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by mcphilip 13y ago
This topic is a landmine but I applaud YC for being willing to tackle it anyway. There's almost nothing that can be said on the topic without upsetting a large number of people. Before switching to CS, I spent a couple years in nursin
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I think a poll on his lawful/neutral/chaotic good/neutral/evil alignment would be a bit more interesting. My guess would be lawful neutral.
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by mcphilip 13y ago
>1. Did he really have the US Constitution as a backdrop? I'm as politically cynical as just about anyone I know. I have no faith in either party. Ron Paul was the only remotely interesting candidate in the primaries, but after he
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I love Numberphile too and recently stumbled on Computerphile. The style is the same for both shows -- a passionate person explaining something reasonably complex. For instance, I like Computerphile's video on the evolution of char
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Apparently the author of this newsweek piece will be on CNBC sometime this morning: https://twitter.com/SquawkCNBC/status/441544016421978112
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Oh good grief. Is this what HN has become? I want Tesla to suceed as much as the next nerd, but I'm not going to act like every negative experience is part of a conspiracy theory.
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Fox News is a reasonable focal point for this piece, but it's only one small contributing factor. The sad thing is that purveyors of fear and distrust are all over the internet. I lost my dad to some combination of Glen Beck, Fox New
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Having obsessively read the news 1+ hours a day since the financial crisis, I'm no longer under the illusion that there is much unbiased news in the first place. Even a non-analysis piece listing just the facts can still be biased by
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by mcphilip 13y ago
>One Japanese small-business owner that accepts bitcoin as payment said Japanese banks had expressed skepticism toward the payment method, and that the business's lenders this week asked that the company wouldn't use bitcoin in
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I've had a highly successful career so far (though I'm only in my mid 30's) without maintaining any significant online presence. My HN profile is probably the only place where you'd find my email address listed. No Lin
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Well obviously "terrorists" hold up flash cards to their webcam containing all the insidious plots and plans in written form! And think of the children? "Terrorist" probably also routinely show each other child porn!!!
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Previous discussion of this information from 13 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7296183
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Graph TV – The Wire(graphtv.kevinformatics.com)
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I appreciate the technical insight into the impact of this bug versus other commonly found vulnerabilities. I don't disagree, but it seems to me this insight is tangential to the larger story. It's a (bit) of a blow to lay men&#
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Anecdotal evidence: I started off in nursing school with an intent to get a master's before ultimately finishing with CS. The nursing school I went to was well respected and made great efforts to make male students feel 'normal&#
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Great work! I did a quick and dirty project[1] involving IMDB and Neo4j when I had some time off between jobs over the holidays. I used screen scraping to get the list of IMDB ids for the AFI top 100 movies and then made calls to MyMovieAP
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I don't necessarily agree with the frustrations expressed in the article, but it does make it clear that stopping buses is just the focal point used to air protesters' larger grievances. From the article: >Robles said the prot
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by mcphilip 13y ago
It's worth noting that pewdiepie has 22+ million subscribers. The flappy birds video[1] from January 27th already has 9+ million views. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQz6xhlOt18
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by mcphilip 13y ago
The "hack" I've seen the most frequently is buying a ticket that gets you in the priority lane in addition to a standard ticket so that one can go through minimal security wait times and then cancel the ticket in time for a
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by mcphilip 13y ago
It'll be interesting to see how development is affected. Dell has had a reputation of being the place to work if you wanted a high salary with minimal responsibilities here in Austin. I've heard the politics are brutal, though.
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by mcphilip 13y ago
The only feature I'm missing so far is the ability to view all stories, not just top posts.
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by mcphilip 13y ago
It's not as cut and dry as that, apparently. From that BusinessWeek article: >Washington State’s health agency sold its database 95 times that year, collecting a mere $15,950. Donn Moyer, a spokesman for the state’s health departme
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by mcphilip 13y ago
There was an interesting Businessweek article[1] on the sale of pseudoanonymised data to private companies in the US. One Harvard researcher acquired one such database and was able to identify some individuals: >Latanya Sweeney, the dir
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by mcphilip 13y ago
From the fine print on the linked Identity Verification Service page [1]: >Due to the nature of the origin of public record information, the public records and commercially available data sources used in reports may contain errors. Sourc
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Sadly it still sounds unreasonable for the 196 mile (frequently business related) trip between Austin and Dallas. There will probably always be some commonly non-stop traveled distance just outside their range, but I presume it'll be
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by mcphilip 13y ago
>The Justice Department had endorsed the new rules months ago but intelligence officials argued they still revealed too much information. The breakthrough came in recent weeks with a rule requiring new companies to wait two years before
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by mcphilip 13y ago
>Understatement of the year and it's only January. ;) Yeah, an understatement for sure. I can only imagine what will be afoot in December... Wild guess: ransomware used to drive up the price of an alt-coin.
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Not having skin in the game, this is fascinating to follow. It's like watching primitive HFT algorithm battles slowed down to meatspace actor speed. I think it's safe to say that there are some participants in crypto currencies
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I don't think it's possible to evaluate the mindset of the individual attempting the rescue from the side line. All rational thought may have fled his mind and he was acting on pure impulse. The only reason I speculate that might
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I clicked on his profile before replying just to make sure I wasn't countering someone in the know. I made the wrong assumption.

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