More Range in Chevy's Volt Means You Hardly Ever Need Gas - <AUTHOR> http://www.wired.com/2015/08/range-chevys-volt-means-hardly-ever-need-gas/ <comment><USER2> I own a 2015 Chevy volt. When running on gas, the mileage is ok, but far surpassed by most anything hybrid. When running on electric, I calculate the mileage by electrical charge price vs the gas price and end up getting 120-150 mpg equivalent. Since mostly we drive around the city/suburbs, we only use the gas engine for airport runs or long trips. Sure I could have an all electric car (and I do) but it would get annoying having to rent a car whenever I wanted to go to another city.

EDIT: The only way the volt makes sense is if you can charge it daily and drive mostly on full electric, and still need to periodically take road trips.

<comment><USER3> It seems like it might make sense to have a detachable (gas) engine. If you could remove it for your city driving, you'd save weight (== increased mileage). Then you'd fit it back only for the long trips. Not sure how practical such an arrangement would be.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> The worst of both worlds: (1) If you rarely use the gas engine, you are wasting electrical power hauling around a gas engine and gas tank (2) If you often use the gas engine, you are wasting gas hauling around extra-large batteries.

<comment><USER5> A lot of people still like to take longer trips (400 or so miles) in their automobiles. Not as often as they run around town, obviously, but these are things people think about when purchasing a vehicle. So, while hauling around a gas engine and tank seems wasteful, people are not yet willing to forego having a car with decent enough range to take them away for vacation.

<comment><USER6> For instance here in the Mountain Time Zone we pretty much get 1 1/2 cities per state and they're not small states so there's usually monthly trips of ~200 miles (± driving in the city).

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> I don't know how true this is... but I've read that gas can go bad. Would this be a problem for the Volt?

<comment><USER8> 6 months is not a problem and I predict that 12 months is safe with optional small enhancing chemicals.

<comment><USER9> STA-BIL will keep it good for 12 months.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> The first few cars I've owned were GM cars, and each of them had numerous problems. I'm happy as hell with the Honda Accord that I have, and lately I've been keeping my eye on Tesla, eagerly awaiting their lower priced models that'll become available soon.

Even though I've more or less sworn off American cars from the Big Three, I'm happy to see them making these kinds of improvements as it's slowly changing my mind about them.

<comment><USER11> The Big Three have changed significantly within the past ten years. GM had a huge culture change and went from producing pretty terrible vehicles to making pretty nice ones. Look at Cadillacs and the new Camaros. Chrysler is now owned by Fiat, who is very, very motivated to make it in the American market. Can't say much about Ford, though. Never owned one, so I don't read up on them. But I have high hopes for cars like the Volt. GM really wants the car to do well.

</comment></comment><comment><USER12> > Running on gas alone, the car delivers a highly impressive 42 mpg

Seriously? That's 50.4 MPG in the UK. My 7 year old Civic gets 45-60 MPG (UK) depending on how I'm driving and traffic.

<comment><USER13> Unlike your Civic, the Volt has to lug around a huge battery, a complex powertrain, and two high-torque motors. Its curb weight is about 40% higher than a 2008 Civic.

BTW, did you mean a Civic _Hybrid_? Because the US EPA estimate for even the most frugal of 2008 non-Hybrid Civics is 29 MPG combined. If you are driving so as to coax 50 MPG US out of a 2008 Civic, you will _love_ the Volt.

<comment><USER14> Since he mentions the UK I assume he means the diesel version which is estimated at 60MPG. The latest version of that car is estimated to come in around 78MPG.

<comment><USER13> I think you're using highway-driving only. The estimate for the latest Civic I could find (2012) is 67.3MPG UK (55.9MPG US) combined, using a British cycle. This is diesel, which has a higher energy density than gas, so the equivalent in gas would be 49MPG. But also note that european MPG measurement cycles are much more generous than US ones: the EPA measure would be _much_ lower in the US.

All in all the Volt probably is almost the same as and possibly better than, the Civic in gas-only driving, despite the fact that it has to lug around an additional electric motor and battery.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER15> This should be more than enough for the average commute. Considering the fact that running an ICE for short trips is very hard to the engine, it should help with the repair bills too.

The only question is, how much for the battery replacement?

</comment><comment><USER16> My wife just returned from a wedding in Maine. Flew to Boston, drove up in a Volt. Took 7 gallons of gas. 6 months between fillups is possibly an exaggeration - 3 days is more like it.

<comment><USER17> 3 days? I make it 2 weeks in a 20 year old car. Sure, if you're doing a lot of driving it won't last 6 months. But for typical everyday use, I bet that's not an exaggeration (certainly not for my use).

<comment><USER18> >I make it 2 weeks in a 20 year old car.

