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I'm the author of the project. To answer questions about testing and which design is 'the best': The project was produced in a cultural context so I had no access to specialized measuring equipment or techniques. What I've done is to run side by side comparisons, so I only have circumstantial evidence.The method was to compare the antenna or reflector against the stock antenna on the same dongle and seeing which one resulted in most SSIDs showing up in wavemon. That being said, the big difference between most diy antennas vs the stock antenna is that the diy antennas basically work on the principle of directionality, meaning increased gain in a narrow cone. So you have to point your antenna at the signal source for a higher gain.

Which one is the best really depends on the use case, materials available and time you want to invest. I've found the biquad in the sardine tin[1] to be the handiest for all-round situations and use it frequently. It is directional, but has a wider field of view than other directional antennas. Compact design, sturdy build quality. Not too difficult to produce and sardines combine great with pizza or pasta. Here is some more info on that type of design[2]. If you only have access to dongles without a detachable antenna I'd recommend using a wok or some other parabolic reflector.

[1]http://roelof.info/projects/(2014)Pretty_Fly_For_A_Wifi/IMG_...

[2]http://pe2er.nl/biquad/index.htm
I can't speak for the GP, but one might make a reasonable distinction between the reliability of findings that come out of Argentina as they compare to those from China.

Edit: Someone doesn't appreciate this comment. Astute professional analysts the world over know that official figures that come out of China are among the least reliable on the planet.

And while scientific misconduct is not unheard of anywhere, China's hardly a shining example in that regard.

Lastly, good Chinese research agencies themselves are having a difficult time keeping up with numerous bad actors who are doing their best to fraudulently publish papers.

This isn't xenophobia, it's a fair appraisal of the sometimes inconsistent qualities of the world's societies.
Yeah, that part! Pile it all together into a script and make a movie out of it. I'd watch it! :)

(Note to folks at HN: if behind-the-scenes movies are your thing, check out Living in Oblivion with Steve Buscemi and Catherine Keener. Good stuff.)
I, for one, am still fearful that our new electric-car revolution might still whimper and die.

Tesla is the one single entity most important in assuring that future. Not that it cannot happen without them, but, it might not.
Wow, TiddlyWiki is still alive! I think I have a 10 year old thumb drive lying around with an early version on it. After cycling through Evernote, text files, and Google Keep, I'm eager to see what the TiddlyWiki experience is like. I'll be super impressed if I can import my 10 year old docs. (Though I'm not sure that would be useful...)
You can always disable the service.
Then you will get angry drivers that cannot earn money because of a choice you made, but you can participate to the strike.
Is this your site? If it meets the guidelines, it's likely better as a "Show HN": https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I eat tomatoes grown by my father who is retired and does this as an hobby. His tomatoes are extremely tasty and satisfying. I really don't miss the need for any genetic fix. Supermarkets tomatoes are commercialized unripe and then ripen by artificial means.
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Haven't been sleeping well for almost a week. Doing morning runs and exercises but still feel shitty most of the day.

It could be the Seattle weather kicking in but I feel lost and anxious of the future. Trumps executive actions against immigrants don't help too. I really don't know what I want in life. My relationship with my partner is slowly eroding.
Go re-read "Letter from a Birmingham Jail". The relevant bit has been quoted elsethread.
Anyone feel the same way about these types of hackathons? What are your thoughts of hackathons?
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Even if it's free of charge, using iTunes doesn't justify the cost.
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"Nobody reads patents even to learn."

Even if patents were great learning sources, it would still be better not to read them before they expire. Infringing on a patent you know of is more expensive than infringing on one you don't know of, so, it's better to not read patents at all so that, if it comes to that, you can confidently state that you didn't know of the patent.
So is this essentially OneNote?
> that happened to be countries with major trump investments

And that (on a diplomatic level at least) also happen to be major US allies in the region.
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The non-Subaru concept was the FT-HS which never made it into production. The Toyota 86 uses an Impreza chassis and engine. Mechanically it's a Subaru. AFAIK the Toyota/Scion versions may have a slightly different engine but it's still a Subaru boxer.
Every single sentence by a judge or jury is a unit test (which may have bugs itself that get corrected by higher courts)
> what the goal of the group was

That implies there was a group, in a formal sense, at all.
It's easier to move our own company's apps, I feel. What's harder is all the SaaS products that we use most of which are in the US :/ I have to look more closely into selfhosting solutions.
I was making a general point, hence "often" and "most people", not about this specific case.
>all of the people I know who are involved in this stuff are very well aware of Obama's militarism.

