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by akersten 7y ago
A particular malware contacted its command and control servers via procedurally generated domain names (to make it difficult to shut down just a single domain that controlled it). Malware researchers reversed a sample of the malware and sta
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by akersten 7y ago
Unicode is an inspirational standard. We started with so many different character encodings and wound up pretty universally using Unicode. I wouldn't be surprised to see browsers start to drop support for other encodings - who even use
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Ask HN: How do you avoid being negative online?
6 points by akersten 7y ago|3 comments
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by akersten 7y ago
It will be interesting to see what wins out. I'm personally not optimistic that battery technology will get much better from a charging perspective than it already is. But that would be fine in my book too, if we reduced that to ~5 min
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by akersten 7y ago
There would be measures in place to prevent this, of course. They'd have to be more robust than Redbox scanning for fake DVD returns, but you could sign the battery firmware, do challenge/response, etc. before allowing the swap to
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by akersten 7y ago
Yes, exactly. The batteries from customer cars will be recharged and re-used. You'd also have a reserve of extras for peak demand. You could even automate health check-ups on the batteries this way too, and decommission the rotten ones
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by akersten 7y ago
I think recharging is a transitory solution anyway. The real game changer will be automated battery swaps. Imagine stopping at the charging station and having the entire battery pulled out and replaced with a charged one, pit-stop style. It
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by akersten 7y ago
Feels like the "if you see it on the news, it's probably off topic here" rule applies.
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by akersten 7y ago
Let me be clear: there are conditions that are routine, and whose treatment is deferred to roles that are not as specialized as a doctor. That does not mean that the provider/patient interaction is any less personable just because the
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by akersten 7y ago
They knew enough to know upon assessment that the standard flow chart process was appropriate, and additional follow-up or referral to the specialist was unnecessary. That is the kind of skill and training core to the profession. IT doesn&#
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by akersten 7y ago
I would posit that GP doesn't know what they're talking about at all, and therefore chose to broadly slander "doctors" as if it's one single field.
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by akersten 7y ago
This is crock. The reason you see the same treatments and basic medicines and panels each time you go to the GP is because your problems are pedestrian compared to what doctors actually train for. Most likely, you're not even being see
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by akersten 7y ago
> Over a million dead every single year, 40k in the USA, and 3 every day in Australia. No one is contesting this, and it's good context for visualizing the supposed 100 deaths/year reduction that this $88mm investment would ach
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by akersten 7y ago
This is some Orwellian shit. An 88 million dollar investment combined with government-sanctioned Tom-peeping, to save an estimated 100 lives? That money would go a lot farther invested in modernizing vehicle safety, requiring lane assist fe
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by akersten 7y ago
I don't plan on watching a 4 hour video to understand the Greens party's position on internet regulation. Is there a condensed version with their positions and proposals available?
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by akersten 7y ago
I get what you're saying, and broadly agree that data brokering is dirty and gross. But the government selling your data to the highest bidder is worse than a private firm doing it - because they have the significant advantage of being
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by akersten 7y ago
Cool visualization! Any plans to do more examples of SVG? There's lots of functionality in the format and it would be neat to see it documented in an interactive style like this.
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by akersten 7y ago
It's interesting the contrast between the Sonos soundbar piece and the networking setup - both are described as simple, but I think one is much more complicated to set up than the other. So I suppose it's about the end result bein
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by akersten 7y ago
If you are an innovator in a space - first to market - by definition you'll have the majority percentage of the market. Online dating is a very young industry compared to hotels. Why not give other firms the chance to compete organical
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by akersten 7y ago
Facebook dating was announced recently. It doesn't really change my argument even if there weren't any major competitors; it's a prime space for entrepreneurs if it is as broken as people claim - there is a pretty low barrier
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by akersten 7y ago
Match is not responsible for your lack of success in online dating. Having a lot of brands is not a good reason to involve the government. Hilton hotels has over a dozen brands. There's nothing stopping you from creating a competing da
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by akersten 7y ago
The downside of this is that the comment becomes just another piece of the data model, because anything that consumes that JSON will need to decide: do I preserve comments, or remove them, when re-emitting the JSON? If I remove them, commen
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by akersten 7y ago
It's a nice demo. But there seems to be a surprising lack of validation? Seems like anyone can delete any other user, or post as anyone else, etc. Then again, I can't read Haskell, so I don't know if there's something pr
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by akersten 7y ago
Just disclaim it with "this device/supplement/lifestyle has not been shown and is not intended to treat any medical ailment" like all the homeopathic crap out there does and you should be good to go.
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by akersten 7y ago
You're seeing folks with a certain persuasion downvoted because frankly, there is a right answer here, and it's astounding that people would undermine their own profession. If Oracle wins, software engineering will be seriously ha
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by akersten 7y ago
Do you have some numbers to share to support the hypothesis that pension plans will bankrupt these states without new taxes?
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by akersten 7y ago
They very well might. But there are specific laws about speech used primarily for advertising, compared to say, entertainment. For what it's worth, I think the case itself is weak.
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by akersten 7y ago
> There is no such thing. No, you admit there is such a thing, you just call it something differently. We're clearly talking about the same thing, whatever we choose to call it, it exists. What you call "executive asserted zone
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by akersten 7y ago
This line of argument was pretty prevalent in the Reddit thread I saw earlier, and I don't think it accurately characterizes the case here. This case is about the advertising that the manufacturer did. Also, the case is just being allo
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by akersten 7y ago
Does this apply to the "special Constitution zone" that intrudes 100 miles inland from the US border? Doesn't matter if it's constitutional or not if you're in a no-constitution zone.

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