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Cyndre

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Cyndre··on Websites4.me Website Builder
This is a project I have been working on. Its a simplistic website builder. Cell phone compatible, full login system, easily add template sections to your site then fill out the simple html form to add your content. Easily add a image gallery, youtube videos, etc. It allows you to build a website in a day or less. Easily pick your own nav bar, visual design based. Basically trying to remove the developer out of web development. It checks for SEO and warns if its missing, has a full referral system built in, three tiered, including a visual circle pack graph of your referral network. Easily enable facebook login, add google analyitics, etc. Anything that would be a normal requirement of a website I have added or I am currently adding. Let me know what you think. This site was built with it.

It is all based on bootstrap grid system, and I have a few display bugs to still fix but I have been mostly focusing on functionality. It even has a way to create a book, currently disabled while I move it to my code.

Cyndre··on Fuller House: Exposing high-end poker cheating devices (2016)
I can see something like this being more developed for the magician doing card tricks and then brought in as a way to fix poker games.
Cyndre··on Ask HN: Seeking Investor or Cofounder?
A crypto currency exchange where the coins remain on the customers device and the coins can be instantly withdrawn from the exchange with 0 fees and 0 confirmation wait times. Email me at my username @ yahoo . com if your interested.
Cyndre··on Salesforce.com tells its customers to stop selling assault-style rifles
I am wondering how this will impact gun fanatics that don't sell guns. I can easily see this costing Salesforce more then just companies that sell guns. Companies owned by pro gun rights people will likely leave as well.
Cyndre··on Build a $150 Hardware Face Recognition System with Nvidia Jetson Nano and Python
Slaughterbots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecClODh4zYk Were getting closer to being able to build these at home, at an affordable price.
Cyndre··on Craig Wright registers US copyright in Bitcoin 0.1 and the Bitcoin white paper
That's what I was thinking. Just posted duplicate, giving you upvote.
Cyndre··on [dead]
Anyone actually believe this or what??
Cyndre··on Gravitational lensing by spinning black holes in astrophysics
Gravitational lensing or just large magnetic fields bending light? http://www.gizmag.com/synthetic-magnetism-stanford-photonic-...
Cyndre··on 11 Yr olds first stop motion vid
My daughter showed me a bunch of pictures on her camera that she was working on so I taught her how to use windows movie maker. This is her first stop motion video and I know I will be seeing some incredible things from her.

P.S. Please upvote and show her our hacker spirit :)

Cyndre··on Hacker holds alleged Romney tax returns ransom for $1M in Bitcoins
Actually I think he increases his chances of getting paid by your own reasoning. Who says it has to be paid by Romney? The 1 million Bit Coins could be paid by anyone with a desire to make him look guilty, but not something that might cause an issue with the election (like the release of stolen tax documents of the candidate). If the blackmail is paid the day before the 28th, everyone will assume Romney was hiding something, even if he wasn't.
Cyndre··on The Latest On Intelligence
In my opinion the reason poorer people have less IQ then wealthier people, and also why adopted poor babys into middle class homes have higher IQ's comes down to what they spend their time thinking about. Poorer people spend their time worrying about food, money and basic needs. This occupys alot of their thought. Richer people don't need to worry about the basic needs and spend their time worrying about larger more complicated things.
Cyndre··on What you know matters more than what you do
I agree with your hypothesis that they learn just enough to accomplish x. That has always been how I do anything. I didn't learn how to write websites that interact with a db, I had an idea that I wanted to accomplish and I learnt enough to do it. This has helped me learn how to tie into a db, create interactive services and perform FFT on thousands of devices to identify bad cables based on their preequalization data.
Cyndre··on Loading half a billion rows into MySQL
That is interesting to know, I have been setting my index's to bigint for a long time.
Cyndre··on Young Scientist Builds a Better Search Engine
I actually have a bot that has been doing this for several years. It stores word relations and keeps track of what words are used with others. It then can rank potential words that it has seen from your query before and use those as a subject to build a sentence from or as a highly targeted query for searching.
Cyndre··on Superior Support
This is to be expected. Even for isp bandwidth 5% of the customers use 95% of the bandwidth. But like internet bandwidths, the 5% that use the most are also the most vocal. People communicate and the bigger pain they are, the more they communicate with others.
Cyndre··on Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fog Creek, etc
The sheer idea that bad doctors don't get through the "qualification" area is insane. They have just as many bad people getting through the qualification period that you speak of. The main difference would be if you didn't have a CS course. Then you start to enter a grey area.

And also I myself have been to more bad doctors then good doctors. There is just as big of gap between the poor doctors and the good doctors as there is in programming.

Cyndre··on MIT’s Non-Stick Coating Keeps Ketchup Flowing
I am already thinking of far better uses for this then ketchup.

How about spraying inside of fire hoses, pumps etc? The main benefit is the massive reduced friction. More energy efficient pumps, less wear and tear etc.

I would then extrapolate the idea of smooth flowing ketchup to air and wonder if this would reduce the drag caused by air if you coated your car in it etc.

