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notadog··on Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on public housing applicants
This gives a glimpse of what it may have looked like: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=1995
notadog··on The Semiconductor Heist of the Century
Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28329731
notadog··on SEC charges Netflix insider trading ring
ARTEMIS stands for the Advanced Relational Trading Enforcement Metrics Investigation System.
notadog··on A new book, Amazon Unbound, reveals Jeff Bezos’ envy of SpaceX
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27118782
notadog··on I.B. Chairman Admits to Market Manipulation on Live T.V
IB refers to Interactive Brokers, a large brokerage firm. It's chairman is billionaire Thomas Peterffy.
notadog··on Ask HN: Who do you call for help with your home?
Some possible ideas:

* If possible, it's a good idea to ask the previous homeowners who they have used or recommended for tree/plumbing/etc work.

* You could ask your neighbors who they have used in the past, or if they have any specific suggestions.

* You could ask people on a neighborhood social network (such as Nextdoor or Facebook, if you are on those platforms).

* If none of those work out, Googling or Yelping like you said also works. There are also apps for this, such as Angie's List, TaskRabbit, Thumbtack, Porch, etc.

notadog··on [dead]
Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25843040 ("Anthony Levandowski Pardoned")
notadog··on Startpage.com: Privacy-oriented search engine
They have ads.
notadog··on Twitter deletes China embassy's Xinjiang 'emancipation' tweet
https://apnews.com/article/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c
notadog··on DOJ fines Boeing over $2.5B, charges it with fraud conspiracy
Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25677573
notadog··on Historic sale of a Gala Games Fantasy MMORPG in-game NFT item for US$800K
NFT = non-fungible token, for the unaware
notadog··on What Is Your Time Worth?
Duplication discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25372846
notadog··on [dead]
This happened on October 15. The issue was resolved and the water was turned back on the next day: https://apnews.com/article/berlin-europe-762cda8830dd1bfedad...
notadog··on Ask HN: How do people make money in the cryptocurrency industry?
You make a good point, but there is no "official Bitcoin forum." That's the equivalent of calling HN the "official hacker forum."
notadog··on Steve Wozniak is starting another company, Efforce
"Steve Wozniak is starting a second company, 45 years after he co-founded Apple in Steve Jobs’ parents garage in 1976."

This isn't even close to true, as it ignores CL 9, Wheels of Zeus, and Woz U (all founded post-Apple).

notadog··on Show HN: Run Your Bitcoin Numbers
Cool site. Two suggestions:

1. Add a privacy policy.

2. Add screenshots (or possible a short video) of what the end result looks like. This would make users more likely to actually follow through with importing their transactions and helps in telling users what your site actually does.

notadog··on Recording Industry Association of America Gets YouTube-Dl Kicked Off GitHub
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872911
notadog··on Show HN: Saved articles, in a zine, delivered every month
Your privacy policy is completely blank except for the phrase "WIP", which isn't very reassuring. [0]

On the other hand, I like how with your Terms of Service, you have the actual terms in one column and then summarize/simplify them in a second column. [1]

[0] https://waldenpond.press/privacy [1] https://waldenpond.press/tos

notadog··on Show HN: PipPip.email – Write emails and send them years later
What assurances does someone have that this service will still exist years later?

Aside from that, the design of the website looks great.

notadog··on Cloudflare Radar
According to Cloudflare's website:

> Internet requests for ~15% of the Fortune 1,000 run through Cloudflare's network

A 2018 Wired article said "roughly 5 to 10 percent of web traffic." It is likely higher now, perhaps closer to 15%.

https://www.cloudflare.com/insights/ and https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-spectrum-iot-protecti...

notadog··on A request to a YouTube video downloads the title 14 times and displays it twice
They are not. The site belongs to Jamie Zawinski, who is commonly referred to as jwz. Zawinski is a well-known programmer (known for free software contributions) and current owner of the DNA Lounge.
notadog··on How often do you need to shower? A doctor argues, less often than you think
Prince Andrew once used his 'inability to sweat' to refute Epstein allegations. (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/prince-andrew-jef...)
notadog··on Daniel Ek commits to investing €1B in European ”moonshots”
Alphabet's X (formerly Google X) may have helped popularize the term, as they have commonly been referred to as the "moonshot factory".
notadog··on One Apple Programmer Got Apps Talking to Each Other
After reading the article, I was wondering if Sal Soghoian had any relation to the privacy researcher/activist Christopher Soghoian (https://www.dubfire.net/), and it turns out that Sal is Christopher's uncle. Not really related to the article, but interesting nonetheless.
notadog··on Two ex-Apple rock stars have raised $30m to build the next iPhone
Link for the curious: https://hu.ma.ne/
notadog··on Iron, How Did They Make It? Part II
If you enjoyed reading this, you should also check out the discussion of Part I from a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24517792
notadog··on PG and Jessica
PG = Paul Graham

Jessica = Jessica Livingston

notadog··on How the oil industry made us doubt climate change
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24532612 (2 days ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24535374 (2 days ago)

notadog··on Racial bias in Zoom's and Twitter's algorithms erase black faces
While I doubt that this was the intent of the programmers responsible, it doesn't change the fact that people are being discriminated against because of their skin color.
notadog··on Racial bias in Zoom's and Twitter's algorithms erase black faces
Related Wired and NY Times articles linked further down the Twitter thread: https://www.wired.com/story/best-algorithms-struggle-recogni... and https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/technology/facial-recogni...
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