skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems silly to sell a business that generates $85K/year in passive income for $85K. Just wait a year and bank the income.

I plugged some of the numbers the OP gave us into an NPV calculator [1], assuming that the $85K/year drops by $5k each year as advertising economics deteriorate, and got a NPV of of $345K assuming a discount rate of 3% (which is around what you can get with T-bills these days). Purchasing it for $85K implies an IRR of roughly 90%, which is a really, really good investment.

The going rate for small passive-income businesses I've heard is around 4x revenues, a bit less if they require significant maintenance or the revenue is declining, which is roughly inline with what the NPV calculations give.

[1] https://www.calculatestuff.com/financial/npv-calculator
Reading the comments here reconfirms that I had a good idea not using the FB app on my phone—using inside Firefox it is, of necessity, less pushy. If you want to use FB messages without the crapfest, note that using the url mbasic dot facebook dot com will get you a text-minimalist version of the site (designed for very old mobiles) where you can receive messages without the app. (No push notifications, but afaic that's a feature.)
<his Tesla collided with a semi-tractor trailer that failed to yield when crossing a divided highway.>

Yeh not sure anyone could have avoided that crash, this should be in the first sentence really.
I don't buy your distinction between Wheaton and MIT. Free speech pre-dates the scientific method and exists independently of scientific inquiry.

Also, at places like Wheaton and Hillsdale, politics are part-and-parcel with religion. Demanding religious belief, while allow a broad spectrum in which to express that belief, is one thing. But the divide between politics and religion at these places is tenuous at best.

> I really can’t imagine going through life as a conservative professor... particularly in the humanities and social sciences

In the sciences no one cares. Except Wheaton et al, who are afraid of the liberal atheist branches of mathematics or something...?

Humanities and social sciences vary by field. IDK a lot about most of them them. But the one person I know from purdue -- where Freddie is from -- is in the humanities and very conservative (and doesn't hide it or anything).

Maybe Freddie should've taken a leaf out of your book and talked to more people while at Purdue -- the unimaginable was right in front of him ;-)

> I don't think "welcoming" is the word that they would use when it comes to liberals and conservative viewpoints.

Sure, "more" is relative and being a minority always sucks.

Still, MIT might make you feel alone. Hillsdale will just expel you.
Ok. I'm not very familiar with CouchDB, but with most databases I'vee used, that would be a major antipattern and security risk.
Insofar as human history, there is pretty good textual evidence that a guy running around Palestine called Jesus attracted followers and was executed by the Roman state. We have as much evidence for that guy as we do many other historical figures. I shouldn't have to mention this, but I feel compelled: the claim of historical Jesus is not any kind of theological, religious, or supernatural claim (i.e. that any miracles occured).

The problem is that intelligent autodidacts confuse the disciplines of science (developing theories and performing experiments to provide potentially disprovable evidence of universal, timeless laws of nature) and history (the study of written texts about events that occurred in the past) and the types of evidence acceptable to both fields. Hint: they're completely different.

The problem is that, if you want to advance a historical theory claiming that there was no historical guy called Jesus who inspired the gospel, you have to come up with a compelling theory, based on historical (written records from the past) evidence describing who built the first churches, who wrote the first gospels, why they made up a story about a Palestinian Jew who was crucified 300 years ago, and why that story was so compelling it caught on with the masses and elites alike.

Or you could just go with the idea that there was a guy running around the middle east 2,000 years ago, who pissed of the Jewish and Roman elite, so much to the point that he was executed. And about whom miracles were claimed to have been performed.

The thing is, for all religions developing where we have iron-clad evidence (Mormonism, Scientology, etc), it always starts with a charismatic leader who attracts a following. Throw a rock in India, and you can find any number of gurus who are said to be capable of levitating, not eating for long periods of time, etc. etc. There is nothing really extraordinary about the story of Jesus, comparatively speaking.

If you're going to make a historical theory that Jesus never existed, but instead was invented by someone else, you have to identify that someone else. In fleshing out your theory, you'll probably want to say why they invented it, and why it caught on, when many other small cults and gurus petered out.

Christianity didn't arise out of nowhere in, say, England in 1500.
Better yet, use the https://mbasic.facebook.com website designed for feature phones. It doesn't even require javascript!
We need an 'Expect-EV' header, just like 'Expect-CT'. Or maybe all websites that request certain info (like SSN or credit card) should be required to have EV. EV is more expensive and onerous but it has the potential to thwart phishing.
The most egregious example of sprawl and lack of zoning that I learned from Harvey was that there are residential neighborhoods built inside the reservoirs. There were homes being flooded well before the reservoirs reached even the spillway points as it was assumed they just wouldn't fill up that high.
No option is compelling until everybody you know is on it. And there is no such option besides FB.
You can't fit in an hour every weekend to go get food, that's cheaper and better quality than a grocery store to feed you and your family?
This is easier:

alias serve="python -m SimpleHTTPServer"

and is probably supported by every single *nix like system out there without installing anything.
They should have an "erase everything" password.
Why do you think placement new is necessary to implement a free list?
What categories did the price cut reflect in. I shop at wholefoods every week and I have not noticed a drop in the prices of fruits, vegetables, milk and neither in the bake/meals section.
> "This is like someone who makes a salary of $60,000 having suffering loss of $6,000 to $12,000."

