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by kick 7y ago
Godot's download size is pretty small, and there's a small demo included, along with a few other demos that are similarly pretty small files that you can download directly from the client, mostly MIT-licensed, including a first-pe
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by kick 7y ago
Sure, but if one group is operating in an unacceptable fashion along the lines of "We're stealing candy from babies!" and the other is "We're not only a risk to your business, your customers, and you, but also to th
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by kick 7y ago
Targeted individuals? They, for years until it was leaked, "targeted" every phone call in the United States: https://gizmodo.com/this-government-phone-tapping-thing-just... And 125,000,000,000 globally, along with
814.
by kick 7y ago
Optic Nerve was one of these things. Basically, GCHQ or NSA hacked Yahoo!, GCHQ used that to collect stills for every single webcam feed on the platform (this! was! back! when! Yahoo! was! still! relevant!), including a lot of intimate phot
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by kick 7y ago
NSA is unambiguously doing worse things than any FAANG or adtech company could do in their wildest wet dreams. "NSA staff used spy tools on spouses, ex-lovers" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-surveillan
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by kick 7y ago
They should have lesser, though still real, baggage attached to them. There are definitely a few types of people in computer science who refuse to touch FAANG employees, but it's not as widespread as I wish it were.
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by kick 7y ago
Do you not know the story The Emperor's New Clothes ? It's a classic where I'm from. From the Wikipedia page: "The Emperor's New Clothes" (Danish: Kejserens nye klæder) is a short tale written by Danish autho
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by kick 7y ago
“We’re building right now software that enables developers to automatically check out an anonymized version of the data set,” said Watson. This so-called “synthetic data” is essentially artificial data that looks and works just like regula
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Autoweapons (1987)(ccs.neu.edu)
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by kick 7y ago
Am I really getting old enough to where modern developers know nothing about the dot com crash? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pets.com
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by kick 7y ago
Condescension is good in certain cases, especially during public health epidemics. Anti-vaxxers being mocked is good, pointing out that a certain group of people are selling the illusion of faux-privacy in a dangerous way is also good. It&#
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by kick 7y ago
require a GitHub account You do know that there are devs that prefer other code hosting platforms, right? GitHub is a proprietary service that's generally terrible for developers.
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by kick 7y ago
pets.com
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by kick 7y ago
These documents show that, as recently as August 2018, a hedge fund paid $10K to purchase half of Lambda School’s ISAs. Was this at $10k/ISA? And was it half of all ISAs or all of half of the ISAs?
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by kick 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21831931 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15643663 And so on.
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Mastercard investing in technology to identify commuters by gait, heartbeat(marketwatch.com)
1 points by kick 7y ago|0 comments
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TweetNaCl: A crypto library in 100 tweets(tweetnacl.cr.yp.to)
1 points by kick 7y ago|1 comments
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by kick 7y ago
According to the filing — part of his pending divorce case from sci-fi novelist Justine Musk — Elon Musk has been living off personal loans from friends since October 2009 and spending $200,000 a month while making far less. Musk confirmed
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by kick 7y ago
Past coverage (though using the abstract at the time): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7956470 I think this is one of the more important papers in the past ten years, and it seems like a shame how few people have read
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Evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks (2014) [pdf](pnas.org)
1 points by kick 7y ago|1 comments
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by kick 7y ago
Absolutely true. C4 doesn't go far enough. The source of my favorite C compiler, on the other hand: http://www.kparc.com/b/
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by kick 7y ago
The Google logo instead of a plain search bar is an ad. Imagine if your browser had one in the URL bar: it'd be ridiculous, and very annoying!
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by kick 7y ago
This is like saying to a music critic: "No one is forcing you to listen to pop music. If you don't like it listen to Steely Dan or classical." Not only is it a bad statement when taken at face value, they probably do use a
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by kick 7y ago
Getting revenge is something that almost everyone in those situations wants to do; it satisfies deeply. What you describe is by many people called "hitting back," which is hard to see as something negative, and definitely not eq
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by kick 7y ago
Relatively low-moderation? Half of the boards ban for political discussion in its entirety.
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TweetNaCl: A crypto library in 100 tweets(tweetnacl.cr.yp.to)
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by kick 7y ago
Thanks for linking that.
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by kick 7y ago
_I_ would consider all of those acquisitions to be failures, but YC has funded advertising companies and other "What if we sell user data?"-style companies in the past, so I'm not entirely sure. (Kuhcoon comes to mind, which
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by kick 7y ago
(It's no problem! I edit after posting about as much as anyone, so I definitely understand it! I appreciate the depth of response; I just made sure to wait a bit before forming a response to this one; it's fun to watch the stages
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by kick 7y ago
I wasn't implying that YC had changed, just that I can't tell what the reasoning is anymore. The second link is an interesting thing to link, because the reason I included the last line (along the lines of "I guess it could

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