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For our learning, can you point out few products?
Sure, but your speculation suggests that the "often" is enough to explain the parent's downvotes. I think there's a better explanation that doesn't impugn certain "types" of people. I'm just speculating too of course.
He invented markup and has a CS degree.
> At one of my first talks on body hacking, one of the creators of VisiCalc sat in the front row and yelled out sexually explicit questions at me while everyone, not just me, grew increasingly uncomfortable.

Who is it?
The funny thing is that if you ask the average American whether Tylenol or aspirin is safer, they'd probably say Tylenol unless they specifically know about the liver issue. I think this ultimately comes from acetaminophen having remarkably few interactions, but has been spun by marketing into a general sense of "safety".
If you have sheep or cattle grazing, a short cropped "lawn" is just where you get your meat to eat.
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I just had to fix that in a project today. Looked great in Firefox, but Chrome made the images huge and every time the page changed they just got bigger. Seemed completely broken to me.
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The Weinstein thing really opened the floodgates.

There's a guy in my hometown, whom I've worked with in the past, he's a pretty talented and prolific playwright, actor and director who's been at the centre of the local theatre and filmmaking scene for about 20 years now, and he's also a sexual predator, as anyone who's worked with him can attest to.

The day before yesterday he made a long Facebook post under the #metoo hashtag basically confessing to his sins apologizing profusely, and promising to never do it again. Today he got fired from everything that he's involved with. The apology was career suicide.

The fucked up thing is that, just like Harvey Weinstein, everybody knew what he was up to, it had going on for years and while it made everyone uncomfortable people just looked the other way. Opening up about it is what ruined him. Honesty is the best policy something something.
How many times have I signed up for free events and tickets and didn't go even though there was free beer an pizza? Too many!

I never missed an event when I paid the ticket.

That said, it's a bit of a gamble. If the driver is available but there are no rides they should perhaps issue a refund.
No static typing advocates suggest that you shouldn't write unit tests - they just suggest that you can write dramatically fewer tedious but important tests that boil down to verifying type safety.
I've been working on something similar with http://www.butterflyfx.io that captures information beyond a screenshot. It's still a work in progress, however.
As a reply to all the sibling comments: it's right to have concerns, and that is completely compatible with being agnostic about it. Being agnostic means not forming judgements if you don't have adequate information to do so. You can have concerns but that's different from acting like you know they actually will be problems.

When it comes to serious issues, with serious consequences, it's even more important to withhold any definitive judgement until you have adequate information! So many problems in the world seem to come down to people too hastily jumping to conclusions.
Maybe you should read the last sentence again. I think perhaps you missed something.
Awesome feedback, thanks.

HN launch could be fun. We haven't done that yet. Andy left this comment a couple hours ago on a whim and all of the sudden we're getting tons of crazy feedback! Right now we're just focused on trying to make the service solid for a handful of people.

The feedback on pricing is helpful. I'd actually like to get the prices down to half of where they're at now. 6-month stretch goal :)

Hadn't thought about the font customization over the images. Great idea.

Thanks for sharing with your old folk friends. Best of luck with the creation of Grandchildren. I'm rooting for you.
$7 per 10,000 is $0.0007 per screenshot

Get it for $0.000365 per screenshot from me (shameless)

[1]: https://www.prerender.cloud/docs/api

curl http://service.prerender.cloud/screenshot/https://google.com/ > out.jpg
PeopleSoft came by my high school to solicit two folks in our computer class for internships. One was me, the other a friend of mine. I suspect our teacher played a part in setting it up; my friend and I had basically completed the coursework way early and were goofing off writing video games. This would've been in the late 90s.

I was a huge dumbass and turned them down.
Exactly the same from Shanghai
I realized instead of giving whole text and blabbering about the app, its best to send people directly to the page. Apologies.
Reselling SSL certificates
Is it feasible to make decent money reselling ssl certificates on line without offering other services such as web hosting or VPS? Anyone willing to share their experiences? How do you start such as business?
It's also undergrad, so the quality of the department doesn't actually matter. You also get to put Yale on your resume.
First let me say that I'm not familiar with Nim. But I understand that it compiles/transpiles to C/C++. And it sounds like they're now trying to move away from dependency on the GC. In that case, might I suggest they consider switching the transpile target to SaferCPlusPlus[1]. It might make things easier as it already addresses the "efficient memory-safety via scope lifetimes without a borrow-checker" issue. And also the (data race) safe sharing of objects between threads. (Note that the documentation is currently rather out-of-date, and a major update is coming.)

[1] shameles plug: https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus
Every now and then I get a bit cynical about technology. Then a phrase like this appears and I am in awe again.
Or, say, "Tesla"?
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> No one will take your argument seriously when you say ignorant stuff like "Creating a database is also very easy", or "Creating a car is also fairly easy".

