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Is that the actual URL? Seems to be missing /s Marginally related: on cs.CL the other day was "Punny Captions: Witty Wordplay in Image Descriptions"[0]. A mashup of these two proje…

The idea is to reduce the amount of redundant copying of characters: you end up doing a few more concatenations in the outer loop, but the concatenations in the inner loop are of s…

Yes, but with the caveat that you'll be running interpreted .py using a cross-compiled Python executable, rather than Python compiled to Android bytecode. Kivy itself (the project …

Fortunately the domain name is rather less ambiguous and primed me for the weak pun. I'm ... glad(?) that the wordplay survived the marketeering sessions and civil service vetting.…

The bit that really stood out for me: """ He was never once bored. He wasn’t sure, he said, that he even understood the concept of boredom. """ Almost seems (too? as a consequence?…

> This is why I think the ability to ask good questions is a better indication of understanding and intelligence than the ability to generate answers. Certainly! Synthesis rather t…

If we're limiting ourselves to deductive reasoning, then yes – the facts as stated do not give enough information to deduce that Greg must be white. If instead we use abductive inf…

In this particular case it could be argued that Google's unofficial "don't be evil" motto explicitly framed this as a moral issue. Tongue-in-cheek, to be sure, but certainly an app…

Lena handled it very gracefully. She gives a very quick synopsis of what her part of the talk would have been around the 41 minute mark. The whole presentation was plagued by greml…

Inasmuch as there is blame to be apportioned in this case, it's due to JavaScript / ECMAScript having broad definitions of acceptable variable names, and (arguably[0]) the fact tha…

Alas, there's no guarantee that the order of key/value pairs within an object will be preserved (not even within JS anymore!). But that's okay, we can always reformat the ordered d…

Perhaps it was determined by trial and error! Or maybe the earlier oven iterations happened to get lucky. We don't know that embedding a flyscreen on the door of the food chamber w…

Official local datum is GDA94, which is usually within about a metre of WGS84. /me pats pocket protector I think the idea here though is that the underlying terrain has scooted aro…

It's a bug that's lost its foot in the door. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12188144

I'd certainly agree that someone who went to the effort of setting up a system for spoofing (even if it was just downloading an extra app) is, in some sense, more motivated than a …

Probably good to regard these first few weeks (months?) of Pokémadness as an "open beta" period, before the security measures get turned on. We can look at Niantic's previous proje…

Cancer is a very broad church. There have been a lot of lifestyle changes over the last twenty years, very difficult to specify control groups ....

It takes real skill to walk in a straight line, even with a compass. The best navigator I know taught me the trick of lining up good landmarks and concentrating on those, head stra…

Well, you'll need water, which generally finds itself at lower ground .... Are folks not taught stuff about lighting smokey fires to attract attention, or would there have been loc…

At CDG airport a few weeks ago we encountered a straightforward process I'd not seen before – items going through the screening are associated with your boarding pass. It had no si…

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7961385 Top comment starts "While Gregg shorthand is great for English, its not much use for anything technical", which wa…

Related article: St Petersburg State University took out first place in that particular competition, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University took second. Teams from St Petersburg won the…