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Apply HN: SecondInnings – Provide Second Chance to Senior Citizens(For India)
Probably its too early for me as I just started exactly 2 weeks back, but any feedback is welcome and much appreciated.
Problem:- An average Indian 60+ year young man would have made numerous sacrifices and/or compromises for their family. But now that their kids are settled and perhaps have kids of their own, these folks have much free time to spare. This is the time when the feeling "I wish I had an opportunity to do XXXX" comes in.
Our Solution:- Second Innings is especially for these folks who would like to do stuff what they might have missed earlier. We offer our platform (a combination of website and mobile apps). To begin with, we have classified these unsatisfied aspirations into 5 major categories:-
a) Art - Such as learning singing, dancing, painting, sculpting etc
b) Travel - Be it for religious reasons or simply for the thrill of it
c) Learn & Teach - a language, a topic (e.g a computer language), or teach something from their vast experience
d) Hangout - Just hangout with like minded individuals
e) Charity - Donate or volunteer for a cause

How will it make money:- Commission basis from various service providers

Target Market:- Senior / retired citizens (60 to 70 age group) who can use the internet or smartphone with little assistance.
About me:- I am Praful and am the solo founder at the moment. This is my second startup and earlier I have co-founded an Edtech startup. I hold a Masters degree in engineering and I am also the developer. I spoke to over 250 senior citizens, mostly in Mumbai and Hyderabad to build the wish list.

Timeline:- Beta website will be done by May 2016 and the Android app will also be ready by then.
Have Fun Trying to Reach the Poles of Inaccessibility
Check out a 2016 Honda Accord Touring that anybody can pick up for 31k. (or the civic for even cheaper with lane assist and all that) Honda seems to recognize there is a pretty major threat out there... but even they are behind.

All I'm saying is there seems to be a pretty big difference in whats easily and cheaply possible and what the status quo auto industry execs have been doing. A good example is every single car at this point should come with a touch screen head unit and a not-invented-here operating system on it. Traditionally all these execs believe that such a thing should cost thousands of dollars in upgrades either by model class or just the configuration itself. Few seem to realize they can easily generate 10x the revenue with software features and upgrades than they can with the hardware feature upgrade itself. The cost difference is pretty negligible... but the status quo gives them far less potential.
I agree.

Docker is still useful in some cases, ie I'm using it to run separate postgres databases for each project. I could use a nix environment instead but Docker is just easier.
I'll go further than imply, and outright state that pornography is inherently and irredeemably bad.

I agree with you, but porn is a small part of the larger problem that modernity presents us with hypernormal stimuli absolutely everywhere. Television, movies, calorie-dense foods, even things like HVAC. Decrying porn without decrying all forms of hypernormal stimuli seems odd.
Policies set via meta tags can only be made subsequently more restrictive: https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-csp/#multiple-policies.
It's time to dispel myths about nuclear power
Fracking has a great deal of problems besides waste water. The process it's self inherently has a high risk of ground water contamination, a very large amount of methane is released into the atmosphere and on just a business level many of the wells never turn a overall profit for the investors the companies get good money up front and the well investors are left with the bill.
Great suggestion, thanks! I've updated the article accordingly :)
You could just lie, or not do it, or use an anon email, or use a MIT mailing list, or just not take things so seriously...
> But when you get drugs from the drug cartel, the harm that goes into the production makes it wrong to use.

That doesn't really follow. Nazi medical experiments were wholely unethical, but it would be completely unethical not use whatever knowledge they gained to save other people's lives.

Perhaps what you meant to say is that it would be wrong to pay for the drugs so the cartels actually benefit from their unethical behaviour. I agree with that, but that doesn't make the drugs unethical to use.
While "security specialists" are using last digits of CC and mother's maiden name as secure info I'm not holding my breath
Okay, so just for fun, I tried to do the same with my Google Account:
Login: my email address
Password: forgot it

"Please note that without your phone, the recovery procedure will take 3 to 5 days". hopefully, this means that there will be many many checks to avoid social engineering
I thought the McCarthyists were the ones blacklisting people over their political beliefs?
There was a gold-played in the New York Times I saw once speculating on a Trump/Sanders debate that went something like this:

Moderator: Mr Trump, how will construct your wall, and how will you pay for it if Mexico refuses?

