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I recently tried turning the PocketCasts webplayer into an app on chrome and while it worked well, it had a major flaw.
I'm stuck at my computer!
If I wanted to get a cup of water, check the mail, put clothes in the dryer, whatever, I would have to pause the podcast, or leave it on and lose part of the story.
This is fine when I had radio, since I can dip in and out and it doesn't matter much. But if I'm listening to something with a deep plot like Serial or that Halo thing, I don't want to miss a thing.
If the security industry in your country really is rife with right-wing hooligans, you need better regulation.
They just started doing half batches recently, which are only 6 weeks. Some employers are actually OK with this, given the assumption that you come back as a stronger (and maybe even nicer) programmer.
Jodie Whittaker Is Doctor Who’s Thirteenth Doctor
The Greatest Exodus of our time
I once sat in on a friend's final year economics course.

They talked about the "gravitational model" of economics, that the amount of trade between two economies is proportional to the product of the size of the economies each raised to some power, divided by some power of the distance between them. They showed a best fit of the 5 parameters to under a dozen data points and it looked rather awful. (I am not sure how well defined those variables are). Without any theoretical justification it seemed like a model stolen at random from physics that didn't fit well.

I've also read a published economic paper written in terms of measure theory, where it was clear the author did not understand measure theory at all. The ideas were misapplied to a simple problem in a way that made it sound very difficult. Admittedly this is partly the fault of mathematicans who teach measure theory as statistics; while you can use that model it makes things very complicated and you almost surely don't need to deal with infinities in most real problems, let alone non-measurable sets.

This arm of economics trying to ride the coattails of prestige worn by maths and physics is void of meaning.
Wow, such a click bait headline. The chart shows San Francisco still continues the lead the country in VC investment by a mile (remarkable for a city with only 900k residents) The down quarter is simply due to lack of mega rounds like Didi's 5bn raise in China
What exactly are the interpretations beyond the obvious here?
I'm perfectly aware of that software patents are not enforceable in country I live in as far as I can tell. At same time I work with companies across the globe so I have to at least think at possible implications of licenses.
The author identified a similar workflow for breaking down these packet capture bits, and linked to other potential methods. I'd say his process was an interesting read!
My day to day decisions are mostly automated - what to eat for breakfast? what clothes to wear any given day of the week? when to walk my dog and for how long? When to leave work and which back roads route to take to get back home? Lunch options? When to call the folks? Exercise schedule? All automated.

It gets a little repetitive and boring at times but I'm able to save so much time and energy this way to focus on what's important to me.
Desktops do not have the same constraints: you can choose the size (in a much more significant way than with laptops), orientation, and number of displays. I'm happy with my desktop 16:9 display, but mostly because it's a Gigantor Five-Thousand model whose span is taller/wider than my eyes can roll, making the actual aspect ratio kind of irrelevant.

On a laptop space is at a premium, and the ever-narrower displays have in practice been made even worse by modern UI, like the larger Windows taskbar, or that damn ribbon thing in productivity/office suites. On a laptop I often feel like I must scroll every three lines. A (IMO) saner 1.6 or 1.5 ratio would still allow for split screen will giving a better vertical real estate.
thank you for the feedback, I'll definitely give it a shot.
Also tons of ICOs that are borderline scams flodding the market with Eth when they cashout.

It's basically kickstarter with crypto issue your own worthless tokens which might be used for a future product which might or might no come to any fruition in exchange for Eth, dump the Eth afterwards for cash and profit.
I always thought the dividing line wasn't 92 but rather the Ampex sign (which BTW could use some work). Anyways, I agree that today, this is just an artificial boundary. There's no difference vis a vis funding. Between SF and LA, yes. Between SF and PA, no.
Eth has almost no presence on the dark markets.

Even bitcoin is much much more rare than what people would think by reading the news.
Smart Contracts and Ethereum – Limitations with Traditional Paper Contracts and More
I think you overestimate "the general layman". For example, complex analysis requires one to accept the existence of the square root of minus one and that multiplying by it is equivalent to a rotation.

In my experience, "the general layman" simply doesn't possess enough suspension of disbelief to get past such hurdles.
Time to buy.
OpenBSD: Add vmctl send and vmctl receive
Why hasn't the price come down. Can we expect the cartels to start to manufacture opioids and anti-opioids?
The arguments were made up after the fact to 'explain' usage. Just like the 'rules' you hear to explain when to use 'I' vs 'me' or 'who' vs 'whom'.

