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How would you avoid the TSA? Or the urge of people to arrive early lest they miss their prepaid flight and have to pay rebooking fees? I doubt it's economical to just schedule those rockets no matter how many passengers take them.
My Dad Has Coronavirus. I Don’t Know If I Should Say Goodbye.
I get the feeling that's because gluten-free food is - for some people - medically necessary, while people with, say, allergies to some animal product e.g. eggs will usually just buy normal food and be careful not to buy anything containing egg. As a result, "vegan" food has a negative perception that "gluten free" escapes.
I bought both my modem and my router, so I'd be a little incredulous if my ISP had somehow forced a port open on it.

The 20005 one may be some port that NetGear uses for its USB Printing, I've found some articles that mention it.

It also struck me that I hit it with nmap using the LAN IP, so perhaps these are only open within the network. I probably need to hit the external IP of the router to see what is externally open. ShieldsUP! didn't show anything unusual.[1]

EDIT: Disclosure of a vulnerability regarding port 20005[2], and Netgear confirming that it does affect my router[3], but should have been fixed. I assume the "fix" was fixing the buffer overflow vulnerability, rather than closing the port altogether.

[1] https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

[2] https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/177092/

[3] https://kb.netgear.com/28393/NETGEAR-Product-Vulnerability-A...
The hidden secret of software delivery at big tech companies
If the st really hits the fan you won't be able to run that freezer for long unless you also have sufficient solar and an ability to run it without grid tie.
A lot of nimbys with connections to the us plane making industry from a UK perspective and don't get me started on the TSR2
It isn't about the Dow. It is about the restaurants that don't have cash-on-hand having to close. It is about the people who live paycheck-to-paycheck now having to decide how to spend their last twenty dollars with the only hope of relief being a measure that is still being debated. It is the factories that are shuttered.

The last thing this is about is the Dow.
And yet - S&P 500 reacts with a sharp climb and most investors already think we hit the bottom two days ago.
cfg/CNFGRAPI.h:10:9: fatal error: Cocoa/Cocoa.h: No such file or directory

also:

./setup_t -t xl64 >setup.sh
Unknown value for -t

attention to details indeed.

[edit]: I assume this'll only work on a Mac. Too bad, looked fun.
> I really wish Apple would put an end to this.

This is what really gives lie to the whole walled garden thing. Its selling point is supposed to be in Apple preventing things like this, but here we are in reality and they don't. Meanwhile they do e.g. prevent Signal from replacing Apple's default app for SMS, which has no purpose other than to create barriers for cross-platform competitors to the default apps.
I count not having to sign cards as one of the perks of working remote. Please don't take this from me.
Now I've seen everything. Clearly I'm past my prime. I'm going to give up web development and go live in a cave or something.
macOS (neé OS X) is actually more Unix than Linux, as it is certified.
On a per capita basis, the US is at 20% of where Italy is.
> If these are built on water, a distance from land, it should be possible to construct a nearby floating rectenna to crack and cryocool hydrogen and oxygen for propellant via beamed energy from a solar sat.

That's such an enormous undertaking that it dwarfs the rockets themselves.

SpaceX, which is the only company that's even close to achieving this, prefers kerolox.

So what threat are we trying to mitigate? Liquid oxygen is not very problematic. We transport large amounts of the stuff on roads with no issue. Kerosene is used everywhere.
I serve this site from RAM
> In fact in Vo it was zero.

Isn't it a bit disingenuous to use a city with 89 cases as being statistically significant?
What value did you have in mind?
This makes sense to me, doesn't "based" or "base" mean that the food is _mostly_ made from plants.

As someone who's trying to follow a vegan diet I am very happy about "plant-based" food generally being vegan though!
I am reading Capital & Idelogy currently. I find interesting how Piketty challenges the view of property rights. Many think it is something completely natural, sacred. But he shows it is actually ideology. It is not "the nature of things".

As I understand it in the book, property is not, and should not be seen as, a 100% inalienable human right. If it was so, it would be completely fair that slave-owners in Haiti and Santo Domingo were paid to forego slavery, when slavery was abolished. It was seen as a compensation for this new law that reduced the value of their property: slaves. Of course, slaves themselves were not compensated. Since they were the main beneficiaries of this new law, they actually had to pay for it in some cases. This is actually what happened.

In the USA, there were discussions about a similar outcome, but the sheer enormity of the needed compensation made it impossible This was one big reason that lead to the civil war.

