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Scientists accidentally turn carbon dioxide into ethanol
Man, I used to love this on the Amiga 1200. In fact, I've just bought the iOS version because you mentioned it :)
That reflects my own experience. I work remotely and our company uses Scala. We have several fully-remote engineers.
> - Virtual reality. There's still no killer app, and we're into the holiday shopping season. The hardware problem has been solved, and nobody cares. It's the new 3D TV.

Amen brother. Current VR implementations are hot garbage. Not nearly enough pixels to be immersive, they make you sick and send you careening into walls.

I see a lot of potential for racing games and that sort of thing, but until we fix the more serious issues of mobility I just can't see this going many places.

Give me my office chair and my 4K display any day.
Cheap laser printers work fine for black and white.

There are several ink jets with ink reservoirs instead of expensive cartridges (Epson EcoTank is one I know off the top of my head).
It's all good! It was wrong for a very long time. This is a recent development.
And how many Howkings radiation would have a black hole of these mass ?
I honestly have no idea what point you're trying to make.

The problem is that it's hard to understand what does what and how it does it. Things in even the same project behave differently. They introduce massive architectural changes and then abandon them. Searching for something in SO now is a crap shoot, which slightly in correct answer will you get because the asp.net team changed their mind again?

And you can have all these things running in one project, all acting differently.

I work with clients on MVC 3,4,5, with parts in web API 1 and 2 and parts in odata.

And they all behave differently.

For example, and this is just one of many, a JSON date from an MVC controller is 'Date(173737273)', from a web API it's '2016-12-26 23:00:00.0000', from an OData controller it's '2016-12-26 23:00:00.0000Z'. That Z changes behaviour btw and makes the terrible assumption your date is in the same TZ as your server.

All of them are parsed different and will return different dates in javascript.
Different quantities aren't limited to those sold with the printer.

My Canon can take regular or XL cartridges - the only difference is the volume of ink inside.
Which is my exactly point regarding the iPhone use as camera.
Using Cloud Vision & Speech Synthesis APIs for Identifying Images on the Web
> - Virtual reality. There's still no killer app, and we're into the holiday shopping season. The hardware problem has been solved, and nobody cares. It's the new 3D TV.

I really don't get the negative vibe on HN. VR headsets are in the market for six months now. One of them is still incomplete. Both are price-targeted at the very top of the market. Sony's, the first consumer headset, hasn't seen its first holiday season. VR games are still in the exploratory phase. Yet, with all of these signs of current and active hardware, software and market development, there's enough hubris to call the death of the technology.

It's like saying that the electric car concept is crap because the Tesla Roadster has crappy range, no boot and sold only a thousand units.
That analogy doesn't hold. When I search I need to search the whole internet. Google will generally be able to deliver the best search results for all searches in all places all the time. That will never be true for transportation, taxi and car services will always have an aspect that is permanently fragmented.

As long as it's possible for a small group to compete with uber even on the margins, Uber will never have monopoly pricing power. Someone can always start a small company to take people to the airport, pick up executives, etc. Anecdotally, most serious travelers I know in NYC have reverted back to using car services to do airport trips, since it's a much more predictable experience than Uber.

As long as that's the case Uber will never reap the windfall profits that accrue to a monopoly. Which makes me seriously wonder why they would burn such remarkable amounts of money thinking they can establish one.
You shouldn’t have. Google trusted the phone too much, using it instead of the user-supplied secrets to determine who was allowed to access the account. Whether or not the account used multi-factor authentication seems quite perfectly irrelevant?
Or anywhere in India:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjrEQaG5jPM

Edit:

This video from a motorcyle gives a nice first-person perspective:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqOLehUdqkU
I like Vue. I am using Ractive.js at work. They are both quite similar in terms of their prioritization of ease of use and performance.
I should have kept both of mine, but the platform was essentially dead and I had to move on. These days there are two potential replacements for such a device, one is a continuation of the platform, the Neo900[1], the other is the Pyra[2]. I'm going to save up for a Pyra since it's half the cost of the Neo900 and looks like a more capable platform. I don't need a device like that anymore, given how good smartphones have become, but it would be nice to have a pocketable true computer with a keyboard for certain situations. The mobile retro-gaming aspect also appeals to me.

[1] http://neo900.org/

[2] https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/
I prefer playing on Windows, not only because of the sheer availability of games (and hardware drivers) but also because I don't want to have any chance of mixing work and play. I like to keep them completely separate.
If a cheap office chair happens to fit your body shape and preferences, it's ergonomic for you, even without adjustments.

It's just a crap shoot as to whether or not the fixed adjustments of the cheap chair will match the settings you would select on an adjustable chair, and if the materials are fine for your size and weight. If they do, hey you got a great deal on a decent chair specifically for you.

