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by ximeng 13y ago
What would hacker news do with a mango farm?
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I have a mango farm...........?(in.answers.yahoo.com)
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by ximeng 13y ago
This article http://inhabitat.com/the-fallacy-of-cleaning-the-gyres-of-pl... argues convincingly that filtering is a distraction from reducing the amount of plastic which gets into the gyres which is the only practical way
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by ximeng 13y ago
http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2013/12/16/391137... After initial criticism from quite a few experienced people Boyan Slat toned down his claims.
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Rolls-Royce imagines a future of unmanned ships(bbc.com)
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by ximeng 13y ago
Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel
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by ximeng 13y ago
It's a quote from someone else's essay which explains it as a situation where initial results are easy but finishing the job is hard. A strained analogy at best, and the essay is very verbose. "One of the key lessons of Vietn
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by ximeng 13y ago
I wonder if a more open design approach would help them to build trust, increase quality and reduce expense. Rather than the team doing all the work themselves they could open up more data to outsiders to look at and spend more of their tim
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by ximeng 13y ago
If you browse through connect there's some really unhelpful responses from Microsoft and many people trying very hard to report problems in the most helpful possible way without getting a response. The idea is good but execution is wea
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From Sheffield son to Silicon Valley multimillionaire(bbc.co.uk)
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by ximeng 13y ago
Six birds in space at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7vNInUbhZU
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by ximeng 13y ago
A computer recently designed a published board game called Yavalath, by deciding whether randomly generated games are interesting or not. That algorithm wouldn't be difficult to integrate into Google if they decided to do it. As you ad
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by ximeng 13y ago
The illustration of line integrals on a vector field took me four goes to figure out but is brilliantly clear. http://1ucasvb.tumblr.com/post/47754792344/saxpride100-hey-w...
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by ximeng 13y ago
Can't upload photos it just loops for ever
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The future of employment: how susceptible are jobs to automation?(futuretech.ox.ac.uk)
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Who Gains from Innovation?(nber.org)
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by ximeng 13y ago
There's at the very least uncertainty and debate on how "fine" humans will be in the event of major climate change.
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by ximeng 13y ago
For extinction, presumably refers to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction "Peter Raven, past President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), states in the foreword to thei
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by ximeng 13y ago
"First, let’s dismiss one parochial notion -- that the terrorist attacks of September 2001 were the major break point between centuries. Nonsense. We were engaged in the same struggle before and after. The U.S. shrugged off more damage
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by ximeng 13y ago
What was posted a few weeks back? I can't find anything.
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by ximeng 13y ago
They try to answer that question here: http://www.learnsanskrit.org/introduction "Its importance is plain: Sanskrit was once the most influential literary language in India, and texts written in the language could be u
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by ximeng 13y ago
Is there a good, ideally free password manager that works on Android, iPhone, and the web? Any recommendations?
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Youth-drug can 'reverse' ageing in animal studies(bbc.co.uk)
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by ximeng 13y ago
More details?
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by ximeng 13y ago
I'm not based there but I'm pretty sure there Boston's big enough that you'd find good opportunities there. Maybe start there and consider a move later. Sounds like you have a direction - do more in application security
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by ximeng 13y ago
Apply for two or three jobs at random get some interview practise. You'll soon get a feeling for how competitive you are and what the market is looking for. Take small steps in a better direction, don't expect to figure everything
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Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation Comes Into Force July 1, 2014(mondaq.com)
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Person of the year: Jack Ma(ft.com)
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by ximeng 13y ago
"Always wear underwear" - makes sense to me.
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Managing fisheries from space: Google Earth improves estimates of fish catches(icesjms.oxfordjournals.org)
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