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by privong 8y ago
Some previous discussion on coverage[0] here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19616970 [0] https://www.creativeboom.com/resources/monotype-launches-the...
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by privong 8y ago
> It's always interesting to me the number of people who come out on HN to advocate vociferously for ownership of their private data, given that HN doesn't even let you delete your account ;) It's true HN doesn't let
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> For some observations, they've used the earth's moving position in space to create a synthetic-radar style image. That gives an 'aperture' of 180M miles. That may not work for imaging the immediate surroundings of
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by privong 8y ago
> We've maxed out the Earth's baseline, so it seems like orbital radio telescopes are the only way to better resolution. Going to higher frequency gives you higher resolution for a given physical baseline length.
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by privong 8y ago
> Are there any plans for a space based VLBI; not easy when you consider the utterly huge amounts of information they have to transfer, a radio telescope in a L5 would be a start. There is space-based VLBI at lower radio frequencies, wit
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by privong 8y ago
> If I'm not mistaken, the last update was in like 2017? Is it even in development any more? A 1.3.0-rc1 was tagged 9 days ago (17 March 2019): https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/releases/tag/1
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Enigma, the Bombe, and Typex Simulators(github.com)
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NIST Stone Wall(nist.gov)
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> Right, I'm (we're) obviously talking about 737MAX I think @ams6110 is saying that it may not be fair to identify the 737MAX as a completely new plane, since the 737MAX can be identified as more of an evolution of the 737 rat
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I didn't downvote you, so I can't speak for those who did. But I replied because simply saying "20/850 is small" isn't sufficient to argue there isn't a difference between the two planes. Partly because th
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> So 20 MAX-related issues out of ~850. How is that significant? To build on what @ggm and @siwatanejo noted. The 737 debuted in 1967, so it is 52 years old now. The 737 MAX is 2 years old. In terms of number of issues per year since the
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What will the climate feel like in 60 years?(fitzlab.shinyapps.io)
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by privong 8y ago
I typically use Thunderbird, though I'll occasionally fire up mutt[0] when I crave writing emails in vim and using some of the text-checking scripts I've written. [0] http://www.mutt.org/
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by privong 8y ago
> Subsampling is often done because you can get the level of prediction desired at a much lower cost, both in terms of hardware and employee hours. While that's valid, I think the author's concern is that authors frequently do
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'Big Data' Has Come to Mean 'Small Sampled Data'(forbes.com)
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Don McCullin captured history in the making(1843magazine.com)
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by privong 8y ago
> Sounds like USPS is joining the panopticon-purveying surveillance capitalism game. "It's only metadata..." Letters and packages are already electronically scanned to do OCR and address identification for routing purpose
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by privong 8y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19307160 which already has a few comments.
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Dord(en.wikipedia.org)
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> How many insecurities are there going to be in software that doesn't connect to the internet or process input from untrusted users? In principle there are ways this can be exploited, though I know the poster's application is
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by privong 8y ago
Discussion from a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18944605
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SageMath purports to also be an alternative to Mathematica: https://www.sagemath.org/
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Is Astronomy Publication Quantity Affecting Quality?(drhercules.me)
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> OTOH a paper on arxiv that receives attention is likely to be better reviewed by the community than it would be by 1-2 reviewers at some point in the future. Anecdotally, I've occasionally received feedback in response to my post
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Foul Balls Are the Pace-of-Play Problem Nobody’s Talking About(fivethirtyeight.com)
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by privong 8y ago
Thanks. If I manage to work through it, I'll put it online somewhere (and post the link to HN).
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> If you've watched any NBA in the past decade you can see a trend of calling fouls against teams that are winning too heavily against favorites. It's not hard. This should be fairly easy to test with play-by-play data[0]. I d
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What Is the Purpose of Peer Review?(heterodoxacademy.org)
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> Do we have example of naturally ocurring space object with such low density? Depends what you mean by "object. Assuming the mass is mostly protons, that corresponds to a density of ~3e19 particles per cc. In comparison, molecular
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Lazy Dog Bomb(en.wikipedia.org)
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