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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @09:52AM (#33706417)
Thank you for taking the time to write and share your unique and relevant insight.

Ask HN: Solution to organise a door knocking survey

Looking for an off the shelf solution to organise a community survey where volunteers will knock on doors to ask questions.The main feature we are looking for is the option to create a map overlay by number of houses in an area and generate hundreds of maps for a couple of London boroughs.1 – Select number of houses 2 – Generate map overlay marking the streets with the doors of houses/flats to...

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Re:Show HN: Garlic a onion metadata search engine on Saturday March 06, 2021 @06:13AM (#26366658)
Thanks, it's fixed.
Re:Coursera S-1 IPO on Saturday March 06, 2021 @05:32AM (#26366520)
I hope you’re right and Khan Academy won’t ever be the same as Coursera, I hope they will remain free and can grow into becoming better than Coursera, perhaps educators on Coursera will start sharing their courses for free on Khan Academy.
Re:Coursera S-1 IPO on Saturday March 06, 2021 @05:29AM (#26366512)
I'll be taking the other side of your trade and shorting the stock, every time I win I'll donate the cash to educational nonprofits.
Re:Coursera S-1 IPO on Saturday March 06, 2021 @05:26AM (#26366506)
People underestimate the value of free.

There are millions of kids and people of all ages going to extremes to access the internet to learn new stuff.

I met a kid in a remote village who would cycle for miles every weekend they were not working to seat in a public library to learn on the internet, for that kid a course costing 1 penny would be too expensive and no one in the family had a credit card to begin with.

Sal Khan deserves all the praise and more, Khan Academy is now in multiple languages, his videos are literally changing people’s lives.

MIT’s edX used to be free, they are now monetising the courses and will withdraw access after their self imposed artificial course time has run out if you don’t pay them, this also creates a second class of students, the ones with money get special privileges and get graded and the poor ones don’t and offering ‘financial aid’ doesn’t work if you really want to reach far and wide, how many will close the site when they see it costs thousands of dollars for a course? In a sense edX is way more disappointing than Coursera.

But just like I stopped recommending Coursera when they started restricting access to their courses I look forward to shorting their stock when they go public and donating the profits to educational nonprofits.

You will be surprised to find most of what you describe is already in place in many forms.

Reach out to your local political party (hierarchical network designed to raise funds), the one most aligned to your values as that’s were you’ll meet a bunch of people, most over 50s that have been working to solve the exact problems you listed and they will be members of many other local groups with no party links.

They will have working groups and forums that meet regularly with people that have been campaigning and working for the last 20 to 70 years with your local community, on the ground, trying to solve racism, sexism, sustainability, education, local economy, corruption, inequality, poverty, hunger, climate change, civil rights...you name it.

The best part is that you can avoid 100% the politics if you so wish as they are most likely desperate for (younger) people that will actually get any work done, you’ll be so busy solving real world issues or implementing the structural changes you talk about that you won’t have time for politics.

Speaking from experience.

Re:Cambridge Analytica were the tip of the iceberg on Monday March 02, 2020 @06:54PM (#22470424)
> Eventually the culture-hacking turns against the hackers.

An undecided voter told MSNBC their cynical coverage of Sanders made her angry enough she said ‘Okay, Bernie’s got my vote.' On live TV.

https://youtu.be/rdCL6CxiBmk

I've been helping family and closest friends to ditch WhatsApp for Signal, without much success, so decided to come up with a deadline, announced to everyone and will be deleting WhatsApp then.

More friends have joined Signal the week I told them I was living by the deadline than in the previous years, where I was mostly ignored.

The ethical thing could also be to not allow anyone to be abused.
You did good by publishing this. I've seen that you're updating your blog post based on what people are saying here, you don't have to do that, you don't have to answer to people attacking you on a forum.

What you have exposed has the potential to affect a large number of Google users and unfortunately the community has chosen to attack you over attacking Google.

Which could say a lot about the state of the community. So thanks again for bringing this vulnerability to our attention.

What's not cool at all is the fact exposed here that Google lets anyone trick their users.
Re:Nuclear Weapons Nerds on Thursday August 23, 2018 @04:02AM (#17825437)
Here's a good article on how Coster-Mullen did and probably still does his research.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/12/15/atomic-john

“The secret of the atomic bomb is how easy they are to make.” John Coster-Mullen

> Record actual sessions (mouse movement, clicks, typing)

> I gasped when I realised I can actually capture all form submissions and send them to my own email.

How many bad actors have been doing the same and for how long? This doesn't sound like something Google should just brush under the carpet and expect no one else is doing it. Although I wish the author had reached out to Google first to see how they would have handled it, I thank him for publishing it.

Interested in learning more if you have time to expand. Cheers
Re:3D printed open source tourniquet on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @08:45AM (#17081923)
This is the project by the Canadian doctor shot by Israeli sniper near Gaza on Monday.

Medium post: https://medium.com/@trklou/3d-printed-open-source-tourniquet...

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