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I wish I could pay more fine grained subscriptions. If I get a local newspaper, much of the content is national or international news, and sports. I don't want any of that from them. I already have a New York Times subscription and I'm not into sports.

The ideal service I see is something that bundles a local news source with a national and international news source.
Couldn’t help but think of the Buran covered in bird feces while reading this article about how the Soviets thought the US-Americans were smarter than they were.

https://www.boredpanda.com/abandoned-soviet-space-shuttle-pr...
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to JAVA: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
Come on, let's be real, the difference is that the media blasted Facebook and Google about privacy issues and Apple capitalized on that to play to their privacy marketing play.
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This would be a nice alternative to headphones/PC speakers for many use cases. What angle to the ear does it need to be? I.e. can the laser be directly in front of the listener?
You could use Apparmor.
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guarantee is whether the person who makes it is trustworthy or not, and knows his/her finances. I'd focus on that instead of try to judge how the company is doing to do.
Ask HN: What problem are you solving – existing product examples
I'm going through the exercise of answering what problem are we solving, and though we have a product that people love, it has multiple different uses, so I am trying to figure out how we would answer this question for some other larger products.

How would you answer the question for any of the following?

1) video

2) 360 video

3) drones

Thanks for your help
I wonder what their dedicated hosting bill would have looked like compared to both cloud and colo.

My guess is that it would have been a tiny fraction of their cloud bill, and their downtime would have been a smal fraction of the colo downtime.
If the only backups they have are so old that they are deemed obsolete, that's essentially having no backups at all.
What the above poster is getting at is that React allows you to solve complex problems using a few basic principles. Vue has a much wider API "surface area", meaning there are a lot more special cases you need to learn to solve specific problems.
Apple can do what they want, I am happy that now we have a good example to show people that iOS devices are more like a console and less like a computer. I would like at least GPL software to be allowed on the store.
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Imagine the examples people would use in less dystopian times.
It's because browsers are the target deployment environment, and browsers move pretty slowly (although a lot faster in recent years). So to use modern language features (such as ES6 or Typescript) you have to transpile back to older JS. For many projects, I don't personally think it's worth the tradeoff of tooling setup and dependencies, so I won't use it in those cases. But for decently complex projects it is nice to use modern language features.
> Building sites in html/css & JavaScript was

This is still building sites in HTML/CSS & JS. You can even use React without Webpack if you want to if you are okay with a different syntax, and want to avoid transpiling at all cost.

If you want to have quick iteration cycles for tweaking CSS, you still cleanly separate your CSS from the rest of your component and use something like Storybook. The CSS changes will be detected and autoreloaded near instantly (sub-second).

But yeah, if you want to build robust interactive elements with syntactic sugar, you will have to bite the bullet and accept a bit slower refresh time (2-5 seconds with HMR on most projects I worked on).
If you want a sound in your year, you get a device for that. If you are a business wanting to notify people who trust you, you can give them devices or blast a speaker. This fills the use case of an actor distributing information to people who do not have enough contact or trust with that actor or who do not want the information (because they would willingly use their own device if they did). Most likely use cases: punitive or targeted spam, punishment (security alarm, military grade crowd repellent, thief targeting, etc). Also possible: misinformation, generating confusion and chaos, making people feel schizophrenic. Weapon in the making. Good uses are also possible - targeted communication to people who can’t hold devices (surgeon during surgery, vr headsets, helmet headphones, etc, but that’s too cheap a use case for such an expensive laser, so weaponization is more likely.
It seems like the Russians believed the shuttle would certainly be used for weapons delivery while the US intended it for espionage purposes.

I wonder why the Russians wouldn't consider such a possibility.
> No document.createElement for you, you'll be wanting to import ReactDOM, make a class that extends Component (or make a stateless component via a function. Also not intuitive!), then render that component into the DOM.

Yeah but you just described the entire framework. What he's driving at is that React had a very small API surface area, Vue has a much larger one.
> "I don't care about it" is a fundamentally different thing than "they are biased".

If they describe only what they care for, and only in a way they care for, it's the definition of biased. I challenge you to provide a definition of this word that would not be equivalent to this.

> But I also don't troll message boards how WotC deserve to die because they neglect XBox games

I don't care if they survive on their own - but they are whining that unless people start en masse paying for them, they'd die. I say - in that case good riddance, just as you would say if somebody asked you to pay for local MtG tournament because otherwise they can't survive. If they want my money - they have to provide quality content and do decent work. If they want to prostitute themselves to partisan politics and clickbait - ok, that's a way to make a living too, but I won't pay for it.

