Hacker News: mjgoins

New comment by mjgoins in "Disconnect. Offline only"

mjgoins — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 13:49:34 +0000

Same with firefox on debian. I sure hope this article is good after I put so much work into enabling it.

Loudness (2007)

mjgoins — Sat, 08 Jul 2017 18:45:24 +0000

Article URL: http://www.chicagomasteringservice.com/loudness.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14726647

Points: 144

# Comments: 82

New comment by mjgoins in "Chelsea Manning released from prison"

mjgoins — Thu, 18 May 2017 13:39:42 +0000

Her punishment was illegal under the 8th amendment, and her "crime" was protected whistleblowing.

New comment by mjgoins in "Hackers Could Break into Your Monitor to Spy on You and Manipulate Your Pixels"

mjgoins — Sat, 06 Aug 2016 19:34:48 +0000

I think they misspelled Ang Cui's name in this article.

New comment by mjgoins in "Mark Zuckerberg is ‘dictator’ of Facebook ‘nation’: The Pirate Bay founder"

mjgoins — Fri, 27 May 2016 16:44:21 +0000

If Mark Zuckerberg were held responsible for snippets of casual conversations had amongst peers behind closed doors and as a very young adult...best case scenario he'd be flipping burgers, worst case he'd be behind bars.

New comment by mjgoins in "FBI raids dental software researcher who discovered patient data on FTP server"

mjgoins — Fri, 27 May 2016 16:17:41 +0000

Yeah common Scandinavian name, same as Thor, essentially.

New comment by mjgoins in "The brain is not a computer"

mjgoins — Thu, 19 May 2016 13:13:37 +0000

A better title: Your Brain is Not an IBM-Compatible PC with 64k of RAM

New comment by mjgoins in "Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 100% voter turnout"

mjgoins — Wed, 18 May 2016 04:03:20 +0000

Uh yeah, the US had tests. They were there to prevent black people from voting.

New comment by mjgoins in "Letter of Recommendation: Sleep, ‘Dopesmoker’"

mjgoins — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 14:56:34 +0000

If you like Sleep's Dopesmoker, the next logical step is Conference of the Birds, by OM.

New comment by mjgoins in "Persistent IRC Considered Harmful"

mjgoins — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:45:48 +0000

You can see how long someone has been away from their irc session with: /whois username

New comment by mjgoins in "Richard Prince, the world’s highest-grossing “photographer”"

mjgoins — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 14:51:38 +0000

The scare quotes are not in the article title.

New comment by mjgoins in "“Houston, We've Had a Problem” (1975)"

mjgoins — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 14:20:02 +0000

Unless they cared about preserving the state of the moon for future scientists without leaving human corpses lying around.

New comment by mjgoins in "Origami Robot Folds Itself Up, Does Cool Stuff, Dissolves into Nothing"

mjgoins — Fri, 29 May 2015 13:06:44 +0000

Is it just me or does it seem like the video was altered to make the motion smoother? Maybe it's just a very jittery robot.

New comment by mjgoins in "Venom – A security vulnerability in virtual floppy drive code"

mjgoins — Wed, 13 May 2015 14:50:41 +0000

This isn't a justification, but I've had to use the virtual floppy drive as recently as this year, to install drivers on proprietary OSes under virtualization.

New comment by mjgoins in "Evidence for nuclear explosions on Mars [pdf]"

mjgoins — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:50:32 +0000

I've never so strongly wanted to simultaneously up-vote and down-vote a comment.

New comment by mjgoins in "Reliability Data Set for 41,000 Hard Drives Now Open Source"

mjgoins — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 18:15:51 +0000

They explicitly forbid "selling" the data, so it's not open source in any usual sense of the phrase.

New comment by mjgoins in "First NetHack bot ascension"

mjgoins — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 20:27:06 +0000

It's worth pointing out that no one ever finishes (ascends) a game of Nethack without looking at the spoilers, so they're really not spoilers, they're more like the instruction manual.

It is definitely more fun to try playing the game for several hours without reading the spoilers, but you're not going to figure out stuff like the Invocation Ritual without reading the spoilers.

New comment by mjgoins in "Ross: Attorney built on top of IBM's Watson"

mjgoins — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 16:31:43 +0000

This joke was almost perfect, but the wording hides the punchline.

New comment by mjgoins in "Google Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham"

mjgoins — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 23:29:02 +0000

Or maybe didn't read any Poe.

New comment by mjgoins in "EFF in Court to Argue NSA Collection from Internet Backbone Is Unconstitutional"

mjgoins — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 15:35:22 +0000

In the deeply twisted world of lawyers, anyone not wearing business clothes isn't a real person.