I realized that I've been working too hard on my startup, so I decided to force myself to take weekends off.
I've found it to be a lot harder than I expected. Since I've lost touch with most of my friends and I am single, sometimes I'm at a loss what to do when I'm not working.
I'm 28, and not too excited these days about drinking or partying throughout the weekend. I have a side-hobby (jiu jitsu) but I usually do it on the weekdays just before I get started on my work.
I find myself wanting to read a book on compilers, or think about marketing or something startup-related, but I force myself not to do those things, since it seems too work/tech related.
So I'm wondering, what do you guys do on your time off? How do you achieve that work-life balance?\n======\nSukotto\nI have 2 kids and an infant. My wife works most weekends (fri noon through sun\nnight) so I spend my weekends as \"single dad\".\n\nLots of playing on the floor, going to the park, cooking, and that sort of\nthing.\n\nIt's a reasonably good"
+"\nLet \u201cQUIPU\u201d organise your research so you spend more time to explore content - biyanisuraj\nhttp://quipu.tilda.ws/\n======\nbiyanisuraj\nThe very best startup ideas tend to be something the founders themselves want,\nthat they can build, and that few others realise are worth doing\n\nRegister your interest for early Beta access at -\n[http://quipu.tilda.ws/](http://quipu.tilda.ws/)\n\nI want to make QUIPU so that knowledge seekers, like myself, can have all the\nexplored content organised, connected & displayed in real time.\n\nNo more time spent on indexing, trying to remember where that statistic came\nfrom, or keeping 50+ tabs open to avoid dropping a line of inquiry.\n\nClear representations of research information can be created from the\n\u201cdigitally exhaustive information\u201d we create when combined with powerful\nartificial intelligence to do the organising.\n\nPlease us know what you think about it."
+"\nPoop Is Raining from the Sky in Canada, and the Government Says It's Not Planes - pseudolus\nhttps://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjbm3w/poo-raining-from-the-sky-in-canada-government-says-not-planes\n======\nNerdfest\nI'm assuming it's the spinning up of \"Space Force\".\n\n------\ngregoriol\nIn 2018, none of the people impacted took pictures?..\n\n------\nh_r\nNobody managed to get a sample? This has to be easy to prove it's bird waste\nor not, right? Or that it has plane system chemicals in it.\n\n------\ntqkxzugoaupvwqr\nIf it\u2019s not coming from a plane then maybe someone has fun freezing poop and\nlunching it into the air.\n\n------\nENTP\nSounds like a shitstorm\n\n------\nmchahn\nBig blue birds?"
+"\nHave Disneyland fans finally reached their limit? - spking\nhttps://www.mercurynews.com/2019/08/13/have-disneyland-fans-finally-reached-their-limit/\n======\nilamont\nThe article neglects to mention the huge drop in international visits to the\nU.S. in recent years. Quoting a USA Today article from last week:\n\n _U.S. visits as a portion of total global travel fell to 11.7% last year from\na high of 13.7% in 2015, according to the travel group and Oxford Economics.\nThat has resulted in losses to the U.S. economy of 14 million international\nvisitors, $59 billion in traveler spending and 120,000 U.S. jobs._\n\nSource: [https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/08/09/travel-\ninter...](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/08/09/travel-\ninternational-visits-u-s-forecast-keep-falling/1942922001/)\n\nI know Disneyland and Disneyworld have traditionally been popular destinations\nfor foreign tourists; it's reasonable to assume that if overall international\ntravel is down the number of foreign visitors to the parks is also down, even\nbefore factoring in the high prices everyone has to pay to get into the parks.\n\n~~~\nstevenjohns\n> The article neglects to mention the huge drop in international visits to the\n> U.S. in recent years. Quoting a USA Today article from last week:\n\nPart of this might be the ever-stronger US dollar. Five years ago, AUD$1 would\nbuy about USD$0.94. Now it buys USD$0.68, making the trip to the US"
+"\nIntel announces Cascade Lake Xeons: 48 cores and 12-channel memory per socket - rbanffy\nhttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/11/intel-announces-cascade-lake-xeons-48-cores-and-12-channel-memory-per-socket/\n======\nSantiagoElf\nDesperate move by Intel. They are stuck with Cascade Lake until 2021, when\ntheir 'new' architecture will be available. In order this Xeon to be under\n300W TDP, they disabled the Hyper Threading and when they benchmark vs AMD\nEpyc they disabled AMD's SMT. Just wow.\n\n~~~\neinr\nNot only that, but they also apparently recompiled Linpack with the Intel\ncompiler -- which is notorious for favoring Intel chips -- before running the\nbenchmarks. Some really shady stuff going on here.\n\n~~~\ngeezerjay\nOn the other hand, these shady practices are a testament to AMD's technical\nsuperiority, as the incumbent is showing himself to be very desperate to react\nalthough it has absolutely no answer to AMD's new line of products.\n\n~~~\nKoshkin\nAMD does not have techinal superiority, as Intel cores have better single-\nthread performance. Look at the recent low-end i3-8100 - it is an amazing\nchip.\n\n~~~\napi\nSingle-threaded performance is a toss up and depends on work load. Overall AMD\nbeats them on price/performance and multithreaded performance, which matter\nmore for everything but some games and a few not"
+"\nPalm - chrisdroukas\nhttps://www.palm.com\n======\naarpmcgee\nI feel like the only one who thinks this is kind of awesome. I want a small\nphone. As small as possible, that can still text and act as an LTE hotspot,\nwith very basic browsing, and Spotify. I want that. The iPhone SE was perfect\nfor me.\n\n~~~\nTeMPOraL\nPhones are my go-to real example of different people expecting mutually\nexclusive things from the same type of product. You want a phone as small as\npossible. I want it as _large_ as possible.\n\n~~~\nanfilt\nI don't understand the need for a large phone. If I need a large screen, I\njust use my laptop or desktop. Moreover, without a proper keyboard I mostly\njust read a tad bit of text. You don't need a massive screen for that.\n\n~~~\nTeMPOraL\nPhotos look better on a larger screen. Especially when you want to show them\nto other people. Say, you meet some friends in a caf\u00e9, and want to show them\nyour vacation photos.\n\nYou can fit more text on a larger screen, which makes it better for reading.\nYou can fit more icons, widgets, etc. It's easier to do precise taps.\n\nBasically,"
+"\nShow HN: Simple Print \u2013 Convert web articles into printable PDFs - k1m\nhttp://pdf.fivefilters.org/simple-print/\n======\njclos\nThis would be insanely more useful if it could display math correctly. For\nexample, most of the math in [https://colah.github.io/posts/2014-03-NN-\nManifolds-Topology](https://colah.github.io/posts/2014-03-NN-Manifolds-\nTopology) only shows the LaTeX code.\n\n~~~\nk1m\nThanks, we'll have to look into that.\n\n------\nhedora\nHey, five filters contributors: I\u2019m a big fan of you work. How hard would it\nbe to make a web proxy type service that produced static html with working\nlinks instead of a PDF?\n\nThe idea is to strip out all of the JavaScript before it even hits the client.\nPeople could then use it exclusively for news reading. I suspect it would\nreduce bandwidth and client side energy as well as block essentially all web\ntrackers.\n\nI ask because it looks like you\u2019ve done most of the heavy lifting between this\nand your full-text RSS feed service.\n\nThanks!\n\n~~~\njahewson\nTracking can be done with tags and (recently) with CSS.\n\n~~~\nhedora\nThe idea is that everything would run through a normalizing presentation layer\n(like the PDF converter and RSS full text services do), and only the\ninformation needed for rendering would be sent"
+"\nMultiple Vulnerabilities in IBM Data Risk Manager - Daviey\nhttps://github.com/pedrib/PoC/blob/master/advisories/IBM/ibm_drm/ibm_drm_rce.md\n======\nreader_1000\nThe way IBM handles this is pretty bad. No company, especially the ones\nselling a security product, should ignore security researchers reports and\nfeedbacks\n\nAlso the bugs described in article are quite surprising since for a IBM-sized\ncompany, you expect them to have solid authentication/authorization framework\nwhich they use for all their products. Is this a acquired product?\nAuthentication mechanism is very unusual. Why would anyone save a session id\ncoming from the user? This is more than trusting user input, I think.\n\nAlso ../../etc/passwd attack is a kind of vulnerability that almost every\nautomated vulnerabilty scanner scans.\n\nMost people assume that authenticated pages do not need that much security\nprecautions however as articles shows, when combined with authentication\nbypass vulnerabilities, you basically give keys of your systems to the\nattacker.\n\n~~~\nosipov\n>you expect them to have solid authentication/authorization framework which\nthey use for all their products\n\nhaha\n\n------\nteepo\nAccording to IBM this is not even an active product [1]. Although after some\nreading it does appear that if a client was still using this solution and was\npaying for extended support that IBM would take"
+"\nHow I Turned an Idea into $7K by Teaching Online - leerob\nhttps://leerob.io/blog/teach-online\n======\ngenofon\nIt's a great project, I would only make a small correction... What the author*\ncalls profit still includes all the time and effort you put in: building an\naudience, creating the course, building a reputation, marketing, etc.. Just to\nmake people understand that it's a lot of hard work and taking that not\nconsideration the ROI is much lower.\n\n*small correction: you->the author\n\n~~~\nleerob\nThat's a good point to call out. Building an audience and establishing\ncredibility takes time and effort. You pay an upfront cost, but having an\naudience will pay dividends in the future.\n\n------\nBossingAround\nTo me, it's counter-intuitive that people would pay $100 for a course on such\na niche topic such as NextJS. My experience with these courses is that they\nprovide all that's available for free (typically docs), but nicely packaged\nand with videos. And, especially if it is on a custom platform like this one,\nI'd be worried about them being kept up to date.\n\n~~~\nleerob\nHere's how I look at it. You're absolutely right you can learn everything on\nyour own\u2013\u2013but how long would it"
+"\n\nAsk HN: Coming up with ideas? - jwdunne\n\nI'd like to build a few small but useful apps to build experience and a portfolio outside of my workplace, an area shamefully neglected.
I'm stuck at the first hurdle and I haven't got a clue where to start or what to build first!
Do you have any tips for coming up with ideas?\n======\nmc_hammer\ni usually just get the ideas while im working, from things that suck\n\nneed to write a regex for css parsing... why isnt there a regex generator yet\n\nneed to debug my javascript... why isnt there a repl?\n\nwriting windows 10 hello world, ... wow mixing xml with code sucks why doesnt someone make a good\ntemplate language\n\n(edit: actually, why dont compilers have enough logic to at least try to\ninclude the right library so I dont have to type shit like use Namespace\nWindows.XAML.Winforms.Imaging 10 times for every file)\n\netc!\n\nanyway\n\nanother good idea is to get your ideas from books, say a productivity book,\nthe guy recommends keeping a schedule? make a scheduling app with the features\nyou need, the author recommends using timers? make a timer app with the" +"\n\nAsk HN: Review my first MVP - fhub\n\nSite: finishstart.com
Premise: Write funny stories with random strangers... one sentence at a time.
My Design Goals:
1. Be a true MVP - test the idea without wasting any time
2. Go from idea conception to deployment in 1 day (I nearly achieved that)
3. Try to develop something with some viral marketing potential
4. All content to be user generated
5. Moderation sessions should be fun
6. Try out heroku.com to see if it would be a good fit for another product
7. Do something silly and fun (I come from the enterprise software world)
You can follow my thinking through the process at http://twitter.com/finishstart
All feedback more than welcome. Especially in the areas of:
1. Conversion - I consider a conversion to be someone who adds some\nwell thought out content and who submits their email address to get a\ncopy of the story sent to them on completion
2. Viral Marketing approaches
Cheers\n======\ndamoncali\nA few thoughts:\n\n1\\. You need a reason to keep people coming back - some sort of hook to keep\npeople interested. Off the top of my head:\n\n-private stories (restricted to a group)\n\n-solo stories (one sentence a day for one user)\n\n-stories limited to people with" +"\nAre Atheists Genetic Mutants-A Product of Recent Evolution? - Melchizedek\nhttp://www.unz.com/article/are-atheists-genetic-mutants-a-product-of-recent-evolution/\n======\noldandtired\nSince atheism has been around for at least 4000 years, I don't think they can\nattribute it to \"bad\" genes. It is a choice by people to believe in a god or\ngods or no gods.\n\nThe funny thing I find is that intelligence is not an indicator of whether one\nbelieves in or does not believe in a god, or gods.\n\nFor example, there are those who were believers in Jesus Christ as God and\nhave come to the position that there is no god. These are at all levels of\nintelligence. There are those who didn't believe in a god and now argue\nstrongly for Jesus Christ as God. Again these are at all levels of\nintelligence.\n\nThere are those who fit in the autistic spectrum and sit on both sides.\n\nWhether or not you are an atheist boils down to what you choose, it is not\nyour genetics or intelligence. Based on the evidence that is placed before me,\nI have come strongly to believe that there is God, that He is Creator and that\nHe is Jesus Christ. How other people see and" +"\nLand of Lisp (2010) - tosh\nhttp://landoflisp.com/\n======\nDangeranger\nThis book is well worn, dog eared, and on my home office book shelf. While\nmany people criticize it, for legitimate reasons, it is still a fun and\nwonderful journey through Common Lisp. I wish more books were written in this\nirreverent and whimsical style.\n\nIf however you want a more traditional and \"from zero\" introduction to Lisp,\nthen \"Common LISP - A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation\"[0] may be\nbetter. If you already know a little bit of Lisp and want to step up your\nabilities then \"Practical Common Lisp\"[1] is probably what you are after.\n\n[0]\n[https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/)\n\n[1] [http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/](http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/)\n\n~~~\njhbadger\nIf you like this sort of thing, here are some others in a similar humorous\nstyle for other languages.\n\n1\\. Kaufman, Roger. A FORTRAN Coloring Book (probably the first funny\nprogramming book -- from 1978).\n\n2\\. Lipova\u010da, Miran. Learn You A Haskell for Great Good.\n\n3\\. Hebert, Fred. Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good (inspired by the\nHaskell book).\n\n4\\. Felleisen, Matthias. Realm of Racket (basically Land of Lisp for Racket.\nOddly, nobody's done a \"Commonwealth of Clojure\" or \"Society of Scheme\" yet.)\n\n~~~\nbsg75\n> nobody's" +"\n\nAsk HN: For help: Gmail is filtering our URLs - e79\n\nThe gmail.com client normally renders the hyperlinks in our outgoing email just fine. Yesterday morning, this suddenly stopped happening and users were sent links that could not be clicked in their transactional emails from us. I was able to reproduce it by simply including our domain name in an e-mail, which leads me to believe e-mails are being filtered for our domain name specifically. I've reproduced this across multiple Gmail accounts of ours, and all hyperlinking is always fine right until I include our domain name anywhere in an e-mail. Viewing page source shows that gmail.com is employing some HTML to break our URL up so it doesn't turn into a valid hyperlink.
I suspect this is some sort of anti-spam measure. Has anybody else experienced this? I am asking Hacker News for help because there doesn't appear to be any way to get in contact with Google regarding gmail problems. We've already employed everything in their FAQs about avoiding their spam filters. We use DKIM and have a healthy standing with all email blacklists. I'm really not sure what other options we have left.\n======\ntherealmarv\nI've found out" +"\n\nAsk HN: Do you stretch before coding? - nerdfiles\n\nFollowing http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are.html I have always wondered by there exists stigma/myth/folk-theory surrounding \"popping\" one's knuckles, or more generally, engaging in Asperger-esque self-stimulatory behavior (stressed finger-flipping, simply stretching fingers, rhythmic finger counting, talking out loud to one's self ((vocal stimming)), toe-walking). At the same time, I find that I cannot apprehend my hands and the rest of my body for use of vim/bash/coding/etc. unless I stretch well. (Coding, for me, is a full body experience, where music is also by and large essential.)
Holding a proper posture seems to, as a \"low-cost body hack\" strengthen the fluidity of thought. At various points throughout the day I notice that when I accidentally in engage in self-stimulatory behavior, either for need to reach a raised item on a shelf, before playing an instrument, even curiouser listening to noise music, and on, \"sharpening my tongue\" (guided vocal stimming: re-enacting preferred comedians), I find that various modes of thought are more readily accessible.\n======\nxackpot\nI don't stretch before coding per se, because I am usually standing while\ncoding, so I am already alert. but I do stretches in between coding sessions,\nlike may be every 20-30 minutes." +"\nWhy now is the best time to study quantum computing (2014) - Phithagoras\nhttp://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00011\n======\ndheera\nAlthough I have studied the basics of quantum computing, I don't think it will\nbecome necessary for computer scientists to know the gory physics details of\nquantum computers. All they will need to know is that a certain function that\nis normally O(n^2) now has a magical implementation that is O(n), and another\nfunction that is normally exponential is now polynomial.\n\nQuantum computers will likely manifest themselves as co-processors, and you'll\nhave a nice well-abstracted API to access those implementations within\ntraditional languages, i.e.\n\n \n \n #!/usr/bin/env python4\n from quantum import qc\n qc.init(device=\"/dev/quantum0\")\n factors = qc.factor(15)\n\n~~~\ns_q_b\nLater in the game, sure. Who's going to build the early toolset? Who's going\nto own it? Will their be a FOSS API, or will we be locked in?\n\nAll of that design infrastructure needs to be built by somebody, and that\nsomebody stands to make a forunate. The tasks you listed are a decent summary\nof the likely eventual outcome.\n\nBut:\n\n\u2022 Who will do the work to create this beautiful API? \u2022 Who will create this\ncoprocessor architecture? \u2022 Will this theoretical stack be built by" +"\nLiberouter Combo Cards \u2013 FPGA boards focused on network data processing - kerdop\nhttps://www.liberouter.org/technologies/cards/\n======\nairesQ\nThere was an article at Ars [1] that explained how Microsoft uses FPGA powered\nnetwork cards at Azure.\n\nThe idea is to move \"network decision making\" (load balancing; maybe firewalls\nand other assorted stuff) from the CPU to the FPGA, where this kind of thing\ncan be done faster, and more reliably (e.g. you can have hard timing\nconstraints on a FPGA).\n\nGuess the other players in this field are pure software switches, which can be\nvery flexible, but sometimes slow. And ASICs, which are very fast (potentially\nfaster than FPGAs) but not as flexible.\n\n[1] - [http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-\ntechnology/2016/09/micr...](http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-\ntechnology/2016/09/microsoft-azure-fpga-supercomputer-details/)\n\n~~~\nderefr\nI always thought the \"best-practice\" architecture for these sort of high-speed\nSDN switches was to have a custom ASIC \"data plane\" (hard realtime) that can\nbe signalled from a CPU \"control plane\" (running something soft realtime like\nErlang.)\n\nWould an FPGA really give advantages over such a setup? I can't imagine it'd\nbeat the CPU at being a control plane\u2014so it'd mostly have to be that it has a\nlower TCO as a data plane than an ASIC. That might be true," +"\nAsk HN: AMZN is set to be larger than APPL soon. How did AMZN pull this off? - rblion\nAMZN is currently at a $909 billion market cap. AAPL is around $960 billion. These numbers are insane to think about considering how close both companies were to 'being dead' at some point in their history.
I'm curious to hear your thoughts, insights, analysis on how you think Amazon went from being an afterthought to many in the industry to being a force on par with Apple and Google, maybe bigger in a few years.\n======\nTokyoKid\nAs discussed elsewhere, both companies enjoy large tax breaks that give them\nhuge advantages. However, I think only Amazon sells so many items online\nwithout sales taxes across the US.\n\nApple still makes a good deal more revenue.\n\nFor quite some time, Amazon made almost no profit and just spent everything\nthey earned. I believe they recently started taking in more profit, and this\nhas probably excited the stock price a lot.\n\nAmazon also seems to do things Apple isn't willing to. Amazon hosts the NSA's\ndata, while Apple fights for privacy. Amazon has notoriously poor working\nconditions and unethical sources, while Apple leads in" +"\n\nAsk HN: Learning a foreign language - xaybey\n\nFor the past 6 months I've been learning Russian and am still struggling to break through. While I'm making progress, it's very slow going and I'm looking for a better way short of moving there (maybe in a few years).
Every piece of advice I've received has fallen into 1 of 2 categories - the traditional (grammar heavy lectures, canned dialogues, workbook exercises, flashcard drills...) or the pragmatic (talking with native speakers, local language groups, learning only the vocabulary for common situations, watching subtitled movies). I've tried different cocktails of all these. I do learn from the traditional methods, but only if I repeat them 10 times. And while the practical methods are more authentic, I end up drowning in the uncharted waters of the language instead of absorbing it.
Is learning a language just miles of crawling through the shit, or is there a way to make non-linear progress? I'm willing to try anything.\n======\nredsable\nI am a language teacher, so factor that into the advice that follows: 1\\. Find\na language teacher that excels at teaching beginners. Tell the teacher that\nyou only want to study 1 hour a week but"
+"\nMicrosoft Announces ARM-Powered Surface Pro X - aminecodes\nhttps://www.theverge.com/2019/10/2/20885572/microsoft-surface-pro-x-2-in-1-sq1-processor-specs-price-release-date\n======\ncorv\nThis would make for a beautiful Linux device\n\n------\nwhywhywhywhy\nSo no one going to talk about the removable hard drive?\n\n------\ncolejohnson66\nDidn\u2019t Windows RT fail? I\u2019m genuinely curious: what\u2019s different here?\n\n~~~\nwilsonnb3\nWindows 10 now supports x86 emulation on ARM processors, so most programs will\nrun on this device without a problem.\n\nUnlike Windows RT, which could only run things from the windows app store.\n\n[https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/19/17027026/microsoft-\nwindow...](https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/19/17027026/microsoft-\nwindows-10-on-arm-apps-games-limitations-support)\n\n~~~\nMarsymars\nWindows RT was especially hamstrung because without jailbreaking it couldn't\nrun Win32 desktop software even if it was compiled for ARM."
+"\n\nPattern-matching is as real in tech media as it is in Silicon Valley - met3\nhttp://betabeat.com/2013/02/race-tech-media-silicon-valley-pattern-matching-jamelle-bouie-jason-calacanis/\n\n======\nrjknight\n\"Twitter attempted to have a conversation about race and the tech industry\nyesterday. The loudest voices? White men on either side of the argument\nshouting each other down.\"\n\nThe end of this para links to Buzzfeed, which adds nothing except a lot of\ncrap advertising to this Storify: 1) Choose languages that developers are familiar with, not the best tool for the job 2) Avoid microservices where possible, the operational cost considering devops is just immense 3) Advanced reliability / redundancy even in critical systems ironically seems to causes more downtime than it prevents due to the introduction of complexity to dev & devops. 4) Continuous integration seems to be a plaster on the problem of complex devops introduced by microservices. 5) Agile "methodology" when used as anything but a tool to solve specific, discrete, communications issues is really problematic I think overall we seem to be over-complicating software development. We look to architecture and process for flexibility when in reality its acting as a crutch for lack of communication and proper analysis of how we should be architecting the actual software. Is it just me?\n======\nSatvikBeri\nMany of these practices are popularized by Google/Facebook/Amazon but don't\nmake sense for a"
+"\nKanban \u2013 The Secret Engineer Killer - bdehaaff\nhttp://blog.aha.io/index.php/kanban-the-secret-engineer-killer/\n======\nraisinbread\nIf you just read the subtitles, I'd almost think your article was a piece in\n_favor_ of Kanban.\n\nEngineers aren't assembly workers: so why do other methodologies seem to be so\nprescriptive on what can be accomplished in a given time frame? New problems\narise, priorities shift, and unexpected news arrives. I appreciate the\nflexibility of a pull-type system because it lets me transparently show what\nI'm working on.\n\nI've really hated telling people no or watching a manager struggle to change\nup something we really need just because it doesn't fit in the right shape\ntime box or might affect the current sprint's plans.\n\nYou can't trust yourself: I always ended up hating sprint planning meetings\nwhere \"points\" are a constant source of conflict between stakeholders and\nestimates are fantastical. These sort of meetings just allow the quality knob\nto turn down while scope and schedule remain fixed. Having an entire team\nminimizes estimates problems, but for the effort involved I'm not sure the\ngains are worth it.\n\nAlso, I think you may have inadvertently taken Anderson's quote out of context\nas well\u2014Kanban isn't a way to run"
+"\nTrump issues executive orders with effective bans of TikTok, WeChat - lvturner\nhttps://www.cnet.com/news/trump-issues-executive-orders-with-effective-bans-of-tiktok-wechat/\n======\nTraster\nI would imagine this is going to be struck down by a court not because he\ndoesn't have the power to do this, but because he'll have failed to adhere to\na fair process in coming up with this - the same reason that his DACA decision\nwas over-turned by the supreme court.\n\n------\ntellarin\nThis also potentially has many ramifications in different industries. Tencent\n(owner of WeChat) is a big investor in media and entertainment companies. One\nside effect, for example, is blocking financial payments to Riot Games, Epic\nGames, Fortnite, and half the gaming industry.\n\n~~~\njimmygrapes\nThe current wording seems to apply only to transactions involving WeChat,\nleaving Tencent's other holdings alone... for now.\n\n------\nnicbou\n> The concern stems from the data that TikTok and WeChat collects on their US\n> users, as well as the perceived inability of Chinese companies like\n> ByteDance and TenCent to reject requests from China's ruling Communist Party\n> (CCP) access that data\n\nIsn't this exactly what US companies have been doing to their users? Isn't it\nalso what the US government has been trying"
+"\nSearX: Privacy-respecting metasearch engine - tvvocold\nhttps://github.com/asciimoo/searx\n======\nhalflings\nEven with a pool of proxies, I would expect an instance of this \"metasearch\nengine\" to quickly get banned by the other search engines. The same IP running\nthousands of queries and scraping its content (which is against their ToS)\nshould be easily detectable.\n\n~~~\nsnowpanda\nBuilding on that issue, I'd like to add that it would be nice to have a\nfeature that alerts a user that certain a search engine is denying requests.\nIt's visible in the logs or settings somewhere, but usually I find myself\nwondering for a while why my search queries aren't accurate before heading off\nto figure out why.\n\nStill a great project though, I use it every day.\n\n~~~\njbg_\nAt least for me, next to each result is a list of the engines that returned\nthat result. I run searx through Tor, so I occasionally find that Google stops\nreturning results for a few minutes.\n\nIt doesn't happen often, but it's easy to tell when it does because none of\nthe first page results have \"google\" next to them, while of course normally\nmost of them would.\n\n------\nsnowpanda\nOn a related note,"
+"\nAsk HN: How to go from Idea to Product? - funwie\nStarting from zero, how do you initiate projects to turn ideas into products or even prototypes? From a thought about building something to design it, implementation, release, and maintenance without losing focus. What do you think is the driving force that keeps you going What advise will you give to people who just write down ideas, those who lack execution?\n======\ndeepthought42\nThe best way to initiate a project and turn it from an idea into a prototype\nis to start. It's literally that simple. Building a product is hard, but the\nonly way it's going to happen is if you start. Other than that, the steps are\nthe same as starting anything else. Determine what you think is a good first\nstep to take, then do it. Then pick the next step and do it. Keep doing that\nuntil the product exists."
+"\nTrucking 'bloodbath': 4,500 truck drivers lost jobs in August - elorant\nhttps://www.businessinsider.com/trucking-bloodbath-4500-truck-drivers-lost-jobs-in-august-2019-9\n======\nJauntTrooper\n4,500 / 3,500,000 = 0.1% decline in truck drivers.\n\nThe industry probably has outsized exposure to the escalating trade wars and\nincreasing tariffs.\n\n~~~\npaulddraper\nAFAIK there is a greater percentage of trucking businesses going down than\ntruck drivers. Consolidation. Amazon, etc.\n\nArticle even says \"It was the first time since March that truckers saw job\nlosses.\"\n\n~~~\nrandogogogo\nThis point wasn't clear to me reading the article. I got the impression that\nmany of those bankruptcies were independent owner/operators but that the\nreporter was trying to downplay that and rather let us believe these were\nlarge operators on the brink of collapse.\n\n------\nMerrill\nOrders for new Class 8 trucks are down about 80% year over year.\n[https://ftrintel.com/news/latest-\norders/index.php](https://ftrintel.com/news/latest-orders/index.php)\n\n~~~\nzachsnow\nIt seems however that 2018 was a \u201crecord year\u201d so maybe it\u2019s just back to\n\u201cnormal\u201d?\n\n~~~\nThePadawan\nApparently they are \"[the] lowest since 2010\":\n[https://www.truckinginfo.com/337568/july-class-8-orders-\nlowe...](https://www.truckinginfo.com/337568/july-class-8-orders-lowest-\nsince-2010)\n\n~~~\nFjolsvith\nProbably waiting to see how the electric trucks pan out before purchasing.\n\n~~~\nahartmetz\nProbably not. Demand for investment goods just varies very strongly with\neconomic cycles.\n\n------\njiveturkey\n4500? That's almost noise level."
+"\nSystemic traffic jams caused by small groups of drivers, study says - freejoe76\nhttp://www.mercurynews.com/traffic/ci_22328900/key-source-bay-area-traffic-headaches-revealed-by\n======\ntokenadult\nThis is a very interesting report. It was based on anonymized tracking of cars\nwith cell phone GPS signals to better understand the whole traffic network of\nthe Bay Area. Identifying choke points for traffic led to a policy proposal.\n\n\"John Goodwin, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the\nregion's transportation planning agency, says the best way to spread out\ntraffic coming from these neighborhoods is to install metering lights at their\nfreeway onramps, which spaces out the traffic to help both those drivers and\neveryone else get to their destinations quicker. Though many important Bay\nArea freeways already have metering lights, such as Interstate 280 in the\nSouth Bay and Interstate 680 in the East Bay, others don't.\"\n\nThe Twin Cities metropolitan area, where I live, was the first place in the\nUnited States to gain special federal permission to put on-ramp metered signal\nlights on federal Interstate Highways used heavily by commuters. They\nempirically help a lot in smoothing traffic. One reason we know that is that\nfor a while a doofus state legislator shut down the freeway metered ramp\nprogram,"
+"\n(1) Design Quora (Web2.0 Expo Presentat... by Rebekah Cox - Quora - woan\nhttp://www.quora.com/Rebekah-Cox/Design-Quora-Web2-0-Expo-Presentation\n======\nphlux\nSo, I'm going to go against the grain here...\n\nI think there is a lot of great stuff about Quora. Design isn't one of them,\nhere is why:\n\nThe site and its team have shown a specific arrogance over voices of\ndissension about their design. Visually there are aspects of the design that\nmake it difficult for people to use - the choice of colors for the text, the\nsize of the fonts, and the contrast make it tough to quickly sort the\ninformation provided.\n\nTheir topic management system is difficult to use. The search box hijacks what\nyou're typing and provides no easy way to get the cursor back.\n\nThe topics and threading of comments has issues as well. Topics lump a large\nnumber of content into a singular bucket, and though you can apply multiple\ntopics to a question, you cannot filter responses in a given topic.\n\nCommenting is limited to singular responses, non threaded conversations and\nare far too easily buried.\n\nArchitecturally the site suffers from sever performance problems when there\nare a large number of answers to a give question."
+"\nScrutiny of 'Truthy', a university project that studies trends on Twitter (2014) - diyorgasms\nhttp://thehill.com/policy/technology/221565-five-things-to-know-about-truthy\n======\npnathan\n> One study highlighted an attack on Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) when he was\n> first running for his seat in 2010. It found that one social media campaign\n> criticizing him for spending taxpayer money on dinners and fashion shows was\n> largely the result of 10 Twitter bots.\n\nThis is an interesting finding. I think part of the broader question at hand\nin our society is that the relationships and communications are becoming\nworld-readable, with significant consequences for shifting the flow of\ndiscourse.\n\n------\nChuckMcM\nI expect a strong correlation with authoritative overreach :-) But more\nseriously, the study of information flows to uncover information sharing\nnetworks is not new, that the networks want to protect themselves from being\nexposed is also not new. I don't agree with a lot of what Assange says but I\ndo agree with him that conspiracies hate light, and what is more making it\nharder for them to communicate makes it harder for them to be effective.\n\n------\nelevenfist\nThis article talks about a research project studying the virality of\npropaganda in social media. The"
+"\n2000 shell companies at one address in Wyoming - hendler\nhttp://news.yahoo.com/special-report-little-house-secrets-great-plains-113759191.html\n======\nsivers\nI used Wyoming Corporate Services (the company at this address) to set up an\nLLC a couple years ago, and they were the most wonderful people to work with.\n\n(I would only contact them a few times a year, but when I did, the lady on the\nphone would remember me, \"Oh hi Derek! How are things in the music biz?\")\n\nTheir service is 100% legit, they're prompt and friendly, and I recommend them\nhighly.\n\n How do other languages compare in the rest of the US? For example, I can almost certainly guarantee that I will never live in San Francisco or even California so would taking the time to learn Rails over another language be beneficial if my end goal is to just have a developer job? I am currently a front end dev but I would love to gain a solid understanding of a backend language as well. I am located in Texas and looking at job openings in Dallas, Houston etc. etc. it seems like they are geared more towards .Net or PHP. Even looking at other cities with a population under or just above 1mil it looks like they have more job openings for languages"
+"\nShow HN: NewTabNotes \u2013 A synchronized markdown notepad for Chrome - kkamperschroer\nhttps://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-tab-notes-alpha/dnghgncclglnalfilefbdpoflgajhdpo\n======\ndhruvsachde\nIs there any way I could increase the font-size? It is difficult to read on\nbig screens.\n\n~~~\nkkamperschroer\nCurrently no, but that is certainly something I could add as options to\ncustomize. Thanks for the suggestion!\n\n------\nkkamperschroer\nLooking for some honest feedback on this idea I had for a new tab page\nreplacement where I can keep some notes.\n\nCurrently alpha as I have not cleaned up all of my original hacks from a\nprototype and there is currently no version control.\n\nSource can be found here:\n[https://github.com/kkamperschroer/NewTabNotes](https://github.com/kkamperschroer/NewTabNotes)"
+"\nOn Costliest U.S. Warship Ever, Navy Can\u2019t Get Munitions on Deck - perfunctory\nhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-30/flawed-elevators-on-13-billion-carrier-miss-another-deadline\n======\nsramsay\nFrom the article: \"The elevators aren\u2019t the only issue plaguing the ship,\nwhich has had problems with two other core systems -- the electromagnetic\nsystem to launch planes and the arresting gear to catch them when they land.\"\n\nSo let's see, the only the problem with this aircraft carrier is that it has\ntrouble with airplanes taking off. And landing. And carrying, you know, bombs.\n\n~~~\nzipwitch\nThe real scandal isn't that the _Ford_ is having (lots) of problems with it's\nnew technology. That can happen. It's not even that a decision was made to put\nmultiple novel, unproven systems into a major warship.\n\nThe biggest scandal is that the US Navy accepted delivery of the _Ford_ and\ncommissioned it when it was non-functional. This should be ending swathes of\ncareers at the top of both the US Navy and Huntington Ingalls Industries.\n\n~~~\nrootw0rm\nI still have an HII access card for when I worked on the USS Chosin and USS\nO'Kane right underneath the Coronado bridge. I was still in the custody of the\nSan Diego sheriff's department at the time. Many"
+"\nShow HN: TorProxy, a kernel module which routes all network traffic through Tor - raw23\nhttps://github.com/r-a-w/TorProxy\n======\nbjpbakker\nInteresting but I doubt whether you really want to route /all/ your network\ntraffic through Tor.\n\nAs soon as some packet that reaches the internet (through an exit node) that\nincludes some identity information your Tor connection is no longer private.\nRouting all your traffic via Tor, increases the chance this will happen.\n\nAlso if many people use Tor for all their traffic, this will become a\nscalability problem for Tor (lack of exit nodes).\n\n~~~\ngiancarlostoro\nI would assume if you're going this far you're likely running this module\nunder a Linux VM so only specifics go through Tor.\n\n~~~\nfmx\nIf you do that then you may as well just use two VMs - Tor router and client -\nand that's basically Whonix.\n\n------\nacebarry\nIt's a terrible idea to route _all_ your traffic over tor. If you have any\nexpectation of anonymity you'll be disappointed. Since tor does not do any\napplication level filtering, it is easy for exit nodes to track you.\n\nIt's a neat idea but has the same problems as network wide tor routers.\n\n~~~\nnikcub"
+"\nGloucestershire radio ham manages to contact International Space Station - colinprince\nhttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/gloucestershire-radio-ham-manages-to-contact-international-space-station-10441887.html\n======\njdietrich\nISS crew members make regular amateur radio contacts as part of the ARISS\nscheme. A proportion of these contacts are pre-arranged for school and youth\ngroups, but many amateurs have made spontaneous contact.\n\nContacting the ISS doesn't require anything more sophisticated than a 2m/70cm\ntransceiver and a handheld Yagi-Uda - the difficulty comes from the very short\nwindows of opportunity and the substantial doppler shift.\n\n[http://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html](http://www.ariss.org/contact-the-\niss.html)\n\nSimilarly, many amateurs have made earth-moon-earth contacts, using the moon\nas a reflector. UHF and VHF are most common, but some highly skilled amateurs\nhave made EME contacts using millimetre-wave bands.\n\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%E2%80%93Moon%E2%80%93Ear...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%E2%80%93Moon%E2%80%93Earth_communication)\n\n------\nflashman\n200 miles isn't all that far for a ham radio signal. I'm not trying to\ndiminish the achievement at all, however.\n\nPeople interested in RTL-SDR (software defined radio on a USB TV dongle,\nbasically) might like to know that ISS transmissions can be heard on\n148.500MHz. Requires a little bit more effort, and a licence, to chat back."
+"\n\nHow to use Google Alerts to find out if your site gets hacked - greg\nhttp://www.blogstorm.co.uk/how-to-use-google-alerts-to-find-out-if-your-site-gets-hacked/\n\n======\npierrefar\nIt's a good backup solution as by the time Googlebot finds the cracked pages,\nit's a bit too late.\n\nI'd set up a cron job to check the database once a day or 12 hours or so.\nThat's more pre-emptive.\n\n~~~\nZeroGravitas\nI think you're missing the point. These SEO hackers don't announce themselves\nby defacing your front page or deleting your database. They insert hidden\nlinks in your HTML to boost their PageRank and it's in their interests to go\nundetected for as long as possible.\n\n~~~\npierrefar\nI'm an SEO and know full well what they're doing. My daily cron job suggestion\nis to detect their activities.\n\n------\nperegrine\nYou would need a slightly larger set of words, but nonetheless an interesting\nsolution.\n\n~~~\nstreety\nAbsolutely. Perhaps harvest words from blog spam."
+"\nThings Worth Knowing About Coffee - pegobry\nhttp://theoatmeal.com/comics/coffee\n======\nstcredzero\nThe most important thing I know about coffee: most of what you buy in stores\nis _stale_. Even vacuum-sealed roasted whole beans are a compromise,\nexpiration date notwithstanding. Buy roasted whole beans at a place that\nroasts every week, and posts the roast date on the bin. Never mind stuff being\nfrom Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Kona, &c. It's most important to get the degree of\nroast you like, as recently as possible.\n\nI go to the Allegro Roasters counter at Whole Foods each week and buy a medium\nroast from that day, or the day before. I have a cheap grinder at home, and I\njust use cheap #2 cone filters in a cheap single-cup cone brewer. I emphasize\nthat those last 3 items are _cheap_. You don't need a fancy-schmancy grinder.\nYou get a _huge_ bang for the buck just by using beans roasted in the past 2\nweeks. The other thing: make sure your water is the right temperature. (190 to\n195 degrees seems to work for me.) Just borrow a candy thermometer, always use\nthe same amount of water, the same pot, and figure out how long"
+"\nShow HN: Windows 95 in the browser - TazeTSchnitzel\nhttp://win95.ajf.me/\n======\noxguy3\nThis is pretty nifty. I rediscovered how much I hate Windows solitaire:\n[http://i.imgur.com/a8jbpok.png](http://i.imgur.com/a8jbpok.png)\n\n~~~\nTazeTSchnitzel\nThe three-at-a-time version is frequently unbeatable. However, there's an\noption in the settings to let you flip through the deck one-at-a-time, which\nmakes it always beatable.\n\nKlondike Solitaire, or at least Microsoft's implementation of it, is fatally\nflawed. A shame, it can be fun sometimes.\n\n------\nfiatjaf\nIt isn't starting here. Maybe the download hasn't complete, but it says it\nhas.\n\n~~~\nTazeTSchnitzel\nThere's a 47MB disk image it has to download. That's after the \"All downloads\nare complete\" message, unfortunately.\n\n------\npatrickfl\nawesome...except it froze my entire PC (i74640k, 16GB, SSD) Firefox, Windows\n10\n\n~~~\nTazeTSchnitzel\nIf a web browser is able to freeze your system, that's rather damning for\nWindows 10's stability.\n\n~~~\npatrickfl\nI can't argue with that, was just giving some feedback in case you wanted to\nlook into it. Oddly enough, it froze around the time I tried launching IE 3.0\n:)\n\nEither way, really impressive software, very well executed.\n\nEdit: happened on Chrome too, froze the tab but not the app. JS Console:\n\n[http://i.imgur.com/jlvX9Gp.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/jlvX9Gp.jpg)\n\n~~~\nTazeTSchnitzel\nWeird."
+"\nInstant 8-bit alpha PNG converter - ck2\nhttp://www.8bitalpha.com/\n======\npornel\nI've got improved pngquant that gives significantly better results than\noriginal version, gd2 library and often rivals pngnq:\n\n I'm about to pivot my life from using my marketing degree to devoting myself to becoming a Rails developer. My wonderful and analytical wife wants to see some hard data on the number of open junior Rails dev positions vs the number of applicants, or anything of that sort. She's too careful to believe my \"everyone says we're in the middle of a Great Dev Drought\" protestations. Please help me find the right data. And if you have some anecdotal evidence, we'll consider that too! Thanks a ton! @brainscraps EDIT: Since there is a consensus that having an active GitHub profile is a good thing, no matter how messy, here's a link: https://github.com/BrainScraps\n======\nnateberkopec\nAs someone trying to hire Rails devs right now, I have two things to say - one\ngood, one bad.\n\n* The Good News: I started coding 18 months ago, and now I'm a lead developer at a funded startup and a two-time contributor to Rails (along with other contributions to open source).\n\n* The Bad News: While there is a hiring drought, there is NOT a drought for hiring guys who just learned Rails three-to-six-months"
+"\nCloudflare is down along with so many other websites. Error 502. - rishiloyola\nhttps://cloudflare.com/\n======\nmartin_a\nWhy do people even use Cloudflare so extensively?\n\nUsing a CDN is not essential for every website. Just get yourself some shared\nwebhosting or whatever for your tech blog and you are good to go, no need for\nfancy CDNs that go down like this.\n\nOr is it just because it's fancy tech?\n\n~~~\nskilled\nSEO definitely puts a lot of pressure on people. Most guides these days talk\nabout performance, and performance is directly linked with services such as\nCDN's.\n\nBut like you say, this can definitely be resolved through Web Servers and\nresource optimisation.\n\nFor WordPress blogs, OpenLiteSpeed has been a godsend to run a WP blog with up\nto par performance.\n\n~~~\nmartin_a\nYeah, I know. I've developed with/for WordPress for 10 years and most\nperformance issues can easily be mitigated by optimizing your resources, using\ncaching and more. I never had to rely on CDNs for good performance, though,\nalso SEO agencies try to sell you this. Hard to explain to customers, though.\n\n------\nmacinjosh\nNot sure why engineers insist on building their products on top of single\npoints of"
+"\nDopamine Cells Influence Our Perception of Time - JabavuAdams\nhttps://www.simonsfoundation.org/features/foundation-news/scgb-news/dopamine-cells-influence-our-perception-of-time/\n======\nAnsemWise\nThere is another article trending right now about increased Dopamine in the\nshower causing your executive functions to diminish and allows for increased\ncreativity.\n\nSeems like you could extrapolate that dopamine has a direct inverse\ncorrelation to executive functions in the brain. I'd go so far as to use New\nYork and Silicon Valley as good examples of increased executive function and\nincreased creativity, respectively.\n\nI'd also relate this to the certain side-effects of Adderall, increased\nDopamine causing a loss of time awareness and higher creativity, but the\nincrease in your sympathetic nervous system causes the increased focus and\nawareness. Almost a best of both worlds, besides the likely strain on the body\nfrom overworking both systems.\n\n~~~\noxide\n>causing a loss of time awareness and higher creativity\n\nwhatever you're doing when you take adderall, you'll be doing for the next 12\nhours before you realize how much time has past.\n\n~~~\nClassyJacket\nI wish there was a legal way to try Adderall. It's not even legal in Australia\nby prescription, and since I wasn't diagnosed with ADHD as a kid, there's\nbasically no chance I'll ever even"
+"\nRuby - Handling 1 Million Concurrent Connections - slivuz\nhttps://github.com/slivu/1mc2\n======\nqompiler\nI have done this before using Java 7 async nio. The performance would drop\nlike a brick when data received actually needed some sort of processing. How\ndoes this implementation hold up when you need to perform a O(n) operation on\nreceived data? Experiment with different sizes of n to see how the performance\nholds up.\n\n~~~\ntrailfox\nExactly. Establishing 1 million connections is pretty easy in any language\nthat supports async io, even scripting languages. The article is super-vague\nabout the direction of the traffic, the nature and size of the messages and\nhow much of the application is actually written in Ruby (vs. just being a\nglorified wrapper around redis and other systems written in c/c++) and the\namount of work actually being done by the app. 179 requests per second is\nhardly something to brag about while you've completely saturated 8 cpu cores.\n\n~~~\nhawleyal\nRuby _is_ a wrapper around c.\n\n------\nafhof\nI have to ask, is there even a practical purpose for this? Is there even some\nremote screwball application for having to have one machine handle 1,000,000\nrequests? One of the things"
+"\n\nParallaxing Illustrations with jQuery - tombell\nhttps://github.com/cameronmcefee/plax\n\n======\nolalonde\nFor an awesome parallax demo:\n My second hat revolves around my startup Powered Now. We are a 5 person team spread over the globe. Our product is a business administration platform for the Field Services world, we are hoping to launch into private beta within a few weeks. My established business is a bit of a hybrid. We have two offices in the UK and a distributed workforce of about 20 working at home. I really get to see both the advantages and disadvantages of office / home working. It works for us, but we have been doing this for a long time and I wonder if I am being blinded by the convenience factor. With Powered Now I have a distributed team, half of us are in the UK the other half are based in Budapest, we try to meet up to work"
+"\nReading iOS app binary files - msbenighted\nhttps://blog.smartdec.net/reading-ios-app-binary-files-2c9e63a381ad\n======\nfavorited\nObjective-C was the first language I used where I looked under the covers and\ntried to understand the machinery of the language, and its extremely dynamic\nnature makes it a great place to start to understand language runtimes.\n\nIt's so conceptually simple, and (aside from objc_msgSend) you can implement\nthe whole thing in C. libobjc2 has (if I'm counting correctly) 23 .c files,\nand it includes things you can totally ignore as you're learning, like an ObjC\ngarbage collection implementation that no one uses anymore.\n\nThe only tricky part is the message-sending routines, since they have to be\nwritten in assembly. But as long as you understand _what_ they're doing\n(rather than _how_ they're doing it), you don't even need to look at those if\nyou don't want to.\n\n~~~\nhypervis0r\n> The only tricky part is the message-sending routines, since they have to be\n> written in assembly\n\nWhy? (context: never touched Objective-C)\n\n~~~\n_red\nDisclaimer: I may be completely wrong, but I don't think OP is saying that\nwhile writing normal ObjC that you need to write the message passing in\nassembly. Instead, that you could recreate ObjC"
+"\n5 Financial Rules for Startups - jasonlbaptiste\nhttp://www.businessinsider.com//5-financial-rules-startups\n======\nthaumaturgy\nLess than two years ago, I bootstrapped a consulting startup, by myself, and\nmade $300 in my first month. I had one client.\n\nMy goal this year was to hit $3,000 a month by the end of the year; I hit it\nin June. I'm now regularly picking up new clients -- still entirely by word-\nof-mouth -- I have two people working for/with me, and so far the growth isn't\nshowing any signs of slowing down.\n\nWhile these aren't very impressive numbers, they're not too bad for one guy\nwith no resources starting out. It's been a good exercise in non-stop business\njudo.\n\nSo, according to me:\n\n1: Don't waste your time reading crap like this. You won't learn as much from\nit as you will if you just go out and work your ass off.\n\n2: Oh yeah, working your ass off: do that, a lot. It's been hard off and on,\nbut I also keep getting better at it, and now any potential competitors that\ncome along are going to find themselves facing off against a human dynamo.\n\n3: I haven't figured out what #3 is yet."
+"\n11:57 \u2013 A short virtual reality horror film made for Oculus Rift - pmcpinto\nhttp://1157.pm/\n======\neliasdelatorre\nI downloaded it for Windows. It has a mp4 file inside the zip. I was able to\nwatch it using VLC on Ubuntu. Despite being a 360\u00b0 image all cramped on a\nsquare screen it was still pretty scary =P\n\n~~~\nohwhen\nCool, thanks for the feedback :)\n\n------\naleyan\nRan the Mac OS version on Yosemite with 0.4.2 version of the Oculus SDK on a\nDK2.\n\nLoved it. Awesome job. Feels like a haunted house that moves around you\ninstead of you moving through it. Very immersive. Will show this off to other\npeople.\n\nIPD was kind of weird though. I felt like a giant in the dungeon. What kind of\ncamera setup did you use to film this, and how far apart were the cameras?\n\nAlso, I did not feel the 3D sound, though the issue may have been with my ears\nor me not paying attention to it. I will retry again later tonight and report\non the results.\n\n~~~\nohwhen\nSo the camera setup was a fairly standard 6 GoPro rig (Freedom Rig).\nUnfortunately we didn't have the budget"
+"\nAsk HN: Test coverage in side projects - Jackypot\nHave you guys noticed a difference in the number of tests you are inclined to write for your side project stuff as opposed to at work? I have noticed that I write significantly fewer for my side projects. Is this normal or am I being lazy/reckless?\n======\npizza\nIt's probably worth it if you work on the side project regularly enough for it\nto occasionally regress in known faulty ways. Otherwise I wouldn't worry about\na more low-maintenance approach.\n\n------\npmontra\nDon't feel alone. I usually have much less time to work on my side projects\nthan on customers projects so I tend to bang things together quickly. And so I\nwrite much less tests."
+"\nWhy there are no viruses for OS X - crocus\nhttp://www.silvermac.com/2008/why-there-are-no-viruses-for-osx/\n======\ngaius\nThis article is complete nonsense. NT was designed from the ground up as a\n\"real\" operating system by Dave Cutler, the man responsible for VMS, a which\nhas a well-deserved reputation as a rock-solid OS. Unix having networking\nbuilt in from the start (even tho', umm, it actually didn't) didn't stop many\nexploits against Sendmail for example. Windows has a registry doesn't mean\nanything either; so does AIX to all intents and purposes...\n\nThe vulnerability of Windows is more cultural than technological. The reason\nit's easy to attack Outlook is that MS _intended_ it to be easily scriptable\nso you could build workflow applications on top of Exchange/Outlook (to\ncompete with Lotus Notes). It didn't occur to them that anyone would abuse\nthis.\n\nWas that naive of them? Perhaps. But then again, no more naive than the Unix\napproach of root being the absolute superuser; in NT you can create files that\nthe superuser can backup to tape but not read themselves, which is very\nnecessary in many scenarios. It's interesting to note that many Unixen have\nadopted ACLs and privilege separation; NT certain didn't invent these,"
+"\nAnyway, stop recommending bazookas to kill flies in programming - greenchriss\nhttps://medium.com/@arieldi/anyway-stop-recommending-bazookas-to-kill-flies-in-programming-65f13439be3d\n======\nwstuartcl\nAre you asking on reddit (or some other site that is structured to pass quick\nthoughts on a subject)? Are you giving no more information on your questions\nthan - OP: I have an issue with SEO in my current Vue project how can I do\nthis? \\- Community: Have you tried nuxt?\n\nContext and details are important on both sides of the fence, Explain enough\nabout your apps architecture and reasoning to convey that you have considered\nother structures before you expect to get answers that take more time than\nsimply pointing you down a path that resolves your issue without any details.\n\nPointing you to NUXT is equivalent of a longer sentence: \"You don't tell us\nwhat you have tried or considered, what your application architecture is or\nwhat problems you have run into based on your previous design decisions --\ntherefore we recommend using something like NUXT which has boilerplate design\ndecisions baked in that resolve your issues.\"\n\n\\- OP: I have two components, I want to share data, how can I do? \\-\nCommunity: Have you tried vuex?\n\nThis seems perfectly reasonable"
+"\n\nWeb developers, what SaaS tools would you like to see created? - krogers\n\nThere are a lot of SaaS tools popping up nowadays. In the midst of all of these tools. What are some that don't yet exist that you would like to see created to make your life easier?\n======\nMrDHat\nThere's one tool I've always wanted - An analysis tool for my database\nqueries. Something which directly injects into my framework (Django/RoR etc)\nand gives me detailed analysis of the time and memory used by the queries.\n\nAFAIK, New Relic provides one such tool but I think there's still a long way\nto go.\n\n------\nOceanPowers\nserious, modern, WYSIWYG HTML / CSS / JS editor.\n\n~~~\nmc_hammer\nmacaw looks good\n\n------\nConcours\nBaremetrics for PayPal would be great.\n\n~~~\niqonik\n[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8783103](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8783103)\n\nAny good?\n\n~~~\nConcours\nYep, looks interesting. Will give it a try (added myself for the beta test),\nare you affiliate with them ? Thanks for the head up.\n\n~~~\niqonik\nNot affiliated, just remembered the \"Shown HN\" post when I saw your comment :)\n\n------\nmc_hammer\ndraw with my voice - to make vector graphics."
+"\nGoogle says ad blockers will save online ads - peter123\nhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/16/google_on_adblockers/\n======\npavs\nWow, the first half was all good and informative, than the second half the\nauthors started to dump all his opinion as known, absolute facts.\n\nThe fact is that Google, a multi billion dollar company which make ~90% of its\nrevenue through ads, not only allows ad blocking extensions to be installed in\nits browser (which is rapidly gaining market share) but also not-so-evil\nenough not to tinker with the Top 10 extension list and allow an ad blocking\nextension to be listed as the second most downloaded extension. (2 of the top\n10 extensions are ad blockers:\n Achievements. Verified experimentally: - ways to connect c-atoms with each other; - the movement of c-atom relative to other c-atoms. The experiments were conducted with models of c-atoms in the macro scale. The size of c-atoms models was 3 * 4 cm. Tasks:\n- development of software capable of managing an array of c-atoms;\n- repeating experiments in micro-scale with size of c-atoms - less than one millimeter.\n======\npjlegato\nWhat are the possible commercial applications of this technology?\n\nHow will your company make money from this?\n\n~~~\nYuriyZ\n\\- Programmable matter will replace 3d prototyping, which is now carried out\nby 3d printers. \\- Will be used in telecommunications. The effect of presence\n- Pario. \\- The technology will be used in medicine. The surgeon will be able\nto operate on the patient by manipulating programmable matter, which will be\nan enlarged, precise, copy of the operated area. \\- Toys (gadgets)\ntransformers. The company will make money by selling and renting devices from\nthe programmable matter."
+"\nInternet Archive responds to publishers\u2019 lawsuit - ghastmaster\nhttps://blog.archive.org/2020/07/29/internet-archive-responds-to-publishers-lawsuit/\n======\nilamont\n> These publishers call for the destruction of the 1.5 million digital books\n> that Internet Archive makes available to our patrons. This form of digital\n> book burning is unprecedented and unfairly disadvantages people with print\n> disabilities.\n\nIt's a stretch to call this a book burning. It is not a politically motivated\ncampaign to destroy books, or a witch hunt to root out deviant social or\nreligious teachings. It's a dispute over copyright law.\n\nIn addition, I thought the justification for expanding controlled digital\nlending was around COVID-19, not rights for people who have low vision. Was\nthis issue a central part of the the IA's reasoning before the lawsuit?\n\n------\nghastmaster\n[https://archive.org/details/internet-archive-\nanswer](https://archive.org/details/internet-archive-answer) \\- Defense Filing\n\nI'm seeing more and more \"503 Service unavailable\" on the waybackmachine."
+"\nElectric Generation in Spain \u2013 Latest 24 Hours - vinnyglennon\nhttp://energia.ningunaparte.net/en/\n======\namazon_not\nI think we killed it :( At least I don't get any data plotted anymore when\nloading the site.\n\nI agree it's neat, but I dislike that the plot legend has the text at an angle\nwith poor contrast and in the \"wrong\" order compared to the plot colors. I'd\nalso like a better color scheme with more distinct colors. I'm also not s fan\nof fading out the colors with time.\n\n~~~\ndavidklemke\nSame issue here on the latest version of Chrome. Seems our hug of death might\nhave spread to the official data source too as I just get a blank page there\nas well.\n\n------\nhakcermani\nNeat looking visualization. Sorry for the nitpick but personally a straight\nline (rather than circular) plot 00:00 - 24:00 will help see the peaks and\ncompare high-low better. The time could you also show by time of generation\nrather than local. (it is weird to see peak solar at 0200 hrs )\n\n~~~\nvegabook\nPersonally I quite like the polar coordinates, though it's a pity that by\nconvention, a watch face only holds half a day, as we"
+"Ask HN: What do you think about Alibaba Cloud? How does it compare to the big 3? - mike_aarons\n======\ndizzydiz\nI\u2019d be surprised if it ever has meaningful impact in the Western world because\nof company policies/ban lists. You can bet with 100% certainty that the CCP\ncalls the shots.\n\nBut on the flip side, for the most part the big 3 can\u2019t sell into China so it\ncan have a commanding lead.\n\nIts growing at over 60% per year in a far less competitive environment than\nthe big 3. Tencent (mostly focused on gaming) is also competing there.\n\nFull disclosure: I invested in BABA today because of the above.\n\n~~~\nmike_aarons\nVery interesting, thanks!"
+"\nIf a tweet declares war, is it treason to take it down? - awinter-py\nhttps://abe-winter.github.io/2019/10/18/tweason.html\n======\ntptacek\nNo, for assistance to an enemy to be treasonable, war must actually have been\ndeclared, and only Congress can declare war. Actually _waging war_ on the US\nis treasonable without a Congressional declaration, but the definition depends\non a state of \"open war\" in which you're part of a recognized assembled group\nof people engaged in open armed hostilities.\n\nThe short answer to almost all these kinds of questions is \"it's never\ntreason\".\n\n~~~\ndiego\n1) You're assuming this ONLY discusses the possibility of the US declaring war\nvia tweet. The article clearly talks about ANY country that could declare war\nvia tweet.\n\n2) It specifically addresses the question of the US and Congress.\n[https://abe-winter.github.io/2019/10/18/tweason.html#can-a-t...](https://abe-\nwinter.github.io/2019/10/18/tweason.html#can-a-tweet-declare-war)\n\n~~~\ntptacek\nYes, its analysis of the US and Congress is, I believe, simply wrong. The\nPresident can effectively levy war in the 21st century without Congress, but\nsuch \"wars\" do not create the conditions required for treason. Treason is\nincumbent on war being properly declared.\n\nEven John Walker Lindh couldn't be charged with treason, and he had the weight\nof an actual AUMF against him.\n\n~~~"
+"\nHow to watch the Olympics, live, from the United States - bradgessler\nhttp://bearsfightingbears.com/how-to-watch-the-olympics-live-from-the-united-states\n======\navolcano\nKinda seems more like \"how to watch the Olympics for $20\" (or more - I don't\nknow quite how many games are available, and at what quality, from the BBC,\nbut I feel like you could potentially use over 200 gigs of transfer in\nwatching them).\n\nMany actual VPNs are somewhat cheaper, and just as simple to set up.\n\nOf course, paying money to a third-party to watch BBC feels as insane and dumb\nas ever. You'd think that they'd start looking into overseas subscriptions at\nthis point. Nevermind the IOC - why can't they offer anything on Pay-Per-View?\nBoth are great alternative sources of income they're passing up, instead\nessentially encouraging piracy and sending money to third parties instead!\n\n~~~\nkristofferR\nJust use these two DNS servers, they're free and takes no effort to get\nworking:\n\nPrimary DNS: 64.250.122.104\n\nSecondary DNS: 199.167.30.144\n\n~~~\nsch1zo\nyou probably should mention the guys providing the service. These DNS Servers\nare from this is interview question and I will like to brainstrom with you guys. Lets say you are interviewing for ecommerce company, what are the things you will look to catch fraud scenarios. Lets assume there are following things in this system:\n1) Buyer\n2) Seller\n3) Recommendations for Buyer and Seller (buyer rate Seller and Seller rates buyer)\n4) Order Processing\n5) Payment \n6) Purchase Again this is just open ended question and skys the limit for the solution. So, wanted to see how many ways we can catch fraud scenarios. This may/may not involve any machine learning algorithms. Cheers!\n======\nhnfoobar\nHere are some which I thought... I am wondering if there are other classes or\ncategories we should watch for Fraud/Risk\n\n1) Unusually large orders or high-priced orders 2) Expedited shipping on large\nquantities or high-priced orders 3) Expedited shipping when billing and\nshipping addresses differ 4) Make sure the billing address matches the IP\nlocation. 5) Limit the number of declined transactions. 6) Customers who make\nmultiple orders from different credit cards 7) Machine Learning - supervised\nclassification - the system is told in advance"
+"\nPray for the Souls of the People Sucked into This Dating Site Hell - rbanffy\nhttps://gizmodo.com/pray-for-the-souls-of-the-people-sucked-into-this-datin-1825735565?rev=1526922420917&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow\n======\ncowboysauce\n>they have hired \u201cprogrammers with quantum computers to fight this stuff,\u201d\n\nWow, either he's talking out his ass or he's been scammed hard. I'm leaning\nheavily towards the former given the overall shady feel of the business.\n\nI think it's obvious that they knowingly tolerate these fake profiles, if not\nactively create them. To give the impression that their site has a lot of\nusers.\n\n------\nmnm1\nAre these scammy tactics a surprise? They shouldn't be. Sites like match.com\nand pof.com employ them effectively also, perhaps even more effectively\nbecause the scams are hidden in a network with actual human actions as well.\nThey will cause a whole bunch of fake activity for new profiles that mimics\nreal interest. Only when one clicks on the messages or winks or whatever,\nthere are bugs and the profiles don't load or other such nonsense. I have a\nhard time believing that just the profiles that recently interacted with me\nare the only buggy ones that aren't loading on the whole site. As far as I can\ntell, the entire dating site industry is mainly"
+"\n\nNVIDIA to Acquire AGEIA - pmattos\nhttp://www.dailytech.com/Update+NVIDIA+to+Acquire+AGEIA/article10573.htm\n\n======\nivankirigin\nTwo cheers for dedicated hardware pushing progress while Moore's law for\nsilicone circuits approaches a wall!\n\nAfter a graphics processor, you'll buy a physics engine, and then vector math,\nAI, and Vision engines.\n\nGraphics card makers know this, and will just put all those chips on a single\ncard.\n\n~~~\nwmf\nI think most people will skip the step of buying the physics card and just\nwait for it to be integrated into the GPU. It will be an interesting marriage,\nthough, since the Nvidia and Ageia architectures have some significant\ndifferences.\n\n~~~\npmjordan\nThey are somewhat different, and I suspect the Ageia PhysX line as it is now\nwill be discontinued. It's not exactly been selling like crazy, and I suspect\nnVidia are buying them out for the software, not the hardware side.\n\nIf you look at benchmarks, SLI isn't exactly what they make it out to be: it\nscales very badly in many games, presumably because of render-to-texture and\nvertex feedback rendering, which either have to be duplicated or copied\nbetween the cards.\n\nThose types of effects are getting more common not less, so I suspect it'll\nbecome commonplace"
+"\nFish shell 3.0 - faho\nhttps://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/tag/3.0.0\n======\nrobin_reala\nApart from the other good stuff in this release, I think this will make a lot\nof things much easier:\n\n _fish now supports && (like and), || (like or), and ! (like not), for better\nmigration from POSIX-compliant shells_\n\n~~~\nhinkley\nThat\u2019s new? Suddenly I feel less guilty about dodging coworkers who have been\ntrying for years to get other people to try fish.\n\nBut maybe now it\u2019s getting closer to production readiness.\n\n~~~\nStavrosK\nThe fact that it doesn't support your particular preferred syntax doesn't mean\nit's not production-ready.\n\n~~~\njhardy54\n> your particular preferred syntax\n\nI think it's called POSIX.\n\n~~~\nStavrosK\nYou seem to be making some sort of argument, I just don't know what it is. Are\nyou saying that fish is not production ready because it's not POSIX-\ncompatible?\n\n------\nElijahLynn\nMy favorite feature of fish is `abbr`, e.g. `fish abbr --add g git`. Then you\ntype `g` followed by space and it just expands it to `g` and you then get all\nthe autocomplete goodness and don't have to futz with adding autocomplete\nsupport to an alias, because it is the real command. It also helps"
+"\nYou could have invented that Bluetooth attack - octosphere\nhttps://blog.trailofbits.com/2018/08/01/bluetooth-invalid-curve-points/\n======\njoecot\n\"You could have invented that Bluetooth attack\"\n\n _Proceeds to explain elliptic curve mechanics that would make most readers\ncompletely glaze over._\n\nMaybe they mean they just mean their normal reader base, who has an attention\nspan for those sorts of details? Their assertion that an average reader could\n_understand_ the attack might be true, but the \"could have invented\" is a a\nbit far fetched.\n\n~~~\nmunin\nI think the argument is something like: you could understand what invalid\ncurve point attacks are, and once you did, you could look for them everywhere,\nand if you did that, you would have found this error as well.\n\nThe math behind invalid curve point attacks is pretty straightforward, it's\nsome polynomials and points on the Cartesian plane. You saw this stuff in\nelementary school.\n\nThen, someone needs to point out to you \"oh check out what happens if you\nallow for invalid points\" and now you have a pattern to go hunting for. Then\nit's luck - do you get to Bluetooth before someone else, or do you find\nsomething else, or do you just re-discover other peoples stuff?\n\nMaybe"
+"\nKrzysztof Penderecki has died - stared\nhttps://culture.pl/en/artist/krzysztof-penderecki\n======\nH8crilA\nWhat an absolute legend, his music was like nothing else that came before.\nRest in peace.\n\nIn case you're not familiar with his work - one of the best known pieces is\nthe \"Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima\". Here you can see it overlaid on\ntop of the notation he had invented to write this composition down:\n[https://youtu.be/HilGthRhwP8](https://youtu.be/HilGthRhwP8)\n\nWikipedia page on the piece:\n[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threnody_to_the_Victims_of_H...](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threnody_to_the_Victims_of_Hiroshima)\n\n~~~\nthr0w3345\nI don\u2019t get this at all.\n\nIt\u2019s unlistenable. Dreadful. Who considers this music and why? What\u2019s the\npoint of it?\n\nWhat am I missing?\n\n~~~\nsoftwarejosh\nit wasnt exactly written for easy listening, it represents the instantaneous\nannihilation of life on the largest scale the world has ever seen.\n\n~~~\nMediterraneo10\n> it wasnt exactly written for easy listening, it represents the instantaneous\n> annihilation of life on the largest scale the world has ever seen.\n\nAs is well known (or should be), Penderecki wrote the piece initially as\npurely abstract music, a study in sound. The title referencing Hiroshima was\nonly applied to the piece later.\n\n------\nmicrotherion\nThe first piece of his I heard is still my favorite: \"Stabat Mater\"\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f403XsOAFXE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f403XsOAFXE)\n\nIt"
+"\nCreditor moves to dismantle copyright troll Righthaven - llambda\nhttp://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/10/creditor-moves-to-dismantle-copyright-troll-righthaven.ars\n======\nathom\nQuoting:\n\nA filing in the case shows that Randazza wants the court to \u201cauthorize the\nU.S. Marshalls to execute Hoehn\u2019s judgment through seizure of Righthaven\u2019s\nbank accounts, real and personal property, _and intangible intellectual\nproperty rights_ [my emphasis] for levy, lien, auction or other treatment\nappropriate for satisfaction of Hoehn\u2019s judgment.\u201d\n\nI hope this isn't a spurious question, but could this end with _Hoehn_ owning\ncopyrights entrusted to Righthaven?\n\n~~~\nnash\nRighthaven never had any copyrights to begin with. Which is why they keep\ngetting absolutely slaughtered in cases (no standing).\n\nSo unfortunately Randazza won't get those copyrights.\n\n~~~\nstan_rogers\nI believe the rights being referred to are things like Righthaven's own name,\ntrademarks, copyrights and so forth, not just what they may have acquired from\nother parties.\n\n~~~\nnash\nProbably.\n\nStill, I can't imagine the trademark \"Righthaven\" has a lot of value any more.\n\n------\npseudonym\nHilarious, but also sad. What's going to happen to the $120,000 payment handed\ndown to the other folks, plus all other Righthaven suits still in court?\n\nDoes it end up being just $120,000 out of pocket to defend against a frivolous"
+"\nWhat Wittgenstein Learned from Teaching Elementary School - Hooke\nhttp://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/03/05/wittgenstein-schoolteacher\n======\na_bonobo\n>It\u2019s hard now to know how consistent his use of corporal punishment was with\nstandard practice at the time.\n\nThe quoted Wittgenstein biography of Monk (highly recommended!) actually has a\ncomment on that:\n\n>Another girl who was weak at mathematics remembers that one day Wittgenstein\npulled her hair so hard that when she later combed it a lot of it fell out.\n[...] It was not that the villagers disapproved of corporal punishment, nor\nthat such methods of discipline were at all unusual, despite Gl\u00f6ckel\u2019s\nrecommendations. However, though it was accepted that an unruly boy should\nhave his ears boxed if he misbehaved, it was not expected that a girl who\ncould not grasp algebra should receive the same treatment.\n\nLocation 419.4/1469 in my ebook copy\n\nSo, at least according to Monk, Wittgenstein's methods of corporal punishment\nwere according to the times when it came to male students, but not according\nto the times when it came to female students, especially when it's about\nmathematics.\n\n~~~\na_humean\nMonk's biography on Wittgenstein is great. I recommend his newest one on\nOppenheimer if you haven't read it.\n\nI think Monk's"
+"\nDear Programmer, I have an idea - mkrecny\nhttp://blog.mkrecny.com/entry/23/\n======\npadobson\nI'm always looking for a co-founder, whether I'm the geek or the suit. When a\nsuit approaches me to be the geek for their idea, I usually give them some\nsimple technical task to do - like setup a Tumblr or a Twitter account for the\nidea. Then I'll often ask for something businessy - form a C-corp for the idea\nor file a provisional patent.\n\nFinally, before I even consider opening my laptop to code their idea, I want\nsome paltry measure of idea validation. Are you selling a product? Good, find\nsomeone who will pay you to do the task manually before we program it. Are you\nlooking to give the service away and monetize the user base? Good, get 5000\nemails from a landing page describing your idea, or get 1000 followers on\nTwitter for your idea's account.\n\nIf they can do all this in a day or even a week, then they're quality co-\nfounder material. Any longer and it's a judgement call. Most won't get past\nstep one, and you certainly didn't want them as a co-founder.\n\n~~~\nsaurik\n(Note: I am a programmer.)"
+"\nMarketers Have Given Up on Context, and Our National Discourse Is Suffering - memexy\nhttps://battellemedia.com/archives/2020/06/marketers-have-given-up-on-context-and-our-national-discourse-is-suffering\n======\navmich\nCan search engines replace advertisement? Do we need to invent a way to\ncompare options for consumers, or is it a dead end?\n\n~~~\nmemexy\nThe semantic web was meant to be the substrate on which personal agents would\nserve people by doing the type of thing you described but it didn't happen\n\n> The entertainment system was belting out the Beatles\u2019 \u201cWe Can Work It Out\u201d\n> when the phone rang. When Pete answered, his phone turned the sound down by\n> sending a message to all the other local devices that had a volume control.\n> His sister, Lucy, was on the line from the doctor\u2019s office: \u201cMom needs to\n> see a specialist and then has to have a series of physical therapy sessions.\n> Biweekly or something. I\u2019m going to have my agent set up the appointments.\u201d\n> Pete immediately agreed to share the chauffeuring. At the doctor\u2019s office,\n> Lucy instructed her Semantic Web agent through her handheld Web browser. The\n> agent promptly retrieved the information about Mom\u2019s prescribed treatment\n> within a 20-mile radius of her"
+"\n\nWorking on a few things in your bedroom doesn't make you an expert - zachinglis\nhttp://zachinglis.com/2012/working-on-a-few-things-in-your-bedroom-doesnt-make-you-an-expert/\n\n======\nlutusp\nI scanned the linked article until I got to: \"I am seeing an increased group\nof what I\u2019d call newbies and inexperienced designers having started speaking.\"\nThe remainder of the article lives up to the impression this sentence creates.\n\nAt that point I realized the author isn't in a position to criticize the\n\"novice\" writing and speaking of others. And a Web page with a red background\ndoesn't demonstrate the experience and maturity the author evidently thinks he\npossesses.\n\n~~~\nzachinglis\nYou scanned an article and made a judgement?\n\nI've worked on a variety of projects, small and huge. Lead the redesign of a\nmajor website among other things.\n\nI never criticised people's grammar, purely where they come from.\n\n~~~\nlutusp\n> You scanned an article and made a _judgement_? [emphasis added]\n\nNo, I scanned the article and made a _judgment_. If you don't want to be\njudged on your use of English, improve it. What works for computer languages\nshould work for English too.\n\nHowever unfair you believe it to be, people are going to judge you based on\nyour use"
+"\nAdvice to Young Web Developers - EvanAnderson\nhttps://tumblr.beesbuzz.biz/post/621010836277837824/advice-to-young-web-developers\n======\nmroche\n> _Browsers change. Relying on browser-specific behavior means you\u2019re relying\n> on that one browser at that one point in time. Code to the standard, and\n> test everywhere._\n\nI wish this was listed at the top of the list, in the middle, and at the end.\nIt\u2019s super annoying when a site or application isn\u2019t \u201csupported\u201d because it\nwasn\u2019t tested in a separate browser (i.e. non-Chrome browsers).\n\nI know it\u2019s not always easy with a fair amount of nuance which the Chrome\nCompatibility post[0] touches on, but developing the web platform should be\ndone openly, with the browser vendors working together to be compatible with\neach other and not introduce developer or user inconvenience. Otherwise you\nend up with web ownership and a fragmented platform.\n\n[0]\n[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23563525](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23563525)\n\n~~~\nnon-entity\nNothing pisses me off like getting a message that some website only supports\nChrome in 2020\n\n~~~\njjoonathan\nIt's so sad that it became \"acceptable\" to not test in Firefox (as estimated\nby the number of sites I randomly encounter that don't work in FF but do in\nChrome) right around the time that Firefox Quantum happened and Firefox became"
+"\nAmiato (YC W12) Launches To Bring Big Data A/B Testing With SQL To All - binkert\nhttp://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/backed-with-2m-ycs-amiato-launches-to-bring-big-data-ab-testing-with-sql-to-all/\n======\ndude_abides\nGreat pitch, but the product and the news article seem to be low on details.\n\nThe \"how it works\" link says that they get read/write access to the data on\ns3, they massage/process the data, and allow queries on it. But I'm confused\nhow this helps in A/B testing.\n\n~~~\nmehulashah\nAB Testing involves (1) changing or deploying a new feature, (2) many times\nmeasuring new properties linked with the feature, and then (3) analyzing the\nresulting user behavior. We help in the analysis process because most tools\nfall short here.\n\nFor example, supposed you add more weapons to promote more battles in an\nonline game to keep players engaged. Say, in addition, you start collecting\nmeasurements about how long battles take. Suddenly, after introducing the\nfeature, the opposite happens: players leave.\n\nMost off-the-shelf AB tools will only tell you whether feature A or feature B\nworked (the \"what\"), but not the \"why.\" It could be that battles are taking\nlonger, so players lose interest without finishing. Or, more battles cause\nplayers to die/lose more, so they leave.\n\nWe let you"
+"\nShow HN: My time tracking tool for your text editor - welder\nhttps://www.wakati.me/\n======\nlolnope\nGreat concept, but I'm not sure how comfortable I would be with a plugin that\nsends a list of active files to a website (even if it is SSL-secured).\n\n~~~\nHeliosmaster\nIt would be a great concept for a \"unhosted\" application.\n\n------\neblume\nA really cool idea, but probably not useable by anyone working on proprietary\nsoftware, I'm afraid. I'd love to use it as a productivity app - particularly\nif you could segment the data based on the active git branch - but\ntransmitting file information over the wire is a non starter for myself (and I\nimagine many others).\n\nHave you considered maybe supporting output via some sort of graphing language\ninstead? (R springs to mind.)\n\n~~~\ncadwag\nJust curious, would you have made the same arguments against RescueTime? It\ntoo transmits your activity data (and who knows what else) over the wire.\n\nI don't know if you use(d) RescueTime or not, so I don't mean it as an attack\nagainst you. I guess I just don't remember these types of arguments being\nleveled against RescueTime (maybe I'm wrong about that, but a"
+"\nDepression, anxiety rising among U.S. college students - HNLurker2\nhttps://uk.reuters.com/article/us-health-mental-undergrads/depression-anxiety-rising-among-u-s-college-students-idUKKCN1VJ25Z\n======\ntempsy\nI think a huge part of it is that getting a \u201cgood\u201d job out of college has\nnever been more competitive and more important. The idea that one works their\nway up from a secretarial position to executive could not be more unrealistic\ntoday. On the other hand, if you beat the competition (your peers) to get a\nreputable corporate gig at a big co, well known startup, or prestigious\nconsulting or banking you\u2019re setting yourself up for life. Not getting one of\nthose jobs out of college makes it near impossible to be hired at those\ncompanies even a year or two down the road simply because many of those\ncompanies source all their entry level people from colleges and past interns.\n\nYour trajectory is just so different depending on your first job and I think\neveryone is acutely aware but no one wants to talk about it.\n\n~~~\nhourislate\nI don't know if you read the article but I think the authors clearly state\nwhat they think is the issue and it isn't finding your first job.\n\nFrom the article:\n\n>\u201cIt suggests that something is seriously"
+"\nWhy I use Object Pascal - samuell\nhttps://dubst3pp4.github.io/post/2017-10-03-why-i-use-object-pascal/\n======\nStillBored\nAs I get older, I'm strongly swinging into the camp that thinks languages\nshould have strongly restrictive syntax. Object pascal is one of those\nlanguages which is both low level enough to cleanly map to efficient code, as\nwell as high level enough not to feel really restrictive. Its a language that\nis completely misunderstood because far to many people read a couple critical\nessays, and believed everything they read, even though the strongest argument\nfrequently was that its harder to type \"begin/end\" than \"{/}\". Which is a\npretty lame thing, given code completion in editors as old as emacs.\n\nPut another way, the thought patterns programmers fall into when using it seem\nto result in code which is easier to understand than most other languages\nwhich seem to encourage \"perlism\" (creating a single unreadable line),\n\"forthism\" (creating a billion two line words that combine to solve all the\nproblems in one word), or a few other things which become completely\nunmaintainable when the project grows beyond what can be written by a over-\nenergetic student in a semester at school.\n\n~~~\nchubot\nI don't think anyone really disagrees with"
+"\nAsk HN: Early in career \u2013 is it a bad idea to change jobs after six months? - mountainApe22\nFor some context: I am in my mid-twenties, have a computer science degree from a top ten American university and moderate experience developing software applications. After graduation I did a bit of research and worked as a bartender/waiter while going through the whole post-grad thing. I eventually decided on taking a white collar job in technology. I was hired into a subsidiary of a well known CPG company as an Information Systems Specialist. When I was brought on board, I was told that I would be assisting the head of the IS department in documenting ERP customizations, developing/optimizing SQL, and working closely with other departments in order to build customizations and automations. It sounded great.However, my boss wasn't located in the same office as me and only spent 6 days on location "training" me. My "training" was consistently interrupted as my boss had to go put out fires multiple times per day. Four weeks later I was brought in to HR and told that my boss resigned without notice and that I was to fly to the HQs the next week to do"
+"\nWe Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible - brewski\nhttps://www.linuxjournal.com/content/we-need-save-what-made-linux-and-foss-possible\n======\nsaidajigumi\n\u2013 We collaborate inside proprietary environments\n\nWhy is that? Why have users chosen those environments? _Assume they are\nrational beings, and get at the heart of it._ Ask: \"How can we address the\nactual user needs while supporting our goals?\"\n\n\u2013 Many Linux and FOSS geeks today use Linux only professionally\n\nSame answer as above.\n\n\u2013 We're not modeling our values\n\nWHY? (Hint: \"the use of nonfree\" is not, and has never been a primary human\nmotivator _even for many people who \"get it\"_.)\n\netctera.\n\nFinally, regarding the below... only one of these, the first, even\ntangentially touches on _the user experience_. There's an implied expectation\nof so much FOSS advocacy which reduces to \"by _writing and using_ our\nsoftware, you will be wearing a hairshirt for the cause\". This mindset is\nguaranteed to fail in front of users, who are by and large \"non-believers\".\n\n \n \n \"Having real-time chat is absolutely essential to the advancement of free software.\"\n \"We're the resistance now.\" \"We need to create mass movement.\"\n \"Volunteer to write free and open code, to participate in communities.\"\n \"If you didn't live the history, learn"
+"\n\nAsk HN: Good forum for hobbyish ARM(industrial) design discussions and advice? - trotsky\n\nHave some embedded, board level integration experience, nothing really - getting simple boards masked for low density shit. Broadly interested in learning about the next level in ARM board level design (call it cubbie board esque). But I've zero luck finding such a place - it's either raspi/arduino folks (not a diss), folks mostly repurposing android mobile or net tops for software, or the people who are really on the supply side - either they are talking about building the newest open mobile designs with the cheapest bom in chinese i can only half follow, or they are the real deal talking about modular soc components and electronic interface issues with off soc component count vs oem ability to implement. And high cost IP. I am hoping to for something in english (ha! I'll survive) or just anything that might be suitable. An HN sorta thing where people often have a clue would rock, but the big missing piece is picking soc->minimal reference board revisions->build or source some custom stuff to give the arm some supervoisor like qualities on the x86. To balance a zero content post, I provide"
+"\n\nWhy build a site? Why do your customers care? - coconutrandom\nhttp://gist.github.com/40002\n\n======\nfrossie\nYou know this all seems so obvious it doesn't need mentioning, but I am still\namazed that in this day and age people still don't get it.\n\nMy local YWCA just redid their website, and there's all the names of the board\nof directors and their history and this that and the other. What there isn't\nis (a) any e-mail address _at all_ and (b) any schedule for their sporting\nfacilities (whose schedule changes on a monthly basis).\n\nDid anyone not sit and think \"Hmmm I wonder whether the average visitor on our\nwebsite wants to know (a) that we were founded in 1919, or (b) what time the\nlap swim is at the pool\"?\n\n------\nmyoung8\nGood luck if you bury the way to order your product in your contact page."