I'm a pretty light guy, and I think I've only owned two <$150 chairs since 2002.
A small TCB -> around 10% unsafe code.

C, due to arrays, strings, arithmetic operations and memory allocations requiring unsafe code leads to 100% unsafe code across the existing code.

A security minded person will pick those 10%.
Designing the Future Internet
> Hydrogen-powered cars. This is Toyota's answer to electric cars, and they're on sale now in California.

I believe that cars use hydrogen in fuel cells, which makes the hydrogen just a component of a different battery technology (the rest of the car still being electric).
I don't think it's checking is quite right. It says 'yes' when I'm viewing the page on a Windows phone!
To be fair, where I am in the UK, that's actually the case with my council's development plans. The goal is almost always to bring in more national chains and multinational businesses, not to promote local business or do anything to improve the quality of life of local people.
> The hardware problem has been solved, and nobody cares. It's the new 3D TV.

I disagree with this:
1) the only VR helmet which is confortable to wear is the PS headset which is tied to an underpowered console..

2) The resolution of the screens is still not good enough and it won't be good enough until you can read confortably text using VR glasses which will allow new use case..

3) a good VR helmet should have a camera to allow you to interact with the real world without taking off the helmet and currently only the Vive has this camera.

Once all these 3 points are solved and the price of the PC to drive the VR glasses is not too expensive then you could say that the hardware problem has been solved.
And until this point is reached, we won't know whether the VR will be a success or a fad, currently it's only really interesting for 'enthousiast' so success or lack of success of current hardware isn't really an indicator of the future of VR (a bit like smartphones: there were many bad web browsing phone before the iPhone arrived).

As for 3D printing, IoT and hydrogen powered cars: I agree.
I wonder when will they make a real sequel to Alpha Centauri. I think it is still the best Civilization game out there. For me Beyond Earth seemed like a bland reskin. In AC you could terraform, do social engineering and design your own units. I havent seen something like that ever since.
I tried Vue.js a few months ago and liked it a lot. But now, I need to rewrite my apps and I decided to go the Cordova road with Ionic 2, because Ionic 2 is, imho, unparalleled in its quality.

Ionic 2 uses Angular 2 and I wished there was some Ionic 2 + Vue.js bindings. However, after working with it for a bit, I found that Angular 2 is actually quite simple with the benefit of using TypeScript out of the box.

Before you dismiss Angular 2, give it a try. It's fundamentally different from Angular 1: easier to learn, less complex, faster results.
Why aren't you using create-react-app?
So, the US has a high proportion of children in poverty, where "poverty" is defined as inequality. (Specifically, earning half or less the median income makes you "poor", no matter how much money you have or don't have.)

The solution is, naturally, to give each child a fixed amount of money! Nobody in the article seems to notice that this conflicts with the definition of "poverty" they want to be using.

If you think it's necessary that all children be "guarantee[d] a minimum level of well-being", perhaps we should evaluate whether they're already getting it, as opposed to whether some other children are getting even more.
Photographer Uses $40 Miniature Toy Car to Photograph Audi $160,000 Sports Car
Set aside the chair and just read this through as an amazing work of prose.

"The tilt mechanism delivers an even more seamless experience of movement (and stasis)"

"from intense upright focus to relaxed contemplative recline"

"a health-positive, more comfortable sit."
I think it would be good to add an optional salary range field and then you could test how many people fill it in. You could even try and scrape existing posts to see who has put it in the description.

Then you could allow candidates to filter/sort on it. Or even better, prioritise jobs with salary above those keeping it secret, highest at the top.

We require a salary on Cleanweb Jobs and it hasn't put that many companies off. However, we're mainly UK focused and a lot of job ads already list a salary here.
So then why even have aesthetic guidelines about architecture? Why don't we all just live and work in cuboid structures with perfectly square windows spaced at uniform intervals?
> Virtual reality. There's still no killer app

How about being able to remotely be present at e.g. music or sports events? And have the best possible seat?
Massive Dyn DNS outage
Sites down:

- DYN

- Twitter

- Etsy

- Github

- soundcloud

- spotify

- heroku

- pagerduty

- shopify

- intercom (app, not landing page)

Note that if these sites seem to be up to you, it's likely that your machine has cached the DNS response for these sites.

Some of these sites seem to work when using a UK VPN
I think it's more of a case of "how hard could it be for another multi-national juggernaut to copy this multi-national juggernaut?"
>> looking for any game that looked like Age of Empires on its cover.

Story of my life!
Not sure I like the idea of the state being so heavily involved in this process.

Then again as a UK citizen they probably have access to my phone any way.
We do a lot of remote work with Scala. I think we know each other, but if we don't my work email is noel at underscore dot io.
Hi, I am a student but with a bit more experience with Web development. What I did to improve my skills was to progressively build my own "project structure". And as I learn new concepts, I refactor my code to include better concepts/libraries. It was in PHP.
Half of American Adults Are in Police Facial-Recognition Databases
Isn't maybe a case for dark matter? Maybe instead of looking for hypothetical planets, can we explain this with dark matter?

Same as we did with the unexplained galaxy rotation of outer regions.
Not really, there are phones out there that have two SIM-card slots.
The world rendering is different than before, but in a less unpleasant way than I expected. I wholeheartedly agree about the UI though. A chaotic mess of styles, typefaces, colors and scales. Also the font rendering seems a bit wonky in places, like when you mix system rendering with text rendered to bitmap on a different engine.

But civs are like shoes, the new ones never fit as well as those that are already well worn in.
Dyn seems down
The link doesn't say what you say it does.
It says that Linus thinks that security researchers want to put security at the expense of usability, which is a different thing entirely.
Free Code Camp's open source codebase and curriculum
Uhhh no it's not. There is a clear need and market demand for more efficient cars. The Tesla issue is one of cost, which Tesla has been doing a good job of slowly knocking down.

Contrast this with a device that pretty much no one wants, and everyone agrees is either humorously nerdy or frighteningly dystopic.
I've never managed to get into the Anno series, but in Germany all the Anno games were huge. Like "Call of Duty"-huge, not in sales numbers, of course, but in mindshare.

Pretty fascinating how games don't necessarily cross cultural borders. "Patrician" was also huge, and there were lots and lots of similar games. Also football managers like the "Bundesliga Manager" series.
I was thinking the same as someone living in London. What do people do with all this space?
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It's possible I suppose, but it seems kind of strange that a planet-size group of rocks are floating exactly together in an orbit without colliding, or knocking each other about. What seems simpler? That we have a group of rocks the size of Neptune floating together, or that they actually formed together into a planet? I'm not an astrophysicist, but I'm not sure what else it would be. Looking forward to the proof or refutation.
GitHub status page is down
I hope you don't mean the JVM by "the cumbersome part". It think is unparalleled in performance, garbage-collection, general dev-ops and monitoring capabilities.

You can run many different languages on it, all nicely contained within the virtual machine.

As far as I know Twitter replaced their Ruby/Rails with Code on top of the JVM for these reasons.

Also I don't think it's good to religiously stick to async/"just one thread" and sync/"one thread for everything". The most performant answer depends on the real world scenario and almost always lies somewhere in between.
This is why I'm glad that we are using Nancy. It has been far more stable.
Piet, the esoteric programming language
They did have an innovators dilemma back in the 1970s when they developed (one of?) the first digital camera. They didn't do much with it.
That is KDE specific, and has nothing whatsoever to do with the OS.

How does your KDE handle file types when you are logged into a headless server, without any kind of graphics hardware, and your console is a serial port? How does the UNIX kernel handle file types when you're on a headless server with no graphics hardware, and your output is stdout on a teletype terminal or a nullmodem cable on a serial port?

I guess you missed the point of everything I've written so far. Did you read the links I provided?
Locate with IP Geolocation
Any experiences with https://getipdata.com/?. Is it any good? Prices seem affordable, pretty accurate...
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If you are ever required to give a phone number but don't want to then you can use an official fictional one. This means no-one else will have access to it (or be annoyed by it). Same with email addresses.

If you need access then you could use https://smsprivacy.org or https://dtmf.io. I've not tried these though. Or of course you could build something yourself with https://www.twilio.com or https://www.nexmo.com.

I wrote a bit about this here: https://unop.uk/phone-numbers-for-examples-and-user-identifi...
>" Should NSA be broken up?"

From the reading I have done it sounds as though IAD and SIGINT aren't very close. So much so that there's push by some within the agency to connect them. This recent'ish article talks about it:

https://blog.immixgroup.com/2016/04/21/nsa-reorg-vendor-oppo...

I agree that they have very different and conflicting objectives but it sounds as this might already create somewhat of a walled garden between at least two of the three.

But when you hear stories about critical US infrastructure being broken into you have to wonder why aren't these agencies working more closely. You have one agency that specializes in offense and the other defense. Some amount of the offensive should be to help some of the US defenses no?
Locate with IP Geolocation
Ask HN: Is Twitter DNS resolving for you?
Not able to access twitter and nslookup is failing both locally and from a number of cloud servers.

Anybody else seeing this?
> and ugly

I agree, it didn't leave a professional impression on me at all.
Ask HN: Advice on boostrapping my RPG Playground project?
So I'm quitting my full-time job as a programmer, to try and get RPG Playground (http://rpgplayground.com) profitable.

I saved up some cash to survive for about a year, so basically that is my runway to become "ramen profitable".

Since there are a lot of entrepreneurs on Hacker News, I hope to get some advice or tips on how to pull this off, or things to stay clear of. I'm happy to share any info or numbers of the status of the project.
VR helmets still have the problem of focus: your focus will always be at infinity, even if the objects are virtually nearby. And this problem causes headaches, and may cause developmental problems with children (who may lose the ability to focus properly in the real world).
Do all of those support remote?

EDIT:

> Authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis

Never mind :-)
Well no because Uber is still bleeding cash pretty much everywhere and this relies on the assumption someone with more cash won't come along and/or investors won't come knocking for their now-ashen cash back.
If it could be the Dock, tap to launch/switch your own lineup of apps, that'd be slick and resolve the dock hiding versus vertical screen space problem.
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What kind of business problems do you solve or see other remote programmers solving?

edit: nevermind, you answered, legacy systems, according to your blog PHP/MySQL work
Are you constructing the descriptions by scraping something else?

They really need a lot of work.
DYN outage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12759520
Just wait until pornographic content becomes widely available. From history, we know it can make or break a technology :)
Hindsight is always 20-20. Back before Tesla's success, it wasn't as clear as you paint it: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2415070,00.asp
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don't want to sound harsh, but the copy of your website does not inspire much confidence for a tool that i am supposed to use for writing.
The spiritual successor is the 2300 line. I'd pay the extra $20 to get duplex+wireless and get the HL-L2340DW.
Time out for yPlan
Have you looked at Weex[1]? It's what Ionic is to Angular, the only difference is that Weex and Vue has an official collaboration and Weex has been embraced by Vue's developers - something that Ionic hasn't yet been by the Angular team as far as I'm aware.

Note though that the collaboration is still very young between these two, but I believe we'll see some great things in 2017 from this collaboration!

[1]: https://alibaba.github.io/weex/
Rising Popularity of Chatbot Banking App
It's already possible to use JSX with Vue components, since the 2.0 release.
I have a database of Arabic first names and last names.. I can give it to you if you want to see how it integrates with your generator?

E-mail me if you do
More screen estate in the same space would mean a denser panel - higher hardware cost. Also would mean lower battery life - higher user cost.
Really interested to hear what people have to say about this.
Hehe, sorry, still absolutely not my taste. I meant Iconic of course...
Wow, the t-shirt prices are outrageous. That seems like a lot of work to make a joke store.
Anyone else having graphic bugs in the sprites on the Mac? Makes it sadly unplayable as text/icons are often unreadable.
FWIW, I don't think "just a buzzer" really does it justice. At least in the iPhone's case, it's more like a tiny insistent tap or click that you feel in your finger.
I continue to take the view that the introduction of self-driving cars will lead to Uber being brutally cut down by disintermediation.

An AirBNB for self-driving cars will be as cheap or cheaper to operate: no overhead for managing or paying drivers, no need to invest your own capital upfront to buy cars or loan money for cars. You just connect car owners to people who want to rent their car for 30 minutes.

Even better: No need to subsidise fares to undercut competitors, just let your owners pick whatever price they like. Most of them will underprice for wear and tear, just as they already do, at no cost to the company making the connections between owners and riders. Meanwhile, Uber can't really ignore depreciation or wear and tear, even though it tries to place them at arm's length through loans to drivers.

The economies of scale in such a market are weakened. Sure, you can buy a giant fleet of vehicles at a discount. But your competitors don't need to and will never need to. And if your competitors have massive piles of their own cash, which they don't need hype to acquire, you're looking at a fairly brutal car-wreck.

Lyft won't kill Uber. Google Lifts will.
Ask HN: Are GitHub and Twitter Down?
I can't access either of their websites right now.
Also, with Vue 2.0 we have the option of SSR.
Dyn outage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12759520
Building paper is that which has largely been replaced with Tyvek house wrap on vertical members and rubber ice dam guard and roofing felt underlayment on the roof. It's still "there" in concept, which is to provide an air barrier and block the wind coming straight though.
So he was not mentally incompetent, and you illegally took all his money, and you still think this is defensible?

I'll never understand you people, thinking you have the right to touch other's property and decide their lives, because you think you know better than them. (and then collectively downvoting me to hell because I dare to defend the right to private property of mentally competent people and condemning theft)
github.com itself isn't resolving in some parts of the world. status.github.com is a beautiful default nginx 404 page.
I had a Sony Ericsson P800 in 2003: http://cdn2.gsmarena.com/vv/pics/sonyericsson/snp800_00.jpg
Ah thanks... they are coming back intermittently.