MapRejuice - Distributed Computing at its finest - <AUTHOR> http://maprejuice.com/ <comment><USER2> It seems like the basic assumption behind this kind of thing no longer holds; when systems in the past couldn't do power management, the idle time processing power really was wasted and these kind of thing simply utilized that.

Many modern systems throttle back their power consumption when the load permits, saving battery life or ac consumption, so this really does pass a cost on to the end user.

It certainly will impact the user experience on a laptop by draining the battery if you hang around on sites that use it a lot. I'm not sure how they can avoid this.

It would be nicer if they made it visible on the sites and had a global opt- out

<comment><USER3> I _really_ hate the idea of "we'll do something not-so-nice and allow people to opt out". Most people won't bother, it doesn't scale (how many things do I have to opt out of, again?), and it's passing your problem on to me.

That said, "click here to donate your spare CPU cycles to awesomesite.com" would be just, well, awesome.

<comment><USER4> I never did it, but the joke between my friends and I was always that we should put the spammers we were getting on our site to good use. We always wanted a way to make them contribute to folding@home while spamming the site, but we settled for putting them into an endless loop of recaptcha instead.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER3> This uses WebWorkers ("Javascript threads") to make your visitors compute stuff for you.

I imagine people travelling with laptops would be less than pleased (they do detect "mobile" browsers and shut off, apparently). I'm also not sure how useful an unreliable MapReduce node running Javascript is...

<comment><USER5> Yeah, we don't run it in Mobile browsers for that reason. There's other ethical questions to be posed (data usage, etc).

There's a previous discussion here if you're interested:

<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1645520>

</comment></comment><comment><USER6> The idea of using web browsers are some sort of compute nodes in a distributed system has been kicking around for ages (I should know, I implemented one for my honours thesis almost eight years ago!).

The trouble with it is the limited type of work that it's actually useful for. For one, latency is a killer (we're talking people's home/work computer being used here) which means it'll only really work on embarrasingly-parallel problems, and secondly the inherent unreliability of the nodes themselves: a MapRejiuce computation will be terminated as soon as the user closes their browser window/tab. Unless it has some serious checkpointing or some other fault tolerance mechanism then I fear it'll remain, like all the similar systems that came before, better in theory than in practice.

</comment><comment><USER7> Seems like the computing ability you're getting out of these clients is dwarfed by the amount of transferring you're going to have to do in most cases. Unless you need to do like a second of CPU time per 50kb of data you're sending to people, this doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense.

</comment><comment><USER8> +1 for the name, not so much for the idea.

</comment><comment><USER9> Previous discussion here: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1645520>

</comment><comment><USER10> Definitely a cool idea, but wouldn't a single high-powered GPU pretty much blow away thousands of browsers running JavaScript?

<comment><USER11> What about thousands of browsers using their GPUs?

<http://learningwebgl.com/blog/?p=1828>

I keep bringing this up in these threads cause I hope it will get the interest of some real webGL pros who could really improve on it.

<comment><USER12> I've been hoping for some crazy thing like WebCL to happen. I know it's nuts but, imagine how useful that could be for things like scientific apps and engineering apps. Little climate sim in your browser :)

Yeah I know, this isn't what browser are meant to do :) But I've been looking a some algorithms for cuda and opencl to extract isosurfaces from volume data and, it could be cool to do so in a browser for medical imaging purposes.

Who needs C when javascript can do all that ;p

EDIT: In all seriousness, this could be really useful for game developers on mobile. This could help them get closer to native games in terms of performance.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER13> This thing doesn't make sense to me. MapReduce framework is usually applied to super large data sets. Lots of researchers are working on how to minimize network IO either by increasing data locality or smarter scheduling.

Transferring all of those data to the client browser is a significant hurdle.

</comment><comment><USER14> Man, can you imagine if Google stuck this on their home page or on GMail for that matter?

Pretty wild.. wonder how that CPU would compare to the largest farms. Only works on ridiculously // problems though.

<comment><USER15> So my CPU spikes to 100% every time I visit the Google homepage? No thanks. That script would get blocked pretty quick.

<comment><USER16> Yeah, I don't like to run my CPU over 30% incase it runs out of cycles.</comment></comment></comment>


Windows 10 Warning: Anger at Microsoft Rises with Serious New Failure - <AUTHOR> https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2020/02/08/windows-10-warning-serious-failure-provokes-questions-and-anger/#4edf3e7e7169 <comment><USER2> The thing that raised my eyebrows was that my work laptop had this issue. And this is a serious work laptop, managed by a large & conservative IT org. I'm so locked down with GPOs/McAfee/Zscaler/Cylance/always-on-VPN that I have trouble opening my normal applications that I need for my job. And then Microsoft comes along and breaks stuff locally on my machine by changing something on their servers. So all the firewalls/VPN/proxy/cylance smart rogue program detection failed to do their job...

And to top things of the issue did not fix itself, as of Friday afternoon my start menu search still did not work.

<comment><USER3> There's a search software I use alongside windows search called EVERYTHING. Its so fast it feels like magic.

It's the first icon pinned to my taskbar so WINDOWS+1 summons it.

<comment><USER4> Everything (void tools IIRC) is excellent, have used it for years. Fast, and completely reliable.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> [https://answers.microsoft.com/en- us/windows/forum/all/black-...](https://answers.microsoft.com/en- us/windows/forum/all/black-search-box-fixed- windows-10/a4dbbea4-bc5b-4d25-86df-e491b4049577)

No one ever complaints until it happens to them.

Many unaffected users lack appreciation or empathy until one day they are on the receiving end.

</comment><comment><USER6> Not really. The outage was fixed, the problem went away, and virtually no one remembers it now, much less is angry.

It's true that an internet service failure shouldn't affect local search. But at this point it's a latent bug that just needs to get fixed soon.

</comment><comment><USER7> The article is a bit sensationalist, but judging by early comments I'm really disappointed how many tech people here are ambivalent to these sort of major UX fails.

</comment><comment><USER8> Another Gordon Kelly masterpiece. His articles are very sensationalist and they all fall in this same kind of "anger at computer company" template.

I agree however that local search should never be so coupled with non-local search that one can break the other.

</comment><comment><USER9> It's wild to me that people expect computers to work, all the time. I just sort of shrug my shoulders and roll with it.

Then again, people freak out when their car or their lawnmower doesn't fire right up on the first crank, too.

I guess I've just dealt with so much broken, flaky stuff my entire life that it doesn't even faze me anymore.

<comment><USER10> No one questions that there are bugs in software. The issue raised here is that users were unable to perform searches - even for local files - and the cause (apparently) inexplicably involves a network. In other words what could Microsoft possibly be doing that would prevent a local search from working due to a network or server failure.

If I ran the *nix 'find' command on a local filesystem and it segfaulted, I'd be annoyed (I'd also know how to debug and possibly fix) but (like you said) sometimes stuff breaks and that's life. If I ran the same command and got an error message about a network or server failure, my next steps would likely involve a yanked power cord, some forensics of my disks and a format and reinstall of everything on my computer.

<comment><USER9> My first thought would be somebody threw an unhandled exception in the telemetry code, and since there isn't anybody doing QA anymore, other than you and me and a billion other users. Probably a "worked on my machine..."

I'm only half kidding.</comment></comment></comment>


Chinese database details 2.4M influential people, their kids, addresses - <AUTHOR> https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/15/china_shenzhen_zhenhua_database/ <comment><USER2> This is the source article (which, oddly, nobody showed any interest in): [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3691999](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3691999)</comment>


GoDaddy, A Hapless Victim Of The Mob - <AUTHOR> http://www.kernelmag.com/yiannopoulos/2011/12/godaddy-a-hapless-victim-of-the-mob/

<comment><USER2> That piece is chemically cleansed of any sense. The writer argues that it took long for the campaign to work. Compared to what? "Holding authority to account is an art best practised by professionals in the media." - why? It is quite clear that the financial pressured exerted by customers leaving is a pretty effective means of changing the "mind" of a corporation, which is exactly what happend here. "Their customers were swept up in the flood. They had no choice but to comply." - or they just happen to agree that giving their cash to a Internet services company, that is clueless about the fundamentals of the Internet is a pretty bad idea.

<comment><USER2> SOPA is apparently already here in the form of GoDaddy's "abuse department": [http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2011/12/godaddy-a-glimpse- of-...](http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2011/12/godaddy-a-glimpse-of-the- internet-under-sopa.html)

</comment></comment><comment><AUTHOR> I submitted this article because it needs picking apart. Here goes:

 _Mob_

Let us look at the definition of the word _mob_ :

A large crowd of people, esp. one that is disorderly and intent on causing trouble or violence.

Well I do not think that is a fair description of the people supporting this campaign. I would say it looks more like this:

1\. A formal declaration of disapproval or objection issued by a concerned person, group, or organization. 2\. An individual or collective gesture or display of disapproval.

That is the definition for the word protest.

//The writer quite-rightly points out that the DMCA is US legislation. - <https://twitter.com/nero/status/150529577020698624>

_In an objection vacuum, it becomes necessary to question whether the issue at hand is a proxy for old wounds_

 _the objections to SOPA are sound._

So, just to be to be clear, when there is _an objection vacuum, it becomes necessary_ for the writer to question the motives of the people objecting despite the fact that the writer agrees that _the objections to SOPA [which] are sound_ \- I am confused. Playing devil's advocate is often a useful mental exercise - but the writer does not put forth a single argument in favour of GoDaddy.

 _GoDaddy, we should remember, is the victim here_

I have always thought that an enemy of my enemy is my friend. The writer does not like SOPA but does not- _not_ like supports of SOPA. How odd. One would have thought that if the writer objects to SOPA he would also object to the support of SOPA by a company that is part of the fabric of the web. Thankfully, the truth finally comes forth, the writer is pro-journalists and anti-amateurs:

 _Holding authority to account is an art best practised by professionals in the media._

Interesting. Is the writer such a _professional in the media_? Is he great at his _art_? If so, I would not pay for the canvas, let alone the painting.

