Wingman4l7

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   by Wingman4l7 14y ago

   Well, you'd better ship in a timely fashion, or you'll sour IndieGoGo on video glasses, and they'll be no crowd-funding sites left for that sort of project. No pressure! =)
2. 1022.▲
   by Wingman4l7 14y ago

   Just curious -- why did you go with IndieGoGo instead of KickStarter? KickStarter has a much greater visibility on the web than IndieGoGo (based off a comparison using Google Trends[1]). Are you opposed to their funding model or something
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   by Wingman4l7 14y ago

   The TrustedSec blog post that ArsTechnica links to gave the link for the password dump, so if you want to check for a compromised account: https://d33ds.co/archive/yahoo-disclosure.txt (WARNING: That file is ~17 MB.)
4. 1024.▲
   by Wingman4l7 14y ago

   Anyone know what the meaning is? I'm curious to know. They don't say, Google Translate doesn't have a clue, and a quick Google didn't turn up anything...
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   by Wingman4l7 14y ago

   It's inexcusable. Blogs, traditional journalism's favorite whipping boy, will at least cite their sources.
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   by Wingman4l7 14y ago

   I'd more specifically qualify that as: "Don't ever use PayPal to process a large & sudden volume of orders for a product" -- which, granted, can be hard to anticipate. It seems like this is a guaranteed way to trigger their fraud detect
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   by Wingman4l7 14y ago

   Hence the "stupidly embarrassing" bit. All the more mad at myself because I knew better -- the old "hands on the steering wheel" rule (although in that case I wasn't driving). Not sure if preemptively rolling the window down would make th
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   by Wingman4l7 14y ago

   Reminds me of Charles Stross' books Rule 34 and Halting State. LEOs (law enforcement officers) are required to wear such "life-loggers", and IIRC there's some sort of checksum on the video's integrity. There's an unobtrusive backup record
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   by Wingman4l7 14y ago

   I would imagine it's one thing if they ask you to give them your license, and another entirely if you start reaching for something on your own accord. Unfortunately, being stopped by a LEO (law enforcement officer) can be flustering and yo
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    by Wingman4l7 14y ago

    One of the criticisms of Firefly was that for a future that was supposed to have a large Chinese population / integration of Chinese culture, you never really saw any Chinese characters (aka whitewashing). That said, I always thought it wa
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    by Wingman4l7 14y ago

    I was curious as to what the evidence for deliberate pest introduction was, so I skimmed the pertinent section of the article, and came away with this: -- the infestation "jumped" from one part of CA to another -- rumors of an individual br
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    by Wingman4l7 14y ago

    FWIW, it's called the recurrent laryngeal nerve: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_common_descent#Recu... That's a popular example, but Wikipedia has another example (mentioned in the same section) which I was unaware of: the vas d
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    by Wingman4l7 14y ago

    And he does double-blind medical experiments on himself, complete with statistical analysis of the results! http://www.gwern.net/Zeo http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics (uses sparklines!)
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    by Wingman4l7 14y ago

    He's also got the top result from Google (if not the only one) for an actual complete purchase process & site review[1] of The Silk Road[2]. [1]: http://www.gwern.net/Silk%20Road [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_%28marketp
15. 1035.▲
    by Wingman4l7 14y ago

    Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lonesome_George_in_profile... And another: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lonesome_George_-Pinta_gia...
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    by Wingman4l7 14y ago

    The first example that comes to mind for me is a scene in the 2007 movie Shoot 'Em Up ; the protagonist's workaround for using a dead henchman's thumbprint-verified firearm is to use their severed hand (of course).
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    by Wingman4l7 14y ago

    Cory Doctorow has an excellent examination of this issue (which he coins "nerd determinism") and another similar issue ("nerd fatalism") in his Guardian piece "The problem with nerd politics": http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/ma
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    by Wingman4l7 15y ago

    This situation instantly reminded me of this recent Wired piece: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/02/ff_madeinamerica/all/1 (Made in America: Small Businesses Buck the Offshoring Trend)
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    by Wingman4l7 15y ago

    Posted earlier here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2884268 Discussion's already started on that post.
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    by Wingman4l7 15y ago

    Possibly "Notch Defense Force", based on a Google search. My favorite go-to for this kind of question, http://www.acronymfinder.com/ , was sadly unhelpful.
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    by Wingman4l7 15y ago

    http://richardsreactor.blogspot.com/
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    by Wingman4l7 15y ago

    More information on this unfortunate precedent-setting litigation is available on Turnitin's Wikipedia entry. I was very much dismayed but not entirely surprised by the rulings.
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    by Wingman4l7 15y ago

    An excellent (if a bit dated) example of this is discussed in depth in this article: http://www.cigital.com/papers/download/developer_gambling.ph...
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    by Wingman4l7 15y ago

    In my experience, CS 101 was easy to get into and seemed to be designed to get students excited about computer science. Heck, one of the final projects was to implement an Asteroids game. We even used a beginner Java IDE developed by one
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    by Wingman4l7 15y ago

    Yes, sometimes the simplest solutions are the best :)
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    by Wingman4l7 15y ago

    I always thought this was cheating a bit -- it's just an extra-large PPG (powered paraglider) with a dune buggy attached instead of a trike. When I hear "flying car", I usually think of some type of fixed-wing aircraft.
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    Black Market Database Access To Scholarly Journals(chronicle.com)

    3 points by Wingman4l7 15y ago|0 comments
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    by Wingman4l7 15y ago

    I was unaware that the research had been discredited; thanks for letting me know. That said, for those who are interested, here is the paper that the article is referring to: Griffiths, R.R., Johnson, M.W., Richards, W.A., Richards, B.D., M
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    by Wingman4l7 15y ago

    I might remove MDMA from that list -- the head researcher at Johns Hopkins for this study was interviewed about a similar 2006 study he did; it mentions that studies at John Hopkins have shown the potential for brain damage from MDMA ("cert
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    by Wingman4l7 15y ago

    Already posted on front page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2656021