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> You can also get around that with self programmed drones, but they are more limited in adaptability.

For now (perhaps).

My android phone for 300 quid has more computing power than my fast desktop had 20 years ago in about one hundredth the power budget with a powerful high speed network connection.
Asp Classic Most Productive Language Ever (2012)
80s - I was 12, programming in AppleSoft Basic typing in assembly programs from InCider that added double hires graphics support to Basic. I wrote what would now be considered presentation creation software.

It was written mostly in basic but I also found another assembly language extension that let you load Print Shop clip art from Basic.

My next project was an Eliza
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA)
clone. I hacked SAM (Software Automated Mouth) a voice synthesis program to work with the 80 column card and Prodos (long story).

I wrote a few other little programs but those two stand out. I learned some Assembly language and wrote some routines that were too slow for Basic.
so the solution to the warning is to make your offline IoT devices secure, but how do you actually do that? i have an IoT product that runs a web server and needs to be accessible by users when the internet connection isn't available. how do I enable HTTPS on it? (this is not a hypothetical. it's a problem i actually need to solve)

as far as i can tell, my options are:

- install a self-signed cert on the device and force my users to click through all the warnings chrome throws up about untrusted certs

- create my own CA cert and sign the cert with that, and convince the user to install my CA cert as a trusted cert (which is not possible on iOS)

- get a cert signed by a trusted authority, and get the user to add an entry to their /etc/hosts file that maps the domain the cert is valid for whatever address the device is assigned

- distrubute a native (electron?) app that interfaces with my device and trusts my cert, and disallow direct browser access.

- find some sketchy SSL issuer who is willing to issue certs for *.local domains and run an mDNS resolver on my device

- Use HTTP instead of HTTPS and the only downside is a little badge in the address bar saying "not secure"

I'd love to have HTTPS everywhere, but i honestly don't know how to make it happen.
SaaS products interoperate through APIs.
That post is from Sept 2016. I would love to see an updated list of requests.

I wonder if Hollywood 2.0 would still be on there.
Do you have any examples of some products you see as missing features? No need for particular names.

It might mean there is room for a new product in their space that can cater to power users or enterprise clients.
Yup, FREEDOM ! is my choice as well. By managing expenses I don't need millions in the bank.

BTW: how are you going to earn enough in 3 months / year if you are never going to look at a computer again? I can't think of any endeavour where some for of IT isn't in use.
Everyone in the US will be a lot better off if they just doubled the size of the House. Then there would be a lot more people looking for a lot more jobs. Congress members would begin to represent areas that are only inhumanly large instead of areas that are monstrously large. This benefits rural residents most clearly.

And the democratic principle would be more perfectly approached: At the moment, there's 436 democratically allocated seats in presidential elections, versus 102 non-democratically allocated seats. With a doubled congress, it would be more like 872 give-or-take versus 102 (the exact number will depend on how many congress seats Wyoming earns, as this affects the number of college seats DC receives). This benefits urban residents most clearly.
I wonder why we are not skinning websites 🧐
This also highlights the counter-intuitive fact that being struck by an extremely rare, corner-casey malady isn't necessarily uncommon, simply due to the sheer number of different rare, corner-casey maladies that exist in the long tail of possible things that can happen.
You can still visit websites that have an invalid CA or invalid certificate DNS match, but if the website is set up for HSTS/HSTS preload then chrome respects the website's decision to not allow insecure connections.
Can you self-sign a certificate from the internal server and install it as trusted on the work computers? Or does Chrome only trust certificates that Google trusts?
You'd be firing the company not the individual - who presumably would have the right of substitution.
I have worked on zero hours contracts before and I was still an employee
For those interested in long term viability, the Anderson family has been living on an all-beef diet for 17+ years now, including two children who have been raised entirely on beef.

http://thenortheasttoday.com/anderson-family-on-meat-diet-fo...
Google fined for antitrust behaviour in India
"The video glosses over the fact that EMPs would probably make for a viable (if collateral-damage-inducing) defense, but still pretty terrifying."

Some other possible defenses are other drones and flack clouds. A flack cloud in the classroom in the video might have defeated the drones.

Both of these defenses might be staged strategically throughout various public places or even carried by individuals for their own protection.

If drone attacks become common, anti-drone defenses are likely to become widespread as well.

I'm personally more concerned about potential chemical, biological, and nuclear warfare, against which there's really not much that people can do, and which might eventually become as easy to perpetrate as conventional drone attacks (and might even be facilitated by them).
In comparison several European countries are increasingly mandating that publicly funded research should be open access. Why this simple concept would elude the US government is beyond me.

