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Wow, this really brings me back. Found so many great songs/albums. A fun story. A friend and I created a chrome extension called Turntaste [1] that would help suggest what to play …

I have been doing the same thing. I've also augmented each section with video lectures from Khan academy or other sources. For instance, their videos on the Jacobian were excellent…

It works by RSSI [1], and I believe you can calibrate it with your antenna/case design. Not to mention any attenuation by the phone's antenna or your hand/body. Quote: "Phones or o…

Speaking as someone who just left a startup to join Google, I was excited in getting really stock options that after vesting could be exercised and sold. It's a long road to go fro…

That's awesome that you made it open source! Maybe I'll to try implement one of my ideas for Tinder. That is A/B testing of profiles in different locations. Let's say I live in SF …

IIRC the MINST data has a mix of style of 4's. I tried it with an open top, and it worked correctly. I wondering if they just happened to sample a majority of 4s that have an open …

If you're interested in more camera hacking, here is a very interesting talk from last years black hat about hacking security cameras. Title: Black Hat USA 2013 - Exploiting Networ…

Here's a link to the full video: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xxxiij_moon-machines-2008-p... Around 37 minutes they talk about the alarms on approach and how the dealt with the…

After I saw this guide a while ago, I got really interested in lock picking and ended up buy a kit. There a decent subreddit and it's a good resource to get started. I purchased th…

I don't think that Apple will completely get away from x86 for a long time. Attempting to emulate the x86 on an Arm would be terribly slow. I do however, think that they will event…

Why did't they do this on Friday evening? That would have given enough time for people to fully understand what this means. Instead, there is going to be a big sell off tomorrow mo…

A friend and I launched a chrome plugin/bookmarklet for recommending songs for turntable.fm at http://www.turntaste.com . It also gives you a list of rooms that are similar to your…

This reminds me of Radio Shack's Engineering's Mini-Notebook series. I still have a copy of the 555 timer one that was given to me by my high school electronics teacher.

IMAX 3D uses linear polarized light, whereas RealD uses circularly polarized light.

The interesting part of the email was where they said they would enroll you automatically into the DataPro plan. Can they really change your contract without your permission? Would…

After reading this, I am struck with the idea that maybe Apple's reluctance to support flash, is not just motivated by the performance issues. That it could also be that the DRM su…

Why not just use scroogle ( http://scroogle.org/ )? Even if it randomly searches for stuff, the searches are still linked to you, and I would be concerned over what terms it was se…

Just from the screenshots it looks like it might be a good tool for teaching students learning about pointers.

I always enjoy a puzzle. This reminds me of when I had free time and spent days on notpron.

The only problem is that you are assuming continual growth. While they are the cool place to be now, as soon as the become the uncool place to be, then they will be screwed. If I w…

I would recommend video lectures from the Khan Academy ( http://www.khanacademy.org/ ). They are organized in nice little chucks of topics and have a large range of topics in math.…

A) From what most of what my friends have said, pledging isn't that bad, but it depends on the frat B) Attend something outside of your normal circle of friends. Join a student org…

I would disagree. They signed the contract with rackspace that said they would abide by their polices and if they violated them, they would shut down the site. Nothing is stopping …

I would say that it is absolutely not, at least in my experience. In my lab, which is a bioinformatics lab, perl is still being used heavily. Perl is a great tool for dealing with …