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Re:Steve Ballmer's incorrect binary search interview question on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @10:26AM (#41435303)
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
Re:How to bury carbon? Let plants do the dirty work on Sunday September 11, 2022 @03:17AM (#32797514)
Yes, this is addressed in the article. Please read the article before commenting.
Re:Super Wi-Fi Technology Isn't Really Wi-Fi on Friday January 27, 2012 @02:24PM (#3519715)
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.
Re:Soon cell towers will start following you on Saturday January 14, 2012 @10:57AM (#3464448)
look up pico-cells.
Re:What is Wealth in America? on Sunday October 16, 2011 @01:14PM (#3117721)
"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?

Re:A replacement for email on Thursday September 29, 2011 @02:10AM (#3051337)
google docs?
Re:Why there aren't many innovators in China on Saturday August 20, 2011 @02:02PM (#2907231)
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.
Re:Ask HN: Career Change to something without computers on Sunday August 14, 2011 @02:48AM (#2882977)
How about doing it for ~8 hrs a day?
Re:A graphic illustration of 0.999…=1 on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @09:27AM (#2837010)
I never had an issue with 0.999....=1, but after seeing so many articles on internet I wonder if I'm missing something.
Re:Nevada passes law authorizing driverless cars on Thursday June 23, 2011 @04:20PM (#2689697)
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.
Re:Developer loses life savings in bitcoin over Twitter on Friday May 20, 2011 @02:38AM (#2566670)
why is this droppin down so fast from frontpage?
Re:Intel Closes $7.68 Billion McAfee Acquisition on Monday February 28, 2011 @06:41PM (#2273499)
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.
Re:The real truth on Wikipedia is in the edits on Thursday September 09, 2010 @02:25PM (#1676307)
Hi,

I am still interested in the link to any tools that overlay wiki history.. can u point me to any of them? thanks.

Re:The real truth on Wikipedia is in the edits on Wednesday September 08, 2010 @05:50PM (#1673641)
could you provide links to the tools that do this?
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.
Re:Bootstrapping Technology For Eight Bucks a Day on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @03:33AM (#584739)
can you pls give the (appx) breakdown similar to what's given in the article? thanks in advance.
if it doesn't exist already, its a good idea for a startup.
Re:The World's Best Places to Live 2008 on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @02:06PM (#260872)
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...
Quantenna : co-founded by Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford prof)
Re:Wikipedia black helicopters circle Utah's Traverse Mountain on Friday December 07, 2007 @09:06PM (#87204)
it still faces the same problem.. a small group of members can block information if they wish.