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by jloughry 13y ago
This is actually an old idea, perhaps a hundred years old. It was patented in 1972 (3,647,970 Flanagan) and called the "neurophone", but I recall an article about something like it from the 1920s.
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From the article: 'Imagine how bad our PhD student theses would be if we said, "It's year two. Course work is done. Come back in three years with a thesis, and if you want you could always come and ask me questions, but othe
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When Europeans see pictures of tornado wreckage in America on TV, they wonder, "what are all those sticks?" Houses, to most people, are made of brick or stone. Construction practices in the US are atypical for historical resource
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I was taught by Evi Nemeth ( requiescat in pace ) that trie pronounced like "try" and to use it that way.
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...they don't let you solve any problem that you couldn't before But they did have a purpose, years ago. Before pocket calculators, when people used slide rules and log tables, a table of haversines helped avoid nasty loss-of-
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In Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES 2013) , Santa Barbara, California, August 20-23, 2013. @inproceedings{Becker2013, author = {Georg T.~Becker and Francesco Regazzoni and Christof Paar and Wayne P.~B
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According to this article, http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/siri-two-years/ Apple keeps Siri voice recordings for two years. It appears from recently published patents that the Authentec sens
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It's not obvious, but the article was written by Bruce Schneier.
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Apple already has a database of voice samples. Siri works by transmitting voice requests back to Apple's data centre where they are interpreted into text. Voice samples in the database, if it exists, may be indexed by identity, locatio
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Hubble Deep Field: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire/pr2012037a/
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Figure 2 is misleading, but not intentionally so. See Edward Tufte's book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Graphics Press, 1983).
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...what things about the Z-80 would you guys like me to write about? Undocumented instructions! The MOS 6502 had plenty of these and I understand the Z-80 did too.
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...already authenticated with your router and still connecting to it, not a new device. But the monitoring box connects downstream from the wireless router, though: ___ ___ \|/
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Self-criticism for the link-baity title, but I was impressed that it didn't require re-associating all my Wi-Fi devices.
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Show HN: the government sent me a traffic sniffer
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The number of electronic computers in the world probably exceeded human population around 1992--3, and currently has a 'birthrate' of 10^10 per year, counting μcontrollers.
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Title should say (2012). It is, nonetheless, a good article. The software engineering exam is offered once a year, in April; the first one was in April, 2013.
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Steve Yegge has been saying this for the past five years.
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Should anyone take this on (to write a version of cdecl that translates statements to English) as a personal challenge, please consider making it adaptable to whatever language is currently in fad for teaching beginning programming. This co
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That's actually a neat idea. It could be very useful for teaching. (For bonus points, make it output a legal COBOL programme.)
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> '...the researchers noticed that the molecular motors moved with slightly different speeds, dependent on the bottle of solvent used in the experiment.' This is why reproducibility is crucial in science. Always look for confo
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Well...I used the word "environment" thoughtfully. It wasn't just the language, it was the dot-matrix printouts on continuous fan-fold paper (with no line numbers, you didn't want to get pages out of order), the hands-
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> Fun parts: There were a fixed number of variables. All variables were global. There were two control structures: if/then and goto It's just like BANCStar! I forgot to mention that one of the most useful features of the LIST a
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It took less than two weeks to become fluent (I started writing the annotator tool around that time). Probably, it was the well-developed---if informal---methodology that Annie, the experienced programmer who took me under her wing when I a
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The Oxford English Dictionary needs to know about this word.
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I can't express how startled I was when one lone teacher (thanks, Professor Nutt!) taught me how simple an assembler was to write, that the inner workings of a CPU can be understood by mortals, and bootstrapping a monitor and language
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You correctly identified the causes. Mostly, it was lack of time; keeping up with compliance changes is a full-time job at any bank, and there wasn't time for 'science projects'. What tools did get written were done to scratc
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There was a text-based GUI but the application programmers never used it. It was too limited and wouldn't let them accomplish what they needed to do, at least through the GUI. That is an interesting point: the underlying VM mechanism
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Peter Neumann has collected extensive archives on squirrelcides resulting in power failures. Search the RISKS archive at http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/RISKS for lots of reports.
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That's a good question, and a fair one. I did take a few stabs at it, but other programmers resisted any changes to their workflow that would have been required if a different source code representation were used. They really could re

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