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Christ, no amount of shilling on social media will change the fact Bernie has absolutely no possible way of winning the primary and even less a chance of winning the election. Even if Hillary were to get indicted and drop out the Democrats would be conceding the election to Trump or Cruz.
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> Jail time for storing a pattern of bits? I will stand up and say that's unjustified. The ridiculous basis of the concept is exactly what causes this screwed up regime with no possible discernment between the crime and being framed for the crime.

I'm not going to come down on either side of child porn, but there are plenty of bit patterns where possessing them should result in jail time. For example: Defense secrets. Or weapon designs. Or novel ways to enrich fissile materials.[1] Now, in some circumstances there may be reasonable doubt that you actually possess the data. If the data is only on an unencrypted USB key behind your couch, maybe that's doubtful enough to avoid conviction. But if it's on your encrypted laptop, or your Gmail account's sent items folder… that's another story. Technically, yes you could be framed. But that's about as likely as someone planting drugs inside a safe in your house.

> …keep such images off of Google etc so we don't stumble upon them…

How exactly would this work if there's no way to punish people for possessing data? Without sanctions, it would depend on the goodwill of all websites to censor such content. Otherwise you'll just get trolls pasting links to child porn.

I'm sure that in a country of 350 million people, people get framed from time to time. But it's used as an excuse far more often than it actually occurs. And if you can't trust cops to not frame you, no feasible change in laws will fix that problem. You'd have to legalize every frame-able crime or impose such onerous levels of proof that almost no criminal would be convicted.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_isotopes_by_lase...
Maybe. But let's see how bad the problem turns out to be. One nice thing about ideas like that is they can be applied retroactively.
You could build that feature dynamically. When a user tries to use a disallowed word and then uses an allowed word, you could log that word pair. Combine and anonymize those logs and you'd be able to show the most likely replacement words for any word that people often try to use.
well if they don't get it in 20 years, doesn't the patent expire?
Thanks for the thoughtful comments.

We're experimenting with on-boarding. We're doing "Wedding Consultations"- phone calls and walk through a clients ideas for each vendor. And also a wedding brief, which is that long list of questions. We're experimenting with something a bit more visual vs words. Love for your to give our current version a try and give us feedback!

Locations: While we haven't really said it on the site, we're highly focused on NYC weddings (where weddings are 2x the cost of average weddings). The interesting thing here is that most vendors are willing to travel within the 5 boroughs.

Vendor responsiveness is a huge issue from what we've heard. One of our metrics on the vendors will be responsiveness. Similar to Airbnb hosts.

Best vendors not being pure wedding vendors. It's a point well taken. We're currently focused on the silos covered by small, disparate vendors, and providing solutions for those vendors. A client may not book all vendor types through us, but we will be the grease between the friction that exists with the old school vendors.

Thanks again for your thoughts, love for you to give it a try. Even if it's just to provide more feedback!
My experience in code bloat seems to tell me that it comes primarily from good intentions that fail to pan out as intended.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions....
It's neat but not very useful. I'd actually be interested in an editor that enforces E-Prime[1] to see if it made writing more clear.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
As much as I'd love to hold power over other mortals, I'll have to recuse myself here. I publicly made fun of Drew Houston and gang when they started and again when they reportedly rejected Apple's advances. Without a crystal ball, it just feels like we're just betting here.

Are we betting on the viability of a product or idea? Are we betting on the founders? Are we betting on the team's ability to deliver? So many questions... I can't answer any of them but I'd welcome people thinking bout loud and look forward to reading these ideas. (:

Edit: recuse not revise
Why does iPad not have a native calculator?
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I am hoping to attract a certain protest vote of the silent majority who enjoy this community, but are uneasy about the values of its founders and more broadly, Silicon Valley.

As far as HN proper, I don't dislike this community at all, particularly since dang took the reins. It's an interesting place and I've tried to contribute in good faith for many years now, besides just making fun of it.
This is in South Korea, not the United States. While the United States patent system is dysfunctional in a similar way (granting patents for things that haven't been invented yet to parties that have not invented them), it is their patent system that this reflects badly on, not ours.
Wow thank you! I'm not at that level of pain myself, but I've started to notice symptoms that started to worry me, one of them being that numbness you originally described. I want to prevent a disaster before it happens, since my livelihood depends on it.
Hey slachterman DashDB isn't yet on the roadmap, mind filling this out so we can follow up?

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I was under the impression that a carbon tax hurts the poor.

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/february/kolstad-carbon-t...
I think he'd be disappointed. Here is his extended list of dirty words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSlbEq0roEM#t=35s or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0ee4wqZvf8 (try the closed captions button!)

