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Why not take on the criticism, polish some points and make it clear about focused results, etc, (different sized icons for different Zagat scores, etc) and pitch it to a London-based newspaper rather than take over the world.

You could have a lot of advantages being London based, given the concentration of people and wealth, solving a specific case rather than a general case.
I guess I have less diverse browsing habits than you guys. I use noscript very happily. I whitelisted what I need for sites that I use years ago and most things I do now "just work" (most is ~95% the other things I temporarily allow). When e.g. a job application needs a javascript heavy online test I open up another profile with no addons and use that profile for that that thing. Based on experiences using browsers without noscript I think that the "faff time" (for me) from doing what I do is less than the "waiting for excessive javascript" and "figuring out that this site has overriden scrolling/back button".
This is completely normal, and we call it "practise".
It might remove the visual part of it but your cookies still gets sent all over the place.
Not yet, but should be released today.
The title was already at the limit of the # of chars. I had to strip out quite a bit to get it to fit as it is (including one space that really ought to be there).
New Elevated Cycle Track in Copenhagen
Internet is only possible by satellite on the oceans. Meaning its very expensive and not really high-speed. Better to rent that 5-star suite in a big city ;-)
> Instead, the corporation's income or losses are divided among and passed through to its shareholders. The shareholders must then report the income or loss on their own individual income tax returns.

That's not what I imagine when reading "zero taxes".
> Aren't you then just effectively shifting your choice of trusted provider from ISP to VPN?

Yes, but that's okay. Privacy is part of the VPN market's value prop; companies in that space compete on it, unlike ISPs.
Cracking work!
Some cities have created public-owned ISPs like Chattanooga's fiber network (community fiber[1]).

You could also become your own ISP.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/hate-your-isp-maybe-yo...
from [the store](https://www.consumerphysics.com/myscio/order):

$249/ $449 for the dev kit.

> Expected shipping date: March 2016

Sadly, no mention of (F)OSS anywhere on the site.
Same in Chrome for Android.
> family in tow.

That does change things a bit.

Like I said, often there are some good reasons sometimes many good reasons. But as a stereotype, in the US people will have lots of material possessions, most of which are crap.

I know the comfort of having your own things that have been with you throughout the years, and everything is exactly how you're used to them. I do miss the feeling, and will eventually settle down somewhere, or at least settle down my "things" somewhere.

I still couldn't resist pointing out that being geographically mobile is a viable option, even if it does require some effort, planning and certain trade-offs.

And it isn't totally binary, it's a scale from "living out of one luggage-sized suitcase" six flags -style, through being able to pack up and leave on a week's notice, to having planned a lifestyle around moving every couple of years, to having deep roots etc..
Rates are very low, but the example given of Rotterdam to Shanghai is a bit misleading. There is much less demand in that direction than the other way, but the ships still need to get to Shanghai to pick up all those toys for the children of Europe. I'd expect the price the other direction to be more than double that.
It's interesting how tcp/ip is pretty much taken for granted. Of course you could run SLIP over that serial port ;)

Just the other day I was bitching about how it is easier to drive a printer than a relay from a present day computer, the answer I got back was 'can't you use an arduino?'...
C&P seems noticeably slower than magnetic stripe at the moment. Possibly due to stores still running their POS on PSTN connections. I wouldn't be surprised if some places were still using stripes to avoid slowdowns at checkout.
This is a really solid response.

I'm a Pharmacologist and I've worked in a number of Biotechs. I have been part of pricing discussions to value our drugs and your assessment is correct — price discrimination, as in most industries, is based on what a particular market can bear. Factors that influence this are the way that healthcare systems are run (i.e. public healthcare, insurance based), the cost of compliance and competition. I wouldn't say that the industry subsidises poor countries via sales in the developed world, it's more a case of it's better to be paid something rather than be paid nothing. I personally, however, do like the happy side-effect this has for patients in poor countries.

