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by bentpins 11y ago
In a pilot project announced Wednesday, students will be able to take a semester of free online courses in one of MIT's graduate programs and then, if they pay a "modest fee" of about $1,500 and pass an exam, they will earn a
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by bentpins 11y ago
Makes more sense if you watch the promo vid first http://www.borrowedlightvr.com/the-night-cafe/
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by bentpins 11y ago
This is the best video I've found of the prototype (it autoplays): http://www.reuters.com/video/2015/03/05/star-wars-inspired-p...
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by bentpins 11y ago
If like me you haven't seen that code before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9joBLOZVEo
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by bentpins 11y ago
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ Is still up
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by bentpins 11y ago
It is allready implemented in Windows 10, although it doesn't scale down well. I'd paste it here but HN doesn't seem to support Unicode emoji, which is odd
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by bentpins 11y ago
Leap days are generated at the same frequency as regular days as far as I can tell. That simplifies things again to 1:366
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by bentpins 11y ago
1/365 I'd think. There are 365 days in a year and it has to match exactly one day. You might be interested in the Birthday Paradox though http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birthd...
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by bentpins 11y ago
Handy. I'm rather fond of http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/ It gives names, (probably fake) addresses, credit card numbers, as well as a bunch else. It allows CSV export if you want up to 50,000 identities generated. I
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by bentpins 11y ago
It loaded in about 1/10th the time for me
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by bentpins 11y ago
https://what-if.xkcd.com/63/ XKCD guessed 15EB in 2013
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by bentpins 11y ago
"Usually" is a real stretch. ecstacydata.org's lab testing report analysis indicates amphetamines were present in under 5% of tests for the last 15 years. http://www.ecstasydata.org/stats_substance_by_year.php
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by bentpins 11y ago
To add to this - ArchiveTeam often works with archive.org who have arranged long term storage for a lot of retrieved content.
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This was in progress, 830GB was downloaded before a Sourceforge guy popped onto the IRC and said he's ok with the archiving, but that the robots.txt should be respected. This would put things at a practical standstill. So the downloadi
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by bentpins 11y ago
Do you send samples of your dish-washing liquid to a private lab?
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by bentpins 11y ago
I think they are talking about virtual retinal displays? Avengant Glyph is planning to use them in their kickstarted VR headset. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_retinal_display
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by bentpins 11y ago
Distributed databases have solved both the problem of splits, and requiring a fixed master server. MongoDB for example has a master node, but if this leaves the other nodes will elect a new one. All nodes accept queries and will sync up ove
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by bentpins 11y ago
Sure, you don't have to own the server either. http://burnbit.com/ is good for turning things into resumeable downloads
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by bentpins 11y ago
The article linked refers to the smallest of four prizes offered. $50,000 to the first individual or group who discovers a prime number with at least 1,000,000 decimal digits (awarded Apr. 6, 2000) $100,000 to the first individual or group