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Looks like just another web annotation app. There is already getpocket.com and diigo.com, both cheap and already have free versions. Although I agree sharing is unsolved and there is so much more that can be done. So I like the new player in this space, especially with more ambitious plans but I think there was really no need to pull “I am the inventor of RSS...” perhaps. Also claims of rebooting internet seems to be overly grand for apps in this space. This shouldn’t need a lot of capital and could be bootstrapped easily with may be little ShowHN post.
The US has global taxation of income. Perhaps overseas banks don't want to deal with Americans because of the reporting requirements imposed on them?
I wasn't commenting on the strategy (which I agree is less than great) as much as the language. "Pre-revenue" as a euphemism for "we're losing money," "play" as one for "likely-to-fail business," etc. I could have called it "VC jargon," but "bafflegab" seemed appropriate, or maybe "Newspeak."

Still, thanks for the explanation. I'm just an outsider looking in.
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I worked for a tech company in the past that had a product that would help stop kidnappings.

We made a sale to the government of a large third world country. They made their first payment and we began to deploy, but obstacles kept arising and nothing more came from it. The subsequent payments weren't made, the product might have disappeared from their warehouse, etc., so we fled the deal.

As it turns out, half the government wanted to end kidnappings, while the other half was perpetrating them. Either side was quick to pocket any lose budget on its way to unwary vendors.
oil change stores advocate 3000 miles.
car manuals or cars with computers that tell you when to change the oil advocate much longer intervals.
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maybe it works fine when it is dark brown
Same goes for Europe, my national insurance contribution(which doesn't even technically cover healthcare) is £6,664 a year, my employer pays an additional £17,281.19 in NICS a year.

Do you think that you and your employer pay more than $30K a year for healthcare?

Don't get me wrong there are a lot of things wrong with US healthcare including the costs for uninsured but Europeans pay through the nose direct and indirectly for their health insurance as well.

With marginal tax of nearly of over 50% of your income when you include NI/Health Tax contributions, 20-25% VAT and much higher indirect taxes on everything from fuel to sugar you end up paying for it one way or another.
I used to think this also. However after diving really deep into OLAP for business reporting over the last 6 months, I find NULL to be the single most powerful idea in SQL. Here’s some use cases for NULL that I find super useful:

COUNT(case when <complex condition> then 1 end) as foo

Count occurrences of complex condition over a row set. Works because COUNT ignores null.

NVL(1/NULLIF(foo, 0), 0)

Protect against division by zero. The expression 1/X is a simple example but this generalizes well. In fact, I’ve come to think that NULL turns any SQL value into a Monadic option type like those used functional languages and Rust.

Note that I’m not saying the above cannot be done without NULL, just that NULL is a really useful tool in my experience.
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Free_Vision :)
F# has been open source from the start and runs on Mono but having dotnetCore on Linux gives us a faster and more reliable platform which is great.

You can easily call C# code from F# so the fact that most of the .net librairies have been developed in C# has little consequences.

Now we just need Microsoft to realize they have a great language and to invest properly in its marketing...
It's unfortunate that most people meet Groovy through Gradle. It's a really confusing and unpleasant experience and I think is responsible for a lot of the bad rap that Groovy gets. It's actually way better than Gradle makes it look!
Invented in the West for public safety, exported to the rest of the world for corporate profit.
Reading his article I cant help but wonder why he isnt scaling his entire setup to help ALL farmers, regardless of what they are farming, to sell online. Cant he create an online marketplace and onboard basically every portable vegetable? He should be able to replicate this same model with every veggie we got.
If you like to share this information: Which country was this?

I imagine someone has to be quite psychopathic (or extremely greedy) to do kidnapping. I would imagine it is usually very traumatising for the victims, regardless of how friendly the kidnappers might seem.
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Could you recommend a training course to get started on AWS?
There are millions of options, so maybe you could give a pointer?
Another interesting link on making your own DB: https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/
In my opinion it presents an alternative to Java. The licensing also seems easier to explain; Oracle has really worked hard to make Java licensing confusing.
Sadly I find that the Dutch, in general, are extremely indifferent and even antagonistic towards political activism.

I'm not entirely sure why this is. Perhaps it's general wealth/comfort, or perhaps a history of, at best, amoral profit-seeking.

Or maybe I'm just seeing things. But in general my experience has been that the kinds of people that I would expect to be activists are much less so over here than in, say, Germany or France or Spain.
Huh? No it's not. The point under discussion is whether Tesla should be changing their pricing so often. I'm arguing that it would be better if they didn't. That's not a whataboutism. Deflecting the criticism and saying "at least it's not as bad as the dealers" is, on the other hand, pretty much the archetypal whataboutism.
Same here in the UK - a big chunk of the Oxford School Mathematics Project O-level syllabus in the early 80s comprised the various transformations and the matrix operations needed to create them.
Precisely so. Couple of us have mentioned libvirt as a recommendation in the comment threads above:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19736609

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19736722
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As a math professor, I'd recommend contacting this professor, mentioning that you're going to take the class, and asking them. Along the lines of todd8's advice, you might ask for advice on how to best prepare.

