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by jaseg 12y ago
During spelling correction, there is not any need for any data to leave your computer. In fact, the spelling correction on this text box is a feature of your browser, not of news.ycombinator.com. The whole point about serving targeted ads i
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by jaseg 13y ago
In addition to sensor-based collision avoidance you would probably want some means of communication between the drones so they can choose non-colliding flight paths in advance. In the altitude these drones will be flying most of the regular
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by jaseg 13y ago
I think tree branches will be a rather large problem for these drones since you need a pretty high resolution 3D sensor to accurately detect them. GPS is most certainly not enough for navigation next to a building since you can hardly get a
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by jaseg 13y ago
Instead of a battery-powered beacon you would likely use fiducials [0]. The issue I see with delivery to windows is all the clutter that is commonly found in front of windows such as power lines, tree branches etc. since that cannot yet be
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by jaseg 13y ago
I don't think so. The PRNG will at least be less biased.
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by jaseg 13y ago
I would seriously advise anybody from using this device. Designing a hardware true random number generator takes a lot of effort that this design is evidently lacking. For example, there is no whitening whatsoever. Even worse, the firmware
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by jaseg 13y ago
They claim to be a "non-profit" organization organizing community events. I think it was not very intelligent on their part to (according to their post) try to finance themselves by effectively trademark-trolling community events.
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Show HN: Display Animated GIFs On Your Terminal(github.com)
1 points by jaseg 13y ago|0 comments
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A unicode table in (gist.github.com)
1 points by jaseg 13y ago|0 comments
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Windows XP as your screensaver(gist.github.com)
3 points by jaseg 14y ago|0 comments
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by jaseg 14y ago
When you allow less common tools to be used, one could use the bash or zsh read-builtin to read the master password without echoing (e.g. dash's read can not do that) and use xclip or similar to directly put the password into the X clipboar
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by jaseg 14y ago
Though that would be hard to do in a one-line shell script, which was the idea behind the gist.
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by jaseg 14y ago
I have added a link to your comment to the gist in the warning.
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Midnight project: Password manager without a password manager(gist.github.com)
38 points by jaseg 14y ago|41 comments
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by jaseg 14y ago
The python scripts to generate the repository from the xmls freely available from the german government is also on github: https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze-tools So, go ahead, hack! ;)
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by jaseg 14y ago
This is not an official project, "just" someone who registered the organization "Bundesregierung" ("Federal Government") at github and processed the official XMLs into markdown.
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by jaseg 14y ago
Actually, it is not "the government" doing this. It is somebody scraping an official web site containing every law, processing it and pushing the result to this repository.
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Germany's laws on github, machine-readable and ready to be forked(github.com)
325 points by jaseg 14y ago|73 comments