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The news is also 4 months old. Original press release (unfortunately sans 'Bermuda Triangle scary secrets discovered? what do we know?'): https://news.uci.edu/research/all-powered-…

I have just read through the mailing list thread referenced in the article, and with the important caveat that I am not an expert in this space, it seems that WoSign has failed to …

I understand your general frustration, but to respond to your specific point here, AR does actually support executing generic parameterized SQL statements: Model.find_by_sql(query,…

I just tried this. Card: NAB Visa (payWave). Handset: Nexus 5. Merchant: 7-11. The app read the card correctly and gave the card number and expiry. When I tried to use it in store …

You may be interested in http://www.intidyn.com/Newsroom/article-0009.html - the probable cause of fibro has been identified - which will be a huge boon to the sufferers - includin…

How do you resolve the cognitive dissonance between the content on the RapGenius site and the words by the RG founders? Is the content on the site itself just as offensive? If so, …

Back of the envelope calculation: (1920 * 1080 * 3 * 60) / 1024.0 / 1024.0 => 355.96 MB/s 300mbps wireless n: 300 / 8.0 => 37.5 MB/s Given that the whole point of HDMI is image qua…

I sympathise, but isn't that really the point: if you can't re-stream it how you want, is the existing streaming service really easy to use?

Indeed. Here's the full list of P&G brands: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Procter_&_Gamble_brands

As a non-US non-sports fan, can someone explain the context for this? I have no real clue what this fight is about. As far as I can tell, this fight seems to be between two ways to…

In Australia, we've even moved beyond EMV; the majority of merchants now accept Visa PayWave and MasterCard PayPass for tap-and-go. [edit: Oh, and all my debit/credit cards are now…

Obligatory: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html

Whats the liability difference between the systems at work and the systems for the general public? Strong crypto is, and should be, available to everyone.

Nvidia, AMD, or Intel? Proprietary or open source drivers? I often have problems during upgrades using the proprietary drivers. The solution is usually: 1. Uninstall proprietary dr…

Sure; I could have been clearer here. Specifically, you can do an EFT transfer from a bank account to any other bank account in Australia via online banking, and it's free (at leas…

Just a note, for most countries, the best non-cash way to send money is an international wire transfer (sometimes called a telegraphic transfer). This is _not_ western union. which…

Credit card transactions do sometimes have fees attached; specifically I was referring to EFT, which for person-to-person has no fees at all, and doesn't attract fees to the payer …

I will only point out that you're paying for this kind of convenience in getting your money back - and the cheap flights - somewhere.

Are you serious? Why would _anyone_ design a system like this? In Australia, the equivalent is EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer). You can deposit money to anyone's account by telling…

Well that's nice; I'm glad to see that our common interests as HN users extends only to the US border. Widespread unchecked surveillance is evil in and of itself, it doesn't matter…

These look nice, but what makes them any better than a Raspberry PI? I'm probably missing something, but it looks like it has the same inputs/outputs as a PI, but with only 720p ou…

As someone who currently uses a different player (mplayer2) which shares an upstream (ffmpeg) with VLC, how much of the codec/format improvements are due to/push to the upstream pr…

I use linode as well and, given that I follow the industry at least as much as the average HN user, I'm very surprised I haven't heard of these 'disgraceful' practices. Could you p…

Bluray support was problematic in the past, but in 2013, on Ubuntu: 1. Install http://www.makemkv.com/ . 2. Insert Blu-Ray disc. 3. Click copy. Now it's ripped, you can play it thr…

> Soylent has not reached this level of evaluation. Do you actually know that? Presumably if there is US regulation/law around selling and marketing food products, then Soylent wil…