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Hey Hacker News, I like to read short stories on my phone during my commute, but it's kind of an awful experience on Gutenberg or Feedbooks, so I made something with a nicer interface -- if any of you guys are readers.

I have some more features in mind, if anybody else actually finds this useful [=

Hope you like it.
It's not needed to do it in both ends. Naturally, improving both antennas is better than doing in only one, but every improvement in sending is completely equivalent in receiving for a system that uses the same antennas for both directions of communication.

So, if a new antenna in client side improves signal reception by 3dB, it also improves transmitted power by 3dB. If you used the same antenna on the other side, the 3dB would be added again in both reception and transmission, for a total gain of 6dB each direction.
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An error occurred during a connection to mostsecure.pw. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG

Just me? Is this just too secure™ for Firefox' liking?
Is it just me or when did this become normal? I learned in Engineering class quite some time ago that it's theoretically possible to use the resonance frequency of the human body as a weapon. Back then this was something that everybody considered unethical.

How have we ended up with things like tear gas and LRAD, that would be outlawed in military conflict but seem perfectly fine for "crowd control" purposes?
Non-whites are Americans too, and I don't see a reason to exclude them. The fact that non-white students perform so poorly as to drag down the average so much speaks of a massive systematic failure in education.
Fair points. What if everyone else's information was open and accessible so that nobody could hide anything from anybody thus removing potential asymmetric knowledge?
The market cap of the USD is $10.5T, and I can send money for $3 to another person (with my middling BOA account) which is around a 10E-14 ratio.

So in other words, all those Bitcoin cheerleaders mocking Western Union, the traditional banks for their excessive fees... Bitcoin is 1,000 times as expensive? And this is a selling point?

I've never heard of fee ratios in economics or finance - this sounds more like one of these things that people 'create' to justify things... "oh, it's an outstanding fee ratio!".
Considering that racial difference in learning outcomes is due to socioeconomic status, if you are going to use socioeconomic status to normalize or filter American results, shouldn't you also do it for the country you are comparing it to? I am sure if you exclude poor people from the results of every country (or use a proxy for poverty like race in America; perhaps religion, ethno-linguistic background, geographical location, etc in other countries) the results for all of them would significantly improve. It's not fair to compare rich people from country A with the average of county B.
The new Tesla installation in Southern Australia is 100MW. I don't know the specifics, but the combined battery capacity of the two big Southern California utilities is at least 120MW, including one 80MW installation (also by Tesla). The three big CA utilities are mandated by law to have at least 1,800MW of battery storage by 2024.

None of this is intended to provide a consistent source of electricity. They're intended to fill in the gaps from uneven renewable energy production or other disruptions. Apparently, it's been working very well in Southern Australia.

Thermal storage is a promising solution because it will likely end up being considerably cheaper than batteries. The most promising type is salt storage for concentrated solar plants. They can potentially store enough heat energy to maintain consistent output all night long. Wind doesn't get that same deal - currently unused Wind power can only be stored as electricity.
I've always wondered about the timing to bring up such a topic. How "very beginning" is very beginning for you, if you wouldn't mind sharing?
Modern mobile/social games and even some PC games are pretty locked down and difficult to mod, which makes them way less educational than the PC games of your time.
Wow, I had the exact same set of walkie talkies as a kid! That image certainly brought back some memories! :)
Trust, human is the biggest bubble in the history of earth. We all gonna die in another million year.
> Do you know what JVM , Node, python runtimes are written in?

this doesn't matter to its following theses:

> Its not like there aren't bugs in other software.
This paper is ahead of its time. The birth and popularization of the term "Fear of Missing Out" (FOMO) entering every-day life is a testament to this.

The amount of choices we have now compared to the publication date (2000) is staggering when you take into account social media.

The paper also references Putman's work in 'Bowling Alone' (mid 90s) which speaks about in depth about the breakdown of community in America.

Unfortunately, it seems like this is only progressing. It seems to be manifesting itself in mass-shootings and mental illness.
The Amish need various carve-outs from state and federal laws which partially exempt them from compulsory education and certain labour laws.

But I suppose in a sense, that doesn't make them outlandish. They got those exemptions partly because they were a well liked group that were around in the US long before those laws. So in that sense, they are actually more American than, say, the New Deal.

As for burqas, I don't see what they have to do with attracting converts, nor do I see what is wrong with recruitment. Nor can I think of any justification for a burqa ban that is remotely as strong the justification for the laws which the Amish are exempted from.
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Just to clarify, you feel it’s “justifiable” to inflict permanent hearing loss indiscriminately on a crowd after some officers have deemed the crowd unruly?
Thank god, China finally learn something from USA. "American First" -> "Shanghai First". Trump leads the great America to another success just like CCP lead china!
Healthcare costs for what? There’s a lot of evidence that a high fat low carb, moderate protein diet is very healthy.
> When the crowd is large enough to show up at the polls and get more votes for the candidate of their choice than anybody else. This is a democracy.

