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by quux 13y ago
I don't know the details, but a bit torrent client can request arbitrary blocks from its peers. If this wasn't possible, doing things like resuming a partial download, or only downloading a single file from a .torrent that contain
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by quux 13y ago
The only thing JSON needs is a standard date type. All these JSON5 additions are a waste and in some cases harmful. Example: Comments were taken out of JSON because some parsers started using them to store processing instructions.
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by quux 13y ago
What was the barrel for?!
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by quux 13y ago
I can't find it at the moment, but I think there is a supported way to achieve the same thing. I remember it being mentioned at WWDC to allow apps to hide sensitive data in the UI before the screenshot for the app switcher is taken.
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Silicone Negative ION bracelets contain unsafe amounts of radioactive material(amal.net)
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by quux 13y ago
Actually we currently have 3 satellites orbiting Mars: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Artificial_satellite...
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by quux 13y ago
Were the cameras saving raw images? Looks like JPEG artifacts are visible in some if the images.
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by quux 13y ago
Here's another home made CT scanner project someone did, not as polished, but he does a great job explaining the principles involved. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF3V-GHiJ78
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by quux 13y ago
Too bad that the PAPI was destroyed in the crash, so there's no way to know for sure if it had a problem that let to the crash. But I don't think the pilots of any of the other flights arriving at SFO that day reported anything.
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by quux 13y ago
They should have gone with "perverse and often baffling" for their headline.
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by quux 13y ago
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5939782
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by quux 13y ago
I think I first heard this when I took a crypto course in college and read Applied Cryptography, by Bruce Schneier. There was a section in there about the development of DES. At some point the researchers at IBM showed their work in progres
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by quux 13y ago
Keep in mind that as a rule of thumb, its useful to assume that the NSA is about 20 years ahead of the public in crypto research. Even if systems like HTTPS and Tor appear secure today, the NSA may already have knowledge of weaknesses that
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by quux 13y ago
They were doing this long before Obama even ran for president. I remember first hearing about this in the early 2000's
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by quux 13y ago
The "structured behavioral interview" he mentions is what I've settled on over the years too. You get a much better idea of what the applicant has really done and is passionate about than seeing if they're good at pop qu
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by quux 13y ago
The ACLU's "Bust card" has a good set of guidelines for what to do if you are stopped by the police to best protect yourself. http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/bustcard_eng_20100630.pdf #1 on the lis
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by quux 13y ago
Are there any questions that a suspect is required to answer? Like their name, where they live etc? I think if you are driving a car you are required to produce your driver license on request, but other than that you don't have to answ
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by quux 13y ago
Darn, well there goes my plan to patent myself and require that my wife buy a license before she can bear my children.
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by quux 13y ago
This is awesome. But I wonder what it must be like to be able to see, even with your eyes closed. What I mean is, I imagine that it may be a bit overwhelming to a new user to suddenly be getting visual input. A simple solution would be addi
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by quux 13y ago
Cool, no need to reply to my email then :) I've been messing around with emscripten lately myself. Maybe I'll try it some time.
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by quux 13y ago
This is interesting. If this project can output LLVM byte code, then you could also codegen to javascript with emscripten and make a web based version of a NES game.
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by quux 13y ago
Damn, I found one that made sierpinski triangles early on and didn't realize how rare those would turn out to be, haven't seen another one since.
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by quux 13y ago
This is interesting, I've watched Professor Susskind's lectures on Quantum Mechanics and they were very good. Was able to understand how QM actually works for the first time.
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by quux 13y ago
WebGL is pretty scary since it's only a thin wrapper around OpenGL. OpenGL drivers tend to run in the kernel, have direct access to the complete memory of the box and not be hardened from a security perspective. It's only a matter of time b
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by quux 13y ago
Indeed. When the 3d printed AR-15 receiver was making news, I did some research and found that people had been carving them out of wood blocks for years and years. This is nothing so new. The newness comes from being able to have an unskill
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by quux 13y ago
I have nothing to back this up with (just like Kurzweil.) but I have a gut feeling that if superhuman intelligence were to emerge, it would quickly become preoccupied with things only it can think about, and largely indifferent to the needs
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by quux 13y ago
I think there's enough of an incentive for hackers to figure out how to unbrick these phones that it wouldn't be much of a deterrent. If the bricking were truly permanent, like blowing an efuse or something, the risk of false positives bric
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by quux 14y ago
IIRC the SX's were DX's with a manufacturing defect in the FPU. To increase overall yield of 486 family processors, intel would disable the inoperative FPU by cutting traces with a laser and sell the otherwise perfectly fine chip as an SX.
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by quux 14y ago
This service made it to the top of HN a few months ago when it was called Powwow. I've been using it since then and it's been continually improved into a very solid collab tool. Keep it up guys!
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by quux 14y ago
I'm CEO bitch.

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