Check out eg http://fine.me.uk/emonds
They already make people pay separately for the web version (even if you already own the Android/iOS one), but it's understandable that there's much less people listening to podcasts on desktop, so they think it's not worth developing a proper desktop app.
How could this change to patent law work? Wouldn't everyone who wants to use a patent without paying just lie and claim that they came up with it independently? How would a court find out the truth?
KeyChest – Let's Encrypt / SSL cert dashboard with bulk import and discovery
John McAfee Coin ICO
I'm just going based on seed/demo days and a smaller number of A/B rounds I've observed -- location of the investor leads between SF/SV never came up, and meetings with SV investors in SF, SF investors in SV both happened quite frequently. That's a subset (YC and other companies I know), and probably weighted on number-of-investments vs. total fund flows. This is for first/second meetings; perhaps they're more likely to actually close if local, but given that most financings happen in a small number of meetings now, that also seems unlikely. (Seed = 2-5; A = something like 5-10 total?)

Maybe outside of demo days ("organic" vc or whatever you'd call it), it becomes a factor due to people walking into offices or other lead generation efforts.

It's also hard to believe that late stage financings (which are larger but less frequent) care at all about location, given that so many of them are from outside the geography entirely, including international.

If you have stats from something more quantified that would be interesting.
I totally am on the side of empathy and making an effort to be as kind as possible.

HOWEVER, that preface "I'm confused...[followed by pointed criticism disguised as a question]" often comes off as condescending, rude, and disingenuous. It is often infuriating to the target and those who are witnessing it.

There's always a polite way to say things without masking what you really mean. It may be difficult to come up with the words and sometimes it just isn't feasible, but that's OK, if folks are willing to give each other "a pass" every once in a while and tolerate an occasional outburst.
I would say more often than not, it is used towards those viewed as weaker or those who are not capable of rational thought when presented with non-soft language.
Can you summarise this for those of us who haven't watched the video?
Culture, yes, but there are legal differences which limit cross-border investment flows more than cross-border cultural or more-transactional-commerce flows.
Ask HN: Why aren't humans planting bacteria all over the solar system?
Why aren't we, as human race, not trying to populate the rest of the planets in our solar system with bacteria/micro-organisms that we know will be able to thrive there?
I have no love for iTunes and haven't for about a decade. But thankfully, I don't need to use iTunes more than about once a year. My wife very occasionally needs to sync music from a CD to her iPhone and she can't get digitally.

I sync photos to Google Photos and movies to VLC using either iCloud Drive, Google Drive or the built in web server from VLC. The music I've bought from iTunes over the years is available to redownload.
> Package managers don't make users pay if they want their own package repositories.

Isn't that npm's business model?
If what you say is true, that's an argument in favor of eg aggregating via median instead of average.
Given his comment without context that is hard to express.
> it would be good to have an optional KYC/AML attached to cryptocurrency transactions

This is already the case, minus the optional part [1]. Broadly, I'd guess anyone involved with an unregulated money transmission operation is one pissed-off D.A. away from serious jail time.

[1] http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-law-what-us-businesses-need-...
Interesting! Any chance you might make the script public?
> or because they've long since departed from sola scriptura?

Lutheranism isn't a sola scriptura faith. While Luther did often argue against Rome on biblical grounds, Lutheranism has always accepted a vague concept of "tradition" alongside Scripture just like Anglicanism or Orthodoxy.
Love Oakland and I lived in SF for decades.
How do you automate these?
I work in Oakland and can attest to seeing my share of thugs (color blind here), more so than S.V. and S.F.
This should be of great interest to anybody working with high volume sensor data in IOT field. I will be checking it out very soon (on a few deadlines now so cant afford the diversion). Anything that is fast and simple for massive volumes of small record types should always be of great interest to IOT/WOT folks.

I agree with the comments about KDB/Q - tried to look at it but could never understand it. Maybe cos im not fulltime dev, nor in that field, but KDB just always becomes too hard. AT least hobbes looks like i can work it into C++. Looks at first 'parsing' to be a case of right tool for the job of working on high volume discrete data which one would expect from an investment bank.

Kudos to the bank for releasing this part of their secret-sauce.
Saw a lecture by Zeki (mentioned in the article) at an art college summer school last year. He showed "e to the i pi" and also a Ramanujan equation. Of course his results are that people see the elegance of e to the i pi but don't see beauty in the apparent arbitrariness of the Ramanujan equation. I have to admit I don't remember what his sample was -- definitely mathematicians (but of what level?). This is an issue that was raised by art colleagues -- would you determine the ultimate aesthetic value of an artist's work by using an unqualified audience?

Zeki is a bit of a buffoon with a tendency to assume that he understands other people's domains well enough to talk about them. It may not be arrogance on his part but there's a definite sense that he doesn't let complexity and nuance get in the way of a good story.
Are you in fact Turkish?

