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My #1 frustration is having ideas that are pretty good (I know this because I see them done by someone else within 1-5 years of me wanting to do it), but not yet knowing how to raise capital.

I see all the crazy shit like WeWork and other companies where people have millions thrown at them while never making a profit (and even actively cheating their investors). I don't want to be one of those guys, but I would like a shot at doing one of my ideas. Yes, I could work on it in my "garage" while doing my day job, but because I am so personally invested in whatever job I do, there's not a lot of me left over.
Nothing in the article suggests it is addressing only work “on the job.”
I've used Wakatime now for a few years (I highly recommend it), and have been going through one of the toughest projects of my life in the last 8 months. At one point I reached ~16 hours per day (for only a couple of days).
This kind of output is not sustainable for more than a few days without incurring serious problems from it. I have now gone back down to a more normal 6-9 hours per day.
It's not as simple as that when Google's Play Store is its own monopoly, enforced by shady contract deals Google has made with manufacturers to ensure no alternative can exist on Android.

If Google didn't do that, and any manufacturer were free to install whatever app store they wanted (even in conjunction with the Play Store), then maybe you could say that developers can just move to another store if they don't like Google's because "another store is just one click away" (the argument Google likes to make to "prove" that its search business is not a monopoly, which of course isn't true at all for app stores).
The instrument panel is intended to be protected by the ECS.
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The textbook with the garbage definition costs $2. I guess you get what you pay for. Hopefully the colleges using that book charge a similar amount.
>"Doomsday Clock timekeepers say risk of global annihilation remains at Cold War highs"

The only reason for that is the misguided decision to include some fuzzy-headed interpretation of catastrophic, anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) in the risk of "doomsday".

The risk of actual nuclear war is far lower today than it was during the Cold War. The risk of an individual nuclear weapon going off in a city is much higher, however.
One of these days I expect to hear CBP say "we need more than 100 miles radius of authority, so now it's 200 miles". If we're not careful, CBP will end up with 100% coverage of their supposed "authority".
Uh thats exactly what it was about... For 20 minutes Mr flamboyant Adam tried to spout bullshit about how it should be perfectly acceptable to give children, who don't even know themselves or bodies, incredibly powerful psychoactive drugs that drastically alter their behavior
>They've also introduced obstacels and lots of wavy turns to make speeding through the city very hard or impossible. If you want to go anywhere by car you're virtually stuck in a never ending traffic jam.

Now they just need to add a "congestion tax" like London has to penalize drivers for spewing fumes into the air in the city center.
Perhaps him acting as uninformed and a layman helps bridge the gap between an average joe and someone who is very informed. Sometimes acting stupid or being stupid is a great way to help smart people explain their points.
I got the same prompt yesterday for Chinese. I think I'll join you in that review.
I am mainly in sports apps.
I think it is still possible to have succes. It requires a lot of patience. Don't focus on the revenue part. And don't try to build a new hype. Very slim chance you build the next angry birds. Instead try to build a product that is based on an already successful specific category/ product. Very important is that you understand your customer and genuinely try to make a product that is better than the competition. You should love your own product. The good thing is that bigger companies tend to destroy their own product with too many ads, notifications, non relevant features etc.
Furthermore I believe it's important that your product contents can be automated without too much manual work. After all you are the only person with only so much time. I know a guy who created a fitness diet app. He cooked and photographed more than a thousand meals. He wrote many articles. In the end he gave up. It took him 80 hours per week to maintain and update all the content. His app was making maybe 100 a month.
I know another guy who created a successful formula 1 live app. He is using paid data feeds and scrapes a lot of additional data. Everything automated. Spends like 10 hours a week maintaining things. Makes about 100k a month. Similar story for a guy who created a popular weather app. In essence the only thing what they do is aggregation of data and present it in a relatively simple app.
Also don't spend too much time on analytics, seo and other optimizations. It may take 2 years before you get traction anyway. First the product then after (if it's worth) the optimization.
One concrete product where I think you can still have success is a baby monitor with 2 phones. Couple of good apps only. All premium priced. Not too difficult technically. I don't have time for it, so go for it :)
Played R6 for the first six or so months after it released, whenever I could get my friends to join in. Can't say I ever saw a cheater there. Never played Overwatch, didn't interest me.

I'm told that Dark Souls is the perfect storm of peer-to-peer and trusting clients, but I've only seen videos of cheaters, never in-person. And I've created many characters purely for invasions and summoning.

Amusingly enough, one of the two times I referenced above was actually in Minecraft of all places. We started noticing one player getting resources far faster than everyone else, faster than was reasonable for even a very good/lucky player. I mean multiple nether stars in the span of half an hour, that kind of thing. I think they were filling up books and that somehow let them duplicate items.
The real failure here was the "catastrophic failure of [the aircraft's] environmental control system". It nearly killed both of the crew.
Where can I see that picture?
Facebook is getting pulled in two directions. First, for competitive reasons people want a Facebook platform that can actually do useful things like export data.

