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by skue 12y ago
Dear Kate is another company has been working in this space for years: http://www.dearkates.com/pages/technology Their CEO Julie is great - studied chemical engineering at Brown, was very active in the local RI startup
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by skue 12y ago
Hopefully there aren't many people designing data models with NULL primary keys. However, if SQLite never enforced non-NULL behavior then it's certainly possible that along the way some applications could have written an errant re
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by skue 12y ago
> I’m pleased that I was a Heartbleed hipster, dissing OpenSSL before it was cool (i.e. ten days before Heartbleed emerged into the light) but I don’t pretend to be a security expert. When did it become appropriate to diss open source
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by skue 12y ago
So maybe it's a good thing Americans are becoming more buoyant? I'm joking of course, although the number of unintentional drownings in the US has been dropping steadily since the 80s, and researchers have not been able to fully e
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by skue 12y ago
I used to feel that blocking online ads was freeloading, but I am increasingly convinced that the online ads are a failed experiment and it's our duty to kill them -- especially when the industry can't even follow through on water
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by skue 12y ago
No, this is different. In the past, tech companies might comply with requests from prosecutors to not inform customers that their data has been requested. This story claims that tech companies now require a gag order from a judge (FISC or o
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by skue 12y ago
I assume you searched and discovered that ditto is also a BSD command for copying files, which is included on all Macs?[1] This conflict may not be as confusing as the original name. I gather from the docs that you never invoke your versi
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by skue 13y ago
Yes, the umbrella term for this HTTP server push is Comet[1], and it's been around in various forms for years. But standardizing this in the form of server-sent events is a very Good Thing, especially with support baked into modern bro
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by skue 13y ago
> Is this a joke? > > If you mean the 6,000 lines of working code, then no, I poured hundreds upon hundreds of very serious hours into that. But if you're referring to the fact it's woefully underdocumented, adds conside
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by skue 13y ago
So the NSA targets the personal online accounts and personal computers of sysadmins who just happen to work at major network providers. These are people who have done absolutely nothing wrong, other than being in the way of an out of contro
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by skue 13y ago
If you're going to provide a TL;DR for others, it's best to read to the end first... telnet was used as an early example, but the writer went on to explain how to target ssh too.
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by skue 13y ago
http://www.letmewikipediathatforyou.com/?q=fomite
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by skue 13y ago
As someone who trained recently (after hand washing became a widespread practice), I can say that I developed a consciousness I didn't have previously. Though I don't practice now, I still get this strong sense that my hands are u
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by skue 13y ago
Wow, I just noticed your nick and wish I could give you more upvotes for that alone! It looks like you have a background in epidemiology, so not sure if you are seriously concerned or posting for the pure perfection of deploying your nick.
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by skue 13y ago
1. A QR code on the bed would still be a layer of indirection and if it's patient specific, something else to print and get lost. Patients are already given bracelets with bar codes. But there are many reasons why they may not have use
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by skue 13y ago
This appears to be the video that upset the FAA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZnJeuAja-4#t=17 And here is the complaint the FAA originally filed, which includes flying through crowded streets, flying through a tunnel wit
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by skue 13y ago
The consequences of printing excess money during major financial meltdowns is something famous Nobel laureates still debate. The consequences of letting large segments of the population lose their life savings is a bit starker.
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by skue 13y ago
> In my opinion using ad blockers is borderline piracy. Once upon a time I agreed with you... now I view all online ads as threats. Unfortunately, marketing companies have gotten greedy and the degree to which they fingerprint and track
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by skue 13y ago
VRML? Bah, back then I was still hoping GopherVR would restore gopher as the primary protocol for the Internet. (This must be what it feels like to realize you're old...)
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by skue 13y ago
Yes, but I don't understand your point... Did you watch the rally to restore sanity? Did you watch Jon Stewart's appearance on the original Crossfire? It's not one side or the other that's the problem, or even that all p
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by skue 13y ago
> Great to see the Democrats out in front on this one! This is one of the few issues where there is no "us vs. them" -- where right-wing libertarians and left-wing civil libertarians actually agree. And if enough of us could
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by skue 13y ago
Of course, no one would dispute ordering a CT for a trauma patient if the presentation warrants. But the article was talking about the increase in CT usage over the past 20 years. That's largely been driven (in the US) by misaligned in
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by skue 13y ago
No, he's saying that anyone who checked their order status shouldn't notice (by design), but maybe that part of the process failed this time. Also, that failure might be technical or intentional. As I mentioned on another subthr
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by skue 13y ago
Fair enough, and thanks for the thoughtful reply. I didn't mean to misrepresent your position -- I took "The obvious explanation here is that the USPS fucked up" to mean you belived it couldn't be otherwise, rather than
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by skue 13y ago
At this point aren't we all just guessing? Reading this thread I'm surprised how strongly many folks I respect (like you - viva FQ&A!) are insisting this could not be an NSA screw up. The truth is we don't know, so why ru
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by skue 13y ago
I am creating a web browser for iOS that focuses on online privacy. Like many of us, I use a number if privacy-focused plugins in my desktop browser (ABP, NoScript, Lightbeam, self-destructing cookies, etc.) but I also find myself increasin
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by skue 13y ago
As someone who would have loved this a decade ago but whose instruments have mostly collected dust the last several years, I'm a bit surprised that this is packaged as a traditional pedal. Do musicians still travel and perform with a c
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by skue 13y ago
Thanks for replying! That's what I love about HN - someone almost always has an expert/inside answer. I gather when it's that fast and that big, you might not need that 10x multiple.
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by skue 13y ago
Huh. It's clearly a huge number, but AirWatch just raised a $200MM Series A (+$25MM add-on) last year on a $1B valuation, and everyone was talking about them going public. I wonder how happy the investors are with the 50% return on a 1
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by skue 13y ago
Thank you so much for sharing this, for making it open source, and even more so for documenting it so well! I've used F-Script (on the Mac) whenever I needed something like this. However, the Smalltalk syntax seems to limit its appeal,

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