Trump: We aren't gonna take no for an answer. Mexico is gonna pay for that wall, believe me.

Moderator: Senator Sanders, how will you pass your policy ideas through a recalcitrant congress?

Sanders: We need a political revolution! People need to vote in large numbers and elect people who will support my bills.

Moderator: Thank you both for your detailed and informative responses.
>, and you see Traditional OOP as Good OOP.

No, my comments don't agree with that.

In fact, I tried to point out that his "traditional OOP" examples are incorrect OOP and therefore, a straw man to be arguing against.
> the problem is we shouldn't be burning natural gas

Agreed, in the long term. But we have to get there from here, and I think that a clean-burning resource like gas is probably the lowest priority problem on our long list of disgusting energy issues.
Since the site is down and I can't read the article I can only guess here.

For me it's something with value types & memory coeherancy sematics. That's what you need to get the most out of your hardware.

Good candidates for that today are Rust, C, C++ and maybe C#(don't have enough experience with their value types to make a judgement yet).
You are wrong in so many ways. First of all, you are confusing "Microsoft bringing GNU to Windows" with "this is the first time GNU is brought to Windows." Then you go on to make it seem like if the GNU/Linux debate is just the craziness of some guy called RMS: wrong, many people support this distinction. Then you go off-topic talking about why GNU hurd is a mess. None of this contributes to the key topic here: Microsoft only brought GNU, not Linux and not Ubuntu. A topic where you were wrong again. Please read https://mikegerwitz.com/2016/04/GNU-kWindows
I think this would probably be the best choice after templating the filter
Your cache link is dead to me.
Google will warn users when sites contain social engineering ads
Ask HN: How do apps get posted on Product Hunt?
I know that hunters post them but what I mean is .. How do they make it to the point they get noticed by someone?
I had a look and I have quite a job understanding you. "Solving problems by reaching problems." Do you mean reaching or researching and if reaching, how do you reach a problem?

I imagine a lot of people looking would think be confused.
> Objects just aren't supposed to be reaching into each other with 'getters' and 'setters' and messing with information.

In pure Actor Model adding two numbers would probably involve 2+ actors, yet Erlang is not doing this for some reason... I guess on a lower level hardcoding messages makes complete practical sense.
By "energy independent" you still mean the US is dependent on fossil fuels? Because fracking is not sustainable, it's still extraction.

The natural gas that is extracted is owned by the energy companies, not the US. Sure, everyone who's ok with poisoning water tables [0] and flammable faucets [1] so that energy companies can increase their profits, please raise your hand!

[0]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-reese-halter/fracking-poiso...
[1] https://www.rt.com/usa/flammable-water-dakota-fracking-023/
I agree. With banks, if you need to prove identity remotely, you need to get a medallion signature and a notary. Takes time and money. I assume that web businesses would be happy to have to do that in return for robust security not easily broke via social engineering. I think it would even be a competitive advantage. If you want cheap and easy (and insecure) then you can use a competitors offering.
it's what you call the cops when you're more inclined to make a donation than make a run for it
NSA feeds surveillance data to law enforcement agencies. They are culpable in the Drug War and other law enforcement atrocities.
What if I'm pitching to a large entity thats in the same space?
The EU fined Microsoft for bundling the Windows Media Player, and forced it provide a version of Windows without the Media Player. Nobody bought it, so apart from providing the EU with some cash, it was completely irrelevant.

It was also characteristic of anti-trust suits in general. They are much less about whether you committed a crime, and more about whether what you did can be redefined as a crime many years later.

The DoJ supervision was extended over the readability of Microsoft's enforced documentation of communications protocols, which it was ordered to rewrite.

