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by privong 10y ago
> There is so much you can put in a title. "Your OpenStreetMap server in 120GB" is only 35 characters, out of 80 allowed for the title, so there's plenty of room to be more specific. "Your OpenStreetMap server of Road
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by privong 10y ago
> Is redundancy sufficient for flagging? I always thought flagging was only for abusive or off-topic content, and redundant submissions were a moderator thing. It looks like the same person was submitting the same thing, daily, to try an
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Determination of the Yield of the Trinity Nuclear Test 70 Years Later(pnas.org)
1 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments
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by privong 10y ago
Note that the post currently links to version 1, which was uploaded in 2012 ( https://arxiv.org/html/1202.4212v1 ). There is an updated version from 2014 ( https://arxiv.org/html/1202.4212v2 ). For ar
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by privong 10y ago
> People of today are just as smart. It was only simpler then. An additional effect is that when people learn the major past discoveries (e.g., calculus, mechanics), the version that is taught is often significantly different from how th
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by privong 10y ago
> He published a single author paper even though he acknowledges in the end "I thank Matthew Fiedler, PhD, and Jeanne Lambrew, PhD, who assisted with planning, writing, and data analysis". In my field, those people probably wo
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Juno's Orbital Insertion Velocity and Records for Spacecraft Speed(planet4589.org)
2 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments
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Problems with Bruce Schneier's “Solitaire” (2001)(ciphergoth.org)
92 points by privong 10y ago|42 comments
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by privong 10y ago
If you're doing lots of remote connections, I have found mosh ( https://mosh.mit.edu/ ) to be a useful replacement for / supplement to ssh. From their landing page: Remote terminal application that allows roaming,
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Proterra Opens Patents on Rapid Electric Bus Charging(arstechnica.com)
1 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments
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US Presidential Election Results Since 1789, by State(github.com)
1 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments
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Zero Knowledge Proofs – A Primer(jeremykun.com)
2 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments
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Relative Likelihood for Life as a Function of Cosmic Time(arxiv.org)
24 points by privong 10y ago|12 comments
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by privong 10y ago
> The context of the my comment was how the photo compare to the naked eye. I agree that is true for your example of the Cat's Eye nebulae. I guess my response was to my (and presumably other's possible) mis-interpretation that
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by privong 10y ago
> In other words, ignore the colors. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "ignore". The colors, though somewhat arbitrarily chosen, do convey physical information. It may not be a "what your eye might see" image
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by privong 10y ago
> Is it? I always figured “true colour” would be whatever you’d see with your naked eye from an approaching or orbiting spacecraft, or the nearest approximation that (say) a consumer digital camera would give you. Can we get anything lik
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by privong 10y ago
I can't speak to the other galaxies, but ~zod is "self-issued": http://zod.urbit.org/
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When Under Attack, These Frogs Hatch Themselves(nytimes.com)
1 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments
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by privong 10y ago
> just a cash transfer to people who got lucky and bought cars from an unethical manufacturer. They didn't "get lucky". They were lied to by the company and sold a car under false pretenses. Edit: I had the fuel economy bi
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Tour de France will use thermal cameras to spot hidden motors(engadget.com)
3 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments
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by privong 10y ago
> I also noticed the grammatical mistake on MU/TH/UR's screen after interrogation: it should have been 'Ensure', not 'Insure'! "Ensure" and "insure" are both valid words/spelli
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by privong 10y ago
> His blog posts are oddly undated though. Not sure why anyone would decide to omit this. Dates are there, just in a non-obvious place. They're at the bottom, just above his photo/bio. The article linked in the HN post is from
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The social dilemma of autonomous vehicles(science.sciencemag.org)
1 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments
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by privong 10y ago
> A live fire test of a nuclear torpedo prototype seems ... more than a little unlikely. What you have here is the description of a test just like any of the American tests: a bare warhead is detonated under certain conditions, with perh
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by privong 10y ago
> He probably meant Hacker News, just checked and HN is verified by Comodo and LetsEncrypt by IdenTrust. Gotcha. Yeah, I thought they meant the LetsEncrypt page.
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by privong 10y ago
When I hover over the green lock it says: "Verified by: IdenTrust".
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by privong 10y ago
> ...in no-name journals. Foundations of Physics isn't a high-prestige, cutting-edge journal, but it's also not a crackpot journal. It seems to be a respectable source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundat
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by privong 10y ago
> Which journal was it published exactly, and what is "well before"? You're linking to a generic PDF file served in his personal site, which answers none of those questions. I wasn't able to find a journal, but his we
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by privong 10y ago
> Torpedo on the submarine was a T-5 and if the submarine was within 6-10 miles of the blast it would have ripped the submarine apart. Do you have any additional info on this? A quick wikipedia search turned up a little bit of info[0],
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Wikipedia Request for Comment on Safety of genetically modified crops(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments

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