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Amazon granted FAA approval to test drone delivery(geekwire.com)
1 points by vmarsy 12y ago|0 comments
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by vmarsy 12y ago
"controlling the light beams without losing their energy has been the challenge" I guess perfect mirrors that don't loose any energy don't exist?
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by vmarsy 12y ago
Related to YouTube puts the final nail in the loudness wars' coffin ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9223749Y ) This post explains it pretty well: http://tcervo.com/its-the-mastering-stupid-how-r
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Dynamic Range Database(dr.loudness-war.info)
11 points by vmarsy 12y ago|1 comments
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by vmarsy 12y ago
yes it does, if you use a video extractor, and look at the different settings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3PDXmYoF5U .mp4 in 720p: AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, floatle, 192.0 kbit/6.80% (ratio: 24000->352800) ID_AUD
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by vmarsy 12y ago
Windows Hello uses a combination of special hardware and software to accurately verify it is you – not a picture of you or someone trying to impersonate you. The cameras use infrared technology to identify your face or iris and can recogni
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by vmarsy 12y ago
This should be taken with a huge grain of salt: The article pointed is dated Feb 2015 but see all these articles: [1] from September 2014 [2] from Feb 2015 [3] from September 2014 [6] : From August _2012_ All from this "Dr. Travis ...
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by vmarsy 12y ago
We are also redesigning Windows’ Refresh and Reset functionalities to no longer use a separate recovery image (often preinstalled by manufacturers today) in order to bring Windows devices back to a pristine state If this mean that you wil
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by vmarsy 12y ago
Definitely not, it's just an estimation of what you would need to have a 4G coverage everywhere . Areas with a very low population density are not completely uninhabited, there's at least a few persons. But yeah in a big nationa
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by vmarsy 12y ago
I wonder what would be the cost of producing/operating a balloon and changing it every 187 days (or probably more often, the probability of having them destroyed by some random objects would increase). There would need to have a few to
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by vmarsy 12y ago
Google balloons, “cell towers in the sky,” can serve 4G to a state the size of Rhode Island would be more accurate. To have a minimum coverage, you would need 140 of them to cover Texas, ~2,000 to cover the USA, ~6,000 to cover Africa (ea
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by vmarsy 12y ago
"In tipping countries waiters basically beg you to leave as soon as you've eaten." That is true, is it a perverse effect of the tip? (for an average meal on an average table, 1 tip of 30% in 2 hours is not as good as 2 tips a
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by vmarsy 12y ago
That might be a false correlation indeed, however I disagree when you say: "there's very little to think that level of service in restaurants in the US is related to the expectation of the tip" waiters with good work ethics w
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by vmarsy 12y ago
It's a trade-off: With tips you get some clear advantages over non tipping. The waiters have a huge incentive to give you a pleasant meal experience. This is very annoying to go to a restaurant and it appears to be more complicated fo
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by vmarsy 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=anacleto Are your doing some experiments or something? a new account with 48 submissions in the past 5 days is odd.
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by vmarsy 12y ago
That is with gcc -O2 (version 4.8) on an i7-4771 CPU With -O3 the speedup is even more: 7.2x on a Xeon E5-2690 (Sandy Bridge) with gcc 4.6.3 (same code generated) it was "only" 3x
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by vmarsy 12y ago
"We need to bring end-to-end latency down to below one millisecond" The incredible bandwidth is surely great but they don't mention how to improve latency here, they forget to tell what was the latency of this 100m transfer f
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The new OneDrive API(onedrive.github.io)
1 points by vmarsy 12y ago|0 comments
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by vmarsy 12y ago
For some reason even that link doesn't work, I have to manually google "Why GM Hired 8,000 Programmers" and then it's fine > https://www.google.com/search?q=Why+GM+Hired+8%2C000+Program...
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by vmarsy 12y ago
It looks really great, changing color via CSS is neat! maybe you could put the license information on that page! (The github page says it is MIT License for those who wonder) btw the french flag is backwards (Blue - White - Red is the good
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by vmarsy 12y ago
the second part link: http://www.npr.org/2015/02/13/385495327/a-community-takes-on...
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by vmarsy 12y ago
For some important documents that you want to preserve and/or don't want to pierce there is a solution: store it in a plastic sleeve like this one: http://i01.i.aliimg.com/wsphoto/v0/1777660007/100-X
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by vmarsy 12y ago
as markbao says this is the fastest way to share the link. This is also the way to share things on Instagram, so if you're used to it, it feels normal to use it on Facebook as well.
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by vmarsy 12y ago
I think the authors has issues with Snapchat because he doesn't use it a lot. Snapchat's best User manual is Word of mouth. First time users just send a picture, then receive a picture back from their friend _With Text On It_ ! ,
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by vmarsy 12y ago
Could one of the factors be the difference between users? Early adopters who really liked the Uber concept for various reasons and wanted to use Uber VS. Now a majority of users who heard about Uber because it's supposedly better than
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Urban Greening – French Aesthetics Bring Renewable Energy Back to Nature(ethicalwriter.com)
2 points by vmarsy 12y ago|0 comments
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by vmarsy 12y ago
"Thanks to OS X, Apple has come back from the dead in a way that is extremely rare in technology. [2] Their victory is so complete that I'm now surprised when I come across a computer running Windows. Nearly all the people we fun
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Fox News Becomes the Unwilling Star of a French TV Satire(nytimes.com)
5 points by vmarsy 12y ago|0 comments
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by vmarsy 12y ago
I see. But the permission is granted because the restaurant's staff is afraid to break the law. They piss off some of their customers and probably loose some profits. Is it legal for places like Walmart (or Whole Foods as the authors m
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by vmarsy 12y ago
... this is just sad to abuse it like this. I feel sad for people who _really_ needs their animals for this particular reason. Some people are allergic to some type of animals though, how do you handle that? If I happen to sit next to a pet

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