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Tapped? just my service? - \n At about 9:00 pm today I called my boyfriend in between the call dialing his number and actually ringing there's a static noise and I hear someone say something although I could not hear what they said because I wasn't near my phone. All I know is it was a male voice and he said something before it statics out then my phone begins to ring my boyfriend. This is the 2nd time this has happened, the first being a couple months ago. I've tried researching and most are not like my case the call did not answer. Each time it was a male voice. I didn't get to hear what was said so I do not know rather or not it was someone's conversation. please help I'm very paranoid.. BA4gDY-cqjsEPWn [https:\/\/signal.org\/](https:\/\/signal.org\/) Use this for communication. Verify the codes strictly in-person after the app was installed on both sides. Read details on their website.\n\n does this mean something bad? I will get this\n\n BA4gDY-cqjsEPWn It's hard to tell without having physical access to the device whether it's compromised or not (it's hard to tell even when you do have physical access).\n\nI recommended Signal ease your paranoia. If you want to be extra sure and have the means to do it: never hurts to switch to a brand new phone either.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Are you calling on a land line or a cell phone?\n\n cell phone\n\n Back in 2007, I was in a metal structure and made a cell phone call. I was connected to someone else's conversation. I have no idea if they heard me, but I could hear them. I think it was some bug\/glitch with the telco. Perhaps something similar happened.<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"What Science Says About Successful Bosses - http:\/\/www.inc.com\/geoffrey-james\/what-science-says-about-successful-bosses.html Is it really what \"science\" says if you don't cite your sources? Meh.\n\nEDIT: typo<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"How many resumes does it take to make an intern? - http:\/\/blog.fogcreek.com\/on-recruiting-some-statistics-on-recruiting\/\n\n The sample size is so small that drawing any conclusions from this data seems suspect.\n\nPercentage comparisons (hired\/applied): 6% JoS fans 4.3% of Columbia job fair 2% Princeton job fair 1.7% of web search and 0% of everything else\n\n<\/comment> well, if the people who are rejecting you are doing it to go work for Google or Facebook, you've done a good job with the image of your company.\n\n I don't understand, are you being sarcastic and implying Google and Facebook are really bad places to work?\n\n I read it as: much of the top talent today is going to Google and Facebook. If the same people who are applying to Google and Facebook are applying to your small company, you are doing much better than most people in recruitment.\n\n I think what's really remarkable is that Fog Creek does it with products that, honestly, don't seem to have that much \"cool\" factor. No disrespect intended to Joel or the employees, but I'm somewhat amazed that a bug tracker and a wrapper around Mercurial garner as much excitement from the developers as they do.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> What's valuable in this article: The applicants should know you before you even start looking for new interns. Having a long-term presence in their consciousness is invaluable.\n\n<\/comment> I don't think it's surprising that department emails generated no hires. People who take internship opportunities from emails they receive are usually too lazy to look themselves, which probably shows a lack of drive. I say _usually_ , because this isn't always true.\n\nI love these stats though... Would make great presentation material on the importance of being active in a job search. Especially the part about what times to apply... if it's a rolling recruiting basis (which I'm assuming almost every company does), those would probably be advantageous times.\n\n > People who take internship opportunities from emails they receive are > usually too lazy to look themselves, which probably shows a lack of drive. I > say usually, because this isn't always true.\n\nthat's a ridiculous line of thinking.\n\nemails are sent to department heads because outsiders typically deal with them often and don't have a relationship with the students. the emails are then passed along as a service to everybody.\n\nwhat would a student with \"drive\" do differently to find an internship? walk door-to-door carrying 100lbs of stones in a backpack to submit applications?\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> Harumph. Can't believe they didn't split out \"From HN\" on the results chart.\n\n<\/comment> That is a terrible font.<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Facebook launches Signal to help journalists monitor activity on Facebook - http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2015\/09\/17\/facebook-launches-signal-to-help-journalists-monitor-activity-on-instagram-and-facebook\/ Interesting concept. It's being pushed as a resource for journalists but would also be useful for marketers. I would imagine they'll open it up at some point. I wonder if it will be a paid or free tool.<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"The First App to See You Friends More Without the Creep Factor of Stalking - https:\/\/medium.com\/@supmenow\/the-first-app-to-see-you-friends-more-without-the-creep-factor-of-stalking-f4120545ccae#.eftbnoszj What is the difference between this and Find my Friends.\n\n Find my Friends shows where your friends are on a map, as well as who they are with.\n\nSup uses a non-directional radar, so you know how close your friends are, as opposed to their actual location :)<\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":10938634},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Startup Quote: Jake Nickell, co-founder, Threadless - http:\/\/startupquote.com\/post\/3384194736\n\n Success is defined in units of fun. It's all about being happy.\n\n\\- Jake Nickell (@skaw)\n\n<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":2239376},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Ask HN: Companies that provide a hosted wiki? - \n\nI need to organize a bunch of information with some family members. I would like a wiki that: -is hosted by someone else -supports accounts (ie, is not publicly accessible) -makes it relatively easy to export all the content so I can back it up

I'm happy to pay for this, particularly if it means the company will still be around in a few years.

Does any one have any recommendations for a company that provides this? If a YC company has done something like this, I'd be happy to give them a shot. \n\nits undergone some changes lately, but try the free version to see if its something you'd like. i forget if privacy features are free or if you have to pay\n\n<\/comment> Google Sites might fit your needs, although I'm not sure about the export feature you require.<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Chrome: is Google losing it? - \n\nI have been trying out the google chrome browser and i was a little let down. Google used to be the hub of innovation but this browser is a disappointment. The minimalistic address bar is a very poor clone of Firefox's wonderbar and the default homepage is an exact copy of Opera's hot dial, also the javascript console is a copy of safari's. And the list goes on.... It solved the \"elephant int he room\"-problem wih browsers, that the whole thing crashes when one tab crashes. Each tab having its own process is great.\n\nI miss some features from Firefox and I still use Firefox but Chrome defineately has potential.\n\nAnd like bdfh42 said, it's waiting for a killer app.\n\n<\/comment> Surely taking the best of a lot ideas and putting them into one browser is a good thing. That's how processes become streamlined and businesses flourish.\n\n<\/comment> Chrome is not a general purpose browser. It's a desktop client for AJAX applications. It's more like NeWS than it is like Netscape. Use it for what it's for and it's fine.\n\n<\/comment> but no bad for an early beta though.\n\nChrome will come to the fore when the first applications that rely upon JavaScript compilation for performance come along - the browser is waiting for the first \"killer app\".\n\nRemember that processor speed increases are no longer a given - we need to develop ways to execute more code in the browser despite that, as then we can deliver the very rich browser based applications that (for the moment) are just a twinkle in a developer's eye.\n\n<\/comment> To address the original point, I don't think Chrome is a sign that Google is losing the elusive \"it\". Google has a bunch of less-than-popular initiatives out there. Sometimes, they roll new products out not as an end-game but as a means to some other non-obvious goal.\n\n The non-obvious goal being world-domination and the end of Microsoft.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> So... do you like the browser or not? Forget whether it is \"innovative\", the question is are you happy as a user.<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"The shortest Phd thesis - http:\/\/processalgebra.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/what-is-shortest-phd-thesis-in-tcs.html\n\n I suspect that on average the length of a thesis is inversely correlated to its brilliance. Computer science is a fairly established field at this point, so a mediocre thesis likely describes a large number of small improvements upon the status quo - along with charts, graphs, and explanations that compensate for lack of a single revolutionary finding. If someone can prove that P=NP (or that P!=NP) in 13 pages, there's no need for another hundred pages of explanations. On the other hand, improving the performance of Linux page cache by 5% on some workloads will clearly be accompanied with a hundred pages of methodology explanations and performance measurements.\n\nInterestingly there are lots of long _and_ brilliant dissertations - Okasaki's functional data structures thesis comes to mind. However, I doubt there are very many (if any) short mediocre dissertations - in case of mediocrity lack of content must always be compensated by size.\n\n I agree. I wish the whole length == intelligence thing stopped after high school. In high school the teacher sets out a length that your essay needs to be and the student mindful of the length requirement fills the space with a few bullet points and copious amounts of BS which translates to a lifetime correlation for most people that length == A paper.\n\nI think Pascal said it best: I have only made this longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.\n\n This reminds me of a great essay, \"How to Say Nothing in 500 Words or Less\" - . I think this nonsense should stop way _before_ high school. I still remember the SPERM formula from my social studies class - social, political, economic, religious, and military. Pick three, write a paragraph on each, and stick them between an introduction and a conclusion (which is really an introduction rephrased). I learned more about good writing by debating various political issues on the gamedev boards I used to frequent than in any of my high school classes.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> A think that this discussion is a little biased. For one hand, the form of a thesis depends a lot on the field. The more theoretical, the more it can be concise, but in some fields you need a lot of experimental data.\n\nAnother issue is that most dissertations are not made from a single, ground breaking contribution, but from several incremental contributions and you need to integrate them into a coherent text.\n\nI've not finished my dissertation, but it fall in the latter case and I think it will be some 100 pages long.\n\nBy the way, it will be interesting to see the length of the PhD thesis of the people that claims that \"the length of a thesis is inversely correlated to its brilliance\" (only cperciva declared it)\n\n<\/comment> It's not a record by far, but my thesis of 82 pages (8 pages front matter, 68 pages contents, 6 pages references) is definitely at the short end of the spectrum -- somewhere around 0.5th percentile for Oxford DPhil theses according to my search of Bodleian records.\n\n<\/comment> The 15 pg thesis (from 1899): \n\n Very equation heavy, which I think contributes to its brevity. Contrast that with some papers in other areas of math\/TCS where you tend to be less equation heavy and more wordy. For example, lots of algorithms papers don't make as heavy use of equations (though there are still some of course).\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> It's not the shortest, but de Broglie's always impressed me by its sheer awesomeness: [http:\/\/www.ensmp.fr\/aflb\/LDB- oeuvres\/De_Broglie_Kracklauer.h...](http:\/\/www.ensmp.fr\/aflb\/LDB- oeuvres\/De_Broglie_Kracklauer.htm)\n\n<\/comment> The guy who wrote the thesis is the same who popularized a notation about the limiting behavior of functions which was introduced by the German mathematician Bachman. The notation is therefore called the Bachmann-Landau notation. Alternatively it is known as the Big-O notation.\n\n<\/comment> can someone explain what the \"theses\" are on the last page of the thesis in the link? i don't understand how they are connected in any way to the rest of the work (i am not a mathematician). thanks.\n\n I was wondering about the same thing. Here's the text:\n\n\\<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment>\n\n1\\. It is desirable during every existence proof of a mathematical quantity to be led, at the same time on the way to the result, to the actual existing quantity.\n\n2\\. A boundary between arithmetic and analytic areas of mathematics cannot be drawn.\n\n3\\. The concept of the semiconvergent series is a relative concept.\n\n4\\. Out of the impossibility of perpetual motion of second kind comes the proof of the second law of thermodynamics.\n\n5\\. It did not succeed, the justifying of psychology on an exactly mathematical basis.\n\n\\<\/comment>----\n\n<\/comment> I think Schroedinger's dissertation was only 7 pages total.\n\n\n\n<\/comment> I've only ever written one undergrad thesis. The dry subject matter and the extended length of it makes me believe that the last eyes that will be laid upon it will be those of my thesis advisor.\n\nSeriously though, why do research papers have to be so long? Verbosity makes for a high barrier to entry and it is unnecessarily boring for everyone involved.\n\nEducational institutions could learn a thing or two from the 5 W's of reporting.\n\n The 5 W's are the abstract.\n\nThe rest of it is what shows everyone else that you've done your due diligence and thought the idea through in the context of existing research.<\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Disney+ fans without answers after thousands hacked - https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-50461171 Well. There's a reason why Netflix is successful. They spent a lot of money and time operating as a tech-heavy company before becoming a content-heavy company. Just as an example, their Open Connect appliances ([https:\/\/openconnect.netflix.com\/en\/](https:\/\/openconnect.netflix.com\/en\/)) are an impressive piece of technology that probably needed years of research.\n\nLaunching a streaming service sounds simple in the paper but there are hundreds of complexities under the hood that ensure availability, speed, security, and reliability.\n\nIf my Netflix experience wasn't as trivially smooth as it is (from a UX point of view) I wouldn't pay for it.\n\n I thought I'd try out Disney+.\n\nThen I found out it doesn't support Vizio Smartcast\/Chromecast.\n\nThat's...bizarre. I guess I'll watch on my little laptop screen.\n\nTurns out it doesn't support Linux either.\n\n:\/\n\nEDIT: I eventually downloaded a Windows VM and watched it there. What could they possibly be gaining from that though??\n\n I love linux, I use it every day more than any other OS. I don't understand why other linux users act surprised that corporate America frequently ignores altogether or uses DRM methods that are not compatible, I don't think its right, i i don't think its good, but its not new or unusual or surprising.\n\nThe reality is that linix makes up 2-4 percent of the desktop PC market which itself is fraction of mobile use and even then, most linux users have the capability to watch it on something else. More of their customers are on windows XP than all linux desktop distros combined. I don't think they consider it anything close to financially worth it and I don't know if I disagree, even if I wish it was otherwise.\n\n Which is why the web is the best platform to support. I don't get why companies offering a service that can easily be web-delivered don't do it as their primary mode of business.\n\n > Which is why the web is the best platform to support.\n\nBut then they \"support\" it with platform-specific WebDRM which doesn't work on Linux it in truly free\/open browsers.\n\nNothing gained.\n\n DRM doesn't seem to stop warez. Things that can be decoded, can be shared.\n\nAll they gain with DRM is to put off potential customers. For many of us, the best way would be a downloadable file format, that I can copy or watch whatever player or device I want to use.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Laughing at some of this reporting.\n\n> More than 4,000 customer accounts appeared in the search\n\nTo clear this up:\n\nNo, not true. The software in the screenshot called Open Bullet and it's basically a request builder for Selenium (ok it's more than that but you get the idea). You add in lists of usernames\/passwords (from database dumps) and it runs your script. You have success\/fail reporting, and that's where you get \"Hits: 4\"\n\n> Ads on the dark web for stolen Disney+ accounts\n\nThat's a sellers page from shoppy.gg \u2014 not the dark web.\n\n While you are correct, the BBC are 'really trying' their best to explain this disaster to the average John and Jane. But again they are still in the middle- ages when it comes to mentioning the technical side of these 'attacks'.\n\nSays pretty much a lot about them when it comes to technology in general.\n\n I understand that. I wish that they would at least correct the first photo of the combos. Saying that there are 4000 accounts when there are 4 is misleading. \"A hacker checking the logins of 4,000 potential accounts\" is better and more accurate subtext.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> They can still torrent the content, which is what I'm doing after I paid for the first month of Disney+ and then found out their DRM disallowed Linux because of \"security levels\".\n\n You issued a charge back with your credit card company for that, right?\n\n You'll probably never be allowed to sign up for D+ again. I'd only use charge backs as a final resort if I can't contact the company and\/or I never want to do business with them in my life.\n\n Just use a different payment system next time.\n\n Nah, just cancel quietly.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> I am sure Netflix and amazon prime users also reuse their passwords, but I haven't yet heard about users having the Disney+ issues with these accounts.\n\n No idea about Netflix, but for Amazon I bet there's less account sharing than the other two - because it's your actual Amazon account. My Netflix account is the only one that doesn't have a very complex password manager password, because I share it with family. I won't share my amazon account because I won't give it that sort of password. I guess Disney+ is much closer to Netflix on that scale.\n\n Netflix definitely has trouble with this because they too lack the whole \"delete all sessions\" capability, so it's next to impossible to recover an account that has been compromised. My partner went through this, and Netflix support told her to delete the account and make a new one (losing all our recommendations in the process). Why they can't be bothered to add a \"log out all users\" feature the way something like Github or even Plex offers is beyond me.\n\n Netflix does have that feature:\n\n[https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/ManageDevices](https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/ManageDevices)\n\n Confirmed. I've used it\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> [http:\/\/cryto.net\/~joepie91\/blog\/2016\/06\/13\/stop-using-jwt- fo...](http:\/\/cryto.net\/~joepie91\/blog\/2016\/06\/13\/stop-using-jwt-for- sessions\/)\n\n All of the pros of JWTs _do_ apply to Disney+\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> yikes. It doesn't support the security feature of logging everyone out of the account? So if a someone gets access to your account they're in for good.\n\n Sounds like JSON web tokens! Should have stuck to sessions if that's the case.\n\nAdmittedly, the performance benefits of jwt are probably warranted here. But still, you either end up building an in-memory blacklist or a DB table thus negating most benefits.\n\n It's not that hard to build a highly available active-active session service given time and engineering headcount.\n\nIt's hard if you're trying to get out the door fast, though.\n\n Yea I'm not saying it's impossible. But I'm saying it's probably easier to just make traditional cookies\/sessions scale.\n\nI went through my shiny jwt phase. I'm happily back in session land though.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> I don't know what answer they're due, except \"This happened because you reused a password\".\n\n<\/comment> Why are Disney+ customers referred to as \"fans\"?\n\n I guess similar reason Restaurants' customers are referred to as guests.\n\n Huh, not really? A \"fan\" is an enthusiast or admirer. It implies a certain type of relationship to the thing you are a fan _of_.\n\nI don't know that \"guest\" implies anything similar, it's just a visitor.\n\n Guest implies that you have been invited and expect to receive hospitality from your host. Visitor is just someone who showed up somewhere.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> OP you can do better with that title. We all know it wasn't \"hacked\".\n\n Disney apparently wasn't hacked, but the users were. Password guessed\/stolen = account hacked in common parlance.\n\n In common parlance, yes. However, I would argue it doesn't mean that on hacker news.\n\n The BBC doesn't write for Hacker News. And I would argue that just about everyone here understands what \"hacked\" means in this context anyway.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> I recently had some suspicious activity on my HBO and Hulu accounts. I checked my email address on haveibeenpwned.com and found some pastebin links at the bottom from August 2019. Sure enough, my email and password for HBO were there in plain text along with many others. The format was like this:\n\n \n \n <\/comment><\/comment>====\n firstname.lastname@example.com:password123\n Subscription: Your HBO NOW subscription is billed through \n [HBO]\n Expiry Date: September 20, 2019\n 21 Days Remaining\n \n\nI haven't figured out the source yet. It's possible that someone just took these recent dumps and ran them against Disney+\n\n<\/comment> > Disney+ fans without answers after thousands hacked\n\nA google search of one of the email:password came up with a Soundcloud 2018 email:password dump.\n\nSeems like a everyday dump of reused passwords.\n\nThat happens everyday for all the services.\n\nJust seems like everyone wants to take down Disney. Like OMG that had an issue on the first day streaming!\n\nI also want to see them fail, but for no good reason I just enjoy seeing people fail, I guess I'm not alone.\n\n<\/comment> I thought Disney+ rollout would have no hiccups, because I thought Hotstar (I think it is mostly India based content) owned by Disney did quite well during the cricket world cup, in terms of live streaming (which I thought is more complex than streaming movies).\n\nMy respect for Netflix goes up each time a new streaming service has a hiccup.\n\n<\/comment> It would really make me laugh if Disney was at fault but it sounds like people with compromised credentials reusing those same creds.\n\n How do you know of your credentials are compromised?\n\n Probably the best way to check is [https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\/](https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\/)\n\n Or [https:\/\/monitor.firefox.com\/](https:\/\/monitor.firefox.com\/) (which is basically the same thing)<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Is SQL a good place for business logic? - http:\/\/enterprisecraftsmanship.com\/2015\/11\/11\/is-sql-a-good-place-for-business-logic\/ I agree 98% with this article, but as an architect we should never say never. There are circumstances when you would absolutely place business logic in a stored procedure.\n\nYou start with domain driven design, but there are many use cases that involve processing large amounts of data as quickly as possible. If you haven't read about \"set theory\", then you should. It boils down to math when you say you want to execute a function or set of functions on a large dataset as efficiently as possible.\n\nI've seen very complicated stored procedures that modify large amounts of data where the performance would degrade significantly outside of the database.\n\nBut we should start with building a domain model and manage storage and performance as secondary interests. If, as we're designing our domain we see a lot of areas for high performance requirements, leveraging an engine (database or other) is a critical choice.\n\nBut in general, we should not be placing code in SQL. The domain of writing and reading business logic belongs in a standard programming language, not a data-oriented programming language.\n\n I agree with your performance concerns. In fact, I state them in the end of the article pretty much the same way you did it in your comment.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> Not a great example, and the Person table is not normalized. Building up a description to display is not even what I would call business logic. Some business logic naturally belongs in the database, some doesn't. Limiting the RDBMS (not SQL) to CRUD operations throws away too much. What the article describes is the opposite of 40 years of enterprise-scale experience with RDBMSs.\n\nThink about a database that supports multiple applications written in different languages at different times by different teams. The problems with implementing business logic at the application level are more obvious then -- violation of the DRY principle, for one.<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Show HN: I made a Chrome Extension to launch your websites with custom hotkeys - https:\/\/www.producthunt.com\/posts\/quickey-tab-for-chrome and for Firefox?\n\n It's currently only available for Google Chrome, but I'll get back to you when the Firefox version is available :)<\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Ask HN: VLC Santa Hat? - Every year around this time, I can recall my VLC icon on my desktop gaining a little read had with a white pom at the end, but it's no where to be found? Whoops, never mind. Just showed up after VLC crashed and restarted.<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Dell Made $6.5m on Twitter - http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/dont_tell_your_boss_dell_made_65m_on_twitter.php Finally, some hard evidence that Twitter is actually useful.<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Show HN: Push targeted messages\/offers on your website, in realtime - http:\/\/webengage.com\/?ref=HN-1\n\n Beautiful Product esp the push integration's. I also loved the instant Live Demo integration.\n\nCouple of suggestions -\n\n1\\. Feedback opens up and makes requests every time it loads. Can that static form be downloaded on page load and saved?\n\n2\\. The Notification push message, takes Significant Real estate of my browser window(on my 11 inch Mac) and the size is not proportional to the browser window.\n\n3\\. Screenshot attachment for specific parts of the web page will be cool.\n\n avlesh-singh Thanks! Answers to your questions underneath -\n\n>1\\. Feedback opens up and makes requests every time it loads. Can that static form be downloaded on page load and saved?\n\nTricky, because there's a whole lot of configuration, settings, fields etc that can be changed. We tried to avoid a db roundtrip as much as we could, but ...\n\n>2\\. The Notification push message, takes Significant Real estate of my browser window(on my 11 inch Mac) and the size is not proportional to the browser window.\n\nVery valid. We are on to it.\n\n>3\\. Screenshot attachment for specific parts of the web page will be cool.\n\nIn our wishlist. Soon.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> Love the video. What did you use to make it?\n\nHow do you differentiate yourself from all the other \"feedback\" buttons out there (e.g. UserVoice, Qualaroo) ? I see Notifications -- but it feels more like advertising than targeted messages.\n\n avlesh-singh I am glad you liked the video. We engaged an agency for getting the video done.\n\nWe are different from UserVoice because we are a private feedback tool (no concept of community). Also, there are dynamic fields and the cool screenshot feature in the feedback form. Try the tab on our site.\n\nWe are different from Qualaroo, because customers can \"target\" our surveys at specific audiences on their websites. More here - [http:\/\/webengage.com\/survey\/features\/targeting- rules.html#ta...](http:\/\/webengage.com\/survey\/features\/targeting- rules.html#ta..).\n\nYou'd love to use Notifications. There's so much you can do with it. Plus, like surveys, they too can be targeted in a similar manner.<\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Ask HN: Where to learn \"advanced\" concepts in Functional Programming - I have only recently started delving into functional programming seriously (for a little over past half year), and I see people talk about things like monads, and applicatives, and arrows, and ... (you get the idea).

I can code an work quite well in functional programming languages like Haskell, Scala, OCaml etc, and have been able to handle scenarios where such ideas are used, but it has been in an ad-hoc-based-learning way.

I'm basically looking for a good place to start reading all these more "advanced" topics/concepts in Functional Programming, so as to get a more serious grasp on them.