(HN: If he is, maybe he shouldn't be downvoted so hard… aren't you at least curious to hear from laypersons there without punishing them for not seeing things the way we do? Hear, converse, leave with greater understanding)
John McAfee to Google: Stop Endangering Our Humanity or I'm Coming for You
I'd say this wildly depends, and is directly proportional to how much of a dick your boss is.

I have long worked from home, and had a first very, very bad experience. Without going into details, my boss once yelled at me "Stop thinking like a little bitch!".

It was years before I stopped being afraid of the sound of a Skype call.

The company I work for is cool though.
because we don't know if there's already life there we'd be having a detrimental effect on.
Wells are always equipped with a pressure tank (which is an accumulator), but the capacity is pretty small. To prevent excessive pump cycling with irrigation you would need a rather large tank since you'd want it to run irrigation for at least minutes at a time - I think this is beyond what's practical with a pressure tank, so that you'd have to go to a small water tower. I'm not sure though, it's an interesting idea.
Water bears may be the last species alive when the sun dies
I would say it's extremely common. Fake it till you make it is almost expected. Even the cons don't think they're lying.

I'm of the opinion that a lot of VC's are like money managers. Index funds regularly beat their returns but that doesn't stop them from think they're God's Gift.

VC's seem to be much the same. There's a lot of "black magic" to the funding process. In my experience, something that can't be logically understood usually has no logic behind it. Some of the VC's probably have real metrics but it becomes statistically impossible to find success using logic when you only fund a handful of companies a year. There's not enough data.
I'm usually working in an object oriented language anyway so either I use an ORM like Entity Framework, a lower overhead micro ORM like Dapper (used by Stack Overflow) or end up reinventing the wheel.

The real power for me using Entity Framework with Linq is being able to test my repository containing Linq queries by mocking out the EF Context with an in memory list of objects when unit testing.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn314429(v=vs.113)....
How Startups Can Attract Top Female Talent
I recall seeing a comment by Paul Graham somewhere to the effect that Zuckerberg set off his "founder detector" very strongly. This was after Zuckerberg was successful, admittedly, but it at least gives some suggestion that someone skilled at recognizing founders would have seen his potential.
Prediction: within a year this project will be dead due to the lack of uptake. It doesn't solve any real problems and uses a relatively obscure programming language. There's no way it will ever reach anything close to a critical mass.
> how many people can call at once to receive the message w/o hearing a busy tone.

And yet, by calling the same (typically toll-free) number, a call center's worth of support calls can be handled simultaneously.

Implementing this as ringbacks would not seem to be the only way.
On Windows, I have not found a better alternative than PotPlayer.
Hacker farmer security
Hi HN,

So we have a piece of land (4 acres) that we are leasing to try out some small scale farming here in Zambia.

For context, the farm has a small house where 2 people currently live to take care of the farm.

The current issue we are facing is thieves. Not dangerous thieves, but small scale - wait for you to sleep and sneak in to steal anything not cemented down. I kid you not, they have stolen an unsecured submersible pump, later came for an electric cable delivering power from the house to the pump and also some Poly Pipes. Same MO - wait for the rainy day when now one can hear them, jump over the wire fence around the property and steal. Discovered only in the morning.

This is greatly limiting what we can do - I had a dream of undertaking a drip based irrigation and having some free range chickens that sleep in a little house, but of course this is failing.

Being a programmer in my day job, I have been trying to come up with some motion sensor based security that can work with our constraints. Please help with suggested components
Constraints:
1. Unstable power supply - hoping for solar possible solution.

2. Limited ability to run power cables from power source (house) to for example motion sensor

3. Need a sensor that can work in heavy rain - and maybe "see" through crops such as maize.

4. Easy to operate (can be complex to setup)

5. $1000 budget

6. Can be bought online

Just for full information, I have strongly considered security dogs, but there is some taboo here when people see dogs going walking through vegetables that people have to buy probably the same day so when we tried it, our customers who come to the farm shunned it.
for what purpose?

In places where we are not 100% no life exists it would endanger that life. In places where we are not 100% there never was life, it would make traces of it harder to find. Bacteria left to grow might hinder us in progress on other planets in the future, e.g. by destroying resources we later need, by evolving in a way that they make us sick when we encounter them, ... Without a good purpose, why do that?
I strongly prefer women who take the initiative, because there've been too many times that I misinterpreted some signal as being indicative of interest. I decided that the friendships were more important than the possibility of a romantic relationship, so I stopped asking for a long time. When the reverse happened, it never meant the end of a friendship. Things just tended to go smoother.

