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by mattpavelle 4y ago
This is a great point and a really hard problem to solve. Do you think a Wikipedia style team of human reviewers with upvote/downvote capabilities can help reduce the SEO spam? Obviously it’s hard to review the reviewers as well but Wi
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by mattpavelle 5y ago
I'd bet that they had most ports blocked and the attackers used multi-stage tunnels. Details like that probably just don't make it into a Wired article.
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by mattpavelle 6y ago
This is actually a little more interesting than I originally assumed as the rules clearly state, "This market will be settled according to the candidate that has the most projected Electoral College votes won at the 2020 presidential e
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by mattpavelle 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1w5R2PGCb4
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by mattpavelle 6y ago
There was a nice Radiolab podcast about this: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/25719... And also another podcast from NPR: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/notet
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by mattpavelle 7y ago
Why don't companies like AirBNB who have a lot to lose (reputation wise) from a (small?) number of scammers sue those scammers into oblivion? Not only are they violating the TOS but they are committing fraud, and likely breaking a few
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by mattpavelle 7y ago
Many people here (myself included) are anti-FB due to privacy issues and then some, but I think this is pretty great. The smart camera panning using facial recognition looks very useful. Right now I Facetime a lot with my iPad and will prop
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by mattpavelle 8y ago
"If you fall unconscious whilst climbing a tree the chest harness prevents you from slumping into a safe position—head lower than heart. An unconscious climber in that position has only three minutes or so to survive and that means the
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by mattpavelle 8y ago
I thought they just partner with Bing for ad results - not that their search was a skin of Bing. Wikipedia supports the ad partnership but also doesn't say anything about Bing being responsible for their search results. And on the few
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by mattpavelle 8y ago
Right. You could also compile it yourself with the same chainset / toolset the Krypton folks use and compare the binaries. There's probably a way to compare everything but the digital signature with two binaries too... Not sure
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by mattpavelle 8y ago
Kiosks should be fine - I think you've missed some details on what is going on. The update won't lock iPads that are unlocked. If a kiosk iOS device is "always on" and never requires a passcode, then it it won't ev
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by mattpavelle 9y ago
This is a common misconception. As has been stated before on similar threads, Amazon comingles inventory. So if you as a third party seller have a bunch of fake widgets for sale on Amazon and anyone else (including Amazon themselves) sell t
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ESMA highlights ICO risks for investors and firms(esma.europa.eu)
1 points by mattpavelle 9y ago|0 comments
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Scientists Deliver Formal Proof of Famous Kepler Conjecture(sci-news.com)
3 points by mattpavelle 9y ago|0 comments
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by mattpavelle 9y ago
Many more stills and video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jfPehOGXeo (Narration in French)
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by mattpavelle 9y ago
PEP 8 specifically recommends using spaces for Python development. And the vast majority of software developers I know follow most of PEP 8 for Python development. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#tab
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by mattpavelle 9y ago
Agreed. This is an advertisement. This doesn't belong on Hacker News. Someone has figured out how to game the HN voting system.
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by mattpavelle 9y ago
My cursory research into this topic (this morning...) lead me to believe inkjet printers may be uncompromised (not printing steganographic dots). The NYTimes believed this to be the case as well back in 2008 ( http://www.nytimes.c
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by mattpavelle 9y ago
This is interesting, but these robots move slowly - or at least not as fast as a car. I don't see food from outside a mile or 2 km range being deliverable in any reasonable amount of time. Is this the food-delivery equivalent of the la
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by mattpavelle 9y ago
"my wife and I would review accounts and lease to renters who had given more positive reviews" That is exactly what he/she is saying. I'm not actually surprised by this. 5-star ratings are a poor means of actually rankin
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by mattpavelle 9y ago
Got it. I admittedly know nothing about what the pricing will be here - and comparing to Tesla may be apples to oranges, but per The Verge ( https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/20/13346512/tesla-self-driv...
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by mattpavelle 9y ago
I'm curious - where did you come up with your $75k cost for retrofitting existing vehicles?
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by mattpavelle 10y ago
Yeah, there can be a lot of bandwidth required. RAW images at 24.2MP are around 30-40MB ( https://toolstud.io/photo/megapixel.php?width=6016&height=40... ) and at 20FPS you're above 1Gbps (which a crowded wirele
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by mattpavelle 10y ago
I agree, giving more file size may get us our colors back. And after some experimentation I'd like to be able to confirm something a bit abstract like, "Guetzli is good for reducing artifacts by sacrificing color" or some suc
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by mattpavelle 10y ago
I'll run some of my own experiments on this today, but I'm initially concerned about color muting. Specifically looking at the cat's eye example, in the bottom of the pupil area there's a bit of green (reflection?) in th
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by mattpavelle 10y ago
Actually, "sold-by-Amazon.com only" doesn't help avoid knock-offs. "For Faster Shipping, Items Are Commingled at Warehouses, Opening the Door to Knockoffs" ( https://www.wsj.com/articles/on-amazo
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by mattpavelle 11y ago
There is a checkbox that says "Use custom URL" - it's even in your screenshot. It is obviously designed to insert something else - a 1x1 pixel for example. That is not a "hack" and as it is there for everyone, it cl
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by mattpavelle 11y ago
Just thinking/typing out loud here: The've raised ~$92M ( https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/digitalocean ) so 92,000,000/154,000 ~= $600/"machine" if it's a physical machine and t
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by mattpavelle 12y ago
A while back (2013?), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation offered financing for a "next generation" condom. I can't find the link on the Gates Foundation site now (dead links on Google) but this is some press around it an
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by mattpavelle 12y ago
Dude, Rule 34. It is certainly possible.

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