I would be grateful for any books/videos/talks/etc. which might have the same. Write.\n\nAll those concepts don't matter if you don't have where to apply them, and if you do have use for them, you'll learn them soon enough. It was quite visible with a nice paradigm of aspect-oriented programming dozen years ago (from imperative programming field); it looked like a good idea, but there was nowhere to put that into use sensibly, and AOP eventually died.\n\n I'm not so sure AOP is dead. It solves a real pain point, with the canonical method of implementing this in C# being attributes.\n\n I'm not a C# programmer, but attributes seem more like decorators than AOP.\n\n It usually requires some reflection or precompiled step.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> The best way to learn monads is to ignore the IO one for now, and learn what >>= and return does for each \"pure\" one individually. E.g. Maybe, List, Either etc. With enough examples understand you will understand the pattern. At various points you may want to check you understand what the type system is doing in the implementation.\n\n<\/comment> [http:\/\/haskellbook.com\/](http:\/\/haskellbook.com\/)<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Show HN: Youshouldhaveboughtstocks.com - https:\/\/youshouldhaveboughtstocks.com\/ This should be called stocksyoushouldhavebought.\n\nA close cousin of lotteryticketnumbersyoushouldhavebought<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Remember the Vasa [pdf] - http:\/\/open-std.org\/JTC1\/SC22\/WG21\/docs\/papers\/2018\/p0977r0.pdf Sadly, C++11 (and C++03, really) is too complicated for a typical \"ordinary programmer\" to grasp all the bits of it and how they potentially interrelate. [source: I am posing as an \"ordinary programmer\" for the purposes of this comment]\n\nC++14, 17, and 20 do seem to add, as Bjarne says, \"significant ... complexity\" to what has always been a daunting language. 150 experts--C++ experts, to be sure, but also domain experts--all bringing new features that address their personal itch for the language.\n\n Other languages are complicated too.\n\nJust compare Java 10, C# 7.3, Python 3.6, .... to their initial designs.\n\nHowever I do agree with you and Bjarne, having also submitted this link awhile ago.\n\nC++20 should have been fixing what was left from C++17, specially regarding concepts and modules.\n\nInstead there are a plethora of other issues, and some of them it isn't even clear what is coming with C++23.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> When you are in Stockholm, go visit the Vasamuseet!\n\nI'm not terribly keen on museums, but I visit it every single time.\n\nThe sheer amount of art on the ship is breathtaking.\n\nAnd the story of the ship is more fascinating than the short excerpt here shows.\n\n Visited it two years ago. It is humbling to see a ship that size and beauty, although partially restored, it speaks of its time.\n\nFor some reason I never made the correlation between overengineering and the Vasa. I probably classified it subconsciously as a front-end issue.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> \"We are on the path to something that could destroy C++. We must get off that path!\"\n\nBjarne has spoken, and his warning should be heeded.\n\n<\/comment> I think the relevant idiom is \"closing the stable door after the horse has bolted\".\n\n this i.e. [https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C%2B%2B#Criticism](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C%2B%2B#Criticism) is also pretty poignant\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> I'm glad this is one of those posts that is repeatedly posted here. It speaks to a trend across basically all industries these days, and to a more philosophical origin. Growth and progress for the sake of growth and progress is actually the opposite.\n\n Progress (even for the sake of progress) is good _if_ (huge _if_ ) you're working with the correct definition of progress. I want more progress towards perfection in the manner of the familiar quote: \"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.\"\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> I wondered if this thread was about C++ since that is the only connection I heard 'Remember the Vasa. It's from watching this: Scott Mayers - Why C++ Sails When the Vasa Sank [https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ltCgzYcpFUI](https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ltCgzYcpFUI) Full circle ?<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":17172057},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"A Medical Worker Describes Terrifying Lung Failure from Covid-19 - https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/a-medical-worker-describes--terrifying-lung-failure-from-covid19-even-in-his-young-patients While the disease is horrible, risk mitigation must be done with science and statistics, not one-off emotional narratives.\n\nSome of the remedies which are being proposed for the pandemic would have human costs demonstrably higher than the virus itself.\n\nI have seen more and more smart people adopting black and white attitudes that this is humanity's only risk, while numerically it is merely comparable to several other risks American's embrace daily including driving and gun violence.\n\nMy only wish is that policymakers set scientific priorities. Shutdown cruise ships and airplanes before schools. Manufacture tests and bailout individuals before worrying about banks etc.\n\n I agree when it comes to policy, but when it comes to individuals' personal decisions, there's this perception that it's going to be mild for anyone under 50 who doesn't have extreme special circumstances. This anecdote hits home the point that that isn't true, and that you should have a healthy amount of fear even if you're young and healthy.\n\n I agree. However I also think that it more people accepted the fact that a virus can come and wipe them out whenever, they might live with a little bit more intention :P. I'm the sort of weirdo with a skull on his desk though.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> If anyone has ever doubted this has an effect on young people, please consider the following excerpts from the article:\n\n> \"It first struck me how different it was when I saw my first coronavirus > patient go bad. I was like, Holy shit, this is not the flu. Watching this > relatively young guy, gasping for air, pink frothy secretions coming out of > his tube.\" [...]\n\n> \"Reading about it in the news, I knew it was going to be bad, but we deal > with the flu every year so I was thinking: Well, it's probably not that much > worse than the flu. But seeing patients with COVID-19 completely changed my > perspective, and it's a lot more frightening.\"\n\n> \"I have patients in their early 40s and, yeah, I was kind of shocked. I'm > seeing people who look relatively healthy with a minimal health history, and > they are completely wiped out, like they've been hit by a truck. This is > knocking out what should be perfectly fit, healthy people. Patients will be > on minimal support, on a little bit of oxygen, and then all of a sudden, > they go into complete respiratory arrest, shut down and can't breathe at > all.\"\n\nEdit: removed a double negative in the introductory sentence.\n\n You've got a double-negative in there\n\n Indeed, thank you, I removed it.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Sounds like a Cytokine Storm as the body's defense systems do all the damage\n\n[https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3294426\/](https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3294426\/)\n\n<\/comment> That's truly terrifying. We really need to do everything we can to reduce infections.<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Show HN: Search engine for web apps - http:\/\/iwaat.com\n\n Hey - cool first version (the design is incredibly polished for a first version!). There are a few sites out there doing this (but in the mobile space) - Quixey's probably the biggest, but some other directories\/review sites that might be worth looking at (if you haven't already) are FeedMyApp and AppStorm. Not saying this idea has already been perfected- but these other sites might provide some UX ideas beyond the MVP you built here.\n\nI'm a huge fan of the hover on the search results page - very well executed. I think the browse by category on your homepage could be more clearly defined - I see what you did but the actual apps draw way more attention than the category titles, so there's a bit of a disconnect there (you feel like you're just browsing a list of featured apps, without much order to them, despite the fact that they're organized by category).\n\nExcited to see the next version..\n\n Thanks for the feedback! Quixey is probably the site most similar to mine and they're certainly not the only player (just met a couple guys from there at yesterday's Super Happy Block Party Hackathon).\n\nI agree with you on making the homepage category links more prevalent. I figured it might be a problem but liked the design enough to keep it. Guess I'll be changing that up now. The order is actually based on traction (an index I've come up with based on publicly available data on each app).\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> Hey HN, Here's the first version of my web app search engine and directory for which I would love to hear HN's opinion. Starting from Crunchbase's datafeed I've been working nights and weekends for the past couple months to clean and curate the data, design the site and build the web crawler. The next release will include several social features including app following and discussions (sign up for the private beta if you want first access when it's launched). If you're an app creator feel free to add yours using the \"Add Your App\" button on the bottom.\n\nThanks for checking out my project.\n\n<\/comment> I would get rid of the hover over effect for search results. It's distracting and not particularly useful. The design is very polished aside from that.\n\n Thanks! I've received mixed feedback on that effect. People seem to either love it or hate it.<\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Rinspeed XchangE concept video presentation - http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Kxvcm4BtUYo\n\n The video is over-produced and phony, but it's an entertaining conceptualization of a self-driving vehicle experience.\n\n(That is, assuming you wear thick turtlenecks and suave watches.)<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"University hacked: 75,000 social security numbers, student names exposed - http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/igeneration\/university-of-wisconsin-hacked-75000-social-security-numbers-student-names-exposed\/12181\n\n Not again! 2011 is shaping up to be a record year for the number of large attacks of this kind.<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Canada legalises recreational cannabis use - https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-44543286 I was born in Buffalo, no longer there due to lack of tech jobs (that isn't blue cross blue shield). The Canadian side of Niagara Falls already destroys our side. Much more development. Way more activities to do. Gorgeous view of the falls. All around better.\n\nNow that weed is legalized this will only become more and more apparent. They will attract more individuals from both sides of the border and I bet see much more money coming in leading to more development, etc.\n\nNew York had missed out on this opportunity for years and by the looks of it will continue to miss out.\n\n Personally, I prefer the American side more. It has a more park like feel to it where you can enjoy the falls while sitting on the lawn, away from car honks and road noise. The Canadian side seems like an urban jungle with the waterfalls take a side step to tall hotel buildings and casinos.\n\n The Canadian side is relatively developed (vs american side) and an economic engine (tourism, jobs, wines). Your parent commenter's point I believe is that the federal\/state\/local government has failed the local people in investing and developing a local economy in the area. Both sides have essentially the same resources (the falls), but one side is doing better (economically) than the other.\n\n And the point made by (now) parent is that a preference for less resource exploitation and economic development can be a lifestyle decision, not a failure of governance. Not everyone wants to turn their town into a tourist hub.\n\n Thank you. That was what I was trying to say.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Funny story: I'm from the Netherlands and was 15 and on vacation in France. All the kids smoked weed, which they got in the harbor. They were surprised I never did it because it was legal in the Netherlands, all I could say was that you had to be 18 to get it so I couldn't get it.\n\n It's not legal, it's tolerated in law ([https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gedogen](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gedogen))\n\n I which it isn't. I've seen a high school friend falling into that gradually: he started speaking about cannabis to the point it became its only topic of conversation. Then of course he hanged only with people with similar interest. He became weird during the breaks and needed to smoke something, anything. After that when I went to the university he became a small dealer. He got enough money from that activity to rent an apartment and buy all the newest gaming consoles. So he didn't project himself into the future: no studies, no saving. He finally got into debt because of his girlfriend not paying her part of the rent. Sad story because it was not a dumb guy but the addiction makes him made very bad life choices.\n\nOn the macro-scale, cannabis and others drugs are a big factor that fuels France suburb separatism and in some case finance terror attacks. Sorhere is a need for a real prohibition or for a legalization to stop this underground economy.\n\n Would making it illegal have prevented this?\n\n I'm Canadian and I think legalization is the right choice, but I think there is some dishonesty on both sides, which is doing everyone a disservice.\n\nThe anti-cannabis people will say it's a \"gateway drug\" and that it will destroy your life, while some elements on the the pro-cannabis side would have you believe it's some sort of panacea. The reality is that it can cause intense anxiety and paranoia in some people, and some people do get addicted to it. As with every other drug, you should tread carefully and have some amount of self-awareness when using it.\n\nPS: I hope that mushrooms will be made legal at some point. They show a lot of promise for use as antidepressants.\n\n Absolutely - this is an example case where the legal status of the drug I don't think would have made a difference, the drug clearly had a profound effect on this individual. Cannabis is by no means a safe drug (no drugs are 100% safe), but it does tend to get painted as either black or white by either side. The politicisation of the issue makes it hard to have a rational discussion around drug risks, and harms, especially in relation to each other (e.g. cannabis is much safer than alcohol by most measures, especially when not smoked). Almost all drugs also have benefits too, including alcohol and even heroin - which has therapeutic benefit for the terminally ill in extreme pain, for example.\n\nSadly we're a very long way away from a truly rational approach to drug use, not least because we've spent the best part of a century making it a moral issue.\n\n(Mushrooms - one of the safest drugs - were legal in the UK, but were made illegal a few years ago - amid moral panic).\n\n > but were made illegal a few years ago - amid moral panic).\n\nEveryone started to take the piss which didn't help. Big signs up in shops \"MAGIC MUSHROOMS FOR SALE\". For years they had been available, under the counter with no problems, but when it became blatant, the end was sure to come.\n\n Which just underlines the way that drug classification decisions are made in the UK: not because there was an uptick in harm, but because it became noticeable.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> One of the topics that hasn't yet been mentioned (which surprises me, especially for HN), which I believe I saw originally when this legalization was still merely being proposed was how it would affect medical\/pharmaceutical research.\n\nWith such national legalization, an entire developed nation (with relatively diverse genetic backgrounds, even) will be open to clinical trials.\n\nBesides finally providing ammunition to topple the \"no possible medical uses\" classification in the US (and presumably other countries), it may lead to discoveries of properties of the lesser known chemicals in cannabis.\n\nIt may not, but the possibility is still likely to bring something of an additional boost to Canada's biotech sector.\n\n It turns out that cannabis is, and has been, extensively researched for years, in Canada and elsewhere (researchers could apply for special access). Thanks to this work, we know that there is one, exactly one robust, reliable clinical application of a cannabis chemical that stands out: to treat otherwise hard- to-treat childhood epilepsies. The chemical responsible for this is cannabidiol, which is the most abundant non-psychoactive molecule found in the cannabis plant. The other tested clinical applications include pain relief (works great for some people against some types of pain, continually fails clinical trials in most types of pain, not better than the standard of care), nausea relief (not better than the standards of care), sleep (very variable and low quality clinical data from multiple trials), inflammation (very variable and low quality clinical data from multiple trials) and headache (very variable data, etc). Most of this work has been done on the various non- psychoactive chemicals in cannabis, popular and otherwise, since tetrahydrocannabinol is kind of useless at clinically-relevant doses.\n\nI think we'll find out in a few years that most of the hype around cannabis is just, well, hype.\n\n > (researchers could apply for special access)\n\nI'm aware of the special access, and I'm even aware that it has resulted in actual pharmaceuticals.\n\nThe problem with _special_ access is that it has a huge chilling effect. I suspect only the very most motivated (and funded? or just politically protected?) would attempt it.\n\nWhat about semi-synthetics? I have to imagine it's easier to experiment with synthesis if there's a robust, commercial market for the raw materials, instead of just the special government hothouse (or however it works in the particular jurisdiction).\n\n> not better than the standard of care\n\nI don't think I'd characterize that as a failure, if it's approximatey as good. Even if it's worse but significantly better than placebo, that doesn't seem like anything approaching a research dead-end.\n\nBesides semi-synthetics, which would be a long and hard road, there's also adjunct therapy, or did those studies actually include using cannabis chemicals in addition to the standard ones?\n\n> very variable and low quality clinical data from multiple trials\n\nAny possibility that this was affected by actual or perceived stigma surrounding the source of the chemical being studied? Participants worrying about failing a drug test? (Does this law address that at all?)\n\n> I think we'll find out in a few years that most of the hype around cannabis > is just, well, hype.\n\nThat's an easy prediction to make about any hype, and I certainly agree. I just think there's more to learn, even if it confirms the null hypothesis, and this will take the foot off the brake in Canada.\n\n To answer some of your questions, one reason why the area has seen so much active research in the past 30 years -- and there's been a lot -- is that the human cellular pathways that respond to cannabis are extremely far-reaching and far more interesting. To this end, there has indeed been a great deal of synthetic chemistry to experiment with and manipulate these pathways.\n\n>Besides semi-synthetics, which would be a long and hard road, there's also adjunct therapy, or did those studies actually include using cannabis chemicals in addition to the standard ones?\n\nInterestingly, you can find examples of both adjunct and comparator studies, which are usually blinded in some way to reduce stigma or bias. (If anything, the bias tends to favor cannabis-consuming patients, since it's hard to hide the fact that the pill you just took in a \"blinded\" clinical trial is making you high.)\n\nA decent summary of some of the clinical data is here: [https:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/about- cancer\/treatment\/cam\/hp\/cannabi...](https:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/about- cancer\/treatment\/cam\/hp\/cannabis-pdq) .\n\n >A decent summary of some of the clinical data is here\n\nThanks! That looks extremely informative, and I only had a chance to skim through it so far.\n\nI couldn't help but notice how many (at least half) of the referenced studies were in the past 10 years. That does suggest to me that changing attitudes have more to do with it than legalization.\n\n> Interestingly, you can find examples of both adjunct and comparator studies, > which are usually blinded in some way to reduce stigma or bias. (If > anything, the bias tends to favor cannabis-consuming patients, since it's > hard to hide the fact that the pill you just took in a \"blinded\" clinical > trial is making you high.)\n\nI'm a bit confused by what you mean by \"favors\" here. Do you mean that an otherwise\/previously cannabis-using patient would report more favorable results (and\/or fewer negative side effects)? Or that such a patient would more likely receive actually better benefits? Or that they would be more likely to be in the trial in the first place?\n\nAre there clinical trials where the participants don't know what (potential) active therapy they could get is? The ones I've looked at in the US have always said, but I've only looked at a couple very specific conditions.\n\n >I'm a bit confused by what you mean by \"favors\" here. Do you mean that an otherwise\/previously cannabis-using patient would report more favorable results (and\/or fewer negative side effects)?\n\nIn cases in which the active agent is THC or a similarly psychoactive agent, patients are indeed more likely to report positive overall effects simply because they know they're receiving the active agent; i.e. the placebo effect. This would apply whether they've used cannabis before or not. You don't have this problem with trials of the non-psychoactive cannabis chemicals, which fortunately is most trials.\n\n That certainly makes sense with THC, and ties back to your earlier remark about clinically significant quantities of it.\n\nFor some studies, I've seen reference to using an active placebo (so the placebo group feels _something_ ), but I realize that can pollute the side effects data, and it may be useless for psychoactives where the effect is publically well-known.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Meanwhile in Britain, the former leader of the Conservative Party, William Hague, spoke out and claimed that the war on cannabis had been \"irreversibly lost\".\n\nHe was quickly shut down by Theresa May, who categorically ruled out legalisation or even decriminalisation [1].\n\nI don't understand how politicians can stand up and claim that legalisation would have substantial negatives, when every experiment with legalisation has been a success. It's the same blinkered thinking as the anti-gay marriage politicians claiming that it will cause the breakdown of families, or politicians claiming that universal healthcare in the USA clearly wouldn't work.\n\nDrug prohibition has been a categorical failure in every outcome it was intended to achieve. It has cost governments trillions of dollars and incarcerated millions, funded terrorism and civil wars, and caused the deaths of millions of people from both violence and drug related harm. Plus the harm caused by the demonisation of drugs that have potentially powerful positive effects as part of psychiatric treatment such as LSD and MDMA. All due to some concept that taking \"recreational drugs\" is a moral failing and hence should be illegal.\n\nAt least society in genera has finally come around to realise that drug addiction and drug use are not moral failings (although my parents aren't quite convinced).\n\nObviously we want to restrict access as much as possible to particular drugs, such as heroin or methamphetamine, which are so harmful and addictive that nobody should be using them, or GHB, where the potential for fatal overdose is so high. But penalising the end user is not the solution. People who want to take drugs will take drugs. I have never met somebody who has decided to not take a drug because it's illegal. Whether it was alcohol when underaged, smoking a joint, injecting heroin, or snorting cocaine. I know plenty of people who don't take drugs as a personal choice or because they get drug tested at work, but never was the law a reason why the abstained. It doesn't restrict supply either. Drugs are easy to find and readily available practically everywhere in the world, all that prohibition does is push up the price, fund criminals, and increase harm due to poor quality control and cut drugs.\n\n[1] [https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk- politics-44526156](https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-politics-44526156)\n\n We already have many problems caused by alcohol and cigarettes, costing taxpayers billions in unnecessary expenses. I get it, people need to escape reality they live in. We know that some weed smokers end up schizophrenic and that in general smoking weed weakens one's will, so in many cases we end up with grown up children going only after the things attainable by easiest efforts. There are also some legit medical uses that might help a wide range of disorders; those are fine regulated the same way as medical heroin or amphetamines are. However, why open another Pandora's box, add another bunch of disorders to the open, inviting people that would have never used them before, causing them issues? Nobody knows how would their genetic makeup respond to even first absorption of a drug. I.e. the minimal requirement of justice in preventing harm to innocents would be violated.\n\nIf you however like post-justice post-truth world, then anything goes. Why not accept all hard drugs, all sexual deviations, all violent or manipulative behaviors then? It's natural anyway, observed in animals daily, isn't it? The hard line must be placed somewhere, or not?\n\n Pandora's box was opened by the first sprouting seed of Cannabis on earth. The prohibition came after, so if anything we're talking about a pre-justice world, aren't we?\n\n>Why not accept all hard drugs, all sexual deviations, all violent or manipulative behaviors then?Why not accept all hard drugs, all sexual deviations, all violent or manipulative behaviors then?\n\nBecause those things cause falsifiable and measurable harm to society. Cannabis use is by all measures benign while its prohibition actually causing real harm.\n\n > Because those things cause falsifiable and measurable harm to society. > Cannabis use is by all measures benign while its prohibition actually > causing real harm.\n\nThere are unfortunately people that could be damaged by smoking weed, irreversibly, if their schizophrenia proclivity gets activated. Also the easy escape from problems is not in society's best interest - see the ongoing shaming for gaming, where boys are pushed into the \"real world\" to get some society-benefiting work done instead of them having more fun.\n\nWe usually have 1-2 generations that act as guinea pigs on effects of new inventions or discoveries. The wild time with LSD, heroin etc. is thankfully over. Not sure why would we want to backtrack on cannabis, even if it is objectively less harmful. Alcohol & cigarettes are objectively less harmful than heroin etc. but we would be better off without them.\n\n > There are unfortunately people that could be damaged by smoking weed, > irreversibly\n\nPerhaps peanuts should be made illegal. There are people that can be irreversibly damaged by consuming peanuts.\n\nIf we're goi to be consistent and ban or regulate substances because there might be harm to an incredibly small minority then sadly there would be very very few legal foods, medications, etc. hell we should probably ban strobe lights as well.\n\nOn another note you'd probably be disappointed to hear research and use of hallucinogenic substances has been on a sharp rise. So it seems those wild times you're fearful of are returning.\n\n > wild times you're fearful of are returning\n\nI am not really fearing them for the sake of myself (well, except for the rise of violence\/poverty they might cause). I can actually benefit from it myself by estimating what junkies would be willing to pay for and moving my e-commerce business into that direction, like what many are cynically doing now with older women and pet food. But I pity them, would rather see people achieving their full potential instead of getting their quick fix and wasting rest of the day on silly things. I just think by enabling (even if lighter) drugs, it would have profound effect on progress of our civilization, meaning no advanced space travel (\"flying saucers\"), no more improved physics, no faster computers, because if everybody is happy from smoking the weed, content with their life, why would they want to push frontiers of civilization? And frankly, I don't want to see USA\/Europe end up as India, that has strong historic traditions of hallucinogens intervowen with their culture, together with tantric Buddhism suspected as the main reason of their millennium-long decline and abhorrent societal divisions.\n\n I think you're making some quite wild assumptions about motivation and impact of the use of various substances.\n\nIf you looked at those that literally are making those profound advancements you're worried about losing, you'd also often be looking at those that moderately and recreational partake in some of these substances.\n\nThe people that partake but still excel aren't as visible as those that don't get themselves off the couch. You mistakingly assume that it's purely about escapism and wasting away as a result.\n\nI think you'd be quite surprised at the number of successful, motivated people that don't feel the need to get a \"quick fix\" that partake.\n\nMany find it helps creativity for example (and research backs this up). If you're going to put any stock in research then the assumptions your making about motivation and impact simply doesn't jive with what's being observed.\n\nIt's all beside the point anyway. Ultimately we have to decide what the role of the government has in regulating things like this and what metrics it uses to decide. Whatever those are they should be consistent. From my point of view though they've been anything but that. With so many prescription drugs being more addictive, more deadly, and often with fewer potential benefits than substances that are restricted even from research it's hard to reason about.\n\nThe majority of the drug policy is less about the science (both medical and social) and more about perception and politics.\n\nA quick aside. If it's escapism you have an issue with then really the entire entertainment industry should be in your laser sights. Capitalism definitely has a strong embrace of promoting and capitalizing on escapism. Drugs are hardly a significant contributor here.\n\n _EDIT_ forgive the rambling nature of the post.\n\n I think it's inevitable we research what exactly drugs do to people as science progresses; I am strictly against exposing the whole population to it though. What I would be in favor of is to give _adults_ a choice to take those drugs for 20-30 years but require them to be enrolled into a health monitoring system so that the effects could be researched properly and then an informed judgement be made (only for those persons that don't posses known risk factors). So removing the stigma of \"junkies\" by willing participation (license + mandatory insurance?), regulate it on manufacturing side, but also place an obligation on users to provide some benefit to society as well in better understanding of how human body works. Of course, there would be automatic limitations imposed like participation in sport competitions, high- risk jobs etc.\n\nAnd ramblings are fine, it's always refreshing to read somebody's unfiltered opinion; even in disagreement it sometimes removes some innate tunnel vision ;-) I agree with what you've written about escapism.\n\n I think that's a legitimate approach. Though I personally think all substances should be decriminalized (rather than legalized) as in the case of things like heroin addiction the addicts fear of punishment and the stigma keeps people from seeking help and ultimately we should want them to seek help.\n\nAlcoholism would exist with or without alcohol being illegal, the only difference would be that drinking alcohol would be more dangerous for those wishing to drink responsibly and those drinking irresponsibly would have less options to become well.\n\nRegarding these other substances though I wholeheartedly agree real research is needed. It's one of the really tragic things about the war on drugs actually, that research was completely stopped. Even if you keep a substance illegal, researchers should still be allowed to investigate these things. There's life changing non mind altering treatment for cluster headaches for example that has been nearly impossible to research until recently and even still it's never going to see the light of day in this political climate around drug paranoia even though it has zero mind altering impacts (it's a chemical related to lsd where they modified to remove the altering effect).\n\nI'm pretty ok with substances being banned (albeit not my preference) in general as long as research is allowed to continue and the ban persists based on information produced from that research. I.E. it's not based on fear mongering but science.\n\nAnother aside, one of the main reasons I think decriminalization (for all) and legalization (for some) is pretty compelling is that it makes it a lot easier to regulate to ensure the products themselves are safe. A large number of the safety issues simply comes from people obtaining unsafe\/fake products. Though regulation you have consistency. Nowadays with recreational marijuana you can see the lab report for every single product. Back in the day you just had to rely on some shady character telling you \"it's good\".\n\nPeople are going to be doing these things, keeping them illegal in the way we have been (serious jail times for personal possession) only creates more harm and cost to society rather than alleviate it (the supposed goal). The war on drugs has created a quite insane cost through mandatory minimums and three strikes laws.. if the goal was to reduce cost to society we'd have saved money providing government supplied drugs to addicts. If the goal is to \"save\" or prevent harm to addicts, locking them up and making them felons seems to be having the opposite effect. They fear seeking help, and once caught up in our penal system it's hard to escape.\n\nSo what part of criminalization is really benefiting us?\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Canada now has a huge head start in the West for business to develop legitimate markets that will have a strong hold for decades. I wonder how many U.S. businesses will move because of this. We all know where the money will be.\n\n California, where marijuana is now legal since last year, has a greater population than all of Canada.\n\nRelated to that, each Canadian province has the ability to further regulate marijuana (within guidelines). Thus, there isn't one Canadian market, but a bunch of smaller markets.\n\n I wonder about climate too. CA has way better weather to grow almost anything as evidenced by it's agriculture industry. I would expect Canada's grow season to be much shorter. And obv weed grows well under grow lights, but that costs money so I would expect California to have major economic advantage.\n\n It's much easier to get quality control in a closed environment than outdoors. And _legal_ marijuana is driven strongly by quality as a market force. _Illegal_ marijuana, on the other hand, is more about volume than quality, particularly when you consider interdiction-based losses of entire crops or shipments. So outdoors makes a lot of sense.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> I have a very simple world view which, I guess, could be considered a radically liberal one: everyone can do as they please as long as it doesn't tread on the same rights of another person. You want to inject, snort or sniff something? Go ahead! It's your body, after all. Neither I, nor any government should have anything to say about this. Obviously, you should not operate a vehicle while intoxicated and we need to have a conversation on who pays how much for health care -- but are we going to punish obese people too...? So that's a more complicated conversation but in itself no drug use should be criminal.\n\nAlong these lines I only have one question: why only cannabis? (I am Canadian.)\n\n Isn't there some friction here with regards to nationalized health care? Society at large will pay for the poor health decisions of individual citizens.\n\n If cannabis use results in higher health costs.\n\nHowever, the preponderance of research suggests a null hypothesis at worst and a reduction in cancer rates and opiate dependency at best.\n\n And more: If it results in higher health care costs than the savings realized in law enforcement, judicial proceedings, and prisons.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> I wonder how many state has to legalize it before the federal government in USA is forced to change their classification. It seems like more and more state will legalize it over time anyways.\n\n States starting to legalize it was likely a big part of why the Canadian government became comfortable with the idea of legalizing it. The idea of legalization, or at least decriminalization, has been floating around in Canada since the 90s, but a major talking point against the idea has been that it would compromise Canada's relationship with the USA. Obviously as internal parts of the USA are legalizing it this is no longer so much of a concern.\n\n I wonder if this has anything to do with the recent breakdown in US-Canada relations? Maybe the Canadians are less concerned with offending us now?\n\n This is the result of a campaign promise made in 2015.\n\n Yes, it's been in the works for years and a multi-billion dollar industry has grown up around recreational cannabis already. Canopy Growth was listed on the NYSE this year.\n\n[https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/WEED:CN](https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/WEED:CN)\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> This makes Canada the most advanced cannabis country! I remember reading in a Dutch news paper that Dutch weed growers were jealous of experiments in USA. The Dutch system does not allow growing and daily there is a rollup of a farm. Legalisation allows for cleaner products, new kind of products (drinkable), and other practises that professional businesses can perform.\n\nCannabis legalisation will eventually be more and more adopted in other countries, being the first allows you to own the market.\n\n Well, Netherlands has edibles in its cafes, whereas Canada is not allowing edibles in the new regime (yet).\n\n Which is unfortunate because cannabis edibles are the most accessible way to consume it in privacy and without the odor or smokey exhaust.\n\nThere is research on THC-infused drinks that match the alcoholic beverage experience in time-to-inebriation and the duration of inebriation. Current methods of cannabis consumption stretch the experience out over a long period, which naturally is unfeasible for restaurant venues and the like.\n\n They're going to allow it, but they want to make sure that the dosages are predictable. Right now the edibles black market in Canada is very unpredictable. Something marked as 200 could be as high as 500.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Clutch predicted this in 2004: \"Everybody move to Canada, smoke lots of pot, everybody move to Canada right now!\" (Clutch, \"The Mob Goes Wild\", Blast Tyrant. DRT: 2004) [https:\/\/youtu.be\/XDCNJtK6XkE](https:\/\/youtu.be\/XDCNJtK6XkE)\n\nAnd seriously, there is obviously a massive commercial interest in legalized marijuana, hence we'll see more and more moves in that direction. The correlation with de-demonization (and de-criminalization!) of 'organic' drugs and widening of personal liberties is a side-effect, albeit a welcome one.\n\n Medical cannabis exists since 2001, then there were attempts to decriminalize (not legalize) recreational cannabis in 2003 and 2004, but both times died off because it could not pass in time before the end of the legislative session.\n\nHowever, it was followed by a 12 year Conservative government, sometimes a minority government, so nothing happened federally, but there were many provincial court cases that helped change how the laws were being applied.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> What is the correlation between countries with partially privatized penal systems and strong drug laws? Yes, I realize that drugs have been illegal longer than prisons have been privately run in most cases but prison privatization is a factor in keeping them illegal, is it not?\n\nAs far as I can tell, Canada has not privatized their penal system.\n\n<\/comment> I wonder how police forces will react.. imagine spending a lot of time checking people and probably dealing with tensions and now no more controls, all is fine (sic)\n\n Possession has been sort of de-facto decriminalized in Canada for many years - police just don't enforce the law.\n\n This is only true in major metro areas -- that is, Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto. Most smaller cites\/towns or rural regions are far less tolerant.\n\n(In fact, differential enforcement by regional police departments was one of the more compelling arguments in favour of decriminalization.)\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> I'm visiting Toronto and nobody here at the bar had heard this yet.\n\n It's essentially \"legal\" in Canada already so no one really cares about it that much.\n\n Oh no... now that it is legal, a number of the publicly traded cannabis companies will be able to actually start selling the product they've been stockpiling over the last year.\n\nEverything we've seen for estimates is that even then, we're only going to meet 50% of the demand.\n\nCanopy Growth Corp, CBW, Aphira, Abcann... there are actually dozens of them and they're going to be in for a good year for now and (hopefully) tremendous growth as well.\n\nSome people care very much.\n\n > _a number of the publicly traded cannabis companies will be able to actually > start selling the product they've been stockpiling over the last year_\n\nCan you link to anything that says Canada is going to allow uninhibited access to the market from these companies? Currently they are licensed for medicinal use only.\n\nI'm skeptical. The government is not going to mint pot billionaires. It will be tightly controlled.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Yep. Glad we finally put this tired horse to bed.