I used to go for two weeks between fill-ups in a '78 Buick but that was mostly becuase it had a 24-gallon tank (and I only drove about 20 miles a day).</comment></comment></comment>


Parts of the Marshall Islands now more radioactive than Chernobyl - <AUTHOR> https://www.businessinsider.com/places-more-radioactive-than-chernobyl-marshall-islands-2019-7 <comment><USER2> Kiev is also more radioactive than Chernobyl. It entirely depends were you measure and how you evaluate the risks. Nobody would move to Chernobyl because you shouldn't dig into the earth too much. So the comparison stinks a bit.

</comment><comment><AUTHOR> full title: "Parts of the Marshall Islands are now more radioactive than Chernobyl because of US nuclear tests"</comment>


Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid it - <AUTHOR> http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/39 <comment><USER2> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SENS> <http://www.sens.org/>

Death sucks, let's get rid of it.

</comment><comment><USER3> ted is pretty consistently amazing in their presentations.

<comment><USER4> eh? lots of them are not serious. only a handful are of comparable quality to Aubrey.

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> There really is a sucker born every minute. You people really buy this schtick?

<comment><USER6> You sound surprised. Death and aging are engineering problems. This is a site filled with people who believe engineering problems can be solved. What Aubrey brings to the table is reminding us of this and daring to attempt it. Fixes are possible.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness>

It's amazing what a difference believing something is possible makes

<comment><USER5> If you believe curing aging is as simple as he says, and that there's even a chance of it happening this century, you are a sucker.

> Death and aging are engineering problems.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer's_Syndrome>

The tendency to see solvable technical problems where there aren't necessarily any. Exemplified by those financially successful technical people who purchase sports franchises and then always manage them into the ground, having approached the enterprise as an engineering problem. Also evidenced by the horrendous record of technocratic governments and affiliated political philosophies formed by technical people.

<comment><USER6> Simple, no, but I'll bite on the second half of your statement "that there's even a chance of it happening this century" because the chance is there. Curing aging is incremental. Life expectancy at birth in the United States in 1900 was 47 years, today it's 76.

It's fascinating--you're so confident in your negativity that you'll predict 100 years out! I couldn't have imagined 30 years ago I'd be wasting time on something called the internet responding to a troll calling people "suckers" in a hacker forum, but here I am. Shame on me for responding, really. Good night...</comment></comment></comment></comment>


Costs and Startups - Advice for your CFO - <AUTHOR> http://markmaunder.com/2009/costs-and-startups-advice-for-your-cfo/

<comment><USER2> This is a great post. Protecting the modest amount of money we're making now as an early stage start up is extremely important. The one thing this post didn't talk about was why it's so important to be so frugal. Having financial discipline specifically allows a start up to stay independent in times of difficulty. If we do hit rough times and the revenue dips or stops all together, we need to be able to get back on our feet without having to take on any "I hate this but I need it" work. We make a point of avoiding red-flag clients, unfavourable RFPs, banner-ads for agencies that don't get technology. I guess my point is, that financial failure isn't what's going to destroy a start up. It's the fact that in times of need start ups tend to lower their standards and accept work that inevitably makes us hate our jobs and quit. Everything from keeping salaries low, to squeezing money out of hardware, to limiting the amount we spend each month on books, travel, and office supplies helps us build up a war chest for hard times. And the reason the war chest is handy isn't because we need it to survive - getting work isn't that hard - it's because we can wait for the work that we love to do.

<comment><USER3> I agree, but would add that a frugal company will also beat a less frugal competitor (or potential competitor) - because they can advertise more, pay better etc. And when you are more frugal than your competition, you can win any competition on price, all other things being equal.

I'd also suggest that VC's will always fund a frugal company over their rival(s) - although that's somewhat hypothetical as I've never accepted outside funding.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> In addition to raiding your cluster for the computational equivalent of the pennies in the couch, you can also charge money for whatever it is that you're serving 30 million times a day. This is almost magical in its ability to make it possibly to trivially afford whatever hardware/bandwidth/etc capacity you need.

</comment><comment><USER5> This is a dangerous approach. Sure, watch your meagre cash resources with eagle eyes, but you should really beware of false economies. Cash is a tight resource for any start-up, but there's one resource that's even tighter: time.

If you have a choice between spending $10 or spending 10 hours, don't be silly. Spend the $10, and keep the 10 hours focused on something that provides more than $10 of value to you (like making a sale).

<comment><AUTHOR> Don't forget though that spending money costs time. You need to spec, buy, deploy and manage those new servers or employees. And when you decide you need more money to trade for time, you need to pitch, close and maintain the new investor relationship. Of course at that point you're actually trading equity for time.

<comment><USER6> In the end, it's a balance. You need keep track of (and understand) the fluctuating exchange rate between time and money as your business evolves.</comment></comment></comment>


Dwolla Launches Realtime - <AUTHOR> https://realtime.dwolla.com

<comment><USER2> New feature. New merchants. New possibilities.

