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by foob 15y ago
Is it really all that different from losing your wallet? You can protect it with a pin number ( http://www.google.com/wallet/how-it-works-security.html ) so it sounds kind of like losing a debit card in that respect. You can still cancel yo
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by foob 15y ago
I would like to add the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide ( http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ ) as an incredible resource. It's obviously geared towards scripting but most of what it teaches is extremely useful for working in an interactive shell a
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by foob 15y ago
You've ask a couple of very deep questions there. Why wouldn't we see this effect on earth, and have taken it into account when determining the strength of earth's own gravity? We could be observing the impact of this without exactly real
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by foob 15y ago
GNU screen supports this functionality and it is very useful. A google for '"gnu screen" "multiuser on"' should turn up a number of tutorials that explain in detail how to use it. To also split the terminal into multiple screens you should
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by foob 15y ago
It's not always obvious what the applications of advances in physics will be until long after they happen. Do you think that Maxwell could have possibly foreseen the depth of the impact that electricity and magnetism would have on mankind?
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by foob 15y ago
That's awesome news, but I would love to hear some more details of how you orchestrated this. How did you get in touch with them initially? Were they very receptive right from the start?
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by foob 15y ago
In my experience, the battery life in most phones is fairly disappointing at the moment. I imagine that this would be a major hindrance to the usefulness of a projector. The increase in efficiency that this lens provides is great news but a
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by foob 15y ago
I'm worried that this decision is coming too soon. Of the people I know, it has been the ones who strongly dislike aspects of facebook like these money hungry games that have switched to G+ so far. The other users might follow them but it i
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by foob 15y ago
It has some features that are fairly unique and I appreciate their experimentation. For example, Unite makes it very easy for your average person to share music, files, a streaming webcam, or whatever from within their browser. It's a great
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by foob 15y ago
"Also, it would be good if posts that have made it to the front page were removed from the new page freeing up even more space." I would really dislike it if those stories were removed. If it's only been an hour or two since I've gone thr
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by foob 15y ago
You make it sound like these absurdly long copyright terms are some relic of the past and it's only a matter of time before they're shortened. In reality they have been repeatedly extended over the last century (as recently as 1998) and the
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by foob 15y ago
Along the same lines, I wish they would integrate the video chat that they have in Gmail. I have a camera on the front of my phone that I have no use for because the only thing that anybody I know uses for video chatting is Gchat. I wonder
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by foob 15y ago
I kind of like it being in Gmail because I always have that tab open no matter what. I agree that a deeper integration with Google Voice would make a lot of sense though. I've never understood why SMS messages that you send from Google Chat
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by foob 15y ago
It's terrifying that an analysis from software like CacheBack can be used as an important piece of evidence in a murder trial. An error of this magnitude could easily contribute to somebody wrongly losing his or her life and that is not alr
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by foob 15y ago
If the patents can't be worked around reasonably then it could just as easily mean that the patents are so broad and superficial that nearly any approach, whether common sense or not, would violate them. I haven't read the full patents, so
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by foob 15y ago
Is that information available though? My understanding is that when Microsoft threatens companies (Amazon, for example) that they don't reveal the specific patents that Linux infringes on. If that information were public then the open sourc
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by foob 15y ago
One of the things that made the US so strong in the last century was the influx of great scientists from Europe during the world wars. I know many brilliant people from other countries today who would love to become US citizens but in some
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by foob 15y ago
It works great and looks very useful, but there is one thing that you might want to change. Your example is "Startups, Google, Apple" but when you enter this string it actually adds "Startups,", "Google,", and "Apple". It would be more intu
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by foob 15y ago
There are major problems with the logic in the article. He's basically trying to argue that the average of a variable in a chaotic system over some finite period of time can't drift or change dramatically due to chaos alone. His only suppor
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by foob 15y ago
Yeah, it didn't seem like an absolute impossibility to me either (in the distant future). That much energy (9x10^17 Joules) translates to about 400kg of lithium deuteride in a 100% efficient fusion reactor. We're not even close to being abl
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by foob 15y ago
Goethe's Faust. It's more densely packed with brilliance than anything else I've ever read.
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by foob 15y ago
You don't need to add the impurites, they're already there. Metals have fairly distinct patterns of impurities depending on where they were mined from and it's basically impossible to entirely remove them. If you expose a sample of metal to
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by foob 15y ago
What about trace element analysis?
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by foob 15y ago
Yeah, I think you're right about it relating to reused passwords. I've also seen a lot of sites having passwords with a minimum length of 6 so the shape would make sense if there's an exponential fall of from 6 added to a fall of from 8.
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by foob 15y ago
The dip in frequency of passwords with 7 characters is pretty interesting. I was curious so I checked the frequency of words in /usr/share/dict/words as a function of their length ( http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chxl=0:|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8
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by foob 15y ago
I meant falling downwards towards the surface of the earth which would experimentally show that there is an attractive force between matter and antimatter. Experimentally showing that antimatter gravitationally attracts antimatter is next t
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by foob 15y ago
I downloaded it and gave it a try. I couldn't get over the fact that I can't open things in a new tab and the keyboard shortcuts I'm used to for opening new empty tabs also don't work. Those issues will get fixed soon I assume but it makes
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by foob 15y ago
It will still be a while before this is directly observed. We're fairly sure that it "falls" downwards for a wide range of theoretical reasons and also due to the 1987 observation of gravitational lensing in neutrinos and antineutrinos from
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by foob 15y ago
I think that the performance of higher end GPUs is more like ~100 times that of CPUs for cryptanalytical algorithms. With bulk FPGAs costing on order of $50 each a device like this could potentially cost less than $10k and offer several tim
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by foob 15y ago
Why are you submitting this now? I feel like most people on HN have known about this since I/O or shortly after in May.

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