\n\n<\/comment> Lots of Canadian tech companies hiring folks :) Come work with me at Hubba and take on Alibaba. @kentf on twitter.\n\n<\/comment> not everyone can take the hypocrisy of our human society and some of them will turn to substance abuse to put there heads in the sand and carry on with their existance\n\n<\/comment> Having enjoyed a few edibles in Amsterdam, weed products are fantastic. The sense of non-anxiety is infectious. I would pay handsomely for that few fucks to give.\n\n Conversely, a subset of the population may experience weed-induced psychosis.\n\nI experience it while high, so I only take a toke or two irregularly. I might feel as if I'm experiencing the pain of a broken leg, or that my foot is bleeding, as well as more abstract things. It also grants some introspection and lateral thinking so its not a bad time.\n\nI've heard higher amounts of CBD can counteract this, but I just mooch from friends who regularly smoke, and all their weed is high in THC \/ low in CBD. When its fully legal in my province I'll try a high CBD strain.\n\nEither way I'm excited for the neurological research to come out of Canada from legalization :)\n\n Is \"weed-induced psychosis\" an actual bad thing? Of course it sounds terrible, but do people jump out of windows, or rake their throat out scratching an itch that isn't there? Is it dangerous or just one of those things? A Nut allergy for example?\n\n I'm not sure. It's definitely not comfortable, and sometimes the thoughts\/delusions are more advanced than phantom physical pain.\n\nMy first experience with weed was a couple of years ago, and there was paranoia from the get-go. My dad also got paranoia when he tried it so he stopped.\n\nWhen I started smoking weed for the first time semi-regularly (~1.5 years ago, 0-4 times per week) I had become \"pretty crazy\", which consisted of lots of notes, voice memos, and screenshots of the notes and voice memos.\n\nThe outright-crazy stuff mostly ended about a couple months after I stopped living in my car, which I had to do because of the and it getting down to -19C at night. Within the past year I haven't been near the deep-end, but my weed use has been off and on between regularly (3-7 times per week), semi-regularly (0-4), and zero. I consistently experience paranoia\/psychosis whenever I get high, but it generally isn't harmful, and is sometimes silly. My friends put up with it.\n\nHowever very recently for 6 days, I lived in a cruel reality that existed in my head. It was caused by a long-term (2 yr) long-distance (6 mnth) codependent girlfriend who can be a capable and stubborn liar. Thankfully the extent of the terrible things I believed happened didn't actually happen\u2013she didn't even make it to cheating on me, let alone the malicious delusions I experienced\u2013and she happened to have suitable proof. If she hadn't I might still be in that reality.\n\nI think the episode was more to do with how she shattered trust, and some coincidental events during the 6 days, but I believe my weed usage helped my brain to create the complex unimaginable scenarios, then experience the pain fully. For a handful of hours in those 6 days I was close to tell-no-one suicide, after a history of suicidal behaviour.\n\nI'm happy to be in this reality as of a little less than 2 weeks ago, I'm also glad that I endured and survived that pain. I've become a lot stronger, more peaceful, and I feel that I have turned many corners with mental illness which I hadn't faced in the past\u2013though perhaps I can credit that to a deeper dive into Buddhism and to the end of the codependency. We were about to restart our warm embrace the day she anchored me to this timeline, but per some timely advice from her friend we took a step back and ended it.\n\nWhether or not the psychosis is temporary, or whether it causes early-onset schizophrenia is an area I'm excited to see more research on. It's definitely not as black-and-white as many people paint it out to be, and talking about any potential downsides of the drug is sometimes met with stigmatism because you're \"falling for the propaganda\".\n\nOne aspect of weed legalization is going to be psychosis in a subset of people who use it, and it's not exactly a safe phenomenon. There were definitely paths during my bouts with weed that don't lead to being here like this today. At the same time I'm grateful for the experiences it has given me, and the lateral thinking it has granted me.\n\nHere's a good article I found, \"Pot Can Trigger Psychotic Symptoms For Some, But Do The Effects Last?\" [2015] [https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health- shots\/2015\/03\/06\/3901436...](https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health- shots\/2015\/03\/06\/390143641\/pot-can-trigger-psychotic-symptoms-for-some-but-do- the-effects-last)\n\nFor Buddhism I've been slowly reading Siddhartha over the past few weeks, and Tales Of Times Now Past off and on over the past year.\n\nI wouldn't generally write such a long, personal comment, but we're neatly away on the second page.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> > The country is the second worldwide to legalise the drug's recreational use.\n\nWhat about the Netherlands?\n\n It's not legalized in the Netherlands. It's not criminalized due to an official stance of tolerance.\n\n[https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gedogen](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gedogen)\n\nIt's complicated, and there's a lot of nuance to the Dutch model, but it is distinctly different from what you have now in Canada and in numerous US states.\n\n That wiki link has a great example:\n\n\"To give an example in layman's terms: a mother may tell her child he can't have cookies from the cookie jar. The father, regardless of his beliefs, can't tell the child it's okay to have a cookie as that would result in a conflict with the mother. If the father sees the child taking a cookie anyway, he may choose not to say anything. He may not want to punish or stop the child but can't condone the behaviour either. The father may act as if nothing had happened to avoid a conflict with both his beliefs and the mother. He \"gedoogs\" the behaviour.\"\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> ?\n\n Technically Elizabeth is the Queen of Canada. Her titles elsewhere don't mean anything. Otherwise, she does indeed have to give royal assent, which will be done via the Governor General.\n\n Best to think that she just happens to be the queen of a bunch of things, not that those things all share the same queen.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> I despise getting involved in threads like this, because they always descend into whataboutism (\"Oh, but alcohol is worse!, etc.), but here we go with my anecdotal evidence.\n\nMe, personally, not a huge fan. I dabbled and experimented like a good chunk of Americans, decided it wasn't for me. Not necessarily because I didn't enjoy it - although I was involved in quite a bit of team sports at the time and was worried about the health impacts - but because I saw the impact it was having on friends of mine.\n\nYMMV (of course), but I simply saw too many ambitious, energetic people suddenly become very boring, and very comfortable with doing nothing. I have absolutely no doubt that it's a drug with tons of applications medicinally to treat everything from glaucoma to social anxiety to PTSD, but for purely recreational purposes, it appeared to be quite damaging and \"Oh, alcohol is too!\" just isn't a strong enough argument for me to be celebrating recreational legalization.\n\n It's not about whether using cannabis is a good idea. It's about whether having it be a severe criminal offense is a good way to discourage use. That approach quite obviously hasn't worked, and has resulted in various serious externalities such as criminal enterprises.\n\n I think that this point gets a bit lost, though: I wholeheartedly support cannabis legalization (for all the good reasons we're all aware of) but it seems like in every discussion of the issue people act like smoking cannabis is a perfectly healthy past-time. It's not, it's clearly unhealthy.\n\nThat doesn't mean it should be illegal (lots of unhealthy stuff is legal!), but it does mean that it's a very good idea to avoid it.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> What do we do about heroin\/opiods that are the real problem today? Cheap, highly addictive. Multiple overdoses today in my local news feed reported.... :(\n\nYou cant overdose and die from MJ use (or its highly unlikely).\n\nThis whole war on drugs thing feels like a game of smoke and mirrors...\n\n Legalize cannabis. Opioid deaths have dropped here in Colorado since legalization.\n\n Are individuals successfully transitioning from opioids to cannabis, or does legalization primarily affect the ratio of new users?\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> A sad and unfortunate trend.\n\n What makes you feel that the trend is sad? I often feel like the laws regarding recreational cannabis are quite more strict than they need be, but I'd be curious to hear your point of view?\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> Should any substance which enhances the risk of schizophrenia be legalized? [https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/317170.php](https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/317170.php) It appears to me that if cannabis was a food additive with the same risk profile, no one would think it should be legal.\n\nI understand that the counter-argument is \"What about tobacco\/alcohol?\" But those substances are already legal and there are no \"equal opportunities\" rights for drugs. Like if artificial sweeteners were invented today, they would either be banned or there would be harsh restrictions on how food producers could use them.\n\nYes, tobacco kills a lot of people. But as many health experts think letting the tobacco companies sell cigarettes was one of _the greatest mistakes of the 20th century_ , I fail to see how that is an argument. We fucked up once, so we need to do it again?\n\n Alcohol has a risk of brain damage[1]. Acetaminophen increases the risk of liver damage and death [2]. There's an argument that we shouldn't allow risky chemicals, but if were being consistent then the risk of schizophrenia from pot use is right up there with the risks of lots of legal, over the counter chemicals\n\n[1][https:\/\/www.alzheimers.org.uk\/about-dementia\/types- dementia\/...](https:\/\/www.alzheimers.org.uk\/about-dementia\/types- dementia\/alcohol-related-brain-damage) [2][https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/forconsumers\/consumerupdates\/ucm168830.h...](https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/forconsumers\/consumerupdates\/ucm168830.htm)\n\n Yep. Think about all the US gun deaths you hear about (34k): homicides, suicides, law enforcement. [1]\n\nThen realize that alcohol's death toll is more than _twice_ that (88k): liver disease, drunk driving, domestic abuse. [2]\n\nAnd tobacco is yet again over _five_ times deadlier than alcohol (480k for smoking). [3]\n\nIt is insane how many Americans die due to injesting poisonous substances.\n\n[1] [https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta...](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States)\n\n[2] [https:\/\/www.niaaa.nih.gov\/alcohol-health\/overview-alcohol- co...](https:\/\/www.niaaa.nih.gov\/alcohol-health\/overview-alcohol- consumption\/alcohol-facts-and-statistics)\n\n[3] [https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/tobacco\/data_statistics\/fact_sheets\/fast...](https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/tobacco\/data_statistics\/fact_sheets\/fast_facts\/index.htm)<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Presenting Anything as Stastically Significant - http:\/\/people.psych.cornell.edu\/~jec7\/pcd%20pubs\/simmonsetal11.pdf\n\n Worthwhile topic, but the misspelling in the title is a little off-putting. :(<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Lego Calendar - http:\/\/www.lego-calendar.com\/long-description\/\n\n For a while LEGO had 'modulex' and 'plancopy', at least one segment of which was targeted at lego based planning boards.\n\n[http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_1NgBBDpSJ34\/SNm7FhCVdNI\/AAAAAAAADX...](http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_1NgBBDpSJ34\/SNm7FhCVdNI\/AAAAAAAADXU\/unm9aB4gGMQ\/s400\/6e5f_1.JPG)\n\n Custom pieces could probably also be 3D printed.\n\n From what I've heard, the tolerances on Lego pieces are very tight. Most commercially available 3D printers can't yet reach those tolerances, so the pieces don't fit together very well. Although I guess having a perfect fit might not matter as much for a project like this vs. a 2 foot wide model of the Death Star!\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> You will soon get a cease and desist letter from Lawyers of Lego for using their trademark. I am telling from my experience.\n\n They seem to be doing fine. The oldest discussion was 11 months ago.\n\n[https:\/\/hn.algolia.com\/?q=lego+calendar#!\/story\/forever\/0\/le...](https:\/\/hn.algolia.com\/?q=lego+calendar#!\/story\/forever\/0\/lego%20calendar)\n\n The difference is that was just a project to show off, but now they have a domain and what seems to be plans to market this.\n\n I think they are just going to offer it as open source software be a use you can get the Lego yourself. The software scans the picture and translates that to calendar input.\n\nthe last line on the post says it is an experiment and not a product.\n\n Unfortunately, open source vs. commercial has nothing to do with whether something is a trademark infringement. The countless open-source fanworks taken down by brand-owning companies are a testament to this. As long as lawyers believe that \"if you don't defend your trademark with takedowns, you'll lose the ability to defend it in court,\" then benign derivatives will not be able to use IP without licensing it in the general case.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Love the idea, especially it's accessibility. This feels like it would be fast to manage physically, except for the take-photo-and-email component, which could be replaced by a webcam pointed at the board. Then there's also no technical friction fiddling on your phone.\n\n<\/comment> FYI, This was posted 11 months ago too.\n\n[https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=6475285](https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=6475285)\n\n<\/comment> Looks pretty cool. Few questions.\n\n1) Do you have to give your calendar login to a 3rd party? 2) What happens I add something to my calendar on my computer, is there some alert sent to someone that they need to add a lego to the board? 3) What I schedule something on the calendar online, but the lego doesn't get added to the board. When someone takes a picture and syncs it, what will happen to my appointment? Will it think it's gone and erase it? Notify of the descrepency, etc....\n\nI'm envisioning in my head some arduino powered lego calendar that automatically puts the blocks in place as appointments are added\/moved\/deleted from the cloud.\n\n Speculation: It appears they are using this for the overarching structure of projects. Rather than managing individual appointments it manages overall time, e.g. on this day BobbySue should be spending 50% of her time on project A and 50% on project B. Then you can make the calendar read only from the digital side.\n\nThat being said, I would still like to see a pick-n-place managed version of this that stays in sync with google calendar.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> Although the image recognition software is cool, it's almost surely cheaper to just set up Mechanical Turk HITs, compared to however many programmer-hours were spent on the image recognition.\n\n I'm not sure i agree, I can't imagine it taking more than a solid day of work prototyping this in OpenCV.\n\n Well, I'm not an expert by an means but I think the plumbing would take far more time than the vision itself - hooking up to a calender api, etc. Maybe MT would run into the same issues. But HITs are super cheap, and a single programmer-day in many countries would still buy a ton of HITs at a few cents a pop.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Can the synchronizer differentiate between single block and double block heights?\n\nAlso, another cool level of granularity (if needed) could be using 1x2 or 1x1 lego blocks to add more information that's easily seen in the photo. Not only do you have different colors of 1x2 and 1x1 blocks, you can also place them in different positions (left\/right vertically, top\/bottom horizontally).\n\nAll in all, great idea. I'd like to set one of these up myself in the future.\n\n I've been playing around with this same kind of idea.\n\nIn my case I was using a cheap Android phone as a camera. Color recognition of 1x1 size Legos start to become problematic from more than 2 meters away, even in good lighting conditions.\n\n Couldn't it be solved by only taking a picture of the changed columns of the calendar instead of the entire three months?\n\nI'm not familiar with how you're processing the picture, but it might be possible to identify the columns by utilizing the empty row at the top of each column. I count 7 positions\/bits. You can use 2 bits to mark the month and the remaining 5 bits to mark the day of the month. Using this encoding, you could even add a fourth month without any problems.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Can anyone explain what hiding blocks in a drawer achieves? I can't work it out.\n\n If you remove a blue block of \"Blue project\" from some day because for some reason you're doing something else, or are sick or whatever, then you need to place it somewhere else on the planning calendar, as the expected amount of work doesn't shrink.\n\nHiding it in a drawer means that a block of neccesary work has not been scheduled anywhere and will bite you back later (or you'll do it sometime of regular hours).\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> I posted this two months ago [0] glad to see it gained traction this time :)\n\n[0]: [https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=7914768](https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=7914768)\n\n<\/comment> This is so 2012.<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"California keeps a secret list of criminal cops, but says you can't have it - https:\/\/www.eastbaytimes.com\/2019\/02\/26\/california-keeps-a-secret-list-of-criminal-cops-but-says-you-cant-have-it\/ Disclosure: I am a former felon, convicted and sentenced for assaulting a carjacker. pro-tip: never take the public defender.\n\nMy question about this whole discussion is this: Whats the point. If prisons are designed as \"correctional\" facilities, which many good ones are, then you'll obviously move past being a felon and improve your life. If you keep a secret list of people you know have been convicted of a felony, you're tacitly admitting you either dont believe in prisons as an effective tool for correction, or you're looking for something more sinister...biblical retribution\n\nAnd lets be honest, being a former felon _IS_ a scarlet letter in the US. employers can discriminate against you, housing can discriminate against you in renting and in homeowners covenants, and you can be denied public services like disability and food stamps in some states. Former felons cant vote without a lengthy and expensive process of reinstatement.\n\nYes, i get that teachers, doctors, and police are certainly important positions, but again, the list. If you're just keeping it as part of their personnel and noting certain positions they shouldnt hold out of an abundance of caution in the face of an indeterminate outcome from mental rehabilitation or incarceration, then perhaps keep it secret. Use it as a blacklist if thats whats required for certain positions. however If you're just looking to shield felons from the inconvenience of incarceration or criminal charges, then reconsider it.\n\n You're really describing the _other half_ of the same issue. The larger picture is that while the private sector is treating any conviction as a permanent black mark, the good old boys club is doing the exact opposite.\n\nI do agree that a serving your sentence should mean that your sentence has been served, as opposed to continuing lists and restrictions after you're supposedly \"free\". But _if_ we're going to allow that mark to continue in some form indefinitely, then it should have more effects on people in true positions of trust (eg police) rather than fewer!\n\nThis pattern of double standard rights erosion is happening across the board. Police enjoy \"Garrity rights\" whereby they can actually exercise their 5th amendment rights, whereas a private employee can be compelled to testify against themselves under threat of being fired. Someone who works for the government retains their freedom of speech protections, whereas a job in the private sector can be easily lost due to doxxing by an online lynch mob.\n\nUltimately, this two class system came about because rights were codified only as protections from the government, as there is no simple way to draw a line between freedom of association and negative consequences. But given that we've gotten to the point where the vast majority of the population _must_ hold down a job, this needs to change with respect to the general labor market.\n\n > Someone who works for the government retains their freedom of speech > protections, whereas a job in the private sector can be easily lost due to > doxxing by an online lynch mob.\n\nDoesn't this have more to do with the prevalence of _unions_ in the public sector?\n\n No, I don't think so. The US government(s) isn't allowed to punish employees for speech outside of work because of the first amendment.\n\nGoogle suggests that this is the supreme court case that set that precedent: [https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pickering_v._Board_of_Educatio...](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pickering_v._Board_of_Education)\n\n That case seems to be about school teachers.\n\nMy Dad was a mail carrier for a time in the US. According to his union newsletter, he did not all the full free speech rights outside of work as an average citizen. He was not allowed to talk about work conditions outside of work. He also did not have the right to strike.\n\nI could have the details wrong, this was in a newsletter I read in the 1980s. Oddly, I remember exactly were I was sitting when I read this.\n\n While the case was brought be a teacher the ruling was not limited to teachers.\n\nCan't speak to what your union told your dad. There are some limitations about speech related to work, but that sounds like a more extreme version than I'm aware of being upheld. Can speak to laws about striking even less.\n\n point being teachers are not federal US Government employees, they work for a subdivision of the state. A ruling about teachers seems like it might be not too relevant to Federal workers.\n\nThis web pages links to a PDF with a handy flow chart from the ACLU outlining when Federal employee might have restricted speech [https:\/\/www.acludc.org\/en\/know-your-rights\/know-your- rights-...](https:\/\/www.acludc.org\/en\/know-your-rights\/know-your-rights- federal-employee-speech-first-amendment)\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Let us make it even more direct. All government employees who commit crimes while in the employ of any government agency should have the record made public if it leads to disciplinary action or above a class C misdemeanor which for many jurisdictions is fines up to 1k.\n\nteachers, police, and fire, are some of the most protected classes of people when it comes to findings of wrong doing. Yet they are in positions we give our highest trust. From cops breaking the law to teachers getting caught abusing children, all are facts that are hidden from the public and at times only result in an offender being reassigned to different positions with pay.\n\nhaving an accountable government starts by holding the individuals in it accountable. I would not just start with the three I listed, I would put them right in the same starting group as elected officials.\n\n Almost all criminal convictions are public record, unless sealed for a specific reason (youthful offender, perhaps).\n\nPlease cite an example of a teacher convicted of child abuse where that conviction was \"hidden from the public.\" If anything, those cases are splashed across news websites even when there's nothing more than an accusation.\n\n > Please cite an example of a teacher convicted of child abuse where that > conviction was \"hidden from the public.\" If anything, those cases are > splashed across news websites even when there's nothing more than an > accusation.\n\nHow could they?\n\n The difference is \"hidden from the public\" vs \"hidden from every human being every living\". If there is a perpetrator\/victim, there's at least two people that can break out of the nd\/hush scenario.\n\nAnd, well I'm a little surprised on the teacher angle (and even firefighter).. Have teachers really abused children and simply been \"reassigned to different positions with pay\"? Is this a common occurrence statistically?\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Police may be one of the few professions below who have real privacy protections in US, although most decent humans would never want to take advantage of particular ones in effect.\n\nThe special rights the police have are amazing, and that's before you get to the ones about use of force. My personal favorite is that the maxim 'ignorance of the law is no excuse' is flipped on its head if you're a cop - immunity combined with judges willing to make absurd distinctions make it a great excuse.\n\nI absolutely want a list of the ones that still got caught, even with all those advantages. In terms of evaluating the risks of local community members, that's far more useful than a list of \"sex offenders\" who may have peed in public or something.\n\n > my personal favorite is that the maxim 'ignorance of the law is no excuse' > is flipped on its head if you're a cop\n\nSo true. When it's you being arrested, sorry, too bad.\n\nWhen a cop is trying to arrest you for taking photos in a public place, \"We can't expect cops to be constitutional lawyers\".\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> In September, California passed the law (S.B. 1421) described in the article, supposedly allowing access to records of police misconduct. It is restricted to certain circumstances, but should unambiguously allow for possession and publication, for example, of a list of officers who molested children (a sexual assault against a member of the public).\n\nOther states, like New York (CRL 50-a), have laws preventing public access to records of police misconduct, going so far as to hold proceedings against officers in secret [0]. Even efforts to post an anonymized list of violations have been blocked [1].\n\nWe require that other professions (e.g. doctors, lawyers, financial advisors) have complete, public records of professional misconduct as a matter of public safety (or awareness at a minimum). However, the very people who walk around with what amounts to a license to kill [2] are not held to the same standard. In fact, officers may be granted additional rights, shielding them from interrogation techniques that would otherwise be applied to members of the public [3].\n\n[0] [https:\/\/law.yale.edu\/mfia\/case-disclosed\/new-yorks- section-5...](https:\/\/law.yale.edu\/mfia\/case-disclosed\/new-yorks- section-50-shields-law-enforcement-records)\n\n[1] [https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/03\/nyregion\/police- disciplin...](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/03\/nyregion\/police-discipline- records-garner.html)\n\n[2] [https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/police-rarely-criminally- charge...](https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/police-rarely-criminally-charged-for- on-duty-shootings-1416874955)\n\n[3] [https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the- watch\/wp\/2015\/04\/24\/...](https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the- watch\/wp\/2015\/04\/24\/the-police-officers-bill-of-rights)\n\n There is certainly some grey area in how the law should be implemented. Should the police disclose only those who have been convicted of a crime AND who have exhausted all appeals?\n\n > Should the police disclose only those who have been convicted of a crime AND > who have exhausted all appeals?\n\nAre civilians afforded that privilege?\n\nConsider the case of stockbrokers, for example. Regulations require that a broker immediately discloses, on a publicly accessible website [0], that they have become \"a defendant or respondent in any securities- or commodities- related civil litigation or arbitration\" [1]. This does not require a finding of guilt nor an exhaustion of appeals. While allegations of financial fraud are certainly concerning, a police officer convicted of molesting a child or sexual assaulting suspects is potentially shielded from similar levels of disclosure (as described in the article). Are stockbrokers subject to too much scrutiny, or are police officers subject to too little scrutiny?\n\nFurthermore, the gray area in the law, when assigning the benefit of the doubt to the officer, puts the public in danger. In the Washington Post article cited above, the following example is referenced:\n\n> In 2007, Shreveport police officer Wiley Willis arrested 38-year-old Angela > Garbarino on suspicion of drunken driving. While in custody, as captured on > the video below, Garbarino begins arguing with Willis about what she said is > her right to make a phone call. About a minute later, Willis walks over and > turns off the video camera. When the camera comes back on, Garbarino is > lying on the floor in a pool of her own blood. She was later photographed > with severe facial injuries she says were the result of Willis beating her. > Willis' attorney stated that she tripped and fell while the camera was off. > After the video went viral, Willis was fired, but has never been criminally > charged.\n\n> Last month, the Shreveport Municipal Fire and Police Civil Service Board > voted to reinstate Willis on the police force. He'll get full back pay and > benefits for the year-and-a-half he was fired. The reason? During the > internal investigation of Willis, a polygraph machine operator failed to > record the results of his Q&A with Willis. This apparently is a violation of > Louisiana's \"Police Officer's Bill of Rights,\" a set of guidelines every > department must follow when investigating officer misconduct.\n\n> Garbarino won a $400,000 settlement from the city of Shreveport last year.\n\nThis officer was reinstated on what is incontrovertibly a technicality. Since the appeal was successful, PO Willis' actions could be concealed from the public due to the gray area of the law. Is it in the public interest to hide such blatant misconduct?\n\n[0] [https:\/\/brokercheck.finra.org\/](https:\/\/brokercheck.finra.org\/)\n\n[1] [http:\/\/www.brokeandbroker.com\/2975\/finra-4530-\/](http:\/\/www.brokeandbroker.com\/2975\/finra-4530-\/)\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> I don't like all the secrecy.\n\nMassachusetts has a \"secret court system\" that lets connected people avoid court and problems. I've lived here for a while and had no idea these shenanigans were going on. Well to be fair, we're a pretty jaded bunch so it wasn't overly surprising.\n\n\"Every year, tens of thousands of cases wind up in secret court sessions \u2014 formally known as \"show cause hearings\" \u2014 that are presided over by court clerks and usually held for suspects who haven't been arrested and don't pose a flight risk or danger to others. People are generally entitled to these hearings for misdemeanors, but police can request them for felonies as well. .... Show cause hearings were originally created to weed out baseless allegations, but, in practice, there are so few checks on the clerks' power that they regularly go far beyond that, brokering deals and, in nearly half of the cases, rejecting requests for charges.\n\nClerk magistrates, who are appointed by the governor, routinely refuse to issue charges even when there is significant evidence \u2014 as in the case of a judge caught on camera taking someone else's $4,000 watch off a security belt at Logan International Airport. Over the last two years, clerks have set aside nearly 62,000 cases, including more than 18,000 after a clerk concluded there was probable cause to believe that the accused committed a crime, according to court data.\n\nThe Spotlight Team uncovered cases where clerks tossed charges involving serious injuries or deaths, including one brought against a Quincy taxi driver who ran over and allegedly dragged an elderly man, killing him.\"\n\nGood reporting in a strange web first format..\n\n[https:\/\/apps.bostonglobe.com\/spotlight\/secret- courts\/](https:\/\/apps.bostonglobe.com\/spotlight\/secret-courts\/)\n\nMore info here. [https:\/\/apps.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/investigations\/spotlight\/...](https:\/\/apps.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/investigations\/spotlight\/secret- courts-in-massachusetts\/)\n\n<\/comment> What I would really like to know is what is the rate of criminality within the CA police force vs the public. Because 12,000 in a 10 year period is a LOT of felons that have worn or still wear a badge.\n\nFrom what I can find, the US average for all adult residents is about 8.6% (about 1 in 12). For officers in CA, I found estimates of 90,000 to 100,000 on several sites. However, a survey of specific cities seems to indicate roughly 15 officers per 10,000 residents ([http:\/\/www.governing.com\/gov-data\/safety- justice\/law-enforce...](http:\/\/www.governing.com\/gov-data\/safety-justice\/law- enforcement-police-department-employee-totals-for-cities.html)). CA has about 40 million residents, which would be about 60,000 officers.\n\nGoing with the 60,000 number, that's 20%! If we go with the higher estimate of 100,000 officers, that's still 12%! And don't forget - the 8.6% US average number is for anyone who has a felony record - meaning it covers their entire adult life, not just the past 10 years. That makes the officer numbers even worse! From what I can gather, the rate of criminality for officers (at least in CA) as far, far above the average for everyone else.\n\n This isn't just felonies. It includes things like misdemeanor drunk driving.\n\n Well drunk driving is a pretty serious matter no matter how the legal system categorizes it. I realize it was an example. Just not a great example.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> How can AG Becerra seriously contend that it's a crime for the newspaper to have this info, which was inadvertently leaked to them through legal channels?\n\nDidn't the \"NY Times vs the United States\" SCOTUS case resolve that sort of question?\n\n[https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_S...](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_States)\n\n<\/comment> The two major public safety unions in CA, the California Peace Officers Association and the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, collect a combined total of about $100M per year in dues. They are incredibly active and influential in CA politics. The probability of the overturning a policy they support that directly concerns their members, as in the article, is zero.\n\n<\/comment> People wring their hands about how we're losing privacy in the modern age. But this is an example of the good that we get from that loss.\n\nNot saying we shouldn't worry about privacy, just highlighting this is the silver lining to that cloud and it's not an unsubstantial public good.\n\n These are two completely different topics. One is about privacy the other is about holding people in positions of power accountable for their actions(and that we have evidence about them not being).\n\n You can't hold anyone accountable unless you can see into their private life.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> \"All animals are equal but some are more equal than others\" the pig said.\n\n<\/comment> It's almost like members of the government are above the law...\n\n<\/comment> How do other states\/countries handle this?\n\n For industrialized Western nations, far less corruptly.\n\nFor countries like Venezuela, probably a lot like the US.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> Why both \"secret\" and \"you can't have it\" in the title? Surely this is a news item worth a title somoeone actually put effort into?\n\n<\/comment> All cops are crooks anyway so who gives a fuck?\n\n Do you mean to say that that is necessarily the case, or merely that it, in the actual world, is the case?\n\nI don't believe that to be a necessary truth, true in all possible worlds.\n\ni.e. I believe that it is possible for there to be a cop who is not a \"crook\".\n\nWhich, I suppose follows from the fact that I am not an anarchist.\n\nAs such, I believe it to be desirable that there be a cop who is not a \"crook\".\n\nI think that an important part of discouraging misbehavior among law enforcement is not only to threaten punishment against anyone who, while acting as an instrument by which the state enforces the law, abuses the power they have been lent for that purpose, but in addition, the state must be _seen_ to actually dole out this punishment to its agents when they abuse the power lent to them.\n\nIt should be seen that it will not tolerate abuse done in its name.\n\nOf course, in order for this to be seen, it must first be done.\n\nBut, another requirement is that, if any agent (of law enforcement) of the state does about the power, that this certainly should not be kept secret!\n\nThat, I think, is enough reason for me to care.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> Than why is it keeping it in the first place?\n\n<\/comment> California IS a sanctuary state......\n\n Most of the big government states and many of the small government states give police a very wide berth and (until very recently) have had no problem enacting authoritarian policy, heavy handed policing, double standards for government and police, etc, etc. If you want the good of big government you have to make peace with the bad and historically people have made peace with a lot of \"the bad\" and buried their heads deeply in the sand with regard to police misconduct and similar matters.\n\nThis is only slowly beginning to change now that more police behavior is recorded on video and the public (and the politicians who control the government bureaucracies and who rely on support of said public) is less able to turn a blind eye to police and government misconduct.\n\nThings are generally trending in a good direction when it comes to tolerance of misconduct by police and in government in general. Give it a decade or two.\n\n What would be a \"small-government state\" that _doesn 't_ give the police as wide a berth as the \"big-government states?\"\n\nAnd which are which? I'm assuming you consider California big-government based on your comment, and as a Californian I'm inclined to agree. But it seems Alaska leads in \"State FTE's per 10K pop\"[0] and Texas and Florida both have large absolute numbers of state employees according to that source.\n\nIntuitively, and subject to my own prejudice, I would guess those states that have vocal majorities against activist government also tend to let the cops get away with all kinds of things, from aggressive civil forfeiture to assault and murder; and that states like California perhaps _counterintuitively_ do so as well, maybe (or maybe not) to a lesser extent.\n\n[0]: [http:\/\/www.governing.com\/gov-data\/public-workforce- salaries\/...](http:\/\/www.governing.com\/gov-data\/public-workforce- salaries\/states-most-government-workers-public-employees-by-job-type.html)\n\n[Edit: typo]\n\n >What would be a \"small-government state\" that doesn't give the police as wide a berth as the \"big-government states?\"\n\nNH takes civil liberties very seriously. Maine takes having high quality government very seriously. Granted both those statements are becoming less true every year as a particular southern neighbor sheds some population in a northern direction.\n\nPolice conduct that would get 30sec on the evening news and a \"well shucks, that's the government, what can ya do\" response in MA or NY would almost certainly result in heads rolling and many letters to the editor involving the words \"tar\" and \"feathers\" in northern New England.\n\nIt's about culture as more than it is which particular party is in charge in any given state. The people of the small government states in my experience tend to get more riled up when representatives of government do bad things and politicians respond to that.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Could there be a legitimate reason? Sometimes corrupt officials are placed under surveillance to catch other corrupt officials. If you out them you lose your information source.\n\n Another potential reason is that the list would be a great starting point for somebody who was looking for a police officer to bribe.\n\nI'm not saying that's sufficient justification, just spitballing ideas.\n\n The fact that it's currently a secret actually makes them potentially vulnerable to blackmail. Airing it would remove that threat.\n\n I meant that on average a police officer who has committed a crime in the past is more susceptible than one who has not.\n\nIt seems your suggestion is that people would fight to keep their past crimes secret? That's an interesting alternative view.\n\n Blackmail requires the existence of a dirty secret. No (dirty) secret = no blackmail.\n\nI do realize blackmail and bribery are not the same thing.\n\n In either case, it's likely harder to bribe or blackmail a police officer you found at random vs you know has a criminal record.\n\n(Not stating any political ideas, just following through with the logic of this discussion)<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Why is it \"Fork Us on GitHub\" instead of \"View our GitHub\"? - \n\nHow often are projects forked anyway? Here I am, viewing open source project XYZ, and the upper right of the page says \"Fork Us\" and tends to be the only link on the entire page that points to GitHub. Most people just want to view your GitHub project page, they don't actually care about forking your project. I think almost all cases of \"Fork Us\" could be re-marketed as \"View our GitHub\" or \"Contribute to our project\". I mean, would you rather have a developer fork your project and do their own thing, or contribute to your project? I guess it's similar to people saying 'Like us on Facebook' It's a direct call to action instead of 'please come & take a look'\n\nIt's also a metric that's instantly visible, contributes towards popularity, where as page views are not shared nor are they an indication of quality.\n\n<\/comment> I've got a few very small projects on github. On several occasions, people have forked a project, made a change to it and sent a pull request, which I then merged. That seems to me to be precisely how github should work as a social coding site.<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Ask HN: Are back-end developers a commodity? - I just started reading "React Quickly" by Azat Mardan ( https://www.manning.com/books/react-quickly ), and right in the Preface he makes the claim that:

