Hacker News: mkuhn

New comment by mkuhn in "Google engineer finds USB Type-C cable that’s so bad it fried his Chromebook"

mkuhn — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 13:12:44 +0000

He tried to charge a Chromebook Pixel with the cable. At least that is how I read the article...

New comment by mkuhn in "Switzerland will vote on having a national wage of £1,700 a month"

mkuhn — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 17:20:24 +0000

If you only eat Wagyu that might be true ;)

Switzerland is expensive but not THAT expensive.

New comment by mkuhn in "Trello hits 12M users, launches Power-Ups platform"

mkuhn — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 08:04:00 +0000

Maybe not having all these features is part of the concept?

New comment by mkuhn in "Show HN: Gmelius 6 – Gmail just got better"

mkuhn — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 16:14:51 +0000

Check out Streak: https://www.streak.com/

New comment by mkuhn in "Hacker Monthly Shuts Down"

mkuhn — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 11:38:26 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by mkuhn in "Swiss-Based Cloud VPS – For Developers Who Care"

mkuhn — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 16:10:27 +0000

For me these popular badges always were much more about anchoring [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring

New comment by mkuhn in "Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age"

mkuhn — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 18:48:45 +0000

It is back right now and they list the research.

New comment by mkuhn in "Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age"

mkuhn — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 18:02:35 +0000

Today you use the crowd to train an AI...

Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age

mkuhn — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 16:36:16 +0000

Article URL: https://faces.ethz.ch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10844127

Points: 139

# Comments: 129

New comment by mkuhn in "Bill Gates: The Billionaire Book Critic"

mkuhn — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 14:28:18 +0000

At least with Gates it seems that him still being the wealthiest person on the planet has not much to do with his stinginess but with his investments that make money faster than they are giving it away [1].

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/this-man-made-bill-gates-so-w...

Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius?

mkuhn — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 21:52:05 +0000

Article URL: http://www.wired.com/2015/12/bitcoins-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-is-probably-this-unknown-australian-genius/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10699846

Points: 395

# Comments: 151

New comment by mkuhn in "Show HN: Refind – The home for the best links on the web"

mkuhn — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 19:37:03 +0000

Not in my experience. But as I have mentioned in my own top-level comment, I have been fairly diligent about unfollowing the people that produced noise in the stream.

New comment by mkuhn in "Show HN: Refind – The home for the best links on the web"

mkuhn — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 14:07:12 +0000

Also, as a Refind user, I recognize quite a few of these people. Definitely here because of the announcement and not fake profiles.

New comment by mkuhn in "Show HN: Refind – The home for the best links on the web"

mkuhn — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 13:33:05 +0000

The filtering is basically done by the people you follow. They add what they find interesting and that is a pre-selection.

New comment by mkuhn in "Show HN: Refind – The home for the best links on the web"

mkuhn — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 13:18:55 +0000

I am a user for a while now and Refind has become part of my routine.

The biggest part for me is not the repository of knowledge that I am building though - is is the social aspects of the product. A new tab extension allows me to see the links stored by people I follow and the quality of those links has been very high - although I have to be diligent with unfollowing noisy people that do not fit my interest spectrum. The Refind stream has drastically reduced my Twitter usage as I just get my daily dose of inspiring articles and content there.

Mixed-Reality Game Has a Killer Mercedes Chasing People IRL

mkuhn — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 14:37:36 +0000

Article URL: http://www.wired.com/2015/07/mixed-reality-game-killer-mercedes-chasing-people-irl/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9942261

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Thank you Microsoft and Goodbye

mkuhn — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 07:05:42 +0000

Article URL: http://stoddsblog.com/2015/07/10/thank-you-microsoft-and-goodbye/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9868860

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by mkuhn in "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality finished today"

mkuhn — Sat, 14 Mar 2015 19:24:07 +0000

Almost exactly the same for me. I read it when he was on Chapter 87. Looking forward to read the whole thing from start to finish now.

New comment by mkuhn in "Suspended jaccuzzi"

mkuhn — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 21:42:58 +0000

as far as i understand it the timber bridge was the temporary bridge used to support the construction and then torn down after the concrete bridge was completed.

New comment by mkuhn in "Suspended jaccuzzi"

mkuhn — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:32:33 +0000

This bridge was most likely not constructed as a pedestrian bridge. What you see in the back probably is the bridge that replaced this one when a one way bridge did not provide enough capacity anymore and the old bridge was re-purposed as a passenger and probably cyclist bridge.

Based on that it was definitely built for higher load than just a few pedestrians.

Edit: The German language Wikipedia article actually confirms this [1]. It states that the bridge was built for a traffic load of 13 tons and that the new bridge was built in 1993 to increase capacity. The old bridge was thoroughly renovated after the new bridge had been constructed. The bridge actually is well documented and is under protection as an architectural landmark. It was exhibited in the MoMA for a long time.

Based on the amount of prep these guys put into this and the available documentation I don't see why they should not have checked if what they wanted to do is possible.

[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_de_Gueuroz

Edit 2: Some fascinating pictures from the time of construction: http://www.swiss-timber-bridges.ch/detail/193