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by amitparikh 11y ago
In Delaware, 1209 North Orange Street is the address of over 200,000 businesses including Silicon Valley giants like Google and Apple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_Trust_Center_(CT_C... http://w
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by amitparikh 11y ago
At Maryland, both the Hinman CEOs [1] and QUEST Honors [2] programs would provide great reciprocal value for YC. [1] http://www.hinmanceos.umd.edu/ [2] http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/programs/undergraduate-
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by amitparikh 11y ago
"FedEx is still faster than the Internet" https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/ Of course, the applications here are probably quite different -- this research grant may be more geared toward building a faster network
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by amitparikh 11y ago
Hypothetically, could U.S. persons who were affected by this breach claim any sort of financial reprieve for future lost wages? I'd imagine those affected would not be very desirable or even eligible any more for secure work.
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by amitparikh 12y ago
I still believe that COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) is, overall, beneficial legislation that puts in place the minimum rules for protecting children's PII. As the Internet becomes more accessible to a younger au
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by amitparikh 12y ago
This quote was not about the reporter or the news outlet. Michael McSwain was the FBI agent in charge of the case, and the reporting seems to suggest that having 'subversion' in Sergey's Web history was a component of buildi
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by amitparikh 12y ago
There is no prerequisite to have a "stable tech infrastructure" -- shoot, there's no prerequisite to even have an actual product! -- for admission to YC. pg has made it pretty clear that YC selects founders , not necessaril
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by amitparikh 12y ago
I agree. Additionally, the words "distinct" or "cardinality" don't appear anywhere in this article, which is a major omission when discussing HyperLogLog. The primary use of the algorithm is to provide a cardinali
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by amitparikh 12y ago
Cool! Quick back-of-the-napkin indicates that the RTT for LEO satellites (at the upper bound) would be only ~4.7% of the RTT for GEO satellites. I'm sure there's much more to the story that I'm missing, but an LEO satellite
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by amitparikh 12y ago
Does this have any implications for the forthcoming update to Office for Mac?
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by amitparikh 12y ago
There's a fascinating RadioLab episode which focuses on various parasites, including Toxo (Season 6, Episode 3: http://www.radiolab.org/story/91689-parasites/ ). One of the key mechanisms of Toxo's behavi
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by amitparikh 12y ago
A "lac" (or "lakh") is a unit of 100,000. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh (See also, "crore" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore )
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by amitparikh 12y ago
The Verge (among others) is reporting that the antenna is located along the top edge of the phone [1]. Photos of the Apple Pay gesture in action on the slides seems to corroborate this. And my gut tells me that this is a secondary reason f

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