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guyfawkes303··on Keybase is now supported by the Stellar Development Foundation
I'm not so sure that your recommendation is the reason why you look like an asshole at the present moment..
guyfawkes303··on Deodorants, perfumes, soaps pollute air at levels as high as cars
Serious question, if you aren't using soap or shampoo, what are you doing in the shower for 10 to 15 minutes?
guyfawkes303··on Our Approach to Privacy
I think you mis-understand how iOS privacy controls work. An app doesn't get to 'see all your photos' just because you grant photo access, you still have to select which photos to put in the app. Same goes for camera, that just let's the app pull up the camera interface, not be able to access it 24/7 for whatever purpose they want. Same with the mic.
guyfawkes303··on [dead]
Yup. I guess I'm a millionaire on paper, in reality my bank account is negative several hundred dollars and all my credit cards are maxed out. Yay start-ups!
guyfawkes303··on “This project violates the MIT license of Gemstash”
Clicking three links yields his LinkedIn that says "Software Engineering Intern at Google" https://ca.linkedin.com/in/arhamahmed
guyfawkes303··on Nervous system manipulation by electromagnetic fields from monitors
Well, that sure is terrifying.
guyfawkes303··on A rising sentiment that IBM’s Watson can’t deliver on its promises
I tried this, and while 'targeted sentiment' may be neutral, 'document emotion' has Joy at 0.880435 vs the rest at 0.

If you change your example from 'I like it' to 'I like puppies', the 'targeted sentiment' changes from neutral to 'puppies positive 0.550431'.

While the first example you found does seem odd, the rest seems to work quite well. Maybe it just has problems attaching 'it' to a 'target'.

guyfawkes303··on The Internet Archive has digitized 25,000 78rpm Gramophone records
Now that is cool.
guyfawkes303··on Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?
Wow, nice work. Just downloaded and tested it out, I'll definitely be using this.
guyfawkes303··on The Internet Archive has digitized 25,000 78rpm Gramophone records
The records I clicked on have this notice

Digitized from a shellac record, at 78 revolutions per minute. Four stylii were used to transfer this record. They are 3.8mm truncated conical, 2.3mm truncated conical, 2.8mm truncated conical, 3.3mm truncated conical. These were recorded flat and then also equalized with NAB.

The preferred version suggested by an audio engineer at George Blood, L.P. is the equalized version recorded with the 2.3mm truncated conical stylus, and has been copied to have the more friendly filename.

I'm trying to guess but can't imagine what the reasoning for this is. I've tried A/B/C/D testing a few tracks on some crappy speakers and can't discern any difference.

While it's certainly admirable to try and digitize it as thoroughly as possible, I just can't see how a difference of 0.5mm in the stylus width is worth increasing your work load 4x times over (having to record each record 4 times rather than just once).

guyfawkes303··on Cruise is running an autonomous ride hailing service for employees in SF
I mean, yea. I guess I left out the details of how the car service you were renting from would clean things between uses. Didn't think that was necessary to spell out. There are public 'nap rental' places now that have that particular problem pretty well sorted out.
guyfawkes303··on Cruise is running an autonomous ride hailing service for employees in SF
This makes me so excited. I can't wait until the interiors of cars can change completely due to the safety brought by self driving cars. If all cars were self driving and communicated with each other, the risk of crash would be almost nonexistent (obviously there would still be wildlife and other issues). Given a near 0% chance of crash however, we could remove many of the annoying 'features' of a current car, like seat belts and having all the seats in the car face forward. Maybe you can even order specific types of cars for what you want. Tired? Order a bed car. Just a door and inside is a bunch of mattresses and pillows with windows that can be blacked out. Late for work? Order a work car. Has desks with swiveling chairs etc. Just getting groceries or going shopping? Order a hauler car, etc.
guyfawkes303··on Mongoose OS – An Open Source Operating System for the Internet of Things
Right. My question is if the code on the bare metal device talks to, say, a cloud server running an API, does the code running the API also fall under the GPL, and therefore need to be released? I assume not, but assumptions can be dangerous.
guyfawkes303··on Mongoose OS – An Open Source Operating System for the Internet of Things
So I'm a little confused on how licensing works in these types of situations. 'GPL may force you to give the source code', which source code? Presumably whatever code lives on the device that uses Mongoose is just one piece of a much larger puzzle. So does this imply you only need to give the code that lives on the device running Mongoose? Or any of your code that interacts with it?
guyfawkes303··on The Embarrassing History of Crap Thrown into Yellowstone’s Geysers
Darwin at work.
guyfawkes303··on Ask HN: How to build a back-end where no two employees can see all user data?
Encryption would be about the only solution I can think of. Keybase.io achieves this. Then again, you are now building an encryption service instead of whatever you are trying to actually build.
guyfawkes303··on Berlin Startup Map
Great timing, I actually started researching moving from Colorado to Berlin yesterday. This only adds fuel to the fire.
guyfawkes303··on Contextinator: Divide your web browsing into projects
I would love this, combined with the functionality of 'StayFocusd'. That way I can block distracting websites (Facebook, Reddit, Twitter) during work periods, but just as easily unblock those sites and BLOCK work sites during weekends for example.