Hacker News: jumpkickhit

New comment by jumpkickhit in "[dead]"

jumpkickhit — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 22:09:30 +0000

Let me elaborate;

I have released a ton of digital pictures under Creative Commons, for damn good reason. However, this solitary picture was not released under CC. Google just helped themselves to it.

I know you Google guys are here, I've read your posts, I have nothing against you. You are walking over the line here, and i'm telling you now before a legal team does.

I hope you listen.

New comment by jumpkickhit in "[dead]"

jumpkickhit — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 20:57:36 +0000

DROP TABLE; noemit

New comment by jumpkickhit in "The Story of Tetris [video]"

jumpkickhit — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 22:34:24 +0000

This documentary is great, I thought I knew the Tetris story, but this filled in every blank.

New comment by jumpkickhit in "A.I. Has Arrived in Investing, Humans Are Still Dominating"

jumpkickhit — Sat, 03 Feb 2018 21:13:25 +0000

You can see the unregulated AI in the cryptocurrency markets.

I wonder what the profits have been so far. People have invested in faster internet trunks for trading ages ago, just for a few ms quicker trades.

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/outfront-netscape-ji...

North Korea Has Been Exploiting a Flash Player Zero Day Since November(no Patch)

jumpkickhit — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 19:56:43 +0000

Article URL: https://wccftech.com/north-korean-hackers-exploit-flash-player-zero-day/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16285279

Points: 2

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New comment by jumpkickhit in "People leave managers, not companies"

jumpkickhit — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 20:18:34 +0000

I liked the "tracking the dust in your phone" part. Hehe

New comment by jumpkickhit in "“This Is Serious”: Facebook Begins Its Downward Spiral"

jumpkickhit — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 20:14:09 +0000

An interesting article for sure. I sure wouldn't have predicted what happened to digg.com.

Also with automatic videos playing on so many sites, mixed with bandwidth limitations set by telcos, some users might opt out of websites that do that to save on bandwidth.

New comment by jumpkickhit in "Root Cause of Reboot Issue Identified; Updated Guidance"

jumpkickhit — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 21:45:30 +0000

Will Intel release it as a patch/firmware for those of us who have hardware by OEMs that aren't likely to offer anything?

New comment by jumpkickhit in "Monthly Amazon Prime membership fees are about to increase"

jumpkickhit — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 18:48:58 +0000

Prime is just a sunk cost. You think, "Hey, I have prime!" and order from Amazon. "I was going to anyway" you think.

You stop price checking. Amazon is far from the cheapest place to order things now. Depending on the item of course.

Next time price check an item before just grabbing it on Amazon, I did. Saved over 40% by doing so.

New comment by jumpkickhit in "Intel CEO’s Stock Sales May Warrant SEC Examination"

jumpkickhit — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 05:53:06 +0000

I think stupid fits the definition of insider trading.

New comment by jumpkickhit in "Publishers Bought Millions of Website Visits They Found Out Were Fraudulent"

jumpkickhit — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 19:10:31 +0000

Ages ago when I'd see something like this, I'd grab their affiliate code from the URL, then email the advertiser the site and offending affiliate code to them as an FYI.

No idea if anyone ever bothered to look, I just moved on.

New comment by jumpkickhit in "MRAM-Like Device Could Make Logic Run Backwards"

jumpkickhit — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 22:09:20 +0000

Shouldn't this be way more efficient for computing?

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

"In other words, we would need to precisely track the state of the active energy that is involved in carrying out computational operations within the machine, and design the machine in such a way that the majority of this energy is recovered in an organized form that can be reused for subsequent operations, rather than being permitted to dissipate into the form of heat."

New comment by jumpkickhit in "Quantum Computing Explained"

jumpkickhit — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 21:38:04 +0000

IBM lets you poke around one of their quantum machines here for free:

https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net/qx/experience

They also include a brief tutorial on how to program for it too.

New comment by jumpkickhit in "GM says it will put fleets of self-driving cars in cities in 2019"

jumpkickhit — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 19:38:06 +0000

A rolling fleet could be amazing.

If say a typical car/insurance payment was ~$500 a month, and an on-demand auto car service was $499 a month or less, it could work.

You never have to park. You can work/browse/call on the ride. Get dropped off right in front of wherever you're going. Could work out really awesome.

New comment by jumpkickhit in "Bankrupt Toys “R” Us wants to pay $16M in executive bonuses"

jumpkickhit — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 20:47:44 +0000

what a strange world where you can bankrupt your business, yet receive millions of bonus dollars anyway.

New comment by jumpkickhit in "Bill Gates buys land in Arizona to build 'smart city'"

jumpkickhit — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 05:35:34 +0000

If there's fiber optic internet with no caps, i'm sold.

New comment by jumpkickhit in "USB 3.0* Radio Frequency Interference on 2.4 GHz Devices (2012)"

jumpkickhit — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 19:27:50 +0000

Weren't mesh wireless networks made to help this issue?

Also 802.11aX is out soon, it will use 2.4/5ghz just with a bit more bandwidth on both, so you may want to just wait for that instead. (edit: looks to be maybe +25% or so more)

New comment by jumpkickhit in "Does anyone remember websites?"

jumpkickhit — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 00:17:58 +0000

Can't say I miss Geocities inundating the search engines.

Still though, it was pretty fun when there were more than 5 or so websites to go to, like a lot of people tend to only do these days.

New comment by jumpkickhit in "Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web"

jumpkickhit — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 19:43:10 +0000

I've been active online since 1994. In my opinion, the start of the cellphone era (iPhone and up) was when the internet started it's way downhill.

All sorts of people who weren't online suddenly were there, and businesses took a lot more interest in the lest tech savvy types who've started to populate the internet.

At the same time, these same mobile users saw they could be anonymous and had no learned netiquette unlike so many others before them.

So because of this new-user saturation, the internet became no longer niche and now mainstream, to the detriment of everyone else online.

Yes yes, Eternal September and all that, but were they wrong about the similar assessment back then?

New comment by jumpkickhit in "Do you need a VPN?"

jumpkickhit — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 20:20:34 +0000

I wouldn't think so with fingerprinting, intel ME and individual processor IDs and such.

I was just giving an extreme example for true anonymity now, something we just sort of had on the internet in the 90's.