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Show HN: Create 3D content for websites without code (Early Access)
Why would anyone? The riskiest place I would keep passwords is in an encrypted archive. Barring unknown side channel attacks, my brain is less secure than that.
Costco's largest value add is their curated selection. They never stock the best nor the worst. Shopping is relaxing because you know you won't be screwed, and you only have to answer one question: "Do I want this type of product?", you don't have to answer "Yes, which one of the 5 or 10 available?"
TPU-trained flower detection model for 104 flower types in 5 minutes
I have about 10 TB of video files. I use BackBlaze for Windows but I would like the files to be available on other computers and my phone in my local network.

What can I use to do this and still keep offsite backups?
And here you are typing about them on hackernews.

Seems like the marketing worked!
I would definitely try "BA Baracus" mode for intercontinental flights if it were available and safe.
Their adverts used to be all over the tube. That’s the only reason I know of them (most people in know IRL opting for Revolut or Monzo)
99% of the time I don't miss chrome. Google brand has faded in my mind.

TBH chrome still has an edge (slightly slicker, slightly leaner). But it's not worth it.
A Couple’s Final Words to Each Other Accidentally Recorded
Not because they uniquely enable the user to switch off their 2G radios and thereby defeat now trivial MITM?
I have a bricked mk1, it was a convenient place to keep private keys while it worked but unfortunately it didn't last very long before it quit booting.
Finding out that the UK has a "Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation" alone gave me a warm fuzzy glow, they have Ethics before innovation, think on that.
You’re not allowed to say anything bad about Firefox or Mozilla around these parts without being heavily censored in case you hadn’t noticed :)
Well, unlike some N26 users who get their accounts locked without warning explanation or anyone to turn to - at least the UK gets a notice.
> With the UK now having left the European Union, we will in due course be unable to operate in the UK with our European banking license.

Isn't this still up for discussion?

Since they're only giving two months notice, they could wait until much later in the year before shutting up shop in the UK.
Airbnb Swings to a Loss as Costs Climb Ahead of IPO
Total years of operation is significantly longer for Boeing though.
Oh nooooooo
Serious question: why don't you increase the size of text on your OS as a whole? Or browser default zoom at a minimum? If you're having to bump up the size individually on most sites, it seems like the problem is that your computer is misconfigured, no?

Regardless, the point is that it's important for body text sizes to be roughly consistent across sites, so that you can find the zoom level that's right for you and stick with it, rather than have to adjust it for each new site.
That is covered in the article but the biblical usage is not the point here.
It will be nice if Firefox restores support for high-quality scaling. transform(scale) used to work well, then for a long time it produced horribly pixelated text. They improved it a few months back, but it's still noticeably pixelated. Chrome is perfectly smooth.
>Who decide what is just or unjust?

Everybody does. Everybody must, because delegating the decision in itself is merely an option of that decision. Whether you obey power, follow your own greed, defer to social norms, or carefully weigh your own values and the consequences of your actions for yourself, all people are moral agents whether or not they realize which path they are following.

You raise a reasonable objection; I'm not advocating murder or wanton lawlessness. But here's a whole category of illegitimate laws that should be disobeyed: prohibitions born out of moral panic. These laws don't restrict actual harm, whether immediate like violence or accreted like pollution. They restrict the mere chance of harm by denying individual agency, out of fear that it could possibly be used for harm by even the tiniest number of people.

That's why simply discussing these laws isn't enough. They originate in fear and blindness that can't be reasoned against. The mere word of the thing evokes a fear response that shuts down thought: "drugs", "guns", "homosexuality", "racial integration". Good people have to be willing to break the law to show the difference between the panic and the actual outcomes.

Societal progress doesn't come from people musing about what they think they'd like to try, if only it were legal. It comes from people who risk everything to say "This forbidden thing is actually good and we know because we've done it, and it's so important that even banning it won't stop us".
I'm curious whether Upwork actually makes $1000 per month in fees from author's business. That'd be quite impressive, meaning upwards from $10k per month on contractor-related expenses (assuming Upwork takes at least 10%).

Alternatively, this could mean that actual contractor bills add up to about $1000 per month total, including Upwork fees.
I think their more premium plans offer sharing
> For example, I close tabs when I am done with a site

I also do this, but my definition of done is very flexible and blurry.
What’s the thought process behind closing them? Using tree style tabs I have a forest of tabs. I am working with lots of ‘web apps’ (currently mainly the AWS console) and closing tabs would mean having to go and find the particular resources every time I want to work with them. I probably hit each of around 50 tabs - across two or three windows - an average of 20 times today. Then there were dozens of ephemeral tabs too.
Sad news, I've been using them for over a year, their card design is the most beautiful I've seen yet in the UK (1).