That doesn't help your argument. They were aware Obama killed a quarter of a million people and did nothing. Meanwhile Trump inconveniences some travelers and somehow he's the monster worth protesting. Get real.
DHH recently posted a comment on Quora about why it's still valuable to learn Rails in 2017 [0]. I don't agree with everything he says, but he is right that the Rails ideology was a big thing for web development in the '00s. Yes both Rails and Ruby have their issues, but if you look at what was around before it was a breath of fresh air.

I keep hoping the JavaScript community will have the same epiphany, but so far I'm still dreaming. Yes there are boilerplates that give you something working out-of-the-box, but still you need to keep up with which boilerplate is the latest and greatest. I'd argue Rails being so opinionated was one of the reasons for it's success.

[0] - https://www.quora.com/What-makes-Rails-a-framework-worth-lea...
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I'm glad something is finally happening over there. After watching the second Iraq war happen with the media doing pretty much nothing, I can tell you that I could not agree more with what you said. But it will blow over and then it will be back to business as usual.
Judicial interpretation is generally is embroiled in a partisan fight over originalism vs. substantive/contextual/... canons. The most recent case of the Supreme Court rejecting "plain meaning" was Obamacare, where it was decided that "State" in "an Exchange established by the State" also includes those established by the federal government.

But I doubt you'll even need to show that the EO started with the wish to implement a Muslim Ban, because it is doubtful that their efforts to soften it until it is legal were successful. As an analogy: Would a company policy never to employ a woman born in odd-numbered years be discriminatory?

If you insist on "no, because it doesn't discriminate against all women", how about a policy against hiring any women who's current age is even? That must then also be non-discriminatory, right?

Now what if a company were to implement both policies? Can two non-discriminatory policies add up to something discriminatory?
The manufacturer and dealer incentives are somewhat misaligned.

The former has an incentive to portray its product as a stress-free and worry-free purchase, as most people are not thrilled about buying a clunker that has consistent issues. Highest mark of success here is the complete lack of future customer interaction - no complaints, no warranty claims, no recalls, no class-action lawsuits.

The latter one does not get paid until the customer comes in for service, and the higher the frequency, the better.
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While the person writing the post pointed it out, only one of the blogs seemed to be about her gender* while the others didn't even mention it as far as I saw.

* http://mina.codes/# (extremely so, if I may add)
Limited liability has nothing to do with personhood. Which is very recent and very specific. Personhood is not any of the things you listed, those are features of basic corporation without personhood. Corporations worked fine for several hundred years. Granting them the rights but not the responsibilities of humans was wholly unnecessary and a mistake.
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Do you have something substantive to add besides posting the Wikipedia link? One could uncharitably interpret your comment as virtue signaling in and of itself.
> Trump's intentions are irrelevant when interpreting the law.

They are not irrelevant when determining whether his actions comply with statutory and Constitutional provisions which preclude actions directed toward certain ends.

Intent is quite often relevant in the application of law to particular sets of facts.
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I took offense to your cavalier dismissal of some real shit as "being unhappy". You trivialized it, and you knew what you were doing, and it was lousy behavior. And you shouldn't do that and you should be better.
I found a good name for <$200 on Namejet. Also check out Flippa.com for good names from people willing to sell.

A piece of advice that worked for me: don't get stuck on the name. It's hard and it takes time (and sometimes money). Pick any temporary name for $10 and keep building instead. You can always change it later. Many companies and projects have changed their name as they became successful. It feels like it's important in the beginning but it usually isn't.
This makes sense, they can see their friends or friends of friends not being able to travel freely as they can.
Calling out people for staying silent under Obama is not a tactic. It's just a way to highlight a person's motivation.
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and the other side of the coin is discussed here: https://peteris.rocks/blog/htop/
which explains htop programmatically :)
That was similar to my failed attempt to make an app with Meteor. Not having much free time I seem to have started at the wrong time so that halfway into learning the framework and applying it to my own project, Meteor got an update. Being still in the learning phase I updated to be working with the latest stable version, something which broke the app, so I spent time fixing that, then the free hosting tier was dropped and for a hobbyist who was making an app that was guaranteed to never generate revenue ever ever, it became too expensive to host in comparison to a traditional $10 host with a mySql DB. And what was I doing anyways? Meteor Blaze? Was that the correct choice? Or was Meteor & Angular a better choice? Or was Meteor React the way to go? Or if I'm using Angular or React why am I using Meteor? Ended up with so many questions about whether or not I was using the right stack for me, and as I said, not much time to work on it so looking for something that wasn't going to be abandoned in 6 months time, in the end I just gave up on that project.

