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Perhaps the fact that your 10 preceding Show HN submissions of the same thing didn't get much traction should be indicative that it's not a very good Show HN material?
There has been a backlash, but only by people whose opinions don't matter.
Exactly what I wanted to write.

Just recently someone here said that mails are not screened/indexed for this purpose when I said: "If you are not paying for it, you are the product." They are not giving anything for free.
(Hi Chuck!) I find myself to be in the mathematician camp ("A materials scientist, a Physicist, and a Mathematician were sharing a hotel room when a fire broke out, waking the materials scientist...") when it comes to things kinda like this. If it's a solved problem, I'm not interested in going any further - it's a solved problem, and therefore not really interesting.

Given that one wouldn't care about spectrum purity, the required budget becomes minimal, with a trivial hardware component resulting in components easily obtainable with an anonymous visit to a swap meet, if one were to visit the right swap meet. After that, it's a simple matter of programming.

I've found that a lot of people are so defined by their job that they have no idea what happens above or below them. The "I deal with packet filters" person can't explain basic networking, nor do they have any idea what the overall configuration of the (enterprise) network is like, to cite an example.
This happens to me all the time. My Gmail is first name and last initial. I'm not sure if the burden here is on Google or those sites that don't verify email address before sending stuff like this, though.

The most fun so far for me was when someone used my email to sign up for Ashley Madison (the affair dating site). Of course, they were compromised a few years later and someone built a tool allowing you to search their users by email. Guess who appeared to be having an affair then? Tough one to explain to someone non technical...
They are absolutely aware. They banned my dev play account because few competitors reported as similar app and there is no human to view my case.

They just stopped giving a shit. Funny, how all the senators talk about breaking up Facebook when Google is 100x bigger and 100x monopolistic.

Break up Google. And unban my account in the process ;)
That is a really neat paper.

> Successful replacement codons tended to conserve local ribosomal binding site-like motifs and local mRNA secondary structure, sometimes at the expense of amino acid identity. Based on these observations, we empirically defined metrics for a multidimensional “safe replacement zone” (SRZ) within which alternative codons are more likely to be viable.
My friend (who played keyboard in my jazz quartet until he moved to Europe) is the author of this! It's super cool.

Hi Lukasz!!
https://dilbert.com/strip/1994-10-12
First off, you need to remember that Tesla has made Musk's twitter feed an official announcement platform, so literally any promise, claim, or offhanded remark he makes there can (and often does) get treated as fact by people and by media.

Second, regarding your link, it also states you can

>[...] summon your car to come find you.

How can it do this but _also_ "require active driver supervision"? This statement implies that it can, without you in the car, drive to come find you, and it _definitely_ implies the vehicle is autonomous.

Yes, they also say like you said, but these are conflicting statements, and it's VERY easy between this, average Joe's understanding of autonomous cars, and Elon's behavior on twitter to see why so many people think that the Tesla is fully autonomous, and thus get into accidents like they have by simply not paying attention. You can link stuff from Tesla all you want showing how they do a good job covering their ass, but if people are still doing this, then Tesla isn't doing a good job of making this clear. They simply hide it inside the legal documents so that when people _do_ treat the car as autonomous, they can't be sued for it.
Pocket seems to have luck where other reader views and outlining services fail, and you can set up IFTTT to download pocket articles as html files to dropbox, but that's certainly not automatic and completely out of your way. I would have preferred it to archive as a plain text document but I couldn't figure it out through IFTTT.
I'd be happy to switch away from https://domains.google but I'm loving the free, full Whois privacy protection. According to Gandi's Whois Privacy¹: "excluding your state, country, ... and the name of the company..." from the Whois privacy feature. I need full Whois privacy.

Do you have any other registrar suggestions?

¹: https://docs.gandi.net/en/domain_names/common_operations/who...
It's just like any other cultural norm. And Japan shows that it can scale.

Really, it's just a simple common courtesy. And I say this as an atheist non-Boy Scout.
I'm an industrial engineer and geek out about Aldi frequently. Here are a few things I've noticed (and researched) which differentiate them from others.

-they have barcode on 5 or 6 sides of their products, and they're typically huge! They nearly never need to orient a product to scan it. Their scan speed is far faster than any other supermarket I've been at.

-if two products are very similar, they'll change the packaging in an obvious way. Blueberry and blackberry yogurt typically look very similar, but the lids are obviously dark and light purple at Aldi. They can glance down and count how many of each, scan one, then hit the number pad for the quantity. I haven't seen the number pad used extensively at any other grocer.