However Open Access is not panacea. Most of the times it just moves the cost from the subscriber to the author. The open access costs are equally extortionate for several journals in the ballpark of £2000 for a single article. As a result publicly funded grants must also include a quite significant budget for publishing costs further inflating the already bloated administrative overhead of research programmes. So you either pay the journals to open up your article or pay for a subscription. It does increase visibility and accessibility of research but, still, we are not quite there yet.
Taiwan, being a small island, seems counter to that pattern.

I think it's simply that the chinese gov't relies on maintaining a brand of virtually absolute control. Even publicly entertaining the idea of letting territories go would be a strong signal for weakness.

edit: maybe that's what you already implied by "Normal state imperatives"
Fishmarket at the lobster place is mindblowingly good. Otherwise one needs to go to hunts point to get stuff this good.
It shows Apple making an IP claim containing false allegations.

Like I said, the fact that they weren’t found to be legally liable for that is not relevant to the point I’m making, which is that they lied in an IP claim. Apple retracted the claim, as mentioned in the original complaint. They may have immunity under free speech doctrines for lying, but that doesn’t change the fact that they lied.

To be clear, the court didn’t make a decision either way on whether Apple lied. I am saying that they lied, based on the fact that they filed a complaint without basis or with flimsy basis (reviews that were not tied to a seller), and that I know of several other instances of Apple doing the exact same thing, I know some people were considering a class action against Apple for this last year. It’s just really hard and expensive to go up against Apple or any large company in court, so they are getting away with it.
I'm unsure about ultrasound machines utility for diagnosing fluid in the lungs but despite what medical professionals claim ultrasound machines are cheap. Some portable models are under $5k. Low end Chinese made units are sub $1000.
I agree, we could easily just as well say anything after that date made suicide rise.
It's sort of generous to call the imaginary "second" relationship an effort at compliance.
Many of my tech industry peers are contractors with multiple in-person clients in different parts of the city. This often means they never know exactly what their schedule for the following day will look like. Some others travel 3-5 days per week, and the days they do it on vary too.

It is not uncommon.
That struck me as odd as IT contactors in the UK are paid a lot more than FTE's and have much better (still) tax advantages.
It's not about artificial bans. It's about having a social compact so that only the most incompetent/"unethical" end up working in it.

Even when the tech is known, if you aren't good at software development then the projects will have difficulty.
Yep, this is how I use twitter and it does nicely. The trick is to aggressively unfollow anyone whose signal/noise ratio isn't great. That way almost everything in the feed is interesting.
I don't think it's a comeuppance. More of a lack of empathy.

If you didn't receive a tax bill for your house one year. Would you just figure that you didn't owe taxes that year? Probably not, there is a minimum level of adult responsibility required to own property. Part of that is paying your taxes.

It being mailed to the wrong address is irrelevant. The HOA most likely had officers that didn't get the address changed at some point. Doesn't matter that it was 17 years ago.
Nation-states still maintain gold reserves and transact in bars of the barbarous relic stored in the basement[0] of the New York Fed. An unwashed layperson might see this and suspect that they know better than to trust each other’s digits in computers and pieces of paper.

Physics-envyists engage in scientism, having the superficial appearance of science by way of high-minded terms liquidity, velocity, circular flow, price level, and quantity needing to grow with the economy, but it is utterly hollow. If supply is not rooted in genuine demand, pouring on more and more money (“reflating”) will not fix the root problem.

Consider that if currency inflation (printing more money) produced an instant uniform increase in all prices, then the effects on purchasing power and prices would cancel each other out — leading to no net effect. The market does adjust to changes in the supply of money as you noted, but these changes take time and cause prices in some sectors to rise more than others. Here again the easily swayed layperson might make these observations and wonder why bother about it.

[0]: https://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/goldvault.html
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This is awesome, thanks for sharing !
Sane definitions of "efficiency" don't mean that the people producing food have an average income in the negative numbers, nor that they're forced to use crop choices and fertilization methods that kill the land over time. That's not efficient, just exploitative and brittle.
That video isn't real: check the "manufacturer's" webpage and you will see that it is part of a 'Stop Autonomous Weapons' campaign.

That said, a lot of it is surprisingly plausible (though maybe not the grainy filming-a-CRT overlays).
None of those retail employers can clock in and out as they please. "as-needed" is the wrong phrase for sure because it indicates the choice is in the hand of the employer. "as-desired" would be better.
Infinite contract length might be a bit tricky and did the USPS pay the benefits? Sounds like an employee to be - which is where MS messed up.
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Plus it wasn't suicide. It was auto-erotic asphyxiation gone wrong. Nobody hangs themselves sitting in a chair with a belt.
*Kalai doesn't think that even with error correction codes we can get sufficiently close to a logical qbit.
It's not that simple. You can't add more land for 1000 more houses in the desirable areas of town. So people renting in the desirable houses are going to get forced out into the new apartments because the rich can outbid them for the good houses. People will still be pissed.