This is a strong indictment of political science education in this country.

First of all, you need to understand that the policy preferences of the voting constituency in any given national election are not strongly correlated to policy results. This is shown convincingly in Benjamin Ginsberg's book, "Do Elections Matter?" I strongly recommend this book - after reading it, you will never again try to explain away an act of government with the same tired logic of, "we get the government we vote for."

It is a difficult-to-deny fact that, in the USA, the government frequently and quietly advances policies which do not appear to be derived from any kind electoral mandate, nor are favored by a substantial portion of the electorate.

But there's a much stronger argument here, and it's about this completely incorrect assertion of yours:

> This is a democracy.

While it's true that, in the modern international parlance, the USA is a democratic state, it is not a democracy in the way that you have used that word here - and our founding documents (and the federalist papers) go out of their way to distinguish our form of government from a democracy as such.

The difference is this: Even if 100% of the voting public votes for a measure that abolishes the freedom to assemble, the government has no authority and no legal standing to trample any individual's rights. This is the essence of a republic: the powers of the government are limited and enumerated and do not change by dint of a given election.

The police presence and tactics at any large assembly in the country since about 1970 has unambiguously been an affront to this right, and the refusal of the courts to recognize this represents one of the most visible abdications of legal reason in modern constitutional law (not the most, but one of the most).

If the government wants to bring sonic cannons and rubber bullets and kettling to protests, it needs to first go through the legal process of amending the constitution to remove the freedom to assemble from the 1st amendment.

Polls and votes and candidates are entirely orthogonal to this matter.
Don’t know why your post is being faded. You’re absolutely correct.
perhaps you haven't gotten your exit visa!
Sure, it may not be common, but still, my point stands.

If you're buying some uncommon product that's only available with bitcoin, then paying a 30% transaction fee might be worth it versus not being able to purchase the product at all.
Step one: add a tax to exploit people who can't vote you out of office -- crazy high parking fees, hotel room taxes, convention center scams (e.g., requiring that you hire a licensed electrician to plug in a computer), etc.

Step two: get shocked when the downtown area of your city dies off.

New York can maybe get away with it. Maybe.
Slum is a relative concept. In the eyes of Upper east of NYC, all the other places in NYC are slums! So after getting rid of all the slums, guess what? Some part of upper east thinks other parts of upper east are slums!
High power directed ultrasound can potentially cause brain damage from induced mechanical strain in brain tissue. I feel like parametric ultrasonic speakers should be more stringently regulated before every single police department starts using them as if they were regular loudspeakers.

I support requiring something akin to an amateur radio license to operate high powered parametric ultrasonic speakers.
Stork discusses some of his criticisms of Hockney in this Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbL_Y-hZh20
No matter how benign an ad looks, it is probably still loading a ton of javascript from dubious places. Ads are a perfect distribution system for malware, and the best strategy is to just disable the whole thing as comprehensively as possible.

I'd rather my favourite website goes offline than my bank account gets hacked.
Indeed, I was specifically talking about batteries. But there are many other ways to store energy. They don't even need to be as efficient as batteries, as long as they are cheap/scalable.

Found an interesting study after some googling:
https://www.lazard.com/media/438042/lazard-levelized-cost-of...
America's becoming the scary police state we all despise. And with good tech.
> It's not needed to do it in both ends. Naturally, improving both antennas is better than doing in only one, but every improvement in sending is completely equivalent in receiving for a system that uses the same antennas for both directions of communication.

Does this actually make sense to you? Gain is a factor; it needs to be multiplied by something. Here's the obvious thought-experiment: consider an (ideal) parabolic mirror in (a vacuum). Put a lightbulb (infinitely tiny) at the focus. Light will come out parallel and will be just as strong no matter how far away the receiver is. i.e. the distance will be irrelevant when the sender is at the focus. Now try reversing their roles, with the lightbulb far away and the receiver at the focus. How strong is the received signal at the focus? You're claiming it won't matter how far away the sender is from the focus, which makes no sense.
https://t.co/x7QwmhkWO7
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> Fitbit, on the other hand, has no choice but to adapt to survive. They may not be the leading edge, but they'll sell more units than Apple.

This presupposes that Fitbit will survive, which is not at all a given. The much more likely possibility is that they just go out of business, which is the usual fate of single-device companies when Apple enters their market (Nokia, Pebble, etc.)

