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by shpx 9y ago
Hololens uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogrammetry which is already more accurate (just watch a demo), so more accurate GPS won't have an effect here. Photogrammetry is what humans do, and it doesn't
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by shpx 9y ago
Here are the ones I actually use. w https://www.google.com/search?&q=site%3Awikipedia.org+%s&btn... first result from wikipedia h https://www.google.ca/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+%... r h
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by shpx 9y ago
I added bangs to google by defining custom search engines with a one or two letter prefix in chrome://settings/searchEngines Now if I type "h my-search" into the omnibar, it goes to google.com/search?q=site%3An
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Audubon Bird Guide(audubon.org)
1 points by shpx 9y ago|0 comments
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by shpx 9y ago
Sometimes, it feels Google is increasingly useless at finding those niche websites because all the noise has time to do search engine """optimization""". I use https://chrome.google.com/webstore
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by shpx 9y ago
Depends on which species [0]. Elephants weight 3500-5900 kg[1], devide both numbers by 1100 to get 3.18-5.36 kg (7-11.8 pounds) and you have a simple interval-overlap search problem[2]. For example with dogs[3] the answer is a Japanese Chin
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by shpx 9y ago
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11040512
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by shpx 9y ago
https://xkcd.com/350/
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by shpx 9y ago
Although bitcoin aims to generate a block every 10 minutes, in practice it usually takes longer than that. As I'm writing this, the last block[0] took 30 minutes to mine (sometimes it spikes to hours though[1]). Most importantly, a tra
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by shpx 9y ago
I was being facetious, sorry.
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by shpx 9y ago
The idea of smart contracts is actually older than Bitcoin, Nick Szabo wrote about it in 1997. http://nakamotoinstitute.org/formalizing-securing-relationsh... Abstract: Smart contracts combine protocols with user interfaces
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by shpx 9y ago
If it means I don't have to carry a driver's license or credit card or cash, sign me up.
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by shpx 9y ago
Discussed on hn https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=795155 18 comments Previous discussion of xanadu in general https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10642143 6 comments https://news.ycombinator.
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by shpx 9y ago
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600889/google-unveils-neu... They took 126 million geotagged images from the web, bined them into 26,000 squares, and trained a neural net to predict which square on the earth an
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Materials Selection Charts: an overview for physicists(www-materials.eng.cam.ac.uk)
1 points by shpx 9y ago|0 comments
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by shpx 9y ago
This is the best analogy to explain net neutrality I've ever heard.
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by shpx 9y ago
[This quote] was crafted by a student, Kenneth John Freeman, for his Cambridge dissertation published in 1907. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-childre...
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by shpx 9y ago
I heard an ad on the radio for Dash coin while I was driving through rural Idaho (drove down for the eclipse). https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dash/ https://www.dash.org/
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by shpx 9y ago
He only has 4,391 followers, he failed. https://www.instagram.com/mchafkin/
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by shpx 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA They usually aren't using SHA (maybe they are in this specific case).
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by shpx 9y ago
The first ad blocker (that I know of) was Interenet Fast Forward which was a Netscape Navigator plugin made around 1996 by PrivNet. https://youtu.be/pvzR_bON9qM?t=3m46s
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Gyrojet (rocket propelled ammunition)(en.wikipedia.org)
9 points by shpx 9y ago|0 comments
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by shpx 9y ago
Chatbots are glorified command line interfaces. With no man pages.
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by shpx 9y ago
Telescopes exploiting quantum effects would be able to be much smaller and have higher resolution. https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/how-to-build-a-qua...
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by shpx 9y ago
I used to be around 80 wpm with qwerty, now I'm 65 on dvorak, but it's much more comfortable. It's hard to explain, but it feels satisfying to type. When I think about a word I'll sometimes think about what motions it ta
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by shpx 9y ago
In pastery's FAQ it says > Everything goes over an encrypted TLS connection, so nobody other than the intended recipient can see what you're pasting. It should say "nobody other than the intended recipient and the develope
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by shpx 9y ago
He also mentions sparsely activating only the neurons that matter, which they explore in https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.06538.pdf Personally I didn't find it very satisfying, I imagine something more fundamental and s
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by shpx 9y ago
Stallman was right.
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by shpx 9y ago
OpenAI did a thing[0] where they used a human to help train a machine learning model by picking the best of 2 models. > Our algorithm’s performance is only as good as the human evaluator’s intuition about what behaviors look correct, so
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by shpx 9y ago
Why does shuf implement its own random number generator? Why isn't /dev/urandom the default? https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/02/25/safely-generate-rando...

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