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In memory of Aaron Swartz: a collection of PDFs from PDFtribute(edward.io)
74 points by inconditus 14y ago|18 comments
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The Invention of the First Wearable Computer: Hacking the Roulette Wheel(1966)(ft.parsons.edu)
4 points by inconditus 14y ago|0 comments
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Sourceforge down(sf.net)
7 points by inconditus 14y ago|6 comments
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by inconditus 14y ago
Works fine in San Diego, California, but images aren't showing up.
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by inconditus 14y ago
I've read this advertisement in the last 2-3 "Who's hiring" posts. I finally understand what they do after you highlighted that sentence.
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by inconditus 14y ago
Walter Lewin's been doing it since 198x, probably earlier.
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by inconditus 14y ago
Your anecdote about the bowling ball is (AFAIK) incorrect, you're thinking about Walter Lewin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaALPa7Dwdw . (starts at 1:08)
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by inconditus 14y ago
FWIW, this is running on Moodle, a very popular e-learning platform.
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by inconditus 14y ago
Just like how the lack of pirates caused global warming, right? ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3aPiratesVsTemp_English.jp...
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A Bar With Price Changing on Demand(freakonomics.com)
2 points by inconditus 14y ago|0 comments
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by inconditus 14y ago
What's pretty cool is that if you generate 1000+ the colors begin to become muted and look "foresty". Why's this?
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by inconditus 14y ago
I'm being picky here, but the word "proven" doesn't really make sense in the context. A more accurate way of expressing the title would be "Evidence supports a different theory" or "Less support for this theory", as theories can never be pr
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by inconditus 14y ago
CM9 stands for Cyanogenmod 9.
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by inconditus 15y ago
It'd be great if one could toggle the quality of the videos, the default is 480 but I noticed you guys offer 720.
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by inconditus 15y ago
Off topic, but did you wait 8 years upgrading from ME to Vista?
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by inconditus 15y ago
Is this a serious argument? One could say the same thing about: 1) The advent of modern gardening and genetically modified crops. With increased efficiency, where will the extra farmers go? 2) The advent of computers. What will happen to bo
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by inconditus 15y ago
Perhaps they just started now, Physics h7B requires it. http://ninjacourses.com/explore/course/2433/#books
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by inconditus 15y ago
UC Berkeley uses the books for their course. I'm not sure which specific class though.
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by inconditus 15y ago
As mentioned below, BrainWorkshop( http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/ ) is an open source version of the software, and they offer usage statistics if anyone's interested: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoDHizcNs2tWdDd...
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by inconditus 15y ago
Amazon made Junglee, at least according to the "service provided by Amazon" on the bottom.
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by inconditus 15y ago
Certainly all true points. However, for the people without the luxury of 16GB (I'm running on an old machine, with 3gb of RAM), Chrome consistently freezes the computer due to the resource hogging. I've learned my lesson and switched to Fir
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by inconditus 15y ago
Anyone have a source? I'm curious how crafted GET statements can lead to a DDOS.
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by inconditus 15y ago
Thanks for correcting me. Also, we have similar usernames. ;)
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by inconditus 15y ago
Amazon Studios has been out for at least 4 months previous to the writing.
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by inconditus 15y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this isn't a brute force attack, its a dictionary attack. A brute force attack would go through every iterattion, like 00001, 00002...
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Native Ubuntu Port for the HP Touchpad(forum.xda-developers.com)
2 points by inconditus 15y ago|0 comments
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by inconditus 15y ago
The DNS servers are located at EasyDNS: Retrieving DNS records for news.ycombinator.com... DNS servers ns1.easydns.com [209.200.187.4] ns2.easydns.com [72.52.2.1] remote1.easydns.com [64.68.192.10] remote2.easydns.com [72.52.2
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by inconditus 15y ago
Not relevant to Hacker News. Please don't turn it into a Reddit. Guidelines ( http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ) state: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting
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by inconditus 15y ago
> HN is solely responsible for this Several communities worked together, such as the tech blogosphere, Reddit, and other social media. Although HN may be the birthplace of the idea to boycott Godaddy, its hardly just HN being responsibl
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Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center founder Jacob Goldman passes away at age 90 (engadget.com)
2 points by inconditus 15y ago|0 comments

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