HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

howderek

133 karma · joined July 30, 2015

software engineer and photographer from Columbia, Mo.

http://howderek.com/

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/howderek; my proof: https://keybase.io/howderek/sigs/-3WsvQWZK9qTGzFP4xAHeqy7xcuoRMTR310iEWT9a5Y ]

submissionscomments
howderek··on The web sucks if you have a slow connection
In the US, we do generally allow horses on our highways. https://asci.uvm.edu/equine/law/roads/roads.htm

The Amish frequently do so in my area.

howderek··on Pplapi: A virtual database of the entire human population
In quite the coincidence, when I attempted to get a random human in the US, I got a simulated person 3mi from my (very rural) house. When I searched the coords, it was in the middle of a forest. The demographics seemed off for my area (too young, income too low, there is no internet access in that area, unlikely religion)

Is the precision limited to the country level?

howderek··on Bringing Wide Color to Instagram
Also changes the profile, I can see the instagram logo here but not on the download
howderek··on IBM announces plan to hire 25K ahead of Trump meeting
I don't trust this at all. IBM promised to create jobs in my town (Columbia, MO) in order to receive tax credits, and after they received those tax credits, they cut their workforce. The city has since suspended those tax credits. I'm not sure if it was intentional or not, but I see this as nothing more than a facade to gain leverage with Trump.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/local/ibm-s-columbia-emp...

howderek··on Ask HN: If you use keybase.io regularly, for what do you primarily use it?
The private key can be stored in the cloud but is decrypted client-side with JS. If you have nefarious JS running (like from some evil extension), there is a risk, but there is not the opportunity for man-in-the-middle.
howderek··on Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
You may be interested in the COIL dataset, it contains images of objects from many angles.

http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/software/softlib/coil-100.p...

howderek··on Show HN: Fun tool that cut my family and friends tech support time in half
I think this needs a "I don't know" option that leads to links to support pages. I've certainly dealt with friends and family who don't know how to check if their software is up to date and update it if it's not.

I also think the "Did this fix your problem?" prompts after saying "Yes" are redundant.

howderek··on Symantec to Buy Identity Theft Protection Company LifeLock for $2.3B
Bitdefender or Kaspersky according to https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/

To check untrusted files that are not sensitive, you can use https://www.virustotal.com/ which will check them with all the major antivirus software.

howderek··on [dead]
"Black thugs" "Young white men"

That's the kind of racism that we're talking about

howderek··on [dead]
From the article: "If the level of ketones in your blood skyrockets, ketoacidosis may occur because ketones are acidic in nature. This means your blood pH could become lower which can spell death. However, this should not be a major concern if you are not diabetic."

That title is rather clickbaity

howderek··on NSIS 3.0 ready
SourceForge changed owners and doesn't have many of those issues anymore.

https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-now-scans-all-proje... http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/83105.html

howderek··on How we built Facebook Lite for every Android phone and network
There is still https://mbasic.facebook.com/ so it has just been renamed.
howderek··on Ask HN: How much do you earn with donations vs. ads?
Yeah, ElementaryOS did that, I'm not sure what their numbers look like though
← PreviousPage 2 of 2