"Most business value now lies in UIs. The backend is a commodity. In the Bay Area, where I live and work, most job openings in software engineering are for front-end or (a trendy new title) generalist/fullstack developers. Only a few big companies like Google, Amazon, and Capital One still have relatively strong demand for data scientists and back-end engineers."

I personally find this claim absolutely idiotic since I feel like I still see an enormous amount of job postings for backend roles. Do you think he's right? He's selling a book for frontend developers. It's good business sense to flatter your audience.\n\nIn my experience (and I started as a frontend engineer and then moved backwards in the stack while at Google, then founded my own company), most business value lies in the back-end. That's where your durable competitive advantage is. The thing is that backend is more _specialized_ \\- you can't really specialize in backend engineering in general, you specialize in a particular problem domain that has a particular set of algorithms and data structures used to solve it. That's why you often see more job postings for front-end engineers: the market is more liquid, the frameworks are more ubiquitous, the skillsets are more commoditized, and so you'll see postings for \"React engineer\" or \"iPhone developer\" or \"Android developer\". When looking for a backend position, that same company may want an engineer with experience using Spark & Kafka to process the Twitter firehose.\n\n The front end styles\/fads change so often that it's hard for UI to become a commodity. The back-end is a bit more stable, for the executives won't complain about not having the latest UI craze because they can't see the back- end. It may indeed pay better to be in UI, but it usually also means you have to keep your skills up to date on your own dime.<\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Create shared email folders in under a minute without software using SquadMail - http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9kEwhsMXF8s\n\n Hey everyone! Together with old friends I have been working on a new webapp that lets you upgrade your email inbox with shared folders.\n\nIt's dead simple, fast and requires absolutely no software installations!\n\nWith SquadMail you can make email communication more natural, get rid of confusing 'fwd:aw:re:fwd' threads and ban ridiculously long cc-lists!\n\nLet me know what you think of the app; I'm extremely thankful for all kinds of feedback!<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Whats the github for svn ? - \n\nwhat are the best web-based svn tracking\/utils synonymous to github?

(btw does svnhub.com comes from the same stable of github.com ? all links there seem to point to youtube videos though) My friend introduced me to DevGuard, which is a hosted SVN\/Trac service that works pretty well and costs very little.\n\nBut I wouldn't call them \"analogous to github\", quite. Github has social features that DevGuard doesn't even try to approximate.\n\nI'm not sure github's social features (e.g. easy cloning and clone tracking, with ability to accept pushed changes from other users) are particularly easy to build in the SVN world. Better to just use git.<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Three brands of water - http:\/\/bitar.io\/paragraphs\/21\/\n\n Cache: [http:\/\/archive.is\/Bwvxt](http:\/\/archive.is\/Bwvxt)\n\n<\/comment> Here's an example of how water brands vary:\n\n[http:\/\/www.ehow.com\/facts_6961715_bottled-water-brands- compa...](http:\/\/www.ehow.com\/facts_6961715_bottled-water-brands- comparison.html)\n\nIt is idiotic to believe all water is equivalent. Indeed, a lot of the marketing around brands is ridiculous but it's not quite the same thing.\n\n<\/comment> I can't remember the name of that portuguese brand of water, 10 years ago, maybe some HNers would know. You would buy it on a hot day on the street, believing it was ice-cold... while its bottle was in fact made of a curious, deceiving translucent material and the liquid not especially cool.<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Fifty years since Caravaggio's Nativity was stolen in Palermo - https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/analysis\/it-s-50-years-since-caravaggio-s-nativity-was-stolen-in-palermo-have-the-police-been-chasing-red-herrings-all-this-time point of interest: you roll an oil painting up with the paint on the outside of the roll - to do otherwise means you crush and grind the paint into dust. Obviously rolling the painting outside out means you crack it - but the cracks meet again when the painting is flattened.<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Templight: A C++ Template Metaprogram Debugger and Profiler - http:\/\/plc.inf.elte.hu\/templight\/\n\n Mikael Persson on the clang mailing list picked this up some time back and updated it.\n\n[http:\/\/article.gmane.org\/gmane.comp.compilers.clang.devel\/35...](http:\/\/article.gmane.org\/gmane.comp.compilers.clang.devel\/35656)\n\nHe cleaned it up and extended to work with callgrind. Looking at this data in kcachegrind is beautiful thing.\n\n[https:\/\/github.com\/mikael-s-persson\/templight](https:\/\/github.com\/mikael-s- persson\/templight) [https:\/\/github.com\/mikael-s-persson\/templight- tools](https:\/\/github.com\/mikael-s-persson\/templight-tools)\n\n Yea it really is a beautiful thing. When I was just getting into C++ at the start of my PhD, Mikael was incredible generous with his time, helping me go from programming nightmare code, to putting together something relatively decent. Glad to see that his contributions on the clang mailing list has been picked up.\n\nThe issue of patch ownership highlighted in the thread is quite interesting. Glad to see that it was easily resolved so that the patch could be considered.<\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Netcat cheat sheet - http:\/\/h.ackack.net\/cheat-sheets\/netcat Anyone who uses \"netcat\" should give \"socat\" a look. It's been around a lot time and it is pretty much netcat on crack. I use it daily.\n\n<\/comment> I love nc, but portscanning? OS and app detection? Just use nmap. Encrypted connections? Use stunnel.\n\n<\/comment> Also [http:\/\/www.jfranken.de\/homepages\/johannes\/vortraege\/netcat.e...](http:\/\/www.jfranken.de\/homepages\/johannes\/vortraege\/netcat.en.html)\n\n<\/comment> I'm trying to convince my officemates that \"Hacker News\" isn't about computer hackers, but this link is the most useful on the homepage to me :-)\n\n<\/comment> Offtopic: When I scroll this article in Opera it takes around 2 seconds from start to stop, and it's very jerky, even with smooth-scrolling off. It works perfectly fine in Firefox.\n\nI've noticed it before, especially with long, well-designed pages, which is a shame.\n\n I have noticed the same thing.\n\n I think I found the problem: the current versions of Opera don't support hardware acceleration.\n\nThere is a lab build that uses OpenGL to speed things up, but it only made this page slower. It passes the microsoft fish test with flying colors, though.<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"How we failed, then succeeded, at migrating to TypeScript - https:\/\/heap.io\/blog\/engineering\/migrating-to-typescript I was looking at some of my old repos today. Enjoyed the nostalgia. Lots of CoffeeScript there. I had to switch to ES and then TypeScript because CoffeeScript was abandoned at the time and I was stretched over other projects to be able to help maintain it.\n\nReading my old code, I was surprised by how _clean_ it looks. How easy it is to digest. There is a certain sense of calm when your brain doesn't have to process all the visual clutter of a C-style syntax. I miss that.\n\nI wish I didn't have to choose between CoffeeScript and TypeScript.\n\nTypeScript first and foremost is about type safety and tooling. Its architecture is largely syntax-agnostic. It operates on the AST, so the parser and code generator can be swapped for a different syntax.\n\nCoffeeScript is all about syntax and does not (and should not) concern itself with most of the semantics.\n\nThey could theoretically be used together if TypeScript simply allowed custom parsers\/generators\/formatters to be plugged in.\n\nThis would work with ESLint and other JS tooling as well. I did a POC on that a few years ago [0].\n\n[0] [https:\/\/github.com\/gkz\/LiveScript\/issues\/821#issuecomment-18...](https:\/\/github.com\/gkz\/LiveScript\/issues\/821#issuecomment-183640299)\n\n > How easy it is to digest\n\nI've not had this experience. I've found the ambiguity in coffeescript a maddening adventure in syntax confusion.\n\n\\- function call syntax doesn't need parens except if a 0 parameter method\n\n\\- commas are largely optional both in arrays and function parameters. How do you parse: [f, f(), f a b c]\n\n\\- implicit returns are a terrible idea.\n\n\\- the @ syntax refers to either a 'static' method or an instance variable depending on the context.\n\n\\- I have to do a double take for the object literal syntax every time\n\n Don't want to invalidate your experience. For me though, I rarely struggled with ambiguity.\n\n> function call syntax doesn't need parens except if a 0 parameter method\n\nFunction call syntax doesn't require parens so to make multi-line calls punctuation-free. Especially if some args are objects.\n\n> commas are largely optional both in arrays and function parameters. How do > you parse: [f, f(), f a b c]\n\nWell commas are not optional.\n\n> implicit returns are a terrible idea\n\nThey're especially elegant in writing declarative code. It takes some getting used to though.\n\n> the @ syntax refers to either a 'static' method or an instance variable > depending on the context.\n\nAgreed.\n\nThese are all tradeoffs though. For me, they struck the right balance between ambiguity (very little) and expressiveness.\n\nLiveScript in comparison was much more sugary (which I preferred): [https:\/\/livescript.net\/](https:\/\/livescript.net\/)\n\n Haha, yes. LiveScript should have won. It were awesome times.\n\nWell, guess it's Reason for me now :D\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> > The most important realisation we had going into this renewed effort was > that a successful migration has to be centered around people, not just tech.\n\nKey insight. It's always people first, code is a far distant second. Love Kent Beck's series on this, so insightful [https:\/\/medium.com\/@kentbeck_7670\/software-design-is- human-r...](https:\/\/medium.com\/@kentbeck_7670\/software-design-is-human- relationships-part-3-of-3-changers-changers-20eeac7846e0)\n\nGreat read, Heap team! Thanks for sharing :-D\n\n I routinely bore people with the Abelson quote that programs are written for humans to read and only incidentally for computers to execute.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> Typescript seems to be approaching C++ levels of syntax and expressiveness. The main difference seems to be the existing tooling, tutorials, libraries, etc for node.js and others.\n\nBut if compiled languages like C++ or Go had as many dedicated libraries for webserver management as JavaScript, would there really be a benefit to using Typescript?\n\n > Typescript seems to be approaching C++ levels of syntax\n\nI've been a bit traumatized by C++ so I can't help but see this as a bad thing.\n\nA lot of the insanity in C++ is because template metaprogramming made a lot of micro-optimizations possible. You can use CRTP to achieve static polymorphism. You can use SFINAE for tag dispatch to choose a different algorithm at compile time. You can even fold entire algorithms down to a constant with constexpr.\n\nThis is great if you care about low level control of your code, but this is usually premature optimization in the JS world.\n\nLuckily typescript will be immune to this because the types can't affect runtime at all. So far I haven't seen any truly monstrous generics that are so prevalent in C++.\n\n There's some Typescript type stuff that can probably get close.\n\n[https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/a\/47914631\/1924257](https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/a\/47914631\/1924257)\n\n[https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/a\/53229857\/1924257](https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/a\/53229857\/1924257)\n\n I don't agree - the TypeScript code you link is \"complicated\" because it's modeling complicated types, or implementing higher-order types which need to handle complicated types. And honestly it's not that complicated - explanation of what RecursivePartial must do maps closely to the type expression (\"each key of the partial type is optional, and each value's keys are also recursively so\").\n\nThis isn't at all close to CRTP or SFINAE, not just because TS\/JS lacks the dispatch features necessary, but because in both cases you link it's still just about type declaration. CRTP and SFINAE are both ways to hack the type system to _run_ differently.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> We're now considering switching from coffeescript to ES6 (or maybe also Typescript). But coffeescript is seeing a bit of a revival, and I'm starting to wonder if we should stick with it?? Tooling seems a bit behind and also lacking things like tree shaking etc (??). But coffeescript is so clean and fun...\n\nAny tips\/thoughts??\n\n YMMV, but I'm less worried about \"clean and fun\" and much more worried about _rugged and correct_. TypeScript makes it easier to unambiguously express intent both inside an application and when talking to external modules. Some parts of the syntax are unfortunate but I care about that a lot less than I do not having my systems break.\n\nI'd switch and I wouldn't look back. I _did_ switch my focus of learning and use, albeit from Ruby and Kotlin (which is better than nothing but nominative typing is insufficient IMO) to TypeScript, and it was among the best decisions I've made in my professional career.\n\n What do you think about nominal typing vs structural typing? My friends that have been only used to statically typed, nominal programming languages, thinks this is the worst feature of TypeScript.\n\n I don't hate nominative typing but TypeScript has definitely coached me towards thinking more about data and operations on data. It does a lot to encourage you to move away from the traditional OOP patterns that make most people dunk on Java.\n\nIf I had to directly compare the two I think nominative typing is superior only in the case where you have two identically-shaped (down to the property name) classes that have different semantics. I feel like if you are in this situation you should take a very large step back and re-think your decisions.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> AFAIK, Ruby is the only language that people make other languages look like (CoffeeScript) and JS is the only language that people make look like other languages (CS, TS).\n\nAre there others?\n\nEdit: Well, I guess the JVM would be considered another?\n\n Lisps exist on all the runtimes. LFE (liso flavored Erlang) is a good example.\n\n Don't forget Hy and Clojure (which pop to mind, but I don't intend to be exhaustive).\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> _Yes, we were adding TypeScript code, but we were adding CoffeeScript at a faster rate_\n\nSo the devs were able to iterate faster with CS than with TS?\n\n Another interpretation would be that a majority still picked Coffeescript out of familiarity and interop issues in their specific codebase. Iteration speed could be comparable or better in Typescript too, we don't know.<\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"YC is Wrong About You - \n\nI'm not the type of person that you'll hear commenting all the time here on Hacker News. Fact is, I couldn't stop and see all these people feeling bad about them because YC rejected them.

I'm not interesting in applying to YC. Come on, you don't need YC to succeed. You don't need them. Many of you guys are just here because you think YC would be the salvation to your startup. Don't kid yourself.

If you feel bad because you got rejected, because you lost the \"golden mentorship\" and the 10,000 grand, then you shouldn't be doing your startup in first place.

You should believe in your idea and go on, even if the other people don't see what you can see. Thomas Edison didn't stop because everyone believed he was nuts. Henry Ford didn't stop back then, the Google guys didn't stop, and you shouldn't stop.

