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commiebobon Redefining what a map can be with new information and AI

Honestly though, what about any of Google's behavior in the past several years should make us give them the benefit of the doubt?

commiebobon Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet

Except that's like giving someone your ATM card and PIN code instead of handing them $5 for said sandwich.

commiebobon Ask HN: Where do you think retail investing is heading?

Too late, SPAC-ception has begun. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPAK?p=SPAK&.tsrc=fin-srch

commiebobon Monitor Airplane Traffic with a Raspberry Pi

Seconding this. If you have a PiAware setup or other off the shelf ADS-B tracker, it's super easy to add feeding to ADS-B Exchange. https://www.adsbexchange.com/how-to-feed/#scriptmethod

commiebobon Monitor Airplane Traffic with a Raspberry Pi

If you want to see military aircraft use ADS-B exchange: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/ there is a filter (click the U button on the map) that will only show military aircraft. The commercial ADS-B tracking sites filter out these and many other aircraft. Enjoy.

commiebobon Ask HN: Shopify self hosted e-commerce alternative?

While magento 2 CE is indeed free, it's a horrific mess that I wouldn't recommend to anyone let alone someone who needs a store with only 20-100 orders/day.

commiebobon Google Voice is killing SMS voicemail transcripts and Chrome Extension texting

Is this something you can setup entirely in the Twilio console or are you using some custom code to handle it?

commiebobon Kraft Reveals Revamped Mac and Cheese, 50M Boxes Later

It went something like this - my memory is a little hazy as this happened a few years ago: Kraft at the time owned Nabisco and had all of it's "snack" brands under the Nabisco umbrella. Mondelez and Kraft merged and then split all the "snack" brands off under Mondelez (this included Cadbury because Kraft had already taken them over). Then 3G capital came in and merged Kraft and Heinz and spun Mondelez completely off into its own company - all the Cadbury/Nabisco brands are under the Mondelez umbrella and Kraft/Heinz has the non-snack stuff.

commiebobon Ask HN: Windows VPS/dedicated server

If you're just looking for something to get started and get it out there I have used kickassvps.com for some sites. Pretty good and starts at $29/month with full remote desktop access.

commiebobon Samsung claims 5G mobile data transmission breakthrough

In other news, 5G users can now burn through their data cap in under 10 seconds!

commiebobon Andrew Mason's $378.36 Retirement Package

"Mason sold around $28 million worth of shares before Groupon's IPO in the fall of 2011."

I think he'll be ok.

commiebobon How safe is your password with Verizon?

Your password is not safe with anyone. Use a unique, strong password for everything.

commiebobon Scientists discover why modularity evolves; 'holy grail' discovery for AI

Link to source article: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428504/computer-scienti...

commiebobon Why Facebook will never make a significant profit

Do your analytics allow you to differentiate traffic driven by your Facebook page vs. Facebook ads? I would be interested to know which was more impactful.

commiebobon Why Facebook will never make a significant profit

Right, things you post to your Facebook page, not ads you are actually buying from Facebook. You get to advertise for free by creating a page for your business and getting people to like it. It has a ton of value for your business, but you're not purchasing anything directly from Facebook.

commiebobon Counting Pullups

Sounds like a great idea for an app for Google's Project Glass.

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And when that P3 finally kicks the bucket? Or a power outage/earthquake/insert problem of your choice happens? I'm happy knowing that if my gmail is down, there is an entire team of people working to fix it - with no effort on my part at all. Just keep a backup of your mail and this whole cloud thing ain't so bad (hopefully your mail is backed up anyway cloud or no).

commiebobon Just how big are porn sites?

>To put that 800Gbps figure into perspective, the internet only handles around half an exabyte of traffic every day, which equates to around 50Tbps — in other words, a single porn site accounts for almost 25% of the internet’s total traffic.

That should be more like 1.6% if those numbers are correct...

Still an absurd amount of traffic.

commiebobon Today I wrote some code

As a mostly self taught programmer who has been ignoring tests for too long, can anyone provide links to any books/primers/resources that can introduce me to writing tests and doing so effectively?

commiebobon PSA: NYC hurricane evacuation zones map

Thank you for the usable, non-pdf link.

commiebobon Google Buying Manhattan Office Building for $1.9 Billion

It's not close to Wall street. This building is where their NYC offices were already located, by buying it, it makes it easy to expand into vacant office space. And, as stated in the article, about 25% of the building is data center space, it is one of the largest carrier hotels in NYC.

commiebobon Ask HN: How did everyone do with Launch an App Month?

Nothing in particular, I just really enjoyed the first two you wrote. Seeing the entire process of launching a product laid out was very interesting. Thanks!

commiebobon Ask HN: How did everyone do with Launch an App Month?

Congrats! And will you be doing a final wrap up blog post about the process? If so, I am looking forward to it.

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Please.......

If you are computer savvy enough to be irate about not having a browser ballot on your fresh Windows 7 install, I think you can manage the pain of typing getfirefox.com into IE.

commiebobon MoD 'how to stop leaks' document is leaked

the 2,400-page restricted document

Holy crap, are they serious? I can't imagine the mounds of BS that must be included in this thing.

Surely these guidelines could be slimmed down to say - 1 page - Stop sending/copying/telling people about classified documents.

commiebobon Google asks Jon Skeet to give up his Microsoft MVP award

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=858022

commiebobon The hell of Apple video connectors

http://www.crucial.com/ is probably a good place to start, select your system from the drop downs and it will give you the exact type of memory you need - and for a decent price. There might be cheaper options if you hunt around, just get the dimm size from crucial and google around to compare prices.

commiebobon IBM undercuts Google with discount e-mail service

$14 dollars less, but only 1 gig of storage - compared to Google's 25. 1 gig is laughable in the age of sub $100 TB disks.

commiebobon DropBox grows like weed. Reaches 2 million users.

I think what he's getting at is that if Microsoft has a similar product and they gained 2 million users, it would not be seen as impressive, because that is still far less than 1% of all Windows users.

So, while Microsoft may have a competing product with many millions of users, at their scale it doesn't get the same recognition as a startup gaining 2 million users.

commiebobon Injecting Arbitrary Python Into EVE Online

Major points for hacking the game before playing it.