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It pleases the HN crowd, after all a lot of people here are in the startup business so that's sort of understandable.

What worries more is that this article, like the one about Musk, are really too ego driven. Not a word on teams. That is more understandable here I guess, but the Musk article took it to the next level - the lone genius furiously and successfully solving the world biggest issues with nothing else than his own brain and the moral support of his family.

The moral of those article: there is no place for sidekicks in this world, you are at the top, or you are a loser. And that's where all those ultra-secretive, "I will give you 1% of the company, all you have to do is implement this idea in software", "that will make you a millionaire if we exit don't complain", founders are born.
It's paper so what? They achieved something hard. They could probably still get lots of cash if they wanted to exchange their equity.
Full episode is worth a watch, but at 8m5s (linked) you can see normal citizens launching baloons over to North Korea with flash drives, money, etc. On the flash drives? South Korean soap operas, the movie The Interview (actually not on this balloon launch), etc.

https://youtu.be/Mhj4rH13eoc?t=8m5s
Apparently she took a bit of artistic licence with some of the things she wrote, although the pictures are real, the place is real, and she did visit there.

http://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/chernobyl_trip
> but a paid solutions is not the topic of this thread.

AWS has their own CA that issues free SSL certs for their customers for use with stuff like CloudFront, I don't see any reason Microsoft couldn't do the same if they're not willing to play nice with Let's Encrypt.
Looking at you, this very thread on HN as of 2017/11/20 6:19PM PST
> FWIW I don't think you've answered the "What to use instead, then?" question.

If you need a workstation that is hardened against the big boys, I doubt such a thing exists, and it never will if people keep putting all of their hope in the next band-aid. It is also a damn shame, since it's not like this is a problem that needs two more generations of pure science to solve.

Hell, the B5000[0] was safer than the things we run today, and people didn't stop having better ideas about computing in 1961.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems
The Huawei Mate has the same feature and uses a normal hdmi connector. Infact I recollect seeing a youtube video[1] and there is probably a thread on xda [2] that got Samsung Dex working with a normal usb-c to hdmi connector.

It's a useful feature and because we already have too many devices finds little use but once its seamless it could offer many possibilities.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s50GWuKphTI

[2] https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8/how-to/dex-unexpe...
And it only took the Pentagon exposing its main surveillance operation to get Amazon to make that change. Progress.

I wonder what other improvements we'll see when CIA's surveillance or drone strike data is also exposed to the public by a similar fuckup? Fully homomorphic encryption?
Weren't they all "respectable" only because knowledge of their long-term history of sexual harassment or abuse was suppressed, either by supporters who wanted to maintain the fiction that fame in one field implies general moral respectable, or by detractors concerned about negative personal repercussions of making these claims against those that others call heroes?
If he were literally arrested and the case being eventually dismissed would actually be pretty similar. He might prefer a definition of "getting away with it" as hardly anyone knowing or believing it and maybe not involving getting impeached over it and that becoming probably the most memorable thing about his presidency. He partly got away with it but he partly very definitely did not get away with it.
> I don't think you can say the services listed don't drive revenue. Google's growth model for quite a while was to attract and lock in users so that you would have advertiser revenue tomorrow. You could certainly argue that some of their services do this much more effectively than others but maintaining an ecosystem has value in it's own right.

In my view, Chrome and Android are part of a defensive strategy. Imagine a Google without Chrome or Android. Microsoft and Apple (or someone else) would own the devices that users use to access Google services. They could easily choke Google off if they wanted to. Remember how Apple decided Google Voice should be a web app? As much as people say Google is vulnerable, it would be much more vulnerable. Chrome and Android are worth every penny Google spends on them even if they make zero revenue. Plus, with Chrome and Android, Google not only gets a seat in the table for discussions on how to steer the web forward, Google pretty much drives the discussions on how to steer the web forward. For all the talk about Microsoft et al. using sponsorship money to influence FOSS projects like Maria DB, it is far more effective to do things in house (Google Chrome) as opposite to paying an outsider (Mozilla Firefox).
Yes the PayPal API and its documentation has always been terrible. It really wasn't hard to beat.

That said, I think that Y Combinator was crucial for Stripe's success. So many developers read HN and pracyically all of them needed a better alternative to PayPal.
Ask HN: How can we stop the plan to end net neutrality?
In the following week the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to roll out their plan to end net neutrality.

It appears that the public at large and even some internet stalwarts have become apathetic to the coming changes, which threaten to alter the internet as we know it going forward.

If this happens without massive public outrage it may indicate to other democratic nations that treating all traffic equally is no longer the norm, and they are free to enact their own "play-to-play" schemes in addition to those imposed by the U.S.