(1) https://miro.medium.com/max/4000/1*XScUHKRVuzfiRKttAfJ64w.pn...
I think churches fuel poverty more than they help. Religion teaches people that they are the way they are because that's how 'God' intended them to be and that they'll be rewarded with riches when they go to 'heaven'.
Fancy title, with content everyone knows. Meh!
I'm surprised you're having issues with RAM. I had 1050 opened tabs in firefox nightly and my x201 (1st gen i5) has only 8GB and only 50% of it was used on average by ffx.
I’m not sure I buy the “clean code” dogma anymore. If the purpose is to keep the code clean for the sake of the language I think you have missed the point. I think the code should be clean with regards to what it is trying to solve not wrt what language or style you have chosen. Code that is obvious what’s business solution it solves, no matter how messed up that case is is a win.

I think it has conway’s law written all over it. And as soon you try to fight that you have lost that battle.

Code for the sake of Keeping code clean is wrong, but pretty.
Thanks for asking. We are building a Project Management tool inside Homer. It will provide a standardised workflow to collaborate with a studio you choose, and oversee your video project, end-to-end.

Is this what you had in mind?
Putting it in a larger context, everyone is forgotten, and quite quickly. This is lamented in Ecclesiastes, for example.

Along these lines, there's an excellent little documentary on Netflix right now about one of the 20th centuries worst disasters, the failure of the St. Francis Dam. You've never heard about it, because it's already been forgotten.
One more Firefox release, one more long list of people on HN who:

* have switched from Chrome because <...> reasons why Chrome is worse or has become worse

* have always used Firefox and never left it

* have used Firefox but have faced issues and would want to try it if <...>

What I, as a long time Firefox user and evangelist, would like to know is how we can have Firefox thrive and grow, what Mozilla Corporation is doing (or not doing) to get more funding for Firefox, and why we aren't seeing all those services that they wanted to sell to generate revenue. The Firefox team has reduced in size recently, and more money might probably help avoid such situations (or postpone them).

P.S.: Donations on mozilla.org go to Mozilla Foundation, which is the non-profit parent of Mozilla Corporation (the maker of Firefox). I do not know of any direct way for end users/supporters to fund Firefox development.
Guess the value and quantity of their UK customers didn't warrant obtaining an equivalent "UK banking license"?

> ... we will in due course be unable to operate in the UK with our European banking license.
> Though the only real new Bank in the UK to do well, traction wise would be Metro Bank

I'm not in the UK, but isn't Monzo also doing quite well?
please expand..
It was actually equipment connected TO mainframes. It was a weird world, very old, with old school people / processes.

It wasn't where I wanted to be, but it was also my first real job for a guy who dropped out of college (I was a poor student / shouldn't have gone when I was that age)... so I didn't mind at all.

But it was weird, lots of old east coast customers with old ways. One of our supersmart engineers was a woman. She would be on a call and would tell them their mainframe was configured wrong and straight up some guys would ask for her manager every time.... every time.

So she would come get me, a lowly n00b with a male voice and I'd pretend to be her manager looking things over and tell them the same thing, word for word, and they'll belive me. Weird world.
Wow. In a different timeline I'd dismiss that as tinfoil hat time, but in this one it seems spot on.
Boy if you could find the name of that book I'd really appreciate it
One is an engineer, the other is a businessman (salesman and fund raiser).
Businesses pulling out of the UK based on the Brexit process is bad for the UK, and I'm sure this was indeed mainly motivated by N26's need for a UK banking licence, which is a costly and difficult process to go through. However, it's worth noting that they are pretty small in the UK (~200k users).

They're very successful in Germany where banking is a very slow, difficult, manually run industry (from what I've heard), but in the UK we have generally very good banking infrastructure – payments are normally instant and free, and there's a lot of consumer protection with things like the current account switching service guarantee.

Startups such as Monzo and Starling started in this great infrastructure and now offer relatively compelling products, while the incumbents are getting to grips with modern tech and doing better than many people realise.

N26 on the other hand just didn't have a compelling offering. They charged for most/all of their accounts (explicit charges for accounts in the UK are uncommon), they lacked features, and their marketing was unremarkable compared to the competition.
The New Status Game for Companies: Fewer Employees
no read the damn project notes on the ones that forked Truecrypt its obvious why as it needed fixes and someone clone and forked it to fix it. Not every action is NSA-CIA rigged..they are not hidden bogey men(women) and canni fact be defeated with light, truth, programming, and math
Yes I remember these, 'fast banking' was their motto.
Costco capitalism can be summarized as hire top 5% of the population and the rest can take care of itself. However, not all worker are in the top 5% and they need jobs as well. Hence Walmart capitalism
America is a word, and a place, and a group of people, and a government. All of these are fallible. Everything beyond these is subjective and constantly in flux.

"American Values" have meant countless different things to different people at different times. Like Miller you can try to wrap them up in a coherent story, but it will eventually reveal itself to be at best incomplete, at worst delusional.

