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"According to nuclear safety expert Bruce G. Blair, the US Air Force's Strategic Air Command worried that in times of need the codes for the Minuteman ICBM force would not be available, so it decided to set the codes to 00000000 in all missile launch control centers."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_action_link

The NY Times also did a profile on Andrew Wylie this week, by the excellent interviewer David Marchese. I got more from the NY Times piece than the Guardian one:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/12/magazine/andr...

What plan does the lifetime offer get you?

I had exactly the same issue and worked around it by switching my payment method to Paypal and then cancelling the subscription agreement in Paypal.

Idlewords https://idlewords.com/ - Maciej Ceglowski of Pinboard's blog. His essays are always worth reading

This story reminds me of the giraffes that were sent from Malindi (in modern day Kenya) as tribute to the Forbidden City in China in the early 1400's. (1)

1. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/peculiar-story-gir...

Here is a short video of caver Rick Hunter squeezing through one of the tunnels to the Dinaledi Chamber. Not for the claustrophobic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTPRx8xVafE

Thanks for the clarification

How do we know that this is the official website, and not simply a clone with (possibly) malicious content. The official popcornti.me site had that exact issue back in March:

"@mediatemple hey they cloned our site getpopcornti.me in http://getpopcorntime.com - they linked some downloads as virus - watch out!" - https://twitter.com/getpopcornapp/status/442519692067241984

obvious shill post

I would order this in a second if it was available in South Africa

I was about to post a link to Instinct [1]. I've recommended your site to a couple of people after seeing it on HN when it launched, and both of them have loved it. Congratulations on building a great looking site with a novel approach to learning to play guitar from scratch! [1] http://getinstinct.com

You forgot to mention the vampire dwarf who arrives as a migrant and ends up killing your Militia commander in his sleep. Oh, and the fact that finding out who the vampire is is an exercise in detective work (and pure luck).

> Nope. But pizza making still will be. Sebastian, are you listening?

Not so fast. Check out this gourmet hamburger making robot: http://singularityhub.com/2013/01/22/robot-serves-up-340-ham...

fyi if you click on the ebook link to read the pdf in the browser (ie on Chrome) and try to click back in order to sign up to uxpin then you get an error message.

The ebook itself is an excellent introduction to UX.

Would you mind posting a list of any other projects you guys have worked on or are currently working on so I know what to avoid like the plague?

Most Wired articles that contain galleries have a 'view all' link to a page that has all of the gallery images on it. The link isn't well signposted but the resulting page offers a far better reading experience.

Wouldn't it make more sense to make the actual lightswitch wi-fi controllable rather than the lightbulb?

Its another (idiotic) term for marketer

Check out RailsApps - https://github.com/RailsApps and http://railsapps.github.com/. It's a bunch of open source Rails 3.2 example apps and tutorials. I found it extremely useful when building my first applications.

It is heartwarming to read that he says that he has never had a million dollars all at once in his life, and yet he has donated $280k to charities from the sales on this special. He was looking for worthy overseas charities that accept paypal on Twitter a few days ago, and I see Kiva and charity:water amongst the beneficiaries.

except the last thing the Tor network needs is people using it for torrents.

If this is true then that was a particularly shitty troll. What motivation would someone have to do this? It couldn't possibly have been for the lulz, or could it?

Noted for the next time I submit a space related article. Thanks for the heads up.

I am optimistically holding out for a 15" Macbook Air with 8GB RAM. Failing that within the next 6-9 months, my next Macbook will be the 13" Air

I would think that issues of entrapment and the idea of attacking buildings using explosive filled remote controlled planes would be of suitable interest to the hacker community.

And just like that my plans to by the 13 inch MBA have been thrown into dissaray

Don't you think The Joker would be more apt?

This was by far the single feature that I wanted most for HN. Thank you

New Yorker, The Atlantic