Signed in. Still no info. No care. Will get spammed about it later apparently.

Why do people do this?

<comment><AUTHOR> sorry- it's linked from [http://blog.dwolla.com/register-for- beta/](http://blog.dwolla.com/register-for-beta/)

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> Duplicate post [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6509437](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6509437)

</comment><comment><USER4> I have no idea what this is or why I should care. I refuse to give you my email just to find out.

<comment><AUTHOR> [http://blog.dwolla.com/register-for-beta/](http://blog.dwolla.com/register- for-beta/) (sorry should have included- but only can give one link).

<comment><USER5> A vague landing page and a nearly as vague blog post.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> Seems interesting, but only USA =/

<comment><AUTHOR> we'll be out of USA in the near future. Sorry!

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> Oh goody, another cool design which requires me to be psychic in order to form a purchasing intention.

In all seriousness, what is it? I'd assume a faster clearance of some sort, but would it kill them to have just the faintest smear of explanatory copy?

<comment><USER8> There's slightly more information in the blog post about it. [http://blog.dwolla.com/register-for-beta/](http://blog.dwolla.com/register- for-beta/)

<comment><USER7> Thanks.

I realise that my comment up there will be downvoted into oblivion for expressing an emotion (and this one for remarking on the downvoting), but in all sincerity I don't understand why people do this.

A landing page is not a movie poster. It's meant to sell something. To sell something customers must know _what that something is_.

Even luxury goods companies -- the fondest of vague advertising -- have a picture of the product so you know if it's a handbag, a bottle of perfume, a watch etc.</comment></comment></comment>


Mendeley users revolt against Elsevier takeover - <AUTHOR> http://paidcontent.org/2013/04/09/the-empire-acquires-the-rebel-alliance-mendeley-users-revolt-against-elsevier-takeover/ <comment><USER2> Mendeley's sale to Elsevier reminds me of this video: [http://cs702.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/you-have-to- monetize-y...](http://cs702.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/you-have-to-monetize- your-audience/) \-- one slide shown in the background, in particular, makes me cringe and laugh at the same time: "Only sell your users to whoever has the deepest pockets."

PS. More seriously, I've come to feel that only a non-profit organization can solve the "walled garden" problem in academic publishing. We need something like a "Mozilla Foundation for Science" -- an organization dedicated, not to maximize profits for shareholders, but _to keep power over scientific research in people's hands_.

<comment><USER3> _an organization dedicated, not to maximize profits for shareholders, but to keep power over scientific research in people's hands_

That's why we have governments.

No, I'm not being sarcastic. The public sector is there to serve the public good, and this is quite obviously a public good. I'm not anti-privatization either. Private exploitation under public laws and guidelines is a common strategy to solve these issues.

What has undermined public/private solutions is not public opinion or political ideology, but greed, lobbying and corruption. A foundation is nothing but a workaround, and foundations have a history of getting corrupted by the greed and delusions of grandure of its administrators.

It's time we address the real problem. The legacy of thousands of years of civilization is being stolen from us.

<comment><USER4> > It's time we address the real problem.

The real problem is that some companies manage to exploit a monopoly granted to them by the government in ways that are not pleasing to the public. The government is the entity which created the problem. Granted, while solving another but it will still be the government agents who break down your door and arrest you if you build an unauthorized competitor or even just try to release that "legacy" (vide Aaron Swartz), not Elsevier's.

It's hard for me to understand how you can blame a company that puts up a paywall more than people using violence (or at least credible threats of it) who enforce the rules stopping others from competing.

<comment><USER5> > It's hard for me to understand how you can blame a company that puts up a > paywall more than people using violence (or at least credible threats of it) > who enforce the rules stopping others from competing

Because we're not 15 year olds who just read Atlas Shrugged?

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> The state of academic publishing is in a truly dreadful state. The same monopolies that created the industry hundreds of years ago have never been pushed out and innovate in the slowest way possible, aqui-murdering even worse than EA when they have to. Online journals and the promise they provide are peddled by high pressure sales pitches who insist on absurdly high prices. For many institutions, when taking usage stats, the price of online access per user often works out to several dollars per search...