Holy shit, did nobody read the last sentence of the original comment? I'll spell it out. The first three things were meant to be similar statements to the comment I was replying to, and the final sentence was explaining how they, plus the version in the comment I was replying to, were bullshit.

I then went into excruciating detail in the next comment on why, for each specific case, and capped it with a paragraph summarizing my point.

> No matter how you spin it, it is FAR from easy to build any of those, and the only people who think it's easy are those who don't have real experience.

Which is fully in line with exactly what I was saying.
There's also https://github.com/ragingwind/devdogs. Same idea.
Librem 11 looks tempting, but important to note that "To be announced (prototyping and supplier negotiations phase)" which probably means several more months...
I never tried one, but I was told they were hard on the knees.
If only there were some form of Markup Language for HyperText that could be used to generate a static web page... hmmmmmm.
There’s a natural connection between the two: you need qualified people to teach students and many of the best students are looking for research experience in labs doing real work. Given what tuition runs these days, any place which doesn’t have those is going to see students passing for other institutions.

The problem isn’t pairing the two but generations of overhead growth combined with a decline in the federal funding which used to support researchers, both of which mean compensation has fallen behind in real value.
Native multi-AZ or multi-region. If a single instance dying can ruin my day, there’s going to be significant challenges with using WordPress for some workloads.
I'm still waiting for them to ship a Librem 15 I ordered exactly 2 weeks ago. The product page still says "Available to ship from inventory (1-2 weeks ETA), while quantities last" so I don't know why that hasn't shipped or why they haven't responded to my email about an update of status.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv_h_R3o9r8
I was thinking of Docker for Windows and the stock Hyper-V VM UI.
I think you're hung up on the semantics (which doesn't mean it's a non-issue, semantics do matter).

When people talk about the problem with "fear of failure" they usually mean (at least I do myself) "failure" in the most plain and benign sense.

If I am trying to sink a basketball in a basket and I miss, that's failure [to get the ball in the basket that time]. Fear of that failure is unhealthy, period.

You seem to be using "failure" strictly for real problematic things and wouldn't even use the word in the case of a simple missed basketball shot. If "failure" as a word to you means something deeper and more profound, something usually associated with real fear-worthy consequences, then (using that semantic approach) the entire recommendation of "not fearing failure" would be reworded as "don't think of normal errors/mistakes as 'failures'".

The point is that we agree that fear of fear-worthy consequences and even some buffer of fear of things that risk those consequences is good. That sort of fear is to be respected (even though it may sometimes come up inappropriately).

I'm using "failure" in the literal sense where the vast majority of failures have NO connection to any consequences. And I'm using "fear" in the literal sense too. So, while I can have some concern about the possibility of my comment not coming across as clearly as I'd hope, I'm not literally scared to post it out of "fear of failure". Instead, I'm doing my best to be clear, having reasonably concern that drives my effort, and then willing to post and see whether I succeed at reaching you fully or fail to hit the bull's eye in this little thread. Fear of failure isn't needed or helpful here.

Fear of failure specifically in a case where I'm discussing something really controversial that could lead to people wanting to rile up an online mob and dox me and ruin my life — that would be an online comment posting situation where the fear is warranted.
Is this really considered modern c++ style? Best practice as far as I've ever known it is to disallow wherever possible the allowance of having an invalid state; typically with constructers locking those details down.

Obviously references are better in most circumstances but only because you don't have to check for an empty or invalid state. They offer no performance or optimization on their own.
Yeah I would have bought one when I was shopping but numpads on a laptop are a terrible idea. I ended up going for a Dell Precision 15 instead.
NanaGram, making all your dreams come true. Well, we can't make that grandkid dream come true... but we do what we can: https://imgur.com/a/TjOQc

P.S. We called my grandmother on my Mother's side Mimmie before she passed away years ago. Scratching my head why I missed that one and thank you for the reminder.
LOL I just edited my post - again. She tossed a few ideas out. They actually seem like sound ideas, because she is brilliant and perfect in every way. I like both the ideas, you're obviously not obligated to like them.
Fearing some consequential failures but being fearless of non-risky failures and all other sorts of fuzzy combinations that aren't all-or-nothing / black-and-white.
Either way, people are getting fucked for someone else’s profit/amusement.

Poor Abi...
I think I've tried everything. Firebase, Netlify, S3+Cloudfront, Github+Cloudflare are the main contenders.

I benchmarked them myself and using https://www.webpagetest.org/ in numerous locales.

Netlify has the edge as their publishing model is slick. They know there has been an update and can trigger the nodes automatically. My only complaint? They have a soft bandwidth limit - I wish I could pay to lift it. I know they won't enforce - it's there to stop abuse. But they can take my $. For the apex (sans "www") domain, you need to let them manage DNS, which is backended by NS1.