Keep going, keep moving, don't let fear or rejection stop you. Never. Not to be an internet hardass, but if a YC rejection crushes you beyond all belief, you probably shouldn't be founding a startup. Every single successful startup has experienced _at least_ one defeat as large as a YC rejection. A healthy dose of confidence and ignorance about your abilities is necessary. Preferably a combination of both.\n\n _Four_ YC rejections, however, is pretty rough.\n\n Walt Disney got a yes from the 996th bank he approached. I'm such a pussy that I would have quit after 950 attempts. He never quit. That's the point. I expect that you won't either.\n\n Cool story, have you a citation?\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> I'd like to add a couple things to this:\n\n1\\. This is the 'gatekeeper' problem. You have a handful of people deciding if you're making \"what people want\". They can't possibly know what all people want. JK Rowling got rejected by, what, 20 publishers? They can't know. They can only do their best. The 'gatekeeper' problem also means you get idiosyncrasies, such as (essentially) a ban on single founders, etc.\n\n2\\. Some ideas are easy to pitch, others nearly impossible. Take this year's Best Film Oscar winner, \"Slumdog Millionaire\", and try to pitch the plot in a way that's not ludicrous. You won't succeed. But take any cheesy, crappy B-flick and you can perfectly summarize it and even make it sound good. Now, I'm not saying there's a correlation between a good idea and difficulty in pitching it. (Ok, but I will say there's a clear correlation between mediocre ideas and ease of pitch.) So if you didn't get accepted, your idea either isn't very good or it's great.\n\n _(Ok, but I will say there's a clear correlation between mediocre ideas and ease of pitch.)_\n\nyeah, \"index all of the world's information\" is such a mediocre idea, even though it is a very easy pitch, those Google guys will never make any money.\n\n I upvoted you but I disagree wholeheartedly with your google invocation: No, Larry and Sergey never expected their startup to become what it is today. Your small-step success feeds into your ambition; it's one they nailed search that they have started to visualize bigger and bigger success, then execute it.\n\n and yet just because they nailed it - still doesn't mean it was a bad idea...\n\nThere are plenty of bad ideas that are executed well and don't succeed. There are plenty of good ideas that are executed poorly and succeed anyway.\n\nThe point isn't how they executed, it really was a reflection on the david927's assertion that there is a correlation between ease of pitch and how good an idea is, is wrong, plain and simple.\n\n\"our site is like facebook meets digg\" is an easy pitch (I've actually heard this from someone), and in my humble opinion, is a bad idea\n\n\"we want to index all of the world's information\" is an easy pitch, and so happens to be a good idea.\n\n You all got it wrong. Here's what I said:\n\n\\- There is no correlation between a good idea and how hard or easy it is to pitch. Some great ideas are easy to pitch, others are not. No correlation.\n\n\\- There is a direct correlation between a mediocre idea and ease in pitching it. Every mediocre idea is easy to pitch.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> This title may not be the most supportive for those who get accepted.\n\nIt's starting to feel like College Confidential around here...\n\n LOL reminds me of senior year in high school.\n\nBut seriously -- your source of funding doesn't identify you, the college you attend doesn't identify you, and they shouldn't.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> Right on. Take this time to reflect on your idea. Winter application is 6 months away and now is the time to start preparing for it.\n\n<\/comment> Just to put things in perspective the next round of YC is not exactly a 'no luck' process either. Basically PG and company meet with you for 10 minutes to meet the team, and discuss the project and plan. Now, tell me, how they can possibly judge people and projects in 10 minutes, in a rational even-handed way.\n\nI'd say Ycombinator is more about winning the lottery, than doing everything right. I am fairly confident that YC receives far too many really good applications to be able to really vet everything. And also, to be fair if you are looking for mentorship, I can imagine this year will be a little different from normal, as the number of teams has doubled, and PG and Jessica have a new addition to the family. As for connections, if your scrappy you can make your own connections -- and $25K for 5% is really not that great of a valuation.\n\n<\/comment> Funny you say this... my startup is called We Will Never Stop.\n\n<\/comment> No they are not.\n\nYC has more experience than you.\n\nYC has more success than you.\n\nIf they turned you down, listen to the \"why\" and make the adjustments necessary to be successful.\n\nConsider it a badge of honor that they even gave you the time of day. Take the information, feedback, advice, and rejection to heart and grow a pair.\n\nSuccess is not static, it is dynamic.\n\n You are missing the point. The people that got turned down for interviews didn't even get feedback. It is just a glorified \"sorry and we really appreciate you\" letter with a \"let us know if we're wrong and you do something awesome\" attached to the end.\n\nSo this is also the stage where many people hang their heads down and go back to their normal routine of nothing. But this is the only flaw in the YC system. It takes people who are not entrepreneurs and wholly dedicated to their idea and gives them an opportunity because they are a good hacker. Now once it gets to the interview stage they access how dedicated you are, but who wouldn't be at that point?\n\nSo please don't make some hugely dramatic post. Paul and Jessica would (and do) say that they are wrong about many startups. Not only the ones from interviews, but even with the applications. There are so many high-level applicants that it is hard to access who fits where.<\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Merge MJIT infrastructure withr conservative JIT compile - https:\/\/github.com\/ruby\/ruby\/pull\/1782 so there is hope this will be for 2.6<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":16007930},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Some web servers\/frameworks benchmarks. For now, most Python environments - http:\/\/benchmarks.codeart.io\n\n Consider visualizing the data somehow, It's way to much data to be able to understand it\n\n Thanks for the feedback, this was our next step. Some charts has already been deployed!<\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Continuations in Racket - You forgot the URL?\n\n Thanks for mentioning this.\n\nI can't seem to edit it. I'll try resubmitting tomorrow.<\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Show HN: HD Audio Unlocked, Your Buddies Can Listen Your Guitar Now - https:\/\/workshopx.app\/v\/random This website doesn't work in iOS Safari. Gives error: \"NotAllowedError: The request is not allowed by the user agent or the platform in the current context, possibly because the user denied permission.\"\n\n Hmmm, works on iOS safari 13+, you have to grant your microphone permission,Then invite your buddy listen you playing\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> So Play the guitar, sharing it real-time?\n\n Why not;D\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> *Note: Microphone preferred.<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":23118337},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"NYC Has Its First Day in Months with No Covid-19 Deaths - https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/coronavirus-live-updates\/2020\/07\/13\/890427225\/nyc-has-its-first-day-in-months-with-no-covid-19-deaths This seems to be evidence of the theory that herd immunity is lower than expected due to cross-reactive T-cells lowering the susceptible pool. If I recall correctly, the last serology study of NYC showed ~25% infection rate, which is right where those postulating this theory expect the virus to burn out at.\n\nWhile this isn't the only ingredient, and physical distancing and awareness play a role, it is good to see more and more locations exhibit the same burn- out pattern. I do not think that there is a single location thus far that does _not_ show this pattern (including Sweden!). The biggest potential outlier is Iran. However, Iran has some similarities to the United States in that a majority of the population lives within dispersed population centers. As such, we should look at each _region_ (as opposed to the country as a whole), when considering the theory above. Much as we must do with the United States. Miami is on it's first wave, as is Houston etc.\n\nWhat I am really looking for is any evidence of a true second wave, and thus far there hasn't been any. And NYC would be ripe for one. Due to its density, even with the best of intentions, there will be close contact and opportunity to spread the virus.\n\nLong story short, this is very, very, very good news.\n\nEDIT: I want to add, that the refusal many people to see the United States as as collection of different outbreaks as opposed to a single, massive outbreak is very frustrating. We can't have an honest conversation regarding the best response to this virus when everyone is trying to score nation-state points over the fact that the US still has cases. Yes, the first region is _not_ seeing a resurgence. The outbreaks in the South are _new_. They sprang up in the past few weeks. This is fundamentally different than what we saw in the EU, as each country had their outbreaks at around the same time. If you want to compare, compare NY state to others. We can't make progress if continue to be either smug\/defensive. This isn't a game.\n\nAdditional Reading:\n\nSwedish T-Cell study: [https:\/\/news.ki.se\/immunity-to-covid-19-is-probably- higher-t...](https:\/\/news.ki.se\/immunity-to-covid-19-is-probably-higher-than- tests-have-shown)\n\nNYC Serology: [https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/edblog\/preliminary- antibodies-...](https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/edblog\/preliminary-antibodies- study-shows-21-of-new-york-city-infected)\n\nStudy from Levitt et. al.: [https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.06.26.20140814v...](https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.06.26.20140814v2.full.pdf)\n\nStudy in Cell on T-Cells: [https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S009286742...](https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0092867420306103)\n\n I urge you to temper your positivity, and reconsider the timeline for a \"2nd wave\". Note in the 1918 influenza pandemic, the 2nd wave occurred in the FALL of the following year. If history repeats itself, we may see a 2nd wave in the fall of 2020. Time will tell.\n\n\" The influenza pandemic in the United States occurred in three waves during 1918 and 1919. The first wave began in March 1918 and lasted throughout the summer of 1918. The more devastating second and third waves (the second being the worst) occurred in the fall of 1918 and the spring of 1919.\"\n\n[https:\/\/www.stlouisfed.org\/~\/media\/files\/pdfs\/community- deve...](https:\/\/www.stlouisfed.org\/~\/media\/files\/pdfs\/community- development\/research-reports\/pandemic_flu_report.pdf)\n\n I understand the hesitation, and I think even those that are excited by this theory are stoic towards history. However, one thing to note is that this is _not_ the Flu. The influenza virus often mutates far more, far quicker than coronaviruses do. There is certainly reason to be cautious, but there is also reason to be optimistic.\n\n That's a fair point - the mutation speed is different. I hope you're right, but yes, i'm feeling cautious.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> My brother had a temperature and got tested for the SARS-CoV-2, which came back positive. He sheltered away from his pregnant wife, and survived. His wife got tested too, but her test came back negative. Then she had the antibody test, which came back positive.\n\nMy working hypothesis is she got the virus and exposed my brother, or they were both exposed at the same time & she was asymptomatic on account of the biochemistry of pregnancy, sorta like all those asymptomatic women who tested positive after they showed up at the hospital in NYC to give birth [6].\n\nNYC took COVID-19 on the chin because the doctors hadn't yet figured out that ventilators aren't needed when the patient is capable of breathing on their own.\n\nThis article is the pinnacle of single-variable thinking. What is NYC going to do when the sun goes away for the winter, and coronavirus season comes roaring back? I'm sure the media will castigate the public for daring to take off their masks.\n\nDr. Zelenko had a good point: patients showed up in his office after 3-5 days of symptoms. It was easy to tell if the patient probably had COVID-19. Why wait another 3 days for a test to come back positive [5], when you can just start treatment the same day with zinc [3], an anti-inflammatory antibiotic (azithromycin), and a zinc ionophore [4]? He said it's about $20 for his course of treatment, whereas if he'd waited for a positive test before initiating treatment the patient would have certainly deteriorated to the point they needed to be hospitalized.\n\nIMHO the United States' medical industry has a tremendous financial incentive to do the most-expensive\/least-effective interventions [2], and educates their worker-bee physicians accordingly.\n\n[1] [https:\/\/twitter.com\/zev_dr\/status\/1280978415131267084](https:\/\/twitter.com\/zev_dr\/status\/1280978415131267084) (edit: was originally just a link to @zev_dr, then I found the specific tweet with the video about Dr. Zelenko using his clinical judgement to initiate treatment early.)\n\n[2] [https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=21728864](https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=21728864)\n\n[3] Zn2+ Inhibits Coronavirus and Arterivirus RNA Polymerase Activity In Vitro and Zinc Ionophores Block the Replication of These Viruses in Cell Culture - [https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2973827\/](https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2973827\/)\n\n[4] [https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=medcram+zinc+io...](https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=medcram+zinc+ionophore)\n\n[5] [https:\/\/www.preprints.org\/manuscript\/202007.0025\/v1](https:\/\/www.preprints.org\/manuscript\/202007.0025\/v1)\n\n[6] [https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/coronavirus-in-pregnant-woman- hi...](https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/coronavirus-in-pregnant-woman-high- nyc.html)\n\n(edit1: changed the link from @zev_dr to a specific tweet) (edit2: mostly minor changes)<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Takana \u2013\u00a0SCSS Live Editor - http:\/\/usetakana.com\/\n\n I expected this to be a less-featureful version of Webpack, but it looks like the big difference is that you don't have to hit \"save\" to trigger a hotswap; the changes occur as you type them (as they do in Dev Tools).\n\n<\/comment> How well does this cope with more complex stylesheets?\n\nI tend to live edit my CSS experimentally right in the browser, and then when I'm happy go back to the actual source files. This is not quite as nice as the demo, but my (LESS) files take several seconds to compile -- which isn't an issue when live-editing rules inside the browser.\n\n I read the code a little. It seems like its replacing stylesheets in the document on the fly. So if you split up your project in various css files then it should on-the-fly only reload those that changed and as a result be quite quick even with big projects.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> How does it compare to something like BrowserSync ([http:\/\/www.browsersync.io\/](http:\/\/www.browsersync.io\/)) which also works for js (and sync throuch devices as well, which is very neat) ?\n\n As far as I can tell BrowserSync tries to have a little more generic approach and as a result reloads with a regular livereload script, thus triggering html site reloads while Takana (as I mention in another comment) only reloads the css file that changed.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> This looks really awesome and would drastically improve my workflow, but doesn't seem that there is support for linux which is a big bummer. Any idea when to expect linux support?\n\n<\/comment> The compilation is still happening through a native extension on the server.That's personally why I prefer LESS.It is powerfull enough AND can run on the client,without needing a server.\n\n<\/comment> Ugh I wish this worked. I can't get the cli or grunt plugin to install. My current scss builds on save take WAAAAAY too long. This would save my workflow\n\n Happy to jump on a google hangout to help you figure it out.\n\nemail@example.com\n\n definitely taking you up on this\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Is this much different than running `sass --watch` with livereload? Seems to me it'd be nearly identical.\n\n It updates as you type which makes for a completely different experience.\n\n I wouldn't say that's a completely different experience. It's the same experience minus having to hit save (which I'd imagine is fairly automatic\/in the subconcious for most devs). I'll have to try it out and see for myself though I suppose.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> this tool is awesome! boosts productivity like a charm :) From now on I'm adding Takana to all my projects!\n\n That's awesome! Glad I could help.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> I misread this as SCCS, and thought to myself, people still use that? (FWIW I still occasionally use rcs).\n\n[http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Source_Code_Control_System](http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Source_Code_Control_System)\n\n I misread this as SCCS and thought \"we still use this\" wonder what it's about? :).<\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Targeted Troll Campaign? A Bot Sentinel Investigation - https:\/\/www.lawfareblog.com\/there-targeted-troll-campaign-against-lisa-page-bot-sentinel-investigation Detailed breakdown: [https:\/\/botsentinel.com\/reports\/lisa-page-analysis- report-1....](https:\/\/botsentinel.com\/reports\/lisa-page-analysis- report-1.html)\n\n> _1106 accounts received a trollbot score of 75% or higher, which is > approximately 28.42% of all accounts analyzed. To put that number into > perspective, on average less than 15% of all accounts analyzed receive a > score of 75% or higher. This report includes a list of accounts analyzed and > the tweets from each of the accounts that scored 75% or higher._\n\n<\/comment> Why can't twitter itself do this kind of work and deal with the trolls? After all, twitter has the IP address(es) that these tweets come from, and they lots of people smart enough to write anomaly detection code to find potential troll attacks.<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Ask HN: What's your tech stack of choice for your 2018 side hustle? - Perl 5 and Mojolicious.\n\nPeople knock perl for being outdated, but it's an amazingly productive language, and Mojolicious is as modern a web framework as anyone could hope for. It just gets out of the way and lets you do what you want with less boilerplate.<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":16048652},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Physicists can code - https:\/\/www.authorea.com\/users\/3\/articles\/83283\/_show_article This really should be broader: social scientists and digital humanities have to do a lot of statistical analysis these days. Also anyone in health and medical research... everyone there has probably taken at least one R course.\n\nAns once you get into the \"hard sciences\", it's hard to imagine any research that doesn't involve some coding.\n\nSo I would say \"scientists can code\".<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"20 Freescale Employees were Confirmed Missing on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 - http:\/\/media.freescale.com\/phoenix.zhtml?c=196520&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1907348&highlight So sad. :(\n\nMy prayers go out to the Freescale community and the loved ones of all that are currently missing on MH370.\n\n Thank you for ignoring the conspiracy theories and focusing on the real issues. My thoughts and your prayers.\n\n Exactly my thoughts! No matter _what_ the cause is of this disaster, we're talking about human lives here. Please keep this in mind.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> And I thought a company policy limiting two employees to a flight was silly.\n\n Tell that to my company HR that runs a shuttle jet between midwest and east 2-3 times a week on a 35 seater plane. lol\n\nI think two employees rule applies to VP (or MD if you work in finance)\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> This is pretty suspicious. First we find out that two passengers were using stolen passports and now we find out that 20 passengers belonged to the same company.\n\nI'm not going to say it's terrorism just yet but it is pointing towards that or something like it.\n\n Isn't it pretty standard for groups to be traveling together? I'm fairly certain you'd find some kind of larger group on pretty much all flights. In this case it happened to be 20 passengers working for Freescale.\n\n Actually, this crops up as a legal\/insurance concern for larger valuable companies every so often, where company policy must stipulate in writing that critical numbers and\/or groups of employees should not fly on the same airplane at the same time, since airplanes, though statistically safer than cars, are still prone to catastrophic accidents and are opperated by pilots not under direct control of the company.\n\nIn order to fulfill certain contracts or receive insurance coverage, written language for company travel policies must ensure the continuity of proprietary trade secrets, and redundancy for mission-critical personnel, in case of disaster, or catastrophic accident.\n\nThere was a tech company (during the 80's or 90's?) that was completely destroyed by a single random plane crash that killed a handful of the key people in one fell swoop, but the name escapes me, and my google skills are failing. Maybe someone else will remember. I want to say it was a vintage video game company, but it might've just been some old (now defunct) electronics company...\n\nFor this same reason, the president and vice president of the united states don't fly together. I think military command adheres to similar rules.\n\n I wonder how that squares with tech companies providing shuttle buses in the Bay Area. I found a reasonable looking comparison that said bus travel is more dangerous than flying.\n\nMy guess is the company has more control over the bus, or the bus charter company shoulders the insurance burden.\n\n The missing factor is time for recovery. If an employee, even an executive, dies, it may be a problem, but probably not a catastrophe. Others can pick up the slack, a replacement can be hired and trained, etc.. You can kill the entirety of the original team and not be in dire straits, provided they die over the course of several years.\n\nIf an entire team dies at once, there's no one to pick up the slack, and no one to train replacements.\n\nIt is both unlikely that an entire team will be on a commuter bus at once, and even if they were, it is unlikely that a bus crash would kill all of them.\n\nPlane crashes, in contrast, have a nasty habit of killing everybody on board all at once.\n\n I don't think you understand what he meant. I know there are companies around me that have offices located in not-so-central areas of the city that offer a free bus service to bring you from major public transport hubs to their offices.\n\n It is true there are corporate shuttles covering a variety of distances and particular use cases. It eludes me why that makes you think I didn't understand, or what it has to do with my comment.<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"'Not One Drop of Blood': Cattle Mysteriously Mutilated in Oregon - https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/767283820\/not-one-drop-of-blood-cattle-mysteriously-mutilated-in-oregon Here we go again... these things seem to happen surprisingly frequently, which has driven all kinds of conspiracy theories for decades. See [1].\n\n[1] [https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cattle_mutilation](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cattle_mutilation)\n\n I think there's a good chance that these are being done by people _because_ cattle mutilations are such a long running famous mystery.\n\nThat is, I think the likeliest explanation is that people are doing this for no other purpose than for it to be noticed and wondered at.\n\nHuman motivations are weird and irrational and there is plenty of evidence that some people will go to great lengths to make themselves feel entertained, smart, superior. There's a long tradition of bored people doing weird things just to wind everyone up from behind the scenes.\n\nThere is nothing physically unexplainable here. The scene could be created by a couple of people with a sharp knife and some experience with butchering animals.\n\n The only mystery to me is how they deposit the dead cows without leaving obvious tracks. I assume the ranchers who often claim that there aren't any tracks just kind of suck at finding them. Or that the pranksters bring a broom to hide them afterward.\n\nIt's kind of a dick move in any case, though. Cattle aren't cheap and killing them for no reason is just destructive.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> I bet they were mutilated using Occam's Razor.\n\n I see what you did there.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> Mysterious cattle mutilations have been reported in the US for my whole life (long time!) and probably before. It was a meme for the kinds of people who believe in conspiracies by the US government to conceal the existence of UFOs and aliens on earth, long before it was a plot element of the X-Files 25 years ago.\n\n[https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cattle_mutilation](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cattle_mutilation)\n\n I'm always reminded of Dan Aykroyd's line in the 1992 movie \"Sneakers\". His character, Mother, was huge on conspiracy theories.\n\n\"Cattle mutilations are up.\"\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> Asian longhorned tick?\n\n\"the ticks can attack en masse and drain young animals of blood so quickly that they die\u2014an execution method called exsanguination\"\n\n[https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2018\/08\/us-invaded-by- savage...](https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2018\/08\/us-invaded-by-savage-tick- that-sucks-animals-dry-spawns-without-mating\/)\n\n<\/comment> Let's just entertain the though of ETs for a moment. They would probably be trying to replicate the natural way of producing methane, perhaps to terraform a planet. Alright my tinfoil hat is coming off :)\n\n0: Methane, explained [https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/global- warmin...](https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/global- warming\/methane\/)\n\n<\/comment> Could they have been poisoned? If there's not blood, and no clear trauma, that sounds like the most obvious answer\n\nedit: and then cut up for some reason...\n\n And cleaned the blood off the ground?!? Doesn't seem reasonable someone took them somewhere else killed them and brought them back, but if not where's the blood?\n\n This takes conclusions drawn in the article as givens, when those conclusions may not be supportable. I'm neither a phlebotomist nor a geologist, but is it really impossible that an animal's blood would soak into the loose, sandy soil pictured in the article and disappear? Or that scavenger animals such as ants would eat or carry off dried blood?\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> There was an interesting take on this on Reddit a few days back\n\n[https:\/\/reddit.com\/r\/HighStrangeness\/comments\/d5mqw6\/_\/f0t0p...](https:\/\/reddit.com\/r\/HighStrangeness\/comments\/d5mqw6\/_\/f0t0p1l\/?context=1)\n\n So some government agency is going into farms dead at night with a heli and cutting out the cow to check for mad cow disease? Uh ok, but why would they do it in such secrecy?\n\n Furthermore, why would they leave the corpses? If they actually _are_ infected you would never want to leave the corpse or have to come back for it later, and if they aren't, well, you have a super creepy blood-drained corpse with various organs surgically excised just sitting there on someone's property as a magnet for panic and conspiracy speculations.\n\nIf the govt actually wanted to collect cattle for this kind of testing, they could easily pass a law that let them take animals and pay market rate for them. I imagine this would be much cheaper and simpler than ongoing covert helicopter operations combined with the cost of the investigations that the FBI did in the '70s. It's an explanation that makes basically no sense<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"This 512-Year-Old Greenland Shark Is the Oldest Living Vertebrate on the Planet - https:\/\/www.thescinewsreporter.com\/2018\/10\/this-512-year-old-greenland-shark-is_20.html Link to the Science Magazine article cited: [https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2016\/08\/greenland-shark- may-...](https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2016\/08\/greenland-shark-may- live-400-years-smashing-longevity-record)\n\nApparently the researchers collected dead Greenland sharks accidentally caught in fishing nets, and examined their eye lenses for traces of C-14 from 1950's nuclear tests. Any shark with none must have been born after 1963. This allowed them to estimate how fast the sharks grow in their first ~= 50 years of life. They also applied other radioisotope dating methods (not fully explained), in addition to an extrapolated \"growth curve\", to estimate the biggest shark caught had been 390+-120 years old.\n\n Wow, that's some impressive game of telephones.\n\n\"We estimated the age of this dead shark as 392+\/-120 years.\"\n\n===> \"This _512-year-old_ shark is the oldest _living_ vertebrate!\"\n\n...facepalm<\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"JavaScript Design Patterns - https:\/\/addyosmani.com\/resources\/essentialjsdesignpatterns\/book\/ Anyone finds design patterns useful. If so how you have used it<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"FBI: Carrier IQ files used for \"law enforcement purposes\" - http:\/\/www.muckrock.com\/news\/archives\/2011\/dec\/12\/fbi-carrier-iq-files-used-law-enforcement-purposes\/\n\n A profile is being generated about you, slowly but surely. It starts out as a vague picture, but the more you communicate, the the more clearly you define yourself. It includes your political affiliations, interests you display online, who your friends are, your every movement, your sexual preferences, close secrets, and anything else that can be gathered about you. These profiles are stored in a government database that allow contractors to test threat-detection algorithms to identify potential threats to national security -- aka, status quo. These reports will be sent to the appropriate LEO to summon and indefinitely detain you. You will be sent to a secret prison. You will not have a court date. Get ready for the New America.\n\nEdit - Yes, the hyperbole is strong in this one.\n\n And all I can think of is.\n\nHoly Shit. Stallman was right.\n\nPrescience is a dangerous gift for ones mental health. I like to think of RMS as driven mad by his vision not seeing vision because of being mad.\n\n While I do appreciate your statement in the larger literary context (great artists and prophets deemed insane), and I don't think RMS is justified in everything he does...\n\nI reject your allusion to his insanity. Neurotic behavior is not the same as out-of-control psychotic.\n\n But do you know what the worst part is?\n\nHe is right and he was right on basically every count of batshit crazy IP\/privacy \"conspiracy\" he ever conceived. And as crazy and repugnant as we find him. He probably is right about what is coming but we don't see it yet.\n\n I think the actual \"worst part\" is that the guy who was right is a guy which most people find repulsive.\n\n That's how it usually is, unfortunately. People don't like being told where dangerous things will lead them.\n\n X-Istence Except that the reason we find him repulsive is not because of him telling us \"where dangerous things will lead them\" but because of him as a human being, his behaviours and personal hygiene.\n\nI have great respect for his thoughts and ideas, and his steadfastness in following his own rules\/guidelines, but I don't like him. If he were to look more the part I would have an easier time telling people about his ideas and thoughts without having to worry about people asking \"Is that the guy that eats stuff he pulls from his feet?\". His outward appearance influences the way people see him, the way people treat him and how much they value his ideas and how seriously they take them.\n\nThat is unfortunately true for anyone in almost any situation.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Thank goodness. I was worried that they might be _misused_. I feel safe now.\n\nGo to sleep, citizens. All is well. All is under control.\n\n<\/comment> Interesting excerpt from CarrierIQ's apology to Eckhart, which exists thanks to the EFF:\n\nWe would like to take this opportunity to reiterate the functionality of Carrier IQ's software, what it does not do and what it does:\n\nDoes not record your keystrokes.\n\nDoes not provide tracking tools.\n\nDoes not inspect or report on the content of your communications, such as the content of emails and SMSs.\n\nDoes not provide real-time data reporting to any customer.\n\nFinally, we do not sell Carrier IQ data to third parties.\n\n\n\n I notice that they don't say that they don't _provide_ Carrier IQ data to third parties, just that they don't sell it.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> Which is why it's nice to be in full control of the software\/hardware stack you use. Walled gardens may look nice and be convenient in the present, and may even give the illusion of security, but in the end they're inevitably abused.\n\n I'm not sure if you meant for this particular interpretation or not, but the way you invoke \"walled garden\" makes it sound a lot like you are targeting iOS specifically. This couldn't be further from the truth.\n\nBased on my own reading. Carrier IQ is installed on _many_ Android-based phones, including those from AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile networks. Apple, HTC and Samsung have all confirmed that Carrier IQ is on their phones. HOWEVER, Apple has also announced that it has stopped supporting CIQ as of iOS 5, and will completely scrub the software from later releases.\n\nSo no, this has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not your phone exists in a closed ecosystem. The problem is that companies are incentivized to get away with as much of this kind of information collection as it possibly can. And just because I have to jailbreak my iPhone if I want to install unvetted software, doesn't mean Apple is thumbing their noses at legitimate customer complaints and concerns.\n\n Carrier IQ is in iOS 5. It is, however, disabled by default. It is also buried in the second or third level down in Preferences, so its very unlikely a user will enable it by accident -- and will probably only do so upon the instruction of an Apple Store Support Rep.\n\n There's no way to send a remote message to enable it?\n\n Unknown.\n\nHowever, the FBI can send a remote message to ANY phone to turn on its microphone and essentially use it as a wiretap. That's been built into every phone in the USA for something like 10 years now. It's why you have to surrender a cell phone in secure locations and military bases.\n\nThat's old news. Said wiretaps have actually been used against organized crime in America in the past and is likely used with more success now.\n\nOh, and you do know that everything you SEND through a cellular network -- texts, pics, urls visited are logged, right?\n\nThe only way to have a private network is to own the network. And know your netsec.\n\n I've been hearing that story about the FBI remotely activating cellphone microphones for several years now, but do you have a credible source for it?\n\n Yes.\n\nAny briefing involving a secure area will mention that phones can be triggered this way, and that your customer (military, intel, DoD, or DOE) forbids their access for the very reason.\n\n Are such briefings classified, or is there some chance of a citable reference?\n\n I wouldn't be at liberty to comment either way. Talk to your friendly, neighborhood defense contractor.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Why should the government run massive data centers to crawl your every move when they can get you to run a hidden app to do the pre-filtering for them (and give them keystroke\/touch-level access on demand in realtime)\n\n<\/comment> This unfolding Carrier IQ scandal is a really huge deal in my opinion. It just shows how our phones are used by both companies and law enforcement to track us, and that probably for a decade with software like this.\n\nAnybody knows if there is a website that tracks this incident, affected phones, related news, ...?\n\n Wait, you're just figuring out now that anything that travels through a cell phone network could be monitored?\n\n A lot of people wonder whether this is tracking theories are for real. Now at least one very popular way of how its currently being done is exposed.\n\n Wired broke the stories about the NSA monitoring something like 25% of all domestic cell phone traffic. The fact that all investigations into it have been stopped citing \"National Security\", and the former President Bush defended the tactic all are pretty good signs pointing to \"YES\".\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Not only law enforcement, but general intelligence and especially marketers and advertisers. They will soon know you better than you know yourself [http:\/\/danielmillsap.com\/blog\/technology-news\/carrier-iq- the...](http:\/\/danielmillsap.com\/blog\/technology-news\/carrier-iq-the-untold- story\/)\n\n It's a shame really that we don't have access to the same data for self- discovery. Imagine if everyone had their own data and people could communicate with algorithms. Greenpeace could have a little thing that you run on your data to get tips for improving your shopping habits, etc. Unions could have a way to help you avoid bad products. Or your phone could learn when you need a nudge one way or the other to improve your health.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> Excellent, remove the fault from the corporations and give even more power. Whatever happened to warrants?\n\n Where did the article indicate that Law Enforcement didn't need a warrant to access the Carrier IQ data?\n\n I remember a time when they had to get a warrant _before_ logging your information. Now with Carrier ID and Google and Facebook, the information is already collected, and they only need a warrant to access the years and years of detailed historical information. It's quite a big difference.\n\n Carrier IQ isn't used by all carriers (Verizon opts out, I believe) and the data transmitted is anonymous. I admit there is a risk with the data profiles being assembled, and being done so with ease not seen before, but the carrier IQ findings seem to be bad tech reporting and fear mongering. It really seems to be \"not a big deal\".\n\nI am all for advocating privacy and a discussion about user's rights -- but I would like it if both sides left their hysteria at the door.\n\n anonymous data does not exist\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> A play on the Ben Franklin quote about giving-up freedom for security:\n\n _Those Who Sacrifice The Right To Privacy For Convenience Deserve Neither._\n\n<\/comment> Anyone shocked?\n\n<\/comment> I am shocked! SHOCKED!\n\n...well not THAT shocked.\n\n<\/comment> Gotta love the paranoid nutjobs jumping straight to \"the FBI is using Carrier IQ to spy on us\" when an equally likely explanation buried in paragraph three is that if the FBI is conducting an investigation of Carrier IQ for possible violation of federal wiretap laws then the same data would be withheld. Let's see now... Al Franken, who recently made some loud noises about Carrier IQ and sent a public letter to the company asking for information about what they are doing, sits on the Senate Judiciary committee. The committee that has direct oversight of the FBI would be? Anyone? Bueller?\n\n Not quite sure it's \"paranoid\" to think the FBI is, in some cases, using Carrier IQ software to gather information given recent U.S. history. Also, since the request was specifically for manuals used to gather information using Carrier IQ, and not just for any information on Carrier IQ, when they say they have responsive documents to the request I would imagine it refers to manuals or guides in their possession.\n\n If the FBI is conducting an investigation into possible criminal activity by Carrier IQ then the manuals and guides are direct evidence showing what the company intended the software to do, making it evidence in an ongoing investigation.\n\n Not discounting the possibility of that (I specifically stated it in the article), but I'd bet even odds FBI has some knowledge of accessing Carrier IQ data.\n\n The FBI have professional phone forensics\/evidence labs around the country. They work with handset manufacturers and special purpose vendors to extract and analyze every bit of data that exists in the phone.\n\nIt's inconceivable that CarrierIQ would store unencrypted data on a large number of phones and the FBI would not know how to access it. More than likely, CIQ sells them the tool to do it, or at least provides documentation.<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Ask HN: What's a good database schema for \"Top comments in last 24 hours\" - \n\nSo my friends and I are hacking away at a project, and we're trying to think of a way to display a list of the top comments in the last 24 hours. What we have now seems a bit too hackish, so any help would be great.

What we have so far is a MySQL table with 25 columns. 1 column is ID (arbitrary), and the next 24 are the 24 hours of a given day (12am, 1am, 2am ... 10pm, 11pm, 12pm). Every comment has a comment_id and points. When the comment gets a point, its comment_id is inserted into whatever the hour is.

So when comment_id 84 gets a point, and the time is 2:30pm, we stick 84 into a CSV list at the 2pm column. If the comment racks up 3 points, it will end up looking like this:

2pm -> 84, 84, 84, ... other comment_ids

When we want to display this list, we basically create a list (descending) looking for duplicate comment_ids. Is there a better way to do this? I feel like we're doing something wrong... Um, very. 25 columns?\n\nJust record each commentid and vote like so:\n\n \n \n create table vote_history (\n commentid int,\n ts int\n primary_key (commentid, ts)\n );\n \n\nWhere ts is a unix timestamp. Now you can get rankings for any time slice:\n\nselect commentid, count(commentid) as points from leaderboard where ts > group by commentid order by points desc;\n\nThat gives you to-the-second resolution, which is probably overkill. So instead you can try this:\n\n \n \n create table votes_per_hour (\n commentid int,\n hourid int,\n score smallint,\n primary_key (commentid, hourid)\n );\n \n\nWhere the value of hourid is the unix timestamp divided by 3600.\n\n thanks =] sometimes my mind jumps to the worst solution first, not sure why. after you look at something like that, it's sort of a \"wow.. duh..\" moment.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> SELECT * FROM comments WHERE posted_at > SUBDATE(NOW(), INTERVAL 1 DAY) ORDER BY karma DESC LIMIT 50;\n\nMy SQL might be a bit rusty, but you get the gist of it. Why not do that?\n\nYour question is a little confusing without knowing the schema you are using already. Do you want the top comments of _each_ hour?\n\n<\/comment> I would add a time stamp for the last update and a total column. Update the total and timestamp every time you update a bucket. Zero any buckets between the saved timestamp and now. To get your list select comments updated in the last 24 hours and ordered by total. You will have some rows with artificially high counts, because of numbers older than 24 hours. Adjust the totals for the row and keep reading until you have the number you need. If you cache the list, you dont even need to do the select except on restart. Email me if you want clarification.\n\n<\/comment> Sometimes denormalizing a database is okay. But when you get into programmatically mucking with CSV data in a field, you probably have pushed things a bit too far.<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Why you shouldn't tout your competing services on anothers Techcrunch articles - \n\nhttp:\/\/tinyurl.com\/32552mb Real link:\n\n[http:\/\/eu.techcrunch.com\/2010\/07\/20\/karsa-flash-payer- offers...](http:\/\/eu.techcrunch.com\/2010\/07\/20\/karsa-flash-payer-offers-bait- and-switch-model-for-video-monetization\/?replytocom=409994#comment-410025)\n\n<\/comment> So you shouldn't tout your competing service because your product may be flawed or imperfect?\n\n<\/comment> direct link \n\nlook for the entrance of 'Jack'<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":1540784},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Noisy: Random DNS, HTTP\/S traffic noise generator - https:\/\/github.com\/1tayH\/noisy When I took my first networking class a billion years ago (the 1990s) the kindly professor who had written most of the networking textbooks in use at the time started the first week off by teaching us how to use the ping command.\n\nBut first he warned us: make sure you always use the -c flag if you're pinging something on the internet. This is to specify the count of pings sent out. If you didn't it would ping forever and generate too much traffic, and this useless noise would make you a \"bad netizen\". He explained this and everything to us so kindly and with such sincerity it was like watching Fred Rodgers speak.\n\nNow we have to randomly barf noise onto the network to maybe have a better chance at some privacy. And that's on top of the half dozen browser extensions and the vpn and whatever other tools you need to have a moderately good experience on the network.\n\nHow did we let the internet become this awful?\n\n > How did we let the internet become this awful?\n\nThe innocence of anything is always lost when the MBAs show up.\n\n y-c-o-m-b This ... is beautiful.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> While I appreciate the intent of this and other \"chaff\" tools, I can't help but think ten years from now I'll be seated under a single 200W light bulb hanging from a string while some federal official with 100,000 printed out pages of logs sneers at me saying \"and then on December 10th of 2023 you visited www.elderlydogswhosquirt.com. You disgust me.\" And then I try to explain how it was the bots in my computer, not me. The bots I tell ya!\n\n I mean, they'll just toss a $500 bribe to a Geek Squad employee, and have them spray your hard drive with \"illegal data.\"\n\n[https:\/\/fortune.com\/2018\/03\/07\/best-buy-geek-squad-fbi- infor...](https:\/\/fortune.com\/2018\/03\/07\/best-buy-geek-squad-fbi-informants\/)\n\n[https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/best-buy-geek-squad-fbi- informants-...](https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/best-buy-geek-squad-fbi- informants-834846)\n\n[https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2018\/03\/fbi-geek-squad-best- buy...](https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2018\/03\/fbi-geek-squad-best-buy- relationship-closer.html)\n\n[https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/fbi-geek-squad- customer...](https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/fbi-geek-squad-customer- data-seach_us_5aa004b3e4b002df2c5fc9bc)\n\n[https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo- way\/2018\/03\/07\/591698708...](https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo- way\/2018\/03\/07\/591698708\/fbi-used-paid-informants-on-best-buys-geek-squad-to- flag-child-pornography)\n\n[https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2018\/03\/geek-squads- relationsh...](https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2018\/03\/geek-squads-relationship- fbi-cozier-we-thought)\n\n[https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/true- crime\/wp\/2017\/04\/03...](https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/true- crime\/wp\/2017\/04\/03\/records-show-deep-ties-between-fbi-and-best-buy-computer- technicians-looking-for-child-porn\/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7d7a874f4fce)\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> If you're worried about getting in trouble for some HTTPS or DNS traffic then why would you trust this? Someone snooping on your traffic could see you generating traffic that looks incriminating.\n\nIf you're _not_ worried about getting in trouble for some HTTPS or DNS traffic then why would you use this?\n\nIn short I don't understand the use case for this script. Anyone analyzing your traffic looking for specific DNS requests or specific SNIs will still see them.\n\n As the author mentions in the readme, one use case is to obfuscate your online advertising profile by flooding it with random data.\n\n Without using a real headless browser running JavaScript AND accessing a browser cookie store to distribute the fake traffic on the event tracking of all gazillion tracking cookies you're already identified with, this approach is utterly useless for the purpose intended. Even for trackers using IP+Fingerprint (which nobody I know is seriously using these days anymore), you'd have to spoof the user agent of the regular browser.\n\nSorry to say, but you'll be much better off with an adblocker.\n\n ryan-c I think this is intended to screw with tracking being done by your ISP.\n\n Your ISP has _more_ options to identify you than a random 3rd party advertisement\/tracking partner...\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Keep in mind that the data is still there, and motivated people will figure out the noise from the signal.\n\nUse dnscrypt: [https:\/\/dnscrypt.info\/](https:\/\/dnscrypt.info\/) which has an easy macOS integration too.\n\n<\/comment> this kills my caching, but I'd love to integrate this in dnsmasq. right now I'm running a patched dnsmasq\u00b9 that can handle blocking urls based on regex (e.g. kill anything with unicode in addition to whatever I have in my SteveBlack's \/etc\/hosts blocklist\u00b2). So having noise generation in dnsmasq which is ignored by caching would be an ideal solution for me.\n\n__\n\n\u00b9[https:\/\/github.com\/lixingcong\/dnsmasq- regex](https:\/\/github.com\/lixingcong\/dnsmasq-regex)\n\n\u00b2[https:\/\/github.com\/StevenBlack\/hosts](https:\/\/github.com\/StevenBlack\/hosts)\n\n > right now I'm running a patched dnsmasq\u00b9\n\nAre you the author of this? I've been wanting something like this for a long time! Hopefully the patch has been submitted upstream for inclusion in dnsmasq..\n\n dnscrypt-proxy supports regex-based rules, can block responses including specific IP addresses, can provide nice logs, does caching, supports time- based rules, and more: [https:\/\/github.com\/jedisct1\/dnscrypt- proxy\/wiki\/Filters](https:\/\/github.com\/jedisct1\/dnscrypt-proxy\/wiki\/Filters)\n\n Wow, thanks. I use dnscrypt-proxy too and had no idea it supported this!\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Is this intended to be a solution for people who are unable to do DNS-over-TLS (which seems like a much better solution to this problem).\n\n Maybe a better solution to DNS lookups, but doesn't change the fact that your ISP may be profiling you based on the IPs you connect to for web traffic. VPN could be argued as a solution there, but even volume sans target is a profiling tool.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> Really ought to just use coreDNS as a local stub resolver and point it at cloudfare's TLS enabled DNS resolvers. That's what I do.\n\n<\/comment> A good way to be blacklisted.\n\n From what? I think a better noise generator would do better than random, e.g. headless chrome, human-esque mouse movements, reasonable link traversal, etc. I also wonder how many of the big sites will blacklist by IP knowing many ISPs reassign and many botnets run on their customers' computers.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> Security^W Privacy through obscurity. Not bulletproof but better than nothing.\n\nCan't fail to remember the same trick used by megacorps outside Internet. Once Coca-Cola wanted to be certified as kosher. It of course did not want to uncover its secret recipe. They knew though that a mix of plant-based components is normally considered kosher is each component is also kosher. So they presented a huge list of such components and claimed that all components of Coca-Cola are listed there, among other, unrelated components. The list was considered kosher, and thus Coca-Cola the drink, too.\n\nThe difference is that they only had to do it once to keep their secret. This software needs to do it many times per real request.<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Show HN: CircleRiot. If Google isnt interested in the idea, i might as well try - http:\/\/www.circleriot.com\n\n What are you actually \"showing\"?\n\nI don't see anything except for a signup form. No content, no explanation, nothing.\n\nAlso, you've mispelled your domain name in your submission title.\n\n Thanks for catching that error for me.\n\nHN doesn't allow text with a url submission and i was limited to 80 characters in the title. It'll currently just show you a landing page. I needed to get something out while I work on the concept. This is a response from the following article: [http:\/\/networkeffect.allthingsd.com\/20110313\/false-alarm- goo...](http:\/\/networkeffect.allthingsd.com\/20110313\/false-alarm-google- circles-not-coming-now-and-probably-not-ever\/).\n\nSorry for the teaser (i hate them myself) but a good friend of mine insisted that I build and push a landing page out as soon as possible.\n\n If it works, fantastic but I'm really curious if people would submit their email address for something they have absolutely no idea about.\n\n Very true but I'm currently taking the fork.ly \"launching soon\" approach ([http:\/\/blog.forkly.com\/post\/2341870004\/a-viral-launching- soo...](http:\/\/blog.forkly.com\/post\/2341870004\/a-viral-launching-soon-form)).\n\nThis is dry testing at best.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> For context:\n\n[http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/google_to_launch_major_...](http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/google_to_launch_major_new_social_network_called_c.php)\n\n[http:\/\/networkeffect.allthingsd.com\/20110313\/false-alarm- goo...](http:\/\/networkeffect.allthingsd.com\/20110313\/false-alarm-google- circles-not-coming-now-and-probably-not-ever\/)\n\nI really do believe in this idea and i think social network sites should be designing for multiple groups. Managing your identity shouldn't be a high overhead. The logo is a work in progress and I'll be working away the next month deploying this application.\n\nEdit: Feel free to submit bugs at firstname.lastname@example.com :)\n\n<\/comment> I went to look and I don't have a clue what's going on at that site, which means I don't want to sign up. I don't know what Google isn't interested in and what you \"might as well\" try.\n\n\"Might as well\" doesn't make it sound like you're all that determined to make it worth my time, either.\n\n<\/comment> So, is this just going to be a new social network? Is the idea of circles any different from, say, Diaspora's aspects?<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Teletext Wedding Website - http:\/\/www.findingmoredetails.co.uk\/\n\n Ha,\n\nVery cute.\n\nBack in the late 1980s I wrote a full clone of the teletext system on my Commodore 64, witn priority news pages and full support for all the special features like double height text, reveal etc.<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Why is every story on Uber Delhi driver raping a passenger getting instakilled? - Every story on this incident is getting killed moments after submission.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711222 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711196 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711178 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711146

Is this story off limits on HN (genuine question)? \nOr is it some kind of pro Uber voter ring?

