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Xkcd: Garden(xkcd.com)
4 points by brk 11y ago|0 comments
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Costa Rica’s “Land of the Strays” Is Pretty Much Paradise for Dog Lovers(barkpost.com)
1 points by brk 11y ago|0 comments
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The Myth of the Evil VC(jacquesmattheij.com)
1 points by brk 11y ago|0 comments
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by brk 11y ago
Excellent use of your thinking bag!
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Home More Secure Than Cloud, Says Consumers(ipvm.com)
4 points by brk 11y ago|1 comments
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by brk 11y ago
It depends on how you look at it. Right now Ring is the primary company in this market, but if they get real traction it would be easy for Google to add a button to a Nestcam and make a Nestbell. There are Chinese companies flooding the se
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by brk 11y ago
This was my thought too after reading this article. Part of this relies on the specific iPhone 5c from the shooter, because of the per-device hardware key. They ultimately need to unlock that specific phone, with the NAND data intact, in o
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by brk 11y ago
No, I'm not that surprised. I think this feature is intended to protect your personal data from the casual iPhone thief or to minimize risk if you lose/forget your iPhone somewhere. I don't think it was intended to be a sec
909.
by brk 11y ago
FWIW, the same thing goes on in Miami. I've been in the electronics shop for Miami-Dade Transit and there are always a bunch of electronic signs and signals of different vintages under repair.
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Zynga in deeper chaos as CEO Mark Pincus resigns again(theguardian.com)
2 points by brk 11y ago|0 comments
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by brk 11y ago
How comes already there are no firearm firing sound detectors There are: http://www.shotspotter.com/ Though results are mixed at best: https://www.cctvcambridge.org/DoesShotSpotterWork
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by brk 11y ago
This whole fiasco makes me wonder if the link between the TouchID sensor and the rest of the phone is so fragile and easily spoofed that they are concerned a fraudulent sensor could be trusted implicitly by the phone, and therefore used to
913.
by brk 11y ago
Me too. Dropbox is fast and simple, it's my "sneakernet" at home. I commonly copy files between a Mac and a PC for some projects I work on. Letting Dropbox handle the sync is the most simplistic way to go about it. Most of
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Inside the Presidency - 2009(ngm.nationalgeographic.com)
1 points by brk 11y ago|0 comments
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Italy, America, and the iPhone(mattrichman.net)
1 points by brk 11y ago|1 comments
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by brk 11y ago
I think "barrel" has become a unit of measure. Much of the oil runs through pipelines, to tankers, transported and offloaded to refineries. It wouldn't surprise me if 90% of all oil was never in an actual barrel, but even if
917.
by brk 11y ago
On the topic of elevators, opening this link will cause you to (happily) lose an hour of productivity: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uh_N1O3E4E
918.
by brk 11y ago
I've bought a few houses, the process has generally been simple and painless (other than the physical moving of stuff part, which is the same for own vs. rent). My last few vehicles purchases have involved significantly more paperwork
919.
by brk 11y ago
My understanding is that Ticketmaster has exclusive contracts with the vast majority of primary venues in the US. Nobody, artist or venue, is really choosing Tickemaster any more than a Comcast customer chooses Comcast as the only game
920.
by brk 11y ago
Really this just shows how corrupt and broken the entire entertainment ticketing stack is. TicketMaster, StubHub, etc., all prey on fans, and the fans ALLOW it by paying ridiculous fucking prices to attend events. We're long past the d
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by brk 11y ago
I like this idea, or let users filter by what they want to see. 200 character, 500 character, 5000 character. It still seems like twitter is trying to find their niche. The 140 character limit is long past its purpose, but it's also
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by brk 11y ago
This would be kind of impractical. It might work with older cameras, especially in indoor scenes. But modern cctv cameras have pretty good WDR (wide dynamic range) by default, and you'd likely find that your face gets better exposure
923.
by brk 11y ago
That would only work for cameras in B/W or "night" mode. Most decent security cameras have a movable IR filter. In color mode, this IR filter is moved into the light path to filter out infrared light. IR light causes a purp
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by brk 11y ago
I think there is an element of what a "reasonable" person could be expected to evaluate properly. The majority of the public (at least in the US) of a legal driving age possess a drivers license. Even persons without a drivers li
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Deep Learning Startup Clarifai Launches Google Photos-Like Smart App(recode.net)
2 points by brk 11y ago|0 comments
926.
by brk 11y ago
Yes, and this also eliminates the need to have "priority boarding", which is really just a way of ensuring that the frequent traveller customers don't end up without overhead space for their bags.
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by brk 11y ago
It seems that what Comcast is saying is that Internet traffic is "expensive" and needs to be metered, supposedly because of the costs incurred to maintain an Internet cross-connect. However, based on this statement, it seems that
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by brk 11y ago
I don't want to sidetrack this with an HN vs. Reddit debate. The top story about this on Reddit has 14500+ comments. I couldn't really skim through them all in between the server timeouts, but it appears that the majority of them
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by brk 11y ago
Yes, HN has become one of the best places to talk about things like this. Reddit discussions become overrun with useless comments. Stupid memes, puns, and just other irrelevant drivel. Many of the mainstream news outlets have lagging facts
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by brk 11y ago
This is correct, however you also have to look at the spirit of the agreement overall. In cases like this, penalty amounts are often selected to be of an amount that discourages unreasonable behavior, enforceable (and by extension payable

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