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bobbles··on Second Gravitational Wave Detected at LIGO
I keep trying to picture how this would work using a 'drain in a bathtub' image in my head where the water rushing down the plug is like a black hole pulling things in with gravity.

Is there any way thinking like that I can get an approximate idea of what the gravitational wave would be in that scenario?

bobbles··on Emoji and Deep Learning
I'm seriously struggling to make the 'racist' connection with your second photo here
bobbles··on Show HN: New calendar app idea
Are you planning an iOS native app? I would love this and would pay for it
bobbles··on This is not a place of honor
All I can picture is an Indiana Jones like situation, where everything that would be done to protect the site will just be interpreted as something valuable being stored in the most dangerous section.
bobbles··on Test your “free will” at the Aaronson Oracle
Or assign a letter to each side of a coin and start flipping
bobbles··on Yahoo Announces Public Disclosure of National Security Letters
'redacted' implies only a segment of the content has been removed, not the entire docs.
bobbles··on Unreal Engine 4.12 released
Wow that VR editor is unreal! (hurr)

Being able to build the 'world' and unleash artists into it with that would be fantastic

bobbles··on How to win the coding interview
I can see a case for it if during the next 2 years of development more code is added between 'make sure' and 'throw...' because you do not want to want to worry about refactoring comments when code gets moved...
bobbles··on Want to spell check? Read the fine print
Yeah really, it just means now maybe people will have more options.

You can choose an easy simple not-private way of doing things, or you can do things in a private way.

Being up front about it is 100% the only way to manage this properly so what else can be done?

It's not like we should suddenly not make useful tools because they dont use end to end encryption on everything, not every action needs that level of protection, but some do.

bobbles··on Google Home
You're basically saying 'why would i want something more convenient?'

well... its more convenient!

bobbles··on Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 100% voter turnout
Coming from Australia where we have mandatory voting, you're missing one of the biggest benefits.

When people are forced to vote, the parties HAVE to accommodate that not only their 'die hard fans' are going to get them through the election.

It leads to far less extremist views from the parties, or if they are extremist, they often temper some of the points later to ensure they don't have a huge backlash during the election to their policies.

bobbles··on Not a Hacker or a Hipster – How I Got My First Startup Job
Yeah exactly, hiring managers have this list in their head, and what they're basically doing is crossing off items that dont apply for each candidate. essentially the ones with the least things crossed out will likely be top of the pile...
bobbles··on The NYPD Was Ticketing Legally Parked Cars; Open Data Put an End to It
Wow I can't believe all the people disagreeing with you.

They unlawfully issued tickets, were made aware that they were unlawful, and don't want to refund the money ???

I must be taking crazy pills for people to think this is ok.

bobbles··on Two Tesla Production Chiefs to Leave Ahead of Model 3 Ramp-Up
Makes me wonder if companies like that would consider giving people 3-6 months break after big projects and get it into the culture of the company that you should make use of it. Instead of jumping ship people would come back feeling refreshed and if they were drawn to the work in the first place feel the need to fill the hole they have
bobbles··on Introducing docs.microsoft.com
It would be nice to have a long form option, especially when intending to CTRL+F the page
bobbles··on Putting the Tesla HEPA Filter and Bioweapon Defense Mode to the Test
I think the idea is though that the car air is already compromised. e.g. they have opened the doors to get into the car, then closed the doors and enabled the BDM.

It needs to filter the air from outside and get it into the car to quickly displace the air already inside the vehicle that is contaminated.

At the point where the air is clean though it would be a good idea to make the car it's own little safe haven and allow the occupants to drive to safety (hell it could even drive itself to safety if it can sense when the air is safe again outside)

bobbles··on Google Calendar for Android: Find a time for my meeting
Also not on weekends, or outside hours during the week, also not at lunch time, though it may be 'free', also not 5PM, who's paying attention to a meeting then?

(just examples of what i might consider when setting up a meeting manually)

bobbles··on Inuit Cartography: Wooden Coastline Maps That Fit in a Mitten
It does mention they can be read in the dark, which would definitely be useful if you knew which area you wanted to get to without being able to see it
bobbles··on Thermal camera footage allegedly shows pro cyclists using motors
Yeah, it'd be like telling marathoners they have to wear a specific model of shoe. There's so many factors that go into comfort etc.
bobbles··on Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used to Be
What's the difference between damaging the device and making it no longer able to perform the function it was designed and sold as?
bobbles··on Your heart rate at gunpoint
I'd actually like to know what the process was like after the assault. If you unlocked your phone and 'other accounts' what'd you have to go through to sort it out?

Presumably that included a bank acc app on your phone, can you get that cash back, etc?

bobbles··on Being a “dumb” girl in Computer Science
Who would have thought that asking for help in class would help you out
bobbles··on An opensource alternative for the TSA’s $300k line assistant
What if that platform happens to be a steel grate and you drop the solution?
bobbles··on FBI agrees to unlock iPhone for Arkansas prosecutor
The FBIs request to Apple was for a specific to that 5c device 'hack' but they never released the details of what they actually did to get into it
bobbles··on I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
> Apple only allows Safari on iOS

Blatantly false?

https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/chrome-web-browser-by-google...

bobbles··on Here Are Google, Amazon and Facebook’s Secrets to Hiring the Best People
"It's funny because it's true" applies here pretty well
bobbles··on How Tesla's Model 3 Could Conquer Low-End Luxury
Lots of Tesla haters in here apparently.

For me I'll be looking into a family car in maybe 2 years as an upgrade, and having some form of Tesla on the horizon would definitely hold off until it was available.

It's just not just the price factor, its the cool factor, the tech factory AND the ev factor.

The fact that the article talks about petrol prices as a decision factor seems short sighted. Do we really think they arent going to shoot back up in the next 10 years AND that electric car charging infrastructure / prices wont come back down? Thats the sort of lifecycle thats going to matter for these

bobbles··on Ask HN: Terminated two weeks before vesting cliff – thoughts?
You told them you wanted to leave before they fired you? Is that right?
bobbles··on Dengue fever vaccine proves 100% effective in human trials
"The purpose of the placebo group is to account for the placebo effect, that is, effects from treatment that do not depend on the treatment itself"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo-controlled_study

bobbles··on On asking job candidates to code
Good developers who can take their choice of jobs

*who are just as likely to leave for another company as soon as something better comes along?

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