This line had the opposite of the intended effect, for me. Someone with $60k salary, a $12k loss could take years to recover from if they have expenses like college debt, rent/mortgage, and kids.

I dunno, some might say that's poor financial planning, but it's reality for a lot of people. And de-referencing the analogy: most US cities are not exactly financially rock solid either.
I think they key is that they're pulling ticket that are actually sold out:

> When you load a page they get a list of tickets that have already sold

I'm sure they could argue that since they are real tickets are actually sold out then they're not actually being deceptive.

I really hate these dark patterns - been getting worse and worse on travel sites.
Does anyone have any data to back up the price drops? From my anecdotal evidence it seems WF is just as expensive as it was before. I'm sure these price cuts are only on certain products so it would be interesting to know what these are.
This is a managed by your OS.

You are free to delete CA's from its trust store.

What Chrome is doing is irreguarless if that cert is in your OS's store it won't trust it.

Keychain for OSX

mmc in windows cmd prompt

Linux has /usr/share/certificates
> I see no reason why a fingerprint authentication should be forced upon someone anymore than a password unlock would be.

In Canada, there is a difference. A fingerprint is something you have. A password is something you know. Police can compel you to use your fingerprint to unlock the phone. They can't compel you to disclose the password.
I'm really surprised anyone could be so obtuse as to associate a community called "fat people hate" with hatred of fat people.
For those who want to go a step further and block all Facebook traffic on their Linux machine

# for net in $(whois -h whois.radb.net -- '-i origin AS32934' | grep '^route:' | sed -e 's/.* //') ; do ipset add block-facebook-ips $net ; done

and if you have ipset-presistent

# /etc/init.d/ipset-persistent save

The same for IPv6 is left as an exercise for the reader.
But, in fact, fat people are constantly made to feel bad, without any evident slimming as a result.
Regarding Silent phone:

[1] https://www.version2.dk/blog/blackphone2-review-1-508188

[2] https://www.version2.dk/blog/blackphone2-review-2-545078

[3] https://www.version2.dk/blog/blackphone2-review-3-551639

For those who do not know, PHK wrote jail() on FreeBSD.
Pathetic, the Trojans got to L4 and L5 long ago.
Like religion there's no one true way but I hope people agree that using analogies in technical discussions adds to confusion and is best avoided.
It's not "forward thinking" to put that feature in 4 years after Touch ID debuted and people have already been forced to unlock their phones. They should be issuing warnings that fingerprint sensors are for convenience and reduce security unless they're used in multi-factor authentication.
It does. But if your a US citizen or are ok to be barred from entering the US for a long time, then you have the option to not unlock.

If you go the US citizen route, be prepared to never get your phone back and many future border crossings to be 4+hr affairs where they confiscate most of your things.

As a US citizen they have to let you in.
I removed Facebook from my phone because I didn't like how impulsively I was using it at any moment of waiting or downtime.

It was hard-ish at first, and it took a lot of "Do I or Don't I?" before I actually did it. I didn't delete my account or anything, so I could still check it from home, but as time went on and I was _only_ able to check it from home, I would frequently find myself thinking, "wow, there's really not much good here." which is one of those things that only occurs to you after taking time away from it.

I realized I replaced my Facebook habit with an Instagram habit, so I deleted that too. The only remaining distraction is Reddit, but I've never been as impulsively hooked into Reddit as I was the other two.

When people say that it's better without Facebook, they're not kidding. You should try it.
This ties into a phenomena that I've noticed with a lot of social networks lately-- fake content.

What I mean by that specifically is putting things into your feed that nobody actually intended to share. e.g. "XXXX liked this thing!" Or generating notifications of non-events, like "Hey, share a thing!"

The share button is literally right next to the 'uplike' button. And they specifically did not press it. But you're gonna press it for them, because you gotta have content and folks keep pretty mum on facebook (and everywhere else) lately. There is very little I'm interested in sharing with every single person I know. And even less I'm interested in sharing with strangers a la Twitter.

To say nothing of the overall click-baity trollish quality of aformentioned articles. Every time one of my dear friends gets triggered and feeds the trolls, facebook is dutifully shoving it in my face. There is a high correlation between virality and unredeemable shit stirring.