This is why I've given up trying to work in the field or found a company in the sector... Anyone with an idea and need a technical cofounder? ;)

<comment><AUTHOR> I think that there should be something like SO (Stack Overflow) for scientific papers, with anonymous user-generated reviews and ratings of the papers, and reputation being acquired by the users, both based on papers and their reviews. I wrote 'anonymous' because it's a more heavy-weight business than posting and assessing questions about coding. To avoid the situations when scientists get angry because of bad reviews, and try to revenge on their reviewers, it should be at least in the first years anonymous. The reviews would be voluntary, and also would be rated, just like answers to question in SO. I am a scientist, and I know that reviews have very low quality because of many reasons, such system could perhaps help improving the reviews, while keeping the reviewing process automatized, and reducing its cost to the minimum. In fact, costs of storing papers are low (Arxiv), reviews are free (nobody pays to the scientists anyway, they do it for the community and reputation), and the only cost that is high is the cost of managing the reviews. But if reviews could be automatized then we have a system that is as cheap as Arxiv is, and peer-reviewed :)

In the long run I see such system emerging and being successful, and eventually replacing everything else. Needless to say it will take a lot of time though to popularize it.

What do you think? Could this be done?

<comment><USER7> Refereeing papers is an odious chore that you only do to get your back scratched in return in the future. (They call it "giving back to the community", but it's really a protection racket.) You can't replace this with a voluntary system.

<comment><AUTHOR> Why not, if you would get reputation points for it? The idea is to review the papers which you want to read anyways, or perhaps you have already read them and you want to express your feelings about these papers, hopefully in a way useful to other viewers of the paper. Nobody tells you to do it, so you do it by heart, this surely would increase reviews quality.

<comment><USER7> Well, maybe this could work, but probably it would have to replicate the "coercive" component of the current system. In other words, by reviewing other people's papers you somehow improve the chances of having your own papers reviewed. And if somehow that system manages to also provide an incentive to do the job thoroughly, then that would be a huge improvement on top of what we have now.

<comment><AUTHOR> Well, the coercive component is the unified reputation that you gain in this site, just like the reputation that you gain in SO. Obviously, the higher reputation you have, the more recognizable you are and more people read about what you do.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> I don't get it. It was absolutely clear that they were using a propiretory software owned by a for-profit company.

There a perfectly viable alternatives, Open Source and free to use e.g. Zotero et al.

<comment><USER9> I really like the way Mendeley handles notes, specifically highlighting / annotating PDFs. Do you know of any alternatives that include this? I was planning on writing my own at some point but it might be a bit ambitious.

<comment><USER10> check out quicka (spelled qiqqa) <http://www.qiqqa.com>

I chose it a few months ago over mendeley because it allowed me to search in the PDF annotations, which isn't possible with mendeley. I recall mendeley could search notes added to a PDF file (one text area for the whole file), but not within sticky notes attached to specific pages, so it was impossible to search the annotations I made and also have those annotations appear on the relevant part of the PDF.

The other thing I like about qiqqa is that it allows us to have a shared library on our local server, instead of having to send all our data to the cloud.

Both are great desktop tools for full text search across many PDF files, even those that need OCR. Before I was using google desktop for this function, and qiqqa is definitely a step up.

<comment><USER9> This looks great, however Windows only is a bit of a deal breaker. Definitely going to keep my eye on it though.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> My own personal favourite, Papers (papersapp.com), was recently taken over by Springer too. So far, so good--the original team is still running it and there's no sign anything bad will come of it, but I'm still wary of the future.

<comment><USER12> Of course Springer has one of the most onerous paywalls I've come across. I hadn't heard of the Papers acquisition: I use it on my iPad but only because it sucks less than every other solution I've looked at.

<comment><USER13> What do you think can be done to improve it? Can you tell me what your ideal reference/citation software looks like?

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> Now I'm going to have to e-mail all the friends I advocated Mendeley to, and tell them to consider switching. Serves me right for not looking more carefully at whose interests Mendeley was serving.

:-(

<comment><USER15> Honestly? It's a for-profit company, whose interests did you think was serving?

<comment><USER14> Yeah. My bad. I had a real need and Mendeley's software (which is awesome, by the way) came to my rescue; issues of who controls it and what they might want from me someday seemed very far away at the time.

<comment><USER15> This is how capitalism works. Companies (and individuals) try to maximise their own profits; and (ideally) the most profitable course of action is the one which is the most beneficial to the most people. Altruism has no place in it.

And yet, people are continually surprised and disappointed when a company takes a profitable course of action, rather than ignoring profits for altruistic reasons.

<comment><USER16> It's not a matter of altruism, it's a matter of reputation. I reasonably guessed that Mendeley would not try to screw scientists in the short run in order to preserve their reputation in the long run, all to benefit their own profit. However, Elsevier (1) does not have much of a good reputation to risk and (2) can also coordinate with its publishing arm to further multiply the benefit of screwing scientists than Mendeley could alone. It might have been possible for me to predict this business move, but that's a very complicated calculation. I'm not unreasonable for failing to have done so. You can argue that it would have been more prudent to never trust any company that might be sold, but then you'd be criticizing my risk calculation and not my confusion about altruism.

Likewise, I could be surprised that a fancy restaurant replaced all their silverware with disposable plastic. It would maximize their profits that night, but destroy their reputation and hence long-term profits.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER17> There's a slight irony that this news story is being posted on a site which is partially owned by Elsevier.

