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by thsowers 9y ago
From the transcript [0], when Justice Kennedy is asking if human intervention is required to retrieve the records, E. Joshua Rosenkranz responds: > A human being doesn't have to do it. It is a robot. > A human being in, let'
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by thsowers 9y ago
> The only way one can learn the technique of Vipassana is to take a 10-day course Is this really true? I agree that a large amount of people may not be able to learn the techniques outside of a retreat setting, but I think it comes down
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by thsowers 9y ago
"Eschew the Extraneous Else" (2 minutes)[0] One of my favorite talks. Very quick, very to the point. I'm not saying I agree with this in 100% of cases, but in many cases I think it's the right call [0]: https:/&#x2
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by thsowers 9y ago
The latest version of the vue-cli (might still be in alpha or beta) generates an app where webpack works out of the box very nicely
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by thsowers 9y ago
I wasn't aware of this. This is awesome! Thank you
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by thsowers 9y ago
Yes -- Sadly this was "confirmed" this week when Zuckerberg said "In general we collect data on people who are not signed up for Facebook for security purposes,"... “We need to know when somebody is trying to repeatedly
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by thsowers 9y ago
I miss true integers! And literally almost every other type. I'm looking forward to trying out typescript, but it would be nice if this was a part of the pure language itself
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by thsowers 9y ago
Really enjoyed the section on error handling. I had read similar sections in the rust book, but something about this explanation really made things click for me! As much as I love Rust, I personally found it a little difficult to get used t
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by thsowers 9y ago
> "Tesla is extremely clear that Autopilot requires the driver to be alert and have hands on the wheel." I am a Tesla fan, and although I previously didn't understand the criticism for the name, I now see some negatives of
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by thsowers 9y ago
Statistics are ideally pretty good about letting you know how likely "becoming one" is
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by thsowers 9y ago
I don't want to argue that we aren't far behind of other countries, but the last stat I saw was that Americans had a 1 in 11,000 chance of dying in a mass shooting (stats are higher for general assault, 1 in 315)[0]. Is this terri
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by thsowers 9y ago
While situations like this definitely magnify the bad in our society, I think there is also some bit of good (however small) that can be witnessed, such as the dedication of first responders, the outpouring of support and love from the comm
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by thsowers 9y ago
> After my mother died, I wished I'd spent more time with her. I lived as if she'd always be there. I love this article, and this line has always hit me particularly hard. He goes on to mention that she encouraged this illusion
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by thsowers 9y ago
I've always loved https://webflow.com/ Simple, explains the product well, looks beautiful!
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by thsowers 9y ago
Previous discussion from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16585430
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by thsowers 9y ago
I admittedly haven't looked into this as in depth as I would like to, but I recall being surprised by Digital Ocean's "Droplets" (similar to Amazon EC2) being far cheaper[0] [0]: https://www.digitalocean.com&#
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by thsowers 9y ago
As a Tesla fan, I dislike the writer for this site. He often makes any Tesla failure sound like a success, and everything reads as heavily biased
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by thsowers 9y ago
Maybe in web, but overall I don't think this is true [0] [0]: https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?la...
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by thsowers 9y ago
This gist was also written in 2015, I think the knowledge of ISPs data-mining is more public now (even though it was likely going on then anyways in some format)
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by thsowers 9y ago
Yes [0] 0: https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/render-function.html#JSX
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by thsowers 9y ago
One of the competitors in this area is Meteor[0]. I haven't used Django in many years, but that might also qualify [0]: https://www.meteor.com/
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by thsowers 9y ago
The difference being that you don't submit your social media profile as part of applying for a job. I agree with grandparent though, looking for structure of commits showing organization is important. No one is a perfect coder, but it
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by thsowers 9y ago
The entire post on https://skyfallattack.com/ comes off as preachy and defensive. > Skyfall and Solace aren't hoaxes as such, but more of a social experiment "social experiment" is a defendable position, b
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by thsowers 9y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11744518
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by thsowers 9y ago
Right, wouldn't an embargo prevent them from disclosing the existence of any such bug to the media?
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by thsowers 9y ago
> Very few people are going to pass that test. Agree that this isn't a reasonable "normal" programming mistake to run into, but I think the question may be used for seeing how candidates approach a problem that they don&
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by thsowers 9y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16063946
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by thsowers 9y ago
I haven't used Telegram in a while (so maybe things have changed since then), but I would guess that that grandparent is talking about how they rolled their own crypto, and how secure conversations isn't the default setting
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by thsowers 9y ago
Any chance of a technical write-up so that we can all learn from whatever happened?
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by thsowers 9y ago
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