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Ask HN: What motivates you not to give up when running your startup?
If you have an incredibly simple internal network, that might work fine. It certainly would not work at my organization.
I am not a lawyer, but I think most of the author's actions would be considered illegal in the US. While he didn't do any harm, his actions were still probably a violation of at least the CFAA.

Anyhow, Aztec code? It looks, the one on the watch, pretty much like a QR Code. I've never seen the Aztec code before today. It makes me wonder how many of these barcode things we really need. A quick Google didn't reveal any information demonstrating why this Aztec code is any better than the other options out there.

It does make me grateful that I don't have to work on implementing all these things or, really, even deal with them. I know a bunch of you are developers and I hope you're not the ones stuck with dealing with all these different 'standards,'
$20k annually on food and it won't be good? I'm not sure what groceries you buy and where you eat out, but my family is pretty happy with our food. $400 per week is quite reasonable. Heck, you can shop at Whole Foods with that budget. Sometimes, anyway. The Asian market has much better prices, but they don't sell milk.

But yeah, forgot medical.

If you're doing half your discretionary on housing, that's going to be tough. I suggest moving.
Doesn't matter if you give your real bday or not. I could easily google you, email one of your coworkers and ask for your birthday for a secret gift. Voila.
> But there are countries in Africa who can already do better by simply leapfrogging to bitcoin and ditching their national currencies.

They already leapfrogged them a decade ago with m-pesa.
Ignore my last comment. I didn't follow your logic of putting a fake birthday into the site haha. Doh!
I grant you that. I am trying to make a general point about whether you should do 'x' just because you can or to prove a point.
The only reason they haven't had contentious forks and there is less bureaucracy is precisely because nobody cares.
What's the "actual cost" they compare to? It needs to include environmental externalities like CO2 contribution to global warming.
Mux (Zencoder/Video.js/Demuxed team) is hiring to make online video better
Yep, it still depends to some extent what apps you absolutely need. Fortunately I don't need any of the problematic stuff. We're on OpenVPN, use Zoom and LifeSize for meetings (both of which work fine using the native or web clients), generally use GDocs for most things, and personally I use Google Music (though when I last used Spotify I found their native Linux app to be fine... their Android app was much worse). I dunno, just depends on your needs, I guess.
In China, robot implants 3D-printed teeth in patient without human involvement
> I think that the cryptocurrency/blockchain space is the next big thing in the world on-par with the internet

with the difference that internet worked exactly as planned from the beginning, had a clear goal and solved a real problem.
I have never smoked, but I had a similar revelation once.

Up until I was about 35 or so, I went through a 12-pack of 12-ounce cokes in a week. I reached that inevitable point in life where my metabolism was slowing down, and I was gaining weight. I decided to go cold turkey on the cokes, as that was pretty much all of the empty calories I consumed at that time. I figured it would be tough to quit such an ingrained habit, developed over the course of 20 years or so, but it wasn't. I switched to water without incident. My weight gain stopped.

About six months later, I was eating at a restaurant, and decided to order a coke, for old time's sake. I can have one every now and then as a treat, I thought.

Good god. It tasted awful. The most sickly-sweet disgusting thing I'd ever had in my mouth. I couldn't even finish that sip, let alone the entire drink.

That was over ten years ago, and I haven't touched a single drop of any carbonated sickly-sweet beverage since then. I can't believe I ever wanted to drink something so disgusting, for so many years, in such great quantities.
Currency isn't wealth - wealth is real estate, stock, furniture, computers. Deflation makes it easier for wage earner savers to increase their tangible wealth. The economic data matches this - economy was a lot more equal on the gold standard until 1971, and have become a lot less equal once a policy of inflation is implemented. Are we going to act on theories that match the data or does not match the data? With deflation, UBI income will increase in value over time, the deflation occurring from technological change accruing to UBI receivers.
> You only have to give code to the user after purchase.

IANAL.

You don't really require to give the source code unless the purchased person asks for the source. Most people don't care about the source. And you require only to provide source for people who obtained the binary legally. Nobody else can demand for source code.

Say for example, most of the D-Link routers come with a warranty card saying the software is GPL and is available on request. Period.

You can also void the warranty of the software (and hardware) in case the software you sold was replaced with a modified version (afaik, requesting for source can't make the warranty void).

There are a few things to consider: GPL v2 requires you to produce the source code in CD/Floppy (or like media), while GPL v3 allows you to have the source uploaded to net (or sent via email).
sounds like a problem with the Bitcoin markets and not a problem with Bitcoin.
> I'm very interested to see how far things can be decentralised.

a lot in theory

very little in practice
For a critical article, the headline page oddly parrots the DRM proponents agenda: "At issue was how to support copyright-protected video in web browsers". Copyright protection is of course independent of DRM, and it would be arguably better for web content (video included) if big media would't buy itself these kinds of browser features.
Great fun - one suggestion would be if it could tell you who you are when you start.
I agree, there is no way that anyone outside of Uber has accurate figures on the profit/loss of any ride.
> It is probably an overstatement, if they have been useless for you (and me) doesn't mean they are.