In her ruling, Kollar-Kotelly blamed Microsoft. "Although the technical documentation project is complex and novel, it is clear, at least to the Court, that Microsoft is culpable for this inexcusable delay," she wrote.

But she also wrote that the company had been "overwhelmingly cooperative" in the years after the antitrust settlement, and that this latest extension should not be viewed as a sanction.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/142004/article.html
It can do most of the basic expressions on strings (i.e. like/ilike) and can do the standard time operations (date_trunc, extract), with the goal of being fully SQL-92 compliant this year.

You have to remember that many of our customers use us with our visual analytics frontend - they don't care about what happens behind the scenes, just that they can interactively explore billions of records with near-zero lag.

I'm a huge fan of PostgreSQL and certainly if you need an ACID transactional database with the latest SQL support and extensions you can't go wrong. But if you need the fastest analytics performance there might be more-suitable platforms. Different tools for different jobs.
if people would stop being offended by everyone always it would be a great start. I doubt that there is a technical solution other than disabling comments though.
Demystifying Elasticsearch Queries, Part 2: Prefix, Term, Multi-Match, and Bool
Isn't Washington State (or Seattle) having an issue with this? Men (who are not trans) going into and using the ladies' room?

In the end, you're leaving it up to the person's "feelings" as to where to use the restroom.

Hell, I belong to a gym that has a separate section for women only. How would most women feel if a trans* walked in and started 'working out'?

While I have to agree with individual liberty - live however you want, the question remains how to effectively force other people to accept it, because thats what is going on.

This is all based on the theory that men are sex-crazed pigs anyway. What's wrong with uni-sex restrooms anyway?
When you are locked out of AWS you must sign an affidavit and provide photo ID. Seems similar to me.
First of all, if you enjoy this project keep at it. What you learn in the process will be more valuable to you than any advise you get from the naysayers.

However, don't expect everyone to jump on it. The original purpose of Node was to provide a simple way of handling I/O in a non-blocking fashioned without having to deal with the headache of true multi-threaded programming. So you are trying to re-write the engine to do the exact opposite of what it was created for.
I agree completely. While an adult should be able to choose that life, I consider it practically child abuse for a parent to put their child into the entertainment industry.
You can do this with rsync as well, including the hardlinked-to-older file method.

Have a look at the `--link-dest` option to rsync.
This is the correct solution. Not sure why it's downvoted.
The Composable Future of API Development
If the framework is factored well, then you can plug-in a synchronous single-threaded message delivery when debugging.
Steve Albini's essay The Problem With Music is essential reading. It explains in detail the catastrophically bad financial outlook for most musicians.

http://www.negativland.com/news/?page_id=17
Yes. I agree.

However, when industry gives 0 shits for external costs because they can 'get away with it' then I can see taking a hardline approach. E.g. Bernie is essentially saying: "Hey you guys screwed up, you polluted the environment, tried to hide this fact by funding shoddy research. You could have been adults at the table by acting on the early reports or done better on the cleanup, but you didn't do the right thing. So we the people need to punish you, and there is no better way than by taking away your toys."

It's a hardline stance, but hell if your tap water became flammable you might feel the above is perfectly reasonable. Now add this across the nation with all the other examples of large entities unfairly getting away with it and we can all understand why Trump/Sanders are popular.
Stephen Fry has bipolar and is very aware of what it means to be "triggered" and the incredibly adverse effects it can have an effect on his well being. Being called something bad or offended isn't always black and white. I'm sure this isn't just as simple as him telling others to "Deal with it." My guess is that it's closer to "Guys, it's really not as bad as you think it is if you just expose yourself to things that offend you!"

Source: I have it too, and find the SJW/triggering crowd to be absolutely painful to listen to, especially considering they're usually the crowd that tends to call those with bipolar, "crazy". ;)
I agree it must be done. But who is going to enforce it? Conservatives have been extremely haphazard in letting tight oil producers due what they want, environment be damned.