I don't know if most men just decide "screw those friendships" and go for the gusto, or what, but that never made sense to me.
I'm ranking the sales based on their title. Azure makes it dead simple to use your trained model as a web service. I'm not familiar with aws, I just sort of fell into incorporating ml to my project, and since I'm in bizspark, everything that I'm doing is free. Another solution I'm considering is using prediction.io for the webservice.

http://predictionio.incubator.apache.org/index.html
OP didn't claim that the cool kids always succeed, or that the uncool kids never succeed.

Just that they have higher odds.
Ask HN: What Is the Difference Between NativeBase and React Native Elements?
The two look the same, with RNE overtaking NativeBase in number of stars in Github.

Translated automatically.
Yes, this is a crucial feature that is coming verrrry soon! It's especially motivating to see how well you have done compared to how much effort you put in.

This plus some neat graphs on what your personal records are :)
Definitely. For an organization that spent a decade teaching startup the importance of building moats, it's no surprise that they've built their own.
I learned this one the hard way. It makes sense though, submit the source not the output (as we do for source code).
>E=mc^2 is considered the greatest equation in history because of this reason.

Only people with a "pop-culture" idea of math&physics think that.
Take my money! Take my soul! Take my kids! Take my kids to the park I mean.
On the contrary, most space mission to possible habitable places like Mars try to minimize the possibility of contamination.

One reason is "ecological", you don't want to destroy the local bacteria population before studding them. [I'm not sure if this is very likely, because the local "bacteria" will be better adapted to the local climate than the terrestrial bacteria.]

The second reason is that if a later mission discovers life there, it's better to be sure it was not a previous contamination by another mission.

Detecting the n=2 case of life in the universe would be huge. What type of molecules are common and what are different? There are some guess about which molecules are unavoidable, and which are only an accidental choices, but a second example of life can bring a lot of light into this discussion.

Also, it would be interesting to know if there was an ancient cross contamination that send life form one planet to the other, or they were independently generated.
So easy to imagine Trump doing this, too. He's already made much ado of needing Twitter to be heard properly instead of going through the "fake" (mainstream) news media. Imagine Twitter no longer feels like enough of a megaphone to the egomaniac. Is there any law against pressuring telcos to do this? Would he care if there were? Would he even be challenged if it came in response to a national emergency?
Yeh we had a nice plague and the mice even the very young would very quickly learn that they must jump over the traps and just ignore them, when they were placed in a mouse thoroughfare
What are the primary coin(s) used on dark markets?
Scrapy Spiders of Major Websites. Facebook, Instagram, Google Play Store, Ebay
This is obviously a work in progress, not a finished port.

I bet one month from now things will look much better.
I'd highly recommend using Transifex. https://www.transifex.com. They have many integrations and their API is pretty solid. You can easily hook Transifex into your build pipeline. As an example at my place of work we've got it set up so that on master merges when the test are running on CircleCI all source (English) strings are pushed to Transifex.

Once all necessary strings are pushed to Transifex, you place your order.

In addition all of the above Transifex also has "Transifex Live". Which allows you to detect/translate strings live. Though this involves including their Transifex script tag in the head of your page.
I automate things that a computer can do
I never thought about automate those things. That's a cool idea! I can use the yelp api for lunch, some rfid chips for my clothes,...
The US has far more than $3 trillion in assets when you take into account land holdings, as well as the idea that money itself is representative of continued faith in the existance of an issuing institution. There are so many layers of incentives pushing for the continued existence of the US one can't dismiss that by arbitrarily assigning a value of '3', and then declare, "See, 3-21=-18...therefore bitcoin."
This thread has become laughing stock for economists

https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/the-coders-over-at-hacke...
There are some really clever people here, but as a general rule, you can't truly automate something until you can do it manually to the point where you're fully aware of all the snags and exceptions that may occur.

Once you reach that point, it then becomes a matter of trading-off how much time/money/effort it will take to automate the task against what benefit you get in return.
Great thread, thanks OP.
I'm curious what you'd consider a GSM or SIM firewall to look like. Typically from the perspective of Linux, a "old and busted" telephony devices will appear as a TTY which a (relatively) privileged process can use as a control channel and/or to set up a PPP interface. On devices supporting "the new hotness", you get a special character device that speaks the MBIM or QMI protocols for a control channel, and an "ethernet" interface for IP traffic.

In both cases, access to the SIM is limited to processes that can speak to the telephony device's control channel, and the data side is firewalled with iptables like any other network interface. To further restrict access to telephony device capabilities you can break out ModemManager or oFono along with Polkit.

Things get a little wonky when you start to talk about voice calls, as there isn't a lot of standardization in how to get the audio channel in/out of linux on telephony devices yet, but ofono and telepathy seem to have made strides in that direction.