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www.bbc.co.uk 3y ago

Rationing energy is nothing new for off-grid community

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www.bbc.co.uk 5y ago

When Top Gear tried out early sat-nav 35 years ago

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www.bbc.co.uk 11y ago

UK sells off unused net addresses

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codegolf.stackexchange.com 11y ago

Do you want to code a snowman?

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www.economist.com 12y ago

Bioengineer creates paper-based microscope with 2100x magnification for under $1

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www.youtube.com 12y ago

Universe Death Clock in Minecraft

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www.ft.com 12y ago

Britain to scrap Bitcoin tax

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www.reddit.com 12y ago

Honey looks to be building a feature that lets people spend bitcoins on Amazon

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www.korea-dpr.com 13y ago

Show HN: Google Analytics is used to track korea-dpr.com (View Source)

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www.youtube.com 13y ago

2012 Voting Machines Altering Votes

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www.washingtonpost.com 13y ago

Trillions of Carats: Ex-secret Russian diamond deposit to revolutionize industry

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www.youtube.com 13y ago

Foundation Interview with Om Malik - gigaom.com founder

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www.forbes.com 13y ago

A take on 3D printing that could end any effective gun control worldwide

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: How do you approach potential B2B customers for early stage research

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keyholesoftware.wordpress.com 14y ago

Puzzle: The Secret to a Good Monday Morning

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www.huffingtonpost.com 14y ago

St. Patrick's Day: Peaceful protesters violently choked, stomped on, and beaten.

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: How do I go on holiday/vacation as a single founder of SAAS app?

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www.bbc.co.uk 14y ago

Meanwhile in the UK... The crackdown on lobbyists starts

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

A little rant about Dell

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www.forbes.com 14y ago

Reddit Users to Target Supporters of SOPA in Congress After GoDaddy

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: What's the best way to start marketing a viral site?

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errorhound.com 14y ago

Show HN: Simple PHP error tracking and notifications

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www.independent.co.uk 14y ago

Music industry body tells BT to block Pirate Bay

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www.guardian.co.uk 14y ago

The medieval, unaccountable Corporation of London is ripe for protest

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www.youtube.com 14y ago

Tour of Milk and a very brief preview of Oink

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: If you were a file extension, what would you be and why?

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www.bbc.co.uk 14y ago

Ninja Shadow, the real life superhero

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www.telegraph.co.uk 14y ago

Google Chrome web browser second most popular in UK

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keepcalmand.com 14y ago

Show HN: Weekend Project - Keep Calm And Read Hacker News

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Is HN the online Silicon Valley?, if not where?

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not understanding how technology works when it's so central to our everyday lives just seems baffling

I don’t know. I appreciate the sentiment and would also like more tech literacy, but there are lots of areas central to our lives and I think it’s unrealistic to expect a good understand across it all.

I think it’s on us to be able to adequately communicate and understand the needs of those that ask us for help.

Just as you would want a doctor to explain what your condition is in a way you would understand.

Having buildings to live in is pretty central to most of our lives too, and we have some knowledge and intuition of what looks safe and can be used, but most of us leave the engineering to someone more in the know.

Farming too, I rather people in the industry work on maximising yield to feed us all with tools made and tailored for them.

I think when people go to the quickest solutions for them in tech (i.e. Ms 365, Spotify, John Deere, ABC MRI Scanner etc), I’d rather have them focused on the details of their trade than learning how to use a terminal, jailbreak a tractor or replace a magnet in an MRI scanner.

Those that want to, great, but I think most don’t have the time or interest to take on that kind of deeper learning.

Looking at the network requests when you hit that button it seems to be hitting a lot of tracking providers opt out API endpoints. Which is good I suppose, though better not to even include their scripts until you agree to it

I did something similar a few weeks ago and found that https://rclone.org/ worked for me to automatically port Google Photos data to a Nextcloud instance with WebDAV. That being said, it cannot pull the original quality images, only the compressed version.

Pet peeve of the day.

Tried to right click on the header logo so I can check out their main site in a new tab.

Instead I'm blocked and get prompted to download their brand assets...

Please don't mess with established interactions.

In my opinion AI-powered Sales Assistant, should check old/new customers, get information about their needs, check whether they need to buy product again, find new leads, tell Sales Manager about them, for further decision making and many more things it should capable of doing.

Not to detract from your point, but as an aside I always find it interesting when comments like this are made.

I'll paraphrase a thought from Nick Bostrom in "Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies" that development in AI for the most part will be a series of small incremental steps, to the extent as to redefine our definition of AI as we solve each seemingly astonishing problem. The redefinition occurs as we understand how these solutions work, label them and let them become as familiar to us as Goal Trees, Rule-Based Expert Systems and Neural Nets are to us now.

Would we be as similarly disappointed at the level of intelligence of "AI" at a time when we do have products capable of doing as tuyguntn indicates?

If you assume the goal of all this is to deter future leaks, I'd say they are doing a pretty good job. Snowden has so much uncertainty and risk in the next few weeks that I bet borderline whistle-blowers are rethinking their plan.

Arresting him quietly without the media gets them Snowden, but not the deterrent.