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by provost 9y ago
> Akins also alleged that the defendants violated his rights by removing videos he had posted on the CPD Facebook page, by ordering him to stop filming the filing of a citizen complaint in the CPD lobby, and by posting in the police depa
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by provost 9y ago
My favorite comparison is the Apollo guidance computer's memory (though completely different comparison from your GUI and game description). But the AGC is absolutely fascinating. > 16-bit wordlength, 2048 words RAM (magnetic core m
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by provost 9y ago
No questions from me, but I've met Josh and the rest of the redteam. I hope they are doing well. Lots of good folks in salesforce security =)
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by provost 9y ago
The AMEX redemptions are some of the worst, and they are losing partners. They also didn't auto-reimburse me for the airline credit when I followed all their instructions. They also didn't reimburse me for Uber credit -- apparentl
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by provost 9y ago
When the Chase Sapphire Reserve first arrived, it had a 100k bonus. They've since decreased it to 50k.
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by provost 9y ago
> Blond Sight Blindsight* ... I was trying to CTRL+F for "Blond" and couldn't fint it =). Finally found the link here: http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm And downloaded it. Thanks.
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by provost 9y ago
You should visit the headquarters of some slow-moving enterprises.
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by provost 9y ago
Assuming that a merit-based system is appropriate for admissions, can we remove race & name (so race can't be derived) from the admission forms? Then have a third party verify the student's ranking at how the student performed
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by provost 9y ago
> Amazon EC2 is hosted in multiple locations world-wide. These locations are composed of regions and Availability Zones. Each region is a separate geographic area. Each region has multiple, isolated locations known as Availability Zones.
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by provost 9y ago
Interesting -- It still shows "NO UNPLANNED CHAIN SPLIT DETECTED" on https://www.btcforkmonitor.info , which a lot of folks are using to monitor the fork (from the other HN thread).
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HBO got hacked and some Game of Thrones materials are bubbling up online(techcrunch.com)
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by provost 9y ago
Thanks for linking to this. FYI -- It's not immediately clear, but the details of how this works and the status checks are provided at the bottom of the webpage.
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by provost 9y ago
I recall Digg did a complete redesign for version 4, even the backend systems and database. And the users abandoned it shortly after launch.
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by provost 9y ago
Oh wow, thank you for pointing that out! I've completely missed that for years. Do you know when they added it?
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by provost 9y ago
I wish HN offered a search function, but they don't. Fortunately, the folks at Algolia offer a search tool for HN here: https://hn.algolia.com
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by provost 9y ago
> by a person that owes nothing to other potential customers Yet you feel jaded by the other reviewers. You don't owe me anything, but I would encourage you to go back and leave a negative review if the product isn't worth the
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A Message to Garcia (1899) [pdf](courses.csail.mit.edu)
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by provost 9y ago
When the homepage was 'flying' over the landscape, I was dreaming how cool that would look as the background for my TV.
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Security startup Tanium has been accused of a horrible culture(businessinsider.com)
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Ask HN: Do HN upvotes really start at 0 instead of 1?
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by provost 9y ago
The title is inaccurate. This is known as the Mother-of-all-bombs (MOAB unofficially, or GBU 43/B officially). For people who like comparisons, Russia tested the Father-of-all-Bombs in 2007, which is believed to be 4x more powerful. Th
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by provost 10y ago
That's my point... the things to be "fact checked" will often have weak evidence, especially for the first few days/weeks.
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by provost 10y ago
I want to think about this both optimistically and pessimistically. It's a great start and hope it leads to improvement, but this has the same psychological effect as reading a click-bait headline (fake news in itself) -- unless reader
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by provost 10y ago
History repeats itself. Seems like Twitter's history has repeated itself very quickly.
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by provost 10y ago
If anyone is looking for the legal perspective, I believe the Supreme Court's "Texas v White" is the pivotal case. From Wikipedia [1] : >> In deciding the merits of the bond issue, the court further held that the Consti
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by provost 10y ago
This "discussion" has been going on for a long time. Here is an article posted to HN back in 2011 that you might be interested in: https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/b...
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by provost 10y ago
It looks like the model has interoperability for both shared and private, but there is only one reference I can find to private annotations: Source: https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/
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by provost 10y ago
This is interesting.. source?
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by provost 10y ago
As someone who hasn't had the opportunity to use Gitlab, could you expand on why you "think Gitlab is the best thing happened to OSS"?
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by provost 10y ago
Cool - any plans to include European cities? Digital nomads would like to be able to look up the prices with ease. Also, as a Texan, I'd personally be interested in Dallas and Austin

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