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Despite the stereotypes around my first chosen profession, I always felt like an outsider within it, even though I loved it. I've always been a bit of an odd duck. And any organization - even the school I attended! - makes choices about who can and cannot attend. I'm happy to share my resume of failures if you'd like to know all the places I've been "blackballed" from!

I was fortunate to have an ROTC scholarship (open to most Americans who qualify) which paid for tuition, but I paid it back in spades with the 10 years I subsequently gave in service. Perhaps that's unwarranted privilege - only you can interpret that.
Liverunner, live sharing your running trail without having to create an account. Every map is deleted 24 hours after the latest location update. I wanted to get back into android development and to try out leaflet and OSM to display a simple map. Current domain name and plain HTTP are temporary, but I'm not sure I'll turn this into a "real" project. Everything is OSS on my github @edp

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/pellerin.edouard.liveru...

http://liverunner.peller.in
I think he hopped this would happen, actually in a non-judging standpoint.

I won't judge, but just state it's different from yourself: who apparently thinks egoism or profit-seeking is bad or undesired.
An interesting assumption I've noticed is that someone smoking a cigarette must be "a smoker", meaning, they are addicted and always buy cigs when they run out. As if drinking a beer implies you're an alcoholic.
> The problem with this is that the "security" question will often be asked over the phone. At this point an answer of "Oh I just mash the keyboard for those" is probably going to get an attacker access to your account

I used to do this and then lost my password file. Fast forward to a call with AT&T. I told them I forgot my secret answers. They offered that it was "a super weird answer," which let me use the "mashed keyboard" line and got in. TL; DR I think this system is less safe than just making up cars, cities, et cetera.
Looks like: https://simplybook.me

But this targets a fairly large market.

Why do you speak of "niche"? This seems like a generally useful service.
Strongly agree with this!
All good commentary! Glad my preservation efforts have gotten this group talking about Scanimate and analog. -Dave Sieg
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Not much. They got to execute Ceaușescu, film it, and show it as a video at Xmas for at least a few years. The whole capitalist part was a sort of added bonus.
6000 and 7000 series aluminimiums are used a lot in road bicycles so that would seem like a natural application outside of heavy industrial/automative applications.
> not necessarily valid

Which successful ICO?
on weekends I like to do easy stuff for fun. I build stuff with canvas, mostly to (re)learn new things, like geometry, etc.

http://jonathanfromgrowth.com/lol/
But that is a fallacy of excluding the middle; your point feels intuitively true, but is not necessarily the case

It is possible for something to not be simply and entirely caused by a prior state, and yet not be random

Understanding this does require a kind of thinking that our brains find difficult, though
Anytime you trade one cryptocurrency for another, you also are taxed
Facebook will probably target ads based on scraping data and machine learning from barcodes they recognize -- for their user's convenience of course, then blur them so their competitors can't do the same thing -- for their user's privacy of course.
Chances are they'll figure this out before the flight in question lands, and have someone to arrest the scammer at the destination.
Yes, but that is also why people with money don't keep it in their checking account. Checking account just hold the money that you need to pay your immediate bills. your "life savings" flow through other savings, money market, and investment accounts. So if your checking account is compromised, you do lose some money and have some hassles to go through... but they aren't going to get everything else.
Their pricing scheme is also illegal or of dubious character, [1]:

> Predatory pricing (also undercutting) is a risky and dubious pricing strategy where a product or service is set at a very low price, intending to drive competitors out of the market, or create barriers to entry for potential new competitors.

> ...

> Nowadays predatory pricing is considered anti-competitive in many jurisdictions and is illegal under competition laws. However, it can be difficult to prove that prices dropped because of deliberate predatory pricing rather than legitimate price competition. In any case, competitors may be driven out of the market before the case is ever heard.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing
Artists did not imagine vaccines or modern health care. (Neither did
engineers, though.) Artists did not imagine engines nor engine propelled
vehicles. Artists did not imagine communication networks before they were
already in place. Artists did not imagine power relay (natural gas and later
electricity and heat).

We need people who understand how the world works and have intuition about
what can be achieved and we need their minds roam free. There are very, very
little novel things that aren't merely gadgets that were first imagined by
artists and taken from there and implemented by engineers.
This thing has awesome specs! Would it require much to turn it into an oscilloscope?

I guess it would require some frontend to get the voltages in the right scale and perhaps fancy overvoltage protection. Obviously you can do a lot better than 3.5ghz these days, but for audio and simple electronics it seems to be plenty.
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Responding to all your suggestions would take too much time for me right now, but I can tell you that all are very on-point. Thanks.