Facebook is doing it. Twitter is doing it. Reddit is perhaps the most shameless of all with their mobile app working hard to spam you with posts that you.... haven't commented on, or even upvoted. (I can't say one way or the other about Snapchat because I'm not a millennial.)

I do believe this is the intersection of 100% social media saturation and the public markets' relentless demand for growth. This is peak social media. They're flogging live video hard, but news flash: I grew up when you had to make plans to watch your favorite TV show, and it's the worst. Live video sucks. I got shit to do. I can't even be bothered to DVR things any more.
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For every car I ever owned before this year, they recommended an oil change every 3,000 miles (a little more than two months for me) or at most three months. I don't know if they got that much better or the recommendations were loosened to match observed problems.
>Does anyone actually look at or care about that?

No. You'll note that Amazon doesn't. They spent a bunch of time trying to figure out if it made a difference for customers. It turns out it doesn't, so they don't bother with the extra expense.
That is definitely not true. Nobody who read posters cackling about "hamplanets" could honestly believe that.
I agree with this. It's gotten to the point that when I need something I buy it from Amazon, with the only exception being food. And that last part might change.
This is really neat! However, since there's a slight delay whenever moving the safari window, would you consider having they only show up while a key is being held? Like option or command?
No, no and no. Everything is negotiable, and employers don't need to know your previous salaries. They want it as a negotiating tactic only, there is no other legitimate reason to require it. Any company that would bar you from employment for (tactfully) refusing to provide this information is not a place you want to work.
This is the only reason why I moved from Android to iOS even though I enjoy the Android phones and Google Fi more.

I wish Google Fi would support iOS devices.
As mentioned elsewhere, Apple can't prevent "rubber hose decryption" (where someone compels/coerces/tortures you to get access to an unlocked phone). I suspect this feature wasn't designed to prevent that threat.

My guess is this somehow foils or mitigates the workaround that the Israeli company sold to the FBI after the San Bernadino phone issue.
>There's no reason a similar system couldn't be built to deliver platform-native applications

I'm very into the idea of HTML/CSS/JS on the desktop (and by extension, things like react native), even if simply as a frontend to a heavier duty application running on localhost. I feel like the OSs should be shipping runtimes for it instead of having insane 120MB hello world electron apps.

Web apps also don't necessarily mean someone else has control over your data -- it is technically easier to determine whether they do. You can inspect web requests in your browser, you can't in most native apps. There are plenty of silly things like Dark Souls stat calculators that make so much more sense as a webapp, and are 100% client side.
Reddit's system has its issues too. Early comments always get more votes and have more sway than later ones, and the "reality bubble" effect is worse because the general consenses upvotes posts that agree with their opinion and downvotes ones that disagree - effectively hiding them whether they're factually correct or not.

Hacker News is much better than Reddit in general for allowing comments on both sides of an issue to be heard, but it's not perfect either. I think it benefits from not being able to see the number of votes on someone's post because it removes that way of checking the previous hive consensus. I'm not sure I even like the greying effect on heavy downvotes.

The best real discussion (especially for ongoing topics and events) I've seen is still on old-school forums like SomethingAwful. The barriers to entry help ($10 on SomethingAwful, 500 points to downvote on Hacker News) but I think Discourse went too far in that direction, where anti-spam limits can make it hard for new users to even write a good post or respond when they want to. I'd like to see a modern forum site where anyone can create a subforum and moderate it themselves the way anyone can create a subreddit on Reddit.
The jump from militant atheists to Islamaphobes is not a big one. A lot of New Atheists, including very prominent ones like Bill Maher, Sam Harris, and Richard Dawkins, have a tendency to single out Islam as particularly worth hating.
I can't even get to Facebook anymore on any of my devices. On all of my Macs, my `/etc/hosts` file includes:

0.0.0.0 facebook.com
0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com

And then to double down, I have a custom 1Blocker rule to prevent accidentally opening up any Facebook links on my iPhone:

https?://([a-z\.]*)?facebook\.com.*
So you are afraid of actors that would torture you to get access to the data.

And your "solution" is to share this experience with your friends by tying their devices to yours and setting up a device in such a manner that that actor would not be able to verify if they indeed have access to the real data stored on it.

This is a recipe for a one way ticket to a very dark place for you and your friends.

For the most part the number one rule of actual data safety is that never implement protection that would put your well being or the well being of others at risk, unless you are protecting the nuclear launch codes no data is worth being physically harmed for.
An hour of a software engineer's time is worth ~$30-50. At least, many of them happily pay that much for someone to do an hour's worth of chores for them.

Unless you're buying industrial quantities of food, I doubt a trip to the farmer's market will save you $40. The quality difference is also difficult to quantify. Onions and potatoes from the farmer's market aren't any healthier then onions from the supermarket.