Increased regulation costs more to comply with and that cost of course is born by the consumer. The cost of regulatory compliance also varies on the market you sell to, the US being one of the most expensive. Just as with software or hardware, the price reflects the cost of production and maintaining the product.

Notably with biologics (Insulin, any hormone ...) as opposed to small chemical entity (paracetamol, aspirin etc) is that broadly they are harder to keep in their stable active form. The are heat sensitive, chemically sensitive and have a tendency to stick to themselves. This tends to increase the cost of storage, logistics and compliance. It also means that if you can make a worthwhile biologic it will generally experience less competition.
Aptly named.
Travel in a container.
Its probably just a load of bollocks. Maybe he rented a room for a launch meeting or something.
The .gif shows that fb already knows your CC number.

I'm curious about how many people have given fb such information? None of the people I know have done that.
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That's exactly the point. The reason they don't want to be a dumb pipe, is because they want to use that to justify increasing their ARPU.
I attended several BBSCon which was a BBS conference sponsored by BoardWatch magazine. It later morphed into ISPCon.

Chuck Forsberg was a featured speaker from the beginning at BBSCon. Here's audio of him talking with Ward Christensen, inventor of XModem as well as CBBS which was the world's first BBS.

https://archive.org/details/93bbscon-bbshistory

BBSCon was a small and intimate conference and I got to meet Chuck, John Dvorak and Peter Tattam who were all heroes of mine.
The header and people's reactions makes it seem Comcast will just do this on a whim as if it's inspecting the page you visit and deciding on the page to display the warning or not. If you read the screenshot, it's just a notice that someone filed a complaint against your IP, and Comcast is alerting you via email, maybe phone, maybe even a letter, and now your web browser. One might argue whether it's better they redirect you to a Comcast Message Page on their own domain one time. One might argue that this is a "feature" on the level of Comcast DNS servers that "helpfully" forward your bad domains to a search engine instead of giving a proper server not found response.

Don't want to receive these messages from Comcast? Don't seed your torrents.
It's Facebook's responsibility to manage that. If it becomes a problem, users will stop trusting Facebook and it will damage their brand. Facebook is assuming the risk and reward of building this.
Computer Pundits Can Help Conquer ISIS as App Makers Shut Down Their Stations
For a while in the 90s Japanese companies had NODs for exactly the same reason Olsen gives: they didn't want to admit that they were firing people. The form varied, but typical examples would be an assignment to guard a tree or wait in a specified room for someone to give you work. The idea was to enforce isolation, boredom and loss of status to the point where the unfortunate employees would voluntarily quit; a kind of 9-5 solitary imprisonment.

Its actually a really brutal method of downsizing without paying redundancy money. Be careful what you wish for.
How is this realizing microtransactions in a decentralized manner?

Having to pay a few cents in transaction fees to get a transaction included on the Bitcoin blockchain does not seem like a great platform for true microtransactions(say <$1).

21 offers their own microtransaction service, but that's just a centralized shared wallet/ledger that offers nothing new. There are multiple centralized services where you can send someone else bitcoin.

The only thing that has potential is payment channels, but I'm not sure how they are going to be implemented in a way that bypasses the Bitcoin blockchain's miner fee.
Hacker News's law of Betteridge's law is even more accurate:

"Any submission that ends in a question mark will contain at least one comment referring to Betteridge's law."
> I'm amazed I get -1 for that post; scp is clunky as hell when you already have a shell in 'that' directory; and it'll only work if you have /direct/ access to the machine you are logged in, and that's rarely the case if you first connect to a front end machine.

I did not downvote you, but setting up a port forward (-L) or SOCKS proxy (-D) on the first machine is very easy and extremely flexible. I do it all the time.

You can also do some tricks in ssh_config to route through the first machine (this is non-obvious, I'll grant). I do "ssh <secondmachine.whatever.tld>.<hopmachine>", and then I transparently connect from my workstation to the secondmachine, through the hopmachine. This is also more secure as the hop machine is just a dumb transport for data.

