Hacker News: gsivil

China prepares for launch, names female astronaut

gsivil — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:43:48 +0000

Article URL: http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/15/world/asia/china-space-launch/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4117690

Points: 1

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New comment by gsivil in "MIT Researchers Produce Micro-Light that Outputs More Power Than Applied"

gsivil — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:00:34 +0000

I am sorry that I cannot elaborate more on that for now(4am) but the cooling effects of light are known for quite some time already. Please check laser cooling as a keyphrase.

New comment by gsivil in "Rms has his bag stolen in Argentina"

gsivil — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:34:15 +0000

I am not so sure that rms cannot afford a laptop. He is in need of more free models to choose from than a few bucks

New comment by gsivil in "Show HN: Script Excel with Python"

gsivil — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:02:33 +0000

This can be a deal breaker for long long time

New comment by gsivil in "Samsung invests $500K in Linux Foundation to battle iOS"

gsivil — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 08:33:09 +0000

If you take into account the overheads ;)

New comment by gsivil in "Open Garden: Share bandwidth; reduce network congestion—if carriers don't revolt"

gsivil — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:44:45 +0000

I would wholeheartedly make 10-20% of my bandwidth available if there was a safe and organized way

New comment by gsivil in "Mathics - A free, light-weight alternative to Mathematica with support for Sage"

gsivil — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 05:31:07 +0000

Sad that once more the most upvoted comment is negative. Congratulations for attacking a problem like this one.

New comment by gsivil in "Elon Musk's determination"

gsivil — Sun, 27 May 2012 01:27:30 +0000

Maybe for the YCS01 batch

Eugene Polley inventor of TV remote control dies

gsivil — Thu, 24 May 2012 09:31:23 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/business/eugene-t-polley-inventor-of-the-wireless-tv-remote-dies-at-96.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4017559

Points: 1

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New comment by gsivil in "I'm leaving the Internet for a year"

gsivil — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:27:30 +0000

I will be running the marathon under three hours. Top comment: It has been done before

New comment by gsivil in "IBM 1959 Job Post"

gsivil — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 03:38:15 +0000

Among the other achievements of IBM I would like to mention the 4 Nobel prizes(3 in Physics):

http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/awards.shtml

Researchers find possible evidence of Majorana fermions

gsivil — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:36:50 +0000

Article URL: http://phys.org/news/2012-04-evidence-majorana-fermions.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3841778

Points: 1

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The quietest place on earth

gsivil — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:53:17 +0000

Article URL: http://m.neatorama.com/2012/04/08/the-quietest-place-on-earth-can-drive-you-mad-in-less-than-an-hour/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3821238

Points: 1

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Google’s Chrome OS Will Soon Look More Like Windows Than A Browser

gsivil — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:23:34 +0000

Article URL: http://m.techcrunch.com/2012/04/09/googles-chrome-os-will-soon-look-more-like-windows-than-a-browser/?icid=tc_home_art&

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3821162

Points: 1

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This week's 8 TeV collision most powerful so far

gsivil — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 01:10:30 +0000

Article URL: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/04/is-cern-closer-to-finding-the-higgs-this-weeks-8-tev-collision-most-powerful-in-human-history.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3812675

Points: 1

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ΜΙΤ researcher sues US after search of laptop

gsivil — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:48:23 +0000

Article URL: http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N16/house.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3809437

Points: 4

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New Wikipedia app for iOS (and an update for the Android App)

gsivil — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:40:28 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/05/new-wikipedia-app-for-ios-and-an-update-for-our-android-app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3807063

Points: 1

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New comment by gsivil in "Dropbox adds drag and drop"

gsivil — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 05:44:07 +0000

And it is also now that you can get in retrospect the referral bonuses.

Google Scholar Metrics for Publications

gsivil — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:20:52 +0000

Article URL: http://googlescholar.blogspot.com/2012/04/google-scholar-metrics-for-publications.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3796795

Points: 25

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Wanna Make It In The Valley? Better Eat Your Kale

gsivil — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 01:22:45 +0000

Article URL: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/03/opinion-hartz-entrepreneurs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3785752

Points: 2

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