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Idea for an app: {app_name} recognizes that what is on tv right now is an ad, and mutes it!

I have no idea how to do that.
If you've researched your car options and decided that the best car for you is a Honda Civic then your local Honda dealer becomes a de facto local monopoly on cars. The fact you could go and buy a different car somewhere else means that you have to choose to spend thousands of dollars on something that you know isn't the right choice. Dealers know this, and they're very good at making the most of it.

As you say though, the best way around the problem is simply to make sure you don't settle on a specific car so you're in a position to walk away if the dealer isn't great. That's easier to say than do though.
Luke Cage moves slowly. It oozes atmosphere, but it takes its time. I admit I dropped out after a while too.

My wife is not into superheroes and SF at all, but she loved Jessica Jones. She doesn't like Daredevil or Luke Cage at all.

There's plenty of other stuff to watch, though. We recently discovered a new season of Doctor Who, which I thought was supposed to be disappearing from Netflix. But for everything I could watch on regular TV, watching it on Netflix is simply more convenient, because we get to control exactly when and how to watch it, and Netflix keeps track of where we are.
Sure, maybe what he said is true. Or maybe the food/water/pollution issues are what drove him away.

But, more often this kind of departure is a prelude to either more departures, accounting issues, or the sudden public disclosure of previously hidden away infighting in the executive suites.
Idea #1: Just submit the paper normally and hope for the best.

Idea #2: Write your work as a book or pamphlet and publish it as an e-book, for example on LeanPub.

Idea #3: Do a favor for a pal in academia and let him co-author the paper with you. It helps him with his tenure/promotion progress, and with his experience he may be able to help you prepare the work to go through peer review.
Isn't `python` in Ubuntu a Python 3?
I call this the tangibility factor.

When I worked at MetaDesign back in the late nineties and early zeros we had something called RedBooks.

RedBooks were most of the work we had done for a specific client printed out in tabloid size bound into a spiral back book and put on a large shelf system.

We also had a matriculate digital folder system with projects, searchable and the same pages as PDF plus much more accessible from your computer.

Guess which one we used the most?

With the RedBooks it was very easy to pull out the book and look through it for inspiration, talk about how we did this or that and so on and with the book we only put in the things that where somehow relevant.

The computer folders on the other hand had everything because, yeah well why not. But what they had in quantity it lacked in human relatable tangibility.

Computers are great when the amount of information become so waste that it's impossible to manually search through it all or if you need to share a lot of your things with other people.

It turns out that for all the great things computers can help us do it still haven't solved tangibility.
Seems to be a python specific nix-shell like tool?

With nix[OS] you just run `nix-shell -p python[2,3] python[2,3]Pacakges.numpy ...` to get an environment with the required packages.

Of course this requires that the python library is packaged in nix, but in my experience the coverage is quite good, and it's not very hard to write packages once you get the hang of it.

It also possible (but currently a bit clumsy in some ways) to set up named and persistent environments.
No, but you could be using pyenv instead of the system package manager because it is far cleaner
Holding government to account is a good thing, thanks Sam.

I have to wonder though if we'd see the same level of scrutiny if HRC had won.
The Expanse also claims to be a Netflix Original, which surprised me, because I thought Syfy aired it first. But since I don't get Syfy, I'm happy to watch it on Netflix.
I liked used a Pilot Dr. Grip for awhile, liked the feel and ink color, but it would sometimes decide not to write. I eventually got so annoyed I said, "Fine, I'll get a pen that can write anywhere!" and bought a couple of Fisher Bullet Space pens, and while the ink isn't quite as black, it writes when the other pen would refuse to, so I use those now.

For notebooks, I need something that opens flat and stays flat, so I need a binder. I found these Blue Sky notebooks at Walgreens and really like the look and feel of them: https://www.bluesky.com/blue-sky-trade-black-5-75-x-8-5-note...
Can confirm. My MA research was on an EMD Li-ion cathode material and I get approached by recruiters for companies I haven't even heard of every so often.
Same. I got the financial times weekly. It's refreshing to read real, well-funded journalism.

And I find I can skim it with much leas distraction. Most pages have several articles, and it takes very little effort to scan headlines to see which ones to read.
Just checked out the site. Seems they have ceased selling the software. A pity. I bet some people and companies would still buy it. I read the page about TAWK (a much enhanced awk, they say TAWK has added features such that it is a general purpose programming language), and the page about their Thompson Toolkit, which roughly seems like a lighter version of Cygwin / UWin etc., with some DOS features too.
Ask HN: What sort of side-projects are useful for getting jobs?
Most of mine are more of demo's I built for blog posts and teaching rather than SaaS products people are actually using. Some of my projects are rather complex and (at least I believe) do well to show knowledge and understanding, but I feel like the fact that they are demos rather than products make them rather useless.
Ok about this argument, but this have nothing to do with Android but the phone brand. If Samsung don't want to push update it's their fault and not the fault of Android to provide a open system. It's still why I don't have found any argument that "IPhone are the solution".
I'm not actually working with batteries right now, but as I posted on an earlier HN thread [0] I'm a generalist, and typically when a company hires me one of the first things I do is help them with batteries. Pretty much any company that uses batteries these days can really benefit from my help (for example, reducing the battery cost from $20/battery to $6/battery, or bringing the capacity, given the same space and weight, from 2800mAh to 7000mAh.)

Regarding how people specifically hire me, I've been lucky enough to never really need to search for work; it just finds me. Either through HN, or from people I've worked for before.

By the way, my email's in my profile; anyone in this thread feel free to contact me. You should especially contact me if you're involved in any project that uses batteries, I always love to hear what people are making.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13410359
The Rise and Fall of the ‘Kill Box’ in US Military Strategy
The point was for the browser to warn the end user about password re-use.

The browser doesn't need javascript to see the contents of a password field, or to show an indicator in the browser's chrome. It's the browser.

If you salt the password with the url, all you've done is made a unique password per website which is what you were supposed to be doing anyway.

Note that browsers can already store password lists (ex: Chrome settings, search manage passwords). There would just be an extra step to compare those passwords together.
Might be a bit off-topic, but here it goes. This article gave me reassurance how I resisted using e-readers and stuck to the notion of using an actual book. Waste of paper? Yes. But then we are wasting papers in many other ways as well (another debate). Plus books hardly get recycled and they often get passed on (used bookstores). Also, my another issue with Kindle-esque books or even buying paperbacks from Amazon is that now I always rely on reviews before purchasing my new book. I remember when I was young and in school, I would just go and browse through books in my school library and pick whatever interests me.
> now I an wondering if it would help people to make one.

Isn't that what the article says?
Where Do Human Emotions Fit in the Customer Experience?
I think that depends on what preposition you use.

"You will soon be able to buy a car from Wal-Mart" sounds right, but *"at Wal-Mart" rings false to me.

Wal-Mart is the entity selling to you, and Walmart is the physical location.
Take a vacation from coding at home then. Get some games ofd of Steam.

Watch some youtube videos about interesting programs. You need to find a project that you really are interested in and energy and time to do it. Try on the weekend playing with 3d graphics or Arduino or a new programming language.

Don't try to do it for more than you really feel like. Could be only 20 or 30 minutes sometimes.

Coding is like a brain workout so yes you will get tired. Try on the weekends or only after a light work day.
I'm inclined to agree. Convincing someone to use a space-age toilet for the first time without giving them instructions is hilarious.
Check out Doug DeMurro's videos on YouTube. He is an automotive journalist in Philadelphia who daily drove a Ferrari for a week or two a few years ago. Plenty of videos of him getting gas and someone asking him how much his car cost, what he does for a living, etc.

There's a more recent comparison video of him driving an Aston Martin, a more expensive and arguably much nicer car, but because it's silver nobody gives a shit.

Unless you are truly flashy (red Ferrari, diamond watch) typically nobody will notice. And to the Rolex point specifically, there are more non-Rolex watches that look nearly identical to the Submariner than there are actual Submariners.

A friend of mine has what I thought for years was a Pepsi bezel GMT II. I caught a better look at it randomly and it turns out it's a Seiko.
1917 – The Alien Invasion DX
Yes, there are plenty of options. However, most of those options lack something while Forth is all-inclusive. All your options have no compiler while Forth compiles to threaded code which is pretty fast, about 1/10 the speed of assembler according to my experience. Your options have a linear space consumption while Forth code compiles "logarithmic" due to its extensible vocabulary. That means, if you have an 8K system (like on my former PET-2001) you need 4K for a convenient basic Forth for instance, while you can put a lot more stuff in the other 4K, due to the threaded code.
The average user doesn't care about permissions and probably are going to fully allow games like that to steal their data. Then they'll give it a good score in the app-store. Install number and rating aren't good indicators. I think there's an implied user-base here that the "mark as broken" response is going to be useful for, but the vast majority of people won't care.
What if he actually does what he said he would??
Agreed. thanks for doing this. bookmarked.

EDIT. being downvoted. I agreed on the thanks for sam for putting together the list together in an easy-t0-digest format, not the HRC part!
I've noticed an interesting parallel with musicians.

Professional musicians can learn to play a new song fairly quickly just by listening to it; intermediate musicians can learn to play by following music sheet; and beginner musicians has to be guided by a teacher, and they basically emulate what the teacher does.
It's not DRM-free.
If you have an android try to build AOSP for it.
It's all related to coding but on a different perspective and it might be highly motivating to have your own brew of android for your device.
I agree with you. If you can leverage control theory from the 1950s to solve your problem, what's the point?

However, I will state that using e.g. Lyapunov functions to prove the stability of the system requires a model of the system. And even if you need a guarantee for your system, that guarantee is only as good as the fidelity of your model. For an inexpensive RC car, with slippage and saturation, without torque control or inertial sensing, you're going to have a hard time doing something that sounds as principled as what you suggest.
You buy the dark blue Ferrari instead of the bright red one. Even with its radical styling, most people wouldn't give it a second look.
I'd love to get a Submariner no date, but I have small wrists and the 40mm Rolex case looks goofy on me.
Is this plan any good? Another way to say... If Obama came up with this plan, would it be well received?
People do all sorts of crazy things for 100 bucks. If you fraudulently get a job as a programmer you might be making thousands and thousands more than you would otherwise. It's not hard to see the incentive.
I thought the Alexa part was an easy explanation of how alone the character is.
Agile Data Science with Docker
Considering the amount of conspiracy nuts who make it their life goal to pin everything on the Clintons and the amount of mainstream attention they got + the rabid anti-Hillary sentiment on the right, my answer is "absolutely".
On Reddit, it's just altering the DOM in your browser. If you reload the page, what you collapsed is no longer collapsed.

On HN, it's making a request to the server, which will remember that you collapsed that thread and keep it collapsed if you return to the page in the future.
Will this Facebook bot help your team?
That void in the middle is almost entirely garbage

I think you are being a bit harsh. You can get some perfectly fine mechanical watches at the 500 euro mark. Brands like Certina, Hamilton, Seiko and (to a lesser extent) Victorinox have several models in that price range which are perfectly well made.
In the US a while ago Citibank had a promotion that required signing up for a new account and depositing $15,000. So I did. My account was then frozen for "suspicious activity" due to a "large transfer into a new account" until I called them. Luckily a phone call was enough for them to unfreeze my account.

I just found it so odd to consider doing a promotional requirement as suspicious... and I didn't know how long they could just keep my funds frozen like that. Seemed sketchy. What if I had checks that needed to clear?
ARAVA DESERT in the Barren South, Israelis and Arabs Work to Green the Middle East
What? You can trivially run DB2 "in teh cloudz" http://www.ibm.com/analytics/us/en/technology/cloud-data-ser...
Imagine if public transport was full of 90% polite people, and 10% full of selfish people, who'd say "sorry, no". Then this app wouldn't have to exist.
In some way, absolutely.

You can easily get a nice isolated python environment with some packages in nix without using pip, pyenv, etc. `nix-shell -p python pythonPackages.numpy ...`

So far I think it works quite well for most languages as long the needed packages are in nixpkgs.

Some of the tooling could be better, but the underlying model seems sound.

I'm not really convinced language-specific package managers are needed. Nix isn't perfect yet, but it has come a long way.
To be fair, actors often use their own phones and those tend to be iPhones far more often than they are with the general population.
In other words, don't set final goals per se, but brake it down in small steps that can be done in a daily basis.

That way you won't have to measure every day if you're getting closer to your goal (like dealing with numeric goals), you'll be evaluating if you're keeping yourself committed to things that will be part of your objective by the end of the year.

It avoids the burden that comes when you don't achieve a intermediate goal, and then give up of everything because it'll be hard to go back on track.
I think you are grossly overestimating the net worth of your average Rolex Submariner purchaser.
> a de facto local monopoly on cars

I like the implication here.

Because they're not going to have the specific car/options you want anyway, are they? No, you're going to need to accept what they want to sell...
These are not mutually exclusive options. You can use the heir to meteor (Apollo-client[1]) with elixir and phoenix quite easily. Absinthe [2] is shaping up to be a very complete implementation of the graphql spec, with proof-of-concept of non-spec features like subscriptions. I've been very happy with this combination, and it allows you to swap your front-end easily for another implementation (e.g. go with ember or react instead of angular).

[1] https://github.com/apollostack/apollo-client
[2] http://absinthe-graphql.org/
It's worth noting that the number of actual failures is measurable only after millions had shipped. 10-100 dppm is a reasonable guess (~100 phones out of 2.7M shipped) with relatively low "infant mortality" until they were compressed into a phone and used (and abused as normal).

As a tester, you build a 10k ($10M) unit test run and none of them fail, and then another 10k ($10M) run and again none of them fail... statistically you might not expect reliably catch a single failure until you run 10 times.... that's a $100M test you need to get your boss to sign off on.

Note that when you get a failure it will burn up and you won't be able to identify the cause.

Now, if you knew the failure mode, you could test for it directly and you wouldn't have to waste an entire assembled phone in a destructive evaluation, but that's hind sight. The failure defects they see seem like pretty standard problems, but other than sampling, I'm still not sure how they are going to catch them in manufacturing.

What's amazing is that more batteries don't go up (the original Prius was notorious).
> But if I know someone, even if I don't like them, they're a friend.

That's not the definition of the word "friend" as it is conventionally used. Sounds like the word "acquaintance" would be more appropriate to me.
>ban on all Muslim immigration (which is on its face unconstitutional).

There are plenty of respected and knowledgeable legal scholars who disagree.
Story time. Dad worked briefly for the Eveready battery division of Union Carbide, and they had a plant in low-labor-cost (for the time) Asheboro North Carolina. They had a problem with their then-new alkaline battery line where the batteries were exploding, and dad (a chemical engineer) was sent to find out why and fix it. He was there for several weeks looking over the process and line, trying various things to solve the problem.

Eventually his boss came for a visit and dad was explaining what he had done as they walked through the factory floor. Just as they passed a stack of batteries, one of them exploded -- which then set off a chain reaction as the released electrolyte shorted out adjacent batteries. Listening to this series of small explosions, his boss accused him of a setup. Nope. Just coincidence.

I think he said the problem was traced to the water supply and how the city had been varying the amount of chlorine in it.

The most interesting battery they made was for the Union Pacific Railroad. They had signal lights to run out in the middle of nowhere, and they had to run unattended through the Rocky Mountain winters. So they made this massive battery that would be hoisted by crane into a buried vault by the side of the tracks, to be swapped out 5-6 months later.
You would never hire somebody like me :). I write code in IDEs usually, and never basic console apps. Always inside of a framework or a bigger project.

Good luck creating a maven project archetype and getting it to work during a whiteboard session. I would choke so hard on a basic "make a console app to display these numbers". I don't even remember the calls to string split and console display in some of my favorite languages. Why? You'd be an idiot to use those over Log4net or whatever you use in real life.

You're asking a guy that might know how to design rockets how to put together a bicycle. A does not imply B in this case.

I've always thought whiteboard interviews were biased towards those straight out of school, since that's the only place you would write toy apps that use basal language features.

On the other hand, I've got a ton of my own libraries on my Github and some of them are pretty popular. It's abundantly clear that I wrote all of these since they're all published in official package managers with my private keys.

I see things from the other direction. An employer too lazy to check my github and verify my credentials probably sucks.
As one of the few package mangers, nix can be used without root access.
Poker is somewhat different due to incomplete information and its highly stochastic nature. It's easy to infer incorrect action-payoff relationships from observing hundreds or even thousands of hands. Like the stock market, the cards can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
> Some of the results are so non-intuitive that they may end up being labeled "pathological" - despite being, in fact, completely logical consequence of the assumptions, of which one of the most well-known is Axiom of Choice.

That's not true. The axiom of choice is actually famous for being independent of ZFC, meaning that it cannot be proven or disproven using the usual axioms of set theory. That's why it's an axiom: you need to assume its truth without grounds.

Also, in intuitionistic logic, the axiom of choice is provably false.
His honest opinion would have costed him no time or effort, and would have saved him an angry rant on medium.

Harshly put: shame on the author to complain on medium when he perfectly knew that this guy was going to fail.
Note that big farmers have already replaced "soil destroying tillage" with "soil building cover crops". Farm news is full of stories about early adopters 10 years ago bragging about how they are now building soil organic matter with a corresponding reduced need for fertilizer. The big farmers recognize the impact this has on the bottom line. Your mid sized farmers see that extra $10/acre in fertilizer as a cost of business and don't realize they could reduce it.

Unfortunately "long-distance imported fertilizer to in-situ fertility produced by soil organisms" cannot work if food is exported off of the farm. Every gram of food taken off the farm includes some micro-nutrients - various minerals that are required for life that have been removed from the soil and taken elsewhere.
Huh? This really isn't true. For a given brand, there's probably between 1-3 dealers within a reasonable distance of you. For many people, there's only 1. Most people don't want to drive around to all the dealers in a 300-mile radius.
Wallets: A critical layer in the blockchain stack
More commonly one is "proud of" one's children or "proud of" one's country - in the latter case especially, your direct hand in whatever "they" did may is probably a statistical rounding error away from zero. Not very different to be "proud of" one's compatriots in the world of technology.
Maybe this was an WP7 feature which still had backwards compatibility.

My personal knowledge starts with 8.1. At least since 8.1 - so practically any relevant phone sold or in use today - the SD card has a hidden encrypted partition which holds apps moved to the card and a public partition for user data (photos, downloads, audio, video etc). This public partition with userdata is not encrypted and can be read at any device.

In the coming W10M update it's possible to encrypt the whole card again, so e.g. photos are protected.
>He expects Netflix to monetize existing subscriptions by doing things like adopting higher pricing tiers for 4K content.

They already do, in the UK at least. 4k is only on the top tier 4 stream subscription. The standard subscription is 2 stream and tops out at 1080p.
Setting Cookies in React
then we'll see that reflected in the app
One wonders if we want to encourage him to tick off these boxes.
The funny thing is if you take about 5% of IMS's features and reliability, you get super-trendy MongoDB.
>That was the point.

That was actually my point.

>But a UBI also lets you quit your terrible job

A guaranteed job that isn't horrible makes terrible jobs better since employers will have to compete to keep their employees.