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by leohutson 11y ago
Agreed. The predictable retort that there is no need for a public review of source code, "because indecipherable/underhanded code can still be written" is nonsense. If the code is so poorly written and tested that it is possi
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by leohutson 11y ago
> if you want to avoid false negatives, you are going to have a lot of false positives. Not necessarily, because the more people you alienate, the more enemies you create, and the more genuine threats you will face.
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by leohutson 11y ago
Porn sounds would probably work best.
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by leohutson 11y ago
For 1-9, tails being the correct guess 90% of the time still makes sense to me. If you run the experiment twice, typically the first time you get heads, you are woken once, and so heads is correct answer once, the second time you get tails,
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Mitsuba – A physically based renderer(mitsuba-renderer.org)
25 points by leohutson 11y ago|8 comments
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by leohutson 11y ago
> Grants are a pain to apply for (there's a reason that full-time grant-writers exist) and the feedback loop is very slow Case in point, I saw this on the retraction watch twitter the other day: http://aushsiblog.com&#x2F
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by leohutson 11y ago
If you also include the methamphetamine row, that number is a lot higher, in 2007 in particular it was present in 38.6% of the pills tested. For contrast, last year only 33.1% percent of the pills tested actually contained MDMA.
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by leohutson 11y ago
You can add https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake_sorting
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by leohutson 11y ago
The only reason flash is blockable is because other web technologies, primarily open ones, have limited the need for it. If no attempt was made to match the feature sets of closed, single vendor plugins like flash, realplayer, QuickTime, Ac
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by leohutson 11y ago
> You can't prevent people from accidentally doing stupid things and mishaps, you can only minimize it. Whereas premeditated murder can be prevented. Can you please clarify the meaning of these statements. 1) ATV deaths are preventa
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by leohutson 11y ago
Why do you believe that giving the state these powers helps reduce the risk of terrorism? Can you point to an attack that has been prevented by information gained through torture? Obviously since the number of deaths caused by terrorism thu
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by leohutson 11y ago
I think that expecting the information a whistle-blower leaks to correspond 100% to illegal activity is a ridiculous standard to hold them to. Certainly police are not held to that standard when gathering evidence. Let the possibility of ot
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by leohutson 11y ago
Right, and the notion that murder is illegal makes no sense to the universe as humans are "merely" an aggregate of matter no different than any other. Nothing makes any sense to entities not capable of reasoning, that is a pointle
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by leohutson 11y ago
The bait drops are restricted to within park boundaries. Within those bounds there should be no mammals, save for humans who know better than to eat bait pellets, and perhaps the occasional muzzled dog ( with a permit ). There is a by-kill
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by leohutson 11y ago
Yes, and why should anyone be surprised that these "creatives" came up with a cool, self-aggrandizing, term for promoting themselves? That is after all their calling.
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by leohutson 11y ago
http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Panasonic/MN101LR05DXW/?...
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by leohutson 11y ago
Reddit has loads of warring groups that link to comments, and either critique the threads or hijack and vote brigade them, depending on the group or who you ask. Its the most worthless type of internet activism, people unwilling or unable t
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by leohutson 12y ago
I think a point system is better than fines. Fines are effective deterrents for most people, but they are unfair on the poor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_system_%28driving%29
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by leohutson 12y ago
It's not about the performance of the car that your driving, but about giving you enough time to react. In theory, if your car and the car you were following had same stopping distance, and you could react instantaneously, then you cou
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by leohutson 12y ago
How is that worse than a dash cam? Should those be banned so that you can have privacy when travelling on public roads?
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by leohutson 12y ago
Tailgating isn't just illegal, it's also extremely dangerous. I think the in best case, a self-driving car would record the number plate of the car that cut you off, and you could then pass that information on to the police. edit:
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by leohutson 12y ago
I'm not really an expert, but last year a there was a study that showed there was no quantum speedup. http://katzgraber.org/currents/media/press/2014-06-science_l... I also read this blog: http:/&#
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by leohutson 12y ago
They are used a lot for generating normal vectors on the fly, since you can take in a whole triangle, you just do a cross product of two of the edges and you're done. From my experience, they are fast enough as long as you don't e
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by leohutson 12y ago
If both the buyer and the arbitrator are anonymous, how do you know that they aren't the same person?
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by leohutson 12y ago
Are there any better sources for this? This article is pure speculation.
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Apollo 11 educational VR kickstarter(kickstarter.com)
2 points by leohutson 12y ago|0 comments
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by leohutson 12y ago
Flip the oscillators, the sea is the tree branch, and the swing is the moon. The tree branch is moved slightly each swing, and if I am to extract energy from the branch by forcing it to do work, I will damp the motion of the swing and it wi
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by leohutson 12y ago
That depends on how much time it takes to develop and maintain the interface to the external dependency. Also, there's little risk if it's a well supported standard open source library with many users, but if it's a proprieta
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by leohutson 12y ago
Include personal hygiene as a criteria that you are interested in then.
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by leohutson 12y ago
The sanitization process should also be repeated in the interview process. Only objective information is taken down by the interviewer, and this is passed on to someone else, who can make a value judgement about the candidate without that j

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