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by declan 12y ago
>what with government penniless and gridlocked Um, the U.S. federal government will be spending something like $3.4 trillion in the fiscal year beginning at the end of this month. That's pretty much the exact opposite of truly &qu
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by declan 12y ago
I spent some time (>18 months ago) testing PhoneGap for potential use with what would become http://recent.io/ , but PhoneGap was too slow on actual devices to be usable. Launching a "Hello, world" app took some
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by declan 12y ago
Here's an excerpt from the Mastercard press release with a few more details: "MasterCard has pioneered large scale card schemes that combine biometric functionality with electronic payments and we want to capitalize on their exper
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by declan 12y ago
I've spent 10+ years paying close attention to lawyer nastygrams to security researchers and academics, and that's exactly the type of language they would use. But as you say, perhaps I'm being too cynical in this case.
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by declan 12y ago
The article says only "Hearthstone team" and "they," which is ambiguous, especially given Blizzard's history in this area.
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by declan 12y ago
The interesting thing to me is what exactly Blizzard Entertainment said that prompted the author of this blog post (a Google research lead) to decide not to release the utility that at Defcon he said he would. Excerpt: "Following Defco
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Hacking Hearthstone with machine learning – Defcon talk wrap-up(elie.net)
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by declan 12y ago
I know other folks active on HN actually work in the insurance industry, and hopefully they'll jump in. But there are different types of life insurance. For most HN readers term life insurance (pay $100 a year for 10 years for $150K in
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by declan 12y ago
>if you can afford it, the upside is potentially far more beneficial than the downside I looked into this in some detail a while ago, and I recall Alcor indicated that many of its members opt for life insurance (with Alcor as a beneficia
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by declan 12y ago
This is sad news, but less sad than a funeral and cremation would have been. I met Hal in the 1990s via the cypherpunks list, where a young Julian Assange was also hanging out. Hal went on to work for PGP Corp. in its glory days, and was in
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by declan 12y ago
I'd point you in the direction of Carl Malamud, Jim Harper at the Cato Institute, and EFF, probably in that order. Jim's made it a project to liberate government data; Carl's gone further and made it his life's work. Ins
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by declan 12y ago
Nobody doubts there's a serious drought here in California, but those "before and after" photos (2011 vs. 2014) are misleading and likely show seasonal variance. I can find photos predating the "before" images that
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by declan 12y ago
Sure, happy to chat! What you're doing seems interesting, especially if you're not targeting the lawyer/case research market. My email address is in my HN profile. Though I am working nonstop on http://recent.io&#x
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by declan 12y ago
Yep. Though Congress could liberate all of PACER, retrospective and prospective, if it chose -- one data dump to Carl Malamud would do it. The appropriations bills are wending their way through the legislative process right now (mostly ou
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by declan 12y ago
I worked on a similar project a decade ago written mostly in Perl with the frontend in PHP (hey, it was 2004, folks!). Just checked and I still even have the old courtbot.com domain I registered for the project. I suspect you'll find p
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by declan 12y ago
Alas, FOIA applies only to federal government agencies that are in the executive branch. It doesn't apply to federal courts or the U.S. Congress.
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by declan 12y ago
I look forward to NSA serving an FAA 702 order on Jawbone to track a non-U.S. user. It would require that Jawbone perform a live intercept so FedGov agents can plant physical bugs or insert TURBINE-derived malware or attach a keystroke logg
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by declan 12y ago
> The vast majority of the water consumption in the state is from agriculture Well put. 80 percent of the developed water supply in California is used by agriculture. About 6 percent is industrial and commercial. That leaves 7 percent re
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by declan 12y ago
Yep. When I go to my neighborhood grocery store in the SF bay area, half of the fruits and vegetables tend to be arriving from Mexico or elsewhere in Latin America or Washington state already. The percentage is even higher in the off-season
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by declan 12y ago
Ah, yes! I know the company you're talking about. They come up regularly in neighborhood recommendations, although with the caveat that they're more expensive than most. I think routine tree removal and trimming around here is kin
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by declan 12y ago
>If you go to a more "boring" market that competitors ignore An example in the form of a digression: I live in a town in a relatively rural area of the SF peninsula. I've recently received some bids for a small job involvi
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by declan 12y ago
>Stalin's genocide was larger. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides_by_death_toll Mao Zedong is believed to be responsible for 34,300,000–63,784,000 deaths and Joseph Stalin for 23,000,000–60,000,000.
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by declan 12y ago
I'm a pilot and was surprised that the Navdy video invoked the "pilots use it -- it's safe" language. Um, when I'm flying a plane, I don't: - have other 4,000-lb planes 3' away that I could collide with af
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How to appraise Hearthstone card values(elie.net)
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How to automatically find Hearthstone undervalued cards(elie.net)
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by declan 12y ago
>News shouldn't be a thing which I am allowed to filter based on my biases. I'd say the opposite: News shouldn't be a thing where other people can tell me what I am "allowed" to read or not. I left my job at CNET
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by declan 12y ago
That -$3B, or whatever it's ballooned to now, comes even though a federal law makes it a felony to compete with the USPS and deliver "non-urgent" mail. That's why FedEx always claims to be delivering "urgent" m
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by declan 12y ago
Howdy! So this, I take it, is you? :) http://juan.benet.ai/about/ In any case, congrats on the launch. I've only skimmed the white paper so far, but the filecoin.io concept looks promising.
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by declan 12y ago
You may want to look at an article I wrote in May 2013, which was the first to disclose that Google was challenging two secret National Security Letters in court. This was before anyone except Glenn and Laura had heard of some guy named E
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by declan 12y ago
>Any differences from Zite (now owned by Flipboard)? Yep, differences in design, approach, and implementation. It offers better recommendations and can do things Zite couldn't. This is not to discount the groundbreaking work done by

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