Hacker News: lockes5hadow

New comment by lockes5hadow in "Freezing your credit is now free in all states under a new law"

lockes5hadow — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 17:50:00 +0000

There is also NCTUE

Freeze page - http://www.nctue.com/Consumers

New comment by lockes5hadow in "Facial Recognition Cameras Do Not Belong in Schools"

lockes5hadow — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 22:51:10 +0000

I can't find the article you mention, "A machine fired me". Do you have a link?

New comment by lockes5hadow in "As Online Video Surges, Publishers Turn to Automation"

lockes5hadow — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 20:30:54 +0000

Flashblock blocks most of the videos on news sites.

New comment by lockes5hadow in "Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook"

lockes5hadow — Sun, 26 Jun 2016 21:14:29 +0000

I'd love to, but after I click the link, I get another link to "try" it. Clicking this link still gives me no joy, as now I need to find a server or something? Ok, lets see if there is one for my country, USA. Nothing on the popular list. Guess I should try the complete list. Oh look, no way to search. No suggestions on what I should be doing.

Whatever, I could spend my time and energy figuring the rest of it out, but there is no way I am going to convince my girlfriend this is a good idea.

New comment by lockes5hadow in "What it’s like to house-hunt in Silicon Valley, the nation’s priciest market"

lockes5hadow — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 13:34:08 +0000

There is zero risk of the deal falling through because the buyer's mortgage fails. In booming markets, people will make offers and then find they can't actually get a mortgage for that amount. For example, sometimes the bank will refuse the mortgage if the house doesn't appraise close to the value of the offer.

New comment by lockes5hadow in "Trans-Pacific Partnership bans requirements to access source code of software"

lockes5hadow — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 08:59:47 +0000

How does this affect GPL?

New comment by lockes5hadow in "Blowing the Whistle on the UC Berkeley Mathematics Department"

lockes5hadow — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 03:55:59 +0000

For legal reasons I doubt they can reply at all.

New comment by lockes5hadow in "London Police ‘Super Recognizer’ Walks Beat with a Facebook of the Mind"

lockes5hadow — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 03:12:17 +0000

"Computers are no match for super recognizers..."

Give it time.

New comment by lockes5hadow in "LogMeIn acquires Lastpass"

lockes5hadow — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 20:49:13 +0000

Yes, unless you suggest another hardware token with NFC in the same price band (sub $100).

New comment by lockes5hadow in "Introducing U.S. Web Design Standards"

lockes5hadow — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 10:08:56 +0000

Not any easier than it already is. There are tools like Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) that make it dead simple to launch all sorts of phishing attacks.

New comment by lockes5hadow in "America’s national vacation problem"

lockes5hadow — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 11:39:47 +0000

Its a mind hack that companies use to trick naive people out of their time, money, and happiness.

New comment by lockes5hadow in "Show HN: Spot the Drowning Child"

lockes5hadow — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 19:50:09 +0000

The first challenge is training data. 10-100 videos of people beginning to drown would be a good start. It also might be highly pool dependent. The different shapes, styles and attractions at the pool will all make a difference. Wave pool vs slope vs dropoff etc

New comment by lockes5hadow in "Three hundred programming interviews in thirty days"

lockes5hadow — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 21:29:35 +0000

Even in C I would point out that the compiler will likely make such a trivial optimization for you. That was clearly a company full of morons.

New comment by lockes5hadow in "Ask HN: I just got $100k in AWS credits, how should I use it?"

lockes5hadow — Thu, 14 May 2015 19:49:45 +0000

As above, but also mining crypto's is against AWS terms of service.

New comment by lockes5hadow in "Tesla Energy"

lockes5hadow — Sat, 02 May 2015 18:01:04 +0000

In those areas I guess you just install it inside the home somewhere, which is the whole point of making it look decent.

New comment by lockes5hadow in "Asteroid Database and Mining Rankings"

lockes5hadow — Sat, 11 Apr 2015 23:12:31 +0000

No, each pound of payload makes the launch way more expensive. Just keep the nuclear waste down here.

New comment by lockes5hadow in "I quit: Miseries of an Uber driver"

lockes5hadow — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 14:54:26 +0000

Why can't they just serve the client's location to the driver's device and then have the drivers device handle the estimate?

New comment by lockes5hadow in "Tornado Without a GIL on PyPy STM"

lockes5hadow — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 06:26:44 +0000

In most cases I would rather pay for 7 more servers than for the 10,000 extra lines of code your C++ or Java implementation is going to cost me. Hardware is cheap. Engineers are expensive.

New comment by lockes5hadow in "Show HN: Multi-player Competitive Conway's Game of Life"

lockes5hadow — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:01:45 +0000

You mean solve the halting problem? That would be impressive.

New comment by lockes5hadow in "Show HN: Multi-player Competitive Conway's Game of Life"

lockes5hadow — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:57:15 +0000

It would be really useful if you could save patterns to copy paste them into the battlefield. Some of the more complex patterns are really really hard to paint on a high resolution screen.