<comment><USER18> Just like the irony of "I hate Facebook" post on Facebook.

</comment></comment><comment><USER19> We've come a long way when a "revolt" means "users post their frustrations on Twitter".

<comment><USER20> A long way indeed, and mostly in a terrible direction. :/

</comment></comment><comment><USER21> Well then, Elsevier may have won. 70 mil to destroy a viable threat to its monopoly may be a small price to pay in the grand scheme of things.

<comment><USER22> We're here and ready to not be destroyed. From the looks of it at the office, it's work as usual. By that I mean, building a great tool and resource for researchers. :)

<comment><USER23> Everything I've read from folks at Mendeley misses the point of the disgust. Most people are not concerned about Mendeley going away, or about development stopping, or about new features not being added. Of course you're continuing to build the tool, at least the for the foreseeable future. Of course Mendeley will continue to be have a free version, etc. Of course Mendeley will continue to add features.

But none of that is because Elsevier has suddenly decided to support open access. It's because buying and developing Mendeley is an affordable way for Elsevier to launder its godawful reputation. All the smiling emoticons in the world don't change that.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER24> Hah, this was exactly the reason I was hesitating to use Mendeley, although it's got great tools. Creating your paper database in such a system is a _huge_ investment in time, it's hard and very frustrating to move between such systems.

AFAIK, the open source tools cannot much the maturity of Mendeley, am I wrong? In this age and time, how hard can it be to clone a service like that?

<comment><USER25> It depends on what parts you're using. If you're using Mendeley mainly as a personal reference manager, Zotero is as good as Mendeley or better imo. But it doesn't have a web-based social layer like Mendeley does, for people who like that part.

<comment><USER16> I think Mendeley had more advantages over Zotero than the social aspect (which I never used). Mendeley could automatically incorporate your folder of orphan PDFs into your library, automatically fetching the bibliographic info. It had a nice dedicated desktop client for searching your library, correctly bib info, and adding notes and whatnot to papers, which just isn't as nice on a browser.

<comment><USER26> You might think a lot of things, but your description of Zotero is completely inaccurate. Zotero isn't a browser-based application, and it can do everything you describe.

<comment><USER5> No need to be a dick, anyone reading Zotero's homepage comes away with the message that this is a browser-based application only.

There is no mention anywhere of any other way of using it except on the download page.

The first time I went there I didn't click on the download button because I didn't want a browser-based app.

<comment><USER27> Okay, we've tried to remove the implication that Zotero is browser-based from the website. Let us know if you have a suggestion to make things clearer. (Also, sorry stakats is a dick :)

<comment><USER5> That's great news, I'm sure Zotero is getting a traffic bump these days.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER28> With Google Reader recently announcing the shutdown, and now this, closed- source cloud-based solutions for organizing and processing my data have started looking increasingly unattractive to me. I guess the only safe way to retain all of your data and prevent commercial interests from affecting its organization is to organize it using (preferably) open-source tools on your own computers, and use the cloud only for backing up the raw data / generated databases so they can be recovered later.

<comment><USER29> Look at JabRef as a front end to bibtex. I had a bit of a learning curve, but was so frustrated with the Microsoft toolchain that I switched to R/Sweave/LaTeX/bibtex/git and am quite happy. Everything is Open Source and in general community support has been better than commercial support. Since all these are text based, they play well with version control (git). Also makes for a reproducible workflow where an entire analysis and report can be reproduced by a single click on a shell script or command file. The same toolchain works on my Linux, MacOSX, and Windows boxes.

</comment></comment><comment><USER30> if anything this as just re-injected new life into the elsevier-protests and the sorry state of academic publishing in general.

elsevier's business practices are well documented and the protest is not just manned by some fringe people but has support from prestigious institutions and scholars.

with each new round like this people will educate themselves even more about open access and contemporary free and open source tools for academic work.

zotero probably will win this out and be pushed to mimic mendely features soon enough. zotero already is pretty good but its social features need to developed or integrated with other platforms like arxiv or academia.net.

last not least given googles science-bias and foothold in academia not least with google-scholar and google docs I wonder why they haven't made a move with respect to citation management.

</comment><comment><USER31> Ideologically I feel like every tax funded researcher (i.e. the vast majority) has an obligation to make all his work publicly accessible.

Change will happen once open access journals get A level status. If there's enough that are sufficiently peer reviewed a simple legislative fix (for state funded/supported education which is the case for most forms of education) would be to treat open access publications preferential when it comes to hireing new academic staff.

As someone with the long term vision of massive changes in education towards e-learning I think the way to attack this is to actually couple OA initiatives with sites like coursera, edx etc.

How deep are the Buffet/Gates pockets, maybe just buying up a bunch of content and freeing it might be the easiest path.