 _This was a battle worth fighting. But the shock and awe of the mob becomes a less effective method_

Call me stupid, but hasn't _the mob_ just managed to affect change? Haven't we just proved that if people pull together through the Internet we can win? Haven't we just shown ourselves and the media that Twitter-campaigns can be a very effective method? I guess the writer thinks not. The simple reason is:

 _Outrage is becoming passé_

Now I understand. We should all chill out. Well, I definitely need to after reading this article.

<comment><USER3> Your comment reminds me of my arguments with a friend who is a priest: we pick apart each other's arguments until someone mentions that we've missed the point.

Ignore the author's word-choice and try to imagine how you would frame his thoughts should you be compelled to agree with him. From the article, I infer a message from someone who laments the failure of what some schools of thought predicted when the internet was publicly realized: a sort of information revolution (but much broader) in which everyone would become well-rounded, informed and activist-minded. Corrupt politicians would be outed. Corporate greed and injustice would be exposed and ended in a fit of public outrage.

Instead, the minority sociologists were right: the internet expansion represents the same shit in a different pile. We use our access to a wealth of information to retrieve ideas that conform to our preconceived notions; magnified confirmation bias on a massive scale. We have the attention span of rabbits. And these bunnies want to do nothing but circle-jerk on TwitterFace/Reddit/whatever.

Sure, GoDaddy sucks. So does SOPA. And you might frame this revolt in a way that makes this a victory; the power of the people in the age of ubiquitous information. But it might be that we never entered the fight in the first place. Ask yourself, "Who's in power?" Ask yourself, "Why are they still in power?" Ask yourself, "Are we really affecting change?" Those are simple questions that marginalize complicated issues, but I think all the plausible answers are somewhat depressing.

SOPA will pass. Either next month or next year or next decade. The people who will make it happen have never heard of Reddit. They have someone else checking their email and planning their schedules. And they will simply adapt to the fact that large numbers of people are able to click a mouse or type 160-characters messages.

<comment><AUTHOR> This is a much more coherent argument. Why did you not post this?

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> It would be a bad joke, if that article was not meant so seriously.

<comment><AUTHOR> Agreed. It may just be link-bait (in which case, you WIN) but I had to submit it and do my best to tear it apart.</comment></comment>


4 mics and a computer to produce 3-D model of room - <AUTHOR> http://phys.org/news/2013-06-microphones-algorithm-d-simple-convex.html

<comment><USER2> This is awesome! I wonder if the algorithm is going to be open source as I could see it being very useful to budget-constrained organizations such as [http://publiclaboratory.org](http://publiclaboratory.org).

Cheaper than indoor LIDAR?

</comment><comment><USER3> First reaction: wow. We are all walking around with fat low-power parallel processing in the form of smartphone GPUs already. A little effort and we can 3D model anything with touch. VJs and other artists of the future will have the true canvas of reality to remix, collected casually in realspace and projected/manipulated in as many dimensions as required.

Reality check. While on the face of it this is potentially huge, let's look at limitations.

The biggest limitation is that it is indoor. Sounds that don't return in the vastness of a field or desert tell you nothing about the space.

Secondly, many conditions can complicate audio collection, including wind. This makes using the technique from drones or other elevated locations somewhat more difficult. Also you are out of luck if you have .. say .. noise- dampening curtains hanging around the room, for instance in a concert hall.

Thirdly, there will be lots of gaps .. for instance standing in the 'head' of a mandlebrot-set style shape comprised of two conjoined circles, the majority- space (or _at least_ portions thereof) would be very unclear.

Fourthly, actively producing sound can be polluting or undesirable and .. failing that .. it would seem that individual, distinguishable sounds are not always present in all environments.</comment>


In Va., Tesla Motors has a showroom where it can't make sales - <AUTHOR> http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/tesla-motors-gallery-in-virginia-raises-questions/2013/06/24/ece59c9c-dcfb-11e2-9218-bc2ac7cd44e2_story.html?hpid=z3

<comment><USER2> But are they allowed to use it to tell people that conventional car dealers are using the law to screw over consumers and therefore chip away at their political power?</comment>


Zillow's Zestimate got an upgrade – and this trio got $1M for the new algorithm - <AUTHOR> https://www.marketwatch.com/story/1-million-awarded-to-trio-who-have-improved-zillows-zestimate-model-2019-01-30 <comment><AUTHOR> I wonder why I never heard about this contest? I would have loved to get involved. I bet there would be a lot you could do with computer vision on the images.</comment>


Basic Income in Spain to Mitigate Coronavirus Impact - <AUTHOR> https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/spain-basic-income-to-mitigate-coronavirus-impact-a-9820e73f-5d5a-40dd-9df8-b913bf80db0f <comment><USER2> Paywall

<comment><AUTHOR> Are you sure? free for me at least.

<comment><USER2> I got a 'Subscribe or turn off your ad blocker' notice, which pretty much amounts to a paywall.</comment></comment></comment>


Google announces the Pixel 4 will have FaceID, radar-powered gestures - <AUTHOR> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/07/google-announces-the-pixel-4-will-have-faceid-radar-powered-gestures/ <comment><USER2> Soli finally re-emerges! Interesting addition to a smartphone, makes a lot of sense imo. Also can't wait to hear the endless complaints of apps requesting Soli sensor API access to allow user fingerprinting, etc. ;)</comment>


Apple Music's Functionality Failure - <AUTHOR> http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2015/09/24/apple-musics-functionality-failure/ <comment><USER2> What a cry baby... I have no idea what he is talking about. Never had any issues with shuffle and it's pretty clear what music is local on the device and what is remote streams.</comment>


U.K. Police Have a Message for Crime Victims: Hand over Your Private Data - <AUTHOR> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/world/europe/rape-victim-data-privacy-uk.html <comment><USER3> > Mr. Ephgrave, the assistant commissioner, acknowledged such concerns in his > statement.

> "We understand that how personal data is used can be a source of anxiety," > he said. "We would never want victims to feel that they can't report crimes > because of 'intrusion' in their data."

> "That's why a new national form has been introduced," replacing policies > that varied from place to place, "to help police seek informed consent > proportionately and consistently."

I'm sorry for not having something smarter to say, but what the actual fuck? That sounds like what a tech company would say to try to justify their new data policy. That's terrible coming from an institution that is supposed to protect people under its jurisdiction.

<comment><USER4> Not sure about the UK, but in the US the police have no formal duty to protect you. No matter how much warning/info/evidence they have that someone will be victimized, and no matter how easy/reasonable it is for the police to prevent it, citizens are generically not entitled to compensation for failure to be protected. Rather, the police's mission (both formally and as a functional matter) is overwhelmingly about catching and punishing criminals after-the- fact, and they have wide discretion to choose which crimes to enforce on. So the only protection is in the form of criminal disincentives (which are extremely important, of course).

<comment><USER5> We can always vote and legislate for something better. From my experience in the US, police vary from decent people just trying to serve society, to up- armored mall cops on power trips. If you give them assault rifles, tanks, and unlimited surveillance, you encourage the worst among them. A guy wearing a uniform and trained in de-escalation instead of "verbal control" could do some good.

<comment><USER6> > We can always vote and legislate for something better.

How? Which political party or independents promote a policy to reduce police powers?

And even if there were, or are, any politicians with such a policy we ought to be _more_ suspicious of them!

<comment><USER5> > How? Which political party or independents promote a policy to reduce police > powers?

Policing is mostly local, so I think this is an area where there's a real chance to make things better. National politics are hopelessly tribal in the US, but city/county level politics are much less so. Go to city council meetings. Pay attention, and complain if they try to buy leftover military hardware like a BearCat[1]. Vote for and talk to your councillors. Organize a petition to de-militarize your local police force.

[1] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenco_BearCat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenco_BearCat)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> This seems like it will inevitably discourage victims from reporting crime. Imagine a scenario where someone is mugged but doesn't want to report it to the police because they have some texts from their weed dealer on their phone: as a result the mugger never gets reported and may mug somebody else. Not to mention the huge opportunities it creates for a kind of blackmail (criminal A commits a crime against criminal B knowing in advance that criminal B could not report criminal A without being implicated in a different crime when they hand over their digital info).

So it's easy to see how this kind of policy can counterintuitively end up increasing crime by making it easier for someone who has committed a crime to get away with it.

<comment><USER8> > This seems like it will inevitably discourage victims from reporting crime

Indeed. And this new policy will help the police/government to bring down criminality figures. I would be surprised if that is not the actual intent. In a few years they will triumphantly announce that the UK police is doing so well, that it has become a much safer place to live. Welcome to politics.

<comment><USER9> I really don't think the people in charge are that clever. What is happening here is a reaction to recent cases like this:

[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/liam-allan- met-p...](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/liam-allan-met-police- rape-accusation-false-evidence-disclosure-arrest-mistake- detectives-a8184916.html)

where a rape trial collapsed after text messages between the alleged victim and alleged attacker were "discovered" late in the process.

So this is an instance of "we have to do something" where the suggestion swings too far the other way. I assume after some debate we will settle on a sensible compromise position.

<comment><USER10> What's really terrifying is that this guy's life was being ruined just because some woman later said that a sex encounter was "non-consensual", without any proof of that.

Instead of forcing people to give their mobiles, why not use the "innocent until proven guilty" age-old adage?

<comment><USER11> _Instead of forcing people to give their mobiles, why not use the "innocent until proven guilty" age-old adage?_

They aren't forcing people to give up their mobiles, merely saying that if a victim chooses not to, they are denying the police useful evidence. In the absence of other evidence, there's a risk that prosecutions won't go ahead.

The reason this is an issue at all is the presumption of innocence. The accused is presumed innocent and without evidence (which may or may not be on the phone) there is nothing the police or the courts can do.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> Yet another Black Mirror episode proven prophetic.

