privong

59 ms·

751.
by privong 10y ago
> That's exactly what "preinstalled" means. Eh, "preinstalled" isn't specific enough. I interpreted it similarly to some of the other folks in the thread, that it meant installed by my mfgs. But whether &qu
752.
The Dot Braille Smartwatch for the Visually Impaired(hodinkee.com)
1 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments
753.
Defense Against Doxing(schneier.com)
7 points by privong 10y ago|1 comments
754.
Lensless Photography with only an image sensor(arxiv.org)
4 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments
755.
by privong 10y ago
> Of the many people I know who say they yearn for a 'dumbphone' (feature phone), I've yet to see anyone I know actually make the nostalgic leap. I went back to a feature phone for almost a year, though I had a smartphone
756.
by privong 10y ago
Here's a link to the actual paper, "The Social Costs of Ubiquitous Information: Consuming Information on Mobile Phones Is Associated with Lower Trust": http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371&
757.
Smartphones May Be Unraveling the Fabric of Trust for Fellow Humans(news.virginia.edu)
1 points by privong 10y ago|1 comments
758.
Features are faults redux(tedunangst.com)
4 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments
759.
by privong 10y ago
> I believe expolanets with oxygen have already been discovered: @greeneggs is correct[0], that article is talking about modeling of a hypothetical atmosphere for a given planet. There was not an actual detection of oxygen in the atmosph
760.
by privong 10y ago
> That fails if you do a first-order implementation because you have no way of knowing whether the person voting/sharing had already read the article, but not necessarily shared it at the time of reading. It might still hold for a l
761.
by privong 10y ago
> I don't know how anyone could call matrix factorization "groundbreaking." I stopped reading at that point. The article probably means the study was groundbreaking, not the mathematics. This is fairly common in science. T
762.
by privong 10y ago
All the data appear to still be available here: https://open.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/ I think that might just be the usual revamping of the White House website for the new administration. I spot-checked a few datasets
763.
Charity is not about Helping(gwern.net)
2 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments
764.
by privong 10y ago
Okay, that makes sense. > Cost per passenger per mile is cheaper by rail than by road. It is just much more efficient. Is this still true if one also considers the infrastructure investments that need to be made, both in terms construct
765.
by privong 10y ago
> Also if both rail and roads were funded only by users then rail would be the more attractive option. Can you elaborate? This is the first time I've heard this claim – I'm curious about the details.
766.
What can Rust do for astrophysics?(arxiv.org)
130 points by privong 10y ago|110 comments
767.
by privong 10y ago
Folks down-voting: I know "subsidized by the government" == "subsidized by the taxpayers". My phrasing wasn't intended as a judgment on the merits of such action, just as a possible scenario in response to the GP&#x
768.
by privong 10y ago
> By which you mean taxpayers will subsidize operating costs. Yeah, exactly. > I wonder exactly how regressive the wealth transfer from the average middle-class California taxpayer to the California weekly-commute bullet-train busines
769.
by privong 10y ago
> — ... threat to TRANSPORTATION security, which is theoretically the only reason someone should care when you’re crossing a border, boarding a plane, etc. This is not a fact. Transportation security is not the reason border security exi
770.
by privong 10y ago
> BART uses 5'6" rail gauge. Standard US rail gauge is 4'8.5". Interesting. When I saw this, I wondered if it was to match another standard gauge that was judged to be superior. But, looking at the list of rail gauges
771.
by privong 10y ago
> whats stopping the price of flights from being halved in the next couple of decades and killing this train service too? The construction of the high-speed rail system is/will be heavily subsidized by the government. So presumably,
772.
by privong 10y ago
This has been discussed several times in the past few days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13600704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13598505
773.
by privong 10y ago
Thanks. Though the README also says: > To be able to receive messages signal-cli uses a patched libsignal-service-java, because libsignal-service-java does not yet support registering for the websocket support nor provisioning as a slave
774.
by privong 10y ago
Is it possible to use this along with the smartphone app (i.e., by "registering" with the same phone number) or does this CLI effectively represent an independent registration which would supersede the one on the phone? The README
775.
Why Latin America is the deadliest place for environmentalists(economist.com)
8 points by privong 10y ago|1 comments
776.
by privong 10y ago
> What are the chances of an agent being hired and then promoted to have access to an SCI file you're interested in? I think the chances are higher if you expand the realm of interest to industrial espionage.
777.
by privong 10y ago
> That's definitely not the case in computer science and electrical engineering at least. Same for astronomy/astrophysics. Most of the publications are typeset in LaTeX.
778.
by privong 10y ago
I don't know about the Chrome extension, but "anonymouth" is one such tool: https://psal.cs.drexel.edu/index.php/JStylo-Anonymouth https://github.com/psal/anonymouth
779.
GraviDy: a GPU modular, parallel N−body integrator(arxiv.org)
1 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments
780.
Security and the Internet of Things(schneier.com)
6 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments

More ›