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Show HN: A website where people write 200 words every day and improve together
Hello everyone,

Last week the Product Hunt Makers Fest happened and I built 200 Words a Day, a community website where people get into a habit of writing and improving together by publishing 200 words per day.

I managed to launch a MVP in 5 days and gather 80 subscribers since last week. Full origin story here: https://medium.com/@basilesamel/product-hunt-makers-fest-mak...

website: https://200wordsaday.com

As you all know, writing is a mandatory skill to have when it comes to grow a business, whether it is through blogging or pitching. I made this product to help you with that. 25 days ago I decided I had to start writing much more, and so I set on a journey to write 200 words every day, published on Twitter. This is how I got the idea for the product.

If you always wanted to write or couldn't find a way to keep writing, this is a community for you where you will be able to improve with other fellow writers.
I am also posting the best quotes from each 200 words every day on Twitter(https://twitter.com/200wordsaday), if you had like to read them.

Can't wait to read YOU!
In the meantime, take care.
This type of argument doesn’t stand here. Since the truth is that there is prior art, and the right thing to do is to make sure nobody got the patent, google could have make sure nobody get the patent.

Ironically that’s what they ended up doing, but i doubt it was on purpose.
It might still be better to extract it and burn it than to let it off-gas into the atmosphere on its own when the ice melts. Methane is a significantly stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
Ask HN: How to learn a language on the side in 2018?
(spoken language, not a programming language)

Vocabulary seems to be solved with spaced repetition (anki, super-memo), motivation through gameification (duolingo). But this all feels rather primitive still.

What I miss:

a chat bot adjusted to your level

moving between tools or at least proper spaced repetition in duolingo

proven to be good, live online courses that replace going to a class (this might exist, haven't found it).

systematically matching tandem partners (maybe you can be the native speaker for someone and have a native speaker in the desired language chat with you in return)

good bodies of vokab with audio, sorted most to least frequent, importable to my spaced repetition software of choice

anything else existing that I missed?
Show HN: The Reader View of Wikipedia
There's a common myth that companies have "a fiduciary duty" to make as much money as possible (especially short-term), but this has no basis in law in the US.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/13-354.html
"modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not do so... a for-profit corporation may take costly pollution-control and energy-conservation measures that go beyond what the law requires. A for-profit corporation that operates facilities in other countries may exceed the requirements of local law regarding working conditions and benefits. "

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...
"companies that maximize profits by firing employees, avoiding taxes, selling shoddy products or polluting the environment can harm their shareholders more than helping them."
Well, if any EU country finds any evidence, they now have a huge stick to beat him/Facebook with (GDPR). Not that they don't deserve it.
The recruiter rescheduled the phone screen the day of, went radio silent for the rest of the week — not even an OOO autoresponse (Burning Man was that weekend, go figure). When I got a response the following week the recruiter was unwilling to go into any significant details including some sort of expected salary range.

At best the impression I was left with is one where Plangrid is a company where communication is wholly unimportant and not valued. It didn't seem worth my time to pursue them.
A mutual NDA was signed as seen here https://ryanspahn.com/motorola-google-Expired-NDA2013.pdf.

We started SpeakerBlast in March 2013 & were meeting with Google in April 2013. We filed a provisional before the meeting & have a patent in the patent office.
Hmm, I was thinking Service Component Architecture [1], but yes, I can relate to your 2nd point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Component_Architecture
I guess so. But all I can see are extremely fuzzy images.[0] Anyone know why I might be seeing that?

0) https://keybase.pub/mirimir/flare.png
Agreed - it seems to come from a similar mindset as being obsessed with "websites must run without Javascript because 0.00003% of HN users disable JS".
> I'm pretty sure all companies do similar.

1) that's false

2) that doesn't make it less evil, let alone acceptable
Author of Jets here. Yup, excited about the release of Ruby support. Will be switching to the official Ruby runtime and using lambda layers
The DSM has been criticized specifically for causing inconsistent and over diagnosis of ADHD and other mental disorders.

It should also be noted the DSM is primarily an American text and used far far less internationally.

Appealing to the DSM-5 isn't conclusive by any means.
"No actual businesses built" is completely not the case. At least not for all ICOs. Take PundiX, for example – they have a fully-functional product with a growing base of B2B customers which are starting to use the device in the wild.

While nothing has come from many (probably most) ICOs, there are certainly some great examples of "cool business ideas" which are being realised thanks to the ICO.
Julian Assange did culture shifting work with Wikileaks, but allegedly sexually assaulted 2 women.

Adrian Peterson is possibly the best running back to ever play in the NFL, but has recently admitted that he still beats his children.