If you want to advocate for values then advocate for values, not Americana. The concept of Americana does not exist in any concrete reality, and can (and will) be co-opted by whichever politician, or corporation, or individual, who can use it for their own ends. By stoking the flames one is only sharpening a weapon that can be used by anybody, for anything.
It means that Google can push technologies that benefit their ad tracking business, or choose to use non-standard APIs to make their apps run faster than competitors. Both of these things they're already doing. While they might not go the route of Microsoft, putting their Active-X plugins in IE, using deprecated and non-standard APIs is pretty damn close.

Furthermore, all these forks result in bugfixes and new features making it back into Chromium. That allows Chromium to evolve faster than other browsers. That's not to say that Firefox hasn't been keeping up and pushing past Chrome on some important fronts (CSS Sub-Grid, for one), but I'm afraid a point will come where Firefox can't keep up with all the new web APIs that developers will want to use.

Another fork of Chromium doesn't lessen Google's influence over the market.
Ask HN: Is there a way for me to pay to get specific Linux issues fixed?
I'm currently using Ubuntu as my daily driver, and as much as some people like to say that Ubuntu "just works", it doesn't. There's daily issues you just have to get used to or spend 8 hours scrolling through forums and stack overflow finding fixes for, only to have broken on the next update.

Is it possible for me to sponsor getting specific issues in linux fixed? I know "linux" is broad here, I'm leaving it broad on purpose because I'm not attached to a specific DE or distro.
It's not like they couldn't obtain an UK license if they wanted to.

Revolut got a banking license from Estonia to continue to operate in the EU.

(For a company of their size) it's their choice, more than the effects of Brexit.
I'm not clear if your post was implying this was the case or not, but this is an interesting, well-sourced article on the links between Cambridge Analytica and Russia [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/politics/cambridge-ana...
Zdnet Now you can take NSA free Python course for beginners
Oh god. I did the binary tree tree thing, too, and also in C. We needed a symbol table for a thing, and I assumed symbols would come in in random order. Oops. Someone suggested AVL trees. The reference I used (which may have been Knuth) left delete "as an exercise for the reader." That led to my next big oops: Pondering how to delete from an AVL tree while slicing onions for dinner. Lots of blood. I still have the scar.
> As somebody who lives in the UK (London area), I've never even heard of this company N26, let alone aware that they had UK operations.

They're a huge presence in mainland Europe, especially Germany, where they're the de facto bank of choice for all non-European immigrants living in Berlin, Munich, etc.
Here's one reason I would need something like S3. Sure, I hack all that together into something barely functional myself, but it's not worth it. Pretty handy. https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/serverless-image-handler/
Not offhand. It's a problem I've noticed more often when looking at translations of larger bodies of text, though. Translating simple, highly standardized sentences like those is what neural translation does best, because it is able to basically just consult an internal phrasebook that it's compiled from its training data.
> I was home alone as a kid, watching some movie on TV. I saw some guy grab a beer can and do that thing where you jam a pen in the side to make a hole, and then crack open the top.

Given what I think is her age (judging from using C64s and whatnot) I'm going to go out on a limb and guess this was "The Sure Thing" [0] with John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga. It's a great movie if you haven't seen it.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090103/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
I don't even understand the theory underneath this supposed conspiracy, since full-disk encryption is utterly mainstream at this point. I also don't need to get too deep into what I don't like about TrueCrypt; use it if you like it. The problem is with the model of full-disk encryption; outside of phones with deeply integrated hardware designs that support it, FDE is the least powerful form of encryption we use. It wasn't even a speed bump for the Ulbricht investigators.

By all means: enable FDE. You have to turn it on. It's not optional. But the threat it defends against is not the threat many people think it defends against. It's hard to imagine it being such a priority that any government would launch a conspiracy to shut down an open source project.
Because the rest of my infrastructure currently runs on AWS and aws egress charges are far more expensive than the b2 savings.
Indeed - Monzo has 50% of challenger bank market share. N26 was almost behind Revolut and Starling and had little traction in the UK.

Source: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/saving/article-7647253/M...
Announcing cross-platform dual-screen XamarinForms support for Duo/Neo (Preview)
AFAICT, Git documentation capitalizes the first letter:

> The advantages of Git compared to other source control systems. [0]

> You can learn more about individual Git commands with "git help command". [1]

[0] https://git-scm.com
[1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/git.1.html
Usually new Tests(Unit or Integration) or monitoring.
I think the author mistakes messy code for technical debt. Even with clean code, you will have technical debt because as the business evolves, your code becomes stale. For instance, your UI might start out simple so you start with just jquery. The code is clean because you didn't write crazy long methods, etc. Business keeps adding features to the page and after a while jquery becomes unmanageable. Now you have technical debt.
> Yeah coffee is one of the rare items I'd be a stickler for buying a specific brand name.