These are the sorts of questions that professors tend to appreciate.
Here's a pretty good tutorial.

https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2018/09/22/running-solaris-2...

I used a Solaris 7 .iso from archive.org.

https://archive.org/details/solaris_7_1199_sparc
This is definitely easier. While I don't mind reCAPTCHA on many resources, commercial entities which charge money for you to use their products, should try to make the login process as easy as possible and reCAPTCHA isn't one of them, as at times you have to iterate several times of identifying all cross walks or store fronts.
He's not a bandit nor a thief. This is how crypto-property works : if you have knowledge of the keys, it's yours.
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What's the ideal size of a polis? Too small: there's no privacy. Too large: also no privacy.

In the first case, for example a roving band of stone-agers, say N = 30 with all males related and everybody knowing the leader. Which is good because whatever the political system, leadership entails consent of the led. But bad because the leader knows everyone so it's harder to act or think differently. Errors in understanding the world are firmly entrenched.

The second case might be for example a modern state of N = 100M, with IT. There are notional leaders but they are partly controlled by unseen oligarchs, possibly residents of other states. The bureaucracy and businesses collect and sell information about everybody. Voting, if it exists at all, generates little consent, since only a negligible fraction of people know the official leaders, let alone the oligarchs, let alone what sort of decisions will be consequently be made.

The ideal is therefore presumably where N is some fairly low multiple of Dunbar's Number. But even if we wanted to we don't have the technology or knowledge to implement this yet.
I use Virtualbox on home PC to dev. I ssh into it and use tmux/vim as my IDE. Is there a better setup for performance on windows? Should I bite the bullet and get myself a Windows Pro upgrade for Hyper-V? If my memory serves well you Hyper-V can't have Hyper-V and Virtualbox at the same time.
Why does Twitter need to be fixed in order to save democracy from its existential crisis? It was a mistake for news networks to solicit debate questions during presidential debates using Twitter. It was a mistake when candidates and pundits made Twitter their primary platform. It is a shallow means of communication that awards attention-seeking and grandstanding and it has always been that way. A racist reality TV president is the logical result of the anti-intellectual political bent that went into full swing during the Bush era and culminated in a political landscape dominated by Twitter bots.
Don't worry, it's still out there, just like AM2R. Give it a few weeks so Ninty can parade around like they won something, and if you're in the right places, you'll hear about the continued development.
Germany has this as well. It's massively overpriced and generally only an outlet for the major ruling parties and the government. The sooner it dies, the better. There's no real journalism involved, at all.
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Of course they could. But if they did hire local journalists all over the country, those journalists would have a strong incentive to produce content that drives maximal "engagement" on facebook's platform. That's just a recipe for even more clickbait and outrage-driven reporting. No thanks.
Missing deadlines and production targets is business as usual for "startups"

I wouldn't just limit this to startups. Software development is a field where we sometimes struggle to deliver on time.
A rising tide lifts all boats. I'm just happy there are an increasing number of EVs coming on the market. And people will have their reasons for choosing one or another, so it doesn't have to be that one car is objectively best across the board and therefore gets 100% of the sales.

I'm very happy with my Model 3 but what I really want to see is acceptance of electric cars as a viable and sensible option for a lot of drivers, and the infrastructure that comes along with that.
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I went to one of these about 9 years ago, and to be honest I had no idea they were still a thing. They were very talked about back then but I hadn't really heard of them again until now.

It was an enjoyable experience, and it was when I first moved to London for my first job so it felt very trendy and cosmopolitan and grown-up to me. Maybe I should look into it again...
Oil changes color as it captures contaminates such as soot, carbon deposits, etc. It can operate effectively while brown-ish, but if the oil is carrying too much it will blacken and start to thicken at which point it will be much less effective at lubricating your engine.
I grew up in a third-world country, and I've noticed a palpable shift in the moods of my educated, middle-class friends and family back home.

People in many third-world countries have been fed the line that democracy is the correct form of government.
This isn't accidental: the soft power of Hollywood and the myth of American exceptionalism have been powerful incentives to have faith in the ability of democratic institutions to improve lives: it's an odd form of cargo-cultism, and if you are a believer in freedom and democracy, a "helpful delusion". The educated elites in third world democracies have recoiled from the notion of authoritarianism, and from the idea of having every aspect of their lives surveilled for safety.

Political events in the US, the rise of social media, and the risks of virality unexpectedly unleashing mob chaos have made them a lot more wary. Openness and the exchange of ideas exposes the worst of human nature: the trolls whose ideas are magnified by algorithms seeking to capture attention. The propagandists and bots with their massive reach are noticed by educated people, who can see how powerless or unwilling social networks and governments are to stop them. It doesn't matter whether the propagandists succeed or not-their mere unfettered existence is enough to disturb people.

With the weakening of democratic norms, other options are suddenly back on the table. As people have theoretically become freer, they seem to seek more security. Blanketing a city with CCTV seems to be a pragmatic trade-off for personal safety. The censorship of China seems to be attractive because of the endless hateful noise of social media, the orderliness of having criminals removed from society permanently via the death penalty suddenly seems attractive. The lesser-educated never really cared for abstract notions of liberty anyway. In short, the authoritarian surveillance state is an increasingly attractive proposition to large swathes of humanity.
NY to Miami will still take considerably longer to drive than to fly, even accounting for the airport overhead.
Can a theory that isn’t completely testable still be useful to physics?
The Simpsons has a great gag where Homer buys Lisa’s stupid rock - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g3U6IUMTDHY
There's a hundred private keys on this page
https://2coin.org/keys-btc.html
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Successfully guessing the correct combination on a padlock does not make it any less criminal when you decide to steal someone's bike.
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I'm Against Paywalls.
Another interesting use case someone mentioned here before is the world cup - you don't want a penalty shoot-out ruined by your neighbours cheering a few seconds before you see the goal.

A few seconds would also such for live streaming where the streamer interacts in chat.
The fact that you are having to reach a thousand miles just shows how ludicrous this is.

In both of those cases (and every other similar case), there was genuine confusion between marks. Whom in this case is Mario going to be confused for?

I just can't imagine anybody sitting on a jury and saying, "yeah, I"m going to find in favor of the would-be infringer here because Nintendo didn't go after that C64 port that one time in 2019." I mean, seriously?!

We're talking about Nintendo losing the trademark over Mario - a household name and likeness. Nobody is going to be confused about Mario, and nobody is going to start using the word "Mario" to generically mean a platform jumping character.
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I'd also suggest Grav [0]

[0] https://getgrav.org/
Definitely, authoritarian regimes are scary but it seems like we are already verging on one with surveillance capitalism.
Robby Kraft gave a wonderful talk, "Origami Software from Scratch", at Strange Loop 2017:

https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2017/origami-software-from-sc...
I remember that in Ecuador and Peru people called that kind of kidnapping "secuestro express."
I am using my Honda's computer and it asks to change oil around 4500 miles mark. I am mostly drive in a city, so that's would be a cause. I know for others the computer uses more than 10k intervals.

Full synthetic oil/filter is about $60 to change here.
Yep it's just a slider in the UI and app. I generally leave it set to 80% and then 100% for big trips.
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iPad Rehab won’t be able to do anything in this case. What they do is repair hardware damage to allow the phone to start so they can unlock it and do a backup. In this case the hardware is fine, it’s the fact that the phone doesn’t want to be unlocked.
Much of it is api keys they would distribute in the deployed app anyway. Not really ‘secret’.
> like running the QEMU process as an unprivileged user,

Anyone can run your example "qemu-system-x86_64 -display none -no-user-config -nodefaults -m 2048 -device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi -device virtio-serial-pci -serial stdio -drive file=/export/cirros.qcow2,format=qcow2,if=virtio" from the command line/bash, as non-root user, yet libvirt which requires root to install, and is expecting root to configure it, is better? How?

Libvirt is one of those softwares which ads a layer of complexity for the sake of complexity, yet offers nothing of value in return.
With so many other programming languages to choose from, "better than Java" does not seem to be a compelling argument to me.
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I don't know the cause either but if you look at your oil, you can see it gradually turning colors, from pale ale to stout. At 5k in the US you're about at the latter, so I'm inclined to believe they're telling the truth.
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I agree that landscaping choices could be more environmentally friendly. However, planting trees in yards will have a limited impact; if 1.2 trillion trees cancel a decade of CO2 emissions, half a billion trees will cancel about 36 hours of CO2 emissions.
I'll pay you $15 to use my free software (yes, again)
I'm doing this giveaway again, I'll pay you a $15 amazon gift card for testing my software. I'll explain how you can get it below. But first, a small explanation of the software I am writing.

I used to use budgeting software such as Mint and Everydollar. As of late, I've lost trust in these "free" services, because I'm not sure how they are "using my data".. I never fully read the terms and conditions anyways. Taking matters in my own hand, I've written offline, open-source budgeting software with Electron. The product is really coming along now, and has made a lot of improvements due to many suggestions from users.

