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cyanbane··on Ghost Ship: Stepping Aboard Sea Hunter, the Navy's Unmanned Drone Ship
Amazing. How long until we see autonomous fishing vessels?
cyanbane··on Blizzard shutting down Nostalrius, popular WoW private server
Is there a project that focuses on portability between these "cores", for example taking your AD&D Character sheet with you between all these different cores?
cyanbane··on Here Are Google, Amazon and Facebook’s Secrets to Hiring the Best People
Someone get her a job writing for Silicon Valley (HBO). Seems like a great addition.
cyanbane··on Extracting tabular data from U.S. Senators' scanned-in personal finance reports
Very neat project. Tesseract seems to be a lot of projects default go to now on OCR. I had not heard of FineReader until now.

My question is why is it still acceptable for them to submit via paper? Who determines the submission requirements? I am assuming it is the Houses themselves - I mean what body within those houses determines the requirements?

edit: Seems Secretary of Senate keeps up with and enforces - I wonder if also makes or if it quite literally takes "an act of Congress" to alter requirements. https://efdsearch.senate.gov/search/home/

cyanbane··on Ask HN: Moving Out of Silicon Valley because of housing? Where to?
Alpharetta, Ga (or Atlanta in general). It's great. Home prices are not terrible, taxes are not bad, great schools & people are friendly. Only real problem is traffic - staggered commutes and working from home can mitigate that.
cyanbane··on Tim Sweeney: Microsoft wants to monopolise games development on PC
Is the core of this that game purchaser is losing the ability to purchase this type of game from other channels and forced to from the MS store in exchange for this game being able to run on any hardware (Win 10/XBox One/Windows Mobile)that runs UWP. Are they betting that a lot of PC gamers may see value in knowing that an app is vetted and will work with minimal configuration on their PC in exchange for only using this channel for purchase? Is the hardware amalgamation of PC and Xbox Live that bad to the end user or just the game devs or just to 3rd party AAA title devs that have to compete with MS's AAA titles and bargain to get into this new channel?
cyanbane··on Tech workers are increasingly looking to leave Silicon Valley
Surprised at how many upvotes this has. If you honestly are looking for a coding position around here (Alpharetta), feel free to DM me (shoot me a tweet asking for refollow). I don't mind sending your info to my local contacts. I love building the local IT community. Great community, awesome local gov't support and large companies moving in daily. Honestly, it gets no better.
cyanbane··on Tech workers are increasingly looking to leave Silicon Valley
Come to Alpharetta, Ga (or Atlanta in general). It's great. Home prices are not terrible, taxes are not bad, great schools & people are friendly. Only real problem is traffic - staggered commutes and working from home can mitigate that.
cyanbane··on Father.io: first real life massive multiplayer FPS
Debating if this is safer than the BB Gun wars we used to have.
cyanbane··on AI generated music to improve focus, relaxation and sleep
Some awesome suggestions on here.

Also wanted to note:

http://raining.fm

http://www.power85.com/

http://poolside.fm/

cyanbane··on Basecamp neglected integration partners by not providing an API for Basecamp v3
I am going to be in the minority here but I think that even in this day and age (2016) it is ok to produce a product which has a majority of it's value derived from a 3rd party API. In doing so though I think that you need to come to the terms that you are unable to reliably forecast for anymore than 24 hours ahead in time. The API access that you depend on can be Twittered out of existence (i.e. firehose). It could be Parsed out of existence (graceful exit from market) . Or it could be Basecamped (delayed?) into existence at some point in the future. I think DHH & Co. are legitimately going to release this but it just isn't high on the priority list for them. I don't think you can fault them for having their own list of internal priorities that may or may not involve helping 3rd parties at the speed at which those 3rd parties require.
cyanbane··on Thanks for Trumpet Winsock
It was LORD. Not sure why I wrote LOTD.
cyanbane··on Thanks for Trumpet Winsock
Color boxes, Phreaking, ASCII art groups, zips broken up at 1.44m, LOTD and other door games. That was my youth. Donation sent.
cyanbane··on New military automated airdrops will use image recognition instead of GPS
"which is aimed at reducing the 3000 casualties which in 2007 resulted from inexact air-drops in militarily sensitive environments such as Afghanistan."

