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I've known the developers behind Marty for years - and this is an incredibly well-engineered bipedal robot! With onboard WiFi or an RPi; and Python, Scratch, C++, ROS - it's a bit …

A friend of mine worked with Prof. Salter. He's an incredibly brilliant, smart and kind scientist. Unfortunately, much of his research was 'blocked' due to someone miscalculating t…

I'm afraid not. I've been searching as well and couldn't find it. I recall his process to be 1. secure the rights to the book (he knew the author personally/through family) 2. cut …

Some companies buy up the rights to old/out of print books that created this original material. Then they cut it up and automatically digitise it. There was a post on HN quite some…

Go to the website of departments, research groups, and professors at your university and get a broad understanding of what they are up to. Maybe read (the abstract of or the entire…

I've just finished doing the same for Edinburgh, UK and share many of the OP's frustrations. The monopoly that many letting agencies have in that they are also managing apartments …

Won my first game. [Evidence: http://frupic.frubar.net/32232 ]

It used to be free a few years ago too until it became 'premium' in early 2011. [1] Difference is that now Skype features more ads than in 2011, even if you have multiple monthly s…

In what way would it be different from SoundCloud? No fancy commenting? Anonymous uploads?

Wikipedia lists the F9R also as "Grasshopper v1.1" -- cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_(rocket)#Grasshoppe...

There are unconfirmed reports that the flight has made an emergency landing in [Naning/Nan Ming] -- but hours after it allegedly ran out of fuel (7.5h of fuel on board). Hope for t…

Solution on a late 2013 MBP for me (when the issue occurs no sound is playing anymore - no system sounds, no videos, no audio): Plugging in earphones and unplugging. Killing the co…