You are conflating "useless" with "secret sauce". I didn't claim they are useless. I said macros are a meme and are useful in very limited circumstances.
It's different, though. If my web server has direct database access, and it gets compromised, an attacker can go in and directly do "SELECT * FROM users" and get all my data in one go. If the database is behind a restrictive service, and they compromise just the web server, then they have to sit on the web server and pull each user record one at a time. And they might not even be able to, depending on search options -- like they might just be able to do "GET /users/{userId}", and if you don't know the user IDs, you get nothing (our user IDs happen to be randomly-generated 128-bit numbers, so searching through that space would take a while). Even if they can get past that hurdle, the extra traffic it would require to pull down the full database with one request per user would certainly set off alarms, and doing it slowly enough to not set off alarms would just take too long.

Of course, another option would be to use the web server compromise to then jump to the database service and compromise that box as well, but, again, more hurdles to jump means less of a chance of success.

Nothing is perfectly secure, but you can design systems with defense in both breadth and depth, and you can slow down or defeat many attackers that way. It's not about making Fort Knox, it's just about making breaking in more expensive than they can handle.
> The only incentive TFL has is to make travel as efficient as possible.

TfL has the incentive to follow London mayoral policy; the MoL has concerns beyond travel.
Looks like the author is being intentionally deceptive. Uber lost $1.27bn globally (mostly in China AFAIK), but only $100m in the US. The author spent all his time talking about the US, and then tried to group the global loss onto the price of all rides. Not all rides are equal. Not all loses come from driver wages. Big overhead and marketing costs trying out the Chinese market.

Uber booked well over 100M US rides. I think 400M, but I can't find a reliable source ATM. You do the math. Uber rides don't cost an average of $2 in the US. Uber isn't paying 50% of our bill in the US.
Interesting. I find the app you mention an example of an experience worse than the regular web page on mobile. On ios hn actually looks great.

https://imgur.com/JP8LxIT
No, it's as silly as suggesting that a single voter has any say what so ever in the policies of republican institutions.
Presumably his customers feel it is worth the money, they wouldn't buy it otherwise.
Another anonymous coin which is interesting is zcash (with the cool URL https://z.cash)
The step-by-step, proven system for making money online
Alright, say their car is unlocked and you rewire the stereo to teach your friend not to leave their car unlocked. Or a better example is surprising them with their car insurance card from the glove compartment to prove you got into their car. The act of intruding into someone's vehicle in and of itself is an unwelcome act, even if it is to teach good lessons. The same is true for this I think.

I always feel that pointing out vulnerabilities is okay. Penetrating to point it out is another thing altogether. Continuing the analogy here would be pointing out to your friend that they shouldn't leave their car unlocked rather than entering and making a mess of things.[0]

And sure, bored person anywhere can do lots of damage and may be your damage won't be as bad, but just the act of going through someone's belonging is unwelcome.

[0] Also, there's a huge difference I feel from penetrating systems from orgs that have dedicated security teams...and picking on a private individual to make a point.
That's nice and all, but how is it relevant to my paraphrasing of the grandparent comment to clarify the distinction from the parent's misreading?

As the sibling comment points out, you managed to misidentify the trope to boot.
Show HN: 9GAG Chrome Extension – Search and Copy GIFs
Interesting. If that patent issues, is it going to be a problem for any React alternatives, or is what is described there unique to React?

Also, I'm curious. When did React start using the techniques covered in that patent application?
Press Release: Destruction of Language Barriers
That is a reasonable opinion to have for sure, I think it just wasn't too obvious what you meant unfortunately!
I do understand why browsers would want to disallow unfettered access to the entire filesystem (and present the opportunity for the user to give too much access inadvertently), but I still wonder why even something like the non-standard Filesystem API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_and_Di...) would choose to use a virtual filesystem as the backing store as opposed to some site-specific subdirectory in the real filesystem that the browser could control and sandbox?

Is the issue just that it would widen the attack surface too much in the event of a potential bug that could compromise the browser sandbox and/or the same origin policy? Or is there more nuance that I'm missing?
Ubuntu Touch – A beautiful, free and open source mobile operating system
When I was in high school, SWIM was stealing everybody's MSN's accounts. The technique got out, it was through these "security questions", then SWIM got his MSN stolen. Then people would recreate MSN accounts and get it stolen again. It became a funny war until some dude started asking for money to other people's contacts (via allopass, these things where you could just call a number to get charged and obtain some token).

