Hacker News: waterlesscloud

New comment by waterlesscloud in "Hacker Says He Printed Anti-Semitic and Racist Fliers at Colleges Across U.S."

waterlesscloud — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:05:11 +0000

OK. Sure.

Downvote away. And this will keep happening. Grats on that.

Keep fighting with reality, let's see how that goes.

New comment by waterlesscloud in "He Always Had a Dark Side"

waterlesscloud — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 15:58:52 +0000

Teenager in the US at the same time.

Yep, this is exactly what we did with our 8-bit machines and modems at the time.

We were global even then.

EDIT- LOL. I guess the HN downvoters have proof this isn't what we were doing back then???

New comment by waterlesscloud in "Hacker Says He Printed Anti-Semitic and Racist Fliers at Colleges Across U.S."

waterlesscloud — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 15:14:39 +0000

Start firing people for screwing up and their peers will learn not to screw up.

New comment by waterlesscloud in "Hacker Says He Printed Anti-Semitic and Racist Fliers at Colleges Across U.S."

waterlesscloud — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 15:09:09 +0000

Here's what I consider a balanced response- prosecute him for some kind of hacking crime, and at the same time fire the system administrators for gross incompetence.

New comment by waterlesscloud in "The mobile games industry is kept afloat by less than 1% of users"

waterlesscloud — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 18:49:19 +0000

I wonder if the same applies to say... Google. That they're kept afloat by less than 1% of their users.

New comment by waterlesscloud in "Spike Lee Shares His NYU Teaching List of Essential Films"

waterlesscloud — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 12:45:47 +0000

Well, no. You stated it was list of films someone enjoyed.

But that's not what it is. It's a list that one of the top living film directors on the planet thinks that directing students at one of the leading film schools in the world should watch.

That's a different thing entirely.

Each one of these films has things directors can learn from by just watching them. Film being a visual medium and all.

Sure, some lectures can provide context, but the movies themselves are the actual content.

New comment by waterlesscloud in "Spike Lee Shares His NYU Teaching List of Essential Films"

waterlesscloud — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 12:31:21 +0000

Better received by who? For film students, the films themselves are the information needed.

New comment by waterlesscloud in "Spike Lee Shares His NYU Teaching List of Essential Films"

waterlesscloud — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 12:18:40 +0000

Not really. If these movies don't stimulate your directorial imagination, a few words aren't going to help.

New comment by waterlesscloud in "Spike Lee Shares His NYU Teaching List of Essential Films"

waterlesscloud — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 12:09:25 +0000

I'd counter that if you watch the films on this list and don't understand why Lee included them, you're not likely to be a good film director.

New comment by waterlesscloud in "Spike Lee Shares His NYU Teaching List of Essential Films"

waterlesscloud — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 11:58:56 +0000

No French cinema? Breathless is on there, as well as 400 Blows and Day For Night.

New comment by waterlesscloud in "Spike Lee Shares His NYU Teaching List of Essential Films"

waterlesscloud — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 11:47:04 +0000

Lee picked it because it's exceptionally good cinema.

New comment by waterlesscloud in "Apple files final response in San Bernardino iPhone case"

waterlesscloud — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 03:26:44 +0000

They certainly would have understood corporate legal status, and done so much better than nearly everyone who comments on it today.

And honestly I don't think it would take most of them very long to grasp the implications of mobile phones, the internet, and encryption. The Founders whose names immediately come to mind were some very intelligent and mentally agile people. While our technology may be incomprehensible to them, the social frameworks into which it fits is not.

New comment by waterlesscloud in "PlayStation VR Will Arrive in October for $399"

waterlesscloud — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 03:01:52 +0000

"I'm talking about the period between its invention and the development of cinema."

Right. Which should absolutely scream to an entrepreneurial crowd there's an immense opportunity here to develop the VR version of cinema.

The time you want to get into an emerging technology is precisely this stage. The groundwork has been laid but the direction is not yet set.

That's the puzzling part to me, that HN isn't all over that aspect of things.

New comment by waterlesscloud in "Minecraft to run artificial intelligence experiments"

waterlesscloud — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 11:45:22 +0000

I'm much more interested in an AI that optimizes audience stats than one that optimizes in-game stats.

New comment by waterlesscloud in "Mediterranean Sea filled in less than two years: study"

waterlesscloud — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 03:23:54 +0000

Vaguely related is the Salton Sea in southern California. It's been a large lake in the geological past, but it most recently filled in due to some bad irrigation planning in 1905. It filled up in about 2 years.

New comment by waterlesscloud in "Google's War Against the Homeless in Los Angeles"

waterlesscloud — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 02:06:26 +0000

I'm a little skeptical about the pepper spray accusations myself, but there's no question that a Google security guard harrassed and attempted to intimidate the people making that documentary short film while on a public sidewalk. It's right there in the video on the page.

New comment by waterlesscloud in "Re: Obama on Fetishizing Our Phones"

waterlesscloud — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 01:10:36 +0000

This recent debate has quite literally centered on his administration using the San Bernardino shootings as leverage to force Apple to break iPhone's encryption. It's the main reason this whole discussion has the profile level it does.

New comment by waterlesscloud in "Ask HN: What's your primary development laptop?"

waterlesscloud — Sat, 12 Mar 2016 22:45:29 +0000

A 10 year old Toshiba running Windows Vista. It runs everything I need it to run, and I have mac and linux desktop machines, so I feel no need to buy a new one.

New comment by waterlesscloud in "Ontario announces that it will begin a basic income trial in 2016"

waterlesscloud — Sat, 12 Mar 2016 22:24:43 +0000

Except this time technology is evolving in a general way, to take over all jobs, not just specialized tasks.

It's not the same thing happening this time.

New comment by waterlesscloud in "Ontario announces that it will begin a basic income trial in 2016"

waterlesscloud — Sat, 12 Mar 2016 21:59:36 +0000

That's pretty much how I see it. It's something that simply must happen, there's not a lot of choice about it. Better to figure it out now than be forced into it later.