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by pittsburgh 12y ago
A possible explanation from a 2003 paper is Electron Holes ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_hole ) "Rocks That Crackle and Sparkle and Glow: Strange Pre-Earthquake Phenomena" http://www.scie
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Leukippos: A Synthetic Biology Lab in the Cloud(chimera.labs.oreilly.com)
7 points by pittsburgh 12y ago|0 comments
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Open Source Biotech Consumables(chimera.labs.oreilly.com)
48 points by pittsburgh 12y ago|17 comments
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by pittsburgh 13y ago
I work for Nook as a Rails developer in Palo Alto. I'm not authorized to speak on behalf of the company, blah blah blah, but I just wanted to post a quick comment saying that this news should NOT be interpreted as Nook going out of bus
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by pittsburgh 14y ago
Whether or not this was built as a joke, there could be real benefit from a service like this. Imagine you need a UUID in JavaScript. Here's a function that does it: function UUID() { return "4444-8888-FFFFFFFFFFFF"; } What's
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by pittsburgh 14y ago
If you're curious like I was, you can find the details of the vulnerability described by Gareth Heyes at http://www.thespanner.co.uk/2012/10/10/firefox-knows-what-yo... His proof-of-concept of the vulnerability can be found at http://www
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by pittsburgh 14y ago
As a developer, I agree that captchas can be a drag on users, and I think we should put serious thought into whether or not their UX-cost is justified. Personally, I try to avoid using them on sites I build. That said, as a user, it's hard
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by pittsburgh 15y ago
The reuters article provides no details about the security breach, so I did some digging. The most I could find was VeriSign's original SEC filing at http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1014473/0001193125112... From the filing: We ex
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by pittsburgh 15y ago
This reminds me of the story from about ten years ago about a racist police dog in Pittsburgh that would attack bystanders: http://www.oocities.org/ericsquire/articles/dogs/wtae030425.... and http://web.archive.org/web/20080503212841/htt
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by pittsburgh 15y ago
And the only way to stop future SOPAs is to make the system less corrupt, which means taking money out of politics. This is why Lawrence Lessig left the fight against intellectual property craziness to focus on the underlying problem of cor
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Collaborative Consumption & Societal Operating Systems(postscarcity.tumblr.com)
1 points by pittsburgh 15y ago|0 comments
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by pittsburgh 15y ago
Between this post and comments from startup school along the same lines, there seems to be a lot of people complaining about founders looking to make a quick buck without having to work hard for it. I live in SF. I'm running a startup, and
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by pittsburgh 15y ago
When I think of ridesharing this much more pleasant one comes to mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Harry_Met_Sally
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by pittsburgh 15y ago
I believe you're thinking of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfbhdZKPHro Also related: http://inhabitat.com/3-d-printer-creates-entire-buildings-fr...
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by pittsburgh 15y ago
I am not the author of the article, just the submitter. However, I'll run with your comment anyway... Tensile Modulus (aka Young's Modulus) is a measure of how stiff a material is. Specifically, it's a measure of how much a material stret
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by pittsburgh 15y ago
3D printing isn't feasible for the the mass manufacturing of everything yet, but it's feasible for certain types of products today, and it is improving. Here are some ways in which 3D printing has moved closer in the last few years: * Stron
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How 3D Printing Will Save American Manufacturing(3dprinter.net)
20 points by pittsburgh 15y ago|32 comments
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by pittsburgh 15y ago
tl;dr The IRS built an app for the iPhone. They built it using tools and libraries that hadn't internally been approved by the IRS. The team in charge of the app could have requested a waiver to use non-approved software, but decided not t
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by pittsburgh 15y ago
Who said it was better than Bluetooth? There are a lot of existing hardware devices that have RS232 connections but don't support Bluetooth. For those devices this is "better" than Bluetooth in the sense that Bluetooth isn't an option at a
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by pittsburgh 15y ago
Along the lines of String best practices, my favorite is to reverse the usual order of variable and literal to avoid null pointer exceptions: if("botulinum".equals(bacteria)) instead of: if(bacteria.equals("botulinum"))
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by pittsburgh 15y ago
I've also tried to find a search engine that supports regex and have come up empty. I hope somebody on this thread pleasantly surprises me, but I now doubt one exists. Since parsing regular expressions is so slow compared with performing an
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by pittsburgh 15y ago
In the past few weeks, we’ve discussed a new approach that we think will strike a better balance by giving our customers greater control over password management and at the same time ensuring the basic security of those passwords. I’m pers
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by pittsburgh 15y ago
It's going to work for about a year, then when there is a security failure the company will turn around run git/svn blame and sue the individual employee. You bring up an interesting topic which is an extension of the first one. If the fo
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by pittsburgh 15y ago
I hold an unpopular opinion that lawyers and lawsuits are a great way to motivate companies to "do the right thing", where in this case the "right thing" we're talking about is protecting customer data. Another great motivator for doing the
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by pittsburgh 15y ago
There are so many comments in this thread which seem to be in response to an article different than what I read, that I'm wondering if the link changed. Why isn't anybody commenting about the surprise ending to this article? Spolier: People
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by pittsburgh 15y ago
There's probably a cost to having wrinkly fingers which is why they don't wrinkle immediately. But if enough of our ancient ancestors fell into bodies of water surrounded by steep, slippery rocks, then the 15-minute delay for gecko fingers
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by pittsburgh 15y ago
Not everyone is gripped by the new theory. "This hypothesis is unjustified", says Xi Chen, a biomechanical engineer at Columbia University in New York. Chen thinks that the wrinkles have a simpler cause: when fingers are immersed in hot wa
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by pittsburgh 15y ago
I can appreciate the benefits of lowering your expectations of others, but I have trouble reconciling how to lower expectations of oneself without sacrificing your goals. My friends and family often tell me that I'd be more content if I low
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by pittsburgh 15y ago
I have three Google Apps accounts. The new themes are available in two of my three Google Apps accounts. I'm an admin on all three accounts, so I'm not sure why the new themes aren't available for some Google Apps users.
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by pittsburgh 15y ago
I don't understand the hatred toward 99 designs. Should people expect the most awesome work from it? No. Is it a good solution for startups with a small budget who can't afford anything else? Maybe, but that's for them to decide. No desi

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