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Noelkdon Many single Japanese people in their 20s have never been on a date – survey

20 dates with 20 different people?

Noelkdon I Spent Hundreds of Hours Working in VR

Not sure if you are aware but you can get Pavlov Shack for free through the AppLab for quest2: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/3649611198468269

I've had some good fun playing it.

Noelkdon Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network

Interesting, tired with:

I made cheese sandwiches for a week, here's what happened

And got: Bad: 0.0001 - Good: 0.9999

Not sure what to make of that.

Noelkdon Wild bees are recycling plastic, study finds (2014)

Reduce, reuse, recycle!

Noelkdon Pokedex.org: a progressive webapp for Pokémon fans

Really cool idea to try to show the way to make a responsive smooth 60fps app. But the animations on my PC(firefox on linux) and phone (firefox on android) were really choppy.

Is the chrome experience much better?

EDIT: also the back button on my phone sent me back to the tile screen :(

Noelkdon I am tech – Real stories from women in technology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_tVT0dhEMU

Is this a positive story? Is it supposed to be? Is this a story from GitHub? I'm confused about this.

Noelkdon A Dutch city is giving money away to test the basic income theory

If you haven't read this[1] I think you might enjoy it. It covers the ideas you are talking about. I think it was featured on HN some time back.

[1] http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Noelkdon Gawker’s Moment of Truth

I've been messing around with graphviz [1] and I thought I would make the parent comment into a graph [2]. You can see the code to generate the graph here [3].

If I've made any mistakes leave a comment.

[1] http://graphviz.org/

[2] https://github.com/Noelkd/GamerGateGraphiz/blob/master/Gamer...

[3] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Noelkd/GamerGateGraphiz/ma...

Noelkdon Auditing GitHub users’ SSH key quality

Or the list used contained keys that weren't actually weak debian keys?

Noelkdon Auditing GitHub users’ SSH key quality

According to a 2009 blog post[1]:

> Thanks to our new servers, known bad keys[2] from Debian and Ubuntu are now blacklisted. We estimate that about 1000 keys in our database were impacted by this. If you get authentication errors using keys that worked a day ago, please double-check that they are not on our blacklist. If they are, you should ensure your software is updated and generate new keys. We’ve got a guide to help you out with this.

[1] https://github.com/blog/500-state-of-the-hub-rackspace-day-0

[2] https://github.com/blog/63-ssh-keys-generated-on-debian-ubun...

Noelkdon Auditing GitHub users’ SSH key quality

Comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5508235

Noelkdon Amazing Source Code Related Easter Egg in Ex Machina

You missed an = on line 30. You might want to fix that. ;)

Noelkdon Ambitious teenagers are flooding into San Francisco

If you are going to program I would make sure I understood negation.

Noelkdon ‘Gods’ edging out robots at Toyota facility

If you only have a hammer everything looks like a nail.

Noelkdon Never Use Glassdoor from Work

I would guess you use firefox which doesn't use the certs installed on the host machine by default, I also see unsigned cert errors all day long!

Noelkdon Show HN: My kid choked on a toy, so I built this

There are two newsletter sign up options at the end of the page.

Noelkdon My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow

Yes [0]. You can write a new query here [1]. Its pretty much the reason why I like SQL now being able to ask questions[2] and get answers is great.

[0] http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/queries

[1] http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/new

[2] http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/211098/whe...

Noelkdon What I carry with me every day: Matt Mullenweg

Phone, keys, wallet. Keep it simple.

Noelkdon A.I. Has Grown Up and Left Home

You should have a look at Ithkuil [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithkuil

Noelkdon How I Crashed and Burned in Y Combinator

> I would have to talk to my cohort and confirm that no, we hadn’t found an idea yet and yes, we were still super excited about our “company.” I did little else but eat, code and sleep.

If you don't have an idea what you're doing what are you doing coding?

Noelkdon What Bums Me Out About the Tech Industry

The Mythical Man Month has an entire chapter why it is a good idea to "Plan to Throw One Away"[1]. But I think you know what's going on.

[1] https://archive.org/stream/mythicalmanmonth00fred#page/114/

Noelkdon Negative comments

HIAWYPIALTAT people might just abbreviate it.

Noelkdon Show HN: “Did You Mean?” for Python

You did[1]

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26548094/how-to-get-hold-...

Noelkdon Functional Programming in JavaScript: A Collection of Hands-on Exercises

If you want a version that works in firefox:

    git clone https://github.com/M0ns1gn0r/learnrx.git

And you can keep it forever!

Noelkdon Anonabox has been suspended by Kickstarter

I agree, the only thing they said they actually designed was the case which is different from the linked pictures as far as I can tell. About the board was that it was finally one that was small and did all the things they wanted for the software to run. This smells a lot like a witch hunt.

Noelkdon A 10-Year-Old's Journey, from Lemonade Stand to Silicon Valley

Laura California 6 hours ago

Why do I get the queasy feeling that the dad is exploiting the daughter?

Eric Harr Marin County, Calif. 22 minutes ago

Hi Laura:

Thank you for taking the time to post your comment.

As a parent, if I read this article about someone else's daughter, I would have the same initial reaction that you did: "Is the dad exploiting the daughter?"

However, I am Vivienne's dad and I will tell you, from my heart of hearts, that we are simply doing everything we can to lift up Vivienne and help her realize her dream of giving anyone the chance to do what she did -- to make a stand and make a difference.

When I left my well-paying job to support Vivienne, truth be told, it was scary. I have a family to support. Over the past two years, we have made tremendous sacrifices to see this dream through, and we are fully, emotionally invested in it. I believe I made the right choice.

I know you don't know me, and I know these are just words on a computer screen. I hope we might meet one day, so that you can look into my eyes and see the sincerity in them. I will tell you that this experience has been the most rewarding journey of our lives.

Mark Twain once said: "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." The day Vivienne set up that first lemonade stand was the day I found out why.

Thank you for listening. I wish you all the best, Laura.

Eric Harr

From the comments on nytimes.

Noelkdon Easter Egg Hidden in VMWare Fusion and Workstation

I wouldn't take it personally, it's more likely to be a bit of fun.

Noelkdon Uber starts same-day grocery delivery service in US

"But long-term this is most likely not going to be economically feasible unless Uber starts to figure out other ways to monetise this, through adding delivery fees or charging advertising fees to brands that take part in the programme."

Really sums up the article.

Noelkdon A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son

Nothing lasts forever. See Entropy.

Noelkdon Ask HN: Will Hacker News Get An Official "Show HN" Section?

He posted a show HN[1]. You can check peoples submissions from their profile.

[1] https://www.predictobot.com/