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by dexen 12y ago
Tangentially related, a blogpost [1] on statistical approach to baseball teamwork with a dominating player, along with the earlier HN discussion [2]. [1] https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/braes
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A whole article on p2p video streaming, and yet Popcorn Time [1] is curiously absent. The flagship program that proves p2p movie watching is feasible, even comfortable, when delivered through BitTorrent doesn't get a mention. In a way
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Teamspeak v3† solves this in an interesting way: the program supports creation of anonymous (or rather, pseudonymous) identities easily, each associated with an unique ID which takes adjustable amount of time to compute on users' compu
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> "It turned out that the weight of the aircraft necessitated large wings." As opposed to other combat aircrafts featuring large wings for high-altitude performance and maneuverability. Before we diss steel as viable aircraft
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by dexen 12y ago
> A handful of parts from radioshack, or even just an injection-capable wifi dongle, and they will drop from the sky without you leaving the ground. Jamming RC control is not that straightforward, and for good reasons: it's common
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by dexen 12y ago
Looks great! On Linux, /dev/urandom gives better results. Incidentally, this resembles jwz's homepage quite a bit: http://www.jwz.org/
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Another worthy recommendation is Porco Rosso [1]. Set in inter-war period Italy, pays homage to early aviation. The lead is split between titular Porco Rosso, a male fighter pilot and female Fio, engineer. Aerial fights, pilot rivalry and g
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by dexen 12y ago
> since drivers can see them they tend to speed up if the light is about to change. This is easily solved. For example, intersection just outside my window [1] has LED timers next to traffic lights, but the countdown is blanked (turned
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Not op, but please let me chime in: A project in management theory is considered to have a plan covering budget, scope and time / deadline [1]. Such approach makes sense in engineering disciplines [†] which benefit from centuries of
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<more armchair-ery> > It seems like information is slowly being raised to the same level as energy and matter Indeed, the as-of-yet unsolved Black hole information paradox [1] deals with conservation of information. Since discove
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Plan 9's libthread [1] implements cooperative threading entirely in userspace library. This is apart of Plan 9's fork() [2] syscall which allows both forking processes and creating kernel-level threads. Thanks to libthread being
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by dexen 12y ago
On a lighter note, a 1983 TV movie [1] follows events on an high-speed passenger airplane accidentally launching into LEO and being rescued by two space shuttle missions. Concepts shown included transfering passengers and crew through space
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by dexen 12y ago
On the other side of the spectrum, a tiny ELF executable is possible at 45 bytes: http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm... Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux(muppetlabs.com)
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> Every step of Uber's success has been associated with some sort of law breaking. How do we verify law as well-written and protecting interests of constituents first and foremost? If we assume breaking it was necessary to improve
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Reminds me of jwz's problems [1] with broadcasting music via Youtube. When broadcasting from his DNA Lounge, he was greeted with the dreaded "Warning: Your stream will be terminated if you continue broadcasting content that you ar
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Also the venerable, tongue-in-cheek, "Not the comp.text.sgml FAQ" [1] by Joe English. Sample: Q. I'm designing my first DTD. Should I use elements or attributes to store data? A. Of course. What else would you use?
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Jolla Tablet stretch goals: 3.5G and more(indiegogo.com)
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Reminds me of {placekitten} †, similar functionality delivered as a webservice. † http://placekitten.com/
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You seem to be mixing up [1] geeks and nerds . What you describe is geeky rather than nerdy. What would be a nerdy approach to gym/fitness? Perhaps doing 10 years of research into what's the most efficient way of maintaining fi
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Not really. Don't you find annoying the lack of built-in file browser and powerful regex-based transformation language? Don't you find annoying the lack of quick access to search/navigate/execute/copy-paste mechanic
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TakeItApart – Turn screws. Void warranties. Open minds.(takeitapart.com)
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>>> musings >>> Let's invert the question: can we create, in our labs or in computer simulation, artificial life that could not reliably trace its origins to us specifically? What would it take to create a (seemingly)
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Compare with the attempted 2003 Linux kernel backdoor [1], which gave root when sys_wait4() is passed uncommon combination of flags. The bug looked inconspicuous and honest enough. [1] http://lkml.iu.edu//hypermail&#x2F
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While stated as sarcasm, this is a very reasonable concern. Suppose we can extend human life with Calore Restriction, but at the cost of having to slow person's activity to the point that the overall amout of actions (work, leisure etc
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Name that Ware, March 2014(bunniestudios.com)
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Cannot tell by cursory look if the sarcasm is directed at Linux kernel or Visual Studio...
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Who Can Name the Bigger Number?(scottaaronson.com)
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Also the Monkey [1] testing tool used on the original Macintosh. On the lower level, Jester [2] tests your Test Cases, by randomly chaning boolean conditionals in the code undergoing testing (mutation testing). [1] http://www
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And its main opponent, Bf109 was based on sport/racing Bf108 :-) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Bf_108

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