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by nippoo 10y ago
You've missed out the rotational modes, which matter hugely. A fraction of a degree on a long telephoto lens is a huge part of the frame. (If you're focusing at infinity the translational modes theoretically shouldn't matter
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by nippoo 10y ago
A network of these, with logging of historical data, would very possibly have helped with MH370 / Air France 447 etc. If they can maintain coverage of most of the oceans, this'll be an incredibly useful tool for future lost flight
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by nippoo 10y ago
This is beautiful. By using Netflix's actual CDN and requesting actual video files over HTTP, they're preventing ISPs from whitelisting fast.com without also whitelisting Netflix itself. Of course there'll be a game of cat-
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by nippoo 10y ago
Gatwick does a similar thing, but has opted to use 'anonymous' face recognition with a whole array of cameras [1]. By all accounts it's worked reasonably well, but this is coming from the manufacturer and/or Gatwick itse
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by nippoo 11y ago
It depends who your users are and what needs they have. Our users are mostly MATLAB/Python users, pretty tech-savvy, and being able to edit individual bits of the dataset with other applications or write their own code to analyse them
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by nippoo 11y ago
This is a double-edged sword. For our (reasonably savvy) users, being able to duplicate and easily modify individual datasets/files is a feature, not a bug: people can symlink the contents of an entire folder but modify a single array
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by nippoo 11y ago
It all depends what your aims are. We have a well-defined set of data we need to keep, including intermediate processing steps. We don't need headers, structured arrays, or any weird esoteric object types. (The author is my colleague.)
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by nippoo 11y ago
The author (my colleague, and probably the most talented developer I know) isn't replacing HDF5 with a 'proprietary binary format': in fact, the transition is as simple as replacing "HDF5 group" with "folder in
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by nippoo 11y ago
Resubmitted as a link rather than comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10858254
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Veertu – native Mac virtualization available on the App Store(veertu.com)
10 points by nippoo 11y ago|7 comments
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Moving away from HDF5(cyrille.rossant.net)
116 points by nippoo 11y ago|63 comments
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by nippoo 11y ago
Or perhaps do it the other way around? Make a Let's Encrypt subdomain-blacklisting TXT record with which the parent domain could indicate that they don't want subdomain owners to be able to create their own SSL certificates. (Usef
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by nippoo 11y ago
Am I the only one who can't read this on an iPhone without instantly being redirected to a mandatory app download page? I don't seem to have the option to close or hide it or go back to the article.
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by nippoo 11y ago
Did you get the cash and options the wrong way round in your example ($100k + 5000 options / $110k + 3000 options)? That bit confused me for a while. Or maybe I'm missing something about how they work!
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Wat Hifi – “Pseudoscientific wank from the pages of audiophile magazines”(wathifi.com)
1 points by nippoo 11y ago|0 comments
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by nippoo 11y ago
It's worth mentioning www.hotelwifitest.com as a (probably?) more accurate way of determining wifi speed and price...
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by nippoo 11y ago
Side-note: a lot of fresh chicken will smell bad for about 5 minutes when you remove it from a vacuum-sealed package, but the smell quickly dissipates and the chicken is good to eat. In the UK there's a label on some brands of fresh ch
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by nippoo 11y ago
FWIW, I'm in the UK and initial backup was great and fast (on a 1Gbps upload connection, I was getting maybe 10-15MBps upload consistently, which isn't bad considering it's across the Atlantic!). The biggest thing for this ha
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by nippoo 11y ago
Number 5 strikes home in today's world of big monolithic programs which each aim to solve all the world's problems... "(5) It is always possible to aglutenate multiple separate problems into a single complex interdependent s
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by nippoo 11y ago
My favourite one must be number 20. Best ever quote of Thumper I've seen...! "Never document gotchas in the code. If you suspect there may be a bug in a class, keep it to yourself. [...] Remember the words of Thumper "If you
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by nippoo 11y ago
The IPython team are doing just that, and have renamed the IPython project "Jupyter", refactoring all the Python-specific code away into another repository and allowing it to be ported to many other languages: currently over 40 of
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by nippoo 11y ago
Next up: "Live photos can now be 10 seconds long, for more information than ever before!"
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by nippoo 11y ago
I wondered why this visualisation was so jumpy and unstable on my iPhone, until I sat up and moved the phone. Only example of a website I've seen which uses accelerometers and gyroscopes to navigate!
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by nippoo 11y ago
Am I missing something, or is this a really whiny and pointless article? As the author himself quotes Apple in the conclusion, "Your recommendations and music library move to Apple Music in the background". So... what's the p
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by nippoo 11y ago
"Had the raindrop slammed into a bigger, slightly heavier animal, like a dragonfly, the raindrop would “feel” the collision and lose momentum. The raindrop might even break apart because of the impact, and force would transfer from the
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by nippoo 11y ago
"It is possible to ask someone not to t'aarof ("t'aarof nakonid"), but that raises new difficulties, since the request itself might be a devious type of t'aarof." I love the concept of "devious t&#x27
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by nippoo 11y ago
I can't stop giggling at the red hand-circled bit in the subpoena. ( IP? ) <-- This is the one we need
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by nippoo 11y ago
If they could do that, they should "coincidentally" define their bands to be centred around the actual value. "We can't say we received 84 requests this year. We can only tell you it was in the band [-166, 84]"...
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The Effects of Moore’s Law and Slacking on Large Computations [1999] [pdf](arxiv.org)
11 points by nippoo 12y ago|0 comments
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by nippoo 12y ago
Where I'm currently working (computational neuroscience / data analysis) we've just had to upgrade our servers and 512GB is only just enough for some datasets. A couple of the labs nearby (genomics) share a cluster of ~10 mac

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