It doesn't help either that these js communities are splintered around every tiny issue and forked every other week (mean.js! is where I started the whole process). The feeling that there is zero permanence one week into a project does not inspire confidence either in my own project or the tools I have chosen.
Can't modern drivers organize with a Facebook group or something? Or do Uber hire corporate spies to collect names and ban everyone?
> So: do you want to grow the ecosystem around your software or not?

In short: of course not. Or at least "not at any cost".

Open source projects do loads of things that reduce the potential ecosystem. People choose to work on projects that aren't web browsers, for example. Or they choose languages that aren't the #1 most popular. They target a platform that has less than 50% marketshare. All of those things turn away potential users in exchange for authorial convenience of some form or another.

It is a foreign concept to me to write e.g. a developer tool for a minority environment and then all of a sudden worry about the license being some major barrier.

But more broadly your position is very strange to me in its wider implications. Let us say that some voice actor could donate some spare reel to Disney. Or that some author could donate a manuscript to Penguin. Or that some musician could donate their track to Sony. Do you believe they should do so, under the theory that this in some way "grows the ecosystem" for their work?
I have lots of respect for spiritual people and adherents to both religious and non-religious supernatural practices, but I can't pretend that the association with supernatural beliefs didn't put me off getting into meditation and yoga for a long time, despite the very real empirical benefits. I understand that for you these beliefs (which, whether they are true or not, are not scientifically proven, which is important for me) increase the benefit you get from meditation, but for the non-spiritual these associations are a barrier to entry that must be overcome. I now meditate regularly and love it, but I still have some measure of resistance to yoga.
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>As to your supposed impartiality I think you should be honest about your support for Trump, not dissemble, here is what you said about the press lower down -

First, thinking that the media is anti-Trump does not automatically make one pro-Trump.

Second, being pro-Trump does not make one automatically pro-strong-vetting.

As for my personal positions, which are not relevant to anything but which I'm more than happy to disclose based on your expression of interest, I voted for Donald Trump and I've stated that on HN in multiple places before.

Immigration is not a major issue for me and particularly anti-Muslim rhetoric is a major turnoff for me; I have a lot of respect for Islam as a religion and I've studied it casually for many years. I think, in general, Muslims are great neighbors and community partners. I am not Muslim, but I am religious, and I've enjoyed working with Muslims on topics of mutual interest to religious people.

I don't like Donald Trump very much and I started out strongly opposed to him. I warmed up to him only over the final 6 weeks prior to the election or so. Prior to that, I was considering writing in a vote, and I probably would've if I didn't live in a swing state.

My personal preference for a presidential candidate would've been one of several candidates that was in the running earlier in the election cycle (preferably Rand Paul, though to be frank I would still like Ron).

I don't know enough about immigration from the blacklisted nations to know a) whether migrants from those countries do, in fact, pose more risk to the United States than migrants from other countries; b) whether that risk is substantial enough to warrant a travel stoppage/visa suspension of the type we've seen; c) whether a review or change in our vetting procedures will have any effect; or d) whether this ban will have larger negative ramifications in PR and internal turmoil than it would have benefit in implementation.

Because I don't know any of those things, I don't know if it's a smart thing to do or not. Why are you arguing with me about this and trying to tell me I don't know my own opinions? I don't get it.
I'm not the author and didn't write that line, but I can speculate about the kinds of concerns he's imagining, looking at the situation from a DevOps/automation-focused point of view:

How do you set up cron in such a way that your cron job runs on a machine somewhere, and will continue to do so for a long period of time?

Sure, you can log into a machine and edit the crontab manually, but what will happen if that machine fails? Ka-blam, it suffered a hardware failure and is gone. Do you repeat your manual edits on another machine? (If someone else did this three years ago and is no longer with the organization, does anyone know what edits to reproduce?)

OK so we need to build a mechanism that can ensure that at least one machine is running, and has this crontab installed on it. If the currently active machine fails, it needs to replace the machine and reinstall the crontab and software that the crontab runs. You need to monitor to detect when this happens, to kick that off, and you need to test the stack to be adequately sure it's going to work when it really does happen. There's infrastructure you can use to do that, of course, but it's all complexity to be mastered.

With the approach the author's describing, one only needs to define configuration: what code to run on what schedule. It's declarative, and the infrastructure handles actually executing it on a machine somewhere, completely encapsulating the concerns related to "getting some hardware running" and "installing the code".
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Corporations never existed without personhood; juridical personhood is a key factor was what historically distinguished corporations from earlier forms of business organization which did not create distinct legal persons.
First, here is a link that is not hidden behind a paywall: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.04878v2.pdf

> there is substantial evidence supporting a holographic explanation of the universe—in fact, as much as there is for the traditional explanation of these irregularities using the theory of cosmic inflation.