> I'm an embedded dev as well, and I use zmodem everyday. I have boards that have no network, just a serial port, and I can upload an executable, download the log from just the debug console.

Absolutely, zmodem is still very useful for serial links, and they are very common in embedded devices.

I really doubt there's any reason to use zmodem over SSH other than convenience if you happen to know it better than the alternatives.
Introduction to REBT (Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy)
That's not the sort of test you'll be able to do with this device. Pills tend to be opaque for one, and the contamination may very well be too small to detect anyway.
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Comparing it to Cancer is not really fair. Compare it to other violent murders for a fair comparison. Do the police kill more or less than regular criminals who aren't wearing uniforms?
> interview trick questions that a CS degree give you aren't very useful at all in the real world

Usually trick questions aren't the one that you expect in real world, because they're trick questions. Nevertheless, it's very easy to consider a question being tricky, while it might be just a good check of your understanding of a given technique or algorithm.

> And you won't be that annoying guy in every meeting talking about Big O notation instead of actually solving the issue at hand.

Talking Big O is the very exact thing that you should discuss before solving (coding) the issue. It's only annoying if you do that instead. Please, do not underestimate this.
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Sorry a bit of a late reply, your right.

I should have been more clear mentioning from 4.4 onwards you can debug a webview in a app(for all those hybrid apps).
that is completely immaterial to dang's comment, which still stands: if the user had suggested a better title, instead of complaining about the current title, dang would have simply changed the title to the better one, here on hacker news, for this community's benefit.
Perhaps they didn't have a spare meeting room without disrupting other teams?

When need be, my company book a shared meeting room in our office building for days or weeks at a time. It's not the Marriott, but it is pleasant, and at around 25 Yuan (that's $4) per hour including internet and chairs / desks / projector / internet / stage / windows, it is pretty nice, and plenty big enough with each room at around 120 square meters in size.
LG G5 would be all in metal
Yep, webpass is greatest thing ever.. and there's also sonic.net and paxio.com and gowaveg.com depending on where you are too.
I would be interested to see a follow-up to that post. It looks like 3, 4, and 7 are well underway in a number of companies.

What are the current batch of insanely ambitious ideas?
I smell a credit bubble that has put too many ships on the market.

See also this Article about an advertising bubble where there is "There's more money being made from advertising than consumers are putting in."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10572863
I think 'every pub' is a bit of a stretch, I've seen a good few missing just from a quick glance at the map.

Apart from that, I do love these type of projects. People who see a story of a guy following something manual (a book) and thinking "Hmmm, I wonder if I could make something to help with that/do that for me"
To pay taxes there has to be a profit first. The concept of a startup in general is complete focus on fast growth: every penny earned, borrowed, received is invested and therefore no profit is made. So most startups will not pay taxes anyway, wherever they are.

I think a well developed tech culture and VC companies for example are more important.
Scientist quits antimissile panel, saying task is impossible (1985)
Hehe you'd be /amazed/ how much smaller the kernel gets it you don't put in IPv4/6 -- and let me tell you, when you upload via uart, every little helps :-)

My fav method is to build a kernel with just busybox using my minifs [0], making sure I have kexec support in that kernel.

Once booted, I can upload a new kernel via zmodem, and kexec straight into the new kernel. Rince, repeat!

You can also use zmodem to upload new binaries to a system, even if it's an initramfs, without having to do a full rebuild/reboot. Quite handy.

[0]: https://github.com/buserror/minifs
Good point!

The tagline on the main page says:

"Botwiki.org is a site for showcasing friendly, useful, artistic online bots, and tools and tutorials that help you make them."

But if you just land on this page, you really have no idea what the site is for. Thanks, I'll update this!
> Being able to hire whoever you want is am important liberty.

