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by xom 8y ago
You might like the anime film Time of Eve . It's been described as the best Three Laws work that isn't Asimov or an adaptation.
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by xom 9y ago
And yet the company still can't afford walls.
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by xom 10y ago
Cardery is my weekend project. It's a script that uses dom-to-image to render PNG images from card data in CSV and card template in HTML/CSS/JS. Work in your favorite text editor or spreadsheet editor, while refreshing your b
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Show HN: Cardery – Generate card images from CSV using HTML/CSS/JS(cardery.org)
3 points by xom 10y ago|1 comments
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by xom 10y ago
The [WTO] said in a statement that it would allow a 300 percent import duty on turkey tail imports and a domestic prohibition on sales during the transition period to allow the country to “develop and implement a nationwide program promoti
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by xom 10y ago
Pigs use mud to avoid sunburn. « Some people have gone so far, especially with show pigs, as to slather sun screen onto their pigs when they know that they will be out in the sun for a considerable time and they don't want them to get
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by xom 10y ago
While we're at it, how about defining the offsets the other way around, so we can write 15:30+5 == 15:30 EST == 20:30 UTC?
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Five Worlds of Software Development (2002)(joelonsoftware.com)
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by xom 10y ago
A WarCraft III commentator told the story of how he once saw a pro, during the opening, send his Demon Hunter to the healing fountain on a certain map, and he started doing the same with the same timing on that map. One day he met the pro i
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by xom 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Surgeon_of_Crowthorne "tells the story of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and one of its most prolific early contributors, Dr. W. C. Minor, a retired United Stat
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by xom 10y ago
quoting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10954918 : > Go players activate the brain region of vision, and literally think by seeing the board state. A lot of Go study is seeing patterns and shapes... 4-point bend is
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by xom 10y ago
I learned Go several years ago at the age of 20, and tracked how much time I spent on it. Comparing my progress with that of a certain strong amateur who started at age 14 and estimated how many games he played throughout his progression, I
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by xom 11y ago
quoting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10954918 : > Go players activate the brain region of vision, and literally think by seeing the board state. A lot of Go study is seeing patterns and shapes... 4-point bend is
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by xom 11y ago
Explanatory note: Most humans have three types of color receptive cones; a few have four. Mantis shrimp have sixteen.
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by xom 11y ago
When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labors, and the words move slow;
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by xom 12y ago
If the host can choose between doing nothing and revealing a goat, and the host wants the contestant to lose, then the contestant's best strategy is to never switch, in order to avoid being exploited by a host who only reveals a goat w
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by xom 12y ago
They tried, but I'm not convinced that they succeeded. Their video resembles Street Fighter in the way that https://youtu.be/-2gJamguN04 resembles Football. It's possible that their mapping works, in that there&#x
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by xom 12y ago
« Assuming Anand and Carlsen’s blunders were independent events, what we saw was a 1 in 10,000 occurrence. » Are they independent events though? In a game between mediocre players, if there is only one move to take advantage of a blunder, t
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GameMaker developer YoYo Games sold to gambling firm for $16.4m(gamesindustry.biz)
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Google's domain registry(google.com)
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by xom 12y ago
I don't know what it was like then, but perhaps the idea is that if the Ruble were to recover, then the Russian hosts would lose out?
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by xom 15y ago
I wasn't sure whether to submit the tool or the explanation, though they link to each other. The tool is here: http://xomnom.com/preference.html
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Show HN: Interactive sorting tool, using FJ algorithm for minimal comparisons(xomnom.com)
2 points by xom 15y ago|1 comments
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by xom 15y ago
To be fair, I do both of those as well: the former when I have only one hand free, and the latter to sanity-check my formulas.
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by xom 15y ago
On the usefulness of N-back (scroll to heading "Notes from the author"): http://gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ
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by xom 15y ago
"valid through August 19"
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by xom 15y ago
The economic factors are totally different here, but still it reminded me of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2690799 quote: "See the following paper for an economic analysis of trial by battle: http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pd
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by xom 15y ago
As stated, the professor is preventing cheating by modifying the nature of the assignments.
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by xom 15y ago
really studying style I want to do this. How did you go about it?
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Google News adds Achievement Badges(latimesblogs.latimes.com)
12 points by xom 15y ago|6 comments

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