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by saticmotion 12y ago
Earthquakes are not that rare, really. Here is a live map: http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/ Though I'm not sure how accurate it is, it only shows two earthquakes in Iceland in the last two days for example. And thi
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Ask HN: Should higher education be expensive?
4 points by saticmotion 12y ago|9 comments
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Formal computer-verified proof of the Kepler conjecture(phys.org)
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by saticmotion 12y ago
Research paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.2301
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A Possible Signal from Dark Matter?(cfa.harvard.edu)
1 points by saticmotion 12y ago|1 comments
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Tattoo biobatteries produce power from sweat(phys.org)
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by saticmotion 12y ago
Video: http://www.hyve3d.com/uncategorized/hyve3d-at-siggraph-2014/ (Short) paper: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2656325&picked=formats&CFI...
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3-D sketching system revolutionizes design interaction and collaboration(phys.org)
1 points by saticmotion 12y ago|1 comments
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The woman behind Ikea's living wage calculator(marketplace.org)
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Photo editing algorithm changes weather, seasons automatically(phys.org)
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by saticmotion 12y ago
A solution - though extremely unlikely in this day and age - would be to abandon the notion of nations. Especially in the far future, if we are ever to meet aliens. Imagine having to explain that you only represent one of 196 nations. Seems
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by saticmotion 12y ago
I didn't get this from the article, but are there no automated cameras in the USA? In Belgium there are tons (I pass 5 on the 10 minute drive to my girlfriend), but they're a joke. If people know the road they're taking, they
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by saticmotion 12y ago
Cameras basically read their sensors one row of pixels at a time. By measuring the distortion of each row, they can detect vibrations higher than the camera's frame rate.
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by saticmotion 12y ago
Another fact, that recently struck me, also seems to make inequality larger. I'm not quite sure how to put it into words, but I'll try. If we take an average middle class family and a rich family. Both want to build or buy a house
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by saticmotion 12y ago
Even the first copy from 2009 on the wayback machine has the same message: https://web.archive.org/web/20090819161640/http://www.javeli... EDIT: Only now noticed the Hacked message, I thought the intro i
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by saticmotion 12y ago
It's nowhere near as fascinating as some other stories here. But earlier this year I and a friend created an Android app for our school schedules. Initially we thought it would be easy; "let's ask the schools devs for an API
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by saticmotion 13y ago
I finally created an account on HN, just to thank you for telling me about Paul Lockart's essay. Only now do I realize why I don't like, nor properly understand mathematics - at least not mathematics as it's presented in scho