I'm especially fond of bearded clam, and i've actually used 'gleet' in a poem.
So it's cool to just blindly say ALL when you mean "Many" ?
Yeah, serious question: Is this really not safe for work?

Are there workplaces where you'd be reprimanded for looking at a list of vulgar words, especially in this context? (More than you would for any other "unproductive" activity, like say, reading HN.) And if it's just about getting flagged by some monitoring software, I'd think this thread would be just about as likely to get you in trouble.

I get that NSFW is inherently subjective and context-dependent, but for me personally this is not NSFW, i.e., totally SFW.
Thanks for that, I really enjoyed it. Back when Java was new and cool...
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Not when you rebate it back to those under a certain income threshold.
And I think your opinion is tainted.

"don't think we'll succeed teaching white, male middle managers empathy and compassion anytime soon so let's limit their scope of damage"

So when this guy makes workshops to spread his bigotry he is fighting for inclusion and when I speak up I am fighting against diversity initiatives? Are you for real?
Apply HN: IXD – Universal Broker for Legacy Communications Systems
The fax market is still growing by around 10% a year in terms of usage and revenue. Hospitals, insurance, banks, lawyers, and government all rely on fax as a universal form of communication between their systems when they send significant amounts of sensitive information with other entities in an automated way.

This is crazy.

IXD aims to replace fax and other legacy communications technology with 15 minutes worth of changes to their infrastructure. Companies like DocuSign don't focus on bulk transmission of data, and no other solution out there really provides the universal connectivity fax provides. And e-mail is simply not secure. GPG is too hard to use or isn't auditable, so companies stick with what works for them

We're working on clients, proxies, and APIs that pull data from legacy systems and understand fax protocols, and send them through our servers, where we then can relay that data to its destination in a secure way. Then the receiver can choose how they want to receive those documents: via fax servers, e-mail, a Web page, into their database, or in a network folder, for example. Imagine sending a document to a government agency without needing to find a fax machine, all while the agency keeps their fax machines in place and receives your document the way they are used to.

In the long-run, we want to enable large enterprises that deal with compliance standards to use faster, more modern technology to communicate with each other so each company chooses how they want to receive information such as documents or medical images, for instance. This means connecting different communications services: Like Dropbox to ShareFile; or DocuSign to SharePoint. No longer do people have to use the system the sender used to send information: Everyone can use the service they are comfortable with, and more importantly, have audit records in.
dont really think its that certain types of individuals being drawn to law enforcement, or rather i think that is true but i dont think thats the largest factor. I do not think its so much the type individual as the type of situation.

Meaning I think when you put people into primal life or death situations which require split second decision making a lot of instinctual processes take over.
Everyone uses electricity and anyone who doesn't won't see this.

I've read that solar is already getting to the point where in some places it can make sense to invest in solar rather than indexed funds.
Being rich != upper-class. The first is an economic indicator, the second is a social indicator.

As noted in the essay, a plumber can be rich, but will unlikely ever be upper-class.

It's also worth noting that the "American Dream" is really just upper-middle-class. Single family house, 2.5 kids and a dog, a new-ish car, and enough disposable income to take an annual vacation.

Very few people truly aspire to be upper-class (think Kennedy or Vanderbilt). Rich, maybe, but probably not upper class.
Sure, but it's a fun writing exercise. If you write using a limited vocabulary and then fix the most convoluted paraphrases, you might end up in a better place than if you wrote it normally.
The article has a link that looks like it should lead to the patent in question, but actually links to a page that pops up the badly-translated message:

> "Is not the normal approach. After searching it uses."

And then closes itself. Does anyone have a link to the patent in question?
> Clubs bring in a lot of scrutiny.

One operated here illegally for about five years because every time there was a motion to shut them down they found another avenue to appeal. The legal system can move at a glacial pace at the best of times, and they were clever enough to slow it down even more.

Five years is enough time to bank millions of dollars in legitimate profits and make even more on the side through more shady deals.

I know that many of the clubs here juice up their profits by laundering and taking a cut of the drug trade in their bathrooms. They also make enormous amounts of cash legitimately which makes it hard to find out what profits are legal and which are illegal.

For example if you charge $10 for a double shot, but the product only costs you (at most) $1, you're making 90% profit right out of the gate. If someone wants to launder some money, increase your shot sales by 20%. Pour out bottles if you have to just to make the numbers add up, it's not even hard.

