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1 year ago
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on: Steve Ballmer's incorrect binary search interview question
Other commenters are wrong in saying that the payout is different for an adversarial choice.
The crux of the payout derivation is: we can only cover 1 number in step 1, 2 in step 2, 4 in step 3, 8 in step 4, and so on. You can choose your initial number in binary search randomly, and as long as you meet the above condition is met (# of possible numbers covered in each step), payout should be same as 0.2
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3 years ago
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on: How to bury carbon? Let plants do the dirty work
Yes, this is addressed in the article. Please read the article before commenting.
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8 years ago
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on: Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in Northern Australia
Ants
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14 years ago
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on: Super Wi-Fi Technology Isn't Really Wi-Fi
This is basically a turf-war between wifi (802.11) and cellular (802.22) people. I think this announcement was to pre-empt 802.22 from taking over tv white-space band and making it popular, because there is a TV-whitespace standard being developed (802.11ah) from the 802.11 folks (aka wifi folks) but is a couple of years away from production.
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14 years ago
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on: Soon cell towers will start following you
look up pico-cells.
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14 years ago
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on: What is Wealth in America?
"A million dollars then would be about $20 million today, which is, interestingly, $1 million a year at a 5% aftertax return."
5%?? Does anyone know what investment is he talking about?
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14 years ago
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on: A replacement for email
google docs?
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14 years ago
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on: Why there aren't many innovators in China
Though they take a lot of flak recently, patents and patent protection are crucial for the environment in which any innovator can market his/her products, without fear of the idea being copied and mass-produced by a mega-corporation.
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14 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Career Change to something without computers
How about doing it for ~8 hrs a day?
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14 years ago
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on: A graphic illustration of 0.999…=1
I never had an issue with 0.999....=1, but after seeing so many articles on internet I wonder if I'm missing something.
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14 years ago
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on: Nevada passes law authorizing driverless cars
Google has tested their autonomous car for >10000 miles on US roads and highways over the last few years. So yes, they handle human driver traffic.
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15 years ago
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on: Developer loses life savings in bitcoin over Twitter
why is this droppin down so fast from frontpage?
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15 years ago
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on: Intel Closes $7.68 Billion McAfee Acquisition
Long shot, but has it got anything to do with real estate? Intel and McAfee HQs are located within a mile of each other...
again, its a crazy angle, just putting it out there.
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15 years ago
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on: The real truth on Wikipedia is in the edits
Hi,
I am still interested in the link to any tools that overlay wiki history.. can u point me to any of them? thanks.
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15 years ago
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on: The real truth on Wikipedia is in the edits
could you provide links to the tools that do this?
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16 years ago
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on: A story of the rise and fall of a serious attempt at a proof that P!=NP
Isn't it generalizing too much? Andrew Wiles worked on Fermat's last theorem for 7 yrs in secret, nobody even knew he was working on it until he published the results.
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17 years ago
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on: Bootstrapping Technology For Eight Bucks a Day
can you pls give the (appx) breakdown similar to what's given in the article? thanks in advance.
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17 years ago
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on: Detailed review of MIT's OCW course "Introduction to Algorithms", Part I: Analysis of Algorithms and Asymptotic Notation
if it doesn't exist already, its a good idea for a startup.
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17 years ago
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on: The World's Best Places to Live 2008
I agree, although life in general seems to move at a leisurely pace there, so the "urgency" factor in work is not there. OTOH, the fruit juices there do taste much better than the supermarket ones in mainland US...
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17 years ago
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on: Female CEOs at top Silicon Valley tech firms down to zero
Quantenna : co-founded by Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford prof)
