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by gnosis 14y ago
Many if not most HN users create software and internet infrastructure. Collectively, we have so much power. Yet much of what we make (directly or indirectly) is what the surveillance state is built on. It relies on us to build it, make it
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by gnosis 14y ago
I value my privacy too much to use a web app that makes my data available to someone else. I don't trust Google or anyone else to know my reading history. It's none of their damn business. I don't want them spying on me, even if it would
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by gnosis 14y ago
"What research falls outside of this stereotype? Synthesis. Theorising deeper foundations that connect disparate bits of knowledge and gives a deeper understanding of them." That reminds me of a quote attributed to Stefan Banach[1]:
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Opera moving to WebKit and Chromium(my.opera.com)
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RSS readers on Linux(johndcook.com)
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A brief history of narcoanalysis(mindhacks.com)
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by gnosis 14y ago
What's even sadder is that many if not most HN users are contributing to the surveillance apparatus by building web apps and infrastructure, promoting it, and not taking a stand against it. How many of you Googlers and Facebookers (and the
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by gnosis 14y ago
The blog post mentions Lisp, but it should be pointed out that what they're using in that course is Scheme, which should not be confused with Common Lisp.
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by gnosis 14y ago
I value my privacy far more than any feature or convenience a web app may offer. This is one of the main reasons why I stay away from web apps as much as possible, and use open-source client-side apps whenever I can. As a side-benefit, I
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by gnosis 14y ago
I use Newsbeuter[1] in a Linux terminal. It's not a GUI app or web-based, which are both plusses to me. It's also neither closed-source, nor spyware (like way too many web-based readers are). Newsbeuter is relatively feature rich and has a
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Zen's Big Stick: The Kyosaku (tricycle.com)
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by gnosis 14y ago
Caloric restriction used to be thought to increase lifespan, but more recent studies don't support this.[1][2] [1] - http://earthsky.org/human-world/oops-caloric-restriction-may... [2] - http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7415/fu
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by gnosis 14y ago
Rule #1: show, not tell. Why does their code supposedly matter? We'll never know..
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The Peace Drug (2007)(washingtonpost.com)
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Matrioshka Brains(en.wikipedia.org)
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by gnosis 14y ago
Looks like it's fixed now.
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Artifact SETI(personal.psu.edu)
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by gnosis 14y ago
Is HN having SSL problems? Firefox is complaining that HN's SSL cert has not been verified. A screenshot can be seen here: [1] It used to be fine up to today.[2] [1] - http://img1.imagilive.com/0313/hn-cert-130311.png [2] - Just FYI, for
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by gnosis 14y ago
Is news.ycombinator.com resolving to 184.172.10.74 for you as it is for me? We may be looking at different servers.
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by gnosis 14y ago
Is HN having SSL problems? Firefox is complaining that HN's SSL cert has not been verified. A screenshot can be seen here: [1] It used to be fine up to today. [1] - http://img1.imagilive.com/0313/hn-cert-130311.png
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Upcoming NASA Briefing On Curiosity's Analysis of Mars Rock(mars.jpl.nasa.gov)
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by gnosis 14y ago
In a highly materialistic society like the US, where people measure their own and each other's worth by the kind of car they drive, the neighborhood and house they live in, whether they're still living with their parents past college age, w
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by gnosis 14y ago
Firefox's bookmarking system is actually one of the things I hate most about it, compared to Opera. In Opera you can right click a link and then select the exact place in the bookmark heirarchy to place it in. In Firefox you have to first
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by gnosis 14y ago
Well, you could start (for example) with these lists of unsolved problems in physics[1] and math[2]. I'm sure similar lists exist for every science. Of course, private industry is interested in funding research in to next to none of them (
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SETI: The Artificial Transit Scenario(centauri-dreams.org)
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by gnosis 14y ago
As welcome as this ruling is, if you wanted to keep something private, hoping that the government obeys the law may not be the wisest approach.
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by gnosis 14y ago
To find out what files a given process is using: lsof -p PID where "PID" is the process id of the process in question. As for which files are most used at the moment, I'm not sure. However, "iotop" will show you which processes are
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by gnosis 14y ago
A similar story: http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-Fifth-problem--... which was previously discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4752047
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Technology in the borders of 1970 (on Google Glass & the future of surveillance)(tante.cc)
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by gnosis 14y ago
It would be easier to buy the "we'll only use this new, extraordinary power to combat terrorists (or pedophiles, or drug dealers, or whatever the boogeyman of the day is)" excuse if it hadn't turned out to be a lie time, and time again. Ove

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