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First 'Bitcoin 2.0' Crowd Sale Was A Wildly Successful $7 Million Disaster(forbes.com)
1 points by mbrubeck 12y ago|0 comments
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The Ultra Gleeper: A recommendation engine for web pages (2005)(crummy.com)
1 points by mbrubeck 12y ago|0 comments
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Statistical shortcomings in standard math libraries and how to fix them(evanmiller.org)
2 points by mbrubeck 12y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
The `unwrap` calls are all in the input parsing code (`slurf_file` fails if input is invalid), except for one on the result of `min_by` (`classify` fails if you pass it an empty array). I wouldn't say any of these "sweep bounds c
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Sofar bomb(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mbrubeck 12y ago|0 comments
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Government secrets of the oceans, atmosphere, and UFOs(muller.lbl.gov)
2 points by mbrubeck 12y ago|0 comments
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The Longest Forecast(lapsedhistorian.com)
1 points by mbrubeck 12y ago|0 comments
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Amazon’s 3D Kindle Phone to use Omron face-tracking technology(arstechnica.com)
2 points by mbrubeck 12y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Here's the same exploit disguised as a game, to make it less obvious that it's tricking the user into interacting with it: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/yahh/ Documentation of the game proof-of-concept: http:&
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Beyond Gravity: the complex quest to take out our orbital trash(arstechnica.com)
8 points by mbrubeck 12y ago|1 comments
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
That seems to be a non-sequitur, but in any case: 17% of "tech" employees at Google are women (worldwide): http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html#tab=tech 18% of CS degrees are earned by women (in the
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
The cynical side of my concern is that search engines under pressure due to spammers will let niche/indie content bear the brunt of the cost, because that content is not "high quality" from the search engine perspective of &q
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
What gets me is that Google employees like JohnMu (in the following thread) are actually telling authors to hide large portions of their sites from Google's indexer, in order to prevent all their pages from receiving penalties for
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Yes, that's correct. The goal is to allow developers to see how their app works on a memory-constrained device during testing, while also using the full 1GB during regular use.
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
As pointed out by Daniel Peebles on Twitter, this title ( "Haskell considers adopting Rust's method name resolution rules" ) is not a good summary of the current state of affairs. This is a five-year-old proposal that is not
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
The first EC2 beta launched in 2006, not 2002. Here's the official announcement from the AWS blog: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2006/08/amazon_ec2_beta.html The Wikipedia article is organized confusingly.
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Googlebot has done various amounts of JS parsing/execution for a while now. They've also issued similar webmaster guidelines in the past (e.g., don't use robots.txt to block crawling of scripts and styles). 2008: http:&#x2F
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
But this isn't just about MetaFilter dropping out of the top slots. Google is actively accusing other sites of spamming because MetaFilter users linked to them. Google has clearly miscategorized MetaFilter as a spam farm, and is pena
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
It's not just that MetaFilter's own ranking has dropped. If that were the case, then you might argue that it was just the algorithm doing its job. But Google has clearly miscategorized MetaFilter as a content farm or linkspam sit
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Because Google has emailed other sites' publishers, telling them they were penalized for links from MetaFilter: https://medium.com/technology-musings/941d15ec96f0
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Android’s Font Renderer: Efficient text rendering with OpenGL ES(medium.com)
3 points by mbrubeck 12y ago|0 comments
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Steve Mann: My “Augmediated” Life(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by mbrubeck 12y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
This is interesting because cargo ships are more fuel-efficient at slow speeds [1][2]. But with a crewed ship, slow speed means higher labor costs. I wonder how much remote piloting or auto-piloting of ultra-slow ships can change this equ
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Assassins Creed Pirates – Behind the Web Experience(modern.ie)
2 points by mbrubeck 12y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Most of MetaFilter's revenue comes from the Adsense ads on Ask MetaFilter pages.
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
If you're logged in, you can also use the "My Ask" tab to browse questions from selected tags/categories, instead of all categories. Useful if you prefer, say, science questions over relationship questions.
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
I think this might be some confirmation bias in action; if you actually look at the front page of http://ask.metafilter.com/ today (or pretty much any day in recent years), or the popular questions at http://ask.
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
The biggest changes have been new sub-sites. The most recent of these is FanFare, for discussing TV and movies (and possibly expanding to other media in the future): http://fanfare.metafilter.com/ There have also been subt
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Espruino: JavaScript for microcontrollers(espruino.com)
4 points by mbrubeck 12y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Yes, it will be a plugin that is downloaded on first use. That's exactly what the blog post describes.

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