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by ajays 16y ago
Here's a better page which gives a good overview: https://github.com/aichallenge/aichallenge/wiki/Ants-Game-Sp...
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by ajays 16y ago
Now all we need is for Verizon and ATT to merge, and Ma Bell will be reincarnated.
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by ajays 16y ago
There is nothing in the letter to indicate that. I get such "would you like to explore" letters twice a week too; and I turn them down also. It is the recruiters' job to cast a wide net and reel in as many candidates as they can.
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by ajays 16y ago
This page is just a thin wrapper, with a link to the _actual_ overview: http://tomazkovacic.com/blog/14/extracting-article-text-from... And here's his list of resources: http://tomazkovacic.com/blog/56/list-of-resources-article-te...
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by ajays 16y ago
.... and he ends with this sentence: By the way, this is going to sound like a contradiction: but I think housing is a great investment right now. Go figure.
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by ajays 16y ago
The "@" command is pretty useful too, for doing arithmetic on shell variables. % set i = 1 % echo $i 1 % @ i++ % echo $i 2 % @ i *= 2 % echo $i 4
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by ajays 16y ago
I'm reminded of the BW cover: http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Technology/images/kevi... My, how times have changed.
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by ajays 16y ago
From 1979 to 2006, there were 26 cases of infant botulism in Canada (whose numbers I could find), and it isn't known how many got botulism from honey. So the data is not there for an "advanced" country like Canada; what are the chances that
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by ajays 16y ago
In India, it's the done thing. It's done to get the newborn swallowing. Typically, a relative who's in the delivery room dips a finger in honey and applies a little bit to the roof of the mouth (of the newborn). In fact, there's a saying, "
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by ajays 16y ago
"Most doctors now recommend honey for babies (older than one) as it actually appears to be as effective. " Here's something I don't understand. In some cultures, honey is the _first_ thing they give to a newborn. Out of the womb, into the d
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by ajays 16y ago
Not really. Employees #1 and #2 (Stewart, Caterina) left a long time ago. Several others have left too. But Flickr's still chugging along nicely: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mroth/5471404089/ I just wish people would stop panicking about
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by ajays 16y ago
This chart from Matt's Flickr stream would indicate that Flickr's traffic is growing at a healthy rate. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mroth/5471404089/
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by ajays 16y ago
I don't see what's the big deal here? This is The Valley! People move around. So many people have left Google, and yet we don't see a "Google fiddles while . . . " headline from TechCrunch.
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by ajays 16y ago
I agree. But psuedo-anonymize it! Just like Amazon gives you an option to pick a name to go with your feedback.
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by ajays 16y ago
As an example: http://www.etsy.com/people/vanessakaleidoscope/feedback?type... I don't mean to pick on this person, but I'm using this page as an example (and it is from the P-A forums, I didn't dig it up). Some users think that "feedback
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by ajays 16y ago
Reminds of the time I wanted to start a startup in upstate NY. We were going to be purely web-based SaaS. I was working out of my home, and so were the other founders. We approached the local IDA, because we were told that they would give g
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by ajays 16y ago
Not enough information. But keep in mind that living expenses in SF are astronomical.
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by ajays 16y ago
Isn't "upto" a loop? The idea, IIRC, is to print the numbers without loops and conditionals.
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by ajays 16y ago
How would you do the same in other languages? It would be interesting to see the same question answered in Python, Perl, Java, etc. etc. Just as a fun thought exercise, and not to get into language flamewars.
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by ajays 16y ago
Color me educated. I used to think that a tsunami was a giant wave which would splash, and then it's gone. I didn't know/realize how slow-moving but MASSIVE this was. So what happens to all this water? Does it eventually go back into the s
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by ajays 16y ago
An example of the partying culture in parts of Britain can be seen in these pics of the late-night crowd on a Friday night in Cardiff, Wales: http://www.pbase.com/maciekda/cardiff_st_mary_street_zone Definitely not "reserved" and "prudish
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by ajays 16y ago
The author writes, "Americans hug friends of the opposite sex, but during this hug only their shoulders touch, and participants end by rubbing each other’s backs as proof that the hug was nonsexual." This is so true. There are 3 types of hu
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by ajays 16y ago
The name is Gandhi, not Ghandi. And Gandhi never added qualifiers to his statement. As a matter of fact, the more broken a system is, the more it needs good people to step up and affect change.
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by ajays 16y ago
What do you use to get the visual CSS rendering of the elements on the page? A library like libmoz, perhaps?
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by ajays 16y ago
If the Instagram guys have read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem , they might be having a good laugh...
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by ajays 16y ago
You seem to be arguing two orthogonal points here. On the one hand, you're saying that America's future will suffer dire consequences if the immigration system is not fixed. On the other hand, you're saying it is such a hardship that people
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by ajays 16y ago
Cached version via NYUD: http://scripting.com.nyud.net/stories/2011/03/06/whatIsADick... Though it is funny that Dave Winer's site went down under the HN load. You'd think he'd have a slashdot-proof (or HN-proof) server by now?
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by ajays 16y ago
It used to be that a dying person's confession was considered unvarnished truth in a court of law. More on "Dying Declaration" at the Wikipedia site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_declaration
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by ajays 16y ago
I was just being silly. I was hoping for an infinite loop of clicks....
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by ajays 16y ago
Discussion in the other HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2294188

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