Anon4Now

If you use Chrome, then switch to another browser that allows full adblocker functionality. I use Firefox with UBlock Origin and hardly see any ads.

If only I were a mouse. With all the research papers I've seen on HN over the years, I'm pretty sure I could live to be 200.

I had a similar experience. I used it years ago, then I went back to it a little while back and ended up quitting for two reasons:

1. The gamification was too cutesy and annoying. And gamification works on me - I'm currently being held prisoner by my streak on another platform.

2. I didn't feel it was actually teaching me. I was being tested on words that hadn't been introduced. Trial and error is not a fun way to learn.

Those charges don't look exorbitant. They seem to be inline with what PayPal charges.

The background image doesn't render on the homepage in Firefox. This makes the blog links appear as very light blue text on a white background. Makes me wonder how it renders for the crawler and whether it's getting flagged for invisible content.

> almost every case

> We can make mistakes and those can be acutely painful to legitimate users.

Any lessons that can be learned and shared here? What things can legitimate users avoid doing, so they don't wind up as false positives for fraud?

I don't know enough about academics to agree or disagree, but this passge gave me pause:

> This precipitated a correspondence with Noemi De Santis, who explained "I am Professor Rossi's secretary, who is not aware of our correspondence. I manage her mail account."

I'm surprised a professor would have a secretary handle their correspondence. That does sound like an entitled environment.

> I also do not understand why people complain about having the choice to not pay for things they do not want to watch.

Are you a sports fan? Because sports fans don't have the choice to not pay for things they do not want to watch. If you want a sports package, you usually have to buy it as an add-on to the base package, even if there's not a single show you want to watch on the base package.

Bingo bango bongo, I never noticed that. I tried saying 'fee fi fo fum' backwards and it took me about 10 times to get it right. There's almost a musical cadence to the usual order that just sounds off key when said backwards.

I think we all owe you, your co-authors, and the sponsors a big thanks.

Any idea how it compares to the hydraulic computer designed for the Pratt & Whitney J58 engine used on the SR-71 Blackbird? I saw this video (linked below) wherein a test engineer talked about the engine design. He touched a bit on the hydraulic computer (at the 6:50 mark), and I thought it was ingenious and fascinating.

https://youtu.be/MJrXUh0eZjw

I was curious about the sales impact of the 1984 ad, so I did a little googling. It turns out you're right (see [1] and [2]).

Steve Hayden created the 1984 ad while at Chiat-Day. He later went on to work for Ogilvy, so that's probably where the mis-attribution came from.

What's interesting is that he's the same person who created the Lemmings ad a year later. The 1984 ad resulted in a huge boom in sales. The Lemmings ad did just the opposite. Apple closed a bunch of plants and had a big layoff. Then Jobs left Apple. weird turn of events.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Hayden#From_first_jobs_t...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/allenstjohn/2012/02/02/the-supe...

Edit: fixed typos

Yes. They're a subsidiary.

For Germany, that's only a 2-1/2 month supply.

If you liked that, go to his Strid playlist and watch the one where he films underwater. Watching it, you can imagine how terrifying it would be to get sucked under water. Very creepy.

I think you're onto something. I went to pick up my son at the Portland airport last winter. There must have been around 100 people waiting at the baggage claims, and almost all of them were wearing black. The rest were wearing other dark colors. No light or bright colors.

I thought it was weird, but as I stood there wearing my light blue shirt, it occurred to me that I might be the weird one.

You mean shells? He may not have had any.

I work with an old guy who set out to make his own "shotgun" when he was 9. He took a piece of plumbing pipe with an end cap, drilled two holes near the end for the electrodes (pencil lead), and then packed it with a few hundred match heads and some BB's. He ran wire from the electrodes to his safety spot behind a berm, and touched it off with a battery. It blew apart his target, and he said the smoke could be smelled across the entire farm.

If a 9 year old could figure it out in the 1950's, I'm sure an adult, hell bent on murder, could figure it out today.

> I was not aware Disney and Comcast made books.

I agree with what you're saying. The title is an stretch. However, the "Big 5" book publishers own 60% of the market in the US. Two of them are subsidiaries of the six companies listed in the article, so I wouldn't underestimate the reach of the six media companies.

From the article:

> Attackers have already had to adapt to tricking users into affirmatively running macros, but the new moratorium means targets would have to carry out a much more involved process to be infected—making it much less likely that attackers will be able to successfully guide them through it.

I didn't see a description of the new process, but it sounds like they beefed it up some.

Put Morse on the case. As long as there are clues that a classic education will unravel, he'll have this solved in no time.

I think it's too derivative of Fallout's computer hacking to garner that much praise.

"Respect" comes to mind. Otis Redding recorded it in 1965, and in his version, it's pretty clear that respect means sex. Aretha Franklin re-arranged it and released her version two years later. She flipped the song to be from a woman's point of view, and it became one of the anthems of the women's rights movement of the late 60's and beyond.

Even though his version reached a decent #35 on Billboard, Aretha's version completely eclipsed it. Reportedly, Redding conceded that "it's her song now" (paraphrasing).

For most people, it measures how much time they waste on the internet.

After almost 18 years, Joel finally got his wish:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/01/28/please-sir-may-i-h...

Now you know what working with WiX is like.

Yep. That's why you were downvoted.

I read that as "these people" == Amazon, not the pot smokers.

"Azure, Azure, Azure!" is the new "Developers, Developers, Developers!". Microsoft is going to focus where the business growth is, and I'm guessing they don't see improving desktop development as a big money maker for them.

That analogy might work for the Falklands, but with Taiwan it would be more like "a poor family that abused the daughter".

Anyway, I dislike analogies for political discourse because they over simplify the issues at hand.

I stopped using a pillow under my head because back sleeping + pillow = neck pain. Then I got a thin, light pillow and placed it on my chest to mimic the "wrapped up in blankets" feeling I was used to.