What can be done to reverse this course of action?
Interesting…have you tried the features in Windows and macOS which allow you to pick up phone calls/texts with your computer? If so, how does it compare?
> They make about twice as much money from mobile ads iOS as they do from Android, hence they pay Billions to Apple to be the default search provider on iOS. That can’t be a comfortable position to be in, and hardly looks like a position of dominance no matter how much you squint.

Here's one way to squint: they'd have to pay a lot more if they didn't have Android.
Quite possibly with the Spaulding reference!
I always thought of technical debt as something that sloppy engineers knowingly or unknowingly assume on behalf of clueless managers. Kind of like a company accountant assuming debt without company officers knowing or caring. I guess I've never had the chance to see competent people make a knowledgable decision to write lousy software.
Does anyone know what sort of price premium AWS charge for their secret regions over their public commercial regions?
Yes, but now Amazon will show them orange alerts if they do that!

I've argued this before around here - I believe it's a platform provider's responsibility for the most part to secure data, and less so the responsibility of the developer or user. Amazon should go much further and make it hard to open-up the data to the public, at least for certain categories of buckets.

So for instance some buckets should always be public by default, and some should always be encrypted and private by default. That should make intelligence agencies' choice easier, because I would imagine even if it's "harder" to process the data from an encrypted bucket, they would still prefer that option to the always public bucket.

And maybe both categories could still be configured to either be private or public, respectively, but the account owners should have to really go out of their way to make those changes. So most shouldn't bother, and just use the defaults for each category of buckets.
Even though automated renewals are absolutely superior, as encouraged by LE, they do require some work to adopt. For a lot of businesses, it's easier to have someone manually renew every year or two than to do the migration work of setting up automated LE certs.
I have the same sentiment and when more apps run in the cloud, and all one needs is a fast web browser, that will make it more of a possibility to do coding, digital media editing, etc. from anywhere with available peripherals.

The entire home wall video monitor in the beginning of the movie Total Recall (first version) would be great to have everywhere. Just as you change music you could make your environment look like anything and this same technology would let you grab a little near by space to use as a screen. Too expensive now but in ten years, perhaps.
Thank you for clearing that up and my apologies for implying political motivation on your side!
Thinkpads have gotten shockingly thin and light, all while improving spilled liquid resistance and enhancing the cooling. The T440 and newer seems to have been a complete redesign, a 14 inch laptop that weighs 1.8kg and is neither too big or too small.

Slap a 1080p or 2560p panel in it, and the laptop is a monster!
> Most billionaires don’t have billions in liquid cash, they almost all have illiquid property, stocks, bonds, etc.

Agreed on the first, the latter are pretty liquid, save for say 20% of Stripe's market cap, for which a private buyer can likely be found.

> Selling off some of these assets would cause a very similar effect, and often they can’t easily be sold at all.

I'm sure you can find buyers for them though, I'm not sure who's going to buy >$1B of ETH.
That probably only applies to the words until and.
> Microsoft used every dirty tactic in the book to wipe out its competitors, and the government turned a blind eye till it was way too late.

> If someone from the 80s or 90s got a time machine and skipped to today, one of their biggest surprises would be that Bill Gates is considered a beloved philanthropist rather than the personification of corporate evil.

The problem rather is that people have a short memory. I for myself have not forgotten.
>If you’re coming from Hacker News, I appreciate an up-vote if you find this article interesting.

That doesn't seem like something we should encourage.
This is long overdue. I'm glad to see that funders are finally paying attention to what's happening away from the coasts, in places that _need_ support and investment to grow.
I agree that rowhammer needs a hardware-based defense. While ECC isn't prohibitively expensive and has negligible performance cost, keep in mind it's only a parity check with a proprietary implementation. There's some multiple of bit flips that will pass the parity check and still achieve the attacker's intended result, and the exploit is definitely going to get multiple attempts - if you get pwned the malicious process might be in memory and hammering away for hours, maybe it's even dropped a registry key to make sure it auto runs next boot.

Reference: http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/03/some-notes-on-dram-rowhamm...
If you want to quit the smartphone, what I did was to set a random 10 letter password, which I kept on a piece of paper in my wallet. Change the password every 3 days.

For me this made using my phone enough of a hassle to break any habit I had. It's been a few months now and I have the password memorized, but I still almost never use my phone.
Maybe. I tried WashPost. Mostly to pay for my news. Hated it. Mostly because of the format. Wasted too much of my time. If they adopted a HN or RSS reader style, I’d try it again.
I'm a 30+ year old software-engineer in Vancouver, BC. And there's a housing bubble. My friends are mostly also senior developers / software architects / managers etc.