Given the previous discussions on HN about what an Uber executive said about a journalist etc I find it difficult to believe that HN readership doesn't care about this case, so I thought I'd ask. Fwiw this is on top of the news in every newspaper and TV Channel in India. TechCrunch reported it too (in a weaselly fashion, but still).

EDIT: I am fine with a mod judgement saying "Such stories are irrelevant to HN. Flagged".

This was a genuine question. I am not an "outrage warrior" or anything (see my comment history), I just found the instakills odd from a "something is funny here. I wonder if someone is gaming HN voting" perspective, and thought I'd ask.

Edit2: I did send email to the mods and didn't get any reply (understandable, given it is Saturday night in the USA. I just don't like nasty people gaming systems, which was a possibility here. Hence the post. Mods, feel free to remove if you think this is inappropriate) I've been traveling all day and didn't see this, or the emails, until now. These stories were killed by user flags, not moderators. I'll look at the details in a minute. In the meantime, I'm burying this post for what should be an obvious reason: procedural questions about story ranking, and HN support questions in general, are off-topic for HN. The site guidelines explicitly ask you not to post them here.\n\nEdit: I looked at all the flagged stories. I don't think it was a ring. It looks to me like users who feel that the story is off-topic for HN. Perhaps they feel this way more strongly because they're Uber fans\u2014hard to say\u2014but flagging of outrage stories (i.e. high controversy-to-substance ratio) is well-established on HN.\n\nIn cases like this, when the community is deeply divided, each side has a reasonable argument, and a large number of users clearly want the story to be discussed here, we usually pick one URL and override the flags for that one. If I hadn't been offline, I would have done so earlier.\n\nThe problem now is that it's not clear what the best URL is. None of the articles look great. I unkilled the Techcrunch one, but the thread promptly turned into a discussion of its title. If someone can suggest a good choice of URL in the next few minutes, I'll do that again. Otherwise it will have to wait overnight.\n\n I find it hard to imagine how a moderator of a forum like HN could be more responsible, responsive, humane and just than dang. Keep up the good work.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> I hope you don't think that a campaigner with as much experience as David Plouffe is going to neglect to hire a social media firm to handle Reddit and HN stories about Uber.\n\nThis is what (a small part of) Uber's venture capital is going towards: hiring people to downvote and bury critical posts. It would almost be negligent not to do so, at this point in the internet's development.\n\n That is an interesting idea.\n\nAs long as HN's code has the ability to detect such co ordinated flag kills and alert the mods, all good (imo).\n\nJust to be clear, I have no position on whether HN should or should not discuss such stories (I can see arguments for either side, and lots of grey areas). I'd be personally fine with a 'tech only' focus (say).\n\nMy question was about _why_ these stories were getting killed moments after submission, since many discussions have happened about women in tech, diversity, company business model unethicalities etc, without triggering flag kills.\n\n I might be misreading your response but just to reiterate: Asking if Uber has a reputation management firm to handle stuff like this is like asking if they have tax lawyers.\n\nAnd a professional, expensive firm would certainly have enough clean accounts to do this undetectably if that was even necessary (no idea what detection ability HN has).\n\nIn my opinion that's the most plausible answer to why, but it's not the only one.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> News link: [http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/Delhi- cabbie-r...](http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/Delhi-cabbie-rapes- executive-returning-from-party\/articleshow\/45399533.cms)\n\nNegligence: Quote\"The woman had boarded the cab after booking it with Uber. We have found gross negligence on their part as they did not have even a GPS in the cab and the driver had not been verified.\"\n\n My story with this link survived the culling: [https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8710607](https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8710607)\n\n Nope, flagkilled.\n\nHonestly this is starting to look absurd. HN readers consider this event interesting and worth discussing (as evidenced by this thread). There is an obvious effort to either censor or manipulate the system in order for the stories to stay off the front page. I would have expected more outrage.\n\n \n > HN readers consider this event interesting\n > and worth discussing (as evidenced by this\n > thread).\n \n\nCorrection - _some_ readers consider this event interesting and worth discussing. As evidence elsewhere, other readers are flagging the story. One of the mods[0] has stated clearly[1] that it's being flag-killed.\n\n \n \n > There is an obvious effort to either censor\n > or manipulate the system ...\n \n\nNope - standard HN reader actions doing what the system is designed for.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment>==\n\n[0] [https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/user?id=dang](https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/user?id=dang)\n\n[1] [https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8711660](https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8711660)\n\n Its absurd to flag-kill stories with no upvotes. If something is taking up 10 spots on the front page and \/ or leading to shitty discussion...yeah go flag it up.\n\nClearly there were 600+ people who upvoted the topic of this thread, and a group of people who are censoring HN.\n\nThey're not flagging crap off the front page, they are censoring the NEW page.\n\nI'm not sure how to conclude that's anything other than wrong...?? It may only take a couple of flags to kill a story but lets say it takes 5-6....who the hell are the 5-6 people trolling the NEW page killing stories?\n\nAt what hour on a weekend night? That's not a co-incidence. Its pretty absurd to think that's legitimate or healthy behaviour.\n\nIf the mods want to kill stuff...whatevr...\"HN reader actions doing what the system is designed for\" is a broken system.\n\nIts basically a bunch of truthers an bullies having their way. I don't see how its fairly characterized as \"guardian angels\" looking out for the integrity of the site or its discussions.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> Uber is a bunch of sketchballs and a bunch of sockpuppets flagging the story is totally within the realm of plausibility.\n\n I can verify that they do pay very close attention to HN posts and when I previously disclosed some internal info they attempted to stomp it down very rapidly.\n\n You're hinting at an abuse of the site that we should probably look into, so I'd appreciate it if you'd email email@example.com with details.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> The funny (or scary) thing is that South Park predicted exactly this 100%: An Uber competitor hires a criminal to be a Uber (Timmy) driver to sexually assault the first female passenger it gets[0] and get it really bad press.\n\nBTW, this also happen in taxi cabs, but somehow they don't make the front-page of hacker news[1][2][3], I wonder why that is.\n\n[0]7:40 at [http:\/\/southpark.cc.com\/full- episodes\/s18e04-handicar](http:\/\/southpark.cc.com\/full- episodes\/s18e04-handicar)\n\n[1][http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/local\/broward\/fort- lauderdale\/fl...](http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/local\/broward\/fort- lauderdale\/fl-lauderdale-taxi-driver-charged-20141126-story.html)\n\n[2][http:\/\/www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au\/story\/2370444\/taxi- drive...](http:\/\/www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au\/story\/2370444\/taxi-driver- assaulted-female-passenger-before-raping-another\/)\n\n[3][http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/bail-refused- for-t...](http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/bail-refused-for-taxi- driver-accused-of-raping-two-passengers-in-his- cab\/story-e6frf7kx-1226506843629?nk=bdaf38fb02bd248e8f55a540d369ebec)\n\n >BTW, this also happen in taxi cabs, but somehow they don't make the front- page of hacker news[1][2][3], I wonder why that is\n\nWoman speaking here. I've been using Uber\/Lyft over taxis because of the driver verification system and also the tracking. I will always send my ride tracking link to whoever I am travelling towards if I am solo. I am sure that taxis have their drivers verified also, but taxis don't send me their driver's name and car license plate nor can I track the ride within the taxi service system itself. User is using technology to make the relationship between passenger and driver safer. If they fail on this, they need to be totally open and honest about it and discuss how to find better solutions. Drivers also get attacked by passengers - the safety measures go both ways.\n\n I had a family member attacked by a cabbie. The driver was actually mere hours away from getting away with it too because a) The passenger had no record of the transaction and b) The cab service recycles their camera data every few days.\n\nThe way I see it, there is no guarantee of safety in either situation. You never know if your driver is a criminal or crazy. But services like Uber seem considerably more safe: There is extreme record keeping, user ratings, and no direct money changing hands.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> clickable links:\n\n[https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8711222](https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8711222)\n\n[https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8711196](https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8711196)\n\n[https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8711178](https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8711178)\n\n[https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8711146](https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8711146)\n\nnote: Yes, as OP mentioned, clickable links are all dead anyways.\n\n Now all...dead\n\n(not sure if that was the obvious intention)\n\n I always just comment with links as clickables (if someone else hasn't already) to save everyone else the keystrokes.. in this case, they're all dead. Unfortunately, HN only links hyperlinks from comments.\n\n No worries, just clarifying in case folks didn't understand.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Strange, I just posted this tech crunch article: [https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8711409](https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8711409)\n\nand it got several upvotes and was on the front page, but now it was removed from the home page\n\nnot sure how the home page rankings work, but it was on the home page for a while and getting up votes\n\n An article can be flagged. If it has been flagged by too many people, it will be \"flag-killed.\" Guess certain people don't like the article and want to suppress it.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> 'flagkilled' means that user flags killed those stories.\n\n _[flagkilled] Uber Confirms It Is Assisting Police in India Following an Alleged Rape (techcrunch.com)_ [1]\n\nThis only has 1 upvote. Why would it have N^F flags?\n\n\"Flagkilled\" must be something else or who knows?\n\n[1] Link is [https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8711222](https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8711222)\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> I don't know if anyone is still reading this, but the Uber driver has been jailed for rape before, and so a background check (which is mandated by law for all cab drivers, but Uber doesn't do) _would_ have uncovered this.\n\n[http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/article\/cities\/arrested-uber-driver- was-...](http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/article\/cities\/arrested-uber-driver-was-jailed- earlier-too-on-rape-charges-sources-631344?pfrom=home-lateststories)\n\n<\/comment> I'm going to guess that it is a keyword filter issue.\n\nEvery story you link to includes \"r a p e\" but your submission is missing the e.\n\n<\/comment> I want to know how this story got 42 up votes in under 10 minutes?\n\n That tends to happen with meta posts, especially those implying potential wrongdoing on the site. People just upvote them quickly.\n\n This makes sense. It still seems suspicious to me.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> ...and _bam_. 600+ points after 3 hours, and suddenly it's on page 9. Nothing to see here. Move along.\n\n Yes, we buried the meta post as off-topic. It's not a borderline call.\n\nAs usual, we didn't close the thread to comments, so ongoing discussion can continue.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> Can submissions be killed by votes? I always thought that was only by moderator action or automated filtering (eg. hellbanned users).\n\n I'm assuming 'flagkilled' means enough users flagged these articles. If the moderators actively killed all these articles (some are to newspapers with millions of readers, and not link farms or whatever) that would be .. interesting, but ok.\n\nI think HN mods are nice people and are probably unaware. I did send them emails, but I didn't get a reply (which is understandable given this is Saturday night in the USA). I suspect either a pro uber voting ring or a software bug.\n\n Ah, I didn't see the \"flagkilled\" tag when I looked, before I turned showdead on.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Apparently, it is OK to care about profits and not customers these days. [http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/06\/opinion\/joe-nocera-uber- vs...](http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/06\/opinion\/joe-nocera-uber-vs-uber.html)\n\n<\/comment> As far as I'm concerned, that's a perfect example of a story unsuitable for HN. There's nothing there to satisfy anyone's intellectual curiosity. It's just a volatile mixture of rubbernecking, outrage, gender issues, schadenfreude over a controversial company, and having it be about a tech startup to give it just a tiny bit of supposed HN relevance.\n\n(I flagged the one copy of this I saw on the front page, and it's certainly not because of liking Uber).\n\n I was going to post the following (below -----), but I read the stories and they mainly focus on the signup process for Uber. While I still mostly feel like my original post, it is troublesome to hear that Uber employs people with no background check or verification into a job which, if you think about it, entails a trust-relationship not unlike that of a doctor or cleaning lady\/man: someone in in an intimate setting who you entrust to care for you. For a doctor it's obvious, a cleaner enters your home, where you trust they don't steal sneakily or assault you. And for a taxi driver who drives you home at night, you expect when you hire through a large company that you're in the hands of a professional you can trust. Not a person who went through background checks\/verification\/training as much as if you took a random stranger and put them in a car.\n\nSo to that extent I'd say Uber has a lot of work to do in its signup process. But beyond that, it still feels like an incident that doesn't justify a post on HN. I wonder what the process is like for regular taxi companies in India and if it's much different. Did you guys remember the Polish woman who was raped earlier this year in a non-uber Indian taxi?\n\n\\<\/comment><\/comment> original post below <\/comment>-\n\nAs horrible as this is, it's a non-story for me. That's not to say the rape isn't horrible. But we need relevance, we can't just report any horrible fact. About 17k children die each day, it doesn't make sense to fill HN with that daily unless there is some direct relevance. If we didn't have a 'relevance filter', I nor anyone else would visit this particular community anymore.\n\nNow what's the relevance here? Uber? And...?\n\nImagine an employee from Microsoft raped someone (pretty much 100% guaranteed one of them did in the past decades). Should that be a story we talk about on HN, just because it's bad and because it's a tech company and no other reason? Of course not. So why should it be a story that a non-employee freelance driver rapes someone in a country of over 1 billion people?\n\nLook if this story had a sociological context about gender relations in India that was interesting for HN, sure. I'd love to read about that. My girlfriend was just in India this summer for social work and we chat about this every now and then. If it was a story about gender-violent policies at Uber, sure, that'd be interesting. If this was a story about how Uber attracts disproportionately higher rates of criminal drivers, sure. But there's none of that.\n\nSo I don't see the relevance, and without any kind of trend, evidence of bad policies or whatever, it's just a single incident. Shit happens, and without context this is a story that smears a company. I'm no fan of Uber, but there's a lot better things to focus on IF this was an incident.\n\nAnyway I'd be happy to hear otherwise, I could totally be missing something.\n\n \"Imagine an employee from Microsoft raped someone \"\n\nThis is somewhat iffy logic. If Microsoft's purported USP was \"our OS is way safer than the alternatives\" (this is, partly, how Uber positions itself in India[1], which is smart, given the horrible \"rape in moving vehicles\/by taxi drivers etc\" history in India) and then it turned out that Windows was much easier for cybercriminals to hack into and steal your credit cards (than say OSX, which made no such claim) that would be worth discussing on a site about OS es.\n\nOr maybe not. Hence the question.\n\n[1] Uber Delhi used to have this in their marketing copy (emphasis mine) \"Uber is New Delhi's best way to request a _safe_ , reliable, affordable ride\"\n\n Yeah fair enough, although it does seem as if they just went with the 'standard' message, by your analogy 'windows is a safe and reliable OS to make payments', as opposed to 'windows is out now, enjoy the safest way to make payments ever conceived'. If you then get hacked after the first message ('it's just safe and reliable'), and it's a single case of 1 person being hacked due to a single 3rd party app not behaving like it should without permission from Microsoft, I don't know if it's worth discussing. As another member said, it feels like a tabloid story that's only interesting because Uber has a $40b valuation and rape is a justifiably concerning topic in general. But it doesn't seem like anything systemic is going on here.\n\nI've never used Uber and am not too familiar with their marketing, but I'm not aware of them ever pushing hardcore the notion that they're the safest concerning the trustworthiness of the driver. I don't even think that's a marketing variable, even in a place with a history of rape in moving vehicles that you mentioned. (reliability of the driver concerning trip duration, professionalism etc, sure, but whether you can trust him not to hurt you?).\n\nI think the core question is whether they really missed out on something in the screening process. If not, it kind of feels like this is a lone incident in a country of 1 billion people, one of few such cases (2 or 3 now?) after tens of millions of rides.\n\n \"country of a billion people\". Oh please, not that tired cliche again. Police verification of employees is _standard_ in India, even for software jobs. Uber as usual seems to be cutting corners, playing fast and loose, operating outside the law. The drivers aren't really 'employees' just 'licensed driving partners' and so Uber has no responisibility.\n\nIf this had happened in the USA (\" a country of 300 million people\") everybody would _rightly_ be looking into how Uber operates and what to fix. But hey some third world country half a world away and it is just people being unreasonable.\n\nAnd this \"numbers\" logic is fallacious. Why is the police shooting of an African American causing such ripples in a \"country of 300 million people\" with millions of police\/citizen encounters. Surely the proportion ending in unarmed citizens being shot for no good reason are really really low? Then why all the hoopla? Why are people so outraged?\n\nYeesh. Some people.\n\n > If this had happened in the USA (\" a country of 300 million people\") > everybody would rightly be looking into how Uber operates and what to fix. > But hey some third world country half a world away and it is just people > being unreasonable.\n\nBlah, stop putting words in my mouth. I'm from such a 'third world country', and my gf just returned from her work in India. Let's also ignore the multiple times someone was charged with rape over there in the US (I don't live there, you know). I'm certainly not saying nobody cares because it's India. I'm saying it appears like a single case related to uber in a country of 1 billion (where rape happens every hour) after millions of rides.\n\n> Then why all the hoopla? Why are people so outraged?\n\nBecause it's SYSTEMIC, that's my point. It literally, not kidding, literally happens every single day and enough is enough, and it is a consequence partially of some identifiable issues in the police system that they're responsible to fix (and haven't been doing for decades). That's why such a story is interesting. Why is it not interesting if a white person is shot by the police? Because arguably it's not systemic, it's not based on a certain culture, on certain policies. For example if you go to a police station to train them on cultural sensitivity often the first question is 'what do you think if you see am 18yo black kid in a nice car?'. They'll virtually all say 'drug dealer'. And the white kid? They'll virtually all say 'rich daddy'. And they're brutally honest in this. That's literally racial discrimination, as a citizen is seen and treated differently SOLELY based on the color of their skin and such racial profiling it's pervasive in American (police) culture. It's a small example of how systemic the problem is.\n\nBut here I DON'T see that as of yet. It looks like a genuine incident that Uber couldn't have done much against. If they screened the driver, he probably wouldn't have been filtered out unless he was going around telling everyone of his rapist tendencies. There's no gender-violent culture or policies we can specifically identify at Uber that should be rooted out but isn't, contrary to howwe can EASILY identify race-biased culture and policies in the American police system that should be rooted out but isn't.\n\nI'm all for extra screening of taxi drivers by the way and think Uber should be doing this and doing it better. No argument from me there. And while I've never used Uber, unlikely I ever will, didn't flag this story, don't like uber, I don't think it's fair to bring this story as if Uber took some huge missteps and caused this rape. It appears to me like an incident.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> This could result in Uber's implosion in India. What were they thinking when they had an unverified driver? Heck even local taxicab providers use drivers with extensive background checks and police verification (atleast in Bangalore).\n\nNo point in using Uber if they sink to such levels. The only reason they could've gone with such a driver would've been economic.\n\n<\/comment> could be domains that are being linked. some domains get auto-killed.\n\n<\/comment> [https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8711960](https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8711960)\n\nMy story got killed too\n\n<\/comment> [https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8711510](https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8711510)\n\n<\/comment> And it's off the front page. How'd that happen?\n\n [https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8711660](https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8711660)\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> Very interesting\n\n<\/comment> This now appears to be deleted\/dead.\n\n<\/comment> because not on topic for HN\n\nrapes occur all the time, not relevant if someone just happens to be employed by Uber\n\nif a Microsoft employee beat his wife should that be on HN? no. nor would it if he instead worked at a Texaco gas station\n\n Uber markets itself as a safer and more convinient mode of transport. Uber driver did not beat his wife, he raped a cystomer. That is breach of trust.\n\nThe right analogy would be.. If a Microsoft employee hacks your Windows computer and steals your data, it should be a front page story.\n\n > If a Microsoft employee hacks your Windows computer and steals your data\n\nThat's a good point. I wonder though what we can actually discuss here.\n\nConsider this, if a MS employee hacked you using say, company access to your hotmail account that only MS employees have, a system by design ripe for abuse, and therefore fixable by MS and therefore a MS responsibility, then that's relevant.\n\nBut if a MS employee hacked you on the job without anything special that makes him a MS employee (he could've been working for DELL, Apple or hell he could've been unemployed) and just happened to be a MS employee that hacked you, what's the relevance? It's just an incident that MS has no real responsibility for.\n\nEven less responsibility if said employee wasn't an employee, but just a 3rd party freelancer.\n\nI think it begs the question: 'what didn't uber do that they should have?'. Why are they at fault, why is this news? It sucks, yes, but as I posted earlier here, 17k kids under 5 will die today, and tomorrow, as they did yesterday. There needs to be some context, an angle on gender relations in india, a gender-violent culture at Uber, bad policies in keeping track of rides so abuse can go unpunished, for example. But I don't see it.\n\nWe've heard that the screening process is weak and I'll believe that. But I genuinely wonder what part of the screening process is missing that could've prevented this. I'm all for screening out repeat offenders for jobs like this (where a client entrusts a caretaker, like for doctors, police or indeed taxi drivers) but this feels like an incident that's only posted because it's good tabloid material considering Uber is now a $40 billion company with a possible rape case after tens of millions of rides.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Please don't post \"meta\" stories to HN. Email email@example.com if you have concerns.\n\n Is there a better way available for the community to discuss or inquire about issues like this (serious question)? Emailing hn@ (of course) seems very many to one. I'd hope that the thought wouldn't be \"The community is no place to discuss peculiar community activity\", even if that means shoving it off to someplace else still on the site where those who believe its relevant can discuss.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> FWIW, this very submission is technically against the HN guidelines ([https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/newsguidelines.html](https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/newsguidelines.html)):\n\n _Please don 't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to email@example.com._\n\n From that same page:\n\n _Please don 't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site._\n\n Technically, your comment is also against the HN guidelines. And so is mine (the very one you're reading right now). I think none of us are adding anything to the discussion.\n\n While a comment is, strictly speaking, something submitted, the guidelines page seems to use \"submission\" to refer specifically to story submissions (note the headers \"In Submissions\" and \"In Comments\"). If my interpretation is correct, then my first comment, your reply, and this comment are not in violation, although yours is factually incorrect. :)<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Tetris AI Bot Playground \u2013 C++ - https:\/\/github.com\/mbrenman\/TetrisPlayground\n\n I built this Tetris Playground for a class, and I built a few bots to play against it. I'd love to see what other people could build to play on it. The goal was to make it work in a way that building new bots would be very straightforward and not involve understanding or writing Tetris game code.\n\nI'd love any feedback on the system, and pull requests are absolutely welcome! Thanks for looking!<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Court ruling makes password sharing a federal crime [pdf] - https:\/\/cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov\/datastore\/opinions\/2016\/07\/05\/14-10037.pdf Also here: [https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=12071492](https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=12071492)\n\nAnd here: [https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=12061207](https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=12061207) (2 comments)\n\nAnd here: [https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=12048621](https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=12048621) (2 comments)\n\nAnd here: [https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=12046168](https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=12046168)<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Pros and Cons of Ruby\/Rails and Nodejs\/Angular\/Express for a beginner in 2014? - \n\nA fairly simple question to ask but probably pretty complex to answer. I have limited web development experience (HTML, CSS, a bit of JS) and I'm looking to broaden my horizons by learning both Ruby/Rails and Node/etc...

My question is, which one should I concentrate on first and why? I realize that Rails is a framework while NodeJS is a platform (with Express being the framework) but I see a lot of people saying that Rails can do anything Node can do and vice versa. So, why should I learn one first over the other? Is it a waste of time to learn both? Related, in learning either Rails or Node what other tech should I concentrate on? Coffeescript? SASS? Bootstrap? Other suggestions? RoR Pros: Ruby is easy to learn, Rails is opinionated which makes learning a little easier and gets you used to the MVC concept (not sure if Express is similarly so). Ruby and Rails are pretty mature, so there are gems (libraries) for just about anything you can think of.\n\nRoR Cons: You still need to properly learn JS because it's the web. Node is now the \"cool\" thing, so there seems to be a lot more attention on it as of late.\n\nOn other things: make sure to learn SQL on it's own. ORMs are awesome but sometimes it's easier to write a custom query. It will also make debugging DB stuff a lot easier since the error messages (at least in Rails) usually contain the query where it went wrong.\n\nHaven't used Node yet so I feel unable to contribute anything on that other than that it's the same language on front and backend, so that might be easier.\n\n<\/comment> Language choice between JS and Ruby doesn't really matter a lot. Focus on general concepts (Http, Request\/Response, Routing, Templates, model, Db, caching, organising, optimising your code, deployment, tuning). I would advise to start with some microframework (Express.js, Flask, Sinatra, whatever) to see how things really work. In Rails there's a lot of magic and you will learn Rails specific stuff instread of ungerlying techs.<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Ask HN: What are you reading? - \n\nThe Forth Edition of the Hacker News Book club. Tell us what you are reading, plan to read, or recommend we read.