Being an important liberty does not mean that it is necessarily a good idea. What (kind of "scientific") experiment would convince you that computers are better at hiring than people?
I don't get why using moped share makes him faster.
Tunisia also has no tax until you reach a certain threshold. I also guess no taxman will be interested in you until you reach some threshold. Taxes aside, there are many other things to consider if you want to run an Internet company.

- Internet connection.

- Internet and Digital Laws.

- Banking Options.

- Administrative complications.

- Accounting and Legal infrastructure.

- Office space, living costs, labor work-force...
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A new experimental NEWS APP which aims at changing the whole media industry
I think that the first paragraph should be like this:

Do you understand, why we're using second normal form? Do you understand why all mu-recursive functions can be formed from those three basic functions? Do you understand, why A* works? Do you know, why we're storing those things during a context switch? Are you worth your salt as a programmer?
VDSL2+, which is rolling out next year, is even supposed to handle 500/200 – in some areas T-Online has been testing it, and supposedly it works (but it means you have to be less than 100m from the box).
Which, if the algorithm makes sense, will lead to better employees - do you think this is bad?
Wow, yeah, not surprised at all lol.

DARPA is doing the same pretty much with some stuff going on at MIT in neuroimaging… so i hear… :P

And there's a lab in Wisconsin that's sucking up 10's million of dollars from private foundations of which a co pi of that lab visited ours to tell us about their soon to be created public outreach arm… on top of the questionable custom eeg head cap for dual/eeg frmi thats close to a million who knows nothing about e&m, who I confronted directly about that while getting the backing from the senior research scientist (who is on a visa…) in my lab whose phd is in soft condensed matter physics who worked on SQUIDs at yale, who is now conveniently "volunteering" most of the time doing mobile apps for some company attached to our lab who wrote most of the code for the system people saw Anderson Cooper hooked up too on CNN not too long ago… but you'll never hear about him over others trying to capture 100% of what they think is the only opportunity now.

#WhatAFuckingJokeThingsAre and this is why things are due for a shake up lol
"De minimis" (minimal) changes won't create a derivative work. What counts as "de minimis" has been debated extensively, but sales stickers certainly do.

Creating derivative work is only illegal if you do it without permission from the copyright owner of the original work.

I don't know what you mean by "doesn't seem very valid". It is the law [1].

Annotations normally create a derivative work. That being said, annotations often end up being covered by fair usage (fair dealing in the UK).

[1] 17 U.S. Code § 106 (2) https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/106
There are kind of two halves to that idea - towing a barge rather than having a single big ship, and using some space for cruise passengers rather than cargo.

For the first half, it sounds like a clever way of getting around the Panama Canal lock size limits, so I can only assume there are good reasons not to - maybe towing a barge across the ocean is too dangerous given the kind of storms you get there?

For the second thing there's plenty of competition from large purpose-built cruise ships (e.g. Oasis of the Seas is bigger-than-panamax). So I doubt space on a cargo ship would be competitive with space on a dedicated cruise ship. Fundamentally the cruise industry is subject to the same issues of overbuilding and consolidation.
This is basically a solved problem for supersonic ammunition (not fired from a silenced weapon): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomerang_%28countermeasure%29 (not to suggest in any way that the proposal is practical on a wide scale).
So the solution to this problem is to break up large trades then? Isn't this decreasing liquidity and if so, how big of a problem is that? Seems like trading a large amount of anything has always been challenging.
I can't agree more. I was just saying something similar in the thread on mobile JS framework loading performance. The browser has reached a critical stage where the Jekyll/Hide impersonation has got to stop. There needs to be separate modes in the browser, application/content, or there needs to be separate browsers. The evolution of JS as a decorative language has reached its ultimate end: it's no longer just decorative and instead is now devouring and devaluing the host content it was supposed to originally enhance. But, at the same time, it's usefulness for zero-install client-side applications cannot be ignored and it needs a platform also.
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Sampling isn't legal anymore.
Amazon offers two-factor authentication for your account
Yes I've heard about it. It was even mentioned in "Silicon Valley" TV series. I guess it did the trick before internet era. Now you can be paid for looking at cute cat pictures whole day ;) Joking aside I was skeptical about this being a way to force someone to quit, but after some unbelievable boring projects I totally get this. You just cannot for longer time periods just play billiard, table football, browse HN.
Nope – and most banks even publicly warn that using the service means you lose the money-back guarantee for transactions.
Makes different people do different things in response. Idle hands, etc. Throw in unwelcoming locals, radical preachers in the community, stories of oppressive foreign governments on your home turf, etc and I can see how idle youths find a call to arms appealing.
Same here - I can see how it might be cheaper than running a non-electric moped, and thus increase his weekly takings.

