John Haro's Blahgposts from a technologist and ne'er-do-wellPredator - the camera that learnsFrom TLD Vision. Amazing stuff going on with computer vision these days and the applications of this technology are practically endless. If you want to play around with some open source computer vision technology - check out OpenCV (here is an Oreilly book )
How I decided on my career
Published in 1984.
Bitcoins worth $228,000 stolenArs Technica was able to confirm the theft of 46,703 BTC, as individual units of Bitcoin are known, worth about $228,845 in US currency based on current exchange rates. More than 43,000 of the stolen BTC belonged to a Bitcoin trading platform known as Bitcoinica, the company's CEO and lead developer, Zhou Tong, told Ars. Another 3,094 BTC were lifted from the virtual purse of Marek Palatinus, a freelance programmer from the Czech Republic. He said in an interview that a separate Bitcoin user he's been in contact with lost 50 BTC to the same attackers. And Gavin Andresen, the lead Bitcoin programmer, told Ars he lost all 5 BTC he had stored in one online account. via arstechnica.com
Minecraft and Jira - hell yeahvia youtube.com
There is almost no good reason to do this except that its the coolest thing ever. Best death scene of all timeDerek Eder and Forest Gregg Hack ClearStreets in 12 hours
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Racing against the upcoming storm, these guys hacked a useful snowplow tracker. It's not perfect, but it's "done". Flying Robots Build A Tower Near Parisvia npr.org
the way my next home will be built! Louis CK on the results of selling DRM freeThe show went on sale at noon on Saturday, December 10th. 12 hours later, we had over 50,000 purchases and had earned $250,000, breaking even on the cost of production and website. As of Today, we've sold over 110,000 copies for a total of over $500,000. Minus some money for PayPal charges etc, I have a profit around $200,000 (after taxes $75.58). This is less than I would have been paid by a large company to simply perform the show and let them sell it to you, but they would have charged you about $20 for the video. They would have given you an encrypted and regionally restricted video of limited value, and they would have owned your private information for their own use. They would have withheld international availability indefinitely. This way, you only paid $5, you can use the video any way you want, and you can watch it in Dublin, whatever the city is in Belgium, or Dubai. I got paid nice, and I still own the video (as do you). You never have to join anything, and you never have to hear from us again. via buy.louisck.com
Following an experiment first validated by Radiohead with the release of In Rainbows in 2007, Louis CK shows that everyone (except the middleman) can win. The ÜbermenschSkeptic Teevia zazzle.com
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