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931.
Usenet history: the first "worst episode ever" post(groups.google.com)
18 points by henning 16y ago|4 comments
932.
Leonard vs. PepsiCo, Inc.(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by henning 16y ago|0 comments
933.
A physical explanation of the "Cheerios effect"(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by henning 16y ago|0 comments
934.
BRIC: the four developing countries that could be economic leaders by 2050(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by henning 16y ago|0 comments
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Harmony search: a metaheuristic inspired by musical improvisation(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by henning 16y ago|0 comments
936.
Mathematics writer Martin Gardner has died(wired.com)
2 points by henning 16y ago|1 comments
937.
by henning 16y ago
The way I see it, there's no way to show confidence in the future like putting your own money up. This is great even for people not affiliated with YC, its partners, or YC-funded startups.
938.
by henning 16y ago
The SIGGRAPH paper describing how the glove works in more detail is available as a 5.7 MB PDF here: http://people.csail.mit.edu/rywang/handtracking/s09-hand-tra... I thought it was fairly readable, you can at least get the gist of how the
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by henning 16y ago
Cool story, bro
940.
by henning 16y ago
Choosing a good password and using some other basic precautions like HTTPS will deter nearly all script kiddies and most everyone else. When you don't look like an easy target, your actual security risks are much lower than a lot of other p
941.
by henning 16y ago
I love the first comment on the post. OP: brief explanation of idea First comment: skepticism indicating complete lack of comprehension of post That's how it always seems to go with these things.
942.
by henning 16y ago
This is the single dumbest thing I can recall reading on Hacker News.
943.
by henning 16y ago
Didn't we have some fun, though? Remember when the platform was sliding into the fire pit and I said 'Goodbye' and you were like 'NO WAY', and then I was all 'We pretended we were going to murder you'; that was great.
944.
by henning 16y ago
If you're having C problems I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but a side effect ain't one!
945.
by henning 16y ago
See also MIT's work on this: http://projects.csail.mit.edu/emergentDesign/genr8/ This uses grammatical evolution, which is basically evolutionary computation guided by a grammar. The Maya plugin GENR8 was originally implemented is availab
946.
Video: autonomous (computer-controlled) acrobatic helicopter flight(youtube.com)
1 points by henning 17y ago|0 comments
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Self-taught learning: using unlabeled data to improve supervised learning(stanford.edu)
4 points by henning 17y ago|0 comments
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Training a deep belief network on a GPU with 100 million free parameters(ai.stanford.edu)
35 points by henning 17y ago|16 comments
949.
by henning 17y ago
although Scala has local type inference, you see far more type declarations than you would in ML or Haskell. if you have a lot of one-line functions (which might be 5-15 in Java, say), the type decls become a significant fraction of charact
950.
by henning 17y ago
San Diego isn't too bad as far as general hacker stuff. We have a Ruby user group that meets at UCSD, an agile/extreme programming group, and a Django user group. Not too bad.
951.
by henning 17y ago
Reminds me of Microserfs.
952.
Calculated Bets: how a CS prof developed a winning sports gambling system(cs.sunysb.edu)
40 points by henning 17y ago|18 comments
953.
by henning 17y ago
One problem is that when I saw "ooc" I thought it was the esoteric programming language Ook!: http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/ook.html
954.
Detecting malicious URLs: papers and a downloadable 700 MB data set(sysnet.ucsd.edu)
1 points by henning 17y ago|0 comments
955.
by henning 17y ago
As far as I know, no. reCAPTCHA specifically focuses on challenges that are likely to be incorrectly processed by existing document recognition systems.
956.
by henning 17y ago
What exactly do you expect? Some of those old documents they're trying to digitize are in such bad shape that you practically need an electron microscope to decipher them. Document recognition in its full generality is still an open problem
957.
OCRopus: high-quality open source OCR sponsored by Google and used by reCAPTCHA(code.google.com)
68 points by henning 17y ago|18 comments
958.
by henning 17y ago
This makes a lot of sense, but for a lot of developers they might think of developer tools, since they're developers and developers use and like tools, which is an area that seems hard to sell in.
959.
by henning 17y ago
Most or all of these already exist in some form. E.g., Campfire, ikiwiki, etc.
960.
by henning 17y ago
Hopefully this means they won't make god-awful internal music videos like that Bruce Springsteen one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPv8PPl7ANU I feel dirty linking to it.

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