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by ISL 14y ago
In physics and astronomy, 10 is the dominant logarithmic base. It's my impression that it's also the case in engineering circles. An important upshot of the article is really the idea that you should think logarithmically about scaling. It'
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by ISL 14y ago
Still works.
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by ISL 14y ago
Spectral analysis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_density_estimation Without frequent sampling, you can't get access to high frequency information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_frequency An example (not for regular sampl
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by ISL 14y ago
Thanks for triggering a rarely used synapse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grad_(angle)
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by ISL 14y ago
Is there any indication that they'll ever add windowed (not full-screen) X-forwarding? When I'm working from afar, ssh with tunneled X is all I need.
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On Passage of the Bill (H.R. 5949) (FISA Senators Votes)(senate.gov)
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by ISL 14y ago
At every US school I've interacted with, it's the other way around. The research grants get used to subsidize teaching. At the University of Washington, for 2013, tuition (after substantial tuition hikes) is expected to net 44% as much mone
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by ISL 14y ago
Has FISA-authorized surveillance been found constitutional?
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by ISL 14y ago
I'm still buying one every once in a while, most recently in 2012. Sometimes you need an actual computer that you can take anywhere, not a tablet. Sometimes you don't have a lot of money. That's what a netbook is. I don't think the form fac
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by ISL 14y ago
When concealed-carry permit addresses were published by a journalist in our town in 2007, people who had fled abusive relationships were immediately forced to move. http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/108418 Transparent government is a
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by ISL 14y ago
Chrome OS still doesn't X-forward, right? Hm. Googling suggests that there's kinda X-forwarding, but it's full screen only? http://blog.tomtasche.at/2012/01/developing-on-chromebook-pa...
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by ISL 14y ago
Calling out the lack of peer review is a red herring. There is plenty of incorrect work accepted into journals every day. If Mochizuki's work is correct, then in most senses, the result is proven. Whether that proof is yet accepted is anoth
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by ISL 14y ago
So long, and thanks for all the fish!
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by ISL 14y ago
http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/snow-sports/T...
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by ISL 14y ago
The group was composed of well-trained and knowledgeable skiers. I'd disagree, in whole or in part, with points 3,4,5,6,8,9,10, but HN isn't the place to quarterback an accident. Each point above is well-founded, but may not apply in this s
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by ISL 14y ago
The presentation is impressive. May future articles be so well-presented. The people killed in Tunnel Creek and around our region on the same day were good friends, parents, and people. This slide, in particular, has attracted so much atten
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by ISL 14y ago
There's an elegance to it. As usual, the user is the product. It will be difficult for FB to really win in advertising spaces; there are a lot of other players. FB is making a play that states that there's an unserved market in sending pers
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by ISL 14y ago
Not for a campaign that probably spends $0.30-$0.50 on sending you a flyer that you never read.
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by ISL 14y ago
Anyone have any further insight into the software HF radio?
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by ISL 14y ago
A revolution that worked: American Revolution. By some measures, it began in Lexington (the linked Economist column is "Lexington"), when the British government moved to seize citizens' arms. We must better understand how it is that those w
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by ISL 14y ago
Nope. A search for anchovy pizza, which I've never searched for before, turned up results. Edit: In Seattle.
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by ISL 14y ago
Does anyone have a reference for how much trolls tend to pay inventors for their patents? Trolls get a bad rap, and I'm opposed to trolling as opposed to licensing to manufacturers, but they're one possible form of middleman between invento
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by ISL 14y ago
From the article: "I quickly noticed how the room got it name as the walls and floor are completely covered in rubber over a soft cushion that was meant to absorb the blast." The seats in the room also have seat belts. Looks like the room
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by ISL 14y ago
I am wearing only two socks. Both socks are black. Is it impossible for me to prove that I'm not wearing red socks?
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by ISL 14y ago
ArXiv paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1847 This work attempts to draw out the presence of a simulation by looking for tiny violations of known/expected symmetries, which is always worth doing. We should note, however, that an excellent s
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by ISL 14y ago
I believe that there's a sensitivity threshold for laser gyros at which the Man gets interested. I've been to a colloquium where the speaker noted that foreign graduate students weren't allowed to work on gyros with sensitivities greater th
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by ISL 14y ago
Awesome. We'd actually have a use in the lab for such a measurement (we see seismic traffic noise from a bridge ~200m away). We've toyed with a magnetometer a bit, but an acceleration-based measurement would be more relevant for our needs.
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by ISL 14y ago
10 ug acceleration noise has large consequences in displacement error. To get an estimate of the size of the effect, recall that for uniform acceleration, x(t) = 1/2 * a * t^2 . So, for 10 ug = 9.8e-5 m/s^2, this works out to ~600 m in an h
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by ISL 14y ago
The Ars Technica article oversells the shot-noise limit. What you really want to see in this business is a thermally-limited oscillator; the Brownian motion in the spring driving the mass. For a quantum mechanically limited oscillator, chec
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by ISL 14y ago
And now, with a front page HN post, that effective hype has probably more than doubled!

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