+"\nReclaiming Software Engineering (2010) - akkartik\nhttp://www.zerobanana.com/essays/reclaiming-software-engineering\n======\ntwic\n> Yet so long as we are developing software within a social context, where the\n> finished artefact has users other than its designers, we can scarcely escape\n> the conclusion that what we are doing is engineering.\n\nThis conclusion is far from inexorable.\n\nThere are kinds of making other than engineering. Carpentry is not\nengineering. Cooking is not engineering. Gardening is not engineering. Sewing\nis not engineering.\n\nAll of these things involve making artefacts for users other than their\ndesigners, within a social context no less. All of them require specialist\nknowledge and tools, involve the application of judgment learned from years of\nexperience, and give rise to communities of practice which codify their agreed\nknowledge in books. They even have formal certifications.\n\nBefore you can declare that making software is (or can be) engineering, you\nhave to be able to explain why those things aren't.\n\nMy tentative theory is that engineering has rigorous ways to check whether a\ndesign will work before it is manufactured, and even before it is drawn in\ndetail. A civil engineer can use known formulae to check if a bridge span of\ngiven dimensions"
+"\nPandoc Markdown and ReST Compared (2013) - hidden-markov\nhttp://www.unexpected-vortices.com/doc-notes/markdown-and-rest-compared.html\n======\negh\nThe really nice thing about ReST is that it has provided generic syntax for\nextensions, one for inline text: :foo:`hello world` and for blocks:\n\n.. extension:: hello world\n\nIn markdown, on the other hand, you have multiple, incompatible versions which\nhave entirely different syntax because there is no generic extension\nmechanism.\n\nReST feels more well thought-out, generally.\n\nThat said, I've pretty much given up advocating it, because markdown seems to\nhave won and has so much more tool support.\n\n~~~\nBruceM\nI like ReST as well. With Sphinx, it is great for producing documentation. A\nproject that I work with has converted hundreds of pages of books of technical\ndocumentation over to Sphinx and a custom Sphinx extension.\n\n~~~\nfprintf\nI like ReST as well.\n\nIt's more powerful and looks much cleaner\n\n// e.g. how do you write footnotes in markdown? And how do you do this in\nmarkdown?\n\n \n \n +------------+------------+-----------+\n | Header 1 | Header 2 | Header 3 |\n +============+============+===========+\n | body row 1 | column 2 | column 3 |\n +------------+------------+-----------+\n | body row 2 | Cells may span columns.|\n +------------+------------+-----------+\n | body row 3 | Cells"
+"\n\nTell HN: App idea that should become reality - stasy\n\nI would pay for an app that allowed me to take a picture of a reading/pages of a book and get a summary for it. This would be incredibly useful for schoolwork.\nBasically like summly, but the summarized text isn't from some news site, but from the place you want it from (preferably a picture).\nIf you make this and have it as an iPhone app, please tell me about it, and I will definitely buy it: aeip@live.com\n======\nnklas\nI would like an OCR app that, when launched, just OCR's the latest photo i've\ntaken and put the resulting text in the clipboard.\n\nExample use case: You're in a hotel and want to connect to the WiFi so instead\nof looking at their sign and typing in the password by hand, you just take a\nphoto and launch the app and then paste the password where needed.\n\nWould also be good for power users with apps like Launch Center and\npythonista.\n\n------\nbuss\nOr go one level down - I'd pay for a good OCR library and a good summarization\nlibrary. The current OCR offerings are too difficult to"
+"\nROI on a college degree depends what you study, not where - Osiris30\nhttp://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21646220-it-depends-what-you-study-not-where?%3Ffsrc%3Dscn%2F=tw%2Fdc\n======\njerf\nIn addition to the obvious 0 line, it's worth taking the article's observation\nthat S&P has returned 7.8% and mentally drawing a line there too.\n\nAlso, for anyone in the position of deciding which to do, I'd add the\nobservation that it is _way_ easier to go to college and get a formal\neducation in science, math, or engineering, and pursue an ongoing adhoc self-\ndirected education in the arts and humanities in your remaining decades of\nlife, than the other way around. Locally to HN's interests, this calculation\nis a bit distorted by the way that programming can actually be learned via\nadhoc self-directed education, but as science, math, and engineering goes, I'd\nsuggest it's on the short list of exceptions, not the rule.\n\n~~~\nemodendroket\nI studied Japanese in school and I think it would have been extremely\ndifficult to learn on my own. So... I'd say it depends.\n\n~~~\nBartweiss\nLanguage seems like a complicating factor here. It's difficult (especially in\nnon-Latinate cases) to learn self-directed, and people who are fluent and\nwilling to work in the field can actually do"
+"\n\nEl Paso Times censors FBI probe into DA - borderbandit\nhttp://www.elpasonews.org/2012/05/03/el-paso-times-censors-own-article-into-fbi-probe-of-da-jaime-esparza/\n\n======\ncafard\n'The published article, that was later removed, states that District Attorney\ncandidate James D. Lucas \u201casked the FBI and two state agencies to investigate\nhis allegations against District Attorney Jaime Esparza which he had posted on\na website this week\u201d.'\n\nThe story, then, was not about an FBI probe, but about a request from one\ncandidate for office that the FBI investigate another candidate, the\nincumbent. I don't know El Paso politics, but could it be that the paper\nfollowed up with the requests and decided that Mr. Lucas had manipulated it\ninto publishing an article of no substance?"
+"\n\nThe Internship: Not the Movie - nsedlet\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/the-internship-not-the-movie.html?_r=0\n\n======\nLocke1689\nFriedman is a hack[1]. Aside from the fact that his primary source for this\narticle seems to be a New Yorker _cartoon_ , he seems unaware of federal law\non unpaid internships, which is quite stringent.\n\n[1] [http://nypress.com/flathead/](http://nypress.com/flathead/);\n\n~~~\nmichaelhoffman\nQuite stringent and largely unenforced.\n\n~~~\nLowKarmaAccount\nThis article was written in 2005. I've read Friedman's columns since, and they\nhaven't gotten any better.\n\nLook at this [1] piece in the _Columbia Journalism Review_ about Friedman's\nramblings two years ago about a \"radical centrist president\".\n\nFriedman lost a lot of credibility when he advocated for the Iraq War.\n\n[1]:\n[http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/tom_friedman_still_wrong.ph...](http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/tom_friedman_still_wrong.php)\n\n------\ntimdiggerm\nIt remains unclear to me how I was able to get an entry-level Software\nEngineering position in the DC/Baltimore area with nothing but a BS in CS from\nUMBC and no internships or relevant experience.\n\nAlso, Tom Friedman was a really boring commencement speaker.\n\n~~~\nwalshemj\nBecause SE is not a sexy a job as being a \"journalist\" or working in the\n\"medja\"\n\n------\nonewong\nNice follow up\n\n------\nesharef\nLol Dwight. Read article. Watch Vince Vaughn.\n\n------\ndw5ight\nw00t hireart 4tw. although wth is friedman writing about?"
+"\n\nAsk HN: How Do You Come Up With Blog Post Ideas? - lemcoe9\n\nIt seems like every one in technology has something to say, and many of them have their own outlet for saying those things (that end up getting posted on HN!) What is your source of inspiration for deciding what to put on digital paper and share with the world?\n======\nnamenotrequired\nI don't blog a lot so far, but I do have a list of possible topics somewhere.\nI tend to add to it when:\n\n\\- I feel like I've come to realise something new (for me) that others might\nfind insightful too. These don't turn into blogs often, but it's helpful to\nhave it written down somewhere nonetheless.\n\n\\- An opinion of mine keeps popping up in my mind and I feel it would be\nrelevant to others."
+"\nA new way of rendering particles - plurby\nhttp://www.simppa.fi/blog/the-new-particle/\n======\nCyberDildonics\nThis is extremely unlikely to be a good technique (and it isn't new) but here\nare two alternatives. Even in the demo video, beneath the lens flares and\nother excess, the particles are aliasing like crazy.\n\nFirst of all, particles like this are usually only a few pixels in size, so\nthe shape doesn't really matter as much as the area. Because of this, I don't\nthink there is much gained, but there is a lot lost since it aliases so badly.\n\nRenderman actually creates particles as two bilinear patches that make up the\nsame shape as the intersection given by these two triangles. You could do the\nsame thing with a quad strip, which would still also take only 6 vertices. The\ngpu will deal with the quads itself, possibly by creating two triangles for\neach quad. This is very unlikely to be a performance hit since it does not\naffect shading.\n\nA second way of creating a semi-transparent particle would be make a triangle\nstrip that rotates around one center point. The center point has an alpha of\n1, the outer points have an alpha of 0."
+"\nSam Altman: 'The greatest threat to this country is incompetence of governance' - dkasper\nhttp://www.businessinsider.com/y-combinators-sam-altman-on-government-incompetence-2015-9\n======\nwaterlesscloud\nWhy should cities build more densely now if truly massive job displacement is\ncoming in as little as 10 years?\n\nWhy do people need to live in cities? To be near jobs that won't exist? Why\nshouldn't they be moving to less expensive low density situations if they're\nnot going to have jobs?\n\nIf you're going to think and talk about these massive fundamental structural\nchanges to the economy, then it's best to step 5 or 10 steps further back and\nstart looking at the really big pictures.\n\n~~~\nefoto\n> Why do people need to live in cities? Short answer: economy of scale. Higher\n> population density is ecologically more sustainable as well as it lowers the\n> cost of services.\n\n~~~\nZeroGravitas\nIt's a bit of a paradox then that city living is generally considered more\nexpensive given that the economies of scale should kick in.\n\nPresumably someone is making money here, probably owners of the land, which\ngoes up in value thanks mostly to the efforts of the other people in the city,\nnot anything the land owner does, as"
+"\n\nDynamic languages have jumped the shark - levosmetalo\nhttp://swizec.com/blog/dynamic-languages-have-jumped-the-shark/swizec/6204\n\n======\nshizzy0\nThe criticism of ENV only allowing strings has no bearing on his argument. ENV\ncomes from the OS environment. Code in any other language--strong or weakly\ntyped--would have the exact same issue. And not being able to coerce arbitrary\nstrings to booleans is fine because there is no principled way to do that\nexcept through convention. And everybody makes up there own convention: true,\nyes, YES, OK, TRUE, ok, ON, ENABLED, which just goes to show that there's no\nprincipled way to do it.\n\n~~~\nkyllo\nThis.\n\nNote that Java main methods start with public static void main(String[]\nargs){}\n\nThe main method takes an array of String objects from the command line as an\nargument. You can't pass a boolean or anything other than a String in args any\nmore easily in Java than you can in Ruby.\n\nBut Ruby and other dynamic languages give you _eval_ which, although\ndangerous, can have the effect of coercing your string into a boolean.\n\nirb(main):001:0> a = \"true\"\n\n=> \"true\"\n\nirb(main):002:0> b = eval a\n\n=> true\n\nirb(main):003:0> b\n\n=> true\n\nirb(main):004:0> !b\n\n=> false\n\n------\ngvickers\nYou have weak and dynamic"
+"\n\nShow HN my christmas project: Focus.app, cut off your Internet so you can focus - benofsky\nhttp://therealfocusapp.com/\n\n======\ncallahad\nThe comment on FocusHelper's allowAllOutgoingExceptions is pretty amusing:\n[https://github.com/benofsky/Focus.app/blob/master/FocusHelpe...](https://github.com/benofsky/Focus.app/blob/master/FocusHelper.m#L69)\n\n~~~\nshadowpwner\nIf the guy who wrote the comment ever reads this, it's \"brightened\". :)\n\n~~~\nbenofsky\nha, it looked wrong at the time, thank you :)\n\n------\ntoisanji\nthis is already available, SelfControl, its open source and I use it all the\ntime: I have 30 days with the existing product manager before they leave the company.\n======\nzer00eyz\nPM's are gold or garbage, there is almost no in-between.\n\nYou want on boarding, monetization, metrics, goals attempted, successes and\nmost importantly \"what failed\".\n\nLet me say \"metrics\" again, what are they measuring, how, and what is and\nisn't working in NUMBERS. (If you don't have these god help you)\n\nWhile your looking at things from a customer perspective, you should be\nlooking at things from a storage perspective.\n\nWhere ever your data is stored, it is likely you can auto generate a schema\nfrom some sort of tool. Make these, print them out, hang them on the wall. Why\ndead trees? Because your going to wanna write notes on it, if you can't it's\nuseless.\n\nWhy does storage matter? Because knowing what is there, and"
+"\nProcessed meats as bad as cigarettes: bad reporting on good science - zsupalla\nhttps://medium.com/@zsupalla/processed-meats-as-bad-as-cigarettes-bad-reporting-on-good-science-ac43a97be603\n======\ndspillett\nMy first thought was that the report is only talking about rectal and colon\ncancers, so yes diet might affect them as much as (or even more than) smoking.\n\nBut that really isn't even close to to being a good comparison when discussing\noverall effect of risk factors: talking about the effect of smoking while only\ncounting damage to the bottom end of the digestive system is like talking\nabout the effect of drink driving while only counting uni-cyclists.\n\nSo the reporting is _massively_ misleading, the inference that the risks\ncaused by smoking and those caused by eating processed meats are even of the\nsame order of magnitude is simply wrong. I shall have to read the actual\nreport to get any real meaning from it.\n\n~~~\ntkyjonathan\nSorry, guys, but you are all wrong. WHO is a huge and difficult body to get\nagreements from. After years and 800 studies, they decided today to label\nprocessed meats as carcinogens.\n\nBtw, 15% of lifelong smokers get lung cancer whereas 15-19% of meat-eaters get\nsome sort of cancer (mainly, colorectal, prostate and breast).\n\nI can"
+"\nWe Need Young People To Take Risks And Build Inspiring Things - henryaj\nhttp://www.fastcoexist.com/3026586/skip-the-hedge-fund-we-need-young-people-to-take-risks-and-build-inspiring-things\n======\nFD3SA\nThough the author has good intentions, I fear he has very little understanding\nof the reality for today's young graduates.\n\nLet's look at a smart young grad's options:\n\n1) Academia - Potentially interesting work. However, grad students are\nunderpaid, overworked indentured servants in a vicious dictatorial status\nhierarchy (do what the PI says or you're out). Very poor career prospects,\nguaranteed negative return on time invested. The road to PI is sure to destroy\nyour love of research.\n\n2) Industry - Decent pay but work is extremely mundane. Very few \"unicorn\"\npositions which allow freedom for creative roles. No control of hours.\nPromotion becomes a very serious game of office politics, which can get very\nnasty.\n\n3) Professions (Law, Med) - Enter at your own risk. Savagely competitive and\ndraconian entrance requirements, incredibly expensive education, inhuman\nhours, constant stress at every milestone, and a never-ending barrage of\nstandardized tests. However, if you endure, you can start your own practice\nand potentially have a comfortable life.\n\n4) Entrepreneur - By far the riskiest option. Due to the get rich quick mantra\nof current investors, social/web/photo"
+"\n\nObama defends Bradley Manning's detention in informal discussion - danenania\nhttp://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/04/22/video-of-obama-on-bradley-manning-he-broke-the-law/\n\n======\ndanenania\nTranscript provided by the author:\n\nPeople can have philosophical views about\u2026\n\n[Questioner: unintelligible]\n\nNo, no, but look, I can\u2019t conduct diplomacy on an open source. That\u2019s not\nhow\u2026the world works. If you\u2019re in the military, and\u2026I have to abide by certain\nclassified information. If I was to release stuff, information that I\u2019m not\nauthorized to release, I\u2019m breaking the law\u2026We\u2019re a nation of laws. We don\u2019t\nindividually make our own decisions about how the laws operate\u2026\n\nHe broke the law.\n\n[Questioner: 'You can make it harder to break the law.']\n\nWell, what he did was he dumped\u2026\n\n[Questioner: something about President Nixon's prosecution of Pentagon Papers\nleaker Daniel Ellsberg]\n\nIt wasn\u2019t the same thing. What Ellsberg released wasn\u2019t classified in the same\nway. So. Anyway. Alright.\n\n~~~\ndanenania\nPersonally, I think \"he broke the law\" is a terrible argument and he should\nknow better. I don't have to tell you where we'd be without countless people\nstanding up for what's right and yeah, breaking the damn law throughout\nhistory.\n\n~~~\njamesbritt\n_Personally, I think \"he broke the law\" is a terrible argument and he should\nknow better._"
+"\n\nAsk HN: is devving on OSX legit *nix experience? - delinquentme\n\nSo I'm going back and forth about the OS for my new dev machine. Will I be getting good experience with *nix using the \"just works\" OSX. That being said I'm guessing the inital answer is \"No its not\"\n======\ntom9729\nI developed on Linux for 5-6 years before switching over to OS X on my main\nmachine.\n\nInstalling xcode (3 is free, 4 costs a small fee) gives you GCC4 on the\ncommand line, plus some other tools/libs. Note: I've never actually used the\nxcode IDE, I use Emacs.\n\nYou can also install a rootless X11 server and run X applications in it. Wine\non mac actually uses this, and I've been using it to play Homeworld 2.\n\nMost of the cross-platforms IDEs that you would probably be using (if you're\nthat kind of guy) in Linux are available on mac. Take a look at QtCreator,\nEclipse, Netbeans.\n\nMac comes with Java and Python installed. If you do C/C++ development the only\nreal differences are that some libraries are installed as \"frameworks\" instead\nof in the usual /usr/lib (eg. you link with -framework OpenGL). Also the\ndynamic libraries are"
+"\n\nSold my startup for nothing just before it took off. Now i'm broke. Need advice. - ahugefool\n\nHow do you recover from a success (first success after a multitude of failures) that you let slip through your fingers - by selling just before it took off? It is eating me alive. I'm almost back to square one (broke, no ideas) and can hardly hold myself together.<p>I try to pump myself up to try something new but the thought that had i held on just a little longer i wouldn't even be in this position saps my productivity. Faced with the prospect of having to reenter the job market (after having actually built something that works) is a nightmare that i never thought would be realised. But here i am. Every day - completely paralysed by the outcome of my decision. Really would appreciate anyone's advice here.Thank you.\n======\nDocG\nCongratulations!\n\nYou managed more than most of the start-ups! Your idea was worth it and it\nwill go and change part of the world. It was your doing.\n\nBy now, you have experience in starting, you have confirmation on your ideas.\nThis is bigger win in long term.\n\nBummer that you didn't get paid in"
+"\nSolo founders - epi0Bauqu\nhttp://jmillerinc.com/2010/07/06/solo-founders/\n======\nlimedaring\nOne major point missed by this article is motivation \u2014 with a team of\nfounders, drive to work is very high. You have someone else to interact with,\nwork with, and keep you on task. I've found that working on projects solo,\nit's a lot easier to \"fall off the wagon\", so to speak \u2014 get distracted\nworking on the wrong things, working without feedback, or stop working at all.\nThis obviously differs from person to person, but it's one of the reasons why\nI believe more in a team rather than a single founder.\n\n~~~\nDenisM\nOn the flip side - if your partners are demotivated you will lose motivation\ntoo. It's just an echo chamber.\n\nIt's much better to draw inspiration from your users and solid metrics about\nyour business.\n\n~~~\nlimedaring\nNot always. When one partner is demotivated, he/she has the other partner to\nturn to, discuss the problem, and pivot/change the project if necessary. The\nmotivated partner can also start this conversation as well. Compare that to a\nsolo founder who wouldn't have this support.\n\nI'm not saying drawing inspiration from the users isn't important (ideally,\nall founders should"
+"\nCreate and delete branches - nicolasd\nhttps://github.com/blog/1377-create-and-delete-branches\n======\nartursapek\nSuddenly I can clearly see what must be one of Github's long-term goals: to\nmake git usable end-to-end in the browser, and in a way where that is\npreferable for certain situations.\n\nWe're going to continue spending more and more of our computer time in the\nbrowser. It's the universal platform.\n\n~~~\nSwizec\nGit in the browser is _exactly_ what we need to bring git outside programming\ncircles.\n\nWhat I've wanted for a while is a site where I could fork somebody's muffin\nrecipe, fix stuff and so on ... I've even considered building a site like\nthat, but how many people who cook are also handy enough with a console to\nmake that viable? My guess is not many.\n\n~~~\nartursapek\nHahah, recipes are actually a very interesting application. A program is much\nlike a recipe, after all. I could see a collaborative site where you build up\na personal cookbook by forking and trying out other peoples' stuff and\ncontributing your own modifications, etc.\n\n~~~\nMartinCron\nIf you think recipes are like code, you should look at knitting patterns\nsometime. It looks like assembly code to me.\n\n~~~\nderleth"
+"\n\nJQuery Super Labels Plugin - remybach\nhttps://github.com/remybach/jQuery.superLabels\nThis plugin positions your labels on top of your form fields (similiar visually to placeholder) and makes the label slide across the field when gaining focus and fade out when a value is entered.\n======\nphzbOx\nIt's cute but too much distracting IMO. I prefer to have it fade a little bit\non focus and disappear on writing.\n\n~~~\nremybach\nThere's an option to do that:\n\n$('form').superLabels({ slide:false });\n\n------\n5h\nSeems OTT to me,\n\nI generally use normal boring labels, then modernizer to detect if the browser\nsupports placeholders, if so hide the labels and add placeholders to the\nattributes\n\n~~~\nremybach\nOh, also... once you're in the field, the placeholder disappears and you have\nno idea what you were meant to type (which is why the plugin slides to the\nside by default).\n\n~~~\nflixic\nNo. Placeholders stay visible until user starts typing. That is, empty focused\nfield still has visible placeholder.\n\n~~~\nSkalman\nOnly in Chrome. Not in Firefox, at least.\n\n~~~\nremybach\nTrue! It wasn't like this when I wrote the plugin though, plus I needed the\neffect to work cross-browser.\n\n------\njonknee\nFWIW, Safari and Chrome both keep"
+"\nECMAScript 2018: final feature set - Garbage\nhttp://2ality.com/2017/02/ecmascript-2018.html\n======\nridiculous_fish\nI'm not sure about this named capture group proposal. The idea behind the\nproposal is that regexp engines parse using the old grammar, but if a\nGroupName is found, re-parse using a different grammar:\n\n _If the result of parsing contains a GroupName, reparse with the goal symbol\nPattern[~U, +N] and use this result instead._\n\nBut \"the result of parsing\" by definition cannot contain a GroupName because\nGroupName is not part of the initial grammar.\n\nFurthermore it appears that the named capture group backreference syntax\n`\\k Can I build something whithin that 1 year which starts giving me $1000 profit every month ? I can code decently in java , Python and capable of build/configure Linux servers for my environments. Any small ideas to hit the $1000 per month profits are welcome.\n======\nil\nThe biggest advice I can give you is to forget the consumer market and create\na B2B product. You only need 20 customers paying $50 a month to get $1000 a\nmonth revenue and be able to easily get a 20-50k exit. If you figure out a way\nto save a business $50 a month, or 1 developer man-hour a month, hitting that\nrevenue target will be trivial.\n\nI have done this numerous times with tools I had initially built for myself to\nautomate a repetitive marketing task which I then spun out into subscription\nservices and flipped for a 5 figure sum.\n\n~~~\nendlessvoid94\nThat's inspiring. What sites were they?\n\n~~~\nil\nThey were tools to"
+"\nShow HN: ChatPage.io \u2013 Private chat for sales and client communication - going_to_800\nhttp://chatpage.io\n======\niqonik\nLooks good, the only thing I hate is the 'Free during BETA'. It makes me\nwonder how you're going to keep going, I'm worried you'll become a key part of\nmy sales process but then one day, disappear.\n\nTake my money straight away, seriously, I don't care that it's BETA, take my\nmoney! Don't be scared, you're creating value for me.\n\n~~~\ngoing_to_800\nAwesome feedback. Thanks a lot. You are right, the free beta looks un-pro. I\nconsider charging but let the beta badge somewhere.\n\n------\njjoe\nSomething about chatting with clients or prospects on someone else's\npage/domain bothers me. I think your pro plan should have an option to brand\nthe chat page with your client's own sub/domain.\n\n~~~\ngoing_to_800\nThanks for checking it out. Yes, it has the option to use your own url.\nCurrently we're using full page iframe. We'll also add subdomain support soon."
+"\nWhy designers can\u2019t stop reinventing the subway map - ingve\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/09/why-designers-cant-stop-reinventing-the-subway-map/\n======\ntikhonj\nMy favorite subway map redesign is Art Lebedev's take on the Mosco Metro[1].\nIt's both better-looking _and_ more usable than the current map, and the\ncurrent map isn't bad. (It's certainly better than the official New York\nsubway map linked in the article.)\n\nThey wrote a fascinating article about how they designed the map[2] and how\nthey came to many of their design decisions. It's a great look on how much\nattention to detail goes into a design like this. And it's just cool to see\nall the different approaches they tried.\n\nThe second version of their map, and its accompanying explanation, are also\nworth a look[3].\n\n[1]:\n[http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/metro/map/](http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/metro/map/)\n\n[2]:\n[http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/metro/map/process/](http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/metro/map/process/)\n\n[3]:\n[http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/metro/map2/](http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/metro/map2/)\n\n------\nonion2k\nSubway maps improved _hugely_ when designers realised that they're not\nactually geographic maps - (generally speaking) users don't really care where\nthings are when they're using a subway but rather they're interested in which\npoints connect to which other points. A subway map is actually a graph.\n\nEDIT: Fixed topological mistake.\n\n~~~\nJonnieCache\nSurely that means they _are_ topological maps?\n\n~~~\nonion2k\nYes, you're right. Commenting before coffee is a bad idea."
+"\nRemembering Sydney Goldstein, Founder of City Arts and Lectures - chmaynard\nhttps://datebook.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/sydney-goldstein-founder-of-city-arts-lectures-dies-at-73\n======\necabraser\nBelated gratitude to Sydney Goldstein for the brilliant insight, impeccably\nand consistently implemented, that great conversation enriches the cultural\nand intellectual lives of all who listen- and she enabled us to listen in to\nsome of the most fascinating conversations ever. I got hooked on City Arts and\nLectures- and did my best to hook others, too- that was easy. We take our\ncultural riches, and those who labor to bestow them, for grated far too often.\nThank you Sydney from a city to whom you gave so much."
+"\nCan AI Become Conscious? - MindGods\nhttps://cacm.acm.org/news/244846-can-ai-become-conscious/fulltext\n======\n_Microft\nI can not _not_ think about J. Schmidhuber's thoughts on consciousness\nwhenever the topic comes up:\n\n _As we interact with the world to achieve goals, we are constructing internal\nmodels of the world, predicting and thus partially compressing the data\nhistory we are observing. If the predictor /compressor is a biological or\nartificial recurrent neural network (RNN), it will automatically create\nfeature hierarchies, lower level neurons corresponding to simple feature\ndetectors similar to those found in human brains, higher layer neurons\ntypically corresponding to more abstract features, but fine-grained where\nnecessary. Like any good compressor, the RNN will learn to identify shared\nregularities among different already existing internal data structures, and\ngenerate prototype encodings (across neuron populations) or symbols for\nfrequently occurring observation sub-sequences, to shrink the storage space\nneeded for the whole (we see this in our artificial RNNs all the time). Self-\nsymbols may be viewed as a by-product of this, since there is one thing that\nis involved in all actions and sensory inputs of the agent, namely, the agent\nitself. To efficiently encode the entire data history through predictive\ncoding, it will profit from creating some sort"
+"\n\nHacker News Daily (direct link) - cperciva\nhttp://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/\n\n======\nachew22\nFirst, let me say that I really like the idea of this site. You already have\nthe tools built to scrape HN every 5 min so why not expand on this idea. It\nwould be very interesting to create something that scrapes HN and then\nprovides the N most popular articles (by vote) for the day where N is defined\nin the URL. It would also be interesting to scrape the \"New\" section and then\nhave a special section that has more stringent than the HN front page. A sort\nof \"HN Plus\" (forgive my reference to Hulu). Personally I like that HN\ntrickles (sometimes torrentially) in through the day. I will admit that\nsometimes I feel overwhelmed by the content but it is always a good break from\nwhatever I'm doing. Maybe that should be an \"Ask PG\" of my own but the idea\nhas been rolling around in my head for some time to do something similar. I'm\nglad you're a lot less lazy than me and doing something about it. Is there any\nway you would be willing to put the source up on GitHub?\n\n~~~\ncperciva"
+"\n\nNature manages information, the currency of life, with exquisite efficiency - dnetesn\nhttp://nautil.us/issue/7/waste/nature-the-it-wizard\n\n======\ndchichkov\n_\"...Not only does DNA store information at a density per unit volume\nexceeding any other known medium, it can achieve one quarter of the maximum\ninformation density allowed by the laws of physics...\"_\n\nHmm... That number 1/4 of the Bekenstein bound seems suspicious. A quick\nsearch gives:\n\n[http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/05/22/can-data-\nstorag...](http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/05/22/can-data-storage-ever-\nreach-an-absolute-limit/)\n\n _\" A gram of dry DNA is about one cubic centimeter, so the radius is 0.0062\nmeters. So, the best DNA storage can do with those dimensions is 5.6_10^15\nbits. A Bekenstein-bound storage device with those dimensions would store\nabout 1.6 _10^38 bits. \"_\n\nThat's 10^22 difference. Not 1/4\\. That's more like it ... A Bekenstein bound\nis Plank-level. Around 8mb per something like a volume of an electron. And DNA\nuses chemical level. Configurations of atoms.\n\n~~~\nzallarak\nAgreed. The interesting thing about DNA is not its raw storage capabilities,\nbut with how it interacts with itself and its environment to expose and\nwithdraw certain portions of itself for protein synthesis.\n\n------\ntrhway\n>A fractal drawn on a two-dimensional sheet of paper, for example, has a\nhigher dimension\u2014say, 2.1. This is a useful feature,"
+"\n\nHD Trade Services (YC S12) Lets Small Logistics Providers Track Shipments - dsugarman\nhttp://techcrunch.com/2012/08/17/pics-or-it-didnt-happen-yc-backed-hd-trade-services-lets-small-logistics-providers-track-shipments-like-the-big-boys/\n\n======\nthesash\nI wish I didn't have to read Techcrunch's hollow journalism to learn about the\nlatest YC class, because many of them seem like legitimate business cases\nworking on fairly ambitious ideas.\n\nThe problem is, every Techcrunch post about a YC startup reads like a press\nrelease; completely devoid of any independent research, analysis, or, well,\njournalism. This author's most insightful analysis about the market is that\n\"shipping and distribution\" are \"an essential part\" of global trade. Wow! I\nnever thought about it that way!\n\nWhat's the size of the \"small logistics services providers\" market, who are\nthe major potential customers and partners? How hard will it be to compete\nwith established players like UPS and FedEX? How much is the company charging\nfor the product? Isn't it ridiculous that the founder thinks he can pull a\nviral coefficient of 50?\n\nI know this is nothing new, but seriously Techcrunch: you can do better than\nthis.\n\n~~~\nrdl\nThe startups need TC to reach other publications, but maybe there's a market\nfor a YC (or all major accelerator) focused journalist who does in depth\ninterviews"
+"\nAsk HN: What do you expect from a meaningful technical interview? - pthreads\nRecently there was a post regarding technical interviews (how performance is arbitrary) and it got a lot of responses from HN'ers. So I wanted to ask the community how would they design a great technical interview? Disclosure: The reason I am asking is I am thinking of starting a service that provides resources for companies that want to hire technical talent but are not able to suitably test candidates for technical competency. These interviews would be tailored to specific needs. But I am not sure if there is a need for it in the industry.\n======\nrosspackard\nI am in the process of building a service like that too. Mainly because I want\nit for vetting the candidates that I am trying to hire (I am a principle\nengineer who also manages).\n\nMy focus has been on these things:\n\n-easily distributing and receiving challenges privately (not through github or email)\n\n-tool to help easily and quickly manually review code\n\n-a library of challenges that aren't algorithms based (think like a challenge to fix a bug in a moderately sized system, building a feature onto an existing codebase..."
+"\nThe Very Difficult Problem of Notifications - showngo\nhttp://brooksreview.net/2011/03/notifications/\n======\nQz\nIt's almost like the author has never used android, seeing as android\nnotifications don't have any of the problems described. Notifications show up\nin a part of the UI you constantly look at but can't actually interact with\n(the status bar at the top), therefore you always notice when there are\nnotifications but it doesn't really get in your way. You can see all\nnotifications at once by swiping down from the status bar which drops the\nnotification screen in over whatever you were doing, showing all the\nnotifications at once. Because of this, you _can_ have a clear all button. If\nyou don't want to deal with a notification right away, you can just swipe back\nup and go back to whatever you were doing. Doesn't seem quite so difficult.\n\n~~~\njsz0\nThere's room for improvement in Android's notification system. I get serious\nnotification fatigue with Android. I see that there are 5 or 6 tiny\nindistinguishable icons up there but I have to pull down the tray to get any\nuseful information. In this sense it's more like an Inbox than a notification\nsystem to me. It"
+"\n\nIron Man Movie Review - Did it Suck? - xeroteam\nhttp://www.jaguarmarketingrevealed.com/2008/05/01/iron-man-movie-review/\nGet a non-spoiler review of Iron Man. Pre-screening was in theaters on Thursday evening before the official May 2, release.\n======\nxirium\nThe Iron Man film is astounding; better than expected. It is bursting with\ncomedy. The visual style of the film is similar to The Dark Knight. The\ngadgetry is amazing. For example, you'll love Tony Stark's multi-monitor\ndesktop. And I've never seen Gwyneth Paltrow looking better. I'm expecting a\nsequel.\n\n------\nTichy\nHard to believe. I don't know anything about this movie except for the poster\nads, and every time I see one of them I feel amazed at how ridiculous the\nmovie industry has become.\n\nOK, a recommendation on Hacker News, that is quite something. But nah - I\nthink I'll still pass for the time being. Maybe if I had a 12 year old son, it\nwould be a different matter...\n\n------\niamelgringo\nI heard, \"That was sick!\" 3 times on the way out of the theater tonight.\n\nIt really was... sick.\n\n------\nwumi\nwas surprised at the quality of the film. very entertaining.\n\n------\nxeroteam\nYes I agree, much laughs. I've never been a"
+"\n\nHire me and pay what feels right - manuganji\nhttp://manuganji.com\n\n======\nmanuganji\nI'm running an experiment in Gift Economy. At the end of each project\nmilestone, you can pay me whatever feels right for you.\n\n~~~\nckluis\nI hope no one abuses you.\n\n~~~\nmanuganji\nThanks for the concern! I'm aware of this risk. :)\n\n~~~\nckluis\nSo serious question, what if someone offers you equity instead of cash? I\ndidn\u2019t look carefully, but I\u2019m not sure you specified any payment terms.\n\n~~~\nmanuganji\nAt the moment, I have to prioritize cash over equity. I also think its a\nbetter validation."
+"\n\nSoftware Patents are Self-Defeating - ktr\nhttp://blog.datamules.com/blog/2012/02/13/software-patents-are-self-defeating/\n\n======\nnitinthewiz\nInteresting read. I also believe that software patents reduce your own\nflexibility in work. If you spend the time and money to patent your software,\nyou won't be changing it any time soon, even if you eventually discover that\nthere is a better way to design your product.\n\n~~~\nanamax\n> If you spend the time and money to patent your software, you won't be\n> changing it any time soon, even if you eventually discover that there is a\n> better way to design your product.\n\nHow does that follow?\n\nIt certainly isn't true with physical device patents, like automatic\ntransmission mechanisms, so why would software be any different?\n\n------\nmonochromatic\nI stopped reading here:\n\n> I doubt whether our software could be patented anyway, but if you can patent\n> a [linked list]( Are there any companies, projects/products, indie devs out there still sticking to plain old JS development without the modern tools? Are there any reasons to not switch to the modern workflow?\n======\navoidwork\ni've avoided it entirely with my latest work project; no transpile, or\nunneeded tools... just awk & eslint.\n\nthere are no* \"de-facto standards\", just people doing what they think is\npopular 'cause they read about it on the net.\n\n------\ngfrryjfcryjry\nMe, because of KISS."
+"\nAsk HN: If an obvius idea wasn't tried yet, is it a bad one? - ignaloidas\nI have an idea for a key-value database architecture, and it seems quite obvious for me and how could one come up with such idea. But when searching for prior works, I haven't found anything. Could this mean the idea is bad, as I think it should've came up for at least few CompSci students before.\n======\nmimixco\nEvery great idea is obvious in retrospect. The entire history of science is\nthat of one person finding out something that was true which no one else had\nfound before. Your comp sci invention could very well be one of those things!\n\nBest bet is to scaffold your ideas in working code and then see if they are as\npractical as you think. You might be positively surprised.\n\n------\nnikonyrh\nEven if it has been tried before implementing it yourself will be a great\nlearning experience :) And if you think it will perform better on some work-\nloads than most currently existing solutions then you should try executing\nthose benchmarks as well.\n\n------\nBjoernKW\nWell, someone has to first come up with an idea. Chances"
+"\n\nWhen to start publicizing a startup. - knandyal\n\nFriends, We are a startup that deals with fashion. We are about 3-4 months away from the final product. Questions are: 1) When is a correct time to start seeding the news about this site? 2) Who are the professionals that do this sort of \"spreading the news\"? If anyone have any guidance regarding this I will be thankful. Regds\nKarthik\n======\nbadmash69\nDefine your target audience, find a small representative sample whom you know\nand have them come in to your site and kick the proverbial tires. Don't go\nabout \"spreading the news\" until your representative sample is happy about\nyour product."
+"\n\nThe codebreaker who saved 'millions of lives' - tpatke\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18419691\n\n======\najuc\nWould be nice to mention the whole effort, not only Turing. Like the fact that\nPoles were reading Enigma encrypted messages before the WW2, and send all\ninformation they aquired to France and Great Brittain.\n\n[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma#Pol...](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma#Polish_breakthrough)\n\nI mean - Turing was brilliant, but why everybody only tell the story from the\nmiddle ?\n\n~~~\nm0nty\nI have always felt that Tommy Flowers' incredible contribution (i.e. building\nthe first electronic, programmable computer) is all-too-frequently overlooked.\nI suppose it just makes a better story to talk about a lone genius rather than\na group of collaborators.\n\n~~~\nmonk_the_dog\nI recently learned about Tommy Flowers and Colossus from this book:\n[http://www.amazon.com/Colossus-secrets-Bletchley-code-\nbreaki...](http://www.amazon.com/Colossus-secrets-Bletchley-code-breaking-\ncomputers/dp/0199578141/ref=sr_1_5) The British kept Colossus secret for a too\nlong and Flowers did not get enough credit (and von Neumann seems to get too\nmuch). BTW, I do recommend the above book. But we warned that it's a\ncollection of essays by different authors so it can be uneven reading.\n\n~~~\nm0nty\nThanks, I'll take a look at the book. Sometimes essays are fine because you\ncan cherry-pick the good ones.\n\n------\nrmc\nIt's a shame that even now,"
+"\nShow HN: A generator for random ASCIItabs - rocheio\nhttp://www.asciitabs.com\n======\nrocheio\nI made this site to help myself practice guitar / music theory and learn the\nbasics of music composition.\n\nIt's all written in Go and hosted on an AWS t2.micro instance right now. I\nhaven't implemented any caching yet so we'll see what happens if it gets any\ntraction...\n\nFeedback / bugs / feature requests encouraged. Thanks!\n\n~~~\nSwellJoe\nThis is a cool tool...but, as a musician of more than three decades, I would\ndiscourage new players from spending too much time on tablature.\n\nI'd recommend you jump to traditional music notation for your learning\nprocess, ASAP. You're learning new things, anyway, you might as well learn a\ntool that is generally much more useful. There's a wealth of music and\nexercises in standard notation available to practice with.\n\nI'm not saying this to be preachy or holier-than-though, or to suggest you\ncan't be a good musician without knowing how to read music. But, standard\nnotation is technically superior to tabs, on nearly every dimension. It\nprovides more information in a smaller space, it is transferable to other\ninstruments and other musicians, it is much faster/easier to read"
+"\nCompleted my SaaS project yesterday. Looking for the first thoughts - going_to_800\nhttp://chatpage.co\n======\ngoing_to_800\nHey guys,\n\nI've been working on my new SaaS for about 3 months now, yesterday I finished\ntesting it online. Now I'm looking for feedback and the first users.\n\nIt's a customer communication tool (chat) with nice features like sending\nsurveys/polls during conversation. It's perfect for gathering feedback, lead\ngeneration, support etc so you don't have to waste time centralizing text\nanswers or use separate survey tools which break the conversation flow with\nexternal links.\n\nIt's not a live-chat widget, instead you get a fully customizable page with a\nchat panel inside. If you want to get feedback or other details(like address)\nduring conversation, you can easily send the form from the admin zone and your\ncustomer will see the form on the left of the chat panel. You can see the\nsubmission live and respond accordingly.\n\nSome features it has * your own chatpage.co/your_business or custom domain *\nget links that enable certain forms before the conversation, to include in\nemails or other websites * easy-to-use form builder * export submitted data as\nexcel/pdf * view data as charts for analysis * email fallback"
+"\nThe MOS 6502 and the Best Layout Guy in the World - skymt\nhttp://research.swtch.com/2011/01/mos-6502-and-best-layout-guy-in-world.html\n======\ncommandar\n>The most amazing part about the whole process is that they got the 6502 right\nin one try. Quoting On the Edge: Bil Herd summarizes the situation. \u201cNo chip\nworked the first time,\u201d he states emphatically. \u201cNo chip. It took seven or\nnine revs [revisions], or if someone was real good they would get it in five\nor six.\u201d\n\nIn some ways (and I'm speaking in a general sense) situations like that\nactually make me more nervous than when I know there's a problem. I get this\nuneasy \"there's no way it _really_ went that smoothly\" feeling that can be\nhard to shake.\n\nThen again, my personality is to approach most things in life iteratively, so\nthat probably plays a part as well. Great read either way.\n\n~~~\nrbanffy\nThat's the sensation of working with someone who's _incredibly_ good.\n\nAnd, BTW, the 6502 was a work of art. Simple, elegant and fast (even at 1\nMHz), it ran rings around the Z-80's you found in more expensive computers of\nthe time. Plus, it was delightful to program.\n\n~~~\namichail\n_Plus, it was delightful to"
+"\n\nAsk HN: What is bioinformatics? - jozi9\n\n\n======\ndalke\nWhat more do you want beyond what the first few web search hits gives you for\nthat question? One of which is\n[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/luscombe/docs/imia_review.pdf](http://www.ebi.ac.uk/luscombe/docs/imia_review.pdf).\nOr what's on\n[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics)\n? Or the 2001 paper titled \"What is bioinformatics? A proposed definition and\noverview of the field\"? See\n[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11552348](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11552348)\n\nWithout knowing what you know it's hard to say anything more helpful than\nthose.\n\nEdit: Looking at your HN history, I see you have asked a lot of questions -\none per day for the last month - with topics like \"Who's doing some c64\nstuff?\", \"CoffeeScript or ClojureScript for writing a game in JS?\", \"Best\nserver log viewer for Mac?\", and the statement \"We're planning to release a\nproduct for Agile/Scrum professionals, magnetic, erasable story cards that you\ncan use on your Kanban whiteboards.\"\n\nI get the feeling, perhaps wrongly, that you are using HN as your personal\nadvice board, rather than learning how to research things yourself.\n\n~~~\njozi9\nWhat do you mean by personal advice board?\n\n~~~\ndalke\nWhat do you think it means?\n\n~~~\njozi9\nOk, maybe I'm in a mid-life crysis and can't decide what to do. I go and"
+"\nJapan PM Abe: See no need to raise sales tax beyond 10% for decade - hhs\nhttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-economy-abe/japan-pm-abe-see-no-need-to-raise-sales-tax-beyond-10-for-decade-idUSKCN1TY0M3\n======\nlclarkmichalek\nSales taxes are regressive - people who don't have a lot of money have to\nspend more of it to stay alive, and therefore pay more sales tax :/ I'd rather\nhave a higher income tax and no sales tax. Income taxes are much more visible,\nbut don't suffer from penalizing people who can't save.\n\n~~~\nandrenth\nWhat's your opinion on a sales tax but simultaneously making food and medicine\ntax-free?\n\n------\nskrebbel\nI don't understand why this is on HN. It looks to be a generic \"politician\nmakes non-promise\" story.\n\n~~~\nMacroAffairs\nIt is not a \"politician makes non-promise\" story. It is actually a very\ncredible claim because the Japanese government doesn't even need more tax\nincome as they can lend freely.\n\nThe government can lend as much Yen as they want. The tax hike is something\nthat can help them get inflation, which has been too low for very long.\n\n~~~\nLIV2\nEven if it is not an empty promise I still don't understand how this is on\ntopic for HN\n\n------\nbaybal2\nJapanese economy is a mystery to"
+"\n\nShow HN: A stopwatch for the iPhone with the option to disable screen auto-lock - fam\n\nI've always been annoyed at the fact that there's no way to disable screen auto-lock while using the built in stopwatch app so I finally got around to building my own. Some of you may find this helpful so here you go! There are some edge cases that I need to fix but for the most part it should be fine for basic needs. http://thestopwatchapp.com\n======\ndutchbrit\nSimple idea but I can imagine that this could be very handy for people that\nuse the stopwatch functionality a lot!"
+"\nApple\u2019s App Store fees are \u2018highway robbery\u2019 \u2013 House antitrust committee chair - walterbell\nhttps://www.theverge.com/2020/6/18/21295778/apple-app-store-hey-email-fees-policies-antitrust-wwdc-2020\n======\nageitgey\nI don't think the pressure on Apple is going to let up. Smart phones are no\nlonger a tech toy and have become a literal part of government and commercial\ninfrastructure. Apple's arbitrary power over the platform is pissing off and\nembarrassing governments in the COVID era.\n\nDuring COVID, governments around the world have been making major decisions\nbased on mobility data from Apple and Google which shows trends of where\npeople are visiting and what mode of transit they are using. The real-time\nmobility data from Apple and Google is far better than anything the government\nhas itself. This is a big wake-up call to the governments that they have been\nbasically supplanted by private companies. I'm sure no president or prime\nminister likes having to give a press conference where they have to say\n\"According to Apple, we see good compliance with government regulations....\"\n\nYesterday, the UK announced it was abandoning its own COVID contract tracing\napp and moving to the Apple model because they couldn't figure out how to make\niPhones wake up via bluetooth (because that's a private API"
+"\nTesla Motors wants another $250 million (IPO) - transburgh\nhttp://valleywag.com/357770/tesla-motors-wants-another-250-million\n======\ndkokelley\nTesla has a great idea and product. What they lack is a solid mass-\nproduction/distribution system.\n\nAs much as I'd hate to see it, I think Tesla needs to be acquired by GM or\nsome other American brand and then use their technology with their new owner's\nproduction and funding capacities to get the car to market. Current 2008\nmodels have sold out, and they haven't produced any yet! to get one, you have\nto get on the 2009 waiting list, which should ship sometime in 2010, at this\nrate (Tesla is silent on anticipated delivery dates, I'm only speculating 2010\ndelivery). They're already producing and selling their battery system to\nToyota I believe.\n\nA Tesla - GM/Ford combo I believe would be what it takes to effectively\ncompete against Toyota and Honda, who both already have the production\ncapacity and electric cars in the works.\n\nThey could always partner with upscale car makers like BMW, too.\n\n------\njdueck\nI hope Tesla succeeds, but I wonder whether it's even possible for a new North\nAmerican car company to succeed, regardless of their technology. With the\nfalling dollar, maybe"
+"\nSymbolic expressions can be automatically differentiated too - objections\nhttp://h2.jaguarpaw.co.uk/posts/symbolic-expressions-can-be-automatically-differentiated/\n======\njohnbender\nOne can also calculate the derivative of a context free grammar with respect\nto a given terminal.\n\n[http://matt.might.net/articles/parsing-with-\nderivatives/](http://matt.might.net/articles/parsing-with-derivatives/)\n\n~~~\nApanatshka\nThat's also a really cool article. Thanks for sharing it!\n\n------\ndelluminatus\nGreat post, as an AD tutorial and as a (an?) Haskell exercise. Having known\nnothing about AD before, I feel like I have a good understanding of what it is\n-- as he says, it's so simple -- but I don't understand _why_ the algorithm is\nso much faster. Just looking at the differentiator function and the AD\nfunction, it actually appears that the AD should take longer because it does\nmore computation per step (both the function and the derivative). But it seems\nlike every article or paper is talking about how to implement AD, not why the\nalgorithm is so efficient. Does anyone happen to know of a good article or\npaper about that? Ideally, one just as nice and comprehensible as this!\n\n~~~\nvidarh\nThe first alternative builds a large tree structure, and then evaluates the\nwhole tree structure afterwards.\n\nSo first it blows up the size of the expression to process"
+"\n\nFarewell, USS Enterprise (the aircraft carrier) - dctoedt\nhttp://www.npr.org/2012/12/01/166242595/farewell-uss-enterprise\n\n======\nguylhem\nThat feels so wrong. It is still floating and could be useful.\n\nDestructing it is just destruction for the sake of it.\n\nWhy not at least sell it to a friendly country, who could use such power to\ndefend itself from neighbouring enemies?\n\nI'm sure Israel or Japan would welcome the gift - they sure could supply their\nown planes and weapons.\n\nIt's a real shame to destroy so much investment - especially since, as noted\nin the article, its speed is still competitive.\n\n~~~\nmasklinn\n> That feels so wrong. It is still floating and could be useful.\n\nIt's also an extremely old ship, maintaining it can't be cheap.\n\n> Why not at least sell it to a friendly country, who could use such power to\n> defend itself from neighbouring enemies?\n\nA carrier is a force projection tool, it's for attacking stuff (or make clear\nthat you can attack stuff), to defend a country an airbase is cheaper, simpler\nand more versatile.\n\n> I'm sure Israel or Japan would welcome the gift - they sure could supply\n> their own planes and weapons.\n\nAnd fuel supply and"
+"\nShow HN: port-to-process, a sysop script to show what's running on a given port - jph\nhttps://github.com/sixarm/port-to-process\n======\njph\nI'm seeking hacker advice for this sysop script, to make it more useful on\nmore systems. Currently handles ss, lsof, netstat, fuser, on macOS and Linux.\nThanks!\n\n~~~\nzzzcpan\nWhy is this a shell script? Shouldn't it be just a few documented ways to get\nsuch information with mentioned tools? Script is just too much for this, you\nhave to trust the author, trust the source, install it, learn it, run it.\nWhile you could've just read few lines of text and run appropriate commands in\nthe terminal.\n\n~~~\njph\n> Why is this a shell script?\n\nSo this can run.\n\nAlso, so I can run one command that works on a range of systems.\n\n> Shouldn't it be just a few documented ways to get such information with\n> mentioned tools?\n\nYou're welcome to do that. The README.md file is documentation. I welcome\nconstructive feedback.\n\n> you have to trust the author\n\nI am the author, so that's covered. :)"
+"\nWebGL Meincraft - llambda\nhttp://dev.pocoo.org/~mitsuhiko/webglmc?hn\n======\nritonlajoie\nThat seems nice but it's taking, also, all my CPU time on my windows machine.\nI don't get it, yesterday there was another WebGL demo on HN and it did\nexactly the same thing. Is that something which we have to live with in the\nfuture ? Is WebGL going to be too much CPU intensive, so much that nobody is\ngoing to be able to run that ? Or is this 'demo' asking too much of WebGL ?\n\n~~~\nthe_mitsuhiko\nThe high CPU usage is expected because I spawn off four background workers\nthat peg all your CPU. It's not intended for public consumption yet, so don't\njump to conclusions.\n\nWhen I have finished this it will perform better.\n\n> Or is this 'demo' asking too much of WebGL?\n\nThe WebGL part is only half the story. It uses webworkers for the perlin noise\ngeneration and this is currently very slow in JavaScript.\n\n------\nquandrum\nThis page consumed all the resources on my Late 2010 MBA pretty quickly. Not\nthat the real minecraft runs well, but it's far more playable than this\nversion.\n\nWhether that's WebGL or the programming is something I"
+"\n\nEmployee Equity - yurisagalov\nhttp://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/11/employee-equity.html\n\n======\nzallarak\nI like that this is being discussed more. Some related thoughts:\n\n\\- I personally find the numbers low; there is a glut of startups out there\npartially due to engineers realizing that they are more than often underpaid\nin terms of equity.\n\n\\- Employers and VCs should realize that a hyper-motivated engineer is worth N\nengineers. Not juts in terms of effort, but engineering quality, reduction in\npolitics/a more meritocratic culture, morale, etc.\n\n\\- Heavily invested engineers will be retained; recruiting and skill-retention\nare huge resource consumers.\n\n------\nmichaelochurch\nSlide 11 puts the average equity for a software engineer at a 51-100 person\ncompany at 0.07%. That sounds correct-- I hesitate to use \"right\", here-- but\nthat means that a person is getting about _1 /20_ of a proportional share. To\nme, that's absurd. Yes, founders and management and investors deserve their\ntake, and 40-70% is reasonable. But not 95%.\n\nFor those who'd argue, \"0.07 percent is generous for someone who just joined,\nhasn't done anything yet, hasn't taken any risk\" let me remind them that the\n0.07 is _vested_ over 4 years (as it should be). After 4 years of loyalty and"
+"\nBuilding a Home Lab Beginners Guide - ashitlerferad\nhttps://haydenjames.io/home-lab-beginners-guide-hardware/\n======\nm0xte\nI had a fairly large home lab once. I had a fully topped out SPARCserver 1000E\nand a disk enclosure in my bedroom. I also once lived with an E450 on the\nkitchen table for a month. But they\u2019re noisy as hell, inconvenient, expensive\nto keep running and expensive to feed with power and take up a lot of room and\nthus are not compatible with family and general sanity over time. They become\nneedy balls and chains.\n\nSo roll on to now I\u2019m using a silent build Ryzen windows desktop with 64Gb of\nRAM and a couple of mundane SSDs that I fire up VMs in virtualbox as required.\nAt night it gets turned off. I\u2019ve got a $5 digitalocean box that runs all my\npersistent linux stuff. If I want to play with networks it\u2019s done with GNS3.\nOffice 365 runs my email and all my stuff is sync\u2019ed with onedrive and a\ncouple of offline SSDs occasionally when I get nervous. My network is the\nfritzbox my ISP gave me plugged into the back of the desktop via Ethernet.\nThat\u2019s it!\n\nMy life is better for"
+"\nHow a car works (2012) - gshrikant\nhttp://www.howacarworks.com/\n======\nAlexMuir\nThis is my site!\n\nThis was a pleasant surprise to find my own site on HN this morning! I\nwondered why it was getting a few more FB likes than usual today.\n\nI'm happy to answer any questions.\n\nI finished this redesign last week so any feedback is welcome.\n\nThe main task was to recreate labels and annotations on the illustrations in\nSVG format, and to reformat the articles in a way that flows nicely and is\nresponsive, but without needing complex markup in the articles. I'll write\nabout the process if there's interest.\n\nI've previously written a little about this project:\n\n[http://www.howacarworks.com/about/making](http://www.howacarworks.com/about/making)\n\n[http://www.howacarworks.com/a-year-on](http://www.howacarworks.com/a-year-on)\n\nCurrent traffic is 200k uniques a month and it's taken about two years of\nsteady growth to reach that point.\n\n~~~\notis_inf\nGreat work! two points of criticism:\n\n1) The site still talks about carburetors and has no mention about fuel\ninjection systems, while in Europe all cars sold must have a fuel injection\nsystem for quite some time now, so this looks quite outdated\n\n2) Diesel engines of course don't have spark plugs, but you don't mention\ndiesel engines.\n\n~~~\nAlexMuir\nGood points. We do"
+"\nWould you propose with a diamond grown in a lab? - rezist808\nhttp://qz.com/630512/would-you-propose-with-a-diamond-grown-in-a-lab/\n======\nexabrial\nYes? Diamonds aren't a rare rock anyway though, amazes me they are so\nexpensive\n\n------\nmizchief2\nWon't marry a woman who would want to waste money on a shiny rock.\n\n~~~\nseanp2k2\nI wish you good luck in finding a spouse. It's not about the shiny rock, it's\nabout the financial commitment to a symbol of your enduring love, or\nsomething.\n\n~~~\nJoof\nThere has to be something way more awesome than a diamond ring that costs a\nbundle.\n\nI'm probably fucked; I don't like hanging on to stuff as momentos. That goes\ndouble for expensive momentos. Triple if it breaks some societal norm.\n\nMy college had a class ring that was kind of a big deal. College buddies\npester me years later about when I'm going to get mine. They teased the guy\nwho got silver instead of gold (seriously).\n\nNever. Why do I want a $1000 reminder of something I already have? It's also a\nhuge psychological ploy to get people to rep the school and donate whether or\nnot it deserves it.\n\nI guess buying an expensive ring could make somebody think"
+"\nBitcoin\u2019s Technical Flaw - nanzhong\nhttps://medium.com/@nanzhong1/bitcoins-technical-flaw-3569fc0f7c2d\n======\nA2017U1\nThis reads like an ad for a closed source messenger only available in a few\ncountries. Have no idea how its related to bitcoin. Clicks perhaps?\n\nI have plenty of criticisms for bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general but\nsome of the claims here are amazingly absurd.\n\nNote to author: I have used a bitcoin wallet with no troubles in China, it has\nbetter uptime in the last decade than Amazon where you worked with\n\"distributed computing systems\", can your messenger app do the same?\n\n> just imagine that the Great Firewall blocks Bitcoin packets for a week,\n> creating a Chinese fork and non-Chinese fork. Then it unblocks. All of a\n> sudden, the non-Chinese fork would disappear. The Bitcoins that went into\n> your wallet six days ago would vanish\n\nThe fact that the author doesn't understand how wrong this is despite\napparently studying Bitcoin as an AWS employee back in 2010 is scary.\n\n~~~\nnanzhong\nI am the author. I'd love to understand your point. Can you give specifics?\nThanks.\n\n~~~\nA2017U1\nYou essentially point to a very large reorganisation and say all the tx's on\nthe global chain will"
+"\n\nAmazon Has Tried Everything to Make Shopping Easier. Except This. - coolrhymes\nhttp://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/amazon-has-tried-everything-to-make-shopping-easier-except-this/\n\n======\nportmanteaufu\nThis article made my head spin. \"Hey, maybe Amazon could open their own brick-\nand-mortar stores. It seems like a bad idea, but Apple did it when it seemed\nlike a bad idea and it turned out to be a good idea. And Amazon wouldn't have\nto have things for sale in their stores, you'd just go there to order things\nonline. But it probably wouldn't work and I'm not sure why I brought it up to\nbegin with.\"\n\n------\nWalterSear\nand they won't, either."
+"\nWhat Keynes Knew About Bitcoin - petethomas\nhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-09/keynes-worked-out-the-bitcoin-interest-rate-it-s-57\n======\nthisisit\nJust another clickbait headline article which barely mentions Keynes for the\n\"effect\" while explaining one of the terms in a futures market -\nbackwardation.\n\nThe explanation is also incomplete. No mention of \"cost of carry\" or contango.\nWhile forgetting backwardation doesn't imply _only_ interest rate but risk\npremiums too.\n\nTo top it, the implication of the so-called _interest_ is from an exchange\ncalled Deribit. The 24-hr volume on the market is ~3.8 million or 1% of last\n24 hr BTC volume (from coinmarketcap). Not to mention the contract size is $10\nwhich 0.0014 BTC at current prices. The market is super illiquid to be use for\nany kind of useful analysis.\n\n~~~\nempath75\nSo what do you think the cost of borrowing bitcoin should be?\n\n~~~\neigenvalue\nThe whole thing is absurd because we don't have to guess or speculate-- just\nlook at what the actual historical rates have been for BTC margin loans on\nexchanges such as Poloniex. Nowadays the rate is pretty low, 3.5% to 5%, but\nit can spike to much higher levels based on supply and demand (for example,\nleading into the bitcoin gold fork, rates"
+"\n\nTour of a real toy Haskell program - ihodes\nhttp://mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com/2010/10/tour-of-real-toy-haskell-program-part-1.html\n\n======\nkwantam\nMy transition to \"real\" Haskell programming happened with some parallel signal\nprocessing stuff, but my best example toy is my two-player tetris clone,\ntriHs: I'm looking for a clean application to keep track of issues and support requests with good reporting capabilities. What are you using for this?\n======\nmegaduck\nMy startup is currently developing a new ticket tracking system named Tracker,\nand it might be exactly what you're looking for. Tracker's focus is helping\nyou do email support for external customers, but it also works well for\ninternal company support.\n\nTracker is lightweight, fast, and has exceptional search and email\nintegration. The web interface is quite quick and has some nice features, but\nyou can also perform most functions (replying to customers, creating tickets,\ncommenting) straight from your mail client.\n\nWe're currently in private beta, but if you're interested you can email me at\ndave AT madwombat DOT com, and I'll set you up with an account.\n\n------\njason_tko\nI've had Colors on electronic screens are just numbers. So by first principles, designers are in fact picking some numbers from an infinite set. This selection process is certainly not random. It's common knowledge that blue works well with red on flags. My question is: can a computer come up with a color palette (ie hex codes) that will work well together? Is there any literature around this topic? PS: I'm working on a side project that needs to generate color palettes and I have no clue about it. Thanks\n======\nmuzani\nThere's the standard color theory.\n\nYou look at a color wheel. Colors on the opposite side of the wheel look good.\nIt's just opposite (complementary), but also tertiary, and so on.\n\nYou can also cut out a block from a color wheel. There's some nice examples\nhere:\n[https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=25396.0](https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=25396.0)\n\nHex code might seem tough, better to look at it from HSL (Hue, Saturation,\nLightness) and focus on only Hue.\n\n------\nthedevindevops\nI'm a fan of [https://paletton.com/](https://paletton.com/) but someone has\ntried to apply AI to the problem: [http://colormind.io/](http://colormind.io/)\nthough beauty as ever remains"
+"\nThe data is in \u2013 stop the panic and end the total isolation - mrfusion\nhttps://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/494034-the-data-are-in-stop-the-panic-and-end-the-total-isolation\n======\necpottinger\nI just noticed, your number one point boils down to who cares about the old\nfolks, they are going to die soon anyway. Tells us a lot about you.\n\n~~~\nquickthrower2\nI notice this HN habit of reading something until you find something\ndisagreeable and then presumably stop reading (which is the most generous\nassumption) and then post a negative comment.\n\nThe writer could have done better in the ordering of the article to avoid this\nreaction in general, but at least HN should give it a fair chance by reading\nto the end. Otherwise its like taking a sentence out of context.\n\nHe also said:\n\n> Protecting older, at-risk people eliminates hospital overcrowding.\n\n> The appropriate policy, based on fundamental biology and the evidence\n> already in hand, is to institute a more focused strategy like some outlined\n> in the first place: Strictly protect the known vulnerable, self-isolate the\n> mildly sick and open most workplaces and small businesses with some prudent\n> large-group precautions.\n\n~~~\nrobocat\nIt\u2019s wishful thinking that we can somehow protect the elderly from getting\ninfected"
+"\n\nTips for Difficult Conversations - alrex021\nhttp://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/dowling/2009/03/7-tips-for-difficult-conversat.html?cm_re=homepage-031909-_-body-left-r1-_-recession\n\n======\nyummyfajitas\nMost important: actually have the conversation.\n\nDifficult conversation: \"You are highly unlikely to ever finish your Ph.D.\"\n\nNet result of postponing: student spends 8-12 years in grad school, 5-9 years\nmore than necessary. 3-5 years of support (approx $60k) are wasted. Multiple\nstudents who might succeed are rejected from grad school.\n\nYou are not doing anyone any favors by avoiding difficult conversations.\n\n------\ntezza\nMaybe worth mentioning again:\n\n* Try using the personal pronoun \"I\" as much as possible.\n\nThis is used in the 7 rules itself \"I... and I... and I...\"\n\n* Try to have the difficult conversation 1 on 1 and face-to-face\n\nAvoid situations where there is more at stake for the person you are having\nthe difficult conversation with.\n\n~~~\nfirebug\nTrue. Helping someone to save face should never be underestimated.\n\n------\nvillageidiot\n->\"Adopt the \"And Stance\". Take control of the conversation by pre-empting distractions, objections and blame by using \"and\". \"I know you worked all night, and I know you want to do well, and I know you just joined the company, and I know the graphics people sometimes get the data wrong, and I know I"
+"\n\nAsk HN: Using mTurk to morally/legally get around a robots.txt disallow? - MechanicalTwerk\n\nA site offers any visitor (authenticated or not) free download of documents at a certain path. This path is disallowed from being crawled by all user agents in robots.txt. What is the consensus around using something like Mechanical Turk to distribute the process of physically clicking the free download link and collecting the documents? Would this fall into the "avoiding a technological control" category? I know, I know, I should ask a lawyer, but I'm interested in the community's opinion on the practice.\n======\nbyoung2\nIf you have to ask, you probably already know the answer. A more important\nquestion is what do you plan to do with the files, and is this use allowed by\nthe terms? If it is, then you can possibly ask the site to allow you access to\ndownload them. It is possible that they disallow crawling just to reduce load\non their servers, and so crawlers don't waste time on text files when there is\nmore valuable content to crawl elsewhere on the site.\n\n------\nicedchai\nrobots.txt is not legally enforceable."
+"\nThe new branding of Ubuntu - mapleoin\nhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/Brand\n======\naw3c2\nThe GTK themes seem terrible to me. Not only did they move the top buttons to\nthe left (good luck explaining to mom why she won't find the X where she's\nused to) but also it looks very inconsistent. Also the colours... It looks\nlike one of those old themes why your friends still make fun of your Linux.\n\nThe web theme looks like a generic hosting company' website. Or like a\nhardware manufacturer.\n\nI love the mission though, \"Light\" is a very good selling point for Linux. You\nmight not agree about that for Ubuntu but more Ubuntu = more Linux = yay.\n\n~~~\ncookiecaper\nNobody seems to be able to explain the window controls, so hopefully we can be\nloud enough to get them to switch them back. Everyone should write/harass\nimportant people at Canonical regarding this.\n\nI really seriously doubt they have anything approaching sufficient data for\nthe change. It breaks every convention a user would be familiar with (though\nthe controls are on the left like in OS X, the functionality of the buttons is\nreversed; in OS X, leftmost closes, here, rightmost closes), including\nexisting"
+"\nWhy People Become Internet Trolls - rchaudhary\nhttps://dradambell.com/why-people-become-internet-trolls/\n======\nWheelsAtLarge\nOne that was not emphasized enough is that people have learned that you can\nget a lot of attention by being a troll. You speak out without regards to\nother people and you'll get people to follow you just because you are saying\nwhat other wished they could say. A lot of internet influencers have created a\ncareer by doing that.\n\nThe article is right, Empathy deficit, is definitely a cause. I know that for\nmany people it is hard to understand that there is a human with feelings on\nthe other side of the internet. Having a real picture of the other person\nwould solve a small bit of that. But ultimately the only thing that would help\nwould be to figure out how to get users to get to know each other better.\n\n------\numvi\nTrolling has existed long before the internet. Prank phone calls, ding dong\nditch, antagonizing your younger siblings... there's a certain satisfaction\nwith experiencing the fruits of your virtually consequence-free social\nmanipulation efforts.\n\nIt makes you think \"wow, with just words I was able to rile someone up into\nconniptions\" while simultaneously thinking \"how"
+"Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product? - afinemonkey\n======\nonli\nProduct information. Things like \"The mainboard named XY from producer ABC has\nthe manufacturer sku 1234567, the EAN-13 00123... and the UPC 01234...\".\nIdeally add to that the custom specs, like \"it has that many usb slots and\nthis socket\" etc.\n\nBut I think I miss part of the picture here, there is probably a channel\ntransmitting structured information like this from manufacturers to vendors, I\njust never found it.\n\n~~~\nnetvarun\nMy startup Semantics3 works on this problem -\n[https://semantics3.com/](https://semantics3.com/)\n\nWe have a standardized taxonomy and ontology to which we map all our products\nto. It's a garbage in garbage out problem but as long as the product has the\ninformation in some sort of semi-structured or unstructured form, we typically\ncan infer attributes and standardize them based on their ontology (i.e. They\nhave 4 USB ports)\n\n~~~\nonli\nHey, that did not work out at all. So, like said in the other comment, there\nare no pricing information I could find. Then you say \"14 day free demo\", but\nI got an email saying the free trial ended two days after"
+"\nNASA Spacecraft Dives Between Saturn and Its Rings - danparsonson\nhttps://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-spacecraft-dives-between-saturn-and-its-rings\n======\nahmeni\nAs someone working on what amounts to fairly trivial applications in the\nenterprise, it's amazing to see engineering efforts like this take place over\nnearly 20 years of in-flight time.\n\n------\nhackuser\nIt's amazing to me how normalized these accomplishments has become. Humanity\ndidn't master rocketry until the mid-20th century, and now we regularly have\nrobotic vehicles flying around other planets (and sending photos to us).\n\nPerhaps it's an example of how humans naturally notice only change. This is\njust more of the same, I suppose.\n\nAnd we also hear how incompetent and inefficient NASA and the whole U.S.\ngovernment are. They certainly could improve but they also just flew a craft\naround Saturn, for 12 years. What was it that you were working on again?\n\n~~~\nKattywumpus\nYou also have to compare NASA's incredible success rate to others in their\nfield. In 2013, China's Yutu moon rover broke down in less than a month. In\n2014, the ESA's Philae lander failed to launch its harpoons and fire the\nthruster necessary to attach the probe to the comet's surface, and ultimately\nbounced into a dark crater. In"
+"\n\nAsk HN: Good blog or publication that covers startups (both tech and non-tech)? - stevenj\n\nOne(s) that primarily just cover new products, companies, etc. Not general industry news, etc.\n======\ntemplaedhel\n Current favorite is \"Inspired\" by Marty Cagan.\n======\nbdickason\nI've been 'product managing' for 4 years now in NYC and haven't found very\nmany books useful. Here are a few:\n\n-Getting Real / Rework (37 signals) - Build a lean product\n\n-Don't Make Me Think - Usability 101\n\n-Web Analytics 2.0 - Metrics are your best friend\n\n-Viral Loop - Great companies and how they did it\n\n-Delivering Happiness - Last 50 pages are phenomenal for building your company's \"culture\"\n\n~~~\nskotzko\nAwesome, thanks! Really appreciate the suggestions here and below.\n\n------\nShimrit\nCheck out Blackblot's new book on Product Management \"The Product Manager\u2019s\nToolkit\". In adition You'll find some good reading in this field on the\nfollowing resource page - How to write code with long-term considerations - How to make our code flexible to future changes - Importance of User Experience - Developer-Friendly Code - How Business considerations affect Technical decisions - The right way to work in a dev team Does anybody have any suggestion on what to add to the list or general tips on how to go about teaching them all this?\n======\ndalke\nI once taught a short course in usability. I used an exercise I learned from\nsomeone else: design the controls for a microwave oven. Given them a set of\nrequirements and have them do a paper prototype. Partway through, change the\ndesign slightly. (In mine, started with the assumption that the time could be\nset automatically from the mobile phone network, then I added the requirement\nthat it needed to be set manually.) Then have them do user testing for\nscenarios which test those requirements.\n\nI used someone who wasn't in the class"
+"\nThe Impact of Meditating Every Day - PascalPrecht\nhttps://pascalprecht.github.io/posts/meditating-every-day\n======\nmr_overalls\nThis type of meditation - a secularized form of Vipassana in which one\npassively observers mental events - is very popular in the West.\n\nBut it's not the only one, and shouldn't be called merely \"meditation\" without\nregard to the vast body of practices that exist.\n\nAnother form of meditation that's traditionally talked about in Buddhism is\nshamatha, which translates to something like \"concentration\" or \"tranquility.\"\nIn this type of practice, the meditator works with a meditation object,\ncommonly the breath, but possibly a sound, mental image, etc. The meditator\nlearns to stabilize the mind and remain fully aware of the object, and in the\nprocess learns to debug the mechanisms that direct (and destabilize) conscious\nattention.\n\nA recently published book called _The_Mind_Illustrated_ by John Yates is fa\nfantastic resource for this kind of practice.\n\nIf you're interested in scientific attempts to categorize and study\nmeditation, the Center for Healthy Minds at UW-Madison does some fantastic\nneuroscience & psychology research.\n\n[https://centerhealthyminds.org/assets/files-\npublications/Dah...](https://centerhealthyminds.org/assets/files-\npublications/DahlReconstructingTICS.pdf)\n\nIn the scientific terminology that is emerging these days, Attentional,\nConstructive, and Deconstructive types of meditation are mapped onto various\ntypes of traditional practices (there's a"
+"\nCountries don't own their Internet domains, ICANN says - privong\nhttp://www.computerworld.com.au/article/551289/countries_don_t_own_their_internet_domains_icann_says/\n======\ntokenizerrr\nSo instead the US is the only country that \"owns\" domain names, since ICANN is\nan American company? If the domains aren't property then how can they be\nseized? Is a distinction made between domain names and ccTLDs?\n\nedit: Downvotes? Really? For asking a question that seems perfectly on-topic.\n\n~~~\ndragonwriter\n> So instead the US is the only country that \"owns\" domain names, since ICANN\n> is an American company?\n\nIf you read the article instead of responding to the title, you would\nrecognize that ICANN is saying no one \"owns\" ccTLDs, because they aren't\nproperty at all.\n\n~~~\ntokenizerrr\nI have, and yes, they say that, but since they are an American company and\nthus can be compelled to do pretty much anything by the American goverment\n(through secret courts even, which we've been hearing more and more about) it\nseems reasonable to say that America owns them, and their bookkeeping.\n\n~~~\ndragonwriter\nTheir argument here is for why they _cannot_ be compelled to do certain things\nby American courts.\n\n------\ndragonwriter\nICANN documents on the case: [https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/icann-\nvarious-2014-07-...](https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/icann-\nvarious-2014-07-30-en)\n\n------\nopendais\nSeriously, fuck the"
+"\nAsk HN: Comercial software protection - ukmar\nAs a side project I developed an application which update after update turned out quite nice. Since I know it fits a niche market I would like to make it comercial ($50) per license. However what bothers me is the protecion. What type of protection can I use that:\n1) does not use a dongle\n2) should not take more than 2 months to implement. I'd like if you pointed to materials to read and implementations examples.\n======\nazeirah\nWhat exactly do you want to protect against?\n\nIn my personal experience, customers can be trusted and hackers don't care\nabout your software. For my own software I've implemented an extremely basic\nlicensing system. I've collected data about how many unique mac addresses use\neach unique license, so I can count what licenses are used by multiple\ncomputers. I've just done a simple filter on all my licenses to see which ones\nare used by over 5 mac-addresses. I expected there to be more, but the result\nwas 13. There are 13 licenses that are being used by more than 5 computers,\nnone of those licenses are used by over 14 computers.\n\nThat's 13 out of about 3500"
+"\nThe highest ROI way to increase signups: Make a minimal homepage (Guest Post) - instakill\nhttp://andrewchen.co/2013/07/29/the-highest-roi-way-to-increase-signups-make-a-minimal-homepage-guest-post/\n======\nkrapp\nWhenever I see a minimal homepage with nothing but a glib sentence and a\nsignup form I just assume this is a service that only cares about getting my\ndata and bleeding me like a turnip.\n\nI understand that it might work and why it might work and yes, a minimalist\nlayout gets the clutter out of the way and comes straight to the point but\npersonally it's not a model that inspires confidence.\n\nHow well would it work if I walked into a store, and they insisted on having\nme agree to a purchase before I even got to see what it is they sell? Much\nless a tiny store whose interior was nothing but a blank white room with a\ncredit card machine inside, that just said \"The Best Thing Ever\" over the\ndoor, and nothing else?\n\n... actually that _would_ probably work and that's what annoys me.\n\n------\npushkargaikwad\nJust like Manish, I too do not agree with what Andrew is saying. It is\nridiculous to compare DropBox, Linkedin, Quora, pinterest to the home page of\nsome unknown startup."
+"\n\nAsk HN: Do you listen to country music? - 0xdeadbeefbabe\n\nDoes it help?\n======\nrelaunched\nI love country music. More so than other genres I've listened to, country\nmusic has such a range. It can be upbeat and cheery, pump you up, change your\nmood, sooth your soul, provide empathy, be simple & complex...It speaks to me,\nno matter what mood I'm in or what's going on in my life. I'm sure others feel\nthe same way about whatever music they listen to, but for me, it's country.\n\nIf you listen to it long enough, someone has sung about whatever exact, or\nalmost exact, experience you have gone through. I like that.\n\n------\nmod\nI like some country music, but don't listen to a lot of it.\n\nI listen to stuff that might be mistaken for it, though! The Avett Brothers,\nNickel Creek, Trampled by Turtles.\n\nFolk music, but people who think badly of country music usually don't like\nbanjos, either, and can't make the distinction in genre.\n\n------\nbenologist\nHelp what?\n\n------\npartisan\nNo and Yes!\n\n------\nRed_\nYes and No!\n\n------\nbrickcap\nYes I do and it helps me to relax :)\n\n------\njonnynezbo\nSturgill Simpson and Chris"
+"\nFacebook Blocks Chinese Billionaire Who Tells Tales of Corruption - Jerry2\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/01/business/facebook-china-guo-wengui.html\n======\nbm1362\nI was at SoundCloud briefly and an interview with this guy was posted on Ming\nJing radio. We were DDOS\u2019ed and eventually had to take his profile offline as\nwell due to the volume of requests. At the same time, I remember Googling his\nname and found his FB and Twitter accounts were disabled too.\n\nI brought up the optics of blocking him in a MingJing slack channel but at the\ntime there wasn\u2019t another way to mitigate the traffic. I imagine this is due\nto the same pressure. Maybe not, though.\n\n[https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/world/asia/guo-\nwengui-...](https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/world/asia/guo-wengui-\nchinese-billionaire-twitter.html)\n\n[https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/04/21/wanted-billionaire-\nguo...](https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/04/21/wanted-billionaire-guo-wengui-\nbeijing-pressured-us-broadcaster-voa-cut-interview/)\n\n~~~\nrqs\nI searched \"Ming Ling radio\" and didn't get as many results as I did with\n\"Ming Jing Radio\", so I guess that's a typo.\n\n~~~\nbm1362\nYou\u2019re right- I couldn\u2019t quite remember the name. I updated my comment.\n\n------\npdimitar\n> _Facebook said the content on both pages had included someone else\u2019s\n> personal identifiable information, which violates its terms of service._\n\nOh yeah, and in the meantime, if you forget to flick a switch -- which\nunsurprisingly is ON by default and is hard to"
+"\nThe Peter Principle is a joke taken seriously. Is it true? - cirrus-clouds\nhttp://timharford.com/2018/08/the-peter-principle-is-a-joke-taken-seriously-is-it-true/\n======\nsofon\nReally interesting article!\n\nThe Peter principle states that \"every employee tends to rise to his level of\nincompetence\". The article cites an example from Sales teams. That it's the\nhighest performing sales people that are promoted to sales team managers, and\nthey don't perform well as managers (team performance drops).\n\nThey then talk about solutions, such are promoting people at random.\n\nBut it seems like at least part of the problem in endemic in our view of\norganisations. People often want management positions because they are paid\nmore, are more secure, or have more power. Maybe if we shifted our view of\nmanagement as \"just being a different skill set\" and not always being higher\npaid then we'd find people without the required skills wouldn't try and obtain\nthose positions and would focus on what they are good at.\n\n~~~\nmasklinn\n> But it seems like at least part of the problem in endemic in our view of\n> organisations. People often want management positions because they are paid\n> more, are more secure, or have more power. Maybe if we shifted our view"
+"\nAsk HN: How often you take Android device full file backup and store it on cloud? - gkrisub\nThe full file backup means the device folder structure is maintained when stored on cloud (for e.g. Google Drive).\n======\nkrishnaycombi\nBy full file backup are you referring to copying all the data under\n/storage/emulated/0, /sdcard mount points?\n\n~~~\ngkrisub\nYes. Storing as it's on cloud. I should be able to browse on cloud storage as\nI do on device. Basically, maintaining replica of device on cloud.\n\n~~~\nkrishnaycombi\nThat sounds like a good step in the backup strategy.\n\n------\npavan123\nNever. I just took backup of my contacts twice in my lifetime when I was\nformatting my mobile.\n\n~~~\ngkrisub\nHow about backup of SMS, Call log, photos, music and other files, to avoid\nloosing data in case of device lost? The existing backup apps require\nscheduling apriori, and I'll loose new data between schedules, when device\ngets lost.\n\n~~~\npavan123\nIt's a good practice to take regular backups of the entire device. Probably I\nshould do more often.\n\n~~~\nsubramanyamgv\nIt's painful to schedule backups. I believe users are less predictable on what\nand when to backup. Chances are that"
+"\n\nJapan's fertility rate is rising - MaxQuentero\nhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/01/07/japans-birth-rate-problem-is-way-worse-than-anyone-imagined/\n\n======\nmikeyouse\nNoah Smith (Econ professor at SUNY Stony Brook with a background in Japanese)\ntook umbrage with this article;\n\n[http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/japans-\nfertility-...](http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/japans-fertility-\nrate-is-rising-and-you.html)\n\n \n \n Except that is not what the graph shows at all. Yes, \n government forecasts are way off (forecasting is hard).\n But for over a decade, the Japanese government has\n been too pessimistic about the fertility rate.\n \n Just Look. At. The. Graph! Since 2005, the black line\n - the actual fertility rate - has been going up! It is now\n higher than the blue line representing the forecast\n from 2002. It is even higher than the blue like\n representing the forecast for 2008. The graph only\n looks like it goes through 2010, but a quick Google\n shows that the fertility rate is still over 1.4, i.e. higher\n than the 2002, 2006, or 2012 forecasts.\n \n In other words, Japanese fertility has been surprising on\n the upside for ten years and counting!\n\n~~~\ndang\nAlright, since the title of the WaPo piece is both misleading and linkbait, we\nchanged it to Smith's title.\n\nShould we change the URL as well? The rebuttal seems pretty convincing.\n\n~~~\nCanSpice\nThe rebuttal seems pretty convincing if"
+"\nWhat is the best way to test mobile app across several networks and phones? - rokhayakebe\n\n======\nsimul\nIn the past I have used a combination of tools: \\- Smartphne emulator\ndeveloper edition (comercial) from yospace\n( I thought I'd post here about a weird issue that's cropped up that maybe someone can offer advice on. For some reason, I have suddenly become terrified of flying. I had a few flights this past week, and for the entire duration of each flight, I had intense fear, anxiety, a strong sense of doom, and I felt like I was going to throw up. I have no clue what triggered this. I've never been afraid of flying before. My best guess is that it's either all the news about the 737 MAX or the fact that I work at a large tech company and see the huge number of bugs that even really good software engineers make. I've flown frequently ever since I was young, and I currently average about 8-10 flights per year for work, vacation, or visiting family. I have another flight coming up in a week and am tempted to take a $400 loss just because the thought of getting on a plane again is making me feel sick. I've always heard that the best way to eliminate a fear is"
+"\nConfessions of an Ex-Opponent of Whois Privacy - ca98am79\nhttp://www.circleid.com/posts/20150703_confessions_of_an_ex_opponent_of_whois_privacy/\n======\noldmanjay\nEssentially, the opposition was based on optimizing the handling of\npathological cases - how to deal with abusers was considered more important\nthan how to provide customers with the tools they wanted. This shows up all\nover society, from terrorism to 'think of the children', and any positive\neffects are nearly always swamped by the deleterious ones brought about by the\nperverse incentives created.\n\nShame that people don't see this ahead of time.\n\n~~~\nJoshTriplett\nPeople do, but those people are ignored. The voice of reason is almost always\ndrowned out by the voice of panic and outrage.\n\nNot least of which because the panic and outrage describes consequences that\nsound applicable to the person hearing them (or their family), while the voice\nof reason explains problems that sound like they affect _other people_. (\"if\nyou have nothing to hide\" is one of many instances of this pattern; having\nsomething to hide sounds like something that only affects other people.)\n\n------\nvitd\nI'm glad someone wrote this up. I would love to be able to control who has\naccess to my WhoIS record and to know when it's"
+"\nAsk HN: What are some gift ideas from an alumni to a professor? - neoplatonian\nHaving graduated from university a few years ago, I feel like visiting all my professors who influenced me for the better, and I'd feel awkward if I go empty-handed.\n======\nxnyan\nJust the fact that you are coming back is very nice and uncommon.\n\nUnless you are trying to influence/bribe someone or you are from a culture of\nexpensive gifts, gifts between professional friends are tokens of goodwill. A\ncard or letter are both good, maybe some other small trinket but honestly a\ncard is worth far more to me than some $20 pen in a gift box."
