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by wicknicks 14y ago
Some additional details about Fetcher: https://www.quantopian.com/help (You will need to scroll down to the Fetcher section -- couldn't find anchor links)
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by wicknicks 14y ago
I'm not saying she's ugly, but Susan Boyles made a huge impact at the "Britain's Got Talent" show when she was nearly 50. Today, her voice makes her millions. Even women can be successful at any point in their life. I don't know what it tak
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by wicknicks 14y ago
Reddit has a channel for paper requests. Might be a useful place for 'much needed features' http://www.reddit.com/r/Scholar
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by wicknicks 14y ago
I suppose there was a period of time that this fact was accepted. Take a look at [1], and then [2]. There is a difference of two years between the articles. There might be some out of date articles still on the web promoting that this is a
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Worst user interface bug ever [2010](code.google.com)
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by wicknicks 14y ago
Looks really good. The IDE support looks like a big bonus. Wish this had been released on a Friday -- have to wait a bit before I can dig deeper!
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by wicknicks 14y ago
Here is their twitter account: https://twitter.com/nianticproject
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by wicknicks 14y ago
Did you mean the "Light of Other Days"? Fascinating list, I just finished reading Anathem by Neal Stephenson. Quite an epic. Everyone I know who has read it says that Cryptonomicon is a better book by Neal. Looking fwd to getting it!
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by wicknicks 14y ago
I'm not sure if I understand your criticism. The article seemed to be commenting about the placement of ads (which she believes to be optimized by analytics), not about the economics of ads or how they are processed behind-the-scenes. I co
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by wicknicks 14y ago
Yeah, I'm surprised this article to the HN front page. I'm from India. After reading the first paragraph, I couldn't help think that the author was trying very hard to use some numbers to derive some concocted version of "The World is Stil
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by wicknicks 14y ago
A better product does not have to be on the native platform. There is financial risk involved in hiring a iOS/Android professional.
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by wicknicks 14y ago
User experience is the not the only governing factor in software development. As the John Carmack post on HN front page says, software engineering is a social activity, which as you can imagine has more than one goal factor influencing it.
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by wicknicks 14y ago
I can't understand the motivation for this. The opposite makes more sense. Where web results are shown with Gmail search. People often use search with other people looking over their shoulder .. how many times does one browse emails with a
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by wicknicks 14y ago
Excellent reply. Couldn't agree more.
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M6.4 Earthquake, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan(google.org)
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What Facebook Knows(technologyreview.com)
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by wicknicks 14y ago
This is a wonderful explanation to why people love stories (of their friends, foes or fiction of any kind). Is this a well established theory? Would love to see some more details.
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by wicknicks 14y ago
I use Google Documents (Presentation) or SlideRocket. SR is very nice for sketching block diagrams. I tend to think more in terms of pictures than words.
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Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce (Free Book)(lintool.github.com)
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Godel's Original Paper on Incompleteness: Translated from German [pdf](research.ibm.com)
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Path: Updated Terms of Use(path.com)
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EFF: Introducing the Coders' Rights List(supporters.eff.org)
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Why your cat is making you crazy(theatlantic.com)
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by wicknicks 14y ago
Very cool! Next thing: randomly change the tunes every 3-4 mins :)
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by wicknicks 14y ago
I think a bigger takeaway was their statement: be bold to adopt simple solutions. A lot of problems take too long to reach the market because people think their solution is too simple, and might be ridiculed by intellectuals.
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Travelling Salesman, Thriller Set In a World Where P=NP (idle.slashdot.org)
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by wicknicks 14y ago
This is a tree with labelled edges, not just a tree. This tree will not hold multiple values with the same label. I always imagine my trees to have no labelled edges. Very cool though!
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by wicknicks 14y ago
Previous discussion on the topic here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3830746
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by wicknicks 14y ago
I have spent equal amounts of time with XML and JSON. Here is what my experience told me: 1] XML is painful to write. 2] Languages don't natively support it. It always requires additional drivers/libraries. 3] Its non-trivial to store XML a
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by wicknicks 14y ago
Same here. I wish they had a free quota of around 1-2K calls per month.

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