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by pierrec 10y ago
The keel is essential in determining the boat's direction, it's just out of the scope of this paper, which concentrates on how the sail generates lift. That's the specific topic a lot of textbooks get wrong. I agree it would
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by pierrec 10y ago
REAPER's feature set is huge, it's also one of the most customizable DAWs I've used. I know this kind of thing is pretty subjective, but even then, there is no way I could possibly call it "basic" compared to the mo
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by pierrec 10y ago
In case anyone is wondering, the two lines above are anagrams of each other. It's pretty impressive, any hints on the method you use to come up with this?
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by pierrec 10y ago
OK, facebook hand-picks the authorization for an app (and its associated API access) to become public. They also hand-pick private access to more advanced API features. It's still essentially impossible to create an easy-to use program
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by pierrec 10y ago
I recently tried to use this kind of system to pipe news from facebook pages into an RSS feed. Impossible. Facebook hand-picks which developers get API access, and only allows ultra-restricted usage, so for example there's no way they
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by pierrec 10y ago
A bit late, but this is not an application of invertible counterpoint. It's closer to melodic inversion (which is also mentioned in the article you linked). Here's an example comparing the two: Source: | Invertib
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by pierrec 10y ago
An evidence-free fad diet? We're looking at dozens (maybe hundreds) of research papers published over the past 40 years. Most of them are not based on conjectures but on clinical and dietary surveys looking at long-term health effects.
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by pierrec 10y ago
Sure, nutrition is littered with crackpot theories, voluntarily misleading research funded by corporations, smoke and mirrors, and so on. And if you only look at stuff that hits the news, then yes, things will change drastically every few y
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by pierrec 10y ago
Wow, the feedback you got on that forum has a pretty rare level of detail and helpfulness. Confusing syntax, perhaps, but the community is point for sure!
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by pierrec 10y ago
As someone who loves J (though I'm far from mastering it), I certainly wouldn't want to work with it either. J (and APL) really shines when you're playing with it in interactive mode, gradually building sentences and lookin
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by pierrec 10y ago
If anyone else is surprised by that claim, turns out it's not quite true (in a blurry way): [The variety between eye types] has led to the dogma that eyes have evolved in all animal phyla 40 to 60 times independently (Salvini-Plawen a
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by pierrec 10y ago
That's the basic principle of XSS. A few years ago an XSS epidemic broke out where dozens of major websites were found to be vulnerable to cookie theft. Attackers could make a single page with dozens of sneaky iframes, one per vulnerab
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by pierrec 10y ago
They still haven't fixed it. I'm only getting it to work in Chrome though, seems like the Angular sandbox escape doesn't work in Firefox. See for yourself (I'm only posting the more harmless alert demo, but the others wo
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by pierrec 10y ago
A more honest title would have been "Check out our animal shape generator", though I suppose it wouldn't sound as interesting. They touch on the cool idea of using an image identification neural network to single out desired
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The Economics of Zoos(smartasset.com)
2 points by pierrec 10y ago|0 comments
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by pierrec 10y ago
Hmm, I think you're the one that's not reading it correctly. The growth rate takes into account both death and birth rates. As Balgair points out, it's simply the derivative of the total population. And the UN's projecti
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by pierrec 10y ago
The graph for the actual population projection was basically linked in the article: https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/TOT/ (you have to select "WORLD" in the drop-d
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by pierrec 10y ago
It seems their data is based on UN research, who publishes regular population projections. The latest revision, published in 2015, apparently only goes up to 2100, at which point they still predict growth. However, if you look at projected
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by pierrec 10y ago
I think the point is that the timeout is not a fixed value but more of an algorithm. No traction, shorter timeout. Other factors probably come into play. HN works in mysterious ways.
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by pierrec 10y ago
I use `find` to choose specific months and pipe the log files into goaccess (if you have lots of logs, that saves time instead of piping everything). Assuming the logs are in a bunch of gzipped files: find my_logs/ -name "*.gz
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by pierrec 10y ago
Generative hip-hop beats, looks nice. As I see it, the sequencing isn't the hardest part in hip-hop beats, though: a lot of the magic is in the timbre. Sampling, mixing, etc. are often what captivates me the most. Imagine doing that al
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by pierrec 10y ago
First of all, my interpretation of Lewis' essay is very different from what you're implying: money, power, and material things are tangential to his point. The rings are a form of social interaction, that in itself motivates you t
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The first Google Tango-enabled phone is now shipping(theverge.com)
7 points by pierrec 10y ago|0 comments
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by pierrec 10y ago
Someone's account was suspended after visiting ruinmysearchhistory, but it was more of an isolated case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11880008
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by pierrec 10y ago
If everyone knew about this, democracy might be more effective. We would only elect depressed people to positions of power, favoring their superior acumen. The most convincing speeches would be nihilist considerations on the uselessness of
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by pierrec 10y ago
This announces a new dataset where recorded performances are precisely synchronized to MIDI transcriptions. Obviously the article doesn't seem to get the implications quite right (it's very useful for performance-related research,
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by pierrec 10y ago
It's well known that many Chinese are financially unable to register their second+ child. The unregistered children have no official identity, can't lead normal lives, can't go to school, etc. It's to be expected that so
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by pierrec 10y ago
While it might be possible to strengthen the mechanism used to keep sessions, the best fix isn't necessarily on that front. They have root access to the device you're logged in with, so they can do whatever they want with your cur
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by pierrec 10y ago
Just to be clear, they didn't obtain any passwords, but auth tokens. This would potentially allow them to log into accounts, but only as long as the tokens are valid. Also, they don't reveal which "third party app stores&quot
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by pierrec 10y ago
You're thinking of Outcast (aka Infogrames Outcast).

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