The main features are keeping track of expenses by category/subcategory. There is limited support to sync up transactions from your bank; this was a big feature a lot of people asked for.

I'll pay you a $15 amazon gift card to test this software. Everything is available on the Github repo below. In order to get the gift card, you'll have to act quick because I only have $200 I'd like to give away for this (yes, sadly I'm not rich and have infinite money to give you). Find the link to our slack group (from the repo), and after you've tested it and have feedback/suggestions, send a message to "zachary". I'll keep track based on who sends me messages first, only the first x number of people will get a gift card. Don't delay!

https://github.com/reZach/my-budget

Thank you good humans of HackerNews.
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Sharing below:

https://github.com/reZach/my-budget
Why would crypto run? There's way too many of them.
And look at some of the super aggressive (ok bullying) that the big supermarket chains do to suppliers /farmers etc.
There's a lot to be said for running qemu from the command line, vs the complexity and opaqueness of libvirt. For example you can put the invocation in a script and check it into version control, and it will work on anyone's Linux box. You can easily debug the config and be suire about what options qemu was given.

Yes, there may be many switches in the invocation, but at least they are in one place, the invocation syntax rarely changes and works accross distributions, and they are applied from scratch in each invocation rather than having lots of implicit state hidden in daemons and their configurations / databases.

Your example is nicer on the eyes written in a config file style and leaving out the unnecessary options:

qemu-system-x86_64 \
-display none \
-m 2048 \
-serial stdio \
-drive file=/export/cirros.qcow2,\
format=qcow2,\
if=virtio
> We focus on policies, not politics.

I read that as "As long as you vote for what we want, we'll ignore anything else you may be doing". They can't escape politics if they want to influence (inter)national policies.
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Same with anything really. If you know my password everything in my bank account is yours too. A private key is simply a very complex password.

Unfortunately crypto’s greatest strength (that it’s akin to cash) is also it’s greatest weakness. There’s no way to set up 2FA like I can with my bank and there’s no fraud protection, etc.

Edit: doesn’t mean he’s not a thief, btw.
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Great answer, and let me add one thing, if OP has the opportunity and desire to prepare in advance.

Usually the hardest thing about calculus is the precalculus. All sorts of algebra and trigonometry problems appear in the course of calculus problems, and if you can solve them reliably and quickly then you can concentrate on the calculus.

I'd recommend buying any precalculus book -- look for used copies of edition n-1 on Amazon, where n is the latest version - and doing the hardest exercises. These will be starred, and/or at the very end of the section. A great way to build up your chops.
"Same number of readers" is deceptive since the overall population has increased. In 1990 there were about 220 million people in the US. Today, there are 320 million.

So newspapers have a smaller market share and a much older demographics.

It's more than "ad revenue generated per subscriber", it's also operating cost to generate revenue. Most newspapers are unionized and salaries, benefits, costs, etc have increased while revenue stagnated. That's why newspapers have to constantly lay people off. If costs stayed stagnant along with revenue, then newspapers theoretically could be fine. But inflation doesn't allow that.

Due to legacy ( essentially what advertisers know and are comfortable with ), advertisers spend more for each pair of eyeballs on print, tv, etc. Since digital is new, advertisers spend less per pair of eyeballs. That's can't last forever as digital gets more established. It's why large newspapers are moving quickly onto social media and the internet. It's where eyeballs and ad spending is going to be.

Also, local and mid tier newspapers are facing digital headwinds as social media focuses on boosting "trusted authoritative sources". So the big boys - The NYTimes, WSJ, Bloomberg, etc are going to thrive as they eat the smaller newspapers' lunch with the help of google, facebook, apple, etc.

What we are seeing is a form of stealth media consolidation. Smaller newspapers are being bought up by larger newspapers. Sadly, it's happening in every industry. More consolidation, less competition.
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These used to be licensed Defenders, not the fancy Range Rovers. Both are distinct types of the same brand (Land Rover).
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on NPS surveys for employees?
I did a quick search but couldn't find any past discussion on that, so I hope to see some opinions on this :)

My company (~100 engs) has decided to replace 360s with NPS surveys to sort of measure employee performance.

It is my first time on this and feels a bit odd to receive positive feedbacks but have them labeled as "passive" just because....

I remember reading elsewhere that NPS is a common tool to measure performance within Customer Service /Success. I just can't see how this would work long term, am I being to cynical / skeptical?
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Is he though or is this an attempt to discredit a competitor? This guy is a journalism in a era when newspapers and other forms of tradition media are dying. Journalism is seen as a joke, partisan, propaganda, and even an enemy of the State by large swatches of the public.
It's due to people wanting to make more money, and succeeding.