+"\nStudents being forced to buy online textbooks to do homework - bjd2385\nI was forced to buy an online textbook for my CS course this past semester to do homework. Now I've been notified that my `subscription' to this information is ending at the start of January (specifically by ZyBooks). I really liked working on the projects and reading through the descriptions, I thought it was worth the $70 or so that I paid for it. However, it was hardly ``fresh,'' I could look up the same information by Googling or surfing SO. I've been forced to buy these now extinct access codes to websites that have ``online textbooks'' before for courses (I still have the $60-100 cards, about 4 or 5 of them now). I honestly don't feel they're worth, most of the time, what I've paid for them. And at the end of the day, I end up empty handed, robbed of that information (unlike an actual textbook, albeit still way overpriced, but at least it's _mine_ and no one can take it away from me). Has anyone else gone through the same thing? Thoughts? Opinions?\n======\nbrudgers\nCollege textbooks have been a way to extract money from students for many"
+"\nAsk HN: Can a bill be introduced to stop HFT? - mandeepj\nHFT is not trading. It is gambling. It has killed stock market.\n======\n1971genocide\nBernie Sanders has an interesting idea based on some research done by\neconomist.\n\nHe calls it the \"Robin Hood Tax\". Essentially you charge a small fee whenever\nany trade happens in the market.\n\nThe opponents of this idea state that it will prevent the market from being\nefficient as trading would slow down - undermining the Efficient Market\nHypothesis.\n\nHowever his argument is that a small enough charge will not prevent genuine\ninvestor from trading and just discourage the speculative traders.\n\n~~~\nmandeepj\nThere is already a trading fee which equates to 'Robin hood tax'. Each\nplatform has their own number for e.g. scottrade charges $7 for each buy and\nsell. I think HFT traders don't pay that fee for each trade.\n\nHFT is just evil. Direction less buy\\selling based on the trend that is\ncurrently prevalent in the market.\n\n------\nAnimalMuppet\nYes, such a bill can be introduced. I doubt it could pass, though, unless\nthere's _much_ more documented _and publicized_ evidence of damage caused by\nHFT.\n\n~~~\nmandeepj\nOne of the biggest"
+"\nCan Repelling Magnets Replace the Spring in a Pogo Stick? - mhb\nhttps://www.kjmagnetics.com/blog.asp?p=pogo-stick-spring\n======\numvi\nSeems like electromagnets could help compensate for distance by drawing more\ncurrent when far apart, and less when close together. A microcontroller could\nessentially make the force linear like a spring. Of course, then you need\nwires hooked up to your pogo, and that might be scary if the microcontroller\nhas a bug (or somehow fails) since you are now essentially hopping onto a\nrailgun.\n\n~~~\nazhenley\nAbout as scary as my Tesla on autopilot going around a curve at 75mph. Every\ntime I ask myself, what if there is a bug or if it turns off...\n\n~~~\ngumby\nConsider not going on a modern airliner. Every commercial passenger jet since\nthe A340 has been fly-by-wire.\n\n(military jets have been so longer).\n\n~~~\njolmg\nBut you have more time to react on a plane and switch to manual override. It's\nnot like people fly with just a few meters distance to other airplanes.\nThere's also a good distance to the only other thing you can crash into, the\nground, as opposed to driving between walls or with a cliff to one side.\n\n~~~\nhexane360\nOP"
+"\nShow HN: Julia Observer \u2013 Package Browser for the Julia Language - djsegal\nhttp://juliaobserver.com\n======\nericjang\nIs anyone else concerned that despite being an open-source project with\npermissive licensing, the formation of the Julia Computing group has made\nJulia's development a bit of a walled garden? I don't mean this in the sense\nthat Apple or Matlab are \"walled gardens\", but the for-profit company, of\nwhich many core developers are founders/employees, develops a number of tools\nand services that are not open-source AFAIK.\n\nI believe the group also implicitly controls what packages are\nallowed/disallowed from the packages list. At the same time, I also recognize\nthe need to support the core developers and the business model makes a lot of\nsense. Thoughts?\n\n~~~\nn00b101\nI really wish they had implemented Julia in C++11, instead of C. The source\ncode seems to be very difficult to comprehend for anyone who is not one of the\noriginal developers. [1]\n\n[1]\n[https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/src/julia.h](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/src/julia.h)\n\n~~~\nchappi42\nJulia is mostly (> 65 %) written in Julia. There's some C (20 %, bootstrap\netc.), some C++ (8 % llvm interface), some scheme (4 %, parser). I think it's\none of the main points, that Julia should be"
+"\n\nOpenID Sucks. - veritas\nhttp://irei.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/openid-sucks/\n\n======\njoeguilmette\nI wish people could articulate valid points without writing like 14 year olds.\n\n~~~\nveritas\nI'll own up to it :)\n\nIt was a 5 minute rant to be honest, not a well thought out exposition on\nOpenID's various shortcomings.\n\nSo, apologies if it was inarticulate/verbose. I really should clean it up and\nedit before I submit to YC.\n\nI modded you up BTW :D\n\n~~~\njoeguilmette\noh haha i had no idea you actually wrote it. i mean, you make really valid\npoints, there's a reason nobody likes openid.\n\n~~~\nveritas\nHaha, no worries dude. Your criticism was spot on and appreciated.\n\nI don't usually submit my own writings to YC (first time I believe).\n\n------\nblader\nI agree, but I liked flow|state's concrete critiques by example better:\n[http://miksovsky.blogs.com/flowstate/2007/08/openid-great-\nid...](http://miksovsky.blogs.com/flowstate/2007/08/openid-great-id.html)"
+"\nAsk HN: No intrinisic motivation to build stuff - twink\nDear HN crowd, I'm not particularly happy in my life. My main problem is lack of intrinsic motivation to create stuff, in the widest sense. For example, I don't contribute to open source projects. I don't have any own programming projects. I don't have a personal web site or a blog. I'm not a member of a political party trying to change the world. I find the start-up scene thrilling, but as long as I don't change, I will probably never be part of it. I think the underlying problem is that it's quite easy for me to find things that interest me, but very hard not to get bored after a day. For example, think about topics like lock picking, composing electronic music, web development, functional programming languages, [insert random technology here], etc. As soon as I understand the basics of X, I lose interest. After I had managed to open a very simple lock, I stopped practicing. After I had roughly figured out what the knobs on a synthesizer do, I stopped trying to make electronic music. After I understood which technologies are required to build and deploy a modern web"
+"\n\nFunny Math Fact Check: de Blasio vs. Uber - simonebrunozzi\nhttp://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/125760518214/funny-math-fact-check-de-blasio-vs-uber\n\n======\ngreenyoda\n_\" That would be a 6 month time period, where the number of cars went from\n58,295 to 64,500. A total change of 6,205 new cars over 6 months amounts to\nroughly 1,000 new for-hire vehicles a month - about one half of the rate that\nde Blasio had said in his OpEd.\"_\n\nThis argument assumes (with no justification) that the cars have been added at\na constant rate. But if they were being added at an increasing rate, there\nmight have indeed been 2000 cars a month added over the last two or three\nmonths (with less than a thousand added in previous months), and the mayor may\nhave been citing the most recent statistics rather than a yearly average.\nWithout more reliable data, there's no way to know which is true.\n\n~~~\niquantny\nif it was for three months, it would mean 50 a day for all previous months.\n\n------\nColinWright\nCould still be true if 2000 _new_ for-hire vehicles are being added every\nmonth, and 1000 _old_ for-hire vehicles are removed.\n\nNet change, an increase of 1000 per month.\n\nNot saying this is what's"
+"\nGet Billions of Correct Digits of Pi from a Wrong Formula (1999) [pdf] - drusepth\nhttps://academics.rowan.edu/csm/departments/math/facultystaff/faculty/osler/Billions_pi_digits.pdf\n======\nman-and-laptop\nSketch of an alternative proof, more DSP:\n\nUse the fact that the approximation in the paper is equal to the inner product\nof e^{-x^2} with a Dirac comb [1]. The amazing thing about the Gaussian\nfunction and the Dirac comb is that they're _both_ preserved by the Fourier\ntransform. So apply the Fourier transform to both of them, observe that the\nFourier transform is unitary (essentially a rotation), and therefore doesn't\naffect the inner product; then expand the inner product of the Fourier\ntransforms.\n\nEssentially, it's the same proof, but not in the language of Theta functions.\nIn fact, I'd argue it's a better proof, because it generalises.\n\nGeneralisation: This technique applies to all Riemann sums, as long as you can\ncompute the Fourier transform of the function. The thinner the tails of the\nfunction's Fourier transform, the faster its Riemann sums will converge.\n\n[1] -\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_comb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_comb)\n\n~~~\nabenedic\nMyself, I would say this is 80% correct. The bigger deal is the spectral\nconvergence of the trapezoidal sum for periodic entire functions.\n\n~~~\nman-and-laptop\nI gave my generalisation in terms of frequency,"
+"\nGrabaGoodDomain.com - Get a Great Domain - dawie\nhttp://www.grabagooddomain.com/\n======\ntimg\nI'd pay 100$ for a really good one that describes one of my sites in a non-\nlimiting way, and has ALL of the good qualities that a domain name should. I\nam just nearly certain that all of these that consist of any keywords that\ndescribe my sites are taken.\n\nSo, last night I registered for a similar service for 50$. But feeling guilty\nfor spending money that I don't really have without exhausting every other\noption, I wrote a program to use letter/letter combination frequencies from a\nnumber of various data sets to find the best available names consisting of\npseudo-words that are left.\n\nIt's man against computer, and this time I'm betting on the computer.\n\n~~~\ndawie\ntimg, We will prove to you that we are the best. Send me the infortion found\non Or if you're just getting started, what would you like to know?\n======\ndanw\nI'd have given myself three tips:\n\n \n \n * Learn constantly. Read books, blog, tweets, attend events and network.\n * Build things. Apply what you've learnt and constantly build things. Either at work or as personal projects. Don't worry if the things you built are crap or pointless or un-monetizable.\n * Share. Constantly share what you've learnt and built. Help others. Join the community and participate. You could be the best developer ever but it won't matter if nobody knows about you and your work.\n\n------\nvaksel\nStop being a perfectionist, build something and get it out there as soon as\npossible. Don't waste time making sure everything is perfect. Better to lose a\nfew people who get annoyed, than lose the 2-3 months w/o any users\n\n------\nblender\nAlthough the first rule of a startup is build something people want (after PG)\nmore and more that something should solve some \"serious\" problem (after\nO'Reilly).\n\nPlease - no more social"
+"\n\nAsk HN: What tools do you use to monitor your servers? - coderholic\n\nI recently ran into a problem where MySQL was running out of connections. For now I've upped the maximum_connections setting and I'm keeping a close eye on the server. I'm sure there are lots of tools that could monitor this sort of thing for me, and alert me if any problems occur (or ideally before they occur). I suspect there are also tools that would make it easier for me to diagnose the problem, and allow me to see what was happening on the server at the time. So my question for HN is: What tools do you use to monitor your servers?\n======\niuguy\nMunin and Monit, mostly.\n\nAnd it's a PITA to set up but Puppet is incredible, especially when combined\nwith git. You can automatically redeploy your infrastructure pretty much at\nthe drop of a hat.\n\n------\nbarredo\nI made a tiny script on my server that get's all the numbers that I want (http\nconnectios, mysql connections, cpu usage, etc) and put them on a txt file.\n\nThe only thing I got to do is check the file online whenever I want.\n\nYou could do this"
+"\nRussian startup released unlimited storage device which can never be hacked - onelly\nhttp://innmind.com/articles/250?utm_source=HN&utm_medium=repost&utm_campaign=flashsafe\n======\nPiskvorrr\nOnly it's not a device, it's a cloud storage service (\"forever\" and\n\"unlimited\" \\- until further notice).\n\nThe device provides local encryption - and is unsinkab...uhm, I mean,\n\"unhackable\". No parallel with the RMS Titanic, noooosir. And I've seen a fair\nshare of supposedly unhackable cruft: Schneier alert - \"it's easy to make a\nsystem that its' creator is unable to crack,\" to paraphrase.\n\n~~~\nonelly\nIn their official description it is said:\n\nWe take stored data security to a whole new level! Nobody will ever know what\ndata you are keeping, because your files are not linked to your personal\ninformation on our servers. That means total anonymity. All data is encrypted\nusing a 2048-bit key a technology similar to the one used for bank\ntransactions but even better. It all happens on your computer, and even if\nsomeone lays hand on your data, they won\u2019t be able to decipher it without a\nSmartFlash itself. You can use an additional pin-code that is impossible to\ntrack if you use a mouse to enter it. Losing your Flashsafe is like losing\nyour bank card:"
+"\nLily is a hybrid OO+function language I've been building for nearly five years - jesserayadkins2\nhttp://github.com/jesserayadkins/lily\n======\ndozzie\n...and which is better/different than OCaml, because...?\n\n~~~\njesserayadkins2\nLily's made entirely in plain C, and thus it's easier to include as part of\nyour program. Maybe you'd like to run some script from your program and\nprovide some program variables/functions to Lily. You can do that. Now, Lily\nisn't currently totally ready for embedding, but the important parts are\nthere: It doesn't read global variables, and it has a single entry/exit point\nwhen you call it.\n\nYou can also use Lily as a templating language. The support for tagging is\nbuilt into the language, instead of being added to it.\n\nOne of Lily's strengths is that, unlike other scripting languages, it takes a\nvery, very low amount of memory to boot (10K). That makes it idea for,\neventually, truly embedding and being actually useful as a scripting language\nfor whatever you might be making.\n\nI don't know too much about OCaml, so I can't give a good, complete\ncomparison. But Lily's syntax and feel is more inspired by OO languages, with\nthe functional part being more about collections and chainability.\n\n~~~"
+"\n\nAbstractQueryFactoryFactories and alias_method_chain: The Ruby Way - wycats\nhttp://yehudakatz.com/2010/02/15/abstractqueryfactoryfactories-and-alias_method_chain-the-ruby-way/\n\n======\nduairc\nI've always thought that alias_method was a pretty silly way to solve the\nproblem of defining a new method in terms of an existing method with the same\nname. alias_method is definitely \"simpler\", but I think the way it actually\ndestructively creates a method in a class is a bit ugly. I don't know what\n\"AbstractQueryFactoryFactories\" are, but the name makes me want to stay pretty\nfar away from them.\n\nThese monkey patches constitute my solution to the problem:\n\n \n \n class UnboundMethod\n def origin\n owner.instance_method(name)\n end\n end\n \n class Proc\n def to_method(object, method)\n me = self\n object.class.class_eval do\n current = instance_method(method).origin rescue nil\n mine = current.owner == self rescue false\n define_method(method, &me)\n result = instance_method(method)\n mine ? define_method(method, current) : remove_method(method)\n result\n end.bind(object)\n end\n end\n \n class Module\n def redefine(method, &code)\n original = instance_method(method).origin\n define_method(method) do |*args, &block|\n code.to_method(self, method).(original.bind(self), *args, &block)\n end\n end\n end\n \n\nYou use this as follows:\n\n \n \n Fixnum.redefine(:+) do |old_plus, other|\n if self == 2 and other == 2\n 5\n else\n old_plus.(other)\n end\n end\n \n >> 2 + 2\n => 5\n >> 2 + 3\n => 5\n >> 2 + 1\n => 3\n \n\nI'll admit that its implementation is pretty"
+"\nWanted to get into RC but didn't have the money - KrisCubed\nI wanted to get into the RC hobby but I didn't have $300 to drop on a Traxxas or other rig--I have a friend who had a really nice RC car and it made me want one--So I made my own!! Its really cool! People have been telling me none stop that PLA will never work for this... The wear is actually so minimal that I haven't needed to grease the moving parts more than once--After hours of drive time, there is almost no wear on the gears--The only thing that wears are the dogbones, but that is because sand and dirt get into the joint and cause wear, but they still last much longer than you'd ever guess. What are your thoughts? Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fneoYrtdVjo Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3545173\n======\njakobegger\nHow much did you end up spending on the parts that you couldn't print? This\nlooks like a pretty sweet car, but is it really cheaper to build your own than\nbuying a finished kit?\n\n------\nonemoresoop\nThat's the way to go. Great project. Hope to see a lot more innovation coming\nout of DIY projects. Great job!!!"
+"\n\nHack your brain: OpenEEG - geuis\nhttp://openeeg.sourceforge.net/doc/\n\n======\nluckystrike\nThis brought back some good memories for me. (I mean the post only). My final\nyear project at engineering was (an attempt) to build an EEG machine (design).\nI was not much of a hardware guy, and did it as a last chance (at least for a\nwhile) to learn a bit more. The other option in my mind was to may write a\nRTOS or something but i thought that can happen any time later as well.\n\nJoerg Hansmann (the leading hacker behind this hardware design) was simply\nawesome and very helpful with sharing his knowledge about the circuit design.\n(This was late 2001). It was actually the first time i realized the true worth\nof open source communities, and their role in sharing of knowledge and\ninformation.\n\nThanks geius for posting this, i ought to contribute back to this community\nfor sure, in one way or the other.\n\n------\nsown\nI looked into this one time and got scared away the the DIY part of the kit\nand the warnings that you could seriously injure yourself. :( This will\nrequire braver souls than I.\n\n~~~\nqwph\nSoldering up a"
+"\n\nHow do I find the memory usage of an application on Android? - badhairday\nhttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/2298208/how-to-discover-memory-usage-of-my-application-in-android\n\n======\nZigurd\nThis is a relatively old question on Stackoverflow, and Dianne Hackborn's\nanswer is authoritative as usual.\n\nTo sum it up: Don't worry about global free memory. Your app can use up only a\nrelatively small part. More accurately, each component (Activity, Service,\netc.) of your app with the We would love some feedback on the app before launching and going into the growth state. You can also read more about our vision here: http://www.makemove.se/ Have a nice one!\n======\nkbart\nInteresting project, but iOS only? Is there any reason behind that? I don't\nuse it and don't intend to (as the majority of other geeks I know). Webapp\nwould be a much better choice imho.\n\n~~~\nmakemoves\nGood idea with the webapp. Thanks! / Makemove Team\n\n------\narisAlexis\nI would like to use it but of course I can't (iOS). You should really launch\nthese kind of MVP in a normal website accessible to as many browsers to have\nmaximum audience. Here you do the opposite and target a small percentage of\nthe world that uses iphones.\n\n~~~\nCalRobert\nI have to agree - I know this opinion is unpopular but there are some things\nfor which computers are still ideally suited, and this seems like one of them.\nWould I want to restrict my audience"
+"\nAsk HN: How do you plan for your vacation? - tixocloud\nHi guys, We're looking to understand more about how people plan for their vacations (i.e. well thought out? last minute? etc.) and thought HN-ers might have great insight.\n======\nReefAftershock\nMy general sequence for an overseas trip is to use a slew of tools:\n\n1\\. Choose the dates based on compatibility with my work schedule or\nparticular events I want to visit (e.g. festivals)\n\n2\\. Use Google Flights and matrix.itasoftware.com to get a idea of prices\n\n3\\. i. Use a shared Google Sheet to list out options and my schedule (e.g.\nplotting out a row for each day of the trip, to allocate out days to each\ndestination)\n\n3\\. ii. Check Google / Wikipedia / TripAdvisor to see the top attractions -\nadd these to the Sheet for reference while I'm on the trip, and also use this\nto make sure I've allocated the right amount of time to each place.\n\n4\\. Use booking.com or Expedia to find the best deals for accommodation\n(usually I use hotels)\n\n5\\. Book directly on the airline's website, since that often has the best\nprice.\n\n~~~\ntixocloud\nThanks. For any of these destinations, do"
+"\n\nWhy I Pay for Draft and Other Free Products - rrhoover\nhttps://medium.com/on-startups/77f78bee355f\n\n======\njmduke\nI feel like this is as good a place as any to plug Gittip\n( Is the 6\" version good enough, or do you really need the 9\" DX? How about page refresh speed, navigation, and search? How easy is it to get pdfs onto the Kindle?\n======\nquestioner2400\nI have a Kindle 3, and it's possible to read papers, but it's still pretty\nsmall. I'm looking at picking up something a bit bigger, probably in tablet\nform (or preferably with a PixelQi screen) in the next 6-8 months that would\nwork a bit better. I haven't used the 9\" DX, but I assume it would do the job\nbetter than the Kindle 3, just on basis of size.\n\nPDFs are easy to get onto the Kindle (3, anyway): just move them onto the\nonboard memory, and they show up like a .azw or .mobi file would.\n\n------\ncopernicus\nI have the 9\" DX and I use it regularly to read technical papers."
+"\n\nAsk HN: Government shutdown - what does it mean? - guynamedloren\n\nI am piecing together bits of information from twitter, news sources, and wikipedia, but I'm still not entirely sure what this 'government shutdown' means. How will US citizens be affected, if at all? Is there any reason to be concerned? What are the ramifications? As always, I appreciate the knowledge, wisdom and experience of the HN community.\n======\nrabidonrails\nREAD THIS FIRST:\n[http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/30/a...](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/30/absolutely-\neverything-you-need-to-know-about-how-the-government-shutdown-will-\nwork/?tid=pm_pop)\n\n~~~\nguynamedloren\nThis is great, thank you.\n\n------\nnreece\nA summary on Reddit:\n[http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1nhlv9/us_governm...](http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1nhlv9/us_government_has_shut_down/ccinzst)\n\n------\nzachlatta\nThe Wikipedia article explains it well:\n[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdown](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdown)\n\n------\nthejteam\nThe sun will still shine. The grass will still grow. Eventually squabbles\namong men will be resolved. Life will move on."
+"\n\nZenify meditation and mindfulness app is on Product Hunt - onvel\nhttp://www.producthunt.com/tech/zenify\n\n======\nonvel\nZenify mobile app has been launched on Product Hunt. Zenify is aimed to take\nmeditation and mindfulness globally to everyone with a smartphone. It's\navailable in 10 languages and trains mindfulness through very simple\nmeditation assignments delivered to the phone. It takes only several minutes\nto complete those assignments which can be done anywhere anytime. No need to\nremember about the meditation practice - Zenify will remind you several times\nper day to take a few minutes for yourself and become aware of the present\nmoment. There are numerous benefits of meditation but in general it changes\nthe lives and the world to the better. So why not make this happen together?\nTune in to your senses, and help us spread the word :) Check out web-site and\nfind us on top of Product Hunt today. Much love, Zenify."
+"\nFreshplayerplugin \u2013 Powered by Chromium's Pepper Flash Player - forlorn\nhttps://github.com/i-rinat/freshplayerplugin\n======\nsandGorgon\nThis does NOT support DRM content (like Hbo Go,etc). However the version in\nChromeOS does. Google and Adobe have refused to include DRM support in general\nLinux.\n\n[https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=245999#c...](https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=245999#c4)\n\n~~~\ni-rinat\n\"This\" does; browser part is supported. To make it work, you'll need to get\nlibpepflashplayer.so file from Chromebook, as only version from ChromeOS have\nDRM code compiled in.\n\n------\nsuprjami\nCan we please just let Flash die already?\n\n~~~\nJohnTHaller\nHaving flash die for video has mostly already happened and is a good thing.\n\nHaving flash die for websites (like small restaurant sites) has mostly already\nhappened and is a good thing.\n\nHaving flash die for games would be a bad thing. There are hundreds of\nthousands of games on the web that are written in Flash that are a lot of fun\nfor millions of folks to play. Just because you can't play them on your mobile\ndevice is no reason for the rest of us to lose access to them on our PCs. And,\nno, most of them will not be converted to HTML5 because they were written\nyears ago and the author has long"
+"\n\nShow HN: The new Longform app, a reader for smart content - lammer\nhttp://longform.org/app/\n\n======\nlammer\nHey - I know Longform.org pops up from time to time in HN threads and I wanted\nto let people know that we have a new iOS app.\n\nThe app features the curated daily article recommendations you find on\nLongform.org plus features that let you customize your own information diet.\nWe filter out the short linkbait crap so you're left only with engaging, deep\narticles.\n\nYou can follow writers and get notified any time they publish any article\nanywhere. Or follow friends and see what they're loving.\n\nOur popular tab is a leaderboard for in-depth articles from across the\ninternet.\n\nAnyway, feedback is greatly appreciated (and yes, we do want to do Android):\naaron@longform.org"
+"\n\nDropbox sends email about credit card expiration to non-paid users - bdcravens\n\n8:34pm (ET) Subject: Your credit card is about to expire! Your credit card is about to expire! To keep your Dropbox Pro subscription, please make sure that your billing information is up to date. If we are unable to bill you, your Pro plan will automatically be canceled after 2 weeks (all your files will still be safe). Visit to update your information. As a reminder, Dropbox Pro gives you lots of great benefits:\nTons of space for all your files (100, 200, or 500 GB)\nFaster support from the Dropbox team\n10x the bandwidth for sharing links\nKeep over 20,000 photos and memories - The Dropbox Team Ignored it, thinking it was phishing attempt 11:47pm (ET) Subject: Email Sent in Error - Re: Your credit card is about to expire! Earlier today you may have received an email from Dropbox stating that your credit card is about to expire. Though the email did in fact come from Dropbox, it was sent to you in error. We recognize that you\u2019re not a paid Dropbox user, and there haven\u2019t been any changes to your account. We apologize for any confusion we may have caused. Sincerely, \nThe Dropbox Team\n======\nc0deporn"
+"\nWill Everything Stay in New Orleans If Cameras Capture It All? - adventured\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/us/new-orleans-security-cameras.html\n======\nathenot\nTwo points that always put a dent on \"surveillance in the name of safety\"\n\n1\\. Make all the camera feeds accessible to the public. Afterall, shouldn't\nmore eyes help a place be safe?\n\n2\\. Install cameras around Police HQs. Don't they want to be safe too?\n\nOf course those who advocate surveillance in the same of safety are also the\nfirst ones to ensure they are never on camera themselves...\n\n~~~\ntechsupporter\n> 2\\. Install cameras around Police HQs. Don't they want to be safe too?\n\nThis is one of the things that makes me laugh with annoyance at the signs at,\nsay, Customs and Immigration when entering the U.S., or at the entrances to\ncourthouses, or (formerly) around airport screening areas. \"No pictures or\nvideo are permitted. Cell phone use prohibited.\"\n\nWhat, precisely, is going on that shouldn't be photographed? If one camera in\nthe ceiling is good, aren't 931 cameras all that much better?\n\nAs always, the safety of the enterprise is paramount.\n\n~~~\ntj-teej\nEveryone who works in XX-Sec will tell you that every system has weaknesses,\nin this case I"
+"\nAnd so I'm giving up the Mozilla project - Jamie Zawinski (1999) - Andrew-Dufresne\nhttp://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nomo.html\n======\nasadotzler\nLots of things on the Internet can move quickly but browsers are not Internet\nsoftware the way that Google or Facebook are. Browsers are still desktop\nsoftware and things don't move as quickly there thanks to slow PC upgrade\ncycles and the absolute dominance that software like Windows, Office, and\nInternet Explorer had a decade ago. Turning that massive ship took longer than\nmany imagined but it is happening.\n\nJamie gave the open source Mozilla project about a year and a half, including\nthe months of pre-source release preparation (and I think that's being\ngenerous.) Brendan Eich and Mitchell Baker didn't give up so easily and\nthirteen-plus years later they're still giving all they've got to make sure\nthat Mozilla continues to be successful in promoting choice, opportunity, and\nparticipation on the Web.\n\nSome things are worth fighting for and I believe that the Web is one of those\nthings. I'm proud to work with some of the founding members of mozilla.org and\nthink it's a phenomenal thing that such talented people are willing to commit\ntheir professional lives to the Mozilla mission"
+"\nIs graphene a miracle material? - fun2have\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9491789.stm\n======\nCoffeeDregs\nGraphene and, more generally, carbon nanotubes are exciting because they have\nsomething-for-everyone. Silicon, plastics, water are examples of molecules or\nstructures that have also been spun into important applications for just about\nevery vertical. I suspect we'll seem carbon nanotube products explode over the\nnext 20 years just as plastics did over the last 40.\n\nThe article focuses a bit on whether graphene can replace silicon, which I\nthink kind of misses the point. The material will enable exciting _new_\napplications rather than merely transforming existing ones.\n\nI'm also kinda bummed that this kind of research doesn't have a higher profile\nin the US. This is high-ass-tech and is probably an area in which our oil\ncompanies could play a very large role with their competencies at running\nlarge, highly complex, raw material production systems.\n\n~~~\nSwellJoe\nReading this article brought to mind this scene in _The Graduate_ :\n\nMr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you. Just one word.\n\nBenjamin: Yes, sir.\n\nMr. McGuire: Are you listening?\n\nBenjamin: Yes, I am.\n\nMr. McGuire: Plastics.\n\nBenjamin: Exactly how do you mean?\n\nSo, I'm wondering how and where"
+"\n\nSizeof(void) == 1 in gcc - mrb\nhttps://twitter.com/#!/bcantrill/status/61503550966087681\n\n======\napaprocki\nGCC just happens to not even print a warning about this (even with -Wall).\nThat is pretty bad. The warning can be enabled by specifying -Wpointer-arith\nor by using -pedantic, though. (Warning: \"invalid application of 'sizeof' to a\nvoid type\")\n\nIBM's xlc compiler produces a warning and compiles the code and it also\nreturns 1. (Warning: \"1506-043 (W) The operand of the sizeof operator is not\nvalid.\")\n\nOracle Studio compiler has the best approach and fails to compile. (Error:\n\"cannot take sizeof void\")\n\n------\nmooism2\nWhat does the standard say?"
+"\n\nScalable Work Queues with Beanstalk - igrigorik\nhttp://www.igvita.com/2010/05/20/scalable-work-queues-with-beanstalk/\n\n======\nmattrepl\nThere are some tasks, such as asynchronously-generated web content, where a\nmessage queue is the obvious solution. But there are a class of problems where\neither a message queue or batch processing system (e.g., Hadoop) could be\nused. Consider the summation of user mention counts from the Twitter streaming\nAPI for an example; either a job is put on a queue for each tweet containing a\nmention, or each of the mentioning tweets are thrown into a bucket that is\nused as the source for a batch job that recurrently executes.\n\nFrom what's mentioned in the article, it sounds like some of the tasks that\nBeanstalk is being used for at PostRank are the same type of tasks that other\ncompanies, such as FlightCaster, are doing with Hadoop/Cascading.\n\nThe trade-off seems to be that message queues are more flexible and can offer\nlower latency of job completion but batch processing systems provide better\nsupport for admin concerns like adding worker nodes, debugging, and reporting.\n\n~~~\nigrigorik\n\"From what's mentioned in the article, it sounds like some of the tasks that\nBeanstalk is being used for at PostRank are the same"
+"\nAnybody Can Fire This 'Locked' Smart Gun with $15 Worth of Magnets - kevination\nhttps://www.wired.com/story/smart-gun-fire-magnets/\n======\nadvisedwang\nThe range extension and lock circumvention is bad, but only weakens back to a\nregular handgun. The jamming is more scary to me as it makes the product\nactively worse than if it wasn't smart at all.\n\n~~~\nalex-\nI could imagine some firearm owners being willing to trade 100% reliability to\nprevent a casual accident.\n\nI imagine some firearm sales are for more recreational purposes.\n\n~~~\ndogma1138\nThis isn't any more likely to prevent negligent discharge than existing\nsafeties.\n\nBasic fire arms etiquette is to treat any firearm as loaded and ready to fire\nunless it's been explicitly cleared.\n\nIf you do not use guns for self defense then keeping them clear and keeping\nammo separate is much easier and safer.\n\nAny type of safety can fail and relying on it is just how you get some of\nthese accidents.\n\n------\narielweisberg\nThe description makes it sound like if you are firing weak hand (or strong\nhand) you might be outside the range of the watch?\n\nThey say \"just a few inches\" which implies less than a foot. That's not going\nto"
+"\n\nDo you think this iOS Game idea will be fun? I do - FileNimbus\nhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1699170558/make-catch-crisis-reach-its-full-potential\n\n======\nnickynix\nIt looks generic and already claims to adopt the freemium model. It almost\nlooks like something Ray Wenderlich (a great blog, by the way) would have made\nto teach people how to develop a game for iOS.\n\nHowever, I could be wrong. The gameplay could be completely unique, but there\nis no demo video to demonstrate that fact; all we have to rely on is the\nauthor's word.\n\nIt doesn't look like something I would pay for, especially given that it is\nstill in the design stage. It might work as a paid-tutorial if all the code is\nreleased (gameplay code, assets, detailed tutorials, IAP code, etc.), but in\nits current state it looks like a Chinese-developed clone."
+"\n\nColour Science for Python - kelsolaar\nhttp://colour-science.org/\n\n======\nkelsolaar\nWe have an introductory tutorial ([http://colour-\nscience.org/tutorial.php](http://colour-science.org/tutorial.php)) showcasing\nsome features of the API and we have started some IPython Notebooks\n([http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/colour-science/colour-\nipy...](http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/colour-science/colour-\nipython/blob/master/notebooks/colour.ipynb)) to cover it deeply along with the\ntheoretical aspect.\n\n~~~\nfoolrush\nWonderful work.\n\nAny chance of a C or C++ implementation?\n\n~~~\njacobolus\nThere are already C/C++ implementations of most of this, and Matlab\nimplementations, if you go hunting around.\n\nIf there\u2019s something specific you need, some of the algorithms have some\nfiddly parts, but there\u2019s not too much that\u2019s fundamentally difficult to\nimplement in any of them. Any particular part should only take a day or two to\nbuild for some one-off use case.\n\n------\ngtaylor\nShameless plug for python-colormath, which has been cooking since about 2008:\n[http://python-colormath.readthedocs.org/](http://python-\ncolormath.readthedocs.org/)\n\nHas a lot of the same conversions/comparisons/color spaces, excellent test\ncoverage, and in my own biased opinion, pretty good documentation.\n\n------\nidunning\nSee also the fantastic Color.jl, a Julia package with similar functionality.\nMakes very pretty IJulia notebooks! More info at\n[https://github.com/JuliaLang/Color.jl](https://github.com/JuliaLang/Color.jl)\nor just run Pkg.add(\"Color\") at your Julia REPL.\n\n~~~\nStefanKarpinski\nI'd be curious about a comparison of the capabilities and approaches of these\ntwo libraries. Color.jl"
+"\nInside the food industry - chestnut-tree\nhttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/21/a-feast-of-engineering-whats-really-in-your-food\n======\nxkcd-sucks\nSo, this article highlights important issues with convenience foods, with a\nminimum of fearmongering relative to the standard of this topic.\n\nThe article claims that rosemary extract is Bad because it substitutes for\nBHA/BHT, a preservative. At this point I stopped reading due to an\noverwhelming urge to bang my head into the table. Preservation is in fact a\nmajor reason for seasoning-- in a preserved meat, no less! (And BHA/BHT are\nantioxidants-- which makes them Good...)\n\nSimilarly, it's not surprising that yeast extract (nutritional yeast Good)\ncontains the Bad MSG. Glutamate is a fundamental building block of life. If\nyou've ever tasted yeast extract, you will immediately notice that it's very\nsalty. The only reason to eat it is as a flavor enhancer, because as a major\nconstituent it's too salty-- except for various Commonwealth countries that\nlike to put it on toast.\n\nEtc...\n\nShit, I bet the egg yolks in my cake batter are Bad because they substitute\nfor cholesterol, an emulsifier and flavor enhancer which is linked to diseases\n(it also tastes nasty on its own)\n\nCrappy food optimized for convenience, scale and profit is a huge problem."
+"\nPythonJS now faster than CPython - tyrion\nhttp://pythonjs.blogspot.com/2014/05/pythonjs-now-faster-than-cpython.html\n======\nchubot\nCan it run real programs (i.e. not benchmarks)?\n\nIf so I will be impressed. Glancing over the code, it looks pretty short, and\nI can imagine benchmarks will run, but not real programs.\n\n[https://github.com/PythonJS/PythonJS/blob/master/pythonjs/py...](https://github.com/PythonJS/PythonJS/blob/master/pythonjs/pythonjs.py)\n\nIt's true that most programs don't use all the dynamism of Python, but they\nprobably depend on something that does (e.g. Django). Python is more dynamic\nthan JavaScript, in that it has __getattr__, __setattr__, __getitem__, etc.\n\nIf not, it's not fair to compare it to PyPy... PyPy actually runs arbitrary\nPython programs.\n\n~~~\nbelandrew\n> Python is more dynamic than JavaScript, in that it has __getattr__,\n> __setattr__, __getitem__, etc.\n\nNo, it's not. You can do equivalents to all of those in Javascript. Javascript\nobjects are all mutable with a few exceptions. They are just maps of\nproperties, very similar to Python's. Properties can be added or changed at\nruntime.\n\nFor example, setattr(obj, item, value) in python is basically just obj[item] =\nvalue in js.\n\n~~~\npygy_\n__getattr__ and friends allow to customize the getters and setters.\n\nJavaScript is in the process of getting similar capabilities with Harmony\nproxies, but the spec has yet to be"
+"\n\nI've written a game Now what? - joeyspacerocks\nhttp://pixelated.postagon.com/8xz7e15m1\n\n======\nemsy\nThe graphics look nice. Definitely better than the average App Store crap\nimho. The particle effects are a bit too much for my taste though. While I\nfound the graphics polished, I can't find anything in the video or app\ndescription that would make me want to play this game right now. Something\nthat would let me think: \"F __* it, what 's 99 cents?\". That may be a well\nthought of combo mechanism, dual ship power-ups, size modifiers etc. And if\nthey're already there, show them!\n\nI think the strength of games like this lies in competing with yourself and\nothers. For example I thought Flappy Bird was a terrible game, but I HAD to\nbeat my brothers highscore. So that would be another way to generate\ndownloads. In fact I think another strength of Flappy Bird is that you don't\nhave a warming up phase regarding the difficulty which keeps you in the flow.\nPlayers in the flow keep gaming on and on and therefore expose your game to\nothers.\n\nI hope my thoughts can help you to improve your game. Regards, a fellow indie\nwho has"
+"\n\nGoogle Bans Developer for Life - anonymous1983\nhttps://medium.com/medium-long/banned-for-life-c62f2404f66\n\n======\ntreerex\nYou get an app banned and it doesn't occur to you that maybe you should pull\nthe other apps that couple violate the same nebulous terms? The \"I grew up in\nthe 70s/80s and it was cool to defy authority if you didn't agree\" argument is\na canard. If you claim to be a professional developer then act like one.\nGetting in a pissing contest with Google will not end well.\n\nExpecting Google to act like a sane company for one developer in a garage is\nnaive.\n\n------\nzachlipton\nGuy makes a bunch of spammy apps that clearly rip off third party trademarks,\ngets banned from Google Play. While I think this could have been handled\nbetter from Google's side (such as a way to let him post a new app in the\nfuture, with appropriate review, if he agreed to knock it off), I'm not sure\nwhat else you'd expect. He even acknowledges ripping off the app icons.\n\n~~~\nanonymous1983\nI agree that he did violate one of their terms of service, and, like you, I\nbelieve it is unfair and too extreme to ban him from ever submitting"
+"\n\nShow HN: I made a site that calculates the market price of items on ebay. - locksley\nhttp://www.getmarketprice.com\n\n======\nlocksley\nI made this in rails over a couple of weekends after learning how to code late\nlast year. The inspiration came from wanting to buy an iPhone 5 from ebay but\nnot knowing what a fair price should be. After a writing a script to calculate\nthis for myself, I thought it could be useful for others too and abstracted it\ninto its current incarnation.\n\nAny feedback would be fantastic, especially on UX!\n\n------\nbyoung2\nI keep getting an error:\n\n _Application Error\n\nAn error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please\ntry again in a few moments.\n\nIf you are the application owner, check your logs for details._\n\n~~~\nlocksley\nSorry! It should be ok now.\n\n~~~\npavel_lishin\nNow it's throwing a 500 error that says: \"Sorry, we stuffed up. Please try\nagain.\"\n\n In my case, I don't use the base install of Apache and run my own, with mod_wsgi. I also run my own build of MySQL. Because of things like this, I tend to shy away from all of the automated crap (such as the migration tools, and upgrading a point release rather than a fresh install) and I don't think i'm alone. I upgraded my older Macbook Pro to Leopard by formatting and installing fresh, then manually moving data. Because Snow Leopard is a smaller release and more of a glorified patch or service-pack if you will, I am wondering if I really need to do this. I'd love to get feedback from all the Mac hackers out there who have upgrade to Snow Leopard. What kind of problems have you noticed, if any?\n======\nGreggW\nI just told my wife, \"The next time I want to be an early adopter, just hit me\nuntil I fall to the ground and stay there.\"\n\nI have a bilateral"
+"\nSlack S-1 - bardworx\nhttps://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1764925/000162828019004786/slacks-1.htm\n======\nneom\n\"Our revenue was $105.2 million, $220.5 million, and $400.6 million in fiscal\nyears 2017, 2018, and 2019, respectively, representing annual growth of 110%\nand 82%, respectively.\n\nOur growth is global with international revenue representing 34%, 34%, and 36%\nof total revenue in fiscal years 2017, 2018, and 2019, respectively.\n\nWe continue to invest in growing our business to capitalize on our market\nopportunity. As a result, we incurred net losses of $146.9 million, $140.1\nmillion, and $138.9 million in fiscal years 2017, 2018, and 2019,\nrespectively.\n\nOur net losses have been decreasing as a percentage of revenue over time as\nrevenue growth has outpaced the growth in operating expenses.\"\n\nNice work!\n\n~~~\nwill_brown\nIs there any other industry where a company can go public having lost\n$500,000,000 over the last 3 years?\n\nI get it their \u201cmarket share\u201d is increasing every year and the loses are\nstaying the same...and even that is not the full picture of a path to profit.\n\nBut if the company could turn a profit, then why not do it privately, show\nthat and then go public? My guess like Uber and Lyft...they can\u2019t turn a\nprofit, and for"
+"\nTesla's Musk Paid at Least $593M in Income Taxes in 2016 - submeta\nhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-21/tesla-s-musk-paid-at-least-593-million-in-income-taxes-in-2016\n======\ntdehollain\nThat's $593M taxes on $1.34B earnings on exercising stock options...44% tax\nrate is pretty harsh!\n\n~~~\nWJW\nFor the US maybe. Income tax in the Netherlands (my country) in the top\nbracket is 52%. On the second hand, we have no capital gains tax so he might\ncome out ahead when exercising options. On the third hand, we have a wealth\ntax of 1.2% on your entire capital above a certain floor (of about 20k) so he\nmight not come out ahead in the end.\n\nIt's always interesting to see the opinions of different cultures about how\nmuch tax is reasonable :)\n\n~~~\nmatt_wulfeck\nNot bad, but doesn't that come with social services like free medical care and\ngreatly subsidized education?\n\nHere in he US the middle income pays taxes and receives almost no directive\nsocial benefit, as most social programs are geared towards lower income and\nthe rich can afford accountants and lawyers to keep their tax burden very\nlight.\n\n~~~\nkareemm\nI'm not sure how you can say that the rich keep their tax burden light when\nthe topic of this thread"
+"\nThe Somali Pirates' Business Model - robg\nhttp://www.undispatch.com/somali-pirates-buisiness-model\n======\nIgorPartola\nAnybody here read Heinlein's \"Citizen of the Galaxy\"? To stop think kind of a\nbusiness, you make it unprofitable. The question is \"how?\"\n\n~~~\nankeshk\nThats actually a very good question. I can think of a few ways to make\npirating unprofitable. Or dangerous. But unfortunately can't think of any non-\nviolent way.\n\n* Equip all the ships with armament. The pirate teams are small in size. So hopefully, the investment in arms wouldn't be a lot to fight them off.\n\n* Turn the table. Offer an insane \"Reward\" to anyone who captures one of the local elders - the people who give anchoring permission.\n\n~~~\nhkuo\nNot sure either of those would work.\n\nI don't think companies would want to spend money for weapons, nor the cost of\ntraining employees to use them, nor the liability of what happens if they are\nused and any ensuing results. They want the police or government to simply\ntake care of it, and they spend no money at all. Unless that happens, it's\nprobably less cost to simply accept piracy as a cost of busienss.\n\nFor the reward to capture or off"
+"\nGoogle Open-Sourced Kubernetes to Boost Its Cloud - kalgen\nhttp://www.wired.com/2015/06/google-kubernetes-says-future-cloud-computing/\n======\njustinsb\nI've been working with Kubernetes a fair bit (I'm contributing to porting it\nto AWS). It's an exciting time: I believe that we'll be running everything in\ncontainers within the next few years, and Kuberentes solves some of the big\nmissing pieces with actually running Docker in production across a cluster.\nThere are other competing systems trying to do the same thing (including\nDocker Inc itself), but I think Kubernetes has a huge advantage by having\nyears of experience of what did and didn't work well in Borg.\n\nMost importantly of all though, I have found it a great project to use, and a\nreally great project to contribute to. I think that contributions are the\nlifeblood of open-source projects, and I give Kubernetes 10/10 for their\ncommunity and processes, which I think bodes very well for the future.\n\n------\nmark_l_watson\nI am a little surprised that Google is join this route. Making Google Cloud\ninto a huge business must be a high priority. I used Borg for a while in 2013,\nand it was amazingly, specially the logging for tracking down runtime\nproblems.\n\n~~~\nfweespeech\nWhy? Google"
+"\nHTTP throughput regression from Go 1.7.5 to 1.8 - 01walid\nhttps://github.com/golang/go/issues/18964\n======\njerf\nAs I've mentioned before [1], as the number starts getting too large,\n\"requests per second\" isn't a useful way of measuring the performance of a\nwebserver, you're really more interested in \"seconds per request overhead\".\nThe former makes this sound horrible and leads to headlines that make it sound\nlike the entire web stack has lost 20% of its performance, which is terrible.\nThe latter shows that the \"request overhead\" has gone from ~100us per request\nto ~120us or so, which is a lot more informative and tends to lead to better\nunderstanding what the situation is.\n\nThis is not meant as an attack or a defense of Go. The facts are what the\nfacts are. The point here is to suggest that people use terminology that is\nmore informative and easier to understand. There are people for whom 20us per\nrequest extra is a sufficiently nasty issue that they will not upgrade. There\nare also a lot of people who are literally multiple orders of magnitude away\nfrom that even remotely mattering because their requests tend to take 120ms\nanyhow. Using \"seconds per request overhead\" both"
+"\nAsk HN: Anybody know if supermarkets collect and sell your receipts? - williamle8300\nI'm a huge fan of buying top shelf bourbons and started seeing ads for Knob Creek bourbon on Instagram recently. It's led me to think that Von's (my local grocer) sells my purchase history to ad networks. Anybody ever have this experience?\n======\nbobwaycott\nBased on what limited experience I have with FB ad targeting[0], there is\nquite a lot of data purchased from credit card companies. There may be\naggregated receipts funneled into one of their sources, though I haven't yet\nseen a specific grocery source called out anywhere. Nonetheless, it's pretty\ntrivial to identify purchase behavior via CC data and target people who are\nknown to buy/consume alcohol\u2014e.g., bars, liquor stores, etc.\u2014and push my\nproduct.\n\n0: FB ads run on instagram by default"
+"\nShow HN: Semantic Versioning for Natural Language - computerlab\nhttps://github.com/ptsteadman/semver-for-natural-language\n======\nmbrock\nThis ties into a vague idea I have bouncing around my head about viewing\nnatural language works \"structurally\", especially in terms of premises,\narguments, conclusions, etc.\n\nAnalytic philosophers are pretty good at this already, as well as good science\nwriters and thesis authors.\n\nThey can present the high level \"type signature\" of their work: something\nlike, I assume the premises X, Y, and Z, (see books 1, 2, and 3 which argue\nfor these premises) and then deploy arguments of kind A and B in order to\nstrengthen the conclusion C.\n\nInterpreted with a programmer's vocational damage, that text would be a\nfunction from (X, Y, Z) to C, using A and B as implementation patterns or\nalgorithms, and recommending books 1, 2, 3 as concrete providers of the types\nX, Y, Z.\n\n(Some kind of hand-wavey metaphorical Curry-Howard equivalence extended to\nrhetoric?)\n\n~~~\ncomputerlab\nI like the phrase \"programmer's vocational damage\", I think there's often a\ntendency to attempt to over-extend programming concepts to other realms (for\nexample, natural language). The irony is that a lot of the concepts used in\nprogramming are abstractions of patterns from"
+"\nXCSSET Mac Malware infects Xcode projects, performs UXSS attack on browsers - wincent\nhttps://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/xcsset-mac-malware-infects-xcode-projects-performs-uxss-attack-on-safari-other-browsers-leverages-zero-day-exploits/\n======\npritambarhate\nDoes anyone know a good command line malware/antivirus checker for Mac? (Paid\nis fine.) I do not want the antivirus to run in the background continuously\n(which affects performance) yet want to have ability to run nightly scans to\nensure that the machine is not infected.\n\nAlmost all traditional antivirus products want to deeply integrate with the\nsystem and affect the performance a lot. Also some of these companies are know\nto make questionable decisions like trying to intercept HTTPS communication,\netc.\n\n~~~\nmindfulhack\nI use Objective-See's free and open-source BlockBlock:\n\n[https://objective-see.com/products/blockblock.html](https://objective-\nsee.com/products/blockblock.html)\n\nIt picks up background daemon tasks that suddenly are created and allows you\nto block them immediately. That's certainly one major way to pick up and block\nhidden malware on your computer.\n\nAll of the tools by this guy are incredible, they are also recommended, e.g.\ntools to pick up and allow you to block access to microphone or camera.\n\n~~~\ncgufus\n... and definitely read objective-see's blog post from time to time if you are\ninto security topics. The malware take-apart documentation is extremely\nenlightening.\n\n(Intereseting fact: A lot of"
+"\nGoing All-the-Way with the Client-Server App Concept - yannis\nhttp://peter.michaux.ca/articles/going-all-the-way-with-the-client-server-app-concept\n======\nJoeAltmaier\nI agree -splitting the app into client- and server-side pieces is like cutting\na banana long-ways. Also there's the performance problem. The web link has\nerratic latency resulting in: hesitant response to form entry, lack of hour-\nglass support, unpredictable page updates. When it works its fine; when it\nlags its dang irritating. Worse, its hard to even code the app to accomodate\nlag: the app lags when LOADING the next phase of the app, so \"nobodys home\"\nwhen it lags to even respond to the lag with a progress bar or hourglass or\nwhatever."
+"\n\nMaking Science a Presidential Priority - muriithi\nhttp://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/feb2008/db2008028_503873.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_businessweek+exclusives\n\n======\nyummyfajitas\nSounds great, in principle. Here is what would happen if it actually occurred:\n\nVarious big projects of dubious value (particle accelerators, LIGO) will go\nbegging for money. Any candidate who doesn't want to support them will be\nportrayed as anti-science. The majority of the effort will be placed here\n(scientists care more about grants than politics).\n\nStandard science issues where the science doesn't fit the party line will be\nhighlighted: evolution, climate change and sex ed. For the most part, science\nwill be used as a club to beat republicans with. They certainly deserve it\n(1), but not only them.\n\nNon-standard science issues that cut against democrats will be mostly ignored\n(race/sex differences in intelligence, lawyers suing doctors without\nscientific evidence, the possible link between abortion/miscarriage and breast\ncancer) . No one will ask the candidates what they think about Larry Summers\nor James Watson.\n\nIt sounds like a great idea. But I know my colleagues well enough to know that\nif it happens, it will simply turn into a \"give us money, we hate republicans\"\nevent.\n\n(1) At various points, I noticed birth control (non-condom) includes the\nwarning \"Does"
+"\nThe IRS\u2019s Effort to Convert Its Assembly Codebase to Java - computerlab\nhttps://federalnewsradio.com/tom-temin-commentary/2018/01/irs-clutches-its-modernization-holy-grail/\n======\nTimJYoung\nWow, what a cool project to work on: working out the logic flows in\n_assembler_ and breaking them out so that they can be translated into a\nhigher-level language.\n\nI've always thought that this type of government work should be open to bids\nfrom _anyone_. If the government is worried about trojans, malware, etc., then\nthey can easily hire an auditor to audit the code and vouch for its\nauthenticity. The fact that only very large, well-connected corporations get a\ncrack at these types of problems is insane and a complete waste of taxpayer\nmoney.\n\n~~~\njacquesm\nThe big trick is the proposal itself. Writing that is only possible if you are\nalready tied in at all kinds of levels. I've seen some of these tenders up\nclose, the companies that land the deals submit phone book sized proposals to\ntenders that are officially open but actually closed unless you are in a very\nselect circle already. It's not uncommon for the proposal writer to then pass\non the actual work to a whole slew of subcontractors at substantially lower\nrates.\n\n~~~\nryanmarsh\nAre you"
+"\n\nShow HN: I made my website/resume voice controlled - ddod\nhttps://benwasser.com/\n\n======\nar7hur\nVery interesting Ben! Did you have a look at [https://wit.ai](https://wit.ai)\n? It's an API that encapsulates both speech rec and semantic interpretation.\n\n~~~\nddod\nI hadn't seen this yet. It looks really cool and I'll have to devote some time\nto learning what they're doing.\n\n------\nddod\nThis was made using the Web Speech API and a matching system I came up with\nthat uses Levenshtein distances and tokenized string matching. I wrote up some\ndemo code here:\n[https://github.com/benwasser/WebSpeechAPI](https://github.com/benwasser/WebSpeechAPI)\n\n------\nyoshokatana\nThis is brilliant! One feature request though: It'd be cool if the microphone\nicon toggled the voice recognition, rather than simply enabling it. I couldn't\nfigure out if there was a way to disable it (besides closing the tab and\nreopening it).\n\n------\nmaccard\nThis is cool and all, but it's another Chrome only site. You might as well\nhave another desktop app that I have to download. Why isn't there support for\nother major, Modern browsers such as FF, Opera and IE11?\n\n~~~\nddod\nSorry about that! It uses the nascent Web Speech API which seems to rely on\nexternal audio processing (i.e. how Siri"
+"\nUK spy boss warns of technology terror risk - jackgavigan\nhttp://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34276525\n======\nfredley\n> \"It's in nobody's interests that terrorists should be able to [...]\n> communicate out of the reach of authorities.\"\n\nSince you can't distinguish between 'terrorists', and anybody else, this\neffectively reduces to our old favourite:\n\n> \"It's in nobody's interests that _people_ should be able to [...]\n> communicate out of the reach of authorities.\"\n\n~~~\npfortuny\nEven that first premise is wrong in any state with the rule of law. Only\ncrimes have to be prosecuted, not \"people\" or \"communications\" and prosecution\nis always something done \"a posteriori.\"\n\nThe above must be understood correctly: I am not advocating that one should\nnot investigate possible criminal plans: because planning some kind of crime\n(like killing someone) with intent is, ipso facto, a crime.\n\nIt is not PEOPLE that the law applies to. It is CRIMES.\n\nWe incarcerate people because we do not know a better way to punish them for\ntheir crimes, not because we do not want them to be human beings. CRIME-\nPUNISHMENT, not MAN-JAIL.\n\n~~~\nSilhouette\nThe trouble with this principle is that there is some damage you simply can't\nput right retrospectively,"
+"\nJobs, Jobs, Jobs - antr\nhttp://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/09/jobs-jobs-jobs.html\n======\najg1977\nI usually enjoy the posts on avc a lot, but I don't know whether this is just\nshameless promotion or a mistaken belief that recent unemployment trends are\nsimply due to people and jobs not finding each other.\n\nRegardless of political leaning, I think most people would agree that those\nwho became unemployed in the last 1-2 years are not remaining so due to a lack\nof looking.\n\n------\ndavidw\nThe point of Washington DC talking about it is that, at the margin, more or\nfewer entrepreneurs _will_ be able to \"do something about it\" depending on a\nwhole range of things like health care, taxes, regulations, infrastructure,\netc... But Mr. Wilson is smart enough to know this - he's just boosting his\nportfolio's startup.\n\n------\ndanvideo\nThere's not much here, basically a pointer to Indeed.com - a site I happen to\nlike - but why do we need to go to AVC to see it?\n\n------\n3pt14159\nPeople here don't quite understand Fred's point.\n\nHis point is that just as some technology is replacing jobs, other technology\nis helping the unemployed become employed by reducing the information and\ntiming gap between"
+"\nIt was not a DDoS: MtGox got 20k new accounts per day - speeder\nhttps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=172944.0;topicseen\n======\nInclinedPlane\nIf someone did a little bit of analysis on MtGox they might have concluded\nthat setting up new accounts was the most effective way to do a DoS attack.\nNot that I'm saying that's what happened, just that it seems naive to say \"we\nwere down due to new account creation, and therefore we should rule out the\npossibility of a DoS attack!\"\n\n~~~\nmrb\nThe MtGox employees talk about 10 Gbps of traffic hitting their front-end\nservers. They are desperately working with Black Lotus and Prolexic to help.\nThat is a textbook network DDoS. \"Creation of the accounts\" is not the source\nof the slowness and unresponsiveness of the site.\n\n[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=166578.msg1737375#ms...](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=166578.msg1737375#msg1737375)\n\n~~~\nIgalze\nThey are already using prolexic (check DNS to verify) and it sure looks like\nDDoS to me.\n\n------\ndownandout\nThere is no way that 20K database inserts in a day should affect them in this\nway. They likely experienced a DDoS and either didn't want to say it or didn't\nrecognize it and actually believed it was because of their 20K new users.\nEither way, given the issues they"
+"\nFalcon 9 attempts ocean platform landing - butwhy\nhttp://www.spacex.com/news/2014/12/16/x-marks-spot-falcon-9-attempts-ocean-platform-landing\n======\nannapurna\n\"During previous attempts, we could only expect a landing accuracy of within\n10km. For this attempt, we\u2019re targeting a landing accuracy of within 10\nmeters.\"\n\nI thought previous landing accuracy was more than 10km. Regardless, it's\nhighly impressive that they are working to improve the accuracy by 1000x. I'm\ncurious if this accuracy improvement is a combination of the grid fins and the\nautonomous spaceport drone ship (with the ship constantly communicating with\nthe Falcon to be an \"easier\" target).\n\n~~~\nsmackfu\nIt could also be a matter of \"expected\" vs \"actual.\"\n\n------\nalexggordon\nThis is an absolutely huge test. Musk's entire vision for SpaceX[0] involves\ncheap, reusable spaceflight, simply because there\u2019s no other way to colonize a\ndifferent planet without it. According to Musk, abandoning \u201cdisposable\u201d rocket\ntechnology would result in a 100 fold reduction of the cost of rocket\nlaunches[1]. While it might not be that significant, I fully believe than NASA\ncould utilize the minute budget it has much better without throwing away\nmillions of dollars of technology every launch.\n\nBased on that, landing this rocket perfectly is the proof Musk needs to show\nthe world"
+"\nAsk HN: Corp-2-Corp vs W2 Work in San Francisco / Bay Area - lowhangingnuts\nI have over 20 years experience in over 10+ languages, tools frameworks. Active on github and open source also. Trying to make a lot of $$ in next 5 years and quit the rat race. Everywhere I apply for contract jobs, the recruiter / person with job says they can only do W2 and not independent 1099 or corp 2 corp contract. I don't need benefits (have it from my partner) and W2 rates are much less than Independent 1099. So what's the deal ? Why do recruiters and firms insist on W2 in Bay Area? Also how do I set my W2 rate vs my C2C expectation. Ex: If my 1099 / Independent rate is 100 $ / hour, what would the equivalent W2 rate be, so I don't lose money?\n======\nnunez\nI don't know why W2 is so common over there, but you should be hitting up\nLinkedIn and reaching out to recruiters that way. There are plenty of 1099\nopportunities to be found. Ensure that you get contracts with fixed time\nperiods so that you can plan your cash flow a little easier. (It's not a hard\nand"
+"\nMost startup theory is ex-post, therefore bs - shafyy\nhttps://shafyy.com/post/startup-theory-ex-post/\n======\nzby\nThe primary social function of giving advice is a domination game\n([http://www.overcomingbias.com/2015/03/advice-shows-\nstatus.ht...](http://www.overcomingbias.com/2015/03/advice-shows-status.html),\n[http://www.overcomingbias.com/2014/01/advice-isnt-about-\ninfo...](http://www.overcomingbias.com/2014/01/advice-isnt-about-info.html)) -\nthat's why there is a lot of shitty advice. That does not mean there are no\ngood business theories that cover startups. Some of them are scientific\ntheories with all the required rigour - but not all theories need to be\nproperly scientific to be useful, in our daily life we live with lots of ex-\npost theories, they are not perfect but are still useful. By the way I am the\nauthor of one non-scientific startup theory myself\n[https://medium.com/hackernoon/aggregators-\nbffd36063a72](https://medium.com/hackernoon/aggregators-bffd36063a72) and I\nhope it can be useful:) There are also useful advice. It is good to read them,\nevaluate, adjust them you your circumstances, etc. In the end you need to\ndecide for yourself, but they show you the possibilities.\n\n~~~\nbigred100\nI hate this interpretation of everything as status games. It seems like a\ngreat way to drive yourself insane and develop mental illness as you overreact\nto mundane situations or fail to take advice from proper authorities. I\nconsider somebody unqualified throwing out nonsensical advice as simply kind\nof"
+"\nWhen did parents get so scared? - apress\nhttp://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/08/26/when-did-parents-get-scared/dEsGOllSt3zhFPfy1iOzKI/story.html\n======\ntalmand\nAs I have said elsewhere here on HN, I would like to let my kids play in the\nfront yard but I don't. Not because I fear they'll be hit by a car jumping the\ncurb, a serious injury from falling down, or some bad person kidnapping them.\n\nI don't let them play in the front yard because I don't want to deal with the\npossibility of someone calling the cops after seeing my kids in the front yard\nthat will lead to a government employee with more power than their agency is\nsupposed to have showing up to threaten taking my kids away from me for\nplaying in the front yard.\n\n------\nFrankBlack\nI am sure it was a slow change that we hardly noticed. I think a couple things\ncontributed to this mentality (there are plenty of others): 1) The tragic\ndeath of Adam Walsh became national news and spawned his father's advocacy for\nvictims of crime. That spawned \"America's Most Wanted\"; a show that convinced\nviewers that each person wearing a sleeveless undershirt was a criminal. Faces\nof missing people appeared on milk cartons. No one"
+"\nIs Facebook killing your iPhone\u2019s battery or are you? - daniper\nhttp://blog.gotenna.com/post/131775543810/is-facebook-killing-your-iphones-battery-or-are\n======\nCodeWriter23\nFrom yesterday:\n\n\"We recently heard reports of some people experiencing battery issues with the\nFacebook iOS app and have been looking into the causes of these problems. We\nfound a few key issues and have identified additional improvements, some of\nwhich are in the version of the app that was released today.\"\n\n[https://www.facebook.com/arig/posts/10105815276466163](https://www.facebook.com/arig/posts/10105815276466163)\n\n~~~\ndaniper\nYes, apps (like Facebook's) which are drawing lots of current in the\nbackground is part of it -- but the point of our team's hacking into the\niPhone was to find out what else really affects your phone's battery. It's not\njust background apps updating.\n\nNothing we discovered in the lab is 'revolutionary' \\-- everyone knows your\nbattery gets used up more when the screen is brighter, and when your phone is\ntrying to find a tower or router to connect to, but we just wanted to put some\nnumbers behind it.\n\nHope it was useful; we had fun breaking open an iPhone regardless ;-)\n\n------\nrtkwe\nThe article doesn't seem to address the actual cause that the articles linked\nat the top highlighted, background updating. The Verge article especially was"
+"\nThe Election Won\u2019t Be Rigged, But It Could Be Hacked - the_duck\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/opinion/campaign-stops/the-election-wont-be-rigged-but-it-could-be-hacked.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0\n======\nmicaksica\nOf course it will be hacked. I find it hilarious that people think that our\npolitical parties have some type of moral code they actually use to play by\nthe \"rules\", whatever nonexistent rules those are. As long as they aren't\ndoing something directly illegal or can deflect the blame for illegal behavior\nto an underling that \"misunderstood the directions\", the incentive is there\nfor ALL political parties to play as dirty as they possibly can. Democrat,\nRepublican, whatever, doesn't matter.\n\nThe party's game is to win seats in Congress and the Presidency. Not win\nfairly. Not win \"by the rules\". To win, at whatever cost, as long as that cost\nisn't the elected positions themselves.\n\n~~~\nianlevesque\nExhibit A: Gerrymandering\n\n~~~\nktRolster\nI think someone pointed out here that gerrymandering would be useless if\npeople didn't reliably, blindly, vote based on party.\n\n~~~\nfatbird\nIn the normal case, wouldn't a person usually vote in the next election the\nway they voted previously? A party's platform is generally the same election-\nto-election, and if I voted previously for that platform, I'd tend to continue\nvoting"
+"\nFeatures are faults redux - gbrown_\nhttp://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/features-are-faults-redux\n======\nakkartik\nI've been imagining for some time an ideal system with just two languages: one\ncompiled low-level one, one interpreted high-level one -- and absolutely zero\nruntime configuration beyond that. Anytime you want to change how a program\nbehaves you would have to edit its sources. A whole system with the dwm[1]\naesthetic, basically. Always keep sources close to programs, allow the entire\nsystem to recompile with a single command. Encourage people to micromanage\nprecisely which image formats they want to turn on. The only thing that is\ninterpreted at runtime is code in the high level language.\n\n[1] \"dwm is customized through editing its source code..\"\n[http://dwm.suckless.org](http://dwm.suckless.org)\n\n------\nelchief\n> What\u2019s the first thing anybody does when they get a second computer? That\u2019s\n> right, set up a kerberos domain\n\ntedu is a funny guy\n\n~~~\nsmhenderson\nNo doubt, especially like this line at the beginning...\n\n _If you\u2019ve never heard of OpenBSD, it\u2019s a free unix like system. So kind of\nlike Linux, but better in every way. Totally unbiased opinion._\n\nBut the article is also really good, a cautionary tail of what can happen\ntrying to please everyone. The links"
+"\nWhy BlackBerry Storm Is An iPhone (and G-1) Killer - raju\nhttp://gigaom.com/2008/10/29/blackberry-storm-should-be-blackberry-stealth/\n======\niigs\nFor a long time I was an unflappable Blackberry fanboy. The reality of the\nsituation currently is this:\n\n1) Enterprise ready isn't the unique feature it was 18 months ago. ActiveSync\non WM no longer sucks to the point it lowers the barametric pressure in the\narea (although that's about all the compliments I have for it), the iPhone has\ncompelling Exchange integration, and I have heard good things about Nokia's\nExchange support (will know more when my wife's E71 arrives this weekend).\n\nHaving to pay an extra $15/mo/device for BES service, plus BES server hardware\n+ BES license fees, just to maintain parity with the other products is a\n_huge_ disadvantage. The best thing they could do is walk away from BES, but\nthe carriers won't do it because it's margin for them.\n\n2) They release phones _so slowly_. I appreciate that the build and radio\nquality of the phones are top notch, but slipping announced release dates\n(AT&T BB Bold, at least Sept-Nov, and maybe Jul/Aug-Nov) is not cool. I don't\nknow if that's AT&T's fault or RIM's fault, but the whole process is"
+"\nWhen it comes to composition and length, passwords mostly don't matter - deegles\nhttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Azure-Active-Directory-Identity/Your-Pa-word-doesn-t-matter/ba-p/731984\n======\ndillutedfixer\nIn my opinion, Microsoft's implementation of MFA on Office 365 (at least our\ninstance) is broken. SMS MFA is inadequate and should not be used, the SS7\nnetwork is apparently trivially hackable in some circles and text messages can\nbe rerouted. So they want us to use MS Authenticator, great. However the 365\nlogin screen always has the \"Sign in another way\" option in which I can just\nbypass the Authenticator app and use an SMS text. I cannot remove my mobile\nnumber from my profile to disable the option to SMS text because they are\nworried about me losing access to my app. I don't know if this is a limitation\nof Office 365 through our VAR or what, but it just seems pointless to offer an\nAuthenticator app if there's an easy way to fall back to SMS and no way to\ndisable SMS. If someone has my password and can reroute my text messages, a\nfancy shmancy Authenticator app is pointless. If this is not how it is for\nothers with 365 I would love to know that, I hope it's"
+"\n\nAre symbols, myths and metaphors sort of like file compression for culture? - eli_oat\nhttp://elioat.tumblr.com/post/86402521425/are-symbols-myths-and-metaphors-sort-of-like-file\n\n======\ncoldtea\nWell, symbols, myth etc are a summary of complex events and notions.\n\nIn that sense, they are sort of file compression.\n\nBut in other senses the metaphor breaks, because it cannot convey the\nsimilarities.\n\nOne can enjoy a myth or symbol in itself -- but a compressed file is useless\nunless it can be opened.\n\nSecond, the uncompressed file can be comprehended at once (e.g a movie can be\nviewed, a compressed doc can be read, etc). The cultural notions that are\n\"compressed\" into myths, though, cannot be understood by anyone in their\nentirety -- so the \"compression\" of the myth is somehow necessary.\n\nThird, a compressed file is usually the work of a single person. Whereas\nculture (and myths, symbols etc) are a shared work of a people.\n\n~~~\neli_oat\nNoting that a myth can be enjoyed in and of itself, while a compressed file is\nreally rather boring until it is uncompressed, I think you've hit on something\nI didn't think of at all. Thank you.\n\nI'm wondering now if a more apt word would have been \"encoding,\" rather than\ncompression?"
+"\nFuthark 0.6.1 released \u2013 High-performance functional programming on the GPU - Athas\nhttps://futhark-lang.org/blog/2018-07-09-futhark-0.6.1-released.html\n======\nfulafel\n\"Fast automatic Futhark-Python FFI\" and the REPL improvements sound like big\nimprovements.\n\n------\nthinkpad20\nThis project is super cool. I wish that I had a use case for the stuff in\nhere, but I dont really do any high performance or GPU programming. Maybe I\nwill one day, but in the meantime keep up the good work!\n\n~~~\nhaolez\nSame feeling here. I wonder if it's more expensive to load data into the GPU\nthan to simply process it \"more\" sequentially in the CPU locally.\n\n~~~\nabstractbeliefs\nIt depends on the data and the workload. I did some work on GPU accelerating\nviewshed calculations - basically, line of sight from a point where cells are\nmarked visible or not visible. It's really useful in radio mast planning.\n\nIn this case, the result of any given cell doesn't rely on the result of any\nother cell. This leads to the neat case where every single cell can be, in\ntheory, calculated at once. In this case, you essentially get n-times speedup\nfor n-time increase in processing power.\n\nThe other, often overlooked, bonus is that the GPU"
+"\n\nAsk HN: Best way to find front-end/UI developers? - capkutay\n\nMy company has spent some time trying to recruit front-end and UI developers in the Bay Area. We want to spend at least another month searching before we go through a recruiter. Does anybody have any advice as to which job sites work best specifically for finding front-end/UI devs? dice.com? stackoverflow.com? Thanks! Ping me if you have any other ideas. john@webaction.com\n======\nzinssmeister\nA good front-end/UI engineer is in general hard to find, because these\nindividuals ideally need to live at the intersection of development and\ndesign. You should also consider searching I'm a 27 year old Problem Solver from Greenland. We aren't many people up here on top of the world so limiting yourself to a single field is most likely gonna mean excluding yourself from potential stuff in the future. Unless you have awesome talents - which I ensure you many greenlanders do when it comes to things as music or drawing or hunting or storytelling... But for those of us who didn't turn out to have artistic talent, well, yeah, we could either pick an education and get a career job to earn some resources or do like me and not care about what people thought, decide money should never rule your life and do whatever you felt like. \nBest decision of my life! It has taken me through lots of awesome positions from assistant-bicycle-mechanic, web programmer, sales person, project manager, web designer, marketing coordinator, entrepreneur, publisher, tourist guide to stuff like cleaning stores so early in the morning I'd wish... I don't know... I'd wish that manual labor in Greenland was so expensive, they'd use robots to clean the stores, or something. And although my list of jobs"
+"\nStates Eye Taxes on Streaming Video and Cloud Computing - shahryc\nhttp://www.wsj.com/articles/states-eye-taxes-on-streaming-video-and-cloud-computing-1440095146?mod=e2fb\n======\ntired_man\nGo ahead a tax it. Who cares? All that does is cut the content producers out\nof any cash they may have earned from website ads where people access their\nstreams.\n\nIncreasing its cost with a tax will drive people to access content based in\nother regions, from USENET, from filehosts, from torrents, etc....\n\nThe people who have these ideas are quite obviously still living in the era of\npaper and video tape, where the only content was provided by an original\ncontent producer.\n\n------\nshahryc\nthis approach may lead people to seek lower-cost, untaxed mediums (like\ntorrents) rather than a heavily taxed alternative"
+"\nWill This \u201cNeural Lace\u201d Brain Implant Help Us Compete with AI? - dnetesn\nhttp://nautil.us/blog/-will-this-neural-lace-brain-implant-help-us-compete-with-ai\n======\nerikpukinskis\nI love Elon, but this notion of a \u201cbandwidth problem\u201d in UI is what happens\nwhen someone with no training in UI whatsoever tries to extrapolate.\n\nImagine the neural lace already existed. Close your eyes, and picture what you\nwould experience. Would it be 3D? Probably. Our brains have spatial hardware.\nWould it be auditory? Probably, our brains have hardware for that too. Would\nthere be language? Ya, that\u2019s part of our hardware too.\n\nSo it\u2019s an experience of sights and sounds and language...\n\nBut think about an iPad... that already had sights and sounds and language.\nActually it\u2019s capable of beaming far more of all three to you than it does.\nAnd it\u2019s capable of taking in far more input than you generally use. It can do\n10 finger multitouch, plus sound recording. Newer devices will have full body\ntracking.\n\nAnd yet... we don\u2019t use all that available bandwidth. For the most part we\nstare at a few words, some boxes and lines... why?\n\nIf Elon is right that more bandwidth is the problem, why aren\u2019t there more\nhigh bandwidth user interfaces on"
+"\nDear HN: Please don't start a response with the word \"wrong.\" - samd\nExample:\nDave: The sky is green.\nBob: Wrong. The sky is blue. It just makes you look like an asshole. Be more tactful and civil in your discussions. I promise you people will respond more favorably if you don't come out the gate blaring a buzzer like a game-show host.\n======\nseiji\n_Be more tactful and civil in your discussions._\n\nNot every opinion is valid or deserving of civil rebuttal. It's a result of\nmodern \"every opinion is equally valid as fact\" syndrome. We don't have time\nto cordially try to rewire your brain to think the sky isn't green.\n\nAlso, when trolls are trolling, they _want_ elaborate thought out responses to\ntheir drivel. It's easier to shut them down with \"wrong.\" And, as we know, you\ncan't distinguish an intentional troll from someone with sincerely warped\nviews of the world.\n\nIn short, shut it all down. They should be inspired to research their\nwrongness to turn into more right-thinking apes.\n\n[relevant life story: one of my high school math teachers had a big \"WRONG\"\nstamp (with red ink) he would enthusiastically smash onto your work if you"
+"\nHume the Humane - pepys\nhttps://aeon.co/essays/hume-is-the-amiable-modest-generous-philosopher-we-need-today\n======\nfaitswulff\n> \u2018Be a philosopher,\u2019 advised Hume, \u2018but, amidst all your philosophy, be still\n> a man\u2019\n\n...is by far one of my favorite quotes of his, and I'm glad they included it\nin the article.\n\nEDIT - they also got \u2018Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the\npassions,\u2019 which is another one of my favorites that I'd forgotten!\n\n------\nJeuelyFish\nI've always been a big fan of David Hume and, in general, empiricism. It's\nnice to see that there is attention made to his point that a healthy human\nlife consists of a 'mixed kind' between higher intellectual activities as well\nas common mundane activities.\n\nOften times, at least in academia, his philosophical skepticism is presented\nas the main and only point. From my perspective, his skepticism is way of\ntargeting those _already_ reading philosophy (and thusly more likely to favor\npursuing intellect over the body) in the hopes of persuading them into more\nhealthy balance. Because of that tho, I almost never suggest reading him as a\nfirst introduction to Philosophy for new students. Instead, he seems a nice\ncounter point to the works of philosophers who"
+"\nKenyans Say Chinese Investment Brings Racism and Discrimination (2018) - deogeo\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/world/africa/kenya-china-racism.html\n======\nm3nu\nWith China being very homogeneous in terms of race, they never worked through\nthose issues. I don't blame them. My grand parents, who lived in the\ncountryside all their life would react in a similar way.\n\nSmall anecdote: I attended an English class at a Chinese business university.\nThe teacher (young girl, never left China in her life) told us that everything\n\"French\" means \"sex/porn/etc\", i.e. \"french book\", \"french movie\". Funny, but\ntragic.\n\nAlso remember the racist ad for washing powder (girl washes a black guy and a\nChinese jumps out afterwards).\n\nThey will probably need some slightly more tragic events and pushback to\nacknowledge it's a problem. Would be better if they learnt from the west's\npainful lessons, but my hopes for that are low.\n\n~~~\njxramos\nI thought you were possibly exaggerating. There really is such an ad. Pretty\nhorrible. I never heard of this news almost 3 years after the fact.\n\n[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/28/china-\nracist-d...](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/28/china-racist-\ndetergent-advert-outrage)\n\n~~~\napexalpha\nFocussing on a single Ad in the entire continent of China is a bit weird. This\nonly caused outrage in the US, where political correctnes seems a"
+"\nNew York deploys National Guard to New Rochelle, establishes containment center - smacktoward\nhttps://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/10/new-york-gov-cuomo-to-deploy-national-guard-to-new-rochelle-establishes-containment-center-to-stem-coronavirus.html\n======\nStanislavPetrov\nHere on nearby Long Island cases are popping up all over the place with no\nknown links to other diagnosed cases, including 2 school bus drivers. Despite\nthis, barely anyone is being tested, even those who are symptomatic. This\ncrisis is being terribly mishandled.\n\n[https://www.fox5ny.com/news/two-long-island-bus-drivers-\ndiag...](https://www.fox5ny.com/news/two-long-island-bus-drivers-diagnosed-\nwith-coronavirus)\n\n~~~\ntaborj\nI've not been keeping up; what's the obstacle to getting tested? Insurance\ncompanies not covering? Hospitals not willing? Patients not going in?\n\n~~~\nsmacktoward\nThe CDC completely dropped the ball on providing test kits, so all the\nindividual states and localities have had to source them themselves. Which,\nentirely predictably, they are not doing a great job at.\n\nIt didn't help matters either that those test kits the CDC _did_ provide early\non turned out to have flaws that caused inaccurate readings (see\n[https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/after-missteps-\ncd...](https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/after-missteps-cdc-says-its-\ncoronavirus-test-kit-ready-primetime-n1145206)).\n\n~~~\nSkyPuncher\nFrom my understanding, state and local labs HAVE been able to source them. The\nCDC has been refusing to authorize them for testing.\n\nUniv. of Washington seems to be an outlier as they were able to get approval\nunder an existing research study they have.\n\n~~~\nalfiedotwtf"
+"\n2048, Wolfram Style - lelf\nhttp://blog.wolfram.com/2014/05/09/2048/\n======\nb0sk\nI opened this page in Chrome and a file 2048.cdf got automatically downloaded.\nHardly the best practice.\n\n~~~\nNeff\nIt looks like they embed the CDF at the end of the post (line 549), and Chrome\ninterpreted that as \"let's download this file without any warning\". Both\nFirefox and Safari just display a \"missing plugin\" box.\n\nThis is most likely a chrome issue, not a Wolfram issue.\n\n------\nChromozon\nI downloaded the plugin for Firefox. The game is not registering key presses.\n\n------\ndavidgerard\nWhat's the plugin it's asking for?\n\n~~~\ndaureg\nOn Linux it's a 577 MB download[0], which IMHO is kind of heavy to play a\nHTML5 game.\n\n[0]: [http://www.wolfram.com/cdf-player/](http://www.wolfram.com/cdf-player/)\n\n~~~\ndavidgerard\nYeah ... no, I think."
+"\n\nThe Pirate Bay Mystery - Absentinsomniac\nhttp://thepiratebay.se/\n\n======\nAbsentinsomniac\nSo, there's a bit of a mystery going on with thepiratebay's site. In the\nsource there's been various clues that have been changing over time. A couple\nof folks over at reddit were working on it, but I don't think anyone has come\nup with anything.\n\nBasically, in the source, they have stuff named like:\n\n\"key lowercase\" and \"WeAreTPB\" \"aes.png\" and class=\"pipe vi Makefile\"\n\nThere also appears to be an image of an AES key on the page. And before they\nallegedly had \"thecluesareallthere\" as one of the classes. I'd imagine there's\nsome kind of encrypted thing in the image or video. Maybe somebody here will\nfind it interesting.\n\n~~~\ntabrischen\nWhat is the reddit link?\n\n~~~\nAbsentinsomniac\nNew one:\n[https://www.reddit.com/r/thepiratebay/comments/2rml8a/update...](https://www.reddit.com/r/thepiratebay/comments/2rml8a/updated_again/)\n\nOlder one:\n[https://www.reddit.com/r/thepiratebay/comments/2q23mm/the_ke...](https://www.reddit.com/r/thepiratebay/comments/2q23mm/the_key_is_an_aes_key/)"
+"\nHello darkness my old friend - mariorz\nhttp://diveintomark.org/archives/2008/08/12/year-of-what-now\n======\ndmpayton\nI completely sympathize with Mark. I was an Apple hater for years, and was\necstatic when I discovered Linux (Ubuntu 7.04) and could move away from\nWindows as well.\n\nThen a good friend of mine convinced me to get an iPhone. I was hesitant at\nfirst, but after trying one I decided to go for it.\n\nThen I got a job where my choices were a MacBook Pro or a Dell with Vista.\nThree guesses which one I took (the first two don't count).\n\nI must admit OS X is really nice, and full Unix compatibility is a huge plus.\nStill... _sigh_\n\n[Edit: missing period]\n\n~~~\nelai\nFull unix compatibility without easy, comprehensive & working BINARY package\nmanagement (like debian, or archlinux) is still a big pain in the ass. Setting\nup something like the mysqldb library, mod_python, apache, and django can be a\n1 hour production vs. the 5 minute production that it is on linux.\n\n~~~\ndmpayton\nAgreed, package managers are a godsend. That's why there's\n http://www.quora.com/Small-Businesses/Why-havent-we-seen-more-tech-companies-focus-on-small-mom-and-pop-businesses-especially-the-Enterprise-Software-sector\n======\nnickfromseattle\nIts definitely possible to create a successful life style business for the\nfounders and earn a good to great profit - but its hard to make the numbers\nwork enough to grow past a few employees or get an exit.\n\nMost small mom and pops are complacent about their problems. They either don't\nrealize a solution exists, aren't actively looking for solutions, or are\ncontent with their inefficient work-arounds. This means you have to seek them\nout and sell them directly, whether its by phone, email or walking into their\nbusiness - some products require a combination of the three.\n\nYou have to charge enough to pay a sales person, reinvest in the company and\nprobably pay your own (and any other founders) living expenses as well.\n\nIf you're bootstrapped its likely you can only afford to pay a small salary\n(usually not even that though) plus commission. This means you cant pay enough\nto attract talented sales people, so you either get the bottom"
+"\n\nIBM to build brain-like computers - timtrueman\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7740484.stm\n\n======\npg\nA headline from the 1950s.\n\n~~~\nivankirigin\nWe know much more about the brain today.\n\nA similar headline can be found for using \"brainlike techniques\" for object\ndetection. One can learn things on their own (after job/school) but a mentor can help you narrow down the things you want to learn and supervise your journey. Please note I am not talking about spoon feeding but someone who helps accelerate your learning.\n======\ndozzie\nWhenever I hear about searching for a mentor, I imagine some guy that simply\nwaits for illumination to happen, by osmosis, I suppose. I see searching\nspecifically for a mentor as a kind of fashion or supersitition of these days.\n(Mind you, this is merely an association, a first impression that I have when\nI see such questions.)\n\nDo you have a plan how to use this \"mentoring\" thing? A concrete idea what you\nwant from a mentor and how your work would look like? Do you have anything to\nshow him/her, so the mentor has any foothold for comments?\n\nThis is a good piece of article about exactly that:\n[http://pindancing.blogspot.com/2010/12/answer-to-will-you-\nme...](http://pindancing.blogspot.com/2010/12/answer-to-will-you-mentor-me-\nis.html)\n\n------\nonion2k\nFind someone who you think you'd like to be mentored by and"
+"\n\nHow to get Bitcoin from the early adopters to the early majority - andrewoons\nhttp://andrewoons.com/post/93339555434/how-to-get-bitcoin-from-the-early-adopters-to-the-early\n\n======\ncbeach\nI think social trading apps / websites are the way forward - get friends\nhelping each other with the learning curve, and P2P transactions well away\nfrom centralised exchanges.\n\nI built CoinTouch to find friends of friends that trade crypto currency. It's\nbeen live since February and has 1700 users now.\n\nThere's a critical mass on CoinTouch such that most new signups see orders\nwithin their (two degree) social network. FB and Google+ are supported, and\nall transactions are P2P. No fees.\n\n[https://www.cointouch.com/](https://www.cointouch.com/)\n\nFeedback welcome.\n\n------\nhigherpurpose\nIt's the other way around :)\n\n~~~\nandrewoons\nChanged. Thanks for pointing it out :)!"