There is no solution to bringing a ton of people into a small area of land that preserves each person renting the same place for the same price. If you could turn Boulder into Tokyo overnight, it's still going to screw everyone who was there for single family homes and low density.
It's not even that it's that hospitals use xrays, ultrasounds, and MRI's as cash cows.

Consider a $40k higher end ultrasound machine. Now consider the capital cost of the machine over 10 years. $4000/yr or $10 a day. Yeah the bill you get for an ultrasound is all pork.
Let's Encrypt, or any other low-cost SSL certificate, says very little about my trust for the site either. It's just too easy to get them to think they really mean anything.
I have a number, well 2. The first being a stepping stone, a marker to reach, the point where I can step back for a year, re-evaluate and consider if I want to shoot for the next target. Neither of the numbers are high, the first with some savy investments I could make last the rest of my life but I'm a relatively simple guy, I could live on ~12k a year easily. That includes rent, bills, food, clothes etc.

For me, it's not about stopping work. I generally love the things I do, the projects and concepts I develop in my spare time. For me, that's not working, it's a passion.

My second number is all about that, it's about being able to buy the ability to do what ever the fuck I want. Ideally I want a nice plot of land in a relatively remote area with some workshops and enough in the bank where I don't have to worry about bills and I can fund whatever project takes my interest.
> I’ll get more downvotes for this

Please edit bits like that out of your comments here, since they break the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
hey koolba! glad it made you smile :). Definitely issues to consider as we scale up, right now it seems to be adding a lot of value to people who are a) trying to figure out if this career path is for them but have no way of understanding what life is actually like until they speak to someone or b) getting the inside tips & tricks that can help you get hired but that you won't access without a close friend or elite school connection.
It is not uncommon in Australia to say you are going over to a friend's house.

In Perth people often would say they are "going over" to Melbourne or Sydney. There is also the reverse "coming over"

"Out" is used generally such as in "heading out" where often no destination is specified. Also we sometimes use "outback" meaning anywhere not in a city or suburban area.
Yep, then you're just displacing the existing residents via higher rent prices in downtown Boulder where everyone actually wants to be.
This looks really awesome! I really wish I could use it as a library and embed it into my SaaS app. Is there a way to extract just the rendering functionality and add it to a website?
Legislation can help somewhat, but I think that having a stronger ethical stance can help a lot.

Think back when Y combinator funded that "installer bundled with ads" startup. They got yelled at for it by a lot of people. It slowly changes things
It is a huge problem
Is this specific to SAAS? Suppose Word 2003 has A,B,D and WordPerfect has A,B,C, can you ever have C and D at the same time?
It's material to the extent that the judge does not trust the guy. There are other examples of dishonesty in the ruling too. It seems like he may have lied to GrubHub and intentionally got himself hired and then fired as a pretext for a lawsuit. Because he was provably dishonest about several important things, nothing he says can be trusted, including statements he makes about his interactions with GrubHub.

The guy was working other jobs, including for other gig delivery companies, at the same time he was delivering for GrubHub. It was clearly a flexible arrangement for him, and GrubHub was not able to control his activities much or prevent him from working for other companies. That's probably what decided the case.

If you were a lawyer looking for a sympathetic plaintiff to fight for employee status at gig economy companies, this guy is a pretty bad choice. First of all, he can't be trusted. Even worse, he was clearly benefitting from the gig economy in exactly the way that gig-economy proponents say people benefit -- flexible hours, the ability to pursue other work, etc.
The problem is when Google goes and throws a commonly used internal-only TLD like .dev in their HSTS list. And of course, the whole problem that HSTS is the hosts file all over again.

That being said, the real fault in that incident is ICANN selling .dev in the first place. They should've been well aware of it's common use, and opted not to sell it.
Agreed! Companies basically give you incentives to train, coach, and jam your friends down their throat, which in our view is a huge conflict of interest vs. just letting you get paid small amounts just to speak with people who are fascinated by what you do every day, but don't have access to you.
There's lots of room for the law to insist that they actually treat the drivers as contractors though. A lot of the controversy comes from attempts to weasel into directing them a great deal while pretending they aren't employees.
I had a strict rule of following a max of 50 accounts, operating a 1 in 1 out, I've lifted that to 80 (for Chess stuff) but still 1 in 1 out, so I have to decide whether following this one is worth unfollowing something else.

Except for a programmer friend who died (I just can't bring myself to unfollow him) everyone is expendable.
An expensive DV certificate doesn't really say any more than a cheap one, except that the person buying it had money to burn.

Whether an EV certificate should do much more for trust than DV is a matter of some debate.
Appreciated! I'll detach my reply and mark it off topic so your comment can run free.

