hunt | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?
I find Spotify's discover weekly to be great for this.
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hunt | 7 years ago | on: The Dark Arts of Advanced and Unsafe Rust Programming
Plus Ada has a complicated runtime system that Rust doesn't.
hunt | 8 years ago | on: I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me
Anecdotally, I had a very strange experience with LinkedIn. I went to stay with my friend in another country for a few days and upon returning home, LinkedIn recommended his father as a connection - despite me never electronically contacting him. The friend I stayed with doesn't have LinkedIn nor have I contacted him over email or similar. My guess is that it must have been location based or because I connected to their WiFi - very weird.
hunt | 8 years ago | on: Facebook Data Collected by Quiz App Included Private Messages
> (1) Make an ernest attempt to use ML, algorithms to identify their customers who are using those leaked datasets Facebook negligently exposed and help devalue the data, instead of eagerly selling them targeted advertising services? I don't know if they did this, but it sure seems doubtful.
How could they do that? The cat is out of the bag and FB aren't going to have any knowledge about where that data is now. Have there been reports of it getting out from CA?
> (2) Quickly and openly disclose the extent of the leaked data
I think some caution is a good idea, they don't want to get the numbers wrong - although they are making steps in the right direction with the message to 87 million on their news feeds.
hunt | 8 years ago | on: Facebook Data Collected by Quiz App Included Private Messages
The article seems to spin it as being part of the CA study, apart from the small commentary towards the end. Has anyone seen the text of the message FB has shown to the affected 87 million and does it explicitly mention private messages?
hunt | 8 years ago
People may put all manner of things in private repos that they don't want to be made public, so github shouldn't just expose them to the outside world.
hunt | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Hackerhunt – categorised curation of Show HN submissions
Nice work! I just noticed a bug though, trying to go to the next page of system software that is sorted by votes doesn't work. Instead of going to the next page, the first page is reloaded with /NaN appended to the URL, as such:
hunt | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
That's great, thanks for doing so.
hunt | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
I can really recommend this book, I've worked through it and am implementing the interpreter in Rust. I've just finished the latest chapter and am looking forward to the future instalments.
Edit: here is the (WIP) intepreter: https://github.com/HarveyHunt/loxr
hunt | 10 years ago | on: How Vulkan maps to mobile tile-based GPUs
The Ci40 boards are headless, so they have no graphics support at all.
hunt | 10 years ago
Could you provide more details about the Leeds scene please? I've been working here for a few months as a programmer and am interested in getting involved.
hunt | 10 years ago | on: Which Hollywood movies feature the most ridiculous code?
In a similar vein to this, /r/itsaunixsystem is worth checking out.
hunt | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: What project are you working on?
That Dota app looks nice, how long have you been working on it for?
How come you chose django over something such as flask for problemotd?
hunt | 10 years ago | on: Introduction to Keyboard Programming
The ergodox firmware [0] nicely illustrates the ideas in this post.
hunt | 11 years ago | on: Tesla Plans to Open Car Doors to All Hackers This Summer
Perhaps moving to a shorter distance transmission method would work. You could use NFC and then touch the fob against a portion of the door, placing the key in a cup holder (or something similar in the center console) with NFC support when you want to start the engine? It's not the exact same functionality, but is close.
hunt | 11 years ago | on: Tesla Plans to Open Car Doors to All Hackers This Summer
The automotive industry certainly has some interesting times ahead with regard to security. Audi's proposed plan for allowing deliveries to be placed in the boot of a locked car [0] certainly seems like it could be ripe for exploitation.
How seriously are car manufacturers going to take security though? Is it going to be like the numerous router manufacturers that don't seem bothered? Perhaps some kind of regulatory body will need to intervene to make automotive manufacturers take security seriously.
hunt | 11 years ago | on: “Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014
I really enjoyed this film, I felt it was good at being inclusive for people without much technical knowledge.
hunt | 11 years ago | on: Video to GIF
Excellent - thanks for pointing that out :-)
hunt | 11 years ago | on: Video to GIF
I wonder how this will face up to gfycat? gfycat has the ability to turn a video into a gif as well as an HTML5 video - it is already pretty popular and the benefits of HTML5 videos over gifs seem obvious. How much longer can we expect the gif format to be around for?
hunt | 11 years ago | on: Open Sourcing Our Go Libraries (2014)
It's certainly possible to praise a language without it suiting your needs.
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