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If Patent Reform Is Meant to Starve Patent Trolls, Why Is It Feeding Them?(ipwatchdog.com)
5 points by sehugg 10y ago|0 comments
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by sehugg 10y ago
And here's the related paper, "Unifying Count-Based Exploration and Intrinsic Motivation": https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01868 Tech journalism isn't at its best when it can't distinguish between W
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by sehugg 10y ago
At least in Takoma Park's case, these are decisions made 50 years ago coming home to roost -- that is, the decision not to build any highways through northern DC.
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IT Admin Faces Felony for Deleting Files Under Flawed Hacking Law(wired.com)
1 points by sehugg 10y ago|0 comments
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by sehugg 10y ago
60 Minutes covered this in 2014: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tour-a-nuclear-launch-control-ce... They were surprised to see things like "an antique computer without a monitor."
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by sehugg 10y ago
There is wifi at Snowshoe. I'm sure you could get away with home wifi if you kept it low-power. AT&T has even nerfed its network to allow limited cell phone usage. More: http://fusion.net/story/243321/wtf-
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by sehugg 10y ago
Yeah, that's pretty unusual. In my experience the police prefer to have the victim as hands-off as possible to avoid further drama. (And the S/N is still printed on the bottom of the case, right?)
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by sehugg 10y ago
According to Beatles producer George Martin, "Without Pet Sounds, Sgt. Pepper never would have happened....Pepper was an attempt to equal Pet Sounds."
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by sehugg 10y ago
They sure bankrolled the heck out of the Iraq War, didn't they? To the tune of around $80 billion starting in 2003.
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by sehugg 10y ago
Even lots of BASICs, like Applesoft, were technically VMs with bytecode and even garbage collection. Not a retargetable VM, mind you.
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by sehugg 10y ago
I learned programming by reading user manuals, books, and magazines. It was kind of like Googling, except less random-access. But your documentation was much more complete, because the tools were comparatively smaller. Now fast-forward to 2
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by sehugg 10y ago
NYT reported this in 1990, we just didn't have confirmation and the name of the agent: http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/10/world/cia-tie-reported-in-... And it's still unclear whether anyone else
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by sehugg 10y ago
They have strict coding standards and only (are supposed to) use a subset: http://www.stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rules.pdf
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by sehugg 10y ago
I'm worried that a flight crew responsible for moving a million-lb plane safely through the air isn't allowed (or is unwilling) to perform basic triage on accusations made by terrified passengers.
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by sehugg 10y ago
Remember the App Store like, 5 years ago? Lots of innovative mechanics and experimentation? People even making money on paid apps?
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by sehugg 11y ago
I deployed a turn-based board game to Android, iOS, and HTML5 -- libGDX was fine, and RoboVM was pretty rock-solid. The worst part was the surgery required to the Gradle files to get everything working, and hacking up the Google Web Toolkit
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by sehugg 11y ago
You're right, assuming your quaternions are coded correctly...
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by sehugg 11y ago
You might want to catch the 1997 scifi flick Gattaca on Amazon Prime before it becomes anachronistic.
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by sehugg 11y ago
The bill begins: It is the sense of Congress that-- no person or entity is above the law; economic growth, prosperity, security, stability, and liberty require adherence to the rule of law; Confused here, I thought that t
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by sehugg 11y ago
Heck, I'll just be pedantic and say you have 7 DOF since you really should use a quaternion to avoid the gimbal-lock singularity when using Euler angles :P
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'Leaked' Burr-Feinstein Encryption Bill Is a Threat to American Privacy(motherboard.vice.com)
4 points by sehugg 11y ago|1 comments
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Japan Prepares to Switch on Fukushima 'Ice Wall'(npr.org)
1 points by sehugg 11y ago|0 comments
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by sehugg 11y ago
I can understand them wanting to call it a "hack" for CYA purposes, but it's a cowardly position. Should we invoke the CFAA every time a company is embarrassed?
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by sehugg 11y ago
There were also a record number of FOIA lawsuits last year: http://dailycaller.com/2016/01/06/record-number-of-foia-laws...
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by sehugg 11y ago
The article does make one comparison: President Obama's administration censored FOIAs 18% more often than his predecessor, newly-elected-first-year-President Obama.
566.
by sehugg 11y ago
This is a good explainer of the various latencies in the Android audio pipeline: http://superpowered.com/androidaudiopathlatency
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by sehugg 11y ago
I was thinking of something along these lines for a proximity sensor / motion detector application where you don't need very much accuracy.
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by sehugg 11y ago
Also uncompensated are the owners of servers that had to spend a little bit more bandwidth on the billions of HTTP requests that got this header tacked on. For someone that has lots of small requests from mobile devices, say for HTTP server
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by sehugg 11y ago
There's even a third layer -- engines like UE4 or Unity or libraries like SceneKit. There are so many steps to setting up shaders and lights that it's handy to have something that can intelligently handle all the moving parts -- l
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by sehugg 11y ago
The D&D controversy intersected a much wider (now discredited) moral panic about Satanism. Wikipedia has a good summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_ritual_abuse "Journalists" like Geraldo River

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