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lephton Show HN: A bookmarking tool designed to help synthesize your web research

pinboard.in is a fantastic bookmarking service that will archive your bookmarked sites for you if you pay for the $39/year archival account: http://pinboard.in/tour/

lephton YouTube video has its own URL in it

There's a decent write-up of how to do this here: https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20090805/

As you said, it largely relies on reverse engineering and bruteforcing Twitter's ID generation.

lephton iOS 12, reviewed

I share your complaints about 3rd party keyboards in iOS, but just a heads up in case you hadn't noticed: Google's Gboard recently added support for Dvorak and Colemak, and is by far the most stable/usable 3rd party keyboard I've used.

lephton Turbo Button

It almost certainly was -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-segment_display

lephton Family fun with deepfakes

Note quite what you're asking for, but a couple years ago Adobe demoed some voice/speech editing tech that's pretty impressive: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/adobe...

lephton TripAdvisor removed rape and injury warnings at Mexico resorts, tourists say

Google Trips seems pretty close to me: https://get.google.com/trips/

lephton Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack

Sorry, I misspoke a bit there. What I was trying to point out was that

> If you choose to enroll, that is when you waive your right to join any class action lawsuit.

Isn't true. Just by using the site to check, you're waiving your right to participate in a lawsuit, as expressed in the site's Terms of Use linked at the bottom:

http://www.equifax.com/terms/

> THIS PRODUCT AGREEMENT AND TERMS OF USE ("AGREEMENT") CONTAINS THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS UPON WHICH YOU MAY PURCHASE AND USE OUR PRODUCTS THROUGH THE WWW.EQUIFAX.COM, WWW.IDENTITYPROTECTION.COM AND WWW.IDPROTECTION.COM WEBSITES AND ALL OTHER WEBSITES OWNED AND OPERATED BY EQUIFAX AND ITS AFFILIATES ("SITE").

> No Class or Representative Arbitrations. The arbitration will be conducted as an individual arbitration. Neither You nor We consent or agree to any arbitration on a class or representative basis, and the arbitrator shall have no authority to proceed with arbitration on a class or representative basis.

Further detail from an actual lawyer in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15203185

lephton Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack

This isn't true. Just by entering in your information to check if you're affected, you'll be enrolled automatically if you were indeed affected.

Really scummy behavior.

lephton Faster and better browsing – Welcome Opera 41

It switches tabs in most recently used order in Opera, similar to OS alt/cmd-tab behavior

lephton Apple announces iOS 10

"Buzzing" here meaning vibrating -- the iPads don't have vibrating notifications at all, or the required vibrating mechanism.

lephton Grafana 3.0 Stable Released

We use Sensu with the graphite plugins[1] for alerting based on graphite queries. It works quite well, but you do need to set up Sensu server – which is very straightforward in my experience

[1]: https://github.com/sensu-plugins/sensu-plugins-graphite

lephton Beartooth

From your link:

> The range that a two-way radio advertises is the range that the radio should get in "ideal" conditions. Ideal conditions are line of sight, such as from a mountaintop to a valley below -- no interference at all.

> So what type of range can you expect from your radio? Usually half a mile up to two miles

lephton Glider, Mac Classic game, open-sourced

Online flash version playable here: http://www.ridiculopathy.com/games.php?gamename=glider

lephton Our Logo Looks Like Underpants: A Case Study in Internationalization

For those wondering:

> What makes the Nike Air Bakin’ such a sizzling story is the controversy that arose from the fiery logo on the heel; it was the word ‘Air’ designed in a fiery motif, but backlash from the Muslim community for its slight resemblance to ‘Allah’ in Arabic text forced Nike to recall the shoes and re-release with a basic Nike Air logo.

http://sneakernews.com/2012/09/28/classics-revisited-nike-ai...

lephton Legofy – Python program to make an image to look as if it was created with Legos

That's exactly what's in the linked PR...

lephton Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices

Markdown support has been a common feature request for years, with many feature requests in their forums as well as entire blog posts from fairly prominent bloggers – just try googling "Evernote markdown support".

I've had the strong suspicion for a long time now that they simply aren't listening to these sorts of feature requests that don't tie into their enterprise/business focus – at least since about 2013.

lephton John McAfee for President

Ha. From the end of that AMA:

> I would never run for office, neither would I want to be in office, of any kind. I would rather drive a nail through my foot.

lephton Secret TPP Talks Continue as the Deal Grows More Controversial

There's literally dozens of /r/ELI5 threads on this[1] that are useful:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/23ubdy/e...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3az0fa/e...

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=eli5+tpp

lephton Reddit boss apologises after staff sacking causes 'revolt'

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

lephton Law Enforcement’s “Warrior” Problem

Mind explaining the "eotech"/platoon sargeant being upset, for us civilians? ;)

lephton A Constructive Look at TempleOS

Probably not quite what you're looking for (I'd like to know more about the documentary, too), but here's a 1h49m Youtube video of the author giving an overview of Platform Masters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzjW0xsW7_A

and the author's website:

http://www.ulillillia.us/mainindex.shtml

lephton Goodbye, Sourceforge

It used to be significantly different:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010418143406/http://sourceforg...

lephton Google I/O 2015 – Keynote

... and how would they know "average casts per user"?

lephton Pebble Time review: an underdog among smartwatches

The Verge's review is also worth reading: http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/27/8661863/pebble-time-review...

lephton Get notified whenever there’s a new top post on Hacker News

I'm with bad_user. In the interest of mvp-ness, not showing this image at all (and not requesting these permissions) would have resulted in me installing the extension with no extra effort on your part (presumably.) As it is, I won't install this :/

lephton Google, Mighty Now, but Not Forever

It seems perhaps the NY Times has it out for Google recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9612129

lephton Show HN: An old rotary phone converted into a mobile phone

From part one[1] (which I'd recommend reading):

> Sometimes it will miss a number, as these phones aren’t 100% accurate, and there’s no way to know what you dialed, because there’s no screen. I know, how did we even manage to stay alive back then? If you botch a number, you’ll have to hang up and redial.

Does anyone remember this with rotary phones? I was pretty young when they were still in use, but I don't remember this being an issue.

[1]: http://www.stavros.io/posts/irotary-part-one/

lephton Spy agencies target mobile phones, app stores to implant spyware

For anyone else wondering about the use of "lampshaded", I believe HCIdivision17 is referring to http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging

lephton Spotify Introduces Video Clips, Podcasts, and Activity-Based Playlists

>News is exciting because I really don't know any other way to stream on-demand audio news into my phone (and car). Maybe there is already an app for that? I looked around lightly and never found anything.

I agree with pretty much everything you said, but thought I'd point out NPR One is great for this purpose: http://www.npr.org/about/products/npr-one/