Oh, and another thing: I don't think any MtG club ever driven anybody to suicide or ruined somebody's life or career. Media does it all the time (Gawker, finally and deservedly resting in peace, pretty much was built for it). For example: https://quillette.com/2019/01/30/the-death-of-a-dreamer/
And then they want my sympathy. How about "no"?

P.S. you don't have to like my arguments or agree with it, but calling me "troll" just because you disagree with me is rude. Just so you know.
Says someone with a PhD. The advice in the text of just going into the field of ML blazing, is just weird. Every field is difficult, and you always have to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Personally I like to get the basics first, so yeah, I would read that required math first.

However, this just boils down to people's preference, are you a bottom up learner, or not. Both ways have yielded success for many different people.
So what is the text actually saying?
Your business is currently an android + ios app in a sector Stripe finds to be "high-risk". Stripe can't guarantee you're not going to later sell your software/product directly using Stripe, thus a risk of chargebacks.

If you're signing up to Atlas because you want to access Stripe for payment processing then you are out of luck it seems.

If you're signing up because you need a US LLC then you have other options that are more complex but would get you the same result. Have you considered using a service like LegalZoom (Not affiliated and have never used it so can't speak to how good they are) to incorporate your LLC?
Do you know others tracks you as well? It is not only FB. Google does exactly the same tracking as FB regardless of whether you have an account. So are you applying the same principles of privacy there? Hell, even Twitter tracks you wherever it can regardless of your account.

It is all good to come here and spread hatred about FB. But if you have principled stand against privacy, you won't use any of the major services that are supported by ads. Stop using Google Search, Maps, GMail, Instagram, Whatsapp, Twitter & YouTube.
Reminds me of the way AR was implemented in the book Change Agent[0] - there were devices there using lasers to beam additional visuals directly into your eye. And, AFAIR, you had to wear laser-blocking glasses when in the city, because advertisers would abuse this tech to beam ads straight to your eyes. Anyway, if we could build that, and connect it with (improved version of) the tech from this article, we could have AR that doesn't require you to actually wear anything.

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[0] - A good biotech sci-fi; I liked it and can recommend it. Speaking of which, if there are other "biopunk" books out there, I'd love to know.
> This is similar to the situation with design patterns. When design patterns came along, Java folks talked about them as though they were a wonderful new invention.

They are/were a bit over-hyped and sometimes overused inside the Java community, that's true.

> But they only exist because Java is so clumsy that it needed crutches to do things that had been easy and natural in other languages for years;

Sure, some design patterns work around language deficiencies or are that commonly used to justify including them into the language. Java sadly did not do this enough in the past, that's right. But if you look through the list of design patters only a minority fall into this category.

> someone merely came along and gave the crutches names.

That's basically the whole point of design patterns. It's assigning a name to things already widely used to improve communication between developers and to provide learners a point to look up a concept.
It might make the armed forces less insular in their thinking and help with recruitment.
I guess they're busy now trying to fix things, but since they didn't mention how to avoid this in the future, I feel like streaming replication [to much cheaper spinning disk] or some other form of point in time recovery is the way to go.
I know you want to believe the worst about Facebook. But it doesn't change the fact that the app was literally called Facebook Research and when you downloaded it had Facebook logos all over it - to make it clear that the app was from Facebook. Dive deeper, get data and then make arguments vs. having your feelings take the better of you.
And out of these few, how much would prefer to put their efforts towards goals of their choosing, instead of exchanging labor for money via whatever task someone else is willing to pay for?
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Only companies like Google can afford to rewrite everything every few years.
Using consumer grade SSDs is a huge no no. For a company this size a simple server rack with something like production ready Seagate drives would do better in the long run. In my view, the SSDs they bought make CCC look like a school side-project.
That's not spying, that's terrorism.

Now maybe you want to make the case that there is good and bad terrorism?
Yep, this is going to be Altered Carbon or Ghost In The Shell type of crap. Whatever you Google for will follow you everywhere, and nag you until you buy it...
I recently started a little series of zines where the idea is to learn programming by creating art. It's a little akin to a puzzle or paint by numbers. Each issue is a type-in that produces an image on a JavaScript canvas. I hope that it teaches programming in the same way I learned from books and magazines in the 80's. Check it out at: https://splashofcode.com
You're not wrong, I think birthright PR would be fine, but I'd be worried about the political viability of statutes. Jus soli has the advantage of being embedded in the constitution so nativist leaders can't just change it. (I don't think the current president would be in favor of what you described either.)
I think that's fair, but I also think that companies don't always want what's best for the workers, just for themselves. This kind of regulation helps ensure the system isn't abused. I can see an argument for it both ways, tbh.
its not that surprising when, among other things, it's willing to standup to the US Government..

what evidence do you have to the contrary.
Give me a real app over a web app any day, the performance, the power and flexibility of native integration and if nothing else - JavaScript is a mess.
I counter that most people "just aren't wired that way". But I don't think that programming is some magical special talent.

