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by tekacs 10y ago
They money quote for me, especially relevant to the parent, is: 'The planet isn’t going anywhere. WE are!' (but yes, more generally short term thinking has to go both ways - we do things that damage the biosphere because we don&#x
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by tekacs 10y ago
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/251836-we-re-so-self-import... (no affiliation or particular interest in George Carlin, just remembered the quote (via Stargate episode 'Brain Storm'))
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This court ruling is a ‘fatal blow’ to consumer protections, advocates say(washingtonpost.com)
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by tekacs 10y ago
Equidate | San Francisco, CA or REMOTE, INTERNS VISA | Multiple roles | https://www.equidateinc.com/ Equidate is the leading secondary marketplace for private companies. We help employees at private companies get liquidity
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The Google Play store, coming to a Chromebook near you(chrome.googleblog.com)
22 points by tekacs 10y ago|12 comments
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by tekacs 10y ago
Pony (ponylang.org) is really interesting but it is a compiler with its own target and doesn't run on the Erlang VM. (Perhaps you meant 'or'? Apologies if so.)
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by tekacs 10y ago
The article doesn't appear to /make/ an argument - it just mentions the author's concerns about a problem which may or not exist, citing no evidence for anything mentioned. At best it may be considered a rather poor cal
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by tekacs 10y ago
Careful to bend at the knees, not careful not to bend . You and the post agree that bending at the knees is correct.
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Meteor Toys – Plug and Play Development Tools to Help You Build Great Apps(meteor.toys)
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New lithium-oxygen battery greatly improves energy efficiency, longevity(news.mit.edu)
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Airbnb Files to Raise $850M at $30B Valuation(bloomberg.com)
169 points by tekacs 10y ago|171 comments
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by tekacs 10y ago
I would encourage everyone to not draw conclusions about the point this article is trying to make until they've had a chance to read the whole thing (beneath the paywall, use the 'web' button beneath the HN title and click th
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by tekacs 10y ago
True, although that's hardly common and completely impossible on many embedded devices - devices which are only becoming more common.
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by tekacs 10y ago
You do however bring (and broadcast) your MAC address, which was mentioned as permissible to collect.
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How the United Kingdom Voted on Thursday and Why(lordashcroftpolls.com)
1 points by tekacs 10y ago|0 comments
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by tekacs 10y ago
For folks looking for a collector with a similar ideal (though with a potentially more useful constraint model), you might see the Pony language [1] collector [2]. The essence being to take advantage of some form of isolation in a concurren
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by tekacs 10y ago
I absolutely agree that 'rockstarism' is hugely problematic (I agree with tptacek's sibling post on the topic). That said, some of this post feels worryingly like it's pushing 'truth by association' to me. I&#x
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The smug style in American liberalism(vox.com)
8 points by tekacs 10y ago|1 comments
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Evernote and Google Drive deliver a smarter way to work(blog.evernote.com)
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by tekacs 10y ago
The more people pushing for awareness the better! Hopefully with other work like IPFS (which you do reference), use of this approach for /more/ consumer systems is around the corner. :)
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by tekacs 10y ago
The author's other project, https://github.com/btrask/stronglink looks fairly interesting too - 'A searchable, syncable, content-addressable notetaking system'.
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by tekacs 10y ago
The MAC (not HMAC) used [0] is Poly1305 [1]. [0]: https://github.com/wg/arc/blob/cdd799359b6f7050fc5e3aa128bf1... [1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-agl-tls-chacha20poly1305-0...
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For this gadgethead, the HTC Vive may force my Oculus Rift to collect dust(arstechnica.com)
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Christie’s Has Art World’s First $1B Week(nytimes.com)
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by tekacs 10y ago
Your parent poster said 'it is right', not 'it is /a/ right'. You're attacking a statement that didn't exist in the parent post.
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by tekacs 10y ago
At a glance, no - it uses Requests to fetch pages and BeautifulSoup to parse them, the latter of which only parses the HTML into a document object. So static HTML parsing only.
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How side-mounted LEDs can help fix VR’s “tunnel vision” and nausea problems(arstechnica.com)
6 points by tekacs 10y ago|2 comments
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by tekacs 10y ago
Yup, lots of temporaries (I haven't written much Clojure recently, so I'm sure I'm missing lots of simplifying core fns). (let [; input js (cheshire.core/parse-string (slurp (clojure.java.io/resource &qu
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by tekacs 10y ago
I read `doFollowingRedirects` with an elided comma - that is, 'do, following redirects (as you go)'. In that context, the function doesn't seem so surprising. If you take a look at the function `Do`[0], you'll notice it
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by tekacs 10y ago
The Go standard library is throughly documented and implements all sorts of functionality (HTTP, crypto, libc-esque functionality) in a fairly minimal way: https://github.com/golang/go

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