+"\n\nMisconceptions About Forward Secrecy - xnyhps\nhttps://blog.thijsalkema.de/blog/2014/01/17/misconceptions-about-forward-secrecy/\n\n======\ncies\nIt seems that in post-2013 articles on encryption the phrase \"a malicious 3rd\nparty\" has been completely replaced by the 3-letter acronym: NSA.\n\n~~~\nMattJ100\nTo be fair, they're one of a small set (possibly of size 1) of organisations\nthat would be able to carry out most of the attacks discussed. Things that\nwere considered highly unlikely pre-2013 are now a real possibility, if not\nprobability.\n\n~~~\nithkuil\nwhy? is there any revelation that they have the compute power to do that? Or\nit's just because now it's know that they'd really like to do it?\n\n~~~\nschmichael\nThe NSA is somewhat open about the massive amounts of computing power they\nhave available: [http://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-\ncenter/](http://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/)\n\nLots of goodies on this public site like \"This [compute cluster] will give us\nthe capability to break the AES encryption key within an actionable time\nperiod and allow us to read and process stored encrypted domestic data as well\nas foreign diplomatic and military communications.\"\n\nObviously leaked documents and other media reports contain much scarier\nrevelations into what the NSA is capable of, but I thought I'd post what they\nacknowledge since it's safe"
+"\nShow HN: Write rust in off-side syntax (indent instead of braces like in Python) - chankyin\nhttps://github.com/chankyin/off-side.rs\n======\nkarmakaze\nToo bad about the trailing commas and semicolons. It would be cleaner if they\ncould be implied and there be punctuation for when a comma or semicolon is not\nmeant.\n\nThe commas aren't visually as bad as the semicolons. Would it work to say in\nan off-side block any non-blank line implicitly ends with semi-colon unless it\nexplicitly ends with comma or colon?\n\n~~~\nchankyin\nAlso, semicolons in Rust have special semantics. In Rust, semicolons are\ndelimiters rather than terminators, and function similar to how comma\noperators work in C++ (see\n[https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/operator_other](https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/operator_other)).\nWhile some may not like the implicit return behaviour in Rust, I think it has\na genuine idiomatic meaning in Rust that cannot be easily replaced. Ending a\nfunction with a semicolon differentiates returning the last value from\nreturning void (i.e. the empty tuple), so it does not seem like a good idea.\n(This is a proof of concept anyway it's not like I'm introducing a new\nlanguage)\n\n------\nsmt88\nWhy do you prefer semantic whitespace?\n\n~~~\nchankyin\nYou can find loads of reasons for and against semantic whitespace"
+"\nWe're going to send out invitations to YC interviews close to midnight - pg\nThe person in charge of sending out the invitations to interviews is in a different time zone, so we're going to be sending out invitations close to midnight Pacific time. So please don't worry if nothing seems to be happening. The good news is, we got so many good applications that we decided to add another day of interviews, so we'll be inviting 20% more groups than we planned to. (No, that doesn't decrease the probability that a group we interview will get funded. We don't and in fact couldn't aim to fund a target number of startups.)\n======\npg\nWhile you're waiting, will you guys please remind yourselves that it's not the\nend of the world if you don't get invited to interviews? Drew Houston didn't\nget invited the first time he applied. And a good thing too, because the idea\nhe applied with was not Dropbox, and if he'd used YC to launch it, he would\nprobably never have started working on Dropbox.\n\n~~~\nsaihan-tal\nNew York is pretty chilling tonight. I just asked my cofounder \"would you find\nthe project hard to stick to if"
+"\n\nHeroku down for production and staging apps - julioademar\nhttps://status.heroku.com/incidents/554\n\n======\njulioademar\nI still dream of the day they'll let us set up different availability zones.\nNot that I'm sure this wouldn't occur, mind you.\n\n~~~\nsync\nDynos already run in different availability zones:\n[https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/production-\ncheck](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/production-check)\n\nYou can take that a step further by running dynos in the European (eu-west-1)\nregion:\n[https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/regions](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/regions)\n\n~~~\njulioademar\nThat's still in Beta though.\n\n~~~\nkxu\nI'm running a production webapp since May on the Heroku EU region, not a\nscratch since then. It's a Beta suited for production apps since February:\n\n\"Beta Testers,\n\nHeroku Europe is ready to begin running your production apps!\n\nCreate an app in the region:\n\n \n \n $ heroku create --region eu\n \n\nThen add add-ons, deploy, and scale as usual. Please note we're still adding\ncapacity in this area, so contact us if you expect to run more than 30 dynos\nor do more than 500 reqs/second on any app in Europe.\n\nAs always, private betas should be considered confidential. Please don\u2019t\ntweet, blog, or talk about this feature publicly until we announce it\nourselves.\n\nDocumentation:\n[https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/regions](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/regions)\nQuestions & feedback: eu-beta@heroku.com\n\nBest,\n\nThe Heroku Team\"\n\n~~~\nrichardwhiuk\n\"Please don\u2019t tweet, blog, or"
+"\nYour False-Equivalence Guide to the Days Ahead - jseliger\nhttp://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/09/your-false-equivalence-guide-to-the-days-ahead/280062/\n======\nlmg643\ni thought debt ceiling jockeying has been a normal feature of politics for at\nleast a decade. what is new this time is that the negotiating position of the\nout-of-power party is more aggressive, but the in-power party is also more\nintransigent - \"no negotiation.\" as they say, it takes two to tango.\n\ni saw jack lew on TV the other day, talking about how important it was that\nthe US uphold full faith and credit of its obligations. and of course that is\nimportant. but a borrower's creditworthiness is a function of many things,\nincluding total debt, growth in debt and interest rate on debt, etc.\n\nin short, the conversation at a national level is \"we should increase the debt\nceiling otherwise we won't be seen as a secure borrower\" but the flip side, of\nthe danger of continually increasing the debt load until lenders reach the\nsame conclusion for different reasons, is considered a crackpot\ninterpretation."
+"\nFree Public Universities - naveen99\nIf the democrats succeed in making public universities free, what will happen to the private university tuitions ? I wonder if the private universities will start lobbying against the democrats to prevent it... It\u2019s kind of similar to public free healthcare. Fee for service entities / insurance companies will suffer a downward pressure on business... but somehow the private universities seem politically separated from private insurance companies...\n======\nwajdiben\nFree Public Universities means more people with academic degrees. More people\nwith degrees means tougher job descriptions' requirements and lower pay. I\ncan't afford uni but I hope they won't make the mistakes other countries, like\nFrance, had done.\n\n------\ngshdg\nCheck out how it works in other countries that have both publicly funded and\nprivate education.\n\nThe losers here would not be the elite private institutions, which will always\nhave high demand and did even 50 years ago when public higher education was\nsufficiently subsidized that almost anyone could afford it with a summer job.\n\n(Many of those institutions are already offering free tuition to lower and\nmiddle income students anyway. And they\u2019re all incorporated as nonprofit\nentities.)\n\nThe losers would be the low quality for-profit"
+"\nAsk HN: How much copying another person's software idea is frowned upon? - MiaDavis\nI have recently discovered a really beautiful and brilliantly designed SaaS app that I am now using every day. I wanted to learn from it, and, as an exercise, to practice my frontend dev skills, I have essentially copied this app. My design is a bit different, and I've improved a couple of things, but it's still essentially the same app(it's really hard to significantly improve upon, the original author has really done it right). Now I realize, that if I will launch my version to the public, I could make a lot of money and achieve my dream of running a profitable SaaS. I'm highly confident that it will work, and there's plenty of space in the market for both of us. I'm also pretty sure that I won't run into copyright issues - my app is using a different tech stack and doesn't share any of the code with the original. But I'm feeling a bit guilty for doing this, it feels like stealing. The original app is built by two very smart and good people, and is beloved by many users. Even though I will probably"
+"\nThe FBI\u2019s Massive Facial Recognition Database Raises Concern - ghosh\nhttp://singularityhub.com/2014/04/27/the-fbi-has-a-massive-facial-recognition-database-but-is-it-ready-for-primetime/\n======\nlifeisstillgood\nI feel this is the least worrying database around, because of a the simple\ncheck on its accuracy and the biometric used.\n\nFacial recognition is what we humans are all about - we have surprisingly\nstrong taboos about covering up this very useful and universal biometric\nalready and any flaws in the algorithm or software are much much easier to\nchallenge than DNA tests (I can stand up to a jury all day and say it was not\nme, and they will most likely believe a DNA expert. show them a picture of\nsomeone who just looked like me and they will all use millions of years of\nevolution to set me free)\n\nYes it is worrying that any mass databases are being compiled, and yes we must\ndebate as a civilisation how we are going to mitigate the downsides and\npromote the upsides, but this is not a disaster. not like PRISM.\n\n~~~\npessimizer\nIf the only thing you're worried about concerning mass surveillance is that it\ncould be inaccurate, I can see why you aren't worried.\n\n~~~\nlifeisstillgood\nThat's a little disingenuous no?\n\nThere are"
+"\nEuropean Parliament approves overhaul of online copyright rules - btilly\nhttps://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-approves-copyright-reform-in-final-vote/\n======\nbtilly\nYes, I'm aware that this is going to attract strong political opinions.\n\nHowever anyone who, for instance, hosts reviews or discussion forums that\nEuropeans use need to be aware that under European law they will need to seek\ncopyright licenses and install European-specified filtering software to avoid\nbeing liable for what users choose to post. This will affect a lot of online\ncompanies.\n\nHopefully US courts will not enforce European court decisions about European\ncopyright claims for activity that falls under the DCMA safe harbor in the\nUSA. However if you're a European site or have European customers, the story\nmay be very different and you should be paying close attention to this."
+"\n\nWhy Fukushima Daiichi won't be another Chernobyl - michaelchisari\nhttp://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20257-why-fukushima-daiichi-wont-be-another-chernobyl.html?full=true\n\n======\nbioh42_2\nI'm getting pretty tired of this meme.\n\nChernobyl was horrific! It happened at a time and in place that did not care\nmuch about safety or human lives. The technology was primitive. Safety\nmechanisms had been turned off. The response to the accident was to send\npeople on a suicide mission while telling everyone else everything was hunky\ndory. It was a a horrific disaster.\n\nHow the hell could Fukushima be as bad?\n\nAnd what is the point of all of this anyway?\n\nLook, I think we should use a lot more nuclear power, yes despite the fact\nthat I grew up down wind of Chernobyl and with Fukushima still happening, I\nSTILL think we should all drive electric cars that get their electricity from\nnuclear power.\n\nBut I want those nuclear plants to as safe as technology can make them. And I\nwelcome higher per kilowatt prices to make this happen. What I don't want is\nnukes on the cheap, as this particular GE model of reactor appears to have\nbeen marketed.\n\nAnd I am really getting sick of the chorus of the last couple of days"
+"\n\nHeroku for PHP - Private Beta Signup - cardmagic\nhttp://phpfog.com/\n\n======\nmdasen\nI don't think there's a huge market for what Heroku does in the PHP world.\nWith Rails, you want to run it as a long-running process. The amount of time\nto spin up a (Thin|Mongrel|Unicorn|etc.) is too long to do it based on a user\nrequest for a page and it's why Rails isn't run as a CGI.\n\nPHP is a bit different. The language is typically embedded in the server and\nthen the individual files are parsed and run. There's little configuration\nother than uploading the files since the server can just interpret the files\nending in \".php\".\n\nHeroku needs to be able to put your application code on multiple servers and\nknow which servers are responsible for your application. When one of your\nThins isn't working, they need to kill it and spawn a new one, potentially on\na new server and make sure they update their routing table. It's a tad\ncomplicated.\n\nPHP Fog doesn't have to do much. Heroku is running around 65,000 applications.\nAssuming that applications are under 30MB (for the hard drive), a RAID-1 with\n2TB drives on every server they have"
+"\n\nAgainst Tolerance - mbrubeck\nhttp://tim.dreamwidth.org/1844711.html\n\n======\nchrismcb\nThe author says \"But we know that Brendan has already inserted his views on\nour relationships where those views don't belong: into the workings of the\ngovernment, by means of making a political donation. \" Isn't the whole point\nof democracy to insert your views into the workings of the government. To make\npolitical donations to people that you think have similar points to you? If\nyou can't make a political donation, with your own money, then what can you\ndo?\n\nOne thing I don't get, do people think this guy is going to be a miserable\nleader and a bad businessman? Does the author think only people who believe\nthe same things as the author can lead?\n\nThe title was \"against tolerance.\" I thought the author was going to rant\nabout how intolerant some gays are. But instead he is saying he won't tolerate\nsomeone else having an opinion that differs with his own.\n\nI would be willing to bet every CEO out there has made a political\ncontribution or voted for someone that \"interfered\" with the authors personal\nlife.\n\n------\njedanbik\nIt's incredibly bold to make a public statement like this."
+"\nHow to access a PayPal business account from any country - p17b\nhttps://medium.com/e-residency-blog/how-to-access-a-paypal-business-account-from-any-country-f5360419fed8\n======\njaclaz\nThe point of the article is about how to access anything _from Estonia_ ,\nafter having accessed Estonia \"from any country\".\n\nTL;DR:\n\nOnce you become an Estonian e-resident, and have registered a company in\nEstonia, you can use Paypal but also forget about it and choose instead any\ndifferent payment provider such as \"this\" (but mentioning Paypal business\naccount in the title gets more views/reads than mentioning \"this\").\n\n------\njfries\nPayPal are notorious for semi-randomly closing accounts, especially when the\nusage deviates a little bit from the norm. I wouldn't go the route described\nin the article if I depended on this income, even if it seems innocent."
+"\nWhat Living with an Eye Patch in a Big City Taught Me - dnetesn\nhttp://cancer.nautil.us/article/203/what-living-with-an-eye-patch-in-a-big-city-taught-me\n======\njessaustin\nI'm surprised that the author didn't mention the several times a year random\nstrangers will yell \"Yarr!\" out of the window of a passing car, as they do at\nme. Even if that doesn't happen to her, this condition must be harder for a\nwoman than it has been for me, so she has my sympathy.\n\nI'm always willing to \"show\" children that there isn't an eye under the patch,\nif they want. The same goes for adults who seem childlike enough. (Don't\nlaugh, there are lots of these people around.) Those who are merely dull\nenough to require immediate satisfaction of their idle curiosities about the\ndeeply personal circumstances of others, never get the truth. We should all\npractice extemporaneous lying, and this may be the most valuable aspect of\nmonocularity to me. It's easy to say \"knife fight\", although it takes a bit\nmore effort to sell that. Instead, maybe someone might be more ready to hear\nabout an embarrassing incident involving office furniture repair?\n\n------\nmcenedella\nWhat a beautifully written, honest, and wonderfully human story. The author\nmakes an impossibly"
+"\nI'm sorry, HN. I built an open-source coding platform but I need help - arthtyagi\nhttps://github.com/the-domecode\n======\narthtyagi\nTo all the readers who have already read about my platform on HN, I apologize\nfor constantly posting the same thing. It might come off as rude and indecent\nand I can assure you that those are not my intentions.\n\nI'm in highschool right now and over the past ~8 weeks, I made an open source\ncoding platform called DomeCode. \"DomeCode is an open source platform to help\nyou advance your coding journey with pre-existing resources to learn\nprogramming concepts ( in Python as of now ), take notes, plan tasks, practice\ncoding problems in 6 different languages including, Python, Go, Java, C++, C\nor Rust. You can also discuss interesting stuff on the forum, meet other\ndevelopers and most all even get to listen to music conveniently without ever\nleaving this open source platform to navigate to paid platforms.\" This is what\nthe description on my platform's landing page suggests and for the most part,\nthat explains it well.\n\nHowever, the issue is that it's kind of hard to acquire users, all the users I\nhave gotten till now ( 237"
+"\n\nWho Really Benefits From Interest Deductions - 001sky\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/realestate/mortgages-who-really-benefits-from-interest-deductions.html\n\n======\nmooism2\nIt's only talking about mortgage interest.\n\nThat's a pity. I'd like to read a well-written piece about how interest\ndeduction for business works out. It seems designed to make it easier for\nbusinesses to invest, but I wonder how the costs of leveraged buyouts etc\ncompare.\n\n~~~\n001sky\nThe analysis is the same. The tax-deduction is a subsidy to the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_dFd6UhdV8 Why is applying the DRY principle to documentation not more prevalent?\n======\nchalst\nIt's straightforward in the text-based formats used to create man pages\n(troff) and in subsequent native documentation formats: Texinfo, various Wiki\nand Markdown-inspired syntaxes, etc. It might be that relatively little\ndocumentation is created in Word by people who want the process to be as\nefficient as possible (as opposed to copy-writers who charge by the hour)."
+"\nDo Not, I Repeat, Do Not Download Onavo, Facebook\u2019s Vampiric VPN Service - ourmandave\nhttps://gizmodo.com/do-not-i-repeat-do-not-download-onavo-facebook-s-vam-1822937825\n======\ndfee\nWhat\u2019s most alarming are the AppStore reviews [0] - a majority of the authors\nappear to have downloaded the app after clicking a banner ad which claimed\ntheir iPhone had viruses.\n\nFor example: \u201cI just downloaded it today because of four viruses so I hope it\nhelps get rid of them\u201d - burnt tacos\n\n[0] [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/onavo-protect-vpn-\nsecurity/i...](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/onavo-protect-vpn-\nsecurity/id577491499?mt=8)\n\n------\ndegenerate\nHow can any self-respecting programmer at FB work on a project like this? At\nleast most of the IE6 toolbar spyware had some useful purpose for the end-\nuser... smileys, pagerank, search bar etc...\n\nThis on the other hand is straight up deception in my mind. Hot air. Prove me\nwrong? What benefit does anyone get from installing this?\n\n~~~\nbeckler\nUnfortunately, ethics is not a course taught in most college majors, and is\nvirtually non-existent in public schools.\n\n~~~\nsli\nIs it not? Every major at my STEM uni was required to take an ethics course.\nSometimes multiple, depending on the field.\n\n~~~\ndouko\nI graduated relatively recently, and only had to take one- it turned out to be\na semester long"
+"\n\nNew Zealand admits illegally spying on Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom - 8ig8\nhttp://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/27/14120478-new-zealand-admits-illegally-spying-on-megaupload-founder-kim-dotcom?lite\n\n======\nbeedogs\nThis is my surprised face.\n\nOther western countries do what is asked of them when the US comes calling.\n\n~~~\ndmm\nThe US government is the last true sovereign.\n\n~~~\ntomjen3\nRIAA is the last true sovereign.\n\n------\nrolux\nIn other news, New Zealand's prime minister seems to have issued a public\napology to Kim Dotcom:\n\n[https://torrentfreak.com/new-zealand-prime-minister-\napologiz...](https://torrentfreak.com/new-zealand-prime-minister-apologizes-\nto-kim-dotcom-120927/)\n\n------\nOhArgh\nAh but New Zealand still doesn't let the US nuclear powered ships in their\nwaters! I find myself in a similar position and have resolved that, at a bare minimum, I need to involve math in my life at least in a recreational way, if not in a professional way. Although this could be fun completely solo, I'd like to have like-minded people to talk to about this. Since my location is somewhat rural and because of COVID, I'd like to commune with other math people online. For clarity, when I think about involving math in my life, I'm thinking about picking up where I left off with abstract algebra, real and complex analysis, and maybe some theoretic physics. So HN, the question is, where are the other math lovers hanging out online?\n======\nakully\nI imagine you could roam around the subreddits and check out what's up.\n\nI also imagine that (at least this"
+"\n\nVolatile is Evil - indy\nhttp://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/2010/12/04/SayonaraVolatile.aspx\n\n======\nalextingle\nIt is very annoying that 'volatile' means different things in different\nlanguages. Inexcusable that Microsoft should unilaterally change the meaning\nof 'volatile' in their C++ compiler, adding yet another #ifdef into everyone's\ncode.\n\n~~~\ndfox\nBoth C and C++ defines volatile as something like \"Access to volatile objects\nare evaluated strictly according to the rules of the abstract machine.\" (exact\nwording from some old draft of C++0x I have here) with C explicitly noting\nthat \"What constitutes an access to an object that has volatile-qualified type\nis implementation-defined.\" (ISO 9899 6.7.3.6). So there is not many to say\nabout what volatile means without knowing exact implementation (and\nimplementation should document what volatile exactly means).\n\nI don't see what Microsoft could do to unilaterally change meaning of\nsomething that is almost completely implementation-defined.\n\n~~~\nJoachimSchipper\nI'm not so sure that your reading of the standard is correct. From n1256.pdf,\nthe essentially unchanged and freely available draft of the C99 standard:\n\n(5.1.2.3.2): Accessing a volatile object, ..., or calling a function that does\nany of those operations are all side effects...\n\n(5.1.2.3.3): In the abstract machine, all expressions are evaluated as\nspecified by the"
+"\n\nAn Ambitious Plan for Putting Kickstarter Out of Business - KenjiCrosland\nhttp://www.mrteacup.org/post/an-ambitious-plan-for-putting-kickstarter-out-of-business.html\n\n======\nthegrossman\nKickstarter is nothing more than a web hosting company? Pardon?\n\nI recently raised more than $38k from Kickstarter. There is absolutely no\ndoubt in my mind that I wouldn't have been able to raise nearly that amount by\nthrowing up a website and going it alone.\n\nHere are some stats (for this project:\n[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jackadam/dark-sky-\nhyperl...](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jackadam/dark-sky-hyperlocal-\nweather-prediction-and-visuali))\n\n1) 32.26% of our funds came from visitors who found our page through the\nKickstarter newsletter.\n\n2) In total, 56% of funds came from visitors finding us via other Kickstarter\npages (their home page, category sections, etc).\n\n3) 44% were referred to from external sources.\n\nBut here's the thing: the external links were primarily due to the publicity\nwe got from Kickstarter's promotional efforts. We got mentioned on Wired, Fast\nCompany, the New York Times, and CNN.com -- not because we reached out to\nthem, but because of the large number of people talking about us after finding\nus on the Kickstarter site itself.\n\nIn the end, Kickstarter enabled us to raise tens of thousands of dollars and\nin return took a measly 5%.\n\n------\nbrador\nIt's called a marketplace."
+"\nApple Shortcuts User Guide - sunraa\nhttps://support.apple.com/guide/shortcuts/welcome/ios\n======\nthanatos_dem\nGiven other people's response, I'm clearly the odd one out here, but I found\nit buggy and infuriating to use. I wanted what I can't imagine is a unique\nshortcut, \"Good Morning\", which should:\n\n\\- Set the volume to 50% on my home pod\n\n\\- Start playing an ambient radio station in Apple Music\n\n\\- Start a slow fade in on my bedroom lights\n\nIt's been a nightmare, and I finally gave up altogether. I got my shortcut\nconfigured and set up with Siri. It's pretty simple, being only 3 steps, so I\ndon't see where there's that much room to go off the rails, but oh boy does\nit.\n\nThe HomePod responds, and says \"okay, running your shortcut\". It then sets the\nvolume on my _phone_ to 50% and starts playing music there instead. It then\ntries and probably 80% of the time fails to set the home scene to turn on the\nlights. When it fails, it says \"Please continue on your iPhone\", where Siri's\noutput states that it doesn't understand, as if I misspoke something to it...\nbut it's running a set list of commands, there's no room"
+"\nHow do you really \"Meet people at networking events\"? - japanesejay\nHi HN! For the last few years, I've been venturing into the consulting business, I mainly do UX focused web development and have built some mobile apps for my clients. It started as part-time freelance work and has slowly built up where I have a business partner and a few good people working with me on a part-time basis. I really want this to grow so I can stop moonlighting and treat this as a full-time gig (hard to do with the high cost of living in the bay area). I've been trying to \"network\" and \"meet people\" but even at the last event (Vmworld), but everybody seemed chummy chummy with each other, the bloggers had their circle, the sales folks had their own circle and as an introverted \"tech\" guy, I couldn't create an opportunity for myself to jump into a conversation. I ended up talking to a few people but it all ended in small talk. So HNers, I look to you guys for some advice. How do you approach people to initiate the conversations? I know having a hook helps, any other tactics worth noting?\n======\nlimedaring\nFirst, smaller"
+"\n\nI Use GitHub.app and You Should Too - bbaumgar\nhttp://bbaumgar.svbtle.com/githubapp\n\n======\nbradleyland\nI too find Git to be the kind of tool that works well through a GUI. However,\nI went one step further and bought Tower [1]. In addition to the many things\nthat GitHub.app does, Tower takes things one step further. If you tried using\nGitHub.app, but ran up against a Git activity that isn't exposed through the\napp, then you should take a serious look at Tower.\n\nOne specific example is partial commits within a single file. Tower shows a\ndiff view of edited files that breaks edits from different regions of a single\nfile in to chunks. You can stage/un-stage these chunks right through the GUI.\nThis is very similar to `git add -p filename.ext`, but with a very nice GUI.\n\n1: [http://www.git-tower.com](http://www.git-tower.com)\n\n------\ntiquorsj\nIt still has major issues. But, for many things it is absolutely better to\nhave a GUI.\n\n------\nmcmillion\nI use SourceTree for most of these same reasons."
+"\nJohn Carmack's BAFTA Introduction, Speech and Interview [video] - nailer\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyjJrF2gJ34\n======\ndb1\nReally inspiring. I really loved his comment about how there are always new\nopportunities and new waves for people to ride. This is something I've always\npersonally struggled with, the feeling that everything has already been done\nand that I've missed the boat.\n\nI guess a lot of these things are only obvious in hindsight. People are\nexploring all sorts of ideas right now, but it won't be obvious which ones are\nthe winners and the losers until 10 years from now.\n\n~~~\njacobolus\nDepending how far down the ladder you go, some ideas take longer than that.\n\nFor example, geometric algebra, invented by Hermann Grassmann more than 150\nyears ago, is the biggest \u201cnew\u201d idea in mathematical modeling of geometry, and\nit\u2019ll probably take another 50 years more to percolate down throughout math\neducation and physics and engineering practice.\n\n~~~\n9erdelta\nDo you have any interesting reads about geometric algebra being the \"new\"\nthing?\n\n~~~\ntheoh\nNot the parent poster, but I have some experience of geometric algebra being\npromoted as a superior language for geometric computing. This started for me\nin the first year of"
+"\nThe enigma behind America's 20-year lobster boom - katiey\nhttp://qz.com/506376\n======\nhammock\nIt's a mystery? Have always believed it due to the overfishing of cod.\nHistorically there has been an overabundance of lobsters.\n\n _When the colonists first arrived on the shores of New England, ...lobsters\nused to wash up on shore in drifts two-feet tall. One 17th century British\nhistorian by the name of William Wood visited Newfoundland and noted, \"Their\nplenty makes them little esteemed and seldom eaten [except by the Indians who]\nget many of them every day for to baite their hooks withal and to eat when\nthey can get no bass.\"_\n\n[http://factually.gizmodo.com/lobsters-were-once-only-fed-\nto-...](http://factually.gizmodo.com/lobsters-were-once-only-fed-to-poor-\npeople-and-prisoner-1612356919)\n\n _Some contemporary Canadians remember kids from poor towns, as late as the\n1940s, trading lobster sandwiches for peanut butter and jelly in the school\ncafeteria._\n\n[http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/03/how-lobster-\nclaw...](http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/03/how-lobster-clawed-its-\nway)\n\n------\nclaar\nYet you still have to pay $20+ for it in a restaurant.\n[https://econfix.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/a-glut-of-\nlobsters-...](https://econfix.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/a-glut-of-lobsters-but-\nwhy-are-prices-in-restaurants-still-high/)\n\n~~~\ndouche\nAnd it's $3-5 a pound off the boats. Cheaper than burgers for your New England\nsummer barbecue.\n\n~~~\nTuring_Machine\nSame thing with Alaska salmon. Reds (sockeye) were netting the fishermen 50\ncents a pound this summer, but try pricing it in a store, much less"
+"\nFormer Freemium Developer Details the Grim Mechanics of F2P Mobile Games - uhhyeahdude\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/7igijd/i_was_a_game_designer_at_a_freetoplay_game\n======\nuhhyeahdude\nFrom the Developer's Introduction:\n\n\" _Cracks Knuckles_ Let's do this dance!\n\n* My soul is the chase prize in a lootbox, along with other, extremely valuable content (gotta be in good company after all). We'll call this box 'The Soul Box'.\n\n* You can't directly purchase The Soul Box from the store. It's a rare drop on a powerful, Dark Souls style boss monster. High HP, insta-kill attacks, very timing heavy, the works. We'll just call this 'The Boss Monster'.\n\n* The only way to fight The Boss Monster is with a Boss Fight Ticket, which is the rare chase prize in the 'The Wheel Game Loot Box'. A ticket cannot be obtained any other way.\n\n* The Wheel Game Loot Box can __only __be obtained by getting the Five Keys from the Wheel Game. It costs hard currency (currency bought with real money) to spin the Wheel. Getting the Keys is rare, spins usually get you lesser loot boxes. Each of the Five Keys is different, and you can get duplicates. This means that you could have 20 of the other Keys, but"
+"\nPlaying with Wolfram Playing Cards - Adrock\nhttp://adereth.github.io/blog/2017/11/02/playing-with-wolfram-playing-cards/\n======\ngodelski\nIf the OP is here, I found the cup on their site. It lets me put it in my cart\n\n[http://store.wolfram.com/view/misc/index.str#heart-spikey-\nmu...](http://store.wolfram.com/view/misc/index.str#heart-spikey-mug)\n\n~~~\nAdrock\nThey put it back in the store after they saw my tweet :p\n\n~~~\ngodelski\nThat's a lot of power. Use it wisely.\n\n------\ntsomctl\nI'm always amazed by how expressive Mathematica is. Writing some of these\nexpressions imperatively would be significantly more than one line.\n\n~~~\nfjsolwmv\nThese are mostly just API calls with arguments, with some simple lambdas. You\ncan implement that in any language.\n\n~~~\nmaliker\nI think the magic of Mathematica is the combination of (1) a huge collection\nof well-maintained CAS and math functions (2) great graphics and animation\nsupport (3) the notebook interface (which jupyter is catching up on fast) and\n(4) some of the best documentation in the industry.\n\nModifying the Mathematica code after its written, however, is very tricky.\n\n~~~\nblt\nEven if some of the components in Mathematica are not state-of-the-art,\nthere's a huge synergy benefit from having everything together in one\nenvironment, using the same datatypes. I think that's the big benefit of\nMathematica and Matlab."
+"\nMicrosoft to Open Retail Stores Next to Apple\u2019s - nreece\nhttp://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/microsoft-to-open-retail-stores-next-to-apples/\n======\nicey\nIf they get into the PC support business (as suggested in the article); I\nforesee doom for the Geek Squad / any other consumer tech support shop.\n\nThey don't even have to be any good at support; they will get plenty of\ncustomers just by having the Microsoft name.\n\n~~~\ndrhowarddrfine\nThe Geek Squad services more than just Microsoft stuff.\n\n~~~\nicey\nThe question is whether they will be left with enough business to stay alive.\nI'm positive their bread and butter is windows issues. Why would anyone go see\nthe Geek Squad with a Windows issue when they can go see \"the Microsoft guy\"?"
+"\nAsk HN: What companies have private offices for programmers? - ken\nI've read and heard from lots of programmers who want them, but I've only ever heard of about two software companies that offer them. careers.stackoverflow.com has "Joel Test" scores for some entries, but companies seem pretty loose with the "quiet working conditions" criterion. One of them claims a point for that, but then brags about their "open layout" office. I'm not looking for yet another debate over the pros/cons of offices/cubes/open layout, nor a list of earplug/headphone/desk indicators as mitigation.\n======\npbiggar\nCircleCI - I signed the lease on Monday :)\n\n[https://circleci.com/jobs](https://circleci.com/jobs) \\- see also\n[http://blog.circleci.com/silence-is-for-the-\nweak/](http://blog.circleci.com/silence-is-for-the-weak/)\n\n~~~\nan___\nLooking at the job site [https://circleci.com/jobs](https://circleci.com/jobs)\nclick on \"For back-end/full stack developers\"\n\n \n \n Some of the characteristics we're looking for:\n ...\n - young, raw, talented devs who can crank out code,\n \n \n\nAre they really looking to hire young developers only or am I misunderstanding\nthe job description?\n\n~~~\npbiggar\nNo absolutely not. Some other context from the page:\n\n\"we've noticed that the following correlate with the type of people that we\nwant to work with. This is not an exhaustive list, nor a list of requirements\n(in fact, some of them are contradictory),"
+"\n\nAsk HN: Please review my startup crowdmind.com - richesh\nhttp://alpha.crowdmind.com\n\n======\nanigbrowl\nAt first I thought it was just another of those 'ask the intarwebs!' sites\nwhere people just twitter or post to each other, but on further inspection I\nwas very taken with the scoring system and the ability to rate the poster's\ngood and bad reasons.\n\nIt looks like quite a bit more work to create the question than is usually the\ncase, which might be a disincentive for some - although it will also help them\nto focus on the issue at hand. The layout is a little confusing at first and\ngod only knows why you made the search box background color to dark grey\nagainst a black background - I found myself wondering why there was a search\nbutton with no search box until I looked more closely. I think you could use a\none line explanation like 'Our members help you rate and discover your\noptions' on the landing page, because it took me a couple of minutes to\nrealize that the stars and ratings were functional rather than mere window-\ndressing. your 'about' page does this very well, why not use the top"
+"\nOSX For Hackers - zackattack\nhttps://gist.github.com/2260182\n======\njamessb\nThis seems to be a copy of Mathias Bynen's Dotfiles\n( If you have a phone with pay as you go service and for some reason you don't pay the bill for a month, you will lose your number. \nThen a few months later someone buying a new sim card will have your old number, so if they download lyft they will have your account with your credit card. And guess what? They can have free rides charged to your credit card!!! So there's a creepy guy taking lyft rides in san francisco with my account. \nThe best part is that I can't remove the credit card from that account because I no longer have that phone number, so I can't access my account! I sent an email to Lyft support but no one answered.\n======\nextc\nHere's a strange Lyft scenario. I tried to send my friend a Lyft invite so we\ncould both get a discount. He got the invite link, downloaded the app and put\nin his phone number. It"
+"\n\nCalifornia poised to implement first electronic license plates - suprgeek\nhttp://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/california-poised-to-implement-nations-first-electronic-license-plate-program\n\n======\nbyoung2\nWould an electronic license plate still draw power when the vehicle is parked?\nThat could be a problem if it drains your battery. Also, wouldn't the car need\nto be altered to run power to the outside of the vehicle? Also, what is to\nstop hacking? It is more difficult to swap out physical license plates\nquickly, but I can imagine bootleg electronic ones that allow electronic\nswapping on the fly, e.g. display the fake one while speeding.\n\n~~~\nlutusp\n> Would an electronic license plate still draw power when the vehicle is\n> parked?\n\nNo, it's like an RFID tag. It gets its power from the reader that queries it.\n\n~~~\nbyoung2\nSo it can't be seen from a distance when parked...sounds like a big drawback.\n\n------\nTheLoneWolfling\nSo... What happens if/when signals are jammed/spoofed?\n\nAlso, if indeed it is a changing display, it requires power to do so. What\nabout draining batteries caused by that? Not to mention what about small\nmotercycles, that don't always have a 12v electrical system, if they have one\nat all?"
+"\nCarrier Hotels Are Sexy Again - 1SockChuck\nhttps://datacenterfrontier.com/netrality-carrier-hotels/\n======\naaronem\nFor those like me who'd never heard the term \"carrier hotel\", it's what is (in\nthe US perhaps much more commonly) also known as a colocation center.\n\n~~~\nchinathrow\nMore peering sites/IXes than colo in this case.\n\n~~~\npyvpx\nthough in reality, today the difference is almost academic. One Wilshire is\nknown as _the_ carrier hotel in Los Angeles, if not all of the US. The 4th\nfloor meet-me room was widely known as the most expensive real estate on the\nwest coast, at one time.\n\nWhile many large, international networks still setup inside One Wilshire at a\npremium, if I just need cross connects, I can get them for exactly the same\nprice inside Wilshire Annex -- a more \"colocation for server farms\" oriented\nbuilding that is slightly cheaper and much larger (for individual spaces, not\nin total conditioned square footage, iirc).\n\nWhy do large international carriers pay the premium for being in the \"carrier\nhotel\" One Wilshire? Because they don't want to rely on CoreSite (the\nbuildings and associated interconnection infrastructure management company)\ninfrastructure. They want \"home runs\" to the other large international\ncarriers they interconnect with and"
+"\n\nCreative demo of HTML5 canvas - vl\nhttp://mrdoob.com/projects/harmony/\n\n======\nolalonde\nWas posted here a few days ago.\n\n~~~\npan69\nAnd a few days before that... I don't like going into the 'old'ing but I was\nunder the impression that there was a URL check when posting doubles on HN.\nMaybe I was wrong...\n\n~~~\nfnid2\nThe fancy HN dup checker doesn't look at #'s in the url.\n\n------\nmlLK\nThere is a lot of interesting code in here; I took the liberty to beautify the\nJavaScript here, Is this an oversight or is there a reason for still displaying the quote so prominently? Of course I'm not asking whether it was a mistake to invest in Homejoy at all, it just seems like a funny decision to leave them up there when I'm sure they have enough quotations from founders who's companies are still going strong... What am I missing?\n======\nmarina_shumaeva\nLouisswiss, haven`t you thought that today is weekend and maybe administrators\nof the web site just didn't have time to change this?\n\n~~~\nColinWright\n\n > A few weeks after Homejoy announced\n > that they're closing down, ...\n \n\nIf it's been weeks, then maybe the question is valid. Their blog post[0] on\nJuly 17, 2015 announced their imminent closure.\n\n[0] [http://blog.homejoy.com/homejoy-says-\ngoodbye/](http://blog.homejoy.com/homejoy-says-goodbye/)\n\n~~~\nmarina_shumaeva\nHomejoy officially closed its doors on July 31st.\n\n~~~\nColinWright\nSo you think that YC should ignore the announcement, and still wait not only\nuntil after the announcement, and after"
+"\nA Recommendation for Google's Webspam Team - duck\nhttp://www.seomoz.org/blog/a-recommendation-for-googles-webspam-team\n======\nWillyF\nI like Rand's proposed solution, and I'm confident that the folks at Google\ncan come up with something even better and more effective.\n\nI'm finding that natural link building is getting harder and harder. Much of\nthis is because social media sites (that often use nofollow) are now how\npeople talk about stuff they like. And when they do have a Tumblr or\nWordpress.com blog, the links aren't very valuable.\n\nMost of the valuable links that I've been able to build lately have come from\nmy asking people to link to my sites. In a way, we're seeing more and more\nPageRank inequality. The people who control the sites with the most link\nequity know what they have, and they're not willing to share.\n\nI'm lucky that my niche isn't completely commercial, so there are still plenty\nof easy, valuable links to build, but I can't imagine how tough it would be to\nSEO a site in a competitive, commercial niche.\n\n------\njefflinwood\nRand's blog post demonstrates that there's now a pretty big disconnect between\nanchor text keywords and actual link quality - he makes an excellent point\nthat"
+"\nVirtualBox hotfix now available for OS X 10.8.2 problem - isaacsu\nhttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10965#comment:21\n======\nmitchellh\nLet me go over the anatomy of the actual bug, to the best of my understanding,\nso that people can better understanding what is going on here. Note that I'm\nthe Vagrant creator, not a VirtualBox hacker, not a kernel hacker (though I've\nhad my fair share of both in the past few years).\n\nThere is a feature of Intel CPUs called VT-x extensions. Without going into\ndetail: VT-x is set of features built natively into some intel processors to\nimprove virtualization. Any recent desktop/laptop Intel processor has these.\nFor reasons unknown to me, these extensions are typically disabled by default.\nVirtualBox, VMWare, Parallels all contain code to enable these automatically\nfor you. Enabling VT-x extensions requires ring-0 (kernel level) API calls.\nTherefore, it is up to the kernel extension to enable these.\n\nMac OS X 10.6 and greater supports native kernel APIs for doing this[1]. Prior\nto 10.6, you'd have to directly query the CPUs and modify CPU registers\nyourself, and icky business prone to some massive failure. Native APIs are\npretty nice. In Darwin (the OS X kernel), these APIs are `host_vmxon` and\n`host_vmxoff`."
+"\nLayoffs and Loyalty in a Liquid Valley - tim_sw\nhttps://medium.com/@louisgray/layoffs-and-loyalty-in-a-liquid-valley-4b42bd5e26d7\n======\nhwstar\nYou need to be prepared at all times. You never know when (not if) they are\ngoing to come for you. I lasted 25 years and 11 months at one company before\nthey came for me. (In hindsight, I should have quit long before the company\ngot into such dire straits, but it was an easy commute, and the co-workers\nwere great people to work with)\n\nLayoffs in the tech industry will happen. An emergency fund or F.U. money is\nrequired to deal with it. Once you are over 50 like me, you need to be in a\nposition financially to live several years without a paycheck because it could\ntake years for the job market dynamics to change and become more favourable\nfor the employee.\n\nDuring the time you are out of work for a long stretch take some time to learn\nsome new skills, contributing to open source software is an excellent way to\ndo this.\n\nYou must always place your interests ahead of the company you are currently\nworking for, the company is not going to place your interests ahead of it's\nown. You are"
+"\nLiterate Commits (2016) - pcorey\nhttp://www.petecorey.com/blog/2016/07/11/literate-commits/\n======\nsimonw\nI went through a phase a few years ago of writing ESSAYS in my commit\nmessages, on the basis that they were the only form of documentation which I\ntrusted to stay 100% synchronized with the code.\n\nEventually I realized that there's a better way to do this: keep your\ndocumentation in the same repo as your code, and construct commits that update\nthe documentation AND the tests AND the code all in the same unit. Now your\ncommit message can be much shorter, but you still guarantee that the\ndocumentation is exactly aligned with the code that it talks about.\n\nIt also means you can add unit tests that check that code is covered by your\ndocumentation! [https://simonwillison.net/2018/Jul/28/documentation-unit-\ntes...](https://simonwillison.net/2018/Jul/28/documentation-unit-tests/)\n\n~~~\nlytedev\nJust to bring up a neat point, this doesn't guarantee that the documentation\nand the code are the same, as you could change code without updating\ndocumentation.\n\nA very slick way of enforcing this that I've seen is having actual unit tests\nin your documentation (and of course a CI tool to enforce that tests pass).\nThis is something that I think is extremely cool about Elixir! It forces you"
+"\n\nCountUp.js - electic\nhttp://inorganik.github.io/countUp.js/\n\n======\nzackbloom\nYou might also want to look at Odometer:\n[http://github.hubspot.com/odometer/docs/welcome/](http://github.hubspot.com/odometer/docs/welcome/)\n\n~~~\nianstormtaylor\nWow, really nicely done on that landing page. Curious, why'd you make the API\ndepend on a class name instead of assuming something more common like:\n\n \n \n odometer(el, 42);\n\n~~~\nzackbloom\nWe've been having fun building things lately with transparent APIs. e.g. You\ndrop Pace[1] in a page, and it figures out how to create a progress bar from\nit.\n\nOdometer is nifty in this way because you can still just set the value with\ninnerHTML or .html, and it will animate it, so the overhead of adding it\nbecomes just adding the class to whatever elements you'd like.\n\nYou can actually also manually instantiate one pretty much exactly as you\ndescribed:\n\n \n \n new Odometer({el: el, value: 42});\n \n\n[1] -\n[http://github.hubspot.com/pace/docs/welcome/](http://github.hubspot.com/pace/docs/welcome/)\n\n~~~\nianstormtaylor\nWow, Pace just blew my mind. You guys are releasing some really awesome stuff\n:) random other thing is would be sweet if these were component[1] friendly.\n(Dunno if you've already checked out component, but it is insanely good for\nfront-end work.)\n\nOne pattern I picked up from reading TJ's code is the transparent\nconstructor...\n\n \n \n odometer(el).value(42);\n \n\n...which I like using to make"
+"\nThe Linux Graphics Stack - Adrock\nhttp://blog.mecheye.net/2012/06/the-linux-graphics-stack/\n======\nloudmax\nI can understand that Wayland does not want to pay for the complexity of\nnetwork transparency, but I'd be sorry to see it go entirely. I'm one of the\nfew people who do make use if X11's network transparency on a regular basis.\nBeing able to open a web browser on a machine that is several ssh hops away is\nawfully convenient. I hope that Wayland has some provisions for reproducing or\nemulating X11 even if it isn't built into the core.\n\n~~~\nasdfs\nThis may be incorrect; I have only vague familiarity with the subject. I don't\nknow if there are any non VNC-like solutions being worked on.\n\nWayland doesn't have network transparency as a first-class citizen, but it's\neasy to fit it into the mix. A bit of background:\n\nIn X11, the client sends the actual drawing commands (draw a line here, a\nsmooth gradient here, a pixmap here, a curved line here, etc.) over a network\npipe. The X server on the other end takes those commands and builds the\nresulting image.\n\nIn Wayland, your program just transfers (well, using shared memory) complete\nimages of the entire window"
+"\nA Tender Hand in the Presence of Death - wallflower\nhttp://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/11/the-work-of-a-hospice-nurse\n======\nkeithflower\nThe rotation I did through a hospice service when I was a fourth year medical\nstudent was one of the most meaningful experiences of my life.\n\nHospice staff are experts at effective pain-wrangling (pain in all its many\nmanifestations), and, as they say, in helping people _live_ until they die.\n\nI'm grateful for the teaching - from both clinicians and patients.\n\n------\nggamecrazy\nI do wonder sometimes if it's a gift or a curse to know that your eventual\ndeath is coming soon. Death is such a weird concept that at least I personally\nfeel I lack the hardware to fully comprehend or be at peace with (as of right\nnow anyway).\n\n~~~\npavlov\nI try to think of it as something that will feel like falling asleep. I don't\ndread sleeping, so I shouldn't dread dying either.\n\n~~~\nmikeash\nI'm not afraid of death, although I hope mine is delayed a long time for the\nsake of my family. I am, however, afraid of _dying_ , which is often a long\nand painful process.\n\n~~~\npavlov\nFair point. Everybody hopes they can go swiftly into the"
+"\n\u2018Human computer\u2019 Shakuntala Devi has died - sindhiparsani\nhttp://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/mathematical-genius-shakuntala-devi-no-more/article4640134.ece\n======\nshared4you\nI feel that she was a child-genius like Ramanujan, but was unfortunate to be\nnot \"discovered\" by a mentor like G.H.Hardy. She had great memorization skills\nand logical thinking, so obviously excelled at writing puzzles' books. It's a\npity that her contributions to modern mathematics is zilch. I still wonder why\ndidn't she take up number theory. She went into astrology (yea, not\nastronomy), which is still debated as a pseudo-science. She could've done so\nmuch, but alas it's too late now. But well, each person to his own, each\n-ology to itself. RIP.\n\n~~~\nceejayoz\nI don't think astrology is _debated_ as a pseudo-science.\n\n~~~\nfareesh\n+1, astrology is the poster child for pseudo-science.\n\n------\nwging\n>Rated as one in 58 million for her stupendous mathematical feats by one of\nthe fastest super-computers ever invented \u2014the Univac \u2014 1108 \u2014, Ms. Devi\nbelieved in using grey cells to silicon chips.\n\nThis is somewhat unclear. Wikipedia clears up what's probably meant here:\n\n>In 1977 in Dallas she competed with a computer to see who give the cube root\nof 188138517 faster. She won. At an American university she was"
+"\n\nSSH Keys on GitHub - MichaelTieso\nhttps://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=filename%3Aid_rsa&type=Code&ref=searchresults\n\n======\nGuyag\nPersonal favourite\n[https://github.com/valeriangalliat/dotfiles/blob/b227cf9b252...](https://github.com/valeriangalliat/dotfiles/blob/b227cf9b252f3c8c43a776bc20e1f1b5d0acfc13/src/ssh/id_rsa)\n\n------\nakerl_\nI feel like this gets posted every other month or so. I appreciate the\nawareness, but it doesn't seem like there's much new discussion or debate to\nhave on the matter: folks continue to be a bit more careless with credentials\nthan they ought to be / don't think about what pushing something to a public\nsite means / etc, it would rock if GitHub was more proactive about messaging\naffected users, it sucks that it's hard to safeguard against this via\ntechnical means.\n\nIf anything, I'd love to see somebody do a blog post instead about how they\nstarted scraping these results and/or the commit data firehose and messaging\nusers who posted credentials\n\n~~~\nherge\nWasn't that the point of lulzsec?\n\n~~~\npeterwwillis\n_Ian Paul of PC World wrote that, \"As its name suggests, LulzSec claims to be\ninterested in mocking and embarrassing companies by exposing security flaws\nrather than stealing data for criminal purposes.\"[16]_ \\--\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LulzSec](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LulzSec)\n\n------\nmosburger\nHmmph. I just found a bunch of free AWS keys by searching for amazon.yml, too.\n\nWhat is the best way to share things like API keys"
+"\n\nMy Tiny TodoList: A simple open source todolist written in PHP and jQuery - edw519\nhttp://woork.blogspot.com/2009/05/my-tiny-todolist-simple-open-source.html\n\n======\nshaunxcode\nThat's actually quite a nice design and looks like it would work well on the\niphone as well.\n\n------\nBatsu\nI like it.\n\nI'm not sure what it is about lists that I like, but I must say I'm enjoying\nthe fact that they seem to be the next step past tutorial lately. Lots of fine\nlooking projects coming from it.\n\n------\nmojaam\nNot to take anything from this, but there is Todoist.com for the lazy like me.\nI do wish todoist have a few more features but it does what it's supposed to\ndo.\n\n------\nnopal\nWhat's happening with this link? It looks like it redirects to itself,\npreventing a single back button click to HN.\n\n~~~\nnixme\nNot seeing that behavior. History remains intact and back works fine.\n\n------\npope52\nCleverly done. This is much better implementation than many of the more\npopular to-do sites out there.\n\n------\nsimonw\nWarning: the zip file unzips itself in to your current directory, rather than\na sub-directory.\n\n------\ndxjones\ncool. thanks for sharing this nice example code."
+"\nAsk HN: How are you productive without a computer? - singularity2001\nImagine it's a lovely day, you want to spend it outside and still boost your company (or project). What can you do? (If you exclude talking and reading)\n======\nbaccheion\nA large (artist's) sketchpad, brainwave entrainment (or silence), and time\nspent thinking, reflecting, synthesizing, etc.\n\nAs someone who's been constantly on the computer since I was 12 (30 now), I\nlearned early on that it's good to know when I'm spinning in circles blindly\nmore than progressing, and to then move away from it to a quiet place (maybe\nI'll pace around the living room, or work at the kitchen table), then work in\n\"low tech silence.\"\n\nAs a programmer/designer, there tends to be a lot of conceptual thinking and\nsynthesis involved with what I'm doing, which can often be done (better, even)\naway from the computer. When I'm on the computer, I'm either learning,\ndoing/implementing, or screwing around. Deep thinking happens (better)\nelsewhere.\n\n~~~\nJoeAltmaier\nI circle the parking lot, or the block if its a hard problem. Once I went\nclear around an 80-acre field before I had it solved (why the belly button on\nour spherical"
+"\n\nFCC releases the full National Broadband Plan - anigbrowl\nhttp://www.broadband.gov/download-plan/\n\n======\nanigbrowl\nI know a lot of the details have already trickled out in recent weeks, and\nit's a lot of reading, but I really think that a 10-year, ~$7 billion\ninvestment (which has already been allocated and does not need further\ncongressional approval) in digital infrastructure is of major significance to\nHN readers.\n\nThe goals (from the executive summary):\n\nGoal No. 1: At least 100 million U.S. homes should have affordable access to\nactual download speeds of at least 100 megabits per second and actual upload\nspeeds of at least 50 megabits per second.\n\nGoal No. 2: The United States should lead the world in mobile innovation, with\nthe fastest and most extensive wireless networks of any nation.\n\nGoal No. 3: Every American should have affordable access to robust broadband\nservice, and the means and skills to subscribe if they so choose.\n\nGoal No. 4: Every American community should have affordable access to at least\n1 gigabit per second broadband service to anchor institutions such as schools,\nhospitals and government buildings.\n\nGoal No. 5: To ensure the safety of the American people, every first responder\nshould have access to"
+"\nMaybe the Low-End iPhone Is Really a Mid-End iPhone - antr\nhttp://allthingsd.com/20130503/maybe-the-low-end-iphone-is-really-a-mid-end-iphone/\n======\nttdan\nI think this would especially make sense considering the Lifetime value of\nthese iOS customers. Forcing (the majority) of users to pay for upfront for\nthe iPhone seems to drive a much better success rate on the iOS app store then\nwe see with Android where users are just getting the best free phone their\ncell phone provide is giving them and may not have interest in apps. IMO,\nforcing potential users to recognize the value of the device before purchasing\n(charging more upfront), leads to better lifetime value as well as increased\nmargin upfront."
+"\nTim Cook Appears Alongside Trump in Re-Election Campaign Ad Shot - mrzool\nhttps://daringfireball.net/2019/11/cook_trump_campaign_ad\n======\nablomen\n\"A low moment in Apple\u2019s proud history\"\n\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.#Criticism_and_contr...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.#Criticism_and_controversies)\n\nI think Apple has done a lot worse in its \"proud history\" and is still doing\nit.\n\n~~~\nme_me_me\nIt's as if corporations were guided by only one principle make money, a lot of\nmoney.\n\n------\nnabla9\nThere has not been any change in how big tech companies deal with hard\ndecisions. It's just people who ate PR, brand management and empty corporate\nspeak about values getting getting deserved reality check.\n\nWithout a doubt Tim Cook is very strongly socially liberal and anti Trump as\nlong as it's does not hurt business opportunities or the future of Apple.\n\n~~~\ncoldtea\n> _Without a doubt Tim Cook is very strongly socially liberal and anti Trump\n> as long as it 's does not hurt business opportunities or the future of\n> Apple._\n\nSo in every way except those that don't suit him!\n\n------\nmicrotherion\nDisappointing. Even beyond the question of malfeasance, there should be at\nleast three _policy_ areas I can think of off the top of my head that Cook\nshould be opposed to:\n\n* Constant disruption"
+"\nNudging out support for a carbon tax - colinprince\nhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0474-0\n======\nPxtl\nThis is happening in Ontario right now as we speak.\n\nThe Ontario government is fighting against the federal revenue-neutral carbon\ntax and has instituted a small grab-bag of subsidies for businesses doing\ngreen refits.\n\nSo in essence, they're taking a neutral system that put money to taxpayers and\nturned it into a subsidy on corporations that pollute, and claiming it as a\npopulist victory. And the public ate it up.\n\nI've heard nonsense like \"I recycle and don't litter, why should I have to pay\na carbon tax\" as if those things are related.\n\n~~~\nmartythemaniak\nIt should also be noted that the federal carbon tax is a tax-and-rebate\nscheme. Ie you get taxed on the carbon and the revenues get refunded to the\nconsumers. If you make a lower-carbon choice, you keep your money. If you\ndon't, nothing really changed. It's also slightly progressive, since lower-\nincome folks will actually come out ahead by a bit without making any changes.\n\nWarning: strong political opinions below.\n\nWhat we're seeing is really a replay of the ACA reaction in the US. Obamacare\nwas a rejigged Romneycare, which was a"
+"\n\nAre Posterous Fudging Visitor Statistics? - ig1\nhttp://blog.awesomezombie.com/2010/12/are-posterous-fudging-visitor-statics.html\n\n======\nrantfoil\nOur focus is on building the best product. It so happens to be that we are\naware of the issue and recommend that you use Google Analytics for deeper\ninsight into visitors and views.\n\nHere is a bit of how-the-sausage is made, but you wouldn't believe how much of\na negative response we got from existing users once we went to a fully\nJavaScript analytics system. So by sheer volume of user input we made the\ndecision to return to the original http request method of counting views.\n\nWe are continuing to look at ways to improve this system, possibly with\nMixpanel.\n\n~~~\nig1\nDo you not think the page view stats are completely misleading your users ?\n\nThere's absolutely no indication on Posterous that bots are likely responsible\nfor thousands of the page views shown (which given the long tail nature of\nPosterous I imagine we're talking about the majority of the page views here\nfor a lot of users).\n\nOne user even reported that GA was showing 14 visitors while Posterous was\nshowing 9316:\n\n[http://adamriggins.com/posterous-post-views-and-google-\nanaly...](http://adamriggins.com/posterous-post-views-and-google-analytics-\ndis)\n\nWhenever Posterous has given a response the focus has been on"
+"\n\nIt's Remarkably Easy to Lock a Pilot Out of the Cockpit - jabo\nhttp://www.wired.com/2015/03/remarkably-easy-lock-pilot-cockpit/\n\n======\nanigbrowl\nAmid all the talk of how the door locking system should or should not be\nmodified (eg always rotating another person into the cockpit or whatever), I'm\nastonished that there's no discussion of having a backup radio system on the\nplane. One of the saddest things about this whole incident is the idea of the\nsenior pilot futilely banging on the door with no way to get in, and no way to\neven communicate his predicament to the ground.\n\nAllowing ground takeover of a plane in distress would bring numerous problems\nof its own and is probably not feasible to implement in the immediate future,\nbut adding an extra radio would be technologically trivial, the protocols\nwould be easy to implement, and it would allow witnesses to (apparent) crimes\nof this sort to pass information that might save lives or at least give\ninvestigators a head start instead of a 3 day delay.\n\n~~~\nsoneil\nI think it's not a priority simply because it makes no difference. I mean, if\nyou had some Disney-style ability to 'go back' and change one thing, it'd be"
+"\nNorwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily lay off 90% of staff - spking\nhttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-norwegianair/norwegian-air-to-cancel-85-of-flights-and-lay-off-90-of-staff-idUSKBN2132F7\n======\njohnnymonster\nIt's a temporary layoff and it's exactly what they should be doing. When they\nlay off the employees, they are able to collect unemployment benefits from the\ngovernment. It's a perfect strategy so that the employees will be ok instead\nof not receiving wages. once things rebound, they can hire them back again and\nall is good.\n\n~~~\nmarvin\nWhile I agree with your point in general, Norwegian is done. They've got a\nheavy debt burden that's due soon. They will either go bankrupt and be\nrestructured, or have to do a wipeout-level stock offering (unlikely in the\ncurrent risk climate).\n\n~~~\naxlee\nCan't Norway bail them out? It's not like they lack the capital, and they're\nthe country largest airline.\n\n~~~\nucarion\nThis is not to contradict what you're saying, but it should be clarified that\nNorway's flag carrier is Scandinavian Airlines, not Norwegian Air:\n\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Airlines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Airlines)\n\nAgain: I'm aware that you haven't said anything to the contrary. But it's\nuseful context.\n\n~~~\nmichaeljohansen\nWell. We Norwegians joke that SAS stands for \"svensk alt sammen\" (Swedish all\ntogether). Some of us"
+"\n\nThaler: Recipes for Ruin, in the Gulf or on Wall St. - tptacek\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/business/13view.html?hpw\n\n======\ntptacek\nRichard Thaler is a behavioral economist at UChicago, and a prolific author.\nHe wrote _Nudge_ with Cass Sunstein at Harvard Law, which is an interesting\nbut dry book on incentives.\n\nI caught this on Marginal Revolution (which is to blogs what The Economist is\nto magazines, namely, something I subscribe to because I feel I must) and\nthought it was interesting.\n\nNutshell: we're damned if we do and damned if we don't. We can ask companies\nto insure themselves (either through actual insurance or through heavy\ntaxation) for the harm they might cause. But we don't know how to calculate\nthe costs of future events, which companies will always argue are very\nunlikely anyways. Meanwhile, there's little evidence that being forced to\ncarry insurance would cause companies to evince better judgement.\n\nOn the flip side, we could expose companies to uncapped liability for the\ndamages they cause. But then you run into the inability of companies to pay,\nor worse, the restructuring of industries to ensure that the companies who\nprofit the most from, say, drilling are never the ones actually doing the\ndrilling."
+"\n\nShow HN: Visualize Kickstarter Projects - Written in Clojure with C2 - dwwoelfel\nhttp://canhekick.it/\n\n======\ndwwoelfel\nA few cool things about CanHeKickIt:\n\nThe entire app is written in Clojure, with the exception of some less for css.\n\nI'm using ClojureScript, a compiler for Clojure that targets JavaScript. This\nmeans that I'm able to use the same code on the front-end as I do on the back-\nend. The code that draws the graph, for instance, is exactly the same in\nClojure and ClojureScript. Most everything works even if javascript is\ndisabled (try 18 months ago, I started my first job as an android developer in a fintech startup, after graduating with my Masters in a top 20 university. When I joined, I was the only android developer and built 2 relatively complex apps from scratch (designing architecture, app development, some security/crypto/api). \nMy CTO, to whom I report directly, knows since the day he hired me that I don't want to be doing front-end my whole life, and we agreed this summer that I'd be switching to the back-end. At the time, I asked him if there would be any salary change with the switch, and he reassured me that there wouldn't be, because he allows his engineers to move horizontally without any salary change. Since 2 months, I've been learning about the back-end language, Functional Programming, and other frameworks they use. All on my personal time in the evening and on week-ends. Last week, the CFO asked to speak with me and told me that we'd have to sign a new contract, and that they're going to decrease"
+"\nAsk HN: Current college student with big goals. - Nemisis7654\nHi everyone, I have been lurking around here for some time and am in love with this site. I figured now would be as good a time as any to ask my question. I am a current college student majoring in Computer Science. I know that, after I am done with school, I want to start a startup at some point (not necessarily right out of school). I know it's going to involve a lot of hard work, but this is something I have been thinking about for a while now. So, my question is this: what sort of advice can you guys give me that will prepare me for such an undertaking. Thank you. ~Aaron\n======\ncoffeemug\n1\\. Be good. Be very good. Don't be the \"front-end guy\" or the \"back-end guy\",\nor some other \"guy\". Once you know what you want to build, building software\nis about five things: algorithms that solve your problem, programming\nlanguages that express your algorithms, computer architecture that makes your\nalgorithms run efficiently on real hardware, the practical toolchain, and the\nmanagement of complexity of real software. So study algorithms, and then\ngraduate algorithms, and then"
+"\nAsk HN: What would a site with threaded bump-order ranking look like? - heartbeats\nThere's a lot of forums, like this one and Reddit, which have threaded discussion and voting. Classic blogs often have threaded comments, but just sorted on date posted. Classic forums move the thread to the top each time someone responds, but they don't thread the comments. This seems like a much simpler solution, which is much harder to game. Yet I've never seen a site actually use it in the wild. How come?\n======\njosquindesprez\nI imagine for popular posts, you'd get way too many low-value bumps: lots of\nleaves in the comment tree would be low-effort back and forth replies of\nuninteresting content (e.g. Reddit). If there's a voting system, the top-level\nthread would get bumped a lot but it'd be difficult to find that low-value\ncontent. The signal that the bump is trying to convey (there's new and good\nstuff here!) wouldn't match the value of the information that the user gets\n(the scattered dregs of many conversations). If there isn't voting and you\nsort by newest content, the experience would probably be like 4chan in slow\nmotion: bump ordered blasts of low-value replies.\n\nIn a"
+"\n\nAnnouncing the First Art of Computer Programming EBooks - gholap\nhttp://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/news.html\n\n======\ndang\n[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9825421](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9825421)\n\n------\nmauricioc\nThis announcement is on Knuth's website since June 2014 at least [0]. Did I\nmiss an update or something like that?\n\n[0] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140620191712/http://www-cs-\nfac...](https://web.archive.org/web/20140620191712/http://www-cs-\nfaculty.stanford.edu/~uno/news.html)\n\n~~~\nengi_nerd\n\"Here then, ta-da, is the current draft of pre-fascicle 6a (318 pages). This\nis revision 1, dated 08 July 2015.\"\n\n------\nscriptdevil\nIsn't the AoCP series a little too dense to be read as an ebook? It isn't\nreally organized as a reference and requires one to pore over it for a long\ntime. Not having a mobi/epub also rules out several good ebook readers. Are\nthere good ebook readers that have e-ink but still manage to render PDFs well?\nMy Kindle Paperwhite is trash at PDFs."
+"\n\nAsk HN: Why has Google kept Android and Chrome OS separate? - panabee\n\nthe separation of chrome os and android puzzled me for a long time. why not merge the two and concentrate resources on a single os? now i suspect they kept the two apart because they serve different purposes. chrome os is designed to reduce the cash microsoft generates from windows -- specifically from desktops and laptops -- much as google apps reduces the cash from office. android is meant to ensure no proprietary operating system dominates on mobile devices. keeping the two divided allows them to focus on their respective objectives more effectively. anyone have different theories?\n======\ndragonwriter\nAndroid is (and was when ChromeOS was first released) a fairly mature (though\nstill rapidly evolving, because the mobile OS space isn't a stationary target)\nmobile OS with well-established marketshare.\n\nChromeOS is a longer-term, higher-risk, more ambitious OS effort (the all-web\nOS Google has always wanted) with a fairly niche (by comparison to Android)\ncurrent market. There's no real compelling reason to tie them together yet. A\ngradual, eventual convergence makes sense, but that's over a fairly long term.\n\n------\nwmf\nThe actual reason is just that they're separate"
+"\n\nA Well-Funded Startup Emerges From the Unemployment Lines - jyu\nhttp://www.wired.com/business/2012/08/learnup/\n\n======\nbriggsbio\nThis is one of those \"wow, so perfectly obvious no one has never done it.\"\nThis could (and probably should) the hiring process at many retail and service\njobs. In my teens I would have been all about proving myself by taking\nwhatever quiz or prescreening training available to get the job. This could\nhave micro impacts on allowing the most tenacious to get the job rather than\nthe most experience, which for the level of jobs they're focusing on initially\ncould be a positive force. Just imagine if Wal-Mart was filled with the most\nproactive, not just the one with 6 months more of register experience.\nCertainly many caveats to these statements, but with some evolution and\nexecution this could have really important impacts on the way low-level wage\nemployment is conducted. The interesting aspects would be to see it move up\nthe org chart. Also love the customer development of them walking the\nunemployment lines to understand the market.\n\n------\nsimantel\nThis sounds like a great way for big employers to require what would otherwise\nhave been on-the-job training be completed in advance of even"
+"\nLua: Good, bad, and ugly parts - adamansky\nhttp://notebook.kulchenko.com/programming/lua-good-different-bad-and-ugly-parts\n======\ngraue\nLua's great. I recently used it to rewrite a small audio effect framework[1]\nbased on an older project of mine in C[2]. To my astonishment, without any\noptimization efforts on my part, the LuaJIT version of one effect ran _faster_\nthan the C version, while another more complicated effect (a filter) only took\n2.01x as much time as C. And this was with simple, clean, mostly declarative\ncode (read it on GitHub and see what you think).\n\nOne of the goals of this project was to compile effects code to JavaScript\nwith Lua.js[3] and produce a demo that ran in the browser. There,\nunfortunately, I ran into a showstopper with a Lua.js bug[4] that breaks my\napproach to creating modules. Unlike LuaJIT and regular Lua, Lua.js is an\nexperimental project and far less mature - though totally awesome. I might\nmake another attempt to fix the problem myself at some point. With a more\nmature Lua.js, you could write fast Lua code and port it to nearly every\nenvironment.\n\n[1] The reason for them is acquiring validation, but are there other methods which can be adopted to acquire this insight other than market research?\n======\nbt3\nLanding pages are inherently vague so as to not limit their potential\naudience. It's a trade off, but being too specific can limit the amount of\nusers who ultimately convert (enter their email). With the goal of a \"coming\nsoon\" page being to build interest, this is usually well accomplished by\nrequesting a simple email.\n\nObjectively, yes, coming soon/ landing pages are effective."
+"\nSecure deletion: a single overwrite will do it - ilitirit\nhttp://www.h-online.com/news/Secure-deletion-a-single-overwrite-will-do-it--/112432\n======\nm_eiman\nIf you think that you can recover overwritten data, feel free to accept 'The\nGreat Zero Challenge' over at I'm looking to find an equity partner to help develop an exciting idea for a site. It will be all about community participation with the community choosing and ranking the best ideas/users. We want a partner with serious enterprise, initiative, creativity and coding skills. I don't know much about hacking but don't think it's a simple job, at least not to do it right. We'll talk in detail about features but community participation, voting and live community activity updates to keep it fresh are a given. The aim of this project is to help start ups with great ideas, like a lot of the guys on here, to get in front of serious VCs. I'm in Corporate Finance and have the relationship with VCs, the other partner is a Strategy Consultant at a big firm and now we need a skilled hacker. I think we have the pedigree to make this happen! Sorry if this is a bad job spec, I'm no expert in hacking.\n======\nowkaye\nPlease post your email address here, or at least put it in your profile, so\npeople can contact you privately instead of posting their own email addresses.\nI'm more than"
+"\nThe Great Toilet Paper Scare of 1973 (2014) - luu\nhttps://priceonomics.com/the-great-toilet-paper-scare-of-1973/\n======\nDonHopkins\nThe old story about John Draper calling up Richard Nixon and warning him about\na toilet paper crisis in LA is beginning to make a lot more sense, now...\n\n[https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2015/11/the-hacker-who-\ninspire...](https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2015/11/the-hacker-who-inspired-\napple-john-captain-crunch-draper/)\n\n>The legendary antics of phone phreaks in the 70s are as numerous as they are\nunverifiable. There's the story of a couple of phreaks \u2014 of which one was\nallegedly Draper \u2014 who called up the White House, dropped President Nixon's\nsecret codename 'Olympus' and were soon put through to the President himself \u2014\nonly to tell him of a 'national emergency' that was occurring because Los\nAngeles had run out of toilet paper.\n\n[https://web.archive.org/web/20060226021102/http://webcrunche...](https://web.archive.org/web/20060226021102/http://webcrunchers.com/crunch/play/history/stories/toilet.html)\n\n>We had the code word that would summon Nixon to the phone. Almost\nimmediately, another person was starting the process of dialing the number. I\nstopped them just in time and recommended that they stack at least 4 tandems\nbefore looping the call to the White house. Sure enough, the man at the other\nend said \"9337\", my other friend said \"Olympus please!\", the man at the other\nend said \"One moment sir!\"... About a minute later, a man that"
+"\n(Futurama) Bender Smartspeaker using completely offline software - crankylinuxuser\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/g3whxq/i_will_make_my_own_smart_speaker_with_blackjack/\n======\nourcat\nNice. Since there's no way I'm going to put a multi-billion-dollar company's\n'smart' speaker in my apartment, I've been wanting to build something offline\nlike this inside an old dial telephone (like a red Bat phone) which only\nlistens to your commands when you pick up the handset. ;)\n\n~~~\nNotSammyHagar\nI like the idea. I'm shocked that a ras pi has enough cpu power to make this\nwork.\n\n~~~\nfoxyv\nMy Dad used to use voice typing on his old Pentium II laptop in the late 90s.\nIt's doable, although a lot less reliable than the ones nowadays."
+"\nWhat would a python pip replacement look like? - dfee\nHaving branched out from the world of Python in recent years, I've seen some interesting package managers for other languages and of course operating systems. I've got some hang ups with pip and setuptools that I imagine could be resolved with an extensible approach. For example, I imagine scoped package support (see NPM), transparent versioning (aka deterministic installs, or a better pip-tools), automatic project dependency management (again, NPM), parallel installation (yarn)... So what would a re-think of pip look like?\n======\nvforgione\nTwine[0] is the tool I've been using for PyPI archive management and Pipenv[1]\nis looking promising as the next iteration of pip.\n\nTwine makes the packaging process _slightly_ easier, although setuptools is\nstill a bit of a pain.\n\nPipenv handles a lot of project cruft for you: setting up a virtualenv,\ndistinguishing dev and prod packages, locking them down and deterministic\nbuilding.\n\n[0]: [https://github.com/pypa/twine](https://github.com/pypa/twine)\n\n[1]:\n[https://github.com/kennethreitz/pipenv](https://github.com/kennethreitz/pipenv)\n\n~~~\ndfee\nOh man, how have I not known about pipenv? This addresses a huge amount of my\ncomplaints with pip. Thanks for sharing!\n\n~~~\nvforgione\nThe downside to pipenv is that there aren't any good docker images to work\nwith it. I've"
+"\nWhy passenger jets could soon be flying in formation - Kaibeezy\nhttps://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/airbus-formation-flight/index.html\n======\nKaibeezy\n_\" They will be 1 1/2 to 2 nautical miles away from the leading aircraft, and\nslightly offset, which means they are on the side of the vortex. It's no\nlonger the vortex, it's the smooth current of rotating air which is next to\nthe vortex, and we use the updraft of this air.\" Taking advantage of the free\nlift in this updraft of air is called \"wake-energy retrieval.\" ... on long-\nhaul flights, fuel savings of between 5% and 10% may be achieved, \"which is an\nenormous number.\"_\n\n------\nstevage\nWow, so interesting. I'm really curious whether planes from rival airlines\nwould cooperate to fly together like this. And if not, are there really so\nmany situations where two planes from the same airline travel a long segment\ntogether at the same time?"
+"\n\nAsk HN: Should I focus on getting API customers or direct customers? - paulsingh\n\nI started SnailPad (www.snailpad.com) sort of as a joke about 3 months ago. Now I've got a decent number of direct customers and a few API customers using the service. The volume has helped me justify (and pay for) some pretty badass hardware that I've hacked together to automate most of the process. I've learned that API customers tend to give me more volume with less margins but require a pretty long sales cycle (it takes time to convince them, have them try the API, receive a few samples, bite the bullet, etc). I've learned that direct customers are lower volume with (much, much) higher margins and, generally speaking, are pretty quick to get onboarded. At this point, it's still just me doing the coding, bizdev, mailing, etc (read: everything) and I'm having a hard time trying to figure which of those customer types is \"better\" way for me to continue organically growing the business. What would you do?\n======\npatio11\nYou have far, far more intestinal fortitude than I do to go into that\nbusiness. (It involves marginal work and low margins. Yikes -- software sounds\nso much better.)"
+"\nThe best linear algebra books - begriffs\nhttps://begriffs.com/posts/2016-07-24-best-linear-algebra-books.html\n======\ndoppioandante\nThere's a introductory book that I would add to the \"generalist\" list, that is\n'Linear Algebra Done Wrong' by Sergei Treil. It can be found freely here:\n[https://www.math.brown.edu/~treil/papers/LADW/LADW.html](https://www.math.brown.edu/~treil/papers/LADW/LADW.html)\n\nI've used it to prepare my linear algebra exam in an italian university (which\nusually emphasize theory over practice, even in engineering courses), and I've\nloved it. There are few exercises but they're to the point. Complex inner\nproduct, self-adjoint operators etc. are treated. I find the notation used in\nthere particularly easy to understand, and proofs are elegant but very easy to\nfollow.\n\n~~~\nznpy\nI have skimmed some books about Linear Algebra, both in Italian and in\nEnglish, and my favourite so far is \"Geometria e Algebra Lineare\" by Enrico\nSchlesinger.\n\nThe book is very well written but sadly it won't be enough to pass a typical\nitalian Linear Algebra exam. This is because, in my opinion, examples are too\nvague or too \"abstract\": when you're first learning such subject, it would be\nbetter to have layman terms, that is simple examples with simple numbers. More\ncomplex examples might be okay too, but simple examples should come first.\n\nReference: [http://www.zanichelli.it/ricerca/prodotti/algebra-"
+"\nShow HN: GraphQL Queries with React and GUN, the Graph Database - marknadal\nhttps://github.com/brysgo/graphql-gun\n======\nanilgulecha\nIs there an update on server-side persistent storage for gundb? This was the\nbig missing piece the last time I looked at it.\n\n~~~\nmarknadal\nWe've added a couple more storage engines, like SQLite which should also be\ncompatible with Postgres.\n\nHowever I'm not very satisfied with the performance of them or any of the\nothers. So it seems like ultimately I'll be forced into building my own\nstorage engine, which I plan to do based on a radix. But that is pretty far\ndown the pipeline.\n\nWhat were you needing it for? Our latest load test handled on low end hardware\n1750 table inserts a second second across a federated/distributed system.\nWe're hoping to get that up to 10K on cheap/free hardware. :) Be curious to\nhear about your needs/use-cases! Let me know.\n\n~~~\nanilgulecha\nI was thinking a pouch-couch situation for offline-first usecase.\n\nBasically I'd use gun-gunserverside on multiple clients, and get sync free on\nthe clients, when the clients come online.\n\n~~~\nmarknadal\nWould you explain again, I don't think I understood? You are wanting gun to\nhave a server-side Couch"
+"\n\nHadoop Platform as a Service in the Cloud - amitry\nhttp://techblog.netflix.com/2013/01/hadoop-platform-as-service-in-cloud.html\n\n======\nnwenzel\nOther than the architecture of their multi-cluster management system, which us\ncertainly fascinating, I found two interesting points.\n\n1) Use of S3 as the data storage platform allows for Production, ad hoc,\nanalytic, and \"personal\" clusters to all work with not only a full-size data\nset but the same data set. Brilliant.\n\n2) The investigation of Amazon Redshift as a Teradata replacement. First, it\nvalidates Amazon as a new competitor to on-premise relational data warehouse\nimplementations. Second, it would seemingly move substantially all their data\nto the cloud. Third, what does that mean for their other apps such as\n\"traditional\" BI? No sense having Cognos on a local server if all the data is\nin the cloud."
+"\nAsk HN: Is WSL2 stable enough for devs to switch from MacOS to Windows? - asenna\nFor developers who've switched back to Windows, how is the experience like? Is WSL2 as smooth as actually working on Linux? or does it still crap out on random Node libraries at times (like on WSL1)? I'm in the market for a new work laptop and a lot of people I know are in the same boat - holding onto older Macbook Pros (2015 and earlier) looking for alternatives, but scared to jump from MacOS. Obviously Apple is busy making the next pro devices thinner which is just.. wonderful for them. Yes, switching to Linux is an option for many. But I also have to use Adobe CC tools which needs Windows (Wine is not a good option). Hence it's either dual-booting Linux/Windows or Windows full time as the two options for me.\n======\nWorldMaker\nWSL2 is not technically stable yet at all. It's still only in 20H1 Insider\n[\"public beta\"] builds for the version of Windows 10 to be released in the\nfirst half of 2020.\n\n(WSL1 on the other hand has been stable and available for production versions\nof Windows 10 for months now."
+"\n\nDrafts of Chapters 5\u20138 from the Rails Tutorial 3rd Ed. - mhartl\nhttp://news.railstutorial.org/rails_tutorial_draft_second_launch/\n\n======\nmhartl\nThe newly released chapters are substantial, and should be enough to keep\nreaders busy for a while. I hope to release drafts of the final four chapters\nsome time in the next week or so.\n\n(Note to the curious: No, I can't write chapters this fast. It takes me two\nweeks to write a chapter from scratch, a few days for a major editing pass,\nand half a day to do the final edit. All the draft chapters had been through\nat least a major editing pass before the [main\nannouncement]([http://news.railstutorial.org/rails_tutorial_3rd_edition/](http://news.railstutorial.org/rails_tutorial_3rd_edition/))\nlast week.)\n\n------\ncmaxwe\nIs there anything similar to Rails Tutorial for a JS MEAN stack?"
+"\nThe Future of Layout with CSS: Grid Layouts - zastrowm\nhttps://medium.com/@patrickbrosset/css-grid-layout-6c9cba6e8a5a\n======\nexodust\nI avoid grids, actually hate them. But if they were part of the spec then I\nmight take a look when the browser support ramps up.\n\nThe problem I have with grids is they don't play nice with fluid resizing. I\naim for liquid smooth responses from desktop down to tablet, then just one\nbreakpoint for anything smaller than a tablet. Works for me. Any more break\npoints is a ticket to pain.\n\nWhat I wish was easily possible with CSS alone, is a method for specific\nposition of an object within a list item, or properties of the list item\nitself _depending_ on where and how many list items are currently present.\nThat way, if we have 3 list items each containing a thumbnail, the list item\ncould be set to 33% width. If two list items, 50% and so on. Things like a\nlist of thumbs could remain nice and neatly aligned at any point in the\nresponsive page resize. I'm not interested in hacking this with pre-\nprocessors, we need CSS to have these tricks up its sleeve. But instead, we\nget grids?\n\n~~~"
+"\nHundreds of Chinese iPhone users have had their accounts compromised - SiqingYu\nhttps://technode.com/2018/10/11/china-apple-id-compromised/\n======\nPM_ME_YOUR_CAT\nTL;DR\n\nHundreds of Chinese iPhone users are believed to have had their Apple IDs\ncompromised \u00b7 TechNode Over 700 Chinese iPhone users have inexplicably had\nmoney deducted from their Apple ID-bound payment channels, with the highest\nbeing RMB 10,000, according to local media.\n\nAlibaba-owned Alipay, whose users were also affected, said that some Apple IDs\nwere stolen, resulting in financial losses.\n\nThe company reached out to Apple to find out the reasons for the theft, with\nApple responding saying that it is addressing the situation.\n\nSome users received Alipay notifications informing them that purchases had\nbeen made in the App Store and Apple Music.\n\nOther payment channels that can be bound to an Apple ID include WeChat Pay,\ndebit card, and credit card.\n\nRecords show that some users' Apple IDs were used to log into devices other\nthan their own to make purchases.\n\nSome users who have attempted to apply for refunds through Apple have been\ntold that reversing the purchases is not possible, even after one user\nrequested assistance from the Shanghai Consumer Protection Committee.\n\nUsed smmry.com for this."
+"\n\nAsk HN: Redesign after HN critique (instant \"coming soon\" pages app) - weirdcat\n\nHi everyone, Last Thursday I asked HN for a review of my web app for creating instant \"coming soon\" pages. The response was great -- you guys really, really didn't like it (and deservedly so). :) * Here's the original thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2123228 * This is how it looked before: http://soonhere.com/original.html * Here's how it looks now: http://soonhere.com It's obviously still a work in progress (there are still some issues, especially with IE, the interface needs polishing, there's no help etc.) but the main functionality is there. Some stats: * The original thread got 5 upvotes and 5 comments (not counting mine); * The site got 150 visitors on Thursday and 30 on Friday (40% from the US, 20% from the UK -- half of that from London -- and 4% from Canada); * Of those, 5 visitors created an account (1 or 2 with email addresses that looked real). I'd like to thank nudge, komlenic, SHOwnsYou (I used your first instinct idea after all), pacifika and dlsay for their comments in the original thread. Now -- before I spend more time on this instead of other projects I have lined up, I'd like to find out if the"
+"\nStrengthening HTTP: A Personal View - tkorotkikh\nhttps://www.mnot.net/blog/2014/01/04/strengthening_http_a_personal_view\n======\nrx4g\nIt's disappointing to hear that the idea of requiring TLS with HTTP/2 has lost\ntraction. For me, TLS-everywhere _was_ the carrot on the stick.\n\nI recognize that getting consensus is hard work, but I don't think creating\nanother encryption-optional protocol and letting vendors duke it over security\nis going to end well for the users.\n\n \n \n HTTP is a deployed protocol with lots of existing \n stakeholders, like proxy vendors, network operators, \n corporate firewalls and so on. Requiring encryption \n with HTTP/2 means that these stakeholders get\n disenfranchised.\n \n\nI'd like to hear the arguments of the potentially-disenfranchised stakeholders\nfirst hand. Is it mainly because it makes it harder to sell or use products\nthat allow traffic snooping?\n\n~~~\nmatthewmacleod\nOne obvious change here is that it would make CA-signed certificates mandatory\nfor all HTTP2 web servers - is that really a situation we want?\n\n~~~\nquicksilfer\nThat doesn't have to be the case. You could still allow self-signage, with all\nof the security caveats that presents.\n\nWho knows. Maybe that arrangement could even spur a sorely needed push for a\nfree certificate trust network and get rid of CA's entirely.\n\n~~~\nrx4g\nSelf-signed"
+"\nSlavery in Early Austin: The Stringer\u2019s Hotel and Urban Slavery - samclemens\nhttps://notevenpast.org/slavery-in-early-austin-the-stringers-hotel-and-urban-slavery/\n======\nbrudgers\n_it is not impossible to imagine enslaved people taking on leading roles in\nrunning the Stringer\u2019s Hotel and other establishments in Austin._\n\nThere\u2019s much comforting in imagined logical possibility. Reading Fredrick\nDouglas\u2019s autobiographies or Blight\u2019s recent Pulitzer winner dissipates such\nillusion. If the knowledge of children for sale provided in the article\nsomehow wasn\u2019t enough to demonstrate how unincharge slaves were.\n\n~~~\ne40\nWhat do you think the purpose of the quoted sentence was? To shift some of the\nblame to the victims? Something else? (I really don't know)\n\n~~~\nbrudgers\nIt is structural to American journalism. (edit) a trope, maybe?\n\n------\nanonsivalley652\nConsider:\n\n\\- Lincoln was not an Abolitionist hero as popularly lionized, but a status\nquo \"moderate,' reluctant to rock the boat. Even though he knew it to be\nwrong, he did nothing in the affirmative until Secession. That's not moral\ncourage, that's political expedience.\n\n\\- 13th Amendment, Section 1 giant slavery loophole:\n\n _Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime\nwhereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the\nUnited States, or any place subject to"
+"\nA study on human behavior has identified four basic personality types - T-A\nhttp://www.uc3m.es/ss/Satellite/UC3MInstitucional/en/Detalle/Comunicacion_C/1371223155576/1371215537949/A_study_on_human_behavior_has_identified_four_basic_personality_types\n======\nbrhsiao\nA friend of mine who's quite into philosophy once told me that a good number\nof philosophers did little but try to categorize things. Rather than draw\nmeaningful insights, say, or squeeze every drop out of some experience, they'd\nsimply say, here's nature, here's a grid I've drawn, let's see what falls into\nwhat square. Ok, good job; but what have you actually accomplished? (So my\nfriend said.)\n\nI don't know if this is true of the history of philosophy (or if it's a\nmeaningful indictment of these philosophers), but I can't help but be reminded\nof it when I see strenuous efforts being made to bucket various phenomena, and\nhuman ones at that. What are we going to do with these categories? Not to put\ntoo fine a point on it, these things are complex. Any differentiating scheme\nsimple enough will be insufficient to be the basis of any important decision,\nand any sophisticated enough won't be neat enough for us to be talking about\nit like this.\n\nI say this as someone who spent more years than I'd care to admit obsessed"
+"\nCommencement address by Bill and Melinda Gates - ashbrahma\nhttp://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/june/gates-commencement-remarks-061514.html\n======\nsz4kerto\n\"Bill and I talk about this with our kids at the dinner table. Bill worked\nincredibly hard and took risks and made sacrifices for success. But there is\nanother essential ingredient of success, and that ingredient is luck \u2013\nabsolute and total luck.\n\nWhen were you born? Who were your parents? Where did you grow up? None of us\nearned these things. They were given to us.\"\n\nTotally true, and very important to remember, especially for the HN crowd.\n\n~~~\nrayiner\nMelinda's comments are truly amazing:\n\n> Melinda: Let your heart break. It will change what you do with your\n> optimism. On a trip to South Asia, I met a desperately poor mother who\n> brought me her two small children and implored me: \"Please take them home\n> with you.\" When I begged her forgiveness and said I could not, she said:\n> \"Then please take one.\" . . . When I talk with the mothers I meet during my\n> travels, I see that there is no difference at all in what we want for our\n> children. The only difference is our ability to"
+"\nShow HN: DOM99 Simple HTML manipulation for the modern web - GroSacASacs\nhttps://github.com/GrosSacASac/DOM99\n======\nplugnburn\nSome questions:\n\n\\- Why ES6/ES2015?\n\n\\- What are the advantages over Knockout?\n\n\\- Why does it weigh so much if its only ability is two-way data binding?\n\nAnd probably the most interesting question:\n\n\\- Why the heck do I need to use Browserify for something that will NEVER EVER\nrun on a server side?!\n\nP.S. Nice monologue though. :)\n\n~~~\nGroSacASacs\n-Why ES6/ES2015? Because I got used to it before. You can use Babel to transpile to ES5.\n\n\\- What are the advantages over Knockout? I didn't use Knockout since a long\ntime, it was a source of inspiration, so I can't fully answer this question.\nDOM99 doesn't tell you to use the Model-View-View Model pattern, but lets you\norganize your application as you want. This can also be a disadvantage if you\nare doing it wrong for example.\n\n\\- Why does it weigh so much if its only ability is two-way data binding?\nBecause you looked at source files that are not minified.\n\n\\- Why the heck do I need to use Browserify for something that will NEVER EVER\nrun on a server side?!"
