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by eggbrain 12y ago
It's great that we have more privacy options for phone calls, texts, etc. But we still need a great "Privacy" phone, right? There's been attempts to do so recently (Blackphone, PrivacyPhone), but both have suffered from
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by eggbrain 12y ago
Again, I'm not saying it's a perfect solution. Perhaps a naive bayes classifier, with enough examples, could distinguish between negative opinions and hate speech. Maybe it couldn't -- it might be very similar to trying to cr
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by eggbrain 12y ago
We need to fix this. Whenever someone feels like they are in a position of power, things like this happen. This power can come from anonymity (eg: the internet), it can come from a position of authority (boss), or sometimes it can come from
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by eggbrain 12y ago
Let me begin by saying that this is frustrating for all groups involved. But I wanted to specifically address what Max really can or cannot do regarding this situation. 1. I understand those that say that he should sue. But think of it this
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by eggbrain 12y ago
I had a conversation with a friend recently who was a doctor. He was telling me that he had 3 patients in a fairly short period of time that had come in with mysterious symptoms (they were all in their 70's) and that had died soon afte
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by eggbrain 12y ago
It uses the Webkit Speech API[1], and (from what I can tell) it's constantly listening[2] [1] http://updates.html5rocks.com/2013/01/Voice-Driven-Web-Apps-... [2] https://github.com/TalAter/
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by eggbrain 12y ago
Google cache caught it: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ykshUmL...
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by eggbrain 12y ago
I never knew I was colorblind (red/green) until I was in high school -- we were looking at Ishihara plates ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishihara_Test ) in class and I told the teacher there must be something wrong
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by eggbrain 12y ago
Sorry, I hope I didn't come across as being attackative. It just took a little digging for me to find the terms. I totally understand that you can't offer a $1,000 bounty, you aren't Google or Facebook. Would it be possible,
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by eggbrain 12y ago
Key terms: For each eligible vulnerability report, the reporter will receive: * Recognition in our Hall of Fame. * Either $20 in self-serve advertising credit valid for one year, or a 4chan Pass valid for one year ($20 value, subject to Ter
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by eggbrain 12y ago
I might just do that! At the very least, I'd be willing to represent the "average" Rails developer. Getting an agreed upon application might be tough, but I'll try setting some stuff up to make it happen, as long as you
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by eggbrain 12y ago
These web framework tests have been really interesting to look at, and each time I've been saddened to see that Rails/Ruby, the framework/language I program with most days, is consistently near the bottom. With Adequate Recor
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by eggbrain 12y ago
The one thing that worries me about this is that since the prize is so amazing, it might encourage "cheating" if you will. If you remember the Salesforce hackathon controversy[1], the winner of the 1 million dollar prize received
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by eggbrain 12y ago
Back about 5 years ago, a prominent VC behind TechStars came to my college and talked about entrepreneurship. I was so enamored that I decided I wanted to be an entrepreneur and apply to their incubator program. I applied about 5 times with
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by eggbrain 13y ago
Just checked -- you are right. I was using Rails Composer for one of the apps I checked, which does include it by default.
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by eggbrain 13y ago
Secrets.yml is in .gitignore by default, while secret_token.rb is not, right? Most (beginner) programmers don't think to implement something like Foreman which handles their secret tokens / API keys and commit them straight into t
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by eggbrain 13y ago
For those curious as to how things go from Rails 3 to Rails 4.1, I've now built a few Rails 4 and 4.1 apps for clients and here's been my thoughts: 1) Turbolinks comes standard with Rails 4, and you will either love it or hate it.
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by eggbrain 13y ago
As an individual with personal projects, probably nothing bad will ever happen even if you mangle licenses to their fullest extent. The issue becomes when you then decide to build something commercial with photos/libraries/etc tha
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by eggbrain 13y ago
First thing I check when I read "Free" is I see what the license is (MIT/BSD). Unfortunately, you can't find out what license the theme uses until you get the actual theme. You don't get the actual theme until you p
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by eggbrain 13y ago
I think the biggest issue is that the Hacker News admins want to have as few moving pieces as possible. It's why Hacker News doesn't have collapsable comments, why it doesn't have a mobile layout, etc. There's been some
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by eggbrain 13y ago
I hope this hackathon happens again next year. They were very generous with their grand prize, and anything you built you were able to keep. The one thing I'd ask them to change is for the prizes to be a little better distributed this
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by eggbrain 13y ago
I feel like many people miss out on the V part of MVP -- the minimum _viable_ product that can be released. Jon Radoff explains it better than me: http://radoff.com/blog/2010/05/04/minimum-viable-product-
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by eggbrain 13y ago
Just hit this error myself -- found an easier way than restoring from backup. First, download the latest iOS7 version (I used an ipsw from this website: http://www.iphonehacks.com/2013/09/update-ios-7-beta-ios-7-p.
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by eggbrain 13y ago
Just curious, but how much would a list of 1-million targeted emails go for? High five figures? Low six figures? I'm trying to put myself in perspective of his struggle -- was he potentially buying another year of runway? Another month
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by eggbrain 13y ago
This is a great invention that can help prevent abuse, but I'm worried bars won't buy in for a few reasons: 1) I assume the cups have to be disposable, as the strips probably don't work multiple times. Most bars I've be
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by eggbrain 13y ago
This is the argument that many subreddits on Reddit took in the beginning - the content that is voted up deserves to be where it is. What ends up happening is that the low hanging fruit, the stuff easily consumable gets upvoted 'faster
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by eggbrain 13y ago
This is ridiculous. A guy takes a picture of his cat in the park. He took a picture with his smartphone. Use of smartphones in a public space are HN-Relevant. Thus, we can now upload cute animal pictures to Hacker News.
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by eggbrain 13y ago
I hate to be "that" guy, but: Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd
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by eggbrain 13y ago
From the article: ...That would leave Firefox in a permanent state of blocking advertisers' cookies by default. Default means this feature would be an opt-out feature, not an opt-in feature. Since Firefox now autoupdates, that m
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by eggbrain 13y ago
...why not just not do the video at all? Playing a blocked ad for longer doesn't seem to make any sense. Well, it's actually a fairly clever solution. If the person wants to block ads Hulu won't stop them, it will jus

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