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by folli 9y ago
The much larger distance makes the pictures converge to an orthographic projection, like a 3D rendering in a game. Look at the parallelity of the streets in Ryadh, this is something you would not see from a plane.
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by folli 9y ago
For science-related articles, I'd recommend Science and Nature.
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by folli 9y ago
After publishing a new app, it usually takes a couple of days to rise in Google Play search results. But I agree about the saturation.
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by folli 9y ago
If the Scientific Publication Mafia is your definition of the "West", then, yes, let's stick it to the "West". Anyway, is there any proof that Sci-Hub is part of the Kremlbots, besides Alexandra Elbakyan being from
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by folli 9y ago
You're plan sounds very appealing, but is unfortunately very limited to non-wet-lab sciences, such as CS. The amount of set-up and running costs for just a barebones functioning laboratory, e.g. in biochemistry, is in the multi-million
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by folli 9y ago
To follow this line of thought, you're then advocating for heavy inheritance taxation? A heir of a multi-billion dollar fortune is not more likely to have an above average IQ or be more responsible, so he should start from scratch as d
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by folli 9y ago
Seems not to be completely up to date. Eukaryotes are increasingly viewed as a subset of Archaea, instead of Archaea a subset of Prokaryotes. See for example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2464739&#x
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Show HN: Augmented Reality App to Predict the Sun and Moon Location(sunlocator.ch)
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by folli 9y ago
I find stuff like this extremely interesting. It's incredible how connected and interdependent we have become as a society and how we only notice this if things start to break (or at least run out of spec); even if it only impacts such
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by folli 9y ago
Thank you, I will look into it.
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Ask HN: Recommended payment processor for monthly subscriptions
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by folli 9y ago
Cool project! I assume this is based on the SLF's 20 year data: https://www.slf.ch/de/lawinen/unfaelle-und-schadenlawinen/la...
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by folli 9y ago
A well written chronology of the rise and decline of the Needle Park in Zurich, Switzerland: Chapter 1: https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/extern/storytelling/needletraum... Chapter 2: https://www.tagesanzeig
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by folli 9y ago
Where do you see PacBio?
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The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat (1990)(web.stanford.edu)
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Cube – A Game About Google Maps(playmapscube.com)
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by folli 9y ago
"Learning how to make rope" != "Watching a 10 min YouTube video"
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by folli 9y ago
and how do you actually contact the editorial team?
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Show HN: TouchRemove – Erase unwanted objects from your photos(producthunt.com)
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Ask HN: Are Google Play links being auto-shadowbanned on HN?
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The labs that forge distant planets here on Earth(nature.com)
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by folli 9y ago
Some more details for the technical minded people: The used algorithm is based on PatchMatch [1], one of the best known in-painting-algorithms (a variant of it is also used in Photoshop). I implemented the algorithm in Renderscript, which g
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by folli 9y ago
So if Bitcoin is unusable as currency (i.e. for exchange), what's its use-case then? Hoarding?
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by folli 9y ago
"Given a stack of images captured with a fixed focal length at different distances from the scene, our framework allows us to modify the composition of the scene in post-capture" So I assume it's inferred from the stack of im
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by folli 9y ago
What's ironic in itself is that the mentioned paper ("A comprehensive overview of chemical-free consumer products", published by Wiley; i.e. an empty page) costs $38 to download as PDF: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.c
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by folli 9y ago
I personally do see an issue if we make knowledge only accessible to a minority of people. In my field (microbiology/bioinformatics), it's almost impossible to find pre-prints of pay walled papers and emailing the authors and hopi
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EU Agrees to Boost Military Cooperation but Doubts Remain(wsj.com)
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by folli 9y ago
I'd rather willingly visit Futurama's suicide booth than slowly deteriorate due to Alzheimer's.
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by folli 9y ago
The HN comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12191456 ) don't inspire much confidence regarding the error rate.
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by folli 9y ago
I think this article is worth to activate JavaScript.

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