Is that saying 3000 casualties just in 2007? That number is a lot higher than I would have expected it to be. I didn't realize this was such a problem.

cyanbane··on 89, 263, 201, 500, 337, 480
I was using ps to try to find it real quick: At first tried the DOI:

(Today's)

DOI (Today) 89 "by" 263 "such" 201 "all" 500 "of" 337 "to" 480 "has"

DOI (from Then) from earlier link:

89 / e 263 / o 201 / a 500 / p 337 / s 480 / p

Didn't see anything, so then I tried the article text itself. There was an "and/or" combination that I didn't know how to space so I took word X-1, X, and X+1:

89 of / two / years 263 tantalizing mystery of 201 remained / stubbornly / undechipherd 500 "American" / Dollars / I 337 locked / them /inside 480 punctuation / added, / the

89 o/t/y 263 t/m/o 201 r/s/u 500 a/d/i 337 l/t/i 480 p/a/t

Maybe that X+1 column is support to say "you d it?" Not sure. Having to divert attention now. Fun title though.

cyanbane··on Bank of America Cut Off Finance Sites from Its Data
(Mins involved over 6 months logging into 8 different banking websites/apps) > (Mins for me to just move my money to a bank that supports aggregators)

The banks' ship has sailed on the presentation front. They need to concentrate on strong read APIs and novel ways for authentication.

cyanbane··on 14,000 Images of the French Revolution Released Online (2014)
Please change 14k to 14,000 (value vs quantity). Although I should have been smart enough to realize that the latter could not exist, it may be better to state it empirically without getting people's hope's up. :)
cyanbane··on Sending a potato to near-space
totally missed this image. They did get it in there!
cyanbane··on Sending a potato to near-space
Great read & cool project. Somewhat disappointed I did a ctrl-F and couldn't find the term 'Spudnik'.
cyanbane··on Frequent Social Networking Associated with Poor Functioning Among Children [pdf]
When I read the title I thought "Association" could mean potential causation, but I think the 2nd to the last sentence in the Abstract helps clarify:

"The findings suggest that students with poor mental health may be greater users of SNSs."

cyanbane··on E-Book Sales Slip, and Print Is Far from Dead
It's definitely the price of ebooks. I started purchasing tangible books again in the last six months. They end up being almost always the same price as the ebook on Amazon, so I just donate the book to the public library when I am done with it.
cyanbane··on BB-8 Droid Teardown
We have one and I think myself and the kids played with it most of last weekend. I was hoping that the Bluetooth sequences might be able to be decoded so one could emulate commands (or create new ones) from a Bluetooth equipped broadcasting PC. If anyone has any info on anyone attempting this, please post.
cyanbane··on Exploring the Hacker Tools of Mr. Robot
Neat recent example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxM4vN_4jJY
cyanbane··on Exploring the Hacker Tools of Mr. Robot
> and depended on non existent technology.

Exactly why people are influenced by it.

cyanbane··on Exploring the Hacker Tools of Mr. Robot
Always been a fan of this Tumblr for cataloging movie/tv UIs - http://fakeui.tumblr.com/

I think some of the entries could serve as inspiration. Think about the effect Minority Report's UX has had. It was an idea that wasn't new, but seeing it (I think well done) in a movie gives it a more concrete goal for a lot of people (tech) and a reference point for other people (non-tech).

cyanbane··on OnHub
This is one of those things that I would never use however I think is great for the majority of people out there that I know that probably have not opened up their router's interface since setting it up (years ago). Pushed (forced) updates is a good thing in some cases.

An interesting thought is also what if Google starts making use of that 4gb by prepushing/caching sites that you visit daily down to the device for instantaneous retrieval.

Another interesting idea is that this probably comes with a nice UI for people to see their inbound/outbound traffic for a given timespan. My guess is a lot of people (ie non Y! news readers) don't configure their current routers for this. Once they start seeing an exact number, it will be interesting to see how it compares to their ISP if it is similar to Comcast and has caps and overage fees for metered cities.

cyanbane··on Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely
Agreed Top 100 was a great live mass(ive?) multiplayer gameshow. I hope to see something similar to it again some day.
cyanbane··on Startups with Marketing Budgets – Logo Placement on an Indy Lights Car?
Disclaimer: Sean is a friend. He is also an amazing driver. He finished 1st and 2nd in his two races last week at IMS, and had some great shots of the car post races for sponsors.

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

Most lean startups probably won't have the budget for something like this, but there maybe a few later stage ones that do.

cyanbane··on The poor kids of Silicon Valley
I think it is precisely the right place. People here are used to creating solutions, their focus just may need to shift a bit.
cyanbane··on Georgia Tech student who hacked into UGA network gets pretrial diversion
Level heads prevail.
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