<comment><USER32> Buying up a bunch of content? Gates already did that decades ago: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corbis>

There's no sign of freeing it, though.

</comment></comment><comment><USER33> While I am not a researcher and have never used Mendeley et al I do know about Elsevier's reputation.

As mentioned in this blog it would seem the wisest thing would be to switch for the moment and keep an eye on mendeley.

Who knows, maybe they really will change Elsevier, I doubt it but you never know.

After all, given the backlash Elsevier know this is their ONE (long-haul) chance to redeem themselves. Screw this up and they are totally beyond hope (For those who might not think they already are)

</comment><comment><USER34> Ok, then I'll use Papers!

 _Papers purchased by Sinauer in early 2013_

... Endnote?

 _part of Thompson-Reuters_

Zotero?

 _free and open, backed by a major non-profit organization_

</comment><comment><USER35> Taking inspiration from Star Trek, a new impact factor could be invented to teleport the reputation of a known publication to an alternate publication based on the editorial board. If the board of mathematics reviewers agree to move their effort to another platform, then it follows that the reputation follows the people, not the name of the publication.

</comment><comment><USER36> mendeley has always been closed source for-profit. They may have gotten a new owner but it isn't like they were ever doing it for altruistic reasons.

Hopefully this will be good news for zotero which is open source.

And hopefully it will be really bad news for endnote which is one of the worst commercial programs I've ever tried to use.

</comment><comment><USER37> It could be that Elsevier is pivoting into an open access model through its other efforts and buying up Mendeley. I won't hold my breath, though. The model, while evolving, could just morph into something else that sucks.

It's a real bummer. There's so much good stuff locked up in these publishing houses.

<comment><USER38> If Elsivier wants to change its business model, it will need to do it in a way that doesn't completely cannibalize its sales. Adding open research companies to its umbrella would be a way to do that.

However, more likely, it wants to be able to say, "See, we are committed to being open", and continue with its primarily closed practices.

</comment></comment><comment><USER39> Reminds me of macrobreweries buying microbreweries. The big guys (who make terrible beer) come in and cut costs anywhere they can to increase margins. This includes using cheaper ingredients which decreases the quality of the beer.

The same will happen here.

</comment><comment><USER40> I am quite disappointed by this - the next target which hasn't been really picked up yet is Academia.edu though it's purpose is slightly different than Mendeley.

<http://academia.edu/>

</comment><comment><USER41> How to export, delete and move your Mendeley account: <http://duncan.hull.name/2013/01/18/mendelete/>

</comment><comment><USER42> revolt, takeover. reminds me of the mutiny post <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5525173>

</comment><comment><USER43> "this is like Halliburton buying Greenpeace"

Sounds about right.

<comment><USER22> Yeah, Greenpeace is a VC funded for-profit company. Yeah, good analogy. :-)</comment></comment>


Fermilab discovers a new particle consistent with a tetraquark - <AUTHOR> http://news.fnal.gov/2016/02/dzero-discovers-a-new-particle-consistent-with-a-tetraquark/ <comment><AUTHOR> The paper: [http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.07588](http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.07588)</comment>


Ig Nobel: Researchers named the cream of the crop - <AUTHOR> http://www.physorg.com/news173708122.html

<comment><USER2> _Scientists Dr Catherine Douglas and Dr Peter Rowlinson have won the Ig Nobel Prize for Veterinary Medicine for their work looking at reducing stress levels in dairy cattle.... can increase a farmer's annual milk yield by almost 500 pints._

Let me get this straight, this is hard scientific proof that more humane treatment of farm animals leads to higher yields? I don't think this is Ig Nobel worthy. I've seen much worse.

I think Ig Nobel is great and all, god knows a lot of research is far removed from practical applications. And given how important having a publication history is, we need something like this to keep pointing out when things get ridiculous. But I don't think this is all that ridiculous.

Plus besides the Ig Nobel, there's literally EVERY other media outlet, print, radio, TV AND Internet that's either making fun of science, criticizing it or completely and totally over hyping it which then leads to disappointment and suspicion. In short, it's all damaging.

And then frequently it gets to politics, and then we're fucked, when politics mixes with science, science always loses.

I am reminded of Palin and her mockery of fruit fly research. Apologies for bringing up politics on HN, but that really got under my skin. Thank god, someone quickly connected that research to autism. That should be like the 6 degrees from Kevin Bacon game, how quickly can you connect scientific research being criticized by a politician to something that might benefit that same politician or the things he/she supports.

Anyway, long rant to say, this isn't really Ig Nobel worthy.

<comment><USER3> I think you're missing the point of the Ig Nobels. These are not the Razzie awards. From the very first sentence of the web page:

 _The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think._

Note, carefully, the second half of the sentence, which the Ig Nobel committee explains to the audience every year.