Just get older. Then your friends will be richer.
ICOs are worse that over the counter penny stocks at this point being promoted by boiler room call centers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiler_room_(business)

The ones that win are those who get the discount prior to ICO and then liquidate during the ICO for a main currency like bitcoin/Etherium. Which is nothing more than the standard boiler room scam, updated for 21 century technology.
ohh I wasn't aware of the AWS had a free SSL cert solution. I don't see any reason as well why Microsoft doesn't provide a similar service for their customer.
> this is actually very nutritious

Depends on how it's made. Oil/butter is often added because it's cheap and provides "fullness" without being nutritionally satisfying. With food this cheap, you'll need to take a close look at what's actually going in the food.
Where Is Technology Taking the Economy?
Smartphones are already more powerful than the desktop computers of, say, a few years ago and are already capable of comfortably running a browser and an office suite without any performance problems.

So it isn't a question of computing power, it's a question of utility: who actually needs this? What benefit does it provide over and above just having a cheap PC to do PC things and a smartphone to do smartphone things and syncing documents between the two? It's not cheaper, it's not more convenient, it's not more productive, it's not more powerful, so what's the point?
> ...it might be inconvenient if you have limited means of travel.

Google Maps...really? I don't mean offense for being obtuse, but I sense a bit of first-world bias in your assessment.

I would imagine that for someone who is so poor that finding a simple meal is a daily struggle, what I might perceive as an inconvenience is almost certainly a show-stopping barrier.
Really? You've never had a manager tell you do this or it's your job? There are tons of places that do not give a single shit about good software and not even because they don't realize it's going to hurt later.

When a bosses bonus is tied to quarterly results then quality goes out the window every time immediate revenue or cost cutting comes up
Another example: if you don't want worms or salmonella, don't eat poorly cooked white meat. No doubt the meat was considered cursed after people consistently fell ill after eating it.

When it comes to eastern practices (yoga, meditation and so forth) my bullshit barometer is calibrated much, much higher. I'm far more likely to approach their practices with an open mind. Take spirit guides as an example; while I certainly don't agree that there are spirit guides, it is a religious explanation for the subconscious - your autopilot that guides you through small decisions every day. I can't see why you wouldn't try to wield it to your advantage (obviously with the appropriate care that eastern religions have unwittingly formulated).

Even the core of Christianity can be helpful. Life is far less stressful if you are generous in the most insignificant ways. Simple acts like letting traffic enter in front of you, over time, drastically erodes the stress that you feel in those situations.

From my perspective, religious texts have at least a few pragmatic observations - even if they lack scientific explanations.
The obvious use is laptop bans on flights and docking your phone to your hotel room's TV.

Why so hung up about a keyboard and mouse? Even the local supermarkets here sell them dirt cheap these days.
That doesn't really change the point -- The US pays more to give the poor health care than most countries pay to give everyone care.
That would likely be a better stand alone product.
By this logic, isn't Bill Gates a billionaire "on paper" as well? His wealth is all stock and assets.
Take a look at the newer Thinkpad T series, the T440 and newer are much thinner, lighter weight 14 inch laptops that slot in between the MBP 13" and the MBP 15.6" in both size and weight.

Screen can be upgraded to 1080p and beyond, parts are very well priced, nearly everything is still user serviceable, and you can pick up a T440 for not much. Debian & Arch both have full support for the hardware too!
We don't do any sort of major ecommerce and I have never drank the EV Kool-aid. It's the same encryption either way, just EV has an extra CA "stamp of approval". Considering how much I trust your average CA[1], i.e. not at all[2]...

1: https://www.infoworld.com/article/2623829/authentication/wea...
2: https://www.pcworld.com/article/249242/verisign_hacked_what_...
Would you upgrade the firmware or leave it in?

Who knows what benefits this defect can give you down the line. Maybe it will be possible to take over the entire Management Engine. That would be neat.
> I'm not even sure there's any statistics of what health effects this produced.

My post with some effect summary for Belarus https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=15737928&goto=threads%...
> the unions are no longer working in the best interests of ordinary folks

Haven't the unions always worked in the best interest of the union members?
Why is this being questioned on vote bank politics?. Isn't any good scheme has to be welcomed.

I am from the state Tamilnadu where this model first got introduced - http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36659670
The parent never asserted that US farm subsidies are a good idea.
Freewill exists, but it now comes with a cost. Let me provide a personal anecdote that is happening now with my job:

- What with "rising" health care costs, my employer has decided to "force" everyone into getting a series of physical tests, to include those for high blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol, and a fecal occult blood test. Failure to comply by year's end results in a financial penalty taken from your check twice monthly, totaling $600 annually, rising next year. My wife is also required to submit since she is on my insurance. She and I are both declining. That's $1200 a year in freewill money.

