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by hawkharris 12y ago
Personal health recording systems like this one are most useful for reporting symptoms to health care providers. In the event of a flu or a running injury, I like being able to tell my doctor exactly when, where and how the problem started.
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by hawkharris 12y ago
Speaking of antimicrobial underwear — it's not every day I get to use that segue — The New Yorker just had a fascinating piece about the world of extreme cave divers. Apparently, specially engineered underwear is one of the secrets to
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by hawkharris 12y ago
Realizing that the United States' military capabilities are good enough, DARPA employees have turned their attention to replicating scenes from video game boss battles.
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Anti-adblock startup secures $400,000 funding(theguardian.com)
3 points by hawkharris 12y ago|0 comments
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Slang, Goldman Sachs' proprietary programming language(stackoverflow.com)
25 points by hawkharris 12y ago|4 comments
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by hawkharris 12y ago
This reminds me of the hover boots from the Zelda: Ocarina of Time game for Nintendo 64. Fun memories! I see a lot of comments concerning the product's ugliness. But, hey, not every product has to be subtle and elegant. Some consumers
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by hawkharris 12y ago
I appreciate the developers' honesty, but if the goal is to justify the price to customers, they shouldn't blame external costs and delivery challenges (e.g. Apple's take from App Store sales). Think of it this way: while ask
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by hawkharris 12y ago
A very small tip for people learning Haskell (coming from a fellow newcomer to the language): as you read the code, mentally replace "::" with "has type of."
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by hawkharris 12y ago
I respect you for creating something very useful and well designed. I hope you'll set aside some of the immature remarks and focus on all the upvotes!
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by hawkharris 12y ago
I don't see why the author included details about the defendant writing "muslim pig" in a text message and saying that another executive looked like a penis. These details have nothing to do with the case. The only purpose th
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by hawkharris 12y ago
I love that quote! It captures what I was trying to say in a more succinct way.
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by hawkharris 12y ago
A solider once told me that boredom is one of the most mentally challenging aspects of war. Because you can go long stretches without running into anyone, let alone your enemies, the moments when you do clash are especially intense. It&#x27
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Hacker Way: Rethinking Web App Development at Facebook(youtube.com)
3 points by hawkharris 12y ago|0 comments
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by hawkharris 12y ago
I love this concept and give the author credit for articulating it so well. My only suggestion would be to add a social component to the program. Meeting people is the most important part of college. The vast majority of graduates find jobs
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by hawkharris 12y ago
I appreciate your comment and what you're trying to do. I guess I still can't picture how Cruise will achieve the balance between convenience and awareness. Let's say you're a teenager using Cruise to keep your car withi
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by hawkharris 12y ago
This reminds me of a Kickstarter campaign I saw a few months ago. The campaign's goal was to build low-cost bouncing balls that cleared mine fields. You could roll the ball into a dangerous, abandoned area and it would cause dormant mi
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by hawkharris 12y ago
As a 20-something developer, I appreciate and agree with your insights. Also, I give you credit for responding in a mature way to some of the overly harsh responses to your comment. I guess that some level of gruffness comes with the territ
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by hawkharris 12y ago
This reminds me of a fascinating article in The New Yorker called "Twilight of the Brands." [0] The author's basic argument is that brands have historically filled an information gap. Before the Internet, when consumers didn&
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Putting the Sexy in Self-driving Cars(codyromano.com)
1 points by hawkharris 12y ago|0 comments
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by hawkharris 12y ago
I'm interested to see if any of the cryptographers on HN can take a stab at the strange code he was carrying (featured in the picture near the bottom of the story), which no one has cracked, or at least share some thoughts about how i
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The True Difference Between Backbone and Angular(codyromano.com)
1 points by hawkharris 12y ago|0 comments
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by hawkharris 12y ago
What about using the Stanford JS Crypto library through a Google Chrome plugin (in addition to SSL) for an added layer of security? Edit: Reading on, I see that the author addressed SJCL and browser plugins separately, but I still think tha
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by hawkharris 12y ago
Interesting article, but the font is very difficult to read. I had to change it using the Web Inspector before I could finish reading.
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by hawkharris 12y ago
I wonder if there's an analogy to be made here with security competitions. I'm talking about the "Earn $50,000 if you can hack us" events that companies use to illustrate the integrity of their systems. The problem is th
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by hawkharris 12y ago
We're always being told that young people suck: that they are illiterate and unreflective and un-thoughtful, all of which ignores the fact that every generation had that said about them by the older generation. Yet somehow civilizatio
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Code that will only execute once(codegolf.stackexchange.com)
113 points by hawkharris 12y ago|26 comments
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by hawkharris 12y ago
It sounds like you stopped reading my comment after the first paragraph. I later accounted for the reality that people have limited vocabularies.
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by hawkharris 12y ago
Well, let's say you have a 5-digit password made up of letters and numbers. That's 60466176 combinations. Now let's say you have a 4-word passphrase. There are about 120,000 words in English. There may be more if you include
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by hawkharris 12y ago
I agree. It is frustrating when websites place arbitrary limits on characters in a passphrase. It's even more frustrating when they add specific rules (e.g. must use at least one number) that actually lower the number of possible combo
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by hawkharris 12y ago
We should stop using the term "password" and start emphasizing pass phrases . A full sentence is much easier to remember, yet harder to crack, than a shorter, cryptic password. Or, as XKCD put it: http://xkcd.com/9

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