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The Oatmeal responds to "Tesla wasn't God and Thomas Edison wasn't the Devil"(google.com)
19 points by nextstep 14y ago|1 comments
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by nextstep 14y ago
People still pay for ringtones, on iOS even. If you have an iPhone: Settings -> Sounds -> Ringtone -> Buy More Tones.
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by nextstep 14y ago
>>The second answer is much more direct: Microsoft is simply trying to save on CPU and GPU cycles, thus making Windows 8 devices faster and more power efficient. << I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft uses these saved CPU/G
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Morgan Stanley Has A Number Of Facebook Orders That 'Remain Unexecuted'(google.com)
1 points by nextstep 14y ago|0 comments
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Facebook sinks as Nasdaq scrambles to square trades(reuters.com)
17 points by nextstep 14y ago|13 comments
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by nextstep 14y ago
This whole argument is asinine. You need to consider that each company is floating a different number of total shares. Buying one share in FB and one share in Google would not grant you an equivalent stake in each company. You need to se
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by nextstep 14y ago
Title should read "Facebook shares dips below IPO price". As of writing this, FB = 33.68; IPO price was 38.00.
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by nextstep 14y ago
I don't think "social media" will kill Silicon Valley. VCs are certainly interested in a quick return on investment that social media start-ups can achieve. However, most start-ups fail; for every lucky investor who got in early on Facebo
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by nextstep 14y ago
This is a rambling jumble of thoughts. I'm not sure what the take away is.
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews Rally to Discuss Risks of Internet(nytimes.com)
7 points by nextstep 14y ago|0 comments
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by nextstep 14y ago
It hasn't been too long since I was starting college. For freshman (in the US at least), colleges encourage students to try lots of classes and take their time picking a major. Many schools don't require students to declare a track until
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by nextstep 14y ago
I'm pretty sure the bottom billion still don't own cellphones. But this is a smart idea for the bottom billion of cellphone owners.
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Korean and Russian scientists plan to clone woolly mammoth(phys.org)
68 points by nextstep 14y ago|15 comments
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Assange stands 'real chance' of election in Australia(france24.com)
111 points by nextstep 14y ago|33 comments
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by nextstep 14y ago
You're right! The iPad isn't groundbreaking, because it exists and I can buy one today. Something really groundbreaking exists only in promo videos, has no publicly stated timeline for release, and is only actively discussed in tech news
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by nextstep 14y ago
And curing cancer will have an even greater impact. But as of today, cancer still kills millions and I am unable to buy an autonomous vehicle. However, I'm writing a comment on HN on my iPad. I think that autonomous vehicles will be revol
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by nextstep 14y ago
Google Goggles is an augmented reality app that basically layers Yelp reviews over Google Maps Streetview. Did he mean Google Glass, the AR glasses that Google made a video about? Does this guy really think that the Google Glass project i
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by nextstep 14y ago
I agree. Nearly every mention in HN comments of a newly-successful tech company (Groupon, Zynga, Instagram, etc.) includes regurgitation of the same bullshit anecdotes used to perpetuate the narrative assigned to each company. I have alwa
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by nextstep 14y ago
Oh wow, Facebook is so cool! These are real hackers. A button that posts to your Facebook timeline? I thought this technology was at least a decade out.
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Google launches iOS app for its recommendation service Schemer(thenextweb.com)
1 points by nextstep 14y ago|0 comments
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Yes, America, We Have Executed an Innocent Man(theatlantic.com)
6 points by nextstep 14y ago|0 comments
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by nextstep 14y ago
This seems like it could have easily been a bug. I don't think that SocialCam is intentionally deceiving their users.
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by nextstep 14y ago
It's seems like you (and the original poster) don't know understand the game telephone. Telephone is when, through a series of repetitions, an original message is altered to something nonsensical. I think the term you were searching for is
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by nextstep 14y ago
I guess we'll have to wait until you post the technical details, but from the Ars article, it sounds like this page is using existing standards (TLS, maybe some other stuff). That's fine, but what's the incentive for a bank or any secure o
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by nextstep 14y ago
This isn't censorship any more than blocking porn in high school libraries is considered censorship. This wasn't a move by rival political parties. The school in question used some third party web filter which flagged the pirate party's w
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by nextstep 14y ago
I don't understand why the choice of colorspace used to represent the person's face matters. The lighting used when the photo was taken can alter the apparent skin tone, possibly to another natural looking skin tone.
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Turn your iPad into an Etch-a-Sketch(macrumors.com)
2 points by nextstep 14y ago|0 comments
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Etcher: Kickstarter campaign to turn your iPad into an Etch-a-Sketch(kickstarter.com)
5 points by nextstep 14y ago|1 comments
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by nextstep 14y ago
Skin tones in images are very sensitive to lighting conditions. How are they planning to normalize these differences?
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Bing launches massive redesign(thenextweb.com)
4 points by nextstep 14y ago|0 comments

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