If I remember correctly, season 1, episode 3 "The Entire History of You" depicted a world where most people had eye and ear implants that recorded everything they saw and heard. When one of the characters who did not have the implant called the police to ask for help as she watched her boyfriend being beaten up, the cop requested to to be given access to her implant. When she said she did not have one, they simply hanged up on her.

And now, less than 8 years later, here we are.

</comment><comment><USER13> Wow, this article by the New York times is so different than what news have reported in the UK here. It reads like a cheap tabloit newspaper aimed at getting people angry over an issue by purposefully leaving out facts and details which I would consider borderline lies.

The new law is aimed not for any crime victims, but specifically rape and serious sexual offence victims.

> "It comes after a number of rape and serious sexual assault cases collapsed > when crucial evidence emerged."

I'd recommend reading this instead: [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48086244](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48086244)

<comment><USER14> i) it's not new

ii) it's not law, it's guidance

iii) it's not specifically rape and sexual offences, it's all crime when it's relevant.

Here's the CPS press release: [https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/handing-over- mobile-phone-da...](https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/handing-over-mobile-phone- data-rape-prosecutions)

I agree the press coverage has been terrible.

</comment></comment><comment><USER15> The point being, it would be nice to know the trial isn't going to collapse because the defense got a subpoena on the phone's contents and nobody in the prosecution had plans for what they found.

This is an artefact of the adversarial model of justice. Someone is being paid to get mister rapist, mister burglar and miss stabbity off the hook and they can and will use anything that makes you look like a liar or unreliable. Regardless if you actually are.

If the UK switched to a continental style system of judge-led discovery, this kind of fishing for anything that looks bad might become less prevalent. But that isn't presently in the offing.

<comment><USER16> You're talking as if a trial 'collapsing' (I assume this means the accused is found not guilty) is some huge catastrophe, when in fact the possibility of such 'collapse' is the whole point of a trial.

<comment><USER14> If there's no hope of a conviction because there's evidence that strongly suggests the events didn't happen it would be better to avoid the trial.

<comment><USER16> It would, but I wouldn't want to entirely give up victim privacy for it.

<comment><USER17> If the accused is innocent then they are the victim and the accuser is the perpetrator.

<comment><USER14> That's not necessarily true though is it?

Two people can have different interpretations of events without one of them making maliciously false allegations. The complainant can have an honest, sincere, belief that they did not give consent.

And, for phone evidence, there are good reasons why a complainant may say one thing to police but something else to friends of the accused.

<comment><USER16> > That's not necessarily true though is it? [..] Two people can have different > interpretations of events without one of them making maliciously false > allegations.

You don't even have to go that far - the allegation could be _true_ , but newly uncovered evidence could cast sufficient doubt that the accused is not found guilty. E.g. an eyewitness correctly identifies an assailant, but it is later revealed she wasn't wearing her prescription glasses.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER18> This is seems fair enough to me, it's an attempt to prevent this kind of thing happening again:

[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk- engla...](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk- england-42873618)

<comment><USER19> Ah, yes, so if you are a victim of a violent crime (let's say, someone mugged you at gunpoint, but did not bruise you - just held you at gunpoint until you surrendered your wallet), it seems perfectly reasonable for the police to hold your phone for weeks or months, searching through all of your photos (including the occasional nude photo of your spouse), in order to MAYBE find that one of your contacts might be a culprit of the theft?

Maybe you delete the nude photos (you are really not comfortable with other people getting to see your naked spouse), but police notice you deleted some photos. How do they not know those aren't evidence of your mugger? They tell you the case is invalid, since deleting photos seems suspicious.

Does not seem fair enough to me.

The incidence of false accusation of rape is fairly low - depending on the statistic you find and country, either less than or roughly at parity with accusation of other crimes - between 2 and 10 percent [1]. Remember that the reporting of rape or sexual assault is low, compared to other crimes - <USER2> personally know several women who regularly sport bruises from their abusive partner, but who refuse to turn them in (and I am in no position to turn them in - the choice is entirely up to the victim and will backfire in my losing any ability to help them in the future, if I do).

The cases of false rape accusations, however, tend to be _highly_ visible, since they are often made by a desperate woman seeking to profit off a rich celebrity. Meanwhile, just like car accidents, the media tends to report only the most gruesome crashes/rapes, since this is an event that happens so often that reporting it every time is not newsworthy.

[1] [https://www.nsvrc.org/sites/default/files/Publications_NSVRC...](https://www.nsvrc.org/sites/default/files/Publications_NSVRC_Overview_False- Reporting.pdf)

<comment><USER20> We should be careful when researcher themselves say that the data is unreliable. When it comes to false rape rates it is doubly so, as there is no common definition.

If we use the same definition as for conviction, ie proven beyond reasonable doubt that a crime did not occur, you get similar single digit. In one case it is the court that define proven beyond reasonable doubt and in the other the police, but they more or less is the same single digit of the total number of reported cases. We can assume that the police definition is a bit less strict than the court, but how much is just speculation.

We could use the rate in which prosecutor deem a case likely to succeed and thus brings it to the court and compare that to the rate which police finds it proven beyond reasonable doubt that the crime did not occur, but we will still end up with a huge rate of false reports.

Which is why people tend to compare the total number of reported cases vs those that police finds is proven (with evidence) beyond reasonable doubt that the crime did not occur. This makes the number of false report very low, and where the 2-10% comes from. To me that is just not very sincere approach.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER21> Discussed yesterday as well, albeit using a BBC article: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19777513](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19777513)

</comment><comment><USER22> Reminds me of the quote (of Benjamin Franklin):

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

<comment><USER23> That quote has an interesting history.

When Franklin first said that, the "those" he was talking about was the Pennsylvania Assembly. They were trying to impose taxes to raise money to defend the frontier.

The Governor kept vetoing these attempts, because the taxes would affect the Penn family.

Franklin wrote a letter to the Governor objecting to this, and included that quote.

The "essential liberty" he was talking about was the liberty of the Assembly to exercise its power to impose taxes even if they would affect the Penn family. The "purchase" he was talked about was literally the buying of weapons to arm those defending the frontier.

Later, he used that quote again but with more the sense that most people use it for now. Someone on Reddit once gave me a reference to where he did that, but they were one of those people who deletes their posts after a while and I didn't save the link in time.

<comment><USER24> That doesn't make any sense.

How would _giving up_ the "liberty to impose taxes" help to purchase weapons to defend the frontier?

<comment><USER23> I probably should have mentioned that the Penn family offered to give a lump sum toward frontier defense in exchange for the Assembly acknowledging that it did not have the power to tax their lands.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER25> Decent overview here - [https://counselofperfection.blogspot.com/2019/04/the- truth-l...](https://counselofperfection.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-truth-laid- bare-mobile-phones-and.html)

</comment><comment><USER26> I'm against mass collection to narrow down on potential suspects and solve petty crimes, but if you're ready to ruin someone's life by accusing them of sexual assault or rape, you shouldn't be concerned with some data on your phone, actually, you should be happy the data is there to support your line of events. The fact that cases have been pushed through without such data is what concerns me. Not everyone is an expert communicator who can defend themselves (or avoid making mistakes) in an aggressive police questioning, the data is paramount to get to the truth. I _had_ a friend who falsely accused someone and she was also very reluctant to hand over her phone to police because it would've proved she was out of town with me. Police dropped her case thankfully, so this isn't UK-specific, but I do wonder if the guy would've even got a fair chance given he had a criminal history.

</comment><comment><USER27> I wonder how police behaviour would be influenced by refusing to hand over the data? Will they assign less resources to your case because they think you're unhelpful by not turning over your data?

<comment><USER14> Rape is already under-investigated and under-prosecuted in the UK, and we've seen numbers of prosecutions declining alarmingly after the cases that caused this new guidance to be issued.

So we don't need to wonder, we know: police and CPS administratively close the case.

<comment><USER20> Can you share the data that show the numbers of prosecutions declining per reported case, before and after the new guidance was issued?

As a comparison, I am reminded of Swedish statistics. Both people being assaulted in the home and sexually assaulted shared the same clearing rate. If rape is under-investigated in the UK we should expect those data to look very different unless both crimes are under-investigated, in which case I must ask what the norm is for which the claim of under-investigated is based on.

<comment><USER14> The claim for under-investigation comes from the fact that in English law rape is a very serious offence, and carries a similar sentence structure as murder. There are 150,000 rapes per year (according to the annual crime survey, which probably under-counts rape) and there are only 5,000 prosecutions each year.

Here are the stats showing decline after the collapse of the high profile cases: [https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeand...](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/sexualoffendingcrownprosecutionserviceappendixtables)

Here are some news reports:

[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/mar/06/prosecution-...](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/mar/06/prosecution- rate-in-england-and-wales-falls-to-five-year-low)

[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48095118](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48095118)

[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/crime- statistics...](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/crime-statistics- uk-justice-prosecution-rates-rape-victims-disclosure-police- funding-a8747191.html)

[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45650463](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45650463)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER28> Still waiting for the day when I receive a form asking for my consent for authorities to see private media I have shared with a friend whose device they are prying into.

Not holding my breath. They seem to have no clue that in accessing a user's device, they are also violating the privacy of that user's friends.

<comment><USER29> Oh I'm sure they do know.

</comment></comment><comment><USER30> i read that it's 2% conviction rate in the UK. that has to be the most discouraging thing. Get privacy invaded for a 1/50 shot of a conviction and then the sentences aren't huge this is so messed up

<comment><USER31> To be fair rape is difficult to prove. It often comes down to two people telling different things.

A judge is supposed to look at the evidence and if there isn't any there isn't much to be done. We don't prosecute people based on feelings and hunches or flipping a coin.

</comment></comment><comment><USER31> Seems to me this whole shitshow started when the prosecution went into rape cases without any evidence whatsoever aside from "I got raped". A judge doesn't care about politics so a case like that will be thrown out of court. Huge embarrassment, lives ruined, money wasted.

