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Inside a Startup's Plan to Turn a Swarm of DIY Satellites Into an All-Seeing Eye(wired.com)
1 points by sxp 13y ago|0 comments
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Suppressed report reveals companies hire criminals to steal rivals' information(independent.co.uk)
2 points by sxp 13y ago|0 comments
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Now You Can Build Google’s $1M Artificial Brain on the Cheap(wired.com)
1 points by sxp 13y ago|0 comments
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by sxp 13y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Google but the following is my personal opinion. FWIW, the part about never deviating from the "One True Way" or the description of Google as "a rigid environment with adherence to arbitrary guidelines&
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by sxp 13y ago
It's a matter of selection bias. Given a company that has X0,000 employees and former employees like Google, there will always be a fraction that don't like the company and a fraction who are vocal. So you mainly hear the vocal on
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by sxp 13y ago
There are two aspects to Snowden's leak: the 41 slide (and other documents) which are hard evidence of what the government is doing and his statements about what the government is doing. It is possible for the second set of claims to b
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by sxp 13y ago
>A judge will see right through this if it's tried and probably impose contempt of court. If one were to try something like this it would be essential to broaden the scope enough that it couldn't be used to reference a specific
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by sxp 13y ago
While commenters are mentioning that this particular method has not been tested in court, is there any reason to believe that it wouldn't work? Similar situations have happened before when a group loudly says "no comment" and
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CALEA requires telecoms to install surveillance equipment in their datacenters(en.wikipedia.org)
39 points by sxp 13y ago|7 comments
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How two Valve engineers walked away with the company's augmented reality glasses(theverge.com)
4 points by sxp 13y ago|0 comments
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by sxp 13y ago
Dropping down to dev mode to get access to ssh is overkill. I suggest https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec... which lets you run SSH as a normal Chrome extension.
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Wine tasting is bullshit(io9.com)
35 points by sxp 13y ago|54 comments
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Animal Farm: a look at the laws that are making it tough to film cruelty(theverge.com)
1 points by sxp 14y ago|0 comments
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by sxp 14y ago
This horrible UI is true of most "smart devices" that are designed by companies whose primary proficiency isn't software. I own a PS3, Vita, and Nintendo 3DS which all have unimaginably shitty UIs with long loading screens. Prior to these d
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by sxp 14y ago
I played around with something similar in order to create a camera setup for WebGL/Three.js and the Occulus Rift: http://sxp.me/rift/ This was created before my Rift was delivered so I used cross-eyed 3D rather than the proper 3D the Rift
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by sxp 14y ago
Cats have a habit of playing with their food while their prey is still alive. If that cat was a human, then what they do would probably be classified as animal abuse.
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by sxp 14y ago
FYI, directly working with WebGL code is painful just because of the amount of basic infrastructure that has to be built before anything can be done. I strongly suggest using an existing framework like three.js as a starting point and going
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by sxp 14y ago
It's crazy how much Mercator distorts the globe. I was playing around with various map projections via WebGL shaders [1] and the size problems really stand out when the map is recentered. With modern digital maps, we should really stop usin
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by sxp 14y ago
Google's Ngram Viewer shows that the term "Space Marine" was in use for quite a while before W40K's 1987 release but there was a big increase after 1987. At a glance, the trend seems to be similar to trends for other related terms such as "
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by sxp 14y ago
She didn't receive the tip. The meal was $34.93 and the tip of $6.29 was scratched out.
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Westboro Baptist Church Drops Swartz Funeral Protest After Anonymous Vows Action(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by sxp 14y ago|0 comments
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by sxp 14y ago
Why does this cost $80 more than other similar devices[1]? The website is doesn't show any useful added features other than iPhone support and all the screenshots are at an angle so it's difficult to see what the readout and graphs look lik
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by sxp 14y ago
Working off UTC makes a lot of sense for modern companies that span the world. And it would also simplify UIs for calendaring applications. (Try creating an event in iOS that starts and ends in different time zones such as a flight). I've s
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by sxp 14y ago
>Back around 1990, some forward-thinking IT person secured for Apple an entire Class A network of IP addresses. I found that fact to be the most interesting part of the article. The list of other Class A holders is also interesting: ht
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The cause of Apple's Do Not Disturb bug and its automatic fix.(arstechnica.com)
2 points by sxp 14y ago|0 comments
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by sxp 14y ago
That assumes that people who program the robots will be taught be human teachers which does not scale. If they are instead taught by robot teachers similar to Neal Stephenson's idea of A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer or a more advanced ve
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by sxp 14y ago
The calories in/calories out model does work as long as you properly count the calories going in. The number shouldn't be what's on the nutrition label since that assumes an ideal digestive system that can fully extract all the energy from
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US House votes 397-0 against ITU plan to regulate the Internet(arstechnica.com)
1 points by sxp 14y ago|0 comments
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by sxp 14y ago
One really annoying factor about collaboration across timezones is trying to get schedules to sync up. Especially if there is an 8+ hour difference. Back and forth communication ends up taking much longer and can significantly slow down the
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by sxp 14y ago
Nice. I'm also a fan of http://hnrankings.info/ which is useful to see when a story has been flagged and suddenly drops off the front page.

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