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hellrich··on IBM Watson’s Next Venture
According to a presentation I heard two month ago it's not good enough yet. They can make accurate predictions in many cases, yet not in all/enough. At the moment they see more potential in analyzing health insurance claims, as falling back to a human expert is easier.
hellrich··on IPads Are Everywhere
1, iPad 1 doesn't have a camera

2, iPads are quite common in Germany

hellrich··on What Do Cats See?
I found it on http://www.spiegel.de/, which linked back to the seo-website.
hellrich··on Work like hell
Are you sure about the source of this quote? I've seen it attributed to Napoelon before.
hellrich··on Down syndrome reversed in newborn mice with single injection
Those names may be funny, but they are really annoying if you try to do NLP...
hellrich··on Moon Water Discovery Hints at Mystery Source Deep Underground
I should have used <sarcasm>
hellrich··on Moon Water Discovery Hints at Mystery Source Deep Underground
Moon Nazis, I watched a documentary about those, "Iron Pie" or something like that...
hellrich··on NSA revelations of privacy breaches 'tip of the iceberg' according to Senators
Doublepluscorrectspeak
hellrich··on Jamie Oliver Proves McDonald’s Burgers “Unfit for human consumption”
Thousands die each year due to dihydrogen oxide. It may be safe to ingest, yet if you inhale it there's little hope...
hellrich··on Navigating the Postmodern Python World
Try Groovy!

  def foos = [ new Foo(2), new Foo(4) ]
hellrich··on Response to NSA scandal: German Government moves away from data retention
Yes, it changed the name to "Mindestspeicherfrist" - "minimum storage time"...
hellrich··on The Mac Pro from an audio pros perspective
Perfect(for Apple)!
hellrich··on Why Go?
"Write once, run anywhere"
hellrich··on How My Startup Got Robbed
Are you sure he's guilty? Otherwise you are the criminal now...
hellrich··on English Letter Frequency Counts: Mayzner Revisited
You might be into corpus linguistics...
hellrich··on Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition for the iPad
Hm, did I time it wrong or why did no one see my earlier submission? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4887373
hellrich··on Intel's 50-Core Xeon Phi: The New Era of Inexpensive Supercomputing
Probably submitted before, thus a change to the url was necessary to circumvent HNs filter.
hellrich··on My favorite regex of all time
Shouldn't most compilers (jit-)inline it?
hellrich··on My IQ
Kafka and Einstein had white collar jobs when those were rare and Wittgenstein gave away his (inherited) fortune.
hellrich··on IQ and Religion
Malnutrition can lead to low IQ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_and_intelligence#Bi...
hellrich··on Court rules book scanning is fair use, suggesting Google Books victory
I'm in for plaintext, but ASCII is ill suited for most languages.
hellrich··on LLJS: Low-Level JavaScript
Not enough RAM.
hellrich··on Stock Android Isn't Perfect: Things I Can't Stand About Jelly Bean
And iPad 1.
hellrich··on Stock Android Isn't Perfect: Things I Can't Stand About Jelly Bean
4 finger swipe should bring you back to Mail.
hellrich··on Java's Cover (April 2001)
I've become really fond of Groovy during the last weeks. It's compatible with the huge number of existing Java code but more terse. Also its defaults seem more pragmatic, e.g., "==" comparing Strings by value or implicit setters/getters. And version 2 promises Java like performance (and type checks) for statically compiled code.
hellrich··on Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed
I have problems performing a "correct" wiggle, especially on my trackpad. Corners would be more reliable.
hellrich··on With World of Warcraft fading, what will Blizzard do next?
MoP (next expansion) beta started today, looks more like a summer release to me.
hellrich··on Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 21
Your ability to make this decision would be impaired if you had a mental illness like depression.
hellrich··on Apple will take away your OS X root access, and soon
So... the honeypot plan was accepted? Linkbait title, no content.
hellrich··on Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital
Or if she fell victim to a crime - sadly more likely for a woman gone lost in a bar.
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