And that’s not really how Costco works. I don’t buy coffee there either, to be fair.
People Are Jailbreaking Used Teslas to Get the Features They Expect
We built https://safer.chat some time ago and I have been using it on my phone for a while, there are some glitches but in general it's been usable.
I would love to know the name of this book, sounds perfect for learning about combustion engines.
I think you are underestimating a factor here. RMS spent many years of his life traveling around, sofa surfing, giving talks. There are probably tens of thousands of people that have hosted him or facilitated his being onsite with them in some way.

If even a third of those people had something resembling my two experiences with RMS than the anti-Stallman effort as you describe it is a tiny thing compared to the thousands of people in the industry that have come to know RMS personally well enough to look at the reports and find them more than plausible. Or, in my case and seemingly in many others, look at the reports and say to themselves, "I saw him do this, I know that he does this, I should have done something about it at the time."

In summary: I think that it goes a long way to explain MIT's decisions and what you may be perceiving as a general lack of support in the community to point out that thousands of people had first hand experiences with RMS that fit with the picture being painted. The reports were not isolated. They were many. The fact that they were not acted on earlier is criminal. The fact that they were finally acted upon is just.
>it will mean needing a British licence. No big deal.

It is though -- a banking licence is a big deal and they aren't handed out like hunting licences. They are very expensive and introduce a lot of overhead to the financial company.
£40M Dutchman 'ready to make big move' Lampard told ahead proposed move
I'm still trying to understand the point of your comment, but regardless: You haven't heard of it. So what? People will be affected by this. This will also not be the only company who will have to leave the UK because they've deemed the cost of legalising their business there after Brexit is not worth the benefits. So you're either in denial about that fact or you think it doesn't matter, which perhaps works for you as a schadenfreude for the people affected? I don't get it.
It's the one reason I'm glad that all web browsers on iOS run Webkit.

Now if Apple could just fix their damn flexbox bugs and implement web app features...
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Agreed, but again, I ETL my data into a warehouse, as a developer (not a BI person), I'm reaching for spark, flink, or whatever to roll my analytics, and python/flask/d3 for building web dashboards.

Then, once you have 'insight' into your Data, you can easily 'do' something with it without the limitations of a tiered product.
In the US, we would probably drive our own cars anywhere within a 250 km (150 mi) radius, which costs about $170 in fuel and vehicle maintenance, and takes about 2 hours each way.

Tax flying in the EU, and people will likely take more trains. Try it in the US, and you're just pushing people back into their cars.
Yep, wasn’t until I started working in large codebases that I realized that inheritance/don’t repeat yourself/etc. could easily become antipatterns if used too much
> My neighbors have money. They spend it extremely poorly. It's a single mom with 2 kids. Both kids have iPhones, iPads, PS4s, cable TV, you name it.

iPhones and video games are very cheap compared to good schools and safe and mentally stimulating childcare.

A poor person's children having an iPhone and PlayStation is no more an indication of their having money than my kids not having those things is an indication that I'm poor.

If anything the correlation is slightly on the opposite direction: I can afford better (expensive) activities for my kids (i.e. horseback riding camp, after school enrichment classes), which cost me tens of thousands per year.

Poor people routinely occupy their children with an iPhone with Candy Crush, which is cheap by comparison. Those things create the temporary illusion of prosperity, both for those in poverty, and for observers like you.

> Just recently he boasted that his mom is going to buy him a brand new $1500 gaming rig. I remarked that seemed quite expensive and wondered where the money would come from. "tax return" he replied non-chalantly. He also said once they got their tax return they would be going to Disneyland.

You shouldn't necessarily believe everything that a child in need says about what their family is purchasing. People (children and adults) do a lot of wishful thinking out loud. Some of it is to assuage themselves, and to feel normalized among their more privileged peers.

> These kids need mentors more than they need cash.

Families need cash to reduce financial stress levels. Being a single mother on govt benefits isn't the cakewalk you make it out to be. And absolutely, kids need mentors, but good mentors also don't come cheap, and they usually aren't willing to work with kids who has behavioral issues originating in financial stress and cheap entertainment distractions.

Volunteer mentors want to work with the "diamonds in the rough" kids, because the reward for mentorship is feeling like a super hero who "made a difference in one child's life".

That approach doesn't scale. The mentorship program that scales is
the one right on front of us: financially stable parents and community, who have an inherent interest in the child's development.
I'd never connected the dots, but I think you're right. Most developer crypto zealots I know are also zealots about things like: micro services, static typing, the brave browser, and <front-end frameworks du jour>.
Is the Hedgehog and the Fox just an overly-complex (but more concrete) derivation of monism vs pluralism?
That sounds great but if I was mailed postmortem docs every day I'd soon start forwarding them to spam folder. Do you know how many people go through them?