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ccarter84··on Spaces, a tool for small group sharing
Glad I'm not the only skeptic here. It will likely find a way to count towards storage limits, or find some subtle way to try and monetize like charging for history or slapping ads similar to Twitter's discover or promotional stuff that requires add-ins to remove. Honestly once they went to the intrusive format of hangouts / killed gchat, I lost an valuable means of informal contact with a lot of folks who just turned it off entirely. Gonna nurse that one for a while longer.
ccarter84··on Hidden Microphones Part of Government Surveillance Program in the Bay Area
My phone keeps getting unavoidable pop-ups, I'm sure it's a great story though.
ccarter84··on The company that bribed the world
Good thing DoJ staffed up that kleptocracy unit
ccarter84··on Apple wants the FBI to reveal how it hacked the San Bernardino killer's iPhone
To best of my knowledge, there's no law saying the Government has to disclose squat to Apple. Given the public bickering/brinksmenship going on these past couple weeks, I doubt they'll be inclined to do so, and they're probably also bound by NDA's from Cellebrite or whoever created the hack (if the Feds even know how they did it)

There's some irony in here somewhere...

ccarter84··on REM vs. EM – The Great Debate
I got kind of excited at the prospects of a study seeing how EM radiation affects our REM sleep patterns, eapecially with the degree the IoT and 5G will envelop us in the very near future. Unfortunately that debate will be another day...
ccarter84··on Ask HN: Dissolve it, or limp-along?
Yea good points, Delaware indeed. Guess we can see what the accountant costs will be for a year or two under both scenarios. Thanks
ccarter84··on Airbnb purged 1,000 "entire home" listings days before preparing data snapshot
While investigations generally could precede legal action, they don't always lead to it. An individual could be investigated for a serious crime and later be ruled out by said investigators as new evidence comes to light.

That being said, this should lead to legal action by NYC.

ccarter84··on Rapid recovery from major depression using magnesium treatment (2006)
FWIW I've been doing in the 8-10k range for a bit after reading some other stuff online since my vit. d levels were pretty low, but doctor suggested I tack it back to around 4,000 IU / day max. Still helping, and less risks of (relatively rare), but random side effects.
ccarter84··on Activist Predicts His Own Death, Says the Cops Killed Him
Agreed a little schizo sounding but needs to be investigated. I found this on the second page a half hour ago....where is it now?
ccarter84··on Zcash, an untraceable Bitcoin alternative, launches in alpha
> This literally has no use case other than illicit transactions

My thoughts exactly. But they must have made a good case that there were other uses to their investors, they netted some pretty high-profile names.

I would imagine Dash is getting traction on darknets, but I haven't seen anything on that one lately

ccarter84··on Square stock drops 10%, is now less than IPO price
Jeesh, 500k? Guess I'm in the wrong industry....
ccarter84··on Stop Buying Real Estate in SF
Found it! The advanced panel, the simple graphics, highlighting the parallel rolls of expected rate of Rent increase vs Home price appreciation and making it a slider! Much usability, minimal space.

-- http://web.archive.org/web/20120228050050/http://www.nytimes...

This is the exact reason I support Archive.org...well that and occasionally it helps with work stuff.

ccarter84··on Stop Buying Real Estate in SF
I loved this calculator when they first issued it, (2012ish?) but now they've revamped it and it takes up too much space for whatever functionality they added.
ccarter84··on Ask HN: What is the best way for a software engineer to switch to research?
Why are you leaning towards research, what part of energy sector interests you, and can you afford to take the time off from career for a little bit while you change tracks?
ccarter84··on Paul Graham accidentally explained everything wrong with SV world view
Agreed with this part at least:

"But what the market deems valuable is not necessarily aligned with what is ultimately good for us as a society, or even what we want."

