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811.
by mxfh 12y ago
There already exists an automated exploit for this behavior: Joshua Klein's Crow Machine: https://www.josh.is/crow-machine/ see also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=470840
812.
BBC Radio 4 – A History of Ideas – All Animations(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by mxfh 12y ago|0 comments
813.
“Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014(eff.org)
647 points by mxfh 12y ago|156 comments
814.
by mxfh 12y ago
just look for high rejection rates in the transparency reports: https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright... it's not a singular occasion https://www.chillingeffects.org/not
815.
by mxfh 12y ago
Can someone tell me how geo-fencing within the EU is still a thing to stay when one of the EU's main digital agenda goals is to establish a digital single market market? https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/
816.
by mxfh 12y ago
Netflix is clearly running a two-sided strategy, having less then strict checks on the consumer side while telling the studios they will enforce their restrictions. The purchase of a DVD grants you the license to play the stored content for
817.
by mxfh 12y ago
It's accessing the internet from a different IP, not a different location, the whole idea of an IP (without additional information) being equivalent with a proof of physical location will most likely not hold up as a legal concept in a
818.
Airborne(stewd.io)
5 points by mxfh 12y ago|0 comments
819.
by mxfh 12y ago
It's a contract-, TOS-, trade- or tax-code-violation but not "as much a copyright violation" as plain old piracy.
820.
by mxfh 12y ago
Also it's visually misleading, the area of these segments doesn't matter, it's only the radius in a linear fashion. Assuming the perceived value is most commonly interpreted as area: the larger numbers look even bigger than t
821.
by mxfh 12y ago
I think you could just hook up an old pen plotter to your whiteboard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_pwzqPk6Gg [EDIT] whatever it has been done before: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pen+plo
822.
by mxfh 12y ago
So the inevitable next step is a full scale (powerpoint) presentation to vector stroke path exporter?
823.
Texas Hold'em Odds Visualization(chrisbeaumont.org)
3 points by mxfh 12y ago|0 comments
824.
Pop Culture Pulsar: Origin Story of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures Album Cover(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
59 points by mxfh 12y ago|6 comments
825.
by mxfh 12y ago
Sorry messed that up, you're right that the '74 builder catalog was very inclusive/generic but somehow the '76 one overshadowed this already in my memory (similiar models, strictly for lads). http://www.brickl
826.
by mxfh 12y ago
For a historical perspective, LEGO's gender policy in advertising and product development seemed to swing around every 5 Years or so in the 70s. http://thinkingbrickly.blogspot.de/2012/01/lego-gender-gap.h...
827.
by mxfh 12y ago
I think people confuse the nature of NaN with the result of isNaN() a lot, this being the source of this confusion.
828.
by mxfh 12y ago
Isn't it that older thai and asian brands are mostly image/icon (shark, dragon fly, squid ...) based anyway, since the adult illiteracy rate in the 1970s was still somewhere above 20% [1]. And that of older house wives, the assume
829.
by mxfh 12y ago
The notion of Huy Fong Rooster being the original is also quite a stretch (that title woud arguably go to Sriraja Panich ). It's just the brand of siracha that happens to be big in the US, other styles are different and most of the no
830.
Automated video looping with progressive dynamism(research.microsoft.com)
2 points by mxfh 12y ago|0 comments
831.
by mxfh 12y ago
An interactive version of this by Santiago Ortiz http://intuitionanalytics.com/other/histomap/
832.
by mxfh 12y ago
This so called pingpong style method can create a loop out of any source material, but the result will most likely look unnatural since you're reusing frames and it only works quite convincingly for pendular motions. The method describ
833.
by mxfh 12y ago
some prior research on this: --- Loop Findr by Collin Burger http://loopfindr.tumblr.com/ http://golancourses.net/2014/collin/05/12/loop-findr/ https://github.com/
834.
by mxfh 12y ago
Is there are reason that B5 sized paper sheets are only available as imports from Japan in Europe? The strict interpretation of the B series as a packaging format for the A series only seems somewhat archaic.
835.
Understanding Debt(nytimes.com)
57 points by mxfh 12y ago|97 comments
836.
by mxfh 12y ago
One that has at least an entry and a connected exit or some defined goal somewhere in the maze with a connection to the exit. For proper maze generation see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_generation_algorithm Here&
837.
by mxfh 12y ago
As the article states, it's impressive but The output isn’t really a true maze . It looks more like the simplest possible implementation of a diagonal type Truchet tiling algorithm with a single tile and 2 unique rotations: &q
838.
by mxfh 12y ago
Here's a nice book title page from 1934 with this job title; on map projections no less: https://archive.org/stream/generaltheoryofp00adam#page/n2/mo... even the Census 2002 Occupation Index [1] still l
839.
by mxfh 12y ago
Click-bait editors of sloppy lists on random topics will very soon be obsolete as well, if they aren't already. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Obsolete_occupations Snarky meta-commentors who insist on prope
840.
3D Printed Sculptures Look Alive When Spun Under a Strobe Light(art.sfglobe.com)
2 points by mxfh 12y ago|0 comments

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