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by jcl 16y ago
Not really. One thing missing from the article is the banana equivalent level for more serious radiation concerns, such as the banana-equivalent of a chest x-ray or radiation poisoning. Otherwise, when someone hears, for example, that liv
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by jcl 16y ago
FWIW, some Pixar guys are currently looking at John Carter of Mars (although it's going to be a non-Pixar film). Like LotR, it has a mottled history of attempted adaptions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carter_of_Mars_%28film%29
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by jcl 16y ago
I'm no expert, but I think the AI's strategy works because people read news articles about stocks and then buy and sell in large numbers, causing a stock to temporarily be valued higher or lower than it "should" be. By taking out some of th
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by jcl 16y ago
Minor nit: "Origami" usually refers to paper models made through folding, without cutting or gluing. Since these models involve cutting and taping (and almost no folding), they might be better described as "kirigami", "papercraft", or simp
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by jcl 16y ago
A discussion on "what you think it's worth" pricing from a couple months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1279660
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by jcl 16y ago
Here's a guy implementing a Lisp machine on a FPGA: http://www.aviduratas.de/lisp/lispmfpga/
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by jcl 16y ago
Not as new as you'd think, either: In 1918, animation pioneer Winsor McCay created the silent short film "The Sinking of the Lusitania", showing the RMS Lusitania being torpedoed by German U-boats. With remarkably realistic drawings, th
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by jcl 16y ago
I guess the trouble and expense outweighs the curiosity. In particular, I bet the intersection of people who have a spare giraffe and people who don't mind an ASPCA/PETA protest is very small. Another example of an easily testable issue: D
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by jcl 16y ago
Perhaps they should buy some plastic "chairs", then. :) http://merlexi.com/mri.htm
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by jcl 16y ago
Complexity is often a natural outgrowth of success. Man-made complexity is simply a combination of things that we figured out how to do right, one layered on top of the other, until failure is achieved. A great line... Reminds me of: "De
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by jcl 16y ago
A couple months ago (among others): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1274655
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by jcl 16y ago
It may not be common to refer to it as such, but the PLT Scheme guys see the web as the killer app for Scheme's continuations: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/kh... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation#Cont
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by jcl 16y ago
Implementation details and further information: http://davidsd.org/2010/03/the-snarxiv/
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by jcl 16y ago
An interesting example, considering that Microsoft has successfully gone after similar domain names in the past: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft
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by jcl 16y ago
In that case, Bruce Schneier is a genius... By publicizing his open wireless network, he has an excuse to download whatever he wants. And if the prosecution wants to argue for "assumed liability", what expert witness is going to trump Br
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by jcl 16y ago
It might be fun if there were a way for humans to control a colony, so that humans could try to compete against purely algorithmic players.
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by jcl 16y ago
Or Twain's short story "Punch, Brothers, Punch", about a song that only leaves your head when communicated to someone else: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Literary_Nightmare
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by jcl 16y ago
The sad thing: the ads were coming anyway. If you build a popular platform like the iPad, the advertisers will find a way to get ads on it, whether it's with Flash or not. But by banning Flash, Apple is pushing advertisers to HTML/Javascri
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by jcl 16y ago
"Keep in mind that the list excludes adult sites, ad networks, domains that don't have publicly visible content or don't load properly, and certain Google sites."
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by jcl 16y ago
A curious list of restrictions... I wonder what kind of site would be in the top 1000 that didn't have publicly visible content or load properly? Pure Flash sites, maybe?
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by jcl 16y ago
There are lots of things that could be improved. Here's my pet peeve: Android regularly checks the Android Market for updates available for your apps. It doesn't just check for updates to apps you currently have installed, but for any app
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by jcl 16y ago
Some recommendations from an HN article a month ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1279087
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by jcl 16y ago
Additional advice in a thread from several months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060019
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by jcl 16y ago
FWIW, he's probably referring to .NET, which appears to be powering the Republican web site as well as NASA World Wind, which can be used to view lunar data sets. http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/download.html
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by jcl 16y ago
I take it you're referring to Hackworth's chopsticks? That was the first thing I thought of when I read the article's title, too. ...it wasn't long before he came up with the idea of selling advertising space on the damn things, chopstick
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by jcl 16y ago
Philips made an e-ink reader that does this: http://gizmodo.com/197227/philips-readius-e+reader-scroll-pr...
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by jcl 16y ago
While it's true that CS5 converts Flash to bytecode, Apple's rejection of RunRev's proposal suggests that Flash programs would have been rejected even if CS5 had translated to Objective-C. http://www.runrev.com/company/runrev-blog/revmobil
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by jcl 16y ago
So we have: Translated from Flash to Objective-C by hand: OK Translated from Flash to Objective-C by computer program: Not OK The good news, I guess, is that Apple is apparently confirming that "originally written in Objective-C" doesn't me
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by jcl 16y ago
This is very nice in theory, but in practice you can only do it in assembly language, because no commonly used high level language supports the coroutine call primitive. This might have been true when the article was written, but things a
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by jcl 16y ago
No crazier than Donald Knuth: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html Or all the people who self-impose IP blocks against popular timewasting sites. Or people who have "noprocrast" enabled on HN. We are not logical creature

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