One interesting trivia though - for few undisclosed games I've checked the data, with following conclusion - they would've made order of magnitude less with mining than with ads. However, if you include currency trend for those periods, they would've made almost the same. :)

I think this might be indication of a possible close-future tipping point in favour of this model. We'll see.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%27s_Imperial_Conspiracy
GoFundMe scams are probably easier to pull off than Kickstarter scams.
Detecting if the embedded data is from a boarding pass is not difficult, nor is parsing it[0] and displaying it in a human-friendly format to "prove" that it's probably sensitive ("The boarding pass you posted belongs to John Smith and contains their American Airlines frequent flyer number. Are you sure you want to share this?")

[0] https://www.iata.org/whatwedo/stb/Documents/BCBP-Implementat...
True, but that would make it pretty easy to find you unless you use someone else's account.
I got confused by your previous claim. This doesn't "hurt the economy". Yes, 2027 tends to be more productive than 2017, but this requires an increase of investment, that implies savings.

Holding money allows others to use their money to invest, so you actually facilitate productivity to increase.

This is "in general", since you allow more good and services to be available to be consumed by others.

edit: this animation explains this coordination between savers and investors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaxIPPMR3fI
https://canpicker.com/

It's taking longer than a weekend though. My usual projects are more complicated and I wanted to do something brain dead and relatively instantly gratifying. Clojure + clojurescript(react based).
Mmm, I think that point already happened before the patent thing. Which is part of what made this whole dustup so farcical, but that doesn't matter now.

I would just like to see people evaluate and decide whether to use it based on the actual technology, and not FUD.
A simple to-do extension for Visual Studio, had a hard time learning how to start but I'm now getting the gist of it.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=JefryPoz...
There are a few SLS printers that are approaching home/SB use pricing, <$10k. I don't think CO2 lasers are that expensive to build so I would imagine pricing can drop a fair bit if the volume gets there.
Give me my time back, youtube !
I need it for HackerNews

[https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-distractio...]

tldv
keeps the scary good yt recommendation away from you
http://playlist.cool/

It finds bands playing in your area in the near future and creates a Spotify playlist of them. It still needs a lot of work but it's a fun way to discover shows to go to.
Why can’t anyone open their own stores in Romania, and just sell quality food at reasonable prices?
In my opinion, the true cost of a Uber ride is much higher on society, rules, ethics and other aspects. The money that Uber loses (or the rider gains) isn't even on my radar. Massive VC funding, "winner takes all" assumptions, and the primary goal being "acquire the entire world market" are propelling many companies forward and making our world a comparatively worse place (when looked at along side benefits).
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It's funny how I intuitively noticed that all 3 were likely to be scams (or just unlikely to be shipped due to a team's inability to see it through to shipping) just from:

- a lack of consistent, high-quality brand identity; you can notice design tropes that a novice/underpaid graphic designer would use

- use of generic/non-exclusive stock photography (this woman - https://c1.iggcdn.com/indiegogo-media-prod-cld/image/upload/... - is a meme: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ariane-the-overexposed-stock-p...)

- plain kitsch: https://c1.iggcdn.com/indiegogo-media-prod-cld/image/upload/...
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and if you go upstairs you can see skeletons of children
Wow. What bank?
Not sure how the topic veered; this thread was about the difference between BSD+Patents - Patents vs MIT and the two being less equal (in my opinion) than first posited, because the +Patents and -Patents don't cancel out to equal the implicit patent grant of MIT.

Even if you believe the implicit grant to be weak, or Facebook's Patent grant to be better than an implicit grant, the above discussion stands independently of those things.
Been doing this for several years and prefer this method. I also try to reduce the number of times I use a particular security question. However, I don't think the problem comes from what questions you use or what answers you provide. It becomes like others have pointed out, a problem of what a hacker can get away with answering when asked by a phone representative. Although, I do think this approach provides a little more security than just answering the "what city were you born in" question with the correct answer on every site.
10x? At seed stage? Try 1000x.
> Besides, the fact that a _file_ backup tool might need a near complete rewrite with a change of a file system should raise some eyebrows.

It appears you've never written file backup software for MacOS. I have, and it's anything but trivial to get all the edge cases right. There are half a dozen different schemes for metadata and you have to handle all of them. There are packages which are really directories. ACLs. Two different kinds of softlinks, plus hardlinks. Finder attributes. Hidden files and caches that usually don't matter, but sometimes do. Creation dates, which don't exist on [older versions of] linux. And legacy cruft like resource forks and file types, which some users still depend on. Spotlight comments (nee Finder comments). Tags. Special locks added by Time Machine. Weird new locks that even root can't penetrate. (You have to fail gracefully on those, as the author points out.)

It's a nightmare. Go write a complete file-level backup system or a transparent VM file-mirroring solution for HFS+ and get back to me. In the meantime, you'll just have to trust the original author when he says that Apple's seamless transition to APFS is astonishing.
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Starbucks coffee is not bad, in my opinion. The problem is the optional "fanciness" they put into it (all that disgusting caramel, syrup, cream and whatnot), and the huge amount of milk they put into their lattes and cappuccinos. Their actual coffee, which you can taste if you order it black, is good. I don't think they burn it.

I like milk in my coffee -- what we in South America call "café con leche", which is closer to half and half -- but unfortunately Starbucks doesn't offer anything like it. You can ask for extra shots of coffee but they charge extra, and their coffee is already expensive as it is.
Nobody is doing Oppression Olympics. There is zero oppression of smokers, as in absolutely none.
Start paying for software then. (Not just directed towards you, but also towards anyone who has these thoughts. That's the only way we get off this model, by showing other models are profitable as well)
https://www.juicebox.dj/ - Listen to YouTube/SoundCloud with others

Ended up taking way longer than a weekend but it's still basically a passion project of mine. I used Node.js, Firebase, and React.
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The New Yorker could be that much better if they would occasionally include technical graphics. In this case, how about a rendering of the plate mechanics that are the subject of the article?

They are quite happy to print line drawings, comics, and full-page photos, so it's not like they're scared of non-text content. Yet I've seen them devote multiple paragraphs to describing a scatterplot that stunned some scientist they were profiling.
Not the GP, but... it has a specific meaning in the sciences:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femto-

I'd imagine the argument against using it is that it's being used in a less precise way. Femtocell is a name commonly used for a consumer-level device to extend a cellular network. One could argue that use of femto should have some bearing on the radio being used.
Sure. There's nothing wrong with promotional material, nor is there anything wrong with calling a spade a spade.

To be fair, though, your original comment did come across as negative — was it supposed to?
Regular bullshit, has nothing to do with truth.
Yes, agreed, indoor smoking is annoying. It also may have health consequences for people who are constantly excited to it, like restaurant staff. It's reasonable and in my opinion desirable for indoor venues to prohibit smoking. I like the shell of fresh smoke, not stale.
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> I think this test is more precise than the Turing test.

This comparison makes no sense since the Turing test is concerned with intelligent behavior and not consciousness.
https://github.com/sivasamyk/logtrail - A Kibana plugin to view and tail logs. Started as project to scratch my own itch and now used by many. Technology : AngularJS and NodeJS. Currently working on a major enhancement for this project :)
If I recall correctly, the Romanian food quality authority researched and published these claims.
What tools do “sovereign” nations have that could solve this problem? Can’t be tariffs, which are a tool to enrich the few while making the rest poorer.

Maybe poorer people can’t afford the same levels of food quality as richer peoples, and the only solution is to grow your GDP faster, which membership in EU seems to enable.
No, but the Federal Reserve can.
That isn't a a very popular opinion to hold on HN, as you may have noticed. I think that there is a strong faith in decentralisation and removing rules by many who frequent HN, that have yet to be proven to work well, if the goal is a higher living standard for as many people as possible as well as limiting damaging externalities.
I did some Googling. WoW gold theft results in Blizzard suggesting you open a support ticket, despite the fact that WoW gold, like bitcoin, has unofficial street value.

I will do more digging but I don't know if anyone has gone to the police for WoW gold theft. I'm not sure why WoW gold is treated differently from Bitcoin, which is apparently an honest to god bonafide US security in the eyes of the law.

Re: your point about not always getting caught, then it sounds like we have an unequal application of the law/enforcement problem. Which I suppose is the crux of my entire argument.

Why are we going after Big Vern when there are more pressing crimes to deeply investigate? I even used his exchange and I literally don't care. The coins were numbers to me, not dollars.

Re: Equifax, plenty of suspected criminals are detained for years before any criminality is proven. Just look at all the pre-trial detentions on Rikers Island in NYC.

You have young kids being accused of marijuana possession or etc, suspected trespassing, and then they don't go before a judge for many many months.

Whereas with Equifax, you basically have smoking gun stock trade proof and admissions of guilt.

It can therefore only be true that the reason an interrogation of these Equifax officials has not occured, is because the law/enforcement is being applied unequally.
Why? I can only see it mattering with repeat viewings spaced out over a long period, and if you limit downloads multiple purchases would be likely.
...and then someone takes over your discussion. :P

Sorry, gfysfm. I hope you enjoy the discussion though!
Wow, I'm not a game dev pro. But 200 clients + 10K entities could cause that amount of traffic?
Webhook: https://github.com/adnanh/webhook

Self hosted tiny incoming webhook server with powerful options. Lets user run shell commands on incoming webhook. Has context parsing (use values from payload, query string, headers etc...). Can use context to validate the requests (i.e. only trigger if the push is coming from GitHub and the ref branch is the master branch). More info can be found in the Readme and on the wiki.

Tech stack: Golang

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Hookdoo - https://www.hookdoo.com/

A SaaS spin on the webhook server. Sort of an opposite approach. Has all the features webhook has, and also implements concurrency management (i.e. only run one script and deny others until it's done, allow parallel runs etc...). Centralized, managed, leverages SSH. No need for the user to install and configure anything on their servers.