Third: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9394397

Second: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9342886

First: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8918181 Recently read and most recommended:\n\n* Three Body Problem, Liu Cixin\n\n* Slaughterhouse Five..., Vonnegut\n\n\\---\n\nI'm in the middle of Ready Player One.\n\nOf the last dozen books I've read[1], Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin left my head swimming for the most days, so I'd highly recommend it. It was really eye-opening to read sci fi from a different cultural baseline.\n\nMost of my dozen latest reads were during an internet fast. [https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=9443888](https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=9443888) They included Asimov, Bradbury, Christie, Philip K Dick, Pratchett, Simmons, Stross, and a few by Vonnegut. I'm not arguing Liu is a better writer than this club. His book just stayed in my head longer for some reason. Maybe just because the opening chapters were so strikingly different from everything else I read. I mean, if you haven't read Slaughterhouse Five go read that immediately, of course, but I assume everyone's heard of Vonnegut already. So if you've crossed that off your list, read Three Body.\n\n<\/comment> Mindset, Carol Dweck: [http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Mindset-How-Fulfil-Your- Potential\/dp...](http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Mindset-How-Fulfil-Your- Potential\/dp\/1780332009)\n\nZero to One, Peter Thiel: [http:\/\/zerotoonebook.com\/](http:\/\/zerotoonebook.com\/)\n\nAlso plan on starting \"Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!\"\n\n<\/comment> The handmaid's Tale [http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Handmaids-Tale-Margaret- Atwood\/dp\/0385...](http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Handmaids-Tale-Margaret- Atwood\/dp\/038549081X\/ref=sr_1_1)\n\n<\/comment> The Saga of the Pliocene Exile series by Julian May:\n\n[http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saga_of_Pliocene_Exile](http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saga_of_Pliocene_Exile)\n\nAnd I'm enjoying it greatly.<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"What agile means to me (and why it never really works) - http:\/\/blog.rodger-brown.com\/2011\/06\/what-agile-means-to-me.html Japanesse companies, Toyota in particular, took hold of American management thought and applied it to their manufacturing processes better than we did. The wisest method was the concept of \"continuous improvement\", which is to say they constantly are going back and refactoring portions of their manufacturing process to reduce waste, increase throughput, and so forth.\n\nIt's very similar to how you might optimize a program. You find a hotspot you think might need improvement and you spend a portion of time improving it. Measure results before and after. Rinse and repeat.\n\nI'm sure there are a lot of small things they learned along the way but the simple idea of continuously improving their processes has kept them on top.\n\nTruly enlightened Agile development is not doing Scrum, XP, etc., it is being wise enough to look at your process and see how it can be improved. Pick and choose different ideas that will fix the parts that need to be fixed, but never be fully satisfied with what you are doing.\n\nThe real failure in any project management philosophy is believing that it is the \"One True Way\" that all things must be done for all teams everywhere all the time.\n\n Well said.\n\nCulturally, Japan has always been agile imo. When they were first introduced to European influences, they copied what they liked and ditched the rest.\n\n I have to disagree here, as Japanese culture is generally quite strict about rules and processes. An average japanese company is very far from what you would even dream to call agile. Rules and conventions about face-time, not being able to disagree with your superiors (basically anyone who entered the company before you) and valuing facade over results seriously hinders efficiency and trying out new and brave things.\n\nHowever, I'm constantly surprised by the great ideas the Japanese get despite all that stiffness in the society.\n\n The rules may be strict; my point was, they don't do things just because they did it that way all the time. If they see something better, they bow before the change.\n\nIf it comes from the management, I'm impressed even more.\n\n This does not apply in general. A lot of things in the Japanese society are done in old, even arcane ways just because they always have been done like that. The society is not built on bowing before change but on to reach some kind of harmony. Changes might be accepted eventually, but getting there is the hard part.\n\n It's true it is not a core concept for them to change instantly, but the slow evolution of habits worked very well for them.\n\nArcane ways are not necessarily bad, but if they couldn't detach from them in the face of a better alternative, I'd be surprised.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Very good points. At the MagicRuby conference this year, @pragdave said \"Agile is not a noun.\" He went on to say something like \"Agile is not what you do, it's how you do it.\" (I probably mis-quoted that.)\n\nIt made a big impact on me and made me realize why I had been so disturbed by how the company (that I worked for then) was handling project management. Everything was locked down. Everything had deadlines. Every process was locked in stone and decided on by the manager. Heck, they even said \"This is your deadline. Tell me how many people you need to make it happen.\" ... And when I told them, they failed to get those people on time and still demanded on the deadline. (I left the company about halfway to the deadline as I had found a better position elsewhere, so I have no idea how they are doing on that deadline, but I can't imagine they are going to make it.)\n\n As Ken Schwaber put it, \"Agile is not a product:\"\n\n[http:\/\/weblog.raganwald.com\/2004\/08\/agile-is-attitude-not- pr...](http:\/\/weblog.raganwald.com\/2004\/08\/agile-is-attitude-not-product.html)\n\n Ironically, Ken Schwaber has made a lot of money off of \"Agile\" the product. Becoming a \"Certified Scrum Master\" will cost you about $1k. You get that by taking a class with a \"Certified Scrum Trainer\" who spends quite a bit per year (payable to The Scrum Alliance) to keep that certification. On my planet, we call this a \"pyramid scheme\". I understand that this is an ad hominem attack; nevertheless, when talking \"agile\" (either big A or little a) with the Scrum dudes, one would do well to consider the source.\n\n \n A pyramid scheme is a non-sustainable business model that involves promising\n participants payment, services or ideals, primarily for enrolling other people\n into the scheme or training them to take part, rather than supplying any real\n investment or sale of products or services to the public.\n \n\n\n\nIt's absolutely true that Ken makes money recruiting people to use Scrum, and he has in turn anointed other trainers to teach Scrum and they make their money recruiting people to use Scrum. However, the vast, vast majority of the people who have taken Scrum courses use them to ship software, either directly as employees or indirectly as consultants. Scrum is not a pyramid scheme.\n\nNow let's talk about whether Ken sells a product. Of course he does!!!! Ken sells training, and it is perfectly valid to say that his training is a product as are his books. But that is not the same thing as saying that Scrum itself is a product. You can't just buy the training and expect results. Scrum Training != Scrum.\n\nThis is trivially true. Let's compare to programming. I have a Java programming team. I can \"buy\" the Ruby product, but to experience change, I have to embrace the Ruby Way, and that goes beyond simply installing the Ruby interpreter. Ruby the interpreter is a product, the Ruby Way is not a product (love it or hate it, I'm sure you agree).\n\n(Just so you know, I'm a \"Scrum dude\" myself.)\n\n What sounds fishy is that the Scrum Trainer has to keep paying money to keep his certification.\n\nCertifications are a joke when it comes to programming anyway, much less when it comes to programming methodologies. What if someone came up to you and told you that they are a certified Ruby Way Master?\n\nYet it seems like certification matters to some people (otherwise there would be no point in paying someone money to retain it). And it's obviously in the interest of the Scrum Alliance to make people believe that it matters because it lets them sell it over and over again to the Scrum Trainers. So it seems like they build their hierarchy to put themselves in a position where they profit from the lie that certification matters.\n\nMoreover, they also added another couple of layers of people who also want people to believe that certification matters (Trainers and Masters because they want to make back the money they paid for their cert). While this is not exactly a pyramid scheme, there are some similarities in that money gets passed up and people are trying to convince everyone of a lie.\n\nI think certifications might make sense for things where it is impossible for other people to tell whether someone knows their stuff. I don't think Agile is that hard conceptually.\n\nI also think re-certification makes sense in an area where the state of the art is constantly advancing, so that if someone is certified you know that they are really up to date with the latest developments. I don't think Agile changes that much.\n\n I'm troubled by certification as well, although that is somewhat orthogonal to whether I value Ken's training... I personally took the training to improve myself. The \"certification\" didn't mean much to me one way or the other.\n\nIn fact, I would tie it back to what I said above and suggets that the certificate is a product just as a the training is a product, but the certificate is not the training and the training is not the practice. If the training is one step removed from Scrum, the certificate is _two_ steps removed from Scrum!\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> _If you have to have everything on your requirements list, you can't be agile\n\nIf you need to plan beyond the next sprint with any degree of accuracy, you're not agile\n\nIf you think you can \"fix\" an iteration by adding more people, you're not agile\n\nIf you are prepared to change the end date of an iteration to \"fit something in\", you're not agile\n\nIf you have to give a fixed date for delivery - it's very, very difficult to be agile. _\n\n90% of companies that are committing to Agile need to read this list, be honest with themselves, and choose a different process because there is something on this list they are not ready to give up.\n\n If you're not willing to negotiate anything on this list, your process probably isn't going to matter very much.\n\n What do you mean?\n\n project management is about getting business results, not sticking to a certain process.\n\nwe can't wave a magic wand and get a project done with features, quality, and budget at a certain date that we choose. we can use project management to understand what we can do realistically.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> My impression is this:\n\n1\\. developers find a new way to do things efficiently\n\n2\\. its good\n\n3\\. word spreads in the community. Method gets a nice name\n\n4\\. consulting companies smell money. Develop training for big $. Win managements\n\n5\\. management wants to be modern, but doesn't want to change key aspects, like number of developers, communication, carrier paths, hierarchies etc.\n\n6\\. management requires: everybody has to be able to use this method. Name of the method is filled with different contents: easy to understand, fits well into every companies profile, works for every dumbass\n\n7\\. method stops to work\n\n8\\. consultants still sell it. Everybody has to do the sh....\n\n I think it started at step 4.\n\n I share your cynicism, but you're incorrect. The original XP crew was very much at steps 1 - 3. But when you try moving that stuff into a huge corporate space, there are big forces at work that (sadly) make steps 4+ almost inevitable.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> This is so true. When I first read about Agile it was like an extraordinary breath of fresh air compared to the stifling spec-driven CYA corporate environment I was working in at the time. Now 95% of what is termed \"Agile\" seems to be as much pointless drivel as I ever saw in that environment.\n\n<\/comment> It never ceases to amaze me how we take good ideas and screw them up. It also amazes me how many people are pissed about agile. I blogged about this a year or two ago, and got something like 50K visits (shameless plug for those who haven't read the article: [http:\/\/www.whattofix.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/09\/agile- ruined-...](http:\/\/www.whattofix.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/09\/agile-ruined- my.php)? )\n\nJust to be a bit of a contrarian, there's a difference between what something means on paper, how it's practiced, and what people think it means. We get into trouble when we confuse this.\n\n<\/comment> A good article but I don't believe that the points presented in the article support the conclusion \"why it never really works\". \"An alarming number of people... believe that Agile is a project management methodology, and that Agile really means SCRUM, XP, Kanban...\" Why is it alarming for anyone to believe this? \"I was once told by an Agile Trainer (LOL) that the correct way to phrase the requirement...\" OK - so that doesn't make much sense to me. \"Needless to say his company lost a $m project on the back of such BS\" Companies can fail for lots of different reasons - and perhaps this particular Agile Trainer contributed and then again maybe not. That particular Agile Trainer may have been incompetent or misrepresented. The company may have failed for any number of different reasons. So I don't think that this example supports that conclusion. \"Agile (big 'A' again) has become a bit of an albatross - it doesn't really work, it doesn't deliver the benefits it promised\" I found that the article moved too quickly to this conclusion.\n\nYou could argue that that wasn't the main point of the article - but if that is the case then I would suggest that the title is a little too provoctive and the first few paragraphs are irrelevant. I enjoyed the article but I think that it would have been better if it simply didn't try to suggest that Agile never really works and just put forward what agile means to you. If the article was called \"What agile means to me\" and started from the line \"agility [...] is a wonderful thing\" it would have been great.\n\n See my comment above - I didn't actually think that much about the article before submitting it - my fault. Re. your comment that the post moved too quickly to the conclusion that Agile doesn't work - you're right, I don't really provide much evidence of that - but I do stand by the statement, and the tile of the article - in my experience (most of which is not in this post) it doesn't - at least not in the manner in which it was sold in to the software community.\n\n Your piece nailed it. I'm not sympathetic to mmeadows' caveats. They ignore the fact that Agile (aka XP, Scrum) has sold itself as a Magic Bullet (per Brooks) for a long time. Big-A Agile proponents need to chose between big claims and plausible excuses -- they can't have both.\n\n It is a silver bullet, if project-management overhead and related assumptions are your werewolf.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> The HN headline is not consistent with the article, which is odd, as it seems the article was submitted by the author?\n\n True - I wrote the article more as a brain dump of a bunch of stuff I was thinking about, and submitted to HN myself following a discussion with someone else, and did it only to see what would happen - to be honest I didn't think anyone would read it.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> In my own experience, SCRUM is only as efficient as the scrum master and product owner. For the scrum master, it takes leadership to motivate the rest of the team and provide help when there are blockers. For the product owner, it takes a high level of organization to clearly define the sprints' tasks and meaning behind the tasks.\n\n<\/comment> Agile vs. not Agile doesn't matter much.\n\nProject management is project management; ultimately you need to do all the same things to succeed, it's just a matter of how you organize them.\n\nIn the big picture, Agile projects fail for the same reasons other project fail, and they succeed for the same reason other projects fail.\n\n I think a good elaboration would be that for a project to build an Address Book is still a project to deliver an Address Book regardless of Agile or Waterfall or Scrumfall. You still have the same exact steps to execute, Agile just organizes the work differently than a Waterfall project, biting off a small piece of requirements, building the \"vertical\" of say what a contact form looks like. Waterfall would define the entire app first, hand off to development, etc. Both can fail for the same reasons though, poorly defined requirements, lack of funding, personnel issues, etc.\n\n Not sure this is a good elaboration - if you know exactly what you want to build, then you're not agile. The point of being agile is that you start off building _towards_ an address book, but along the way you discover that actually what your customers want is something slightly different - so you change the direction you're going in.\n\nAgility allows you to follow your customers. If you have a fixed requirements - \"we're building a product that does A,B,C and it looks like this\" - you're not agile, and as I point out in the post, agile is NOT a project management methodology. You can use SCRUM, XP, whatever - doesn't make you agile. (And it won't make delivery any faster, just more annoying, as everyone around you will assume it should be faster, and will constantly bang on about why nothing's happening yet.)\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> _\"Measure as much as you can - no feedback == no direction\"_\n\nCan't agree more. We have built some internal applications where everything was implemented, the acceptance criterias were met and everyone was satisfied until they actually started using the system and said, \".. wait a minute, this doesnt help us as much as we had liked\". But, we had already moved on to the next big thing.\n\n\"If I'd asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a faster horse\" - Henry Ford, \n\n<\/comment> Had a tdd openspace at codestock this weekend that morphed in to an agile discussion. Someone asked \"what's the one key thing I need as a foundation to become Agile?\" (paraphrasing that).\n\n4 people all said \"communication\" at the same time.\n\nCommunication has always been the backbone of successful projects, in my view. In 16+ years of software dev, I've only had 2 situations where there were technical knowledge issues that were a huge barrier - issues like \"how do I connect to a database?\" being something someone on a team had massive trouble with.\n\nOutside of those outliers, pretty much all other issues have come down to a communication issue of some type - not identifying things clearly enough, not raising the alarm when a roadblock was hit, not alerting a client in time, not getting adequate feedback from a client, not getting things in writing, etc. To the extent that \"Agile\" practices help encourage regular communication to avoid those issues, it's great. When \"Agile\" gets formalized in to such a state that it becomes a roadblock itself, that's where the problems start. Since \"Agile\" has been productized and sold over the last decade, I suspect it's becoming a stumbling block in many orgs, and we'll hopefully see a new iteration\/generation of Agile practices which free up people again. Perhaps a stronger embrace of mobile tech in Agile practices would help?\n\n<\/comment> Not to take all the good points away from this article, but I found these two statements contradictory:\n\n1\\. If you do have a fixed time, then scope is variable\n\n2\\. If you have to give a fixed date for delivery - it's very, very difficult to be agile.\n\nI've found that #2 is possible as long as you allow for #1. When you have a deadline, you actually become more agile - decisions on what should and shouldn't be done are quicker and the cut off line between \"must have\"s and \"nice to have\"s is more obvious - simply because decisions _have_ to be made. Think of moving out of an apartment: are you surprised how productive you get in those last few days?\n\nI have also see misuse of #2: teams take #2 as carte blanche to hold the business at ransom to the \"it'll be done when its done\" mantra.\n\nIt almost seems like there's three kinds of agile nowadays:\n\n1\\. Big A - the agile that the manifesto became for whatever reasons\n\n2\\. Small a - the agile that the purists conjure up in reaction to Big A\n\n3\\. Reality - where when it happens, you can look at each other and say \"We were really agile right there - and shipped something right!\"\n\n<\/comment> \"If you have to have everything on your requirements list, you can't be agile\"\n\nAnything on the requirements list which isn't necessary to the product shouldn't be listed as a requirement in the first place.\n\n\"If you need to plan beyond the next sprint with any degree of accuracy, you're not agile\"\n\nSounds to me like engineering and agile process are incompatible.\n\n<\/comment> In my opinion, we developers are trying too hard to come up with rules on project management, and it just doesn't work.\n\nThe reason agile works is because capable developers are given freedom to make good decisions based on the situation; and it fails when decisions are made by someone else -- be it incapable developers, sales person, management or even another capable developer who is not quite involved in the project.\n\nMaking up rules just gives a false sense of confidence to those \"someone else\".\n\n<\/comment> Strikes me that many sorts of methodologies and approaches need a reminder about this. The point of agility or any other engineering methodology is to get better at what you're doing, not a slavish adherence to a set of Ten Commandments without thinking about what they really mean for you and the folks with whom you work.\n\nI'll leave the obvious religious corollaries as an exercise for the reader.\n\n<\/comment> The key tenant to agile is built in 'tolerance' for change in resource and scope with emphasis on pipeline management instead of scheduling.\n\nThe reason why classic forms of development fail is because these issues (changes) were the exception instead of the rule in methodologies leading up to the 'agile' generation\n\n From my (little) experience and reading I've done so far, if I had to sum up what 'agile' is, I'd say: 'feedback'.\n\nI'm not surprised that 'waterfall' methodologies fail - they seem to have little to no feedback built in. And for what I remember from Control Theory course, feedback is essential to control a system we don't have full knowledge about. I do believe that it's a more general principle than just about differential equations and integration.\n\n >And for what I remember from Control Theory course, feedback is essential to control a system we don't have full knowledge about.\n\nit works both ways - incorrectly designed feedback control loop (remember the classical example of overly sensitive steam engine control?) may make the system less stable\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> > The best way to achieve your goal is to start with the right people\n\nThat is pie in the sky. Everyone says it and it's bogus for most people\/companies\/projects. 90% of the time you have the people you're gonna have. You need to know and make the best of them.\n\n This is so true. Doesn't mean the idea is not important, just that, like everything, there are compromises. More generally, I find that an uncharacteristic proportion of blog entries are written from the perspective of \"change the world\" efforts. Not everything is like that. I agree with you njharman, most of the time, there are certain things, like the team, that you can't do a whole lot about. The real skill is getting the most out of those situations. If it is a true \"change the world\" effort then sure, before you join the project demand that everyone else be let go and you hire the team from scratch. \n\n<\/comment><\/comment> no doubt, agile is not the \"answer\" to traditional workflow models, but my (admittedly somewhat limited) experience with it has been pretty good. it's really dependent on the people you work with (something the author states).\n\ncoding with people you know, and understand (and perhaps hence predict) really makes production fast. however, the \"tight-nit\"-ness of a team like that, means that it doesn't scale so well in ways that businesses like, i.e, throw more money\/resources at it, and it gets better\/faster.\n\nmind you, i think the real lesson to be taken away, is that, when there is a problem with something like this, there is no \"correct\" solution, which works in all cases, for everyone.\n\n<\/comment> I've got to quote 37signals on this one: \"Planning is guessing.\"\n\nIn my experience, agile development fails when management turns guesses into promises.\n\n<\/comment> I've had a lot of trouble with agile projects, though I do think that when it works, it's by far the best way to create working software.\n\nMy biggest trouble with agile happened when I was dealing with a client who clearly intended to hold my feet to the fire where it came to promised functionality and deadlines, but was absolutely unwilling to consider an alternative approach to a feature or removing functionality to meet an iteration.\n\n\"Customer collaboration over contract negotiation\" is the best way to write good software, but if your client is going to go to your boss and complain that say \"hey you promised functionality X by date Y!\", you better be careful negotiating that contract!\n\n\"Responding to change over following a plan\" is the best way to write software, but if your client is going to rake you over the coals if you don't meet the deadline that was _in. the. plan._ , well then you're probably better off just following the plan.\n\nReally, agile is a highly effective way of working that requires a tremendous amount of skill and mutual respect (and trust) between all members of a team.\n\nAnother problem with agile is that just so much has been built up around it. I'm not saying that these things are bad, but they have diluted the original message.\n\nI remember once a consultant ambushed me in a meeting and asked \"what are your developer velocities?\" I didn't know what that meant, and he said (I think he was setting this up) \"well, if you don't know your velocities, you aren't agile.\"\n\nFor the record, a developer velocity is (as this dude explained it) a way of measuring whether a developer is struggling based on how much of a user \"story\" is being developed over a particular period of time. It's not a bad way to measure things, but this is a process, a tool, a procedure. As the agile manifesto says, we value these things, but it seems like \"agile\" has less and less to do with the simple and profound (I mean that without any irony) statements and is starting to become a big mess of consultant and techno babble.\n\nWe are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:\n\nIndividuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan\n\nThat is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.\n\n\n\nTo me, this is the best way to write software, but it isn't something you can just decide to do. It requires a really major mind shift from everyone. And if it turns out your client values the things on the things on the right more than the things on the left after all,you can find yourself in a very precarious situation as a dev.\n\n I find this interesting:\n\nYou list the following as your \"biggest trouble\" with agile- \"hey you promised functionality X by date Y\"\n\nBut that's not an agile contract! So, your biggest trouble with agile is being contractually prohibited from doing it, which is more a problem with the contract than with agile.\n\nAlso, the consultant dude explained velocity wrong. Velocity is how you measure the amount of work your team got done this time so you can plan how much you are going to do next time...<\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Ask HN: The Best Programmers' you've ever read - \n\nIn my free time, I try to read the source code of projects I think are interesting, and in the course of my years I've found some programmers I've really come to respect. I was wondering if you guys would be willing to list out the programmer(s), and their projects whose source code helped you learn and become better developers? For instance here's a quick list of guys who've influenced my programming and whose source code has taught me lot:

Javascript: - Jeremy Ashkenas: Backbone, CoffeeScript - John Resig: jQuery

PHP: - Fabien Potencier: Symfony2 - Leo Feyer: Contao - Kasper Sk\u00e5rh\u00f8j: Typo3

