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by huggah 13y ago
Good question. I'm not sure, but I suspect it shouldn't do anything interesting; mercury allows oxygen to move through the otherwise impermeable aluminium oxide crust and "rust" the metal. Since sapphire is already 100%
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by huggah 13y ago
Often data contains structural features that initially aren't observed and without them appear to support a hypothesis only weakly. By exploiting the structure, we can see things much more clearly. An example: say we want to know how a
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by huggah 13y ago
Your last sentence answers the question you pose: the new UI is attempting to train users to use the browser search bar. A huge number of Chrome users go to google.com to search for things; if the new page looks like the Google search page,
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by huggah 13y ago
> they could even make ad targeting work by moving their mail-reading bots to the client Gmail ad targeting isn't a bit of JavaScript that can run in real time in the background. It's a series of huge map reduces touching data
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by huggah 13y ago
I can easily imagine an authority issuing a warrant to rsync.net without knowing that there is a canary in place. It seems less likely for an NSL with an attached gag order, but still possible.
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by huggah 13y ago
Nothing in the names policy prohibits pseudonyms. If your given name is "Jason Ramirez", you're welcome to have a separate Google+ account with the name "Nancy Young". You only have to prove people know you by a nam
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by huggah 13y ago
This would be much more interesting if it asked you about symptoms of sleep deficit. E.g., "if you go into a dark room and lie down in the middle of the day, how long will it take you to fall asleep?" Someone who habitually sleeps 6 hours
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by huggah 13y ago
A few kg of blueberries a day? All my food for one day together weighs less than that. Did you mean grams? That seems low, but kg/week is still way too high.
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by huggah 13y ago
How on earth can we usefully generalize from the experiences of white men born ~1918 who attended Harvard? I think longitudinal studies are massively important, and I'm all in favor of them, things like: "Alcoholism was the main cause of di
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by huggah 13y ago
This is after his first vocal cord was paralyzed, but before the second one was also damaged. You can hear what he called "a slightly weaker voice than normal which some people think sounded a little funny"--it quavers a bit. I was hoping t
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by huggah 13y ago
The objective is same-day arrival, and it works pretty reliably as long as you order by 3pm or so (in my area, at least). More importantly, you're given a clear indication when you order when you will actually get it (you can choose a deliv
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by huggah 14y ago
Without testing, I'm not sure, but I think Mini Kites is actually likely to be a flagged name. The last vestiges of the "real names" policy are really just to keep businesses from getting Google+ profiles (Google wants businesses to keep Go
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by huggah 14y ago
Except for #3, I don't think these measures could be considered intentional. However, I imagine they have a large effect and go a long way to explain the difference between SF (or NY) and most of the midwest/mountain/central US.
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by huggah 14y ago
No, but I work at Google, and I'm interested, so I've had lots of chances to play with it and talk with people who are on the team or are in the dogfood. ETA response to the second question: I'm very happy with the display. That's probably
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by huggah 14y ago
The display in Glass is incredibly unobtrusive. Glancing at a direction arrow (for maps) is no more distracting than glancing at the speedometer--it's less distance for the eye to cover, and the displayed images are ruthlessly simplified so
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by huggah 14y ago
Every single person I have talked to who has used glass for more than a few days has found the instant camera to be the most compelling feature of Glass. The author of this article did as well! In that context, I can't see how it makes sens
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by huggah 14y ago
I'm frustrated at how frequently gwern is assumed to be male. If you aren't sure of someone's gender, please use gender-neutral pronouns. So many of her articles have been posted to HN lately, yet I've only seen masculine pronouns used to r
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The iWatch will fill a gaping hole in the Apple ecosystem(asktog.com)
10 points by huggah 14y ago|1 comments
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by huggah 14y ago
When I was hired, I had a list of five managers to interview with. During the first two weeks after I started, I talked with each of them and decided where I wanted to be placed. It was made clear to me that if I didn't like any of those fi
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by huggah 14y ago
Which implies that this wouldn't do anything to diminish facial-recognition from consumer devices (e.g., facebook auto tagging, Google Glass, etc.)?
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by huggah 14y ago
Considering that fear does just that, this seems like a miserable existence.
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by huggah 14y ago
I think the larger concern is that by providing good gaming resources for older material, they boost that at the expense of their newer profit centers. After all, gamers have a limited amount of time. However, I agree that this isn't really
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by huggah 14y ago
It's really not acceptable that the author of this article can't even consistently use 'photon' instead of 'proton'. Can we stop advertising pop sci summaries that fail to handle summarizing papers?
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by huggah 14y ago
This is great! I'm glad you're experimenting. I don't like this particular experiment, however. I far prefer using space / page down to handle a page of text at a time. I don't see much benefit to your method instead, and among other things
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by huggah 14y ago
Dangerous for humans, you mean. The fact that a species can survive while being so disease-ridden that they routinely kill the animals they infect seems to lend credence to the "super-immunity" claim. I'm not sure this is actually the case
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by huggah 14y ago
I can't tell if you're trolling or not. In case you aren't, a uniform distribution isn't "uniform" in the sense of the above quotation. You're right that it's not less random, but someone looking at draws from a uniform distribution would n
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by huggah 14y ago
+1 on the community aspects. There's a Resistance cell in South Bay (of San Francisco Bay Area) that's pretty highly organized and set us up meetups to go item and experience farming, posts "target" lists (high-value portals to be taken dow
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by huggah 14y ago
Brandon Badger ( https://plus.google.com/114800310452543164210 ) is the Project Manager. He's been running contests on Google+; submit artwork relating to ingress, stories, etc. hashtag them #ingress, and if he like it he'll reshare it and
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by huggah 14y ago
This is an understatement. "Ingress is causing a surge in mobile power pack sales." Might hit closer to the mark. A majority of the high-level players I know are tethering a Nexus 7 to their phone, and attaching their phone to a mobile powe
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by huggah 14y ago
Did you read the post? For him, Ingress is kids/family time. He's not the only one I know playing with his kids. Running around outside, hunting locations, competing against a shadowy opposition? That sounds like excellent quality time wi

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