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ajmarshon Fake online stores reveal gamblers' shadow banking system

Nice, maybe I can start playing online poker again here in the US. Just have to figure out a way to send me my winnings that are not bolts of fabric.

ajmarshon Pistol sights

There are improvements to be had in pistol sites that don't involve battery powered gimmicks. The trapezoid sights on Steyr M pistols for example. I rented one from my local range and it works well for new shooters.

ajmarshon Gopher-OS: A Proof of Concept OS Written in Go

Or the 3 or 4 competing apps named "paper."

ajmarshon Show HN: Welder – set up your Linux server with plain shell scripts

Hm I've always just used pssh for this type of administration. I guess this saves a step not having to pscp.pssh the script onto the nodes.

ajmarshon Comcast Has Always Opposed Internet Freedom

Uh, what you seem to have is actual competition going on in your area. More regulation will not necessarily help bring about more of that. I do agree that Ajit Pai seems to be a giant toolbox.

ajmarshon Google and Paint.NET need to stop misleading users (2013)

https://ninite.com/ Accept no substitutes when installing on Windows.

ajmarshon Campaign to Buy Browsing Histories of Politicians Who Passed Anti-Privacy Law

Maybe both the politicians and their staff. Some of these old Luddites have never sent so much as an email in their entire life.

ajmarshon Prenda Saga Update: John Steele Pleads Guilty, Admits Entire Scheme

I'd almost be on board with harsher punishments except for the fact that almost everything is a felony these days. In the US anyway.

ajmarshon Ask HN: Is S3 down?

via AWS twitter account "The dashboard not changing color is related to S3 issue. See the banner at the top of the dashboard for updates."

ajmarshon Dear Mark Zuckerberg: Democracy is not a Facebook focus group

This is kinda our fault you know. Moglen sums things up pretty well.

http://observer.com/2011/12/in-which-eben-moglen-like-legit-...

ajmarshon Ask HN: Why aren't there middle class cars shaped like Ferraris?

You could build one yourself for about 35k.

http://www.factoryfive.com/kits/gtm-supercar/

ajmarshon How Do You Measure Leadership?

By the output of the employees that are lead/managed?

ajmarshon The Theory of Interstellar Trade (1978)

What is really odd about the statement is that Krugman is one of a handful of economists who think trade protectionism is a good idea. We might soon get to test these theories as Trump is all about trade protectionism.

ajmarshon Inside Magic Leap

I assume the GTX 1080 lives in the cloud. We shall see I guess.

ajmarshon Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test

This was very similar to my first experience interviewing for an SRE role at Google. After about 20 minutes I got tired of arguing with a clearly non-technical recruiter and politely excused myself.

My second interview well, that was a whole different bucket of problems.

ajmarshon Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy SGI

The SGI O2 was one of the best looking workstations ever designed. I still have mine, gutted with a x86 Linux box inside but still.

ajmarshon Facebook’s Answer to Silicon Valley Housing Crunch: Build Apartments

I'd start with this.

https://www.amazon.com/Site-Reliability-Engineering-Producti...

ajmarshon Cody Wilson, the man who wants Americans to 3D print their own guns

...or you could just go to the hardware store and make a better one.

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Zip-Gun

ajmarshon Show HN: Dead Yet? – Keep an eye on dying startups

It appears The Iron Isles is finally dead. Undoubtedly it was a great product with so much promise. Alas, even dreams as lofty as The Iron Isles must one day die. LOL

ajmarshon Hashtags Instagram Won’t Let You Search

#workflow ?!?

ajmarshon Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

By default, Windows sends a lot of your information to their servers sometimes without asking you to opt-in.

https://fix10.isleaked.com/

ajmarshon Ten Years in the AWS Cloud

They are also giving away free lab time to celebrate.

https://qwiklabs.com/?qlcampaign=aws10#section-4

ajmarshon How I fixed a bug in Atom

Good work. With enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow.

ajmarshon The Akrasia Effect: Why We Don’t Follow Through on What We Set Out to Do

One day builds has been the key for me. I end up throwing away a lot of junk that doesn't pan out, but I find it helps.

ajmarshon Defense Claims Courthouse Was Illegally Bugged

Read "Enemies" by Pulitzer Prize winner Tim Wiener. This is not that out of character for the FBI really.

http://www.amazon.com/Enemies-History-FBI-Tim-Weiner/dp/0812...

ajmarshon Rocket Fiber Launches 100GB/s Internet Service in Downtown Detroit

My understanding is it is being installed under the new M-1 rail line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-1_Rail_Line

ajmarshon Don't copy paste from a website to a terminal

I usually go web --> text editor --> terminal. It's a pain but, it works.

ajmarshon California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It

A quick googling produced:

The impact of coal-burning power plants and gasoline can be quantified. The EPA estimates that the average passenger vehicle emits 5.1 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents per year. Coal-burning power plants, on the other hand, produce more than 4 million metric tons per power plant, per year. The overall carbon dioxide output of coal-fired electric power plants exceeded gasoline by more than 30 percent in 2010.

ajmarshon Downloading PuTTY Safely Is Nearly Impossible (2014)

Question: Do you mean msysgit, or something else? I almost never use windows but this would be nice for those rare occasions. Thanks in advance.

ajmarshon Why I’m breaking up with Google Chrome

I was having the same issue, until I enabled "click to play" for flash etc. Currently with 8-10 tabs open 1.4 GB of memory. YMMV.