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by jcl 12y ago
He's not saying that there is literally one winner per loser, but that statistically the group of winners and group of losers will be about the same size, for a fair game.
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by jcl 12y ago
Actually, that may not be a frequently asked question, given that vim tells you how to quit on the starting page, as well as when you press control-C.
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by jcl 12y ago
FWIW, I've seen some people attach a small convex mirror to the edge of their monitor to avoid this kind of surprise. I'd expect this is just trading audio distractions for visual ones, though.
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by jcl 12y ago
Strictly speaking, it's not a clone... It's a port. SimCity for XWindows, released as Micropolis under the GPL: https://code.google.com/p/micropolis/ Ported to JavaScript: https://github.com&#
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by jcl 12y ago
Yeah... It reminds me of a Feynman quote: "You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight. I was coming here, on the way to the lecture, and I came in through the parking lot. And you won't believe what happened. I saw a
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by jcl 12y ago
The article implies that Final Fantasy was inspired to use "MP" from Ultima III, which used it as an abbreviation of "magic points". The article then goes on to say that the first game to explicitly use "MP" t
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by jcl 12y ago
Nice video! It really shows the perceptual difference well. However, I'm not sure it's fair to call it a "touchscreen" when it's most likely a touchpad input surface aligned with an overhead projector. It's i
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by jcl 12y ago
Actually, if you are following the method described in the article, if the best candidate is in the learning set, you end up with the last one. So it's effectively a 36.8% chance of picking a random one from the "not-best"
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by jcl 12y ago
That's all true, but it still doesn't follow that patents themselves prevent competition on cost. For example, if a non-practicing patent holder licensed their patent to all interested parties, then the licensees must also compet
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by jcl 12y ago
What I find confusing is why the API would be acceptable on an iPad and not on an iPhone. It seems unlikely that Apple would be willing to devote the resources to testing the element on one and not the other, or that the software behind th
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by jcl 13y ago
To the author's credit, the article consistently says that "Japanese culture" is risk-averse, not that "Japanese" are risk-averse. If you have two cultures A and B, and A has rules or conventions that reward risky
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by jcl 13y ago
FWIW, from other info on his website, it sounds like he is in rural Chile.
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Why are some feathers blue? (2012)(smithsonianmag.com)
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by jcl 13y ago
Companies also have to pay for the Play store.
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by jcl 13y ago
On the other hand, Apple is surprisingly anti-stylus. Perhaps they feel it represents a barrier between the user and machine, or maybe they feel it differentiates the iPad from the stylus-based tablets that came before. Regardless, styluse
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by jcl 13y ago
Please use the "reply" link under each comment to reply. It is otherwise very difficult to follow conversations.
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by jcl 13y ago
For line art (like the zombie example) it may be possible to use one of several available semi-automated algorithms to generate a depth map. Here's a page that shows a few: http://parter.kaist.ac.kr/jyhahn76/proje
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by jcl 13y ago
I also find that articles with many upvotes and few comments tend to be the better ones. Some further speculation from several years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2386658
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by jcl 13y ago
A couple years ago, a guy used an RC plane to record a video of a New York flyover, including the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty. The police were pretty cool about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1966336
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by jcl 13y ago
Actually, the only thing this tells you about what you are getting out of the vector is that it can be implicitly converted to a string. If data is a vector of, for example, pointers to const char, on each iteration this code will unnecessa
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by jcl 13y ago
Reminds me a bit of the Badland mobile game... It has a powerup that clones your character many times, but they all get the same player input. You need to ensure that a certain number survive and, in certain levels, get to different goal
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by jcl 13y ago
And V-A would have supported "home row"-style touch-typing for all 10 numbers, plus room for the extra two buttons that commonly get added.
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by jcl 13y ago
Don't know about the power grid, but about half the water supply in Mountain View comes from local wells, so it would not be as affected as SF, but part of the rest comes from Hetch Hetchy, so there could still be problems. Not sure
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by jcl 13y ago
It suggests that regular exercisers are better students, not that better athletes are. In particular, just because some exercise is good, it doesn't necessarily mean more is better.
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by jcl 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Smirnoff#Russian_reversal
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by jcl 13y ago
If you click through to the research behind the "commute" item, you'll see that it concluded that other things -- like an increased salary -- can indeed compensate for a long commute. The interesting thing that the research u
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by jcl 13y ago
I would imagine you could install Gnu GO, VLC, or any other GPL software that has been removed from the App Store.
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by jcl 13y ago
It's a circuit diagram for a switch. It represents a choice between two paths, as appropriate for the "option" key. http://electronicsclub.info/circuitsymbols.htm#switches
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by jcl 13y ago
That would be my assumption as well, but there are third-party application stores, like Amazon or the custom application repositories of carriers/manufacturers. Presumably it is easy for any individual app store to filter for apps with
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by jcl 13y ago
FWIW, the Play Store web site forces you to https. I'd expect the app would as well.

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