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beerglass··on Ask HN: Allow agents access to cloud files with least privilege?
Could not find an easy way to do this. Connect agent (Muse) to Drive is opening up the whole thing. Please share steps if you can.
beerglass··on Show HN: Drone flight over world cities and neighbourhoods
4 modes. (1) Top Cities, 17 cities (Tokyo, Paris, NYC, Hong Kong…), each with ~20 landmarks strung into a ring tour. (2) Drone Slalom (3) Delivery Run to fly A→B between any two street addresses (4) Free Flight
beerglass··on Drone flight over world cities and neighbourhoods
My attempt at gamifying how it feels to fly drones over cities like London, Paris, NYC, SFO, etc. You can also choose to fly over your own neighbourhood instead. Please try it and share suggestions for improving the game play.
beerglass··on Show HN: Markdown Viewer and Editor
Thanks, mate. If you work with .md files all day, try this for a few days and share feedback or suggestions for improvements.
beerglass··on Show HN: Markdown Viewer and Editor
Update: added an insert-equation button in the toolbar of my MD Viewer
beerglass··on Show HN: Markdown Viewer and Editor
Included a basic "insert math" option to insert LaTeX for math symbols, greek letters, relations & operators. If you work with Math equations regularly, try it out and share any suggestions for improvements.
beerglass··on Show HN: Markdown Viewer and Editor
Thanks for your suggestion. I use plain textarea so that Undo, Spellcheck work seamlessly. Monaco at 5MB+ is bigger than the whole app. Will instead try highlight.js for transparent overlay.
beerglass··on Show HN: Markdown Viewer and Editor
Try this: https://github.com/arnog/mathlive
beerglass··on Book review: The Checklist Manifesto
For the author: It's Johns Hopkins, not John Hopkins
beerglass··on Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch
May be. Just that Apple Watch is launching with two size options, whereas in case of other products that you mention, options were introduced years after the first launch of the products.
beerglass··on Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch
Not a single product - there are two different screen sizes to choose from.
beerglass··on Can Classic Moral Stories Promote Honesty in Children? [pdf]
The boy who cried the wolf is not a good selection imho. In it the boy lies just for fun, not to save his own skin, which is what the children in the experiment were trying to do by lying. In contrast George Washington knows the consequence of not lying (possible retribution from his father), yet chooses to do the right thing by sticking to truth.
beerglass··on Show HN: A better elance just for designers
Dear Pixelfold team, the graph icon above "2. The community votes" on the site looks like someone's showing a middle finger! You may want to change it, considering the impression you want to create as a community of top designers.
beerglass··on Codex Seraphinianus – the strangest book on earth
If you wish to peruse: http://www.cetteadressecomportecinquantesignes.com/Luigi.Ser...
beerglass··on Microsoft is Dead (2007)
(sorry if I sound like a phony or worse suckup when I say this, but) PG is one of the smartest, ahead-of-his-times guy of our generation!
beerglass··on [dead]
Very interesting... and thanks for the detailed post... even though @N is a protected account now, its current set of 30+ followers may know the shameful deed done by the current owner. May be Twitter should suo moto take action too.
beerglass··on Life expectancy in India goes up by 5 years in a decade
Yes, the author needs to take Statistics 101..
beerglass··on What happened to Priceonomics?
deprecating
beerglass··on Edward Snowden, The N.S.A. Leaker, Comes Forward
There are two answers to this in the video. 1) Even if you are not doing anything wrong, you are being watched. You don't have to have done anything wrong, but if you fall under suspicion due to a bad call, they can go back into this system and analyse every decision you've made, every friend you've ever discussed with and attack you on that basis; that derives suspicion based on an innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a wrong-doer. 2) The storage systems are growing by an order of magnitude every year and if this sort of a system is not stopped at this stage and if we allow this and assume this to be legal, imagine the kind of danger it may bring in the next few generations.
beerglass··on Facebook Home
I think it really is bad news for Apple... if more such stuff starts coming exclusively on Android, then it is bad for Apple. And very good for Google. (posting this to get some insight, not to initiate ugly debate among Apple/Google fan-boys)
beerglass··on DIY cellphone
It's like Raspberry Pi for cell phones...
beerglass··on He Has Millions and a New Job at Yahoo. Soon, He’ll Be 18
Yesterday, Yahoo! was the poster child of Internet... now it is acquiring a company founded by someone who wasn't even born when Yahoo was founded in 1994. How time flies...
beerglass··on Matt Groening's Artwork for Apple
Wow! Looks like Apple has always been on this mixing tech with liberal arts thing!!
beerglass··on What Killed Michael Porter's Monitor Group? The Force That Really Matters (2012)
Understand your intolerance for self-help category in books... generally, I detest them too. But once in a while, when the world around looks too complex, reading simple books like "Jonathan Livingstone Seagull", "Prophet", even "Who Moved My Cheese?" and "The Magic of Thinking Big" has helped me...
beerglass··on A student's grandmother is far more likely to die just before an exam
Exactly, I get it. Wonder, why everyone here is discussing the issue seriously rather than noting the humor in the piece.
beerglass··on A student's grandmother is far more likely to die just before an exam
Hilarious! Reminds me of another paper suggesting a game theoretic approach to the toilet seat problem - http://home.tiac.net/~cri/1998/toilet.html
beerglass··on India developing national cybersecurity architecture
Ha!
beerglass··on Snapchat rises: Why Poke’s decline shows Facebook’s inability to invent
This is a classic Receiver-end bug that can never be fixed! Even if Snapchat & FB fix this issue in future upgrade of the app, what if the receiving user does not upgrade the app? The sender may have the latest version of the app and think that it is totally secure. However as long as the recipient is using the old app (something the sender will never know), poof goes the security! Breaking support for old version of the app may solve it, but that's very inelegant and don't think Snapchat or FB will try it or Apple will allow it.
beerglass··on Psy Makes $8.1 Million By Ignoring Copyright Infringements Of Gangnam Style
As a counterpoint, this letter from songwriter Tom Waits written over 10 years ago is a solid rebuttal to the practice of artists making money from commercials while giving away their copyrights for free. Here it goes - http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/12/its-virus.html
beerglass··on Dear Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and Jews
Hope this goes viral on the Internet and gets prime-time TV coverage across the world!
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