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by icoder 12y ago
Exactly! Sure it seems 'logical' at first sight that directions for the feet are directed at the feet . But since all signals need to go through the brain anyway, I don't see why you can't replace this with a bracelet
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by icoder 12y ago
Would it have been possible to figure this out without the statistics by playing something very specific, like a 440Hz tone (yes, there's spotify 'music' that does just that)?
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by icoder 12y ago
I always understood that human numbers in less developed areas actually increase because other forces (disease, poverty, mosquitoes?) try to keep them in check.
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by icoder 12y ago
I glanced over the website and missed that, now on mobile I'm only reading the comments and see that it is quite relevant for me. So thanks :)
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by icoder 12y ago
I agree but want to add that altbough like you I did not often upgrade my PC, I did replace broken stuff like a fan, power supply, harddrive for a fraction the cost of a new PC. I also extended with extra, not better, hardware like a card r
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by icoder 13y ago
"Humans use <todo>" ? Perhaps attention?
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by icoder 13y ago
I had a bunch of teeth sealed and years later cavities started to appear underneath the seals, which were hard to clean because of the seals. So sealing didn't turn out to be that much of a holy grail.
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by icoder 13y ago
Well, just as with disk storage, scaling up doesn't mean things get cheaper per unit, because you'll have to pay for infrastructure that you take for granted at low scale (cooling, storage, security, power, network, etc). Many cus
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by icoder 13y ago
Wonder how much the experience would degrade with a lesser internet connection. Even WiFi probably won't keep up with that, but perhaps enough. But 3G?
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by icoder 13y ago
From that article: "Paper is the first product from Facebook Creative Labs, where we’re crafting new apps to support the diverse ways people want to connect and share." -> Put things a bit in perspective for me.
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by icoder 13y ago
Based on what they present, the concept highly depends on the content. This poses an issue that is not touched upon at all in their presentation. So mentioning / discussing it on HN is in my opinion relevant.
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by icoder 13y ago
I understood that part as if there will be content especially for Paper, categorised (by creator) and readable for everyone. If they actually think they can categorise the stuff that is now my Facebook experience and get anything close to w
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by icoder 13y ago
Funny, my feed is becoming a mini-reddit with mostly memes and I was thinking "if the news for this app comes from my friends, I may need other friends". But I think news from friends is not the entire purpose of Paper, so there&#
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An open letter to Nature editor Philip Campbell(tenureshewrote.wordpress.com)
46 points by icoder 13y ago|16 comments
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by icoder 13y ago
At first I thought that this was about a iOS dev oriented Podcast (due to finding it on HN + tunnelvision). But that it is not. Does raise the question whether there are any (free or reasonably affordable) (iOS or other) development related
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by icoder 13y ago
Assuming dating depends heavily on geographic (location) and even demographic (especially age) properties, you will not need 'just' users, but also within the same geo/demo group (ie same location, same age). You can use this
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by icoder 13y ago
Basically all we know in medical science, which we all benefit from, is based on health data collected from other indivivuals, often (and preferably) many individuals. Collecting data and using that to gain knowledge is not a bad thing per
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by icoder 13y ago
Just came to this thread to say how much of the article reminded me of my process of learning Starcraft.
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by icoder 13y ago
Ah yes, that's actually an interesting side effect of the eval strategy that I didn't realize myself yet. Nice!
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by icoder 13y ago
Apart from the fact that I think (as far as the comments that are on now) you are exaggerating quite a bit with "BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE CHARTS!!!", I also think there's no need to suggest that there's anything 'wr
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by icoder 13y ago
Also, I wonder how much of this code would survive if you want to get beyond this 1%. Probably nothing, which makes this a road with a dead end. This doesn't mean it is not a useful and brilliant demonstration of cool language features
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by icoder 13y ago
That'll probably impossible in the browser due to security reasons: otherwise misuse could trap the user on a website
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by icoder 13y ago
I actually found that most of the 'hate' in this thread is in (what I see as useless) responses to (what I see as useful) criticism. In turn I'm getting tired of these meta that comments discuss criticism, like yours. Yes I k
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by icoder 13y ago
We talked about this before. There's no such thing as black. The actual residual reflectiveness of 'black' depends on the medium.
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by icoder 13y ago
Didn't work for me
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by icoder 13y ago
No warnings in Chrome
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by icoder 13y ago
One can wonder if they act anti-social due to being glued to their phones, or whether they are like that from themselves and it just showed more obvious because of the phones.
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by icoder 13y ago
You describe just another consequence of failure and your example therefore still fit the original statement about risk and consequence of failure. While the consequences you describe can be seen as quite severe, the risk of them is, in my
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by icoder 13y ago
I was held back by the amount of permissions it requires
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by icoder 13y ago
1) When I was 8 I just started reading a GW-Basic programming book, not knowing what programming was at all, just wanted to know more about computers. My dad had it on the shelf. He then told me we had GW-Basic installed on our 8086 and tog

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