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by pcl 10y ago
I read it to mean "on HN".
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by pcl 10y ago
Sure, but the chrome around the image is still "trusted attachment" chrome. I get it that the browser ppl will say only their chrome is trusted, but when someone is using your app, your app's internal ui affordances receive t
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by pcl 10y ago
Bear in mind that Jira is hugely customizable. So, saying "I use Jira" is more like saying "I drive a Ford" than like saying "I drive a Mustang." Your experience will depend on the plugins you've installed
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by pcl 10y ago
Follow-up coverage from yesterday's announcement, discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13352155
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Uber Extends an Olive Branch to Local Governments: Its Data(nytimes.com)
1 points by pcl 10y ago|1 comments
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by pcl 10y ago
The next paragraph: "And yet... could we be missing something here? While they can’t see much of their own kaleidoscopic skins, they can clearly sense inside what they are doing. Remote cameras on the seabed show octopuses crackling wi
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by pcl 10y ago
I'd say it reads pretty well. I didn't notice the atypical punctuation until I read your comment.
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by pcl 10y ago
> I avoid contributing to (or even using ) projects with a Contributor License Agreement. That's a pretty tough thing to do. Most (all?) Apache projects require a CLA, as does Go, Java, Mysql, Cassandra... It's pretty standard
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by pcl 10y ago
Other discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13313459
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by pcl 10y ago
I believe the OP was objecting to the notion that FACTA requires US citizens residing abroad to go to great lengths to document their foreign income, to prove that they aren't doing anything nefarious. Note that this is different than
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Bid for Access to Amazon Echo Audio in Murder Case Raises Privacy Concerns(nytimes.com)
1 points by pcl 10y ago|1 comments
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by pcl 10y ago
Related coverage from earlier this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13240497
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In a Retreat, Uber Ends Its Self-Driving Car Experiment in San Francisco(nytimes.com)
2 points by pcl 10y ago|1 comments
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by pcl 10y ago
If you just want to beat it over the head with a stick, you can simply turn indexing off on a per-volume basis: sudo mdutil -i off / You can also exclude certain directories or volumes in the Privacy section of Spotlight prefe
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by pcl 10y ago
In my experience, spotlight re-indexing mostly happens if you run out of disk space and the OS decides to drop spotlights caches in favor of swap space. If you keep an eye on the size of your swap files (in the /var/vm dir), you c
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by pcl 10y ago
Then what alternative would you propose? Hmm. I'm not really sure, as I'm certainly not a rhetorical pro. But I feel like defining new negative terms and discussing them, rather than re-casting other terms, would be a good start
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by pcl 10y ago
Yes, RMS's obsession with clever wordplay is really a great example of Newspeak. It's always bothered me, but I hadn't made the connection to 1984 until you said it. This frustrates me, since he's otherwise fighting a g
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by pcl 10y ago
The article is not affiliated with the BBC -- it's published on bbsdocumentaries.com.
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Solving a Mystery Behind the Deadly ‘Tsunami of Molasses’ of 1919(nytimes.com)
74 points by pcl 10y ago|20 comments
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by pcl 10y ago
A good question. From the article, one of the things the guidelines call for is that manufacturers "develop technology to identify when the devices are being used by a driver while driving. That would ensure the limits are placed on d
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Codatlas: a web-based code search and browsing platform(codatlas.com)
3 points by pcl 10y ago|2 comments
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by pcl 10y ago
Having read deeper (see the links in my response elsewhere in this subthread), the details are in line with the generous reading of the headline.
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by pcl 10y ago
Page 8 of their 2014 annual report defines "net revenue" thusly: "For purposes of this specific public benefit purpose, “net revenue” means Patagonia’s total sales of goods and services and revenues from other operations, le
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by pcl 10y ago
What's your source? The link says sales , as does the referenced letter from the CEO. Edit: Their tweets further point towards 100% of sales, not net profit: https://twitter.com/themartincox/status/8010975126
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by pcl 10y ago
But parallel construction is still a thing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/03/10/...
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by pcl 10y ago
This is still a common thing. Over the last 5 years, I've opened up my dryer and my dishwasher to fix up problems with them, and both included schematics. Both are about 10 years old. This was useful in the case of the dryer -- I was t
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by pcl 10y ago
Léon Theremin also invented the musical instrument bearing his name: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin It's best known for its otherworldly sounds. But the control mechanism is relevant here: two antennas a
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How Ancient Humans Reached Remote South Pacific Islands(nytimes.com)
89 points by pcl 10y ago|44 comments
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by pcl 10y ago
I found this to be particularly interesting: > If you give us your streaming preferences, we can weed out content that does not appear on your particular services. IIRC, Netflix typically shuts down external show-aggregation services.
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Introducing Watching, a New TV and Film Website(nytimes.com)
1 points by pcl 10y ago|1 comments

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