This is the kind of weird, morally unacceptable reasoning about property rights that you will run into if you accept property as a all-powerful, unconstestable principle.
Indeed. There does seem an issue of what baseline to use. Elsevier isn't usually thought of as a useful ethical baseline, but here it's a displaced competitor. Companies embed a variety of telemetry. And while much open source doesn't, some does, and this is perhaps increasing. And yet, if say Firefox always maintained an open but empty connection to mozilla, would it be adequate to suggest "well, no, that's not under privacy preferences, but it's documented on our privacy web page, and can be disabled by editing about.config.mumble"? Perhaps with the shift from desktop to phone, expectations of what it means to be local are changing? "Your core data is local, not hostage", but now "of course the app chats on the web... doesn't everything?"?
The questions were soft even for little league. most interviews are marketing pieces, but this might as well been an infomercial.

But at the end of day there is no innovation.
I don't see how striving for consistency by avoiding nation-shaming labels is a "problem". Trying to not be hypocritical is generally viewed as a good thing.
Just curious, what is Zotero's business model (as open-source software for academicians)?

It's most direct competition, Mendeley, has always been closed-source, and then got acquired by Elsevier.

To make it clear: I love that Zotero is open-source. And I am happy it is growing (I remember the early versions, well over a decade ago, when I was writing my Master's thesis). I am just curious if they are based mostly on the storage payments, grants, or voluntary work.
That piece is talking about suborbital Spaceplanes

I agree with the article. But we may have suborbital rockets. Which are much more feasible.
This is an amazing post for a bunch of reasons (as soon as I finished reading it a few days ago, I immediately sent it to half a dozen people), but one that should immediately jump out for you is that the picture of the Mac Plus is dithered using Bill Atkinson's dithering algorithm. Atkinson's done a bunch of really awesome things, but most notably, he played probably the biggest role in the genesis of the Macintosh.

Very few posts on the WWW have the same attention to detail and wonderful playfulness as this one. It's an incredibly rare thing, and insanely pleasant to read.
Ask HN: Open-source API for publishing files updates?
I'm looking for a solution that would allow users to upload resources through a web interface and these resources would be available for client apps so they can be updated. For example:

- Client app consumes images

- Client app asks the API: "What's new since yesterday?"

- API returns a list of files to download

- Client app downloads the files and updates the time it checked for updates

I assume this is a fairly common situation and I would like to avoid having to build something like this if it already exists.
I imagine in an alternative universe that Snowden's book is about his time at Facebook.
Would it be helpful to you have your server automatically notify (call or text) an on call team member when events/error happen? Something like, "An H12 error just ocurred in XYZ server", or "Github is experiencing issues"?/Is that something you'd pay for? Not sure how much of that PagerDuty already has.

Are there any other pain points/missing things for you with your current setup?
Please share you feedback here.
USA map added into Covid-19 tracking Dashboard
This just happened here. I want to get into HF but have been spending all my money on other toys lol.
Add some example gifs to play with! I don't have any gifs on hand, and I'm unlikely to go through the hassle of finding a good candidate gif, downloading it, and then reuploading it to your site. Would love to play with some good examples!
> If we truly want cross trained people, the education system is the one that needs to change.

Absolutely and it goes beyond the profiteering that people typically rant about. The barriers to obtaining a degree for the sake of obtaining a degree are high in itself. Then we add bureaucracy and a bottom-up approach to teaching that I think excludes a good amount of potentially qualified people that would otherwise do great.

Software development is a great example of highly successful people that either dropped out of high school or college because they discovered a top-down approach can lead to the same outcome as a bottom-up academic one. Top-down example being: you want to build an app, you learn only what you need to build it (e.g. html, css, and javascript) then with continued years of applying that experience in related areas you naturally acquire more of the fundamentals of computer science.

I don't think it's appreciated here on HN because a good chunk of the members have higher education degrees and can't see past their own bias, hence the down-votes and lack of actual responses. I've seen this topic appear before and with it comes condescending responses towards those that don't hold a degree. This was especially evident on the HN platform when people learned Edward Snowden was a drop-out.

The current attitude towards this is well rooted in society and still a hard one to break. Thankfully tech companies are starting to come around to the idea.
That's a tough question. Like most things that are complex, there is probably no one measure that accurately captures inequality.

What would make sense to me would be measuring the wealth of the majority of the population (3 middle quintiles) and then bringing up the bottom quintile to an acceptable level with transfer payments.

