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Re:Who Will Rein in Facebook? Challengers Are Lining Up on Sunday October 29, 2017 @08:33PM (#15582391)
Cons: Choose another big company over FB: Google Photos

Pros: You only share with select people, you only get photos from whom you want

Re:Wikipedia blocked in Turkey on Saturday April 29, 2017 @11:39AM (#14227034)
This person seems to have more information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14225719
Re:AIGrant: Get $5,000 for your open source AI project on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @05:31PM (#14092655)
Could you put like-minded people in touch who submit similar projects?
Re:AIGrant: Get $5,000 for your open source AI project on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @05:07PM (#14092456)
Could you make the responses editable post submission?
Re:JPS+: Over 100x Faster than A* (2015) [video] on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @02:34AM (#13693984)
I've been using a modified D*. It increases the grid size as the path moves out of the robot's observable area. This allows a fast search even when the goal is in a environment with known dynamic obstacles.

Ideally speaking, you need to plan in higher dimensions to get an optimal path in dynamic environments

Re:Intel Shows 2.5D FPGA at ISSCC on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @12:19AM (#13641342)
Groxx has the correct link
Yeah, but the easter eggs have to be manually curated. - Do a barrel roll - askew - anagram ... (the list is over at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_Easter_eggs)

These have to be manual. This does suggest that effects and probably the search results for specific terms can be manually modified

This would probably be implemented by Samsung first. They are still working on controlling the detonation if Note 7 is any indication :D
Re:Stop-And-Seize Turns Police into Self-Funding Gangs on Saturday November 14, 2015 @01:39AM (#10564753)
It was covered very well by John Oliver in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks