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Ask HN: How do you learn about new industries?
Coming up with a B2B startup idea is hard. (Even smaller ones).

The key is to understand an industry and develop domain-specific knowledge.

The best way is to work in such an industry. However, that's not always possible. How do you continually learn about new industries? And, has this ever helped you in creating a tool or service you were able to sell?
The senate and modern house play that role.

As it stands, we have minority rule in nearly every branch of federal government.
Very interesting....

Karaoke Chicago 'If you leave me now': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqI3xsPrtq0

Chris De Burgh ' Lady in red': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHfo8zwYFUo
A Reality Documentary Series About Hope and Second Chances
What I mean is that the subreddit doesn't belong to bradfitz, or Google, or the golang creators.
It has never started as official because the creator was /u/uriel. The Google guys may have joined after, but the fact is that it is not their community. They're not even paying a single dime for it.

If AWS started MITMing my connections, absolutely, I would drop it. But the analogy doesn't hold because /r/golang isn't bradfitz's subreddit.

The proper and only response would be to drop moderatorship, leaving in a thread his reasons, and leaving /r/golang as it is. As it stands, the only thing stopping him from doing that is that the he's not the original owner.

And, you could also argue that when a community reaches a certain size, it doesn't belong to you anymore. It belongs to that community. To delete it is petty and childish.
I suppose I should've checked my comments earlier:

I didn't bother getting one with a plan (seemed like a waste), I just have it for emergencies.

If you do buy one then make sure to check the battery expiration date, also good to check it when you buy a "new" battery. Last time I bought a new battery it was over a year old (sent it back).

For anyone buying a PLB, make sure it broadcasts at 406 MHz and 121.5 MHz (long range / short range)
Why have a drive train that can "talk" or take commands from a phone at all? One would think that an air gap or air wall will be would be job one.
Yeah, they should encrypt the token. They should encrypt the encryption key as well. But the key to decrypt the encryption key is OK to store in plaintext, because by that point attackers will have lost interest.
Lab-made diamonds: It’s a giant scam, but you’re still going to buy one
White working class just voted overwhelmingly against its own economic interests
PInvoke is a really nice system to handle native interop, but introduces so much complexity in terms of tool chain and platform specific issues I'm not sure .net core (which is supposed to be cross platform out of the box) is the best use case.

Cool guide though.
This has essentially been my attitude. If you're interviewing me based on my experience in my profession, why should I have to study for anything? We're talking about things I do 8+ hours per day. Study? That would only be needed if the questions are specifically not related to the job I'm expecting to do.
We had to use ours. What happened is that the title people didn't realise the guy selling us the house had two properties and they paid off the wrong house.

Then the guy sold his (newly paid off) house and disappeared.

The first time we leaned anything was amiss was when we had an eviction notice posted on our door. The title company didn't bother telling us until it got that far.

It caused a whole bunch of problems and the company kept dragging their feet hoping someone else would pay. It took a lawyer and threat of a suit to get them to finally pay out.
This is not really true. While yes, the tyranny of the majority is a very important discussion, I would argue it plays no factor when it comes to the specifics of how we elect the president. And the tyranny of the majority has (arguably) been replaced by the tyranny of the minority (not any better imo.) The election process has changed dramatically since the founding of the country.

For instance, the electoral college now is almost nothing more than a rubber stamp, with the electors themselves now supposedly having to follow the will of the individual voters who have chosen a candidate for their state. This has not always been the way.

Which is to say, the way that we now elect the president is supposed to be democratic. The fact that many states have laws against faithless electors, which goes against the very design of the electoral college in the first place, which was to have "intelligent/elite" individuals to make a decision on who would truly be the best candidate for the whole of the country.

So when discussing the (again, specifically the election of the President, also see 12th amendment) electoral college, we cannot say that this is a republican process; it is not.

People act like the electoral college system is some unchangeable entity that is fundamental to this country, yet we have changed it countless times over the past 220ish years, (including 14th, 15th, 19th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, and 26th amendments to the US Constitution, which all effectively deal with who can vote, or how we choose a president/VP. Further, each state has changed many times how they choose the electors, which once may have been chosen by the legislator, but is now by popular vote).

Almost each and every change was designed to make the election of the President a more democratic process. To simply say that we are a republic and not a democracy misses the point, is untrue, ignores history, and is frankly, a lame excuse as to why we don't have a more democratic system for electing our president.
Incidentally, this was an original motivation for the electoral college:

"Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union, or of so considerable a portion of it as would be necessary to make him a successful candidate for the distinguished office of President of the United States"

It's almost like the very people who came up with the electoral college would be absolutely appalled at the idea that a small handful of states would determine the result of the presidential election...
They seem to be very similar to me.

Both Stripe and Braintree are priced at 2.9% + $0.30/transaction. If you're doing any notable amount of volume, you can do much better...closer to 2%.

PaypalPro used to automatically give you lower rates, down to 2.2% + $0.30, at volumes well below what Stripe requires to "contact sales" and get a discount. Last year, they eliminated that, and went to the 2.9% + $0.30.

It seems you have to get your own merchant account, and use something like authorize.net now to get decent pricing.
What illegal behavior is that?
Though it's far behind the legacy of what.cd. They are propagating among good music loving community.
Have you tried turning it off and on again

/ducks to avoid projectiles
I'm saying that if you make your software talk to Google, don't say that it collects "anonymous aggregate data". The data it sends could easily be traced back to you (by Google).

And after all the Snowden revelations it's very naive to assume that Google (or any other company) will protect your data.
The article mentioned an orange being deemed classified once it entered the facility, as well as ashtrays (I can guess that a closed ashtray would prevent spills and keep air currents from moving ashes out of the ashtray, though perhaps it was simply an esthetic thing). It wasn't remarkable to see a globe (world maps) in those days either -- not common, but not a surprise when you did see one). Looking around the kitchen I'm in I just see fruit and loose tennis and lacrosse balls.

It's a no win situation for the security staff: someone could make a couple of marks on an orange, or just use it as an aide-memoire.
The article I linked covered this topic.
Wasn't that done through the eye socket?
I've been doing this too, though if I'm going to buy a new video game, I sub Prime's monthly option for the month, because they give you $12 off the game, and the Prime is $11 for the month.

Note of warning: You'll discover a lot of random items are now "Prime exclusive" for no reason other than spite. No special discount, they just will refuse to sell you odd and end items unless you buy Prime.
I think the price and relative scarcity of the truffle is a part of its allure. If it became cheap something else would occupy its niche.

At least for me truffles are extremely overrated in the taste department.
Sorry I missed the evidence for that. Where is it? Would that not warrant splashing the news across all media?
Search is especially hard. People are so used to how smart Google is that they type long, natural language queries into our search boxes...

"red widget for under $100 with free shipping" (which, of course, doesn't work...)
probably a combination of both.

i worked at a startup in the late 90's and the price of sun microsystems gear was mind-blowingly high. from memory: ultra 5 workstation with a scsi card and disk array was $15,000+. an ultra e450 server was on the order of $100,000 and went up from there depending on how you wanted to build.

of course, that was exactly the time people started switching to linux on x86 en masse. pentium pro's were good and cheap enough to scale out less expensively on a per unit basis. today you can buy a 72-core xeon server with gigabytes of memory and terabytes of ssd's and 4x 10G ethernet for less than 10 grand. amortized over its functional lifetime, it costs less than a cell phone bill.
Speed/traffic. Also some ISPs hijack domains that don't resolve to custom ad pages. Does anyone remember when Verisign did this for root servers in 2003 for .com/.net and it BROKE EVERYTHING?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisign#2003:_Site_Finder_leg...
That was exactly my problem. Also, the consultant they sent to help us with it didn't know anything about Linux when they knew that was our platform.

I'd love to get hold of one of my old units from that vendor and try to attack it. I assume it hasn't been done as they're so expensive. It's basically the ultimate in security through obscurity, as it's too expensive to get one you're prepared to break.
Modern Operating Systems by Tanenbaum
Those view points aren't without debate.

https://fee.org/articles/the-accidental-genius-of-the-electo...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/15/...
Well done, I like the possibility to change the "focal length". One thing I don't like on Youtube 360° videos is that they are too zoomed in this makes it difficult to watch.
Thanks, from reading your comment, I can see that I was a bit loose with the term 'charging voltage' - I was focusing on the internal electrical potential of the cap or battery(stabilised), but 'charging voltage' should pinpoint the external potential which is applied to the component.

In programdudes circuit, the internal and external voltage of the cap are the same, because the cap has no internal resistance modelled. But really the resistive and inductive functions of current stores like caps and batts are what moderates current flow , into or out of from them, and therefore they are what determines suitable charging voltages.

The resistive function of a cap is much simpler than a battery, but the capacity of each to store and release current makes their voltage (the ~pressure of their current) persistent in the respect that internal voltage will only change by releasing or storing current. Well there are caveats of course that chemical and other reactions may alter the stores potential over time, but current exchange is the fundamental cause of potential, and purpose of electrical storage.

Id like to edit this line but to late now:
> its own voltage (the electrical potential created by virtue of its capacitance)

It would be better to write "electric potential sustained by virtue of its capacity".

For caps vs batteries, the only modelling difference I see between them is their resistance functions - that function in batteries tends to be very complex, approximated very roughly by charging curves. Caps tend to be much simpler, but can still involve significant internal resistance and inductance especially to maximum performance applications.

In summary what ive struggled to explain for the record is - the charging(external) voltage of a battery or cap, is only separated by its internal voltage by its internal resistance. A store which will charge moderately at +0.5v above its internal potential, is liable to blow very quickly if 10 or 100 times that voltage is applied.
You can label them without deleting them. It'd be no different than a up/down vote at that point.
> To the extent that coastal areas might have more sway as a whole because they have more people, isn't that the whole point of democracy?

But the United States was never intended to be a popular democracy. In their wisdom the Founding Fathers acknowledged the problems inherent in democracy (it devolves too easily into two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner). Instead, they created a federal republic, in which the primary powers of governance would be invested in the states. This is evident in the text of the 10th amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

The essential characteristic of this federal republic was that issues would be decided locally, and only a few necessary powers would be delegated to the central government. Small, local governments have many advantages: it's easier for ordinary people to participate in and influence them, and they're harder for big money to control. Local governments listen more closely to their constituencies and their decisions more accurately reflect what their communities want. While some of the Founders were fonder of a strong central government than others, none of them would have supported the degree of centralization we have today.

I can't help but wonder what our society would look like if we had adhered to the original vision of the Founders. Indeed, our entire moral framework would be based on the reality that people only a few hours' drive away might have very different values, and rather than coercing them through the threat of government force, we had to either persuade them to change their minds, or learn to work with people who were very different from us. In the modern United States people pay a lot of lip service to these ideals but at the end of the day they just want to get their candidate elected so that he/she can force everyone else to conform to their beliefs. Authoritarians on both sides of the political spectrum grow bolder every day and I can't help but feel that the American experiment in self-rule may be approaching its twilight.

The antidote is a return to the true meaning of the 10th amendment. A more local government which is influenced and participated in directly by the people it governs. A world where your vote is one of hundreds or thousands, not hundreds of millions, and genuinely does count. An end to the US central government as a tool of coercion and a dismantling of the most powerful bureaucracy in human history. Unfortunately the national conversation is very, very far away from this idea. Everyone's so caught up hoping that the next autocrat at the top will come from Team Blue/Team Red depending on their favorite color...
Just bring the right kind of people and God will flood it.
What would you do if the internet was down for 24h
Has anyone thought about this ?
Would this be something bad for you ? Is it that important to you ? What do you do when you're not online ?
> Think about it - music production, video editing, photo editing, graphic design, coding.. These are all things which used to be considered extremely difficult but have now been made easier with fantastic, accessible software. Huge amounts of specialist hardware are no longer necessary or indeed desirable in these fields and the new MacBook Pro recognises this - software development (and other areas) are moving increasingly to the cloud and a huge development machine is no longer a necessity..

While some of these professions may be moving towards cloud based solutions, video editing especially is still difficult. You'll end up waiting half your life to upload half a terabyte of footage to the cloud before you can start doing any work.
when i was younger, i hoped that in the future lab-made diamonds would make it feasible to buy one the size of a baseball for not that much money.
There are VR capable (gtx 1060) laptops around the size of the 2012 MacBook Pros.
"replaced with explicit material starring transsexual pornstar Riley Quinn"

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/cnn-...
Because the JS targets Slack HTML to insert the recognized text from the webkitSpeechRecognition API.
We do super-human-parity transcripts. Our transcripts are insanely accurate, even for challenging files. I'm sure computers will be able to do that one day, but Singularity would have already happened by then, wiping out many businesses. I for one look forward to Singularity and hope that we will contribute to it in some way.
If someone in Zuckerberg or Gates circle is reading this the guy they should be funding is an old Michigan State colleague by the name of Twesigye Jackson Kaguri.

He left a comfortable life working for the university so that the kids of his brother who died of AIDS could have a school to attend. He has now opened several schools for AIDS orphans in Uguanda but funding has been perilous.

If you want to read an uplifting book this holiday season may I recommend A School for My Village: A Promise to the Orphans of Nyaka.

https://www.amazon.com/School-My-Village-Promise-Orphans/dp/...
after the election, I no longer believe the donald used bots. People just seriously under estimated trumps very large support.
The reasoning there is if the saturation was at 0.001 someone made a conscious decision to put it at 0.001 and we shouldn't be messing with it.
Well currently many truffles come from Europe and as I understand, they begin to lose value as soon as they are pulled from the ground. So if a company could produce them in the States, they could retain much more value and control the American market.
> Reddit SREs

You've been working at Google too long. Reddit has on the order of a few dozen employees, not all of them technical. Welcome to how the rest of the Internet works.
> Good luck convincing the in-power party of that, no matter which side of the aisle they sit on.

Yup. That's true of all "true" reform. Most of the campaign finance reform laws that end up passing could more accurately be called "the incumbent protection act".
Another way of stopping this is DNS-over-HTTPS:

https://github.com/wrouesnel/dns-over-https-proxy

I wouldn't use this all the time, but I've been stuck behind a DNS-filtering ISP before which had a broken proxy. Nice to have a fallback ready
That wasn't my prediction, it was sixQuarks. All I'm saying is some percentage of the fund is left to compound.
I have 8GB on my laptop and never managed to use more than around 5 GB.

Using Visual Studio, Android Studio, Netbeans.
Snopes claims Nov 25 is not the biggest shopping day of the year.

When I first moved away to college, I found a copy of Adbusters in a bookstore and I thought it was one of the most amazing things ever. Eventually I decided it was too smug even for me.

This author has a lot of the same thoughts I did:

http://streetcarnage.com/blog/adbusters-landfill-of-the-ment...

I think the magazines Vice and Colors were targeted at the same market as Adbusters, but had a much greater impact.
It's funny, IIRC the founder of braintree was quite active on HN as Braintree started to become successful.
Augmenting JSON to XML Conversion in Golang
Now I think it's a good idea to colonize the place.
Yeah man, it's crazy misogynistic to suggest that men don't like it when their wife sleeps with another man.
Promised?
What an infantile response to the CEO's infantile actions.
C.f. Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals"
I think Braintree's document are really nice looking. I really like the look of monospace font at larger font sizes. There is also a ton of designers that use monospace font for more developer related things.
I can see why he discourages it. It prevents understanding why a matrix is singular. I often find students who use it as the main justification for singularity without further understanding singularity -- namely that it occurs when a linear map sends things to a lower dimensional space than it accepts.
>Now I'm brainstorming how one might build a federated Reddit with public, signed mutation log, ala CT or other chains. And then multiple UIs could render the same public & federated data set.

Your post to delete /r/goland triggered me to actually work out an idea for this ;)

The idea would be to use importers to provide reddit and other sources like mailing lists within the site and at the same time provide native content through Pubsubhubbub.

Of course everything uses Ed25519 Signatures for verification, including user-content.

Tho atm it's merely a pipe-dream with a short and shitty readme.
Jane Jacobs never adequately thought through the implications of gentrification
AT&T installs a USR modem for the pots line to manage the routers for their bVoIP
> To be fair, a lot of it is fake news. So much crap is "reported" about China that a lot of often exaggerated and spun in a certain way.

This is just an excuse.

The rich and powerful in any country wanted to control media. They need fake news and make them prominent. They certainly can eliminate them easily; just like they would to censor real news. But they do need them to become prominent so people can buy in that censorship is necessary.
I'd be happy to hear examples how Python 3 helps us in computational sciences. I've barely even tried it before and have used Python 2 a lot.
Your average office worker does not get decent screens. Even if the Windows default settings for the desktop have been kind of acceptable for many years, it does you little good if you are looking at it through a 9"-by-5" rectangle.

Multiple monitors are beyond any discussion for most, even if we programmers have gotten used to those and find'em indispensable.
I think I'm getting tired of winning.
Ask HN: What are your Black Friday money saving hacks?
Not sure about in USA. But in Canada to get a Braintree account is a giant process that takes several weeks and required submitting a ton of stuff, and you need too meet their minimum transaction volume in order to qualify.

That's why I use Stripe.
It depends on what you mean by "access to your analytics data." Anonymized, aggregated data is being used to inform product decisions, but engineers don't have direct access to the production database to query whatever they want. There are almost no cases where you'll be granted approval to look at real user data, and if you are granted access, 100% of your activity is monitored.

As a side note, this has been the case at every big company I've worked at, not just Google.
I think it is more likely that "parts unknown" was part of a porn title.
But isn't prediction by itself a probabilistic concept? Isn't one interested in the confidence of the prediction?
Calling these "first adopter" issues seems like it's allowing Apple too much leeway. The product line is a decade old, and none of the hardware being used here is untested or unproven.

This strikes me as another example of Apple's reality distortion field falling apart at the seams. Why are these issues occurring in the public's view, and not on some Apple developer's workstation or testing lab?
Are the pilings for those other tall buildings in the bedrock?
God, I hope one day the act of regurgitating the script from a vaguely relevant, fictional work is no longer celebrated.
No. The UK and Canada are monarchies, not republics.