GigabyteCoin

9 ms·

31.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
>But what if they're a hugely over-confident asshole? Then they have absolutely no business working on a team effort. They never should have been hired in the first place.
32.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
The title should be changed as this product is not currently available for purchase.
33.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
>Security fatigue is defined in the study as a weariness or reluctance to deal with computer security. Can that even be defined if it completely overlaps the umbrella of "people who use computers but are not IT professionals".
34.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
That was a disappointingly small sample size given the nature of the magazine, I agree. On the other hand, I doubt this technique has been tried with hundreds of bikes yet either. So everything about these statements could just be worthless
35.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
Popular Mechanics found different results when they did a similar study [0]. >"One disheartening result was that our package received more abuse when marked "Fragile" or "This Side Up." The carriers flipped the p
36.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
I reached down to grab a piece of wood to place into my campfire years ago and felt this unbelievably jarring pain go through my thumb (considering how gently I had placed my hand down to grab the piece of wood, the level of pain was immens
37.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
>Even if energy generation, storage and an auto powertrain are a seamless product, so-called vertical integration, in which one manufacturer makes all the components, was the old Henry Ford model and later, General Motors’. That approach
38.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
Can somebody explain why authoritarian governments are even allowed a vote or membership in the UN? What does it matter what a few elites at the top want for "their" country, when millions of their citizens usually want the exact
39.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
>Why does the "confirm password" field exist anyway? It exists to remove the risk of input error. They want to avoid you locking into a mistyped password and not being able to recover. It seems silly to force everybody to doubl
40.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
>"We're gonna look for different factors in the way that you're acting,” Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. John Vincent said. “We're gonna look for if there's a difference in your story. If there's someway that we
41.
Harvard Scientist Engineers Bacterium That Inhales CO2, Produces Energy(forbes.com)
4 points by GigabyteCoin 10y ago|0 comments
42.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
>The only downside is having to manually add new custom blacklist rules due to the adaptive nature of the spammers. I wouldn't really call that a downside until AI is here. Impressive work!
43.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
Click the "web" link below the title.
44.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
I wonder if antibiotic resistance will be the reason that people move out of the cities back to rural areas. You can't get sick if you're not near anyone else.
45.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
They do lose energy in the form of heat, though. Ever seen the massive heatsinks required for a high wattage LED to work?
46.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
>Researchers at MIT have shown that by surrounding the filament with a special crystal structure in the glass they can bounce back the energy which is usually lost in heat, while still allowing the light through. Why can't/don&
47.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
"tue" means "kill" in french... I wonder if a french programmer somewhere had something to do with this?
48.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
Great story. It's not often I find myself reading through to the end. >Hilbert arranged for the FBI to rent Popov an apartment near the beach and pay him a $1,000-a-month stipend to continue working on Ant City. Talk about cheap! Th
49.
Ask HN: How is pinterest allowed on Google?
6 points by GigabyteCoin 10y ago|1 comments
50.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
And this particular sysadmin-for-my-family will no longer allow windows to be installed on any of our computers whenever they are in need of a reinstall. Windows is becoming more and more like Facebook. Too many users changed a setting you
51.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
I suppose because there are security guards and cameras in these buildings and that nobody is able to knock on every door for months on end to determine which apartment is vacant and which one is not. Especially difficult for someone who fi
52.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
Define "succeeding at physical fitness". It's different for everybody. I walk about 2 hours per day and stretch whenever I can remember and I would consider my current state of physical fitness a success. You don't have
53.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
>empty Chinese investment properties It's like this all over North America. Not just the west coast. I lived in a chinese-built condominium in Toronto a few years ago, and the rumor was that 50% or more of the building's units
54.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
Truckers (professional drivers) do this all the time. If ever there is a traffic jam on the highway, you will see the big rigs consistently leaving hundreds of feet of space in front of them. They also seem to concentrate in the center lane
55.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
I'm curious why they cut prices by 40% right off the bat? Surely they must have had some idea what their competition would charge from historical bids, so why not come in at a 30% or even 20% discount?
56.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
Running a story with whatever the latest gossip on twitter happens to be is not news. Sure you'll get lucky occasionally, but let's be realistic here. If you don't care at all about journalistic integrity, then why not just f
57.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
>When The Times introduced a paywall, the number of people looking at their digital service dropped by 98.7% (from 22m to around 300,000), yet the switch was a huge financial success. But for how long? I'm fairly certain that once t
58.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
This just seems crazy to me... and I thought only HNers might care about this sort of thing. This is a massive company in Canada, with 180 stores and almost 30,000 employees... who just updated their website, and still cannot get simple &qu
59.
Home Depot Canada Website Listing Drills Priced “Lowest First”(homedepot.ca)
3 points by GigabyteCoin 10y ago|2 comments
60.
by GigabyteCoin 10y ago
He's the poster child for a potential class action lawsuit. He witnessed their product explode with his own eyes. And yes I would imagine that there could have been some cost associated with cleaning up the smoke smell left in the room

More ›