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by jamessb 12y ago
For some reason (at least using Firefox on 32.0.1 on OS X 10.9.4) this prints with the grid of pages landscape. If it were rotated 90 degrees (printed in the other orientation) then each page could be made larger.
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One of the features of 'amorphous computing' is the use of a large number of redundant subunits, giving resiliance against failure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphous_computing However, such an architect
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Specialized previously investigated the effect of shaving off a beard, and found that it had a negligible effect: http://www.bikeradar.com/us/road/news/article/specialized-te...
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by jamessb 12y ago
Even for the data that is there, the presentation could be improved: you have to zoom in a lot before light signatures are displayed, for example. Edit: It would be useful if you could see these by clicking on the corresponding light, wit
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by jamessb 12y ago
Yes, being able to look up and implement an algorithm once you've been told its name is a useful skill. However, being able to look at a problem and recognise that it is a specific instance of a well-studied problem with libraries alr
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by jamessb 12y ago
A woman called Frances Gabe essentially did this with her entire house ('the self-cleaning house'): http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/garden/son-of-carwash-the-...
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by jamessb 12y ago
There's more discussion about the 360 eye in this (15 hours older) thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8267622
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I think the knob also acts as a button if you just press it down rather than rotating it. From that page: "It spins like a knob. It clicks like a mouse."
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The TrueSkill ranking system was incorporated into Xbox Live: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/trueskill/
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This is just blogspam. For actual details, see the arXiv paper "Android Anti-forensics: Modifying CyanogenMod": http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.6444
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by jamessb 12y ago
The idea of a wiki using a Git back-end is certainly not novel: Gollum: https://github.com/gollum/gollum Gitit: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gitit-0.1.1 Git-wiki: https://github.c
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by jamessb 12y ago
It would have been nice to see the initial unsuccessful results using Photoshop, since it looks like a median filter can potentially work quite well at removing tourists: http://nifty.stanford.edu/2014/nicholson-the-pes
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by jamessb 12y ago
There's a risk of 'falling into the water involuntarily' in most activities involving small boats: canoeing, kayaking, sailing dinghies, sculling or rowing in a shell. Not being able to swim precludes you from safely attempti
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by jamessb 13y ago
There are several UI pattern libraries, eg. http://ui-patterns.com/explore http://littlebigdetails.com/ http://patternry.com/patterns/ http://www.welie.com/patterns&#x2
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by jamessb 13y ago
Lucas also has an interesting blog: http://1ucasvb.tumblr.com/ And Matt Henderson has some good animations too: http://blog.matthen.com/
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There is also a python implementations of this technique (Eulerian Video Magnification) on Github: https://github.com/brycedrennan/eulerian-magnification
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by jamessb 13y ago
Why are you surprised by the result? It's distinctive, easily recognisable, and the keyhole makes it clear that the product's focus is on security. "During this time, 83 people submitted over 100 designs . . . The winner, as
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by jamessb 13y ago
They are all caused by additional repeats of the DNA sequence 'CAG' in a gene. This causes additional copies of the amino-acid glutamine to be inserted into the corresponding protein. Consequently, Bad Things happen (eg. the prote
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by jamessb 13y ago
The article's title ("Newly unsealed documents show Steve Jobs’ brutal response after getting a Google employee fired" - not the current HN title) is also misleading, as these emails have been available for years - they were
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by jamessb 13y ago
Several things about this just seem odd: - the second example given of an ODE is Black-Scholes (which is a PDE) - ODE's are said to be missing from the "top 10 data science algorithms", but the actual title of the linked pape
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by jamessb 13y ago
I believe that Rolls-Royce doesn't sell it's engines; it leases them instead. So engine telemetry data from many airlines is transmitted to the engine's owner, which happens to be a central organisation. (Of course, it is a b
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by jamessb 13y ago
That is the point: the paper presents this as if it were an original idea, and other people cite it. There have been various blog posts ridiculing it, and for a while there was wikipedia article (subsequently replaced by a redirect to &#
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by jamessb 13y ago
I'd consider aspell and remind to be well known linux tools. Pandoc is more modern, but probably the most widely used markup conversion tool. Gnuplot and matplotlib are both very popular for graphing.
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by jamessb 13y ago
There was quite a good explanation posted to HN 5 days ago: http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2014/02/10/why-mtgox-is-full... (discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7211286
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by jamessb 13y ago
With Firefox 27 (or Safari 7.0.1) on a MBP running Mavericks I get the error: "Bummer! Creating a Snapbugz currently only works on desktop computers."
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David Cameron is leader of the Conservative party, which received 36.1% percent of the popular vote at the last general election. In order to form a government, he had to enter a coalition with the third party, the Liberal Democrats, who re
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by jamessb 13y ago
There's an interesting chapter on Nuclear Command and Control in Ross Anderson's Security Engineering : http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/SEv2-c13.pdf
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The care.data program was also the subject of an editorial in this week's issue of Nature [0] Ross Anderson has a blog post with links to more details [1], including a PDF of how the patient information leaflet 'should really have
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Note that UK fees tripled for academic year 2012-13, becoming £9,000 (almost $15,000) per year.
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This, and "A computer program will never live as long as the trial" remind me of a comment by Godfrey Hardy in A mathematician's apology : "Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages

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