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The Grapple X on 8 November 1957 (a few months after the Grapple 1 on 15 May 1957) was a successful thermonuclear device[0], so it was only a short term bluff. Bear in mind that this was in the contex…

See also "What a Deep Neural Network thinks about your #selfie" at http://karpathy.github.io/2015/10/25/selfie/ . To summarise the "What makes a goo…

Does anyone know what technology they are using for their private distributed ledger? I heard a rumour that it was based on SharePoint - not sure if this was a joke, but wouldn't be surprised if …

The English were known as a "nation of shopkeepers"[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_shopkeepers …

Seems a reasonable response to me. After reading the original article I was left with the impression that Tesla had outsourced the development of their autonomous driving technology, and this changes …

Some countries don't get much sunshine though, e.g. the UK only gets sun around 30% of the daytime according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_the_United_Kingdom .…

In a large organisation you'll typically have a number of different architecture roles, i.e. its always something Architect. For example, there are Enterprise Architect, Line-of-Business Archit…

I know someone with a really similar name. He should take photos of the Richard Prince ones in a gallery, add a caption or something to claim fair use, and sell them as his-similar-name originals. Sou…

Hugh Trevor-Roper's "The Last Days of Hitler" is the nearest we have to a primary source in English. The 1947 edition didn't have any details from the Soviets, but there were a num…

This has quite a long heritage, with Reaction Engines Limited being co-founded by one of the designers of HOTOL[0], which was a similar design for an air-breathing rocket engine which got a lot of pre…

Or the INMOS transputer[0] based Abaq (which later became the Atari Transputer Workstation[1]). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INMOS_transputer [1] https://en.wikip…

But the residents apparently prefer the Isles of Scilly to the Scilly Isles.

A short discussion about these on HN a month or so ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10364797 …

Interesting to read that the number of bank branches is actually increasing in New York. In the UK the opposite is happening as more and more consumers are doing their banking online: "the UK has…

Its called black pudding[0] in the UK, or blood sausage[1] in some other places. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

There's something about "random" order that doesn't sit comfortably with someone like myself. I'd agree that some kind of connection to today's date, e.g. birthday, relea…

Portugal has a Golden Visa scheme, which "gives foreign investors who spend 500,000 euros on a property ... the right to live in Portugal ... They are also free to travel around all the EU countr…

That doesn't surprise me. I think there is an element of truth in the cocaine Conservative, champagne Socialist and latte Liberal stereotypes.

To see the photo including the current Prime Minister (David Cameron) and the current Mayor of London (Boris Johnson), and the photo including the current Chancellor of the Exchequer (George Osborne) …

It is interesting how something considered harmful can have beneficial effects. In this case reintroducing wolves could control the deer population and help the re-establish some of the Caledonian For…

Not the first time I have heard of differences between US and European milk on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9323380 …

Danny Boyle sounds great. A friend of mine actually saw him on the tube a few weeks back. She had been one of the performers in the London Olympics opening ceremony which he directed, and saw that he …