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The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections

washingtonpost.com

901 pointsby blazingfrog29 yıl önce499 comments

Every recorded meteorite strike on Earth since 2,300 BCE mapped

osm2.cartodb.com

25 pointsby blazingfrog213 yıl önce40 comments

Harvard Professor Finds That Innovative Ideas Spread Like The Flu

fastcompany.com

1 pointsby blazingfrog213 yıl önce0 comments

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4 yıl öncediscuss

> I don’t understand the thought process of putting someone down based on what they do for a living

Discounting the counter productive condescension required to be the one putting the other guy down, we should all be honest with a simple fact: any typical software dev (just talking about what I know) can succeed at a gas station job while the reverse is not true. This obviously does not afford the software dev the right to be a jerk to anybody (up or down the ladder).

4 yıl öncediscuss

> I'd be proud of it, if they were a good person, took care of themselves

I honestly don't know how anyone (good person or not) can properly take care of themselves on a Taco Bell hourly salary.

8 yıl öncediscuss

On iOS it requires installing a VPN profile. My understanding from their FAQ is that it is to allow DNS proxying in iOS but it’s not clear to me if that’s all it does. Up to this day, seeing the VPN logo in my status bar has always meant my traffic was forwarded to a VPN server which meant it couldn’t be snooped on by my ISP. Is it also the case here?

11 yıl öncediscuss

Is that VPN setup an "always on"-able setup so that iOS just routes traffic through it without having to manually switch on the VPN client? I run the VPN server bundled with OS X Server and I haven't been able to achieve that.

11 yıl öncediscuss

Don't forget that the ball can come very fast and the keeper will need a split second to adjust. In other cases, the kicker can be masked by another player preventing the keeper to see the ball until very late.

11 yıl öncediscuss

After logging many thousand of hours of dutifully watching soccer (over 30 years of full-on love for the game), I was able to match the given situations to similar ones I'd seen before and get close enough most of the time. It's still all probabilities at the end of the day.

Following the direction players are looking is just one parameter and can be wildly inaccurate without any information on the angle and velocity of the ball at the time of the shot. One of the trickiest situations is when 2 players jump for the ball, usually coming from a goalkeeper's clearance, so high and fairly fast, and collide in the air (often closing their eyes): the ball could literally be anywhere.

11 yıl öncediscuss

Or you could use the PowerShell command line. http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/03/1...

11 yıl öncediscuss

> Americans care far less about what others will think of them

As a European expat in the US, I find this statement to be very accurate. It can be maddening at times but I've grown to find this characteristic one of the main attractions of life in the U.S. It can be summed up as "I don't feel guilty about anything I don't have direct control over because it makes life much more enjoyable and it always works out in the end."

11 yıl öncediscuss

The average for June through September here in the State Capital, Sacramento, is just over 89 degrees Fahrenheit (or almost 32 degrees Celsius). This is not a matter of comfort but of health.

11 yıl öncediscuss

Not to sound snarky but Saddam was boasting sitting on an arsenal of WMDs before the world found out there was zero truth to it. That's why UN inspections are used, however effectively, you just can't rely on Government propaganda to establish facts.

12 yıl öncediscuss

After a long time at Apple and then Palantir, he recently started as Head of Engineering at Pinterest so, yeah, a team leader.

http://recode.net/2014/06/10/pinterest-hires-long-time-apple...

12 yıl öncediscuss

> other people or corporations can't make changes to my property without my permission.

IANAL but it seems you have given permission:

  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, Apple and its principals reserve the right to change, suspend, remove, or disable access to any App and Book Products, content, or other materials comprising a part of the App and Book Services at any time without notice. In no event will Apple be liable for making these changes.

http://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/us/terms...

12 yıl öncediscuss

You may already be aware of this but a fellow HNer operates a service I use frequently for this exact use case called historio.us. I use the chrome extension to add stuff that I might want to revisit and, when I do need to, I have historio.us as a "search engine" in the chrome omnibar.

Think of it as your own private search engine.

13 yıl öncediscuss

Anybody else feeling uneasy about committing to spending serious cash immediately for a scheduled delivery 7-10 months away for something that could have many legal ramifications (with the associated delays)?

At $50/card, with anywhere from 5 to 15 cards, it quickly adds up...

13 yıl öncediscuss

Flat may be fine. However, from what I've seen in the video, the Coin is not only flat but also almost totally anonymized. The cashier would not be able to verify the name against a photo ID or even take a picture of the card. This would be possible with a non-imprintable card.

13 yıl öncediscuss

Just noticed that too. What surprises me the most about this is that only ONE business/landmark is listed at 0,0 in the entire Google Maps.

13 yıl öncediscuss

He flies drones in the office.

13 yıl öncediscuss

Not at this point. Feel free to sign up for the beta on our site and take it for a spin, I'll make sure to get you your credentials quickly. PS: by the way, big fan of historio.us...

13 yıl öncediscuss

At Ask Ziggy, we are also 100% self-service.

13 yıl öncediscuss

He is absolutely free to share it. As he said in a previous rant, "this is a free country". However, it seems foolish of him to expect the entity he represents to continue employing him when his views go against that entity's interest (making money).