Firebase hosting is excellent. Really top class. But I found it to be a little slower on the deploy side. If you think you may use some kind of backend functionality, this is a smart option. Even with an A Record on the DNS they were fast. I think Google's Anycast network must be top notch (no surprise, really).

Github+Cloudflare was pretty good too. But the invalidation model was something you needed to work with. Plus every now and then I'd hit a cold node (I assume) and it was slower. Overall it was great, but just a nose behind and not as easy to use. One area where they really were consistently ahead was DNS.

So lots of good options. Reality is they are so close you're best going for the option you're most comfortable with. For vanilla I love Netlify. For anything JavaScript-y Firebase is great.

Edit: I was curious, so I checked on Netlify. I think they're hosted on Google Cloud... Which would make sense.
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Is it possible to get into the technology sector without formal training now-a-days. I am 30 years old. I have a bachelor's degree in economics. I would be interested in getting into IT security. What self directed / certificate programs are good for this? I really don't want to go back to school and get another degree at this stage.
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C has this same problem. Most of the C standard library is unsafe to use between fork and exec of a multithreaded program. This usually includes malloc and printf.
I think GP meant "smart pointers" where they said "object references". At least, that was the only reading that made sense to me, since it would be a little bit insane (and UB) to create a C++ reference (T&) from a null pointer.
Great news!

Does anyone know of any efforts to remove the ME equivalent from AMD's processors?
I guess that's one way of preventing yourself from being criticized; by presenting your viewpoints, shielded behind these imaginary people.
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Every news outlet I've read on this states that Boeing proposed used embraer jets to compete with the bombardier c series and has no directly competing aircraft.
Fantastic! The missus has also already started mailing the link out to all of her Grange Hall friends. The thinking is they'd buy subscriptions on behalf of their kids.

She's remarkably interested in the product, if that is a signifier for you. We are old, in our fifties, and financially secure. The vast majority of our friends are in similar positions.

I add this because it may help your marketing choices and, while anecdotal, she does seem intrigued and excited.
> Often with most of the values set to null.

Your math is at odds with your own requirements, null values don't need a row.
This comment is a nice illustration of the Keynesian beauty contest: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest
Oh dude, good thing Mom isn't on HN.
Am I missing something? Both comments seem to be written by "icelancer"
thanks for that. didn't realize that mdn.io existed.
I think that might have been true a couple of decades ago, but I'm not sure if it's the case today.

A good recent example is ketamine. The drug, or, rather, the mechanism behind it, has gotten a large push research wise of late, since it was discovered that ketamine relieved depression using a mechanism that current anti-depressants do not utilize. Until further drugs are developed, "ketamine clinics" for off-label treatment-resistant depression also exist. And there really doesn't seem to be a huge issue made about them.

I would hazard a guess (unfortunately) that one of the barriers here regarding fundraising among more commercial interests is the lack of the ability to patent, which means that the rewards for making MDMA as a treatment are not as great, as far as commercial backers would be concerned. In the case of ketamine, drug companies are trying to develop chemicals that use the same mechanism, but do not have the hallucinogenic side effects (an example currently in Phase III would be Rapastinel). These efforts are able to get corporate funding. Also, MAPS is more "advocacy group" than "medical industry", not that there is a problem with that, but they might be outside the circle of what the typical drug trial fundraising process goes through.

If MDMA even remotely has a chance (the fact that it passed Phase II trials suggests this is the case), I definitely think it would be worth exploring, as current medication options for PTSD seem to largely be limited to anti-depressants (SSRI etc.). Ala ketamine, this would be a new approach.
Famous for being famous.
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Have you gotten Windows to work well as a guest?

I could never get it to work as well as it does with VirtualBox.
A couple bikes in my family's fleet have Biopace rings, both having been made around the same time period. What I recall at the time was that they were greeted by a collective yawn because they weren't eccentric enough to have much of an effect.

I just measured a 48T Biopace ring that was in my spare parts bin, and the ratio of major to minor diameter is about 3 percent.

The only annoyance I can think of is that you can't use those rings with a single-speed or gearhub without a chain tensioner.

If they're wrecking your knees, don't push such long gears. Or, rotate the ring by 72 degrees on the crank to pretty much negate the effect.
He invented markdown, which isn't much of an "invention." Similar simplified markup existed at the time, like bbcode and wikitext. His CS degree is fairly rudimentary.

He is famous entirely for writing fawningly about Apple products, which appeals to people who need others' validation to justify their purchases.
I think so. This is the comment I mean.

fierro:

I feel like this is kind of silly. Anyone could make a reasonable estimate of your salary based on your job, which is easily discoverable. At least enough to make a decision "should I rob this house." What are we even talking about here?
Very good feedback about marketing to Grandparents. We've got some further testing to do.