+"\nBitcoin mining power reaches 1000 petahashes per second - no_gravity\nhttps://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rate?timespan=all\n======\nraducu\nI really don't get why people are so hung up on these two issues -- \"wasted\"\nelectricity and wasted computer power without actual numbers to put things\ninto perspective.\n\nAnybody has any real numbers on electricity used for bitcoin opperations vs.\nelectricity used by banks?\n\nFrom what I know about hashing algorithms and hardware, I'm pretty sure that\nthe dedicated bitcoin hardware is not so capable for general computation\nstuff.\n\nI'm more concearned about the pissed brain cycles that go to waste inside the\nbig corporate oligarchies that we call banks.\n\n------\nJoeAltmaier\nAll that electricity pissed away because people can't (won't) trust a banking\nauthority.\n\n~~~\nRealityVoid\nIf you think about it, there is a lot of energy and time pissed away because\nof trust issues. Reports, \"cover your ass\" emails and tasks, workflow\nlimitations because of lack of trust, locks on doors, security systems, LOADS\nof bullshit jobs. Lack of trust shows in most aspects of our life. And,\nironically, I think(without any concrete data to back up, it's just my own\nmusing on the subject) that verification and \"check systems\" contribute\ngreatly at the"
+"\nSo much for recession proof: U.S. video game sales take a 17 percent dip in March - peter123\nhttp://venturebeat.com/2009/04/16/us-video-game-sales-take-a-17-percent-dip-in-march/\n======\npotatolicious\nEhhh I think it'd be wise not to jump to conclusions. I'm a pretty avid gamer\nmyself, and this year has seen an absolute drought of interesting games.\n\nAt any given point in a normal year I would have a want-to-buy game that's\ncoming out shortly. So far in 2009 I have not bought a single game simply\nbecause none of them are that interesting. I was looking forward to both HAWX\nand Resident Evil 5, but playing the demos for them convinced me not to buy.\n\nThe movie industry has been through this before - prompting predictions of the\nend of cinema as we know it. Except then Hollywood started producing movies\npeople wanted to watch, and last I checked the industry is thriving.\n\nI'm sure the recession has something to do with it - but I don't think it\nexplains all of the 17 percent drop.\n\n~~~\nDannoHung\nHAWX was awesome. The demo doesn't really give you enough of an idea of what\nthe full game is actually like.\n\nLet me paint you a picture: There are"
+"\n\nShow HN: OpinionatedC \u2013 Because ObjC should have inherited more from Smalltalk - Rockslide\nhttps://github.com/leoschweizer/OpinionatedC\n\n======\nRockslide\nOp here.\n\nFirst of all, let me say that I'm totally aware that with Swift lurking around\nthe corner, Objective-C is far from being the cool kid on the block. However,\nthe latter is not going away anytime soon, and as long as Objective-C code has\nto be written and maintained, there is a need to produce readable and succinct\ncode.\n\nDuring the past year, I've basically worked full time with Objective-C. Since\nI use the excellent ComponentKit (Objective-C++) to build app UIs, it wasn't\nreally practical to switch to Swift. So I was sitting there, stuck with\nObjective-C, and coming from a Smalltalk background, I couldn't help but\nnotice the influences it took on Objective-C. But I also couldn't stop\nnoticing where brilliant design decisions didn't find their way from Smalltalk\nto the Apple world.\n\nThat's why I created OpinionatedC.\n\nThe thing I was missing the most was the super-immersive and highly-consistent\nSmalltalk collection API. In Smalltalk, most of the time it doesn't really\nmake a difference if you work with an Array, an OrderedCollection, a Set or\neven a String. In"
+"\nHunting down Ken's PDP-7: video footage found - bsdimp\nhttps://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2019/10/video-footage-of-first-pdp-7-to-run-unix.html\n======\nfolkhack\nMan stuff I love stuff like this - what a trip. Reminds me a lot of Xerox's\nmother of all demos (in the same year 1968). These animations/graphics have\nsuch a wonderful feel to them that are still compelling and interesting in\n2019 =)\n\nWhat an amazing video.\n\n~~~\nmaartenh\nAre you referring to Doug Engelbart's demo of the Online System (NLS) [1]? He\nwas at SRI at the moment. The things that happened at Xerox after that were\ninspired by NLS, and build by some of the people that worked on it.\n\n[1]\n[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos)\n\n~~~\nfolkhack\nThat's the one! This early stuff gives me chills man - I'm so into it.\nPioneers of a new era =)\n\n------\nacqq\n\"this film features the song \"Daisy\" sung by a computer, a plot point that\nwould feature heavily in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.\"\n\nThe mentioned Bell Labs film is apparently from 1968, but it seems that the\nDaisy song inspired Clarke already in 1962 and 2001 was already made before\nthat film and released in April 1968:\n\n[https://kottke.org/06/04/hal-daisy-2001](https://kottke.org/06/04/hal-\ndaisy-2001)\n\n\"In 1962, Arthur C. Clarke was touring Bell"
+"\n\nCrank up your Productivity with these 11 Mac apps - rickdronkers\nhttp://rickdronkers.com/post/40338237583/crank-up-your-productivity-with-these-11-mac-apps\n\n======\nricho\n> Internet marketing blahblah, (Web)technology blahblah, Lifehacking &\n> Productivity blahblah, Entrepreneurship & Business blahblah.\n\nI love how this literally is distilled down to I run a forum site with MILLIONS of visitors and about 5,000 TB of traffic per month.\nNamecheap.com suddenly sent me a link warning that they will suspend my domain completely within 24 hours, if I did not delete two problem images (which were inappropriate/troublesome images but in the context of the forum posts, "a very poor attempt at humor").\nI deleted the images and avoided being suspended, but the way they threatened to suspend my domain due to two images was ridiculous. If I missed the warning email or checked my email after 24 hours they would have completely suspended my domain.\nI'm talking about a site with MILLIONS of visitors per month and ten thousands of posts per day, not some small blog. They may be suitable for some blog, but I can now say to NEVER use them for any enterprise site.\n======\nLorenzoLlamas\nMaybe I missed it, but did someone point to the actual site with \"millions of\nvisitors and 5 PETABYTES of"
+"\nDark social traffic in the mobile app era - prostoalex\nhttp://fusion.net/story/31450/dark-social-traffic-in-the-mobile-app-era/?curator=MediaREDEF\n======\nwodenokoto\nWhat I don't get is why facebook would keep this data secret to the\npublishers. Isn't it in Facebooks best interest to show how many eyeballs they\ncan send to publishers and start charging for increasing that number?\n\nAnd why aren't they selling meta data about this? What kind of demographics\nvisit your articles? What kind of people share them (how do they overlap?)\n\nSell CSV files or JSON with data about users who visit/shares your articles\nand makes those shares visible to you on facebook (public or the person has\nliked your page and made its posts visible to liked pages).\n\nSummarize and anonymize the discussions surrounding your articles that are not\nmade visible to you on facebook.\n\n------\nncw33\nSo basically, lots of big publishers are really upset that they don't know\nwhere their traffic is coming from. They were previously uncategorised because\nclicking on links from the Facebook app doesn't add a Referer.\n\nThen someone noticed that the Facebook app sets User-Agent to something very\nobviously Facebook-y, and this is the \"breakthrough\" in tracking Facebook\nclicks."
+"\n\nJavaScript can double your codebase so make sure you need it first - invalid_arg\nhttp://mat-mcloughlin.github.io/2013/08/12/javascript-can-double-your-codebase-so-make-sure-you-need-it-first.html\n\n======\nlucisferre\nThere isn't a lot of detail on exactly _how_ javascript is used in this\ncodebase so it is hard to comment. Having worked in .NET web shops there is a\ntendency to be very back-end (and .NET) oriented and not really having a lot\nof deep expertise in the web, particularly on the front-end. I don't want to\nassume this (the author mentioned UX and some other things which tends to lead\nme to believe they do have this kind of expertise). There is also a tendency\nto avoid technologies that can make working with the web easier. I'm talking\nabout things like Ember or Angular, build tools like Grunt or some kind of\nasset pipeline for work so javascript can be more organized and structured and\nyou can write less of it.\n\nIn the end web development on the .NET platform (can be) is harder and front-\nend development doubly so. I'll admit this is my experience so YMMV.\n\nIn the author's defence though I agree Javascript, when compared with many\nother languages, particularly Java or C# is often unwieldily, there is"
+"\nEmployees who quit Shopify over its Breitbart ties can find new jobs - nomadicactivist\nhttps://news.fastcompany.com/employees-who-quit-shopify-over-its-breitbart-ties-can-find-new-jobs-through-this-service-4030797\n======\nclickbait\nI don't particularly like how it has become a normal occurrence for people to\ntry and ruin the lives of others simply because they have a different opinion.\n\n~~~\nflukus\nI wonder how easy it will be to abuse this new system to bootstrap a company.\nFirst clone an already successful company, then find someone politically\nundesirably using the competitor. Finally release a virtue signalling\nstatement that gets people to use your company instead.\n\n~~~\ngydfi\nIt's happening already, but with pretty limited success. Voat is reddit for\npeople driven off reddit. Gab is twitter for people driven off twitter.\nNeither of these is a roaring success just yet, but they're better positioned\nthan the average clone.\n\nIn general I don't think the splitters are ever likely to gain half the market\nshare of the original because 99% of people do not care for this kind of thing\nat all."
+"\nBuilding Filtron, a new photo editing platform for Mac and iOS - bootload\nhttp://blog.drewwilson.com/building-filtron\n======\nmichaelbuckbee\nTL;DR (though you should read the whole thing) - they've spend $100k+ dollars\nand just launched a free app with some IAP filter upgrades.\n\nThe article starts with saying how hard and crazy it is to build and an app\nand then runs through the empirical experiences as just why that's the case.\n\nHowever, I think there's a flaw in the initial idea here where the level of\ndifficulty in pulling something like this off nowdays is just astronomical.\n\nI've been using the 3Axes framework [1] for evaluating ideas like this and\nthis just seems incredibly difficult to execute on profitably.\n\nVery consumer focused, more a tool than a done-for-you service and really no\npain that it's solving.\n\n1 - [https://medium.com/@mbuckbee/the-3-axes-of-startup-\ndifficult...](https://medium.com/@mbuckbee/the-3-axes-of-startup-difficulty-\ncad7c1ff6950#.5fbswu6ew)\n\n------\ndanpalmer\nThis development process seems to exemplify Apple and the old-school third\nparty ecosystem Mac ecosystem (that in part transitioned to iOS).\n\nWhere is the constant iteration to find exactly what users want?\n\nThat said, if the aim is to become a sustainable small business, rather than a\nbillion-dollar VC funded company with no profits, maybe you don't have to"
+"\nOld usenet maps - bryanrasmussen\nhttp://olduse.net/blog/current_usenet_map/\n======\nNelsonMinar\nThese maps were largely a work by Steve McGeady, who later went on to be an\nexecutive at Intel. His testimony in the Microsoft antitrust trial in 1998 had\na big impact.\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_McGeady](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_McGeady)\n\n------\nrocky1138\nSeems like this would be better laid out using a fixed-width font. HTML\nsupports it, why not use it?\n\n~~~\nastrodust\nLooks fine here. It's using \"GlassTTYVT220\", which is a custom font, so that\nmight not have loaded properly for you.\n\n~~~\nrocky1138\nThat's exactly what it was. After I wrote that I went into the stylesheet and\ndisabled the custom font. It worked a treat.\n\n~~~\ncat199\nMan I am telling you, get this font.\n\nIt is a 100% clone of the actual vt220 font, and therefore is the ultimate in\ngreen-screen retro awesomeness.\n\nBasically, by getting this font and using it (esp on a BSD) you have the\noriginal 'theme' for the Unix CLI, since pretty much everyone (yes being\nhyperbolic) used real UNIX (or 'BSD UNIX' as it was called before the suit) on\nVAX with DEC terminals around this time when most of the core CLI tools that\nmake up the core of"
+"\nFukushima: Radiation Detection Using Artifacts in CCCD Image? - brudgers\nhttp://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/427-Radiation-Detection.html\n======\nnoonespecial\nI'd just punt this one. Cover the lens so that the image is otherwise black,\nget a good calibrated Geiger counter and wander around taking pictures of your\nlens cover and noting the counter's readings.\n\nGo back and count the light dots in your black photos and see if they\ncorrelate with the counter readings. Use your fancy exposure-time/fstop/ccd-\nsize math after you're sure there's something going on.\n\nFor that matter, bring along a crummy cmos sensor camera as well. More\nsensors, more fun.\n\n~~~\nars\nThat's not punting, that's calibrating.\n\n~~~\ntomsaffell\nAs a Brit living in the US it took me over a year (and several\nmisunderstanding) to realize that there is a difference in the use of the word\n'punt' between US and UK. The main confusion was between:\n\n \n \n 1. (Informal) To cease doing something; give up [1]\n 2. (Chiefly British Slang) To gamble [1]\n \n\nOften the context allows for either of those to make sense. Off topic, I know,\nbut maybe it will help others avoid the confusion.\n\n1\\. Is it diverse demographic representation? If so, what's the right mix? Is it just high retention? Is it a good Glassdoor rating?\n======\ntlb\n\"A toxic workplace is a workplace that is marked by significant drama and\ninfighting, where personal battles often harm productivity\". More at\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_workplace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_workplace)\n\n------\nBlakestr\nWhen you are in love with the work but don't want to go into the workplace\nbecause of the people who are there.\n\n------\n943_924\nGlassdoor has made themselves next to meaningless since they'll take money\nfrom anyone who wants their bad reviews taken down and honestly we need a new\nplayer in the area who actually cares about transparency over taking bribes.\n\n------\ntwoquestions\nIn addition to what others have said, it could also be where your're evaluated\non non-work factors. Nepotism is the classic case, but it's still very\nfrustrating when your status at work is decided on factors that aren't\ndisclosed to you.\n\nOr"
+"\nStrip Down Apache to Improve Performance vs. Nginx - ashitlerferad\nhttps://haydenjames.io/strip-apache-improve-performance-memory-efficiency/\n======\nvbernat\nThe part about compiling from source seems dubious and not backed by any data.\nModules being dynamically loaded. They should not affect performance when not\nloaded. As for memory, I also doubt there will be any difference.\n\nWhen compiling from source, you don't get automatic security updates from your\ndistribution and you may break integration with the other parts of the\ndistribution.\n\n~~~\nBenjiWiebe\nYes, I'd like to see an explanation for or against compiling from source by\nsomeone who knows what's going on.\n\n------\nwolco\nApache can be just as fast if you remove the looking and reading of the\n.htaccess file in a local directory."
+"\n\nReasons to blog even if nobody ever reads it - grellas\nhttp://www.businessesgrow.com/2010/11/07/ten-reasons-to-blog-even-if-nobody-reads-it/\n\n======\njseliger\nNo offense, but I think all these are BS, and if no one is reading or linking\nto you, they're unlikely to apply. Blogging so that you might manage to get\nfive people using improbable search terms to find your site is a waste of\ntime.\n\nBut you still should blog if no one reads it for the reasons some other\ncommenters have alluded to: to develop your own mind. That's essentially why I\nblog: [http://jseliger.com/2010/09/27/signaling-status-blogging-\naca...](http://jseliger.com/2010/09/27/signaling-status-blogging-academia-and-\nideas/) and read other people's blogs.\n\nThat, and so I have a repository of already expressed ideas I can leave in the\ncomments sections of other blogs and HN, so I don't have to reinvent the\nanswer every time.\n\n~~~\n_delirium\nI've definitely found this helps for developing ideas. I think what first\nprodded me into doing it was realizing that much of my interesting thinking\nwas coming in making long posts on forums (Slashdot, HN, various other\nplaces). Nothing wrong with that really; discussion catalyzes thinking, and\n\"writing a reply to a comment\" has less activation energy than \"writing an\nessay\".\n\nBut I eventually realized that my writing"
+"\nThe Control Group Is Out of Control - nbouscal\nhttp://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-out-of-control/\n======\ntokenadult\nThis is a very interesting review of some of the most challenging published\nliterature on the reliability of psychological science. The author's point is\ncorrect that parapsychology (ESP and the like) basically has no prior\nplausibility. Yet a researcher who has the chops to do reliable research,\nDaryl J. Bem, has conducted \"experiments\" that appear to show that some human\nexperimental subjects can see into the future. As the article says, \"Bem\ndefinitely picked up a signal. The only question is whether it\u2019s a signal of\npsi, or a signal of poor experimental technique.\" Please read this submission\nfrom beginning to end and follow the links to see more of the background.\n\nI had the opportunity to discuss the original Bem paper on psi in the journal\nclub I regularly participate in. The conclusion is plainly wrong, but the\nerror in procedure is subtle and it took a while for response papers to come\nout about his initial finding. (And everyone agrees that Bem is a smart man,\nso the subtle errors are all the more dismaying.) If Bem can't design\nexperiments carefully, who can?\n\nAFTER EDIT TO"
+"\nSolving the Problem of Enterprise Software Customizations - dshah\nhttp://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/3890/Solving-the-Problem-of-Enterprise-Software-Customizations.aspx\n======\nbdfh42\nOK, I can see that this post suggests a \"solution\" that solves some of the\nproblems faced by the main development team although I suspect that it does\nnot really solve the issue of having to meet the needs of a specific corporate\ncustomer at a specfied date - it just translates feature requests into API\nenhancement requests.\n\nPlus almost nothing solves the problem of long term complexity where new\nenhancements (or bug fixes) break existing functionality that is effectively\nunknown to the development team. If you don't know what your customers are\ndong with your software then you can't protect their subset of the software\nfunctionality."
+"\nHow I got into YC S13 - aelaguiz\nhttp://aelag.com/how-i-got-into-yc\n======\nnwenzel\nPretty accurate assessment. I almost certainly would have not gotten in had I\nnot had a chance to talk to a few YC alums.\n\nSide Note: Jason was absolutely the reason I got in. YC should do whatever it\ntakes to get him to become at the very least a part-time partner. They and all\nfuture YC companies will be better off with him involved.\n\nFrom my own experience, the OP is absolutely right about the no BS part. Just\nexplain what you're doing. You don't need to sell it or exaggerate (doing so\nwill actually hurt your chances). I think the most important thing to explain\nis why people/companies want what you're making. The next most important thing\nyou can do is teach them something. If they are able to learn something new\nabout a market from you, you're chances of acceptance go up.\n\nThe in-person interview day is pretty exciting. It's sort of like the first\nday at the dorms (which for me was in 1995). It's perfectly acceptable to walk\nup to someone, say hi and and just start talking.\n\nIf you're thinking about applying, you"
+"\nEmergency stop signs projected onto waterfalls at road tunnel entrances - sgrytoyr\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoTMC-uxJoo\n======\nkalleboo\nThis is probably the only thing that could work at the 11foot8 bridge\n[https://www.youtube.com/user/yovo68/videos](https://www.youtube.com/user/yovo68/videos)\n\n~~~\nkomodo\nI was just thinking, why don't they install a steel beam at the same height as\nthe maximum allowed, like 11foot8?\n\nObviously it would be set much farther back than theirs.\n\n~~~\n6eek\nbecause it might get knocked off into neighboring traffic.\n\n~~~\nloco5niner\nSeems like a simple solution. Split the beam in the middle with hinges on left\nand right. Allow left and right beams to travel a bit but not too far.\n\n------\nbeart\nIt's interesting comparing this to the airline safety issues in the news\nlately. Every single thing on an airplane is designed with safety in mind but\nfor road traffic, they just put up a stop sign and call it a day. These aren't\ndirectly comparable issues but it does seem like they don't really think about\nsafety in the same way at all when designing roads. Why are trucks that can't\nfit into the tunnel even physically allowed to make it that far?\n\n------\nIceyEC\nSeems like the liability for damages caused needs"
+"\n\nCommunicate Acquires Y Combinator Startup Auctomatic, Unveils New Business Strategy - paulsb\nhttp://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/26/communicate-acquires-y-combinator-startup-auctomatic-unveils-new-business-strategy/\n\n======\ngruseom\nI am surprised by the disdain for profitable business in the techcrunch\narticle:\n\n _I\u2019m not even sure I\u2019ll remember to check in on them. The domain business is\na cash cow but isn\u2019t exactly exciting stuff._\n\nI would have put it the other way around: the business isn't exactly exciting\nbut it's a cash cow. Except I wouldn't say that at all. A profitable online\nbusiness sounds more exciting to me than 90% of what I've seen on techcrunch.\n\n~~~\naxod\nI think domains like these were important in web1.0 era. But who has ever gone\nto business.com. Who cares about it? It sounds old and boring. I'd be\nsurprised if the number of people going to domains like perfume.com is\nincreasing... If you look at alexa rank over 5 years it seems to have hit it's\npeak a while ago. Same with business.com.\n\nI think techcrunch was simply meaning the domain business is likely a\nshrinking market, and not a new and exciting growing market.\n\nHaving said that, there's plenty of money to be made. Congrats on the sale :)\n\n~~~\npchristensen\nGoodness no!"
+"\nAsk HN: Does anyone actually use /newcomments? - kaishiro\nJust curious - I've been banging around HN for a while and have never really understood /newcomments. Was there orignally a driving idea around this? I've never really seen the concept of a contextless stream of comments before. I don't even dislike it - just a curiosity.\n======\nniftich\nI use it very often.\n\nTo me, it's especially useful at lower-traffic times to gauge which threads\nare getting attention. At high-traffic times, it's utility is somewhat\ndiminished by presenting an almost-entirely new set of comments every time you\nclick it.\n\n------\nDanBC\nI mostly use /newcomments.\n\nYou get to see which articles have interesting discussion."
+"\nAsk HN: What does Google pay? - realodb\nI am currently interviewing for a director (not senior) of software engineering position at Google. I'm wondering if anyone on HN has held such a position at Google before, or currently, and what it pays. I realize all positions will have ranges based on experience, etc, but what ballpark can I expect for a base salary, bonus, and equity? For a positon based in SF Bay Area, or possibly Seattle?\n======\nthrowaway1500\nMaybe ask that question over at teamblind? According to a somewhat recent\ndiscussion of Sep 2018 at teamblind the TC (total compensation in one year,\nusually not counting any perks) should be at least $750k+ TC, source:\nwww.teamblind.com/article/Engineering-director-at-Google-uaJEgaho\n\nAnother reference might be: www.levels.fyi/SE/Google/Facebook/Microsoft\n\nLevels does not have L8 estimates yet, but L7 is already beyond $600k+ TC."
+"\n\nHow to Kill Mysql Performance - arjunlall\nhttp://www.slideshare.net/techdude/how-to-kill-mysql-performance\n\n======\njaypipes\nHi folks, this is Jay Pipes, the author of the slide decks in\nquestion...someone notified me via email that these slides were up online.\n\nI had no idea those slides were even up online! People tend to take the slides\nfrom my website ( http://blog.rescuetime.com/2007/07/05/web-biz-how-to-have-4000-users-waiting-when-you-launch/ I wanted to know if anybody else here has other strategies that they are willing to share. Btw, I will also add that this place is awesome. Thank you all in advance!\n======\nnextmoveone\nThis company doesn't have a product yet: smoothstart.com\n\nYou can check out their strategy, which is very similar to tony's for getting\nusers before having a product.\n\nWelcome to News.yc, I think you'll gain alot of valuable insight here.\n\n~~~\nstreo\nI have gained more within the last 2 days than I could have imagined!! Thanks\nfor the insight."
+"\nShow HN: Request your college application with comments from admissions - tommygibbons46\nhttp://ferpaAccess.com\n======\nbojo\nLack of any information about what is going on with this webpage does not make\nme feel confident about putting my information in there.\n\n~~~\ntommygibbons46\nThat's great feedback bojo, what type of information would you like? I've been\nusing it mostly with friends, so figured I would keep it barebones\n\n~~~\nunholygoat\nIt'd be nice to see an example of what is sent (before it's actually sent) as\nwell as resource links to how it's possible (i.e. Family Educational Rights\nand Privacy Act info).\n\n------\nkidcoder\nMy University (fairly large, big 10) isn't listed, despite all our satellite\ncampuses being there."
+"\n\nFines Remain Rare Even as Health Data Breaches Multiply - dthal\nhttp://www.propublica.org/article/fines-remain-rare-even-as-health-data-breaches-multiply\n\n======\nspecialist\nArticle doesn't explain why: All data is stored as plaintext. Including all\ndemographic data.\n\nBecause otherwise there is no way to match patient records across our (USA)\nheterogenous IT systems.\n\nThe two possible technical fixes are\n\n#1 Centralization, where every patient is issued an UUID (aka MRN, PID), their\ndemographic data is hidden, and UUID is used to retrieve medical data (ala\nTranslucent Databases).\n\n#2 Individualization, where every patient \"carries\" around their own medical\ndata.\n\nWe can discuss the social, cultural, bureaucratic, workflow hurdles to either\nof these solutions, if this thread gets traction.\n\nFWIW, I designed and implemented 5 regional health care exchanges 2007-08."
+"\nAsk HN: Machine learning risk and control framework - ryeguy_24\nI'm working on building a risk framework for machine learning models to mitigate the risks of machine learning going wrong. What are the risks of machine learning and what are the corresponding controls that can be used to mitigate those risks?\n======\nryeguy_24\nPoster comment here. I spent time in the banking/finance world where \"Model\nRisk Management\" is a huge thing. I think some of that can be used to think\nabout the risks/controls. It focuses on all the things that can go wrong - a)\nmodel doesn't produce an expected result and b) model is used inappropriately.\n\nSo, they do things like, performing a model validation which includes rigorous\nqualitative and quantitative tests, setting limitations on use, testing the\nsensitivity to inputs and boundary conditions, among many others.\n\nIn the traditional sense, a machine learning model is a new beast. In most\ncases, these models don't have an agreed upon \"methodology\" (i.e. neural\nnetworks) and therefore don't have an \"expected\" result that can be tested\n(especially for unsupervised learning models). So, curious to know what others\nare thinking?\n\n------\nmindcrime\n_Superintelligence_ by Bostrom is a decent treatment of some ideas"
+"\nBeijing struggles to defuse anger over China's P2P lending crisis - lnguyen\nhttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-lenders-p2p-insight/beijing-struggles-to-defuse-anger-over-chinas-p2p-lending-crisis-idUSKBN1KX077\n======\n21\nIn the last 5 years retail Chinese investors had massive losses in bitcoin,\ngold, the local stock market, bitcoin again, now P2P.\n\nIs it fair to say that they rush from one investment fad to the next,\ntypically buying the top? This is how it looks from far away, can someone with\nlocal knowledge comment?\n\n[http://static.atimes.com/uploads/2015/07/retail-\ninvestors.jp...](http://static.atimes.com/uploads/2015/07/retail-\ninvestors.jpg)\n\n~~~\nSuoDuanDao\nI remember a significant anecdote about Chinese assumptions when a Chinese-\nCanadian I was dating explained she always goes to busy restaurants on the\nassumption that a lot of customers means they have good food. The western bias\nis towards being the first to discover an unknown restaurant with great food\nthat just hasn't had time to build a reputation, but that's not how a typical\nChinese person would approach the restaurant problem.\n\nAbstracting that decision-making style to retail investing in a country with a\nbias towards savings, and the nature of Chinese equity markets makes a lot of\nsense.\n\n~~~\nsremani\n>> always goes to busy restaurants on the assumption that a lot of customers\nmeans they have good food.\n\nIt is actually good"
+"\nAn open social media network that encrypts your posts and distributes via RSS - espeed\nhttp://www.fastcolabs.com/3016147/this-open-source-twitter-replacement-is-absolutely-brilliant\n======\nest\n> We are building the first fully-conforming trsst server, plus an open source\n> web client including javascript libraries for core functionality like the\n> cryptographic functions.\n\nWait, wat?\n\nFrom the first glance it looks like they just patched buzz words together and\ndecided to call it bitcoin-like decentralized syndication network on a PKI\n\nWhat about anonymity? Anyone who has the whole signing chain could track down\nthe author. The anonymity of bitcoin is achieved by mixing hubs[1], you can't\nsplit a blog post in half and mix it.\n\n[1]:\n[https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Anonymity](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Anonymity)\n\nbtw what happened to Open Source today? You have to hype on Kickstarter and\nwaiting for people throwing money at you in order to start coding?\n\n~~~\nderleth\n> javascript libraries for core functionality like the cryptographic\n> functions.\n\nClientside JS for crypto? No. Bad idea.\n\n[http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-\ncryptography/](http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/)\n\nTheir reasons:\n\n> Secure delivery of Javascript to browsers is a chicken-egg problem.\n\n> Browser Javascript is hostile to cryptography.\n\n> The \"view-source\" transparency of Javascript is illusory.\n\n> Until those problems are fixed, Javascript isn't a serious crypto research\n> environment, and"
+"\nShow HN: BemTV \u2013 Hybrid CDN/P2P Architecture for HLS Broadcasts - flavioribeiro\nhttp://blog.flavioribeiro.com/bemtv-hls-p2p-webrtc/\n======\nokal\nGreat work. I'm always excited by attempts to marry the centralized nature of\nthe web with all we've learnt about P2P. Best of both worlds. Just gave it a\ntry. The video was a bit choppy for me, on a ~3Mbps connection, but I'd like\nto see how it works with a larger swarm (it's remained fairly stable at 8).\nI'll take some time to look at the code, too, though it's likely beyond my\nimmediate grasp :)\n\n~~~\nflavioribeiro\nthank you! I still need to calibrate when a peer gives up to receive by p2p\nand goes to CDN, but it seems it's working for some swarms with low RTT.\nRegarding the code, I bet you'll not have problems to understand but feel free\nto ask me anything you want.\n\n------\nCaveTech\nI hate the fact that as a Canadian, I can't really support any video streaming\nservices relying on P2P simply due to our archaic bandwidth restrictions.\n\nMost Canadian ISPs have combined Up/Down Bandwidth Caps, which are already\ninsanely easy to hit with any sort of media streaming (they usually range from\n40-80"
+"\n\nThe San Francisco Rent Explosion: Part II - ryan_j_naughton\nhttp://priceonomics.com/the-san-francisco-rent-explosion-part-ii/\n\n======\ntwic\nThere is a special hell for people who present tabular data as images.\n\n~~~\ncalbear81\nI sometimes do this in emails because for some reason Gmail hates CUT AND\nPASTE from an Excel table into an email and none of the work I did to format\npadding, widths, etc. in cells are preserved.\n\n------\ndjb_hackernews\nI live in Boston and have visited SF a few times, definitely not connected to\nthe SF rental market like I am to Boston. What I am curious about is how new\nand how large these 1 bedroom apartments are in SF. My hunch is your dollar\nprobably goes further in SF than it does in Boston.\n\nA 1 bedroom/1 bathroom in the Back Bay (nicer, while not nicest part of the\ncity) will run about $2500/mo. But it'll be 100 years old, 400 sq ft,\noutdated, no laundry etc.\n\nI wonder how that compares to apartments in SOMA, which appear to be newer\nbuildings at least.\n\n~~~\nicedog\nI have a friend paying $2200 for a 230 sqft micro-apartment in SOMA. It's like\nhaving your bed in a tiny kitchen.\n\n~~~\nbaddox"
+"\n\nHow We Got Our First 5,000 Users - smalter\nhttp://blog.idonethis.com/post/4779807862/how-we-got-our-first-5-000-users\n\n======\npetercooper\nShame it got a better title over at Reddit: \"Getting to 5,000 Users after\nLaunching on HN and Reddit.\"\n\n~~~\nsmalter\nI'm an idiot. I had this conversation after realizing that I posted the\narticle with a bad subject.\n\nme: i sux, i shoulda tailored the HN submission to HN. in fact, that\u2019s what\nthe article is about!\n\nBrian: lulz. meta-fail\n\n~~~\npetercooper\nIt happens. It's just become particularly important nowadays due to the crazy\namount of stories that come by here now. This is both a good and bad thing.."
+"\nShow HN: Cap'n Proto, by the ex-maintainer of Protocol Buffers - kentonv\nhttp://kentonv.github.com/capnproto/\n======\nhaberman\nI have a lot of respect for Kenton and I'm sure this is high quality work.\n\nThe idea of a fixed-length encoding of a protobuf-like structure is a good\nidea, and something I have seen explored elsewhere. To me, though, it's\nunfortunate to create an entirely new schema language for it, instead of just\nmaking it an alternate encoding of the existing protobuf data model, which it\nclosely resembles. To have two schema languages that are nearly, but not\nquite, isomorphic means that you get no interoperability benefits with any\nexisting protobuf-based code or data.\n\nThe way I see it, the most important feature of protobufs is _not_ the on-the-\nwire encoding, but rather the schema. If you start from a schema (and its\nassociated data model), then you can create as many different encodings as you\nwant, and convert between them losslessly at any time, while taking advantage\nof their different performance characteristics.\n\nFor example, Dremel (as described in this paper:\n Downvoting is meant as a management tool to filter out comments that negatively impact the community, or ones that provide no substance or insight. Please do not downvote legitimate comments. Thank you.\n======\nepenn\nI fully agree. I've seen far too many comments that are meaningful or\ninsightful - even ones I don't agree with - get unnecessarily downvoted\nwithout proper cause. On a discussion forum where one of its main objectives\nis to be a safe haven for intelligent discourse this is unacceptable. With\nthat said, this is my officially unofficial guide to downvoting:\n\nNEVER downvote:\n\n1) Just because you disagree with a post.\n\n2) Because you dislike the poster.\n\n3) Because others have downvoted a comment into oblivion and you want to jump\non the bandwagon. i.e. No need to kick a comment when it's already down.\n\n4) When you have not explicitly reasoned out why"
+"\n\niOS vs. Android - A comparison for first-time developers - diasks2\nhttp://www.diasks2.com/post/20172033158/ios-vs-android-a-comparison-for-first-time\n\n======\nambirex\n_The bottom line is, if you are selling a paid app, iOS is the way to go._\n\nThis conclusion from a single app is very weak at best.\n\nOtherwise, thank you for the write-up from your experience.\n\n------\nSpikeX\nI would have liked to have seen how the Windows Phone marketplace stacked up\nagainst the other two, and how much better (or worse) it is in those\ncategories.\n\n------\nmdonahoe\n\"all sales are final\"\n\nYou can ask apple for a refund. Not sure if they make the developer eat the\nwhole price or just the 70% cut"
+"\nEvolving Lacing Patterns for Bicycle Wheels - alexggordon\nhttp://master.matsemann.com/\n======\nmatsemann\nWow, cool to see my thesis here! I posted a picture of it [1] to r/bicycling\nyesterday titled _I managed to make my thesis in computer science be about\nbicycles!_ , and it got some traction. I answered some questions in the\ndiscussion, if anyone is interested.\n\n[1]: [https://redd.it/3p8hua](https://redd.it/3p8hua)\n\n~~~\nradarsat1\nCan I ask a question, please don't take it the wrong way, as I find\noptimisation a very interesting topic, and in fact it was also the subject of\nmy thesis. However: How is this a computer science thesis, and not a\nmechanical engineering thesis? I'm just curious how you managed to pass a\nwheel-design topic through a CompSci program. Did you have a co-supervisor in\nengineering? Or does your school have a combined CS/engineering program?\n\n~~~\nmaaaats\nIt's really a thesis about EMO-algorithms and how to use them to optimize\nreal-life problems. The wheels just happen to be the chosen _application_ of\nthe optimization, if you get what I mean?\n\n~~~\nradarsat1\nAh ok, I was wondering if that was the case. Wasn't really clear from the way\nyou presented it. Can you summarize your results regarding"
+"\n\nRails vs. Django - kyro\n\nJust curious, and I want to see which framework I should pursue more aggressively. So, how about pros/cons of each.\n======\nSwellJoe\nDeployment of Rails sucks.\n\nDjango is far better thought out, and can be deployed in a very sane manner. A\nfleet of Mongrels is just an embarrassingly bad way to handle concurrency. \"I\nknow, let's write a crappy barely functional web server, spawn a metric ass\nton of them, and then balance between them with a proxy. It'll be most leet\nand super fast! We'll call it a Best Practice. It'll be awesome.\" In fact,\nit's fragile, doesn't scale very well, and is complicated to configure. It's\nalso a huge distraction from solving the problem in a sane way--people seem to\nthink \"deploying Rails\" is solved by this and Capistrano, when really, it's\njust a new stack of problems.\n\nOtherwise Rails kicks ass, and I like Ruby better than Python (but I'm a perl\nmonger, so I might be brain-damaged into not seeing the beauty of Python). But\nI do tend to feel like Django is being written by grownups who've got years of\ndevelopment experience, while the Rails folks are making it up"
+"\nLibreTaxi \u2013 A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft - bpierre\nhttp://libretaxi.org/\n======\nspIrr\nI'll post a comment from ProductHunt, which might give a bit more context to\nwhere the founder sees this going, and why cash rides make sense under certain\ncircumstances he designed the app for:\n\n[\u2026] I have gone to the founder's blog and it provides a better understanding\nof where he sees it going: Uber (and similar apps) will never reach many\nremote villages, cities and regions around the world (and don't have to), but\ntechnology could greatly help the local communities in solving their\ntransportation problems that are as \"simple\" as getting from point A to point\nB with no other feasible options available.\n\nFor more details, here's the founder's blog on this:\n[https://medium.com/@romanpushkin/how-i-made-uber-like-app-\nin...](https://medium.com/@romanpushkin/how-i-made-uber-like-app-in-no-time-\nwith-javascript-and-secret-sauce-94ef9120c7f6#.dc99pd5qm)\n\n~~~\nradarsat1\n> technology could greatly help the local communities in solving their\n> transportation problems that are as \"simple\" as getting from point A to\n> point B with no other feasible options available\n\nIn rural communities here in Chile, and also in smaller towns, there is an\namazing solution to this called Collectivo. I had never heard of it before\narriving, but man it's"
+"\n\nAsk HN: How do you deal with competition - Void_\n\nI have an idea. I know that millions do. I'm willing to execute. That makes me a little different from the millions. I already started working on it, already spent some time and already see some results. That makes me quite different from the rest with the ideas. But my problem is the competition. There is competition, which is selling pretty much the same idea. I knew about it, but I always thought it's not good enough. It's not good enough for me and that's why I think I can make something better. My question is if I this is enough. There's nothing that makes the idea unique. No extra feature, no additional value. Not in the idea. So should I refine the idea? Or maybe pick a different one? Or should focus on executing better?\n======\nsebg\nFrom your comment \"it's not good enough for me\" tells me that there most be\nsome way of refining the idea so that it does become good enough for you.\n\nAs a first step, talk to people who use your competitor's product and see if\nit is \"not good enough\" for them as well. Then ask"
+"\n\nAnother lovely Google Chrome ad - Extensions - yanw\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5ryTLrgTbI\n\n======\nelblanco\nThey really only need to show one thing, the Google translate extension. I\nhave it set to automatic now and I often don't even realize I'm looking at a\npage that's not originally in English. That's some serious Star Trek universal\ntranslator business going on right there.\n\n~~~\nandyking\nIt's not perfect. Whenever I go on a page in Scottish Gaelic, it says \"this\npage is in Irish - would you like to translate it?\" That could cause some\ntrouble.\n\nThe languages are admittedly similar and there's some level of mutual\ncomprehension, but they're not similar enough for Google's translator to work\nacross both - it emits gibberish when you click \"yes\".\n\n~~~\nelblanco\nI have to admit, I do not spend much time on Gaelic (Scottish or Irish) sites.\n\nI've noticed that it's support for East Asian languages is also pretty bad.\nBut Romance languages, German and Arabic are pretty amazing.\n\n------\nfrou_dh\nI'll be grouchy and say I'm put off keeping a lot of the Chrome extensions I\ninstall because they want to plant their brash ugly icons (that apparently\ncan't be toggled or collapsed) on"
+"\n\nAsk YC: Where do you post ads for programmers? - Flemlord\n\nI've got ads posted on Monster and JoelOnSoftware for a .NET programmer at a Salt Lake startup. I'm getting spotty results. Where does everybody run ads?\n======\nspif\nGo to your (local) user groups where your flavour of developers like to hang\nout. You immediately get a feel of who you would like and what their\navailability is like.\n\n------\nbigtoga\nI would suggest joel Spolsky's book on hiring tech folks. He mentions several\nmethods and, although i\"m only on page 30, (1) I like Joel's style/approach to\nmost things, and (2) the first 30 pages made sense to me. it's called \"Smart\nand Gets Things Done\"\n\n------\ngscott\nI am having similiar results trying to replace myself so I can work full time\non my project and getting no serious bites. Next step is to try community\ncollege job boards...\n\n------\nthomasswift\nyou could try 37signals board or maybe krop(more designer related)\n\nor good ole craigslist, but i'd recommend asking their level of .net\nexperience and wait for WIDE range of people.\n\n------\nALee\nelance, odesk, craigslist, and the boards of frequented blogs.\n\n------\nentelarust\ncraigslist\n\n~~~\nbigtoga"
+"\nWill Planned Obsolescence Kill Silicon Valley? [video] - sappapp\nhttp://breakoutroom.co/#/webinar/498\n======\nvarelse\nIsn't it great that we can outsource our toxic e-waste?\n\n[http://www.theguardian.com/global-\ndevelopment/2013/dec/14/to...](http://www.theguardian.com/global-\ndevelopment/2013/dec/14/toxic-ewaste-illegal-dumping-developing-countries)\n\nBut besides the 800 lb gorilla in the room, what worries me more than planned\nobsolescence is an entire ecosystem primarily composed of glorified MVPs\nrather than refined products. And that is doing more to disenchant me with\ntechnology and applications than any other force, one crash to the desktop at\na time.\n\n------\nanalog31\n_However, unlike the decisions that eventually led to Detroit\u2019s downfall,\nplanned obsolescence is a good thing for both consumers and hardware vendors\nalike._\n\nAs I understand it, the original academic paper introducing the concept of\nplanned obsolescence, described it as an economic boon -- essentially a form\nof stimulus. At the time, the intent was not to sabotage the lifetime of\nproducts, but to keep introducing desirable new features.\n\nNow, anecdotally, I think that I've witnessed planned obsolescence of a sort,\nin some kinds of products. I remember the home appliances in my house when I\nwas a kid, being much more reliable than those sold today. I've had to repair\nliterally every appliance in my house over the past"
+"\n\nBloom Filter (Python recipe) - jcsalterego\nhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/577684-bloom-filter/\n\n======\nhaberman\nOne thing that takes a minute to sink with Bloom Filters is that the size\nrequirements are independent of the size of the individual elements! Storing N\nelements with a given false positive probability has a fixed cost, whether\nyou're storing integers or 100MB strings.\n\nIf you are concerned with speed, a bloom filter is exactly the kind of thing\nI'd never implement in Python. Twiddling bits is orders of magnitude more\nexpensive than in C.\n\n~~~\nraymondh\nPython is written in C and the time consuming parts of this algorithm are\ndelegated to C modules (random, sha256, long int bitshifts, etc). Also, the\nspace efficiency (which directly related to effective use of high-speed cache)\nis language independent.\n\nIf you care about the cost of the Python glue code, the PyPy project nicely\noptimizes that away. Unless you're writing for a Google production server, the\nprogrammer time writing this in C will likely never be paid back in saved CPU\ncycles.\n\n~~~\nhaberman\nWhat you have said is theory. Here is practice.\n\nI wrote a simple bloom filter in C. It took about an hour, including\ndebugging. Here is my bloom"
+"\n\nShow HN: Movienr - Discover Movies You Will Actually Enjoy - Made with Meteor - ccan\nhttp://www.movienr.com\n\n======\nUdo\nI quite like it!\n\nMy criticism is that after a while movies that I already marked as \"liked\"\nstill appear in the Discover tab. By the same token, simplify the 5 different\nratings modes into at most 3:\n\n \n \n - liked it\n - dislike(d) it\n - put it on the \"to watch\" list\n \n\nThe rationale for this being that I'm not going to rate all the things I\nwatched with 0-10 stars, and if I heart an entry that should train the filter\nand it should imply that I already watched it.\n\nI get that you want as much data as possible about who watched and liked what,\nbut if it's tedious to provide all that detail people won't do it.\n\n------\njs7\nDoes it just show everyone the same stuff? Or is it personalised to my\nratings?"
+"\n\nHow to convert any 3D printer or CNC router into cutting or engraving machine? - reangeorge\n\nIntroducing Endurance L-CHEAPO diode laser Endurance L-CHEAPO is a 445 nanometer diode laser which easily mounts on your 3D printer or CNC mill\nNo additional power supply is necessary, and it will not interfere with normal use of your hardware\nYou can readily switch from laser to print/mill mode, use your existing software (Slic3r, Skeinforge, etc), and with no tools the laser can be removed in about 2 minutes\nEndurance L-CHEAPO can cut paper and wood up to 3/16ths of an inch, and can engrave most non-metallic materials Easy to Use and Open Source No special software or hardware required \u2013 not even a power supply! All you need is to mount the laser, create a special extrusion profile on your standard software and get to work. Video in action available here: http://endurancerobots.com/products/laser-cutters-accessory/video-in-action/\nEngraving samples: http://endurancerobots.com/products/laser-cutters-accessory/laser-cutter-accessory-engraving-samples/ Low-cost, High-yield Laser cutting requires a significant initial investment, but opens up a lot of making possibilities \u2014 laser-cut parts are tougher than 3D printer parts. With Endurance L- CHEAPO, the initial dollar investment goes from thousands to hundreds, and the module requires very little space. We hope this product will allow high school shop classes,"
+"\nImpossible Burgers\u2019 key, bloody ingredient gets long awaited nod from FDA - rbanffy\nhttps://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/ingredient-that-makes-meatless-impossible-burgers-meaty-finally-accepted-by-fda/\n======\nmelq\nI know this is a stupid thing to get upset about, but it annoys me SO MUCH\nthat they refer to it as something that 'bleeds'. Real burgers don't bleed!\nNor do steaks, or any other cut of beef you might purchase at the grocery. The\nred, translucent juices that come out of a burger or steak are red for the\nsame reason the meat itself is red: myoglobin. Not blood.\n\n~~~\nsmnrchrds\nEnglish is not my first language, so I always assumed blood and bleeding refer\nto any red liquid. I mean, we talk about blood oranges [0] and bleeding trees\n[1] and no one assumes there is any real blood involved.\n\n[0]\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_orange](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_orange)\n\n[1]\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corymbia_opaca](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corymbia_opaca)\n\n~~~\nspuz\nThat's true, but when you are talking about meat, it's usually safe to assume\n'bleed' means to 'bleed blood'.\n\n~~~\ndrb91\nWhen people refer to a \u201cbloody steak\u201d, they aren\u2019t implying the red liquid is\nactually blood.\n\n~~~\nthaumasiotes\nI would guess that most people are, just as most people who refer to menstrual\nblood intend to imply that it is actually blood.\n\nIs menstrual"
+"\n\nLots of Ideas But Have Little Resource To Start Project - AngeloAnolin\n\nI have a lot of ideas for projects which I believe has the potential to hit big on the market. The only thing I lack is the resources and the drive to actually starting them off. Would anyone be willing enough to collaborate with me in turning some of these ideas into reality?\n======\nmindcrime\nAre your ideas software related? If so, what resources do you need? Your\nprofile says you're a software developer, so presumably you have coding\nskills. You're logged onto HN, so I think we can safely assume you own a\ncomputer. Compilers, editors, IDEs, VCSs, databases, frameworks and libraries\ngalore are freely available as open source... Cheap VPS servers can be had for\nsomething like, what, 10, 20 bucks per month; and Amazon AWS makes ridiculous\namounts of computing power available \"on demand\" in affordable increments.\n\nI think you'd get more mileage out of posting a request like this on HN if you\nat least started building something and then got to a point of maybe saying\n\"Hey, I've got this prototype, but to take it to the next level I need\nsomebody with"
+"\nDigital Ruins of a Forgotten Future: Second Life Still Has 600K Regular Users - grzm\nhttps://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/second-life-leslie-jamison/544149/?single_page=true\n======\naryehof\nInteresting perspective that Facebook perhaps encouraged the demise in\npopularity of Second Life. While Facebook is more based on reality, much of it\nimaginary nevertheless. It is full of stylized and posed selective personal\nphotos and experiences, that propose an idealized version of ourselves to the\nworld.\n\n~~~\ndom96\nAnd interestingly, Facebook is creating something very similar to Second Life:\n[https://www.facebook.com/spaces](https://www.facebook.com/spaces)\n\n------\narisAlexis\nDecentraland will be a proframmable VR world blockchain based. It will be\nsecond life 3.0\n\n------\nOvertonwindow\nFor many it's all they have...."
+"\nRosetta's big day in the Sun - ColinWright\nhttp://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Rosetta_s_big_day_in_the_Sun\n======\nPhantomGremlin\nI'm glad the ESA is getting its day in the sun (pun intended).\n\nTo steal from Joe Biden: 'this is a big fucking deal'. Why? Because, first,\nwe've never gotten this amount of detail from a comet before, and second,\nbecause it's _different_.\n\nBeing different is good. To a large extent ESA's Galileo is a ripoff/copy of\nthe USA's GPS. But not this. It's not a Mars lander or a flyby of the outer\nplanets, both of which NASA has already done. It's something else. It's new\nscientific research, which will lead to new discoveries and new theories.\n\n------\njessriedel\nSince the sun exposure is going to be decreasing from here on out, does this\nmean the Philae lander is a fully lost cause?\n\n(I know that the Rosetta team would emphasize that the Philae lander is\nresponsible for only a pretty small part of the overall set of scientific\nobjective)\n\n~~~\ngamekathu\nno it is never a \"lost cause\"!\n\nPhilae lander has upto several months before the comet goes out of perceptible\nsolar exposure. During this time, Philae will conduct numerous experiments and\nrelay those data to Rosetta,"
+"\nThe Article on Diversity in Tech That Forbes Took Down - ahmacleod\nhttps://www.brianshall.com/2015/10/07/the-article-on-diversity-in-tech-that-forbes-took-down/\n======\ngjmulhol\nHard work is important, but the implication here that pure meritocracy created\nhighly homogenous companies is asinine. I am one of the privileged few that\ngets to live in this magical place, be told great all of us are, and how we\nworked hard to get here. We all are great, and many of us did work hard. But\nthat does not mean that being great and working hard are enough. When I look\naround me, I see almost exclusively people that look like me. This should not\nbe the case.\n\n------\nvictorhugo31337\nThey took your article down because you are very short-sighted. You believe\neveryone has had the same privileges and opportunities you've had, thus you\nexpect the same \"success\" from others. Step into someone else's shoes for a\nchange \"Bro\"."
+"\n\nRover, A \"Dogbnb\" Site, Raises $3.5M And Nabs Commercial Promotion From Petco - philipkimmey\nhttp://techcrunch.com/2013/07/30/rover-a-dogbnb-site-raises-3-5m-and-nabs-commercial-promotion-from-petco/\n\n======\nadambard\nDogbnb in more ways than one: You can choose to pay a sitter to put up your\ndog for x nights, or you can pay someone to LIVE IN YOUR HOUSE and take care\nof your dog. It makes sense, of course, but sounds a bit odd.\n\n~~~\nphilipkimmey\nIndeed - I've talked a sitter on Rover who was planning on listing their\nprofile in NYC as a traveling sitter as a way to get a free stay in the city,\nwhile also watching someone's home & dog.\n\n------\nante_annum\nI honestly never thought \"It's like [x], for dogs\" would be a real thing. That\nthis is even getting off the ground amazes me."
+"\n\nPosterous Acquires Fellow Y Combinator Alum Slinkset - ed\nhttp://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/23/posterous-acquires-fellow-y-combinator-alum-slinkset/\n\n======\nyan\nIs \"acquires\" just a fancy term for \"agreed to work together\"?\n\n~~~\njmtame\nthat's usually a partnership. an acquisition typically involves quite a bit\nmore on the business and operations side.\n\n~~~\nbravura\nHow can a company with only $740K\n( The basic premise is this: We provide you with highly personalized and customized streaming video workouts with a 'virtual training partner'. The partner will do the complete workout along with you and provide tips on proper form as well as provide some motivation. We also have a food log, activity log, and weight chart. We tried to tie these all together so that when you do a workout it shows up in your activity log and when you enter some food it'll calculate your caloric balance and forecast your weight in the future. We've got a ton of features planned like mobile apps, augmented reality workouts, an educational series to help people learn about health, fitness and nutrition as well integrations with things like the withings scale. What do you guys think?\n======\nterryjsmith\nLooking briefly at your pricing plans, and having just done some in person"
+"\nWhat Is Google Chrome Helper, and Why Is It Hogging My CPU Cycles? - dsr12\nhttp://www.wired.com/2014/10/google-chrome-helper/\n======\nalistair75\nShort version: the Wired journalist doesn't really understand what they're\ntalking about. I can't believe no-one has pointed this out yet.\n\nThere is a Google Chrome Helper process for each tab you have open, for each\nextension you have installed, for each plugin that is currently running and\none to talk to the GPU in your system.\n\nIf you enable \"Click to play\" and open Chrome with one empty tab you'll still\nhave at least two Google Chrome Helper processes. One for the empty tab and\none for the GPU process. If you've installed any extensions you'll have more.\nThere is no way to \"destroy the Google Chrome Helper\".\n\nThat article is very badly written.\n\n~~~\nvteven\n> In many cases, the plug-ins and processes they\u2019re handling aren\u2019t listed by\n> name because the APIs don\u2019t allow it. Google Chrome Helper is a martyr.\n\nThe author's chief complaint is that Google Chrome Helper obscures the source\nof crashes/hangs, making diagnosis that much harder. The article is badly\nwritten, sure; but the workaround does allows you to isolate suspect content\nfrom everything else."
+"\nU.S. CEO to France: \u2018How Stupid Do You Think We Are?\u2019 - kruken\nhttp://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2013/02/20/u-s-ceo-to-france-how-stupid-do-you-think-we-are/\n======\njacquesm\nWow, what a total jerk. Regardless of the differences between US, Chinese,\nIndian and French work ethics the least you could do as a CEO is to learn how\nto write a polite refusal.\n\nWhen you don't _have_ to insult someone it is probably better not to. Because\nthose pesky French just might publish your less than elegant letters, your\nstockholders might read those letters and could very well think: \"This guy\nruns the company I invest in? I'd better move my money out before his loud\nmouth causes him to lose business.\".\n\nStockholders are fickle, and some stockholders actually care about more than\njust the numbers (of course, that is a minority).\n\nAlso, if you communicate you negative interest when a foreign representative\nhas thought to offer you a chance at some deal you may want to think of the\nfuture. Effectively you are saying 'if you are so kind as to think of me I\nwill repay you with trash'. That will likely not be repeated again and likely\nthe effect will be much further spread than just this one country and"
+"\nAsk HN: Alternatives to Gmail that are new, cool, etc? - cl42\nCurious if people use any personal email tools. I like gmail but also realize I haven't looked for an alternative in several years.\n======\nreacharavindh\nFastmail. Paying $30/yr for my email hosting. Pros:\n\nI don't have to worry about my emails being scanned to create a profile of me.\n\nI got my If I'm to buy a new laptop, it must remain "superficially" identical/comparable. I want better performance, but what's ciritcal is getting as much battery life and improved thermals as I can. Even the screen is not as much of an issue to me as those 2. Now I've been looking at some products offered by thinkpad modders, but knowledge of the non free bios weighs some on my mind. Since acquiring this laptop, beside remaining abreast of news about Pine and others striving toward software/hardware freedom, I've totally cauterized myself from the greater consumer tech ecosystem. With the context out of the way, what I want to know is whether it's possible to retrofit a Thinkpad X201 (When I'm casually using my X200, while laying down and watching a video for example, I miss the touchpad), with modern hardware capable of running mostly/all free software. I'm honestly not sure what projects are out there, and which ones are promising. Now although I do crave more"
+"\nShow HN: SheetDB \u2013 Connect Remote SQL Database with Google Sheet - zhuxuefeng1994\nhttps://github.com/Xuefeng-Zhu/SheetDB\n======\nkevin\nIs something like this always just a hack/shortcut or are there people who\nwant this as their ideal workflow? I'm curious because I see stuff like this\nall the time being submitted to YC.\n\nFor example, is this for IT / DBAs that need to gather info for data analysts,\nmarketers and sales people? Are there many people in that position and what\nwould the ideal flow look like? I can see startups and small companies willing\nto use this as a stopgap, but I couldn't imagine larger customers/companies\nwilling to use something like this.\n\nThis isn't to say I don't know why this was built. The same forces are what\ndrove us to build Wufoo. We were tired of building these tedious data\ncollection apps. The DIY builder was out of laziness on our part.\n\nBut when it comes to accessing existing data, there's so many concerns about\nsecurity and privacy that I worry an idea like this will always be limited in\nterms of adoption.\n\nIf people think differently, I would love to know.\n\n------\nkevin\nOh, and you should add PostgreSQL"
+"\nAsk HN: How to be more confident and people person? - codesternews\nIn the pressurized situation, I lose my confidence. I am not good people person but I think it is affecting me so much. I am good in technology but could not explainand present ideas. How to improve myself? Any books and suggestions are welcome.\n======\nkodz4\nPractice. Practice. Practice. My prof set up a small reading group when I was\nin college. 5-6 students would get together every week and discuss a\npreassigned paper. I was like you, lacking in confidence, hesitant to\ndisagree, handling confrontation badly etc. But the group created an\nenvironment where I could learn how to deal with these things. I could see\nothers fumbling about and realized it was not just me struggling. When I got\nthings right others encouraged me. All this slowly translated into increased\nconfidence.\n\nSo try and set something up like that with friends/people who want to see you\nimprove. Every week meet up and practice.\n\nAlso recommend Marshall Rosenburg's Non-violent communication. It really\nhelped me see certain things I was doing wrong and showed me ways to avoid\nthem.\n\n------\nsteve_g\nI think this book could be helpful. I've only"
+"\nShow HN: Imprint \u2013 Rethinking Medium - rolandtshen\nHello! This is Roland from Imprint (https://imprint.to). We've been frustrated with Medium because of their paywall, content ownership issues, intrusive interface, and low post engagement. So we built Imprint to do things different. We want to take the control and ownership you get with Wordpress/Ghost, and provide distribution/discovery. To us, a blog is... 1. Openly sharing your thoughts (freedom of expression) 2. Accessible, unobtrusive content (no paywalls) 3. Ownership/control of your work (our policies, custom domains, customization) 4. Building an audience that engages with articles (followers, newsletters, distribution) 5. Simple to run, so you focus on what matters \u2014 CONTENT Our manifesto (business model, philosophy, guidelines): https://read.imprint.to/post/the-imprint-rundown Happy to answer any questions and concerns. Thanks! P.S: yes, our title was inspired by the Ghost launch years ago\n======\nthrowaway888abc\nClickable [https://imprint.to](https://imprint.to)\n\n------\npinkpigpie\nThis seems amazing!"
+"\nGrowing By Shrinking - peteforde\nhttp://hackertourism.com/post/44454709336/growing-by-shrinking\n======\ncodewright\nI identify with, and am seeking for myself, a lot of things described here.\n\nThat said, the author is speaking from an intensely privileged point of view.\nReferring to selling one's time as a programmer as 'whoring' caused me to\ncringe.\n\nI have strong aversion to growth for growth's sake now that I've lived and\nworked in Silicon Valley and the startups that go with it (I was CTO at a\nnutrition startup).\n\nThings I've done recently:\n\n1\\. Quit my job and went back to being an independent consultant. Looking to\nstart a product company in the gap time between contracts.\n\n2\\. Exercising more, in my case, 6 times a week minimum as well.\n\nThe real question is whether or not I'll be able to make something that bears\nrevenue fruit or not. I've had small bits of success here and there before but\nnothing substantial or lasting. Current side project is just me scratching an\nitch, no real revenue potential.\n\nI've been reading a lot in an attempt to learn as much as I can and prepare\nmyself to be able to make something profitable. Mostly marketing and sales\nbooks, about"
+"\nShutting Down a Service with 500M Requests per Month - danielamitay\nhttp://danielamitay.com/blog/2015/5/29/shutting-down-a-500mm-requestsmonth-api\n======\nstrommen\n> your app uses public APIs in a manner not prescribed by Apple\n\nWhat an enraging way to phrase this. I understand Apple's desire to shut this\ndown, but they make their contempt for app developers obvious at every\npossible turn.\n\n~~~\nkillface\nThat seems like an incredibly petty way to view it.\n\nApple's not out to get you. In fact, I'm glad they did this. That iHasApp\nlooks creepy as hell, and it pisses me off that other devs were using it to\nbasically spy on me. It reduces my trust in all apps.\n\n~~~\nstrommen\nTo be clear - I have no problem with this service getting shut down, as it's\nclearly intended to violate the user's privacy. But to say you must use APIs\nas \"prescribed\" by Apple is way too broad and subjective.\n\nI'm sure the iOS developer Terms of Service forbids this at some level. If\nnot, then update it. Then say you're shutting this down because it violates\nthe TOS.\n\n~~~\nceejayoz\nThat's a good way to get a million page TOS.\n\n[https://developer.apple.com/app-\nstore/review/guidelines/](https://developer.apple.com/app-\nstore/review/guidelines/)\n\n> We will reject Apps"
+"\nDon\u2019t buy the MacBook Pros even on sale, in my opinion - tomduncalf\nhttps://theoutline.com/post/4277/dont-buy-the-new-macbook-pros-even-on-sale-in-my-opinion\n======\ntomduncalf\nPosting this from my six month old Macbook Pro 15\" on which the spacebar has\njust started doing double spaces. Going to try and clean it with compressed\nair, but even if that works, it's unacceptable in my opinion that such a key\npiece of hardware on such an expensive machine should be so fragile.\n\nThe fact that at some point I'll have to take it back to Apple and probably be\nwithout it for several days due to the complexity of the repair makes this 10x\nworse - I am freelance so need this machine for work, so being without it\n(especially for such a seemingly trivial reason) is unacceptable and\nabsolutely not what I expect when I buy Apple (previous Macbooks have worked\nfor years without a single issue).\n\nIf they release a redesign, I'd swap it in a flash (I do actually quite like\nthe keyboard to type on otherwise, but seems like the quest for thinness has\ngone too far this time!), but if this problem is as widespread as it seems who\nknows what it will do to resale"
+"\nAsk HN: Why is there no software for generating cross-platform native UI code? - dreamer7\nHTML + CSS, iOS and Android all are complete design systems. Any UI that we design can be developed for these platforms. Forgive my possibly naive understanding of mobile UI. Why is there no software/ service that allows us to develop on one platform and automatically transpiles into the other platforms? Is it because it is extremely complex or because developing the UI is not the most time-consuming element of cross-platform development or both? A form field for web -\n<input ..../> is \n<EditText ..../> for Android and \n<UITextInput ..../> for iOS\n======\npraveen9920\nKony is proprietary platform which does generate native app code (\n[https://www.kony.com/](https://www.kony.com/) )\n\nMajor problem for implementing such thing is that there is no exact 1-1\nmapping between all UI elements. There are certainly few elements which has\nthe mapping but all the features cannot be done with those.\n\nAlso, I remember that apple has problem with generated code.\n\nNote: I worked for Kony few years back"
+"\nIf It's Important, Don't Hack It - vazquez\nhttp://insideintercom.io/if-its-important-dont-hack-it/\n======\nprogramminggeek\nThe tricky part is getting people to understand what really drives their\nbusiness and at the right level. It's not even just picking the right metrics,\nit's understanding them enough to take action on them.\n\nMy metric for metrics is to track things that will change your behavior. If a\nmetric changes and you don't, then it's a pointless metric.\n\nI've seen many companies track reasonable metrics, only to do nothing about\nthem when they change. They just try to \"do more\" of whatever they were\nalready doing.\n\nDoing the right things with the right metrics is not a skill that everybody\nhas and not everybody can learn.\n\n~~~\neinhverfr\nThis is true. Also beyond these problems, I am going to say something else.\n\nMarketing is not the result of a few actions. It is and should be something\nwoven into _all_ business activities. It should be part of your email\nsignatures, participating on social networking sites, etc. All of the little\nthings build up and the thins which really help with building a presence.\n\nThere are legitimate marketing hacks but they don't involve tricking users.\nThey involve living"
+"\nAll major UK ISPs prepping network-level porn 'n' violence filters - alan_cx\nhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/06/big_4_isps_will_all_embrace_network_level_filtering_to_protect_children/\n======\nphilbarr\nForgive me for being glib, but at least one good thing out of this is that a\nlot more teenagers will be inspired to become hackers.\n\n\"So when did you first get into hacking Mr. Famous Hacker X?\"\n\n\"Well, I remember that, like a lot of the lads in my generation at the time, I\nwas trying to get round my ISPs porn-filters.\"\n\n~~~\nrobotmay\nThis is actually pretty accurate for when I was in school; I learnt a lot\nabout proxies and networking whilst bypassing the school's content filters :D\n\n------\nandyking\nSo, in order to get around this DNS-based filtering, all a teenager has to do\nis change the DNS servers on their computer or device to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4?\nThis seems like a move designed to placate rather than provide any real\nprotection - like all such schemes.\n\nThere's no alternative to supervising young people's internet use. Teenagers\n_will_ look up porn - it's best to be adult and intelligent about it, and\nprotect them from its worst _effects_ , rather than trying to filter the\ncontent itself.\n\n~~~\nretube\nYes it"
+"\nApple told some Apple TV+ show developers not to anger China - jmsflknr\nhttps://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/apple-china-tv-protesters-hong-kong-tim-cook\n======\nmokash\nApple are beholden to China. Sure, China is a huge market for them but I think\nthe bigger issue is manufacturing: if they piss China off they won\u2019t have\nanything to sell, anywhere! I\u2019m sure Apple execs know this and I hope they\u2019re\nquickly planning to reduce, if not remove this dependency.\n\n~~~\nchrischen\nChinese people are also beholden to China (the government). It may be a\npolitical game to you, but trying to destabilize the government would have\nserious consequences to the livelihoods of the people there, just because some\npolicies (that don\u2019t affect you) don\u2019t agree with your world view.\n\nEven though there are kinks in their regime, for the most part they\u2019ve lifted\nhundreds or millions out of poverty. Imagine if the U.S. had a massive foreign\npower prodding it during the early years of slavery, manifest destiny (the\njustification for eradicating the Native Americans), racism, drug war,\nVietnam, and mass incarceration.\n\nYes, they have a big brother-style regime, but they are also capable of\nsorting out their own political issues. And if not, they\u2019ll reap the\nconsequences without you having"
+"\nTesting Distributed Systems with Deterministic Simulation (2014) [video] - sensible123\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc\n======\njacques_chester\nMy experience is that this is difficult without the system under test being\ndesigned to operate deterministically.\n\nSo for example: the system clock needs to be replaceable with a fake, or the\ncurrent time needs to be injected, or perhaps both.\n\nAnother example: Go channels. These are a real PITA to surface in a way that\nallows a test harness to drive them deterministically.\n\nA while ago I built a simulator testing harness for an early version of the\nKnative autoscaler[0]. I eventually ran aground on the difficulty of keeping\nup with changes, but it may be rearchitected and repurposed to assist\nKubernetes HPA development instead.\n\nFoundationDB's approach is to pretty much bake optional determinism into the\nlanguage with some macro magic. It makes me wish that were easier to do in\nother languages.\n\n[0] [https://github.com/pivotal/skenario](https://github.com/pivotal/skenario)\n\n~~~\nryanworl\nIn the FDB simulator case, every event has a future time at which it will\nfire, and the clock advances to that time when the event is dequeued.\n\nThis also has the side benefit of artificially \u201cspeeding up time\u201d, which is\nuseful when many actions happen based on long"
+"\n\nUsing WhatsApp with XMPP client - isarat\n\nIs there anyway to use WhatsApp with any of the XMPP clients? If yes, how it's done<p>The Wikipedia article says, it supports XMPP.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp\n======\nmunimkazia\nIt's protocol is a customized version of XMPP, as per the wiki article. I\ndoubt if any third party XMPP client will work with it. Whatsapp doesn't have\nan open API, though some guys had managed to reverse engineer it last year.\nThey have since updated their API apparently.\n\nUnless whatsapp explicitly opens with API, I think we are stuck with their\nofficial apps on the phones.\n\n------\nPaulFreund\nAs far as I know there currently is no way to accomplish this, but I am\nworking on a solution for it. Unfortunately the project just started and will\ntake its time\n\n~~~\nisarat\nAre you working with WhatsApp for this? Or reverse engineer?"
+"\nBitcode Demystified - happy-go-lucky\nhttps://lowlevelbits.org/bitcode-demystified/\n======\nHHad3\nWhen the author pointed out that bitcode may impact security, I expected to\nread about how compiler optimizations that happen during compilation of LLVM\nIR to machine language may introduce security issues.\n\nHowever, the article only mentioned that decompilation is easier with LLVM IR,\nbecause it is a more high-level language. It certainly is a valid point, but\naddresses the topic of binary obfuscation instead for algorithmic security.\n\nI'm thus wondering if anyone can shed some light on the real security aspects.\nFor example, let's say that I compile C that is supposed to run in constant\ntime to LLVM IR and submit it to Apple. Does Apple guarantee that their\nblackbox optimizations do not introduce branches or other factors that may\nresult in variable timing into a constant time algorithm? Can I do anything to\nensure that my code will always run in constant time despite unknown\noptimizations being applied to it in the future?\n\n~~~\nesrauch\nIt seems trivially obvious to me that there is no way to guarantee and code\nyou write won't be transformed into any runtime under arbitrary \"optimization\"\n(transformation).\n\nAs in, you can have just a single"
+"\nWhy everyone should learn to drive - akhilrex\nhttp://akhil.me/2013/why-everyone-should-learn-to-drive\n======\nclaudius\nThe logic of this seems to be that driving has certain properties, these\nproperties are worthwhile to experience and hence everybody has to learn how\nto drive.\n\nWhat a silly idea.\n\nWhile it is certainly true that driving might have these properties \u2013 I can\u2019t\nreally comment, as I don\u2019t own a license, much less a car \u2013 but assuming that\nthe only way to experience \u2018accidents happen\u2019 is by driving a car is rather\nstrange. This especially holds since the idea that \u2018accidents happen\u2019 is a\ngood experience is only remotely sensible _because_ accidents not only happen\nin car traffic but basically everywhere else in life, too!\n\nThe same holds for the rest of the paragraphs: You have to plan irrespective\nof your mode of transportation (and of course outside of transportation, too),\nyou have to replace the items in your possession after a certain time, be they\nsocks, jeans, notebooks, washing machines or cars and of course you need\nsafeguards outside a car, too.\n\nTo me, this article reads as if the author was unsatisfied with the original\nassessment that a car provides independence (which, of course,"
+"\nNokia 3310 hands-on - asymmetric\nhttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/02/nokia-3310-hands-on-its-hard-not-to-like-this-modern-take-on-the-feature-phone/\n======\nthrowaway000002\nThis would be my \"primary driver\" had they implemented LTE, GPS, and no-\nnonsense USB tethering.\n\nI don't need, nor want, anything else.\n\nAlso, get off my lawn.\n\n------\nKoshkin\n3310 (the original) was my first mobile phone. It was OK. Flip phones were\nmuch nicer though, even the ones with the antenna sticking out - which, in\nfact, made them even cooler looking. I loved my Motorola-made one (not the\nRAZR; VA76R, was it?). It was perfect.\n\n------\nctack\nThis is really attractive, SD card, bluetooth, long battery life. But there is\nno GPS, so no maps. That's a lot to compromise.\n\nSeems they really went all out in not making it a smart phone replacement.\n\n------\nhprotagonist\nburner for border crossings.\n\nFinally, a phone for older relatives that doesn't suck.\n\n------\nLostWanderer\nWhat are the possibilities of application development in feature phones? Are\nwe seeing the return of feature phones with possible voice functions in the\nvery near future.\n\n------\nufmace\nPretty cool! Be interesting to see how many of the internet \"grumpy old men\"\ncomplaining about modern smartphones buy them in first-world countries.\n\n~~~\nnom\nI really want to"
+"\n\nAsk HN: Please stop submitting \"Bitcoin Exchange Y is down\" - mschuster91\n\nPlease, for the love of god, stop posting Bitcoin drama. No need to further influence the already instable markets...\n======\nspoiler\nNot to mention it's not _news_ to anyone who deals with bitcoins whilst it is\nannoying for anyone who doesn't care about them.\n\n~~~\nsmosher\nThis.\n\nWho cares if MtGox is down? The same people who already found out the hard\nway.\n\n------\nminimaxir\nI strongly doubt that a single HN post would \"influence the markets.\"\n\n~~~\nmschuster91\nThe problem is that most of these links link directly to MtGox, thus\ninvoluntarily helping the DDoS attacks."
+"\nMySpace replaces all server hard disks with flash drives - Flemlord\nhttp://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139280/MySpace_replaces_all_server_hard_disks_with_flash_drives\n======\nseiji\nThe article is a blatant advertisement. Let me counter-advertise with my\nexperiences here.\n\nWe did evaluations of a Fusion-io ioDrive card and a Texas Memory Systems\nRamSan card [1] recently. The ioDrive had strange performance characteristics\n(but nicely designed packaging). We ended up going with a few RamSan cards\n(though, they have much uglier packaging).\n\nWe have a few high throughput MySQL instances that needed to perform better.\nThe database in question is only a few hundred gigabytes in size, so it's a\nperfect fit for the current generation of server flash cards.\n\nOur path for improving improving performance went:\n\n \n \n - Started off with 32GB RAM and RAID-10 on SAS disks.\n - iowait sat between 10% and 15% constantly.\n - Moved up to 64GB RAM.\n - iowait cut in half.\n - Installed RamSan card and moved mysql with all databases to it.\n - iowait became negligible.\n \n\nNow the server sits there with a few hundred gigabytes of flash, 64GB RAM, and\nit looks completely idle on usage graphs, but it's serving data faster than\never.\n\nThey are nice devices if you can afford them (and tolerate"
+"\nShow HN: Streak.ly tracks what you do daily and I'd love feedback on the concept - kylebragger\nI've been working on a side project called Streak.ly with a friend of mine for the past month or so; it's intended to help keep you motivated to do otherwise mundane daily tasks (like do 10 pushups, read for an hour, etc.) by letting you log \"streaks\" \u2014\u00a0consecutive days in a row of doing something. It's in private alpha/beta/gamma/whatever right now (has some rough edges to clean up), but is more or less functionally complete and pretty stable. I'm a big fan of the Seinfeld calendar, and have seen other services which do similar things but were unsatisfying to use, either from an aesthetic or functional perspective. Streak.ly is designed to be simple, good-looking, fast, fun, (and hopefully addictive). (FWIW, it's also a place to experiment with user stickiness stuff I can potentially roll back in to Forrst.) There are also some in-progress social/game/motivational features I plan to roll out in the next few weeks that hopefully contribute to the enjoyment factor of the app. Streak.ly uses Twitter for authentication, and I've set up a URL to let HN folks in early: http://streak.ly/auth/twitter/start?secret=showhn I'd love any and"
+"\n\nInstantCab (YC W12): A Hybrid Alternative To Ride-Sharing and Taxi Apps - ajju\nhttp://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/instantcab/\n\n======\njoshwa\nA big problem I've seen with the proliferation of these apps is that I've seen\ndrivers with three or four devices, (which makes sense from the driver's\nperspective--maximizing opportunity), but even though I'm in the car paying a\nfare, they show up on the other apps as available! The result is that when you\nput out a call for a ride, even though it shows tons of vehicles available,\nmost of them are actually currently occupied. As TFA points out, this leads to\ndistrust since as a rider you can't actually be sure you'll be able to get a\nride.\n\nI think the app makers need to encourage riders to report to them when they\nsee drivers using other apps and misleadingly showing themselves as available.\nI know I'm going to start doing it.\n\n~~~\najju\nThat's a good point Josh. We ask drivers to set themselves as unavailable if\nthey are on another ride, and we are measuring a lot of things that help us\nfigure out which drivers are more reliable so we can reward them accordingly\nvs which drivers are unreliable"
+"\nHow to conduct a good programming interview - lihaoyi\nhttp://www.lihaoyi.com/post/HowtoconductagoodProgrammingInterview.html\n======\nthiscatis2\nSo reading over some of the questions posted on technical programming\ninterviews I must say that I would definitely fail such an interview without\nstudying for it for a month first. Having recently discussed job interviews of\nex-colleagues that went to EBay, Facebook, Google, etc.. I wouldn't even pass\nthe whiteboard test.\n\nHowever I'm shipping scaleable API's used by web and native apps, using\nContinuous Integration and Deployment on an AWS infrastructure that I set up\nmyself. Furthermore I'm responsible for hiring developers that I work with on\nagency projects and most important of all getting projects delivered within\ntime, scope and budget AND getting paid for it. Yet I would fail most\ntechnical interviews.\n\nI've been doing this for about 10 years and never ran into any major problems.\nI've worked both as a freelancer and in-house permanent dev and never had any\ncomplaints about my work. (Feedback and improvements yes, big failures never).\nYet I would fail most technical interviews.\n\nI talk directly to clients and vendors, I sell projects, I take over projects,\nI end projects and I've created 2 startups, one of which I"
+"\nAsk HN: Introducing my wife to programming - salttrail\nI am experienced Java developer but I'm not sure whether it's something I should start with or teach her python. She have knowledge about what programing is and she would like to do career change so if you have any tips to share in which direction I should go, it would be helpful. \nAt the end of the day either web or mobile development is fine as long as she is able to have steady learning curve and less "huh?" moments, until she feel comfortable with whatever hack the programming is :). My plan is to 1. Tackle OOP fundamentals 2. Introduction in one of the frameworks 3. Build simple apps\n======\ngt2\nI think #3 goes at the top.\n\nOpen an editor and start a python script, , new Xcode project\nfrom template, etc.\n\nThen do the minimal amount of work to make a \"program\". Would be great to have\ninput from the user and output something interesting. But many programs/apps\nare just informational right?\n\nSo you start with the most basic program.\n\nAnd you add to it.\n\nOccasionally jump over to a huge codebase and show her how editing one line\nchanges the"
+"\nThe other kind of \u201cflash\u201d that we used to worry about - tbodt\nhttp://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/12/26/flash/\n======\nDunedan\nI was reading an article the other day and it took me a moment to realize that\nit was talking about flash as in software and not about flash as in flash\nstorage. Based on the headline I thought Rachel would write about the same, so\nI was quite surprised and amused to read that she was talking about an even\nolder meaning of flash.\n\n------\nsevensor\n> I should mention that there have been many variants on this theme. You could\n> jam those same fun escape sequences into a mail\n\nThis happened to me once as an undergraduate. I was in a lab full of dying\nSuns (they were replaced the following semester). It was late at night, late\nin the term and the hushed lab was packed with students wrapping up their\nprojects. I used Pine to open an e-mail from one of my friends at another\nuniversity, which turned out to be an animated Christmas tree, complete with\nblinking lights and beeping out \"We Wish You a Merry Christmas\" on the\ninternal speaker. I killed the terminal window as fast"
+"\nSwift UTF-8 String - gok\nhttps://swift.org/blog/utf8-string/\n======\nskrebbel\nI have never written a single line of iOS/macos code, but I'm interested in\nSwift because it's a cool language.\n\nCan anyone explain why this is done _now_ and not when Swift was first\nreleased? I mean, UTF-8 was already the clear winner when Swift started. Is it\nsome obj-c compat story?\n\n~~~\ngok\nThe commonly-accepted wisdom among Unicode people was that UTF-8 is good for\ntransmission and storage, but bad for in memory representation. It now appears\npretty conclusive that this was wrong.\n\n~~~\nrstuart4133\nThey are still partially right, and I'd go so far as to say were totally right\nif efficiency wasn't a concern. From the programmers point of view utf-32 is\nstill by far the easiest memory representation to use.\n\nBack in the day, when the Unicode people were pushing it as an alternative to\nwhatever the ISO standard is that solved the same problem, they argued it was\nbetter than the ISO standard because the was only one encoding, UCS2 whereas\nISO defined 8, 16 and 32 bit encodings. They said they could get away with\nthat because 16 bits was enough for all modern languages (read:"
+"\n\nCall Girl: What I Learned During My Year as a Customer Service Representative - kevinalexbrown\nhttp://bygonebureau.com/2013/04/23/call-girl-what-i-learned-during-my-year-as-a-customer-service-representative/\n\n======\ngraeme\n>If you think you\u2019re talking to an expert when you call a customer service\ncenter, you\u2019re probably not.\n\nThis strongly affects my opinion of a company as a consumer. _Some_ companies\nhave great support.\n\nFor instance, I've published a book with Createspace. They are phenomenal.\nThey call me when I put in a support request, and within ten seconds I have an\nexpert rep.\n\nUsually the call takes only 20-40 seconds, including authenticating my ID,\nbecause the reps are very knowledgeable and efficient.\n\nContrast this to most support calls where I waste about 20 minutes of my time\nwaiting (I do other things), and often 10-15 additional time speaking to a rep\nwho doesn't know things, and eventually transfers me to someone who does.\n\nThe company pays those reps by the hour, so they lose money, AND make me hate\nthe company.\n\nThis doesn't mean it always makes sense to provide knowledgeable support, but\nI suspect there is a stronger case for it than many companies suspect.\n\n~~~\netchalon\nI think it comes down to scale and cost.\n\nI've spent a bit"
+"\n\nHow HTML 5 link prefetching can make your site load faster with one line of code - ronnoch\nhttp://keyboardy.com/programming/html5-link-prefetching/\n\n======\nwillwagner\nGoogle already does this prefetch on some search results pages with the top\nresult. For instance, in firefox if you search for \"hacker news\":\n\n I want to break into the tech industry, but I'm not sure exactly how to go about it without the requisite degree or industry experience. I have a github and a website (http://avivnitsan.com), but what else can I do to make myself employable? More broadly, my question is: can a liberal arts degree combined with some technical skills and ambition lead to gainful employment in the tech industry?\n======\nSpoom\nI don't have a bachelor's degree at all (I have an associate's) and I am\nworking as a professional software developer for a startup, so yes.\n\nI recommend you do some freelancing as it's"
+"\nTikTok and Microsoft\u2019s Clock - joshus\nhttps://500ish.com/tiktok-and-microsofts-clock-c4c9fd082b89\n======\nchvid\nWhere is EU in this embarrassment?\n\nSuppose Margrethe Vestager called and said TikTok, you are banned unless you\nlet a \"very european\" company take over your business? And by the way. We\nwould like a cut.\n\nAnd would the US still being able to say \"national security\" if it was fully\nowned by German business running on servers in some Swiss mountain?\n\n~~~\nlovetocode\nBecause the Chinese cyber threat is incredibly real. The United States should\nbe playing hard ball. The US TikTok systems are compromised by Chinese\nspammers already.\n\n~~~\nFooBarWidget\nIf the threat of Tiktok gathering data is so real, then isn't a much better\nsolution, to pressure Google and Apple into improving their security models?\nThat way, _nobody_ can spy on your phone anymore. Or do you think Tiktok is\nthe only and last threat there will ever exist?\n\nBut nobody's talking about actual solutions. All this looks more like a witch\nhunt to me.\n\n~~~\nfr2null\nI don't think the key data that TikTok is gathering is anything you can really\nblock on your phone. It doesn't ask for your phone number, it doesn't ask\ncontacts, it"
+"\nApple prohibits App Store devs from using location-based ads - johns\nhttp://www.macnn.com/articles/10/02/04/gps.info.allowed.only.for.beneficial.uses/\n======\ngte910h\nAnd they don't let any app record phone calls anymore...\n\nAre we surprised at their arbitrary nonsense anymore?\n\n~~~\nmetachor\nIs this really arbitrary nonsense?\n\nDo you want ad networks gleaning your physical location(s) throughout the day?\nDo you want random applications surreptitiously recording your phone\nconversations?\n\nWhile both of these limitations might seem, well, limiting from the developers\nperspective, they both seem very much in the favor of the end-user to protect\nthem from potential abuse.\n\n~~~\ngte910h\nNo no no, you misunderstand.\n\nThey disallow you to even tell the person about it.\n\nAs to the recording, you're not allowed to record telephone conversations that\nuse the 3G or phone network in any way.\n\nThis means even in telephone recording application designed to record calls\nthe customer wants recorded. This is now forbidden by Apple. (As one of my\ncustomers found out 6 months of reviews later when the app has done this all\nalong).\n\nThis isn't a \"protect the customer from abuse\" sort of issue, this is a \"Apple\ndoesn't want apps to do it at all\" sort of thing"
+"\nI've never seen a language's style guide recommend avoiding comments before - vs2\nhttp://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Commenting\n======\nblowski\nAvoiding comments that do what your code should be doing is common practice,\nand I think that's what this style guide is recommending.\n\nComments are useful to describe __why__ you're doing something, often when you\nare not able to change the unexpected behaviour. Whenever I build an API\nlibrary, my code is littered with comments like \"Acme Corp API requires this\nhappens before that\" with a link to that bit of the API documentation.\n\nHere's a C++ example about \"documenting surpises\" (taken from Steve\nMcConnell's Code Complete:\n\n \n \n for ( element = 0; element < elementCount; element++ ) {\n // Use right shift to divide by two. Substituting the\n // right-shift operation cuts the loop time by 75%.\n elementList[ element ] = elementList[ element ] >> 1;\n }\n \n\nAnd a Java example:\n\n \n \n /* The following code is necessary to work around an error in\n WriteData() that appears only when the third parameter\n equals 500. '500' has been replaced with a named constant\n for clarity. */\n \n if ( blockSize == WRITEDATA_BROKEN_SIZE ) {\n blockSize = WRITEDATA_WORKAROUND_SIZE;\n }\n WriteData ( file, data, blockSize );\n \n\nHe also gives"
+"\n\n Contracting out an API - comments on the spec, or even a bid? - andrewljohnson\nhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1-OQrDRvoHk-fX0Yc9NJ_Os9y9wbxK_W2-jMXAKbFCRg/edit?hl=en_US\n\n======\nErikHuisman\nSo basically only one user can login per UUID? There are no means of\nunregistering the device? A user can log in on multiple devices but can't\nlogout. Also store the APNS key @ device_register you might wan't to sent\npushes in the future. Put password in basic auth and use ssl (at minumum)..\n\n~~~\nandrewljohnson\nYes, one user per UDID for now. If you want to unregister a device, you can\nemail me, and if we get multiple requests, we'll code a solution.\n\nStoring APNS sounds like a good idea.\n\nAs for security, I am ok that this would be susceptible to a wifi sniffer. We\nwill note that it is insecure for users, but they won't care. If we get a bid\nthat implements security, we'll consider it, but I'd rather have it work than\nbe secure.\n\n~~~\nAretNCarlsen\n> We will note that it is insecure for users, but they won't care. ... I'd\n> rather have it work than be secure.\n\nI would have an easier yet more profitable life if I could manage to adopt\nthat attitude"
+"\nAsk HN: do you trust your \"secure email\" now? - aw4y\nAfter Lavabit and SilentCircle shutdown (the first said "better shutdown than give 'em access")...do you trust the other "secure email" providers?\n======\njacquesm\nI consider everything I type into a computer with an active network port to be\npublished.\n\nAnything less would be folly, there are so many hops where people could be\nlistening in on your data (starting with the cable that runs from your\nkeyboard to your computer) that even an email sent to your 'drafts' box on\nyour own IMAP server is probably not secure. Unless you own the co-location\nfacility and all the infrastructure between where you sit and where you store\nthe mail.\n\nThe whole security thing to me is a matter of economics. I assume that any\ndata that is not worth reading is collected and that anything that is worth\nmore than it would cost to collect and read is read.\n\nMaybe that's a paranoid view of the state of affairs but at least I won't be\nsurprised or disappointed. My main bulwark against wholesale exposure of the\ncontents of my inbox is a 'Rob'. Rob is a veteran sysadmin who configured"
+"\n'I'm either too black or not black enough': One teenager's experience - sonabinu\nhttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-47866741\n======\nscarface74\n_The N-word is something that African Americans have carried for generations,\nand when we use this word in our music and to one another, it is as a form of\nempowerment._\n\nI\u2019m Black and hate this excuse. I bet the average White kid hears the N-word\nmore from rap music and Black people than White people.\n\nRichard Pryor expressed it better than I ever could.\n\n(Profanity, NSFW)\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp4ouYY-8zQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp4ouYY-8zQ)\n\n~~~\nmc32\nI agree with you. I don\u2019t know of any other group for which there are epithets\nwhere said group embraces the epithet in order to \u201cwater it down\u201d, \u201cempower\u201d,\netc.\n\nThat\u2019s different from the situations in some places where the word for a\npeople in translation is an epithet but it\u2019s the only word for those people,\nnot that it\u2019s embraced. (think \u201cgaijin\u201d thirty years ago, as an accessible\nexample).\n\n~~~\nsteanne\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SlutWalk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SlutWalk)\n\n~~~\ntashi\n\"Queer\" is the word that springs to mind immediately because it seems like the\nproject to reclaim it has had almost total success. Many other examples here\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reappropriation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reappropriation)\n\n~~~\nmc32\nYou could also add geek and nerd, but I"
+"\nEmail Storm - polm23\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_storm\n======\nchatmasta\nWe had a few of these in college. My favorite was when someone replied \"you\nknow, you can just press M in gmail to mute the conversation.\" What followed\nwere hundreds of messages saying just, \"M\". College kids really are the\ngreatest trolls.\n\n------\nilkkao\nSaw these storms couple times at Nokia years ago. By far the funniest replies\nwere those that explained correctly what's going on and then concluded that\ntheir message should be the end of the thread.\n\nWhat they didn't realize was that the email server was overloaded and that\ntheir message would be delivered several hours later together with dozen\nsimilar messages from the other people.\n\nThe next round of people then complained why these people are not stopping.\n\n------\n_nalply\nI saw an email storm on a mailing list for lawyers. Due to a misconfiguration\nout of office notices weren't suppressed and forwarded to the mailing list.\nSoon several lawyers who were taking off were contributing to the storm. I\nimmediately saw the self-reinforcing avalanche and told the operator to shut\ndown the mailing list server.\n\n------\nstygiansonic\nI think almost everyone at a big company has experienced"
+"\n\nLisp Plus Plus - parenthesis\nhttp://www.interhack.net/projects/lpp/\n\n======\nqwph\nThere's a fine line between madness and genius, and as far as I can tell, this\nseems to be exactly on the line. I think I might have to download the\nsource...\n\n~~~\nicky\nMadness and genius actually form an intersecting Venn diagram. This falls\nsquarely in the middle.\n\n------\nBrandonM\nI actually worked for two summers at Interhack, so I found it interesting to\nsee a link to their site here. The founder (Matt Curtin) is a really cool guy\nwho teaches a Lisp course for one quarter a year at OSU (that's how I got the\njob). Matt had a hand in cracking the DES and wrote a book about it called\n_Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard_.\n\nUnfortunately, Interhack does a lot of computer forensic stuff that has human-\nintensive requirements. Because of his work, Matt is considered an expert for\nthe purposes of court testimony, and he spends much of his time working on and\ntestifying in computer forensic evidence cases, rather than hacking in Lisp as\nI'm sure he would prefer to be doing.\n\nDon't get me wrong... his company is doing great. They just got"
+"\nAsk HN: How do you manage cloud costs? - edcr\nIn large teams it is pretty easy to end up with things like unused vm's, files stored and forgotten about in s3/blobs etc, machines left running over weekends etc when not in use. How do people make sure they aren't wasting money like this or don't they? Thanks!\n======\nmattbgates\nI use DreamCompute, which is DreamHost's OpenStack cloud computing. The\nsmallest instance cost just $4.50 a month at 512 MB and $6.00 for 1 GB. Each\ninstance comes with 80 GB SSD + 100 GB block and bandwidth is currently\nunmetered, though DreamHost has stated they will likely be charging in the\nfuture. I can't imagine they would charge a fortune for it and would likely\nkeep it very competitive. Having scoured the Internet for a better cloud\nsystem than that and better rates, I haven't seen anything that beats it.\n\nI currently have a fair-amount-of-traffic website sitting on the 1 GB server,\nwhile I have several web apps, which aren't getting traffic at the moment,\nsitting on a smaller single server.\n\nI don't have teams, but it is pretty easy to know what instances I spin up and\nwhich ones I'm"
+"\nSolar eclipse measured on Mars, affects interior - dnetesn\nhttps://phys.org/news/2020-09-solar-eclipse-mars-affects-interior.html\n======\nChris2048\nMars (mean diameter 6780 km) has two known moons, Diamos (mean diameter of\n12.4 km) and Phobos (mean diameter of 22 km). So Phobos is ~0.3% the diameter\nof mars, and Diamos is ~0.2%; for comparison the moon is 27% the diameter of\nEarth, though is considered abnormally large. Also, \"Mars may have moons\nsmaller than 50 to 100 metres\".\n\nI'm surprised there's no lower limit on what is considered a moon. Wikipedia\nsuggests smaller objects are called \"moonlets\", but I guess Russell's teapot\nwould count as one, but for the uncertain fact it might not be considered\n\"natural\"?\n\n~~~\nlizknope\nWe have changed the definition of \"planet\" multiple times so I'm sure we will\nredefine \"moon\" as well.\n\nPluto was recently demoted but this has happened before to Ceres and others.\n\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAU_definition_of_planet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAU_definition_of_planet)\n\nBy 1851, the number of \"planets\" had grown to 23 (the eight recognised today,\nplus fifteen between Mars and Jupiter), and it was clear that hundreds more\nwould eventually be discovered. Astronomers began cataloguing them separately\nand began calling them \"asteroids\" instead of \"planets\"\n\n------\nandy_ppp\n\"Its orbit passes between the sun and any given"
+"\nLinux 5.2 released: list of changes - diegocg\nhttps://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.2\n======\nyjftsjthsd-h\n> Ext4 has gained support for case-insensitive name lookups\n\nWell that's neat. I wonder how it'll be exposed to userspace; mount option,\nmaybe?\n\n~~~\nbluewres\nThis seems to explain how it works:\n[https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-\nguide/ext4.html...](https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-\nguide/ext4.html#case-insensitive-file-name-lookups)\n\n~~~\nyjftsjthsd-h\nThanks!\n\n> The case-insensitive file name lookup feature is supported on a per-\n> directory basis, allowing the user to mix case-insensitive and case-\n> sensitive directories in the same filesystem. It is enabled by flipping the\n> +F inode attribute of an empty directory.\n\nThat's nicer than how Darwin handles it in that it doesn't force you to use it\nfor the entire file system, although I'd be willing to bet this exposes some\ninteresting bugs in applications, and I wonder if mixing case sensitivity\ninside a filesystem doesn't make them even more interesting to deal with.\n\n------\nJahak\nHooray"
+"\nNon-Robust Arithmetic as Art - mourner\nhttps://observablehq.com/@mourner/non-robust-arithmetic-as-art\n======\ndromen\nSome syntax errors re.: \"chosenOrient\" and \"orientRobust\"? I'm on Firefox 60.8\nand uBO but not blocking stringently, just Google Analytics from the logs.\n\nI got overloaded by the page being fully editable/interactive AND with errors\nAND with foreign mathematical constructs. Somehow the possibility to edit it\nmakes me walk on eggshells, even if it's just a local edit.\n\nIt otherwise looks good, I'd probably enjoy reading it if I was more fit. I'm\ngoing to take a walk outside now, thanks for the unintended inspiration.\n\n~~~\nmourner\nInteresting, can you share the exact log of the errors you're seeing? There\nare none for me on both Firefox & Chrome with uBO."
