lostbit | 14 years ago | on: Should I Change My Password?
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lostbit | 14 years ago | on: Just launched geo.gy - a location shortener
I didn't think it would be able to "find me" accurately, but it did. Now I'm kind of worried :) I thought Google Location Service would not have this precision.
lostbit | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News
It seems that this one has just arrived: http://hnmood.com/
lostbit | 14 years ago | on: An Open Letter To LulzSec
I thought it was a video card issue! I even refreshed the page. Tsc, tsc...
lostbit | 14 years ago | on: Share and Collaborate On Your WorkFlowy Lists
When it was released 224 days ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1870473), I remember this "mimics your brain" idea but it never bothered me. I did not feel invited to compare it to mind-mapping products. I took Workflowy as a nice dynamic lists software. I like it because of that. It really helps. It was made with the principle that Almost everything you create on Google Docs is a list, so they made Workflowy[1].
I also find mind-mapping studies fascinating. Many times I find myself starting to write in the middle of a sheet of paper and then making connections. I know this is not Workflowy. Can you give some good suggestions on mind-mapping software?
[1] TechCrunch article: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/04/workflow/
lostbit | 14 years ago | on: [video] WebGL Techniques And Performance
Embarassing... Windows Update at 10:15.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfQ8rKGTVlg&feature=playe...
lostbit | 14 years ago | on: Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday
Today (1 dat after) the record/play button started to work for me. I guess they decided to make it available in other countries too. I finally could listen to your compositions.
lostbit | 14 years ago | on: Happy IPv6 Day
Today, big Internet portals are supposed to resolve to AAAA (IPv6) DNS queries in their main site. Thus, if your computer is enabled, it should try to access it using IPv6. It's also a good chance to see if AAAA responses to any machine (IPv6 or not) would cause any trouble in their OS or applications.
It's also some type of marketing to make the crowd aware about it. Many companies may have started on IPv6 because there was a day dedicated to test it.
lostbit | 14 years ago | on: Monitoring World IPv6 Day
So much ssh for native IPv6. That could only mean we - few tech people - are more concerned about using it. In the future, with dual stack, I hope people will use IPv6 without knowing it. Maybe someday we will think about IPv4 the way we see IPX today: obsolete, nobody uses it.
lostbit | 14 years ago | on: IPv6 Day Has Started
Some sites that don't have AAAA DNS today:
www.apple.com
www.amazon.com
www.sony.com
www.oracle.com
www.ibm.com
www.intel.com
www.adobe.com
www.ebay.com
www.dell.com
www.hp.com
www.nasa.gov
www.hotmail.com
www.wikipedia.org
news.ycombinator.com
lostbit | 14 years ago | on: Astronomy Picture of the Day (timelapse with Earth rotating)
The idea of the video was to remove Earth rotation from the view. This removal was digitally made.
One of the original videos used in this compilation - with the traditional "sky is moving" feeling - is this one: http://vimeo.com/22439234. It's the best, in my opinion.
lostbit | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who do you think has the most karma on HN?
I guess you're talking about the "no vote count" change.
Thanks for this. I've been wondering what was used to make HN for some time.
lostbit | 15 years ago
One must remember that there can be a difference between an argument that is logical and one that is simply persuasive, although they can be one and the same.
I agree that we can use some persuasive-only arguments - that is: some type of informal fallacy - to justify a line of thought.
lostbit | 15 years ago | on: Internet: 2.6 jobs created for each job lost (PDF from McKinsey Study)
Conclusion:
In the 13 countries McKinsey studied, the Internet has contributed on average 3.4 percent to GDP, weighting more than agriculture, energy, and other better-established industries, and it adds considerable vigor to economic growth. Perhaps surprisingly, the brunt of this impact (about 75 percent) is from industries that are not directly linked to the Internet, except of course by their computers. This value comes primarily from increased productivity.
Understanding just how much the Internet contributes to national economies should spur government and business leaders to seek ways to optimize their participation in the global Internet ecosystem. Encouraging usage is an unavoidable first step in leveraging public spending, but leaders must also focus on providing human capital, financial capital, infrastructure, and the appropriate business environment.
lostbit | 15 years ago | on: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
Yes. It dates back to 2008. Interesting that someone got bugged by it that time and just now it took this dimension.
lostbit | 15 years ago | on: Google Correlate
A bunch of Portuguese words seems to follow a pattern with a big rise on 2008 and a huge drop following. Looks like something was wrong with the data.
http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=suporte&t=weekl...
I searched: suporte, cadeira, filho, barata, coelho, figueira, orkut.
lostbit | 15 years ago | on: 6 Unusual City Maps, Locals vs Tourists
It seems that locals at Berlin are not keen on taking photos of their own city.
What's that area center-right in SF that apparently no tourist likes to go?
lostbit | 15 years ago | on: That famous space shuttle photo: When is sharing stealing?
A system to reward the photo taker would be nice. In one minute, photo is taken and published. It sould take no more than another minute for news companies use the photo by paying a small standard fee to the person who made it available. It could be like a 'donate' button or a more serious fee just to provide some benefit to the person who was in the right place/time. Usually, they don't expect anything. Maybe a Flattr like system?
lostbit | 15 years ago | on: Playboy bypasses Apple's App Store, makes a web app instead
Found the original (non cropped) image and more info:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/
lostbit | 15 years ago | on: Estrela do Sul 2: My satellite was just launched
The Satellite I'm going to use. Launch video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPAVf_oz9Ww
It's checking the e-mails on those databases.