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Keyless car entry hacked by relaying signal from key fob(technologyreview.com)
6 points by papersmith 16y ago|0 comments
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by papersmith 16y ago
>If you've ever seen the film Away We Go, well, one of the families in that film were the spitting image. Just curious, which family in the film are you referring to? I only have a vague recall of them.
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by papersmith 16y ago
"Can someone talk Steve Jobs into building a consumer robot?" Chances are he will talk you into buying an espresso machine instead. :)
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by papersmith 16y ago
It's actually 詹姆斯·邦德. 007 is just easier to say.
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by papersmith 16y ago
I think for that you'll have to use the ltree index, rather than regular string index, else it'll sort like this: 1/2/3 11/2/3 2/2/3 I wonder if there're ltrees for other DBs.
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by papersmith 16y ago
Personally I just sort everything in memory like reddit, since I need to traverse all branches to calculate weighed scores, which is a balance of vote counts and age. I think reddit/HN do something similar? I wonder how Disqus handles thi
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by papersmith 16y ago
Most, if not all pay-as-you-go plans have an expiration date.
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by papersmith 16y ago
"One could argue that was more craftsmanship than innovation, but there's a strong connection between making things well and making better things, and China isn't famous for quality goods either." That's because they weren't taught in our t
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by papersmith 16y ago
Though from certain POV these devices exist despite government policies, as the phenomenon has certain anti-authority connotations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanzhai
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by papersmith 16y ago
I'm trying to wrap my head around how the whole thing works. On one hand, mundane stuffs are monitored, on the other hand, you have stuffs like these freely discussed: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&h... http
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by papersmith 16y ago
Another thing is that scrolling is kinda sluggish in Chrome on my 2007 Mac Mini. Google docs PDF reader seems to scroll much more smoothly. It's still a big improvement over the flash version.
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by papersmith 16y ago
Apple actually has a giant physical store in Beijing. http://www.apple.com.cn/retail/sanlitun/ I know it because of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8vqSJAOC7I They're also building a big one in Shanghai. http://gizmodo.com/
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by papersmith 16y ago
"A couple years ago you’d have stories about kids in Manchester textile factories putting up with pure hell. It’s simply the nature of the beast." "A couple of years ago" in this case would be a figure of speech. ;)
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by papersmith 16y ago
Or by a 25 year-old on myspace today.
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by papersmith 16y ago
I wouldn't say they have no marketing. The Signal vs Noise blog, Ruby on Rails, and their books are very effective marketing tools. That being said, the quality of their products does seem to play a large role as well.
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by papersmith 16y ago
Well, evolution doesn't always mean improvement. I think the personal computer will split into two branches, with power users keeping today's form factors, while average users who just want to surf the web or check their email will go for t
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by papersmith 16y ago
A bit off topic, but [Warring States]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warring_states ) happens to be the golden age of Chinese philosophy, akin to Europe's Age of Enlightenment. The intellectual output grew out of necessities of competition.
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by papersmith 16y ago
I was reading a popular Chinese forum (tianya.cn) thread on contaminated food, and I was surprised at how anti-government the tone was. (think reddit, but more extreme) There were jokes taking direct jabs at the party and state, and I was
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by papersmith 16y ago
I wonder if you can achieve similar effect by projecting a video shot with fisheye lens onto a concave screen.
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by papersmith 16y ago
Not saying his points are without merit or anything, but Gordon Chang is a well-known neocon writer. He regularly contributes to the Glenn Beck show. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_G._Chang Many of his earlier apocalypse predictions
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by papersmith 16y ago
That makes sense. Though I wonder if the problem of freelance match-making is similar to the problem of online dating.
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by papersmith 16y ago
I am actually thinking of making a web app for this, perhaps along with non-freelance profile/job postings, if anyone's interested. :)
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by papersmith 16y ago
[TeX]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX ) was released in 1978, though I'm not sure as to the time line of the other developments.
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by papersmith 16y ago
"These are two different systems, and if they want to fight each other, let them, but why should we be involved?" Sorry to digress. This is a genuine question out of curiousity and I am not trying taking any sides. I am not an expert on th
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by papersmith 16y ago
My impression is that the "nationalists" (as in blind patriotism, the word has a different meaning in Chinese) are a vocal minority among the priviledged urban youths who grew up during the economic boom. The older generations who lived th
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by papersmith 16y ago
My favorite Chinese word of the day. :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZRYd78vMT0
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One Party, Two Coalitions in China’s Politics(brookings.edu)
1 points by papersmith 16y ago|0 comments
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by papersmith 16y ago
"My understanding is that China's upper leadership is largely intelligent and engineering-oriented." It's a bit complicated. Over the recent years, there is an increasing divide between two rival factions. One consists of the populists wh
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by papersmith 17y ago
Awesome, thanks!
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by papersmith 17y ago
FTA: Nonetheless, China says that other countries approached it for help and that is how the idea got started. “It was not China that pushed the idea to start with,” said Wang. “It was the other countries that came to us, especially India.

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