Negative externalities that harm the public good aren't factored into markets until a price is put on the value of public goods. When no enforcement mechanism is present, or at least decent incentives properly aligned, then the public good keeps getting screwed and we end up with climate change.

ccarter84··on The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car
Financial reporting is likely on front lines http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/20/406484294/an-np...
ccarter84··on Digit Tests and the Peculiar Election Dynamics of Turkey’s November Elections
Thanks for sharing, this is very interesting work, though some of the stats are little above me at the moment. Hopefully others pick this up and study it further.

Personally, I lost most of sophomore year delving into the insecurity of e-voting in the US after 2004. Eventually I burnt out and left the rabbit hole, but there are still those fighting for open-source voter verified paper trail systems, that can be audited for irregularities if need arose. I applaud their efforts, and am glad to still have a more resilient family member involved in pushing Cali to implement such things.

As much as the current system in the US is easily (and probably) hackable, what scares me further are the alliances pushing us towards online voting, some under the pretense of the magic of the blockchain to solve everything. Once we shift to that, whatever shreds remain of our democracy are probably toast.

But we're not there yet, SF is leading the way working with some efforts at digital systems such as this http://www.sfexaminer.com/san-francisco-could-lead-on-open-s... ... although the lack of paper trails show that they don't really get the the full range of risks.

ccarter84··on Soylent 2.0
That's...significantly more expensive than I thought it would be per day.
ccarter84··on Ask HN: How do you deal with after work fatigue?
Good list. For me it was at least in part apnea ... still working on number 4. I'm <160 lbs, 6 feet even, and diagnosed @ 29. It's not just for the 50+ community.
ccarter84··on Ask HN: Should I pursue an ML career with good pay or a dream to teach abroad?
Random internet stranger here

A relationship, a mortgage and even kids happen if you take the job route. As someone who took the job route and now have a mortgage, I vote Japan, though you prolly wanna talk with some folks who have done it first just for confirmation...or have a backup plan if for some reason it actually did suck.

On the flip side my girlfriend would be stoked if I said I wanted to move to Japan, so you never know who you might end up with if you stick around and pay down some debt.

Routines and inertia are hard to fight tho once you get on a path.

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ccarter84··on Ask HN: Has anyone used web-scraping-as-a-service that didn't suck?
Seconding this question... I've wanted a way to get HN top posts each hour, aggregated (and deduped) by day/week, so that I dont have to feel the need to check as often. Thanks for this links, hopefully one of these will get me there!
ccarter84··on Ask HN: Have you started a company that has zero to do with software?
Working with a guy on energy storage, first startup period...excited / nervous for all the usual reasons, but grateful that at the end of the day an actual physical product could ship to thousands of people.
ccarter84··on Ask HN: What Are the Big Problems?
Water footprint of everything is hidden 99% of the time.(like carbon.... But more pressing for us in Cali ATM)
ccarter84··on Tell HN: Things I Learned about Credit Bureaus This Week
Condolences and goodluck, I too would like to see a series of articles on what you've learned, the conciseness of your writing is preferred to what I find in publications.

As an aside: Guess it's time to put a credit freeze / lock on my record so the scammers can't hijack things. Lame that the agencies can charge us for this self - protective measure.

ccarter84··on One Week of Harassment on Twitter
It just keeps scrolling...
ccarter84··on Updated Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement – IP Chapter
Bill Moyers did a pretty solid piece on this. http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-the-top-secret-trade...
ccarter84··on Oak Island Money Pit: Unsolved Mystery
Weird this is blocked by corporate firewall...
ccarter84··on Everything Is Bullshit: A Book by Priceonomics
'wrong conclusion'
ccarter84··on Coinsis: Bitcoin Credit card [Demo VIDEO]
Not that I could do better, but you don't launch a beta until at least you can let users create an account. I just went through the sign-up process to create one and I guess it failed to populate server-side or something cuz now I can't login. Amateurs.

This is a gem: " Note: Coinsis is in Beta stage and CANNOT recover PASSWORDS at this time. Please make sure to write your password down, since currently we cannot help recover your password."

ccarter84··on Good News You Might Have Missed in 2013
He links to a pretty decent site too -- 'oooh shiny visualizations' http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/gbd/visualizations...
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