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If the following book were written, would you care? Would you share? Save me from a herculean thankless task with your indifference, or hurl me into the abyss with your prospective…

(Happy to remove if this is against the spirit of the boards) I'm a Data-Scientist/Physicist, working on a fitness device prototype (very far from my usual arena :P). If the follow…

Warning Nonstandard Opportunity to enjoy life. Please vote it up and pass it around to the coolest front-end Developers/Data scientists you know! Creative Sabbatical in Maui, HI wi…

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I originally wrote this up for friends and family, but thought the crowd here might find valuable to hear from someone who thinks similarity. As Bruce Lee said so well: Absorb what…

I wrote this up for friends and family, but thought this crowd might find it valuable to hear from someone who maybe thinks similarly. As Bruce Lee put it: Absorb what is useful, D…

Does ruling impact the DHS discussion from a couple days ago? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5321036 http://www.aclu.org/national-security_technology-and-liberty...

"Using data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, the ACLU has determined that nearly 2/3 of the entire US population (197.4 million people) live within 100 miles of the US land and …

Population is concentrated on the coasts. Has anyone worked out what fraction of US Citizens have lost their 4th amendment rights?

I think the author may have misunderstood the claim. Intel was probably referring literally to low power computing (what happens inside Intel's chips) not to low power any-thing-yo…

This has been driving me insane lately. Every site I follow a link to gives me an app splash page. What is particularly frustrating is that usually its a complete waste of both of …

I think you'll find that this is not a useful way of thinking. There is always something else you could try and account for. To save your thinking until you can account for everyth…

If I understand the article correctly the argument is that ZD strategies don't do well against each other, so they can never dominate a population. Therefore they will not exist ev…

I doubt this is as big a problem as you think. If you have any interbreeding at all the general conclusion holds. I would guess that even extremly low estimates of interbreeding ra…

Very interesting! If I didn't misread, a better title would be "In 3000 years almost everyone alive today will be a common ancestor of all humanity." From the story: "In fact about…

Was thinking the same thing. Way to many periods and not enough question marks.

(Don't worry, Steve can take it. He's right about nearly everything else :P) I recently read Steve Blanks post - Entrepreneurship is an Art not a Job (http://steveblank.com/2011/03…

Sounds good. I was over optimistic promising today, though. Look for it next week. I'll post a comment hear when its up.

Thank you everyone for the Up votes and the conversation! We reached six or seven on HN on the same say Seth Godin sent out a blog post mentioning how unlikely it is to reach the f…

Thank you! That is great to hear! Ah the three person system! You can really understand a lot of this by digging into it, so you are thinking along the right track! If you like we …

I'm not a lawyer, but I have been consulted by law firms employed by major activist investors litigating fortune 500 companies. The short of it is, if your worried about actually c…