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by mhw 11y ago
The bit I found most interesting: "The current excitement could easily be a false alarm. Even if LIGO has a promising signal, it may be a false test signal planted as a drill. It's been done before, in 2010 near the end of LIGO&#x
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by mhw 11y ago
And there go the arguments for putting back doors into commercial encrypted messaging platforms. When encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.
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by mhw 11y ago
And also the poster of this item, presumably.
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by mhw 11y ago
Wow, that's great. One immediate bit of insight from the top right of the chart is how the modern email client is almost universally an iOS app, with other platforms if you're lucky.
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by mhw 11y ago
> How is this any different than Coke building up a trusted brand over 100 years? If you want to compete in the drinks market, you need to find a different vertical (sports, energy, fruit, health, etc.) and build up your own trusted bran
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by mhw 11y ago
One problem I can see in all this is that the trust networks that the sharing economy is built on are all (currently) privately owned and exploited, and network effects mean that it is very difficult for any competitor to get established in
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by mhw 11y ago
From a different article that's on the home page at the moment: "There was a wonderful quote from CBS this autumn that they’re less worried about PVR ad-skipping ‘because people are too busy with their smartphones to bother skippi
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by mhw 11y ago
Good question - it's obviously still widely enough used that the need to decode the format lives on. Many years ago I wrote the code to support PBM/PGM/PPM images for Mozilla ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show
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by mhw 11y ago
In a similar vein, I generate my invoices using this Jekyll plugin that I wrote: https://gitHub.com/mhw/jekyll-invoice
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by mhw 11y ago
I've had pretty good experiences so far with Ahoy - https://ankane.github.io/ahoy/
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by mhw 11y ago
Chorus already is open source: https://github.com/Chorus/chorus
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by mhw 11y ago
Hmm; this might make it more attractive to investigate Chorus, the Rails-based analytics application that Pivotal also open-sourced ( https://github.com/Chorus/chorus ). It was always awkward to figure out what component
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New EC2 Run Command – Remote Instance Management at Scale(aws.amazon.com)
1 points by mhw 11y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 11y ago
I think part of the reason that it might be different this time round is because using web technologies for desktop applications gives access to a much broader pool of UI/UX talent to help build something that works well and looks nice
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by mhw 11y ago
This is obviously Google's response to Facebook's Instant Articles and Apple's News. Behind all the technology is the main business goal of delivering a content platform that has the sponsoring company's ad network baked
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by mhw 11y ago
I think you've got to look at this as a process of gradual refinement in which both government and industry participate. The government wants to achieve its overall objectives of reducing emissions over a long period of time (decades);
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by mhw 11y ago
We'll find out when we can compare the fine that VW gets with the one that GM got for selling cars that actually killed their occupants.
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by mhw 11y ago
Don't underestimate the simple effect that publishing the code will bring. If a car company knew that all the source code that went into the car would be published they would have to be comfortable with what might be in there because t
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by mhw 11y ago
Have a look at Alteryx ( http://www.alteryx.com/ ) - it's pretty close to what you're describing, I think.
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by mhw 11y ago
I use git primarily on Linux, but I don't use an IDE. I frequently use 'git gui' to prepare commits - I particularly like the ability to select individual lines from a diff to include in a commit, breaking apart multiple chan
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by mhw 11y ago
This is by way of follow-up to the post last month ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9723066 ) from the Algolia blog about data loss on some SSDs (notably Samsung). The original Algolia article has since been updated to
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[PATCH] raid0: data corruption when using trim(spinics.net)
1 points by mhw 11y ago|1 comments
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New security technologies for connected embedded devices(blog.imgtec.com)
1 points by mhw 11y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 11y ago
zerotier-one ( https://www.zerotier.com/ ) is useful to create a consistent network between individual nodes in different places. You can then use consistent hostnames to connect to a given node on the zerotier network instea
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by mhw 11y ago
No, that would be s/o/u/g
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by mhw 11y ago
> You are saying running X makes no sense because your X server and client are on the same machine. No, I'm saying that it's hard to properly understand the advantages Plan 9 (or NFS or X or Hadoop) brings if all you have is on
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by mhw 11y ago
I think at least part of the problem was the hardware required to run a more complete installation where you'd start to see the benefits of the approach. As the paper outlines, a Plan 9 network needed at least a CPU server, file server
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by mhw 11y ago
> The public interest of the regulation is just a cover story. It's a single data point, but crimes committed by the drivers of unlicensed cabs in London are a big enough problem for there to be awareness campaigns like this one: &l
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Justice for Edward Snowden(amnesty.org.uk)
4 points by mhw 11y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 11y ago
What strikes me about this investigation is that it clearly demonstrates the value of having access to the source code for your full stack, and also openness in the specification of how the protocols work and how everything fits together. C

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