+"\nLet\u2019s not demonize driving, just stop subsidizing it - chrismealy\nhttp://cityobservatory.org/lets-not-demonize-driving/\n======\nfrgtpsswrdlame\nAs much as the idea is nice I think it's just a political non-starter. Making\nthis about \"personal responsibility\" is a pretty see-through cover. This is a\nstick and a stick wielded by \"liberal elites who live in cities\" against rural\ndrivers and mega-commuters won't work in this environment.\n\nPeople will move to cities and use roads less if cities are affordable. If we\ncan lower rent in the city, automobile usage will go down on its own. This is\nwhere the fight should be pointed I believe.\n\n~~~\nnnq\n> People will move to cities\n\nWhy tf would you want this? As an European, what I _loved_ about US was that\npeople don't like being all crammed up in small, old and disgusting cities,\nand they are OK with long commutes as the price for their \"house with lawn\"...\n\nPopulation _dispersal_ should be _encouraged!_ It dramatically increases\nquality of life, and if you take a look at google maps you'll see that the\nEarth is full of unused space.\n\nYeah, energy and climate change and all that are serious problems... but let's\nsolve _so that_ having"
+"\nTheoretical Motivations for Deep Learning - rndn\nhttp://rinuboney.github.io/2015/10/18/theoretical-motivations-deep-learning.html\n======\nchriskanan\nThere is a recent 5 page theoretical paper on this topic that I thought was\npretty interesting, and it tackles both deep nets and recurrent nets:\n[http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.08101](http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.08101)\n\nHere is the abstract:\n\nThis note provides a family of classification problems, indexed by a positive\ninteger k, where all shallow networks with fewer than exponentially (in k)\nmany nodes exhibit error at least 1/6, whereas a deep network with 2 nodes in\neach of 2k layers achieves zero error, as does a recurrent network with 3\ndistinct nodes iterated k times. The proof is elementary, and the networks are\nstandard feedforward networks with ReLU (Rectified Linear Unit)\nnonlinearities.\n\n------\narcanus\n1) I am curious about learning more about the statement: \"Deep learning is a\nbranch of machine learning algorithms based on learning multiple levels of\nrepresentation. The multiple levels of representation corresponds to multiple\nlevels of abstraction. \"\n\nWhat evidence exists that the 'multiple levels of representation', which I\nunderstand to generally be multiple hidden layers of a neural network,\nactually correspond to 'levels of abstraction'?\n\n2) I'm further confused by, \"Deep learning is a kind of representation\nlearning in which there"
+"\nYouTubers lost thousands of dollars as channels were mistakenly demonetized - bigpumpkin\nhttps://www.businessinsider.com/youtubers-entire-channels-can-get-mistakenly-demonetized-for-months-2019-8\n======\ntaylodl\nYouTube is the only Google service I use and this news just brings to the fore\nwhy we need a viable alternative. I understand mistakes happen and when they\ndo there needs to be a process to get things ironed out. Instead, the people\nwho are making tons of money for Google are told to pound sand - and they\nwonder why people are starting to revolt against Big Tech.\n\n------\nsmt88\nGoogle has built its businesses with the assumption that software can do what\nother companies use humans for (customer service, moderating communities,\nrecommendations, etc.)\n\nThey're right in some cases, but they dive so shallowly that their\nimplementation is awful compared to competitors (e.g. Play Music's\nrecommendations vs. Spotify's).\n\nThe cases where they're wrong, like this debacle, should make them sober up\nand build a human organization until machines catch up, but of course they\nwon't because they don't believe anyone can compete with them."
+"\nCreating a low-latency high-availability network for voice calls - moxie\nhttp://www.whispersystems.org/blog/low-latency-switching/\n======\nScramblejams\nNot enough detail here, but I'm surprised when I see the terms \"voice\" and\n\"TCP\" together. Do they use TCP to set up the call, then UDP to handle the\naudio?\n\nEdit: Yep, they use UDP for the audio:\n[https://github.com/WhisperSystems/RedPhone/wiki/Signaling-\nPr...](https://github.com/WhisperSystems/RedPhone/wiki/Signaling-Protocol)\n\n~~~\nbradleyland\nWith the traditional VoIP stacks, yes. There are two components to making\nphone calls: messaging and media. The messaging part sets up and tears down\ncalls. The media part passes the audio.\n\nI'd imagine they're doing the same.\n\n~~~\ndkhenry\nbut typically you use something that can have at least some intelegent\nbehaviour like RTP not UDP. Why did they choose that when literally every\nother pure VoIP service uses RTP ?\n\n~~~\nmoxie\nWe use RTP (actually SRTP and ZRTP), but the transport is still UDP.\n\n------\njpollock\nThe next problem will be when they get to having large numbers of servers in a\nregion.\n\nThen two problems will manifest themselves.\n\n1) The client will take long enough to work through the list of servers that\nthe wrong server is chosen simply because the connection is initiated first.\n\n2) This design has all"
+"\n\nBob \u2013 A Tarsnap GUI client for OS X - CStorm\nhttps://github.com/casperstorm/Bob\n\n======\ngburt\nWarning that this doesn't detect errors properly. Reporting that it\nsuccessfully backed up when it definitely did not.\n\n> command.run(job) File \"/Library/Python/2.7/site-\n> packages/tarsnapper-0.2.1-py2.7.egg/tarsnapper/script.py\", line 347, in run\n> > OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory\n\n~~~\npetergam\nThank you for reporting this.\n\nBob is still a very early project (development started 3 days ago). We just\nreleased version 0.1.2 which improves the error handling.\n\nFeel free to open issues on the Github page if more things come up.\n\n~~~\ngrinich\nYou should probably put that disclaimer on the GitHub README. Lots of folks\nwill have no idea.\n\nIt's a testament to your good design that it looks finished though. Kudos! :)\n\n------\nchrissnell\nHas anybody ever used Tarsnap to back up Time Machine sparseimages? I've\nwanted to try it out but I'm not sure if Tarsnap will handle the de-dup on all\nof the Time Machine snapshots properly. Will I end up with just the original\nplus deltas or hundreds of copies of the original?\n\n~~~\nwatersb\nShort answer: Tarsnap can back up a sparse image without messing up any de-dup\nproperties of"
+"\n\nPharen: A lispy language that compiles to PHP - Scriptor\nhttp://github.com/scriptor/pharen\n\n======\nScriptor\nThis was very much a learning experience and I'm sure there will be lots in\nthe code that isn't done properly. If you find something wrong, please let me\nknow!\n\nPharen was also started to eventually abstract out things I don't like about\nPHP's syntax, and maybe add some new ones. It's not meant as a competitor to\nother lisps!\n\nSome special features are micros (closer to C macros than true Lisp macros)\nand partials (partial evaluation). Documentation for those can be found near\nthe end of the linked page.\n\nIt is by no means close to completion. Although lisp should be entirely\nexpression-based, parts of Pharen can't really be used as expressions yet\n(namely conditionals). Closely related is that returning something other than\nthe last expression in a function has to be done manually.\n\nAny questions, glaring (or subtle) problems, or suggestions you have are\ndefinitely welcome.\n\n------\npetercooper\nNicely executed this one! Is it me, though, or has writing cross-language\ncompilers become a sort of open source fad in the last 12 months? There seem\nto be a ton popping up lately. It'd be cool"
+"\nFewer Calories (Carbs, Protein or Fat) Are Called Weight-Loss Key - tocomment\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/health/nutrition/26diet.html?ref=us\n======\nEliezer\nThis old lie again? This study just shows that four attempted diets, none of\nthem particularly sophisticated, all work equally well - which is to say, not\nvery.\n\nYes, the laws of thermodynamics hold, but what if, oh, say, _what_ you ate had\nan influence on _how much_ you felt impelled to eat? Or how energetic you felt\nand how much you moved around? If your fat cells are rapidly absorbing what's\nin your bloodstream, you'll feel hungry and eat more, and you'll feel tired\nand move less.\n\nThe number one experimental result of dieting is that 95% of the people gain\nback the weight a few years later.\n\nIf Seth Roberts is right, all we're seeing from this study is a temporary bump\nthat results from changing your food habits in _any_ direction, which leaves\nbehind the old flavor-calorie association, which makes you less hungry. And if\nthey stick to this diet a while, they'll develop new flavor-calorie\nassociations and gain back the weight. (This is a very elegant theory which,\namong other experimental support, explains a lot of the chaos in dietary\nscience;"
+"\nMythBuster's Hyneman Launches IndieGogo to Build VR Shoes Like Mini Treadmills - evo_9\nhttps://www.roadtovr.com/mythbusters-jamie-hyneman-launches-indiegogo-vr-shoes-act-like-mini-treadmills/\n======\nstuntkite\nThis kind of reeks of vaporware and that's sort of the pitch I guess. Hardware\nideas are crowdfuneded all the time that are kind of lofty, but I felt like\nthe common thinking at this point is that you really should have taken the\nrisks to prove the thing plus show that you could potentially build it at\nscale before funding. There are so many ways that the funding of this project\ncan go totally sideways (unlike the shoes!). It even feels weird to have\neveryone's favorite myth walrus promoting something so vapory. He's sort of\nknown for being a stodgy, no nonsense guy in terms of tech.\n\nThis all seems tone deaf. Maybe the shoe is like tunnel vision VR before we\nhad the oculus. The Ah-ha moment with VR was accelerometers, they at least\nkickstarted with a paper one you could start to use no matter what! The\nbackpack and axe with whacky cannon fuse might satisfy some Bustin' fans, it\nleaves me pretty flat. The branding is horror show gawdy too. Promise me a DIY\nkit where I can play with"
+"\n\nTwitter employees threatened by ISIS-affiliated group - cgtyoder\nhttp://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2014/09/08/twitter-employees-threatened-by-isis-affiliated-group/\n\n======\nBrandonMarc\nWhen we expect, and depend on, the truth coming out, entities involved in\nspreading information take on responsibilities they may not have expected.\nYes, that means Twitter, and even Comedy Central.\n\nAnyone remember the South Park episode with Mohammed, but in a bear suit so it\nwould be \"okay\"? Comedy Central showed where they stood on free speech by\nletting that episode air.\n\nThen, when Comedy Central employees were threatened, they also showed where\nthey stood on free speech by aggressively censoring the following episode.\n\nChilling effects ...\n\nSo now there's Twitter. I pray for the best for their employees, and I hope\nthey're secured in ways they can truly trust ... because I'd hate to see\nTwitter bend to such threats. Actions set precedents.\n\nIt's amazing what chilling effects can do. Hell, just today, the Dutch Safety\nBoard said the Boeing 777 passenger plane shot down near Ukraine was \"downed\nby high energy object outside of plane\" [1]. The whole planet knows it was a\nmissile, but the Dutch are afraid of pissing of Putin, so they tone down their\nlanguage to the point of saying as little"
+"\nWhat's Up with Those Voices in Your Head? - lermontov\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/books/review/voices-within-charles-fernyhough.html\n======\ncairo_x\nI find when reading fiction, or certain kinds of literature (not including\navant guard lit), using an inner voice is vital to get the full meter and\nrhythm. Then with slowing down my thoughts -- self talk -- rational thinking,\nhaving an inner voice helps too.\n\nWhen reading non-fiction I can more easily drift into a sub-vocal whisper, to\nnothing at all speed read, skipping over to points I'm interested in, going\nback over points, etc. I suspect this is why a lot of non-fiction has\nstandards and formats and certain clich\u00e9s that make visual comprehension less\nintensive.\n\nA friend of mine said she had no inner voice at all.\n\nI've noticed when using Ketamine that I can do this sub-mental-vocal speed\nreading incredibly well for certain kinds of avant guard literature or\nphilosophy lit, like Camus and David Foster Wallace, or Pyncheon, where the\nvoice can change from chapter to chapter -- or rather the content is very info\ndense.\n\nI had great trouble 'getting' Hunter S. Thompson before I'd ever heard him\nspeak. When I heard his voice it suddenly all made sense. Same for"
+"\n\nCool Augmented Reality App for Fixing Cars - mishmax\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn-zvymlSvk&feature=player_embedded \n\n======\nelblanco\nWhat's neat about this is that it essentially takes a skill, and packages it\nup, and allows anyone who can turn a wrench to do the same job with extremely\nminimal training.\n\nNot enough Marines in the motor pool to fix all the broken trucks? No problem,\naugment them with some cooks.\n\n~~~\nippisl\nI wonder if with this and some other stuff( for example, diagnostics using car\ncomputer) , people could easily fix their car on their own?\n\n------\nlutorm\nSo how do these systems work? Do the goggles have some sort of position\nmeasuring devices or do they work through image recognition of what's in the\nfield?\n\n~~~\nsailormoon\nIt must be positional; image recognition would seem a little too good to be\ntrue.\n\nWould be delighted to be contradicted, though!\n\n~~~\njmah\nI've been looking into augmented reality technologies lately; vision systems\nare getting really good. There are some good ones here (click twice to load\nFlash videos, or download AVIs):\n\n The reorg's purpose is to introduce more structure and delegate responsibility (I guess all startups go through this?). Effectively the plan is to elevate the 10 team leads to managers of the various service lines and products they lead now, including some of the business responsibility. I am one of the team leads, and also one of the most senior developers on staff. There is a big strategy session being planned to discuss and implement the reorg. The meeting will be politically laden (some guys manage 3 people, some as many as 20, with varying years of experience). So I have two questions:\n1) In general, what is your advice for handling the restructuring? Any experience, advice or mistakes, pitfalls or caveats you can recall I should"
+"\n\nTwitter Chirp live broadcast on Justin.tv - evansolomon\nhttp://www.justin.tv/twitterchirp\n\n======\n_pius\nI'm streaming this on my 27\" iMac and I must say, the video quality is\nabsolutely gorgeous, with no stuttering. Great job guys.\n\n~~~\nmarkkoberlein\nI'm also impressed by the quality. I hope live streaming like this becomes the\nstandard for tech events/conferences.\n\n------\nsant0sk1\nAll I see is a giant Chirp logo on a blue background. Are they in intermission\nor something?\n\n~~~\ntcdent\nYeah, you just missed it. They'll be back at 11:00.\n\n~~~\nsamratjp\nLooks like I missed it as well. Anything noteworthy so far? Something that\neven non-devs would get excited about?\n\n~~~\ntbgvi\nLibrary of Congress announced that they're archiving every tweet since\nTwitters inception. Not sure if they said anything at Chirp about it yet.\n\n[http://www.facebook.com/notes/the-library-of-congress/how-\ntw...](http://www.facebook.com/notes/the-library-of-congress/how-tweet-it-is-\nlibrary-acquires-entire-twitter-archive/110775778955250)\n\n------\ntlrobinson\nApplication defined annotations is the most interesting thing I've heard about\nso far.\n\n------\njayliew\ndoes anyone know if this can be replayed again afterwards? i missed the early\npart\n\n~~~\nevansolomon\nYes, all the video is archived and clips will be made for each talk. We'll\npost the clips here later.\n\n~~~\njayliew\nThank you, we'll be looking forward to those!\n\n~~~"
+"\n\nThe complexity of sharing scientific databases - Anon84\nhttp://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/07/16/the-complexity-of-sharing-scientific-databases/\n\n======\nalbertcardona\nOne day, all journals will die, all papers will be online versioned papers,\nand science hierarchies will fade, science itself becomming a lot more\nhorizontal. Just a dream.\n\n~~~\nAnon84\nJournals serve the same purpose they always did... as a pre filter for\ncrackpots. Just compare the \"physics\" section on the ArXiv (that isn't\nfiltered) with any major physics journal (where it can take up to 1 year to\nget something published after multiple iterations).\n\n~~~\nalbertcardona\nUnfortunately, journals also act as:\n\n* preventers of anything _too_ new (like fashion, if unrooted in the previous fashion, it's not acceptable.)\n\n* delayers when the work is in conflict with current work by the editor, one of the reviewers, or any of their direct colleagues.\n\nWhat you are referring to is the review process. Which, while essential, is\nalso severely flawed. Making reviewers lose their anonimity, and publishing\ntheir reviews along with the paper when editor and reviewers consider it\nacceptable -- now, that would change the game for the better, for criticism\nwould drift towards constructive criticism only.\n\n~~~\nAnon84\nYou are right... up to a point.\n\nHistory has shown"
+"\n\nShow HN: Paid, an API for invoicing - ryanwjackson\nhttps://www.paidapi.com\n\n======\nAnimats\nIt's just an invoicing program. There are lots of those. Intuit's is widely\nused. Oracle is also in that business. There's \"Anytime Collect\", \"Zencash\",\n\"Esker\", \"Celtrino\". and many others.\n\nThe more advanced players support electronic data interchange (EDI), where\nyour accounts receivable system connects to the buyer's accounts payable\nsystem. Many large companies require EDI for suppliers who generate a lot of\ninvoices, so they aren't re-entering invoice data into their own systems.[1]\nAny new system should have EDI interchange with at least all Fortune 1000\ncompanies.\n\nThere are \"gateway\" companies which handle talking to large numbers of other\ncompanies.[2] Once you get this all working, your invoice goes out to the\ngateway, the gateway formats it and sends it to the paying company, the paying\ncompany's systems validate the bill, and they do a funds transfer to your bank\naccount, which is matched to another EDI transaction indicating payment. For\nmost routine transactions, there's no human intervention.\n\nMake that all work for small/medium businesses, and you have a unique product.\n\nThe API is \"dead simple\" because it doesn't handle any of the hard cases. Like\n\"We ordered"
+"\n\nQuadriplegic Stuart Turner speaks at WIRED2014 via drones and robots - escapologybb\nhttp://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-10/16/stuart-turner-robots-and-cake\nFull disclosure: I'm Stuart Turner!\n======\nescapologybb\nFull disclosure: I'm Stuart! I thought you guys might enjoy this. :-)\n\n~~~\nhanskuder\nHi Stuart! I'm an engineer at Suitable Technologies (makers of the Beam).\nSorry to see the Beam didn't make it into the video, but it was really\ninspiring to see this talk. Thanks!\n\n~~~\nescapologybb\nThe beam was actually in the talk, but would you believe about five minutes\nbefore the talk there was a local problem with the Wi-Fi. Totally not on\nSuitable Technologies by the way.\n\n~~~\ntlb\nTo properly support people videoing in, conferences will need to provided\ndedicated WiFi on a separate channel. Current conference WiFi is reliable\nenough for checking email during a boring talk, but not for remote attendees.\n\nIt's hard to get conference venues to care. It might require an interpretation\nof the Americans with Disabilities Act (in the US) to insist that reliable\nWiFi to support remote video attendees is as important as reliable elevators.\n\n~~~\nescapologybb\nI agree with what you're saying in general. In this specific case, the venue\nWiFi was not the issue. It was"
+"\nJohn Gruber: Windows Phone 7 \"Really Nice\" And Better Than Android - Flemlord\nhttp://www.businessinsider.com/john-gruber-windows-phone-7-2010-10\n======\nmycroftiv\nSince Android is much more of a threat to Apple than Windows Phone 7 appears\nto be, it makes sense that Gruber would praise it at the expense of Android.\nThis evaluation is based on 5 minutes of use at a cocktail party. I think if\nsomeone had put a live eel in his hand and asked him to compare it to Android,\nhe would have praised the eel's smooth skin in comparison to Android devices.\n\n~~~\norangecat\nRight. Microsoft, Apple, and the carriers would all be pleased if Android were\nto be replaced by WP7 in the market. No more pesky suggestions of user\nfreedom, so everybody gets to keep their comfortable oligopolies and maintain\nveto power over potentially disruptive innovations. Expect to see many more\nMac fans praising WP7, especially once it or the iPhone is on Verizon.\n\n------\nsteverb\nI got about 5 minutes hands on with WP7 hardware last week, and I have to\nagree with Gruber. WP7 is really nice.\n\n* The UI is very responsive on pre-release hardware. I've been told that the released version will be faster."
+"\nApple Park's tree whisperer - steven\nhttps://backchannel.com/apple-parks-tree-whisperer-6badcef983e9\n======\nsapote\nThere have been so many articles about the trees planted in the new Apple\ncampus, and how this was somehow groundbreaking, but it's actually been pretty\ndisappointing. I've seen some lists of trees, especially fruit trees, that\nthey've planted, and it's pretty uninspired -- they didn't Think Different.\nLots of pomes (Apples, Pears, etc.) and stone fruit (Plums, Cherries, etc.) --\nconventional varieties too. And they talk about drought tolerance, but I\nhaven't seen a single mention of them planting White Sapote, a fruit perfectly\nadapted to the local climate, delicious, and very productive (not to mention,\nrare). Or various Guava relatives (Lemon / Strawberry Guava, Guabiju,\nPineapple Guava, etc.). And that's just scratching the surface...\n\nI wish they would have talked to the local chapter of California Rare Fruit\nGrowers to plan an orchard with a true diversity of interesting fruit. They\nhad an opportunity to include a huge diversity of fruits and cultivars with\nthe space they have, but it seems like they're not going to.\n\n~~~\nmatt4077\nI believe they were looking only at plants native to California, and from a\nquick search it appears at White Sapote's"
+"\nHow a language can be faster than C - beza1e1\nhttp://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/faster_than_C.html\n======\nriobard\nTL;DR:\n\n1\\. Better memory aliasing to use SIMD instructions. But you have to trade in\npointer arithmetic for those cases. Only useful for number-crunching and GPU-\nlike workload AFAIK.\n\n2\\. Pre-compute time-consuming constants during compile time. Though I see no\nreason why you cannot do this in C.\n\n3\\. JIT and runtime optimization. I doubt this though, given various overhead\nof JIT and runtime optimization (GC, memory, etc), that JIT can beat carefully\ncrafted C. Of course it will make it easier to write many types of programs.\n\n~~~\norblivion\nCouldn't carefully crafted C pretty much fix every potential case where\nanother language could beat it? For instance, any reason you can't write a\nmemcopy function that copied 16 bytes at a time?\n\nI assumed that a big part of a language being faster than C is really about\nthe compiler generating faster code than a human programmer in either language\ncould do without thinking too hard about optimization, and not so much the\ntheoretical top speed. As I understand this is the case with assembly vis a\nvis C.\n\n~~~\nbunderbunder\n_Couldn't carefully crafted C pretty"
+"\nShow HN: 25 days of procedural music experiments - fenomas\nhttp://aphall.com/2017/12/advent-of-procedural-music/\n======\nmundo\nNeat stuff! The gypsy jazz Zelda theme is really pretty on point. And the\n\"Take 5 drum solo\" really does sound like it could be just a chiptuned version\nof the Take 5 drum solo.\n\nI don't see a source link, but it'd be interesting to read about how it works,\ne.g. how the different tunes are different from each other (completely\ndifferent procedural code, or just different starting parameters?) and what\npackages you used and so forth.\n\n~~~\nfenomas\nThanks! The short version on the tech side is, it's all hand-written and very\nad-hoc. There is some mid-level code for managing patterns and notes that's\nreused across the demos, but the settings for how each instrument sounds, what\nkind of chord progressions to use, etc. is different for each demo.\n\nI didn't use any outside libraries, but I did package up the part of my code\nthat actually plays sounds as 'npm/soundgen' (but it's not documented at all\nyet..).\n\n------\ngus_massa\nI would add at least one of the sounds generator to the page you submitted. I\nhave no incentive to click any of the links."
+"\nMusk\u2019s Tesla Fun Does Not Amuse SEC - kgwgk\nhttps://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-09-28/musk-s-tesla-fun-does-not-amuse-sec\n======\ndragontamer\nAs funny as this opinion piece is, it is still just that: an opinion piece.\n\nI highly suggest people read the SEC filing for yourself, without bias, if you\nwant to see the SEC's point of view on this.\n\nWith that being said, this opinion piece collates a bunch of news that\nhappened yesterday, and can provide context to what is going on. But I still\nfeel like the SEC's filing is the best primary source document to this TSLA\nnews event. Besides, the \"meat\" of this opinion writer is purely copy/paste\nquotes from the SEC document.\n\n[https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2018/comp-\npr2018-2...](https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2018/comp-\npr2018-219.pdf)\n\n~~~\nstefan_\nThe complaint of one party in a lawsuit is _not_ the best primary source. The\nwhole purpose of it is leaving you with the impression that the defendant\nbrazenly committed all the charges.\n\n------\njamesough\n'Alright so here\u2019s the gameplan:\n\n1\\. Elon removed as CEO by SEC order - can\u2019t be CEO of a public company\n\n2\\. Tesla stock drops 50%\n\n3\\. Tesla stock becomes so cheap they take it private\n\n4\\. Musk reinstated as CEO'\n\n[https://twitter.com/AustenAllred/status/1045554529914089472](https://twitter.com/AustenAllred/status/1045554529914089472)\n\n~~~\nTheodores\nI am inclined to believe that he"
+"\nEconomist Jim Rickards Bitcoin versus Gold Price Manipulation - westoque\nhttp://www.businessinsider.com/economist-jim-rickards-bitcoin-versus-gold-price-manipulation-2017-12\n======\nsaas_co_de\n\n \"there\u2019s pretty good evidence that there's a lot of\n fraud going on ... Are we supposed to believe that\n bitcoin is the only market in history that's not\n manipulated? That\u2019s nonsense, of course it is\"\n \n\nThis. A lot of smart tech people into bitcoin aren't vary savvy when it comes\nto how markets work and in particular how financial scams work.\n\n~~~\nwestoque\nI agree. This was also my guess since volume all of a sudden spikes up without\nwarning and I keep wondering where it was coming from [0]\n\n[0]: [https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/historical-\ndata](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/historical-data)"
+"\nWho Are The Top Tech Bloggers? - hwork\nhttp://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/20/who-are-the-top-tech-bloggers/\n======\nshafqat\nAs I mentioned in the TC comments, in the context of that list, \u2018top\u2019 means\nmost frequently quoted on TechMeme. At NewsCred (my startup), we\u2019re collecting\nmetrics so that we can determine lists of the top news sources as well as top\njournalists (both mainstream/bloggers), but using credibility as our\ncriterion. We want to highlight writers and sources based on quality, rather\nthan popularity or frequency of posts.\n\nWe just launched our Alpha, so the dataset is very limited, but in terms of\nsources, the Economist and Techcrunch (go figure!) came out on top this week.\n\nAlso, the lists will be syndicated each week of course!\n\n------\nchrisbroadfoot\nInteresting, I guess, but not really surprising or useful"
+"\nTIOBE Index for January 2016 - ryandvm\nhttp://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html\n======\ndzdt\nThe Redmonk rankings are much better. As opposed to TIOBE, who look at counts\nof internet search results, Redmonk looks at code in Github and questions on\nStack Overflow. There should be an update out in the next couple weeks; here\nis the latest from half a year ago :\n[https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2015/07/01/language-\nrankings-6-1...](https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2015/07/01/language-\nrankings-6-15/)\n\n~~~\nunexpand\n+1 for the redmonk.com link. This data looks more inline with what I see\neveryday.\n\n------\nvruiz\nI know it's based on some empirical data, but every time I've looked at a\nTIOBE index has made absolutely no sense to me.\n\n~~~\nmkozlows\nDelphi/ObjectPascal above both Swift AND ObjC? Sure, that makes sense. If it's\n1997.\n\n~~~\nmamcx\nDelphi is very alive (I'm moderator in a Delphi forum). Think this way:\nDelphi/FreePascal have almost all the market for a Pascal-alike syntax for\nthem alone.\n\nWith the C-family you have a lot of options.\n\nAlso: Nothing beat Delphi at doing RAD apps today.\n\n------\nclaystu\nTiobe can't be right. It has Assembly ahead of Ruby and right behind\nJavaScript. What???\n\nRedmonk looks flawed too. I would expect GitHub to create a major sampling\nbias in favor"
+"\n\nBitrig 1.0 Released \u2013 OpenBSD fork - chrismsnz\nhttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.bitrig.devel/6\n\n======\nhhw\nThere was a discussion about this on the OpenBSD misc mailing archives back in\n2012:\n[http://marc.info/?t=133961305400003&r=1&w=2](http://marc.info/?t=133961305400003&r=1&w=2)\n\nTheo's initial response to the thread, which may help illuminate the\nsituation, was:\n\n\"Except for the fact that it is bullshit.\n\nThey started the fork because they got kicked out because one developer\n(Marco) hired 5 other developers for his startup company, and attempted to\nhire around 10 other developers in a sneaky and underhanded way. They were\ntold, oh i forget they were \"asked\", to not tell anyone else in OpenBSD that\nthis was happening, probably because people \"including Theo\" would be upset.\n\nFunny thing is, I've never been upset about the 20+ OpenBSD and ex-OpenBSD\ndevelopers who now work for google.\n\nPreviously, many of those developers were in critical positions in the\ndevelopment team. As they were suddenly hired with such terms and conditions,\nthey became more scarce in OpenBSD -- perhaps because they suddenly got real\nbusy with work, but also to avoid telling others that this was happening.\nVarious projects lagged. To avoid telling a lie, they instead chose to not\ntell the truth. It had effects. It was"
+"\n\nNew YC clone planned in Philadelphia - kkim\nhttp://philadelphia.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2007/12/24/story2.html?b=1198472400%5E1566817\n\n======\ngaborcselle\nThis sounds very methodical: They have \"innovators\", \"strategists\" and\n\"gurus\".\n\nWhat they'll be lacking, though, is access to the entire nation's talent pool.\nThey have no desire to attract people from all over. Unlike Boston or Silicon\nValley, PHL is not a desirable place to move to.\n\nAlso, they lack the pull of having a PG who is known to a hacker community.\nThis is the main reason why you and I can't clone YC (and yes, I've thought\nabout it: [http://www.gaborcselle.com/blog/2006/04/on-cloning-\nycombinat...](http://www.gaborcselle.com/blog/2006/04/on-cloning-ycombinator-\nin-europe.html))\n\n~~~\njwinter\nNo PG is a big drawback, but you're wrong about Philly.\n\nPhilly's got lots of great restaurants most of which are BYOB, plenty of cool\nlive music spots, great bars, cheap taxis, way more affordable downtown\nhousing, etc. A friend of mine pays what I'm paying in rent: he lives in a\nspacious apartment overlooking the waterfront in Philly; I live in a tiny\nthird-floor walk-up a mile away from the closest T stop outside Davis Square.\nCrime is starting to become a problem there again, but other than that it's a\ngreat place to live.\n\n~~~\nicky\n> No PG is a"
+"\nGotify \u2013 a self-hosted push-notifications service - adraenwan\nhttps://github.com/gotify\n======\ndmitrygr\nIt is worth noting that this will use a noticeable amount of power more than\nGoogle cloud messaging. The basic idea of how is works is about the same, but\nthe devil is in the details. If you look at an idle connection over LTE, you\nwill notice that after a while your carrier will close it. You need\nkeepalives. If you look at the connection for Google cloud messaging, you\nmight notice that it needs much fewer keep alives than YOU need to keep your\nconnection alive. This means fewer wakes from sleep mode and lower power.\n\n~~~\nnbevans\nIs that because carriers have put GCM/FCM on some sort of white-list?\n\n~~~\npas\nProbably because GCM/FCM has been very well optimized.\n\n~~~\nfyfy18\nTCP connection can be open and idle for hours without keep alives. This can\neasily be configured with kernel parameters:\n\n[https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/TCP-Keepalive-\nHOWTO/usingkeepaliv...](https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/TCP-Keepalive-\nHOWTO/usingkeepalive.html)\n\nI suspect the hard bit for normal apps is keeping the app active on the device\nwhile it is in the background. Google has their FCM receiver running as a low\nlevel service so can make sure it is always running.\n\n~~~"
+"\n\nA Tale of CenturyLink Backdoors, PCI Compliance, and Pain - dlgeek\nhttp://thenubbyadmin.com/2014/04/28/a-tale-of-centurylink-backdoors-pci-compliance-and-pain-lots-of-pain/\n\n======\nlunixbochs\nFrom initial inspection of the GPL firmware download, it looks like port 4567\nis controlled by the /bin/tr69c daemon. I also found references from tr69c to\na \"data_center\" program. Neither the data_center or tr69c binaries were in my\nreference firmware source.\n\nResearch suggests tr69c is hosting the TR-069 protocol:\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TR-069](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TR-069)\n\nAlso: OpenSSL 0.9.7f 22 March 2005\n\n------\nnullc\nThis is even better than my supermicro 1u systems which turned out to be\nrunning a non-disableable-in-bios unpasworded remote management interface\nwhich provided console access exposed to the network that I only found by\nscanning the subnet. \"Intel inside\" indeed.\n\n~~~\nanemic\nIn Fujitsu servers there is a remote console but that requires a licence to\nfunction. Of course a hacker can acquire (even pay?) for that license and get\nconsole access. This leads to leaving the management network unplugged and\nlosing remote reboots and other management features.\n\n------\nMister_Snuggles\nAnother way to achieve PCI compliance is to simply outsource all activities\nhaving to do with credit cards to a PCI compliant vendor and let them deal\nwith that pain. I've seen sites that let you pay this"
+"\n\nDrupal Solr Next Gen - the refactoring - caludio\nhttp://groups.drupal.org/node/92799\n\n======\nauxbuss\nLike most folk, I've heard of Drupal. But I'd not heard of Solr. I read it as\n\"soir\" and, not surprisingly, searching wasn't finding anything.\n\nAnyway, for those, like me, who haven't heard of Solr, here's a brief\ndescription and a couple of related links:\n\nSolr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from\nthe Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text\nsearch, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database\nintegration, and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling. Solr is highly\nscalable, providing distributed search and index replication, and it powers\nthe search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet\nsites.\n\n "It was discovered that GnuTLS did not correctly handle certain errors that could occur during the verification of an X.509 certificate, causing it to incorrectly report a successful verification. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted certificate that could be accepted by GnuTLS as valid for a site chosen by the attacker."\n======\ntptacek\nHere's the diff:\n\n[https://www.gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/6aa26f78150cc...](https://www.gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/6aa26f78150ccbdf0aec1878a41c17c41d358a3b?diffmode=sidebyside)\n\nUninitialized \"result\" variable? Any time the code hits one of those \"cleanup\"\ngotos, it's probably returning nonzero unexpectedly?\n\n _Later: @filcab on Twitter points out the much dumber issue, which is that if\nissuer_version is < 0, the function returns issuer_version and not zero. Ow._\n\n(Who uses GnuTLS?)\n\n~~~\nsanxiyn\ngit on Debian, for example. In general, GPL programs need special exception to\nlink to OpenSSL, and git is licensed under GPL without the exception.\n\n~~~\nnknighthb\nThere's a standing debate regarding whether that actually matters in the case\nof a distribution that included OpenSSL as a standard component, due to the\nGPL's system libraries exception. (And, of special relevance to Debian,"
+"\n\nAsk HN: Cool Demo Project Ideas - greyhat\n\nThe standard (and probably true) wisdom around here is that a good way to get noticed and get the kind of job that most of us would like is to \"build something\". What I'm hoping for is ideas for demo projects. I don't need anything designed to make money or steal anyone's startup idea, just things that are fun to build and show development skills. Demos you've seen already and liked or that have gotten people job offers are also appreciated.\n======\njamesbrewer\nUnfortunately topics like this never get much attention. The only thing I can\nrecommend is to find a topic that interests you and then just go find\nsomething that sounds neat. It doesn't have to be the next Google and it\ndoesn't even have to make money, just do something.\n\nFor example, I've recently become fascinated with data mining. To explore this\narea and get a basic idea of how it works, I'm playing with the Twitter API\nand trying to look for neat things that can be done with the data available.\nOne idea I've come up with is an app that recommends people to follow based on\nthe hashtags"
+"\nPolice Post Racist and Violent Messages on Facebook, a Review Shows - boapnuaput\nhttps://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilyhoerner/police-facebook-racist-violent-posts-comments-philadelphia\n======\npizza\n> \"Two studies have found that at least 40% of police officer families\n> experience domestic violence, in contrast to 10% of families in the general\n> population,\" the National Center for Women & Policing says. \"A third study\n> of older and more experienced officers found a rate of 24%, indicating that\n> domestic violence is 2-4 times more common among police families than\n> American families in general.\"\n\n[http://womenandpolicing.com/violenceFS.asp#notes](http://womenandpolicing.com/violenceFS.asp#notes)\n\n~~~\nthrowaway1492\nSurely there's a segment of the population with similar personality traits\npredominant to police officers that don't become police officers. One would\nthink they'd also have similar incident of domestic violence if this were a\npersonality trait?\n\nPersonally, I would have no interest in dealing with the horrible things\npeople do to one another, on a regular basis, as part of my job. No thanks.\nReading the news is bad enough, I wouldn't want to live it.\n\n~~~\ndaeken\nNo one is claiming it's a personality trait, though that absolutely could be a\npart of it. More likely, it's because police officers can act with impunity in\npretty much every scenario."
+"\nShow HN: Jooseph \u2013 Playlists for Learning - firatcan\nHello HN,\nEvery time I tried to learn new subject through internet. I am confused by the resources. - Which one will worth my time? - which ones are reliable or relevant? Eventually I open infinite amount of tabs and close them without browsing. Finding right material and resource is hard in this era. Yet we believe lifelong learning is a meaningful way to live your life. I'm Firat co-founder of Jooseph: https://www.jooseph.com/ Jooseph is basically playlist for learning. You can follow modules curated from different resources. You can also your learning journey to guide other users. Curate list of resource and share on the relevant topic. If you're an infinite learner, we would like to hear from you. Thank you HN community.\n======\nhmlwilliams\nWhy not embed the videos into the site? It is a bit of a hassle having to\nswitch between tabs all the time.\n\n~~~\nfiratcan\nThis is our MVP and we have only demo modules right now. We'll be launched in\n2 weeks. There'll be embeded videos and more features such as goals and\nprogress bar.\n\nIf you leave your mail from site or send me a mail at firat@jooseph.com I\nwould be happy to"
+"\n\nHow to beta test your mobile apps - ashok_varma\nhttp://blog.appstark.com/post/26209583662/7-tips-to-beta-test-your-mobile-app\n\n======\nDenisM\nThe article is devoid of content, entire text can be summarized as \"strategize\nyour strategy\", \"do the right thing at the right time\", and other such\ngibberish.\n\nThe point of the article is to plug something called \"appstark\", which as best\nI can tell is a library + service combo to collect and aggregate user feedback\nfrom inside iOS apps. Their web site a train-wreck of an attempt to explain\nwhat the service does, papered with \"free trial start now!!!\" buttons.\n\nFrankly, a short and to the point explanation of what the service does would\nbe more welcome here than this spam.\n\n~~~\nluckymurari\nFeedback is awesome. But, I guess you could've reduced a bit of causticness in\nit.\n\nThis is the video, I want everyone on internet to watch - \"A real person, a\nlot like you\" - Contractor selection...are there too many choices?\nContractor accountability...do you worry about getting poor work?\nDoes it take too long to receive back finished work?\nIs it too hard to post on multiple marketplaces?\n======\ncanterburry\nI have used Elance extensively over the last 5+ years for everything from Logo\ndesign to web programming.\n\n1\\. Biggest challenge is finding contractors who are actually as good as their\nportfolios. I am not sure if this is a case of portfolio fraud or simply not a\ngood enough interview process on my part, however, after working with some\nproviders, I just can't believe all those 5 star ratings are real.\n\n2\\. Too many contracts bid without actually reading or understanding the\nrequirements. The best people I have found actually addressed each requirement\npoint by point.\n\n3\\. Too many contractors provide too little value. I expect them to manage\neverything they need to do on their side, and not just be the hands on the\nkeyboard. Too many times have I had to put THEIR test"
+"\nWar Is a Racket (1935) - pmoriarty\nhttp://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html\n======\npgnas\nI read this and I think of the courage that it must have taken to write,\nhowever, I quickly realize that my thoughts are based on today's mindset where\nquestioning the government gets you labeled a conspiracy nut or traitor.\n\nWe have been warned by many about the military industrial complex, yet, it\ndoesn't sink in.\n\nOur current president was elected on promises of ending these wars and somehow\nhe will go down in history as the champion of military occupation and\nperpetuating conflicts in places we don't belong.\n\nTruth is that peace doesn't make money, it doesn't grease the wheels of\nindustry, the difference is that where is the industry? It used to be that the\nUS would at least benefit from the industry through employment and tax\nrevenue, but what if the production is no longer in the US? Who benefits then?\nI can tell you with accuracy who doesn't ..\n\n~~~\nmathattack\n_Truth is that peace doesn 't make money, it doesn't grease the wheels of\nindustry, the difference is that where is the industry?_\n\nI will start by saying that I hate war. And war is"
+"\n\nHow to make your first game for less than $1,000 - gcheong\nhttp://deadpanic.com/make_a_game_1k\n\n======\nwindsurfer\nKeep in mind he's valuing his time at 0$ for the title, in which case you can\nmake your first game for $0 very easily.\n\n~~~\nelectromagnetic\nI'd love to make a video game, but I value my time at $9.25 an hour, which is\ncurrently Canadian minimum wage. I'm not going to work for less unless it\nfulfils some other need, and I doubt video games will ever be need fulfilling\nfor me.\n\n~~~\njacquesm\nThey're one hell of a way to learn, especially arcade style games are more\nlike mini operating systems inside.\n\n------\nConceptDog\nThe bad news is that the iPhone gold rush is basically over.\n\n------\nerikb85\nwhat can I learn from this article? That is, what I can read there: You have\nto create images and sounds and if you can't you have to buy them. And no\nmatter what you do, in the end you still have to pay your rent (what will be\nmore as $1,000).\n\n~~~\npotatolicious\n> _\"You have to create images and sounds and if you can't you have to buy\n> them.\"_\n\nAs a"
+"\nFive charged with felonies for tweeting or retweeting a cop\u2019s photo - ryanwatkins\nhttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/five-charged-with-felonies-for-tweeting-or-retweeting-a-cops-photo/\n======\nklyrs\n> Update (~4pm ET): Mid-afternoon on Friday, August 7, the Essex County\n> Prosecutor's Office dropped its cyber harassment charges against all five\n> defendants, the Asbury Park Press reports. These charges stemmed from an\n> incident involving a Tweet attempting to identify a New Jersey police\n> officer. Our original story on the situation appears unchanged below.\n\nSometimes a little publicity is all the defense you need.\n\n------\nspinny\n\"If anyone knows who this bitch is throw his info under this tweet.\" \\- it's\nnot just \"tweeting a cop's photo\"\n\n~~~\nklyrs\nTrue, it's not just a photo; it's also a request to identify a police officer,\nwhich has legitimate purposes.\n\nUnless you think that calling a police officer a bitch is a felony.\n\n~~~\nMaximumYComb\nWorded as such it does appear threatening. If someone tweeted that about me I\nwould feel worried about my personal safety and that of my family. The law\nspecifically states that placing a reasonable person in fear for their safety\nvia online communications is a crime.\n\nIf you're going to request personal information for a legitimate reason"
+"\nAre users trying to make developers angry? - joeyespo\nhttps://www.exceptionnotfound.net/are-users-trying-to-make-developers-angry/\n======\ncrasm\n\n But their stupidity persisted. They did things that\n were so wacky they boggled my mind (like putting a\n credit card number in with spaces between each\n number)...\n \n\nNot allowing spaces in a credit card field is a pet peeve of mine. It's a\ntrivial problem to solve in code, and almost nobody does it. Whether it's a\nspace every 4 numbers (the most logical to me) or a space between each number,\nit really shouldn't matter.\n\nThere are spaces in the number on the card itself. Entering the number with\nspaces makes it easy to check if you've made a mistake in only a few glances,\ninstead of painstakingly going number-by-number and losing your position a few\ntimes.\n\nIt shouldn't be the user's fault.\n\n~~~\nourmandave\nI just enter the 16 digits without much trouble.\n\nThen I get to the expiration date and the first column is a drop list of Jan,\nFeb, Mar... wat?\n\nNow my brain has to convert 07 to Jul instead of just picking 07. Why?!\n\n _Are developers trying to make users angry?_\n\n~~~\namelius\nThen I get to the CVC code. I have"
+"\nDemon Core: The Strange Death of Louis Slotin (2016) - BerislavLopac\nhttps://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/demon-core-the-strange-death-of-louis-slotin\n======\nmjb\nI've always found this story fascinating, because it's such a clear example of\nthe role of operator error in safety. Both Daghlian and Slotin were experts in\nthe work they were doing, and both were well aware of the danger of getting it\nwrong. Still, they made a mistake. As people do.\n\nOn one hand, the mistake was the effect of time and schedule pressure. Some of\nthat was real, but some also illusory (as shown by the fact that Los Alamos\ncould stop doing those experiments entirely as still deliver). They chose the\napproach they did because it was the easiest. But not only that - at least in\nSlotin's case he chose the approach he did because he didn't believe that he\nwould make a mistake. He'd done this a bunch of times. The danger had become\nroutine, an idea captured in Diane Vaughan's books as \"normalization of\ndeviance\", and in economic and sports research as \"the familiarity heuristic\n(\"I know this, so I'm safe\").\n\nOn the other hand, the experiment itself set them up to fail. Minor tweaks\nwith near-zero cost impact, like"
+"\nMy Job Interview at Google (2008) - trymas\nhttps://catonmat.net/my-job-interview-at-google\n======\n120bits\n> The questions were technical but not very challenging or difficult.\n\nI might be really bad, because few of the questions were challenging and\ndifficult. I was expecting a rant how bad the google interview process is,\nwhich is usually what I come across. I do agree the questions are fun and are\nhelpful to someone who is preparing for an interview. The interview and\nprogramming questions covered lot of topics.\n\n------\nquirkafleeg3\n> The questions were technical but not very challenging or difficult. So THATS\n> why Google products are so consistantly shite..."
+"\nJQuery \u00bb jQuery UI v1.5 Released, Focus on Consistent API and Effects - bomberstudios\nhttp://jquery.com/blog/2008/06/09/jquery-ui-v15-released-focus-on-consistent-api-and-effects/\n======\naxod\n# $(\u201ddiv\u201d).draggable() creates a draggable\n\n# $(\u201ddiv\u201d).draggable(\u201ddestroy\u201d) destroys it\n\nAm I missing something here, or is that an extremely ugly design choice?\nPassing strings into functions to specify what function you want? eugh\n\n~~~\nsimonw\nI think they ended up having to do that because of jQuery's chaining support.\nMost of jQuery's functionality lives in a single namespace (jQuery.fn) which\nmeans you can chain method calls together like this:\n\njQuery('div:first').addClass('hello').text('Hello\nWorld').draggable().css('color', 'red');\n\nIf a plugin needs three or four methods, that's three or four extra functions\non the one object - which ends up looking quite ugly:\n\njQuery('blah').draggable({options}).destroyDraggable()\n\nThe message passing idiom lets them add just one method to the jQuery.fn\nnamespace that can cover a full range of different actions. I think it's a\npretty clever pragmatic solution.\n\n~~~\naxod\nI still don't like it in terms of taste. I guess one question would be how\ndoes it handle a typo in the string.\n\nIf you call a.destroooooy() then you'll get a js error, but if you call\na.execute(\"destroooooy\")...\n\n~~~\nDougBTX\nThey'll both be run-time errors, hopefully they throw an exception.\n\n------"
+"\nCython 0.23 released - Yakulu\nhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/cython-users/lfq9CtqGdzY\n======\ngrinalope\nCython is amazingly productive for me. I am so happy to write typed pythonic\ncode.\n\nIf there's one thing missing it's more people showing off their Cython style\nand tricks, like how they do macros (since it's not supported in the\nlanguage), when to turn off safeties, and balancing pure python with typed.\n\nFor instance, I like C macros in header files, but I've played around with\nusing a jinja2 pipeline in my setup.py to write cleaner looking pythonic code,\nand have done generics this way.\n\nmore posts like the one using cymem would be welcome.\n\n~~~\nsyllogism\nUsing Jinja2 for macros is an interesting idea. You could try cog instead?\n[https://www.python.org/about/success/cog/](https://www.python.org/about/success/cog/)\n\nCurrently I don't do any macros at all, although the temptation is definitely\nstrong. I have some code that could otherwise be more generic than it is.\n\nI guess a quick tip/pattern would be to use structs as data containers, with a\ncdef class defined as a \"shell\", to provide access, but not actually hold the\ndata.\n\nAdvantages of this over standard cdef class: Data is contiguous in memory;\nData can be stack allocated; Data can be stored in C"
+"\nUS states: If they were countries - timr\nhttp://www.economist.com/node/17910000?story_id=17910000\n======\nshawnee_\nCalifornia needs to be two states: Northern CA and Southern CA. It doesn't\nmake sense for one state to have so much oomph, but to be such a disaster,\nfinancially.\n\nNorthern CA and Southern CA are completely different worlds; they have\ndifferent agendas and different kinds of people flock to each one for\ndifferent reasons.\n\nState taxes, government latency, budgeting. . . all of these things could be\nsimplified and improved if the state were not such a behemoth.\n\n~~~\nbendmorris\nMany states have groups that want their state to be divided into two or more\nstates; you just hear about California more in the news because they're\nbigger. One less prominent example is eastern vs. western Washington, where\nthe farmers in the east feel dominated by the liberals in Seattle; I believe\nthey even voted on it in the past. If we divide up states into homogeneous\nsections, pretty soon every neighborhood will be its own state.\n\n(Edit: Apparently it's so common there's a Wikipedia article:\n[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_partition_pr...](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_partition_proposals))\n\n~~~\njerf\n\"If we divide up states into homogeneous sections, pretty soon every\nneighborhood will be its own state.\"\n\nSome science"
+"\n\nAsk HN: Accelerate or slow down? - glow\n\nI have been tossing around a few ideas for a start-up, a couple of different angles on small-scale game development for download services, and getting good feedback from people around me. So I'm faced with a dilemma: I have a family with small children. Not really the optimal situation for an time-consuming adventure like this. Is this the time to do this, or should I step down and postpone things, possibly losing the opportunities I see? Try to put yourself in this situation and tell me how you'd reason. I won't really base my decision on answers here, but I'm hoping for a good discussion at least as I've been turning my head inside out thinking about this for a couple of months.\n======\nvaksel\nstart now.\n\nBetter to do a startup for 3 years @ 20 hours a week, than 2 years @ 80 hours\na week\n\nGrowth isn't instant, it'll take time to get new users. And if you are taking\nthe long view, you'll actually be more mentally prepared for when your startup\nisn't an instant success\n\n------\nbprater\nIf you mean \"step down\" as in leaving your current employ, the"
+"\nThe Texas Instruments 99/4: World\u2019s First 16-Bit Computer - rbanffy\nhttp://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/history/the-texas-instruments-994-worlds-first-16bit-computer\n======\nlispm\nIt was't the world's first 16bit computer. See:\n\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16-bit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16-bit)\n\nMaybe it was the first 16bit HOME computer... as mentioned in the text.\n\n~~~\nIrishJourno\nHi -- I'm one of the editor's at IEEE Spectrum. You're absolutely correct: as\nthe article does make clear, it was the first 16-bit HOME computer. We should\nhave been more specific in the headline, our bad.\n\n------\nschlupa\nThe Basic was slow for several reasons. 1\\. Double interpretation: As other\nalready pointed out, the interpreter was written in an interpreted language, a\nkind of byte code if you prefer. 2\\. GROM routines: What added to the pain was\nthat a lot of the routines necessary for the program were not in ROM but in TI\nspecific GROM. All the \"CALL something\" (CALL CHAR, CALL HCHAR, CALL VCHAR,\nCALL SOUND, etc.) commands were GROM routines. GROM were a kind of serial ROMS\nthat only TI manufactured (one of the reasons third parties had such a\nstruggle with that machine). 3\\. VRAM: the worst offender why TI-BASIC (and\nTI-EXTENDED-BASIC) were so slow was that the basic console only had a wopping\n256 bytes of"
+"\nFloating Point Visually Explained - alxmdev\nhttp://fabiensanglard.net/floating_point_visually_explained/\n======\nVeedrac\nLet's represent the number 42,643,192, or 10100010101010111011111000\u2082, in\ndifferent \"floating point\" representations.\n\nScientific notation with 5 significant figures:\n\n \n \n 4.2643 \u00d7 10\u2077\n \n\nScientific notation in base 2 with 17 significant binary figures:\n\n \n \n 1.0100010101010111\u2082 \u00d7 2\u00b2\u2075\n \n\nLet's pack this in a fixed-length datatype. Note that 011001\u2082 is the binary\nencoding of 25.\n\n \n \n 1 0100010101010111 011001\n 1 mantissa exp.\n \n\nThis doesn't suffice because\n\na. We're wasting a bit on the leading 1.\n\nb. We want to support negative values.\n\nc. We want to support negative exponents.\n\nd. It would be nice if values of the same sign sorted by their representation.\n\nThe leading 1 can be dropped and replaced with a sign bit (0 for \"+\", 1 for\n\"-\"). The exponent can have 100000\u2082 subtracted from it, so 011001\u2082 represents\n25-32, or -7, and 111001\u2082 represents 25. Sorting can be handled by putting the\nexponent before the mantissa.\n\nThus we get to a traditional floating point representation.\n\n \n \n 0 111001 0100010101010111\n \u00b1 exp. mantissa\n \n\nReal floating point has a little more on top (infinities, standardised field\nsizes, etc.) but is fundamentally the same.\n\n~~~\nkibwen\n_> Sorting can be handled by putting the exponent before"
+"\nDid Iran Just Rocket Creatures Into Space? Sure Seems So - alexandros\nhttp://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/rockets-iran-kavoshgar-3-space-race-organisms-missiles?partner=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcompany%2Fheadlines+%28Fast+Company+Headlines%29&utm_content=Google+Reader\n======\nmixmax\nGuess Denmark won't be the third spacefaring nation then.\n\n I've started a tech show called Techendo. It's just some startup guys from YC/Elsewhere that will be talking about things going on in the industry. It will be shot every other week and try to be as entertaining as possible while talking about tech and startup life. I'd love to spotlight startups/projects, have guests on the show, and shoot some skits. It's still a work in progress, so if you want to help out or just give feedback, it would be great to have any help I can get. Also, if you have topics you want us to talk about let me know. Thanks for your help HN. Check out our first episode here: \nTechendo Episode 1 - Secret of the Droin \nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_JPD96XOPI\n======\nargonaut\nHonestly... you guys lost me in the first few minutes. It's great you guys\nwere having a good time and laughing and stumbling around (and that's probably\nwhy you did this video - to have a good time), but it didn't translate into\nsomething particularly watchable. The editing was also kind of jarring.\n\n~~~\nlowglow\nYou're right, we did this to have a good time and talk about some"
+"\nCCC censors comments criticising 32c3 talk - ryanlol\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=uWIivWGgZ5o\n======\nsarciszewski\nThe first two minutes of the talk consists of some people speaking for her\n(\"she hates the word 'refugee'\" <\\- Okay then, why can't _she_ tell us that?).\n\nIf you want to watch the talk, skip to 3:03.\n\nSome notes from the first minute of the talk:\n\n \n \n - She opens her hour keynote with she has nothing to say. Um, what?\n - She says, to a room full of hackers at a highly technical conference,\n that she knows nothing about IT outside the basic use of her laptop.\n \n\nThis doesn't look promising. I'm all for hearing different perspectives and\nall, but I'm sure that among all of the \"newcomers\" there were people with a\nreal interest in technology who could have filled this slot instead. I'll keep\nwatching and post a follow-up comment if it gets any better, but this is my\nfirst impression.\n\nI can't say I'm surprised that the CCC team would censor comments on this\nvideo, but they can't censor HN.\n\n~~~\nsarciszewski\nNope, this was a waste of time. :(\n\n------\nryanlol\nSomeone on IRC asked me to post proof, so here's an archive of"
+"\nTiSpark sits Spark SQL on top of a storage engine to answer complex OLAP queries - jinqueeny\nhttps://github.com/pingcap/tispark\n======\nelvinyung\nYes! I've been thinking of something like this for a while.\n\nFor the sake of simple data integration, I think this sort of architecture is\noptimal. As it stands, Spark is basically already a distributed database\nwithout its own storage engine; tighter integration with a transactional\nstorage engine means that you could get the full power of OLTP and OLAP (HTAP)\nunder the same interface.\n\nImagine that you could process transactions in Spark (pushing them down to the\ndistributed storage engine), and then Spark could automatically use the\nchanges to update a materialized view, and you could serve the updated\nmaterialized view directly from Spark for real-time decision support, using\nSQL plus richer analytics like machine learning, graph processing, etc. It's\nnot _quite_ a one-size-fits-all [1] database, but it's close.\n\nPut a PostgreSQL or MySQL wire protocol server in front of it, and application\ndevelopers won't even have to know that they're using Spark.\n\n(I'm glossing over the fact that Spark currently isn't very good at\ntransaction processing in the sense that it literally doesn't have much of a\nwrite"
+"\nApple tells U.S. judge 'impossible' to unlock new iPhones - aaronbrethorst\nhttp://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/20/us-apple-court-encryption-idUSKCN0SE2NF20151020\n======\nBWStearns\nI applaud Apple for having made it technically impossible for them to betray\ntheir customers' trust, but I was just wondering about third party\napplications which have been granted access to various data on the phone. If\nthe prosecution is looking for evidence in photos, and the suspect has granted\nFacebook access to their photos, could a judge compel Facebook to use their\naccess to the phone in question to retrieve photos that were never on\nFacebook? I ask this in both a legal sense as well as a technical sense as I\nam not familiar enough with iOS permissions/API.\n\n~~~\navn2109\n>> \"...technically impossible for them to betray their customers' trust...\"\n\nImpossible is a very strong word in this context. Let me take the opportunity\nto remind everyone that an iPhone is a very complicated device running nearly\n100% closed source hardware and software, include all sorts of opaque\ncryptographic hardware and a known-to-be-compromised secondary baseband\ncomputer, such that the security of the device's entire stack, top-to-bottom,\ncould not possibly be verified by a third party in principle, let alone in\npractice.\n\nIn light of"
+"\n\nAsk HN: What do we do with an iPad app built on a recently shutdown Google API? - thegrossman\n\nMy coworker and I have spent the last few months building an iPad app on top of the Google News API, which has just yesterday been slated to shutdown: http://code.google.com/apis/newssearch/ We were motivated to create the app based on a lack of quality \"hard news\" sources (for lack of a better term) on the iPad. There is no shortage of \"social\" news apps such as Flipboard and Pulse, and there exist a slew of quality RSS readers (Reeder is indispensable to me). But I also crave conventional, un-sexy, non-web2.0 journalism; a simple reporting of the news of the day. I used to spend obscene chunks of my day parked on CNN.com, click the refresh button incessantly... before the quality of their reporting diminished. And while there are iPad apps for individual news outlets (the NY Times, CNN, etc all have their own apps), the great thing about Google News is the fact that they aggregate content from news outlets around the word, from the Times to Al Jazeera to my tiny local newspaper. Google News doesn't have a spectacular web interface, especially when accessed"
+"\n\nThe Secret Sharer - abhinav\nhttp://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/23/110523fa_fact_mayer?currentPage=all\n\n======\nalexqgb\nJudging from the article, it sounds like the NSA has a complete searchable\ncopy of every email sent by every American in the last decade, along with a\n(completely illegal) surveillance file on every single one of us. If true, it\nmakes Drake's assessment (\u201cThis is too serious not to talk about\u201d) the mother\nof all understatements.\n\nSo hats off to the New Yorker in general, and Jane Mayer in particular. Given\nthe monstrous scale of the lawlessness she's alleging, and the catastrophic\nfailure of governance needed to sustain it, firing a shot this public and\nwell-timed was exceptionally brave. Unlike Drake - who seems to have seriously\nunderestimated the response he'd trigger - the authors of this piece must\nrecognize that they're making themselves the targets of a seriously scary\nbunch of people.\n\nAnd yes, this (alleged) embrace of domestic spying does make the Nixon\nAdministration \"look like pikers.\u201d It also adds plenty of weight to Evgeny\nMorozov's contemptuous dismissal of \"utopians\" who consider the internet an\nunalloyed force for democracy and freedom."
+"\n\nTesting HTTP caching in Go - santiaago\nhttp://www.sanarias.com/blog/215TestingHTTPcachinginGo\n\n======\nalimoeeny\nThe article is very good, I read it all the way to the end and learned quite a\nfew things. But the title is just a bit misleading, it is more like \"test\ncoverage in go, with an example using http cache\". Thanks for writing and\nsharing.\n\n~~~\nartifaxx\nThat is very true, but at least the article has links to the previous\ntutorials that fill out the background of the topic.\n\n------\njzelinskie\nSerious question: is properly handling the \"Not Modified \" status code really\nconsidered caching or is there a better name? Maybe client-side caching? HTTP\ncaching in my mind is associated with something like varnish.\n\n~~~\ngarfij\nYes, that along with dealing with Last-Modified, If-Not-Modified, ETag, and\nother similar HTTP Headers is what is meant by HTTP Caching.\n\nFrom what I can tell Varnish uses these same concepts to do what they do\n(caching HTTP reverse proxy).\n\nSee\n\n* [https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7234#section-1](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7234#section-1)\n\n* [http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec13.html](http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec13.html)\n\n* [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Caching_FA...](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Caching_FAQ)"
+"\n\u2018Lede\u2019 vs. \u2018Lead\u2019 (2011) - gruseom\nhttp://howardowens.com/lede-vs-lead/\n======\nscandox\nThis is great news. One of the most frustrating things on Twitter is everybody\npretending to be a hardbitten journo throwing this term around like they were\non a deadline...or even had a job.\n\n~~~\neli\nThough to be fair, actual hardbitten journos use it too. It's the accepted and\nmost popular formulation of the word even if the myth around its origin is\nbogus.\n\nEarliest reference in my OED is 1951 with \"lede\" listed then as an alternate\nspelling of \"lead\"\n\n~~~\nghaff\nYeah. I know long-time journos who use it and it seems to have become pretty\nwidely accepted. But, having been at least somewhat involved in journalism for\na long time, I probably had never seen that spelling before 15 years ago or\nso. I admit I tend to use it today. Here's a piece that William Safire wrote\nin the Times a long way back:\n\n[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/18/magazine/on-language-\nhed-f...](http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/18/magazine/on-language-hed-folo-my-\nlede-unhed.html)\n\n~~~\ngojomo\nThis article also explains TFA's confusion about not finding examples of\n'lede' earlier.\n\nThe variant spelling was an old practice, well-known to Safire & the other\n\"old hands of journalism\" mentioned (such as Herb Caen), as inside-jargon"
+"\nWpcom \u2013 A curated directory of resources and tools for WordPress - atknoz\nhttps://www.wpcom.org\n======\nAyesh\nThis is a shameless self-plug. I have written a few WP plugins because it is\nnot as secure I wanted it to be:\n\n\\- WordPress does not come with proper password hashing, and uses the phpass\nlibrary. [https://wordpress.org/plugins/password-\nhash/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/password-hash/) will change this to use\nbcrypt/Argon2ID\n\n\\- Comment forms do not have CSRF tokens, and hackerone/tickets for them have\nbeen neglected as trivial. [https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-form-csrf-\nprotection/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-form-csrf-protection/) This\nplugin adds a CSRF token to comment forms.\n\n------\ntyingq\nProceed with caution. A fair amount of wordpress's reputation for bad security\ncomes from 3rd party plugins. There aren't many (any?) restrictions on what\nthey can do.\n\n~~~\nmattigames\nWell, is exactly the same for any npm package or any python package as do many\nother languages, a lot -if not all- bad security comes from 3rd party plugins.\n\n~~~\ntyingq\nTechnically the same perhaps. But the actual history is pretty different.\nWordPress plugins are notorious for RCE type vulnerabilities.\n\n~~~\njermaustin1\nI wrote one during my early years, in fact [1]!\n\n1: [https://jeremyaboyd.micro.blog/2016/11/20/that-\ntime-i.html](https://jeremyaboyd.micro.blog/2016/11/20/that-time-i.html)\n\n------\nsocial_quotient\nKinda surprised not to see WPengine on the list.\n\n~~~\natknoz\nThere"
+"\n\nShow HN: \u201cEscape from Montegrande\u201d, Procedural Ski Game for iOS and Android - phaser\nhttp://mego.cl/montegrande\n\n======\nzimpenfish\nOne of the achievements says \"Slide trough N ice surfaces\" \\- is that supposed\nto be \"Slide through\"? Apart from that, good work, it's like a proper modern\nHorace Goes Skiing.\n\n~~~\nchulini\nWe'll fix that on the next update. Thanks! : _\n\n------\nthrowaway1979\nNice. What framework are you using?\n\n~~~\nphaser\nWe created the game using Unity3d. In order to generate levels we used a\ncombination of random \"chunks\" and perlin noise (very good for generating the\n'paths' across the trees)\n\n------\nchrisbennet\nGreat imagination! Good work!\n\n------\njstnn\nnostalgia"
+"\nFBI overstated forensic hair matches in nearly all trials before 2000 - protomyth\nhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-forensic-hair-matches-in-nearly-all-criminal-trials-for-decades/2015/04/18/39c8d8c6-e515-11e4-b510-962fcfabc310_story.html\n======\nMCRed\nA few years ago I remember reading reports of the FBI forensic labs doing much\nworse-- taking evidence from the crime scene and contaminating evidence taken\nfrom the accused with it so that it would produce a \"match\" and the like. It\nwas a big scandal.\n\nIn fact over the past 20 years I've heard this story at least a dozen times--\nwhere crime \"labs\" at different levels of government and in different states\n(eg: state labs, federal lagbs, etc) were caught doing this.\n\nAnd when it happens, that isn't enough to get people to be able to appeal\nunless they have evidence the lab did it in their specific case.\n\nOne of the problems of our system is that the criminal system is lacks checks\nand balances. The judges, prosecutors, police all work for the government.\nThey all have the same interests-- they all report to people who want to look\n\"tough on crime\".\n\nSince the police immediately take over crime scenes and collect the evidence\nand then get the evidence analyzed, they have a lot of power to be corrupt in\nthe"
+"\nAaron Swartz, American hero - binarybits\nhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/12/aaron-swartz-american-hero/\n======\njacoblyles\n>\"As I said at the time of Swartz\u2019s arrest, his actions were foolish and some\npunishment was probably appropriate. \"\n\nBullshit. No punishment is appropriate. A system that punishes someone for\nstanding up for justice does not deserve to continue its existence. Aaron\ndeserved a medal, not a fine or a prison sentence. Here is my take on it:\n\n[http://jacobexmachina.blogspot.com/2013/01/aaron-swartz-\nfree...](http://jacobexmachina.blogspot.com/2013/01/aaron-swartz-freedom-\nfighters-death.html)\n\n~~~\ndevcpp\nI find it singificant that you used the word \"justice\" against the judicial\nsystem.\n\nThe very concept of law started as a need for order and justice, preventing\ngrave crimes. Now, controlled by the powerful, it stands as a way to reduce\njustice, and to increase injustice.\n\n~~~\ntripzilch\nYes and in particular, it's not the other way around: \"justice\" is not defined\nas \"that which a judicial system purports to implement\". Just like \"good\" is\nnot synonymous with \"legal\".\n\n------\nholri\nAs always, nationalism is wrong. Beeing a hacker, activist or unconventional\nthinker has nothing to do with beeing american.\n\nThere are enough counter examples, just study history. (for example that of\nthe CCC and his members and fellows)\n\n~~~\nollysb\nThat may be so but"
+"\n\nDo you still read Slashdot? - kashif\n\n\n======\nSwellJoe\nI started reading Slashdot when it was Chips and Dips...but I had completely\ndiscontinued Slashdot for about two years and reddit took its place. Now that\nreddit has declined from a \"have to read nearly every link on the page\" to\n\"maybe two or three articles per day\" habit, I find myself going back to\nslashdot at least once every couple of days.\n\nI read news.YC more often than either now...but the volume here is still low\nenough to where it's not a problem. I drop in more than I need to (I'll come\nback not really expecting anything new) kind of as a nervous tick while I'm\nwaiting on software to build or virtual machine images to copy (I manage our\napt/yum software repositories, and do all of the QC testing, so I twiddle my\nthumbs more than I'd like).\n\nLately, there's a lot more of that, as may be seen in my ridiculous increase\nin comment volume this week...I'm kind of embarrassed looking over it\nnow...because I'm in the midst of rolling out a new version of our installer--\nso lots of testing and packaging. I need to find"
+"\n\nAsk HN: How do BitTorent Bundles work - steren\nhttp://bundle-help.bittorrent.com/customer/portal/articles/1697610-what-is-a-protected-torrent-?b_id=3886\n\n======\nhnha\nI would guess that they do it similarly to private trackers. Each user gets a\nunique and secret ID which is transmitted when announcing. The tracker then\ndecides if the user is allowed to get the swarm details.\n\n~~~\naidos\nDoes that have the same benefits in terms of distributing the sources?\n\nI just purchased the new Thom Yorke album [0] via a bundle and it felt like a\nregular torrent. Very quick to download etc.\n\n[0]\n[https://bundles.bittorrent.com/bundles/d0b4beba8efc4b46f6dba...](https://bundles.bittorrent.com/bundles/d0b4beba8efc4b46f6dba119b511a5b2d5cabc96168c0dc097ee9d514059ab63)\n\n~~~\nspindritf\nSee what kind of announce URL is included in the .torrent. Is it just\n\n \n \n udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80/announce\n \n\nor does it include information that could be used to identify you, like\n\n \n \n http://tracker.bittorrentbundle.net:3000/3pr4s5y7l9nh0mdwcqyh3a9k6n7d0kta/announce\n \n\nOther than tracker identifying you, seeding and downloading works the same in\nboth cases.\n\n~~~\njc4p\nJust anyone else is wondering, it's:\n\n \n \n http://tracker.bundles.bittorrent.com/tracker/{a whole lot of hex}\n\n------\ngcb0\nlawyers.\n\nregardless of how they configure their trackers, this only works if people\ndont use clients that use others trackers\n\n~~~\nlawl\nI'm not sure why you're downvoted, technically you are (probably?) correct.\n\nIf they use technology similar to private trackers, that won't help against\npeer exchange.\n\nAnd yes I"
+"\nRoss Ulbricht\u2019s Lawyers Found Another Corrupt Agent in Silk Road Case - sprucely\nhttps://www.wired.com/2016/11/ross-ulbrichts-lawyers-point-another-corrupt-agent-silk-road-case/\n======\nat-fates-hands\nKind of misleading headline.\n\nHere are the important parts of the article:\n\n _Even if defense lawyers manage to prove the existence of a third corrupt\nagent, Ulbricht\u2019s appeal of his conviction in the New York trial\u2014the 32-year-\nold\u2019s last chance to escape a life sentence\u2014isn\u2019t likely to be affected._\n\nSo no changes in the outcome of the trial, or chance for a new trial.\n\n _The same judge also argued that nothing indicated the two agents had\nactually tampered with evidence against Ulbricht._\n\nThey made some money on the side, but never tampered with evidence that could\nbe thrown out, so the verdict will stand.\n\nof course in the last paragraph:\n\n _The clues of tainted evidence are hardly enough to change Ulbricht\u2019s legal\nfate._\n\nIt might be something, but not nearly enough to warrant a new trial."
+"\nThat man who \u2018deleted his entire company\u2019 with a line of code? It was a hoax - empressplay\nhttp://www.pcworld.com/article/3057235/data-center-cloud/that-man-who-deleted-his-entire-company-with-a-line-of-code-it-was-a-hoax.html\n======\ntamana\nCan someone explain how this would win him customers? \"Oh yeah, let's get\nWebHosting with that idiot who trolled ServerFault. He seems like a reliable\nand professional fellow.\"\n\n~~~\ncmurf\nWhat about the $700 juicer that doesn't juice, it uses juice packs, which are\nso bad at preservation the juice can expire, so the whole point of the juicer\nis to scan a QR code to know if the juice is expired because presumably the\nuser can't read an expiration date, and then denies using the expired pack?\nPeople will still buy that ridiculous thing. Same thing here.\n\n~~~\npkroll\nI was so hoping you were joking. A quick search and yep, that's a real thing.\nHopefully not a well selling thing, but that it exists at all is depressing.\n\n------\noconnor663\nThe comments on the original StackOverflow post said the same thing. Sounds\nlike a lot of articles got written without reading the whole thread."
