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by mcphilip 13y ago
Solyent brings out the cynic in me for some reason -- Rosa Labs and accompanying boilerplate just sounds like an attempt at preemptively legitimizing Soylent as a staggeringly important food replacement; the list of investors are simply bla
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Really lame to attempt to name and shame someone by (ultimately) mocking their credentials and linking to code without context. Sure, some of that JS is bad, but I've seen much worse code that has been successfully deployed to solve p
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I love reading about the development of the doom series. One of my early exposures to reading non-trivial code came from studying the (very surprisingly complex) damage output of the BFG9000: http://www.gamers.org/docs&#x2F
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Now that Kim has a job at Microsoft, a read through of the discussion of the original presentation without this context could be interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4195208
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I don't see how the pretense that the NSA actively avoids snooping on U.S. citizens can be seriously maintained after this revelation. It's becoming increasingly clear that intelligence agencies want the ability to access all dat
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by mcphilip 13y ago
The technical details of how this series of exploits were identified, much less applied, is staggeringly complex. I love speed and/or glitch runs and I can't imagine this one being dethroned anytime soon.
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by mcphilip 13y ago
RIP Lou Reed, one of my favorite musicians. The song Heroin has so much dissonance and noise throughout that it's almost revolting to listen to. Over time it grew into one of my favorite songs in that I learned to find beauty in the
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by mcphilip 13y ago
IMO, LinkedIn has a history of enough bad business practices that it should be shunned like a pariah and treated with complete suspicion that they may have ulterior motives in designing this MITM app. I have never joined LinkedIn and have n
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I'd like to know why this was deleted too, but don't expect an answer I encourage HN users to read the Forbes piece. A TL;DR is that PracticeFusion enabled an opt-out only patient survey feature that many physicians didn't e
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by mcphilip 13y ago
They also amassed over $3 billion net short positions spread across 75 stocks during those 45 minutes causing significant losses to investors with stop loss positions triggered that would not have happened without Knight's erroneous tr
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I think this is an interesting example but it doesn't address the concerns that a single actor could modify the program behavior at will, making the system hard to trust if multiple parties are trying to benefit from it. I believe a k
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by mcphilip 13y ago
After much experimentation giving interviews for server side positions, I've come to favor questions that involve routine real world problems that can be handled in increasingly sophisticated ways. One example I use is getting the cand
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I haven't found a schedule online for who's speaking at what time. Is that available?
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I work in risk analytics and think this comment is dead on. Tools such as Splunk can wrap metadata facilitating analysis around arbitrary input data (e.g. admin logs, vulnerability scan results, etc). I expect that such tools will reduce
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Is the inconviently deep tree data structure housing an OO framework really so important that it should be discussed front and center on HN? Isn't the function of the framework more interesting? Honest question.
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by mcphilip 13y ago
It actually made my skin crawl reading about it. Never had that reaction to such a story before. Interesting... Edit: It's the BTC aspect that's worrisome. Ransomeware is nothing new -- AIDS Information Trojan did it in 1989, b
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by mcphilip 13y ago
While I'd like to think I'm sophisticated enough about security to avoid this, it makes me concerned about the vast majority of people (e.g. my parents, my girlfriend) that are clueless about such dangers. Are there any recommenda
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Spread Networks invested an estimated $300 million in building a new fiber line from Chicago to New York in order to shave 3 off ms. However, they found out after completing the line that faster speeds were already being achieved by microw
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by mcphilip 13y ago
It's comments such as this that bubble up to the top of the comment chain that often makes me wonder if only a minority of HN users have deployed to enterprise environments with rigid infrastructure policies. In my more cynical moods I
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by mcphilip 13y ago
So essentially a Huffington Post esque scope of coverage to lure the masses hoping to ultimately redirect their attention to internally produced ProPublica quality investigative journalism?
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by mcphilip 13y ago
>A novel point they make is that some group (probably the creators of Bitcoin) control 25% of the money supply. I have not read the paper yet so cannot comment but I was under the impression 95% of Satoshi's coins have never moved s
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Indeed. I'd hate to think my tweets like "Black Eyed Beauty #AddAWordRuinAMovie" would be used without context to build up a personality profile. In general, this research doesn't seem much more sophisticated than buildi
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The perfect epitaph for establishment journalism(theguardian.com)
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I've yet to work on a non open source project where the i18n messages aren't a mess. Am I the only one not really surprised at this code?
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by mcphilip 13y ago
One obvious value of this "gossip rag": investors evaluating Twitter's IPO getting an idea of the volatility in Twitter's management.
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I know of few non-entry level developers of any reasonable skill level that would seriously consider this one-sided of an interview process unless there was some clear potential reward. Getting a job at instacart hardly sounds like somethi
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by mcphilip 13y ago
First off, I recommend you ask a licensed professional that type of question. My experience being switched from Adderall XR to Vyvanse a few years ago when it first came to market in the U.S. has been positive. Vyvanse seems less addictive
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by mcphilip 13y ago
For a much clearer visual explanation, see this BBC video on the subject: http://youtu.be/Nc4yrFXw20Q
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Gaming narratives often jingoistic. News at 11... No one's claiming the Zelda series gives Dostoyevsky-esque insights into societal structures.
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by mcphilip 13y ago
It was at mid second page with 10 up votes after 35 minutes when I made this post originally.

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