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by JorgeGT 9y ago
I though ICANN was supposed to be getting serious against fake contact data on domain registrations? The fact that even a TLD's NIC admin info is fake is pretty spectacular.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Not from the US so correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the US had (and exercised) solid antitrust laws way before Silicon Valley developed? The case of Standard Oil in the early 20th century comes to mind.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
The PwC assurance report URL gives a 404: http://www.qubit.com/sites/default/files/pdf/pwc-qubit-assur...
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
> goal is to help you find whatever it is you are looking for. Oh, I thought the goal was to obtain incredibly detailed consumer profiles by offering to search whatever it is you are looking for, and then sell targeted ads based on those
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
> because people will find it regardless In my experience, if you have an SSH port accessible from the internet, it has been probed today by a few Chinese/Russian IPs. Unless my raspberry pi home server is somehow a high value intel
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Exactly. For anyone having trouble, just picture a pure sinusoidal signal, flash = sin(2π·freq·time + phase). Fireflies are changing their phase, not their frequency. Completely independent parameters.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
The front page of the Daily Express that day, for those curious: http://proftimobrien.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Luna9-Da...
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Europeana is a fantastic project, but it has this weird UX/UI bug: your search terms are added as "tags" in the search bar, but when you delete all of them to start a new search it triggers a search of the whole archive, whic
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Also, both Landsat and Sentinel (which is still free but has higher resolution, 10m/px, without needing pansharpening) data is available on AWS: L8: https://aws.amazon.com/es/public-datasets/landsat/ S2:
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
He, I just happened to have MATLAB on my other screen performing a PCA of a CFD simulation. I got bored of watching the progress bar and decided to browse HN a bit. I guess I cannot escape...
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Think about how much you would save in cooling...
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
SAR (Synthetic aperture radar) spy sats have been a thing for decades, and they can see through clouds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacrosse_(satellite)
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
I'm not blaming the victim, I'm offering helpful input as they are developing a CFD product. As someone who sometimes is asked to review purchases/license extensions of CFD codes, the ability to restart a suddenly interrupted
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
If your CFD software isn't saving at least the last converged timestep in order to restart the calculation if there's an unplanned interrupt maybe you should implement such a feature! It's been a lifesaver for me many times.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
That's the good thing about reality: it doesn't have to conform to plausible narrative norms.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Some of them are Mathematica / Wolfram Language.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Spain here, can confirm. Some producers even fake the mandatory movie screening that they need to keep the tax-funded grant. Even the freaking former president of the Spanish Cinema Academy is facing jail time over this: http://w
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Just a shot in the dark, but hydrazine, a typical hypergolic propellant for spacecraft, is super toxic.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
I'm stuck in and endless loop of "We need you to provide some additional information in order to continue." and "Email already exists. Log In".
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by JorgeGT 10y ago
Not to speak about versioning! I can easily git diff my LaTeX plain text files, but doing so with Word files...
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by JorgeGT 10y ago
> I wonder what really prompted the NSA to stop this collection. Rogue analyst finding damaging emails from some relevant politician? I.e. let's look at this Saudi Aramco chain mail because maybe extremist ties, but find email of Mr
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by JorgeGT 10y ago
"Outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means" Outer Space Treaty, Article II: http:/&#x2F
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by JorgeGT 10y ago
The example video has no audio track, but in real life I could see how someone would not be OK with the buzzing noise [1] of a drone flying "as he does on most nights". By the way, is flying a drone legal over populated places in
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by JorgeGT 10y ago
Or the classic... "Reviewer #1: Nice paper, but seems authors have missed this recently published work by TotallyNotReviewer1 et al. which could add..."
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by JorgeGT 10y ago
It's because it tries to sell you a subscription but your ad blocker blocks the ad, leaving the content blank. I disabled javascript on the domain and then the article stays.
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by JorgeGT 10y ago
Yep, once I plotted my Google location history and played this game looking at my "hot spots". Even if you work at a large company and don't go to special places it's very easy to gather insight by looking, for instance,
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by JorgeGT 10y ago
They usually sell it for 1.5€ or so in Steam! At first I was afraid of advancing because I remembered the wolves x)
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by JorgeGT 10y ago
"Hmm, 90% of this anonymous guy rides start/end at this residential address which the public property deed says it's registered to Mr. John Smith, I wonder who this anonymous guy could be."
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by JorgeGT 10y ago
Following the tendency he's $1.3 billion in debt!

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