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Bees’ artistic flair gives greater insight into visual memory(qbi.uq.edu.au)
1 points by blackRust 14y ago|1 comments
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by blackRust 14y ago
(100 - ε)% I like this very much. Another more accurate description that comes to mind is describing where you live: CountryA XOR CountryB
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Quantum chip breakthrough to be unveiled [FT Paywall](ft.com)
1 points by blackRust 14y ago|2 comments
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by blackRust 14y ago
I like your method of: - Separate, secret accounts for signups - Random strings (i.e. passwords) as answers for security questions I've always used a pseudo-password (i.e. it's a standard response of mine that isin't related to the question
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by blackRust 14y ago
Not for me, connecting using a 3rd party client isin't working.
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by blackRust 14y ago
I prefer bolder features in these applications, they are the ones in the corner and when your eyes look out for them the distinctive features help enormously. As a counter example take Google's redesign: I can't tell by a glance whether I a
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by blackRust 14y ago
As someone with a low-bandwidth connection and that I often work in cafés I hate it when the only description available is through video when there could easily have been text and screenshots.
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by blackRust 14y ago
Exactly what I was going to say. RTM has been around for a while and integrates with a lot more devices, they are committed to maintaining their Apps and provide much more functionality for power users with saved searches etc. Link: https:
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by blackRust 14y ago
I still think Whitespace is one of the most practical languages around, comments are free: http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/
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by blackRust 15y ago
Congratulations to Rahul, Martin, Sam and all the others. As expressed by others I hope Rapportive continues independently in terms of account creation. I really liked when Conrad from the support them explained an issue I had regarding mer
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by blackRust 15y ago
Normally Ctrl-Z will pause a process and it will be kept as a background job. Type 'jobs' in your prompt to see running jobs. If there is only one a '%' will bring to foreground the last job, otherwise you can do 'fg x' where 'x' is the job
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by blackRust 15y ago
-- "Just give them a few more years and they'll fuck it all up, too" I feel you've profoundly missed the point and failed to provide reasons beyond "that way just the way it was".
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by blackRust 15y ago
IMHO this is the interesting part: "Correction: In an earlier version of this post we said that Space Syntax's model represented road intersections as nodes of a graph and streets as connections between the nodes. The clever trick was, in f
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by blackRust 15y ago
Are you using Google Chrome? See this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2662694
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by blackRust 15y ago
Well written and presented. Important not to miss out his closing comment: "For teams that have to do formal releases on a longer term interval (a few weeks to a few months between releases), and be able to do hot-fixes and maintenance bran
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by blackRust 15y ago
Everyone is so quick to criticise. It's a rip-off from the University press release which can be found here: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2011/Title,72748,en...
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by blackRust 15y ago
TL;DR Get a password manager The first part is interesting, if you had been less verbose an ALL the different accounts you had it would have been a more interesting read. There are still undeniable issues of using a password manager if you
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by blackRust 15y ago
The first thing I do is click on the 'Lua' link. http://ww.lua.org Really? Please fix.
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by blackRust 15y ago
The first thing I see on that page is: set imap_pass = 'yourpassword' I get scared and run away...
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by blackRust 15y ago
Interesting to see this being done on a more "normal" amount of tabs. That depends from user to user but IMO a ~50 tab for a power user.
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by blackRust 15y ago
I want to see results of such a survey. Don't use HN as your user source without giving back.
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by blackRust 15y ago
Also means @givememydata doesn't work. Was just planning on extracting list of email addresses... https://twitter.com/#!/givememydata/status/88181497894404096
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by blackRust 15y ago
And under OS X you can change your keychain password (independently of login), though yes, you have to do it manually and it isin't "secure" by default.
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by blackRust 15y ago
Great, compile a whole list and use it it dictionary attacks!
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by blackRust 15y ago
IMHO Good point for the water pumps. Bad for the computers, sure it helps but maybe not really an immediate need? What are the positive effects of putting them there apart from the old "education" argument and what percentage of the village
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by blackRust 15y ago
Apart from the display latency this looks great. What would be sweet but would never happen because most consumers don't need it would be a screen that can switch between normal LCD and a B/W eInk. That or the day of colour eInk arrives.
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by blackRust 15y ago
While they're at it why even have a search button, remove it altogether! No sarcasm, we don't really need it. Have some backup for those people where instant doesn't work and they look for a button instead of hitting enter. Maybe mouse move
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by blackRust 15y ago
"1. A/B testing requires sacrificing some conversions as part of the experiment." Yes, because it is a net gain if you do it right. If you want 5 signups today instead of 50 in two weeks you're doing it wrong. "2. A/B testing measures only
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by blackRust 15y ago
Hence the quotes. Like someone else mentioned its the 'right' level of abstractions for most. Heck even the assembly isin't zero abstractions.
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by blackRust 15y ago
What is exactly new about this compared to (scientific paper link at bottom): http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2010/Title,59358,en... I'm not a physicist but if someone knows enough that would be interesting.

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