These awards are quite explicitly _not_ about poking fun at bad or useless research. Rather, the majority of recent awards are about shining a light on well-executed, worthwhile research that would never become famous at all... except that it can be described in a way that makes it sound hilarious.

Consider one of my favorites:

 _Harvey, J. T. An analysis of the forces required to drag sheep over various surfaces. Applied Ergonomics, 33, 523 - 531, doi:10.1016/S0003-6870(02)00071-6 (2002)._

This is a completely legitimate paper about how to improve working conditions for sheep farmers by redesigning the floor across which they drag the sheep before shearing them. Nothing wrong with the work. But it sounds very funny until you think about it. Which is good for the researchers, because when it won the Ig Nobel Prize for Physics they got to travel over from Australia and get some global press coverage for a paper that would normally rest quietly in a corner of the literature.

As for whether ignorant people will use the Ig Nobels to denigrate science: Why would they bother? It didn't take a Harvard committee to tell Sarah Palin what to make fun of. She or her speechwriters just grabbed an issue of _Scientific American_ and flipped to a random page.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> Another Ig Nobel went to Donald Unger, who for more than 60 years cracked the knuckles of his left hand twice a day, but not those of his right, to see if knuckle-cracking causes arthritis (it doesn't, in his case).

That is wonderful, he is a new hero of mine.

</comment><comment><AUTHOR> Boston Globe report with complete list of winners:

[http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/missconduct/2009/...](http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/missconduct/2009/10/the_ig_nobel_pr_1.html)

And the official announcement (with rather slow response time at the moment):

<http://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2009></comment>


How to Use Scheme - <AUTHOR> http://www.htus.org/ <comment><USER2> Almost none of the content is actually present --- there are merely placeholders. It looks like a good table of contents --- but I'd hope that some more actual text would have appeared since 2001.

This is maybe useful if you are unsure of basic file i/o in scheme and have some reason not to use a more comprehensive resource?

<comment><USER3> I would highly recommend "How to design programs" by the same authors. Such a good read, and also teaches Scheme (as a side-effect).

<comment><USER4> <http://www.htdp.org/> is the link

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> Goooo Shriram!</comment>


Ask HN: Thoughts on a service I'm working on? - <AUTHOR>

This is a pet project I've been hacking away at for a bit. I don't expect the audience to be huge, but I'm just wondering if anyone would ever use such a service, or even pay a small amount of money for it. I don't think it would be worth making a company just for this one service; I'd likely run it as a one-man side operation, unless it became popular quickly. My description might sound a bit vague, so please ask me to clarify any points if necessary.
Full description here, as it couldn't all fit into a HN post: http://textuploader.com/d3fk
Technical
A nice, simple API and web application for webmasters to view, search, and manipulate visitor device & network fingerprints and signatures. Various techniques are used to facilitate enforcement of bans, and detection of suspicious activity, registrations, and submissions.
For end users
A security service targeted towards web admins of every kind, specifically to combat bots, spammers, fraudsters, and anyone with malevolent intent. Site owners would register their domain on the service's website, and be given a snippet of Javascript to place in the head of each page they serve.
Customers would log into our site to see recent visits, anomalies, and other passive information. They would have a robust querying interface, and would also be able to tie device fingerprints to user session variables, like username. They will also have the ability to make complex rules and bans.
General
Customers can search by IP address, CIDR mask, location, date/time, or by the fingerprint itself (either a composite fingerprint or one of many more specific ones, to vary the false positive and false negative rate); a more basic interface will be available for those who have no need for fine grained searching.
I list some concerns and similarities to other services in my full description.
I'll gladly take any suggestions or criticism. Thanks. <comment><USER2> Upon reading this post, I immediately thought that your service was similar to Sift Science, so I am glad that you mentioned it in your TextUploader link.

My second thought was about privacy and that the fact that you might be selling aggregate information about visitors of your clients' sites. I am glad that you addressed that as well.

I am concerned about your attempts to distinguish yourself, especially by your suggestion that it will be "more hands-on, less machine-driven". Since I would want to stop fraudulent/malicious behavior while/before it happens, and since I can review user actions after the fact by myself, I am not sure whether your service would be the best fit for someone who might pay Sift or a similar company.

</comment><comment><USER3> Do you anticipate issues using JavaScript to combat bots, spammers, etc?

</comment><comment><USER4> \- It reminds me of pastebin.com. I see people using it, just how they use pastebin. For everyone, the link to the project is ~> [http://textuploader.com/](http://textuploader.com/)

<comment><USER2> Based on the text in the actual post, I am pretty sure that the submitter's project is not TextUploader, but the service described at [http://textuploader.com/d3fk](http://textuploader.com/d3fk).</comment></comment>


Docker in Production: A retort - <AUTHOR> http://patrobinson.github.io/2016/11/05/docker-in-production/ <comment><USER2> I've never used Docker, or containers, but I read about things like "Breaking changes and regressions ... a well documented problem with Docker" and "Can't clean old images ... a well known issue" and it just seems to me like a crazy thing to try to use and depend on this thing/company. Bluntly put they seem like children.

