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Paedophile guide author Greaves arrested in Colorado(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by yock 16y ago|0 comments
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by yock 16y ago
Headline changed because the original was a TLA nightmare.
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New aircraft display blends infrared video with CGI terrain in real-time(flyingmag.com)
1 points by yock 16y ago|1 comments
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by yock 16y ago
Perhaps not completely replace, but the article does mention providing/improving communications in areas of rough terrain where line-of-sight may be difficult to achieve with an orbiting satellite.
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by yock 16y ago
I think I'd be uncomfortable with this not because of approaching random strangers but rather approaching them with false pretenses. You're essentially fooling people into listening to your ill-formed business plan by lying to their face ab
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by yock 16y ago
The Android app is getting loads of negative reviews today from people who think the app doesn't work.
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by yock 16y ago
Indeed, I was reading through his tab completion examples noting that I can already do much of this in my Ubuntu environment. Now, that doesn't mean it's not a pain to accomplish this in Bash, I just don't know. It's rather transparent to t
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by yock 16y ago
The link is to the BBC, but this story is in the US newspapers today as well. The irony there is that plenty of Americans seem to want exactly this, and perhaps more, from their government as well. Yet it's portrayed as a negative in the En
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by yock 16y ago
I didn't say it was a good choice, it's just their choice. For what it's worth, I agree that there were better options.
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by yock 16y ago
I think the FSF is off here. Time's Person of the Year was never about positive or negative influences, just influences. To prove my point, former honorees include Deng Xaioping, Adolf Hitler, and Joseph Stalin. Honoring Zuckerberg as POT
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by yock 16y ago
I may be missing something, as it seems at least I can't get a look at the actual javascript file, but is there some reason you believe they didn't write snowstorm.js?
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by yock 16y ago
The referenced Albert Bartlet quote is from his lecture Arithmetic, Population, and Energy . It's a fascinating look into the exponential function, and available on DVD from the University of Colorado. If you haven't seen it, I highly reco
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by yock 16y ago
Perhaps the easier and far cheaper first stop is to stop paying land owners to not farm their land.
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by yock 16y ago
Absolutely. The idea that this vacuum of hyper-violent or graphically-sexual video games is somehow a "problem" is more a treatise on what some people believe the market should be more than what the market actually is. It's absurd for preci
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Software Patents Shut Down RunwayFinder(blog.runwayfinder.com)
170 points by yock 16y ago|85 comments
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by yock 16y ago
Could this please be the warning shot fired across the Internet's bow to get Hacker News to fix the OpenID login?
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by yock 16y ago
The Pragmatic Programmer (book) - New office chair - Candy/Chocolate/Wine/other goodies The wife and I bought a new car this Christmas season, so I think that counts. We already have it though. '06 Volvo S60.
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by yock 16y ago
As a model for predicting the future through science fiction, will life in another decade more closely resemble cyberpunk or utopia? I'm beginning to lean further from Star Trek and closer to Blade Runner.
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by yock 16y ago
I was specifically using the full site because the Android FB app, on 2.1 anyway, is pretty limited as to what it can do. I'm still eagerly awaiting an update to 2.2 from Samsung for my Captivate that will supposedly happen before the end o
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by yock 16y ago
I was just struggling with this yesterday. I was trying to post a photo to a friend's Facebook wall while mobile from my Android device, only to learn that Facebook disables, even when viewing the full site, the ability to attach media to a
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by yock 16y ago
Ironic too is the fact that the book was banned at "Nathan Hale High School." Leave it to literary fools to name a high school for a man who, while depicted as a hero, was uncovered as a spy after confiding that very fact in the people on w
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by yock 16y ago
No, you aren't missing anything. This is a passive-aggressive tool to inflate one's own self-importance by implying that the "unsocialized" individual should care that they aren't being followed anymore.
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by yock 16y ago
Facebook would have to offer such a facility in order to allow users to opt-in, and there seems to be plenty of evidence that they do not want to do that.
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by yock 16y ago
If your process isn't sufficiently documented so that your professional peers could reproduce your results with your data, then your process is unreliable. We berate academics all the time for improper or incomplete documentation of manual
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by yock 16y ago
Or perhaps you could take to writing a few of these a day? A website such as the one demonstrated in the article isn't much of a task for anyone with a modicum of experience.
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by yock 16y ago
I'm an aviation enthusiast and I've been watching this situation pretty closely. Thanks for bringing this to the HN community.
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by yock 16y ago
No move can be made away from hard currency without preserving a means for private, anonymous transactions.
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by yock 16y ago
Why are there so many people so obsessed with this? It's a base unit of measurement, and the problem is one of perception more than anything else. A single penny is viewed as worthless, which is a problem of currency inflation, not of the p
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by yock 16y ago
Irssi => http://irssi.org/
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by yock 16y ago
Well, if you take Java for example, floating point measurements are only IEEE-754 when classes or methods are declared with the strictfp keyword, yet non- strictfp floating point calculations are still imprecise because of the very natur

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