Torn

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by Torn 17y ago
Yeah, listening closely you can see how it gets "55" from his "bye bye". The strong accent makes it quite hard for the software to guess the phonemes being spoken. You can't have a "one size fits all" approach in voice recognition if there
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by Torn 17y ago
FYI Train2Game is a complete con, £5000 for a 'course' of second-hand (read: plagiarised) materials and freeware tools, as well as offering 'loans' to help finance the course itself. They are notorious for spamming false PR pretending to be
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by Torn 17y ago
Even on my lowly 8800GT with quad-core I'm hitting 83+ megahashes per second -- my lowest distance is currently 37. CUDA is pretty neat :)
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by Torn 17y ago
"You would find no shortage of volunteers," said John Olson, Nasa's director of exploration systems integration. "It's really no different than the pioneering spirit of many in past history, who took the one-way trip across the ocean, or t
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NASA's one-way human space missions(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by Torn 17y ago|4 comments
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by Torn 17y ago
YMMV - but I've had small sharp things hurt a little, like sharp bits of gravel, and never had anything pierce the sole. I've also ran over small amounts of broken glass by the side of the road before, no problem. The soles are really stron
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by Torn 17y ago
Most likely a solid-state compass: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass#Solid_state_compasses
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by Torn 17y ago
GPS in a well-covered area is accurate to around 10m or so. Combine that with a smartphone's internal compass and it knows what direction you are facing, so can pop up a floating box in roughly the right direction. Simple idea, and quite a
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by Torn 17y ago
I've lived without a tv just fine for a couple of years, and didn't really miss it. However, the technology-loving part of me recently bought a decent Sony Bravia 1080p set for the purposes of watching tv series and films with housemates, a
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by Torn 17y ago
I've had Five Finger Sprints for about a year now, and have been heavily evangelising them to my friends. Running barefoot really does feel liberating, especially going off-road through parks, fields and trails. It's like being a kid again
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by Torn 17y ago
"Other people will report sensitive info" isn't ethical justification. IMO TechCrunch should have gone down the honest route of ' It's interesting, and news-worthy, and we won't publish anything damaging ' in their response instead of bring
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by Torn 17y ago
Spot-on analysis of what has gone on: journalistic responsibility doesn't apply to this hack -- they haven't stumbled across details of shady dealings or bad treatment of users. Instead, it seems TechCrunch want to publish the info because
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by Torn 17y ago
Agreed. I don't know much about finance, but it seems like insider trading taken to a whole new level -- real-time, automated, massive scale DPI to hijack streams and push actions through just before trades are publicly committed. Pretty mu
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by Torn 17y ago
Agreed. The Washington Times have also released some pretty impressive open-source django apps over at http://opensource.washingtontimes.com/projects/ it includes django-supertagging which is pretty much the best automated django tagging
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by Torn 17y ago
here's a more future-proof link to the article http://technologizer.com/2009/07/06/im-an-ex-xm-subscriber/
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by Torn 17y ago
this is such a bad idea -- people will set up bots spewing fake information and boiler-room 'stock tips' of the sort already passed around in junk emails
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DARPA program seeks to evolve intelligent life
4 points by Torn 17y ago|0 comments
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by Torn 17y ago
HN so needs a +1 funny mod ;)
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by Torn 17y ago
anyone got a dump? the pastebin entry was deleted
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by Torn 17y ago
key generation works just fine for me in opera
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by Torn 17y ago
A year's trial, and this is awesome. Verified as costing £0.00 ! edit: keys generate for me just fine (I'm using Opera as it doesnt seem to work in IE7), and the downloads also work. Make sure you have registered your Subscriber Benefit Ac
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by Torn 17y ago
@ the OP you might want to go ahead and update your blog -- potential clients googling your company might stumble across it and run away in fear ;)
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by Torn 17y ago
productised over at http://www.ideeinc.com/products/pixid/ -- great idea, I think. Countdown until they're bought out by Google or similar? ...