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I wonder if minecraft's financial success (after the initial stage where Persson couldn't have done it another way as the article argues) was because of the pricing model that bucked trends in the gaming world, signalling "th
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> This page is an attempt to "explode" a demo-driven talk into a skimmable, browsable, gistable form, where individual ideas can be quickly referenced later. This reminds me of another tool, Korsakow[0], which attempts to do a
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How long did you have the fake sites up? I would have thought you couldn't leave them up for very long before frustrating users, but it seems like you would need a good chunk of data before you would know it was statistically significa
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> No matter how large a value you put in for px, you'll not be able to reach 180 degrees. actually I only had to put in 10 9s to get 180...
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> In the case of Bell, its website advises customers that their information can be shared without their knowledge or consent. What level of privacy is left to be breached!?!
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Think of NP-complete problems as if they were a brick wall like the red plot in the above graph. Understanding the theory behind the NP-complete complexity class means recognising intractable problems in your code – it’s like having a bomb
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There's also iZettle in some markets where square might not be available yet. I do like the OP's thermal printer though, as receipts can be important for some small businesses.
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>* the widening gap between productivity and employment in America... is deeply troubling to economists. But it’s possible... that the gap could contain all these people we are currently not counting.* Growing productivity could also jus
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> Allowing journalism to be criminalized is in nobody's interest other than the states which are trying to achieve that. Many multinational corporations also seem to find it in their interests to criminalize journalism - more evide
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'Empowering People Awards' for simple technology innovations(bbc.co.uk)
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Homer Simpson's scary maths problems(bbc.co.uk)
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End of Inception De-coded(youtube.com)
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No it was a GSM phone (a nexus one) - should have worked on 3G
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* I can tell you we just switched from AT&T to T-Mobile and it’s been flawless.* That's because you haven't actually had to start using T-Mobile's horrendous service. When I tried to do this (admittedly a couple years ago
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Clearly he is trying to avoid being seen as a troublemaker by the Saudi regime, so of course he has to backtrack from the "social activist" identity.
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Open Data Institute creates 13 'Nodes' around the world(wired.co.uk)
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'Hexacopter' flying camera makes BBC News debut [video](bbc.co.uk)
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Its a shame that on the actual SafeSource site they don't seem to give much assurance: Forbes does not make any representations or warranties as to SafeSource, and your use of SafeSource is on an "as is" basis, at your own r
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When researchers and policymakers begin to have even an inkling of Bitcoin’s deeper significance – more than “anonymous digicash created by evil hackers to buy contraband from drug dealers” – there’s a better chance that banks and governme
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Despite laws meant to prevent genetic discrimination, the world of Gattaca is a highly stratified one with two distinct classes: the valids—who have the right genes, the most prestigious jobs and the highest quality of life—and the in-vali
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Google Would Cut Minimum Levy to Settle EU Probe(bloomberg.com)
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Does taking vitamin D3 supplements really work for the OP? There have been a number of HN posts about how the vitamin fad started by Linus Pauling has not been backed up scientifically, such as this one: http://www.theatlantic.co
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Qualcomm: Microsoft's Surface 2 can't compare to Nokia's Windows tablet(news.cnet.com)
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Is the volatility graph of Bitcoin in this article really representative? Some people have mentioned that in the huge price spike in April, there were not actually that many people buying, and then there is this article on Bitcoin spreads t
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The list of inaptronyms at the bottom are particularly hilarious, including the "former Archbishop of Manila, Jaime L. Sin, known as Cardinal Sin."
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Crowd behaviour modelling to avoid stampedes in Hajj(bbc.co.uk)
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the terrible irony [is] that when the car is driving autonomously it is much safer, but because of the inability of humans to get back in the loop it may ultimately be less safe. Driverless cars are only 90% there for complete autonomy, a
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Merkel calls Obama about NSA spying(nytimes.com)
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It’s no accident that the first tranche of gTLDs to be delegated are all non-Latin strings It's a shame it took so long, but hopefully this will stem the tide of young people who have been pushed towards using their language in trans
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I've wondered if it would take a 'non-programmer' to develop a new metaphor/representation of programming that is more futuristic. The OP has some interesting suggestions of characteristics that 'futuristic programm

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