Too much sensitivity. Be more selective before deciding to prosecute.

<comment><USER14> That's an assertion that isn't supported by any facts.

There are over 150,000 rapes in the UK each year, and only about 5,000 prosecutions.

In the cases that collapsed there wasn't no evidence. There was evidence that the events happened, and that there's some dispute about what happened.

</comment></comment><comment><USER14> Here's the CPS guidance being talked about: [https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/handing-over-mobile-phone- da...](https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/handing-over-mobile-phone-data-rape- prosecutions)

Here's an English barrister talking about the guidance: [https://twitter.com/BarristerSecret/status/11228239278042275...](https://twitter.com/BarristerSecret/status/1122823927804227586)

tl;dr it doesn't say what you think it says.

<comment><USER32> That Secret Barrister link paints a very different (and much more measured) picture to what's been splashed on the front pages of the newspapers.

It bears reading.

Unrolled version of the above. [https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1122823927804227586.html](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1122823927804227586.html)

</comment></comment><comment><USER33> This is terrible!

</comment><comment><USER34> > "Police have a duty to pursue all reasonable lines of enquiry," Assistant > Commissioner Nick Ephgrave, the National Police Chiefs' Council lead for > criminal justice, said in a statement. "Those now frequently extend into the > devices of victims and witnesses as well as suspects — particularly in cases > where suspects and victims know each other."

> Most sexual assaults are committed by people who are known to the victims, > and there might be electronic proof of friendly communications between them. > As a result, according to Victim Support, a nonprofit group in England and > Wales, the new policy could discourage victims from reporting, fearing that > they will not be believed.

> But the form was criticized because of the possible repercussions for > victims who refuse to lay bare their digital lives: The police and > prosecutors might drop their cases.

The opposition is just nonsense.

If you complain a crime has been committed, it's always been expected that your property can be searched for evidence, and that if you refuse to cooperate, they might not proceed with your case.

If you claim that an assault happened on your property, but refuse to allow police to investigate because it might reveal exculpatory evidence or unrelated things you don't want found, they're likely to drop your case as well.

I'm tired of these advocates for regressive policies using victims as macabre totems for their causes:

There's a reason we require police to be able to investigate, and it's a good one.

<comment><USER35> There may be a good reason to "investigate" and in some cases that certainly might involve a request to gather some evidence from your house, etc.

But you seem to have lots of faith that the police won't investigate anything else they find and are equating one small and limited search of something to free-reign over looking through someone's entire digital life, which is incredibly intrusive.

Just because I may allow or even want a police officer on my property to examine my garage that was broken into, doesn't mean that I want to invite 10 police officers to look through every closet and drawer on my property, and take home all my childhood diaries.

</comment></comment><comment><USER36> If you just carry a dumb phone, all they'll get are contacts and a record of calls made. And of course, you wouldn't have done anything iffy with that phone. Or even taken it anywhere iffy. So no problem.

</comment><comment><USER37> Being a victim of a crime has always meant some loss of privacy. If you are murdered, they will conduct an autopsy of you to determine how you died and possibly a toxicology study to determine what drugs you had in your system. If you were raped, getting a rape exam done is recommended to document injuries and collect DNA samples. If you report your child was kidnapped, the police will likely closely examine your home for clues.

How is this any different?

<comment><USER38> If your car is stolen, it's reasonable that your Google docs are read?

<comment><USER37> If you say your child was kidnapped, I bet that your Google docs might be read.

<comment><USER39> But why. What use would my Google Docs have?

<comment><USER40> Often when children go missing the parents are responsible or complicit in some way. People write things down all the time -- a google account may contain incriminating emails, IM messages, or other documents such as journal entries.

I'm squicked out about the invasion like many are, and if I thought about it carefully I expect I would come out against the idea, but I can actually see the case for this invasion.

<comment><USER41> > _Often when children go missing the parents are responsible or complicit in > some way._

In that case, they are being investigated as suspects and should obtain all of the due process that suspects are afforded under the law. Reasonable suspicion, warrants, etc. should all be obtained - not "we won't investigate the crime unless you surrender your rights and permit us to investigate you as a suspect without warrant or cause."</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment>


Analyzing Last.fm Listening History - <AUTHOR> http://geoffboeing.com/2016/05/analyzing-lastfm-history/ <comment><USER2> This is really cool! I love playing with my own Last.fm data. Some suggestions:

\- Manually (or using your Facebook timeline?) place out big events in your life and see if you can see what kind of music you listened to before/after them that you don't normally. I listen to depressing shit post break-ups.

\- Use your Twitter or any other feed to estimate your "mood" over time and see if you can find any music you listened to while you're angry

\- Use The Echo Nest to get metrics for how happy/sad/energetic the music you listen to is.

\- Come up with your own definition of albums played! I hate Last.fm's because, as you mentioned, it heavily biases albums with multiple tracks. In my personal analysis I always start off with a RLE for tracks played on the same album, and my metric for "albums I listen to the most" is "which albums do I listen to at least 3 continuous songs from the most".

I spent a few months this year trying to combine my Last.fm listening history with my geolocation history (I've mostly just stayed in the same place for the last 8 years, 3-4 years) and Forecast.io's historical API to be able to answer the question "am I really only happy when it rains?" \-- Data warehousing is a hard problem, though.

</comment><comment><USER3> 263,428 plays over 53,632 songs = 5 plays of each song on average. (updated after comment below)

I haven't "scrobbled" in many years, but checked now that I in 2007 (when I was 16) had 12,377 plays with only 153 unique songs. An average of playing each song 78 times. However, most of the songs I only listened to a few times, so there is basically just ~20+ songs I listened to 250-500 times each that year.

So I guess I was a typical teenager that got obsessed with some songs/artists and listened to them non stop, heh.

<comment><USER4> This post says there are 53,632 unique songs. 15,503 refers to the number of unique artists.

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> Shameless plug of a weekend project from a while back (I'm pleasently surprised it still works): [http://deja-entendu.zomg.zone](http://deja- entendu.zomg.zone)

Auto-creates a Spotify playlist from your scrobbles from 6 months, or a year ago or whenever. For instance, if you want to walk a mile in the article author's shoes (ears?): [http://deja-entendu.zomg.zone/gboeing](http://deja- entendu.zomg.zone/gboeing)

</comment><comment><USER6> It's kind of stupid, but when I tried out Apple Music, the lack of Last.fm integration really bugged me and I soon switched back to Spotify. Now I understand why :-D

<comment><USER7> I just installed the scrobbler and it's working fine with Apple Music. FWIW.

<comment><USER2> From my experience the scrobbler only work with music I own in Apple Music, not any music I'm listening to from Beats Radio or any of the recommended playlists.

<comment><USER8> On the Mac [http://micropixels.pl/neptunes/](http://micropixels.pl/neptunes/) works just fine also for streamed music from apple music not just the tracks you download into your local library. Not aware of anything that does it on iOS though unfortunately :(

<comment><USER9> On macOS, [http://bowtieapp.com](http://bowtieapp.com) is a good free alternative.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> Original author here. Thanks everyone for the comments! If you've got any other feedback or suggestions I am more than happy to hear it!

<comment><USER11> This is pretty cool. I still use Last.FM (and also LibreFM) and scrobble from home, work and my phone.

I'll have to give these python notebooks a try :)

</comment></comment><comment><USER12> Very cool. I've always wanted to do something like this as well. I'd be interested in analyzing my listening habits throughout the year to see if there is any correlation between months and artists. I feel like I'm pretty "seasonal" with what I listen to.

<comment><USER2> I tried doing this with my own Last.fm data, if this slow badly coded Heroku app is still live you can see mine: [http://lastfm- seasonally.herokuapp.com/user/pvam](http://lastfm- seasonally.herokuapp.com/user/pvam)

Basically, I listen to what I like to listen to no matter the season. If you have last.fm change the last slash in that URL with your username and after a couple minutes (it's single-threaded pulling API requests) it'll show your analysis.

</comment></comment><comment><USER13> Pretty cool, still sad at the really bad Last.fm redesign but glad useful things come out of the data.

</comment><comment><USER14> It's pretty awesome what you can do with that dataset. I made a visualization a few years back for a class that looks at the genres I listened to over time:

[http://lab.askmike.org/d3/songstream/](http://lab.askmike.org/d3/songstream/)

<comment><USER15> That's pretty awesome, very easy to read. I've been meaning to get into d3 soon, what is this particular style of graph called?

<comment><USER16> It's a Stack Layout turned 90 degrees.

[https://github.com/d3/d3/wiki/Stack- Layout](https://github.com/d3/d3/wiki/Stack-Layout)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> I made something similar with my own data recently. With ~330k plays and 11 years of data, I really enjoyed seeing the long-term changes and trends in my music habits.

I could see where my tastes would change based on where I was in my life (high school, college, entering a relationship, etc). These transitions marked huge changes in my tastes.

It was also cool to see other trends. For example, I found that I have a "concert bounce" where I listen to an artist much more after seeing them live.

</comment><comment><USER17> This just me realize I haven't been using last.fm for a couple of years, after obsessing on having it in everything I used to listen to music. I guess my move to Pandora didn't help.

But what do I know, there's a browser extension that does that! [http://build.last.fm/item/1000591](http://build.last.fm/item/1000591)

Back to last.fm I go.

</comment><comment><USER18> If you look at my listening history, Untitled is by far my favorite track. That's because every interlude on one album is untitled so I end up listening to it like 5 times every time I listen to the album. Never mind the track number, though, it doesn't look at it.

