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gromy··on Jonathan Albright, a Digital Sleuth Exposing Fake News
“Albright, who looks at least a decade younger than his 40 years”
gromy··on Jonathan Albright, a Digital Sleuth Exposing Fake News
>> People only voted for Trump because they were 'tricked'.

This narrative implies we lack free will and is really insulting to people. They’re using fear to position the reader as a potential victim who should continue reading their articles to avoid a similar fate.

gromy··on The Allure of Small Towns for Big City Freelancers
Sure, there are superficial interactions with strangers in dense, global communities. There’s also an increased likelihood of meeting someone who may significantly expand your network and change your life at any moment.

Humility is an aspect that’s often missing from these urban vs. suburban/rural discussions. Living in an suburban community and working in tech, it’s very easy to have a high opinion of yourself. Moving to SF quickly humbles you as you are suddenly surrounded by people much smarter than yourself. You feel a need to focus on what you’re uniquely good at and work on continuing to improve your skills in that niche. That was my experience anyway.

gromy··on The Power of Positive People
Start with The Courage to be Disliked - @stewart recommended it this weekend.

https://twitter.com/stewart/status/1018229367929880576

gromy··on The Power of Positive People
Yikes! Here are some books I’d recommend for you:

https://www.amazon.com/Happiness-Advantage-Positive-Brain-Su...

https://www.amazon.com/Daring-Greatly-Courage-Vulnerable-Tra...

https://www.amazon.com/Courage-Be-Disliked-Phenomenon-Happin...

https://www.amazon.com/One-Thing-Surprisingly-Extraordinary-...

gromy··on Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames into text
Related HN thread regarding a chrome extension to counter this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16754987

gromy··on Impulsive Rich Kid, Impulsive Poor Kid (2015)
> 1. Recognize when their automatic responses might get them into trouble,

> 2. Slow down in those situations and behave less automatically,

> 3. Objectively assess situations and think about what response is called-for.

I recently realized I have insecure attachment and have been working on overcoming it. The process I use is somewhat similar:

1. Recognize when you feel anxious or insecure.

2. Ask yourself what is causing it.

3. Either fix it or accept it.

gromy··on Ask HN: Idea Sunday
https://gitter.im/ ?
gromy··on “Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07...
gromy··on California man faces 13 years in jail for scribbling anti-bank messages in chalk
Meanwhile, “A three-judge federal court panel ordered the state to reduce its prison population to 137.5% of design capacity by December 31.”

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/20/justice/california-prison-over...

gromy··on California man faces 13 years in jail for scribbling anti-bank messages in chalk
"13 counts of vandalism"

How is it just to charge him with more than one count of vandalism? He may have only written in chalk once if they would have charged him immediately after the first incident.

gromy··on How to get advice from powerful people
Similar to Jimmy Wales’ advice on Quora — be concise.

http://www.quora.com/Jimmy-Wales-1/What-are-the-things-we-ca...

gromy··on Google’s “Conversational Search” Goes Live On Chrome
It'd be nice if queries starting with "go to..." would automatically go to the first result, ala I'm Feeling Lucky.
gromy··on Tailgating YC
My experience with this (in Nevada) has been that the slot will keep track of your total credit value and cumulative winnings, so if you play a $30 credit for 10 minutes and hit "cash out," it should give you your total winnings, while keeping the remaining credit in the machine. ie. you don't need to print a cash out voucher every time you win.

For anyone in the bay area, Grand Sierra in Reno has the best promotions I've encountered for free play ($50-100) and free weekend hotel rooms.

gromy··on Shutting down my side project of two years
Things I might have tried (w/ time & energy): a better logo, more SEO, plans start at $10/yr /monitor, 30-45-60-day trial. Text alert to pay for service near end of trial.
gromy··on Federal Reserve confirms hackers breached site
American laws discouraging hacking will only leave more vulnerabilities open on American networks for foreign hackers to exploit. With one less exploit now open, we're lucky Anonymous hacked the Fed. How long had it been open? How many other entities may have hacked in and not published what they found?
gromy··on Now you lost me
We used a device called an "iclicker" at my school that could do all of this, though it was pretty much only used for paperless pop quizzes.

One benefit was immediately after, the teacher could display a bar chart showing the correct multiple choice answer and how many students voted for each of A,B,C,D thereby giving students and idea of where they ranked in the class.

http://www.iclicker.com/

gromy··on What was the code quality of the initial version of Google?
“Larry Page's grad school project was initially designed to be a way for users to make comments and annotations on web pages.”

Google has been trying to learn social since before its inception.

gromy··on &q=helvetica
* { font-family: Comic Sans MS !important; }
gromy··on Evan Williams on leaving Twitter
A couple years ago Ev wished there was a better calendar to-do list integration out there.
gromy··on Evan Williams on leaving Twitter
Any bets on what Ev will work on next?
gromy··on New Facebook Feature Empowers the Dangerous "Comment Nazis"
Perhaps the problem is that we've grown accustom to lazily broadcasting our thoughts to all our friends when we should be broadcasting what we have to say to only a select relevant few?
gromy··on Gtk3 on a HTML5 backend
I think this raises the question: how much longer will the web still be indexable in the classical HTML sense?
gromy··on Ask Hn: How can I buy a parked domain if they have private registration?
You might try contacting the parking company.
gromy··on Fake Work is Destroying America
Caffeine in general, I feel, may be a cause of "fake work." I quit last week and this week have found my mind much more full of thought, calmer, the days last longer, and I feel more passionate about things.
gromy··on Fake Work is Destroying America
Coffee is destroying America.
gromy··on AOL acquires Thing Labs (Brizzly)
Perhaps it will be good long-term as founders will be able to move on to new things?
gromy··on Stop the Internet Blacklist
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.3804: