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by omni 13y ago
I know very little about how Linux works internally, and I use proprietary video card drivers in Ubuntu. Given Linux's internal handling of driver binaries, how much damage would these be able to cause if they contained malicious code?
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by omni 13y ago
Explanation of this metaphor for people like me who had never heard it before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel%27s_nose edit: fixed link, whoops
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by omni 13y ago
I think Outbox even fails to meet the much lower bar of naming your product something that is minimally searchable. Trying to find technical help for this product through general web search would be a nightmare.
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by omni 13y ago
Sorry for coming across as a jerk. This is just my opinion, but I highly prefer striking-through the original content if you need to make meaningful changes to an article after its publication. Good on you for the post and your reasoned res
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by omni 13y ago
Did the author change the article after this comment got so highly ranked here? If you were indeed directly quoting the article, then it has changed quite a bit. Shame on the author of the article if he changed it. We can't have a meaningfu
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by omni 13y ago
Do you mean kind of like the inverse of recycling, or does recycling have some dark secret that I'm blissfully unaware of?
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by omni 13y ago
> Why would a government that has "sold out to corporations" restrict the sale of lipstick and alcohol? Governments are groups of people that are at least partially restrained by the wills and opinions of other, much larger groups of pe
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by omni 13y ago
I think Irregardless meant that this is a job that a lot of people dream about having when they are children. Landing such a job as an adult would serve to realize that dream. This makes it pretty devastating if the job turns out to be a di
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Dagobah: Dependency-based Job Scheduling in Python(github.com)
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by omni 13y ago
I can think of at least 113 other reasons as well. I'd imagine a fatal crash would have had much more impact on consumer attitudes towards the Concorde than it would towards other, more "conventional" plane models. http://en.wikipedia.org/
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by omni 13y ago
A lot of your short comment history is about Tonido. If you're affiliated with them in some way, you should disclose it when you talk about them on HN.
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by omni 13y ago
The article states that the study was released by The Boston Foundation [1] and MIT's School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative [2]. That said, your comment basically amounts to an ad hominem attack against an article and related study
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Folium: Python Data. Leaflet.js Maps.(github.com)
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by omni 13y ago
All of his points work just fine for me in Hipchat, except possibly the third bullet depending on what exactly you need. Hipchat does have search, though.
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by omni 13y ago
I've had a few "brief" takeoffs lasting more than 2 hours. I'm sure other people here have as well.
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by omni 13y ago
Because those devices help distract us from how awful the entire experience of flying is.
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by omni 13y ago
> The probability that the problem was cleared up coincidentally rather than as the result of one passenger turning off their phone is very low. If I understand your first sentence correctly, you're saying that there is a high probabili
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by omni 13y ago
This is really neat, but the magnify effect makes it absolutely infuriating to hover over one of the points to see its label.
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by omni 13y ago
Which country are you in? I wasn't aware that any non-authoritarian countries had complete bans on all types of ammunition.
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by omni 13y ago
Do you have any points to offer other than useless snark? You have multiple comments challenging your initial claim that Silk Road is rent-seeking and you have yet to offer any sort of defense of your position.
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by omni 13y ago
All they would have to do is ask; surely someone would be willing to build something simple like this for them as a contribution.
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by omni 13y ago
I've got a Raspberry Pi set up emulating a bunch of NES and SNES games like you plan on doing. I had to overclock it pretty far to get SNES working at all, and higher-end games (particularly those using the FX chip like Star Fox) really str
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by omni 13y ago
They are using the term "middle-aged" to describe a person between the ages of 35 and 64.[1] The "Baby Boom" is generally described as having occurred between 1946 and 1964.[2] Therefore, there will still be middle-aged Baby Boomers until 2
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by omni 13y ago
Even with more data points, I'm not convinced that App Store ranking is a good independent variable. At best, this seems like a very poor proxy for ad store impressions or downloads. However, I would be very, very surprised if the relations
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by omni 13y ago
Cool / "good" projects get attacked all the time. I suspect this is because the attacker is guaranteed an audience on HN to marvel in the results of their work. I think this is probably simpler and more likely than the tinfoil hat theory.
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by omni 13y ago
I do not think these are equivalent. A company is a hierarchical structure of individuals, with oversight and management relationships. Reddit is just a bunch of unaffiliated individuals talking to each other.
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by omni 13y ago
Or, more accurately, "Student falsely IDed by some users on massive popular sites Reddit and 4chan." I will never understand why it's acceptable to talk about the actions of a small percentage of a user base as if they represent the entire
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by omni 14y ago
The real story here is that Twitter, and other digital outlets of major "trusted" news sources, need two factor authentication.
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by omni 14y ago
Ouch, what an unfortunate acronym. Hopefully people will start using BTS instead.
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by omni 14y ago
What an average developer would be happy with is not relevant in any way to a multi-billion dollar company with investors to answer to.

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