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by jwise0 11y ago
There's a reason why they say that "you're not dead until you're warm and dead"! The case of Anna Bågenholm [1] is similarly fascinating. She was in cold meltwater for 80 minutes before being pulled out, and made a
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by jwise0 11y ago
An analogous feat [1] is being attempted in Pittsburgh by Tom7. He has lots of interesting graphics that he automatically generates from the data [2], which data-driven folks might find interesting, anyway. (Tom7 has been previously seen
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Sterile-Insect Methods for Control of Mosquito-Borne Diseases: An Analysis(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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!!Con Live Transcript(docs.google.com)
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by jwise0 11y ago
I was a very happy dspam user for about three days -- SpamAssassin's accuracy on my setup is terrible, and dspam performed pretty well (and increasingly so with training). Then, dspam started segfaulting, and none of my e-mail was deli
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Closing the Windows Gap(blog.trailofbits.com)
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by jwise0 11y ago
I upvoted this comment because I really like the idea of "I built this because I wanted to". I like the idea of Show HNs as an "I made this thing for me, and not for any other reason". Thanks for posting your project!
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Drag Queens Renew Fight Over Facebook 'Real Name' Policy, Demand SF Pride Ban(sfist.com)
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by jwise0 11y ago
I think the point of this article is precisely the opposite. Writing off people who "find refuge in hate" as being "small-minded" is an easy temptation to give into. But, the subject of the article I think provides a ve
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!!Con Registration Lottery(bangbangcon.com)
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by jwise0 11y ago
Arguably, Jay-Z's point was that when he had 99 problems, the K-9 was not one! There's a good discussion of this in Mason's wonderful dissection of 99 Problems [1]. It's on PDF page 16, or section M. (I was actual
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by jwise0 12y ago
The article title on HN seems particularly misleading. It seems that the submitter is trying to imply that Ms. Pao is hiring in a way that is discriminatory (i.e., that would make it harder for people of some gender or race to join the com
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by jwise0 12y ago
This story I think very neatly points out the difference between verification and validation -- and why it's important to have both of them in a testplan for anything new. In short, verification asks the question: "does it do what
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by jwise0 12y ago
You have to be an app developer for that to work: /me/threads is accessible only to developers of an app, and there is no permission that you can grant to an app to make it work. Otherwise, you get: { "error": {
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by jwise0 12y ago
I still wonder when https://developers.google.com/talk/open_communications will go away.
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by jwise0 12y ago
A quick comment on why I submitted this ... This will substantially change the way I interact with Facebook Messenger, and irritatingly so. For the past as long as I remember, all of my IM services have shown up in one client (naim; then P
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by jwise0 12y ago
As far as I understand, no. (A request for an API to write a desktop client was the top "most-liked" comment on the Messenger-platform blog post, which is how I found out about this.)
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Facebook Messenger XMPP is going away(developers.facebook.com)
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by jwise0 12y ago
Looks like it got syndicated to The Kernel from the original ... here's the original: http://www.keacher.com/1216/how-i-introduced-a-27-year-old-c... And here's the HN discussion from last time: https:/
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What I Learned Working in a Chocolate Factory(ewherry.com)
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by jwise0 12y ago
The thing that I find particularly notable here is not that they stuck the key on GitHub, but that they are trying to subpoena GitHub for a list of everyone who accessed the gists in question. If allowed to do that, then that sets a preced
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by jwise0 12y ago
I'm not sure why you got downvoted for this, but I wanted to say that the point you're trying to make is not in vain. Different people have different risk tolerances, and even enjoy different levels of risk: and, of course, we co
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by jwise0 12y ago
The Ars Technica article is a little less rosy, and goes into a little more detail in the challenges in silicene FETs: http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/02/first-transistor-buil...
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by jwise0 12y ago
Adding on to the praise, I wanted to also comment -- thanks for doing an analysis of the results. Having implemented it was neat, but the honesty in revealing that what you've built is an interesting experiment, but not necessarily an
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by jwise0 12y ago
Dumping data out of medical devices, of late, has become a topic that might be of interest to this community. In general, the law requires that a patient be able to access all the medical data that they generate; it's part of their he
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by jwise0 12y ago
That is an important piece of information, but viewers be advised: that page has a non-work-safe background and is NOT exactly a copy of the GitHub demo page (and has other obfuscated JavaScript running on it) .
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by jwise0 12y ago
I always thought that this article read more like "How to become Eric S. Raymond". There's a lot in here that is really pretty painful to read 14 years on; in particular, I find the argument that you have to start off by usi
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by jwise0 12y ago
I've been considering this for a while -- especially after the Yosemite upgrade, in which my machine has been randomly hanging [0], and in which my machine gets noticeably slower (cmd-tab takes a quarter to a half a second to actually
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by jwise0 12y ago
That's a pretty good one! There are many ways for the bootloader to screw you even after it has passed control away from itself. I think my favorite similar story is when Matt Garrett discovered this on a Mac which forgot to shut off
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by jwise0 12y ago
Anyone who considers her male is wrong. Period. If she is the highest paid female exec, then she is the highest paid female exec.

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