C: \n- Salvatore Sanfilippo: Redis donald knuth\n\n<\/comment> RMS.\n\n<\/comment> C: - Brian Fox: Bash\n\n Thanks for the comment!I just downloaded the Bash source from GNU. Its on my next to read list :)\n\n A great book for C, and programming in general if you ask me, is The C Programming Language, by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie <\/comment><\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Apple Responds to iPhone 5 Purple Haze Complaints - http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/TS4436\n\n Basically, they're saying you're holding the phone wrong (again), in a less harsh tone.\n\n And they are right.\n\nIt's not a defect, it's just a negative point about the camera. That's all. No big deal. Here is what dpreview writes about the haze: [http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/articles\/6867454450\/quick-review- app...](http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/articles\/6867454450\/quick-review-apple- iphone-5-camera\/3)\n\nThese small cameras make heaps of trade offs, stuff like that is just normal. Know about that and decide accordingly. That's all there is to it.\n\n > _These small cameras make heaps of trade offs_\n\nThis is true, but it's not really so clear in this case. The dpreview review came to the conclusion that the weird tinge was probably an inadvertent result of a combination of various factors, and it seems quite possible that Apple simply didn't realize it was there.\n\nEven if it was an intentional tradeoff for some other advantage (e.g. a harder-to-scratch lens), it seems obvious enough that Apple misjudged its impact, and that it bothers people more than they expected.\n\nClearly it's very possible to make a great cellphone camera without the tinge (as evidenced by the many phones that have them), so it seems pretty likely to me that Apple will quietly fix this in the next model. Even Apple lives and learns (with the iphone 5 more than usual, it seems)...\n\n[This is annoying to me because I love shooting into the sun. I was vaguely thinking of picking up an iphone 5, but this and other factors (e.g. the crappy maps) have put a real damper on that thought.... oh well... :( ]<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Ask HN: Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game - http:\/\/taxi-mogul.com\/\n\n Okay, I'm going to rail into you. This is only because it will help you out in the long run\n\n1) Your website looks like a slipshod piece of junk. It's a crap blog format with some images. Where's a video overview of the game? A column showing recent scores and users? A smoother interface? Come on, there's tons of things you screwed up on.\n\n2) Where's the hook? I need a 6 word hook, a tagline, something to say \"Maybe I should keep reading about this.\" Nothing.\n\n3) I don't give a damn about taxis, so why should I give a damn about your game? At least with other games, I'm building a galactic empire or taking over the world. Those far more attract to imaginative personalities that play these games.\n\n4) What's the reward?\n\n5) Your logo's a piece of junk built with standard templates in photoshop. The lack of effort in your logo shows.\n\nThere's an entire lack of effort on the front-end and a lack of hooks to get me to EVER play this.\n\nAnd what's the business model? Advertising is going to make you money? Not in this market. Freemium is dying.\n\nThis is jumping on an ancient business that's dying out rapidly. The Facebook application is the only positive I have.\n\nSorry if I was harsh. This is how I feel, and I hope it helps.\n\n Agreed with the design criticisms; disagree strongly about 2 and 3. It sounds like you might not be in the target audience for these sorts of games. I absolutely loved games like Theme Hospital, Sim Tower, Roller Coaster Tycoon - all games which are about rather mundane businesses, certainly not \"taking over a galactic empire\" or \"taking over the world\". The idea of a Sim Taxi\/Taxi Tycoon game on real streets with google-maps street-level views of my taxi routes tickled me. That enough was a \"hook\".\n\nGranted, there are probably more gamers like Mystalic than gamers like me, which is one of the reasons why Civ II and Imperium Galactica sold more copies than say Theme Hospital. Which market you go after should depend on your business model.\n\nThat said, here's some more criticism (hopefully constructive!) from someone who buys the idea but not the execution (yet):\n\n1\\. You badly need a strong artist\/designer to give the game its own personality and charm. One common thread around these quirky business games like Theme Park or Gazillionaire is that they are _funny_ and amusing to look at, which is important when large parts of the game are spent simply watching your business run.\n\n2\\. Your interface has far too much clicking. Why do I have to click on \"cars\" to send my one taxi somewhere? Why can't I see how tired my driver is just by hovering over his cab? Etc,etc.\n\n3\\. Your tutorial isn't very helpful. Not only does it look like experts- exchange.com instead of a game (see #1), but because it's all in one place instead of some bright AJAX popups showing you around the interface, I don't even learn where my vehicle page is because I click the link in the tutorial. Why there should be a \"vehicle page\" that isn't clearly marked by a brightly colored icon of a car is another matter, but at the end of the tutorial I still had no idea what I was doing.\n\n4\\. I don't think what appears to be your core gameplay mechanic of trying to \"find the best route\" by clicking a bunch of short-distance waypoints to form a route to your passenger and the destination is very fun. The fact that your interface is on top of a Google Maps mashup only reminds me of how a computer could do a better job than me at this.\n\nWhen I thought \"taxi sim\", I immediately thought that the game would be about keeping your taxi busy and managing the balance of (a) getting people there fast by avoiding traffic (you are using google maps for a taxi game and don't incorporate traffic?!) in hopes of getting better and more tips and (b) getting people there slowly, choosing the bad routes, and stalling in traffic, just like it seems my cab drivers always do, risking fewer tips but ensuring you're getting a fare for every mile you drive. Or how about choosing what areas of town to patrol to try and snag fares from rival firms, rather than be presented with a plain old list of customers to click on?\n\nI'm not saying that any of the above gameplay suggestions will fix the game or are even necessarily a good idea, but if you're dead-set on trying to make a company based off of one game (as opposed to a site hosting or aggregating games), you'd better spend lots of time brainstorming and refining your core gameplay and making it fun before even worrying about your logo or artwork or front page videos or any of the other stuff suggested by either me or the parent. Spend some more time playing Railroad Tycoon and Sim Golf and how about Crazy Taxi, which you can find for like $10 for your PS2, with a critical eye towards what makes those games fun.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> I just tried playing your facebook app. I've gotta say you should just do this a facebook app and nothing more. 86 the website or hire a designer. Do not waste people's time: i am not going to enter text into any inpot boxes to get started playing your game. Perhaps this is because you _hit me with too much text to start out with_. Pictures are worth 1000 words.\n\nPeople see login fields and cringe. On the facebook app a instructions form came up. I clicked through as far as i could but I'm very ADD and there was nothing to keep my attention, and since the app didn't catch my attention, I didn't even read the instructions. It needs to be painless. My suggestion for you (and anyone that wants to build a facebook app) is to add e.g. MobWars , Playfish and play them. See how long and how many gestures you have to do to start having fun.\n\nKudos for googlemaps integration though... and releasing! Its tough i must say.\n\n<\/comment> > You need to confirm your email address to play Taxi Mogul. Please proceed to > the activation page.\n\nugh.\n\n This has been removed. Thanks, guys. :)\n\n awesome :)\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Add a guest mode, where I can try out the game without registering. Registering is the point where I stopped, even though it looked interesting.\n\nMake sure you can covert a guest account into a real one by registering if someone is interested.\n\n<\/comment> Here are a few critiques solely from the game & Facebook perspective:\n\n\\- You've got an iframe app and you have both horizontal and vertical scrollbars (on mac FF at least). Get rid of them, they drive people insane.\n\n\\- First time experience is pretty horrid. The \"tutorial\" is 20 click beast that goes through every aspect of the game at once. Make the game learning process a little more progressive. Don't let me do all 50 things at once. Give me one thing to do, and once I've done it, unlock another 2-3 things I can do.\n\n\\- User interface, as has been stated already, could use some re-work and some polish. That being said, my old app (Warbook) looks terrible and still got pretty big.\n\n\\- The virtual goods + advertising model is solid in this space right now. Ignore what other people are saying against it, you're pretty close to a great revenue model. Just remember - people buy virtual goods for two reasons: to \"speed up\" time and to gain social status.\n\nWith all that said, I think the game concept is pretty novel. Hopefully other people find it fun.\n\n What sort of virtual goods could they sell in their game?\n\nAnd how do they prevent people buying virtual goods from feeling as if they're \"cheating\"? Perhaps it's an old-style complaint, but virtual goods feel against the \"purity of the game\" -- imagine playing chess online and being able to drop $5 to get an extra move -- sure that \"speeds up\" time, but it also (to me at least) breaks the game... I'm not sure yet how to design compelling virtual goods that don't kill gameplay but yet remain compelling.\n\nFortunately, social status remains a powerful motivator, but it seems that for social status to work players have to feel invested in the community, else they won't care what the community thinks (and thus won't buy anything to increase social status).\n\n > What sort of virtual goods could they sell in their game?\n\nThe Taxi Mogul game already offers \"items\" that speed the game up (pay $5 or wait 5 hours). They could also sell faster taxis, better drivers, etc. Really doesn't matter.\n\n> And how do they prevent people buying virtual goods from feeling as if > they're \"cheating\"?\n\nI hear this asked -all the time-. Two things.\n\n(1) It's much less of an issue in games that aren't PvP. \"You beat me in one- on-one combat because you paid\" is completely different than \"You have a higher score\/advanced faster than I did because you paid\". The \"cheating\" feeling doesn't go away, but it's much, much less pronounced.\n\n(2) Allow players with time to trade with players with money. The simplest, turnkey solution to this is a dual currency model. Simply put, players with time get credits and players with money get tokens. Players can trade credits and tokens on the free market. This allows market forces to determine the cash value of credits, instead of you pegging a pricepoint to it. I cannot stress how important dual-currency models are for games dealing with virtual goods.\n\n> but it seems that for social status to work players have to feel invested in > the community\n\nAbsolutely right. Social status virtual goods only work when there's high community interaction and visibility. A lot less people would care about achievements on Xbox 360 if it weren't for Xbox Live.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> I signed up and it dumped me on a page that looked like a blog. Lots of buttons I could press to do things but no idea what they do. And this page was clearly not fun. Why does it look like a bad blog and why aren't I doing something fun at this point?\n\nSo I disable the tutorial because it's the most prominent button on the page (I'm thinking that maybe it gets me into the FUN part faster, although if I need a tutorial it isn't a good casual game). Aha - now I see that activation is required. Genuine wtf moment. I can take a tutorial without confirming my account but nothing else? Honestly, if you are going to insist on email confirmation, do it BEFORE you show people your actual game page. Right now you are making a bad impression and then pushing people away.\n\nReview: I need to give you my email address. Then you want me to LEAVE YOUR SITE and go to a more addictive site. Now I am wondering why you need to verify my email address at all? If you really need it and I gave you a bogus one then give me a way to change it. Have I just signed up for daily spam? Trust meter starts tilting downwards.\n\nIf you have a free service it doesn't matter if your users are anonymous. Why harass them? And if you ARE monetizing traffic you STILL shouldn't worry about authenticating email addresses. Not unless you want to send a lot of email, in which case you send the authentication note but don't send anything else until they've confirmed. It's a tinyint field in your database (email_authenticated). If people have fun they will do it.\n\nWe run a paid site where authentication actually matters and don't care as much. Every now and then we have a payment come in from someone who is not in our system. It is sort of a problem, so we write the person who pays and say, \"which account did you want to upgrade?\" Email authentication is a good way to prevent yourself from spamming innocent third parties. That's about it.\n\nAll that said, I think this could be a cool service. The concept is fun. I want to like it. But I have no idea what I should be doing after signing up and you are pushing me away from your service and haven't thought through how to get someone INTO actual gameplay. Instead it is WALL, WALL, WALL. So I leave. I've got about 6 tabs open and when you sent me away to Gmail I didn't come back.\n\n<\/comment> I think it's a fun idea, with three area that can be improved:\n\n1) Like the others are saying, you need to find a (better) designer\n\n2) Playing the game seems to be a massive time sink. I could never spend that much time on a game, regardless of how good it is. And I don't think it's just me, pretty much nobody with a job could spend a few minutes every half hour to run their taxi company. Which ties into..\n\n3) Too much micro management. This is mostly a personal preference, but I'd get tired of micro managing my cabs pretty soon.\n\nThings that would make it easier for me to play:\n\na) Make it possible to play in a rewarding and competitive way spending no more than a quarter to half an hour per day.\n\nb) Less micro management, but that should be a requirement to achieve a) anyway.\n\nI can see the Challenge thing as a mini-game, maybe it could make it on its own as a game widget. Maybe make a Wordpress et al widget that doubles as a game and as an ad for the \"big\" game?\n\nYou have an interesting idea, looking forward to see how it evolves!\n\n As an update a few days later I'd like to add that the new \"improved\" version with ads is.. Let's just say that there should be less ads than game. I know that they're there to annoy users into paying for the premium version, but this is just too much.\n\n Sneaky thing with the \"earn us affiliate money to pay for your premium account\" scheme, though! And I mean that in a positive way :)\n\n You got it. We didn't actually change advertising stuff at all, it's just that it only kicks in after a few days for each user. In general, advertising performs terribly in these kinda games, so our revenue model is based on transactions and premium accounts. Ads are just a way to force users to pay. It might be slightly over the top at the moment, though.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Loved it! To all the harsh comments, do not forget it's not a google beta. These guys are probably working their ... off to create an original gaming experience, that as far as I could see, is really adictive, took me 1 minute to start playing and really really liked it. Great work. Congrats!\n\n<\/comment> Run a taxi company? Thanks but no thanks -- that sounds far too much like work to me.\n\nI'm sure this game must be more entertaining than it sounds, but you might do better if the website makes it more clear where the fun part of the game is.\n\n I agree with your second point, but there's plenty of games like that: Sim City, Any Tycoon game, the economy aspects of RTS (where the fun is obvious), Diner Dash etc.\n\nAs the Wii Fit has shown, games are a good way to trick people in to doing work...or exercise :).\n\nOh, and don't make people register.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> My constructive feedback...\n\nThis is game, when page loads let me start playing the game right away. Not read about the game. I read a little but ultimately left cause there was too much text and no interaction.\n\nYou use a lot of buzzwords free and stuff like that, but that just adds to why I left. Too much text ...I just want to load page and play a game and interact right away! Id like to learn the rules by interacting with the game along with some text and a link to help page if need be.\n\nhth\n\n<\/comment> Registered for account, was happy there was no confirmation email. Wanted to get quickly to core game, so dismissed tutorials. I tend to believe that games should be self-explanatory, going over tuts isn't much fun. Got a taxi and was very confused trying to double click around the map. I got near what I believe may have been the passenger I was supposed to get, but didn't know how to pick them up. Tried clicking all over the place, gave up and closed tab.\n\n<\/comment> Thanks a lot for all your feedback, guys. It far outstripped my expectations. HN once again proved to be a fantastic place :)\n\nWe've addressed some of the most pressing issues, and based on what we're observing from new users, it did help a lot.\n\nOne thing I definitely learned, is that providing context in the original post would have been tremendously useful for everyone. Writing a few lines in the original post would have helped everyone involved.\n\n<\/comment> It would be great if you put a big shiny button on your website: \"Play now\" or \"Test drive\" and let people try it without registration.\n\nAlso, I think if you start charging money for premium services and make some features paid-only you will immediately look more serious and increase satisfaction from game for those who pay, it's human nature.\n\nJust my 2 cents.\n\n<\/comment> There is another game based on Google Maps where you play a truck driver.\n\nFrom a hackers perspective I like the idea of using Google Maps, but as a player, I guess I am more into fantasy and epic battles. I felt no desire to try being a taxi driver.\n\n<\/comment> Spelling Nit to fix immediately: \"Purchased cars are delivered immideately\"\n\nBureauPoints seems like an odd name at first.\n\n Haha, fixed, thanks.\n\nBureauPoints was meant to evoke feelings of battling bureaucracy. I suspect that got lost somewhere along the way.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> i placed the waypoints but wasn't shown the resulting route...the routing needs to be explained more clearly\n\n I agree. I really enjoyed optimizing my route, but it was somewhat frustrating when my route turned out to go down the Belt Parkway then make a u-turn because I placed the waypoint on the wrong side of the road, then make another u-turn to get to the next waypoint.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> signup required. ugh.\n\ni won't register before i know if i like it.\n\n<\/comment> looks cool, super slow though?\n\nHow are you gonna make money?\n\n I'd be curious to learn more about how you plan to make money as well... The home page reminds the visitor no less than four times that the site is \"free\" -- that's setting up a pretty big mental adjustment for if and when parts of the site turn out not to be free... Curious how you guys plan to handle that.\n\nReview-wise: It's not immediately evident -- from just reading the front page -- what the gameplay consists of. I get that it's about taxis and on real world maps. But what do I do? How do I win? Or at least rack up some sort of higher score than my friends? What's my goal? Or is this purely a sandbox?\n\nThe page tells me that I can \"Build things,\" \"Run [my] company with friends,\" and even \"drive on a real map\" but it doesn't make it clear how do I any of these things or why they'd be fun apart from any initial novelty...\n\n Our business plan is fairly typical of these sorta games. It is free to play, however players can pay to get extra abilities and items. Usually, a game develops a core group of people who do enjoy it, and they're willing to pay a few quid a month (or more, on occasion). Since our cost per player is pretty miniscule, that works out pretty well. Of course, we also do advertisment (which only shows up after a few days, to avoid scaring new users away), but that tends to do terribly in such games.\n\nBtw, this has been incredibly useful, and we're busy reworking issues pointed out here (new users' experience, for example.)\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> you guys need a better looking website _cough_ email me _cough_ =D\n\n lol well i got owned.\n\nbut seriously, you need a better looking site that's more appealing to the eye. the key features should be highlighted and easier to read, especially the introductory paragraph.<\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"First Signs That You Should Not Take That Job - http:\/\/www.approvedindex.co.uk\/hr-consultants\/first-signs-you-should-not-take-that-job I like it--unfortunately, you usually never get a glimpse of those warning signs until after you accept and move your family across the country. Interviews with toxic companies are like tours of North Korea. Carefully scripted, they select what you see and who you talk to, and make sure all the crap is well hidden.\n\n > you usually never get a glimpse of those warning signs until after you > accept and move your family across the country\n\nFor what it's worth, finding new jobs without moving your family is a prime advantage of technology hubs like Silicon Valley (and, to a lesser extent, New York \/ London \/ etc).\n\n I can't stress this enough. Having done the 'work in non-hub' thing before, and having moved for it: not worth it. Having the _large_ number of jobs open is a big deal. Means that, for the right company, you can literally just walk into a different floor of the _same building_ you were working at two weeks ago. It's a massive advantage. Not to mention the networking between companies, the competition, and the speed of advance.\n\nAll of that is for you yourself, without family. Imagine the same thing, but for your children and their social networks & education. :-\/\n\n I agree with you both (and live in the Bay Area for pretty much that reason and that reason only). But that reduced risk comes with a significant increase to your cost of living.\n\n Unfortunately, yes. I'm in Seattle, and it's sitting at ~10% YoY house price increases for purchases, with some horrific rent increase for units on the market.\n\nOther cities are more stable than SF\/Seattle, afaict, without the price raise.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Bad signs:\n\n\\- They are too eager to have you.\n\n\\- All of the critical work is being done by contractors.\n\n\\- \"This is just a prototype of the software,\" they say, \"There's no way we're going to ship this.\" Double the \"run away\" factor if the company is doing a hardware product and the runway is less than a year . . . maybe two.\n\n\\- Your old boss from two years ago calls you up and says, \"Interested in rescuing a start-up?\"\n\n However rescuing a startup\/project is good as a contractor. Did it more than once and it is rewarding in both experience and money.\n\n It depends. I haven't exactly rescued a startup, but worked on several completely failed products to bring them up to \"workable\" status for a lot of large companies.\n\nUsually, if I'm working directly for the company, it is great. They understand the previous team failed and they want to move forward. It might be a little tough to ultimately gain their trust, but confidence goes a long way.\n\nIf I'm working as a subcontractor for the contractor\/team that failed, it won't be fun (in my experience). They are not grateful, they are going to blow budget (their problem, but they make it yours) and they will blame you when the time comes for it. Also, they take forever to pay.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> I'm pretty sure this is linkbait advertising \"Approved Index\", whoever they may be. I'm also pretty sure there's nothing in here that someone with half a brain couldn't figure out for themselves.\n\n This may be so - it's a pretty amusing infographic though, most people can probably relate to a few of these.\n\n Apparently \"airplane passenger seat safety card\" as a web comic style can be implemented better than expected. I wouldn't mind seeing more.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> The weird thing is when everyone else _doesn 't mind_ these, so you can't catch it with #7. My current job has stuff like:\n\n\\- Open office with music playing, people talk at will (RIP, focus)\n\n\\- Long hours that people just _do willingly_ (i.e. no one asks them to)\n\n\\- Spent money on making office look nice, yet have desks from Ikea\n\nBut everyone else thinks it's the best place to work ever - \"OMG, let's have beers! At work! OMG!\"\n\n > Spent money on making office look nice, yet have desks from Ikea\n\nYou say that like it is a bad thing. I'd take an Ikea \"LINNMON\" table top with their \"GERTON\" adjustable legs over half of the crappy desks I've had to work at. Their \"BEKANT\" range isn't too shabby either (inc. the BEKANT sit\/stand).\n\nI'd say Ikea's office chairs are \"meh\" but their actual table tops\/desks are definitely up to par. I wouldn't be disappointed if I rolled into an office to find them.\n\n Well, we got the cheap ones apparently, because they're tiny and they wobble.\n\n Yeah, their cheapest stuff is worth every penny you paid for it (i.e. both of them ;)). The higher-range furniture is actually quite nice and sturdy, OTOH.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> For software jobs, if the coding interviews are too easy it's likely you will be working with people who are not very skilled, both because the low bar allows poor programmers in and because it's a sign that the people putting together the interview aren't very good. And of course that means you're likely to be working with lousy code, and we all know how much fun that is.\n\n On the other end of the stick, an interviewer really should avoid really tricky code interviews\/tests. I find reading a candidate's code is more useful to evaluate their ability to write clear code, to open up conversations about harder problems around the code, or optimisations, or whatever, than to probe their knowledge of programming tricks.\n\nHaving a gotcha coding test where even good candidates would spend a lot of hours or miss entirely is not very interesting, as most working solutions will resemble themselves and not really show the strengths and weaknesses of the candidate.\n\n Yeah, calibrating coding questions for timed interviews is really tricky and in my experience always requires iteration. Trick questions with an \"aha!\" moment lead to binary outcomes (either you pass or completely flop) and don't give much useful signal. On the other hand, simplistic questions tend to focus the interviewer on critique of stylistic details and personal coding habits\/preferences which don't say much about the interviewee's effectiveness.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> I have to say that #5 isn't always true in IT. I see lots of companies that are growing rapidly, but are selective at who they hire. Therefore they have a constant need for people in pretty much the same role. The last 3 companies I worked for had jobs that were always open, and they were great companies to work for.\n\n Yeah, that was the only one I immediately questioned. Many companies that I've worked for as a contractor were permanently looking for developers, and I was their more-expensive plan B.\n\nThe problem was that they either just didn't get enough applicants, or the ones who did apply proved incompetent right away.\n\nIn one company they were so desperate that they blindly hired someone who appeared to have a pretty decent track record. After two full weeks of him not asking any questions and producing code that seemed 'off', I got suspicious. Under the pretense of needing some help with a trivial bug, I sat down next to him and observed, in total shock, that he didn't know even the most basic keyboard shortcuts like copy and paste or alt-tab. I'm not sure how he managed to write any code at all and suspect he outsourced it...\n\nOf course, the _real_ problem is that these companies are not willing to pay competitive salaries...\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> On mobile there's a giant \"HR quiz\" thing taking up the screen and masquerading as the content. Scroll down to see the infographic.\n\n<\/comment> One from my own past \"How are you with managing difficult people?\"\n\n<\/comment> A few of my own.\n\n1) Fake reviews on Glassdoor.\n\n2) People don't give real answers to \"Are there things you that could be better?\" or other probing questions.\n\n3) Everyone is the same gender or race. This usually doesn't matter because people are generally mature and respectful. But it's not a chance that's worth taking.\n\n I don't get the Glassdoor thing. I was contracting for a few months at a company that literally asked all their employees to leave reviews on Glassdoor. They did. So like 20 reviews, all five star (one 4 actually, he got called into a meeting) all from the same IP, same domain for email. How do they not catch that?\n\n Their legit review probably also fit that profile (same IP, same domain, etc.)\n\n Yeah, but not 15+ within a week, is my thought.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> I will add one more:\n\n\\- There's no onboarding process for new hires\n\nI've been in this situation twice and it sucks...\n\n<\/comment> To what extent are these things true? To me the infographic looks a bit exaggerated. Or are there people here that saw some of these points in their own experiences while being interviewed?\n\n(studying @ uni myself)\n\n<\/comment> my #1: the company posts clickbait on HN<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"A basic, sub-$1,000 3D printer that prints metal - http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/11\/12\/meet-the-mini-metal-maker-a-basic-sub-1000-3d-printer-that-prints-metal\/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OmMalik+%28GigaOM%3A+Tech%29 This article adds little value to the story, and it's difficult to locate the indiegogo link on that page.\n\nHere's a direct link to the project: [http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/minimetalmaker-a- small-3d-...](http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/minimetalmaker-a- small-3d-printer-that-fabricates-with-precious-metal-clay)\n\n<\/comment> Anybody have a feel for how strong the \"clays\" are compared to ABS as well as the actual metals?\n\n Mechanical engineer here.\n\nMetal clays have been around for a while. Physical properties depend greatly on the base metal used and the temperature and environment in which the clay is fired.\n\nCompared to \"regular\" metal, the clays will be significantly weaker, especially in tensile or shear loading. Not so much under compression.\n\n So what about firing process for the printer? The video don't show the finishing process. Is this heating table?\n\n > _The device prints with a commercially available jewelry product known as > \"precious metal clay.\" This material is a pre-mixed emulsion of metal > particles in a water soluble organic binder. When heated in a kiln > (600\u02daC-900\u02daC) the binder burns away as the metal particles fuse together._\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Related, from earlier this year on patents expiring: [http:\/\/qz.com\/106483\/3d-printing-will-explode- in-2014-thanks...](http:\/\/qz.com\/106483\/3d-printing-will-explode- in-2014-thanks-to-the-expiration-of-key-patents\/)\n\n<\/comment> All the objects in the video look very... rough.. so i don't think i'd buy that (and to actually print metal instead of plastic would be the only reason for me to buy a 3d printer).\n\n Agreed. They are rough, not bad for a prototype i built on salary of a part- time library employee ;-> The quality will certainly improve. I have demonstrated proof of concept & have clay trace widths down to 450 microns. I have been able to print mini clay pots up to 25 layers tall. Clay blend formula is current topic of R&D. The essential challenge is to extrude with thick enough clay that it does not slump, yet thin enough to fuse together as it dries. -david\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> I don't think this will sell. You can use a cheap printer to print wax in a better resolution. And this printer also needs post processing just as the lost wax method.\n\n Firing a kiln is far easier, and safer, than running a [home-]foundry. You can buy a kiln that plugs in the mains and sits on your desk or a small kiln that goes in your microwave oven.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> If any of you guys are interested, there are some good discussions going on about this on Reddit. This one has been on there the longest, but it just got put on the sub reddits Technology and realtech as well.\n\n[http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/3Dprinting\/comments\/1qrnjl\/the_mini_...](http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/3Dprinting\/comments\/1qrnjl\/the_mini_metal_maker_an_exclusive_look_at_the\/)\n\n<\/comment> [http:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/general\/2013\/11\/16\/the-mini- me...](http:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/general\/2013\/11\/16\/the-mini-metal-maker- an-exclusive-look-at-the-worl.aspx)\n\n<\/comment> >But maybe crazy fine resolution isn't as important for metal.\n\nI'm trying to think of any practical application for which fine resolution isn't more important for metal than polymer\n\n<\/comment> Nobody's asked how much the \"ink\" costs? I have a feeling this is the kind of stuff that makes inkjet ink sound cheap.\n\n<\/comment> no story yet where you can print metal's gun?\n\n At this point in technology its a lot easier to make those using subtractive (traditional) machining rather than additive machining. Ask any gunsmith. You'll get into all manner of weird definition games, like the legal one for print your own is making a lower receiver, so are you cool with buying a COTS barrel and everything else but the lower? Or you want to make that stuff too, well, OK, are you cool with COTS firing pin and other very minor componenets? Or are you cool with buying plain old screws from home depot or do you insist on making those homemade too?\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> Is there printer that can print itself?\n\n It's the goal of the opensource RepRap project. To produce a pure self- replicating device. [http:\/\/reprap.org\/wiki\/RepRap](http:\/\/reprap.org\/wiki\/RepRap)\n\n I get tired of this, it's not even close to self-replicating... it can only print a few plastic joints it needs, but most of it is metal, electronics and motors that cannot be 3d printed.\n\n I hope we will be able to do it soon. When we see all these awesome kickstarter projects and all these millions $ invested in R&D. I think we will reach soon another level<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Ask HN: Free Monitoring tools other than Pingdom? - \n\nI am looking for a free hosted Web Site monitoring service. I only need to monitor 1 website and I don't need any special features. Is there a service where basic monitoring is free? Give this a try: \n\n yeah I use that too\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> Siteuptime offers free monitoring for 1 site: \n\nI've used it for 2 years and it has never failed me. Great for one, single site.\n\n<\/comment> Have a look at:\n\nHostTracker: \n\nHyperspin: \n\n<\/comment> If you want anything more than just monitor if your site is alive, like knowing if it changes (or if your domain , host, whois, etc changes), try: \n\n(network-based integrity monitoring)\n\n<\/comment> \n\n[Can't remember where I discovered this, possibly through HN. I've been using it for a while and it works well, although my needs are pretty basic]\n\n<\/comment> I have a project I've been working on for a while, it's in public beta and should fit your requirements as is. \n\n<\/comment> \n\nBeen using it for a few years for monitoring my personal website.\n\n<\/comment> Try : \n\n3 free monitors plus a pagerank check.\n\n<\/comment> Alertfox is great. I think their basic service is free. I got a free pro account via TechCrunch when they launched.\n\n<\/comment> If you happen to be using EC2 or Slicehost, cloudkick(.com) has easy, free monitoring.\n\n<\/comment> \n\n<\/comment> slap this on a host external to your monitored infrastructure: \n\n<\/comment> check also which is not free but has very cheap prices for the offered stuff<\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Does donation matching work? - http:\/\/www.benkuhn.net\/matching I was under the impression that the primary reason why charities did donation matching was to allow them to take money from major donors to fund projects while still maintaining their public charity status by having widespread support from the public: if a small charity wants to accept a million dollars from some large company, they need to come up with half a million dollars donated by a number of small donors to pass the \"public support test\"; doing this per dollar instead of per commitment leads directly to \"we can accept up to two dollars from this large donor for every dollar all of you small donors are able to contribute\".\n\n This may be true for MAJOR capital campaigns, but in my experience is rarely what motivates a matching campaign. At least in the size orgs I work with (1-2mil), matching campaigns are either genuine challenges from a donor OR a move to get the year-to-date number up to where it should be.\n\n Cases where the challenge come from the donor don't seem to fall under the scope of the OP's strategy: a donor's challenges would be evaluated on benefit to the donor, maybe in terms of marketing their brand to the community, as opposed to how it affects donations. As you use the word \"genuine\" for that case, maybe the idea of whether matching grants are \"effective\" or not is simply an incorrect question?\n\n I personally am aware of more matching challenges and capping grants that are as I say \"genuine\".\n\nYou make a good point, perhaps their efficacy is more aptly measured on the outcomes of the major donor. However, it's still a commonly held belief in resource development and fundraising that a match is a very strong motivator to give. This is a good start to determining how true that is.\n\nThe OPs suggestion of heavily studying your own matching strategy and running different types is good advice (though maybe not 100% practical).\n\n I'll also note that I couldn't find any particular data on the efficacy of a match in large campaign fundraising vs. in-room fundraising. it's very different to see a match in a direct mail or general campaign, vs. say a featured guest at a fundraising party challenging the room personally.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> All behavioral studies aside, in the long run matching doesn't seem like a reasonable approach. The only money you have to donate is your own. If individual A offers to match my donations, I could reason that A will probably donate less to charity in proportion to how much of A's matching funds are used up. That is, in the long run, whether I take up A's offer won't affect the total amount A spends on charity. So it shouldn't affect my decision either.\n\nAs an aside, I think people don't fully consider the effectiveness of earning more money as a form of altruism. Since around 30% will be taken by the government, and used to fund various social services, the choice to earn more money is _really_ the choice to earn money and donate 30%.\n\n > As an aside, I think people don't fully consider the effectiveness of > earning more money as a form of altruism. Since around 30% will be taken by > the government, and used to fund various social services, the choice to earn > more money is really the choice to earn money and donate 30%.\n\nI'm super sympathetic to this idea, but I think generally there are even more effective places to donate extra earnings than the government! For one thing, a lot of government programs aren't very efficient for various political reasons. For another, even the worst-off people in the US are largely better off than the people that you could help by giving to organizations that work abroad. (Personally, I'm a fan of GiveWell's[1] approach to finding the most effective places to give.) But I agree that trying to earn money in order to fund this sort of thing is an under-appreciated idea, and in fact exactly what I'm trying to do :)\n\n[1]:[http:\/\/www.givewell.org\/](http:\/\/www.givewell.org\/)<\/comment><\/comment>","meta":{"dup_signals":{},"id":null},"subset":"hackernews"} +{"text":"Fixing Monopoly - http:\/\/www.ludible.nl\/how-i-fixed-monopoly\/ I prefer this approach: [http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/vX3zm](http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/vX3zm)\n\n> Because of the way the game is designed, this inevitably results in one > person acquiring a majority of the assets on the board, and beginning the > slow, painful, friendship-destroying process of grinding the other players > out of the game, turn by turn. This is why Monopoly starts as a fun exciting > romp, only to turn into a bitter cesspool of despair.\n\n I agree. Monopoly isn't broken; it's a shitty game _by design_.\n\n Yeah exactly, the game shows that monopolies naturally emerge from player actions, just as in real life. That was the entire point of the game being created.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> The site is hugged to death, so I'll just be that person who makes assumptions based on the headline, and writes comments without reading.\n\nAssuming we're talking about the game, my favorite fixes are anything that increase player autonomy, interaction, and decision-making, and decreases randomness.\n\nMy favorite variations are probably old-hat to many players, but they include allowing completely unregulated deals between players (e.g. loans, swaps, etc.) and allowing all players to bid on every single unowned property that a player lands on (sometimes with some kind of addition such as the landing player getting the right of first refusal at twice the price, or something, but never simply letting them purchase at face-value).\n\nThe second rule -- putting all landed-on properties on the open market -- really allow people to try out different strategies, whether it's trying to buy everything at the start, no matter the cost, or trying to be more cautious with money.\n\n > allowing all players to bid on every single unowned property that a player > lands on (sometimes with some kind of addition such as the landing player > getting the right of first refusal at twice the price, or something, but > never simply letting them purchase at face-value).\n\nAFAIK this isn't a variant, this is more or less the actual real rule of the game (or something halfway between). If a player refuses to buy something when they land on it, it's supposed to go up for auction with no minimum bid.\n\nNo one plays that way, but it's the official rule.\n\n[https:\/\/en.wikibooks.org\/wiki\/Monopoly\/Official_Rules](https:\/\/en.wikibooks.org\/wiki\/Monopoly\/Official_Rules)\n\n Of course people play that way. It's the rules. :)\n\n I'm not sure if you're joking (smiley lacked a clear target), but just in case you're not: Monopoly is somewhat famously almost never played by the actual as-written rules. Indeed, most people know the rules they learned as children and are shocked to discover they aren't playing by \"the rules\".\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> I could only get a cached text version of the link to load, but I'm surprised to see not a single mention of The Landlord's Game. It was the precursor to Monopoly developed by Elizabeth Magie, and intentionally designed to be an unfair and unbalanced game in order to demonstrate certain economic principals.\n\n \n \n The earliest known version of Monopoly, known as The\n Landlord's Game, was designed by an American, Elizabeth\n Magie, and first patented in 1904 but existed as early\n as 1902. Magie, a follower of Henry George, originally \n intended The Landlord's Game to illustrate the economic \n consequences of Ricardo's Law of Economic rent and the \n Georgist concepts of economic privilege and land value \n taxation.\n \n The game was created to be a \"practical demonstration \n of the present system of land grabbing with all its usual \n outcomes and consequences\". She based the game on the \n economic principles of Georgism, a system proposed by Henry \n George, with the object of demonstrating how rents enrich \n property owners and impoverish tenants. She knew that some \n people could find it hard to understand why this happened and \n what might be done about it, and she thought that if Georgist \n ideas were put into the concrete form of a game, they might \n be easier to demonstrate. Magie also hoped that when played \n by children the game would provoke their natural suspicion of \n unfairness, and that they might carry this awareness into \n adulthood.\n \n * https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_board_game_Monopoly\n * https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Landlord%27s_Game\n \n\n_(edits: typos and formatting)_\n\n The problem is, very few actually play the game by the correct rules. That's what the imgur link in a different part of this discussion is trying to teach. The 'proper rules' that make Monopoly the unfair game it is intended to be.\n\n I'm trying to dig up Magie's alternative rules, which were modeled after preferred Georgist policies. I never tried them myself, but I hear they made for a very long, overly balanced game with highly equitable outcomes. Too boring for a game, but much nicer for real life ;)\n\nI have a link to them somewhere. I'll post it if I can find it.\n\n This version has three phases: [http:\/\/socialcredit.schooljotter2.com\/resources\/social- art\/m...](http:\/\/socialcredit.schooljotter2.com\/resources\/social-art\/monopoly)\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> Our house monoply varient involves a third die. The third die has n+2 sides where n is the number of players. If a one is rolled, everyone takes a bong hit. If the highest number is rolled everyone takes a sip of water. The rest of the numbers are handed out to each person. When the die comes up on their number it's their turn. This isn't as much of an advantage as you'd think it'd be. It's easy to run out of money early, and not go forever later.\n\nAlso: -Auctions -No free parking -Immunity trading -Three die rolls = jail -Doubles = same player goes again as their turn isn't over\n\n<\/comment> Alternatively, you could play a well-designed game. There's no shortage.\n\n[https:\/\/www.boardgamegeek.com\/browse\/boardgame](https:\/\/www.boardgamegeek.com\/browse\/boardgame)\n\n > Pandemic Legacy is a co-operative campaign game, with an overarching story- > arc played through 12-24 sessions, depending on how well your group does at > the game.\n\neish - is there a list for something that can be played for kids with short attention spans?\n\n _How_ short, and how old are the kids?\n\nVery young kids: Animal Upon Animal\n\nOlder kids, really short attention span: Love Letter\n\nOlder kids, somewhat less short attention span: Carcassonne, Sushi Go Party (which is a gateway drug to the similarly-played, confusing-sounding-rules- but-actually-easy-in-practice Seven Wonders)\n\n[EDIT] if others list suggestions there's a high likelihood that King of Tokyo will be on the list, but I want to preemptively counter that by noting it's a well-regarded, kid-friendly-themed, simple game that I've _entirely_ failed to find any fun in, and can't even fathom how others find fun in it, though I believe them when they claim that they have\u2014I just don't understand. [EDIT EDIT] Point is, watch a Youtube play of it before committing. Actually, probably do that for any of these.\n\n<\/comment><\/comment><\/comment> A friend of mine once made a \"Dungeons and Dragons Monopoly\" variant where each character was a D&D class and the spaces were re-named as iconic D&D locations. If a character landed on the same space as another, they'd then get to \"fight\" (roll two dice and compare numbers) and the winner could steal a property from the other. It turned out to be one of the more fun Monopoly variants I've ever played, as it allowed monopolies to be created easier (fighting to get that third property someone wouldn't trade you) and thus the game progressing faster.\n\n So you made Talisman?\n\n<\/comment><\/comment> Mirror: [http:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:http:\/\/...](http:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:http:\/\/www.ludible.nl\/how- i-fixed-monopoly\/)\n\n<\/comment> Just add the hostile take over expansion called Risk.\n\n[http:\/\/www.gilwood.org\/riskopoly.htm](http:\/\/www.gilwood.org\/riskopoly.htm)\n\n<\/comment> In 2010 I met a guy who claimed to be the US Monopoly champion at a boardgame meetup in LA. I asked him how there could be a serious championship since the game's rules are so simple and professional players would simply play the statistics. He said the whole game is about convincing people to give you what you want, he was very good at it, and it turned out that his regular profession was lawyer.\n\n<\/comment> gingerbread-man Am I the only one for whom the link isn't working? I'm getting a 404 error.\n\n<\/comment> [http:\/\/existentialcomics.com\/comic\/159](http:\/\/existentialcomics.com\/comic\/159)\n\n<\/comment> hugged to death?\n\n [http:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:http:\/\/...](http:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:http:\/\/www.ludible.nl\/how- i-fixed-monopoly\/)\n\n Lol...the cache appears to be loading a plugin that loads content from a remote source...so cache isn't helping me here.\n\nOn a side note, am I reading this correctly in that it is using a tag to run PHP?\n\nview- source:[http:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:http:\/\/...](http:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:http:\/\/www.ludible.nl\/how- i-fixed-monopoly\/)\n\n|