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by nicolasp 13y ago
Better Place actually filed for bankruptcy about a month ago: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/anothe...
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by nicolasp 13y ago
The Fibonnacci sequence is (IMO) one of the easiest to understand examples of dynamic programming, so it makes for a good introduction to the concept. Furthermore, the dynamic programming implementation is better if you're going to cal
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Facebook Hacker Cup 2013 Qualification Round(facebook.com)
2 points by nicolasp 14y ago|0 comments
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by nicolasp 14y ago
Is the verbose mode still around? Not having any configuration is nice, but what replaces this? session.config['verbose'] = sys.stderr I couldn't find anything about it in the API docs.
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Tesla Model S is the 2013 Automobile of the Year(automobilemag.com)
2 points by nicolasp 14y ago|0 comments
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by nicolasp 14y ago
There's a firefox addon that fixes it: https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/google-search-li...
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Greenwashing the Retina MacBook Pro(wired.com)
3 points by nicolasp 14y ago|0 comments
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by nicolasp 14y ago
> it may be one of a few address, depending on how much I trust them, or care about the responses. I'm given very little option in that regard. You are given the choice of which email address you want to use to log in. Isn't that exactl
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Google's Alan Turing Doodle(google.com)
114 points by nicolasp 14y ago|14 comments
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by nicolasp 14y ago
They're UK gallons, so it's actually 2.94 L per 100 km.
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by nicolasp 15y ago
PDF versions (including one in Kindle format) are available in the archives at https://bitbucket.org/alfonse/gltut/downloads
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Winning the Netflix Prize: A Summary(blog.echen.me)
4 points by nicolasp 15y ago|0 comments
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by nicolasp 15y ago
.NET compatibility and Visual Studio tools are two huge practical advantages for F# adoption over OCaml IMO.
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The demise of the middle manager(economist.com)
4 points by nicolasp 15y ago|0 comments
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by nicolasp 15y ago
Apparently installing MacPorts from SVN should work, although it's a bit more of a hassle: http://blog.affien.com/archives/2011/03/10/macports-on-lion-...
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Stop the iPhone 5 Rumor Insanity(pcmag.com)
1 points by nicolasp 15y ago|0 comments
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by nicolasp 15y ago
Can't edit any more, but they're all gone! 34 in two hours :)
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by nicolasp 15y ago
Here are a few invite codes for those who'd like to try it: aqwPkzBeHqUe64YG c2D3YPErPJy29gPJ (updated to remove used ones - last two!)
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by nicolasp 15y ago
Router vendors start saving DHCP lease tables to stable storage and the issue is fixed?
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by nicolasp 15y ago
Alternative: http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv (parent's link doesn't work for me).
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by nicolasp 15y ago
There was a nice introduction to West's work in the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/magazine/19Urban_West-t.ht...
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Polls And Predictions And P=NP(rjlipton.wordpress.com)
5 points by nicolasp 15y ago|0 comments
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by nicolasp 15y ago
This algorithm is specifically designed for pixel art. One of the examples in the paper shows that it doesn't do very well on anti-aliased graphics. Therefore it probably wouldn't be of much use on blurry pictures or videos.
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by nicolasp 15y ago
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2601347
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by nicolasp 15y ago
Actually they did: "But three other people all said "2 and 4". That is certainly another "nice" answer, but the constraints it satisfies are more subtle. They have something to do with requiring the solution to have integer components that
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by nicolasp 16y ago
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2313755
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by nicolasp 16y ago
French humorist Pierre Desproges originally made that comment ("On peut rire de tout, mais pas avec tout le monde").