That reminds me as well, a lot of the inequality measures that you see ignore government transfers. So yes, the Gini would measure employment income, but it's not an accurate picture of actual income at the end of the year.
There's actually a term for those "normal" foods that are vegan but not labelled as such - you'll often see them called "accidentally vegan" foods in the vegan community.

Oreos are a famous (and my favourite) example :)
This feels like propaganda for python. :)
Nordstrom a decade ago was very well-publicized for its customer service. Example write-up [1]. Could all be PR-drummed-up. But from first-hand experience, at least in my experience they were customer-focused.

[1] https://sharpencx.com/blog/nordstrom-customer-service/
It is most certainly not small.

Besides the system calls, the ioctls, and the fcntls, including all the various driver ioctls, there's also /proc. /proc is quite large an interface.
I wouldn’t blame trump’s blatant racism on some people in the media
I pay them for cloud storage so that all my books + papers are backed up and synchronised between my computers.

The free storage is pretty generous but I exceeded it after about 6 months of use.
Indeed. In the book detailing the language, the author says that the language was inspired by the various pidgins that have formed around the world where English words are modified to meet native phonology and combined with a simplified grammar.
Exactly right. If this new R0 estimate is correct then I'm not going to be pleased AT ALL with anyone saying: "We did it, the lockdown worked! By the way, ignore the extra suicides and child abuse this year."
I had CL fiber. VLAN tagging; The vlan tagging value was so high, OpenWRT didn't support it so I was left with the useless middle box. Your mileage may very.
There's a tool called `f3` that does this automatically: https://fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.htm...

TL;DR (for Debian variants):

$ sudo apt install f3
$ cd /MOUNTPOINT-FOR-SD
$ f3write .
$ f3read .
You're confusing a state and a nation. Kurds are still a nation, even though they don't have their own state.

And of course, nations are not "fake." The "internationalist Left" caused two world wars trying to prove they're fake, but all their misguided projects end up breaking down into nation states.
Of course property rights are ideology. Anything to do with society and how it's organized is ideological.

I think we ended up with private property because the alternatives have been tried and they are worse (e.g. tragedy of the commons).
Exactly - it's society going "You're right, that's not cool." then trying to be better. I fully encourage it.
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MathJax will probably not benefit much from WebAssembly. It doesn't actually render math itself. It just creates HTML + CSS (or MathML), and the browser renders it using the normal, highly-optimized rendering paths.
What does the GDPR say about this?

Anyway, let's just ban targeted advertising already to stop this madness in its roots.
That's a very interesting idea!

Edit: removed a part about ForgeFed which I thought was what I had in mind, and they do a lot of things that would be nice to have (slightly more convenient than just "login with GitHub")... except search which you can't simply work around by creating an account on each git server where you want to contribute. Not sure what part of their project is discovery and why NLnet granted them money under the "Next Generation Search and Discovery" fund which, from the description, is very clearly aimed at search.
I have a theory that lessons learned by humanity are quickly forgotten after a few generations and thus we are condemned to trying the same old ideas (with slight tweaks) again until the current generation figures out they don't work.
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Can’t wait to hear it.
Tl;dw documentary, but that's not a very common interpretation. That was the time when the nordic countries built their succesful system that's in place today and is widely held in high regard.
What do they pay sales tax on that makes any material difference? And what's their income tax as a percentage of revenue?
I'm not sure how well this works in practice. Unless you already know a horse is a wonder dog and a hippopotamus is a water horse, when someone says "river wonder dog" will you know what he means?
This is ridiculous. Any economic effect of the 1918 flu is overpowered by the end of WWI.

And the 1918 flu was followed by one of the most prosperous periods in history: the roaring 20s.

The response to the 1918 flu was also not very centralized. Different states and cities did different things, a strategy which is today being deplored by the media and certain segments of the population. Since the response is significantly more centralized today (entire states being shutdown, which has not happened before), I'm not sure you can draw the same conclusions. It's one thing to have one shutdown city in a country full of working cities. It's quite another thing to have them all shut down at the same time, as well as the entire world.
Great, this website bans access from datacenter IP address ranges. In other words, I cannot read this blog while connected to my VPN provider...