Edit: although the article doesn't claim plagiarism, no? It just involved plagiarism detection software. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16336420
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16336447 and marked it off-topic.
An extreme example would be porn industry.

No benefits but toys are really profitable to be simply let go.
"obviously marking password input fields as "NOT SECURE""
- firefox has been doing this for a while, confuses some of my users - I am glad it's there, but wish it did not completely cover the login button on wordpress fields. Very glad there is a "learn more" attached to this.

"Google and others like Mozilla have had to drag many site owners kicking and screaming"
- I was dragged into this by the Google threats. Spent hours on it. Come to find our most popular few pages use a script that just will not function over https - no way to make it happen.

Then I spent hours crafting htaccess rules to make some pages https (home and password pages) - and some pages forced non-https (the 5 pages we have with needed chat script on them) - more hours into updating links on all pages and everything -

then come to find out the browsers have a function where if your home page is https only then it can't pull the sub pages as non-https (maybe it's the other way around, it's been a while) -

So I had to go and undo all the changes. I've been spending time trying to help develop newer chat scripts to have all the functionality of the old one our users prefer - and to no avail. So as google forces https use on sites to be in it's results, and now to not be labeled as insecure - we currently have to choose to remove our most popular functions on our site or lose the google battle completely.

We are still trying to get a newer chat system up and running that has our old familiar functions, but we don't have the resources that google and others have obviously.

We want https so bad, we love, love, love more encryption the better. It just has not been an easy thing for us to implement, and we've tried many things, included pushing our users to newer html5 based chat systems and such. Nothing has panned out quite yet. Fingers crossed we make strides in these areas before it gets worse.
Given that immunity doctrine, there’s a really high bar to proving liability. There’s enough facts there to determine that Apple had no reasonable basis for the claim.
I have always considered this the great tragedy of APIs. Their promise is so great yet there are few ways of actually working with them outside of explicit vendor integrations that account for the idiosyncracies between most software. Noting that most SaaS is just differing UI interacting with object models, and it's a bummer that we build this way. It's like we are collectively building a rail network, but every single town uses a unique guage of rails.

Ecommerce software is about as close to okay at it as I have seen, but still vendor driven and still full of idiosyncracies. I can at least create a product in a PIM and it pipes through to all the places it needs to go once it is set up.
Generally speaking, Chrome uses whatever is in the OS trust store, with certain exceptions for CAs that have been naughty (e.g. StartCom, WoSign, Symantec) or subCAs that were revoked via CRLSets. Private CAs present in the OS trust store will generally just work, the only exceptions being things like Superfish.
I was accessing an internal router with firmware from the distance past of 2011. Note that this is an internal-only router that connects a couple of trusted subnets, so security isn't an issue and there's no requirement to replace it yet. The problem that bit me yesterday was that I literally could not find a way to get Chrome to open https://ro.ut.er.ip/ because the router's ancient cert is invalid.

I would have been perfectly fine with Chrome alerting me to that fact and providing a "click here to continue anyway" link, but that seems to no longer be an option. FWIW, Safari did the exact same thing. Only Firefox gave me the "I promise that's really what I want to do step aside plz" button I needed.
> when a dad says to the smart speaker on his counter, “Alexa, I need brown rice and pork,” the product that arrives is an Amazon-branded box containing Amazon–Whole Foods–branded rice and pork.

I question whether the author here has ever cooked a meal, much less shopped for ingredients. There's no way this style of interaction can produce the desired result here.
I’ve been using Cygwin years now and there are some gotchas; no Cygwin node or go packages, so you have to use the native windows ones. Where this gets you is some funky path resolution problems. Another pain point is network proxy config inside corporate firewalls. I personally think it worth it though.
Perhaps but there are lots of other very well established benefits of eating leafy greens so you should make them a regular part of your diet anyway.
So there's a business cycle, but it's not "natural". Or at least the one we have now is not natural. I can agree with that, actually. The difference is, I think that what we have now is an improvement on the natural business cycle. That thing was vicious.
Right, in all such studies the causal graph is more like:

- is health-conscious => eats greens

- is health-conscious => exercises

- is health-conscious => limits alcohol

- is health-conscious => 1000 other things

- some combination of those 1003 things => has sharper memory
I agree with the sentiment that any kind of SciFi is irresistible on Netflix. There has been a great void when it comes to futuristic shows or movies. I even enjoyed bright, despite its numerous flaws.

However, altered carbon's visual brilliance is marred by two things:

1. Many actors are simply not up to the mark. The two leading ladies quell and Rei both feel incredibly wooden and cheesy. Really takes away from the show.

2. The world is not futuristic enough for being set 300+ years in the future. I feel that this 2ould have worked better if Kovacs would have been asleep for 30-40 years, not 250.

One awesome character was Edgar Allan Poe, who is a hotel. He was fun, and well played by the actor.