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Wikimedia NYC accepting Bitcoin donations(nyc.wikimedia.org)
1 points by wxs 15y ago|1 comments
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Chrome's "Most Visited" as procrastination trigger
1 points by wxs 15y ago|0 comments
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by wxs 15y ago
Although as far as I can tell right now the only new "eye candy" is a swooping transition when you switch between map and street-view.
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Google Maps now WebGL accelerated(google-latlong.blogspot.com)
3 points by wxs 15y ago|2 comments
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by wxs 15y ago
No no, see my comment. They don't project directly onto the object, and they use a number of projectors, each of which will correspond to an "angle" that you see. Sure they might not have enough pixels to mimic exactly what you see in the r
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by wxs 15y ago
I believe the writeup is misrepresenting how this works. It states that the system projects "on to" the object, however given that their example is an egg, which has a Lambertian (matte) surface, you would not be able to present different p
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by wxs 15y ago
If you want to disable diginotar's root CA on your Mac (for Safari/Chrome) you can open Keychain Access, select the "System Roots" keychain at the top left, find the diginotar certificate in the list, and delete it (or disable it, which is
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by wxs 15y ago
Would it not be possible to present a sensitive page in a full-screen iframe, and then capture an approximation of what the user entered into that iframe by picking up accelerometer events from the outer page? Not a perfect hack by any stre
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by wxs 15y ago
I wish I knew about iconfinder before. Very handy, thanks.
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by wxs 15y ago
They actually have a post about that on their blog: http://blog.thenounproject.com/post/7310229014/how-to-proper... "When using a CC Attribution work created by us, please attribute it to The Noun Project and include a link whenever possi
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by wxs 15y ago
I'm not sure if I agree. One thing that's nice about HN is that I so often get the story early, otherwise I would use one of the weekly/daily best-of aggregators anyway. The front-page is big enough that I can handle there being one post fo
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by wxs 15y ago
Heh, time correlation of "exam schedule" tells a sad story. Shifted 1 week: gpa calculator Shifted 2 weeks: final grades Shifted 3 weeks: academic suspension Shifted 4 weeks: academic dismissal http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=exam
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Probabilistic electoral methods [pdf](cs.toronto.edu)
2 points by wxs 15y ago|0 comments
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by wxs 15y ago
I thought this was going to be due to some expression coming into popularity, but I notice the same phenomenon with almost every bigram starting with "love" that I try, http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=love+makes&ye... http
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by wxs 15y ago
This looks great! Haven't watched the videos yet, but the lecture slides are good. Side note, this may disappear after the course is over. For anyone who is interested in going through this on their own later, might I recommend wget -rkp -n