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I would love a way to flexibly view and move around lots of PDFs at different scales, to simulate piles on a desk or the floor. For some purposes, something is lost by constraining organization to a regular grid or table.

aheilbuton UltraRAM: 'Universal Memory' That Brings RAM-Like Speed to Non-Volatile Storage

What ever happened with Nantero?

aheilbuton Match Group file multiple lawsuits after repeated failed acquisition offer

a better example might be a new restaurant called Hamburger King

aheilbuton A soft, wearable brain–machine interface

We already have some excellent, high-throughput brain-machine interfaces: they’re called screens, keyboards, microphones, and cameras.

aheilbuton RAWGraphs: missing link between spreadsheets and data visualization

Perhaps if you read the paper about the underlying algebra you'd find it more intuitive: https://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/polaris/polaris.pdf

aheilbuton Where’s the Apple M2?

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aheilbuton Where’s the Apple M2?

The speed is pretty much irrelevant right now

All they need to do is support external RAM so they can make a machine with up to 128 or 256gb of memory. It's easy enough, but for their reasons they have just chosen not to do it yet.

aheilbuton Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?

like DB2 Federation?

aheilbuton Paying my bills with 'free' ebooks

Your parking spot was not in Manhattan..

aheilbuton Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

on a serious note, koyfin is really very nice and does a better job than Bloomberg, at least for equities

aheilbuton Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing

Just an illegal securities offering.

We have laws for a reason.

aheilbuton Dropbox: Tech's Hottest Startup (2011)

Google Drive is a confusing mess, and still doesn’t work on linux.

aheilbuton Ask HN: Can you help me remember the name of a programming language?

Close.. you must be thinking of "C"

aheilbuton A Third Solution

50 or 100 sites, each with say a few dozen liquid handling robots. Let’s say each site runs 200 plates per day.. doesn’t seem unreasonable. The only hard parts are the funding and regulatory requirements.

aheilbuton Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers from Seeing Job Ads

like college?

aheilbuton NetNewsWire 5.0 – Open-Source RSS Reader for Mac

I wish that there were more apps that focused on the problem of searching and organizing archives and tracking ideas over time, rather than just another interface to the latest posts.

aheilbuton Insured price $2,758, cash price $521

They also have a lot more training and responsibility than the average CS grad.

aheilbuton Ask HN: Would you monetize a tech news site like Hacker News

Start a VC firm?

aheilbuton The U.S. Is Purging Chinese Cancer Researchers from Top Institutions

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act

and even intramural NIH inventions get patented and belong to the government

aheilbuton Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B

The kinds of analysis and visualizations you can build in 5 minutes with Tableau (and the ability to explore the space of possible analyses and visualizations) would take hours of futzing to reproduce with python.

aheilbuton Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B

At its core, Tableau is an implementation of a really elegant formalism to specify visualizations, and it's much more organized and declarative than something like Grammar of Graphics.

http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/cstolte_thesis/