I'm curious when you expect Fitbit's turnaround to occur. The market sure doesn't seem to like their odds against the Apple Watch: https://imgur.com/a/LeEa6
Your second sentence is clearly not accurate, especially for math:

https://isteve.blogspot.com/2013/12/overall-pisa-rankings-in...
too late for what? if you enjoy programing just keep programing.
Suppose someone didn't want their grandparents to know they were gay.
Easiest way: post URL to the article in twitter and then click link from that new twitter post.
You can read about the biofloc tech from our lab farm (where we develop and improve the process) here: http://www.aguablancaseafood.com/about#/biofloc/

The control tech is not mentioned, and it does not have a website. The «official» reveal will be in the beginning of 2018.
The crowd was large enough to show up at the polls and get more votes for the candidate of their choice. Hillary got 2,868,691 more votes.

This isn't democracy.
Algebra directly to calculus? No trigonometry, geometry or statistics?
'The Messiah' from opposite ends of the economic spectrum
The timeline seems to match my experience, but the fumbling does not; I started reading books and magazines before I had access to computers in begin 80s. Those where mostly Basic but some asm (esp for the c64 and spectrum the basic code had fair amounts of data which was asm). When I had access to computers after that, I wrote monsters of Basic programs. I remember writing a music composition program for the MSX which, after I got it all typed in on a PC (I had only partly access to an MSX and part PC), it was too large for the MSX memory. It was too slow too, so I started replacing parts with z80 asm typed in hex. I still remember most opcodes in hex: it was much faster and more efficient to type than assembler.

I guess I was lucky to have access to the books: I went to a (monthly?) Philips ‘old crap’ sale. If I remember it was in the bottom of the PSV stadium and they had old electronics and mags and books for sale for cheap. It was so lovely; we took a car full of old circuitboards to get components off, books, printed papers etc home and spent the next month working on them (this was summervacation usually as it was close to my grandparents).
Do you need statistics in order to do calculus? They seem independent. I didn't do much statistics at high school because it didn't interest me as much, but I did calculus.

In fact you'll find more applications of calculus in statistics than statistics in calculus won't you? Seems the wrong way around to do statistics first.
>> I wonder why there isn’t more attention on already-useful ledgers which currently depend on less efficient infrastructure to enforce consistency

Honest question, what about current infrastructure makes it less efficient than blockchain for your examples?
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I replied here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16012484
I am curious as to why some people think being paid $140,000 a year is 'disgusting'? I live in Australia so the comparison is a bit different, but here electricians and carpenters will very frequently make over $130,000 a year. Traffic controllers can make up to $180,000 a year, which is an unskilled job with only two days training [1].

In the prime of their careers, dentists, lawyers and doctors can commonly make over $300,000 per year. At the top end of the spectrum, specialist doctors and commercial lawyers can make over $1,000,000 a year, as can those who work in investment banking for instance.

What is it about software engineering that people think is less valuable that these other occupations? Why do people think that earning $100k a year is overcompensation? My personal theory is that it is because impressive wages are a relatively new phenomenon in software (there is a much longer history with doctors and lawyers) and people are not comfortable with the idea yet. But I can assure you that there are many groups in society earning over this amount and one shouldn't feel disgusted by doing so. (Of course, there are many who are not - but that is a longer conversation)

[1] https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/sweet-deal-traffi...
It’ll take some high dollar lawsuits getting paid out before any regulation around these will happen.
This requires direct mechanical coupling to the head. The air to skin interface is an impedance mismatch which causes very little of the energy to be transmitted to the brain. This is likely not a real concern.
Think of a parabolic dish on a microphone at a sporting event. The dish blocks noise and interference from the directions you don't want to listen to, and less noise and interference is as useful as if the sender had more power. Same result of better s/n either way.

Or a TV satellite dish. If you were correct, you could rip off the dish and point the antenna forwards instead of backwards, and still watch TV. Not gonna happen.
No, Bitcoin is a parallel to distributed computing and databases.

PoW blockchains like Bitcoin only work by attempting to increase the capital cost of write access to the database. PoW blockchains purposefully waste as much computing power as possible and the transaction speed remains limited just the same even as computing power is added.
I remember I wold finish my 5th and 6th grade math tests in 10-15 minutes out of the allotted 60, because the problems were so easy and challenging myself to go as fast as possible was the only way to not be bored.

I'm grateful of my math teacher for both those years for not reprimanding me for my brashness and encouraging me to solve number puzzles (one of those 0-9 tile sudoku-like things with math equations on laminated paper) for the rest of the period every time. RIP I was lucky to have you.
>>There's absolutely no way bitcoin can support that many transactions with just sane blocksize increase.

