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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Really cool. I've been wanting to build something like this for a while. I think the software industry has focused so much on small screens for the past 5 years that we've ignored the possibilities on the big screen. Looking fo
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Show HN: A little randomness for the Hacker News front page(limpet.net)
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Thoughts on Tor appliances(frederik-braun.com)
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Yeah, and when they first announced it, they were predicting a working reactor in four years ("by 2017"): http://www.dvice.com/2013-2-22/lockheeds-skunk-works-promise... A year and a half later, they're
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
You can click on "Settings" and then check the box for "Extended hours" to see the after-hours trading in the graph itself.
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
> I assumed that Firefox periodically downloaded something from Google that let Firefox check a given URL against a list of known-bad hashes. Yes, that's basically how it works. Firefox periodically downloads a database of blocked
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Mobile Safari and mobile Firefox support type="date" inputs. Desktop Safari and desktop Firefox do not.
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
You can use it now in the Firefox Aurora test channel: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/09/webide-storage-inspector-j... (It'll be in Firefox Beta later this week, too.)
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
See http://blog.sidstamm.com/2012/02/malware-and-phishing-protec... and http://bugzil.la/368255 Google's Safe Browsing API (malware and phishing protection) requires a cookie. But Firefox pu
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
The Scion xB isn't discontinued; it's expected to see a redesign for the 2015 model. Also, the Kia Soul is a very "azteky" car introduced more recently with some success.
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Deterministic and Minimal Docker Images(gregoryszorc.com)
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Is “Huh?” a Universal Word?(plosone.org)
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You Are Not Late(kk.org)
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
In cases where a function's input and output have the same lifetime, the lifetime is now inferred. So instead of this: fn f<'a>(x: &'a SomeType) -> &'a OtherType you can now write this: f
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Make your smartwatch even less useful by installing Windows 95(arstechnica.com)
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Consumer Reports buys all their review units from regular retail stores: http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/about-us/whats-behind-the... The receiver they're using has been for sale on Amazon since February:
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
For a high-bandwidth relay (>1MBps) you also get a t-shirt!
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
The figure is correct. In the first part of the article, a tree is represented as (cons root children). So the example tree (1 (2 6 7 8) 3 (4 (9 12)) (5 10 11)) has "1" at its root, and four children. Its first child
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
The Firefox debugger tool has supported sourcemaps for over a year: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/05/compiling-to-javascript-an...
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
The Firefox devtools have two themes built in ("dark theme" and "light theme") and can also be themed with CSS by Firefox extensions (just like all parts of the Firefox UI).
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Yes, that's correct: The "Firefox Tools Adapter" targets Chrome for Android and Safari for iOS: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Firefox_Tools...
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
I agree this is more readable on its own, but it no longer matches the order of the prose in the CSS spec. One of my goals was easy comparison against the specification text.
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Let's build a browser engine, Part 6: Block layout(limpet.net)
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
See also LiveMap and Nuvis, both similar crowd-funded HUD motorcycle helmets: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nuviz/the-first-head-up... https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/livemap-motorbi
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Several cars already have night vision cameras integrated in their heads-up displays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_night_vision
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
The photo on their home page shows someone reading an SMS, not watching a video. The SMS is from someone recommending a video, but there's no indication that you can actually watch the video while you drive. It's a poor choice of
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
It's the same thing used by Google Glass, and other head-up displays (like the ones built into airplanes and high-end cars). I believe it involves collimation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collimated_light For e
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
HUDs are already built into many high-end cars (including several BMW and Audi models, the Chevy Camaro, and even some lower-end cars like the new Mazda3). Same for voice-controlled phone and media systems. They're actually touted
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
I can't reproduce this in either Chrome or Firefox. All of the requests I see are to the http://www.apple.com origin. I also can't find any hard-coded https://www.apple.com URLs in the HTML+JS sources. M
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Rather than prose, the syntax for a machine-parsed data format is often defined as a formal grammar, using BNF or similar notation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus%E2%80%93Naur_Form For example, this is how CSS sy

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