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Wicked (2)(antipope.org)
2 points by sorbus 15y ago|0 comments
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Warrantless "emergency" surveillance by DOJ up 400%(paranoia.dubfire.net)
64 points by sorbus 15y ago|10 comments
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by sorbus 15y ago
All I see is that this isn't in large-scale production yet (though chips do exist and have been verified to work), and likely won't be marketed to the general public. Preferring it to be distributed with information is great - I entirely ag
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by sorbus 15y ago
> I merely want the test to come with very easy to understand instructions so that people know what results really mean. Do you see any evidence that it will not?
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by sorbus 15y ago
... when the list of things being analyzed is "Android, Eclipse, the Linux kernel, MeeGo, Firefox, Qt, Symbian, and WebKit."
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Gmail for mobile, now sharper and smoother(gmailblog.blogspot.com)
1 points by sorbus 15y ago|0 comments
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by sorbus 15y ago
A single paragraph insulting a work does not a convincing argument make (perhaps the fact that it starts off very slow is good in introductory textbooks?). Nor does an assertion of how Scheme is "considerably less complicated and idiosyncra
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by sorbus 15y ago
So SICP is awesome. The article makes that assertion in the third paragraph, and then continues making that point for most of the rest of the article. It does not, however, make a good, convincing argument for why "Dive Into Python" is sign
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by sorbus 15y ago
Based on what they publicly said, it would probably be something like granting a license to anyone who asked which would be revoked if they sued Google. It would probably have been very much like the license for WebM[1]. [1] http://www.web
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by sorbus 15y ago
"best freight rail infrastructure in the world" and "completely inadequate rail infrastructure" are, sadly, not mutually exclusive.
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by sorbus 15y ago
If you think that it's good content, that people on HN would enjoy, then you should submit it - I would rather that my upvote goes to the person who actually wrote the content. If you get upvoted, then you were right and should trust your j
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by sorbus 15y ago
While I'm not an expert in the field, the reason it's not used for standard WiFi networks is probably both that connections would drop out really frequently and that it doesn't scale well (or at all) to large numbers of clients. Directional
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by sorbus 15y ago
Congratulations, you've just reinvented geothermal power!
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by sorbus 15y ago
If it's not in the trash, and if you haven't made a back up (something I should really do, come to think of it), then there doesn't seem to be much you can do. Bother Google about it, I suppose, they might still have the data around somewhe
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by sorbus 15y ago
You might want to read the guidelines again. Relevant things are "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." Also, "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something
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by sorbus 15y ago
Or, you know, you could donate money to them[1]. Which I'm sure they would find much more useful than people "thanking" them by pestering them to do more work. [1] I find it really odd, based on the headline, that the article doesn't even m
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by sorbus 15y ago
So she's using pirates as an excuse to only release an app for iOS. And with that aim in mind, she had her developers write applications that would "transfer to other systems". That doesn't make sense. At all.
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by sorbus 15y ago
The key sentence from this article: "Realistically though, this is just a best guess made by Stanford professor Jonathan Koomey."
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by sorbus 15y ago
None of them work for me on Windows 7 / Chrome. My computer is being sent to 96.17.148.105 or .120 when I ping www.bing.com (pinging bing.com goes to 65.55.175.254, which times out), in case that's useful to anyone - since this is only happ
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by sorbus 15y ago
Sounds great! Not something I would use (I don't get enough emails for it to be worth it), but still like a useful service for people who do, or who set up a filter to catch low-priority emails (mailing lists and whatnot) so that they don't
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by sorbus 15y ago
I don't think that I was boasting. However, if it being seen as boasting leads to more companies allowing one-click unsubscribes, then I see it as a good thing. I generally don't just mark messages as spam because I don't want them in my in
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by sorbus 15y ago
Seconded. If I can't unsubscribe from an email with one click (at the very most two), then I mark it as spam.
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by sorbus 15y ago
So then why isn't she going to accept one of the offers of help, which might have included a place to stay for a while? It's perfectly understandable that she doesn't want to be in her apartment, but she seems to want us to believe that she
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by sorbus 15y ago
So like lulzsec, anonymous, or all of the other groups, but operating for money instead of humor and ideology. Sounds like a brilliant idea (that's sarcasm, by the by).
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The Future of Grocery Shopping?(design-milk.com)
1 points by sorbus 15y ago|0 comments
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by sorbus 15y ago
That's odd. It's not as readable as the PDF for me (under Chrome 12 and Windows 7), but it's still legible. Maybe you should send a bug report to the people at scribd? Or at least tell them that some files are unreadable in your browser/os
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by sorbus 15y ago
Does the link to scribd not work (such links are inserted in brackets whenever HN detects a story going to a pdf)? It doesn't give you the pdf, so you have to read it in the browser, but it seems perfectly functional otherwise.
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by sorbus 15y ago
"Meanwhile, behind the scenes, we also know for sure that investors in the company leaned on publications like TechCrunch to stop reporting the story." How the hell is he getting that from the article linked there? It's a long rant about PG
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by sorbus 15y ago
The UK doesn't quite have a concept of freedom of speech, legally speaking. Freedom of expression is guaranteed by their Human Rights Act, but it has lots of limitations (incitement to racial/religious hatred, defamation), and there is ille
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by sorbus 15y ago
If I read a book I can pass on my memories of it, and someone with a more reliable memory might be able to recreate it. Admittedly, it would have a much larger rate of errors than copies recovered from cache, but there are plenty of things

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