On pricing, just want to confirm that you're seeing the price of $7.99/mo for 10 photos and not $0.79/mo for 10 photos?
Sure, that makes sense. The point is that if the only cost is the cost of the attempt itself, then it depends on that detail. The cost of me posting this is some time and energy. By bothering to post, I continue practicing communication skills and open myself to learning new perspectives from others. If all that succeeds, maybe it's worth it (although maybe I have more valuable things I should be doing).

If I fail to have a productive exchange, then the cost of time and energy is indeed non-zero. But I will have a good chance of learning something about where I went wrong (because I have a habit of reflecting on things and learning what I can from each little exchange), so it's not a total loss.

But I'll accept I was wrong to imply that there's absolutely no cost to some failures, that was too strong a wording. I'd count that as a minor failure in my efforts to communicate with nuance. I'll keep working to improve. Cheers
Holy shit, I was sitting around that campfire. I remember the whole making-out incident. Buried that in a dunken haze 7 years ago. Yikes.

Foo Camp was fantastic both years I went, and the O’Reilly crew has worked hard to make things better. We still have a lot of work to do.
I'm not sure HN celebrates products for simply being successfully marketed.

That said, I do think they made a way of handling a data model pleasurable. Different paradigm++
What Is Science? – Richard Feynman
It's a vanity url because it's small and can be used by tons of different orgs. Not sure why we're suddenly so sad about losing some tiny corner of the web that is very unlikely to have a huge effect irl.

I used to bookmark things judiciously 7-8 years ago, that bookmarks list is completely useless today because >90% of the links are dead, that's okay though, it's the way things go. Happens with real-world objects too, books go out of print, buildings get knocked down, not everything needs to be saved.
After I typed it, I thought about the price aspect. Prodigies that made the news, back when I was younger, often came from wealthier families. Today, prices are quite low for a bunch of things.

That does count as broader access, methinks. So, I suspect you're right. There are many, many sources of inexpensive education. I don't know if that would, statistically speaking, increase the actual numbers/percentages - but if it doesn't, it would almost certainly enable them to go further.

Ever wonder what it'd be like to have had access to this stuff when you were younger? Personal computers didn't arrive until I was an adult.

Anyhow, kudos on the kids. That is impressive and certainly better than I can do.
Now they can write and publish apps to get noticed. Apple and co can run the story to encourage more developers to build for their platform etc etc.
Also the random latin phrases and obscure words. Why is 'fecund' is used 3 times?
Alt-Bob will still be on min wage and still anxious and fearful due to inflation.

And why do you think Govts will do better job at identifying/investing in potential productivity than rest of the market ?
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Why do you need a commercial license or have to do anything special for AGPL compliance if you aren't modifying the codebase and using the binaries from Mongo's website/repo?

It looks like all of the drivers you would use to connect to it are Apache 2.0 licensed so that wouldn't be a reason.
Mongo as a business has largely catapulted itself to where it is by making money off of information assymetry more than actual technical superiority. They may have since corrected a lot of the fundamental technical isssues with their product, but that doesn’t change the fact that (contrary to SV dogma) their success doesn’t rest on the creation of wealth, only its extraction from magpie-type customers. Downvoters likely chafe at the notion that such a strategy is laudable or valid.
Affirmative action is to racism as compensation is to theft.
I highly disagree.

As opposed to MDMA grass doesn't have the full-blown in-your face effects. Just as it's way easier to become an alcoholic by drinking a few beers daily than by getting drunk off a bottle of vodka.

Moreover - the potential for abuse with grass here is way wider, since it's not that easy to come to work with the MDMA eyeballs, while getting a few puffs during lunchtime isn't such a big deal in certain professions.

The problem with drugs are the people who never tried them - rather than at least just shutting up and voting to legalise the research (to look at the maths), they end up with the same discussion having little evidence _every_single_time_.
The animation of the solution is beautiful.

I am amazed at where GSL has gone from a very specific domain language for OpenGL to almost anything. I know I shouldn't be too surprised, since almost anything can be built with any complete PL. Inigo Quilez turned me on to shaders in general before Shadertoy was developed[1]. This is the stuff that makes me want to toy code all night!

[1] http://www.iquilezles.org/
Off topic but where do you park?
It's good to draw attention to this, but is it new? Newton said "We stand on the shoulders of giants."

The potential(actual?) problem with this is it can necessitate crippling specialization. Who maintains an overview? Who directs goals and avoids harmful drift is the overall direction?

Maintaining the overview is perfectly practical, but who does it, what is their motivation, and how is it legitimized?
That's 24K a year?
Some people mentioned this place in a few threads during the whole Slashdot 2.0 thing and that lead me here. I presume if this place ever does go south similar things will happen.
Let's work to keep this place what it is and make it better.