The problem is that the other direction is for Facebook to keep your data private. The Cambridge Analytica scandal was basically blaming Facebook for giving users the ability to export their data to applications that subsequently sold it to Cambridge Analytica.

Senators are not writing code, so they are not required to be logically consistent. I predict a future in which Facebook gets fined no matter what they do.
So how exactly is this news? You go to a border crossing without ID, you're going to get detained until they figure out who you are.

I disagree. I go to the airport (a border crossing) regularly to pick people up or drop people off and I definitely do not expect to be detained while they figure out who I am.

It also sounds like he ended up talking to the same people that process people actually crossing which makes this even more tricky.

I disagree. It's pretty clear that if you're outside the secure area through which those who arrive from the other country are herded, it's not at all tricky. The fact that the person he was talking to sometimes does the passport checking seems irrelevant.
I agree with your general point but computers are weird.

Attacks and exploits can have scaling properties much like other software.

We can do something expensive (say $200k attack cost) to break the platform and sell 10k $100 mod chips.

The defender's threat model can't discount expensive attacks; the constraint is that an expensive one-off attack must not enable a cheap bypass. This is hard!
> ...the central processing unit was a large physical box, also known as the "main frame". (A mainframe was not a type of computer yet.)

Does that imply that there were other "frames"? Maybe storage frames, I/O frames...
Don't they have cameras? Can't the see he was coming from the US side?
I run an edtech platform that helps users improve their analytical skills and prepare them for technical interviews. It's somewhat niche in that it's a platform focused on beginner marketing analytics and data science.

I launched it 2 years ago, mainly to help me teach a university class more effectively (I wanted something easy for non-technical beginners to learn). I spend about 5-10 hrs a week bouncing around developing and marketing. I make enough to hire a part-time developer that helps me with engineering. Otherwise, I do everything else myself.

The toughest part for me is marketing. Currently, I do a lot of writing on Medium to talk about the industry and will include a short call out to my platform at the end. I've tried other marketing channels like Youtube and Google ads but haven't found anything that beats writing articles.

While the platform is only 2 years old, I make almost 6 figures in revenue and it keeps growing linearly. My ultimate goal is to passively have this income take over my professional salary so that I can have financial freedom. I plan to continue to work, teach, and run this side business because I love all the different aspects that each venture provides me.
It’s more like saying they want to live in a society with rules and regulations which are enforced rather than a Wild West ultra liberal free market economy.
What version of python are you using?
Why a CLI tool instead of a GUI? This sort of thing seems like a poor use-case for a CLI experience.
I've jumped around all over the place, I can never settle on a tool and it's really frustrating

I've been through

* evernote - slow and buggy UX, properietary format

* emacs org mode - good but you need buy in to org format, user experience across devices e.g. mobile not so good)

* quiver - pretty good, markdown format, but lacking android support

* git + markdown files - ok, but a bit finicky, again annoying across devices

* joplin - pretty good, has mobile support, has markdown etc

* nVault - lightning fast, no mobile support

I saw a thread on HN recently talking about a similar topic and someone mentioned TiddlyWiki which seems promising, I'll investigate it soon, although I suspect I'll probably jump when the next thing comes along.

Luckily most of my 'wiki' is in markdown format so it's fairly portable, I just want something that

* is easily accessible across devices

* supports markdown (+ rendering)

* supports inline LaTeX (e.g. $$x = 5 + y$$)

* renderer should support inline images

* good search capability
You can't reach feature parity to an active product.

Say they have 10 developers and 200 features. You can go from 0 to 200 features in 2? years. How many new features have they added in 2 years, 100? So the cycle repeats.

Do a subset of the competitor but do it really well.
I find I want to reply, but I don't know how to do that without getting wrapped up in a discussion that's too easy to be misinterpreted or dismissed here as political.

I think you are conflating a few issues.

On the one hand there is the bipartisan surveillance issue that Snowden shined a light on.

More recently we have a bunch of Trump and anti-Trump narratives and sometimes conspiracy theories.

I suspect some people on the thread have squished those into one. But the intelligence community is likely complicated, motivations multi-faceted, people holding diverse opinions. I don't think these things are the same, or you can dismiss or endorse one cause for the other.
> That's basically like saying you prefer to live under a totalitarian regime than a democracy

Horrible analogy - the App Store is not "life" it's business. We deal with demanding, undemocratic platforms in business all the time.

