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Dorian-Marieon HTTPS provides more than just privacy

The geolocation demo works on Chrome for Android though.

Dorian-Marieon Hoffice: work at someone's home

There is something similar in Berlin: http://www.meetup.com/Social-Pomodoro-Berlin/ (Inspired by Hoffice)

Dorian-Marieon Profile of Lars Bak (2009)

The comic they talk about: https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome

Dorian-Marieon How Google Could Rig the 2016 Election

Google's response: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/google-2016-e...

Dorian-Marieon How the Dutch got their cycling infrastructure (2011)

There is a great Critical Mass community there: http://www.critical-mass-berlin.de/

Dorian-Marieon The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

His YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/obscuresorrows

Dorian-Marieon Chrome will begin pausing many Flash ads by default on September 1

    So, in general, swiffy appears to be a relatively heavyweight solution that
    is not (yet?) optimized for mobile devices. Morever, there are 4 (yes 4!)
    giant swiffy ads on the landing page of androidpolice.com, each of which
    consumes more than half the viewport, all of which are dynamic.

Dorian-Marieon Mundaneum

> It aimed to gather together all the world's knowledge and classify it according to a system they developed called the Universal Decimal Classification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Decimal_Classificati...

> UDC codes can describe any type of document or object to any desired level of detail.

Dorian-Marieon Show HN: Intuitive nutrition information

Thanks, perfect for making DIY Soylent recipes.

See https://diy.soylent.com.

Dorian-Marieon Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser?

Just tried it and it asked for my admin password (Mac OSX).

Dorian-Marieon Ember.js 2.0 Released

  Doesn't add new features
  Remove all depreciated features

Dorian-Marieon Ask HN: What do you do when an homeless ask you money?

I usually give all my little coins (< 1€).

Sometimes it's a lot, sometimes not. It's a lot to them but to me the coins are annoying, I have to waste time sorting them and carrying them around. They are difficult to spend for me.

Dorian-Marieon Retention Is the Key

Soon, retention hackers:

    - Prevent people from unsubscribing
    - Prevent people from canceling their orders
    - Discounts if buy every day/week/month
    - Sending tons of emails with fake site activity ("somebody sent you a message"-style)

Dorian-Marieon Show HN: Careers for people not going to college, built with Meteor

I'm 23, left school when 21 and now going back exactly for the same reason.

Without an degree you have to prove yourself harder for every single little thing (resume, visa, job applications, etc.).

Dorian-Marieon Thirteen Months of Working, Eating, and Sleeping at the Googleplex

So he got food, water, shower and toilets from Google's office.

He only used his van as a sleeping place.

He should definitely do an AMA:

    What about Internet access?
    What about the cold? Sleeping bags? Isolation inside the van?
    What about the hot? Air conditioning?

Dorian-Marieon Soylent 2.0

Thanks, here is their website: http://mymana.eu/

I couldn't buy Soylent (I'm in France), so I made one myself based on what I learned in the DIY Soylent community: https://diy.soylent.com

Dorian-Marieon Ask HN: Do you think there will be a full replacement to Google?

The companies that are the most similar to Google are Microsoft and Yahoo, both far behind.

Dorian-Marieon JavaScript GBA Emulator

I can't find the correct control keys, any help?

edit:

    left arrow
    right arrow
    w = start
    x = action (jump for instance)

This is fucking amazing!

Dorian-Marieon Why Baidu Has Been Hijacked to Attack GitHub

They seem to push the DDoS from multiple fronts, for instance this repo has 100k random numbers commits: https://github.com/greatfire/z

Dorian-Marieon Germanwings plane crash: Co-pilot 'wanted to destroy plane'

    2020: Airbus announces no-pilots planes
    2025: All airplanes are now required to be auto-piloted
    2030: It's been 5 years without a single accident

Dorian-Marieon Pencil code

Pretty awesome, you can write functions, use variables, etc... This is how I always wanted Scratch to be, thanks.

Dorian-Marieon Wikimedia v. NSA: Wikimedia Foundation files suit against NSA

Thanks for the link, very interesting that it's a technical limitation for them to not enable HTTPS.

About china, maybe only the IPs from china can use HTTP, maybe only zh.wikipedia.org can use HTTP, ...

I think legal solutions are just temporary fixes, technical ones fix the root of the problem in a more generic way.

Dorian-Marieon Wikimedia v. NSA: Wikimedia Foundation files suit against NSA

The solution should be technical: You don't want to NSA to read your communications: encrypt them (eg: HTTPS everywhere, encryption built-in everywhere). And that's us, builders of technologies, that need to make that happen.

Basically securing against the NSA is the same as securing against hackers, it should be treated as a security threat like any other.

Dorian-Marieon MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues

Yep, happens to me too, random freezing is especially annoying.

Also, random weird black screen flickering, and grey/old-TV-like screen glitches are just ugly but not really a problem.

Dorian-Marieon Ask HN: What is “full stack” actually?

Most of the time it means backend and frontend programming skills (eg: JS for frontend and Ruby for backend).

Dorian-Marieon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)

Bespoke Post (https://bespokepost.com) - Subscription Service E-commerce - Programmer - New York, NY - Full time

Our stack is:

    Heroku, Cloudflare
    Ruby, Rails
    CoffeeScript, Javascript
    Angular
    Sass, CSS

See full offer at https://bespokepost.com/careers

Dorian-Marieon Inactivity 'kills more than obesity'

And if you count that staying home + work everyday of your life watching TV is inactivity, then most people are just slowly dying doing nothing

Dorian-Marieon How to Be an Expert in a Changing World

Strangely reminds me of machine learning:

   1. We have some initial beliefs
   2. We use it to make decisions
   3. We receive some new data
   4. Given the new data, we confirm/change the beliefs
   5. We can make different decisions
   6. Go to 3.

The initial beliefs may or not be true, the key to get as much accurate data as fast as possible.

A better algorithm would be to ask other systems beliefs and compare it to ours too (eg: neuronal network).

Dorian-Marieon Orwell and China: Nineteen Eighty-four in Chinese

Conciseness is a quality too

Dorian-Marieon Introducing Visual Studio’s Emulator for Android

This is a great time to reiterate that startups receive Microsoft's software for free, obviously it's a trap and you should not be hooked to Microsoft technology if you want to iterate quickly.