</comment><comment><USER19> Cool I have a great collection in lastfm also. So I should check it out...</comment>


Pfizer chose to 'hide' cure for Alzheimer - <AUTHOR> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4STx6yqCqQk <comment><USER2> "A Missed Alzheimer's Opportunity? Not So Much" \- [https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/06/06/a-...](https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/06/06/a-missed- alzheimers-opportunity-not-so-much)

> The Washington Post made quite a splash with this story about Pfizer, Enbrel > (etanercept), and Alzheimer's disease. ... Basically, that Pfizer had > evidence that Enbrel could be useful in Alzheimer's disease, and didn't do > anything with it.</comment>


Scripteka: prototype.js extensions list - <AUTHOR> http://scripteka.com/

<comment><USER2> You usually put out pretty good submissions. But I don't know why this one is significant. Care to divulge? (please)</comment>


Show HN: Dangle – Family Task Management and Reward Service - <AUTHOR> http://www.didyoudangle.com <comment><USER2> Hey i see this as a sticker/star chart for the mobile generation. As a parent I would never use the app though.

I have failed as a parent If my kids have to be given points(or stars) in order for me to get them to do things.

It's about intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation. as far as possible we try to encourage intrinsic motivation and rewards are only used as a last resort.

<comment><AUTHOR> Thanks for the feedback. I agree with you as far as intrinsic vs extrinsic motivations, but we have seen a need and feedback from hundreds of families who see Dangle as a tool for their tool box. If you are a parent I'm sure you know that your parenting style for each child is a bit different. We aren't for every family, but we have found a sweet spot with parents who travel weekly for work, work multiple jobs and, those who are divorced - yet still want to be a connected with their kids daily.

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> Congrats Laramie! I'm excited to watch Dangle grow and grow.

</comment><comment><USER4> Awesome work, team. Great to see this on here!</comment>


Show HN: Steelfeed social network for steel professionals - <AUTHOR> http://www.steelfeed.com

<comment><AUTHOR> Steelfeed aims to enable steel professionals (~2million people worldwide) to get access to news, prices and exchange offers and inquiries. Any feedback is welcome and appreciated.</comment>


Pinterest Style Listing (Only CSS, no JS) - <AUTHOR> http://cssdeck.com/item/377/css-only-pinterest-style-columns-layout

<comment><USER2> looks great! nice work</comment>


Firms are wasting millions recruiting on only a few campuses - <AUTHOR> https://hbr.org/2015/10/firms-are-wasting-millions-recruiting-on-only-a-few-campuses <comment><USER2> This is actually a good thing, it gives more opportunity for smaller, up-and- coming businesses to recruit elite students from non-elite schools.</comment>


Mapping the Census: A Dot for Every Person - <AUTHOR> http://theatlanticcities.com/design/2012/12/mapping-census-dot-every-person/4273/ <comment><USER2> Neat. I've often thought about setting up an installation with one pixel per person...in the world.

With HDTV's it's not too extravagant either - about 3345 panels. A lot (of drivers too) but doable.

Any support for it? I was thinking that a circular dome ring of panels would be an amazing visualization tool.

Ideas: 1\. current age of every person, represented by color 2\. Language 3\. Religion 4\. State (health, nourishment, etc)

But then I run out - but I think it would be an incredible tool for a variety of data sets.

You could start smaller too (country level)

Has anyone done this yet? I'm aware there are no new ideas on the Internet.

<comment><USER3> "I've often thought about setting up an installation with one pixel per person"

The problem with this kind of simple scatterplot is that there is an maximum density that you can represent, when the dots start to overlap. And you can't tell what that maximum density is by looking at the map, so it in effect misrepresents the data. The example in the article compensates for this by allowing zooming, but the problem is still there at most zoom levels. To avoid this you need to use one of the techniques that tessellates the plane and colors each tile according to the average value in the tile.

<comment><USER4> I read bwooce's comment to mean one pixel per person literally (not in map projection). If you're not trying to represent geography at the same time you don't have that problem. You could still sort the data representing individuals by two variables if you want, e.g. latitude and longitude, and map them to x and y, but it wouldn't be a map.

<comment><USER3> You're right, I should have read the comment more carefully. An interesting idea! So please take my comment as applying to the article rather than bwooce's comment.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> I was hoping for a downloadable single-image version but he doesn't have one. I made one myself by compositing his tiles.

Image: <http://frammish.org/dots.png>

Code: <http://pastie.org/5602534>

<comment><USER6> Your first link crashed my Safari Browser.

<comment><USER7> It caused a spike in Firefox's memory usage of over 1 extra gigabyte.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> Minneapolis looks a lot larger than I'd have guessed.

</comment><comment><USER9> The pattern of dots connecting larger cities in the middle of the country is really impressive - and a bit suspicious how straight the lines are.

<comment><AUTHOR> Have you traveled that part of the country? There are large areas where every road is east-west or north-south, and the towns are evenly spaced for very long distances. I don't see anything suspicious about it at all. Is there something I'm missing?

<comment><USER10> Sounds right to me. Here's an example:

[https://maps.google.com/?ll=39.505841,-95.443857&spn=0.4...](https://maps.google.com/?ll=39.505841,-95.443857&spn=0.474159,0.971603&t=u&z=11)

<comment><USER11> There's some information on the origins of those remarkably regular (and recursive) grid roads in this article: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Land_Survey_System>

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> The increasingly magnified images remind me of playing with fractal-viewing programs, with one major difference: here the zooming in leads to distinct patterns at specific resolutions, rather than repetition of one at a different scale. Once you get to the clearly visible "blocks" of Detroit and LA you're learning something completely different. Fascinating.

</comment><comment><USER13> I like how you can toggle between the normal Google map and the census dots. It's fun to try to guess what the large white spots are in areas I'm familiar with, such as the Crystal Springs Reservoir near San Mateo, CA.

</comment><comment><USER14> I zoomed in on my neighborhood. My question is... I live on the edge of a national park, and I see a number of dots (roughly 50) within that national park. How is that possible?

<comment><USER15> Same, I live near a National Forest boundary and it's showing a substantial number of dots inside that boundary in places where there are most definitely no homes. There are occasional chunks of private land within the boundary, but not where these dots are showing—they are, in fact, often within a designated wilderness boundary which allows no permanent residents or active buildings.

<comment><USER4> The dots are not placed to exact addresses, but roughly evenly distributed within census blocks. The number inside the block should be correct, not the exact placement.</comment></comment></comment>


Giles Bowkett: You Fuckers Are Adorable - <AUTHOR> http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.ca/2012/10/you-fuckers-are-adorable.html

<comment><USER2> Just so I have this clear, is the author making fun of wanna-be entrepreneurs with just an idea looking for technical co-founders?

I think people like that have value, but only if they can raise money and land a co-founder. They might not deserve as much credit as they want, but they aren't worthless. I can't tell if the author thinks so.

That said, it is likely annoying to be constantly pitched by non-technical people who downplay the difficultly of building things.

<comment><USER3> Yeah, I can't tell you how many Valley newbs say they have a startup idea, they just need coders, and ooh, they can't tell you anything about the idea because you might steal it.

These are the same people who end up living in their cars, then moving back home with Mom and Dad.

<comment><USER4> > and ooh, they can't tell you anything about the idea because you might steal > it

In my experience the fact that someone needs to hide it usually means that they have little to bring to the table other than that idea.

<comment><USER3> Weird, couldn't reply to this, but then, after I posted the above comment, I suddenly could reply... Must be a timing thing.

<comment><USER5> It is a timing thing to prevent flaming or irrational replies. You can always click "link" and then you can reply.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> I've been approached by a couple people like this for a technical co-founder position. I got scared off when i actually met them and discovered i had more product experience then them and they had no significant connections or marketing experience to bring to the table.

</comment><comment><USER7> I love it. It reminds me of all those CEOs of companies with revenue in the 0$ range.

<comment><USER8> at least it's not negative?

<comment><USER9> He said revenue, not cash flow.

<comment><USER10> If I open a store and someone comes in and robs the register for my changemaking cash, is that negative revenue?

<comment><USER9> It's revenue (as evidenced by your register tape) plus a loss. Negative cash flow, positive revenue.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> Insightful I'd say. There are quite a few individuals in startup space these days who are kind of innocently/ignorantly parasitic towards people who do actual work. And it's not a problem of parasites to say no.

</comment><comment><USER12> Agree 100%. If you want to start a startup and are not willing to learn to code you are either a coward or stupid or lazy.

You don't need to be a full-on hacker, but if you haven't even tried to implement your vision (coders and funding be damned), you are a full-on phony.

</comment><comment><USER13> Best title, in my opinion: Owner.

</comment><comment><USER14> "Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled." (Howard Stevenson)

'Course, cut out man in the link isn't pursuing opportunity, he's whining about not having them.

</comment><comment><USER15> So I guess Zennström and Friis of Skype fame aren't entrepreneurs?

<comment><USER16> Their entrepreneurial moment came years earlier. Skype was founded on the back of their conventional capital ($$$) earned from earlier ventures.</comment></comment>


Your employer may cost you $100k in retirement savings – FutureAdvisor (YC S10) - <AUTHOR> http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/27/retirement/401k-fees/index.html

<comment><USER2> I hate to be the one handing out wet blankets - but 401(k) plans have been around the 1980's, and they have been an unmitigated disaster. It's well known that people quite simply do not have enough savings in their pension plans to be able to retire comfortably. Something will have to be done for the baby boomer generation that has been on 401(k)'s for all its working life, and it will not be this startup that pulls the cart out of the mud.

I am grateful that I still have 30 years of working life; this means that there will be enough time for a political solution to the pension timebomb. There will have to be a political solution.

</comment><comment><USER3> I am loathe to be this pessimistic, but I am a little over 10 years off from the golden age of 50 when no one will hire me. With the shuck and jive that keeps getting played with Social Security, 401ks, and Medicare, more and more I am beginning to consider my retirement is going to be of the eating catfood or hot lead variety. If I even make it to retirement. The plan by our overlords seems to be that retirement is over for most people.</comment>


How to Become a Good Theoretical Physicist - <AUTHOR> http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/theorist.html

<comment><USER2> Gerard 't Hooft, the author of this page, is surely one of the smartest people alive, with a Nobel Prize in physics. I'm excited to see that he's set forth a course of study; I only got to study a little bit of physics while getting my CS degree, and it's great to have guidance on how to pick up where I left off.