The way forward is the open web. I support that and there's room for both.
I've noticed this too, and that's not counting the time it takes to park. Even some bike routes outside of downtown break even with cars.
Firefox Sync syncs your tabs, bookmarks, passwords, etc. Your read it later list is synced through Pocket (which is owned by Mozilla). They exist on desktop and mobile.
15 years ago, I brought back a suitcase full of pirated DVDs and knockoff purses. Most people are better off declaring uncontroversial minimums on declarations forms rather than naively being "too honest" because they're going to cause themselves and others no end of problems trying too hard to be "honest" while simultaneously incriminating themselves by filling out forms incorrectly by not using street smarts. Carrying ID and making the bureaucrat's job easier, where possible, will lead to smoother sailing for the traveler.
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No, because I'm now better equipped to guide my own life than my parents, and it would cause them unnecessary burden. I understand many parents are poorly equipped for this task to start, but that's a different problem.

There are a very few people I really trust and love in my life, and if they had a crystal ball into my soul and history and could read my every thought and action, I wouldn't mind. In fact, if we were smarter and could handle that scale of information I'd even like it. I'm as open with the people I love as possible. Surveillance becomes an issue when it is done by adversaries, such as various large corporations you and many people here might work for, your government at every level, etc.
As a former Burlington resident that participated in that election this whole case study is a travesty - the baby was thrown out with the bath water.

Essentially what happened is that the person who was the 2nd most popular in the first round ended up overtaking the Democrat, so it wasn't a wild swing or anything... but after that happened the winner turned out to be a terrible person who was removed from office, then the two major parties lobbied to get IRV thrown out with the bad mayor and managed to get the majority on board.

As I've mentioned elsewhere, it's essentially like looking at Nixon/Clinton/ye favorite impeachment person and saying... "Welp, we're impeaching Nixon, so I guess this Democracy thing is a bust, I wonder if George II would be willing to take us back."

The two major parties warped what was just a bad candidate into a reason to regress the voting system because it allowed non-two party candidates to win easily (they still can win because 802 is serious about quality over party - hence the republican governor, and socialist senator/former mayor of BTV)
I think your appraisal is probably a fair one, but I wouldn't isolate it to iCloud, it'd be anything where a device operates with things outside of itself.

My car isn't new (2007) and lacks the built in bluetooth-ish stuff. So I have my iPhone connected to the aux via the lightning-to-headphone jack adapter. My Apple Watch is my means of adjusting music: not perfect, but I have a rule (seems to be the bare minimum) that I only track forward/back/whatever if I'm on the interstate and there are no cars near me even though the hand with the watch on it is on the steering wheel (I'm glancing, so that's a cautionary thing that even though it is brief, I could be a danger to others). Well, since the latest updates and point releases we're now at the stage where the Apple Watch has a hard time staying in sync with my iPhone. If I start a track, the watch is aware and the now playing "app" is visible. But if I pause the song and the Watch blacks out, if I activate it, I'm back at the main watch face with time and date. Before, it'd return to playing now and I could tap play button and be good to go. Instead, I need to wait until I'm at a stop and turn it back on via the iPhone (in which case, watch now shows now playing again) or hope "Hey Siri, resume music" works.

This also falls into what the article talks about that it is a regression in behavior that doesn't, seemingly anyway, involve a crash. It's terrible, but it isn't going to register on any of their logs/reports because the devices seem to be functional throughout.
I'm gonna have to disagree that "sit at home all day" is the obvious answer. In fact, that's quite obviously not the answer.
Thanks for the comment. I honestly didn't consider trying it on a VM. I've been thinking of migrating my blog off of wordpress since I don't really like my old design and the actual writing interface isn't great. However I didn't want to have to mess with getting it on my AWS instance if it wasn't going to work.

I'll stage it up locally and see how I like it. I used ghost for a while in the 1.0 days, but I had an issue with an upgrade and I ended up switching back to wordpress. I also was super into single pane transparent design at the time. These days I just want my writing to be easy to read and navigate. Cheers, and thanks again.
>but I can't help but be struck by how dangerous it seems to commute on a bike pregnant with a toddler onboard.

People in Japan do it all the time.
This is IMO the best option. Just wondering, do you automate the process, or you simply take a backup once in a while?

And for OP: the MBOX file format used for Mail works well in Mozilla Thunderbird using this addon ( https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/importexporttoo... ), if you need something to visualize its content easily.
> I disagree. It's pretty clear that if you're outside the secure area through which those who arrive by aircraft are herded, it's not at all tricky.

This did not take place at an Airport, but rather, a Canadian/US border patrol station where according to someone else in this thread, a bus stop for border crossing exists.

It seems entirely reasonable to me that those agents are more vigilant against "I totally forgot my ID at home".
I love the long form discussion. I feel I can actually here someones thoughts and perspectives rather than short meaningless soundbites. The lack of guests shouting over each other is great as well. He has also exposed me to some wonderful thinkers like Sean Carrol who I otherwise would not have come across.
You couldn't, not via console access anyway.