This is a bit misleading, especially the phrase "substantial evidence". I bet that the authors of the paper would not have used this phrasing. From the paper:

> We emphasise that the application of holography to cosmology is conjectural, the theoretical validity of such dualities is still open and different authors approach the topic in different ways.

Essentially, their paper shows that a holographic model cannot be ruled out simply by comparing the predictions it makes for the CMB to observation. It also gives some intuition for why a holographic model might make sense - at sufficiently early times in the Universe quantum and gravitational effects begin to coincide, and in other contexts people have modeled quantum gravity using "a quantum field theory with no gravity in one dimension less". The paper finds, however, that there is no empirical case to be made for discarding the standard model of inflation:

> We see that the difference between evidence for [the standard model] and HC predictions is insignifcant, with marginal preference for HC, depending on the choice of priors.
Can I ask why donating to the ACLU made you delete your account? It may be a waste of VC money, but they do stand up for civil liberties.
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> The incentive structure at a dealer service department is the exact opposite of favorable to the customer.

As is at the doctors. A doctor should be paid for not seeing you.
If you haven't read it already, I suspect you would greatly enjoy "The Beginning of Infinity" by David Deutsch (a quantum computation-focused physicist). It's a surprisingly optimistic take humanity's nearly-unlimited potential (or so he posits) for discovery and creation, and a great companion for any armchair philosophizer.

I suspect that many of the replies to this comment who cynically cite variations of "the principle of mediocrity" would also do well to read it.

He makes the point that the single coldest place in the known universe is not anywhere in the depths of space (which is gets down to about 3 kelvin), it's in a lab designed by humans and used for quantum mechanics research (200 nano kelvin).

Our capacity for information gathering and creativity has allowed us to create physical realities that cannot otherwise exist outside the influence of intelligent beings. Incredible to think about.
Why wouldn't BigCo offer to buy rights under a different license? I'm an outsider to this kind of deal, but it seems to me like a good way for both parties to get something they want -- open source projects being often short of funding.

The obvious case where that wouldn't work is a project like Linux with many contributors and no copyright assignment. But others like Clojure organize themselves differently.
Lyft donated 1M to the ACLU. That's pretty different about taking action.
Has there been any case in recent history (20 years) in which a president has changed anything of any consequence due to mass protest?

Musk is on the _advisory board_. It could be that this advisory board is a farce, or it could be that Trump would actually listen to a fellow "billionaire playboy philanthropist".

One thing is pretty clear to me: Trump is not going to give a shit about either the liberal press (or in fact press in general), or liberal intelligentsia protesting in the street, especially if both demonize and disparage him no matter what he does, and refuse dialogue.
Some good examples, thank you.

Taking one example...

"Social darwinism is a classic example of the abuse of science by both scientists and laymen. It just seems more common and more pervasive."

Perhaps this sort of misunderstanding arises as there's a layer of abstraction between scientific inquiry and the results that are produced. The layman only sees the conclusions, not the subtleties and caveats that are part of the wider truth. Social darwinism seems to be an example of what happens when knowledge loses its original context. I suspect it's common as humans seek to find patterns in the world around them. The problem comes when people find patterns backed up from a source perceived to have greater authority, as it has a chilling effect on further exploration.
Do you think the flavour problems with supermarket tomatoes would be fixed by letting them ripen naturally?
I don't see them claiming to have found the missing link.
In any regard, biologists are unlikely to use the term 'missing link' since it implies evolution is discontinuous, which is a common mistake the layman makes.
I think this is the only interpretation that makes sense, really. If you dig down into what actually happened regarding the taxi strike, then none of the reactions make a lick of sense. This is more that people are looking for reasons to hate Uber and like Lyft. That's a battle Uber has been losing for quite a while.
Can't delete Uber, it's installed as system app.
This is cool!

On a related note, someone should make Sketch files collaborative in real time =D
The number one benefit that Gmail touted when it launched was searchable email. That will break.

You're perfectly free to use E2E encryption on Gmail, and they are even trying to make it easy for you, though that project is evidently not as well staffed as the advertising org.
Right but SQS is a pull model so it doesn't generate events. You can use SNS events to trigger a Lambda and tell it that something was added to an SQS queue or S3 or Dynamo or whatever.
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I use the app "Headspace" as a meditation beginner. The monthly price after the first 10 sessions is a little steep (can't remember the exact price) but there's a lot of extremely high-quality content covering mindfulness in almost every aspect of life. I think it's worth the price.