Very few of them are ever snared in legal issues because they have a lot of experience flying under the radar and knowing how to operate without getting into trouble. The number one cause for closing a club is either the place burned out, popularity waned, or in rare cases where there was a shooting which means a much tighter leash.
I don't know if the parent will reply, but I've heard of twitter giving out million dollar stock grants to senior engineers _after_ the IPO. I can only imagine that pre-IPO stocks would have been even more.
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I agree. There is something off: the neck tie, the SOB comment, so careful yet no fear of animals, the complicit wife, loner/sports star, a murder...
Yeah, that's actually what that expression means.
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"The best minds in energy keep underestimating what solar and wind can do."

Of course wind and solar becomes "efficient" when the state arbitrarily funds and supports it. I am certain there is an entire mafia behind this, from the energy companies all the way to the politicians, ensuring that our public funds flow into their hands and that other forms of energy are properly discredited and taxed.
This is probably why Jony Ive's title is a three letter acronym starting with "C".

Only way to make sure his creative decisions are actually implemented.
These are the folks who are suing Wikimedia for publishing on the web photographs showing public statues in Sweden, asserting copyright violation of the "visual copyright" supposed held by the artist.
Totally worth to read the comments before reading the article. Thank you! (no irony)
you also need different shoes for different weather conditions.
Author here. This is a project I cranked out in my spare time to give better insight to how our regional train system is doing. Feel free to hit me up with any questions or comments!
Would it be plausible to make a sort of mobile wifi scanner? Just something to output on an lcd what the strongest wifi is? So I don't have to pull out my laptop to check if a place has wifi? Just an idea that I've been tossing around.
Serious question: Do you consider tax evasion theft?
Good point, there are always unmodeled factors and prior information, so the % is to be interpreted in context.
That's exactly how it works. You're presented with something very attractive looking (and that everyone else uses), but you have to give up something in return. It used to be a straightforward "please pay for our product", but since "free" had proved itself to be better for businesses, now it's privacy and control - and, of course, no advertising or other vendor-written description would ever tell you that you give up those.
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Spam wouldn't be spam if it was relevant. Could the forms constrain the types of enquiry to only stuff you're interested in?
Tangential, but the most misquoted text is 1 Timothy 6:10 "For the love of money is the root of all evil". Most people elide "the love of" which totally changes the application.
The difference is in adaptation: when challenged with new perspective / data, do they incorporate it into their vision or ignore the data?
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Nintendo is very very fast at copyright infringement notices. I am curious if they have fancy tech, or just a department of 50 people surfing the net all day.
For Pinboard, the next level is 'get an office and a sysadmin'.

Spending $1M on a landing page sounds like a fun challege. If that pledge makes people invest, I'm happy to make it.

I realize that having revenue makes many investors uneasy. If that remained a stumbling block, I would consider moving to some kind of free plan.
> Thanks for reminding me that ESR used to be a reasonable person.

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/dancing.html predates that by 5 years, so "could be reasonable" might be a better description than "used to be a reasonable person".
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It is a contrived situation. 99.99999999999999% of times, this will not apply. And saying that you're going to have to be prepared in case it will is just silly.
OK, then I cat two files together. Somehow thinking that one can unilaterally declare every application in the world as "non-conforming" is just sticking your head in the sand.
Where are you getting your data to support this claim? Solar panels can translate directly to money just about anywhere in the world.
My office mate (both programmers) put it this way: Your title walks into the room before you.

In an initial meeting with external customers / partners, the invitees may not know anything about you or your actual role . They see the titles on other people on say a meeting invite- "Senior Architect" or "Director of Engineering" and have much more interest in those guys and ask them the questions. Despite those guys often being so far removed from the actual technology they (in our experience) knew nothing and just said "yes" to everything... or just asked us later.

It's stupid, and it's petty... but it happens, just like this guy tells it.
> but there's just something weird about reusing package names for totally different projects...

Not only is it weird but it is inherently insecure.

Even NPM's solution:

> "If a package with known dependents is completely unpublished, we’ll replace that package with a placeholder package that prevents immediate adoption of that name. It will still be possible to get the name of an abandoned package by contacting npm support."

seems susceptible to social engineering. All it takes is for one heavily depended upon package to become compromised by a malicious actor, and the entire dependency graph is poisoned.

I'm not sure of a great solution, but it really makes you question the soundness of the NPM ecosystem.
1. Indexing an array with 1 is unfortunate but not a bad design decision in a vacuum, eg for i=1,#size is a very easy to understand loop over valid array indexes. I'll agree that it causes cognitive load in practice.

2. JS has a somewhat broken notion of objects and Lua's implementation is far cleaner while being as powerful. How do you use a JavaScript object as a hashmap? The default try is a potential security hole.
I appreciate the concern for fairness but those things would be more complicated to do and I'm not sure they would really help that much. Let's wait and see how this shakes out, and then if we do it again we can iterate.
Great idea, I have a couple of questions.