If someone gets into office with a big enough stick, it might get solved.
Android – Introduction to Scoop from Lyft
Ha! That sounds like certain for-profit conferences.

"You've been selected a speaker for our super elite conference! You can invite your friends to attend for the paltry sum of $XYZ. Oh and it'll also cost you $ABC..."
Here in PA, the Marcellus shale is pretty well fracked already. A ban would do precious little to stop shale gas extraction here, since the fracking operations have mostly moved on. Time and money would be much better spent ensuring that transportation and storage operations are conducted safely.
Well, but we should also not forget that one of the reasons we have not left coal yet are the many jobs that depend on it. Just this weekend, there were massive protest again from the coal and steel workers union against european environment legislation.
But we don't need to frack to obtain natural gas. It seems to me the only reason to frack is because we plan to use every bit of easily obtainable natural gas, which probably isn't good for the environment.
blog spam of http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/steve-miller-this...
I like Sanders, but I can't agree with this. How will he deal with the following:
1) less natural gas could mean more coal => worse carbon emissions
2) this would almost certainly lead to increases in energy prices. These would hit the poor the hardest.
3) So if the US isn't producing then who would be? This is great news for the Saudis, Putin and others.

The above three points are not my original ideas. They were explained in a NYT article a day or two ago.
Reminds me of the RC build of The Red Star making the rounds in the office; everyone with a modded xbox ended up with a copy. From what I recall, the story was Activision canned it at the last minute then it was shopped to other publishers. One of them was us and a well-meaning individual starting distributing the game.

It was a fun game too, never understood why it died on the vine.
The status quo is what we had before. This law changes which bathrooms people are allowed to use: https://twitter.com/JayShef/status/712845760287494144
As a business, it costs more to piss off your customers regularly because they can't get into their accounts than it does to refund the rare victim of social engineering.
One aspect of this is really funny to me - my friend and I busked in NYC in the summer after high school, and each made roughly $2500 a month until we stopped to go to college. That seems to be more than most actual bands make!
How to Find and Hire Great Customer Service Agents
A late page of the C ROM data looks like it contains data from Money Idol Exchanger, so I think this game was developed by FACE.
Leaving Beta, New Sponsors
Social Mobility May Suffer as Income Fails to Keep Pace with Housing Costs
Instead, it will create the petrostates in our own country. We still have to buy the end result from energy companies one way or another.

The only ones who profit from fracking directly are the energy companies who sell into the commoditized market.
Lack of Clear Flight Rules Hampers Commercial Drone Adoption
Arq's data format description says that the other supported compression type is gzip, which I assume was used before: https://www.arqbackup.com/arq_data_format.txt
You could use rsync and s3cmd in tandem to create a decent backup solution. Of course, it does require the command line and some scripting chops, but I've done it in the past to keep daily, weekly, and monthly logical MySQL backups on S3.
Talking about Kevin Minnick, I can really recommend his book Ghost in the Wires, both for the story and the numerous great examples of social engineering https://henrikwarne.com/2015/12/27/social-engineering-from-k...
I love this. Am I wrong or is it "if you don't believe me, try the social engineering hack yourself!"
PLEASE give us a Linux version!
Eh.. I don't really agree that this is victim blaming. But then again, I find that I disagree with most uses of the phrase "victim blaming". Pointing out that somebody did something sub-optimal, while still acknowledging the mis-deeds, mistakes, etc. of other parties, is not "victim blaming" in my book. It's just pointing out the truth.

I mean, if you go for a stroll through the roughest neighborhood in town, unarmed, by yourself, at night, and you get mugged, is it wrong to point out that going for that walk was stupid? Saying so doesn't mean the the mugger isn't guilty or that what happened is right in any sense. It's just acknowledging reality.
<This is where I was being stupid before. I have removed that stupidity.>
Can I preorder or sponsor a Linux version somewhere?
Client acquisition is one of the biggest concerns we have with this idea. If we're creating a solution for couples, we will have low/no user retention.

