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ctcherryon Evidence for Large Climate Altering Thermonuclear Explosions on Mars in the Past

Sounds a bit like Raised by Wolves

ctcherryon Threads.net

Anyone from the https://threads.com team around? This must be at least annoying

ctcherryon What the Dunning-Kruger effect is and isn’t (2010)

The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon

ctcherryon Neat URL cleans URLs, removing parameters such as 'fbclid' and 'utm'

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/neat-url/jchobbjgi...

ctcherryon WebAssembly Threads ready to try in Chrome 70

Pretty good list https://github.com/appcypher/awesome-wasm-langs

ctcherryon Certificates for localhost

https://github.com/ctcherry/tlself

I created this proxy to help with this, it dynamically creates certs from a self-signed-trusted local CA. It only targets OSX for now. It's not perfect but it has been working great for me.

ctcherryon Request for a new header: State-Of-The-Art

Relevant XKCD, Standards: https://xkcd.com/927/

ctcherryon 5-Level Paging and 5-Level EPT [pdf]

~144 petabytes 128 pebibytes

ctcherryon Introducing Amazon Silk

I think that is exactly what the Silk cloud is doing: http://aws.amazon.com/amazonsilk-jobs/

ctcherryon Quick app to gather all of our blocklist domains

People can vote sites both up and down, so assuming a decent number of people are participating you can can a general idea of what people think about a certain domain. In the case of something like ComputerWorld where some people don't care about the ad style, and some people do, it could have both up votes and down votes, each neutralizing the effect of the other so it wouldn't get as bad of a "rank" as sites where more people agree that they don't like it. Also, there is no import or export features so its still very much up to a user to checkout the domain and decide to block it or not, it's not making any decisions for you.

ctcherryon Security Fix in Open BSD

Could someone explain the significance of this change? What would this enable or disable in practice?

ctcherryon Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)

I'm a little surprised at the number of "no remote" in this thread. I've done some great work remotely, and with the right tools I think a team can "gel" and really work well together. Any comments?

ctcherryon OkCupid has less-than-OK policies. Especially if you're "ugly."

My theory:

I would bet that the system a sliding scale, not a hot or not situation. More than likely users are being shown matches that the system deems to have similar "attractiveness" levels, based on that click-through metric mentioned in the email. The email we see in this article would then just be a notification letting the user know that he or she has cross into the top 50% of click throughs. As their click through has been increasing slowly over the length of their membership they would have been seeing more and more other "attractive" people as their rank increased.

ctcherryon Tell HN: Best OS X Utility for programmers who use the command line

I used to be a quicksilver user, I now use this http://www.google.com/quicksearchbox/ basically the same idea.