Ask HN: What security software/configurations do you use?
Would like your opinions and information on best practices/software/os for a home LAN. Also, do you use traffic monitoring sofware?
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Re:In the Future, Employees Won’t Exist
on Sunday June 14, 2015 @04:14PM (#9716155)
Really? You cannot imagine any scenario where employment approaches zero other than the robotic-utopia scenario? We have no historical example of employment approaching double digits without societal problems ensuing? The higher the unemployment, the closer to robo-utopia, in a smooth, monotonic fashion, right?
Re:April 5, 2007: "Show HN, Dropbox"
on Monday October 28, 2013 @12:43PM (#6627996)
I almost choked on my lunch laughing after re-reading that. I remember reading the original thread and actually agreeing with him, without the slightest chuckle. Im amazed at how most people still find it hard to find pictures in their filesystems on their pcs. But think about it, how many people carry .jpg, .jpeg, .png etc file associations in their heads? Hilarious.
Re:Nuclear fusion milestone passed at US lab
on Monday October 07, 2013 @08:02PM (#6512139)
If we have fusion in 30 years instead of 60 years, we have colonization of the solar system happening in our lifetimes. We'd have the economic rationale for removing all military engagement in the middle east. We have 30*380 billion on petro cost savings here in the U.S: http://www.fuelfreedom.org/the-real-foreign-oil-problem/oil-... God knows how much CO2 we remove from the atmosphere. 100 billion sounds cheap to me.
Re:Why Java Now Rocks More Than Ever: Part 1 – The Java Compiler
on Monday October 07, 2013 @10:45AM (#6508545)
Have you ever programmed anything substantial using java outside the enterprise/agile IT environment? Any type of project on your own time? Have you every built anything in Ruby, Python, or Go? I'm asking to try to discern what you mean by "more viable".
Re:A genetic code for genius
on Saturday February 16, 2013 @10:38PM (#5234095)
Wrong, by about a standard deviation. The mean iq of the Ashkenazi is about 113, the average for a very good nurse or less than average accountant. Of course, that mean deviation is still statistically significant enough to show a disproportion of outliers of extrema of a normal distribution. Just get your numbers straight before making statements about the matter.
Re:I was driven mad by the Chinese education system
on Sunday February 15, 2009 @05:41PM (#482386)
Was Bronx Science like this? It seems to me that the tech track magnets would be a little more enlightened, but I could be wrong.
Re:Galaxy has 'billions of Earths'
on Sunday February 15, 2009 @04:08PM (#482289)
I'm with you. Just warm up the starcraft!
Re:Galaxy has 'billions of Earths'
on Sunday February 15, 2009 @10:59AM (#482030)
How many of those are getting warmer, gibsonf1? :), couldn't resist.
Re:Trying to Live on 500K in New York City
on Monday February 09, 2009 @08:38PM (#474537)
Uh, guess you didn't get it (no, not the book).
Re:Trying to Live on 500K in New York City
on Monday February 09, 2009 @07:50AM (#473367)
I wish people would lay off him. Look, for the last time, Bush is not President anymore. Next we'll be going over his alchoholism and business failings in his 30s.
Leave him be, please.
Re:How Game Theory Solved a Religious Mystery
on Sunday February 01, 2009 @04:35PM (#461410)
Allowing that both are real is incorrect, even as they define themselves. Christianity and Judaism, by identity, allow only one of them to be real, if real is defined by correspondence with existence.
Re:Women and Mathematics
on Monday December 29, 2008 @08:04PM (#413744)
I think the comment above calls into question the merit of your friends achievement, which will always be the result of affirmative action programs.
How can you say that? Do you know her or what she is capable of? It seems pure idiocy to me to suggest that every woman graduating from a premier science program is never achieving it through merit.
As far as bell curves and distributions, who the hell knows? People tried to predict housing prices and stock portfolios on gaussians, and they seem to work until they don't. You cannot project your platonic ideal of how you think the world works because it seems to and then handwave on outliers.
Re:A Christmas iFart explosion: Nearly 40,000 downloads and $30,000 net
on Saturday December 27, 2008 @11:16PM (#411680)
If they pay for it within those fifteen minutes, that is all that matters.
Re:A Christmas iFart explosion: Nearly 40,000 downloads and $30,000 net
on Saturday December 27, 2008 @11:11PM (#411677)
At some point, a man, regardless of his convictions, has to stop getting into arguments with reality.
Bread and circuses it is, then.
Re:Women and Mathematics
on Saturday December 27, 2008 @09:13PM (#411611)
Because there is no way a woman could be that smart, is there? Oh...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_vos_Savant
She must have the longest ring finger on the planet, yeah, that's it.
Re:Facebook Hemorrhaging Cash, Runs To Dubai For Money
on Friday October 31, 2008 @09:39PM (#350504)
I'll trade you some of my stock certificates for some of your green pieces of....
Re:Outsourcing Cooking with Craigslist for $60/week
on Friday September 26, 2008 @07:38PM (#316597)
Possibly the stupidest non sequitur I have read here in a while. You're joking, right?
Re:How Wall Street Lied to Its Computers
on Thursday September 18, 2008 @07:49PM (#308739)
Not a web connection or mag subscription among the lot of them, eh?
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=a... http://www.forbes.com/2005/02/21/cz_0221oxan_default.html http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/...
Re:Android Again
on Thursday September 18, 2008 @07:38PM (#308729)
Google could end this now with a nationwide wimax buildout. Build a skype-like voice protocol on the android stack, open source a reference hardware design, and let programmers planetwide innovate on the platform. Would fell the iphone and every other carrier within a year or two.
Re:Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī -- Medieval Islamic Scientist, quite a read...
on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @07:55AM (#306930)
The cultural values of the respondents are measured by their responses to a question on the values parents would most like in their children.
This is not controlling for values taken as a given, as it is worded as most like. E.g., if my son excels in soccer there would be no desire on my part for increased aptitude in sports.
Re:Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī -- Medieval Islamic Scientist, quite a read...
on Tuesday September 16, 2008 @06:54PM (#306396)
showed that only IQ had predictive value when pitted against values theories.
How you control for values? If I value taking peoples money by force because I feel like it my intelligence will negate that values effect on my life outcome?
Re:App Store: I'm out
on Saturday September 13, 2008 @11:43PM (#303570)
Apple is evil and in severe need of competition in this space. May Android provide it.
Re:Why English speakers dominate sprinting events
on Monday September 01, 2008 @05:18PM (#292143)
Re:Why English speakers dominate sprinting events
on Monday September 01, 2008 @05:16PM (#292142)
Ok, how about expounding this way: Unevidenced, unfalsifiable hypothesis presented as an explanation, with all the rigor of an armchair Olympics viewer armed with a 6 pack. Lame.