Good times. Except some of my friends actually sent out some money. I'm pretty sure I know who did it.

Since then I enter garbage in these security questions. Better lose my account than that.
That's a reasonable estimate. While the journalist used 'household', I don't think there was a reason to. Looks like there was a lot of news articles published between 2010-2015 with the $1 trillion figure being cited (haven't found a break down of that yet though).

Anyway for fun here's my estimate: The mean US population between 1971 to 2015 (inclusive) was 262.1 million [1]. There were 44 years in that period (inclusive). Therefore:

1E12/(262.1E6*44) = $86.71/person annually

[1] http://www.multpl.com/united-states-population/table and a spreadsheet
If the closed part of EME and the remote possibility of being thrown in jail for researching such extensions was removed, would there have been such an outcry?
I remember it being so amazingly fast compared to the full mozilla suite that I switched immediately. Looking back it’s truly odd that people thought a browser needed an email client, news reader and html wysiwyg editor included by default (and non-removable), but I remember at the time it made complete sense.
That's the way it looks until you actually try to make a commercial piece of software by doing that.

As it mentions in the blog post I come from a background of low level system programming (data recovery, even some kernel extensions, etc). It would have not added significant time to have rolled my own file copy tool. Irrespectively, it took about 1000 hours of work to make that app, as it says in the blog post. Things are nowhere as easy as they look. Doing the actual file copy is the easy part.
Yeah, I used to be really afraid of sharing my ideas until I finally started my own company.

Ideas are cheap. Building a company is hard work. It takes a good idea and a passionate team to create something great. Sure you run a chance of someone taking your idea. But are they more dedicated and passionate about it than you? If so, you're in the wrong business. Better to find out sooner, tbh.
W3C was always going to do this.

Nothing called a “consortium” will ever have the general populace’s best interests in mind.

And there’s no opposing force that could leverage a penalty of any merit.

So they can just do what they like and will earn themselves or their host companies the most money.
Ah Java. If this was an option on mobile devices then I would have been all over it.
This and it is on the right, not on the left (so it's horizontal position always changes, see reddit for a good example of good UI).
How is a free-as-in-beer video player "commercially succesful"?
I’ve used google play music for a while. All my local music is automatically uploaded through its locally installed agent and available in the cloud through a user-friendly web ui. Onedrive does the same thing but the web interface is worse.
Nobody would even remember Hurd if it wasn't a GNU project. TempleOS has more organic interest than Hurd. Urbit has more organic interest than Hurd.
Is that description even necessary? For LaserDisc and cassettes I could understand since they seem to have really disappeared, or at least you can't buy them in shops AFAIK. Vinyl on the other hand hasn't died out, I still regularly buy vinyl and I know many DJ's who still exclusively play vinyl. There are numerous record players for sale, and numerous articles about vinyl's resurgence in the last couple years. Sony[0] has even announced plans to start producing vinyl again after 3 decades. Vinyl may not be as mainstream as in the 70s but they are far from dead.

[0] http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/30/news/sony-music-brings-back-...
Solri Galaxy, Star and Planet Giveaway (Urbit fork, constitution in Lojban)
The extension API feature is cool, it will make k8s ecosystem grow more rapidly.

BTW, will all the extra features in OpenShift be ported as extension APIs?
Who wants to feel their feelings, really?
Remind me of my ex-gf I had on my Facebook for a while. She liked to be show off, which I think nowadays is not that big of as deal. But she would literally invite crime to her house! On her public Facebook profile she didn't post her address, BUT she had bunch of photos: her with the Living Complex sign, her next to her doors (with apartment number on it), photos of her inside house with beautiful 85" TV and other equipment including expensive bikes, then finally her photo with the car showing license plate (revealing her state name).

I told her numerous times its not a good idea but she never listened! Then I told her publicly on her car photo that she should at least wipe out the plate number, which created a long trail of comments where basically all her friends thought I'm weird and creepy and why would I be warning her (perhaps I want to commit some crime??). No amount of explaining helped. Even telling cops will tell her the same thing got me bunch of her "friends" answering "you ain't a cop, bro". And then one fine Friday I saw her posting they leaving for another state to visit family. Boy it was a discovery when they come back Monday morning their house was cleaned out from every possible valuable belongings. And thieves must have came with a large enough truck to fit that 85" TV screen.

Not long after she removed me from her FB even though I never told her "told you so".

The bottom line is I don't believe people will learn not to give a clues online and I think in these days of age it should be an hour mandatory lesson at the school what NOT to post online.
Uber looks increasingly like a Ponzi scheme, where early investors get all the money (salary) and late investors pay the bills.
Let me say this, because I think it needs to be said.

All people should worry about is making sure that the blockchain does not get perverted by the ilk of those who own and support a perpetuating publication like the economist.

