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Re:U.S. Cities Strain to Fight Hackers
on Friday June 07, 2019 @11:40AM (#20125661)
> Make sure nobody at state or DHS or justice can subvert this new agency, they need to stand on equal footing with any company or agency.
Interestingly, a service similar to what you described is already offered through DHS:
https://www.us-cert.gov/resources/ncats https://www.dhs.gov/cisa/cybersecurity-assessments
Re:Cambridge Analytica whistleblower:Bannon promoted 'culture war'
on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @09:36PM (#17087981)
Even Reuters is serving mobile redirect ads that send me to a fake Amazon gift card site on my iPhone. This is why people use ad blockers.
Re:20 Million-Dollar Businesses You've Never Heard Of
on Thursday February 03, 2011 @01:24PM (#2175909)
It's worth checking out Nathan Martin's talk given at TEDxPSU in 2010 (CEO of Deeplocal, #12).
Re: Hacker News for iPhone ($3) app is insanely great
on Thursday July 01, 2010 @06:41AM (#1477648)
I prefer to use ToadJaw (http://toadjaw.com/hn), which was linked to on here recently.
EDIT: It was created by HN's own ronnier. http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ronnier
Re:Using Mutt with Gmail
on Monday June 28, 2010 @09:47PM (#1470106)
$ mutt -f imaps://<username>@[email protected]
Re:A cure for America’s lame and costly broadband?
on Saturday May 22, 2010 @10:59AM (#1370398)
Monticello, Minnesota attempted to build fiber to provide 50Mbps service to the city, but was sued by the regional telecom for unfair competition. The telecom then built up the infrastructure while the lawsuits went on.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/want-50mbps-...
Re:It is unquestionably the future
on Saturday January 02, 2010 @11:16PM (#1028190)
You're right; it's been corrected.
Re:It is unquestionably the future
on Saturday January 02, 2010 @09:39PM (#1028092)
During a discussion with a friend on future technology, someone remarked that for a few days' wages ($200 for an iPod touch) you can now hold a condensed summary of all human knowledge (Wikipedia) in the palm of your hand, with near-instant access to astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics, geography, engineering, mathematics, history, sociology, economics, psychology, medicine, technology, literature, art, drama, religion, and boundless other subjects.
Yet far more often we use it for trivia and the mundane. The future is wasted on the future.
Re:Is College Really Worth It?
on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @11:10AM (#1012255)
For curiosity's sake, could you provide some examples?
Re:Is College Really Worth It?
on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @11:06AM (#1012247)
The financial aid available at top-tier schools is very generous, because so few low-income students make up the undergraduate body. If I recall correctly, at the top 120 colleges in the United States, only 3% of the student body come from families in the bottom quintile of household income.
As a result, schools such as Harvard[1] and Stanford[2] pay for all tuition for students with a household income of less than $60,000.
[1]: http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/financial_aid/inde...
Re:Ask HN: What hosting do you use for personal projects?
on Saturday December 19, 2009 @03:16PM (#1005124)
It's also run by fellow HN user Luke Crawford:
Re:Tell HN : prgmr.com is down
on Wednesday December 09, 2009 @10:39AM (#985900)
It's back up now (or should be). An update: http://twitter.com/prgmrcom/status/6495790410
You're right, that was a rather asinine thing I said.
It's really no more criminal than sharing the physical card by passing it around, though the law may disagree.
Re:An actual attempt at a list of "What You Can't Say."
on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @10:06AM (#959324)
> Biology is destiny, no matter what your dreams are. Short people will never play in the NBA no matter how hard they practice. Dumb people will never get smarter by studying. Ugly ducklings grow up into freaky-looking ducks, not swans.
You'd have to make quite a stretch to say "never" for all of these. Short people do play in the NBA: Nate Robinson, Muggsy Bogues, and Ty Lawson come to mind. Try proving that "dumbness" is determined at birth by biology. And ugly ducklings growing up into freaky-looking ducks is a generalization, not a rule. Sure, there are some features people inherit that make them beautiful, but as one grows up there is a lot one can do to even the playing field (e.g., exercise, dress better, even plastic surgery)
Re:Ask HN: what hosted blogging solution would you recomend?
on Sunday November 22, 2009 @03:07PM (#956135)
Tumblr has post-by-email and customizable themes. http://www.tumblr.com/why-tumblr
Soup.io is another tumblelog platform that makes it dead simple to reblog (literally one click). http://soup.io
Re:Will books survive? A scorecard.
on Sunday November 22, 2009 @01:27PM (#956004)
You may be interested in the app Delicious Library: http://delicious-monster.com/
Edit: Also, Readernaut and Shelfari both offer the sorting features you describe.
Re:Will books survive? A scorecard.
on Sunday November 22, 2009 @11:29AM (#955865)
Keep in mind that this is about the future of ebooks, that is, those without the limitations of today's ebook readers.
Nevertheless I won't give up my physical books soon. I borrow friends' books, mark my own with all sorts of scribbles not easily reproducible on a computer, focus clearly and read much longer on paper, marvel at the wonderful construction of books, and singularly enjoy the sensation of turning page after page when reading. Yes, I'm ascribing a healthy dose of romanticism to reading physical books, but maybe it is for that reason I will be still reading dead tree editions of books when ebooks are ubiquitous, like those who view "Henry V" in the theater even though Kenneth Branaugh is available in the cinema.
Re:Everything is too long
on Friday November 20, 2009 @02:02PM (#953051)
"Omit needless words," as William Strunk, Jr. wrote.