No bugs sticking to your cars front window. Water and dirt don't stick to your paint etc.

And this is just after a few minutes of thinking of the potential uses for it.

Cyndre··on Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fog Creek, etc
I can't believe the general attitude programmers are putting forward. Here is a person in the medical field that requires at least twice the schooling, huge entry barriers etc getting an hour interview.

We are subjected to full day flights, multiple phone interviews etc.

She deals with life, not code.

This tells me one of two things. Either our hiring practices are severally broken, or its harder to program then be a doctor.

Cyndre··on 25 petabytes bringing storage firm, court case to the brink of collapse
Once Carpathia decides to delete/sell/get rid of the data the case will be dropped. The US government only has to keep this tied up in court until Carpathia (which legally could delete the data) deletes the data. Once the evidence is gone they can easily escape from this horrible mess they have created. "Your honour, I have some bad news. Since Carpathia has deleted the data we no longer have a plausable way to continue with this case."

Megaupload destroyed, goverment doesn't have to pay them anything (after all it was Carpathias fault) etc.

They can't just drop the case because mega upload is an email blast away from being full on running again. Users don't have to resign up, reupload data or anything. That is why the data needs to be destroyed, which I believe is the end goal of the United States Government.

Cyndre··on Facebook closes at $38.23 first day NASDAQ trading, above IPO price $38.00
Where do you think the billions used to buy facebook stock came from?
Cyndre··on Preventing Site Scraping
Here is my approach on how to find scrappers.

They are already supplying fake data to see if they are being scrapped.

Using this fake data they can find all the sites that are using their scrapped data. Congrats we now know who is scrapping you with a simple google search.

Now comes the fun part. Instead of supplying the same fake data to all, we need to supply unique fake data to every ip address that comes to the site. Keep track of what ip, and what data you gave them.

Build your own scrapper's specifically for the sites that are stealing your content and scrape them looking for your unique fake data.

Once you find the unique fake data, tie it back to the ip address we stored earlier and you have your scrapper.

This can be all automated at this point to auto ban the crawler that keeps stealing your data. But that wouldn't be fun and would be very obvious. Instead what we will do is randomize the data in some way so its completely useless etc.

Sit back and enjoy

Cyndre··on Observing traffic prioritization in Comcast’s network
The important part to this article isn't that they are doing this. Its that they are back tracking on their own statements of why the caps were needed in the first place.

If you remember when they were arguing for the caps the main reason was the cost to deliver to the last mile. This clearly shows that is not the case as they have given all of their customers additional bandwidth above and beyond their stated plans.

Kind of makes the reason for caps in the first place null and void.

Cyndre··on When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed
How about solar satellites beaming energy down to the earth. We get hit by a very minor amount of sunlight from the sun.

Only 0.000000724654% of it reaches the Earth. That’s 7.24654 billionths of the Sun’s total light.

the earth receives about 274 million gigawatt-years of solar energy

Put another way, the solar energy hitting the earth exceeds the total energy consumed by humanity by a factor of over 20,000 times.

And thats only only 0.000000724654% of the suns output. Now once we start harvesting our relatively unlimited power source food will no longer be a problem. Build 100 story greenhouse's etc.

I am hardly concerned about our future growth, considering we now have plans to start mining bodys in space. Perfect launch spot for providing our future energy needs. In fact I wouldn't be supprised if the energy is the main factor in planetary resources future plan to add trillions of dollars to the gdp.

Cyndre··on Court Rules NSA Doesn't Have To Reveal Its Semi-Secret Relationship With Google
And yet another reason to use http://duckduckgo.com/

Go Duck Go!

Cyndre··on Frustration, Disappointment And Apathy: My Years At Microsoft
This one can be taken even farther and be applied to the "don't discuss your salary". My opinion has always been that this rule exists so that companies can continue to underpay employees.
Cyndre··on Swithu Sharing images, sounds and videos
This is a site I have been working on for a month or two now.

Looking to get a feedback while I build it. I try to find at least a few hours a day to work on it and would love to implement your ideas.

Thanks

Cyndre··on A New Asteroid Mining Operation supported by Google Execs and James Cameron
Not quite sure why we would want to get it down to earth myself. Think of the markup you could sell it for by just leaving it in space. No more need to launch rockets carrying materials/prefabs - it will just happen in space.

"Yea, I know our iron is XXX% more, but you know its already in space...."

And if its for mining for energy just create the energy in space and beam it down. Rather simple.

Cyndre··on My daughter uses prezi.com pinterest style
Needless to say very impressed dad.
Cyndre··on Tacocopter - Flying Robots Deliver Tacos To You
The biggest issue I see is tacocopter naping. Order a $3 taco, get some lunch and a free drone.
Cyndre··on GPS ruling is "hard" on the FBI—and that's a feature, not a bug
What I don't like about this is that they were allowed to turn the devices on again that were illegally placed in the first place. They should have had to turn them off forever because they were illegally placed. I would compare this to collecting evidence without a warrant, getting the warrant and then using that evidence. (which as far as I know is grounds to have the evidence thrown out)
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