And here's the elephant in the room - at any particular time of year, most of the food that you eat is not in season where you live. If it's not in season, you're not going to get it from your farmer's market (Unless said farmer is reselling it from a wholesaler - which a lot of stalls do.)

Do you spend an hour a week churning butter by hand, or do you pay someone else to do it for you?
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Companies well position for high voltage DC. Possible solar technologies. Traditional car manufacturers who look poised to survive the electric/autonomous transition, which will likely reduce demand and cause some bankruptcies and consolidation in the auto industry. I am particularly partial toward Japanese car companies and Tesla for being survivors. Old giants like General Electric still build a lot of our grid infrastructure.

Petro companies will still do well though; we still need plastics, jet fuel, industrial chemicals, and even still gasoline, as it will be a byproduct of these other products. Lower demand for diesel and gasoline in cars could benefit transoceanic shipping and airline companies.

The "problem" with looking for good investments is that electric vehicles are fundamentally about conserving energy and materials, so after the electric car revolution there is going to be less economic activity than before.
Yes, all product names are now consistently cased as part of this rebrand. Jira, Statuspage, Fisheye, Hipchat and Sourcetree (the latter 3 all being CamelCased before)
Eevo, a startup powering VR apps for the BBC and others, raises $1.3M
Every local farmers market I've been to has been less expensive than a grocery store. I literally come away with enough food for the week at half the cost of the grocery store produce (Safeway for me). Whole Foods? Probably 1/4th the cost.

Really, truly what I'm saying is true. For people who don't even have a grocery store, I think things like community gardens (a garden that is shared between a block of neighbors) is a perfectly scalable, healthy and affordable solution.
A hypercomputer that is capable of solving turing-halting problems but not hyper-halting problems is both non-contradictory and extremely useful.
If you are under the threat of violence that won't save you.
All other tech giants today make money from advertisement and /or “big” data, which are inherently anti-privacy. This is why Microsoft has done 180° on privacy and has filled their first part apps with ads.
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Push for less nuclear? Where? Germany, Japan?

Anyways, electric cars are made for renewables (sans hydro) and nuclear that provide energy when it might not be needed but can be used for charging batteries instead. Gas will fill in the gaps, but it's on demand nature means it doesn't really become more useful like the other sources do with car electrification.
That is a false comparison because if you ask people the reason why they don't buy McDonald's more frequently very few of them will cite the cost of soft drinks. Many people will cite the overall cost of Whole Foods as a reason they don't shop there more frequently. Amazon's changes directly addressed the biggest complaint about Whole Foods.

A better analogy might be if Coca-Cola found a way to magically drop the calorie total of McDonald's food without altering the taste.
That is very true, but I find it very sad that, as much as Apple is pro-privacy, it's very anti-freedom. I'd love to switch to a device as private as an iPhone, but at this point you're just renting the device from them.
They still have ridiculously high prices. For example: a gallon of Crystal Geyser water is $1.50, while in most other places is $1.00. What justifies a 50% premium?
I've done this before. It was a 2 hour ordeal but they simply have no right, and I was let in to go home with all of my belongings.
> I wish browser vendors would let me choose a trusted entity and make it simple for me to trust only CAs that my trusted entity supports, or the intersection of what multiple trusted entities endorse.

But you do; the trusted entity is your browser manufacturer. Given the massive amount of attack surface in the browser, I'm already trusting my browser to make sound security decisions all the time. And I've seen really good work from both the Firefox and Chrome teams on asking hard questions towards CAs; I don't think I can think of a group I'd trust to make better decisions. (Arguably there's the EFF, but I definitely trust the EFF less as a technical body than Mozilla or Google, for the simple reason that the EFF is an advocacy body, not a technical body.)

> The incentive for a mass-market browser ... If I were a state actor intelligence agency

But protecting against intelligence agencies is most effective and important in a mass-market browser, not in a nerd browser. There isn't any sense in a society where nerds as a group have more protection against government dragnet surveillance than everyone else.

If you're a specific nerd working to save the world in a specific way and you're worried about targeted attacks against you personally, you have a threat model that can't be adequately responded to by trusting a subset of CAs. You need to do your important work on a machine that's locked down far more deeply than just by distrusting a few CAs (e.g., you probably want to disable 80% of the web platform to reduce attack surface), and ideally you'd do your less-sensitive work, e.g., reading the news and chatting with friends and listening to music, on a browser that looks as normal as possible to avoid standing out.
> The people referenced in the article don't even HAVE grocery stores

That's largely bunk - the definition of a 'food desert' is far from what the media would have you believe:

"In the U.S., a food desert consists of a low income census tract residing at least 0.5 miles in urban areas ... from the large grocery store."

Living 0.6 miles from a grocery store != not having a grocery store....