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That video does exactly the same job explaining the underlying reasons -- down to using much of the same wording, and the same visuals. And it was online for a few weeks before thi…

> > I'm disappointed that the question wasn't answered. > It was answered. And now disappointed that the article only answered the question? :D

Discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23103610 as well

An arc that spans one radian of a circle's circumference has the same length as the radius. So if you imagine a connected line of 233 suns across the sky, spanning 57.3 degrees, th…

John Conway is actually one of the authors of the book discussed in the article.

The original article is a bit better: http://www.livemint.com/Companies/lDn53REhqvhqGoIxs9MgwJ/App... Apple isn't actually prevented from selling either new or refurbished iPhones …

Apparently they have that covered, too: http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/canada-changed-its-el... It can't be officially signed until after the election, but they can still n…

Big Hero 6 isn't original, if that's what you're saying there -- it's drawn from the same Marvel universe as Captain America and Guardians of the Galaxy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

From reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3#Fusion_reactions , the 2p are two protons, and not positrons, as valarauca1 is saying. So, 4 protons and 2 neutrons go in, 4 prot…

Related to this: https://twitter.com/__apf__/status/551083956326920192/photo/... HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8838332

And if your problem requires only one of each, and needs them for the same amount of time, then your optimization would be the correct one. Now scale this to a situation where solv…

This all looks like a lot more drama than it really is. There's a lot of reasonable discussion going on between the two parties now. See http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/681 and…

It's more likely that it's because they are two separate physical actions (returning the head to the left, and advancing the paper one line). They could be used independently: You …

It seems back now, but in case anyone finds this comment the next time GitHub is under DDoS: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KNnwGeD...

The first argument, ",8" caused the load to come from the attached disk drive, rather than the default cassette interface. The second argument, as explained by others, was to load …

That's not a configuration we'd come across in testing, but I'll check it out. Can you raise an issue on https://github.com/MobileChromeApps/mobile-chrome-apps for this?

There's almost nothing that you can do with Cordova that you couldn't do with mobile Chrome apps, since, under the hood, they are Cordova apps. In fact, the plugins themselves have…

It's available to everyone right now; go ahead and clone it from GitHub, or install the cca package from npm -- it's a "developer preview" right now because some of the APIs are st…

The first and last female samples are identical (except for size, they appear to be exactly the same image). Hard to believe that one was identified correctly almost 80% of the tim…

As a matter of fact, most of the engineers on this project are regular committers to the Cordova project. (Cordova is the underlying project, btw -- PhoneGap is Adobe's build syste…

The overall density of primes is known, and decreases continuously as the numbers get larger (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number_theorem ) What this theorem says is that…

Well, it's on github, you could look through the history, and eventually you'd find this: https://github.com/paulirish/browser-logos/blob/17bbcde4c555...

You can submit the error, with the option of declaring what language the page is really in. Unfortunately, "JavaScript" isn't in the list.