> Error 1005

> The owner of this website (www.bleepingcomputer.com) has banned the autonomous system number (ASN) your IP address is in (xxxxx) from accessing this website.
> you'll eventually reach a point where the problem is deep and requires them to escalate, and if you aren't checking the box of tested customer cpe they'll stop

I've been a Comcast customer for more than 20 years (in two different states) and have never encountered a problem like this, so I expect such problems are extremely rare. Every issue I've had has been of the kind where Comcast's support person can see right away that there's a problem on their end because they can't even see my cable modem's status even though I confirm to them that it's powered up and the cable is connected (and of course I have to go through the dance of rebooting it multiple times before they'll be satisfied). Most of the time they put me on hold for a while and then come back and the problem is fixed (I assume because some tech in the background rebooted or reset something that was borked). Once they had to send a tech to my house and it turned out there was a bad connection in the junction box they had installed outside.
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I can never find this left block of "open borders" support. Can you provide some sources?
I've found several in the past couple years (I test them more rigorously before I put them into a NAS).
> It is indeed a false dichotomy

What do you think 'false dichotomy' means? How does it apply, here?
That's fair. It's a lot of moving parts to the system.
I did my Fortran in high school on punched cards, because the small timesharing system we had (a Cromemco Z80-based S-100 bus machine with a handful of terminals) had a habit of crashing and eating files - but it couldn't eat cards. We had a couple of surplus IBM 029 card punches, and they were a blast to use - they had nice crisp keyboards, and when you pressed a key the machine punched the corresponding holes with what felt like a major league bat hitting a major league fastball pitch - it was a really hard thwhack. Very satisfying.

I remember being astonished when my dad told me how they handled punch card accuracy at his office: engineers would write out their programs on (special) paper forms (i.e. a box for each character on each line), and hand the forms off to the computer department, where they'd have two different keypunch operators key in the program. Then they'd feed the two stacks of cards into a special punched-card-comparator machine, which would tell whether the decks matched. If so, it was considered successfully transcribed (and one of the decks could be thrown away).

I also remember reading a story long ago about decks of cards containing scientific programs being sent by rail between cities in two different countries in Europe (IIRC), and they kept having problems with the programs not working. Finally, they sent a courier along with the box of cards at one point. And, as the train crossed the border, the customs inspector boarded the train and checked passports and such, and inspected goods that were being transported, and, as is customary, took a sample from many of the transported goods (as one might take a bit of grain, say)... and, yeah, they took a couple random cards out of the box. Problem identified, if not immediately solved.
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When I studied German I was initially amused that the German word for television was "Fernseher" (far seer). How quaint! Until I stopped and thought for a moment what "television" literally means -- tele from Greek meaning "far", plus Latin "vision".
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Can someone help me understand something regarding gift cards as a way to support businesses during this shutdown?

Gift cards are basically outstanding liabilities, right? If they're not accounted for correctly, when large amounts of people are able to redeem them again, they're left with no money to pay those expenses in the future. Obviously, things aren't as bad if ratio of gift cards to cash spending is somewhat reasonable when the business reopens.

Seems unless you can commit people to not redeeming the cards, you're essentially time-delaying the reduction in revenue.

Also, it's my understanding that gift cards are pretty difficult to account for normally (requiring looking at historical redemption data to prevent liabilities from growing indefinitely on the balance sheet). Some of these places are going to be accepting gift cards for the first time in their history. Is there any room here for a guide to help these places navigate the accounting of them?
We were told not to bother with Computer Science O-levels, as nobody took any notice of them, at least for sixth-form admissions. As far as I could tell, they seemed to consist largely of binary maths anyway - far better to concentrate on getting better grades in Maths & Physics instead.
Taleb is a horrible writer, plain and simple.

Attempted to read antifragile and was hit with a wall of incomprehensible jargon. The thesis of the book seemed appealing but he's too abstract, smells like a hack.
Ask HN: What do you think about media on Covid-19?
Hello Hackers,

While the whole world is taking necessary precautions against SARS-CoV-2, we think the media is not doing his part.They are still trying to sell us with fear and nonsense approaches.

So, we have a Startup which is basically a platform where you can follow collection of links for learning a subject. I have created a list of Covid-19 resources just for that. Because media was either telling it is a dooms day or it's just a generic type of flu. I believe, it's neither of those. I hate media in those days.(There are some great mass media articles, I know. I mean overall

What do you think? I would like to hear your thoughts on this.
Calling it the Chinese Flu because it comes from China is only racist when you move the goal posts to redefine racism as such. There is evidence that this was what happened due to pandemics traditionally being named after where they originated.

You can't move the goal posts without the media being on board with it.
You were lucky to have bytes! We used to shift and mask.
Italy is also

A. Doing far more testing

B. Further along the pandemic curve

Give it another week or two and you'll see how bad things are really going to be.