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harrischris.com 7y ago

Removing cars using a neural net

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medium.com 8y ago

Dear Crypto, You’re Being Played by Wall Street

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www.fourmilab.ch 9y ago

Fractal Food: Self-Similarity on the Supermarket Shelf (2005)

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www.linuxatemyram.com 9y ago

Linux ate my RAM

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www.bleepingcomputer.com 9y ago

Five Inmates Built Two PCs and Hacked a Prison from Within

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www.npr.org 9y ago

Buzz Aldrin Is Medically Evacuated from Antarctica

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www.sfexaminer.com 9y ago

SF Muni fare system shut down by randomware

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www.engadget.com 9y ago

Samsung blocks video of 'GTA V' Galaxy Note 7 bomb mod

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underhandedcrypto.com 9y ago

The 2016 Backdoored Cryptocurrency Contest Winner

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azure.microsoft.com 10y ago

Azure Functions (Microsoft's Version of AWS Lambda)

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semiaccurate.com 10y ago

When Vapor Chambers Fail

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insights.ubuntu.com 10y ago

Ubuntu is everywhere

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nypost.com 10y ago

Millennials are being dot.conned by cult-like tech companies

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torrentfreak.com 10y ago

Play: A P2P Distributed Torrent Site That’s Impossible to Shut Down

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hackaday.com 10y ago

Improving wifi throughput with fm radio

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www.telegraph.co.uk 11y ago

McDouble is 'cheapest and most nutritious food in human history'

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bernalwood.wordpress.com 12y ago

The “Dark Heart” of San Francisco's Housing Crisis

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www.overclock.net 12y ago

How To De-lid Your Ivy Bridge CPU Without a Razor Blade

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www.bizjournals.com 12y ago

Critics cry foul over Salesforce's $1 million hackathon prize

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spectrum.ieee.org 12y ago

The Hidden Dangers of Chopshop Electronics

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Starlink receivers will use solid-state phased array beamforming antennae, so nothing has to physically "swing" to a new satellite. With a reasonably accurate accelerometer and inertial sensor, it's easy to compensate for aircraft movement.

However, the Smartcar CEO replied in another thread that they use Readme.io for their docs, which can autogenerate using Swagger, which automatically parses hints in code.

So it is definitely possible that the codebase got stolen and the perps missed changing a few hints, resulting in the Otonomo samples generating identical sample code, as shown.

What if you intentionally de-orbit a critical piece of infrastructure?

It could indirectly cause bodily harm, e.g. cause autonomous cars suddenly lose GPS lock and crash into things.

A Final Farewell 9 years ago

I use both of the BofA and Citi virtual credit card services, as I used to do a lot of QA testing on payments processing systems. They both seem to be using the same backend service.

I even made a crappy WinForm app that would generate a ton of credit card numbers at once: https://github.com/ch4/ss_gen

This kit is targeted for younger kids. A soldering iron presents a real risk for injury, and most parents will probably not want to buy something like that for their kids.

If parents wanted to extend this kit to include soldering, they could just as easily buy an additional Pi HAT kit from Adafruit...

I don't understand this desire to make the Internet a "Safe Space" which doesn't offend anyone. The Internet is inherently "unsafe". If you can't stomach the thought of someone wishing a happy birthday to a dead dude, why not just let them know that the person is deceased?

As for confidential data, it should be encrypted at rest, so that the decryption key disappears along with the deceased. No estate or court order can decrypt that data.

Solar Roof 9 years ago

Sharing power via net metering is better (for the environment) because there's no conversion loss from charging a battery.

Solar Roof 9 years ago

In your calculation, $10/kWh is a bit high... the national average is $0.12/kWh

BTC does actually have a baseline value: the cost of the electricity spent to mine it.

Of course, whether that value is $1 or $1000 depends on the number of people who believe in the currency enough to pay for the power to mine it.

Except that you still don't know which generation of processor the MBP has- I still see tons of deceptive Craigslist ads for MBPs that have a "2.0Ghz" processor, with no indication that it's a model from 2011, which is not at all comparable with a "2.0Ghz" processor from 2015.

I assume that this is to prevent people from making an infinite number of trial accounts and never paying. If you're on Windows, Netflix will use Silverlight to fingerprint your system too. On Android, they will grab the device ID. Not sure what they do on iOS, since I don't use iOS.

Ghostbusters.

They identified a niche, bootstrapped their company, solved a real pain point for their customers, and spread through word of mouth from their satisfied customers to become the dominant player in their space.