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The future of pedestrian navigation (mobile augmented reality ala Photosynth)(occipital.com)
1 points by bd 17y ago|0 comments
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Age and Great Invention(kellogg.northwestern.edu)
12 points by bd 17y ago|2 comments
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by bd 17y ago
There were actually two different reports: one about general entrepreneurial activity index (3D graph) [1] and another one more specific about tech companies (39 years median age of founder, $1MM revenue) [2]. While your critique is probabl
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by bd 17y ago
More findings from this study are here: http://www.kauffman.org/research-and-policy/education-and-te...
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The Young Entrepreneur Myth(paul.kedrosky.com)
48 points by bd 17y ago|33 comments
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E3 2009: Lionhead’s Project Milo Tech Demo(crunchgear.com)
1 points by bd 17y ago|0 comments
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PatchMatch: amazing interactive content-aware image editing (SIGGRAPH 09)(cs.princeton.edu)
39 points by bd 17y ago|4 comments
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Clocks, Kids, and General Relativity on Mt Rainier(leapsecond.com)
86 points by bd 17y ago|19 comments
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by bd 17y ago
You can see the process and the end result in a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d2-PtK4F6Y Also, if you are interested in procedural cities generation, there is a very cool Swiss startup: http://www.procedural.com It's a spin-off
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by bd 17y ago
Awesome. And there are plenty more cities linked from the frontpage (just hover over blue links in two rows): http://edushi.com For example: http://beijing.edushi.com http://hongkong.edushi.com Some even have tiny animations - cars, b
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by bd 18y ago
Also, from mynameishere's Wikipedia reference: "The end of the Flynn effect?: A study of secular trends in mean intelligence test scores of Norwegian conscripts during half a century" http://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.intell.2004.06.004 Aft
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Advice for Graduate Students: Suggestions for a Basic-Research Career(psychology.buffalo.edu)
39 points by bd 18y ago|9 comments
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by bd 18y ago
Here you are: http://www.google.co.uk/logos/yuri_gagarin.gif And they also did Sputnik: http://www.google.com/logos/google_sputnik.gif
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by bd 18y ago
"Symptoms of the disorder first appeared while he was enrolled at Cambridge; he lost his balance and fell down a flight of stairs, hitting his head. Worried that he would lose his genius, he took the Mensa test to verify that his intellect
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by bd 18y ago
"When we raised our first Union Square Ventures fund, I told prospective investors to expect 1/3 of our investments to fail. I always like the 1/3 rule, which is that 1/3 of the investments will fail, 1/3 will under-perform expectations, a
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by bd 18y ago
From the original recipe: "Our ethanol-water solution is vodka based (denatured alcohol tended to clog the printhead), so don’t tell your graduate students how it’s made." http://www.ceramicartsdaily.org/magazines/Ceramics%20Monthly...
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by bd 18y ago
Here is a clickable link: http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/hn/hnpollhist.user.js And this is how it's supposed to look like: http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/hn/hnhist.png Here is a previous pie chart version: http://news.y
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For HN: Polls histogram Greasemonkey script
6 points by bd 18y ago|1 comments
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by bd 18y ago
Full text is available online (with Michael Abrash's permission): http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1698.asp
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by bd 18y ago
We're adding a little something to this month's sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anybody want to see second prize? ... Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired. http://www.imdb
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by bd 18y ago
This is much bigger thing. Automated theorem provers operate in (relatively) neat domain. Biology, on the contrary, is huge mess. Billions years of evolution created a hell of complicated systems. This domain just screams for automated anal
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A special report on the rich: An end to inequality?(economist.com)
1 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
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by bd 18y ago
More details in yesterday discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=544134
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by bd 18y ago
If somebody has access to Science, here is the original article: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/324/5923/85 And here is their homepage: http://www.aber.ac.uk/compsci/Research/bio/robotsci/ It seems they have been working
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by bd 18y ago
I believe rjurney ment his hand-made cluster from before didn't automatically shut down (as opposed to this new Elastic MapReduce feature which presumably would).
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by bd 18y ago
Probably it happens when the real text encoding is different from the declared one (at least that's the problem I encountered when aggregating content from unfiltered wild web). If it really bothers, you can use chardet [1] to try to detect
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by bd 18y ago
Oh memories, I remember spending a lot of time here: http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl (SGI's STL documentation)
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by bd 18y ago
Reddit is actually quite funny. Check also subreddits (science, wtf, nsfw, pics, worldnews). And there are Easter eggs when you use AdBlock :).
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by bd 18y ago
I'm not sure whether you are praising colins_pride or making fun of him. Car safety is one of the canonical examples of the "risk compensation" effect: "In 1981 John Adams published a paper, The efficacy of seatbelt legislation: A comparat
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GDC 2009: Experimental Gameplay Sessions(gamasutra.com)
1 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments

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