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by idm 14y ago
Those design documents are fantastic. I love peering into the creative design process.
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by idm 14y ago
qz.com will not render with Ghostery enabled. Also, what's with that qz.com headline? Why, exactly, do we care about the gonzo-reaction of a tech blogger (the "sit up and listen" bit.) It's just a fluffy throw-away expression and comes ac
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by idm 14y ago
Good old Fravia. Like Stallman, Fravia seems to have been "hard to swallow" by the community at large. However, just like Stallman, when you dug into Fravia's stuff it turned out to be pretty great.
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by idm 14y ago
These attacks did not have to be initiated from within the United States or even a few miles offshore. Cybersecurity experts believe Iran is the likely culprit in both attacks, and we fear this is just the beginning. The headlines before
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by idm 14y ago
I have taken a look at Juvia (an open source alternative to Disqus), but have not moved forward with it: https://github.com/phusion/juvia I am still with Disqus. The biggest problem I have with Disqus is that it is a 3rd party service, m
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The Mystery of Stuffmonger's Pure Tan(iandennismiller.com)
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by idm 14y ago
Banks combat fraud by investing in fraud prevention. They make it work because the margins are greater than the expense of the fraud prevention. Without calculating the expense spread between the criminal justice system and the mental heal
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by idm 14y ago
The specific attack described (reconstructing a 3d environment from a collage of phone-camera images) might also be feasible using social network image data. Although the article actually discusses stealing information from the images direc
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by idm 14y ago
I think Foundation provided by pyobjc. I suppose it's possibly you don't have a suitable version installed in site-packages, in which case you might try running the following command globally (i.e. outside the virtual environment): sud
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by idm 14y ago
Actually, now I've forked this myself to streamline the installation process: git clone git://github.com/iandennismiller/selfspy.git cd selfspy && make requirements && sudo make install
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by idm 14y ago
Here is a fork by github user ljos that includes OSX support: https://github.com/ljos/selfspy I am actively using it, and it seems to be pretty much like the original linux version.
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by idm 14y ago
Great stuff! Thank you very much for your reply, and I look forward to it.
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by idm 14y ago
I think this is a great idea, but the web version of the document is surprisingly difficult to navigate and read. In fact, it's downright unpleasant. I understand why it is available as a hardcopy version through a publisher, but I wonder
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by idm 14y ago
It makes me happy to see the concepts from RES ported to HN. Thanks for sharing the link; I think this will legitimately help me to speed through the front page more quickly in the mornings.
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by idm 14y ago
It took a few tries on OSX/Chrome (no relevant errors from the console to report) but it seemed to be more reliable when running inside a "fresh" tab as opposed to one I had already reloaded several times. Having played it, I must report ba
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by idm 14y ago
I think it will be a hard fight for mindshare, but Microsoft brings a ton to the plate. The Skype play could really gain them some ground. As I think about it, Office was sortof like the original mashup (but applied to the desktop space).
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by idm 14y ago
I use TotalFinder, but it is quite unstable in my experience. I probably restart it weekly, just due to some drag and drop nonsense that it didn't know how to handle. Don't get me wrong: I really like TotalFinder, but the stability is imp
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by idm 14y ago
There's a sweet spot to be found, and I might even argue that their sample is too large if it isn't stratified in some meaningful sense. (It seems it isn't stratified: "Scores were not broken down beyond the state level.") We're talking an
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by idm 14y ago
It's always better to say positive things in public than to post something like this. However, it also sounds petty and childish on Miso's behalf. They are the ones who hired the author, and they're the ones who set the stage for what con
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by idm 14y ago
When the problem is murder, and you adopt a policy that condemns murder, you don't call the policymaker a murderer. The first action (murder) constitutes taking someone's life, and the other (the policy) amounts to a prohibition on that.
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by idm 15y ago
It's working with ICS, in the default browser.
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by idm 15y ago
Thanks for your reply; I suspected as much. Well, I hope there aren't too many people like myself who will be turned off by the account creation step. However, I'm going to have to sit out this round until a decentralized option is availa
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by idm 15y ago
This looks really nice, but I'd like to hear what the account is required for. I'm not happy with the idea of another third-party having a peek inside my bookmarks. Maybe accounts shouldn't be strictly required, but would permit a fuller r
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by idm 15y ago
I'm now wondering about the whole wifi router/MAC address connection (see p. 30). Initially, they claim they intercepted "public signals," and that from this information they were able to determine the MAC addresses connecting to the route
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by idm 15y ago
OP went to the correct site; you posted the URL containing the same bad meme about Ruby.
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by idm 15y ago
Computer Science involves neither Computers nor Science - and that's not a bad thing, at all. On the contrary, the mathematical, logical, and algorithmic underpinnings generalize to all sorts of issues, which apply at all scales of computat
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by idm 15y ago
To add to this, R has fantastic LaTeX interoperability through Sweave, which makes it pretty simple to write R syntax whose results are directly rendered in LaTeX. I wrote about 100 pages worth of stats problem sets this way, and it was a
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by idm 15y ago
In the Charlie Rose interview, DFW says he expected the critical reviews to consider the book to be sad, but instead he was surprised and disappointed that the book was lauded for its comedic aspects. So, I think you were picking up on a ve
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by idm 15y ago
> Browsr main objective is to make the browsers that default place to keep user data. Instead of you social connections being on Facebook's server or Google's server, it should be on your PC. This. You describe browsr as being "like an
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by idm 15y ago
Canadian bills get named, like in the recent case of C-51, also known as "Lawful Access". If that isn't an attempt to frame the conversation, I don't know what is. More about Lawful Access here: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/58

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