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Google to Push AI Smarts to iPhone, New Photo Books Service(bloomberg.com)
3 points by robteix 9y ago|0 comments
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Human rights activist risks prison over refusal to disclose password to police(middleeasteye.net)
312 points by robteix 9y ago|155 comments
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by robteix 9y ago
What makes you think China's growth is fake?
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by robteix 9y ago
But from the company's perspective, all that matters is that it _can_ and _does_ happen. I don't believe anyone is saying every single person coming into the US will get searched. We _know_ they are not. But searches _do_ happen a
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by robteix 9y ago
I'm guessing the number of people who haven't yet signed up for Netflix _and_ who will download the pirate episodes _and_ were going to sign up were it not for the leak is rather small
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by robteix 9y ago
> Are you telling me the countries that could care less about spamming elegant PR pieces every other day about women in technology, have more women engineers? Wouldn't that be natural though? If there was no issue of lack of diversi
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10 Things You Didn't Know About Java(sitepoint.com)
3 points by robteix 10y ago|0 comments
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Atom crashed and my source file ended up blank(discuss.atom.io)
1 points by robteix 10y ago|0 comments
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by robteix 10y ago
You'd also have to factor in the times the human operator has to take over for the autopilot to prevent accidents. Many articles and press releases make it look like self-driving is "already here" when it's actually stil
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by robteix 10y ago
The title is wrong as it includes a piece of the abstract. The original title is "The Most Desirable Passports On Earth Don’t Include America’s." Please someone remove the "visa" at the end as it makes no sense
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by robteix 10y ago
As a young nerdy kid, this movie had such an impact on my at the time I saw it. I pretended I was a robot for months afterwards :)
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by robteix 10y ago
I am the same. I curse a lot in English and French (I live in Quebec) but I can't stand cursing in my native language. I always shared your theory too. I think we are somehow shielded from the cultural baggage of foreign swear words. T
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A Note on Our Lawsuit Against Otto and Uber(medium.com)
2 points by robteix 10y ago|0 comments
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by robteix 10y ago
I'm curious, what was the question?
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by robteix 10y ago
It used to be much more relaxed. After 9/11 things changed and the US started paying more attention to border crossings.
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by robteix 10y ago
In the early 2000s, I was at a friend's place with John "maddog" Hall, who was talking to a group of us about the future of software and the promises of quantum computing. He said something that I always found interesting. He
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by robteix 10y ago
More often than not I read _only_ the comments and don't even bother to click the link unless one of the comments raises my curiosity. The comments are what make HN good.
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by robteix 10y ago
OMG the memories! I did work in MUMPS while I was in college in the early 90s. I had completely forgotten about this. Thanks for that :)
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by robteix 10y ago
> Invite a trusted friend to virtually walk you home if you feel unsafe As a parent, I find this tremendously useful. This is specially important for people in certain countries where walking/driving home at night is realistically d
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by robteix 10y ago
I'm mainly a back-end developer, although I've done frontend as well. I've never encountered this stigma of front-end developers not being developers or at least being lesser than back-end devs. Is this really a thing?
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by robteix 10y ago
Wouldn't that constitute theft, though? The intented recipient is stealing, for sure, but if she wants to send the money and you pretend to deliver but keep it...
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by robteix 10y ago
Just below the headline in hackernews, you'll see a small "toolbar" of links: > N points by someone 2 hours ago | flag | hide | past | web | N comments | favorite The OP was referring to the one that says "web"
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by robteix 10y ago
"Why don’t I just use Google’s thing? "-You think that’s going to be around in 6 months?" Isn't reputation a thing of beauty?
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by robteix 10y ago
PSA: There doesn't seem to be an obvious way to delete one's account. If you're thinking of just giving it a go, keep that in mind.
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by robteix 10y ago
Because the value is actually "5:value", which means it's 5 bytes long. The final 'e' indicates the end of the dictionary, not the value.
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by robteix 10y ago
This article reminds me a lot of my personal experience with cognitive behavioural therapy. I've long suffered from social anxiety and after years of anti-anxiety drugs and some therapy, I finally tried CBT and it was essentially: - wr
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by robteix 12y ago
Me neither. Now I'm sad because it seems like a great magazine :/
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by robteix 12y ago
> AWS is always going to include a premium because they take care of the DevOps portion of your infrastructure. But wouldn't that apply also to SoftLayer?
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Saying Goodbye to Google Services(danielmiessler.com)
3 points by robteix 12y ago|0 comments
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by robteix 12y ago
I wonder if the debate in the media will focus on religious fanaticism or if they'll start victim blaming by arguing that Charlie Hebdo was asking for it, being provocative.

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