Steve Jobs created products that advanced how we use technology in our every day lives by leaps and bounds, but by all accounts was cruel to his daughter.

People can achieve amazing, important things in their professional life, but it's no indication that they're good people.
Really problematic for currencies that are untracable like monero... the transaction isnt stored to-from unencrypted so only you with your transaction key can show it to who you paid to reveal the proof that you made the transaction... https://www.getmonero.org/resources/user-guides/prove-paymen...

This just really messes with the concept of making peoples money less valuable than other peoples by blacklisting addresses, wont work id say for cryptoNote currencies ...

plug: checkout https://bitbank.nz for ai market forecasts
I'd have loved to see categorised infosec folks in there as well :)
Any recommendations for French in specific are also welcome!
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I think wavefunction is implying McAfee shouldn't have committed the crimes in the first place.
> "No actual businesses built" is completely not the case. At least not for all ICOs. Take PundiX, for example – they have a fully-functional product with a growing base of B2B customers which are starting to use the device in the wild.

Also lots of ICO's present false claims when it comes to adoption of their products. Do you have any factual figures how widely this certain product is deployed and in which state the development is? For example on Pundixes web page their payment terminal is just a 3D model.

The more I hear about ICO products and their businesses, the more sceptical I grow that this funding model is able to actually grow viable businesses.
But who has reviewed the code of the version available when you install?
I for one think Google in China is long overdue

US, EU, Asian and African corporations, universities, institutions, NGOs, (you name it) are happily working and making money in China. This leaves Google without potential income they should have got if they hadn't left China in the first place.

As for the "moral high ground" argument: As long as the US hosts concentration camps for kids, supplies bombs to kill brown people, hunts down trans reporters, and imprisons people like Manning the moral high ground against this is shaky.
To put it differently: if you think China's bad, just check out the US.

I might be wrong, but targeting Google (and the rest of the FAANG) began when US Republicans "found out" Silicon Valley is actually Dem. As proof:
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-googl...
I know that at least for decentraleyes, the human reviewers have a script to check all the checksums of the included libraries after updates get submitted.
While we still have some gaps around GDPR we have active workstreams to close them. We've also rolled out free privacy protection to all of our customers, not just those in the EU. I can also say that we've always been extremely careful with sharing any customer data with third parties even before GDPR came into the conversation. Customer privacy is not something I believe should ever be compromised on. While we've made some dumb decisions, I can assure you it was always well intended. Even our previous lack of speed to fixes was due to us making a conscious decision to go back and rebuild our entire infrastructure and code base so that we can be more flexible and agile in the future. It was a hard sacrifice to make and it affected our customers negatively but I believe it will lead to a better future with what we'll be able to deliver to our customers in terms of effectively and seamlessly solving their problems. Hopefully you'll come back some time in the future and you can judge us by our actions and what we are building and delivering and not just my words.
I agree with you wholeheartedly until you stated this:

> (Generally, the ability to participate in a larger market.)

It all hinges on your use of market: I would have written society. It's extremely telling that nowadays ‘market’ and ‘society’ have become almost synonymous, not because markets have subsumed the role of societies at large, but because monetary exchanges have become the de facto be-all and end-all of social interaction. Implicit in your choice of words is the notion that the only thing that merits making the effort to interact with others is the exchange for the sake of profit.

I'm an economist but this kind of stuff saddens me profoundly. If this isn’t a path straight to dystopia then I don't know what is.
The problems with patents as prior art for new inventions are manifold:

- The common advice is for practitioners to avoid learning about existing patents, because this knowledge increases liability in case you are found to infringe. This means that the body of patented work is really only useful for patent lawyers, rather than for inventors.

- Similarly, patents are not written in ways to instruct practitioners to use techniques, but instead crafted in legal terms to claim broad areas of application while skirting previously filed patent claims. This again makes the patent library only useful to lawyers.

- In areas where patents are not common, there is a green field for patent applications that patent common techniques. This happened in software and business methods, and the article suggests it is happening in the junction of enthusiasts and crafts.
This hardware already exists as an implantable electrode and is used in really hard cases.

It is a competitive inhibitor and additionally stimulates dopamine release.

As for putting something like that in spinal cord or motor centers, very risky surgery. Much more than cranial stimulator one. If this device fails in such a simple way as being jostled, you die.
How did this deal with theft? Usually you came still someone's stock options by stealing a key / password, and a judge can order certain people do, or do not, have options.
Really appreciate the transparency shown in this comment. I recently moved away from Namecheap after 10 years of it being my primary registrar (mainly because of the crappy 2FA) but this is certainly making me reconsider.
There's Doctorow's "Walkaway".
I think Mozilla does a basic review. Not perfect but good enough. The extensions situation has gotten bad enough that I'd support Mozilla having an "approved extensions" section where you pay to have yours reviewed and approved.
Yes, that's called investing.