There's only one way to find out. This is what Satoshi said on the issue:

>“Long before the network gets anywhere near as large as that, it would be safe for users to use Simplified Payment Verification (section 8) to check for double spending, which only requires having the chain of block headers, or about 12KB per day. Only people trying to create new coins would need to run network nodes. At first, most users would run network nodes, but as the network grows beyond a certain point, it would be left more and more to specialists with server farms of specialized hardware. A server farm would only need to have one node on the network and the rest of the LAN connects with that one node.

>The bandwidth might not be as prohibitive as you think. A typical transaction would be about 400 bytes (ECC is nicely compact). Each transaction has to be broadcast twice, so lets say 1KB per transaction. Visa processed 37 billion transactions in FY2008, or an average of 100 million transactions per day. That many transactions would take 100GB of bandwidth, or the size of 12 DVD or 2 HD quality movies, or about $18 worth of bandwidth at current prices.

>If the network were to get that big, it would take several years, and by then, sending 2 HD movies over the Internet would probably not seem like a big deal."

Satoshi Nakamoto Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:56:27 -0800 https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg09...

Bitcoin is an experiment with many economic participants, and the parameters and goals of that experiment were changed mid-way through by key developers and forum moderators, without the agreement of all economic constituents.
The air pockets in your head will resonate quite effectively. The impedance mismatch in the air pockets can result in powerful vibrations. Your head isn't filled with 100% liquids and solids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY8Wi7XRXCA
you can just plug it into a breadboard.
Thanks - that's impressive agreement:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4986809/figure/...
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Fitbit is actually worse than Apple.

On iOS all health data should be stored in HealthKit. It's open, secure and allows for data exchange between applications. Every other app I use works with it except Fitbit which sees health data as their asset rather than something belonging to the users.
From an early age math was a puzzle and game for me, and it was fun to solve these puzzles. It'd be nice if we can somehow get that perspective into the classroom.
There was a luxury Nokia studded with gems -Vertu. I don't think it did all that well. So it's not only about fashion. There has to be something else which creates desire and demand.
as well as the comments below, I would add

1. Get a visual prototype going as early as possible - even if its screen mockups. Your interpretation of what the client wants and what they tell you they want are often completely different, and many times they don't really know at all.
Once they can see something, then requirements get a lot better.

2. Once you have a better idea on what you will be building, work out in your head how you will build it.
Think about all the parts and do the bits that you haven't done before, or don't know how to do and build them FIRST.
This will avoid showstoppers down the road - you may not be experienced enough to know if it's something you can't / shouldn't do, or if extra help / libraries are needed to complete the job.

So once you have a clear idea on what you are building, and have done test functions to do the hard bits - then it's time to turn on the music and build the rest.
These kinds of articles, that falsely try to paint renewables as economically competitive with traditional energy sources (and now, they are actually at a negative cost!), are constantly popping up in NYT and other lefty publications. They satisfy the cravings of their left-leaning readers, who desperately want the world to embrace their feelings about the environment. They understand that the only way for this to happen is to use smoke and mirrors to convince the populace that the enormous upfront cost of these initiatives (often borne by governments and then passed onto taxpayers) will eventually be a financial net positive.

Unfortunately, most of these claims are either completely false, or come with huge caveats. The reality is that with upfront costs included, most renewable energy today is significantly more expensive to produce than traditional forms of energy. No amount of clever journalism will change that.
kind of like how factories are built around the equipment rather than the equipment being built to work out how to function in a given factory.
As someone who used to organise large demonstrations in London for CND [a UK anti-nuclear org] a long time ago -- there is no point that the crowd is ever so large that a combination of the organasition itself with the police where the crowd "should" be unable to control it. In fact when you're putting together a demo in London you meet the Met police and meeting that requirement is one of the things you discuss with them.

On Feb 15 2003 a demo against the impending second war in Iraq was so ridiculously larger than anyone (police and organisers included - it was at least a million people) expected that I personally [long story] caused Waterloo Bridge to be closed at about 2pm. The senior police on the day were so understaffed relative to the crowd size that not only did I close a major traffic artery but we volunteers with some previous experience also got called out by the Metropolitan Police on TV for thanks.

Still was a very strange feeling to, after years earlier spending many similar days being condescended at by untrained idiot coppers, suddenly being drafted by their bosses into making major crowd-control strategic decisions when the situation had become incredibly dangerous mostly because those same police had utterly misgauged the turnout().

( On that day having left the org in question some years previously I didn't believe it was going to be that big either. And had turned down their request to help. Then I was in a bank in town a few days before surrounded by ordinary regular nonpolitical people and everybody in the queue joined in a discussion about which tube station they needed to be at for Saturday. Both I and the org were wrong about how big it was going to be by a factor of between 2 and 5.)