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1. 391.▲
   by spyder 9y ago

   9/11 on a new level :O
2. 392.▲
   by spyder 9y ago

   "a teriibly un-optimized video codec" Uh, they are using WebP and MP4, how is it terribly un-optimized?
3. 393.▲
   by spyder 9y ago

   HTTP ERROR 500
4. 394.▲
   by spyder 9y ago

   Haxe!
5. 395.▲
   by spyder 9y ago

   Oh: "LIGO's mirrors must be so well shielded from vibration that the random motion of the atoms within the mirrors and their housings can be detected."
6. 396.▲
   by spyder 9y ago

   There is nice table in the paper which compares the capabilities of the different technologies trying to solve the DOF problem in HDMs. http://i.imgur.com/8rdoeS3.png
7. 397.▲
   by spyder 9y ago

   And one of the download button ads that I just checked (EasyPDFCombine) is "getting trough" 3 separate Google "reviews" if I understand correctly how this scheme works: 1. The misleading download button Google ad. 2. Af
8. 398.▲
   by spyder 9y ago

   Did they only fix the type confusion or did they do something about the unsandboxed JavaScript interpreter running as SYSTEM ?
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   by spyder 9y ago

   Yep, they are very fast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvU2KEl5_ZE https://youtu.be/vbSww5SBqN4?t=75 https://youtu.be/zYimxuEAEtk?t=67
10. 400.▲
    by spyder 9y ago

    If "you don't care about what you vote" you don't vote.
11. 401.▲
    by spyder 9y ago

    The images in the article are JPEGs with visible compression artifacts which isn't good if they want to demonstrate the quality of the photos that they can make with the phone.
12. 402.▲
    by spyder 10y ago

    http://countercomplex.blogspot.com/2011/10/algorithmic-symph... and the HN thread from 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3063359
13. 403.▲
    by spyder 10y ago

    Another interesting one is/was AudioGL (not AR but 3D): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-RCzeJQazA https://www.audiogl.com/en/audiogl
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    by spyder 10y ago

    It's not fast but it's possible to cut steel too with cordless drill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj12WdVhOCc
15. 405.▲
    by spyder 10y ago

    Microsoft Research showed that anything above 1ms latency is noticeable on touchscreens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4
16. 406.▲
    by spyder 10y ago

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/07/18/new-pictures-of-the-h...
17. 407.▲
    by spyder 10y ago

    It will have a text format (or more than one), but yea probably it will be less readable: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/TextFormat...
18. 408.▲
    by spyder 10y ago

    There is a company who is trying to do that with a spectrometer but they product is controversial: https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/16/scio-the-pocket-sized-mole...
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    by spyder 10y ago

    And the "irony" is that some of the data may leaked only to "bad bots" and "IP has a poor reputation (i.e. it does not work for most visitors)." From their blog: https://blog.cloudflare.com/inci
20. 410.▲
    by spyder 10y ago

    was?
21. 411.▲
    by spyder 10y ago

    Snoopsnitch: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.srlabs.snoo... ( requires a rooted device with Qualcomm chipset) Cell Spy Catcher: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details
22. 412.▲
    by spyder 10y ago

    I somewhat agree, but a little inconvenience comes when you have to insert HTML that you got from somebody else, like from a design template or an ad or analytics code. Sure you can convert it by hand or with an editor extension but then yo
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    by spyder 10y ago

    Yeah, after a quick look I already found an XSS on a *.webex.com subdomain, but it only works in Internet Explorer and Edge because these browsers doesn't escape URLs, so it doesn't affect the Chrome or Firefox extensions but tell
24. 414.▲
    by spyder 10y ago

    For videos it's possible to get even better results using pixel information from adjacent frames: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kaI_qr0pFA https://people.csail.mit.edu/celiu/CVPR2011/def
25. 415.▲
    by spyder 10y ago

    It's a random sampling of the "YouTube video uploader" population.
26. 416.▲
    by spyder 10y ago

    Yes it's blocked by CSS: #player { pointer-events: none;} and it's against the YouTube TOS: "G. if you use the YouTube Player on your website may not modify, build upon or block any portion or functionality of the YouTube Pl
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    by spyder 10y ago

    I didn't know about the automatic brightness issue with OLEDs, it looks pretty annoying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqx_9P645wY Why do they have to use it? I know OLEDs have burn-in problems but I don't see h
28. 418.▲
    by spyder 10y ago

    http://www.newegg.com/Commercial-Displays/SubCategory/ID-308...
29. 419.▲
    by spyder 10y ago

    and probably photogrammetry from the arial photos.
30. 420.▲
    by spyder 10y ago

    Placebo "works" even if the patient knows it's a placebo :).