</comment><comment><USER3> Thankyou for this. It's amazing how many free resources are out their for those that look hard enough. It's even better when someone takes their time to lay out a path for people to follow.

<comment><USER4> By no less than a Nobel Prize laureate.

</comment></comment><comment> da-bacon A nice list. The only area I'd add is statistics. Eventually the theory's got to be tested, and understanding the methods experimentalists use is very useful in navigating that world.</comment>


Show HN: Scheduling/recommendations for Coachella - <AUTHOR> http://www.musicfilmcomedy.com/en/schedule/Coachella_Weekend_1?day=2012-04-13

<comment><AUTHOR> This is a project I've been working on for the last few weeks. We'd like to get some feedback from anybody to may be going (or just curious). There are still plenty of issues to be fixed but it should be functional.</comment>


An Experiment in Crowd Sharing a Detroit Real Estate Rehab Project (2 Min Video) - <AUTHOR> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bapcgs1v62Q&t=4s <comment><AUTHOR> Here's the website: [https://thedetroitbus.us1.list- manage.com/subscribe?u=100b9a...](https://thedetroitbus.us1.list- manage.com/subscribe?u=100b9adf33ec890d8ae08e810&id=0798f56525)

I am in no way endorsing this project. It's a friend of a friend but I thought it was interesting because he's letting anyone become a shareholder.</comment>


Open-V: The World's First Open Source RISC-V-based 32-bit Microcontroller - <AUTHOR> https://www.crowdsupply.com/onchip/open-v <comment><USER2> This is great! The source code is written in Verilog HDL and is located here[0]. I hope they use english instead of spanish as a language to attract more contributors.

[0] - [https://github.com/onchipuis/mriscvcore](https://github.com/onchipuis/mriscvcore)

</comment><comment><USER3> Some pretty concerning red flags: They said "RISC-V", but that's not saying much. Is it RV32I, RV32IM, RV32G, does it have supervisor support, etc. Yes, I know I can look it up on github, but this kind of information should be at the very top of the front page.

<comment><USER4> RV32IM with interruptions capability. Sure, we will add this at the CS site.

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> Great initiative but worrysome execution. Can the team share why we can't buy chips in lots of 100, 1k or even 1M chips? $500k isn't enough for TSMC, so who'll pay them? The ESP32 seems to have a much, much stronger story.

<comment><USER6> Analog IPs are one of the most expensive part of the design. I hope these IPs will be free. Is there any voltage regulator?

<comment><USER7> I read in hackaday that Analogs IP will be open, But I couldn't find anything about voltage regulators.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> Most of dev boards for hobby-end microcontrollers in the market are using high level language to easy the micro programming, is any high level language such as C supported?

<comment><USER4> C is supported. We are using the riscv.org toolchain considering that the micro has a RV32IM set. An arduino bootloader will make the micro Arduino- compatible .

</comment></comment><comment><USER9> Getting 160MHz makes things more expensive, technology wise. Why not starting in a cheaper technology to be open source?

<comment><USER4> Good point. We are trying to cover some mid-end apps too. Basically the reason is we are planning to implement some functionality on-the-chip, such as a USB 3.1 PHY which requires a decent tech.

</comment></comment><comment><USER10> Hopefully they have something like the modern micros which includes USB interfaces onchip...

<comment><USER4> The current measured chip v.1 of the Open-V has not USB PHY. We are using a USB-to-SPI cable to program the micro. However, we are developing a low-speed USV PHY: PCS and PMA; and also a high speed PHY USB3.1 [https://twitter.com/onchipUIS/status/787124721955508224](https://twitter.com/onchipUIS/status/787124721955508224). We are hoping to tapeout soon the USB PHYs to see feasibility inclusion for Open-V v.2.

</comment></comment><comment><USER11> when you talk about mass production, how many tape outs are expecting before sending the chips to your sponsors? how can we be sure the chips have a proper ESD strategy or are not weak to typical electrical over stresses?

<comment><USER12> We have now a first prototype, fully tested, so, with this campaign we expect to improve our first version but both chips will be available. We use ESD protections structures provided by the foundry.</comment></comment>


My Job Recruitment Tip that May Just Save You Thousands - <AUTHOR> http://www.startupceo.co.za/2010/05/07/job-recruitment-tip/ <comment><USER2> A very thin article suggesting that 1) lots of resumes are online (CVs) and 2) that you can google them for keyword phrases.</comment>


The Strange Rise of Music Holograms - <AUTHOR> https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2019/10/30/dead-musicians-are-taking-stage-again-hologram-form-is-this-kind-encore-we-really-want/ <comment><USER3> Interesting that this article doesn't mention Hatsune Miku, who of course does not exist except as a holographic virtual performer.

<comment><USER4> The article is about the ethical/philosophical implications of having dead performers holographically "brought to life," so Hatsune Miku isn't really relevant to the topic.

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> They're technically not holograms but Pepper's ghost.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%27s_ghost](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%27s_ghost)

Calling them a hologram is like calling a lenticular a gif.

<comment><USER6> I mean, it depends. They're not always peppers ghost. It's quite common to just use transparent projector screens, as peppers ghost doesn't handle viewing angles all that well.

<comment><USER5> A hologram is a light field captured onto a film.

These live displays are usually just some sort of optical illusion.

A real hologram shows you the actual light from the captured event as it's the entire light field from the event. So your eyes are receiving essentially stored light.

<comment><USER7> Right there with you friend, but unfortunately that's not how language works and there's no hard line as to what is and isn't a "hologram". Yes, you can coherently capture a real light wave field directly onto photo-material - <USER2> can also generate one synthetically, quantize your light field into spatial "hogels", eliminate an axis of parallax, constrict the FOV etc, and finally replace your interference-based "hogels" with lenses and you have an integral image or lenticular, which is different physics but exactly the same imaging principles. Every one of those stages is a "hologram" to some set of people - hardcore holographers might draw the line at analog techniques, researchers will accept anything interference-based, and laypeople will slap the label on just about anything that looks cool.

Believe me - this isn't a battle worth fighting. At the end of the day, everything is an illusion. Vision is not reality.

Source: many a long year making digital holograms and trying to explain to people what it is I do.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> [https://outline.com/WeZ93n](https://outline.com/WeZ93n)

<comment><USER9> OT: but WP paywall is by far the most hostile of popular news org paywalls out there IMO. Using an addon like 1blocker is thwarted by virtue of the site redirecting to the homepage (although you can hide element screen a couple of times and view the entire article from within there).

I wonder if this strategy was pre or post Bezos purchase. Either way, I avoid WP at all costs. (I know clicking the 'web' link here can bypass - I'm just venting and I apologize for that).

Thanks for the outline link.

</comment></comment><comment><USER10> I don't get it. I might watch something like this streamed. But live touring?

The main performer is not alive. What's the draw? Is it like going to a wax museum but for music?

It seems as exciting as chewing on beeswax.

<comment><USER11> The first time I heard of this (and one of the examples in the article) was Snoop Dogg performing live at a festival, with a hologram of Tupac. Snoop was the draw, Tupac was a surprise, and it went over very well.

Also, "live concerts" with lip-synced performances seem to be relatively common, for whatever reasons. The audio is pre-recorded in this case, as well as with a solo, dead "live performer". Doesn't seem like a huge difference to me.

</comment></comment><comment><USER12> The Roy Holorbison backup singers sounded so bad I thought they were intentionally trying to show what a bad idea this is.

</comment><comment><USER13> I'm sorry, I don't usually do this, but this really pissed me off.

I don't use an adblocker. I am well aware that my web browsing experience would be much more pleasant if I did, but I want to support the sites I visit.

The Washington Post won't let me read their article because it says I need to disable my ad blocker, which I don't have. The link with instructions on how to disable my nonexistant ad blocker includes this line:

> Firefox's native ad blocker

> Select the "i" or shields icon to the left of the URL in the URL bar. In the > tooltip that opens, click on "Turn off Blocking for This Site" to disable > blocking. For more information, please visit Firefox's instructions.

Of course, Firefox doesn't have a native ad blocker. What these instructions are telling me to do is disable Firefox's "tracking protection". That's not the same at all.

<comment><USER14> It's about time for us to take back the web from advertising.

Back in the 90's and early 00's the web was an amazing place with high signal and low noise. Now you have shitty articles creeping into our social feeds that we can't even read -- they're effectively advertising on Hacker News, Reddit, etc. at no cost and then asking us to pay. That shouldn't fly.

News websites asking for money should get _zero_ placement on social sites or news feeds.

These websites complain that we're depriving them of money, but the fact is they chose to build websites. They made a land grab during the commercialization of the internet and they're dissatisfied with the results.

Meanwhile we have auto-playing video ads because Google ad reps say it drives higher engagement, and the tech to support it is being built into Chrome because it earns Google more money.

Ugh.

<comment><USER15> Works fine if you disable all scripts. Enable washingtonpost.com to get the first image.</comment></comment></comment>


Simple 2D collision detection in JavaScript - <AUTHOR> http://pastebin.com/CHc6gFUN

<comment><USER2> Great timing! :) I was just about to write a collision detection function for a project I'm working on, and your post showed up. Thanks!

</comment><comment><USER3> I think adding the humble polygon would make this infinitely more useful.

<comment><AUTHOR> I wish I had the time to add polygons to the library. That said, you can create composite shapes.</comment></comment>


Facebook's PHP Codebase: It's Complex - <AUTHOR> http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebooks-php-codebase-its-complex/

<comment><USER2> This is something I learned both at my first tech job and in reading about the quest to make the "lightest possible Windows installation" for Hotmail: if you don't pay any attention to your dependencies, you'll eventually code your way into a huge ball of spaghetti. At some point systems get big enough to start falling out of your head. By the time I noticed it happening to me at that first job--when I had trouble keeping the _relevant subset_ of the system in mind--my productivity dropped by an order of magnitude. Having a visualization like this would have been handy to help see it coming.