-they combine varieties (like flavors of granola bars) of product in the same box. This greatly reduces the shelf space required.

-depositing a quarter for a cart eliminates the need to pay people to collect carts

-they keep product the box from the manufacturer. This eliminates labor from unboxing and facing product.

-they don't have plastic bags. You can grab boxes (normally a waste stream) and take them home with you.

-they don't list a phone number for their stores. With as few as 2 people on site during the slow times, they can't afford to have anyone on the phone.

-their conveyor belt is far longer than most stores. You should be able to get your entire cart worth of groceries on the conveyor at once. This minimizes the slowness of people handing one item at a time to the next checker.

-They're big on turning inventory over. If they trial a product and it doesn't sell well enough, they have no problem simply not carrying it anymore. You can't always get everything set Aldi, but you can get 85-95% of items you need there.

-they wanted to avoid vendor lock-in, so they had two POS vendors develop solutions simultaneously, awarding the contract to the one which provided the best solution.
> vs arrivals from elsewhere

This particular attribute (what was the person's place of residence at time of homelessness) is answered by the study. (Called the PIT Count or Point-In-Time count). As the article notes, the study that the article is referencing is not released yet, so we can't see the stats for this particular iteration of the study. However, in the previous study[1] (2017, these are done every two years), 69% of respondents were from SF, and another 21% from some other county in CA.

[1] The results of previous studies: http://hsh.sfgov.org/research-reports/san-francisco-homeless... ; I presume the new one will be posted there once it is released. The article says that will be in July
It is extremely difficult to clean up and heal surrounded by the problems of the city (drugs, violence, lack of entry level jobs & housing) but services are concentrated in city...
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I mean the big question is how far do they penetrate the skin. I'd assume it isn't too far given the frequency.
> The real challenge is attention management

See, I think you have that backwards - the problem is management attention. When management is giving you their full attention and micromanaging, meaningful work becomes impossible.
Charlie Ergen has always done this with every expense over $10,000. He personally signs each check
This can also be seen played out in the article's graphs comparing the impact of job security versus the individual's employability. The negative mental health impact of having no employment or insecure employment is somewhat mitigated if one is employable -- defined as "being sure of getting an equally good job".

> much easier to take risks if you have a fallback

i agree. if you are employable and can readily obtain a reasonable job, and have resources to keep operating for a period without having work, it is far easier to engage in riskier but potentially much more lucrative opportunities for work (starting new businesses, taking on short-term contract work with much higher rates than permanent salaries for the same role, etc)

here's another interesting side of it: employability as defined above is a relative thing -- "being sure of getting an equally good job" [relative to your current job] . Suppose you have somehow found a job that is particularly good fit for you (perhaps it is very closely aligned with what you are interested in, and there are few other opportunities for such work, or it pays substantially above market rates given your skills and experience). You may be far more stressed about the possibility of losing your unusually good job due to how rare it is --- even though you may be highly employable in many other jobs or markets that you perceive as less good. You may also be more likely to put up with a large amount of stress and bullshit generated by your good job in order to hold onto it

in comparison, someone who works for a job that may be objectively less good (e.g. repetitive work, less pay, greater risk of physical injury) but is in a market where there is a large amount of demand for similar work may be far less stressed about the possibility of losing their job simply because in this market they are highly employable and there aren't any particular above-market benefits of working for any particular employer.
What are some other good documentaries like this one?
I am looking forward to seeing the movie, but this article is strange. It seems to be grasping at straw in order to throw doubt on the "fail often, fail fast" (foff) philosophy. My take on foff is that it recognizes that the fear of failure can keep us from taking the risks needed for success. This seems orthogonal to concerns of privilege or the adverse effects of technology. I do think we in technology need to think about the adverse effects our work may produce, although I don't think the General Magic folks could have foreseen the smartphone issues we are dealing with now, no matter how hard they had tried.
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From a privacy point of view, there is no point at all in deleting the data. Assuming it was created from email, it can be re-created from email.

Google has said they do not use the info in advertising or sell it to anyone else. Either you think they're telling the truth or you don't.

If you think they're being truthful, there is no problem to solve here.

If you think they are lying, then you'd be stupid to assume they won't recompute the data secretly without telling you.

Either way, deleting the copy of the data that you can view accomplishes nothing.
Please don't call people or their statements stupid.

It's not "stupid". Caring that your data is not being used to make opaque decisions in other products that you have no visibility or control over is something that people are allowed to care about.