Since YC Fellowship is intended for startups at the idea stage/prototype stage, is ApplyHN a catch all for businesses at the idea stage looking for feedback from the HN community?

Can you do an ApplyHN twice? Presumably once you get feedback from your initial ApplyHN idea post, you might flesh it out more and have a stronger application the second time.

If you're at the prototype stage normally you might do a ShowHN, should you create a separate post for an ApplyHN if you want to apply?
Dishwashers not only heat the water, they also heat up the entire compartment if you have the drying feature turned on. They are basically an oven.

You can cook in them as well: http://www.thekitchn.com/can-you-really-cook-salmon-in-a-dis...
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The author of the book already made this.

https://www.xkcd.com/simplewriter/
No, it's not. You're not paying taxes twice on the same money.
Where would people get Gresham Dollars, who would be the first to accept Gresham dollars and what would they sell for them?
Try using "Down to Lunch" for a week. It hit my campus very hard, and a lot of people actually used it (very close to hitting a critical mass in my opinion). But after some time, the app sucked. Here's why: I have different "tiers" of friends-- a core group I can eat with every day like family, acquaintance who I can eat with a few times a month, and the people I pretend to like & reluctantly get dinner with when asked. Ultimately it was this last group that made me delete the app. I'd rather just spend the time and text everyone I care about because 1) I avoid that awkward last group and 2) it shows the other two groups I care about them. And to go on a tangent, this is actually really important to keep up a relationship with acquaintances. And, in practice, I already have group chats with my core friends.

I'm not saying this is a bad idea, but I'd highly recommend you use DownToLunch and consider my feedback. Push-to-Hangout apps sound convienent but they don't add much value in practice. In fact, DTL's constant notifications were so bothersome I deleted the app.
> Sure, but HN users aren't actually sinking any money here. They're just telling other people to.

That's what I meant by 'asymmetry' - it's kind of the opposite of putting one's money where one's mouth is.
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Thanks for the comment.

With the tagging system: they would look for the "sport" tag.

(Actually it wouldn't be a tag because sport is a "top-level-tag". Instead it would be a category with a dedicated website. So the users would go on sports.listing-platform.com and then be able to select tags like "football", "soccer", etc.)
Well clarity != short/simple. Which is sort of the joke of the whole book/this idea. It can often take many more words (which just makes an idea more complicated) if you rely on this kind of idea (which yes, I'm aware is a joke) than just using the correct word.

It's also very possible to get the gist of a word, based on where it is placed and the words around it -- even if you don't know exactly what it means. (Obviously I'm not suggesting that for something like documentation writing -- but by the same token I would never think that limiting yourself to a 1,000 word dictionary for something as important as product docs would be beneficial in any way).
Would you propose with a diamond grown in a lab?
That's the sort of thing that might make sense if this eventually becomes a thing. Which would be great. But it's way too early to tell. For now, it's just about curiosity and trying something new.
It's a problem I've already fixed on the master branch. I'm going to release it soon.

edit: released 0.2.5 https://github.com/FezVrasta/popper.js/releases/tag/v0.2.5
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This is exactly what is happening to discredit nuclear as a low-carbon wedge between fossil fuels and totally renewable energy, science and demographics be dammed.
I mostly mean group (ii) at this point.

I'd want to talk to the current focus segment in depth, find out what makes them happiest about what they're doing with your product and look for ways to both increase the opportunities for those things and make them more accessible.

Is that making sense?

I think your current focus segment knows there's a rewarding feeling in return for the effort, and maybe group (ii) isn't as aware, or doesn't know how to get there...
If you upgraded recently Windows keeps files that allow it to downgrade to the old version, you can check by going to Disk Clean-up then select the UAC protected option in there and it might have some upgrade files you can delete.

Aside from that I think you just have to give it some time.
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Yes thats the idea. If spam is of your interest then it does not qualify as spam.
Yes the user can at anytime activate/deactivate/modify the form. Not looking for new opportunities at all, deactivate hireme form. Interested in buying a BI product, have a sellme form, etc
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Which is sort of the joke. But yes, this is absolutely correct. Moreover, as with any language, the way to get better is to use it more/get more exposed to more parts of it.
"Maybe it's best to just have more jobs, period, even with low pay? And then make up for needy cases some other way?"

Why should that be anyone's responsibility but the company? Why should my tax dollars be used to subsidize some greedy business guy who can't be arsed to pay their employees enough to live on?