We have considered creating a vendor focused service, but there are a couple of services in this space (Honeybook.com).

Love to hear any thoughts you or the rest of the HN audience has to say about this.
Mostly the semi-legal problems I would think, depending on jurisdiction. In the united states even if it's legal in a State it's still illegal Federally. Right?

I think that might impact job security somehow.
https://report-uri.io/home/analyse/

This is a pretty great tool to build / analyze your CSP records.
This works well until you get to the "Our site is so secure that we need you to answer three security questions from our canned list, and they can't all be the same string" geniuses. Such an antipattern.
Thanks. I now get to the store, but it gets a 500 Internal Error trying to verify my key. Also, the Purchase link does embed my Arq 4 license key, but in the form, the upgrade license key field is empty, and I have to find it from my old .arqLicense file and paste it. I don't even know if I'm copying the right thing.
"The best life is the one the gods don't notice."

- Steven Erikson, "Gardens of the Moon"
If you're seeing enough of a transgender person in the bathroom to be able to determine if they're pre-op or post-op, chances are you're the one violating "basic decency" by being a creeper.
Classic case where PNG would have been superior.
> Isn't Washington State (or Seattle) having an issue with this? Men (who are not trans) going into and using the ladies' room?

No.
Fines to the government and hospital aren't enough to prevent the abuse. The abusers need to be disciplined.
What do you think is crazy about it? If it's encrypted, it can't be read. If it's on "some place on the internet", it can only be as redundant or more redundant as any other offsite solution.
For me, it's still primarily http://last.fm/ 's similar artist feature.
I don't know:

"I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing
since april, and is starting to get ready. I’d like any feedback on
things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat
(same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons)
among other things)." -http://www.thelinuxdaily.com/2010/04/the-first-linux-announc...
I wouldn't say it needs work. It's just... different. We got so used to GitHub that we kind of expect other projects to just copy its design. GitLab is not doing that and I respect it. Who cares if I need one more click to see the files in the repo?
That's part of the whole issue. It wasn't simply an issue of retraining. The entire company is well aware of this issue and is using it to improve, not simply to reprimand a single person.
$100M for “starshot”: laser-accelerated nanocraft for interstellar travel
My team doesn't use them (except in a for-loop), hasn't for years, and it's never actually been a problem. Folks need to let this one go, imo.
>it also has effectively made the US energy independent.

Source?
I like this idea. If you want to work as a CS rep and handle password resets, you need to have XYZ 1.0 security training, regardless of the company.
This is a pretty cool initiative — I looked into beamed propulsion a bit while teaching a course this past fall, and it seems to me that if we (or human technologies) are going to reach a star in our lifetimes, this is by far the most likely way. Still very challenging though.

For a quite detailed recent treatment of optical/IR propulsion see: [this paper by Philip Lubin](http://www.deepspace.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/A-R...)

For a thorough, if somewhat outdated, treatment of the [“starwisp”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starwisp) idea using microwaves rather than optical/IR lasers, see [this paper](http://path-2.narod.ru/design/base_e/starwisp.pdf) by Robert Forward.

To poll the success of this overall endeavor, as well as start to make predictions about which components will/won’t work, [Metaculus](http://www.metaculus.com/questions/#/?order_by=-publish_time) is launching a series of questions —check it out if you have expertise or opinion.
Designing a Browser that isn’t a Browser
I didn't even know they offered that until now. I viewed the prime advantage of Arq was selecting your host. And really that is "hosts", since you can have multiple backup sets and different hosts. Stuff that I often want to retrieve I might have on Google Drive as well as one of the "cold storage" options.
Arq's author has said on Twitter that the B2 API doesn't support all commands Arq needs, so even if B2 support was planned (which it isn't) it wouldn't be possible yet: https://twitter.com/arqbackup/status/717756616578301952
I think that sums them up and the process pretty well. Sadly true.