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As a footnote to this, can I recommend Stuart Ashen’s talk about Hareraiser, a lacklustre kind-of follow up and contender for “worst video game ever”:

https://youtu.be/ouvi-fwrfIY

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Do_It.txt

But as you go back in time, it becomes increasingly unlikely. At some point it is so unlikely it can be disregarded. And the point of the article is that point is closer in history than you might expect.

This is not going to be a five year parliament given the outcome. It might not be a five month parliament.

Site seems to be down, here is a text-only cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Z4ZDqEM...

It ought to work with Handoff and let you open iOS Safari's current web page in Chrome. Currently you get a popup with the Chrome icon but it doesn't work because Chrome isn't 32-bit(!)

she's navigating it through the corridors of power and dealing with all the vested interests for and against it.

Yes, but she doesn't seem to know what "it" is.

Well he did approvingly quote some nonsense that the reader would only work on a 'live finger' (presumably it is supposed to be able to detect the presence of a soul?).

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/09/12/5s-fingerprint-s...

The article is misleading - this is a technique for use on human cell lines, not on humans.

They do actually do this in the UK

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9994089/DVLA-made-10m...

This is how car parking companies get your home address from your number plate to write you threatening letters.

Of course, if you weren't actually near any mains electricity at the time you made the recording(s), this is not necessary.

Are there any other utils worth installing from that tap? Awk? OpenSSH?

This shows how bogus it is - you can put lots of sugar in a basic drink and it would score well.

The key point for me is why is concentration of sugar in mg/cl? Why not mg/l, or g/l, or oz/gallon? Each one would give a different answer, and all are equally justifiable. (There is also the weird idea that a decrease in pH of 1, which is 10 times the concentration of H+, would therefore be 10 times as bad.)

p>0.05 does not mean that a correlation has been disproven, just that the authors are unable to reject the null hypothesis (potentially due to lack of statistical power).

Here is a referenced blog post, that also discusses the lawsuit:

http://obamapacman.com/2010/03/myth-copyright-theft-apple-st...

So it looks like with this method, if a journal publishes more papers, this will give it more of a chance to boost its h5-index? This probably accounts for the high level of arXiv, and PLoS One beating out PLoS Biol.

One problem with impact factors is the way that a few articles can account for the majority of citations. For instance, a bioinformatics method that is widely used could attract thousands of citations, boosting the impact factor of the journal by a few points. This method doesn't solve this, as it expressly focuses on the top n articles and ignores the impact of the remainder. For instance, PLoS One's score of 100 is because the top 100 articles got 100 citations - it says nothing about the distribution of the rest.

Yeah, the 10 (100?) kb length is the huge thing here. An awful lot of sequencing bioinformatics is dealing with the implications of short read length. This problem is possibly going to go away now.

Looks like you need to send them across through iTunes.

What did the "4" mean in the iPhone 4, then?

Exactly. It is a problem - I respect that Marco doesn't want to stich articles together, but I sometimes reach the end of an article to find myself unsure as to whether that really was the end, or just the end of page one. Would be useful to get some indication in Instapaper when this is the case. I am flirting with Readability for this reason.

The logic of the first part of the article seems a little foolish. If he'd had the operation, it might have already spread and would still have killed him anyway. But, therefore it might not - all this says is that the operation wouldn't have certainly saved his life, just improved his chances. Well, of course!

Right. They laughed at Einstein... But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

It's mitigated in that you can't hard link a directory (except in recent MacOS). So I suppose you would always know the real cwd of your shell, for instance.

Interesting that you can use Webkit to build your browser but still call it "all-new".

He could just do what everyone else is doing: move to the Mac App Store and charge everyone again.

This may be a little snarky, but, as Homer Simpson put it: "Well, you bought all those smoke alarms, and we haven't had a single fire!"

Overdrive already offers epub downloads to Sony Readers and the like. The question I have is whether the books that the library has in epub format will be available to the Kindle, or will there be separate VHS/Betamax style sections?

Another problem with XCode is not that it is difficult for a user to install, but that XCode 4 is not free (as in beer), and some MacPorts/Homebrew users object to that.

I suspect it is about headlines. They have even taken out a google ad on the search "tesla top gear" pointing to teslavstopgear.co.uk

However, the review is clearly heavily scripted (do Teslas really just run out of power and then require pushing down the road?). In the UK, the powers-that-be at the BBC have recently taken a dim view of this sort of constructed TV posing as reality (after "Socksgate" and "Sachsgate", an explanation of which is probably beyond the scope of this discussion...).

This page is often cited, yet referes to Scala 1.4. Can anyone point me to documentation about running Scala 2.8 on .NET? Does it work?