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dredwerker··on Fravia's Pages of Reverse Engineering
I loved Fravias pages and searchlores. Is there anything else like it?
dredwerker··on Is Crispr the Next Antibiotic?
That's funny but no, like this: https://www.the-odin.com/diy-crispr-kit/

not satire :)

dredwerker··on The super-recognisers of Scotland Yard
Thanks for these.

I have realised that I am perfectly average at recognising faces getting 79% on the bbk test and 10 out of 14 on greenwich, however I don't recognise people that well. I hadn't realised there is a difference.

Anybody come across this?

dredwerker··on Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% from Panama Leak
Possibly because it was a sysadmin that leaked it. It has to be decrypted at some point for people to see it.
dredwerker··on Google says self-driving car hits municipal bus in minor crash
I was at a junction in Spain and I had no idea what to do. It was the most hectic thing in the world, you just sort of went and hoped.

I guess its simialr to some roundabouts in London.

I have no idea how an AV would handle that(unless they were all AVs at the junction)

dredwerker··on Autopwn every Android device on your network using BetterCap
Yeah my Hisense smarttv is android 4.2 and it will never get upgraded. I am pi$$ed - mainly because it didnt occur to me, I had it in my head that I could upgrade it or their might be a community scene but not for something this obscure.
dredwerker··on Lumosity fined $2M for deceptive ads of “Brain Training” app
Obviously I do too. That was funny :).

I am not in the states and I can't get most of the services. I wish they would at least do regional podcasting advertising. A startup opportunity :)

dredwerker··on Dick Smith Is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time
Masters is for when Bunnings is too busy.
dredwerker··on Ahmed Mohamed: 'Clock boy' seeks $15m from city and school
How about balloon boy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_boy_hoax I am a parent and I wouldn't do this but it doesn't mean others wouldn't.
dredwerker··on What happens when a culture is driven by the need for money to make more money
Is it dark intentions when the nature of a company is to make as much money as possible? The banks want house/land prices to go up so that they can charge one as much in interest as they can get from one's income, whilst making money on any land/property capital appreciation that they have. This is just capitalism surely.

My solution - nationalise the mortgage lenders and cap the mortgage to a 3 * multiplier of annual earnings.

dredwerker··on Write like you talk
Abstruse - Big in the early 1800s according to the Google Ngram Viewer. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&year_e...
dredwerker··on Coworking goes micro, extending into the homes of sharing-economy enthusiasts
The potential for having a go in someone elses professional/semi pro space sounds wonderful. I can imagine 3d printers,photo and video editing, well tooled workshops etc..
dredwerker··on Ask HN: What are you reading?
You have to read the island http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_%28Huxley_novel%29

The utopian version.

dredwerker··on Death of a Programmer, Life of a Farmer
". And it's really hard to find good hired workers to help out, because nowadays no one wants to do strenuous physical labor for relatively low pay" I wonder why :)
dredwerker··on The obesity era: The problem may be bigger than any of us (2013)
There was a professor who lost weight on the twinkie diet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkie#Twinkie_diet.

He just ate less calories than he needed.

dredwerker··on The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked
Apparently we know who Jack the ripper is now. http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/was-it-aaron-kos...

He is Aaron Kosminski according to DNA probably.

dredwerker··on The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked
I believe all you need is several mini coopers.
dredwerker··on Traction Book – A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
Calibre converts mobi to epub for nothing. http://calibre-ebook.com/ Disclaimer: I love calibre :)
dredwerker··on Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft
I don't think it will necessarily work because some cracker has just probably added that to their personal dictionary(if they didn't before). It might work if you add 3.14159627 to it or a number/symbol set of your choice. I guess length is fairly key as well.
dredwerker··on Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone
What is Provigil? (I am in Australia) Is it like dexedrine or something?
dredwerker··on Richard Attenborough dies aged 90
how sad - he handed me my degree when I graduated. A friend of mine felt his beard on stage :)
dredwerker··on Always Talk to Strangers
give me your pocket money ;)
dredwerker··on The Great Chinese Exodus
Not in my experience with Melbourne.

Glen Waverley, Box Hill, Springvale and then the spillover. I can't get a look in. One house went for $200k over the asking price. Glen Waverley has supposedly ~25% Chinese but its a lot more in practice. There are also a lot of Indians looking in the surrounds. There aren't that many anglo people at the viewings at all.

I was talking to a mortgage broker and he said that in some cases the children were advance parties with parents money.

A lot of the estate agents are Chinese as they cater to the Chinese.

dredwerker··on The US Intelligence Community has a Third Leaker
I am not a number I am a free man.
dredwerker··on Oak Island Money Pit: Unsolved Mystery
Wow - I never expected to find Freemasons on HN. Don't know why but i thought it was a) dying out and b)it was for old people. Well older than my 43 years of age :)
dredwerker··on Friendship Paradox
Its not just your intuiton the bell curve tops outs squarely in the middle of the two not with two nice peaks. I found this out looking in to Myers briggs(I think its very qustionable). People can never work out whether I am introvert or extrovert.
dredwerker··on Show HN: Hack Your Mortgage
Is this is a US only offering? I don't want to register if it is.

Also it failed at the first hurdle for me. I don't rent or own. (I am deposit saving with in-laws)

dredwerker··on Making of Aprilzero
Would be nice if someone could make an arduino/pi one :) off to hackaday to have a look. $495 is a bit steep for me.
dredwerker··on Kickstarter project spent $3.5M to finish a prototype and ended in disaster
This was created in response to this if I remember rightly: http://hackaday.io/project/86-Mooltipass The mooltipass is an offline password keeper. The concept behind this product is to minimize the number of ways your passwords can be compromised, while generating and storing long and complex random passwords for the different websites you use daily. It is designed to be as small as possible so it can fit in your pocket. Simply visit a website and the device will ask for confirmation to enter your credentials when you need to login.
dredwerker··on Show HN: Knowledge engine – instant answers to any question
It cant't answer "tell me about abundant numbers" or "should I take the red or blue pill". This reminds me of askjeeves(shudder)
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