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by shpx 8y ago
ESA's image of the week archive is nice. A lot of the pictures are false color but you can sort by number of views. http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Sets/Earth_observation_imag... Planet.com lets you download
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by shpx 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_text Back in the day, to chat with a coworker you and him would connect into the same unix box and do `talk <username>`[0]. You didn't have to press Enter to send a me
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by shpx 8y ago
With bit.ly specifically, add a "+" at the end of the url to see what it points to. It also shows you some stats like creation date and number of clicks over time. https://bit.ly/19y8wyr+
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by shpx 8y ago
The day they stop calling it "cyber" is the day we can rest easy, knowing that people who know what they're doing have been put in charge. https://xkcd.com/1573/
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Is it possible that your impression of the company is (was?) off? I'm not surprised. They (claim to) do something similar with the logs of their DNS service: two weeks of anonymized logs after which they "randomly sample a small s
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Indonesian 19-year-old survives 49 days adrift at sea in fishing hut(theguardian.com)
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Vein matching(en.wikipedia.org)
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by shpx 8y ago
https://www.google.com/preferences -> Results per page -> drag it to 100 now you don't need infinite scroll.
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by shpx 8y ago
You'd use a pronounceable encoding scheme like proquints[0] so your child would be called Zagil-kunaf-lagoh-dudav-gukup-pujon-hitoh-lukug-vulut-zazug-batip-bikop-mafoh-foliv-munuh-nopok. You must be pretty optimistic about humanity&#x2
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by shpx 8y ago
If you're on macOS, you can move around without reaching for the arrow keys on a regular keyboard using emacs style movement keys. https://jblevins.org/log/kbd Chrome changed something a couple months ago and now
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by shpx 8y ago
Would it be legal to release an encrypted archive and then release the key after 6 years (or whatever the statue of limitations for patent infringement/copyright is)?
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by shpx 8y ago
If you want to accidentally learn about history, I highly recommend Europa Universalis IV.
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Gwynne Shotwell (COO of SpaceX)
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by shpx 8y ago
I drove a Nissan Leaf recently; it was nice. They used to look dorky, but the second generation released in 2017 looks like a regular car. Its range is less than the Model 3 though, 243 km vs 350 km (or 500 km if you get the bigger battery)
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by shpx 8y ago
Go to chrome://settings/searchEngines, click to add a custom search engine and add search engines with short keywords. For example you can add " https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s" with
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by shpx 8y ago
also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units but only when the Gravitational constant is measured with more precision.
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Mitochondrial DNA and human history(web.archive.org)
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by shpx 8y ago
This website which called itself and which still calls itself Hacker News is in no way about hacking, nor hackers, nor news (apologies to Voltaire). Just look at yesterday's front page stories https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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by shpx 8y ago
> China has a law in place that mandates all electric cars send real time telemetry to their government servers - model s/x/3, NIO cars and any other electric car if they're driving already complies with that law to be roa
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by shpx 8y ago
You can also use https://tinyssh.org instead of the sshd from OpenSSH. It only implements key based authentication and newer encryption algorithms. It's available on Ubuntu: sudo apt install tinyssh wget https:&#x
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by shpx 8y ago
There's recently been a big uptake of juuling (a mass produced high nicotine concentration vape) with teenagers. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/14/the-promise-of... https://en
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by shpx 8y ago
https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/93696/is-it-un... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14656945
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by shpx 8y ago
But you used Julia. I'm almost certain that if you applied your optimization to the C code you'd find that it makes no difference because `gcc -O2` already made it.
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by shpx 8y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you but you might be interested to know that there's a distributed WiFi password cracking project. You can upload packet captures and other people will extract the handshake(s) and volunteer GPUs to crack
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by shpx 8y ago
https://planet.com images the earth at 3-5m resolution once a day. At least in theory. I tried out some random pieces of forest in Guyana and depending on the size of your area of interest it's more like once every 3-10 da
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by shpx 8y ago
It's a 3D model of Bibury, UK made using photogrammetry. Did you watch the whole clip? Watch it again; the perspective changes as the camera rotates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogrammetry http://
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by shpx 8y ago
This reminds me of using neural style transfer on the surfaces of 3D models. https://twitter.com/nobelchoco/status/909417583954317312
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by shpx 8y ago
Adblock Plus is not Adblock's independently acting "friendly rival". Adblock was sold to a "mystery buyer" in 2015[0]. The first thing that buyer did was turn on "acceptable ads". Come on. It's the sa
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by shpx 8y ago
Taboola is one of the companies that paid Adblock Plus millions of dollars to not block their ads[0]. Taboola is the billion dollar company shoveling the "mom's $5 wrinkle tip, doctors hate her" trash[1]. Adblock Plus plainly
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by shpx 8y ago
Lying is as old as language. Monkeys lie to each other[0]. Lying using video isn't going to be fundamentally new. Our ancestors have solved this problem for millions of years through context, trust and reputation systems and a bunch of

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