pkinsky

17 ms·

91.
by pkinsky 11y ago
Real-life targeted advertising: bus-stop ads that scan your face, look up your private browsing history, and try to sell you the complete works of Nickelback or something equally embarrassing.
92.
by pkinsky 11y ago
Google could afford to offer evernote as a free service, and use it as a source of labelled data.
93.
by pkinsky 11y ago
>...do better city planning than people who have decades or perhaps their entire lives invested in doing so. What exactly about the current state of SF makes you think the people doing city planning here are in any way competent?
94.
by pkinsky 11y ago
Sorry, I'm trying to point out that gendered harassment targeting men is very common online. I've edited my post for clarity.
95.
by pkinsky 11y ago
I know, think about the kind of fedora wearing, basement dwelling neckbeard loser that makes posts attacking entire genders! /sarcasm
96.
by pkinsky 11y ago
Is Urbit comparable to Ethereum?
97.
by pkinsky 11y ago
There was a nonzero cost to making this post. Why did you bother?
98.
by pkinsky 11y ago
Fortunately in this year 2015 we have a thing called hyperlinks via which evidence for assertions can be easily provided. If you treat op-eds from 'unreliable' sources as unreliable, fine. If you refuse to even check well-cited ar
99.
by pkinsky 11y ago
Ok, so let's say you don't agree to participate and suddenly stop getting government contracts for some notionally unrelated reason. What do you do?
100.
by pkinsky 11y ago
Gee, I'm glad the US government takes so much care to follow not just the letter but the spirit of the law.
101.
by pkinsky 11y ago
Find a lawyer.
102.
by pkinsky 11y ago
The Bitcoin computer by 21, maybe. I hate to come into a thread about something cool that someone built just to complain about the name, but it just doesn't scan.
103.
by pkinsky 11y ago
Not sure I like the name, I came into this thread expecting to read about a computer built using 21 BTC worth of components.
104.
by pkinsky 11y ago
He made a slightly distasteful joke that included the word bomb. Is MLH trying to mimic the TSA?
105.
by pkinsky 11y ago
The vector space of appearances is probably pruned based on the facial features you see growing up. I doubt it's directly tied to one's facial features.
106.
by pkinsky 11y ago
A cause can be moral, and right, and successful, and still attract shills attempting to jump on the bandwagon. I'm gay, I'm really happy with how LGBT rights are progressing, but that doesn't mean I have to like it when Frito
107.
by pkinsky 11y ago
If you're talking about widgets that track things like CDN performance and errors, like NewRelic's[1], then... maybe. I love that people are blocking tracking widgets, but there are some companies that provide useful gadgets that
108.
by pkinsky 11y ago
>Whenever you update your site, just do step 4 again, and IPNS will make sure anyone asking for your peedID gets the hash of your latest site. s/peedID/peerID :)
109.
by pkinsky 11y ago
Depends on the class. There's a series of excellent Coursera Scala courses taught by the creator of the language, those will stay on my resume for a while.
110.
by pkinsky 11y ago
I actually don't know. Since it's static HTML and assets and IPFS is still in beta they might host their webpage the old-fashioned way.
111.
by pkinsky 11y ago
This is actually a pretty cool idea (although perhaps badly explained, given the other comments here). Here's how it could work: IPFS ("In some ways, IPFS is similar to the Web, but IPFS could be seen as a single BitTorrent swarm,
112.
by pkinsky 11y ago
I can't wait for pallet-loads of fire phones to hit the market at scrap metal prices.
113.
by pkinsky 11y ago
>The crimes he's charged with are actually not eligible for the death sentence and the Attorney General promised not to seek the death penalty even if future additional charges do make that possible. Not really sure what else you wa
114.
As You Sow Files Notice Of Legal Action Against Soylent Super Food(news.yahoo.com)
75 points by pkinsky 11y ago|51 comments
115.
by pkinsky 11y ago
Fortunately my skills are in demand enough that hopefully I will never be forced to sell my labor to such a company.
116.
by pkinsky 11y ago
>Calico A clean line between Calico and the advertising business can only be a good thing. Hopefully this means they can get on with analyzing every genome they can get their hands on.
117.
by pkinsky 11y ago
I'd guess that patient ratings (of doctors, maybe not ER rooms) correlate with the doctor's willingness to prescribe all the drugs if asked, which could be what we're seeing here.
118.
by pkinsky 11y ago
>The term isn't even usually applied in contexts like this one. This here is usually called moderation or content policy or editorial standards etc. And most people don't consider it a bad thing. This is false. Facebook's
119.
by pkinsky 11y ago
>Machine intelligence frowns upon your silly attempts at jamming its uplinks. Predator drones and other autonomous, existing military kit already use high frequency satellite communications techniques that are essentially jam proof. US m
120.
by pkinsky 11y ago
Some context: tumblr feminism includes shining examples of humanity that fight the patriarchy by doing things like doxxing trans women. The quoted post is defending feminism by pointing out that the ridiculous tumblr wing of it doesn't

More ›