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by yk 14y ago
The right market to get the ball rolling is likely the Amazon marketplace. It could be interesting for small shops to get an additional distribution channel and at the same time a reliable payment provider for their brick and mortar store.
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by yk 14y ago
A Amazon Smartphone could be a rather interesting device, since Amazon is mainly selling content. So they do not care (much) if they make money by selling hardware. For example a phone which is mostly geared towards ebooks, that is a very g
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by yk 14y ago
The Higgs mechanism feels indeed like a hack, but the ( at the moment not significant ) clues, that we have an enhanced photon ratio gives some hope, I think. ( Likewise the absence of an signal in the tau-tau channel.) On the other hand, w
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by yk 14y ago
Short answer: They discovered a particle which looks like a Higgs Boson. They are talking about the standard model Higgs, which is the result of a specific way to break electroweak symmetry. A consequence is, that there are quite well under
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by yk 14y ago
France has export controls too [1], as most of the G20 [2]. However I do not believe that the entire export control regime is flawed, since it is primarily designed to prevent proliferation to less sophisticated countries who have to buy en
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by yk 14y ago
I believe PG's essay is first of all too long, there are two or three interesting ideas in it and some libertarian propaganda pieces. In the first part, he argues about different levels in skill which supposedly generate different levels of
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by yk 14y ago
The original article appears is http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.6209 (as noted in the article). I did only print it (yet), but from the abstract it appears that they did mainly tried face recognition, not trying to find cats.
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by yk 14y ago
In my experience, the most useful thing to learn anything are projects. So you should pick something, for Android, Python, RoR perhaps a stupid fantasy football game ( or some unified HN and reddit aggregator) and solve the problems that po
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by yk 14y ago
How important is the foundation of a house, after all there is also a floor in the second storey of the building. The entire point of the secured boot process is, that you can only boot a signed kernel. And in the case of iOS today, the ker
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by yk 14y ago
It is not hypocritical, nuclear politics has nothing to do with playing nice. And in the Israeli case this is complicated by geography, since Israel would be cut in half by a single bomb.
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by yk 14y ago
Governments are quite often rather inefficient, but they are really large. For example, rockets could not have been developed by private enterprise, because it took something like thirty years (and substantial investment) to build somewhat
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by yk 14y ago
The problem is mainly economic. Wind and solar can produce with essentially zero marginal costs. (The cost of producing an additional kWh is negligible, if one is not accounting for upfront investments.) And therefore they can sell at any p
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by yk 14y ago
Great, I learn by being misunderstood :) I did think about people who stop playing because of outside events, like a new season of "Game of thrones" or a girl, not about ingame events. However, there is of course a fundamental bias in game
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by yk 14y ago
"We need better teaching of fractions" sound like a dangerous cargo-cult solution to the problem of poor understanding of math. If the teaching of fractions would be better, than the understanding of fractions would simply become a worse pr
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by yk 14y ago
Even the real data should contain noise, compared to a true hypothesis. For example, you could predict that a certain (for the purpose of the example, small) percentage of all players will buy a certain ship. But many of them just stop play
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by yk 14y ago
Male Character .... Check Female Character .. Check Nuclear Weapon .... Check => James Bond with iPhones We should just hide the minority report and stop this crime against literature from happening. [Edit] Obviously I sho
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by yk 14y ago
Probably something like flame does need much money for development. The clearest sign is of course the MD5 collision. For this you need not only the genius who actually devises the attack, but also an entire infrastructure of people who che
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by yk 14y ago
But we also depend on vastly higher yields. [1] IMHO it is not clear, that additional agriculture in currently cold areas could offset all losses in warmer areas. Additionally we are already not very good at the distribution of food on a gl
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by yk 14y ago
There are different sources of errors, usually categorized as statistical and systematic. The statistical error will decrease with higher statistics but the systematic error will not. An example for a systematic error would be the error of
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by yk 14y ago
The phrase "new physics" refers to the jargon of calling various subfields something-physics (like "Higgs-physics" or "B-physics"). New physics is correspondingly any additional field in the standard model ( and therefore just a tweak).
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by yk 15y ago
This was also my first thought. But with changes as big as Python 3, there is probably no way around this.