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Or the models consider themselves aliens observing another species on a distant planet.

I've been making a VR piano app to help with my own practicing. I find that it helps to see the recorded hands moving in 3d space in front of you. I can also slow down the movement…

You may have meant 'domain' as in an area of interest, in which case this is good advice. For years though, I was a proponent of the 'buy a domain name first' method of idea valida…

A very good point. Still, it's raising awareness and is worthwhile as a project. As you say, hopefully Wikimedia will take note and implement a darknet version themselves.

Surely it's possible to sniff what's being sent back to Amazon's servers? If Amazon are lying and they are storing/analysing everything the Echo hears, surely this would be easy to…

Not quite the same thing but Rbutr ( http://www.rbutr.com/ ) was features on HN a while back. In their own words: "rbutr tells you when the webpage you are viewing has been dispute…

I've worked very closely with tracking companies. They are very strict about not storing any unhashed identifyable information such as email adddress, postcode etc.

I agree. This analogy is good up to the point where you consider that these trackers don't really know or care who you are. To them you're an anonymous hashed id. Yes, they 'follow…

Planet Earth is by far the best nature documentary I've ever seen. I'd recommend it to anyone who's yet to see it.

Similarly, Twitter. Status updates are great, but a separate social network just for that?

Domain names are a market just like any other. If someone buys a domain name to make money from affiliate links that's their choice, I don't have a problem with that. Don't like it…

As a Gmail user it annoys me when people attach Outlook emails to messages in a format that is readable only in Outlook. Come on Microsoft, play nicely. You're not the only player …

I actually like the ctrl+Enter shortcut for sending mail. It's used in a lot of other software too and I automatically try ctrl+Enter when submitting any text.