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Hack into school lunch company leads to arrest of competitor(sfchronicle.com)
3 points by brd529 7y ago|0 comments
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by brd529 8y ago
This is not art or sport, it is a technical demonstration of an interesting way to build web applications by compiling java to javascript. Calling out that this method has accessibility issues seems very on-point for a show hn post. The Tea
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by brd529 8y ago
A lot of scratch. scratch.mit.edu
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by brd529 8y ago
Looks like outline disabled WSJ links, or at least this one. You can get full text by following the link from Mark's fb post: https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10106257635829431
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by brd529 8y ago
Mattermost is a self hosted slack clone. 95% feature parity in my experience - we use it as our primary chat tool where I work, no issues.
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by brd529 8y ago
Wonderful to see. Just finished the trilogy - extremely thought provoking and I enjoyed all of them. So interesting to see a Chinese perspective - how someone whose life experience was shaped by the cultural revolution would think about hum
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by brd529 8y ago
In general more memory should go to the leaves. All data is stored there and MemSQL will push processing to the leaves whenever possible.
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Tuft and Needle Merges with Serta Simmons(google.com)
2 points by brd529 8y ago|0 comments
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by brd529 8y ago
Look up FedEx SmartPost, UPS Mail Innovations, DHL eConmerce, etc. these are all companies who “work share” with USPS. They deliver the package to the post office and USPS leverages their existing network of mail carriers to do the “last mi
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by brd529 8y ago
Love it!
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by brd529 8y ago
The tone and vulgar word choices of the article undermine its credibility. I’m glad they did because it inspired me to google the issue. Second result debunks it: https://www.metabunk.org/debunked-missing-21-trillion-6-5-tr.
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by brd529 8y ago
How did you come up with the name Aquila? Love it. New Testament or the Latin/Roman angle?
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by brd529 8y ago
I entered a pun contest once, much like the one in the video embedded in the article. I had ten puns prepared, hoping one of them would win. Unfortunately... no pun in ten did.
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by brd529 8y ago
My biggest problem with the homepod is that my 5 year old has learned that he can turn on _any song he wants_ whenever he wants by yelling "hey siri." He loves it! He yells at the dinner table, when his little sister is asleep, an
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by brd529 9y ago
As someone who runs a support team I saw this and immediately thought “this needs to be a zendesk app.” There is a lot of knowledge hidden in support ticket replies but it’s didficult to know what other team members previous answers would b
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by brd529 9y ago
Wish they had mentioned aldus persuasion which pioneered the “outline view” (PowerPoint quickly copied it).
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by brd529 10y ago
HLL is great for a lot of reasons. He gives the primary reason as getting uniques from randomly sharded data in a distributed system. If your distributed system allows you to do a hash or range based sharding, for example by user_id, then y
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by brd529 10y ago
Insurance for a launch is currently very expensive. My friends in the industry tell me that insuring a launch increases the cost by 50%.
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by brd529 10y ago
All the time. It's a surefire way of pulling over someone from out of town. My first ever memory of being pulled over was visiting NYC. My dad was driving and got pulled over. The cop said: "no right on red in New York City!"
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by brd529 10y ago
You were blessed with a healthy cab system then. In San Francisco pre-uber, you could not rely on being able to hail a cab if you were not in the financial district. If you called the cab company you would be on hold for 10-30 minutes befor
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by brd529 10y ago
The article mentioned Elizabeth Weise who I hadn't heard of, but just spent a good 30 minutes on her blog. It's excellent. Her "about" page summarizes why 1/3 of SF parents choose private schools. It's a pretty
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by brd529 10y ago
Houses in Marin and the Peninsula are just as expensive, only slightly larger, and they get lots of kids. It's all about the schools.
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by brd529 10y ago
I don't agree with Peter Thiel often but I do agree with his quote mentioned in the article - SF is "structurally hostile to families." As someone who is trying to raise school-age kids in San Francsico the insanity of the sc
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by brd529 10y ago
I agree. I guess what I meant to say is that either way it's sad. If it turns out he has been doing bogus research / falsifying the data then it's terrible for all the reasons you stated. Good that someone blew the whistle, b
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by brd529 10y ago
I'm more saddened than anything. Rubin's lab is dedicated to studying Spinal Muscular Atrophy - the leading cause of infant death in the USA. My cousin died of SMA and it was absolutely devastating for my aunt and uncle. If Rubin&
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by brd529 10y ago
His point is that he runs a MOOC and his students have their own AWS accounts. Since they are students, and do not have established histories at Amazon presumably they aren't able to get these limits increased, and so can't do the
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Election hacking: Sowing doubt is prime danger(nytimes.com)
3 points by brd529 10y ago|1 comments
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by brd529 11y ago
> Rumor that they may have struck a deal with ADP to be their benefits administration system and replace TotalSource If these discussions were going on, I suspect ADP's move to block Zenefits today was either a result of these negot
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by brd529 13y ago
Fast forward a ten years. Is it inconceivable a similar technology will work on humans? I've read we already have the reverse - quadriplegic people can control a mouse on a screen by thinking. If this would work on a human, how would a
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by brd529 13y ago
Looks cool. I've always thought sleeping in a Hammock would be nice, but as a stomach sleeper I wonder if it would really be possible. Are things flat and taught enough that you can stomach sleep on them?

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