For anyone who has been around for a while knows that central banks are privately held entities and their mechanism furthers an agenda by means of war and corruption.

If the blockchain can end the peoples' suffering, let's.

/s
In some sense, reading this comment is actually harmful. I now know of that patent, so would be subject to triple damages.
I am a fourth non-lawyer, and this is all RICO.
Having lost several friends to the opioid epidemic, I wrote an article about it on decriminalization. I wish we would help addicts instead of treating them like criminals.

The war on drugs has failed. We must not be a part of the suncost fallacy, but just embrace another way.

http://www.confessionsoftheprofessions.com/drug-user-decrimi...
Reading Hacker News :-) seriously !
And there's endless debate about what that is. If you disagree with that statement then please give a definitive universally-accepted (by those able to assess the methodology) value for the climate sensitivity. There isn't one. Currently as far as I can tell, values up for that debate range from < 1 to 5.5.
The Princess Kaguya is ranked 14th of 2014 and seems like a perfect counterexample: it managed this despite being a major risk (which resulted in a major box office failure). Unfortunately Rotten Tomatoes can't save a controversial foreign film no matter how good, but it seems that if RT was scoring risk takers poorly Kaguya wouldn't be up there.
We have no plans to support Mercurial, unfortunately.
If you booked the flights together, and paid together, it's probably pretty likely that you are travelling together.

If the flights were booked together, I don't think this is out of line.
How did this become about me :)? The discussion was about quality of life in SF with 160K a year.
I vaguely remember, WebRender's idea came from some game developers, and those technique were then tested on a browser, resulting in 10-50x faster output.

Unfortunately I cant google it to find out If i remember it correctly.
Or it speaks to years of cost benefit analysis and outcome of someone doing this maliciously is so benign or so embedded within a trust chain that there's no benefit to closing that particular hole.

Not that I have any expertise in this particular situation, but not every 'threat' when armchair analysed in isolation is a threat when put into its correct domain and context.
Aztec is more compact than QR - does not need margin and because it's optimised for lowercase letters (used a lot for urls). Also has tunable error correction.
Plex is great, but not quite what I'm looking for. Ideally I'd like my entire collection to be synchronized and available locally on any device I use, and I'd like to be able to access the local collection through a web app (and have the web app be the thing that performs the sync'ing) without having to stream it from a remote source when the entire collection is sitting right there in my device's filesystem.

All of that is very achievable, except the "web app" part. I think it might be about time for me to just give up on that pipe dream and start building an Electron and/or React Native app instead.
And if the scammer moves your fare to an earlier flight, they get away and your ticket is void when you show up.
The web was a pile of nearly nothing before corporations embraced it. You can always go back to that. Nobody's stopping you.
Four Probe Testing (with aardvarks)
That's already done. No need to organize tools since they are already that way simply by doing the job. Refilling things is part of the job and done in the natural course of things as folks shift positions and whatnot. Cleaning is similar. Trash? there isn't much need to change it unless full - otherwise, one is wasting trash bags and boxes. Where I am, that's once or twice a shift. Again, this is accounted for in the normal course of the job, just like breaks and lunches.

Coffee is in the cafeteria or filled/cleaned on breaks and lunches. The machine makes a cup at a time so it isn't sitting around. It can't be in the production area anyway since it has the possibility of either messing up the machines or messing up the actual product (chocolate and candy) and ups the chance of making a customer sick.

Yup, sometimes you see the mechanic working or someone fixing the machine. Untrained folks can't help. Sometimes the problem is in another section of the factory which you aren't trained on or even see. Can't exactly help that nor can you generally leave the production area without absolutely knowing you'll be down for some time. Then there are generally a few things to do, but since it requires moving staff, this is a last resort as it would negatively affect production.

The place is obviously designed for nearly 100% production during all shifts that are scheduled (not always 24 hours), obviously allowing time for startup, shutdown, and cleaning.

A well run factory doesn't have excess work for every employee every day. It will aim for as little downtime as possible and not having excess employees. Excess work, every day for every employee means some things just can't get done if you don't have downtime.
I get to recommend one of my favorite sites again.

http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/

You can also just go to http://websdr.org and select from a bunch of other servers.

Basically, the site is an SDR with a web interface. You're able to go there and listen to the radio. It is, obviously, RX only. Still, you can go there and listen to the ham radio enthusiasts across the world.

I should warn you, it is quite a time sink. Not everything is in morse code. You can stumble across some interesting stuff and it is fun just playing with the buttons.

If you've wondered what ham is all about and haven't bothered to get your license, this is a great way to experience the monitoring aspect of being a radio operator. If you're anything like me, it will eat up more time than you'd care to admit.

Still, it is an SDR that you can actually play with to see if you're interested in learning more about it.
And really this has nothing to do with Facebook at all, it's not a good title.