+"\nMaybe we could tone down the JavaScript - _frog\nhttps://eev.ee/blog/2016/03/06/maybe-we-could-tone-down-the-javascript/\n======\nPxtl\nThe Twitter page is a perfect example of why we use JavaScript for this stuff:\nbecause full-page loads just to hide a div is a shitty user experience. Scroll\npositions jump around, you've made a client-side action into a server one,\netc.\n\nThe whole of html is full of these. Let's be blunt: it's a terrible platform,\njust as JavaScript's DOM API is terrible. Everything about the web is bad, but\nwe make it good thanks to the combined might of the computing industry.\n\nJavaScript's a mediocre language being used to pave over the weaknesses of a\nlayout engine that can't centre things vertically and can't navigate without\nslow server interactions unless you want to confuse the user with one long\npage full of #anchors.\n\n~~~\ndelan\nWith progressive enhancement, Twitter could provide basic functionality with\nfull page loads and the like, and use JavaScript to replace these with a\nbetter user experience.\n\n------\nmattkahl\nThe \"You name a critical .js bundle something related to ads\" point is\nsomething toward which I'm particularly unsympathetic. The fact that most ad\nblockers (a) are whitelist-based and (b) contain blunt-edge/naive\nimplementations"
+"\nHow to Start Learning Computer Programming - Gennavfo\nhttp://www.jeremymorgan.com/blog/programming/how-to-start-programming-for-free/\n======\npubby\nThis article sounds like something a non-programmer would write for a research\nproject.\n\nThere's lots of little mistakes throughout, such as imprecise definitions for\ncompiled/interpreted/VMs and calling DevC++ a compiler, but beginners wouldn't\nknow the difference anyway.\n\nThe real problem is that there's just flat-out bad advice! Many of the links\nhe posts are just the first search result you'll find on Google, yet are\nterrible resources. In particular, cplusplus.com, w3schools, DevC++, and\ncprogramming.com are things you'll hear experts warn about for being outdated,\nhaving misinformation, or just poor explanation.\n\n------\ncraftman\nThis is not about starting to learn computer programming, this is about\nstarting to learn to get a \"middle\" job of programmer as proposed by persons\nwho do not program themselves.\n\nIf you REALLY want to start learn computer programming look at Lisp or\nSmalltalk.\n\n------\nmarklit\nThe author of this probably grew up in an environment simular to mine in the\n1990s. Among my peers and teachers, everything revolved around Microsoft.\nC$650 for Visual Basic Pro, Windows NT was the special platform that business\nused, 'real' databases cost a lot of money.\n\nI really wish I"
+"\nLessons Learned: The power of small batches - TristanKromer\nhttp://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2011/09/power-of-small-batches.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+startup%2Flessons%2Flearned+%28Lessons+Learned%29\n======\nmrgoldenbrown\nI like the fact that an experiment was done. I don't like the conclusion that\nbatching is always bad. Yes, for this arbitrary subset of tasks, batching was\nslower. But if we had included walking to the nearest mailbox to the flow,\nbatching would have won. Or if we had included printing the flyers at the\nbeginning, batching would have won again. The steps done in the video are what\nI would consider one step in a larger batch process: Step 1: print X flyers.\nStep 2: stuff X flyers. Step 3: mail X flyers. The take home shouldn't be that\nbatching is always bad, but that we have to experiment to find what the best\nmix of batching/OPF is.\n\n~~~\nkanamekun\nThe battle over batching and batch size has been going on for decades in the\nworld of lean manufacturing. An example quote:\n\n\"American manufacturing managers traditionally considered setup costs as a\nnecessary evil and made little or no effort to reduce them.\"\n\n\"The lean/JIT philosophy suggests that a firm should eliminate any reliance\nupon the [Economic Order Quantity] formula and seek the ideal production\nquantity of"
+"\n\nShip It Now Is The Best Time Ever To Start An Internet Company - jpirkola\nhttp://blog.socialmedian.com/2009/05/ship_it_now_is_the_best_time_e.html\n\n======\nJakob\n\"Think small. Think cheap. Think fast.\"\n\nI\u2019d like to add \"Fail fast.\" because that\u2019s what you likely will do thinking\n\"cheap\" and \"small\". Enough of this \"it\u2019s so easy\"-posts already.\n\nHe seems to be an intelligent guy but this post has just no content. (Except\nthose 25 occurrences of \"ship it\").\n\n~~~\nsocialmedian\nFail fast, for sure. Give yourself one year to prove it. If you can't prove it\nin a year, move on. There are plenty of other interesting problems to solve.\n\n------\ntybris\nAlso, you might want to offer a compelling product..."
+"\nShow HN: Audit your ISP with a speedtest cronjob - igomeza\nhttps://github.com/igomez10/speedInspectorRPI\n======\nbrianjking\nThanks for sharing. I'm not sure I'd run this in a Docker instance on it's\nown. Also, I submitted a pull request here\n[https://github.com/igomez10/speedInspectorRPI/pull/1](https://github.com/igomez10/speedInspectorRPI/pull/1)\nas it should be noted that on a Raspberry Pi outside of the Raspberry Pi 3 B+\nyou will max out at 100mbps. On the 3 B+ despite the gigabit adapter you'll\nmax out at 300mbps.\n\nI use a Speedtest monitor via Home Assistant which I run on a Raspberry Pi\nModel 3 along with the rest of my home automation setup. Check out Home\nAssistant at [https://home-assistant.io](https://home-assistant.io).\n\n~~~\nigomeza\nThannks for taking the time of reading it and submitting improvements, I\nchecked Home Assistant and it looks amazing. Also, thanks for noting on the\nspeed limits, I totatlly forgot about RPI adapter limitations. I was having\nslow speeds (~2-4mbps) so +100mbps didnt seemed that bad in the beginning.\n\n------\nwattengard\nI have integrated this into my Home-Assistant setup. The speedtest runs every\n30 minutes and logs to an influx-database. I also run a pingtest every minute,\nlogging to the same database. Helped me identify some strage behaviour from my\nrouter in"
+"\n\nNext major release of PHP to be named PHP 7 - sp8\nhttp://news.php.net/php.internals/76254\n\n======\nmetabrew\nWhy skip a version? Wasn't clear from that thread.\n\n~~~\nmsantos\nPHP 6 existed (check commits in the public repo) but was abandoned and never\nreleased to public.\n\nThe voting page lists more info\n[https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php6#vote](https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php6#vote)\n\n~~~\nRossM\nAnnoyingly, a few authors decided to jump the gun and publish books around PHP\n6. I think this was the main deciding point. On the one hand, it might be\nconfusing for a newcomer who thinks that they're getting a book on the latest\nand greatest; on the other, perhaps they should check publication dates.\n\nEither way, it wasn't a particularly important decision - any number\nsignifying a major version bump, greater than 5, would have been fine.\n\n~~~\nramy_d\nYeah,\n[http://www.amazon.ca/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=php+6](http://www.amazon.ca/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=php+6)\nI wonder if publishing against \"vaporware\" (not exactly, but anyway) is an\nexpected risk in the industry. Would be interesting to hear what the people\nwho are affected in that sense think of this."
+"\nAsk HN: How do you help your team \u201clevel up\u201d? - Tharkun\nI'm the lead software engineer at a company with about 10 other software engineers. Part of my job is coaching them on technical matters. We organize biweekly talks about various technical subjects. And while these are fun to do, I'm not entirely sure that this approach will scale as the company grows. How do other lead engineers help their team grow their skills? Thanks!\n======\nsethammons\nI help them by bringing forth best practices. What is the state the project\nshould be in? How do you get it there? How is logging, metrics, alerting,\nci/cd (roll out and role back), tracing, performance monitoring, system level\ntesting, unit testing, etc. Is there application state that can be removed?\nCan code reviews be improved? Auto remediation on alerting? Techniques for\nbetter project management. Maybe there are new packages or libraries that the\nteam should investigate. Give projects to team members that require them to\ngrow a bit, including presenting knowledge gains to others. There are few\nteams and projects where that is all perfect.\n\n------\natmosx\nSecure a member budget for online classes (e.g. Coursera), conferences and\nbooks. Have them do presentations on"
+"\nShow HN: JsonTree, a 3.53kb JavaScript tool for generating html trees from JSON - MaxLeiter\nhttps://maxleiter.github.io/jsonTree/\n======\nbrockwhittaker\nYou should consider removing all the other functions from the global scope,\nespecially because they have relatively generic names like \"generateTree\",\n\"toArray\", \"depth\", and \"toggleClass\".\n\nConsider using an actual class or a closure perhaps?\n\n~~~\nMaxLeiter\nWrapped in a closure, thanks!\n\n------\nCheezmeister\nThanks for sharing! I see your 3.5k and raise (lower?) you 1.6k\n\n[https://github.com/cheezmeister/kapok](https://github.com/cheezmeister/kapok)\n\n[I think it does most of what yours\ndoes]([https://github.com/Cheezmeister/kapok/blob/master/tst/kapok....](https://github.com/Cheezmeister/kapok/blob/master/tst/kapok.spec.coffee))\n(EDIT: Nope, missing URL loading and XSS cleaning!)\n\n~~~\nMaxLeiter\nYours is much cleaner code though; this was my first venture in javascript\n(and really programming) when I wrote it and am planning on refactoring it\nsoon(tm). Great work with Kapok, the demo page is well done.\n\n------\nkc10\nI didn't realize it's a tree until I clicked it. Changing the buttons to + and\n- signs might help.\n\n~~~\ntomatsu\nI'm using \u229e and \u229f for that.\n\n~~~\ntimfletcher\nI was confused too. It looks like an bulleted list in Chrome.\n\n~~~\nibgib\nI think its cool, but def the bullets threw me. Maybe an example of the\ncustomized styling would be good.\n\n------\nedko\nI"
+"\n\nIs the new Jeet.gs the most flexible grid system ever? - sheddybird\nhttp://blog.mojotech.com/jeet-a-grid-system-for-humans/\n\n======\nSEMW\nSpecifying the width proportion with fractions looks pretty nice. But the\nparagraph explaining how jeet's better than bootstrap/foundation/etc. because\nit lets you use sass mixins (instead of inline classes) to separate content\nfrom presentation seems a little misleading - it's not like you can't do the\nsame with foundation (jeet: @include column(1/3); foundation: @include grid-\ncolumn(4);). (I don't use bootstrap, but presumably it has equivalent LESS\nmixins).\n\n(True, it's not the most popular way to use foundation, but that's cos a lot\nof people don't care about semantic layout and/or don't want to use a\npreprocessor).\n\n~~~\nCorySimmons\nThe difference between Jeet and Foundation's grid are two things.\n\n1\\. Jeet uses actual columns whereas with Foundation you need to nest elements\nwithin elements: [http://imgur.com/a/OWyOQ](http://imgur.com/a/OWyOQ)\n\n2\\. @include grid-column(4) isn't as \"on-the-fly flexible\" as Jeet since you\nhave to define the base number of columns in Foundation whereas in Jeet you\ncould just say @include column(4/12) or column (1/3) or column(33.333333/100),\netc. - being able to say in natural language what you want your container to\ndo is pretty powerful stuff."
+"\nPasswordless authentication is here: new Yubico FIDO2 key - rdslw\nhttps://www.yubico.com/2018/04/yubico-and-microsoft-introduce-passwordless-login/?source=me\n======\nrconti\nCan someone help me understand how this is different from the existing YubiKey\nproducts, which I've used?\n\n* Passwordless single factor with AD integration (couldn't this already be done by storing your password on the key?)\n\n* 2factor auth with the token as one of the factors.\n\nFrom the article:\n\n\\-----------\n\nSingle Factor: This only requires possession of the Security Key to log in,\nallowing for a passwordless tap-and-go experience.\n\nSecond-Factor: In a two-factor authentication scenario, such as the current\nGoogle and Facebook FIDO U2F implementations, the Security Key by Yubico is\nused as a strong second factor along with a username and password.\n\nMulti-Factor: This allows the use of the Security Key by Yubico with an\nadditional factor such as a PIN (instead of a password), to meet the high-\nassurance requirements of operations like financial transactions, or\nsubmitting a prescription.\n\n~~~\nfreeone3000\n\"Passwordless\" single factor done by storing your password on the key isn't\npasswordless. You have a password. U2F replaces the password with a \"bearer\"\nauthentication token - it's two-factor auth without the password, instead of a\npassword-manager based approach.\n\nThe actual announcement in"
+"Ask HN: Do you keep a journal, and why? - zabana\n======\ntrykondev\nI do! I started one in the summer of 2013. I originally started it as a way to\naggregate links & helpful information for my game development endeavors, but\nit eventually evolved into more of a recounting of what I did or how I was\nfeeling on a particular day. I now have daily entries for the entire time\nperiod since I started it, and I consider my journal to be one of my most\ntreasured possessions. Sometimes I'll get busy and not add entires for a few\ndays at a time, but I always go back and at least put a one-liner of why I was\ntoo busy to write anything.\n\nI've found it to be a slightly more structured & useful way to essentially\ninteract with my own brain -- it's a place for me to vent, a place to record\nnot-so-important but still fun-to-have memories, to keep notes & sort out\nplans for the future.\n\nIt's a lot of fun to be able to scroll back and say \"hey, what did we do for\nmy birthday three years ago?\" :) It's also fun at"
+"\nMIT undergrad's reactions to working at a startup - adamsmith\nhttp://www.xobni.com/blog/2007/01/31/kevins-thoughts/\n======\nced\nHe claims that algorithms are not so important, but they are what propelled\nGoogle above Yahoo and co. Reddit today is very much in the vulnerable\nposition that Yahoo was in. Someone with a recommendation engine that works\nwell could pull the rug from under their feet.\n\n------\nscylla\nHmmm ... the author has nothing but praise for PG, but one of the main thrusts\nof his article was that college students should learn more Java and C#.\n\nIsn't that derided as blub programing languages around here?\n\n~~~\nmrgordon\nYou make a good point, although it is my experience that MIT does not echo\nPaul's feelings with regards to programming languages. There is obviously the\ngroup of hackers at CSAIL (Sussman et al.) that swear by LISP and the\nfunctional paradigms in general, but almost every class that involves a large\namount of programming is in Java. Even 6.001 is being phased out for courses\ntaught in Python.\n\nAs a current undergrad at MIT, I find myself sometimes struggling to determine\nwhether I agree with Kevin or not. It does seem that my greatest selling point\nis"
+"\nThe P programming language - msoad\nhttps://github.com/p-org/P\n======\nqznc\nFinally, a proper \"P\". I only had P'' and P# on my list.\n[http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/one_letter_proglangs.html](http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/one_letter_proglangs.html)\n\n~~~\nklibertp\nNice list! There's also F* under \"F\": [https://www.fstar-\nlang.org/](https://www.fstar-lang.org/)\n\n~~~\nqznc\nThanks! Added that as well.\n\n------\nacjohnson55\nThis sounds a lot like the actor model (e.g. Erlang, Elixir, Scala + Akka).\nIt's a great primitive for concurrency and distributed computing.\n\nIs there a big difference here, or is this basically just an alternative\nlanguage for that model?\n\n~~~\ntekacs\nWell at the top of the manual, the list of constraints[1] reads the same as\nthe actor model[2] (it explicitly uses local state ('store') to model\nbehaviour changes), with the word 'machine' substituted for 'actor'.\n\nIf anything it reads like the restricted form of the actor model produced by\nusing only Erlang's gen_fsm or Akka's FSM mixin.\n\n(to be clear, using a restricted form with more constraints is a great thing -\neven better here, where one of the domains they're serving seems to be fairly\nrestricted execution environments)\n\n[1]:\n\n \n \n > Each operation either updates the local store, sends messages to other machines, or creates new machines.\n > In P, a send operation is non-blocking;"
+"\nAsk HN: Why has visual programming not caught on? - jshharlow\nIt seems like the concept of visual based programming (think visual basic, or drag/drop components that make code...) keeps on reappearing, do other hacker news visitors ever think it will truly succeed? It always seems to be limited imho, but the idea never seems to die, wondering what others think...\n======\nnostrademons\nIt already has succeeded in one very limited area: GUI component layout.\nPeople use XCode/Netbeans Matisse/DreamWeaver all the time to build their UIs.\n\nIt fails in other areas because code is remarkably info-dense, and if you\nsplit that out into individual components, it takes a huge amount of screen\nspace and visual manipulation for even simple subroutines. I encourage you to\ntake a simple function and draw out the parse tree for it. It's surprisingly\nlarge, with lots of different node types all strung together in unusual ways.\nThink about how much people complain about the parentheses in Lisp; now\nimagine that each set of parentheses is a box on screen.\n\n~~~\ndavid927\nGUI layout is not programming; it's GUI layout. (Or, more concretely: it's\nspecifying a dataset.)\n\nWhen software construction is finally \"solved\", visual representations and"
+"\nA BNF Parser in Forth (1992) - akkartik\nhttps://www.bradrodriguez.com/papers/bnfparse.htm\n======\nDonHopkins\nHere's a FORTH program to simulate a 7 bit paper tape puncher. Type PTAPE What do you smart people who have a plan B do when SHTF with your DNS?\n======\nmike-cardwell\nI use three separate and unrelated providers. The first being myself (a single\nLinode VM), and the other two:\n\n[http://rollernet.us/](http://rollernet.us/)\n[https://puck.nether.net/dns](https://puck.nether.net/dns)\n\nThey both offer free backup DNS.\n\n------\nstaunch\nYou use a major provider. Providers that have the resources to defend against\nalmost any attack. I trust Route53, Dyn, and Cloudflare. You can also use your\nregistrar (but that often has limitations).\n\n------\ndanypell\nI just use CloudFlare. They just can't really afford going down, and if they\ndo, they're big enough to fix it quickly enough I guess."
+"\n\nAsk HN: Do you use market research for your business? - tixocloud\n\nI'm interested in knowing if you use market research to help your business grow? If so, has it been helpful? Did you feel it was a waste of money and why?\nIf it's possible, I'd also be interested in how much you spent and what kind of research it is? (i.e. custom survey, focus groups, reports, etc.) Thanks in advance! Disclaimer: Reposting this question as I didn't get any responses in the first one. Sorry for the spam.\n======\nchrisgoodrich\nMarket research is imperative to success, but it may not always look like\nyou'd expect. Note that I come from a B2B software product management\nbackground. Market research is a major part of my job, but I don't think I\nhave ever called it market research.\n\nBig companies often place a lot of value in more formalized research studies\nto drive corporate strategy. This is very top-down.\n\nI prefer, and often drive, more lean research initiatives. Working in\nstartups, there isn't budget or time for formalized research studies. Instead\nI have often used more scrappy methods of customer development to test ideas\nwith prototypes.\n\nA one hour conversation with"
+"\n\nComputer Scientists Show That Mass Incarceration Is Contagious - dallenallred\nhttp://www.fastcoexist.com/3032447/computer-scientists-show-that-mass-incarceration-is-contagious\n\n======\nEvanPlaice\nCrime rates tend to be higher around police stations, military bases, and\nairports. Not because of a higher rate of people committing actual crimes but\nsimply because of the increased police presence.\n\nAll it takes is an ambitious cop who doesn't want to leave his advancement to\nchance. Once you're in the system it's difficult/impossible to get out.\n\nI grew up in a pretty nice area and rarely had encounters with the police\nunless I was doing something stupid and deserving of their attention. Even\nthen, I was treated with decency and respect.\n\nI didn't understand the difference until I moved to an area that was close to\na large police station and courthouse. There was no doubt about the increased\npolice presence.\n\nOne day on my way to work on my motorcycle I got pulled over by the CHP\n(California Highway Patrol). When I went to hand over my\nlicense/registration/insurance the officer reached over and snatched the keys\nout of my ignition. Instead of telling me what I was being charged he started\nwith a threat, \"you will cooperate or I'm going to tow your bike"
+"\nGlossary of Stand Up Comedy Terms - rfreytag\nhttps://stand-upcomedy.com/glossary-of-stand-up-comedy-terms/\n======\nDyslexicAtheist\nI'm a big fan of stand-up. I love the old stuff a lot (Richard Pryor, Billy\nConnolly, Bill Bailey) and I'm happy to see so much emerging talent that has\nhit the scene in the past decade with smart+critical content. (Sarah\nSilverman, Bo Burnham)\n\nMy fav one right now is Stewart Lee. He is often called the _\" comedian's\ncomedian\"_ and I think people here appreciate smart content so you might enjoy\nhim. (\"Content Provider\" is his latest show\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1UCt5iItcw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1UCt5iItcw)\nStewart Lee is incredibly smart without being overly offensive - something\nthat gets old after some time (e.g. Jimmy Carr or Franky Boyle I both like but\nit's a bit shallow imo and lacks an overreaching arc in their story).\n\nLee is more demanding than shows that are made for mass-audiences (Michael\nMacintyre, etc) and will probably always remain on the fringe. He also has\nsome great tips about writing vs not writing.\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrXVaytvJtQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrXVaytvJtQ)\nincredibly intelligent guy which seems to defy all the traditional rules of\nthe trade. He also helped Noel Fielding and Julian Barrett become popular with\n\"The Mighty Boosh\" material at the Edinburgh fringe. (TMB is"
+"\nKevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits - privong\nhttp://www.wired.com/2014/09/kevin-mitnick-selling-zero-day-exploits/\n======\nkauffj\nPeople will decry this, but I'd argue a free and open market for\nvulnerabilities would be a great thing. Here's why:\n\n1) It would result in more vulnerabilities found\n\nThis is fairly axiomatic. An open market increases the price of\nvulnerabilities which in turn increases the number of vulnerabilities found\n(unless you want to argue the ability to find vulnerabilities is inelastic for\nsome reason).\n\n2) It would result in more vulnerabilities being disclosed to the proper\nauthorities rather than malicious parties\n\nThis is more debatable, but since there should always be significantly more\nincentive on good actors to prevent the exploit (i.e. the software creators\nand/or community) than bad actors, the good actors should always win the bid.\nIndeed, one could argue that it is only the _prevention_ of free negotiation\nin the sale of vulnerabilities is the reason an exploit is ever sold to bad\nactors (e.g. if I found a Windows vulnerability and told Microsoft $10m or\nelse, I'm a criminal).\n\n3) It would ultimately increase the quality of software\n\nGiven more vulnerabilities are found and more vulnerabilities would be\ndisclosed to good actors, the quality"
+"\nGeocities Forever \u2013 neural network generated geocities pages - laacz\nhttp://www.geocitiesforever.com/\n======\nversteegen\nThe generated English (and a number of other languages) doesn't make a lick of\nsense (certainly not comparable to decent NN language models), and there's\nHTML and JS visible all over the place. But they certainly _look_ a lot like\ntypical geocities pages. How do you generate HTML and JS with NNs? I wish\nthere were an explanation somewhere. Maybe that's the reason that there's so\nmuch invalid HTML.\n\n~~~\njnpatel\nAgreed about wishing there were an explanation.\n\nIt's not clear to me that NN are the best way to get interesting Franken-\npages. Maybe a Markov chain instead?\n\n~~~\nyolesaber\nThe best way is to have the NN generate the HTML / CSS / JS code and then use\na markov chain to create content to populate the page with.\n\nIt also has to do with quality of input. The texts on geocities pages aren't\nexactly pinnacles of clear and legible language. Same with the HTML.\n\n------\nsupernintendo\nGeoCities was the spark that ignited my interest in programming. I can\nremember hacking together awful HTML, CSS and JavaScript for a Sonic the\nHedgehog fan page as"
+"\nWeizenbaum examines computers and society (1985) - jakub-\nhttp://tech.mit.edu/V105/N16/weisen.16n.html\n======\ndavidtotoole\nSee also his book \"Computer Power and Human Reason.\"\n\nQuote:\n\n \n \n \"The computer has thus begun to be an instrument for the\n destruction of history. For when society legitimates only\n those 'data' that ... 'can easily be told to the machine', \n then history, memory itself, is annihiliated... Soon a \n supersystem will be built, based on the New York Times' data \n bank.. from which 'historians' will make inferences about \n what 'really' happened, about who is connected to\n whom, and about the 'real' logic of events.\"\n \n\nThat was in 1976.\n\n------\ndavidtotoole\nWeizenbaum is discussing the received doctrine of most computer scientists.\nProbably most of you think we are making \"just tools\" and that their end use\nis not our concern. As you read this article, particularly the later portions,\nthink about all the codenames we've heard since PRISM and how much the problem\nhas grown since 1985."
+"\nAsk HN: Imagine a Post Pandemic World, How Internet Use Will Evolve? - multiversecoder\nI ask myself this, because I believe that the lockdown will permanently change our psychology and our way of dealing with everyday life, and since the internet and services will forever play a fundamental role in our society, I am trying to understand how the relationship between man and services will evolve. For example, what do you think will be the Fundamental Applications for a Post-Pandemic World? I believe that P2P, decentralization, cryptography and virtual reality will create a new universe of services that will become more and more present. But this is just an assumption. What do you think?\n======\ntucaz\n\u201c I believe that P2P, decentralization, cryptography and virtual reality will\ncreate a new universe of services that will become more and more present.\u201d\n\nIf anything it will be the opposite. All you mentioned is a concern of a very\nsmall part of the population.\n\nI believe that in this regard we will be seeing more control and\ncentralization from governments in order to try to predict/prevent future\noccurrences.\n\n~~~\nmultiversecoder\nI fully support your thinking, and I believe that the high number of\nrestrictions will create"
+"\nGigapixel AI Accidentally Added Ryan Gosling\u2019s Face to This Photo - Hard_Space\nhttps://petapixel.com/2020/08/17/gigapixel-ai-accidentally-added-ryan-goslings-face-to-this-photo/\n======\nmurbard2\nBefore casting stones, have they checked with Ryan Gosling to make sure that\nwasn't him behind a giant magnifier at that window?\n\n~~~\nTheSpiceIsLife\nI started posting IFOTD - Inanimate Face Of The Day on social media a few\nweeks back.\n\nWhen you start looking you see faces _everywhere_.\n\nThe Gigapixel AI is a fair bit more detailed in this example though.\n\n~~~\nJudgmentality\n[http://facesinplaces.blogspot.com/](http://facesinplaces.blogspot.com/)\n\nHasn't been updated in forever but I used to love this.\n\n~~~\nTheSpiceIsLife\nThat's great!\n\nI'm here if you want to have a look:\n\n[https://www.facebook.com/amosrust](https://www.facebook.com/amosrust)\n\n------\nwongarsu\nIf Gigapixel AI works like other state of the art upscaling networks it\nupscales patches at the time, not the whole image at once. If the only context\nyou have is small enough, scaling it up as Ryan Gosling's face seems\ncompletely reasonable. After all I see a face there too. When looking at the\nlarger context(some kind of building) it becomes clear that there isn't\nsupposed to a face, but the AI likely didn't have that much context.\n\n~~~\nWillPostForFood\nIt's like the AI is replicating the same mistake a human brain"
+"\nMcCain says NSA chief Keith Alexander 'should resign or be fired' - 001sky\nhttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/10/john-mccain-nsa-keith-alexander-snowden\n======\nrurounijones\nNote he is not calling for Alexander to be fired for all the fun and games the\nNSA has been up to.\n\nHe is calling for Alexander to be fired _for letting it slip_ (specifically,\nfor letting a contractor get that information.)\n\nHe hedges his language very well when asked about NSA shenanigans.\n\n~~~\nd23\nI'm not so sure, and just as a note, I'm pretty liberal.\n\n> Asked if the US intelligence services were out of control, McCain said:\n> \"There's not been sufficient congressional oversight, and there has been an\n> absolutely disgraceful sharing of information that never should have taken\n> place. For many years, we had an absolute provision that any classified\n> information, which was going to be shared, is based on need-to-know\n> information.\"\n\nIt seems like he thinks the spying was egregious as well. Given his hawkish\nnature, I'd be surprised if he was actually that upset about it, but this\narticle makes it seem like he's equally upset that we were doing it and that\nit was being run in such a poor manner.\n\n~~~\newoodrich"
+"\n\nCo-founder or no co-founder? - sum_itsin\nhttp://www.roundbreak.com/2012/06/05/co-founder-or-no-co-founder/\n\n======\npedalpete\nCompletely agree, but I think PG assumes that anybody who is smart/good enough\nto get into YC is going to have a solid co-founder.\n\nI wonder how many YC companies have failed due to a co-founder break-up.\n\nOutside of YC, I hear a co-founder break up is one of the top reasons a\ncompany fails.\n\n~~~\nsum_itsin\nThat's true. But I am somewhat skeptical about the fact that a smart person\nnecessarily is the one with good networking skills or the one capable of\nforging sound relationships. There are times when a truly smart person, either\ndue to his own eccentricity or the environment, doesn't get to have a chance\nof having a good co-founder unless he relocates himself which is hardly\npossible in many cases."
+"\nIf you are not a professional, you are a hacker - laki\nt|f\n======\nCyberFonic\nIn golfing circles, a \"hacker\" is somebody who plays occasionally and not\nparticularly well.\n\nIn software circles being a hacker used to be somebody who was technically\nvery good. But the media has bestowed the label upon the black hats.\n\nPersonally, I tend to think more along the old time's definition: as somebody\nwho doesn't do much design, just churns out good to excellent code. Being a\nprofessional suggests doing more design and documentation. That is, code that\nmight not be as brilliant, but maintainable by lesser mortals.\n\n------\nkrapp\nFalse. \"Hacker\" has been co-opted by startup culture, so being a professional\nis an accepted term in the definition.\n\nAlso, given those terms, anyone not a professional and also having nothing to\ndo with programming would be a hacker, which is absurd given most accepted\ndefinitions.\n\nQED. Cogito Ergo Sum. Ipso Facto and Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati.\n\n------\naaronchall\nFalse. A Hacker is by definition someone who writes good/smart/clever/expert\ncode. I would expect the same from a professional.\n\n~~~\njacalata\nBy whose definition?"
+"\nAsk HN: Good Resources for Data Engineering - fargo\nI am looking for some example case studies/exercises in order to learn play with some libraries, is there a book or website you can recommend?\n======\niso1337\nkleppmann\u2019s book: designing data-intensive applications.\n\nIt\u2019s very well written, but maybe doesn\u2019t have as much in the way of\nexercises.\n\n~~~\nfargo\nThanks for the excellent recommendation, I have been through kleppmann's book\nand it's a must for anyone who wants to be serious about data engineering (or\nwhatever it's called these days). I am looking however for something more\npractical and less technical, maybe something like projecteuler or cracking\nthe cracking the coding interview but for data\n\n~~~\niso1337\nIMHO data eng is too niche and new for that kind of content. But I would love\nto see if there is anything out there like that.\n\nIs the goal here to get through system design interviews or something like\nthat? You can check out pramp.com if so.\n\nIf it\u2019s for learning, then reading some of the original Google papers behind a\nlot of the big data technologies has been very rewarding for me. You could try\nreimplementing the paxos algorithm for example.\n\n~~~"
+"\nTrust No One: Kim Philby and the Hazards of Mistrust (2014) - lermontov\nhttp://gladwell.com/trust-no-one/\n======\nwillvarfar\nI enjoy Gladwell's writing style and annecdotes, but have become wary of\nactually believing any argument he makes with them. The more I know about a\nsubject the less convincing and more cherry-picked the annecdotes seem to\nbecome.\n\nI think his books are made the same way the evening TV news is:- an editorial\nnarrative is decided upon, and then people are interviewed until someone says\nwhat the editor wants and that's the clip that gets used.\n\nBuy his books, by all means, just be wary and do your own research :)\n\n~~~\ninternaut\nHe spreads anti-information. I wonder if we would be better off without him.\n\nI know sometimes lies-to-children are necessarily part of an education but\nsometimes they are just lies that get in the way of understanding.\n\nSo far as I can tell he deciphers what most people want to believe is true and\nthen gives it to them.\n\nJared Diamond is in a very similar position.\n\n~~~\njessaustin\nHaha this seems like the start of a fun game. You see Gladwell and raise\nDiamond. I'll see your Diamond and raise"
+"\n\nThe art of mastering airline loyalty programs -- Going for Elite - jaf12duke\nhttp://blog.flightcaster.com/part-2-the-art-of-mastering-airline-loyalty-p\n\n======\nben1040\nA few years ago I had a job that had me flying 5000 miles a week. I signed up\nfor AA's status challenge and qualified for platinum status in nearly a month.\n\nI think they charge for taking the challenge now (it was free then) but it's\nwell worth it. Not only do you get better seats, free bag checking, priority\nsecurity access, and earn upgrades, but that was 30,000+ additional bonus\nmiles I wouldn't have earned had I just skipped the challenge and qualified\nfor the status the normal way.\n\nAlso, if you're on the fringe between status tiers, often times it's very much\nworth it to spend a couple hundred bucks on a \"mileage run\" if it means the\nextra EQM will put you into top-tier status.\n\n~~~\nDornkirk\nI'm wondering if you know whether there's any program that allows earning\nmiles to spend on _any_ airline?\n\nI'm going to be doing a trip in two months that will take me from the Mid-West\nto SE Asia and then I'll hop a few places in SE Asia before coming back to the"
+"\nTaskRabbit Confirms Layoffs As It Realigns To Focus On Mobile And Enterprise - JimWillTri\nhttp://techcrunch.com/2013/07/08/taskrabbit-confirms-layoffs-as-it-realigns-to-focus-on-mobile-and-enterprise/\n======\ntemphn\nTaskrabbit is a great idea and very useful. Here are a few things they could\nimprove:\n\n1) Take a page from Exec and do flat-rate pricing in different verticals (e.g.\n$25/hour for Exec Errands). Doing a price auction every time is too time\nconsuming, but that's the UI default at the moment.\n\n2) The refocus on mobile/realtime (like Exec) is also good.\n\n3) Figure out a way to incentivize people to do more transactions through the\nsite. Once you meet a good service provider, right now there's an incentive to\ndo all future interactions outside the site.\n\n4) Re: enterprise refocus: do some sales calls with all the admin assistants\nof VC funds and funded startups in the Valley. Set up a bulk enterprise\naccount for $Xk per month and have them go crazy assembling Ikea furniture.\n\nTaskrabbit is a great concept and really should succeed with some tweaking.\n\n------\njareau\nI think collaborative consumption companies changing their business to focus\non a specific niche or vertical is quite common. Getable (fka Rentcycle) did\nit. Zaarly did it.\n\nI'm head of sales at"
+"Ask HN: I'm a front end dev looking for a back end language. Which one? (No JS) - MarvelousWololo\n======\nkjksf\nI can tell you what I do: backend work for all my projects\n([https://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/](https://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/))\nis in Go.\n\nHighly recommended.\n\nI wrote a longer explanation at\n[https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/uvw2/thoughts-on-go-\nafte...](https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/uvw2/thoughts-on-go-after-\nwriting-3-websites.html)\n\n~~~\nMarvelousWololo\nJesus I can't believe I'm talking to the author of Sumatra PDF. I love that\nsoftware! Thanks for stopping by. I'll definitely read your blog post. If you\ndon't mind to answer another question, I'm also a bit interested in desktop\ndevelopment. Would you recommend learn C or C++ for that purpose in 2018? I'm\ntaking a look at Gtk3 too. Thank you very much!\n\n------\neindiran\nI think what you should try out depends on what you want to accomplish and\nwhat language you think is most likely to be useful to you again.\n\nWith that said, I would cast my vote with Python 3 and the latest Django. I've\nfound that if I go with a lighter framework, eventually I just end up writing\nout big chunks of the missing functionality myself and I end up with a poor-\nman's Django.\n\n~~~\nMarvelousWololo\nDjango is actually quite"
+"\n\nBookmarklet: Reddit-like Collapsible Threads for Hacker News - akirk\nhttp://alexander.kirk.at/2010/02/16/collapsible-threads-for-hacker-news/\n\n======\nakirk\nIt always happens to me that I get lost in long threads on Hacker News that\nget started from the highest-ranking comment.\n\nIn order to be able to easily view the second-ranking (top-level) comment I\nwrote a small bookmarklet to achieve just that. Enjoy :)\n\n~~~\nakirk\nFor your convenience, here is the source code:\n[http://alexander.kirk.at/js/hackernews-collapsible-\nthreads.j...](http://alexander.kirk.at/js/hackernews-collapsible-threads.js)\n\nThe bookmarklet first loads jQuery from the Google Ajax libraries, then that\nscript. Both should be cached by the browser so that upon the next use of the\nbookmarklet it should not need to ask a server.\n\n------\nGroxx\nVery nice. Though it apparently needs a bit of polishing, this is something\nI'd love to have on the site, rather than having to use bookmarklets.\n\nMaybe Firefox & Chrome quick plugins to do this automatically? The dev channel\nfor OSX-Chrome finally accepts plugins.\n\n~~~\nakirk\nWell, maybe we can get Paul to integrate it into Hacker News :)\n\n------\nqeorge\nThanks for making this, collapsing comments is one of reddit's best features.\n\n------\njohnfn\nJust a little note: I read hacker news from hackerne.ws, and you currently\nhave it domain restricted"
+"\n\nKickStarting a Revolution - dajbelshaw\nhttp://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/08/16/kickstarting-a-revolution/\n\n======\ncomputer\nI know that it's superficial, but I have an extremely hard time taking a blog\npost interspersed with large meme pictures seriously. I think you should only\nuse them if your target audience is teens, and when you're near their age as\nwell, trying to write something \"popular\". Definitely not when attempting to\nwrite a serious post.\n\nNote that this is the same blog that recently started a post[0] with:\n\n \n \n TL;DR? Why not just go watch another five second video of a kitten \n with its head in a toilet roll, or a 140 character description \n of a meal your friend just stuffed in their mouth. \u201cnom nom\u201d. \n This blog post is not for you.\n \n\nwhich makes this seem quite ironic.\n\n[0]: [http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-\nco...](http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/)\n\n~~~\npearjuice\nThese are not \"meme pictures\" but rather image macros[0].\n\n[0]:\n[https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_macro](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_macro)\n\n~~~\nglomph\nThey are both.\n\n------\nthisiswrong\nGreat article, just one major inaccuracy concerning the Pirate Party:\n\n> they have a silly name and their focus seems to be solely on \u2018sharing\n> culture\u2019 at the expense of everything else.\n\nThen you go on to say:\n\n> What we need in this country is a protest"
+"\n\nAsk HN: What's your consulting rate? - equity\n\nI am looking to get a pulse on the going consulting rate for software engineers in the bay area. Please post your rate and include languages of competency, years experience, etc.\n======\nlarrykubin\nI currently charge 95/hr. Been doing a mix of Python/PHP/JavaScript and know\nmy way around their associated frameworks and CMSes\n(Cake/Django/Flask/Drupal/CodeIgniter). I've done only freelance for 5 years\nand have worked in Austin and Portland. Rates are probably higher in SF.\n\n------\ngamechangr\nFriend (moved to palo alto,part of silicon valley, in Feb of 2011) makes $140\nhr for five yrs experience in Ruby/PHP and 2 yr in Python/Ruby on Rails\n\nHe claims most engineers make $120-$150 with a couple years experience.\n\n------\nsamstave\nAvg rates I see for everything/everyone is between 100 and 150/hr."
+"\nKeep your source code SIMPLE - kevingoslar\nhttps://medium.com/@kevingoslar/keep-your-source-code-simple-d5873cb854dc\n======\ntaberiand\nMy feeling is these paradigms, SOLID and SIMPLE, boil down to basically: small\nobjects, connected minimally, though interfaces.\n\nSIMPLE appears to be leaning even more towards the functional programming side\nof things; I think we should probably just get it over with and accept that\ncomposition of functions operating on immutable data structures is just the\nright way to go.\n\n~~~\ntobr\nIs there a language that leans heavily towards immutable data, but steers\nclear of the, shall we say, _dorkier_ side of functional programming?\n\n~~~\nISO-morphism\nThis is Clojure. It's functional, but more as a side effect of focusing\nintently on simple, immutable, persistent data structures and their\ncompositions. I'd strongly recommend looking into it, along with many of the\npresentations by its initial author Rich Hickey.\n\n~~~\nBoorishBears\nImo no Lisp variant can claim to not be in the \"dorkier\" side of things\n(\"dorkier\" being read as \"hard to approach\" in my eyes).\n\nI'd say Kotlin over Clojure.\n\n~~~\nadamkl\nI\u2019d suggest you watch Rich\u2019s talk \u201cSimple made easy\u201d. [1]\n\nIt\u2019s one of his main points that something like a language being \u201chard to\napproach\u201d can be overcome"
+"\nGetting started with shaders: signed distance functions - pcr910303\nhttps://jvns.ca/blog/2020/03/15/writing-shaders-with-signed-distance-functions/\n======\nGuB-42\nHere is the article that started everything\n\n[https://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/raymarchingdf/raymar...](https://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/raymarchingdf/raymarchingdf.htm)\n\niq didn't invent the technique, but he popularized it. His website has a lot\nof tutorials on making demoscene effects, especially for 4k intros. He is also\none of the makers of shadertoy.\n\n~~~\njmiskovic\nI was surprised to learn he was behind the Oculus Quill (VR art and animation\nsoftware). He started posting very well produced video lessons on SDFs. I\nenjoyed this recent one:\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMltMdi1Wzg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMltMdi1Wzg)\n\n~~~\nArelius\nYou might also be surprised to find out that he was a co-author of shader toy,\nand he was previously at Pixar where he did much of the procedural work behind\nThe Good Dinosaur.\n\n------\nfenwick67\nThere's a disclaimer missing from this article (and many others like it),\nwriting a frag shader to generate 3d geometry is generally not the ideal way\nto actually render stuff unless you're doing demos (with some exceptions).\n\nThe other thing that gets me is these articles say \"here's how you write a\nshader\" but shaders are much more than a fragment shader over the whole screen\n(like what shadertoy provides).\n\n~~~\ngmiller123456\nHe's using ray"
+"\nSourceTree for Windows beta - bencevans\nhttp://blog.sourcetreeapp.com/2013/02/14/sourcetree-for-windows-beta-signup/\n======\nhomosaur\nThat's good news for Windows users, their development tools really seem to be\ngetting simpler and better lately. I'm a huge fan of SourceTree in general.\n\nI formerly thought, \"why would anyone want to use a GUI for Git? It's just a\ncrutch so you don't have to use the CLI.\"\n\nThen I started actually using SourceTree a bit. I've changed my tune\nconsiderably. I think there's great benefit to using a quality GUI for Git now\neven though you still need to use the CLI.\n\nFirst, I became stuck in this intermediate user hell where I could do all the\nbasic stuff but didn't know the commands or quite how to get it done.\nSourceTree allows a very good way to get that done right now with the\nunderstanding that you just executed a command under the surface. It allows to\nexplore the capabilities of Git a little more than the CLI would and lets you\npunch over your weight in the meantime.\n\nSecond, I think having a high quality graphical representation of your Git\ntree in front of you helps you understand the structure of your tree and\nenables"
+"\n\nOnline Courses Aren\u2019t Actually Democratizing Education - footpath\nhttp://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/11/online-courses-arent-actually-democratizing-education\n\n======\notoburb\n>>[...] 80 percent of MOOC students come from the wealthiest and most well\neducated 6 percent of the population,\u201d the authors of the paper write.\n\nWhat about the 20% that didn't have undergraduate degrees? No doubt there's a\nlot of skew here, but the focus should be on this 20% that (now) have the\nopportunity to take a variety of free online courses. Perhaps this 20%\nwouldn't have had a chance otherwise.\n\nOtherwise, the article is right that MOOCs could expand their reach further,\nbut I think this is a great start and optimistic news. If people thought that\nearly-adopter MOOC audiences would be primarily comprised of non-degree\nholders then now would be a great time to re-examine assumptions.\n\n~~~\nctdonath\nQuite. Big-ticket schools have a lot of incentive & budget & momentum to\npromote big-ticket degrees. MOOCs just don't have the visibility, so those who\ntend to participate are already plugged in enough for awareness of such\nobscure options. 20% being \"new students\" is pretty good.\n\nMOOCs also don't yet provide confidence for all-in degree-scale participation,\nso they appeal more to those looking to fill educational gaps instead"
+"\n\nFacebook Patent Would Allow Lenders to Determine Credit - beauzero\nhttp://consumerist.com/2015/08/05/facebook-patent-would-allow-lenders-to-determine-creditworthiness-by-looking-at-your-friends/\n\n======\nAmorymeltzer\nLenders and credit score companies already have enormous influence and access,\ndo we really need to open the door to our friends and family? I suppose this\nis in line with previous reports of users getting different quotes based on\nwhat browser they use \u2014 admittedly your friends are probably a better measure\nof your credit \u2014 but it's yet another dive into your personal life by\ncreditors.\n\nI think Facebook's going to find that if your social network can directly\nimpact your money, people are going to behave differently. I can think of at\nleast 50 friends I'd cut today under such a scheme. How does that help\nFacebook if suddenly its users have fewer connections?"
+"\nShow HN: Prisma \u2013 Turn Any Database into a GraphQL API - sorenbs\nhttps://www.prisma.io/?q=a\n======\nsorenbs\nS\u00f8ren, Co-Founder of Prisma here!\n\nWe have raised $4.5M from KP, but Prisma stays open source. Happy to answer\nany questions about Prisma, GraphQL and databases :-)\n\n~~~\nfiatjaf\nOk, I have question about GraphQL in general: is there any tool that supports\noffline-first use-cases with GraphQL? I mean storing the data in a local\ndatabase in the browser, then syncing it back to the server.\n\n~~~\ntango12\nIt's not exactly what you want, but I think realm comes closest to that kind\nof an offering.\n\n[https://realm.io/](https://realm.io/) [https://realm.io/blog/realm-scales-to-\nthe-web/](https://realm.io/blog/realm-scales-to-the-web/)\n\n~~~\nnslog\nAppSync does this as well:\n[https://aws.amazon.com/appsync/](https://aws.amazon.com/appsync/)\n\n------\nthedangler\nAny? We use MS SQL at my work, I didn't see that its supported. Will you\nsupport it?\n\n------\ngdi2290\nThis is great news for GraphQL adoption. I also really like the landing page\ndesign\n\n~~~\nfiatjaf\nI don't like it that much, but the explanatory drawing/schema is wonderful.\nI've tried to understand where exactly Prisma fitted before, but couldn't\nbefore watching it.\n\n------\nyodon\nLooks very cool - How do you see permissions/roles/authenticated access being\nmanaged for APIs where say most gets are public"
+"\nAsk HN: What have you completed in 2015 - lakeeffect\nWhat have you completed in 2015 or are looking to release in 2016. I use completed loosely. Would love to hear some progress to motivate me into the new year.\n======\nionicabizau\nA lot of open-source stuff. The best ones were:\n\n\\- [https://github.com/IonicaBizau/git-\nstats](https://github.com/IonicaBizau/git-stats) (January, 2015) \\-\n[https://github.com/IonicaBizau/node-\ncobol](https://github.com/IonicaBizau/node-cobol) (October, 2015) \\-\n[https://github.com/IonicaBizau/gridly](https://github.com/IonicaBizau/gridly)\n(December, 2015)\n\nWorking part-time (~100 hours / month) for the company I work for, I still\nhave enough \"free\" time when I do: open-source stuff, JavaScript training,\nplaying piano, playing with high-voltage (!), playing with chemistry\nexplosions and experiments (in fact making fire almost anywhere, anytime).\n\nOne of this year goals was to drop out of college. I did it two months ago.\nSince officially I'm still a student (my documents are at the university), I'm\nstill getting loans because of my good results from my previous year. But I\ndon't regret this decission at all (at least, until now!).\n\nAll the thanks go to God! I enjoy being a Jesus follower. I believe this world\nis not our home. God prepares for us a better world. Until then, I'm happy to\nlove Him. Actually, being a"
+"\n\nAre Web Apps An Insult To Users? - nephics\nhttp://www.stateofcode.com/2011/06/are-web-apps-an-insult-to-users/\n\n======\npgroves\nIn a free market, the needs/wants of the consumer eventually overrides the\ndesires of the producers. Sometimes it takes a long time, but it always\nhappens eventually. Walmart is an excellent case study in why it's great to be\na consumer in today's economy but sucks to be a worker.\n\nWhen the consensus is \"yeah, thick apps are better for users but web apps are\ncheaper to build and deliver,\" we can safely say thick apps will eventually\nwin out.\n\n------\nSakes\nFor some reason this article rubs me the wrong way. Maybe it's because I feel\nlike the author is using a link bait title to \"teach me\" something that\nalready seems pretty obvious. The whole question answer setup is annoying.\n\nThe title suggests that this article is about user experience when it really\nfeels more like a rehash of pick 2: fast/cheap/quality.\n\n1) Reasonable Time To Market (fast)\n\n2) Flawless user experience (quality)\n\n3) Big Reach (Cheap: big payoff for time/money invested)\n\n------\nneovive\nWhat happens when desktop App Stores (e.g. Mac App Store) start taking hold as\nthe primary delivery platform for the desktop? Will"
+"\nDoes Fatherhood Make You Happy? - raju\nhttp://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1202940,00.html\n======\ndavid927\nFatherhood makes -me- happy. I don't care about how others feel about it.\n\nUnfortunately, this is a horrible article on a fascinating subject: hedonistic\npsychology. If you haven't read Dan Gilbert's \"Stumbling on Happiness\", you're\nmissing out. A better introduction to what he has to say can be found here:\n Is there a service I can pay to just give me shopping lists and quick easy tasty recipes each week? Then I can just put the shopping list into instacart and be ready to go. I know there are a lot of shitty recipe websites and outdated cooking blogs but I'm looking for something quality and reliable, with an easy-to-use experience.\n======\nRannath\nThe Ontario government has you covered:\n[https://www.eatrightontario.ca/en/MenuPlanner.aspx](https://www.eatrightontario.ca/en/MenuPlanner.aspx)\n\n~~~\nloorinm\nHAHAHA\n\n------\nretroafroman\nIsn't that what Blue Apron is for?\n[https://www.blueapron.com/](https://www.blueapron.com/)\n\nStill kind of pricey at $10/meal.\n\n~~~\nloorinm\nno but they sell you the food too. I want to just get the food from the cheap\nmexican market near my house.\n\n------\njustsorneguy\n[https://emeals.com/](https://emeals.com/)\n\n~~~\nloorinm\nyeah that looks like the right idea but that site looks 20 years old. is it\neven still working?\n\n~~~\njustsorneguy\nYes, it is. I use it (the featured meal this week"
+"\nA Tower of Molten Salt Will Deliver Solar Power After Sunset - robszumski\nhttp://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/solar/a-tower-of-molten-salt-will-deliver-solar-power-after-sunset\n======\ndredmorbius\nIn a world of _very_ poor options for energy storage, molten salt seems to be,\nfrom very rough calculations, something which might scale to what Tom Murphy\n(\"Do the Math\") refers to as a \"nation-scale battery\" \\-- up to two weeks of\nstored generation capacity.\n\nMy own _very_ naive and rough back-of-the-napkin calculations suggest that a\ntotal thermal storage facility roughly comparable with existing US oil storage\ntanks in Oklahoma could provide that capacity.\n\nMore generally, the strength of molten salt is to even out supply to\nvariability in either demand or incident sunlight. Note also that concentrated\nsolar power requires _concentration_ -- you cannot focus _diffuse_ light\n(e.g., hazy or overcast conditions), though PV still delivers some power under\nsuch circumstances.\n\nBut PV is instantaneous, and other storage options -- batteries, pumped hydro,\ncompressed air energy storage (CAES), flywheels -- are either limited by\nmaterial and/or sites, or by costs or engineering challenges.\n\nSalts are plentiful, as are insulating options. Thermal energy systems are\nwell understood. The concept is inherently distributable (no need to put it\nall in one spot), and, modulo spills,"
+"\n\nReal Programmers... - marcog1\nhttp://www.pbm.com/%7Elindahl/real.programmers.html\n\n======\nraganwald\n_The academics in computer science have gotten into the \"_____\" rut over the\npast several years. They claim that programs are more easily understood if the\nprogrammer uses some special language constructs and techniques. They don't\nall agree on exactly which constructs, of course, and the example they use to\nshow their particular point of view invariably fit on a single page of some\nobscure journal or another-- clearly not enough of an example to convince\nanyone. When I got out of school, I thought I was the best programmer in the\nworld. I could write an unbeatable tic-tac-toe program, use five different\ncomputer languages, and create 1000 line programs that WORKED (Really!). Then\nI got out into the Real World. My first task in the Real World was to read and\nunderstand a 200,000 line program, then speed it up by a factor of two. Any\nReal Programmer will tell you that all the _____ in the world won't help you\nsolve a problem like that-- it takes actual talent._\n\nThis paragraph still holds, and it does so for any quiche-eating,effete value\nof _____.\n\n~~~\ndkarl\nFunny how often Real Programmers deride"
+"\nA Scrabble Luck Calculator - dnetesn\nhttp://nautil.us/issue/73/play/presenting-the-scrabble-luck-calculator\n======\ndmurray\n> the computer who goes first won more than 56 percent of games, suggesting\n> that there is a notable advantage to playing the first hand [...] There\u2019s no\n> way to know for sure what specifically causes this advantage, but perhaps\n> giving one player initial control of the board has some beneficial effect.\n\n\"What specifically causes this advantage\" is, to put it briefly, playing\nfirst. The first player will have about 0.5 more opportunities to score. In\nfact, since it's legal to pass, it's a trivial game theory result that any\nadvantage in Scrabble belongs to the first player.\n\n~~~\ngubbrora\nConsider what happens if neither player wants to go first. P1 passes. P2\npasses. Now p1 has to play or the game is drawn. If the game is played with\nwin3 draw1 lose0 rules, then p1 should play even if at a slight disadvantage.\nA 49 % chance of payoff 3 is better than a 100% chance of payoff 1.\n\n------\nAmorymeltzer\nThe context is good, but fwiw here's the direct link to the calculator:\n[http://www.kevinrmcelwee.ml/scrabble_luck/](http://www.kevinrmcelwee.ml/scrabble_luck/)\n\n------\ndbieber\nI used to have a scrabble bot playing itself three"
+"\n\nWikileaks' DNS service suspended - anigbrowl\nhttp://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/12/wikileaks-loses-its-dns-servic.php \n\n======\nsmoody\nLieberman's actions are going to make things worse because he's taking\nsomething that is out-in-the-open -- which means is can be seen, understood,\nanalyzed, and managed -- and forcing it to go underground where the government\nhas even less control. This is going to backfire. I \"get\" censoring the\npublication of classified information, but shutting down DNS access from the\nUSA? What is that going to solve except to make information available to\neveryone but us Americans? I wonder if he understands that. And I wonder if he\nunderstands the momentum he's giving to a shadow DNS service that he'll have\nzero control over. And if he thinks this will give him the momentum he needs\nto run for president in 2012, then I'm afraid he's probably right. :-(\n\n~~~\nwoan\nI doubt Lieberman knows anything about DNS and don't see how any of this is\nrelated beyond WikiLeaks being involved in both. everydns.net revoked the\nentry because DDoS attacks were affecting their other customers.\n\n------\nchopsueyar\nThis is bad precedent for any site under a large-scale DDoS attack.\n\nThe DDoS attack undermines the viability of other customers so your service"
+"\nStep-By-Step Fundraising Tactics from an NYC Founder Who Raised $750M - imartin2k\nhttp://firstround.com/review/step-by-step-fundraising-tactics-from-the-nyc-legend-who-raised-750m/\n======\nnawgszy\nNot really a criticism, but this read a bit like a slimy dating guide.\n\"Remember, like everyone else they want to feel wanted for more than their\nmoney\". \"Keep them all interested until you've made up your mind\". \"Subtly let\nthem know that you're wanted by others\".\n\nOn an unrelated note: I don't know why I can never contribute constructively\non this site, but here I am.\n\n~~~\nCalChris\nGiven that this was published by a VC and that the writer has been on both\nsides of the table, I think you're misreading it.\n\n~~~\nnawgszy\nI wasn't really trying to imply it's bad advice or isn't ethical or anything.\nI get that the parallel I decided to draw does indeed somewhat imply that, but\nmy intentions weren't as such. Just struck me as funny.\n\n------\nbsder\n> \u201cWhen I plan to be raising in six months, I\u2019m already out there, proactively\n> connecting with VCs, having coffees, making as many of them aware of my\n> company as possible,\u201d says Ryan. \u201cThe conversation is safer when I\u2019m not\n> raising money.\u201d\n\nYeah, because so"
+"\nMechanical webpage hitcounter - bemmu\nhttp://spritesmods.com/?art=mechctr\n======\ncomboy\n\n every time a person requests a page from my site, \n the counter would give a satisfying 'Click!'\n \n\nThis is going to be a pretty loud night for the author ;)\n\nI guess most people here know this site well, but if not it's definitely worth\nexploring. Lots of cool projects and much to learn.\n\n~~~\nclemlais\nI wonder what will happen if the frequency of requests is faster than the\ncounter refresh rate. Does the counter stay consistent ?\n\n~~~\ncomboy\nIt reacts to a pulse, so you could solve that with a queue in software,\nwithout that, my guess is that it would be missing clicks (pulses would\noverlap, since I'm assuming there is some minimum required width of it)\n\n------\njacquesm\nSuggested improvement: put a webcam in front of it for full-circle :)\n\n------\ndapra\nAnother nice electromechanical hit counter:\n[https://vimeo.com/119746422](https://vimeo.com/119746422)\n\n------\nxigency\nHm, this seems like a pretty risky way to connect this device to your PC -\nusing a serial port.\n\nEdit: And THAT connection:\n[http://meuk.spritesserver.nl/foto/foto/misc5/img_1999.jpg](http://meuk.spritesserver.nl/foto/foto/misc5/img_1999.jpg)\n\n~~~\nsokoloff\nHe has discussion about that hack here:\n[http://spritesmods.com/?art=mechctr&page=2](http://spritesmods.com/?art=mechctr&page=2)\n\nSeems reasonable enough to me.\n\n~~~\nxigency\nSure, depending on your computer."
+"\n\nContributeto.it - draw a freaking picture - ndroo\nhttp://www.contributeto.it/\nWhat this does:\n1. We look at a bigger image\n2. Break it down to individual pixels\n3. Give you a pixel (blown up bigger) to draw on\n4. Reconstruct the original picture using the pixels people draw..the pixels people contribute-to-it get it?\n======\nblahedo\nNo login other than through Facebook? I'll pass, thanks.\n\n~~~\npavel_lishin\nSame. The fact that I have to do _anything_ before I can start drawing is\nalready a huge turn-off.\n\n~~~\nndroo\nwhoops...replied to the top of the thread.\n\n\"yer fair call guys...ive changed it so you dont need to login :-) thanks for\nthe feedback\"\n\n------\ncaptaincrunch\nThis things is sweet, do you plan to change the image once this one is\ncompleted?\n\n~~~\nndroo\nsure do!\n\n------\nndroo\nyer fair call guys...ive changed it so you dont need to login :-) thanks for\nthe feedback"
+"\nArmies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software - kalvin\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/science/05legal.html\n======\nfleitz\nI've written software to replace this type of thing, in my case it was\nclassifying communications as to whether they were attorney-client privileged\nor not. It has to be cheaper, it was about a month of my time. And about a\nweek working with a high priced lawyer to write the ruleset and confirm it\ncaught everything and was excluding all the right stuff. With that software\nthey've essentially got their best lawyer going through every piece of\ncommunication.\n\nIt has to be cheaper, I can't imaging paying someone with a law degree to go\nthrough all of that. And now their lawyers are freed up to do something more\nuseful.\n\n~~~\nsandGorgon\nis it possible for you to mention, how you went about doing this ? technology\nstack, algorithmic approach, etc.\n\n~~~\nfleitz\nTries for text search, that's really the only thing I learned is that if your\nsearching through a body of text for 40,000 odd keyword you need to turn the\ndocument in to a trie. But that's something you'd learn as soon as you read\nany of the research on the topic.\n\nIt's"
+"\nDeclaring C String Constants - eklitzke\nhttps://eklitzke.org/declaring-c-string-constants-the-right-way\n======\niainmerrick\nThere's a big mistake here:\n\n \n \n // Bogus function, just to see how arguments are passed.\n void bogus();\n \n // Invoke bogus using ptr.\n void do_ptr() { bogus(&ptr, ptr); }\n \n // Invoke bogus using arr.\n void do_arr() { bogus(&arr, arr); }\n \n\n\"&ptr\" and \"&arr\" are not the same. &ptr gives you a pointer to a pointer\n(char * *), but &arr just gives you a pointer to the array data. That's why\nthe code is different.\n\nThis would normally show up as a compilation error, since &ptr and &arr have\ndifferent types. It's disguised here by the variadic bogus() function.\n\n(I didn't know that no-arg functions in C are implicitly variadic! That's\nbizarre. I would have expected modern compilers to disable that by default,\nbut I can't get Clang to warn me about it even with -Wall.)\n\n~~~\ndrt1245\nAdditionally, he keeps talking about dereferencing the pointer, which I don't\nthink is right. The pointer never gets deferenced in the code shown.\n\nI'm not an x86 guru, but I think that \"movq ptr(%rip), %rsi\" is different\nbecause ptr needs to be moved from relative to the instruction pointer\n(because it is on the"
+"\nShow HN: Commandline Passphrase Generator Using EFF Wordlists - yarwelp\nhttps://asciinema.org/a/2znuSiyoonwpDB7QriovrrC0V\n======\nyarwelp\nImpatient? (Aka. tl;dr)\n\n \n \n mkdir -p ~/src/github.com/yarwelp\n cd !$\n git clone git@github.com:yarwelp/pgen.git\n cd pgen\n cargo build --release\n ./target/release/pgen\n \n\n\\---\n\nSlightly more patient but still don't want to watch the 10 minute screen\nrecording?\n\nRead the README at\n[https://github.com/yarwelp/pgen](https://github.com/yarwelp/pgen)\n\n\\---\n\nI prefer passphrases to passwords. Previously I was using a function I wrote\nwhich makes use of seq and head and tail and reads its words from\n/usr/share/dict/words. That had two main problems:\n\n1\\. It was slow even for a small amount of words.\n\n2\\. The words in that wordlist were not great for typing, because there were a\nlot of weird and obscure words in the list.\n\nRecently there was an article posted here on HN where someone from the EFF\ntold about a set of optimized wordlists they'd made.\n\nI decided right then and there to implement a program to make use of these\nlists that would solve both of the two problems mentioned above.\n\nI chose to write this program in Rust, and the result is excellent. Fast,\nsecure and user friendly :)\n\nAnd you can have it for free!\n\n[https://github.com/yarwelp/pgen](https://github.com/yarwelp/pgen)\n\n------\nyarwelp\nI have now"
+"\n\nLuadns, managed DNS with Git and Lua scriptable back-end. - sramov\nhttp://www.luadns.com/\n\n======\nrelix\nThe Lua-code doesn't appear to be executed once for each lookup - as I first\nimagined how it would work. So sadly, one cannot point different region users\nto the closest server IP.\n\n~~~\nvitalie\nHello,\n\nI'm Vitalie Cherpec, the founder of the Luadns project. :)\n\n@relix It's a design choice, Lua code is used only to generate records.\nExecuting user code on each lookup it's just too dangerous.\n\nWe wanted fast lookups and security. User code is executed in a restricted Lua\nenvironment in background.\n\nIf we'll have enough requests we'll add special functions to handle geo-aware\nDNS load balancing.\n\n~~~\nreginaldo\nDo wildcard records work?\n\n~~~\nvitalie\nYes, we have support for wildcard records. Example:\n\n Within my skepticism, I started wondering what can make the chain vulnerable? My first idea was flooding with almost non worthy transactions therefore wasting the miners. This was quickly debunked as I found out the miners would ignore 'empty' transactions. Another idea is, what if I as user A say want to transfer to user B, but I mention an amount of coins that actually I do not own and spam it. Would the miners have to traverse all the way to the back or are there 'checkpoints' that can assure short travels? The last one is a bit more difficult. However can a big enough network of nodes, insert itself and start crunching the chain errors-fully on purpose to 'break' the chain? Excuse my ignorance.\n======\njakecraige\nIt's not so much that miners would ignore empty transactions, it's that the\nspammer would need to pay the miner fee to get each transaction in the block\nwhich would end up being very expensive and"
+"\n\nGoogle cannibalizing their assets? Isn\u2019t it a bit early for that? - joop\nhttp://thenextweb.com/2008/12/02/google-cannibalizing-their-assets-isnt-it-a-bit-early-for-that/\n\n======\njerf\nThey know that only a fraction of the user base will ever use it (because they\ncertainly won't ship with it, anymore than Firefox does). They know people\nshutting off ads aren't clicking anyhow. They know that the people savvy\nenough to use the ad blocker are also the leading edge people who recommend\nbrowsers to other people.\n\nFinally... how would they block ad blockers, even if they wanted to? Ad-\nblocking proxies are just as feasible as ever. And Chrome is supposed to be\nopen source.\n\nConclusion: Instead of fighting what you can't fight, roll with it, get the\nleading edge people on your side, then cash in on the marketshare of the\nmasses who don't block ads.\n\nIt's not really that mysterious... unless you're trapped in first-order\nthinking.\n\n------\njrockway\n_a few months ago we visited an Internet start-up where the CEO told us a\nfunny story of how one of his developers used an Ad Blocker. He took the\ndeveloper aside and explained to him that their whole business, his company\nand his salary depended on income on ads. He explained"
+"\nWhy is Machine Learning the Most Popular Course at Stanford? - aficionado\nhttp://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/12/29/why-is-machine-learning-cs-229-the-most-popular-course-at-stanford/\n======\nporlw\nHumanities undergrads all sign up for Intro to Psych, because they want to\nunderstand, like, how people think 'n' stuff.\n\nThen most discover it's 90% history and statistics, with lots of debate about\nwhat's actually true, and don't take it any further.\n\nMachine Learning is the CS equivalent - broad appeal, but to take it any\nfurther it's mostly maths and stats, which turns a lot of people off.\n\n~~~\nnormloman\nNo they don't. They sign up for Intro to Psych because it's a required course.\n\n~~~\nporlw\nNot where I live - unless you're studying for a Psych degree of course. Other\nBA students could take it as an elective. It was by far the most popular first\nyear course in the Humanities department.\n\n------\nZarathust\nI don't know if it is a generalized feeling, but I sometimes tend to idolize\nmy University years, where I was restlessly spending my time for pure pursuit\nof knowledge and truth (yeah, yeah :p). Really, those years were more about\nsweat and tears and curses about the bad teachers and the poorly worded manual\nand the absence"
+"\n\nLeading Civil Rights Groups Just Sold Out on Net Neutrality - poolpool\nhttp://www.republicreport.org/2014/leading-civil-rights-groups-just-sold-out-on-net-neutrality/\n\n======\nsamtalks\nThese groups seem more and more out of touch with the public that they\npurportedly serve. Just look at the outcry over their attempt to manipulate\nthe objective merit-based criteria for NYC's Specialized high schools.\n[http://www.city-journal.org/2014/24_3_nyc-specialized-\nhigh-s...](http://www.city-journal.org/2014/24_3_nyc-specialized-high-\nschools.html)\n\nWhile there is a critical need for better racial diversity at the schools, to\ntry to 'fix' the problem at the 8th grade level (when it's usually too late)\nnot only seems like a pure PR play, but it also hurts the thousands of\nsacrificing low income students who are currently getting accepted into these\nschools.\n\nCivil rights in this country needs a disruptive reboot.\n\n------\njaekwon\nI'm not a member on any of these groups but I did find one on facebook &\nmessaged them."
+"\nThe World Would Be a Better Place if Everyone Was a Hacker - b14ck\nhttp://rdegges.com/the-world-would-be-a-better-place-if-everyone\n======\nwallflower\nNot everyone is a hacker.\n\nI see this in some of my co-workers who only code for a living, not for a\npassion. They go home to their TVs and Netflix and raise their families. They\ncould care less about Hacker News and the signal/noise ratio of the content.\n\nI see this nowadays - people just expect things to work - my niece (under 6\nyrs of age) will go to photo frames and swipe across them, expecting something\nto happen. From a very early age, she expects touch screen interfaces.\n\nI see this in my parents when I have to do technical support (they refuse to\nmove from Windows - Go Microsoft!) - and have to explain to them that a\ncomputer operating system is a dynamic system and, yes, the printer will stop\nworking- just because it worked yesterday doesn't mean it will work today.\n\nWhen I try explaining to my dad the process for fixing something on the\ncomputer, he just doesn't want to do it or can't. He wants a step by step by\nstep process. But I can't"
+"\n\nAsk HN: Advice in collecting dues from a membership organization/club? - middlegeek\n\nI help out with a 500 member organization, an alumni-type of group. Everyone in this organization is a volunteer. We don't have a lot of funds at the moment, we are just now moving from a loose unorganized collection of people with a similar background to an actual orgnization. * Can you please recommend a service to automate the collection of dues from members of an organization? We'd like to offer them the option of having a $5 - $20 per month taken out of their checking account. Obviously participation is voluntary and opt in. I have seen what PayPal and BlackBaud have to offer. Other options? Can we get a better rate than having the provider take 4.9% and $.30 per transaction? I'd love to hear your recommendations and experience if you have had it in this area. Thanks!\n======\njohnny22\njust depends on if you want to build it, or let somebody else run it. Off the\ntop of my head.\n\n1\\. \"web 2.0\" SaaS like recur.ly\n\n2\\. wepay.com\n\n3\\. whatever your merchant account offers \\- they are all starting to offer\nrecurring subscription as part of their API. (perhaps"
+"\nTraining a Neural Network to Fall - rajnathani\nhttps://semiengineering.com/training-a-neural-network-to-fall\n======\nrajnathani\nThe article\u2019s title, in the formal sense, is a bit misleading, as the neural\nnetwork's purpose is for the detection (and not simulation) of falls.\n\nIMO an interesting part in the article which is in regards to the training\ndata is: \"the client\u2019s data science firm used stunts people to fall like\nelderly people while wearing the sensors and streaming the collected data..\".\n\n~~~\nTraubenfuchs\nIt's an eyecatcher. Clickbait.\n\nTraining a neural net to detect elderly people falling? Interesting for a\nniche.\n\nTraining a neural net to fall? What? Did I read that right? Better check it\nout! -> Interesting for many more people.\n\n------\nbriga\nSo this is pretty speculative, but I think Google already has similar models\nin production that they use for targeted advertisements.\n\nA few months ago I was riding my bike and fell down. A few hours later while\nlooking at my Google Pixel I saw an advertisement for a nearby medical clinic.\nThe ad was a guy on the ground holding his knee after a fall. It could be a\ncoincidence, but I have never seen any similar ads before or after. It"
+"\n\nOffer HN: Help understanding online video - jon_dahl\n\nOnline video is complicated. You have to worry about competing codecs, encoding settings, delivery protocols, player technologies, etc. Ask me anything video related. Email address in my profile. (Not mentioning my video startup because I don't want to turn Offer HN into spam, but it's in my profile if you're interested.)\n======\nvgurgov\nHi Jon, I'd appreciate your advices on my video startup Demo account: demo/demo Hacker News Watch monitors submissions so you don't miss out on topics, comments and commenters relevant to you. You add keywords (like a Google search) which are saved as permanent searches. Hacker News submissions and linked pages are monitored for your keywords. Results are delivered to your browser in real-time via a Google Reader type interface. It's a release-early-release-often type release, so it's still rough around the edges (eg. broken on IEx.x). We'll work on features/bugs based on your feedback. About the project: When we released Keyspace, our replicated key-value store, we would gladly have payed $10/mo. for a service to monitor the real-time web for comments about us, so we can quickly react and make connections. The existing sites (\"social media monitoring\") are not very good, so we started building our own. HNWatch is a HN-only toy version of this more general product, which is also our primary use-case for Keyspace development. Hacker News Watch has been OK'd by pg.\n======\nold-gregg\nI'm on this page: I had this idea of, what if I build a raspberry pi 2 into my laptop. Not like any other pi-top project. I'll have a hybrid intel/pi laptop. I can use it to do Linux-stuff, have a portable gpio prototyping thing, I can host some local webservers, use it as a build server or My laptop has a cd-drive that I've never used, people suggested me to put an SSD in there, no way, I'm getting a separate computer instead :D What are your thoughts on this? What would you do with a second computer inside your laptop? Just wondering...\n======\ncamhenlin\nI installed a Raspberry Pi and an LCD with a battery in inside of an old Mac\nPlus. That's kind of a laptop right?\n[http://i.imgur.com/ID7chQk.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/ID7chQk.jpg)\n\n~~~\nmore_corn\nCounts! My Mac SE at least had a handle and optional carrying case (which I\nsadly didn't have). I think they were originally advertised as portable.\n\n------\nCyberFonic\nI have a"
+"\nEnergy Storage Investments Boom as Battery Costs Halve in the Next Decade - zeristor\nhttps://about.bnef.com/blog/energy-storage-investments-boom-battery-costs-halve-next-decade/\n======\nAnimats\nIt irks me to see predictions talked about as if past events. But this is a\nmore solid guess than most.\n\nActual progress has been impressive: 85% reduction in the 2010-18 period, says\nthe article. Graph here: [1] Getting another 50% in 10 years can probably be\ndone from manufacturing scale alone. Giant battery pack factories seem to be\ngoing up all over.\n\nThis is something that ought to be almost totally automated, but doesn't yet\nseem to be. You're making large numbers of identical units for years per\nmodel, the best case for automation. Somebody will get that right soon.\n\nDo we get more energy density? 2x more, and gasoline cars are toast.\n\n[1] [https://about.bnef.com/blog/behind-scenes-take-lithium-\nion-b...](https://about.bnef.com/blog/behind-scenes-take-lithium-ion-battery-\nprices/)\n\n~~~\nGustomaximus\nHalve the cost and I suspect energy utilities as we know them are in trouble\ntoo.\n\nCurrently solar is a no brainer in my country of Australia. Typically around a\n6 year payoff for a 20 year benifit.\n\nBatteries are about break over ~10 years payback. But if you could half that\nit's becomes something many people will do. And once that starts"
+"\n\nAsk HN: Why can't I buy bitcoins with a credit card? - ritonlajoie\n\n As far as I understand, paying with Paypal or credit card is nearly impossible over the bitcoins exchange currently. Why is it so ?\nFor Paypal, I read somewhere that it is because of the chargebacks that paypal allows to the clients. This would make possible for anyone to buy bitcoins, and ask for a chargeback to get their money back, while they still received the bitcoins. Why do Paypal don\u2019t check the blockchain in any way to check that a bitcoin transaction between a merchant and the client has taken place ? Do Paypal plan to make such a service soon in the future ? Maybe by recording the merchant wallet address as well as the client\u2019s address? This way, Paypal would be able to check for the bitcoins transactions (using said blockchain, as in http://www.blockchain.info ) and then allow or disallow the chargeback to happen. Do you know why the credit card payments such as Visa, Mastercard, are not used by merchant to sell bitcoins ? Is that because this chargeback issue is in the way, same as Paypal ? Also, do you know if any bank,"
+"\n\nGood interview question - huhtenberg\n\nGiven that yesterday was a Pi day (03/14), here's a good interview question: The question is really good because very few people have experience dealing with fractions in non-decimal base, so it forces them to really work on the answer. It also a very quick way to separate \"hackers\" from hackers :)\n======\nejs\nI never understand these types of questions, is that really important to job\nfunction? Maybe ask them to do it in octal too? Or just use a random number as\nthe base, how about base 47? Will that weed out the slackers?\n\n~~~\nbkrausz\nI find that interviewers are more interested in the method than the\nanswer...if you just sit there and say \"I was never taught this\" you probably\nwon't get the job. On the other hand, if you stand up, go to the whiteboard,\nand start writing things down, while talking them through your train of though\n(\"Well I'm not positive how to do fractions in other bases, but this way makes\nsense to me\""
+"\nTim Gowers replies to Elsevier's open letter - ColinWright\nhttp://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/elseviers-open-letter-point-by-point-and-some-further-arguments\n======\nVivtek\nI like the way the open letter says that Elsevier supports open access to\npublic research when Elsevier is actually lobbying against open access to\npublic research. (e.g. I've developed the idea, asked potential customers questions, got feedback. I know it has potential. So, I designed the website wireframe, business model, marketing model, logo... But now comes the time where something useable needs to be created. I can show potential customers a wireframe and ask them questions, but until they actually show they are willing to use (and pay) for it, I know I don't have any real traction. I come here asking for advice on how I should approach creation. There seem to be three approaches: 1. Do it yourself\n2. Outsource\n3. Find a co-founder Now, I am determined to learn to the technical side regardless. I've started on that journey, tackling HTML, CSS, and Javascript. I'm no expert, but I understand. I"
+"\nI've never felt less in control of my own hardware - mildbyte\nhttps://kimonote.com/@mildbyte/ive-never-felt-less-in-control-of-my-own-hardware-14804/\n======\njimmies\n>In 2016, when I got a new phone, the default setting changed and I would just\nwake up to my device stating, \"Tinder has been updated. Deal with it\".\n\nI turned off auto-updates on my phone.\n\nSo this happened. Last year or so I traveled to SF and tried to call an Uber\nhome after a long day of walking around. My phone had 5% battery left. I\nopened the app and there it was... The maps and everything showed up, but then\nit blocked the UI with the message: \"You haven't updated the app in a month.\nUber won't work if you don't update it right now.\" It really rustled my\njimmies. In the next 15 minutes, 3 of us (2 are foreigners with no cell\nconnection) had to stand in the freezing rain when the damn thing was updating\nwith my 2.5G connection. When the Uber arrived, I had 1% left and not long\nafter I got in the car, my phone shut down. I was so worried the phone would\ndie before the car arrived.\n\nThe other day I talked about how"
+"\n\nAsk HN: What do new MBA's do in tech? || Self-marketing via RE - schodge\n\nShort question: Various stats got tossed out that x% of Stanford's/Harvard's/Etc.'s graduating MBA class went into tech this/last year, instead of the 'normal' MBA fields (e.g., finance). What are the job titles these MBA's are winding up with? Motivation, brief bio, see LinkedIn (profile) for longer: I did my Master's in electrical engineering, but turned to the dark side and went off to law school and spent a few years practicing as an IP/patent litigator. (Defending against trolls - the turn to the dark side was incomplete). I then got my MBA (Santa Clara, based in SV), and have been trying to find a suitable role in a tech company. I'm currently consulting as an electrical engineer in a biomedical company (mostly writing Matlab and Python for data analysis, plus designing measurement equipment), but would like to find something more permanent and, preferably, more interdisciplinary. I've yet to find an effective way of branding myself. I like hard problems, my programming skills are excellent for a business-type (mostly Python) but not what you'd want in a software engineer, and my best fit has traditionally been interfacing"
+"\nAttention loss feared as high-tech rewires brain - fogus\nhttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/15/BUNI1AB1G2.DTL&feed=rss.technology\n======\njswinghammer\nI think people have longer attention spans now. Watch \"The Wire\" which is by\nany definition complicated and requiring a huge attention span. Now compare it\nto \"Dallas\" which at the time was considered to be too complicated for many\npeople to follow. \"The Wire\" is certainly far more complicated and hard to\nfollow. I recall watching a whole season and not knowing the names of some\nmajor characters because I just didn't have the space to store that\ninformation.\n\nThese sort of articles get written all the time too. It just seems like it's\ntrying to appeal to an older audience who doesn't understand new technology.\nI'd imagine more and more newspaper readers are falling into this category.\n\n~~~\ngojomo\nI think you're confusing two different (albeit related) axes.\n\nTV is more complex _because_ attention spans are shorter: they need to pack\nmore twists (and more, shorter scenes) into the same amount of time to keep\nthe attention-addled from switching channels.\n\n~~~\njswinghammer\nI don't see more twists these days in the shows I'm talking about. I see shows\ndumping tons of information on you and making"
+"\nHow Seattle blew its chance at a subway system (2016) - wallflower\nhttp://features.crosscut.com/seattle-forward-thrust-sound-transit\n======\ngandreani\nThe best time to build a rail system is kind of like the best time to plant a\ntree. 20 years ago.\n\nIt's sad but it seems to me contemporary Americans don't want to pay for\nsomething that they will only reap the benefits of in later decades\n\nThere's so much in that style of thinking. The irony of depending on roads\nbuilt decades ago. The debt system conditioning people to expect to \"get it\nnow, pay it later\". The hypocrisy in \"investing\" 10k-100k in an education but\nnot a few measly percent in taxes\n\n~~~\nrayiner\nThe problem is not that the benefits will come in decades, but that they won\u2019t\ncome at all to most taxpayers. Here in DC we built a subway 40 years ago. It\u2019s\na huge boondoggle that is usable for a single digit percent of the taxpayers\nwho pay for it. Folks in Richmond who might ride Metro a few times in their\nlifetime or lower income folks who work in the suburbs subsidize the commutes\nof lawyers and federal government workers who work downtown.\n\n~~~\npcwalton\nThe D.C."
+"\nUnexplored Areas in Data Compression - ingve\nhttps://medium.com/@duhroach/unexplored-areas-in-data-compression-c256f70ba0c7\n======\nAidanChurch818\n`Entropy is a broken measurement. The fact that [0,1,2,3] and [0,3,1,2] have\nthe same entropy value is annoying...' This is incorrect. There is no concept\nof entropy for a specific finite sequence; entropy is a property of random\nvariables. Assuming a finite string is generated (i.i.d.) from a random\nsource, then one way to estimate its entropy is using the histogram but this\nis not always optimal. Also several other parts of the article are over-\nsimplified or incorrect.\n\n~~~\nnabla9\n1\\. Entropy is a broken measurement\n\n2\\. This is incorrect\n\n3\\. There is no concept of entropy for a specific finite sequence\n\nDo you see what you did there? Entropy is limited concept if you want to\nadvance compression beyond certain limit.\n\nGeneral note: There is tendency of commentators to nit-pick blog posts as if\nbeing in debate where the goal is to win. It would be more valuable if we\nwould read the article and try to interpret the intended meaning behind them\nfavorably. Of course there are parts that are over-simplified or incorrect.\nThis is just writing in the blog, not fully thought out edited and peer"
+"\nEU stipulates immediate Open Access in 2020 - Vinnl\nhttps://www.scienceguide.nl/2018/09/nwo-wil-weg-van-de-impact-factor/\n======\nVinnl\nThis is fantastic news for science! Google Translate is pretty accurate [1],\nbut a summary:\n\nThe EU, European Research Council, and funders from eleven European countries,\nhave agreed that from 2020, European researchers can, in the general case, no\nlonger publish their research in journals that\n\n\\- place that work behind a paywall for a certain amount of time (embargoes)\n\n\\- require a transfer of copyright to that journal\n\n\\- charge excessive publishing fees (\"Article Processing Charges\")\n\nFurthermore, from 2021 (due to existing licensing agreements), European\nresearchers are generally no longer allowed to publish in journals that are\nnot fully open access (\"hybrid journals\"). That includes e.g. Science and\nNature, unless they change their business models.\n\nSome exceptions apply, e.g. when doing industry collaborations, or for\nmonographs. Overall, though, this appears to be a great step forward.\n\nMore details in the official announcement [2].\n\n[1]\n[https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...](https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scienceguide.nl%2F2018%2F09%2Fnwo-\nwil-weg-van-de-impact-factor%2F&edit-text=&act=url)\n\n[2]\n[https://www.scienceeurope.org/coalition-s/](https://www.scienceeurope.org/coalition-s/)"
+"\nAsk HN: Is bioinformatics/computational biology a valuable field? - rubatuga\nI\u2019m wondering if these jobs will be valued/be in demand in the future, and how much I would earn. I\u2019m currently doing an undergrad Bioinformatics/comp. bio. (BCB) at my university, but I\u2019m unsure if the job market looks very good, and some google searches lead me to believe the pay isn\u2019t great. Furthermore, to get further in the field, a PhD is generally required, which is certainly not appealing. I\u2019m currently aiming to apply for medical school, but am also considering doing a joint degree with BCB and a comp sci major to be more competitive if I don\u2019t get in. However this would mean graduating a bit late. Any thoughts on either my degree, or what the future holds for this field?\n======\nJPLeRouzic\nI could tell you non-specific tips about jobs.\n\nDifferentiating yourself is important if you want to get the best pay in your\nfield. Some jobs are quite repetitive and could be automated easily. And a lot\nof jobs in bioinformatics are re-inventing the wheel, sometimes awfully. It\nwould pay IMO to think at a higher level, standardize the toolset and\nprocedures, use the excellent tooling"
+"\n\nAsk HN: Looking for NYC-based technical co-founder for green meta-retail site - octavia\n\nFully-functional, uniquely positioned green/social impact ecommerce site seeks a co-founder to help oversee site development, co-raise capital, and grow the organization with the existing founder. The existing founder is strong in finance and business development and has founded three Internet startups to date. The perfect co-founder will be strong in technology but also capable of confidently co-pitching the company to potential investors. This is the perfect opportunity for someone interested in the environment, helping small businesses thrive, and doing something positive for the planet to walk in as a partner and have an immediate impact on the direction of a startup that, with a small round of investment, can be launched in a very short amount of time. The site is real and it's 95% of the way towards being launch-ready in a basic form with plans for continuous improvement. Launch fast, update often. The company is a for-profit venture, although it's social impact is beneficial, thus it fits the profile of traditional and social capital market investors. It is funded by the founder and friends&family to date. Co-founder salary will depend on successfully raising a round of capital."
+"\n\nBegginer in C. Critique my code and give ideas? - zeved\nhttps://github.com/zeved/znote\n\n======\nzeved\nHello HN. I'm trying to learn / relearn C (for real this time). Wrote this\nlittle tool for linux and I would like some feedback. Also, if you could give\nme some ideas for future small projects that would give me more experience in\nC... thanks!\n\n~~~\nplikan13\n\n int get_number(char buffer[])\n {\n long int i = 0;\n char *p;\n if(fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), stdin) != NULL)\n {\n \n\nsizeof(buffer) will always be 4 (or 8 if you compile 64 bit) because\nsizeof(pointer to char) is 4 (or 8). It will NOT be the size of the buffer\nthat you pass as an argument. To fix this problem you need to change the\nfunction to\n\n \n \n int get_number(char buffer[], int buffer_size)\n \n\nAlso the buffers that you pass to this function seem to be too small.\n\n~~~\nzeved\nthank you very much. i appreciate it!"
