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by tricolon 11y ago
I remember following the challenges closely, but had somehow missed that CMU wasn't doing good obstacle avoidance. Thanks for the details!
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by tricolon 11y ago
While I'm inclined to agree with you, do you have any supporting evidence?
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by tricolon 11y ago
/'flɪf/
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by tricolon 11y ago
That was definitely a problem with Ticketmaster. It might still be, but I've long since marked it as spam.
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by tricolon 11y ago
It's a little strange the subtitle used is "Salmiakki". That's the Finnish term for salty liquorice but that section discusses it in general terms, not from a Finnish perspective. It just so happened that the version he
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by tricolon 11y ago
I hadn't even heard of STS until I got to college. I was pretty disappointed that I hadn't had a chance to participate simply because I didn't know I could.
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by tricolon 11y ago
Older discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5017078 (4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5036235 (50 comments)
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by tricolon 11y ago
It's not all that surprising once you know about their efforts: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mathonan/come-fly-with-us#.pqdmg3WRE http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/page/1109-buzzfeed-news-c...
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by tricolon 11y ago
> employ non-US citizens who are already authorized to work (we can't sponsor) Doesn't that just mean permanent residents?
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by tricolon 11y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9863152
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by tricolon 11y ago
Brent Black, the hat dealer mentioned in the article, has a problem that is itching for a solution: > Manually counting the rows of weave is a tedious task. > If there are any inventors out there, the ideal scanner would be about the
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by tricolon 11y ago
I'm not saying it's a modern day equivalent, but MetaFilter has kept its relatively high bar of a $5 one-time membership fee: http://www.metafilter.com/newuser.mefi I find that enlightening discussions happen ther
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by tricolon 11y ago
Supposedly, Palantir's latest is a Series I: http://siliconangle.com/blog/2015/06/24/report-cia-backed-bi... And Alien Technology raised a Series L: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/
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by tricolon 11y ago
That wasn't an error, but the author made a few small errors (really, just unidiomatic phrases), which suggests he or she is not a native speaker of English: > it was such a pure horror > a happy end > it did not wave the arms
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by tricolon 11y ago
Jodel looks like a clone of Yik Yak.
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by tricolon 11y ago
> massive siphons that literally pull the water over mountain ranges Where's the best place to start reading more about this?
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by tricolon 11y ago
The creators are people whose names you might recognise: Denise Wilton http://www.kaiusdesign.com/ and Cal Henderson http://www.iamcal.com/ .
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by tricolon 11y ago
I agree it's funny. There's probably a better term for it.
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by tricolon 11y ago
What your parent might be talking about is the distinction between a product that is continually supported by the creator (such as a hardware device with software that can be updated) and an artefact that is produced and then effectively fo
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by tricolon 11y ago
And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_cake-cutting
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by tricolon 11y ago
I enjoyed the subtitles.
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by tricolon 11y ago
The Census Bureau is rather vague about that: > All 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands have joined the LED Partnership, although the LEHD program is not yet producing public-use statistics for M
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by tricolon 11y ago
LESS is outdated now? Surely not everyone uses Sass, right?
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by tricolon 11y ago
I was a little disappointed by the lack of attention to detail: > the A key is half way between the Q and W in the horizontal direction I'm not sure that's been strictly true of any keyboard I've ever used.
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by tricolon 11y ago
Cool. I prefer http://memeifier.com/ .
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by tricolon 11y ago
I mean that some coöp applications do have you sign away your first born and tell them your deepest darkest secrets and that there are still enough people who haven't gone through that process at one point or another that the market re
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by tricolon 11y ago
I understand that, you understand that, and your parent commenter probably understands that, but the point is that a user of HTML should not have to understand it.
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by tricolon 11y ago
Of course, there are more exceptions. Intimidating coöp applications are one.
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by tricolon 11y ago
And, unfortunately, it is in the best interest of a reasonably professional company to decline to comment on a rejection.
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by tricolon 11y ago
I hope he did mean LCs. It's easy to confuse the two: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_certification#Differences...

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