My weekend hack postmortem: Iterating

Source: Hacker News

Note - I haven’t written for a very long time. If something is wrong, please let me know! The idea of Oak is something I’ve been thinking about for a long time. Realtime, anonymous communication is something that fascinates ...
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MIT's computer algorithms can tell why you're smiling better than a human can

Source: The Verge

While some recent studies have found that investment in facial recognition technologies hasn't yet yielded great success, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology continue to move the ball f ...
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The best encrypted flash drives

Source: ITWorld.com

May 26, 2012, 7:30 AM — If you're physically transporting data you don't want other people to see, you should be doing it on secure media. And what better than something that hides easily within a pocket? Secure flash drives that are o ...
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What It Means That Computers Can Tell These Smiles Apart, But You Can't

Source: The Atlantic

Computer algorithms can now discern the meaning behind humans' facial expressions. The four people above are taking part in a clinical experiment. In the screenshots shown here, each guy is smiling once out of delight (reacting to a picture ...
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Immigrant Tracking Moves Deeper Into Realm of SciFi

Source: New America Media

Immigrant rights groups in Los Angeles are reporting that LAPD officers used handheld devices to scan the fingerprints of day laborers on the street corners. The incident, they say, raises serious concerns over privac ...
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On the Hunt for Flash-Crashing Cheetahs

Source: Barron's Online

Bart Chilton can hardly claim to be a voice crying in the wilderness, yet he has every reason to feel like one. Since the Flash Crash of May 6, 2010, the blunt, flamboyant member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commiss ...
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O.C. housing mood: Green shoots!

Source: The Orange County Register

New findings from D. Bilo and co-researchers in the area of computer science described.(Report) Computer Weekly News September 18, 2008 “One of the most critical factors for lifetime and operability of ad-hoc ...
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Discret Math

Source: Term Paper Warehouse

Assigment Capter 3 and 4 Graph And Tree Graph Bipartite Graph Graph coloring Adjancency matrices incidence matrices A short-path algorithm (Using dijksta ‘s algorithm to find a shortest path from) Trees trees as model Spanning Tree ...
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Microsoft To Build Windows Phone Camera Systems Specifically For Skype

Source: I'm Just Being Manan

I stumbled upon a senior hardware engineer job posting by Microsoft specifically for Windows Phone camera and Skype. The current Skype experience on Windows Phone is horrible, which is a little ironic since Microsoft ...
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