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PatentShield helps startups fight patent litigation in return for equity(techcrunch.com)
196 points by shard 10y ago|70 comments
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Microsoft cuts off 40% of Windows phones with Creators Update shift(pcworld.com)
1 points by shard 10y ago|0 comments
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by shard 10y ago
Is it me or is the solution not just letting Socrates cross and throwing him into the water?
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by shard 10y ago
This reminds me of the time when a mass effect toothbrush helped save my ship from being stolen by my clone...
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Steve Ballmer Serves Up a Fascinating Data Trove(nytimes.com)
1 points by shard 10y ago|0 comments
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by shard 10y ago
The first thing I thought of when I saw the photo of the interior of the building: panopticon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
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by shard 10y ago
I have not noticed any overall service problems in Korea, Japan, or China.
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by shard 10y ago
ADA is the American Disabilities Act, which require equal access for those with hearing, visual or manual disabilities. The videos in question most likely lacked captions for the hearing impaired, which would have been prohibitively expensi
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by shard 10y ago
This is an article pointing to the difficulties of culture hacking: i.e. assuming the culture of one that's non-native to you. As an American engineer working in an Asian country, it was interesting to me to hear about the difficultie
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by shard 10y ago
This. No 2D image of most of van Gogh's paintings can match the real thing because the 3D texture of the paint is such an integral part of the experience. I discovered this when I visited the van Gogh museum in Amsterdam. The 2D repres
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by shard 10y ago
That really depends on what you consider the best outcome. For me, synthesis was preferable to destroy or control, and was worth the sacrifice of Shepard's life to achieve. It broke the current cycle, prevented future cycles from start
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by shard 10y ago
Of course people do. That's why there are many religions with many different gods.
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by shard 10y ago
Another factor is the music you are listening to when you drink wine: http://www.wsj.com/articles/can-music-change-the-way-your-wi...
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by shard 10y ago
As a follow-on to the above comment, in AI there is something called expert systems, which is just a set of IF-THEN rules which emulate the reasoning of a human expert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system Learn
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by shard 10y ago
Pardon my nerding out, but I think the difference between the computer system and Data was the degree of self-determination given to each system. When the holodeck was instructed to create an opponent capable of defeating Data, it created a
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by shard 10y ago
Another difference between the human brain and a computer is the number of round of hardware optimization. Human brains have millions of years and millions of search paths explored, while computer hardware, although advancing at a much fast
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by shard 10y ago
Minor nitpick: the proportion of each serotype would determine the final reduction in your calculation above. If the serotypes in the 1% the vaccines don't work for are in 10% of the population of patients, then the final reduction wou
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by shard 10y ago
I was a co-founder of a startup which had this concept back in 2011. There must have been some sort of global zeitgeist or something because during that year over 40 competing startups showed up all over the world. Only a few survived, and
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by shard 10y ago
Although it does support permanent brain injury in football players.
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by shard 10y ago
Interesting, but choosing unbiased questions will be a ballet in itself.. Edit: A ballot in itself, although a ballet in itself also works...
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by shard 10y ago
Don't forget that even childless adults are sometimes put in situations where they need time off to take care of someone else, such as a sick spouse, sibling, or parent. Having a system where theses events are accepted helps companies
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by shard 10y ago
Out of curiosity, where did you go to school? I went to a science high school in New York City, and although there were a lot of foreigners, the segregation was not really along nationality or ethnic lines, but rather along lines of interes
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by shard 10y ago
Some women in Korea wear face masks to shield their skin from the sun (e.g. http://image.auction.co.kr/itemimage/f0/06/67/f00667450.jpg (and that's toned down from the style a few years ago when wom
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by shard 10y ago
If what you are looking for is a pocket phone, then neither Android nor iPhones are catering to you, as phone functionality are an increasing small subset of the functionalities being worked on or improved on smartphones. People who seek ou
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Intel introduces drone kit(software.intel.com)
3 points by shard 10y ago|0 comments
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by shard 10y ago
I got the same feeling. It seems like the app does not solve the problem that the original story stated: namely, the leaving behind of amazing stories. Instead, the app captures the mundane parts of everyday life, tracking locations, collat
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10 Companies Millennials in the U.S. Trust the Most(forbes.com)
3 points by shard 10y ago|0 comments
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by shard 11y ago
This seems strange to me. If the author "scoured hundreds of different factors" to find the ones to make the graph flat, isn't he just picking the data to match his theory? Surely if he searched through enough factors he woul
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Facebook thinks '6 degrees of separation' is wrong – it's actually 3.57(m.businessinsider.in)
1 points by shard 11y ago|0 comments
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Bringing Tizen to Raspberry PI 2(blogs.s-osg.org)
14 points by shard 11y ago|3 comments

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