When it's just an email can be deleted and when it is you don't have to wonder if it's purged from 10 other systems. That it's not showing you is what some people want, regardless of whether you do or not.
Do the ansiotropic magnets need replacing? Perhaps the entropy loss occurs there.

I'm assuming they actually exist --
> Extreme and improbable hypothetical:

> Amazon hits ~$2.5T in annual revenue, while the GDP of France stagnates at ~$2.5T.

> Assuming that there is zero evidence for an antitrust case to be built (again, this is an extreme and improbable and rather outlandish scenario), would the U.S. have an interest in simply brute forcing the break-up of Amazon simply on the grounds that the company itself has too much geopolitical clout/power/influence/etc.?

In this hypothetical, how much money a year do you estimate they'd spend on politics? It's not like the country is a body with a single mind.
It's doing well. It was a real revolution when they came, they have an army of fans, and every time I visit there's a few more.
That makes sense, because a public one sided show trial definitely couldn’t be abused by prosecutors to smear people they have no intent of indicting. Is that actually a position people really believe?
AFAIK when it comes to (German) competition/cartel law, they're in some ways considered as if they were a single entity. There's a rule treating companies that openly strongly align like that as if they were commonly owned, so they can't pretend to compete with each other, presumably if one tried to buy an actual competitor the market position of both would be taken into account, ... So yes, it'd be trouble if they in sum started to dominate the market etc.
I just did that a few hours ago. It somehow feels like playing Frogger and Tetris at the same time, and I'm having trouble managing the multitasking. At least when the cashier does the scanning, you still have a bit of time to plan how to divide the load over the too few bags you took up front.
Ask HN: Which behavioral interview questions must a SWE be prepared for?
I have an upcoming SWE interview. Four rounds will be technical and one is "tell me about a time when..." types of questions. As someone trying to transition into SWE from a position of 50% programming and 50% other stuff, what types of behavioral questions must I be prepared to answer? The first thing that comes to mind is "tell me about the hardest bug you've ever dealt with" or something like that. Any other questions I must be prepared for to prove my mettle as a Software Engineer?
there's always a catch with these guys.
I second this! I've been with them for 2 years and they've been perfect.
I think the argument is around anti-competitive behavior based on them controlling both the platform (Amazon Marketplace) and their own store (Amazon Basics/Whole Foods). This Verge article [1] cites the Diapers.com incident, where they basically cut prices until Diapers.com couldn't compete and had no choice but to be acquired.

There are also the ongoing investigations in Germany around anti-competitive behaviors. [2]

I'm not making a judgement on validity, just pointing to what people are likely referencing.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/5/17805162/monopoly-antitrus...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-germany/amazon...
> Single source you trust

Assuming that the single source is trustworthy, sure. But we're talking about the likes of Facebook and Google here.

The two use cases for data aren't identical, and actually shipping the raw data out is worse. But, in my opinion, the two things are similar and the shipping out of data is not that much worse.
The companies themselves created so many of the dangers that social media now poses. If we didn't have all-but-mandatory lack of anonymity, we wouldn't have issues with doxxing, addiction (to the degree that anonymity can break the psychological tricks used by the apps), and so on. I doubt we can treat social media companies like any Big Whatever, because there hasn't been anything like them before. It's a new problem that needs a new solution - and that solution surely has to be something better than giving leverage over how we connect to any government. Sadly, I don't know how to best convince people to give up big Facebook for some decentralized family photo sharing website that would lack the addictiveness.

Also, on promoting the health dangers, I wonder, hen did "never trust strangers on the internet" turn into "give strangers on the internet a detailed log of every aspect of your life"?

Though with regards to that, I can easily say I made many more meaningful connections back when the internet was this separate realm of screen names and forums, rather than this meta web of connections overlaid on top of the real world.
Neurosurgeon here (long-term HN browser and my post).

If you're interested in prenatal surgery for spina bifida (more specifically: for myelomeningocele), check out the MOMS trial:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1014379

Essentially, this was a prospective randomized trial looking at prenatal surgery vs. standard management with mothers who knew they were going to have a child with spina bifida.

This work stems from pre-clinical experiments using sheep:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7585064
Yes it's really that many. The vans and campers tend to move around to different areas as the police crack down on illegal long-term parking in particular spots.
I am not saying that it is.

I'm comparing two forms of punishment that there is no way of coming back from. Learn to read.
I spent ages ignoring the aisle of crap for being so cheap it clearly can't be any good. Then one year we found some sleeping bags for £10 or £12. Bought one and it turned out to be better made and designed than "proper" outdoor brands selling for £40 or £60. So went back for another before the offer switched. They're lasting much longer than the brands ever have too.