Most people are't wired to learn how to program effectively, just as most people aren't wired to be a mechanical engineer or a chemist or a doctor.

I don't want to sound like an elitist asshole, but it does require an above average intellect (oh wow I sound like a neckbeard here) to be able to do any of the above. That immediately disqualifies half the population.

Most of my friends cannot and will not become software engineers (or engineers of any kind), and that's fine. I don't know why they'd want to.
> Let’s build a copy now, and find out what it is good for later!

It's pretty smart in its own way. At a very superficial level the mimicry has a prospective effect, a potentially advantage-tipping energy. And military-style decisiveness almost always has to draw on things with such a superficial character by necessity. Seen as a start toward refinement of inner character (of a shuttle-like craft) from the outside-in, Buran makes much more sense.
This is one of the reasons people buy iPhones in the first place. We that want a phone that we can install our own stuff on already bought Android. That is the choices we have, either we buy into the companys way of things or we don't. I'm not happy with Google owning everything but I preffer the little freedom I have with an Android phone compared to iPhone where I can't even change the battery myself. Ofcourse on later Androids I no longer can change battery myself but at least I can insert a cheap micro-sd card if I need more space for my music.
Most people install from the Ubuntu software centre or the distros equivalent which is vetted software, just like apples store. It's been that way since before there was an Apple app store.

Even for power users configure and make is a last resort or something only developers will do for specific reasons.

You have a strange idea of what desktop Linux is like.
Fake news is nothing that emerged with Facebook, it's much older, oftentimes the yellow press has been accused of doing it. Sometimes even established media outlets involuntarily produce fake news by not doing enough research.

So eventually I started reading a lot of non-mainstream media (that was not alt-right ;)) and I found it to be very well researched and it happened to be for free. For specific topics there are also good blogs and websites of political advocacy and research organizations.

Sorry NYT, but your content is not that life important and awesome. I might be biased because I'm not from the U.S.
Exactly the same thing that happened to the WSJ. It became wholly owned by Fox News.
Proper link: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/01/just-because-its-fa...
off topic: how much defunct/dormant telco infra has been left laying around which could be put to use? are old copper lines between cities still there? Old mode fiber?
There are grassroots efforts to make DNS more fair springing up. Handshake.org is one example (with backing from A16Z, Sequoia, and SV Angel) — they're aiming to decentralize the root zone and allow anyone to own their own TLD.

Disclaimer: I'm building a registrar for Handshake called namebase.io.
What site is doing this, giving your password away?
Why would you want to?

I have no desire to teach calculus to my loved ones, or chemistry.

On the other hand, I do have an interest in teaching technology literacy to my loved ones. How to avoid falling for phishing scams, how to find information you need on the internet, how to make a spreadsheet to plan for things, how to write a resume using a word processor. People are lacking such fundamental tech skills that teaching them how to code should be the last thing on our mind.
What I respect about Apples approach to this is their commitment to not being able to access your data themselves anyway. That way the NSA can hit them with whatever secret court orders they like, Apple cannot help them. They’re not completely there yet, but they appear to be doing it and nobody else seems to be even trying.
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Just to clarify: It's not the GPL that is not allowed on the store, it's the GPL that forbids putting software licensed under it on the store.
Programming language tools help get rid of classes of bugs. GC languages help get rid of or reduce significantly classic security bugs such as buffer overflows, use after free and so on.

Static types get rid of other kinds of bugs and unit tests you don't have to write as a result. It, of course, does not solve everything or remove the need for tests.

Rust's borrowing system help get rid of multithreaded data race bugs, something traditionally hard to write any sort of fast unit tests for.

Other static analysis tools also help you not write tests by testing certain things on everything. Even linting is another kind of automated meta-testing tool.

Also for your json 'string typing' example, that is a hint maybe you should use statically defined models instead of relying on unit tests to catch typo bugs?
I think some people rely on the historical fact that consumer 7200rpm SATA drives used to be nearly identical to their enterprise 7200rpm counterparts. Consumer SSDs are very different from enterprise SSDs; the former typically lacks power loss capacitors, which should be a nonstarter for anyone using them to run databases.
Or use a access/refresh token pair
And they are probably setting themselves up for a similar fate in the future by replacing them all (failed and working alike), and at once.
Domain names could be auctioned, then it would not be allowed to resell them. For example you make a bid on how much you want to pay per year, then you pay that amount until you no longer need the domain name, without the ability to resell it.
> No one taught me to code.