</comment><comment><USER3> Here is the direct link to Facebook's visualization: <https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150187460703920></comment>


PostgreSQL at 20TB and Beyond (Slides) - <AUTHOR> https://www.slideshare.net/ChrisTravers5/postgresql-at-20tb-and-beyond <comment><AUTHOR> I think the biggest fundamental takeaway here is that PostgreSQL works fairly well as a big data platform for certain kinds of data.

20TB per server x 20 servers for raw storage, 32TB of storage sharded for analytics. trillions of data points per year. And we make it work.

</comment><comment><USER2> They run on "stripped down Gentoo" Linux. They have "about 200 employees worldwide". They also get 50% faster throughput than stock Linux systems.

What's all this "no business justification" for having your own quasi-distro? "Business justification" is just intellectual lazines on the part of The Business itself. Or maybe sub rosa "emoluments", like a few rounds of Bikini Golf in the Bahamas for the VPs.

<comment><AUTHOR> One fundamental problem here is that business justification depends on business direction and strategy. What is your exit strategy? Do you care about being profitable? How important is autoscaling? How do you deal with a hardware outage?

These are not free tradeoffs. In all cases you solve some problems at expense of either making other problems harder to solve.

So I don't know about the no business justification argument. That is so contextual.

I do know we hire Gentoo packagers. We hire people who can code C. We hire PostgreSQL backend hackers. We hire the best and most senior people we can.

<comment><USER2> Thank you for an intelligent answer, one that accounts for nuance.</comment></comment></comment>


Comparison of worldwide download speeds - <AUTHOR> http://www.netindex.com/download/

<comment><USER2> Akamai releases similar data in its quarterly State of the Internet report with download speed broken down by location and other data that it collects. There's quite a bit of advertising in the report, but it has some interesting information as well.</comment>


Show HN: Cryptris, a video game on cryptography - <AUTHOR> http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~lducas/news_cryptris.html <comment><USER2> I like it so far. Do you already have plans for translating? I think I can read just enough french to understand what is going on and I'm interested in helping out.

<comment><USER3> I hope you do! This project sounds cool, and if you and/or others produce an English version, we'll waive the rule on duplicates and welcome a repost.

It seems like this work would best be discussed here once the entire community is able to play the game.

<comment><AUTHOR> Thank you for the encouragement, and waiving the rules...

The game has just been released in French (36 hours) after two years of work; but yes I'm already thinking about translation...

Unfortunately, for budget reasons, the game wasn't originally designed for multilingual support; so there is work not only for translators but also for developers. The good news is that it is open source so we can make that happen.

Another solution might be to crowd-fund the translation and leave the multilingual support to Digitalcusine who know well its own source code and have done amazing work so far (especially considering budget constraints).

Anyway; I'm open to any suggestions and help on the matter; please email me if you'd like personnaly to help out so we can organize ourselves !

Thanks again. \- L

<comment><USER4> Just finished the game, it was really good.

It would help if you can open the issue tracker on this project, like this we can discuss new features such as translations. For that go to settings and tick the checkbox for issues.

<comment><USER4> Was just investigating the source code and noticed it's a fork from daformat, would it be better to open issues here?

<comment><USER5> Sorry for catching up late, definitely, please submit issues to my fork so we can all keep up with what's going on.

Thanks for the help and comments guys, nice to see Cryptris getting some supporters on HN.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> Having to translate from French does increase the difficulty.

<comment><USER7> yeah, that was kind of a blow to me...

<comment><USER8> This game is quite confusing even if you speak French.

Somehow playing a variant of tetris explains public key crypto.

<comment><AUTHOR> The relations between the game and public key crypto are explained here (if you speak french...) :

[http://images.math.cnrs.fr/Cryptris-1-2-Comprendre-une- des.h...](http://images.math.cnrs.fr/Cryptris-1-2-Comprendre-une-des.html)

and

[http://images.math.cnrs.fr/Cryptris-2-2-Les- dessous.html](http://images.math.cnrs.fr/Cryptris-2-2-Les-dessous.html)

<comment><USER9> It's quite clever, but I think the pedagogical function is questionable, because I don't think that the geometric interpretation will be particularly clear to players who haven't read these articles.

The idea of the game seems to be to show people that public-key cryptography exists and can work, yet the actual method of creating the public and private keys (and the fact that the public key can be created easily given the private key and not vice versa) won't be especially obvious.

<comment><AUTHOR> Indeed it was our idea; with the opportunity for the most curious players to learn more about Crypto, Algorithms and Math. The articles (and the whole "documentation" menu) are for the curious kids (of all ages...)

After 24h hours the game is already a success. I will for sure put a lot of effort in getting the game translated !

<comment><USER9> I think it's excellent to try to find new ways to explain these concepts. Do you think there is a path for an ordinary player of this game to come to perceive more about the properties of public and private keys, and especially how the two are related to one another?

<comment><USER5> Add this to that the fact that we need to try not to lose the player's attention so he won't get too confused by too much information.

In the dialogs, we first explain to the player that we need to create him a username, a private key and a public one. Now the player gets too chose his username, and right after that we generate a random private key (well not exactly random, in fact _we randomize a pre-generated private key so we can be sure of it 's properties,_ otherwise the player could get hard times decrypting).

Once the private key is generated, we get the player to create his public key through scrambling and mixing the private key.

During the normal game, we add an extra check to make sure the private/public keys matches the ideal properties we need for our demonstration: we want the player to play with a simple public key and the AI to play with a strong (kind of) public key, in the game this translates to _one column significantly 'bigger' than the others for the private key_ and _more than one 'big' columns for the public key_.

We only constrain the public key during the game's story mode, in arcade one can chose to create a 'weaker' public key ("Arcade" > "création des clés"), then let him play the arcade boards with it.

Additionally, we allow the player to chose who plays with what, so both the player and the AI can play with private/public keys.

So I really think all the building blocks are already in the game + arcade mode. But we need to admit that most people just skip dialogs, no matter what.

Oh, well let's just keep on iterating :)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><AUTHOR> Two editions pads for collaborative edition (Thx Framapad !) have been opened for the translation of the explanation articles to English: [https://cryptris.framapad.org/1](https://cryptris.framapad.org/1) and [https://cryptris.framapad.org/2](https://cryptris.framapad.org/2) .

The bug tracker has been opened on github to discuss implementation of multilingual support.

Merci !

</comment><comment><USER10> I block twitter.com and Google Analytics, and this thing refuses to load. Well, you lost these eyeballs.

<comment><USER5> Can you please specify what is your config (including how you actually block those) so we can fix it?

</comment></comment><comment><USER11> Stalls after clicking "suite" of creating the public key</comment>


There's feminism and then there's bullying - <AUTHOR> http://zaman.io/theres-feminism-and-then-theres-bullying/

<comment><USER2> > Instead of celebrating one of humanity's biggest achievements, Matt got tons > of negative criticism for wearing an apparently offensive shirt, designed by > his (female) friend.

Not mutually exclusive.

> The message they want to convey is that people (when they really mean women) > should not be judged by how they dress - but at the same time attack a man, > wait for it,... because of his shirt! Double standards, methinks.

Complete distortion of both the argument against the shirt and the concept of "she was asking for it" and he was acting in a position as a representative.

> It's almost a wearable altar to a woman's body.

Oh so it was a compliment. Why didn't women take it as a compliment! Just like catcalling right?

</comment><comment><USER3> That was a terrible article by a terrible person.

<comment><AUTHOR> Thank you.</comment></comment>


"Humanization" is fueling explosive (and weird) growth in the pet industry - <AUTHOR> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/magazine/13pets-t.html?em&ex=1215835200&en=fad6f7111244cfb4&ei=5070

<comment><USER2> This is a pretty long article. The title here makes it sound like a business article, but it doesn't really strike me as such.

At the heart of the article is the philosophic question: Do animals think in the way humans do? Do they feel not only fear but anxiety? Do they reason? Or, are they thoughtless automatons, acting on instincts and learned behavior alone?

Turns out a lot of big pharma companies are developing doggy equivalents of a lot of human drugs like prozac and friends. Vets are prescribing medications for separation anxiety and other behavioral problems that were once addressed soley with training (or euthanasia).

If human drugs work the same way in animals, what does that say out about an animal's capacity to think and feel?

Or, turn it on it's head: If unwanted behavior is seen more often in animals that are in "unnatural" environments (for example, a horse left in a tiny stall all day, as opposed to horses in the wild), and we "fix" those animals with the same drugs we prescribe humans, what does that say about us?

Do we need drugs strictly because we lead unhealthy lifestyles?

</comment><comment><USER3> I always thought it was that funny that animals have humane societies.

</comment><comment><USER4> Wow, an 8 page NYT article that didn't bore me. Well done.</comment>


Mozilla CTO: Andreas Gal - <AUTHOR> https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/24/mozilla-cto-andreas-gal/ <comment><USER2> Andreas is the perfect choice for this role. Top notch technical abilities, and very nice human being if you like the "no bullshit" way of doing things.

Edit: his own post is at [http://andreasgal.com/2014/04/24/technical- leadership-at-moz...](http://andreasgal.com/2014/04/24/technical-leadership- at-mozilla/)

<comment><USER3> And, equally important as Mozilla, has not expressed a political opinion that is disagreeable.

<comment><USER4> Disagreeable isn't a problem. Bigoted is a problem.

<comment><USER5> The public shaming of Christian and Muslim employees will continue until bigotry has been eliminated...

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> For some reason I thought Eich had gone back to CTO. I guess after the controversy that wasn't really possible.

<comment><USER7> Is he involved with Mozilla at all any more?