You can start now. Or wait for the next 20 years, and complain that others did and you didn't.

Also a lot of middle class can and does invest. It's the people with inability to defer instant gratification or just lazy are the ones at peril here.
But see https://web.archive.org/web/20181130090045/https://slate.com...

Edit: And maybe HN ought to switch the "web" link to https://searx.me/, because it has https://web.archive.org/ links for just about every result. Arguably less baggage than Google cache.
How do you track that each update hasn't turned evil?
I don’t think people are particularly crazy about google. Google is the default search engine of all major browsers (ie not Edge!), I can only think of one other major video hosting website (dailymotion). And you have to either buy a google powered phone or a $1500 luxury Apple product. And if you started using gmail 10y ago, it’s pretty painful to switch to a new email address, even more so than to switch banks.

The deterioration of their reputation will probably rather cost them in term of regulations and political pressure than market share. Think of what happened to banks. We start seing this hostility to big tech companies in congress and in every other countries.
Oil and gas are the only reliable Russian exports.

Economic pressure on Russia leads to increase of importance of oil and gas sector as other sectors plunge. This leads to more capacity, more offering. Which leads to price correction, even more offering as prices fall and have to be made for. Which in total leads to massive use of cheap gas.

If there was someone committed to decrease in fossil fuel usage they will be making sure that Russia turns into Norway economically and politically. Meaning much fewer extraction of much more expensive fuels and more effort to not knock the ecology in the process.
NDAs generally aren't worth the paper they're written on, but holy hell is that one a piece of work. The "residuals" concept basically gives them an open invite to copy anything they like so long as they didn't "intentionally memorize" it. Establishing intent is no easy task.
living in China makes it to you

i was also very naive my first year there, many people won't get even past that period, many people just enjoy pubs and don't care about the rest too muchmuch

and most of the people have no clue at all with zero first hand experience
> celebrity physician in some form: [...] Deepak Chopra

You wot mate? Deepak Chopra is as much a physician as I am a swimwear model.
I agree. I have no idea who the author is and, while they may well have the best of motives, that's not a basis for trust.

FF extensions just have too much power and too little end-user control. At a minimum I'd like to be able to selectively disable them in private browsing mode, as Chrome allows.
Not 100% true, but it still tells you something about why big companies don't care that much about what general population thinks of them.
AWS Lambda Supports Python 3.7
Scientists discover spider species that feeds its young milk
I don't really recognise that description of the Culture - they have plenty of freedom (including the freedom to leave the Culture as individuals or groups) and to do practically anything they want (PoG has game players, large scale landscape designers). And there is plenty of desire and passion by the inhabitants of the Culture and they feel the need as individuals to be more "worthy" there is Contact or even Special Circumstances.

What's not to like?
Where are the fixes? What solutions do you need for Google to put in place? Submitting bugs and knowing what the bug list looks like is one thing.

Once you start thinking/working on that you realize these issues are part of any large org (full of internal competition and ambition) and Google still handles them better than all the others I have worked at.
You might be interested in reading the 1928 book "Propaganda" by Edward Bernays, the so-called "father of public relations". It describes at length how, among many other techniques, paid influencers are effective for making people value your product more (e.g. invite the top fashion blogger to wear your hat at an event, then the secondary influencers will take note, and then the proles will note after the secondary influencers, etc.). Quite creepy but eye-opening book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_(book)
Repeated unethical behavior is not the fault of a few bad actors, but of an organization designed to encourage that behavior. I wouldn't discount Google as being at fault seeing as how we already have two instances of Google's ATAP committing patent fraud despite little research and outreach being done.

One fun fact I stumbled across is any misconduct when filing for a patent voids the entire patent application, not just the claims that the misconduct occurred in: https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2016.html
Scooby: Slack bot app to snoop your team mates
it's pretty jerky/clunky on Firefox on android, BBC has these galleries/interactive articles more optimized
I have ADHD and hunting and fishing are some of the most engaging things I can think of. Spearfishing can keep me focused for an entire day. I also love working on my equipment and researching hunts. This is all boring to everyone I know. I guess the key thing is that ADHD isn't an inability to engage or focus at all - there's a degree of selection involved.

