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Gys
3,925karma·1,752submissions·October 24, 2013
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As referred to in the article [0] submitted to HN here [1] [0] http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33798303
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1001538…
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You should submit it as 'Show HN' to have the response you want. Edit: I noticed you already submitted this a few minutes earlier and that you have a new account. What I mean is you should b…
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'And Twitter, and Facebook, and Uber. They all seemed like pretty stupid ideas. Until they weren’t.' From Jerry Neumann, angel investor
http://reactionwheel.net/2014/07&…
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previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9984142
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I get a 503 Service Unavailable ?! Anyways, it probably did not change much in the last few days: https://web.archive.org/web/20150727212504/http://smallbasic... I…
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In case anybody else is wondering what this is about: Agar.io is a massively multiplayer action browser game played from a top-down perspective (Wikipedia)
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'Mr Palmer says he thought the hunt was legal but two Zimbabwean men have been arrested over the popular lion's death.' 'The dental practice he runs in Minneapolis has been closed …
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Interesting ! Very clear website. I hope this takes off ;-) But they really need more flight offerings otherwise visitors will loose interest. Surely there are organizations of plane owners that you c…
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Interesting facts: 'Autonomous vehicles will also challenge the very notion of car ownership. Cars are among the most expensive things most people own, yet they sit idle, on average, 96% of the t…
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'Dubbed HD 219134b, this exoplanet, which orbits too close to its star to sustain life, is a mere 21 light-years away.' There are closer planets, but their composition is unknown: 'For …
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'The robot will come with applications for office reception and customer interactions and greet shoppers, tell them about products, and entertain them by performing or playing games, all while re…
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From the article: 'Studies and scans showed that the box was made of non-English silver, and originated in continental Europe many decades before it reached Jamestown. Horn said he believed it wa…
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Intro: 'The Diabetic Retinopathy challenge on Kaggle has just finished. The goal of the competition was to predict the presence and severity of the disease Diabetic Retinopathy from photographs o…
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'The attack requires both the targeted computer and the mobile phone to have malware installed on them, but once this is done the attack exploits the natural capabilities of each device to exfilt…
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Sounds great but few technical details are given. For example how it works. In the video is a glimpse of a red laser beam (moving slowly...). But in that case I doubt the result could be full color ?
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An optimistic view on the future ;-) 'As technology becomes more dominant in the workplace, here are the three job skills that you need to thrive.' 'Adapted from Humans Are Underrated b…
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'In the old order, most people had a place in the world (the land, the guild, the church, etc.). In the new order, you worked 16 hour shifts just so you could eat and you had no guarantees' …
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Fannie or Fan-E ? ;-)
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You say less regulation means higher prices ?! From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market 'A free market is a market system in which the prices for goods and services ar…
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'the logic of the free market, which is that the government should redistribute wealth' I do not think this is correct. The free market is a way by itself to distributes wealth. 'Re…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping Facebook does not like their pages to be scraped. So I was a bit surprised by you title. But actually you are using the Graph API as in…