As a kid i learned to code using an old book i found, with a computer but no compiler:

I simply had not figured out that EDIT.COM was not QuickBasic. Looks the same but had no Run menu... if only somebody told me! As a kid i could use a teacher.. as a knowledgebase to query, not necessarily as a teacher.

It was fun to run what i wrote before, once i figured that out though.

Not much later i found out how to delete files..
When it comes to copyrights even if I don't own a copy I've taken the stance of "who cares, download"
Totally agree with you. React is just an API which enhances vanilla JavaScript. In React it's possible to use all prior knowledge and practices from other languages, eg functions/objects composition, and decoration.

Vue is different. With it, you can't confidently use your previous programming experience.
Are you using the latest version of IntelliJ ?

Because it does a pretty good job with implicits now:
https://blog.jetbrains.com/scala/2018/07/25/intellij-scala-p...
To me, using consumer-grade SSDs seems less the problem compared to not having a database replica (for quick recovery) and PITR -capable backups (for near-zero data loss). These are not difficult to set up and are definitely worth it if your data matters.

In most cases your disaster recovery scenarios should include the complete destruction of a single server.
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Freedom.

Apple doesn't only prevent malware but also blocks non-malware apps which they or some state may disagree with.

Do you really thing a smaller company would have gotten their access back after being caught doing what Google did?
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Your ISP doesn't care. They just forward the message to you. which you can promptly ignore.
If they say 44k $ is a significant loss then i agree they maybe gain less than 1mln. That said i expected them to be a lot more profitable
Well I can’t speak for other people, for me and the three others in the immediate space around me that I just asked: We all stopped used Facebook some time ago as we either found it irrelevant or did not trust the company. As for google, two people in the room with me use Gmail but both just agreed they’d rather start moving away from Google (as they are an Ad and data company) but regardless - neither of those two people use the gmail / google apps on their iPhones so it wouldn’t affect them at all. I moved from gmail years ago as part of a move to distance myself from Google due to the lack of regulation on their business and the fact as the other two said - they’re an Ad company - they make money from information about you - you are literally selling out when using them. Obviously not everyone will agree with me and that’s fine, but that’s my state of play. (I work in Software / Platform Engineering & Security)
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I think it’s the fact that whenever the government has tried to force them to unlock phones for them or install backdoors allow them to do so, they’ve very publicly crashed flat into an Apple brick wall.
> The default should be protected but root should be available.

How do you protect against that backdoor being used by hostiles?
This is one thing that also bothers me with Whatsapp.

You have to be 13 / 16 to use it. But its just a checkbox.
I know children that use the service who are below this barrier. But to report them to Whatsapp you have to be holder of the parental responsibility over the child and you have to prove it.

This should be the other way round.
There are stories of people having their orthodontic braces act as a radio antenna. Only the person with the braces would hear something.

This writeup is short: https://www.recordonline.com/article/20091118/Health/9111803....

There's also a (busted) Mythbusters around picking up radio signals thru fillings.
Because Google.com nagged people to install chrome for years. Firefox’s home page was effectively an ad for chrome.
I see my argument solely as one driven by my own survival instinct.

And as it's nature that biases me towards my species, is it wrong to try live up to that and build those spaceships?
f.lux is not open source, and Apple told it to stop because it tried to distribute itself as an opaque binary rather than something that users could compile themselves.
That's the first time I get not one but two JavaScript modal pop ups. Looks like I won't be reading this article and potentially upvoting it. This is getting crazy.
AI is ahead of fantasy because the technology is capable of training itself through machine learning algorithms by using the data sets and past experiences.

The amateur researchers and entrepreneurs should unravel the marvel of AI because the technology is all set to shape the future of humans. The algorithms enable the observer lacking AI knowledge to perceive them as self-teaching software.
Here I read an article about Machine Learning: https://mobinspire.com/blogs/introduction-to-categories-of-m...
If America was an Aztec democracy.. And the law required bloody sacrifices, would that make it okay to ex port because form and function are in the expected shape?
That is indeed a huge problem. I would happily pay hundreds of monetary units a month for journalism, but I want to be able to stop when I want.

There's also the awful "1,99 a month!" line of advertising that only tells you it's actually 39,99 after you click. I might actually be willing to pay that price, but not after being made a fool.

Also, if you work in media, sell me a completely frictionless day pass. Without the need to create an account. Sometimes I just want to read that one series that I found interesting, and it's not worth 29,95 and the hassle of maintaining another account and unsubscribing later.