Hacker News: mynewtb

New comment by mynewtb in "IBM acquires Red Hat"

mynewtb — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 08:36:00 +0000

Careful, this might only apply to professors, not the rest of the staff.

New comment by mynewtb in "Show HN: Ultimate Plumber – a tool for writing Linux pipes with live preview"

mynewtb — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 07:48:06 +0000

Or simply have local, quick, regular and tested backups.

New comment by mynewtb in "Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved an interesting problem"

mynewtb — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 20:36:26 +0000

Why would you cite a paper on the technical details of your data source in linguistics?

New comment by mynewtb in "Google Earth didn't update its image of a military installation for eight years"

mynewtb — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 20:28:06 +0000

Geospatial anything. Geomatics, GIS, geodesy, surveying, photogrammetry, optics, whatever is related.

New comment by mynewtb in "Nasa photographs rectangular iceberg"

mynewtb — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 16:30:20 +0000

Before anyone clicks the bait:

> What is this TWO KILOMETRE long secret city unearthed by melting ice in Antarctica? > A TWO kilometre long series of 22 sinister-looking structures have been revealed by thawing ice in Antarctica - prompting claims the installation is a World War 3 fall out shelter for the global elite or even a landing pad for incoming aliens.

'Discovered' on Google Earth. My bet is on simple data processing artifacts.

New comment by mynewtb in "Length of ring and index fingers 'linked to sexuality'"

mynewtb — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 06:10:19 +0000

Sample size of 18 and 'on average'. Scienceclickbait, you don't miss anything spectacular by skipping this article.

New comment by mynewtb in "Priority Queue on Ethereum with a 15 ETH Bug Bounty"

mynewtb — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 07:28:10 +0000

How can data be retracted from a blockchain?

Both those sites are also subject to laws and can easily retract information if necessary.

New comment by mynewtb in "Priority Queue on Ethereum with a 15 ETH Bug Bounty"

mynewtb — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 05:36:22 +0000

You could just use any free kind of canary instead, access to traps is easy to notice without any need for a complex external dependency or wasting big amounts of money.

New comment by mynewtb in "Priority Queue on Ethereum with a 15 ETH Bug Bounty"

mynewtb — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 05:33:18 +0000

So what if a story or bit of information has to be retracted by law?

I second my sibling, newspapers have no interest in transparency.

New comment by mynewtb in "A Look at Game Streaming Tech in the Browser"

mynewtb — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 05:25:55 +0000

Oh, blissful unawareness of the crazy untrustworthiness of Google product longevity.

New comment by mynewtb in "Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefox's tracking protection"

mynewtb — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 06:03:14 +0000

And they track all you read, thanks to being a private, centralized service.

New comment by mynewtb in "310 Bitcoin challenge has been solved"

mynewtb — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 05:49:58 +0000

And you habe not been killed by frozen poop falling from an airplane in the sky. Which would have been as likely as Bitcoin becoming a speculative hype. Celebrate that!

New comment by mynewtb in "Economics Nobel laureate Paul Romer is a Python programming convert"

mynewtb — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 15:23:18 +0000

Function definitions are evaluated once and early. Easy rule to learn and not really problematic.

New comment by mynewtb in "Economics Nobel laureate Paul Romer is a Python programming convert"

mynewtb — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 15:21:36 +0000

So what? Pandas and numpy are still use with Python code using their APIs. The implementation details are not something the users care about. They write Python.

New comment by mynewtb in "Architecture of Nautilus, the new Dropbox search engine"

mynewtb — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 13:24:08 +0000

Seafile is great

New comment by mynewtb in "Found hooked up to my router"

mynewtb — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 06:48:46 +0000

How do you know the wall wart is not a fake one?

New comment by mynewtb in "Sqlfmt: an opinionated online SQL formatter"

mynewtb — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 06:29:20 +0000

It Jeans the color of the bikeshed will be decided by one strong opinion and everyone can get back to work.

New comment by mynewtb in "PostGIS 2.5.0 released"

mynewtb — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 09:11:51 +0000

Either your input data is horrendously bad or you are doing it wrong.

What do you use to ingest Shapefiles into PostGIS? Can you provide an example with files where you failed?

New comment by mynewtb in "3D engine entirely made of MS Excel formulae"

mynewtb — Sun, 23 Sep 2018 07:11:40 +0000

Maybe they meant https://www.owasp.org/index.php/CSV_Injection

New comment by mynewtb in "Facebook Is Letting Job Advertisers Target Only Men"

mynewtb — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 08:14:40 +0000

I would love to be excluded from advertisements! Love, with an exclamation mark and sprinkles on top.

How is this not seen as a good thing, not to be subjected to mind manipulation?