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by vmarsy 11y ago
Yes, it looks more like Google's free WiFi in Starbucks coffees. By the way, Facebook renamed Internet.org "Free Basics" : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10277425
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by vmarsy 11y ago
What you're describing for the dice is called the law of large numbers : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers It would probably true for that too but as another comment says, we don't want to
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by vmarsy 11y ago
I think that if you used a pair of numbers you wouldn't be able to do the fast "checking of containment" described by the author, which is just a bitwise comparison apparently. I don't think they use a floating point rep
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by vmarsy 11y ago
There is a sample of code in the Wikipedia page about it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_curve The links the authors provide to learn more about the HSFC probably discuss it too!
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Docs.com–Share your work with the world(docs.com)
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by vmarsy 11y ago
It depends, I meant broken if you plan to compute other types of problems. For instance some big graph problem instead of involving linear algebra. Then you would favor the benchmarks from http://www.graph500.org/ . But what
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by vmarsy 11y ago
This isn't only about the FLOPS, the big trend of these countries* ordering new supercomputers by 2020/2025 is very focused on power. Current supercomputers consume a lot. Also the FLOPS measurement is a bit broken: It focuses on
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by vmarsy 11y ago
I would care if tbe Xbox one, which will soon be on Windows 10, stopped playing DVDs. But I don't think this would be the case, there is probably a specific player for it.
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by vmarsy 11y ago
Yes, Blendle in the Netherlands (and Germany?) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9453821
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by vmarsy 11y ago
Benchmarks are good but the overall experience is what matters the most. I'm really impressed by the startup time of Edge. I type some query in the Cortana search bar and press Enter, it launches Edge extremely fast. So far I really lo
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by vmarsy 11y ago
Part 1 link: http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/7/13/algolias-fury-road...
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Algolia's Fury Road to a Worldwide API, Part 2(highscalability.com)
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Email your notes into OneNote with me[at]onenote.com (2014)(blogs.office.com)
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by vmarsy 11y ago
A feature from OneNote I love and nobody knows about because of poor marketing is the "me@onenote.com" [1]. You send an email to it, it creates a note where Email subject = Note title, and email content = the note text I linked my
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Welcome Texas(blog.algolia.com)
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by vmarsy 11y ago
> Fine. That’s what dragging a file from one place to another generally does! To me this is not fine. Usually dragging from a different device(USB Thumbdrive <-> hard drive, SD Card <-> Thumbdrive, ....) should copy the file
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by vmarsy 11y ago
> Chances of getting your account hacked increases not n-fold, but logarithmic with each secondary email that you add due to poor security To the OP: You probably mean exponentially here? O(log n) would be much better than O(n)
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by vmarsy 11y ago
I have the same issue with my Xbox one: If a commercial on TV says :"now available on Xbox one", the Xbox interprets "Xbox one" as "Xbox ON" and turn on by itself. But here this is a malicious use of the featur
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by vmarsy 11y ago
In typical PGO you have access to the source code, the compiler instruments it for you automatically, you run the program with what You consider good input. During that time the instrumentation records a lot of interesting stuff. Then the c
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by vmarsy 11y ago
related blog post: https://blogs.bing.com/search/2015/07/06/plan-your-next-outi...
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Bing Maps Preview(bing.com)
2 points by vmarsy 11y ago|1 comments
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by vmarsy 11y ago
Interesting! tl;dr? More serotonine -> Better moral behavior More dopamine -> Worse moral behavior People with gambling problem and risk seeking behavior have high dopamine levels [1]. High serotonine is achived with good
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To Stop Mosquito Bites, Silence Your Skin's Bacteria(smithsonianmag.com)
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by vmarsy 11y ago
Be careful with copyright issues. How do you make it work? Do you scrape them automatically or gather them from the brands marketing materials? I tried different logos, and I find a few issues: https://logo.clearbit.com/mcdo
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The Education of Airbnb’s Brian Chesky(fortune.com)
32 points by vmarsy 11y ago|3 comments
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NASA, Microsoft Collaborate to Bring Science Fiction to Science Fact(nasa.gov)
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Crowdfunded high speed train tickets in France(translate.google.com)
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by vmarsy 11y ago
Link to the app itself: http://eoapp.eomap.com/
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Worldwide water quality app hits the web(esa.int)
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by vmarsy 11y ago
A very good article for anyone interested in SVGs! TL;DR; There is 3 main ways to animate SVGs: SMIL, CSS, and JavaScript, but today you should go with the JS way. To me, the most interesting section of the article was the : SMIL vs CSS vs

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