However, if the attacker gains RCE many IPMI implementations theoretically allow for DMA, but this is a significantly more complex attack to mount in practice with no public PoCs available.
While it's not proving the majority of my income, I've been growing BannerJS for a couple of months from a side project for some of my own sites into some nice income on the side.

https://bannerjs.com
Wow. This was super clutch for a mockup I am doing at work. Thanks to whoever did compiled this resource!
All of this has absolutely, truly, nothing to do with rewriting something in Rust. You could also rewrite the same library again in C and have the exact same conundrum.

Also, people build dependencies on effectively “hobby” projects all the time. Open source in particular works well this way because the dependents have a good reason to contribute back; the users become stakeholders and contributors. The same may not be true of internal software, but again, this has little to do with the concept of rewriting something in Rust.

This is really diverging into a discussion that has nothing to do with the original paragraph I addressed.
There is link in the Reddit discussion [1], unfortunately the original Estonian article is not available - it's probably about the Baltic Air Policing. Also Google search returns some results.

[1] - https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/51feuy/it_turns_out...
> It's his formal training, he is a licensed acupuncturist. The man has absolutely no business talking about heart disease, especially with an experienced cardiologist.

This is an extremely closed minded view—not everyone with formal training is automatically an expert. This is the appeal to authority fallacy, and a poor one at that.

> From a scientific point of view, the only diet that as ever shown to stop the progression of heart disease is a whole-food plant-based diet.

This is not true either, and I find it ironic it’s stated authoritatively with no sources.
An FPGA-based real quantum computer emulator
so common as to justify issuing $2k watches as backup?

That’s nothing; back in the day Rolexes and Breitlings were issued as standard to pilots!
I'm sure the regulators are knowledgeable about APIs.
> Telling stakeholders a longer timeline than necessary

I understand what you mean, but this only creates a escalation problem. Everybody has to lie to get anything done. So, it is impossible to know if the decisions taken in the company are reasonable or not.

I guess that this behavior makes sense if everybody up the ladder are themselves lying.

> taking the bullet from execs

I guess that this is part of the same type of company. Where execs punish mistakes, like if mistakes were not part of your job. I have seen such companies driven by fear and the irony of it is that everybody is unhappy and mistakes are repeated again and again as the goal is just o hide them not to learn from it.

> The manager you don't want throws you under the bus, over promises and demands crunch, takes the credit for your work. Equally sneaky, but selfish.

I guess that this is the manager that ends being promoted to be an exec and creates a new cycle of unreason, pain and lack of productivity.
You're not thinking of the CBP's job and the effort delta of a traveler with ID and one WITHOUT. The latter probably triggers all sorts of additional checks, paperwork, and hassles for everyone involved.
> How is that person supposed to know the guy didn't get off a bus (which stop there and people go inside the building) and is just saying something to get past them?

Yeah no. That's not how border crossings work at all.

It would be pretty embarrassing if people going in, going out, and those who are there to visit the customs office weren't kept separate.

But then I'm only assuming that border crossings in the US work the same way as border crossings elsewhere. Maybe they're a clown fiesta instead. Who knows.
Care to name a couple examples? As it is, it sounds like a classic No True Scotsman to me.

No True Whistleblower gets "glowing plaudits" and "ongoing adulation".
An interesting theory, but there's no proof of it, is there?
The freedom from worrying about hunger and basic needs and violence from others is security. It isn't referencing total physical security, it is referencing government vs. no government.
A story about the love for a mother but also about the love for a country
I've just skimmed the Wikipedia article about quantum computing... and am I wrong in thinking that it is not a big deal from a purely practical perspective? Some cryptography would have to be updated and a few specialized problems would become feasible.

To be honest, after the hype I was expecting there would be more applications.
Equal representation for sign languages.
STAR Voting is reasonable.

https://star.vote/
Snowden's revelations are massive. They should be cited anytime every time an intelligence reptile anonymously leaks something to the press, which is every day. Instead, the only time Snowden makes the news is when they want to announce some new persecution like this recent lawsuit over his memoir. Here is on Joe f@#$ing Rogan for goodness sakes! That is not widespread coverage.
What is a "first actually working quantum computer" if not this Sycamore device that Google used to demonstrate quantum supremacy?
Aaronson's blog goes into this. The problem is exponentially difficult to simulate in the number of qibits. Each quibdit doubles the storage required. 25 quibits can be done on a laptop. 50 requires a supercomputer. 53 is just small enough to fit on the biggest supercomputer. 55 doesn't fit.

There's also an alternative algorithm that requires less space, but it takes longer.
I don't think I'll ever quite understand this mentality that "not having a job"=="sitting at home all day". Do people not have hobbies of any kind? They really only find meaning in pursuit of money?
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