We've had some absurdly priced bargains in the years since.

Tesco and Asda (Walmart) have own-brands that cost more and are consistently simply crap, and to be avoided. So you learned to mostly avoid them, unless broke. Sure, Aldi do a few things badly, and a few things to avoid, but mostly they cured us of any remaining interest in preferring brand names over supermarket's own. So many brands got bought and became rubbish themselves anyway. The tiny few we do care for still, Aldi seem to stock.
If you like the idea of Slack alternative that promotes focus and reduces distractions, I recommend looking at https://twist.com/.

I used it briefly and really liked it. It's created by the same team that makes Todoist.
Most of those already have known downsides from initial early adopter programs. Dams = disrupted fisheries, solar = rare earth mining pollution, wind = dead migratory birds, UBI = lazyness, universal healthcare = long waiting times, self-driving cars = nobody to blame when they crash, electric vehicles = battery disposal.

It's like how we knew that the Internet obsoletes privacy long before Facebook came out, and have known that burning fossil fuels causes global warming for at least 30-40 years, and knew that there was shit in the meat since The Jungle came out in 1906, and knew that heavy industry causes pollution for about 150 years. We didn't care because the benefits to us were greater than the future drawbacks. As time goes on, we take the benefits for granted, but the drawbacks loom ever larger.
> depositing a quarter for a cart eliminates the need to pay people to collect carts

What's the alternative? Growing up in Germany I've literally never seen it any other way.
I wonder when that all started? With Apollo maybe?

A friend of mine was working in Colorado and involved in that whole deal, it did't sound super pretty.
(To the tune of Monty Python’s Spam song) FUD, FUD,FUD,FUD...FUD, FUD,FUD,FUD...
> Weird knockoff names for popular brands,

These "knockoffs" are almost always from exactly the same factory as the "popular brands". The product is identical, only the packaging is different.
MS is a for-profit company. If offering Minecraft classic made them no money, they wouldn't do it.
is this related to bone-conduction microphones?
And sometimes things were actually better. Of course it is surprising that people want to go back to something like coal. But it isn't surprising that people want to go back to a time when their communities had a purpose and a future.
> I don't mind sharing a lot of my data as long as I know where my data actually ends up.

But I do, and Google (and Facebook) suck up my data anyway, whether I use their services or not.

That's the real fundamental issue.
Not related to cost itself, but how the utilization is decided. You can go to the primary doctor for a cold it's just a pure waste of resources.

It is also bad for the pcp to be so transactional with insurance: it should be a relationship, which is proven to give better medical outcomes..
When computer networks go down, hospitals switch to good old pen and paper.

It'll be 0 - its more about the possible breach of PHI/HIPAA violations
Yes, but labor, other incidentals to produce it, and a small incentive for doing it, should be paid.
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I almost certainly know the answer to this question and understand you're not my doctor et cetera et cetera et cetera and I won't try to do something Internet crazy when you tell me it's not possible.

(Deep breath)

That being said, Do you think hypothetically that this type of surgery could be used to help dashingly handsome 41-year-old Quadriplegic hackers with spina bifida like me?

(also, been interacting with neurologists my entire life and I think your understanding of the brain borders on the magical dark arts!)
> But at the end of the day, there's a free-loader problem where I can benefit from your donation, so this system hasn't really taken off.

Many crowdfunding systems are in fact specifically designed to be resilient against the free-loader problem. The work doesn't get funded at all unless enough people pitch in, and it doesn't cost you anything to "pledge" support for a work that doesn't make its funding threshold. So, it's rational for anyone who has a genuine interest in the work getting made, to pitch in for it - the only agents who get to "free ride" are marginal contributors who would have little interest in the work in the first place.

Rather, I'd argue that crowdfunding (1) is still an emerging model for supporting creators, so we shouldn't be so quick as to label it "unsuccessful" and (2) to the extent that it doesn't routinely fund multi-million dollar content like Game of Thrones-like TV shows or AAA videogames, that's because these media formats themselves are way too costly to make in the first place for users to be willing to transparently fund them - such that they're routinely outcompeted by cheaper alternatives!
Interestingly, similar laws come in to play with cruise ships - non-US-flagged passenger ships that depart from a US port aren't allowed to return to a US port without first stopping at a foreign port. Almost all American cruise ships are flagged in countries outside of the US. The practical effect of this is that the many cruises that travel between the west coast and Alaska all have to stop over in Canada before they can return to the west coast, which is a major driver of tourism to Victoria, BC - since that happens to be the largest port city between Alaska and the mainland US.