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by iamdanfox 12y ago
I had thought that ALPR data would be quite a very tool for detectives, but a related article [1] is quite disparaging about their use in Vermont. Apparently in 2013, for a ~$1m investment, 106 queries were made resulting in just 3 cases of
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
If you haven't already, definitely try a polarizing filter. I had to take some shots of some glass-framed artwork and it worked really well for those!
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
One of the most pleasing things for me is that his gallery was navigable using two finger swipes on my macbook!
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
Immutable props seems to be one immediate difference between React and Riot. I hope this could be considered for a future update; immutability by default makes debugging so much nicer! (Also React's PropType checking is surprisingly u
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Do you block Google's search ads?(imgur.com)
2 points by iamdanfox 12y ago|0 comments
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
Are there opportunities for hackers to volunteer in projects like mobile payments? I feel like donating a bit of development time to the right project has the potential to have a bigger impact than just donating money.
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
I would be interested to understand more about why WhatsApp made some of those decisions. The requirement to keep your phone connected to the Internet seems strange, perhaps it's using some encryption key that never leaves the device?
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
I'd also highly recommend earplugs to guarantee you're not disturbed by noise. (Vibrating phone works as an alarm). They're probably unnecessary for most nights sleep, but they eliminate that odd night here and there where yo
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
Even if previous well known attacks didn't rely on encryption, it seems likely that future attacks will be organised over encrypted channels because they are now more ubiquitous. "Encrypted Web Traffic More Than Doubles After NSA
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
Atlassian Stash [1] allows one level of hierarchy: the top level is a list of projects, each containing multiple repositories. It's more of an enterprise solution though, so BitBucket is probably more comparable. 1: https://
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
Ah that's good to know, looks like I should switch it back! The manual u8 stuff was pretty marginal. (It was also before I discovered the `PartialEq` and `Copy` traits, so please forgive my Rust inexperience!)
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
Sure: https://github.com/iamdanfox/QwirkleSolver The Rust version has had some algorithm improvements to reach 0.015s, but it was conceptually identical when it was solving in 0.7s.
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
I have currently got some bit-swizzling [1] going on to fit the concept of a Piece into u8. (one of 6 colours and one of 6 shapes). I'd like to turn this back into a nice enum if I can! Introducing laziness by writing an iterator was
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
Coincidentally, I used Rust for a little board game solver this week and have been delighted by its performance and typechecker feedback! My Scala v1 was was very concise but took ~3 seconds to simulate a whole game. The naive Rust rewrite
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
Apparently the Rust compiler produces a slightly different branch-free FizzBuzz[1] involving this delightful snippet: static OUT: &'static [u8] = b"\ 1\n2\nFizz\n4\nBuzz\nFizz\n7\n8\nFizz\nBuzz\n11\nFizz\n13\n14\nFiz
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
The idea of declaring a variable to represent a bunch of different values seems refreshingly different to so many popular languages today. I'd love to see a few real world applications written in idiomatic Cosmos!
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
This looks pretty cool as a super easy to configure CI! I'm sure big projects will stick to Travis, but if you haven't got your linter set up yet this looks ideal. I wonder how hard it would be for the bot to autofix stuff too? Pe
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
A workaround that I've used before is to connect to my site via the domain name in one tab, and the IP address in another - cross domain protection ensures I get two nicely partitioned sessions.
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
That is a very comprehensive set of conventions! Contents pasted here: Foundations - Require TLS, Version with Accepts header, Support caching with Etags, Trace requests with Request-Ids, Paginate with ranges Requests - Return appropriate
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
I'll be interested to see what impact this has on the overall CS department at Oxford. CS in the UK is growing, but still has a much lower profile than in the States. In Stanford, CS is a well-known (!), popular major whereas here in
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
I imagine they introduced sentiment analysis/crowdsourced beauty opinions to filter out 'negative' photos, e.g. some highly-photographed traffic accident, or a frequently photographed homeless spot
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
Twitch spacecraft anyone?
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Lens free camera features 200 micron wide sensor(designboom.com)
2 points by iamdanfox 12y ago|0 comments
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by iamdanfox 12y ago
Loving reading through the source! I stumbled across some ingenious perf optimisations too... looks like duplicated code, but I guess they think it's worth it! https://github.com/NYTimes/pourover/blob/mas
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by iamdanfox 13y ago
Out of curiosity, I'd love to hear what your Google Analytics graphs look like! How long to people spend playing it?
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by iamdanfox 13y ago
Thanks mate, will look into it
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by iamdanfox 13y ago
High res: http://thumbnails.visually.netdna-cdn.com/all-scifi-spaceshi...
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by iamdanfox 13y ago
The overall ranking is updated every few minutes. Each front-page has a different `?fnid=xiJqLAhmD8VrsD2p21gUKn` parameter to ensure page 2 displays that ranking. Clicking the `more` link after HN has updated shows you the expired link mes
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What happens when an intern tries to one-up Intro.js(iamdanfox.github.io)
1 points by iamdanfox 13y ago|2 comments
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by iamdanfox 13y ago
http://www.echojs.com/ - a JS-related Hacker News

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