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by pcl 9y ago
Is there any case law on this? In particular, I wonder what establishes ownership of an account. For example, I know people who share email accounts. How does the law distinguish the two cases? If Alice were to go after Bob for logging in w
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by pcl 9y ago
I don't love the idea of routing all my app traffic through the CDN edge, and I really get the willies thinking about terminating app-tier SSL at the CDN. I guess if a deployment is all-AWS or something, sure, but there's plenty
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by pcl 9y ago
Does HTTP2 support multiple concurrent streams over a single client connection? If not, presumably your use case would require that the client has a separate HTTP2 connection opened up to the CDN already, right? Or am I missing something?
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by pcl 9y ago
That depends on how they're applying their "AI technology." Maybe it's to improve the SNR for a given pixel? Maybe it's to interpolate additional resolution between pixels / lines? It seems possible, but not ne
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by pcl 9y ago
Yeah, that's a really dispiriting sentiment to read. But the good news is that it's rooted in the hopefully-soon-to-be-obsolete pricing model. If ultrasound devices really can get down into the $2000 price range, then the good doc
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by pcl 9y ago
Perhaps that depends on how large of a ring is around the moon? The sun was noticeably eclipsed to the naked eye during the annular eclipse I've seen (2012 in California).
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by pcl 9y ago
No. Historically, modern presidents have made their holdings public and put their assets into a blind trust while they've been in office. However, this is not required of the President, and Trump has chosen to do neither so far.
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by pcl 9y ago
> Just look at your average bicycle light set, even after I don't know how long we still can't make a set that lasts more than a couple of years. You're probably right about the average bike lights. But the good folks
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by pcl 9y ago
It's ironic that your citation is a Google AMP link... Not only does the AMP-proxy situation further disenfranchise the ISPs, it also funnels all that value to Google.
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Google Maps Pulls Calorie-Counting Feature After Criticism(nytimes.com)
11 points by pcl 9y ago|2 comments
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by pcl 9y ago
I wonder when the key patents expire... as old as it makes me feel to write this, the early 90s were over 20 years ago now.
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by pcl 9y ago
The article described an SSD (sensory substitution device) that converts a particular color under a stylus into a sound. I wonder if you could build an SSD that did a playback of a 2-dimensional scan of an input image in such a way that a b
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by pcl 9y ago
> the main attraction is it gets rid of auto-fill - which is frequently clunky Not only is auto-fill clunky, it's also tricky to implement securely. Moving these semantics into a dedicated API should help get the browsers out of t
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by pcl 9y ago
It's clear from the interview that Kay thinks mobile computing isn't where it should be. But I haven't studied the DynaBook. Does anyone know exactly what Kay thinks is needed, in order to realize his dream? I found a few suc
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Maurice Bluestein, Who Modernized the Wind Chill Index, Dies at 76(nytimes.com)
1 points by pcl 9y ago|0 comments
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by pcl 9y ago
> The same principle applies to phones. Do you have a reference for this?
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Gregory Berns Knows What Your Dog Is Thinking(mobile.nytimes.com)
2 points by pcl 9y ago|1 comments
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by pcl 9y ago
I've heard that theory a number of times. I'm no expert in acoustics or eavesdropping, but I would assume that ultrasonic eavesdropping equipment would involve highly sensitive microphones, not powerful speakers. Is there some sor
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by pcl 9y ago
That suit is filed against a government agency. Free speech protections in the US constitution are focused on preventing the government from stifling speech. These protections do not apply to private citizens or corporations.
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by pcl 9y ago
This is a dupe from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14997386
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by pcl 9y ago
Here's the text from the QR code in the YouTube video: > M1SIMPSON/BARTHOLOMEWMEXYZ123 ISTLGWTK 1965 099C005A0015 100 Looks like XYZ123 is the PNR and TK 1965 is the flight number. I haven't looked at how the 099... field
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by pcl 9y ago
I don't really know what a normal brain looks like. A sidebar (middlebar?) about halfway through the article describes what we're looking at: The trauma of repetitive blows to the head triggers degeneration in brain tissue, inclu
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by pcl 9y ago
I would imagine that cost and time are pretty interchangeable on a tunnel from DC to NYC, since you could simply add more boring machines all digging different sections of the tunnel.
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by pcl 9y ago
Interesting... this is the first time I've heard of YC leading a Series C. Is there a new later-stage fund? Or is this just a case-by-case thing?
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by pcl 9y ago
According to another comment here, iron deficiency is a common cause of strokes in younger people. Diets low in red meat often lead to iron deficiency. (Of course, this can be addressed with a supplement, but not everyone who avoids red mea
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by pcl 9y ago
FWIW, acetaminophen is not an NSAID. Also, the common characteristic of NSAIDs is their anti-inflammatory nature (the AI in NSAID), which addresses injury-related pain by locally reducing swelling. This pathway for the class of drugs is u
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by pcl 9y ago
Somewhat-relatedly, an interesting story showed up here a little while back about single-hemisphere sleep in humans: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11545048
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by pcl 9y ago
Wow, what an interesting article. Here's a great tidbit: when diving, marine mammals' blood travels only to the parts of the body that need oxygen--the heart, the brain and the swimming muscles. Digestion and any other processes
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by pcl 9y ago
> ways for the common person to verify info For some sorts of recordings, this seems like the sort of thing that a blockchain should excel at. My camera could submit a proof of work with the cryptographic signature of a recording embedde
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by pcl 9y ago
Good question -- the article talks about the case, but doesn't say much about the company. A cursory look at their website makes it appear that Alice Corp. is probably a non-practicing entity (aka patent troll) in the financial service

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