<comment><USER8> He's still the buck-stops-here person for the module owner system in the Mozilla Project. He's not involved with the Mozilla Corporation as far as I can tell.

<comment><USER9> He may be but as he says himself, that's not much involvement: [http://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2014/04/07...](http://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2014/04/07/a-curse- and-a-blessing/#comment-4280)

<comment><USER8> Stuff pretty rarely gets escalated to that point, sure. I mean, the position exists for cases when normal means of resolving code ownership disagreements totally fail.

Maybe that's just obvious if you're familiar with the governance structure of the Mozilla Project but not clear to people who haven't been involved in it...

<comment><USER9> I'm familiar with the governance structure of Mozilla. I'm not a distinguished engineer or anything, but familiar enough. There are employees parroting that Brendan is still has an important position in the structure. Brendan's comment implies he does not consider that the case.

<comment><USER8> I wasn't trying to imply that you're personally not familiar with the governance structure. I can see how what I said could be read that way, and I apologize for that. It was meant as more of a general statement...

In any case I've seen one technical issue escalated to Brendan so far since he resigned, after mailing list wrangling back and forth for a while got nowhere. He made a call on it (a compromise of sorts, as it happens), and people abided by that call from what I can tell.

He clearly has a lot less impact on decisionmaking now than he did before, which is what you see in his comments. I can totally understand why he feels the way he does. But I think he's underselling the importance he still has.

<comment><USER9> That good to hear that he's still been active, thanks.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> I wonder - did they check his political donations?

<comment><USER11> it's likely all candidate higher-ups in mozilla will be required to reveal all past political affiliations to make sure their beliefs don't conflict with mozilla values such as acceptance and tolerance of people of differing opinions/backgrounds.

<comment><USER12> I adore your comment, but you're being far to subtle.

<comment><USER13> "Are you now, or have you ever been, a member or contributor to anti-gay- marriage groups?"

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> As with every other Mozilla story posted over the past couple weeks, this may end up getting flagged/controversy-filtered off the front page quickly. Dang, if that happens, could we possibly get an exception? I'm tired of everything Mozilla-related getting swept under the rug around here.

<comment><USER15> Not sure I have a good answer for you. All the options I know of, in general, suck. Fortunately this thread hasn't gone too far off the rails so far.

<comment><USER16> I think we get flagged for ring voting a lot too, since a lot of us share a similar location... (so I dare not up vote this submission)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER17> Before joining Mozilla, he worked on JITs for Java, and after he joined Mozilla, he worked on JITS for JavaScript mostly, from memory.

Good luck, Andreas. Thanks, Brendan.

</comment><comment><USER18> The link to Shumway is broken, FYI.

<comment><USER19> Thanks. It's been fixed.

</comment></comment><comment><USER20> My only question and request to the new CTO. Please accelerate Project Async and e10sm2.

</comment><comment><USER21> #uninstallfirefox

<comment><USER22> #growup , I mean,the story is over,let's talk about technology,now.I wish Eich well.I'm sure he'll be joining a startup or something soon.

<comment><USER23> May be you need to grow up? This is just the beginning of end of free speech where minority gets their way ousting a co-founder for $1000 donation six years ago without any proof of inappropriate behavior.</comment></comment></comment>


The next 3D printing revolution - <AUTHOR> http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/11/the-next-revolution-will-not-b.html

<comment><USER2> "What am I missing?"

Well, mostly I would criticize that much of the analysis is based around the cost of making clothing. But buying basic clothing (t-shirts, simple pants etc) is cheap, even from a developing country perspective these days.

In the developed world, we pay for brand, for design, to be fashionable. The price we pay for a garment has only a slight relation to the cost of making the garment. As such, the economics of printable clothing is not going to make a major difference.

In fact it's worse than that. Fashion is often used as a signifier of wealth. If the world discovers that it's expensive to make hand-sewn clothing, and cheap to print it, you can bet your bottom dollar that the wealthy people of the world will _only_ wear hand-sewn garments. These are the people that set fashion, which means that every 20-something fashionista will be looking to copy them, which means that they too are going to have hand-sewn garments. It's the future equivalent of the fact that today's rich and famous don't show up to the Oscars in a jean and t-shirt (well, unless they're trying to make some kind of ironic statement, and even then you can bet that it'll be a designer pair of jeans and t-shirt, costing in the hundreds of dollars)

I'm not hugely fashion-conscious, but I have friends that sit in a bar and tell me whether or not the girl two seats up has a _real_ Versace handbag, or a cheap knock-off (it's scary - enough to make me never buy a knock-off!). If you know what you're looking for, you can see the difference, and people that care about fashion do know what they're looking for.

<comment><USER3> _But buying basic clothing (t-shirts, simple pants etc) is cheap, even from a developing country perspective these days._

Clothing is cheap but it's often manufactured in highly unethical working conditions. Factories burn down or collapse, killing hundreds of workers and maiming many more. It's a really terrible situation and I'm sure many companies would love to have an affordable means of automating this problem away.

<comment><USER4> I'm always fascinated by suggestions that one solution to unethical working conditions is to eliminate the jobs entirely.

<comment><USER3> Every job is slated for automation eventually. The idea that jobs are a good thing to have around is widespread but wrong, in my opinion. Jobs are a relic of the pre-automation era of civilization.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> Really interesting. Also, please s/I infer that that/I infer that/, ftw.

Personally I have a really hard time with the suggested future scenario: looking at clothes on a screen/magazine/shelf is at least one order of magnitude more "meh" than trying them on, for me. But perhaps the store could also have some kind of "generic medium" pre-printed editions that you could try on.

Of course, perhaps that doesn't make sense at all, since with the magically super-fitted Clothes of the Future, the fit will be so fantastic that trying something non-fitted stops to make sense for typical designs. It'll be interesting.

</comment><comment><USER6> I don't see why I would want to print every t-shirt I am going to wear, and there are lot of considerations too.

The first one is material: If I am going to wear something I certainly don't want it to harm my health. Having possibly toxic plastic on me all the time is a thing I would very much like to avoid. Pure wool just can't be replaced.

The second is the actual final shape. Ok maybe the shirt would fit better if it was printed, but surely wearing something that fits your skin is not always flattering or desirable. There are days you need more room for extra garments too.

The last thing is that I really hope its durable, which silly string is not. If it's durable enough I can see it having a very big success in all other areas discussed.

</comment><comment><USER7> The point on dress patterns not scaling linearly is an important one, especially in the plus size range. It's also true that proportions vary even within the same dress size. I'd love to see Stross' model of the store-as- scanner, made-to-measure clothing come true -- though I've seen a startup which measures body proportion in the comfort of your own home, so maybe the stores would be more for final fit and finish, if the cost works out.

</comment><comment><USER8> Mind = blown. This could mean: 1) No shopping needed: you print your clothes in the morning 2) No need to wash your clothes. You can dissolve them, clean them chemically and reprint you clothes.

This could affect a lot of industries and companies...

Have you seen this video? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKZuPPjoxHQ#t=201](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKZuPPjoxHQ#t=201)

</comment><comment><USER9> Question, is it possible to print something like chain where nothing holds up the other parts?

<comment><USER10> Depends on the method used to print.

If you use selective laser sintering (which is what Shapeways uses), what you do is keep on adding layers of a fine powder, then us a laser to fuse them together in the places where you want your object. The powder supports the object, so things like a chain are entirely possible to print. When you're done, you drain the powder away and have your completed object (which you may then do further finishing on like sanding or painting).

Other 3D printing methods like extrusion may be able to do so, if they have two nozzles and can print both the final material and some supporting material that could be melted or dissolved away.</comment></comment>


Senate encryption bill draft mandates 'technical assistance' - <AUTHOR> http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/275567-senate-intel-encryption-bill-mandates-technical-assistance <comment><USER2> "A long-awaited Senate Intelligence Committee encryption bill would force companies to provide "technical assistance" to government investigators seeking locked data, according to a discussion draft obtained by The Hill."

Full pdf text of the bill from Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and ranking member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) follows: [https://www.scribd.com/doc/307378123/Burr-Encryption-Bill- Di...](https://www.scribd.com/doc/307378123/Burr-Encryption-Bill-Discussion- Draft)</comment>


Deis v1.4 – Now on Azure - <AUTHOR> http://deis.io/deis-1-4-now-on-azure/

<comment><USER2> I had a lot of fun hacking away with the DEIS guyson the Azure integration. If you want a quick overview post, I wrote a "from 0 to cluster": [http://felixrieseberg.com/deis-azure-coreos/](http://felixrieseberg.com/deis- azure-coreos/)</comment>


KDE Usability and Productivity: Week 63 - <AUTHOR> https://pointieststick.com/2019/03/23/kde-usability-productivity-week-63/ <comment><USER2> I love this blog series -- its such a great way to show the ongoing hard work by the community, in a way that is often missed for open source stuff.

</comment><comment><USER3> Had a quick look at openSUSE and KDE these days. I think about switching from Debian and Xfce. Because of a stable rolling-release distribution and easy to setup feature-rich tiling window manager with kwin-tiling.

</comment><comment><USER4> Plasma 5 is my Desktop Environment on all machines capable enough to handle it. Xfce for all others.

I love the configurability and theming capabilities. Dolphin, Okular and Spectacle are just incredible. I do not use Discover at all.

On Arch Linux, I have had no troubles in the past 5-6 months. The quality is pretty high.

I thank the KDE/Plasma community for enriching the world with their contributions.</comment>


The 30 second habit with a lifelong impact - <AUTHOR> https://medium.com/@robynscott/the-30-second-habit-with-a-lifelong-impact-2c3f948ead98

<comment><USER2> > Immediately after every lecture, meeting, or any significant experience, > take 30 seconds — no more, no less — to write down the most important > points. If you always do just this, said his grandfather, and even if you > only do this, with no other revision, you will be okay.

<comment><USER3> Did that take you 30 seconds?</comment></comment>