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901.
Physical design blog with e.g. tetris furniture, levitating lamp(designose.com)
2 points by ximeng 15y ago|0 comments
902.
Self-steering bullet researched by US weapons experts(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by ximeng 15y ago|0 comments
903.
Caution on Twitter urged as Britons barred from US(bbc.co.uk)
105 points by ximeng 15y ago|111 comments
904.
by ximeng 15y ago
Not only does Russ Cox write code and English really well, but he's also on HN. Thanks for the article rsc! http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rsc
905.
by ximeng 15y ago
That other engineering news source "The Daily Mail" has a non-blacked out article on this. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2088257/Star-...
906.
by ximeng 15y ago
http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&... "If you turn off personal results and stay signed in to your Google Account, you won't see results personalized based on your Google+ circles (or suggested connections), Goog
907.
by ximeng 15y ago
This makes sense, as I think Westerners cottoned on to the fact you can watch popular Western movies on these sites for free, even if you have little interest in Chinese KFC and Nutri-express adverts.
908.
by ximeng 15y ago
They say "no personalization of results based on your Web History", which sounds like this affects ranking.
909.
by ximeng 15y ago
Looks like DDG has led the way on some of this: Don't bubble: "We’re also introducing a prominent new toggle on the upper right of the results page where you can see what your search results look like without personal content. With a single
910.
by ximeng 15y ago
Not sure about this. Over the past two or three years, ku6, ppstream, youku, tudou, and Tencent TV all started georestriction. It seems there's some government restriction in play.
911.
by ximeng 15y ago
Something that I don't see mentioned much is that China also restricts access to Chinese sites, probably partly to stop foreign countries complaining about copyright violations. Many videos are geo-restricted to be visible in China only, th
912.
by ximeng 15y ago
Pity there's not really any detail here on who they chose and why.
913.
by ximeng 15y ago
No Windows version.
914.
by ximeng 15y ago
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6Buf_AlaadwC&lpg=PA3... HN shortens automatically...
915.
New particle observed at LHC(bbc.co.uk)
151 points by ximeng 15y ago|54 comments
916.
by ximeng 15y ago
http://www.marc.cn/2011/10/elaines-picture-removed-from-hall...
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Can the U.S. Invent the Next iPad if We Can't Build It?(theatlantic.com)
1 points by ximeng 15y ago|0 comments
918.
by ximeng 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1485612 - some comments http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=441670 - a link to this amongst other Git stuff from 3 years ago
919.
by ximeng 15y ago
It seems unlikely that Chrome will get tree style tabs any time soon, despite some popular interest: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=99332&#38... "If I stop using the dev version, and switch to beta or (shudder) release
920.
by ximeng 15y ago
Similar research paper, veering off into FFTs and genetic algorithms: http://www.cores2.com/files/FinalResearchPaper.pdf Another page: http://blog.codeus.net/a-lost-battleship-ai-and-probability-... Both have source code.
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Google to Build First Data Centers in Asia; Starts With Hong Kong, Taiwan(bloomberg.com)
2 points by ximeng 15y ago|0 comments
922.
Fusion Garage Grid10: The anti-Android tablet(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by ximeng 15y ago|0 comments
923.
by ximeng 15y ago
Did you see these? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2949790 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2949787
924.
by ximeng 15y ago
TDS is at the level below ODBC, shouldn't be affected I imagine.
925.
by ximeng 15y ago
Freudian slip? http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/09/01/... s/stand/stay
926.
by ximeng 15y ago
I assumed they'd handle this and tried it. From the FAQ: up to 16 processes can be created, maximum execution time is 5 seconds. http://ideone.com/F3GBH shows the output from a fork bomb. Basically nothing goes wrong, as I'd expect.
927.
by ximeng 15y ago
For those with WebGL, this is helpful to visualise: http://data-arts.appspot.com/globe
928.
by ximeng 15y ago
Oops, thanks.
929.
by ximeng 15y ago
Later in the video that this article talks about there is a picture of a "US hacker", running "hack.bat" in a Windows 2000 command prompt. hack.bat copies "ph0rce.jpg" out. There is an IP address visible which looks like 209.134.176.39, tha
930.
by ximeng 15y ago
The geek.com article adds little if nothing to the original, available at: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china-news/slip-up-in-chines... The above also has links to the original video in Chinese.

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