For what it's worth, I never hop out to examine rocks. Some people with ADHD might suffer from impulsive distracted behavior like that, but certainly not all.
Yeah, i'm new register user. why are you so pissed off, HN community not well come new user?
Yeah, I can see your point. I also think the type of degree matters - you can be fairly autonomous in a C.S. masters.
For everyone not knowing why you would use this extension, it is so the container breaks after Google. Say you Google spaghetti, after you click you defined food.com to be a food container, with this extension it will break out of Google container into food container. It is pretty great except it creates two tabs for me and breaks history. If that could be fixed or would be flawless.
I don't want to subscribe, I also don't want to see ads or be tracked. I wish there was a universal micropayments way of paying for what I read.
Another aspect of this I don't see mentioned nearly as much is that attempting to be more private may actually make you stand out more in terms of government surveillance. They wouldn't be getting as much data on you from companies, but odds are they're still getting plenty, and in the case of taking extreme measures to limit that it only takes one mistake to undo a lot work. So hypothetically if you did have something to hide, or if you really wanted to maximize privacy for a subset of your life, you would allow most of what you do to be tracked in order to appear "normal"
While this is extremely dubious behavior from Mozilla, and reminds me why I stopped donating to them (the moment Firefox started requiring _their_ signature in order to load addons), Mozilla still has the "automated signing API" in place. Supposedly, this API allows to get an XPI signed as long as it passes a series of automated checks. So it's worth a try.

This was the excuse they used anyway when trying to justify their signature requirements were "not a walled garden". I didn't believe it of course.

You can also just mark the addon as "not listed in AMO" when submitting it to addons.mozilla.org and it will not be listed on the store, but it will be signed.
More details in
https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Distribut...
You don't need to, Firefox has had an option to clear history (and cookies, etc.) on close, since… forever.
Only uncompressed size (250MB) really matters. You could always work around the compressed limits (50MB) by uploading to S3 first, instead of deploying the ZIP directly.
You have to try it to really understand what OO actually is. Its not the OO you might be familiar with..
This is what you need:
https://www.watercar.com/
The one thing that NDAs do extremely well, and the reason that companies like them signed is protect against prior art (the opposite of what we're talking about above). Without an NDA, if you've had a conversation with another company about your tech, then it has become public domain and you can be prevented from patenting. With NDA that problem doesn't exist.
Singular they dates back over 600 years, while the criticism of it dates back only a hundred or two.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
Firefox tracking blocking is a fairly weak "make the web a bit safer while breaking nothing". This extensions actually does break stuff like google logins on non google websites.
What qualifies in your opinion as moral high ground?
YugaByte DB is a transactional, Cassandra-compatible distributed database
Where do you suggest they work instead?
But this is not a matter of personal vs professional life. What she did was on a professional capacity. Not really comparable to all the examples you gave.
Hey think this is very smart low friction way in creating a secondary market in options

One question - how does this handle "bad leaver" clauses which are typical too - where the company revokes the grant ?

https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/how-to-get-the-most-out-of...
As what as become my favourite text on science fiction (by Ursula Le Guin) says,

Science fiction is often described, and even defined, as extrapolative. the science fiction writer is supposed to take a trend or phenomenon of the here-and-now, purify and intensify it for dramatic effect, and extend it into the future. "If this goes on, this is what will happen." A prediction is made. Method and results much resemble those of a scientist who feeds large doses of a purified and concentrated food additive to mice, in order to predict what may happen to people who eat it in small quantities for a long time. The outcome seems almost inevitably to be cancer. So does the outcome of extrapolation. Strictly extrapolative works of science fiction generally arrive about where the Club of Rome arrives: somewhere between the gradual extinction of human liberty and the total extinction of terrestrial life. (...)

http://theliterarylink.com/leguinintro.html
Is affiliate stuffing adding any value? In most cases, it doesn't seem to drive more customers towards the business paying the affiliate commission.
As a workaround for your second point, it is possible to right-click a link and use "Open Link in New Container Tab » No Container". Still a workaround though.
No it's not just you. I block ads with ublock origin. The end result of the tracking is targeted ads, and as I don't see any of them I don't care how accurate they are.
Most ICOs are considered by SEC to fall under securities regulations as most ICOs fit the criteria of the Howey test - if the thing you're offering requires an investment of money in some common enterprise, there is an expectation of profits, and any profit comes not from your efforts but from efforts of either whoever's selling or whoever you invest in; then selling or issuing or promoting that thing falls under all the rules and regulations for securities.
He was a fairly senior, properly qualified doctor before he became a promoter of alternative medicine.
Probably the same reason some major companies (FTSE250/Fortune 500) do the same thing. It's called a "competitor product teardown" - the goal is to identify things your competitors are doing, whether they're patented, and whether you can do the same thing (or something similar) to improve your own product.

It's basically the BigCo Inc. version of "that's a great idea, I'm glad I thought of it". (and usually patented it too)
Reading TeX original source is easier said than done... I think I managed to get PDF some time ago but took me like 30 minutes of browsing. Not talk about running it...