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25 great Calvin and Hobbes strips(progressiveboink.com)
2 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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by xtacy 16y ago
Google's book scanner apparently uses infrared to detect the orientation of the page and hence adjust for the position of the page: http://www.npr.org/blogs/library/2009/04/the_granting_of_pat... It's unclear what the speed of the scannin
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An iPad 2 model at CES 2011(macrumors.com)
1 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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Jure Leskovec: Predicting the future with Social Networks (video)(kailathlecture.stanford.edu)
3 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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Societal Networks talk by Prof. Balaji Prabhakar(youtube.com)
2 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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Information Theory by Thomas Cover at Stanford (with video recordings)(stanford.edu)
3 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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by xtacy 16y ago
For long exposures, depending on the exposure time, the people could just walk away to avoid excessive ghosts. In one of the pictures (7th pic), one could see a translucent backpack, which in fact suggests long exposure.
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by xtacy 16y ago
What was the original headline (to those who're seeing the new headline)?
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Bufferbloat: buffer sizing in networks(gettys.wordpress.com)
4 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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by xtacy 16y ago
Hint: Look at 1,1,2,3,5,8,13 as a sequence. If you still don't know, try searching for it on this wonderful resource: http://oeis.org/
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by xtacy 16y ago
Mininet is a project at Stanford that provides an API to emulate a multi-node network on a single machine. It uses linux containers and namespaces for configuration/resource isolation. Project page: http://www.openflowswitch.org/foswiki/b
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by xtacy 16y ago
Russell and Norvig's book has a nice table that talks about what the community perceives AI to be. Preview from Google Books: http://goo.gl/U4Xyn
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by xtacy 16y ago
Thanks! So I have to manually click every single wave that I've created and do it. :-/ Is there an exporter that's available? EDIT: it looks like it allows one to export waves in batches of 10.
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by xtacy 16y ago
I am not able to find it; Google announced that they would have an exporter for the data that's presently locked-into Wave. Has there been any news about it?
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Google eBooks(books.google.com)
7 points by xtacy 16y ago|2 comments
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by xtacy 16y ago
Wikipedia has LaTeX code in the ALT attribute for all images on their website. Would it make sense for them to migrate?
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by xtacy 16y ago
It would be awesome if someone could make an extension for browsers to enable this on browser chats/emails. :-)
648.
WikiLeaks Cables: At a glance(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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by xtacy 16y ago
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1965683 This was flagged and deleted.
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India: Facebook recruiting from the IITs; attractive offer(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
14 points by xtacy 16y ago|9 comments
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by xtacy 16y ago
If you're on a Mac, Option+<hyphen> gives you endash. Shift+Option+<hyphen> gives you the longer emdash.
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by xtacy 16y ago
+ random facts: Q: How many identical acks need to be received for fast retransmit to occur? The DUPACK threshold is a configurable parameter. Linux uses a threshold of 2 (sysctl: net.ipv4.tcp_reordering). Q: Name one of the men described
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by xtacy 16y ago
The evaluation section (in the blog) talks about "traditional data centre networks." What are they? Cisco has released a data centre network design that has been out for nearly 6 years now. The design outlined in the VL2 paper is similar.
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Google Newspapers Archives(news.google.com)
1 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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Facebook: Hacker Cup programming competition(facebook.com)
15 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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Anonymous flirting: LikeALittle(likealittle.com)
7 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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by xtacy 16y ago
Doesn't nmap have a whole bunch of such fingerprints stored in a database?
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by xtacy 16y ago
It would be nicer if the download page has some screenshots of the features listed. EDIT: I also had to download to realise that it wouldn't work on my 32-bit OSX 10.5.8. Could you please add more info to the site? Thanks.
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Reverse Traceroute(revtr.cs.washington.edu)
2 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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by xtacy 16y ago
Another interesting point is the generation of unique IDs that weren't cryptographic. The uid in src=<uid> shouldn't be guessable, right? It looks like it just went a simple transformation that was easily reversible. On the other

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