Maybe other delivery drivers are using cars and thus get stuck in traffic more? Not sure how feasible/likely that is in SF though (UK here)
Robots hire people that develops robots that replace people.
Hmmm. Are the best hiring managers attracted to such jobs? I would not enjoy interviewing so many people.
I was happy to see they offered the 'Authenticator App' (HOTP) as an alternative method, but they still asked for a backup phone number in the next step. Pretty much every other service I've used 2FA with simply offered backup recovery codes that you had to save somewhere, which I believe is the better method.
I can't find the fellowship list anywhere. I've been trying to find them since they started giving the grants.

Anyways, thanks for asking. I wanted to see the batches as well so here are the links

1.
http://ycuniverse.com/ycombinator-companies
2.
http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/19/here-are-the-52-startups-th...
3.
https://triplebyte.com/ycombinator-startups#q=&page=0&refine...
What happens when you shoot a piece of cardboard with a bullet in a vacuum though?

(I'm much less confident than I was FWIW)
You just middleman the vpn authentication via wifi - by spoofing the wifi router you THINK you are connecting to, but it's not really because its just emulated with a stronger signal so your device thinks everything is fine.
Our research on the relationship between employee proximity and shareholder returns suggests suggests that optimal return will result from compressing employees into a hypersolid. 0.01mm^3 of employees could then generate between $10e788 and $11e788. Despite the massive energy requirements, ROI is still substantially positive, but gravitational effects at this scale make safe containment tricky.

When optimizing for input cost, a reasonable solution for most purposes turns out to be: pack them like battery hens.
I'm with antback on this one. You write as many words as are needed to convey your message. Unless you are a journalist or a student, why does it matter?

Also, if you're serious about word count and other metadata about your document then you should look into Marked 2. It's got that and much more.
About the oxidation, have you tried using a reducing agent (Na is probably easiest to get).

Did you watch those videos of guys melting aluminum in their backyards? :)
> If obesity was "just a choice", we wouldn't have this problem after decades of massive shaming of overweight people and massive push for fitness and everything-fit. Instead, the more we shame people for being obese, the more population stays obese. Interesting, isn't it?

Is it inconceivable that some people just value the pleasure they get from eating more than that of adding a few years to the end of their lives? They're not necessarily lazy or stupid, they just may have different values that you. You can ask someone why they're obese and due to societal pressures they may tell you a story about how they can't stop or its genetics, but actions speak louder than words.

Most people have behaviors that is not beneficial to their health (drinking, living in a polluted city, not exercising the optimal amount). Longevity isn't the point of life.
That's fine, but there is still a place for JS-only applications on the web. For example, we produce a web application development IDE that emits JS-only applications (HTML just bootstraps the JS). The things you can do with such applications are numerous, and are the backbone of a lot of SAAS offerings. However, our company web site doesn't use any JS (other than the Google Analytics hook), and it loads/runs like a dream on any device/browser. The point here is that there is a rationale for both modes of operation (content vs. application), and maybe, like another commenter noted here, it's just time to bite the bullet and separate out the two use cases in a more forceful and clear manner.