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   by neilk 13y ago

   Yeah, I did the same thing. I wanted to be a Ranger, because Aragorn in Lord of the Rings is one, so I manipulated my answers. Plus it's in the center of the graph, so I thought that had to be better. But, I do recall I would get Mage
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   by neilk 13y ago

   What class did you get?
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   by neilk 13y ago

   Here's some meta-advice: most old people are filled with regret, and envy the young. They don't remember what it's really like to be a teenager. They probably don't even know what the real foundations of their successes
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   by neilk 13y ago

   You may be right. But in my opinion it's not the severity of the action that's brought to light, it's who gets hurt. The elites of the US are usually fine with extraconstitutional shenanigans and human rights violations when
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   by neilk 13y ago

   I think you're being unnecessarily negative. I like the metaphor Wyden had: "The side of transparency and openness is starting to put some points on the board." All-or-nothing thinking is not helpful. But you have a point. Sn
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   by neilk 13y ago

   This is from July 7th. Almost a month ago. Maybe I suffer confirmation bias because I'm following the story, but it seems to be picking up steam to me. A few days ago, the US House of Representatives almost passed a law which would hav
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   by neilk 13y ago

   Perfect example. That indicates that at some point, your data passed through a system using Windows-1252 encoding. http://www.i18nqa.com/debug/utf8-debug.html I expect Vimeo used a Linux system to collect your data, an
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   by neilk 13y ago

   Perhaps I was unclear, but I did not claim that there could be one single sanitized version of the data, safe for all use cases. I was saying that you have to do different sanitization for every output.
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   by neilk 13y ago

   If you're going to accept all characters by default, be prepared to sanitize the outputs for every use, not just your website. Maybe you will output a data dump for someone else to print mailouts. Or you'll share the user databa
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    by neilk 13y ago

    Absolutely not. The government is not one unitary piece. The NSA is not the ATF is not the FBI. These capabilities were likely kept secret from other governmental agencies as much as the public. Furthermore intelligence agencies are well aw
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    by neilk 13y ago

    I don't think your analogies apply. We do not demand that a fetus bear the cost of its bad decisions, because it is incapable of making decisions. (But we might start exposing a child to consequences of its bad actions, in proportion,
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    by neilk 13y ago

    Well, these people are wrong. Anxiety is very common on any kind of marijuana. I've had that before too, so my sympathies. You can have a bad trip with pretty much anything. Bad trips on psilocybin are common, especially if you don&#x2
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    by neilk 13y ago

    You can read a lot of different stories about it on Erowid. Anyway a lot of people treat mushrooms as a party drug, so I assume those people don't consider themselves to have had profound visions. There does seem to be a subculture of
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    by neilk 13y ago

    Thanks for clearing that up. I was about to mention that passive income people are almost always extremely vague about what they did. Maybe they are afraid of others picking up on their niche, but I also tend to assume that what they did wa
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    Mobile Cloud Platform to bring rain to Burning Man(kickstarter.com)

    11 points by neilk 13y ago|2 comments
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    by neilk 13y ago

    It would be great if others could attach bounties to certain patents. Of course then the patent examiner would have to pick "winners", answers that helped the most. Also, like Quora, does the StackExchange system allow one to regi
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    by neilk 13y ago

    I don't think that's how it works. Yahoo went all-in with China and has significant staff and hardware and user records located in Chinese jurisdiction. Once you make that initial mistake you're basically fucked when it comes
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    by neilk 13y ago

    To my knowledge, casino gambling has not actually crashed the entire economy. Multiple times. I agree with you that the rules are not really about protecting ordinary people. At this point in history, it's about protecting one set of e
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    by neilk 13y ago

    I don't see what the difference is. Bars and other small businesses are risky investments too.
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    by neilk 13y ago

    There may be other options apart from flat-management versus hierarchical management. Management is basically there to provide accountability. But peer systems can also provide some accountability. Semco has an interesting model because the
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    by neilk 13y ago

    I tested this with a couple of images and you are right. Except for a few errant pixels here and there the images are precisely identical. Sorry for the misinformation.
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    by neilk 13y ago

    Sharpening improves "acutance"; your perception of boundaries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acutance Unsharp masking is mostly aesthetic. For an image like the example, a mountainside, it gives you a feelin
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    by neilk 13y ago

    First of all - a lot of the fonts available on Typekit - actually, anywhere, are, ahem, inspired by H&FJ. This is the first offering that matches the H&FJ to quality. For instance, my favorite font at the moment is Ideal Sans. The c
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    by neilk 13y ago

    This looks very relevant to what I'm looking for. Thanks!
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    by neilk 13y ago

    Thanks. Interesting concept, I'll check it out.
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    by neilk 13y ago

    Good point. I guess to be perfectly relevant to me, it would be a mix of technology entrepreneurship and stuff related to that (languages, tools, platforms, etc.) as well as some mind-expanding CS stuff, and finally the kinds of maker proje
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    Ask HN: Good technology podcasts?

    7 points by neilk 13y ago|10 comments
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    by neilk 13y ago

    You're thinking like a programmer. Learning HTML is not fun at all, for the vast majority of people. It's 2013, Google is a lot smarter and there are more ways to explain the varying quality of community sites. Note how Neocities
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    by neilk 13y ago

    The article misses that he continues to be an important figure in the community (beyond the categorization of hummus). For example, his involvement in the SOPA strike was crucial. Jimmy didn't decide or even initiate anything. But afte
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    by neilk 13y ago

    You've already sussed out that this is ridiculous. Just a little background. In 2013 there is no excuse for a culture of shaming people into working long hours all the time. You should have a culture focused on measuring effectiveness.