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Real-world flocking algorithms: Starlings over Rome(youtube.com)
1 points by shaddi 16y ago|0 comments
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by shaddi 16y ago
Yes. Or say (on the main page) that you should search for (whatever it is you call search results). If you autopopulate the map, I'd consider renaming that field "filter". I also don't know what to search for. I typed "test" and it moved me
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by shaddi 16y ago
Just to echo what keefe said, I successfully apartment hunted a few weeks ago and did what you're planning: crash with a friend for a week and obsessively read Craigslist. Something that helped me get a feel for the area was biking/walking
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by shaddi 16y ago
I was apartment hunting in Berkeley a few weeks ago and only one of the eight places I looked at wanted to do a credit check.
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by shaddi 16y ago
Amazon Prime is a genius program, and I think Amazon Tote has the potential to be as well. Free weekly deliveries of anything you order is perfect for most folks, who probably go to the store once a week to stock up.
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by shaddi 16y ago
Genuinely curious: how is eBay not a real-time auction?
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Ask HN: What are you working on today?
86 points by shaddi 16y ago|310 comments
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De Bruijn sequence(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by shaddi 16y ago|0 comments
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by shaddi 16y ago
Based on our current understanding of physics, latency would make two-way communication impractical. Even if you were willing to wait around a few thousand generations for the metaphorical ACK, you're not likely still interested in the resp
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by shaddi 16y ago
Discussion from a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1478114
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by shaddi 16y ago
Interesting comparison to Rand. When I read ZAMM I found the author's message to be diametrically opposed to that which I had taken from Rand. Perhaps this just highlights how much of a work is what the observer brings to it, a la http:/
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by shaddi 16y ago
What is "mpbs"?
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Starfish Prime, outer space nuclear test(en.wikipedia.org)
41 points by shaddi 16y ago|24 comments
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by shaddi 16y ago
Seriously. I remember we had a stenography lesson at a summer program I participated in during high school, back in 2004. The software we used was pretty old, and the class was held at TN Tech and led by a guy from the Cooke Co. Sherrif's c
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MenuetOS: an OS that fits on a floppy, written entirely in assembly, has GUI(menuetos.net)
32 points by shaddi 16y ago|8 comments
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by shaddi 16y ago
Essentially they're creating dedicated circuits between two endpoints to eliminate store-and-forward delay at backbone routers. I think the title overdoes the impact of this: this isn't the kind of technology that is going to hook end syste
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by shaddi 16y ago
Official word from Innocentive: http://blog.innocentive.com/2010/06/23/innocentive-oil-spill...
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by shaddi 16y ago
Surveys were administered to 4 large classes of students at a major public university in California. Hmm... This is out of UCSB. Given it's location [1] I'd sure hope their students were taking ample time for leisure. [1] http://is.gd/cZ
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by shaddi 16y ago
I tried it out on my Ubuntu box and realized it's practically indistinguishable from the default Monospace font: http://sha.ddih.org/f/monospace.png http://sha.ddih.org/f/mensch.png
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by shaddi 16y ago
From TFA: "For-profit schools now enroll 8 percent of students—but as Eisman’s report shows, they take in a full 24 percent of federal student aid. [...] Right now, colleges bear none of the risk of defaulted loans. It’s the same separation
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by shaddi 16y ago
If being in love is the disease, the physician is the one who tries to stop that from happening: interfere in someone's pursuit of love and you're likely going to face negative consequences!
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by shaddi 16y ago
The original forum post: http://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=399&#38...
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by shaddi 16y ago
One other point, which you may already be aware of, is that the font size on the image next to the phone number, as well as the links for "about", "contact us", and "legal & privacy" is quite small, and I had trouble reading it. Given y
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by shaddi 16y ago
I was more surprised about having a kitchen computer.
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Thoughts on taking things away(37signals.com)
32 points by shaddi 16y ago|6 comments
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by shaddi 16y ago
I recall reading a few years ago that human hair could be used the same way. It seems there are a lot of natural materials that work well for absorbing oil; I'm not sure if this is what's used in the "oil absorbing booms" the Coast Guard's
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Making logic gates with DNA and light(eurekalert.org)
1 points by shaddi 16y ago|0 comments
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by shaddi 16y ago
When our computer science department was founded, Fred Brooks (the founder) insisted that the university provide funding for a department secretary from the outset. He went through a lengthy process of selecting the best person he could fin
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by shaddi 16y ago
> You're working off of your terminal values, your moral judgement, that the outcomes in Afghanistan and Pakistan are bad. Yes, the particular systems I'm referring to are bad, in my opinion. My base principles for making that assumptio
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by shaddi 16y ago
Thanks, I wasn't aware of the NAIS.

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