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by troymc 12y ago
Is this paper a parody? If yes, a parody of what?
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by troymc 12y ago
Zip.ca, a Canadian DVD-rentals-by-mail service, shut down in August 2014. I think it was the biggest such service in Canada. http://ottawacitizen.com/business/local-business/zip-ca-vide...
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by troymc 12y ago
Similar, but this one says they'll exert no centralized control at all. High Fidelity intends to control the analogues of the name servers, and some other things.
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by troymc 12y ago
I'm not sure I agree with "Aviary was the main, visible competition to Adobe." Yes, Aviary offers image editing apps for mobile, but that's a very competitive market. There are lots of image-editing and image-sharing a
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by troymc 12y ago
It's not my area, but it's my understanding that the same is true in digital compositing, with software like NUKE and Adobe After Effects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_compositing
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by troymc 12y ago
Here's a start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_v._Google http://arstechnica.com/series/series-oracle-v-google/
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by troymc 12y ago
It sounds like they are reading several DNA strands in parallel at the same time, and each output-sequence has noise. It seems to me the problem then becomes one of finding the most probable "signal sequence" given all those noisy
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by troymc 12y ago
Unless you're Automattic (Wordpress.com). Or Acquia (Drupal). "Acquia… today announced that its co-founder Dries Buytaert was named CTO of the Year at the 2014 MassTLC Leadership Awards, hosted by the Massachusetts Technology Lead
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by troymc 12y ago
Isaac Asimov's nonfiction often took the historical, chronological approach to explaining any topic, from chemistry to Shakespeare. It becomes a story, and people are really good at understanding (and remembering) stories. Maybe it sho
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by troymc 12y ago
"Pick a date, any date." "June 12, 2145." "A Saturday. In Vancouver, sunrise will be at 5:12am and sunset will be at 9:24pm. There will be a third quarter moon." "Wow." http://www.wolframal
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by troymc 12y ago
I agree with not defaulting to saving downloads in the "downloads" folder. Many people don't really know how to use their file manager. (For years, my mom would open Microsoft Word and organize files there.) Why not default t
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by troymc 12y ago
This is an excellent question. There are plenty of tech companies which happen to have been founded by one woman. Why not include some? I suspect this wasn't a deliberate oversight by the author, but it does illustrate the benefit of h
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by troymc 12y ago
Heh, this reads like a William Gibson novel.
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by troymc 12y ago
What are the major, general-purpose livestreaming options now? Ustream? Google Hangouts? What else?
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by troymc 12y ago
In preliminary mission design, where you determine the high-level architecture of the trajectory, you just try a bunch of sequences, like Earth-Earth-Mars-Earth-Comet (EEMEC) etc. I'm guessing they avoided Venus flybys for this mission
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You couldn't call Twitter a failure… unless you compared it with Facebook(theguardian.com)
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by troymc 12y ago
I believe this is the paper (letter) they're talking about: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v511/n7511/full/nature1... and here's the version at arxiv.org: http://arxiv.org
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by troymc 12y ago
There's a whole book of solutions that people have thought up over the years: If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life by Stephen
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by troymc 12y ago
President Sanchez Cuts Ribbon on Space Elevator
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Great Recycling and Northern Development Canal(en.wikipedia.org)
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by troymc 12y ago
I've never heard of that way of handling acronyms before. The site is WIRED UK. Maybe it's a UK thing? My first reaction was, "That's not how you write NASA; This author/editor is an idiot. How can I trust anything
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by troymc 12y ago
If you're curious about the historical details of the various "solutions" of the three-body problem (prior to 1996), then there's an excellent book for the layman, titled Poincare and the Three Body Problem by June Bar
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by troymc 12y ago
Fair enough. In this case, there's ample reason to believe the email sender wasn't spoofed.
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Note the sender: David L. Johnston He was the president of the University of Waterloo at the time but today he's the Governor General of Canada, that is, the Queen's representative in Canada. In principle, he has the power to veto
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by troymc 12y ago
I think Safari Books Online is mostly tech books. Yes, I know it has other stuff, but Harry Potter? Lord of the Rings? No.
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by troymc 12y ago
My local library (Burnaby Public Library) lets me access Safari Books Online using my library ID and I agree: it's awesome!
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by troymc 12y ago
The author didn't cite any sources but I suspect they were alluding to the fact that we know (roughly) when the field reversals happened in the recent past, and we also know when the mass extinctions were, and one can then see that the
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by troymc 12y ago
Not mentioned in the article, but probably familiar to others on HN, the Simons Foundation also supports Quanta Magazine (e.g. see their recent article about pilot wave theory [1]) and arXiv.org (an archive of pre-publication papers, mostly
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by troymc 12y ago
Aren't there large-scale services to whom a small business owner can pay an annual subscription fee, where the service will monitor the accuracy of their Google, Yelp, Open Street Map, Wikipedia, Yellowpages, etc. information? The arti
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Don't miss the customer reviews.

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