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by scoot 11y ago
I recently asked the same question [1], and got several helpful replies. I found this [2] very approachable, and you can find the material [3] and code [4] from the talks on github. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1
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by scoot 11y ago
It doesn't take mains voltage to get electrolytic capacitors to fail catastrophically. Just reverse the current. (Or rather don't). Nearly lost an eye when a kid I was paired up with in science class made that mistake. The cap ble
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by scoot 11y ago
"Bill Thompson, a psychologist at Macquarie University in Australia who specializes in music perception and cognition (and whom I once served as a graduate assistant at York University in Toronto), suggests that we may have lacked a m
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Ghosts in the machine: the real hackers hiding behind the cliches(theguardian.com)
2 points by scoot 11y ago|0 comments
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by scoot 11y ago
Thanks everyone for the responses. I'll get stuck in!
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by scoot 11y ago
Semi related question (on the basis that this post will attract folks with the relevant background to answer) - how would someone with an interest in the possibilities afforded by the field of machine learning, but without the theoretical o
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by scoot 11y ago
It wasn't so much that the technique is still the same that struck me, so much as that the technique, and the technology to fabricate using it, existed 3500 years ago!
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by scoot 11y ago
From the help page: "TalkTalk will also NEVER Send you emails asking you to provide your full password. We will only ever ask for two digits from it to protect your security." AFAIK, you can't verify two randomly selected cha
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by scoot 11y ago
First, the level of technical incompetence is staggering: * Two significant breaches in 7 months * Bank/CC and personal details stored unencrypted * Pssswords stored in cleartext * "We have taken all necessary measures to secur
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by scoot 11y ago
"iOS users will be charged $12.99 to cover Apple’s in-app purchase tax." If that's true, it looks like someone in google got their math wrong. Apple will take 30% of $12.99, i.e. $3.90, leaving google with only $9.09, not t
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by scoot 11y ago
Nice job on the viewer. It would be cool to be able to toggle between (or have an overlay of) Ordnance Survey (or similar) data on known archeological features, and a google style aerial view. Couple this with he ability to post and discuss
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by scoot 11y ago
Desktop only unfortunately. What are the plans for touch devices?
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by scoot 11y ago
"is it possible to create a shared set of tools to provide consistent, beautiful, and easy-to-use government websites?" Yup: http://gov.uk They even copied the colour scheme: https://playbook.cio.gov/
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by scoot 11y ago
Having tried to walk from a business hotel in Roseville Minnesota to the nearest restaurant I discovered just this - and passing motorists looked at me like I was bonkers! Heck, you couldn't even get from the hotel to the adjacent offi
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by scoot 11y ago
Agreed. What might have been more informative would be to have instead sent them each other's profiles (or all the same profile) and see if they rated them as accurately when applied to themselves.
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by scoot 11y ago
That's not crazy, this is crazy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Hof
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by scoot 11y ago
"Petit began by recording pulses from a commercial Ibeo Lux Lidar unit. Discovering the pulses weren’t encoded or encrypted, he could simply use them at a later time to fool the unit into believing objects were there when they weren’t
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Self-driving cars can be disabled with a laser pointer and a Raspberry Pi(alphr.com)
26 points by scoot 11y ago|53 comments
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by scoot 11y ago
"it's often taken decades to discover the toxicity of chemical innovations thought to be safe like [...] C8/Teflon [2]" You appear to be conflating the toxicity of C8/PFOA (previously used in the manufacturing of
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by scoot 11y ago
You might like to look at how reapp [1] has achieved this. It has default styles baked into each component, allows granular overriding of styles at a component level, as well as global theme support. [1] http://reapp.io /
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by scoot 11y ago
(Unintentionally) misleading title. This is not about a monkey being hunted by a cat...
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by scoot 11y ago
> While I think reports like individual user streams are neat, I find they're not very good at diagnosing a product and driving growth. I was only referencing the fact that the individual user data appeared to be correct in one vi
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by scoot 11y ago
Well, this was stupidly easy to integrate into a web-app, but my first (and only) session has consistently been grouped into the 30-60 minute session length bucket, from the moment the session was born (first event logged) to ten minutes la
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by scoot 11y ago
RTFA: this is covered in the Fig 1. Description, and the abstract.
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by scoot 11y ago
> But woe to any non-Italians who called them that! I wouldn't question that - the point was that a discussion of the words themselves in a clinical sense carries no pejorative meaning (and even their intended meaning can vary accor
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by scoot 11y ago
'But do note that I have to euphemize the N-word here in print just as someone would have once have felt compelled to say, “By Jove!”' But why? They're just words - a set of phonemes as @jasode points out. The meaning is on
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by scoot 11y ago
If the mag-stripe emulation is just a simple electromagnet, I'm curious how they detected the position of the read-head in order to modulate the magnet correctly to emulate the data that would otherwise be read at that point of a tradi
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by scoot 11y ago
> Most of my friends negociate giving cash to their employers to get fired, so they could get ACCRE. Perhaps something got lost in translation, but that sounds unethical at best, and highly illegal at worst.
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by scoot 11y ago
> if you cought [sic] nail close to a tire sidewall it means you I'll have to replace a tire since it's not fixable That's true of traditional tyres also - internal patch repairs require a minimum distance from the sidewal
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by scoot 11y ago
Thanks, appreciate the pointer - the idea of adopting something potentially a future standard through a polyfill is appealing. @pvg I take your point about lack of browser support, but that's what polyfills are for after all! :) In the

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