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by pp19dd 11y ago
This is amazing. It took awhile to render at the max-zoom level but once the data loaded (and rendered), the level of detail is just astounding. You can see a construction crane and its counterweights imaged recognizably. Sagging power lin
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To answer your question, I found this credited in a regurgitated PR from some lazy news aggregator. Their site was 800 words that said next to nothing, crediting the rich PDF. The referenced document offered so much more than the site that
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Nah. For me it was this 70 MB photo of Pluto that convinced me that they're not hyping anything, but delivering actual results: http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/cro... T
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Journey to Mars: Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration [pdf](nasa.gov)
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So, I have a very strong opinion of this whole matter, and the person behind it. I've forced myself to ignore everything I wanted to write or reply to about it, but what struck a chord was your perspective, which is that credentials s
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Good question. Wikipedia entry claims 150,000 floodlights but I question the origin of this number. It showed up out of the blue, in a single edit, and none of the cited sources have the said number in them. Two pieces of information that
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For what it's worth, the CIA is the only federal agency that keeps their own employee records. Everyone else goes through OPM. They (rightfully) assumed that OPM couldn't keep secrets and that's where we find ourselves today
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One of the fondest MSX games I've played when I was a kid were "Cannon Fighter" and "Panic Junction". Though I haven't seen the latter, someone rebuilt the former in Flash: http://www.silvergames.co
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MT was fairly clumsy in some ways by comparison to WP, though my use of the word is very questionable. Updating templates was always a pain because we'd want to update a sidebar widget, and it would take hours to have that change refle
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Yeah, it's a pickle. Raphael supports limited subset of SVG with VML failover compatibility, but export is limited because you have to support two technologies. Then it gets weirder because RaphaelJS isn't exactly responsive-ready
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The RaphaelJS library, which this is built on, doesn't have a built-in SVG exporter (though there is a limited functionality for that, along with SVG export plugins), but in FireFox and Chrome, these two lines will get you the <SVG&
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Thanks for rightfully pointing out edge cases. I believe they excluded the VICE guy because he had a digital footprint that identified him, and that's a completely unfounded opinion. I'm not naive to think that there's not a
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Rather interesting, though, the scope is limited to USA alone. Supposing you make your way out of USA, a good solution for restarting your life is to join the French Foreign Legion. They'll take recruits from 17.5 - 39.5 years old. N
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Hello, author! I'd argue that having your prototype imitated is some level of involvement. =)
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The author apparently had a hand in this: https://twitter.com/matthewlein/status/576068468526579712
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Alright, I'll bite. People like this guy, serial killers, malignant sociopaths operate outside of society's morality borders that you're talking about. How can we possibly evaluate them within them?
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Uh. Unless I'm mistaken, that particular inmate pleaded guilty and was convicted of 937 various counts raised against him, including murder and rape. He kidnapped three women (in 2002, 2003 and 2004) and kept them imprisoned in his b
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Trying "Index of /backup" gave me a heart attack.
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Reason why this story is doing circles again and trending high is because of a colossal, major screw-up, and no one picked up on it but a few readers yesterday. The 8/31 rawstory "article" originally claimed the carbon dating
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Show HN: Interactive HTML form builder with box2d physics(form-builder.pp19dd.com)
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Thanks for sharing that. I've seen various demos (speed-accelerated videos) of this before, and this was the first time I've seen it in realtime, happening on the stage. It really... does look real.
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Hmm. If you alter the search to "filename:wp-config.php FTP_PASS" you start getting some that look like ... legit. For those who don't know, WordPress has some level of access to hosting server via FTP, for upgrades and plu
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You sound like the kind of person who can work through photogrammetric scanning, mesh reconstruction, 3D modeling with openSCAD, manual bed leveling, nozzle jams, picking the right nozzle sizes, print and bed temperatures, and other slic3r
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Here's why these 3D printer companies are now reeling in: go to kickstarter and search for "3d printing". There are 315 results. That's right, 315. 3D systems was founded in 1986. Stratasys was founded in 1989. These a
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That second quote is very powerful. Often enough we proceed to higher usage of previous knowledge without understanding its foundations. Often enough, you really don't need to understand previous steps to make a leap to the next. Tha
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CNN is a fairly reputable news organization, and a pretty good example of how broadcast can have a strong digital presence. They're going to be mimicked by other news organizations without a doubt. Compare them to a local TV station&#x
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Just as an aside to WordPress optimization, so there are two ways to do that. One of them is to analyze content flow (how often are things updated) and traffic flow and then come up with a reasonable strategy. Things like use memcaching fo
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So I was aware of their tours of duty, but I thought that was not a carrot for outsiders to come in, but rather a way to circumvent the traditional hiring process. Probably doesn't hurt that the commitment is temporary. From what I und
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I didn't catch this part- why did the author leave? Was it just a term end and he chose not to renew it?
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Take a look at the stylesheet file and note the commented body entries for color / background-image.

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