+"\nThe impact on middleware of expanding APIs with Go's interface smuggling - zdw\nhttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoMiddlewareVsInterfaceSmuggling\n======\nnickcw\nI had a lot of problems with this in rclone.\n\nRclone has backends which connect to cloud providers. These all implement a\ncommon interface. So far so good.\n\nHowever some cloud providers can implement optional features, say a server\nside copy of an object.\n\nRclone used to use interface upgrades to discover these. Still so far so good.\n\nHowever rclone has backends which wrap other backends, for example the crypt\nbackend which encrypts file names and data.\n\nThis backend has to implement all the optional features - you want to be able\nto server side copy an encrypted file if possible.\n\nThe problem comes when the crypt backend wraps another backend which does not\nsupport server side copy.\n\nWhat rclone used to do here is return a special not implemented error. This\nworks, but isn't ideal because you have to call the method to find out if it\nis supported and often you'd like to know before that.\n\nI eventually gave up on interface upgrades and resorted to good old function\npointers which you can check against nil. When the crypt backend starts up"
+"\nBe Happier: Things to Stop Doing Right Now - wallflower\nhttp://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/how-to-be-happier-work-10-things-stop-doing.html\n======\nSwizec\nJust wanted to say it's fascinating how articles are targeted to demographics.\nNever seen a \"Be happy at work\" post before that said things like\n\n\"People make mistakes. Employees don't meet your expectations. Vendors don't\ndeliver on time.\" - don't blame employees\n\n\"Yeah, you're the boss. Yeah, you're the titan of industry. Yeah, you're the\nsmall tail that wags a huge dog.\"\n\n\"Yeah, you're more educated. Yeah, you're more experienced. Yeah, you've been\naround more blocks and climbed more mountains and slayed more dragons.\"\n\n\"The higher you rise and the more you accomplish, the more likely you are to\nthink you know everything--and to tell people everything you think you know.\"\n\nThis is not your usual \"How to be happy\" article. Fascinating. I wonder what\nwould happen if I forwarded this to, say, my mum who works as a government\nclerk, or any of my college student friends bussing tables on weekends.\n\n~~~\nExpiredLink\nDale Carnegie?\n\n------\nalexholehouse\n_Impressing\n\nNo one likes you for your clothes, your car, your possessions, your title, or\nyour accomplishments. Those are all \"things.\" People may like your things--but\nthat doesn't mean"
+"\nPopular People Live Longer - DiabloD3\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/opinion/sunday/popular-people-live-longer.html\n======\npasbesoin\nI've found human lives to consist in significant part of feedback loops.\nPositive feedback loops, and negative feedback loops.\n\nA person receiving positive feedback tends to feel better, be more socially\ncomfortable and engaging, and to receive resources that help them on their\njourney.\n\nThis response and that assistance actually helps them become better. Better\nnutrition, more attentive and patient instruction. Etc. It's not just that\nthings are done for them; it's that the feedback loops can improve their own\nperformance.\n\nA person receiving negative feedback tends to feel worse, to be socially\nuncomfortable and isolated, and the be denied helpful resources and\nassistance.\n\nThe negative feedback loop can result in that person withdrawing more and\nmore. I've been there: Most people _do not_ want to be where they are not\nwelcome. It is one of the worst feelings.\n\nNegative feedback loops tend to spill over into one's physical health, and\nthat unhealthiness furthers the rejection.\n\nIt is not just the \"big things.\" People with a popular appearance routinely\nget bigger servings, more engaged and attentive care. More respect.\n\nIt's pervasive. Pay attention. You'll see it all around you, every day,"
+"\n\nShow HN: Couldn't find good tool to analyze MySQL Slow Query Logs so I made one - DangerousPie\nhttp://nk.gl/slow_queries/\n\n======\nzimpenfish\nWhat's the unique selling point of yours over pt-query-digest?\n\n[http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-toolkit/2.1/pt-query-\ndige...](http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-toolkit/2.1/pt-query-digest.html)\n\n~~~\nDangerousPie\nWell the one big difference is that mine is simply a website where you upload\nyour log file, while pt-query-digest is part of a (apparently linux-only)\ntoolkit that you have to download and install. This may not be a big issue if\nyou have your own linux-based server and deal with these logs on a regular\nbasis, but if you are on Windows and just want to do a one-off analysis I\nthink my site is a much better solution.\n\nIn addition, since I am displaying the summary in a web browser I can add all\nsorts of nice enhancements you couldn't have in a simple console, for example:\n\n \n \n - Searching and sorting queries on the fly\n - Syntax highlighting\n - Visualization (like the queries/hour histogram)"
+"\nHarvard Online Master\u2019s Degree - tianyicui\nhttp://www.productivity501.com/harvard-masters-degree/6463/\n======\npetercooper\nRelated topic, different country. I discovered last week you can take a MSc in\nSoftware Development with the Open University (a partially government-funded\ndistance learning university in the UK):\n[http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/qualification/f26....](http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/qualification/f26.htm)\n\nThe really interesting part is if you have enough experience, you don't need\nto have an undergraduate degree to get into the prerequisite diploma course.\nSo you get on to the diploma course which takes two years part time, then do\nthe Masters project for a year.. no degree to Masters in 3 years. An education\nhack, if ever there were one. Who cares if you have an undergraduate degree\nwhen you have a Masters? (Genuine question - if there is a reason, let us\nknow.)\n\nThe only downside, it's not cheap cheap. You're looking at about \u00a31000 per\nunit and there are 8 units for the diploma. The Master's part is then \u00a31900\nish. So that's about \u00a310k ($16k) in all over 3 years. Still, only slightly\nmore than a single year of undergraduate study in the UK from next year..\n\n _Note: Yes, this is really for people in the UK or Europe._\n\n~~~\nbhofmann\nWhen I see CVs with"
+"\n\nNYT on analytical versus subjective risk management - jacobscott\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/magazine/04risk-t.html\n\n======\nrussell\nAn excellent article that gives you a look at the mathematical model, Value at\nRisk, that brought down Wall Street. VaR turned out to be a problem because it\nwas accepted by the regulators and executives, but it could be gamed by the\ntraders.\n\nIt has a profile of Nassim Taleb, author of \"The Black Swan.\" A Black Swan is\nan unpredictable event, because the day to day probability is so low, say a\nworld wide liquidity crisis. Taleb argues against probability based models,\nbecause in the long run an outlier is going to kill you. I got \"The Black\nSwan\" for Christmas. I have read only 3 or 4 chapters so far, but I highly\nrecommend it. Very interesting and very entertaining.\n\n------\nmattmcknight\n\"For instance, if you have $50 million of weekly VaR, that means that over the\ncourse of the next week, there is a 99 percent chance that your portfolio\nwon\u2019t lose more than $50 million.\"\n\nSo, if you run with that strategy for, say, 2 years, the odds are one of those\nweeks you will lose $50M. Sounds secure, where do I buy"
+"\nBootcamps should be more transparent - Dangeranger\nhttps://medium.com/@novohispano/bootcamps-are-lying-to-you-67f74fe4ed73\n======\ncwp\nAs someone trying to hire web developers, it looks to me like Bootcamps are\nmore like finishing school than trade school. Candidates that come out of a\nbootcamp have learned how to signal membership in the Silicon Valley in-group.\n\nTheir resumes have all the right keywords, and refer to \"projects\" they've\nworked on, built with all the frameworks and tools currently in fashion.\nThey've practiced their interview technique and can talk confidently about\ncontinuous integration or opine about React vs Angular or describe how well\nthey cooperate with their teammates.\n\nIf they don't get the job, they'll politely ask for advice on how they can do\nbetter, and maybe ask for a coffee date, so they can learn about the industry\nand how to find a mentor.\n\nIf you don't look closely at the resume or ask explicitly in the interview,\nyou might think they have actual work experience, but they don't, it's all\njust coursework.\n\nSo I'm a bit ambivalent. Yeah, we desperately need more developers in the tech\nworld. Yeah, startup culture is ridiculously tribal and unfairly biased\nagainst those who don't know the secret handshakes. But 3"
+"\nWhy Skee-Ball Doesn't Change - prismatic\nhttp://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/11/why-skee-ball-doesnt-change/509117/?single_page=true\n======\ndottrap\nBut something did change, at least where I went.\n\nWhen I was a kid, I remember the ball effortlessly glided off the launch ramp\ninto the air for the holes. Sometimes I would roll as hard as I could just to\nsee how high it would go (into the top net and ricochet down into the scoring\nholes).\n\nI recently went back and the launch ramp is like a speed bump now. The balls\nno longer smoothly roll and launch into the air. Instead they smack hard into\nthe bump and lose most of their momentum and barely make it to the holes.\n\nI can't for the life of me figure out how to actually get the ball in the\nhighest value holes any more. The harder I roll it, the harder is smacks into\nthe bump and it goes nowhere near the holes. Don't roll that hard, and it\nbarely makes it over the bump.\n\nI really hate the change and I stopped playing. It is no fun anymore.\n\n~~~\ndeelowe\nI thought it was just me. I guess this is to make it difficult to rack up\npoints, making"
+"\n\nAmazon Taking Down Erotica, Removing From Kindles - sahaj\nhttp://theselfpublishingrevolution.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazon-in-book-banning-business.html\n\n======\nghshephard\nTo be clear, they are currently targeting \"Incest\" erotica. The irony, of\ncourse, is that Amazon's Television Commercial features a women on the beach\nreading her kindle, and the story on her kindle, is about a boy who has sex\nwith his stepmother. Admittedly, not erotica, but still ironic.\n\nAmazon should feel free to yank whatever it wants off its bookshelves (and, in\nfact, should probably be a bit more discerning given some of the recent crap\nthey've been selling) - but, I don't know if they should be sending their\ncustomers _already purchased_ books into the memory hole.\n\n~~~\nflipbrad\nYou didn't purchase a book. You licensed an ebook. Big difference, in Amazon's\nmind.\n\n~~~\nAgentConundrum\nAnd that, in a nutshell, is why I don't really want to buy an eReader. They\njust seem too restrictive.\n\nMy girlfriend and I occasionally share books (usually she borrows mine), but\nmy understanding is that the books you \"buy\" are licensed only to a single\ndevice, and you can only share a book _one time_ , and even then only if the\npublisher allows it.\n\nI could be misunderstanding things,"
+"\nWhat's with the hate for Go? - berserker-one\nhttps://medium.com/p/why-does-go-get-so-much-flak-from-developers-34ccd972147d\n======\njohnfn\n> They\u2019re royally pissed off at Go users who only want to get shit done as\n> quickly and as easily as possible.\n\nIt's almost funny to me how misguided this is! It's as if Go developers think\nany developers reason for not using go couldn't _possibly_ be anything\nremotely reasonable. Instead, its \"darn those go developers, they're too\nproductive! I hate Go!\"\n\n------\naryehof\nGo is is a good language choice for some things, not all. It is a good systems\nprogramming language, but not one so well suited to systems in business,\ncommerce and industry. Those that require the representation of concepts\noutside of the computing domain in code. In this it is comparable to C.\n\nThe problem is that too many look for a silver bullet language that can be\napplied to everything. One ring, one language, to rule them all. Go isn't it.\n\n------\nSafety1stClyde\nCod psychology."
+"\n\nThe \"Soft Maximum\" function - epe\nhttp://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/01/13/soft-maximum/\n\n======\nmcantor\nThis is my problem with mathematics. The concept of a \"soft maximum,\" the\nprinciples behind calculating it, and its startling similarity to a hard\nmaximum, are all fascinating and exciting to me. Look at that! Two completely\nseparate functions, and such magical results. According to this post, it's\nuseful for \"convex optimization.\" I clicked through to the \"related post,\"\nwhich was merely a comment about someone else's opinions on \"convex\noptimization,\" so I looked it up on Wikipedia:\n\n I know there is some kind of gaming going on, I just don't know what it is, yet. Any ideas?\n======\nwashedup\nI can confirm this. I have watched the cycle happen from ~877 to ~829 ten\ntimes now, with a bid size of 729 at 850 every single time. As soon as a price\naround 829 is filled, it shoots back up to 877. Each time the cycle lasts\nroughly 5 minutes.\n\n------\nChrisClark\nIt's a bug. Mt. Gox had the same repeating bug before.\n\nBasically, don't trade on Mt. Gox. It's not a good idea."
+"\nThe Expression Problem and Tables - qubitcoder\nhttp://joelburget.com/the-expression-problem-and-tables/\n======\najuc\nClojure has the best solution to expression problem I've seen in a real\nprogramming language\n\n[http://clojure.org/multimethods](http://clojure.org/multimethods)\n\n \n \n (defmulti sound class)\n (defmulti eat class)\n (defmulti attack class)\n \n (defmethod sound ::cow [c] \"Moo!\")\n (defmethod sound ::dog [c] \"Roof!\")\n (defmethod sound ::cat [c] \"Miau!\")\n \n (defmethod attack ::dog [c] (bite c))\n (defmethod attack ::cat [c] (scratch c))\n \n (defmethod eat ::cow [c] ...)\n (defmethod eat ::dog [c] ...)\n (defmethod eat ::cat [c] ...)\n \n ...\n \n (derive ::mad-cow ::cow)\n (defmethod sound ::mad-cow [c] \"MooOOOooooOOOOoooo!\")\n (defmethod attack ::mad-cow [c] (stampede c))\n \n\nThe layout problem remains, and I would like to be able to do sql- or prolog-\nlike queries on code, but IMHO it's IDE and tooling problem more than missing\nlanguage feature.\n\nAlso in clojure you can add arbitrary\n[http://clojure.org/metadata](http://clojure.org/metadata) to each value, so\nmarking your function as deprecated/in-progress/whatever is easy (but it seems\nyou can't easily add metadata to separate implementations of multimethod right\nnow).\n\n \n \n ...\n (defmulti \"Attacks.\"\n {:deprecated \"Use eat instead.\",\n :author \"me\"}\n attack class)\n ...\n \n \n\nAlso - to confirm that people want to specify rules in tables - I've been\nworking at 2 different companies where we had code generators with .xlsx files\nas input"
+"\n\nAsk HN: Why doesn't HN open submitted links in a new tab? - anilm823\n\nA bit trivial, I know, but I've always found it slightly annoying to have to press the back button to return to HN or explicitly right click and open the link in a new tab myself. Why doesn't HN automatically open external links in a new tab?\n======\ndangrossman\nHold control when you click to open a link in a new tab. You can also middle-\nclick if you have a mouse. Hold shift and click to open in a new window. Where\na link opens is in your control, as it should be.\n\n~~~\nanilm823\nI'm aware of the ways to force open a new tab, I was just curious as to why\nthis wasn't the default. IMO, it provides for a friendlier user experience.\n\n~~~\ndangrossman\nIf a website forces a new tab when you don't want to open a new tab (as I\ndon't), that's not friendly at all. There's no easy way to override that\nbehavior, while it's easy to get the behavior you want.\n\n------\nwmf\nBecause that's how it was done in Web 1.0. Also, I always thought sites\ncreated"
+"\n\nTech Community Group Hacker Hideout names costume party \"Hackers & Hookers\" - phwd\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/event/8938393977/\n\n======\nlbarrow\nValleyWag pretty much nailed it:\n\n\"Beer. Dance floor. Shot bar. Food truck. Girls.\" Nerds. Obliviousness. Poor\njudgment. Skewed cultural views. Social regression. Bros. MySQL. Crushing it.\nA party atmosphere combined with everything that makes the rest of the world\nhate you, Silicon Valley: this party is not smart.\"\n\n[http://valleywag.gawker.com/hackers-and-hookers-startup-\npart...](http://valleywag.gawker.com/hackers-and-hookers-startup-party-is-\ntechs-new-worst-1450909234/@sambiddle)\n\n------\njordo37\nMan, what the hell. This is despicable but also just dumb - someone already\ngot in trouble for this exact same stuff last year and there was media\ncoverage.\n\nAt least when lame-o's come up with new forms of misogyny it advances the\nconversation forward, this is just a rehash.\n\n------\ngenevievemp\nCan I debut my 'uber for sex' startup there? #whoresmakeitwork\n\n------\nogghead\nBuncha pathetic bros. I think they believe this pitch will actually entice\nfemale humanoids to attend.\n\nIf this mysogynist debacle comes to pass, I would love to see pictures. Bro-\ndudes are always funny.\n\n------\ncalibraxis\nAt least they're honest about misogyny. Some people see no significant\ndifference between renting machines and females, to carry out commands.\n\n------\ngeetee\nso what.\n\nedit: seriously. that's the response this"
+"\nOne percent of Googlers get to visit a data center, but I did - zdw\nhttps://blog.google/inside-google/infrastructure/how-data-center-security-works/\n======\nmarssaxman\nI did not realize this was so rare; my whole team toured a Google data center\njust a couple of months after I began working there. Perhaps security has\ngrown more stringent in the last eight years. It was interesting, to be sure.\nI was particularly struck by the amount of engineering that went into the\ncooling system. I had never really thought about that before.\n\nThe tour left me with a powerful, pit-of-the-stomach feeling that I had made a\nbig mistake by going to work there. Wasn't the whole point of the PC\nrevolution that we were going to do away with these sorts of massive,\ncentrally-controlled institutions of computing, instead giving the power to\nthe people...? How did we end up back here?"
+"\nWelders set off Beirut blast while securing explosives - tafda\nhttps://www.maritime-executive.com/article/report-welders-set-off-the-beirut-blast-while-securing-explosives\n======\nGerardd\nWe were 600 meters away from the blast walking peacefully in the popular\nBeirut street Mar Mikhael. The scale of the explosion was surreal [1]. I\nhugged my sister and thought it\u2019s our last moment. We miraculously survived\nwith only a few scratches. Ten days have passed and there\u2019s not a single\nminute I don\u2019t think of what happened and emulate different scenarios where I\ncould\u2019ve died. I also work at the most affected hospital that became instantly\nnon-operational and had to be evacuated with over 17 patients, staff, and\nvisitors dead [2].\n\nPlease consider donating [3].\n\n[1] [https://youtu.be/SkIYjNGiaoA](https://youtu.be/SkIYjNGiaoA)\n\n[2] [https://youtu.be/JIxuwE_WPXw](https://youtu.be/JIxuwE_WPXw)\n\n[3] [https://www.stgeorgehospital.org/stgeorge-\ndonation](https://www.stgeorgehospital.org/stgeorge-donation)\n\n~~~\nTeknoman117\nI had a similar personal reaction after getting into a high speed car crash\n(mechanical failure of my car, while traveling at 70 mph on the highway.\nEntered a spin, slid off the road, did at least one complete roll). 8 years\nlater, I still sometimes think of all the ways the crash could have gone\ndifferently that would have resulted in my death.\n\nIf I was going a little faster, my car could have ended up in the irrigation\nditch"
+"\nWhere Ruby/Sinatra falls short - onli\nhttps://www.pc-kombo.com/blog/68/Where%20Ruby/Sinatra%20falls%20short\n======\nbeat\nI find it really interesting that the Ruby language led to two such wildly\ndifferent, yet equally valid approaches to web apps - Sinatra and Rails.\n\nSinatra is the most minimal web framework I've ever used. It's fantastic for\ndoing quick mockups and small apps. Yes, you will hit limitations. Bicycles\nare not good dump trucks. And even before you hit hard limits, you're going to\nfind yourself inventing a lot of structure/convention to keep it from\ndevolving into pretty PHP.\n\nRails, on the other hand, is fantastically complete. It does _everything_ for\nyou. Convention over configuration is a brilliant concept, and the self-\ndiscovery nature of the ActiveRecord ORM is something that is totally natural\nin Ruby and quite awkward in other languages. For writing basic CRUD apps\n(which is much of the software world), it's really hard to beat the efficiency\nof Rails.\n\nAnd when people whinge about performance... well, so what? Horizontal scaling,\nfriends. Developer performance is _much_ more important than software\nperformance in most cases (especially since networks and databases form the\nbulk of your performance cost out in the real world). But efficient\ndevelopers, that's magical."
+"\n\nShow HN: \u201cActive Code\u201d in Markdown - chriswarbo\nhttp://chriswarbo.net/activecode/\n\n======\nonaclov2000\nI really like this, I imagine it would be really helpful if you were writing a\nbook/blog post, you could \"print\" the code you were using as an example, then\n\"run\" it and output all of that into your generated HTML, this would ensure\nyou have a \"working\" example at all times.\n\n~~~\nNullabillity\nA while ago I wrote something similar (though only for Scala) for a school\nproject. It would basically fake a REPL session, which had the con of being\npretty tightly coupled to the language, but it would give you nice automatic\noutput that would match what the user would get.\n\nExample:\n[http://www.kodknackning.se/gettingstarted/types](http://www.kodknackning.se/gettingstarted/types)\n\nSource: [https://github.com/teozkr/scala-repl-\nsampler](https://github.com/teozkr/scala-repl-sampler)\n\n------\napenguin\nI love the idea of Literate Programming, and moreover pandoc is one of my\nabsolute favorite tools. As such, I find this very interesting.\n\nHowever, I take issue with your complaint about Emacs being so huge -- pandoc\nis right up there, too (134 vs 89MiB on my system). Not to mention its\nseemingly endless stream of dependencies (50 packages according to my\nmanager), as well as GHC which is over 700MB on its own. If you work"
+"\nRacket v6.11 - nickmain\nhttp://blog.racket-lang.org/2017/10/racket-v6-11.html\n======\nButtons840\n> Typed Racket supports refinement types and dependent function types.\n> Previously an experimental feature, refinement types allow types to describe\n> more interesting properties of values, especially integers. For example,\n> this type shows that the max function always produces a number at least as\n> big as its inputs: (-> [x : Integer] [y : Integer] (Refine [z : Integer]\n> (and (>= z x) (>= z y))))\n\nDid Racket become a better Haskell while I wasn't looking? What's the catch?\nThose look like some powerful type system features.\n\n~~~\nswlkr\nI was thinking the same thing, that's a really cool feature.\n\n------\nspdegabrielle\nWhat are refinement types and dependent function types?\n\n~~~\nchriswarbo\nDependent function types allow the _return type_ of a function refer to the\n_argument value_ of the function. The classic example is \"vectors\", which are\nlike lists but have a statically-checked length. Here's an example function\ninvolving vectors:\n\n \n \n duplicate : (t : Type) -> t -> (n : Nat) -> (Vector n t)\n \n\nThis type signature says that `duplicate` is a function of 3 arguments: `a ->\nb` means a function from argument type `a` to return"
+"\n\nLearn Java in Minutes - Ashuu\nhttp://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/java/\n\n======\npetercooper\nI'm learning Java in my spare time just because in the same sense it pays to\nknow C if you dig Unix, I suspect it pays to know Java if you dig the JVM.\n\nThe _language_ has not proved to be too disturbing, happily, but I'm finding\nthe _tooling and ecosystem_ to be rather arcane and difficult to get a grip on\nat first. Build tools, a choice of JVMs and JDKs, \"enterprise\" this or that..\nit seems all the stuff _around_ the language is the real minefield than the\nrelatively simplistic language itself.\n\n~~~\nadnam\nExactly. The hard part of Java is not the language _per se_ , but the myriad\nof IDEs and XML configuration files.\n\n~~~\nkryten\nTo be honest, as a Java veteran, there is very little XML any more apart from\na bit of Tomcat config usually. It's all gone in favor of annotations which\nare much better.\n\nIt ain't J2EE 1.4 days any more (thank fuck).\n\nThe only thing I've done involving XML recently was setting tomcat 7 to serve\na war file from the root site and that took about 2 minutes to work"
+"\n\nGuide to Programming Clojure For Beginners - swannodette\nhttp://blackstag.com/blog.posting?id=5\n\n======\njcromartie\nThere's a need for good Clojure tutorials for beginners. I have a whole lot of\ntechnical nitpicks with the content, but this is a good start and a good thing\nfor the Clojure community. Great work.\n\n~~~\nmark_l_watson\nI hope that you give the author a list of things to fix, etc. I write a lot\nand I can tell you that authors really appreciate feedback and corrections.\n\n~~~\nblackstag\nAgreed. ;)\n\nI am no expert by any means, so feedback is always welcome and I am always\nlooking to improve.\n\n~~~\nhoprocker\nDo I get an hexidecimal dollar? ;)\n\n------\nsramsay\nSo, I wanted to start a blog. But then I discovered that all blogging\nplatforms suck, so I decided to write my own. Then I decided that all\nprogramming languages suck, so I had to learn a new one to write my blog.\n\nI would say Lisp's world domination plan is coming along swimmingly.\n\n~~~\nrfrey\nC'mon, be gentle - he said a big reason to write a new blogging platform was\nto learn the new language. That's legit - dunno how many file system browsers\nI"
+"\n802.11 with Multiple Antennas for Dummies (2009) [pdf] - gballan\nhttps://djw.cs.washington.edu/papers/mimo_for_dummies.pdf\n======\nAndyMcConachie\nIs anyone else really bothered by the fact that academics don't put dates on\ntheir papers? This could have been written yesterday. It could have been\nwritten 10 years ago. How can I know?\n\nI get this is not yet peer reviewed, but put a date on it that represents the\nlast time it was touched. Like a last modified date or something. And it's not\nlike it will get a date on it once it is peer reviewed. Someone will find it 5\nyears from now and think it still represents the state of the art.\n\n~~~\nchatmasta\nYes, I also find it extremely annoying and it\u2019s definitely a thing. I always\nend up googling the title to find the actual publication and hope that the\ndate is there.\n\nDoes anyone know _why_ academic papers do not include dates in the paper?\nSurely there must be a reason?\n\nEdit: StackExchange [0] cites uncertainty of the delay between writing and\npublication as the typical reason for omitting the date. This seems fair, but\nat least including the year would be nice. If you submit for review at"
+"\n\nWeb performance: Cache efficiency exercise - graceofs\nhttps://code.facebook.com/posts/964122680272229/web-performance-cache-efficiency-exercise/\n\n======\nmanigandham\nSide note: It's ridiculous that webpages are often several MBs in size these\ndays, while offering nothing more in value for all that extra weight.\n\n~~~\ntracker1\nIt's hard, in that most sites/webapps aren't hand-crafted components... I'm\nwaist deep in a web application now, that's very difficult to prune... It has\njQueryUI __AND __Bootstrap controls, not to mention a dozen plugins for each.\nIt 's a significant mess to say the least. The main .JS min/merged weighs in\nat over 1mb (down about a mb since I min/merged them) that doesn't include\nsite js, just the libraries (not including jquery's base).\n\nOf course, it's easy to clear that size with some big full-screen splash\nimages, which are more and more common... it is kind of depressing. I really\nappreciate the work the Polymer team has done in creating paper components,\nand would love to see something closer to that for React as a base, most of\nthe Paper/Component bases I've seen are still relatively heavy, with React-\nBootstrap being one of the better ones.\n\nIt's not easy coming into something that's already in place, and harder to\nreign in the"
+"\nBats use private and social information as they hunt - dnetesn\nhttps://phys.org/news/2019-09-private-social.html\n======\ngerbilly\nWhile this is almost lost knowledge these days, humans and other animals have\nalways paid attention to each other to find out what is going in on around\nthem.\n\nThe nature (or absence of) bird or animal calls or activity can tell you that\nthere is a large predator in the area.\u00b9\n\nSome animal calls are even specific to the type of threat as well.\n\nIt has even been proposed by some linguists that prairie dog calls satisfy\nenough of the requirements to be considered language.\u00b2\n\n1: [https://birdlanguage.com/products/what-the-robin-\nknows/](https://birdlanguage.com/products/what-the-robin-knows/)\n\n2: [https://medium.com/health-and-biological-research-\nnews/prair...](https://medium.com/health-and-biological-research-news/prairie-\ndog-chatter-the-science-behind-a-new-language-9144ace4114f)\n\n------\nLinuxBender\nSomewhat off topic, semi-related, I have a bat that thinks I control the\nweather. If it gets too hot or cold, it will go just outside my window and\nsqueak at me. There are patterns to it's communication, though I have no idea\nwhat exactly it is saying. I can talk to it and it talks back. Obviously we\ndon't understand each other. I can tell it \"get back to work\" (taking out\nmosquito's) and it will leave. I think it understands tone of human voice.\n\n------\ngrawprog\nWhen we were"
+"\nPyjamas: build AJAX apps in Python (like Google did for Java) - soundsop\nhttp://pyjs.org/\n======\ned\nI'd also suggest checking out pyjamas-desktop ( I was told to simply disable UPnP and block port 1900. That's simple enough and I suppose I should reset and upgrade the firmware first. I don't know much about UPnP vulnerabilities. Is it possible that the computers connected to my wifi were compromised?\n======\nloumf\nYes.\n\nAlso all traffic you sent through (meaning a lot of passwords) could have been\nsent somewhere.\n\n~~~\nkylekampy\nThis is an important point. Change your passwords on all your accounts (after\npatching up that hole first, of course).\n\nGood luck!"
+"\n\nTumblr: Hashing Your Way to Handling 23,000 Blog Requests per\u00a0Second - aespinoza\nhttp://highscalability.com/blog/2014/8/4/tumblr-hashing-your-way-to-handling-23000-blog-requests-per.html\n\n======\nsargun\nSo, it looks like they're using BGP to \"program\" the adjacent router a la\n\"SDN.\" I'm curious as to two things:\n\n* Byzantine fault-tolerance: How does this system handle failures when a specific node fails in a way that it fails to withdraw its routes. When a node's haproxy fails, how is BIRD informed of its failure? What if the failure is in some way that internal fault detectors don't see the failure.\n\n* How is the ECMP hashing problem handled? ECMP hashing on most gear is just a plain hash, that means when a route is withdrawn, the rest of the systems see their traffic rebalance. How does this not result in all connections being severed?\n\n~~~\nnbm\nI'm not sure about how Tumblr might do it, but one can use a combination of\nECMP and ipvs (with a consistent hash) to do the lower-layer L4 load\nbalancing. This means that even if one of the L4 load balancers go down and\nthe connections originally going to that L4 load balancer by the switch/router\nget moved to another one, the consistent hash to"
+"\nInvestigating a malware sample which sometimes fails to behave maliciously - Jerry2\nhttps://sentinelone.com/blogs/anti-vm-tricks/\n======\nnighthawk454\n> _evades detection simply by counting the number of documents \u2013 or the lack\n> thereof \u2013 that reside on a PC and not executing if a certain number are not\n> present._\n\nThis is so simple, it's a one line trick:\n\n \n \n Public Function DKTxHE() As Boolean\n DKTxHE = RecentFiles.Count < 3\n End Function\n \n\n> _the typical lack of documents in a ... test environment make it easy ...\n> for malware authors to fly under the radar_\n\nDev environment is dissimilar to prod --> works in dev but not prod. Surprise,\nsurprise.\n\nOriginal blog: [https://sentinelone.com/blogs/anti-vm-\ntricks/](https://sentinelone.com/blogs/anti-vm-tricks/)\n\n~~~\n13of40\nThe funny thing about these is that the obfuscator leaves a billion clues that\ncan tip you off that the macro is malicious, without even having to run it.\nAny human being can tell you that DKTxHE is a bogus name for a function, so\nthe only trick is to implement that detection in code...\n\n~~~\njstanley\n> the only trick is to implement that detection in code\n\nString entropy scoring works surprisingly well for problems like this: build a\ncorpus of function names (scrape it"
+"\nShow HN: Joconut - Smart PJAX jQuery plugin in 1kb - vdemedes\nhttps://github.com/vdemedes/joconut\n======\ngojomo\nI get the benefit of PJAX when you're replacing part of a page. If you're\nreplacing the whole page, how does this beat a real browser load of the exact\nsame data in the same number of hits?\n\n(Is it simply that it saves you the effort of setting your caching headers for\ninline resources properly?)\n\n~~~\nvdemedes\nPartially agree here with you.\n\n------\nsplitrocket\nSeems to break if you have a link without an href.\n\nIt also seems to blow away any previous listeners places on elements. Any\nplans to have callbacks for events so that listeners can be re-bound?\n\nAside from that, looks totally sweet. I'm going to use this in a bunch of\nplaces.\n\n~~~\nvdemedes\nAwful mistake, sorry, completely forgot about that issue. Will be fixed ASAP.\nHowever, there is \"new\" event, which gets fired on every new page. You can\nlisten to it using $.joconut.on, see Readme in GitHub repository at\n So the question is whether you can get high quality translations as the output of fun human computation games. As an example, one can have a two-player ESP Game-like service where each player is shown a web page and a specific sentence to translate. The game would check that all words used are indeed words from the target language. The score obtained would be based on the similarity between the translations submitted by the two players. A variant on this idea only requires players to know the target language. The idea is to use Google Translate say as a first step to produce a rough translation. The two players would be shown an automatically translated web page with a sentence whose translation is to be improved. The game would check that each player submits a translation that is sufficiently different from what Google Translate produced. Again, scoring would be based on the similarity of the translations submitted by the players.\n======\nwallflower\nThe game method sounds"
+"\n\nOpen Source Climate Data - grandalf\n\nEvidently the source data is still available from NOAA. Would anyone on HN be interested in creating a fully open source set of tools for generating a climate data set? The project should simply be a script that expects to find the raw NOAA measurement data in a directory and that outputs a single csv file. The NOAA data availability is mentioned here: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/35233_Did_Climate_Scientists_Destroy_Data_A-_No Anyone interested in collaborating? I'm pretty handy with awk. Over time this could turn into a great resource for climate change research.\n======\nfuruiman\nCheck the Alliance for Global Open Risk Analysis (AGORA)\n\nwww.risk-agora.org\n\nand post there. Maybe there will be people interested to help."
+"\nFacebook Home destroys any notion of privacy - shawndumas\nhttp://gigaom.com/2013/04/04/why-facebook-home-bothers-me-it-destroys-any-notion-of-privacy/\n======\nmattmaroon\nThis is idiotic. For one, it's no secret which apps are popular. Facebook\ndoesn't need a trojan horse to figure that out, they just need to look at App\nAnnie.\n\nFor another, any app with location services permissions can do exactly what\nhe's describing.\n\nAlso what does \"Android allows Facebook to do whatever it wants on the\nplatform, and that means accessing the hardware as well,\" mean? Unless you're\nrolling your own version of Android (is that what's on the HTC First?) that's\nsimply not true. You have access to a few things you don't on iOS but it's not\n\"whatever you want\" if you're putting it in the Play app store.\n\nAs far as I can tell this is just another third party launcher with the same\nprivacy implications as any app that has GPS permissions.\n\n~~~\ndanilocampos\n> As far as I can tell this is just another third party launcher with the same\n> privacy implications as any app that has GPS permissions.\n\nExcept for the part where no other app collects or maintains anywhere near as\nmuch data about your personal history, your friends,"
+"\nThe Lotus Eaters (2013) - benbreen\nhttp://mikejay.net/the-lotus-eaters/\n======\nharry8\nPretty sure Odysseus did listen to the Sirens, lashed to the mast while his\ncrew stopped their ears with beeswax. Contrary to what is reported in this\narticle.\n\nGetting something as basic as a detail from literature wrong when you're using\nit to make your point puts everything else in the article in a shadow of doubt\nfor me. Can I believe what he's saying about kava when he hasn't got basic\nreading comprehension down? I'm probably being harsh, the detail probably\ndoesn't matter. Or is it a \"No yellow m&m's\" in the rock band rider as a\ntelltale for \"do these guys take care about detail?\"\n\n~~~\nmannykannot\nAre you referring to Van Halen's _brown_ M&M rider?\n\n~~~\nharry8\nMaybe, I've heard the story with just about every 80s glam metal band and\nevery m&m color. Maybe one or more of such stories is true?\n\n------\nslowmovintarget\n>> The lotos is a drug, but it stands for something more: the refusal to\nengage with the world of progress and economic productivity, and [the refusal]\nto maintain a society in readiness for war.\n\nThe short version: Hippies gonna hip'.\n\nThe Lotus"
+"\nOur Approach to Privacy - fjk\nhttps://www.apple.com/privacy/approach-to-privacy/\n======\nwyc\nApple sells hardware differentiated by integrated software for premium\npricing. They want to build better and more expensive products through\nsuperior design and quality control. Collecting and analyzing personal data\nisn't the most important thing for their business. They might see more benefit\nby eschewing personal data collection and marketing a privacy-focused message,\nwhich they seem to be doing.\n\nIn contrast, Google and Facebook are companies that sell advertising. The\nvalue they can offer to publishers and advertisers completely relies on how\nwell they know their users. Their competitive moat involves collection of\nproprietary data to continuously improve their products. These are clear\nincentives to be sticky and greedy with your information, but also to keep it\nprivate and proprietary for their own sake.\n\nWith these incentives in mind, I more readily trust Apple when it says that it\nwill not collect my data compared to data conglomerates, and Apple hasn't done\nanything to aggressively betray that idea in its history (to my knowledge).\nCombined with the technical security advantages of iOS, I'm inclined to\nbelieve Apple products to be the least-bad option for the security-minded\ntoday.\n\n~~~\nmirimir\nI do"
+"\nAsk HN: Why can't we solve the app store monopoly problem? - jonas_kgomo\nFor the longest time, application distribution has been generally a sport for big companies like Apple and Google. Why hasn't there been enough innovation in terms of creating alternatives despite a healthy improvement of web application distribution like PWAs(Progressive Web Apps). WeChat uses microapps that help users access a lot of other mobile applications. Some interesting innovation might be Dapps inside the Coinbase Wallet or Status IM. What are some reasons it is futile to take on this marketplace. Most of us here do not want to promote the rhetoric/marketing of DHH but just want to bring attention to important problems that need to be solved.\n======\ncocktailpeanuts\n> Why hasn't there been enough innovation in terms of creating alternatives\n> despite a healthy improvement of web application distribution like\n> PWAs(Progressive Web Apps)\n\nThis is because those who think these solutions will change things have no\nidea where the problem is coming from. Basically they are solving the wrong\nproblem. They must first sit down and think hard about why it is that Apple\nand Google have so much power. It's because they have built products people"
+"\nRate my Startup: SnapBill - Automated recurring billing - qixxiq\nHey guys, We're a small team from South Africa that have finally decided our startup is ready for release (been in private beta here for a while). * Our main focus is on creating Services, and selling them. Once you add a new service to your account, we'll automatically generate signup forms (based on custom fields you specify) and deal with all the monthly invoicing. * We do provide standard invoicing (ala Freshbooks/co) but its not our focus at all and is purely intended for the once-off invoices recurring billing companies need every so often. * We only support PayPal for automated payments at the moment, but more support is coming soon - promise! I'd love to hear any thoughts or comments anyone has. http://www.snapbill.com\n======\npetervandijck\nI am reading the homepage but don't understand why I would use this.\n\nSentences like this don't help: \"SnapBill is an online invoicing and billing\nsystem with service provisioning capabilities.\" Compare with the writing here:\n When you're signing up to a Facebook account, the terms of use ( http://www.facebook.com/legal/terms ) state, in \u00a718(1), that: > If you are a resident of or have your principal place of business in the US or Canada, this Statement is an agreement between you and Facebook, Inc. Otherwise, this Statement is an agreement between you and Facebook Ireland Limited. References to \u201cus,\u201d \u201cwe,\u201d and \u201cour\u201d mean either Facebook, Inc. or Facebook Ireland Limited, as appropriate. So if you're in the USA or Canada, you've a contract with a US company, else, you have a contract with an Irish company, that then has to work under EU Data Protection Laws. But why would Facebook do this? Why not just tell everyone that they have a contract with the US company, and then you don't have to be audited by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (as they recently were). Why would they put themselves through that? (And yes, the corporate tax rate in Ireland is 12\u00bd%, but that doesn't mean that"
+"\n\nRate my startup: Holono, showcase your projects and build a portfolio - ozziegooen\n\nhttp://holono.com/ I'm a EE college student and realized that I needed a website to show off all my projects. After talking with some of my friends I realized that it was an issue a bunch of people had. The site is quite simple; you make pages to showcase all of the projects you have done or are doing. A \"project\" could be electrical research, a startup, an adventure, or anything else you are proud of. As you add things you'll make a pretty portfolio of your accomplishments. I've been working with two other Harvey Mudd students to build the site. None of us knew rails until we decided to give it a go about 4 months ago. So far we've debuted it to our college, but are now opening it up outside of that. We'd really, really appreciate some feedback. The website has taken quite a bit of work but I think could be very useful.\n======\ncodeslush\nI like this - good job on your first Rails project. Similar to about.me, but\nactually much more useful (in my opinion).\n\nVery well done!\n\n------\nsagacity\nClickable: :)\n\n If you are not a burn-your-boat-on-the-shore type of person, how do you go about making the transition to full-time entrepreneur. Is it abrupt or gradual. I'm guessing gradual. As I make the transition, I'm working on building some web applications that I would find of use (language learning, memorization) How many of you look at creating your own startup as a hobby, rather than a business, or as both? What steps (most notably - to expand your comfort zone) do you recommend.? I've heard some crazy advice like lie down in a Starbucks for 10 seconds to desensitize yourself to what you think other people think. I'm thinking seriously of taking a break from my career to learn Spanish in a Latin American country. [http://tinyurl.com/2k2jdf]\n\"First, act more like an entrepreneur at your current job. Be a maverick. Put in longer hours, give yourself a crash course on your company\u2019s operations and strategic goals and, most important, locate a problem outside your realm of expertise"
+"\nNetflix Instant is coming to the entire Linux Community - taylorbuley\nhttp://benjaminkerensa.com/netflix-instant-is-coming-to-the-entire-linux\n======\njerf\nI will believe it when I see it downloadable, I have downloaded it, and used\nit to watch something, and no sooner. You can't put effectively DRM on Linux;\nyou can binary blob whatever you like, but I own the kernel, graphics drivers,\naudio drivers, X Server, and everything else on the system except your lil'\nbinary blob, and it doesn't stand a chance.\n\n~~~\nniels_olson\ner, I don't think they're worried about _you_. They might offer _you_ a job.\n\n~~~\nZachPruckowski\nYou only really need one guy to hack the DRM and it's game over, since (a) he\ncan share how he did it, and (b) he can freely share the decrypted files. Not\nthat it really matters on Netflix since just about everything is already on\nDVD (and thus on torrents since CSS is cracked) anyhow.\n\n~~~\nniels_olson\nExactly. I'm certain the adults in charge know that some level of hacking is\ninherent to the game at this point. My guess is they're treating the set of\nall consumers as another corporation: an entity to do battle with in the\nongoing pursuit of the"
+"\nBrazilian Kids Learn English by Video Chatting With Elderly Americans - felipelalli\nhttp://www.adweek.com/adfreak/perfect-match-brazilian-kids-learn-english-video-chatting-lonely-elderly-americans-157523\n======\njoshmn\nOkay totally unrelated to the open-source stuff BUT.\n\nThat brought tears to my eyes. It was such a joy to see the expressions on the\nfaces of both the Brazilian and the hip elderly person on the other side.\n\nBookmarked under \"Things that will make you smile\"\n\n~~~\nrobmcm\nSomeone could knock up an app using web RTC. A perfect opportunity for some\nhacker out there. Some hacker that reads HN.\n\nThe trick is avoiding it becoming the next chat roulette :/\n\n~~~\nalagu\nHonestly, I don't think building tech here is the hard part. It is finding the\nright audience (Elderly people & Kids who want to learn English)\n\n------\npshin45\nAs someone in another comment already pointed out, YC previously funded a\ncompany called \"Verbling\"\n([https://www.verbling.com](https://www.verbling.com)) in their Summer 2011\nbatch whose original selling point was to provide an instant, one-click 1:1\npairing of language learners with native speakers via videochat.\n\nI'm not sure how well that concept caught on though... And if you check out\ntheir website, they seem to have pivoted to a more traditional \"livestreamed\nlanguage classes\" model.\n\n------\npersonlurking"
+"\nMy view on the current situation of Bitcoin and the Blockchain - chejazi\nhttp://joi.ito.com/weblog/2016/02/22/my-view-on-the-.html\n======\npash\nBrian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase, wrote a blog post [0] today that gives a\nvery different take on things. He criticized Bitcoin Core's development team\nfor their poor communication with the community, for their inhospitality to\nnew contributors, and for their repeated rejection of practical and simple\nsolutions to Bitcoin's immediate scaling problem. He advocated adopting\nBitcoin Classic's short-term fix for full transaction blocks and wrote that it\nis vital in the long term to foster an environment in which multiple\ndevelopment teams can compete to introduce new features and improvements to\nthe protocol.\n\nThere are many people in the Bitcoin ecosystem who, like Brian, feel strongly\nthat if Bitcoin is to survive and thrive, then not only must the blocksize-\nlimit be increased, but the exclusive power to decide the future of Bitcoin\nmust be taken out of the hands of the Bitcoin Core team.\n\n0\\. [https://medium.com/@barmstrong/what-happened-at-the-\nsatoshi-...](https://medium.com/@barmstrong/what-happened-at-the-satoshi-\nroundtable-6c11a10d8cdf#.xw7emyjhh)\n\n~~~\nfsiefken\nYes, but there are also people - like Bram Cohen - who view Coinbase, Bitcoin\nClassic and others as a hostile agents attempting to take over control. Also\nsee: [https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-community-on-\nbrink-o...](https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-community-on-brink-of-"
+"\nInterview With the Man Who Could Destroy Photography - nickb\nhttp://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/06/exclusive-inter.html\n======\nryanmahoski\nI've never seen such hype. Does anyone actually think \"the possibilities are\nendless,\" that this device \"is a prankster's dream\" and \"could destroy\nphotography\"? I am skeptical of the physics described but since I'm not a\ndigicam expert I will just have to trust von Bismarck solved an apparent\nlatency problem. (When my digicam flashes, the fulgerator has to receive that\ninput and respond with its own flash, all before my shutter closes.) Ambient\nand direct lighting would both have to be below normal daytime levels and the\nsubject needs to be dark enough to contrast the fulgerator's light. I wish\nthis guy all the luck due a man caught adulterating vacation photos but I\ndon't see how he has developed a viable tool. Maybe if I followed his \u00fcber\noptics hack, I'd understand the secret implications of his toy.\n\n~~~\ngaius\n\"(When my digicam flashes, the fulgerator has to receive that input and\nrespond with its own flash, all before my shutter closes\"\n\nThis really isn't a problem. People have been using on-camera flashes to\ntrigger studio lighting for decades now. A flash is actually between"
+"\nApply HN: Patron \u2013 Uber for the Service Industry - Patronapp\nPatron- patronapp.org Get Sh*t Done I often find myself not having time to complete chores such as shopping and cleaning. Along with this I found it incredibly costly to hire a maid or caretaker therefore I founded Patron, an app that allows people to post tasks and set their own prices. Well who does the work? I'm doing what no other similar service on the market does, anyone can download the app and complete tasks to earn money. I am hoping to build Patron to be the Uber of the service industry where anyone can be their own boss and work on their own schedule. Right now, I got a completely working application and am focusing on polishing it for publication. How (are you going to make money): We take 10% of the total post cost. Where (are the competitors): UberEats and Taskrabbit are our closest competitors. They all have the issue of quick expansion as they have an actual employee system.\n======\nzelloworld\nIf a customer gets to know a good service provider via you, e.g. a house\ncleaner, they are likely to create a direct relationship with him/her, and\nskip going"
+"\n\nThis site crashes Mac completely if you open it with Chrome - turshija\n\nI don't know who else to ask to try this, but I've noticed that more and more people are reporting that when they visit my portfolio with Chrome (www.turshija.com) their computer crashes completely ...\nI have the same problem with my MacBook Pro with newest stable Chrome, If I open the page, my screen freezes and sometimes I hear weird beeps (same as RAM failure), but that thing happens to almost all Macbooks and iMacs I've tried (to be precise exactly 2 macbooks and 1 iMac) ..\nAnd recently more and more Windows and Ubuntu users started reporting the same problem, but most of them say that they can kill Chrome without reseting PC ...\nI've reported this issue here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=121089\nBut they don't look so interested, even though I think this can be exploited badly, like making invisible iframe on some page or masking it with some url shorteners and make people click on it ...\nThe main problem is that sometimes after crash, my Chrome profile gets corrupted, so I have to reinstall it or delete some files to be able to access bookmarks or"
+"\nWhat career should I choose? - arikr\nhttps://www.quora.com/What-career-should-I-choose-4/answer/Auren-Hoffman?share=1\n======\nspicyusername\nMany of the best careers are ones that have a fairly high degree of\nspecialization and an official and well recognized track for certification.\n\nGrind hard to meet all of the official certification requirements and do your\nbest to immerse yourself in the body of knowledge. Usually this results in a\nlong career full of flexibility and good pay.\n\nExamples: Actuaries. Consultants. Lawyers. Professional Engineers (Civil,\nMechanical, etc). Auto Mechanics. Paramedic.\n\nThere are tons of them off the beaten path if you look for recognized\ncertifications.\n\nAlso look for quality of life not prestige. There are plenty of great \"blue\ncollar\" positions with good pay and work life balance.\n\n------\npurplezooey\n_Your career should be dependent on the timescale that you operate best in._\n\nWhat about the hiring market that pays you best in"
+"\n\nProposed new schedule for JDK 8 - austinbv\nhttp://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8-dev/2013-April/002336.html\n\n======\npswenson\nMy proposed security fix: kill the Java Browser Plugin.\n\n~~~\nmoondowner\nI agree. All the bad rep Java gets is from the Applet 0-day hacks.\n\nJava 8 to deprecate the Browser Plugin, Applets and all related stuff to it,\nand for those who need this technology can use Java 7 and other previous\nreleases.\n\n~~~\nmdmarra\nThen you're going to have all kind of apps stuck on older Java versions\nforever. While I'd love to see it happen, it would be Oracle shooting\nthemselves in the foot with their enterprise customers, which - let's face it\n- is who they actually care about.\n\n~~~\nbradleyjg\nAlthough I don't have numbers, I'm not aware of very many enterprises with\nextensive fleets of java applets. Java in the enterprise tends to be either\nstand alone programs (i.e. Swing), or EJB driven middleware with JSP on the\nfront end.\n\n~~~\nsmackay\nBig chunks of dealing with the government (taxes, etc.) in Portugal are in the\nform of Java applets. I think this is repeated across Europe.\n\nMost of the apps are little more than forms - there's a lot of logic in"
+"\nAsk HN: What are good resources to learn dynamic programming? - gautamnarula\nI understand the basic ideas behind dynamic programming (and I think it's really cool and very useful tool to understand), but I struggle with DP programming on Leetcode and in interviews. Are there any good resources out there for DP? Multiple sources have said that DP feels like "magic" when you don't get it, but once it "clicks" DP problems become very easy. I'm still waiting for it to click.\n======\nLTailor\nWhat is dynamic programming. First, you need know what's recursion for better\nunderstanding. If yes, you can make step #2 :)"
+"\nAshamed to work in Silicon Valley: how techies became the new bankers - beauzero\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/08/ashamed-to-work-in-silicon-valley-how-techies-became-the-new-bankers\n======\nmalvosenior\n> is perceived: as under-regulated, overly powerful companies filled with\n> wealthy tech bros and \u201cbrilliant assholes\u201d\n\nI\u2019m not so sure the industry is \u201cperceived\u201d like this, it\u2019s more like old\nmedia outlets (especially The Guardian and NYT) relentlessly push this message\nand this piece is no different.\n\nI get that technology has destroyed their ability to gatekeep messaging, their\nbusiness model and their prestige but at some point old media attacks become\ntoo transparent and probably have the opposite effect as intended. I think\ntechnologists have reached that point. I don\u2019t know if the general audience\nhas yet but I\u2019ve never heard anyone complain about \u201ctech bros\u201d in real life\n(probably because they don\u2019t really exist).\n\n~~~\nslivym\nIt's perceived like that by me, and I work in the industry. You can take\nLevandowski, Kalanick, Jobs, Zuckerberg, or many others.\n\nIf there's no problem with Brilliant Assholes in technology then why are there\nsuch a clear pattern of them?\n\nPaul Graham has got a no-asshole rule for a reason- and it's not because he\nfinds it difficult to find assholes to fund."
+"\nCars, newspapers and permissionless innovation - aaronbrethorst\nhttp://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2015/9/1/permissionless-innovation\n======\nHtsthbjig\nAgreed. The world simply becomes different.\n\nI had volunteered, as I studied engineering in the past to give 3d classes to\nkids for free. We have PhDs like ObiJuan making videos and releasing them over\nthe net teaching FreeCad, OpenScad, how to do robots and so on.\n\nThe children we teach today (10 ,11,12,13 years old and older) are incredible.\nThey do create their own toys.\n\nWhen this people get to 18 or 20 years old, \"real engineers\" but with no real\nexperience prototyping because it was simply too expensive to fail, will not\nbe able to compete against them.\n\nPeople will be able to prototype their own small cars soon thanks o sharing\nsites like thingiverse, youmagine or github.\n\nThere will be Linus Torvals of hardware soon."
+"\n\nThe Real Problem with Mailbox - capwatkins\nhttp://blog.capwatkins.com/the-real-problem-with-mailbox\n\n======\ntptacek\nAnother alternative to things like Mailbox is not using your email inbox as a\nproject manager at all.\n\nAfter 15 years of abusing my own inbox this way (5172 \"unread\" todos to go!\nyay!), I grabbed a copy of Things.app a few weeks ago, and then swept the last\nmonth of my inbox into Things (skipping everything that wasn't actionable). I\nuse virtually none of the features of Things; it's just a hotkey bound to\n\"create a todo for this email\" with the nice property of linking the todo back\nto the original email. I've played with tagging and projects, but they're not\nnearly as useful as just having a list of todos with checkboxes.\n\nI don't do \"GTD\" or any of that stuff, and I am not a believer in the value of\n\"inbox zero\", but I'm now a convert to the idea that your inbox is a crappy\norganizer.\n\n~~~\nhinting\nMind sharing how you hooked the two apps together? Applescript?\n\n~~~\nkmf\nYep, Applescript. Quick Google search turns up this: [http://smoove-\noperator.blogspot.com/2011/05/gtd-intake-autom...](http://smoove-\noperator.blogspot.com/2011/05/gtd-intake-automation-with-things-and.html)\n\nWorth mentioning that OmniFocus has a built-in tool for this (humorously\ncalled the \"Clip-o-Tron"
+"\nFreedom, the US Government, and why Apple are still bad - zdw\nhttp://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/39999.html\n======\nIBM\nHuh. The fact that Apple are the only ones that can sign software that runs on\nan iPhone may just allow them to defeat the DoJ in court.\n\n[http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-24/apple-\nfbi-...](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-24/apple-fbi-fight-\nasks-is-code-protected-as-free-speech)\n\nApple has indicated that they're going to continue to keep increasing the\nsecurity of their products in the future, which may make it impossible to\nupdate firmware to the Secure Enclave (or at least require the user's\npermission first), but that's actually a weak measure.\n\nI'm not sure why tech people think that technical means to accomplish zero\nknowledge is the holy grail, that will never trump having the law on your\nside. Congress could pass legislation (like CALEA for tech companies) that\nwould require everyone to design their products to make them accessible to law\nenforcement any time they want.\n\n~~~\nspiralpolitik\nAt this point you might as well kiss goodbye to the US tech industry as nobody\noverseas will by anything that has a US government mandated backdoored.\n\n~~~\nIBM\nI'm pretty sure if Congress passes legislation mandating it they can influence\nplenty of non-American businesses by withholding their ability to do"
+"\nThe aliens are silent because they're dead - bemmu\nhttp://phys.org/news/2016-01-aliens-silent-theyre-dead.html\n======\noliwarner\nHow is this news? I'm serious. This is essentially how evolution was taught to\nme some 17 years ago so I'm genuinely surprised to see an article stating this\n\"bottleneck\" as a new theory.\n\nWe exist because of a sequence of scenarios. The probability of that sequence\nhappening elsewhere is rare but given the size and complexity of space, is\nlikely to happen in a similar way elsewhere, at some point in time.\n\nBut it's far more likely that early-stage micro-organisms don't manage to\nevolve. Or other natural extinction-level events occur.\n\nThe headline, that \"aliens are silent\" is very silly. They're only silent in\nthe same way that our native bacteria are silent. Most have no concept of \u2014or\ncapability for\u2014 local communication, let alone interplanetary communication.\nThen they die.\n\n~~~\nbemmu\nI think the new bit was that it is also necessary for life to quickly evolve\nin such a way that it starts to regulate the climate.\n\n------\narc0re\nHaha I don't think humans would be the only species to survive. Its literally\nimpossible, we are so messy and still we managed to survive for a"
+"\n\n[Ask HN]How many of you still uses SKYPE? - neoyagami\n\nIm just wondering (with a friend) if all this surveillance over calls and Skype are just method to get stats on "how many people we piss off" if whe tell that we are spying on them. just to end passing a law to make it legal because "not to many people protest on this" im not from EEUU but this clearly affect me because i sed skype some time ago and now im afraid of just starting it\n======\npearjuice\nIt is non-freedom respecting software so I see no reason why anyone would\nvolunteer to use it."
+"\nWhy You Need a Co-Founder - maxcameron\nhttp://bigbangtechnology.com/post/why_you_need_a_co-founder\n======\nSwizec\nAs a guy who very recently split-up with his cofounder, I can say that having\na cofounder is awesome and much better than going it alone, but if they aren't\nalso a partner and willing to pick up your slack when real life crap is going\non next to the startup crap ... it isn't going to work out.\n\nAlso a word of advice: When crap starts going on, on either end, the proper\nsolution isn't to stop talking to each other for a few weeks.\n\n~~~\nmaxcameron\nTotally appreciate your take on the subject. Yeah, two weeks would constitute\na major breakdown of communication. Do you think it's possible to have\ncontingency plans in place for actual situations like that?\n\n~~~\n9oliYQjP\nThe best contingency plan is to have at least 3 co-founders. This can be an\nasymmetrical relationship at times. But I think you'll find a lot of\nsuccessful companies usually quickly added a 3rd person to the mix early on.\nIt's a matter of semantics whether you want to call them co-founders or not.\nThe point is that they're in there early on before the major successes"
+"\nWu-Tang Clan will sell only one copy of new album - robrenaud\nhttp://pitchfork.com/news/54518-wu-tang-clan-announce-another-new-album-once-upon-a-time-in-shaolin/\n======\nFatalLogic\n>visitors will be charged a price to listen to the 128-minute, 31 song album\non headphones provided by the venue. (Rigorous security checks will discourage\nthe possibility of any illegal recording.)\n\nCould a powered recording device be made small enough to fit in the ear canal?\nSearching for \"In-Ear Binaural microphones\" finds some fairly small devices\n(they require external power and storage, though)\n\n~~~\ntoomuchtodo\nWhat about a remote TEMPEST attack?\n\n~~~\nbloaf\nWhat about a night-shift guard with a male-male audio cable and any device\nwith a microphone jack.\n\n------\nshittyanalogy\n\n 1) They are artists.\n 2) Artists do weird things.\n 3) This will be released.\n a) There's no way they can resist.\n b) They need the ego boost.\n 4) There's nothing illegal about recording it.\n 5) It's only illegal to distribute it.\n 6) It's an experiment.\n 7) They will gain much press.\n\n------\nsebular\nPaying some exorbitant ticket price to sit for over 2 hours in an isolated,\nmonitored environment for a single play-through of a rap album? I can't\nimagine a less enjoyable listening experience.\n\nArtificially inducing scarcity in order to increase value"
+"\nThe 3 Most Common Topics You Hear as a Lyft Driver - stervy\nhttps://medium.com/rideshare-journal/the-3-most-common-topics-you-hear-as-a-lyft-driver-14de5ba064dc\n======\nswframe2\nAs a lyft rider, I am surprised to have had 3 lyft drivers who moved to the\nbay area in the 80s, own several houses and have a net worth of several\nmillion.\n\nThe conversations I have had with lyft drivers have been very interesting.\nBesides the convenience of not having to drive myself, meeting the drivers has\nbeen a wonderful experience. I've learned a lot.\n\nJust today a driver told me: if you are sad, you are too focused in the past,\nstressed ... too focused on the present, anxious ... too focused on the\nfuture.\n\n~~~\nSOLAR_FIELDS\nI've had a few rides with such drivers. Generally they are older and want to\ncontinually experience the world, so they drive so they can talk to people\nabout their life experiences. It's one of the cooler and more positive\nbyproducts of this rapid change in the transport economy that has had much\nmedia coverage of negatives.\n\n------\njaclaz\n>Liked this article? Please subscribe to the newsletter above and recommend\nthe article below!\n\nWhich article?\n\nFor once the title is not click-baity and it is"
+"\nThat Sentimental Feeling: using sentiment analysis as a proxy for plot movement - benbreen\nhttp://www.matthewjockers.net/2015/12/20/that-sentimental-feeling/\n======\nHoushalter\nFirst it's really awesome that human judgement and the sentiment analysis\ntools agree with each other so well. Maybe this was common knowledge, but I\nwas always skeptical of it when I saw it used.\n\nSecond the amount of human hours put into generating all this data must have\nbeen insane. That could have a lot of value to researchers if he'd be willing\nto share it.\n\nThird it's really awesome that the average sentiment changes so much\nthroughout books, making these nice visualizations of the plot. Sentiment is\njust a fairly crude measure. Emotion and tone has many dimensions. I wonder if\nit would be possible to use similar tools to discover them, and get even more\ndetailed statistics on the emotion and tone changes between and within works.\n\n------\nnl\nIt would be interesting if the author had speculated why the correlation for\n_The Lovely Bones_ seems quite a lot worse than the other.\n\nInterestingly, all three methods seems to correlation much worse on that book\nthan the others.\n\nI haven't read it so I can't speculate myself.\n\nEdit, there is"
+"\n\nShow: Bfore.me want to send a handwritten christmas card to world, join them - replayzero\nhttp://christmas.bfore.me\n\n======\nbenwerd\nI'm not sure it's any more personal to have your card be handwritten by a\nstranger.\n\nFor friends and family, a card or a personal letter is really worth taking the\ntime over. For bonus points, you could even make the card yourself.\n\n~~~\nreplayzero\nHi Ben, We are not trying to be insincere, we want to do something fun for\neveryone :)\n\n------\ngobengo\nYou say 'fun and meaningful'. I hear 'unnecessary waste of paper'.\n\nYou're capitalizing on something that is actually harmful at the scope of the\nplanet and race.\n\n------\ntaskstrike\nThe design looks great.\n\nHowever, handwritten makes me think that you can \"draw\" your own message via\nthe mouse rather than typing. I was only allowed to type.\n\n~~~\nreplayzero\nIt would be great if you could give us a share on twitter - This is an epic\nquest, the more the merrier :)\n\n------\njstanley\nWhat is the point in this?\n\n~~~\nreplayzero\nI have a web start up that enables people to send handwritten greeting cards\nwithout an address. We have made it as cheap and"
+"\nAsk HN: What happens to old developers? - darrennix\nIt seems like the overwhelming majority of engineers in the valley are guys in the 22-30 band. What happens at 30? I'm three months away from the big 3-0 and I'd like to know what's going to happen. Will I stop being employable? Will I be expected to put on a tie and stop writing code? I'm tempted to think that tech phenomenon is just so new that the median age of engineers hasn't had time to move up but that doesn't foot... all the guys who were 25 in 1996 are now in their 40s. Are they still writing code?\n======\n7402\nI was shocked by this question. I'm 56 and I've worked at a variety of SF Bay\nArea companies since 1984 as a software engineer. It's been my experience that\nif you love coding and you keep learning new languages and technologies, then\nyou can keep on coding. The other software engineers I work with are in their\n20s, 30s, 40s and 50s.\n\nOver the years, I've participated in probably more than a hundred discussions\nabout job candidates I've helped interview for software engineering positions\nat places I've worked. I have never"
+"\nA janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin\u2019 Hot Cheetos (2017) - andygcook\nhttps://thehustle.co/hot-cheetos-inventor/\n======\narkades\nThis article ends right before the actual interesting part begins.\n\nJanitor takes some food his company produces, adds spices, makes a shitty\npitch deck and profit? Cool, but... this could have easily happened in a dozen\ndifferent configurations and gone nowhere. This is more luck than anything\nelse.\n\nThe interesting story begins _after_ that. This guy didn't end his career\nthere - so, presumably, he was't a one-hit wonder. We have an illiterate\njanitor who suddenly got swept into the orbit of the CEO, without any business\nor operational acumen. He somehow -how??- managed to learn the ways of the new\ntribe, learn business, learn to read and write, learn how to lead a business\nunit, and do it well. This guy came out of nowhere, and had to zero-to-sixty\nfrom manual laborer to - what? executive? What position did they put him in?\nHow did he ramp up? What kind of support did he get, if any? What kind of\neducation did they provide him with, if any?\n\nThere's a long, interesting story between \"janitor\" and \"successful VP\", and\nthey neglected to tell almost any"
+"\n\nIn Praise of Inefficiency: A Manifesto - grellas\nhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704479404575087241182091582.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion\n\n======\npw0ncakes\nThe problem is that we, as a society, _aren't ready_ for the level of\nefficiency that technology is making possible. We don't have the values or the\ntools to survive a society without certain inefficiencies. The worst example\nof this is the tangle of buttfail known as private health insurance. Lobbyists\nfor those companies are fighting to the death against efficiency and progress\n(nationalized health coverage) because, for those firms and their employees,\nthis is a matter of \"life\" (employment) and death (layoffs).\n\nIn 50 years, only a minority will be able to earn a living on a free labor\nmarket. The current economic model (no basic income; minimum wage on which\nit's impossible to live, but that can't be raised to a liveable level without\nexacerbating the unemployment problem) cannot survive this change.\n\n~~~\nlmkg\n> \"In 50 years, only a minority will be able to earn a living on a free labor\n> market.\"\n\nMarxist communism was predicated on this assumption, based on the increasing\nefficiency of industrialism. It's an interesting idea, but historically the\ntrend has been that increased efficiency leads to increased production and\nincreased"
+"\n\nInc. Magazine: Is it crap? - ambition\n\nInc. Magazine brands itself \"The Handbook of the American Entrepreneur.\" I'm curious to know what the Hacker News collective intelligence thinks of it. I recently picked up a cheap subscription to see if there was anything to learn. Topics vary month-to-month, but there are usually case studies on successful entrepreneurs, tactical articles on subjects like marketing or management, and general interest essays. I wonder, though, whether I ought to ignore everything inside and spend that monthly hour elsewhere. There are ads for shady companies. They have annoying 'special advertising features' that pose as articles. The back pages swell with MLM-type scams. It seems like the sort of advertising that would target dreamers and fools instead of busy entrepreneurs looking for tips during downtime. This leads me to question the reputability of the editors and thus any advice inside. Hence this post. What do you think? And if not Inc. etc., where's the high signal-to-noise entrepreneurial reading?\n======\nShooter\nI've had a subscription to Inc. for 10-12 years. I can attribute a great deal\nof time/money savings to things I've learned or found out about in Inc.,\nespecially regarding general management and HR issues. I consider it a"
+"\n\nAtlas Beta Program Launched - wooby\nhttps://atlas-beta.heroku.com/users/new\n\n======\nbonaldi\nI've been playing with this tonight. I had absolutely no problem paying for\nthe beta - I've paid Microsoft and Apple for betas and they need the cash a\nlot less than these guys.\n\nThat said, I wouldn't quite recommend it if you're on the fence or just want a\nquick intro to Cappuccino. It _is_ a beta -- there are a lot of polish issues\nwith the cocoa app, there are some bugs, and these are understandable. But the\nbiggest problem of all is the total dearth of documentation. There is a class\nguide, there are some non-Atlas tutorials, and that's about it. So, for\ninstance, my app template comes up by default with a menubar, but there's no\nobvious way I can see to remove or edit it. MainMenu.cib has no menu in it, so\nI can't even see how to make connections to it and there's nothing to read to\nfind out.\n\nIt's definitely impressive -- that they've done this in JS and running in a\nbrowser is a little marvel. However, I'm pretty used to Xcode and Interface\nBuilder, and in comparison it's really not there. Trying"
+"\nTemperatures in France cross 45\u00b0C threshold for first time since records began - reddotX\nhttps://www.euronews.com/2019/06/28/france-records-highest-temperature-since-records-began-at-44-3-celsius-meteo-france\n======\ntomhoward\nI'm an Australian taking a short European getaway. We're currently in northern\nItaly - Veneto region.\n\nHoly crap it's hot.\n\nHigh 30s every day, and perhaps because the towns consist of stone streets and\nbuildings, and perhaps because there's not much wind, but it feels much hotter\nthan the equivalent temperatures we're used to in summer at home. (Edit:\nOthers have pointed out humidity would be a factor too - perhaps the biggest.\nThat may be the case, though at around 50%, it's not as humid as I've\nexperienced elsewhere, including in Australia at times.)\n\nWe're heading to southern France next week, and the forecasts suggest the heat\nwave will still be in force then.\n\nI mean, no complaints, we're feeling lucky to be here and are still having a\ngreat time, but boy, this is not what you expect in Europe.\n\n~~~\nTade0\nFor such weather I recommend Trento. Even though the temperature is the same\nas everywhere, the city itself is filled with greenery - I was there last week\nand comparing to e.g. Bologna it was much more bearable.\n\nAlso"
+"\nIn-App Purchase Scams in the App Store - okket\nhttps://daringfireball.net/2017/06/in-app_purchase_scams_in_the_app_store\n======\nfred256\nSee also the discussion at\n[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14526156](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14526156)\n\nI just can't fathom why any $5k/year in-app subscription should be legitimate.\n\n~~~\nkranner\nYou think an app can't provide more than $5000 in value to a customer in a\nyear? Under any circumstances? Any kind of app?\n\n~~~\ndanielhooper\nIt should be enough to raise a flag for someone at Apple to thoroughly review\nthe app before approving it for release. Not to mention that software worth\n$5,000/yr isn't often, if ever, paid for through an app store.\n\n------\ndkarapetyan\nIsn't it in Apple's financial interest to look the other way? The scam\ngenerates money for Apple so the incentives here are misaligned.\n\n~~~\nUnfalseDesign\nI highly doubt that these apps are generating such a significant amount of\nincome for Apple (when taking into account their entire income from the App\nStore) that they would consider looking the other way."
+"\n\nWhere the White People Live - cobralibre\nhttp://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/04/where-the-white-people-live/390153/?single_page=true\n\n======\npaulhauggis\n\"Still, it's the poor areas, rather than the areas where whites have self-\nsegregated, that get the most attention from policymakers, who have sought to\nameliorate concentrated poverty in segregated areas by moving families from\nblack, urban areas to white suburbs. Beginning in 1989\"\n\nIt's not just whites that have 'self-segregated', it's anyone that wants to\nlive and raise their kids in an area that isn't full of illegal drugs,\ncriminals, gangs, and people that can't or won't take care of their own\nproperty.\n\nI refused to subject my family to these areas and I don't care if it looks\nlike I'm \"self-segregating\". I'm not going to allow someone's poor life\nchoices to dictate my life path.\n\nI lived in a neighborhood where this happened (government subsidy allowed the\npoor to move into a middle-class neighborhood at a fraction of the cost).\n\nSkin color didn't matter. 9 times out of 10, the house ended up trashed with\ngarbage or kids toys all over the lawn. It was un-kept and none of the rules\nof the neighborhood were almost ever followed.\n\nWe shouldn't be blaming anyone for actually having a nice"
\", it is \"convert some text to html\", and this function may lead to\nthink that it does that, when it only does a tiny fraction of that. And that's\nhow injections are born.\n\n~~~\njiggy2011\nIf you're dealing with ascii plaintext the main significant difference is how\nit deals with new lines vs HTML.\n\nThe function never purports to do anything other than convert newlines to BR\ntags.\n\n~~~\ntolmasky\nWhat is being suggested is that the plaintext may contain a random html tag\n(Perhaps if supplied by a user, or perhaps because that tag is meant to be\ndisplayed as plaintext as well. The reason doesn't rally matter, \"tags\" in any\nsituation are"
+"\n\nZed Shaw on Python - inklesspen\nhttp://www.zedshaw.com/blog/2008-03-02.html\n\n======\ninklesspen\nI like the following quote:\n\n\"I also still haven\u2019t figured out why the fuck I was backing Ruby when the\nPython guys clearly did a way better job at building their community and\ninfrastructure. I kind of feel like I backed the wrong horse completely.\"\n\nAs a Python fan, this makes me happy.\n\n~~~\nanewaccountname\nThat's like being happy about an endorsement from Louis Farrakhan. I denounce\nand reject Zed's endorsement.\n\n------\njackdied\nThe Python community has the advantage of being older. The fanboys (if there\nwere any) have moved on or calmed down. The libraries and documentation have\nhad more time to be beefed up. A few years can make a lot of difference.\n\n------\ntx\nAfter a year of Ruby programming I am in the middle of learning Python. The\nlanguage part seems very easy (the \"mechanics\" of programming process) but\n\"thinking in Python\" part suggests that Ruby is a significantly higher level\nlanguage. Once I will have spent some more time with Python I may realize I\nwas wrong.\n\nWhy switch, you ask? Well, I am not switching, it's just another project where\nquality of language implementation matters,"
+"\n\nRoy \u2014 small functional language that compiles to JavaScript - paulmillr\nhttp://roy.brianmckenna.org/\n\n======\nMiky\nIt makes me sad that having monad sugar is now just a given feature for a\nfunctional language.\n\nEspecially when that language has unrestricted side effects and the example\ncode using the monad syntax uses those side effects, completely obviating the\nneed for, and in fact rendering useless, monads as used in the example.\n\nThis is cargo cult programming at its worst. Including monad sugar because\nit's the thing to do, without even understanding what monads are or why\nthey're useful. This is quite clear from the \"tracing monad\" example code.\nThis \"tracing monad\" is like the Writer monad, stripped of all utility and\nsense.\n\nWhat drove you to unleash this horror on the programming masses, Moggi? Why\nhave you cursed us so?\n\n~~~\npufuwozu\nThe example sucks but is very simple.\n\nI didn't add monadic sugar just to be part of the \"cargo cult\". I added it\nbecause I'm eventually going to use it to implement an automatic continuation-\npassing transform. I've done a similar thing before with ClojureScript's\nmacros:\n\n
\nA written test version asks for 3 digits after the dot; in person interview version - for 2. Write Pi in a hex base\n.\nHowever, when displayed, line feed characters (\\n) are converted to\n\"\\n
\\n\", which turns into three blank lines in a pre. So when editing, you\nneed to make sure you use
and never any real \\n's.\n\nTo start a line with spaces, you have to use \" \" when editing. You should\nalso convert all double spaces \" \" to \" \" if you want them to be\ndisplayed nicely.\n\nThat's how I lined things up in my profile.\n\nThe idea is that you select the PGP signed text, and then paste it into \"gpg\n--verify\". This works fine in Firefox and Chrome, but when you copy the data\nin IE, the clipboard version contains no \\n chars. If I could have used \ninstead of this problem wouldn't have manifested. The profile editor\nwouldn't let me do that though.\n\nI wish \"copy\" behaviour was consistant across browsers, when copying from a\nweb page.\n\n~~~\nilldave\nI am really impressed that you did that :)\n\nI'll make"
+"\n\nPosterous (YC S08) launches group blogs that are also email lists - rantfoil\nhttp://mashable.com/2009/05/05/posterous-email-lists/\n\n======\njonas_b\nI'm not sure, but this, or some evolution of this feature, could turn out to\nbe a real revolution when it comes to group collaboration and sharing.\n\nOr it might just be another feature, or that I'm trying to see something that\nisn't there.\n\nI've been searching for a merge between this, Chatterous and possibly etherpad\nfor small-group collab. Alas, it eludes me still.\n\n~~~\nrantfoil\nWe're definitely excited about the potential for this feature to grow into its\nown product!\n\nYou can expect improvements to this coming fast and furious.\n\n------\nzaidf\nThis is ridiculously awesome and the exact feature we needed few months ago.\n\nWe started a blog for our larger extended family(50+ people) so there is a\nsimple place for all our family communication. Yet a lot of the people in our\nfamily know only rudimentary use of the computer--and that means email. So the\nblog idea didn't quite work out and we're back to emailing--which is\ndisorganized but works.\n\nWith this we can get the best of both worlds! Communicate via email, archive\non a blog!\n\n~~~\nrantfoil\nWould love"
+"\nInequality and Democratic Responsiveness (2005) [pdf] - clarkevans\nhttps://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/inequality_and_democratic_responsiveness.pdf\n======\nEarthIsHome\nEvery few years the oppressed get to vote on who we want to oppress us.\n\nIt's a very powerful illusion to placate the masses by tricking us into\nthinking that our voices are being heard and we are participating in a\ndemocracy.\n\nAn excerpt from Howard Zinn's \"A People's History of the United States\":\n\n> We have here a forecast of the long history of America politics, the\n> mobilization of lower-class energy by upper-class politicians, for their own\n> purposes. This was not purely deciption; it involved, in part, a genuine\n> recognition of lower-class grievances, which helps to account for its\n> effectiveness as a tactic over the centuries.\n\n^^ This was in the lead-up to the American revolution where the upper-class\nneeded to gain support from the lower-classes. The wealthy colonists were able\nto redirect the lower-class's ire from wealthy colonists to the British. One\nway of gaining support was allowing some lower-classes to participate in\npolitics or give some of them land. However, the concessions given to the\nlower classes by the upper classes never materially change the power dynamics.\n\nA contemporary example of this"
+"\n\nGoogle instant previews - rbarr\nhttp://www.google.com/landing/instantpreviews/\n\n======\nterryjsmith\nI'm beginning to miss Marissa Mayer's axe on things on the main search page. I\nthink Google's primary advantage for a while now has been cleanliness of\nresults (as the difference in relevance between search engines has slimmed);\nthey're opening themselves up to a competitor with a better design/flow by\ncontinuing to cram these \"useful\" items in.\n\n------\nrgrieselhuber\nSo far, it's been one of the goddamndest annoying things I've ever seen on the\nserp.\n\n------\nzachster\nThis has been Snap.com 's competitive advantage for years. I suppose Google\ngave them enough of a head start for them to make something of it if they were\ngoing to. Theirs is certainly more mature though. And they have a JS include\nyou can place on your site to enable this sort of image preview on all\nexternal links.\n\nTheirs customizes the preview type depending on the content. For example,\nlinks to stock information shows a little quote and graph preview.\n\n~~~\nharrybr\nTo call it a \"competitive advantage\" is stretching it a bit. It's a feature,\nthat much is unarguable.\n\nI'd say that the snap.com UI probably falls into the \"Hover and cover\""
+"\nElections are bad for democracy - kawera\nhttp://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/29/why-elections-are-bad-for-democracy\n======\njerf\nYou know, there is so much \"Blah blah blah\" about how bad democracy is,\nimplicitly in context because \"I think it came to the wrong conclusion\" (which\nI , that I really expected the article to segue into something that basicaly\namounted to \"elites should just be given the power\". I expected all the blah\nblah was trying to obfuscate this. But that's not where it went.\n\nIf you are interested in reading the whole article, please be my guest, but if\nyou'd like to jump to the payload, use your browser search for \"sortition\".\n\n(Though I can't help but point out the article undercuts its own premise\naccidentally. The EU, to the extent that it is even a democracy, is certainly\nsubject to the exact same flaws described in the first half of the article!\nTherefore, logically, the decision to leave an organization where democracy is\nfailing must not be so bad, even if it was made by a process that was itself\ndemocratically flawed. This does not \"destroy the argument\", in the parlance\nof the day, but it weakens this particular vote being used as the hook for"
+"\nInterviewing is a noisy prediction problem - amrrs\nhttps://erikbern.com/2018/05/02/interviewing-is-a-noisy-prediction-problem.html\n======\njaabe\nI work in a Danish municipality with 7000 employees where we replace around\n2000 people each year of which half are education-interns[0]. So I think it\u2019s\nfair to say that we have a good deal of experience with hiring people. I\u2019ve\nbeen involved with quite a few of these processes, and I\u2019m truly fascinated by\nhow many resources and how much effort Americans seem to put into hiring.\n\nOur data shows that if you filter by education, then it\u2019s actually relatively\neasy to hire someone who will perform well. If you get 100 applicants and pick\nthe best 10 based on their A4 sized application letter, their education\nresults and their CV, then you\u2019ll typically end up with a pile of at least 10\npeople who are going to be good enough. Hell once you build that pile of 10\npeople, you don\u2019t even have to read through the rest of the applications\nbecause it really won\u2019t matter.\n\nI say this fully aware that hiring the wrong person is the most expensive\nmistake any manager can make. It\u2019s just that people aren\u2019t really unicorns,\nand good enough is good"
+"\nAll Apple stores could close for 30 days in Italy over warranty case - imaginator\nhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/02/apple_italy_closure_warranty/\n======\nraquo\nApple's disregard for local laws is not specific to Italy. A warranty repair\nfrom Apple in Russia would have taken \"a few months\", way more than the\nallowed maximum of 21 days. I had to send my laptop to US with a friend for\nrepairs.\n\n------\nrmc\n_Italian law states that consumer electronics devices must be sold with a two-\nyear free warranty_\n\nFor the record, this isn't just Italian law, but it EU law. All half a billion\n(or so) people in the EU can benefit from this sort of protection.\n\n~~~\nmkaltenecker\nNope, they can\u2019t. Local implementations differ wildly.\n\nIn Germany, the burden of proof reverses after six months (i.e. after six\nmonths the buyer has to proof that a defect was present when they bought the\nproduct \u2013 I have not idea how you can do that short of hiring some sort of\nexpert), making the two year warranty basically useless. No company will do\nanything for you after six months.\n\nAlso, I can very much understand why Apple found itself in the situation it is\nin Italy. In"
+"\nWhy Do Americans Hate Android And Love Apple? - treskot\nhttp://readwrite.com/2013/01/29/why-do-americans-hate-android-and-love-apple\n======\nmikecane\nIn America, people were burned badly by a bunch of Android craptabs two years\nago. For example, the now-gone Borders sold the hell out of the Cruz Tablet,\nwhich was simply a piece of shit. The parade of craptabs have continued, with\nArchos producing a Retina-class tablet -- the 97 Titanium -- that is simply\njunk.\n\n------\nZigurd\nMight be a simpler explanation: iPhone had the longest head-start in the US.\n\nUsers, developers, and designers all have an iPhone bias because, for a few\nyears, it was the only new-generation smartphone.\n\nFor many users, there is simply no reason to switch. iPhone is a really nice\nproduct.\n\nTablets are a more-competitive situation. I can see someone switching to a\nNexus 10 or Asus from an iPad. But there, again, Apple has a huge head start,\nand many users will find too little reason to switch."
+"\n\nSimple but Interesting Features of VS2010 and C# 4.0 - yread\nhttp://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/VS2010InterestingFeatures.aspx\n\n======\nnumlocked\nI think the only one of these that's innovative enough to be of interest to\nnonusers of C# + VS is the DataTips. It's basically a small watch window you\ncan pin anywhere in the code, almost like a sticky note. You can pin any\nnumber of them, anywhere in the code, and they scroll around and are visible\nwhen viewing source & debugging. They remain in place between debugging\nsessions (presumably stored in the VS project file). Seems extremely useful.\nDefinitely better than setting up and tearing down watch expressions all the\ntime.\n\n~~~\nmendicant\nYup. There's so many of these that are either irresponsible (Hiding code) or\nof limited usefulness (IsNullOrEmpty) or too limited to be truly useful (Named\nParameters).\n\nHiding Code: I've got an idea. If you've got to hide code, maybe it _doesn't\nbelong in that class_. Single responsibility people.\n\nString.IsNullOrEmpty(): Wow! Thanks MS for saving me from writing one 4 line\nhelper method. What would be useful is if you provided these helpers for the\nother 90 that I need every project. Seriously, any C# dev can provide you with\ntheir"
+"\nMacintosh.js: Mac OS 8 as an electron app - PStamatiou\nhttps://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js\n======\ndmitrybrant\nI really struggle to not be an Electron hater, but... why, oh why??? Basilisk\nII is already a thoroughly cross-platform piece of software that runs\nbeautifully as a native Windows/Mac/Linux app. What can possibly be the appeal\nto re-compile Basilisk into Javascript, so that it runs at less than half the\nspeed, packaged in a full Chromium/Node installation?\n\nThe total download size of the native Basilisk II is about 8 MB (not counting\nyour disk image). The size of this Electron monstrosity is about 180 MB! I\nfeel like I should be wearing a straitjacket. Does no one else see things\ngoing terribly wrong?"
+"\n\nPetition to put Alan Turing on the next \u00a310 note - dave1010uk\nhttp://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/31659\n\n======\nj_baker\nI think I speak for everyone here when I say that Turing's bill should be a\npower of two. I think Turing should get a \u00a35.12 bill.\n\n~~~\nacheron\nMaybe it's \u00a310 in binary.\n\n------\ntwiceaday\n\"Turing's homosexuality resulted in a criminal prosecution in 1952, when\nhomosexual acts were still illegal in the United Kingdom. He accepted\ntreatment with female hormones (chemical castration) as an alternative to\nprison. He died in 1954, just over two weeks before his 42nd birthday, from\ncyanide poisoning. An inquest determined it was suicide\"\n\n\"On 10 September 2009, following an Internet campaign, British Prime Minister\nGordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British\ngovernment for the way in which Turing was treated after the war.\"\n\nPutting him on the money would further the apology.\n\n~~~\nJabbles\nI don't want Turing put on a note as \"an apology\". There are thousands\n(millions?) of people who have been mistreated by unjust laws in British\nhistory, of which Turing's case is sadly not the worst example. Turing's\naccomplishments in Computer Science and the help he gave the Allies in"
+"\n\nAsk HN: What is happening on Mt. Gox right now? - ljd\n\nhttp://www.bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/\nI'm not sure if anyone has been watching but someone is buying 729.2489 BTC at 850. Which wouldn't be unusual if it wasn't following by an exact buy of 135 of 775 right after. This cycle has happened, with the exact same amounts for the past 30 minutes and I don't know what to make of it. It's just in a loop. The market won't move either way.