Tech stack: Ruby, Golang, Redis, PostgreSQL, ES6 + React
By compressing multiple (large) files sequentially you'd be able to gradually free some disk space much sooner, and less free space will be needed to write compressed data to.
The in-depth knowledge is also only as worthwhile ad you can communicate how it affects the company in dollars to the business side.

At the end of the day, a competent developer will great communication is a better position to be in than a great developer with so-so communication in most companies. Maybe different in the biggest ones or where you can have very specialized roles.
>"But a true correlation in the underlying process always has some causal explanation."

In the vast majority of cases, A really is correlated with B to some extent. People have done this with large social science datasets since at least the 1960s, they find everything is correlated with everything else.

So, whether a correlation merely exists is not interesting to begin with (there are some exceptions in physics where theory really predicts zero correlation). Yes, this means all the people currently plugging away at checking for the mere existence of correlations are wasting their time and (probably) taxpayer money.
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As another commenter mentioned, a help desk rep once gave the clue "it's really weird" over the phone, which would easily indicate to an attack to try the mash the keyboard line.

The random character thing isn't great for this use, it seems, as a result.
> fake chocolate being sold as chocolate

A bunch of candy products have switched to being "chocolate flavored candy". Most candy in the US is total crap, because they've cut out all the parts that make it good to save money.
Because facebook can sue them for violating their patents, now that they removed the patents grant.
For 99% of the use cases moreutils' parallel (AKA Tollef parallel) is an equal, or even better, alternative.

"Interesting" thread from 2012 about replacing moreutils' parallel with GNU parallel in Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=597050 (TLDR: skip to message #75).
Yes, you have an additional opportunity. You don't have to use it if you're not comfortable with the seller or the chance of being swindled.

However, reputation systems seem to work alright, as evidenced by silk road where you really had no recourse but orders did come through.

You could also use an escrow service.
It's also why many MMORPGs rarely try to do collision testing, and have gameplay mechanics where you queue up abilities in advance of expecting to see their effects.
But they're also fraud, which is riskier
95% is sexual crimes in UK in general.
> the French have a higher culinary tradition then any of the ex Soviet countries

None of the Eastern European countries now in the EU were ever "Soviet", with the exception of the Baltic countries that were occupied by USSR.
If you post personally identifiable information online you can get your account stolen. Something new, no.
A full baccarat implementation for node and the browser.

It's plain ol' js. I used it as an opportunity to give jest a try. It took a single Saturday to get the general concept down, then some bug fixes over the next few days as I misunderstood the drawing rules.

https://github.com/kgdiem/fisher-yates-baccarat

Also TextJawn, my first production ready native Android app. It was also done in a single Saturday with some bug fixes going out over the next week. "TextJawn enables password protected remote management over SMS.

Locked out of Google? Forget your phone? No problem! TextJawn lets you ring, locate, and check your messages by sending a text message."

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thosejaunt...
Yeah, I've choked one office network on a client project (they went through VPN though) with bot tests. :D

But single-digit TB monthly outbound per VPS was not that surprising to me. Almost triple-digit one in naive implementation, scared the hell out of me first time around. Spent hours double and triple-checking and measuring. :D
Fear.
I built discurse (https://discurse.xyz/) for learning PHP/Laravel. It's mostly a clone of reddit, with the key difference that you can post anonymously, though you need to make an account for upvoting posts.

I posted about it on HN and reddit previously, but it didn't get much traction, so it's pretty much dead as of now.
Child porn is a crime committed via Internet. It is vigorously prosecuted.

Identity theft is a crime committed via Internet. It is lazily prosecuted.

Stock fraud ("securities" fraud) is a crime that is also vigorously prosecuted.

Bitcoin and alt coins, just like WoW gold, are not stocks. Therefore how can the state say Big Vern is committing securities fraud, and that we should spend millions of dollars attempting to "bring him to justice"?

EDIT:

Correct, I agree, but this occured in 2014 and would therefore be retroactive application of the law.

From what I remember, we were operating in a complete and total vacuum.

Big Vern's only mistake was being born a US citizen. If he was Russian, he would be a free man.
Is the problem the airline or the person posting it online?
Or use a memorable phrase from literature.

> This was not the last encounter between Bobby Shaftoe and Goto Dengo
The Naked Capitalism “analysis” never broke down how much Uber spends opening new markets vs. it’s costs in mature markets. Their conclusions are totally farcical.
Sure, despite having a sweet tooth I don't enjoy the majority of candy available here. But my phrasing holds up, even in Walmart you can read the packaging and find real dark chocolate (they stock https://www.ghirardelli.com/dark-chocolate-86-cacao-bar-(317... ).
I can't see exactly where it says that it is mandatory?
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