- What with, heaven forbid, people having actual rights to use tobacco, be it smoking, vaping, smokeless, whatever, my employer will be conducting cotinine (nicotine) tests. Failure to comply results in a penalty taken from your check twice monthly, totaling $600 annually, rising next year.

I will be taking the cotinine test, but then will enjoy nicotine as I am wont to do after passing the test. I'm a social smoker as many are. I don't smoke as a habit, but will not be denied the pleasure should I wish to enjoy it as the mood takes me.

The health care/insurance thing is a racket. All they want this info for is to black mark you, identify who the expensive souls will be and keep raising your rates. Insurance companies will eventually sell this data to prospective employers, who won't hire the expensive-to-ensure souls. I can only win by not playing the game.

To stay off the radar, I visit the indigent latin clinic and pay cash. I get prescriptions filled at the bodega around the corner.

Eventually, the cost will either be extraordinarily high money wise or I will be terminated. My freewill diktats will ensure I will likely go from being a gainfully-employed IT staffer to cutting grass with the illegals at some point. At least I will have by freewill and freedom.
Temporary status is temporary, people need to learn to respect the laws of this country.
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Wordpress is used by more than 1/4 of all websites. Is that dead?
They do have those teams. I've seen them work; they've got power washers, and they blast the stations. They cleaned my previous-local station once every few months, at least.

The stations don't stay clean because they move millions of people per day, not all of whom are clean. Today I saw a kid throwing up on her way into the station; she and her mother were somehow polite enough to pause above a drain to do so. Combine that with people tracking upstairs dirt in, and littering, intentional and accidental (I dropped a candy wrapper while getting my kid home; I'm not stopping to pick it up mid-tantrum), and you've got a pretty messy situation.
And it's available now: https://noscript.net/getit
I wonder how many promising newbies we've lost to the massive boilerplates of java?
Something similar happend in India this month itself!
http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/how-shop-used...
Ask HN: Programmable dashcam?
I am looking for a programmable dashcam. I want to control the frame rate at which I record, run local deep learning models and other on-device analysis. Any recommendation?
First: Call your congress person. Right now. https://callyourrep.co/

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Some students from Gonzaga Uni are trying to build something to help.

Right now we're trying to build a site that will let folks send a physical letter to your congress person. Letters in bulk may be effective alongside calls.

Demo here: http://savethenet.today/

# We need help!

Github here: https://github.com/gu-app-club/save-the-net

## Programmers

There's a few bugs need to be sorted
Built in React/Nextjs

## Designers

We would love a design review <3 Please please please, all criticism and PR's are welcome.

## Non-profits and Biz folks

We're trying to launch this week, (hopefully tomorrow) but in order to take money with Stripe (to pay for postage), we need a EIN. That means we'll either need to register as a non-profit or partner with one. Expediting seems to cost a fair amount of money that we don't have. (We're just uni students) So we're looking to partner. If this is something you could help us with, please please please reach out (@flaqueeau on twitter): https://twitter.com/flaqueeau

(Also, if we're doing the non-profit thing wrong, please let us know)
> Take 34-year-old Jason Strickland, who works for a land surveyor in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He listens to around eight hours of podcasts at work every day, and listened at normal speed until he came upon the Movies by Minutes series of podcasts, which analyzes iconic movies minute by minute. (In other words, every episode is devoted to one minute of a movie.) When he found it, the hosts had already completed the original Star Wars trilogy, which was 378 episodes, plus a few special episodes, so he started downloading 50 episodes at a time and listening at 2x speed. "It took about a month per movie to get caught up," he said, explaining that he would listen to whatever podcasts were on his current listening list in the morning, and then power through the Movies by Minutes episodes in the afternoons. "Once I was current, I would then go find another show to download and get caught up, repeating this for all the shows."

Unless I'm doing something mostly physical or mindless I can't listen to a podcast and work at all.
>Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth's atmosphere to a company as a monopoly.

-Marshall McLuhan (p.73 of the 1966 Signet paperback edition)
I read a lot and my pace naturally slows down or speeds up depending on the density and difficulty of the material; I'm sure a similar effect must apply to the speeds you need to follow a lecture or podcast at to actually understand it. I can't read a book-length classical epic poem or a dense technical book at the same kind of speed I can comfortably read a Sherlock Holmes book (well, I can, but I won't retain anything).
Many people will not trust them. Within a few years though there will be hard data showing that the human drivers are significantly less safe and reliable and at least some places will outlaw human drivers.
how disconnected are you? i personally know poor families with tens of thousands in debt because someone in their family got cancer.
The reality here is that the President is blocking this deal because of his issues with CNN (To those that think this is not being driven by the Whitehouse...I have this bridge I am trying to sell....). This is purely political and I am sure the President’s statements will be front and centre in the court battle.

Never though I would be on the side of AT&T or a cable company.