So nevermind a retort, what I would like to see is a sane, sensible "business value" cost/benefit, pros v. cons breakdown of just what the heck you're actually gaining (and losing) using Docker vs. some other architecture/methodology. Because absent that it's all just hype and kool-aid drinking in my opinion.

What would help with the above is if people would document what they are doing with Docker _that works_ , because either they are hurting but not realizing it, or the author of the article is just "doing it worng" and whining about it in public. What is really going on with Docker, et. al.!?

<comment><USER3> I can tell you one place I've found them very valuable: development systems. The longer I've been in the field, the more I've learned that polluting my dev box with globally installed tools makes life painful down the road. Docker provides a nice way (especially now that they have docker exec) to spin up environments, or set's of environments with tools/stacks and not touch the host. It's lighter than a bunch of vm instances and easier to orchestrate on a small scale than most tools I've found. Docker for Mac makes that even nicer!

<comment><USER4> It's great for development if it wasn't 4 to 5 times slower on Mac: [https://www.reddit.com/r/docker/comments/59u1b8/why_is_docke...](https://www.reddit.com/r/docker/comments/59u1b8/why_is_docker_so_slow_on_mac/)

<comment><USER5> (Having read the Reddit thread for a while)

Macs don't appear to have support for containers which is what Docker _is_. Well that is probably bollocks because they are *BSD based and I know that FreeBSD at least has a form of containerization and I seem to recall that the whole container thing was invented on a BSD - "jails".

So Docker can't run native on iStuff. You have to run it within a Linux VM. I gave up on Googling for "apple mac jail" 8)

The reason why Docker runs slowly on Macs is because it is running under emulation within a VM.

Unfortunately, Macs are not cool enough to run Docker, so there 8)

Cheers Jon

<comment><USER6> XNU (the macOS kernel) may have BSD origins, but it doesn't have features like cgroups and process namespacing that the Linux kernel provides and the Docker runtime relies on.

<comment><USER7> Nor does it have FreeBSD jails.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> Docker founder here.

I keep reading articles stating that "the Docker API changes with every release", but the assertion is never backed by any specific examples. Has anyone here encountered an actual breaking change? If so, I would appreciate you sharing the specifics so we can fix it.

Docker is by no means perfect:

\- I remember that in 1.10 the switch to content-addressed registries meant that older clients could not pull by digest (but all other commands, and even non-pinned pull, still worked). This was not an accidental breaking change: it was the result of a difficult tradeoff. In the end we decided that the benefits of the new content-addressed model outweighed the inconvenience. To guide our decision we used data from Docker Hub to assess how many clients would be affected. I forget the exact number but it was a very small minority.

\- And in 1.12 we got bitten by a change in how Go 1.6 processes HTTP headers (it became more strict and thus rejected headers from older clients). That was quite simply a screwup on our part.

So we've had our share of screw-ups, no question. But lately I've been reading the "breaks at every release" meme more and more. Based on the evidence I have, it seems incredibly disconnected from reality.

What am I missing?

<comment><USER9> You're missing the fact that docker clients complain about the API version if they're different from the server - regardless of actual compatibility problems.

[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37617400/](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37617400/) sums it up. There's a magic (afaik undocumented) env var DOCKER_APIVERSION you can set for compatibility, but nobody can find it.

If you can't mix even minor versions then yes, it's a problem. I can't run X in prod and anything other than X in dev of I'm working with the same toolset.

<comment><USER10> The issue you are referring to happens only if the docker client version is newer than the docker daemon version. In the case where the client is older than the daemon, it has always worked.

Thanks for bringing this issue up though, because we are currently working on a fix. Here is the PR: [https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/27745](https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/27745)

As for DOCKER_API_VERSION, it is possibly not well documented, but it is indeed present in the documentation: [https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/cli/](https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/cli/)

Hopefully this was helpful.

<comment><USER9> The client will nearly always be newer, so that message will almost always show up. You'll update your laptop tools regularly, and only bump your infrastructure occasionally.

How many versions has this been a problem? It's not thinking about things like this until (apparently) 11 days ago that give Docker haters such ammo. The UX of the entire ecosystem feels like an afterthought. Yes, it's been evolving rapidly, but that's no excuse for not having a good, unified user experience for what's there or what's coming next.

<comment><USER11> That's a fair statement, especially with d4mac/d4win and auto-update.

Posting a pull request and thinking about a problem are two very different things. The project has chosen to err on the side of safety (ie, user asked for some feature to be used but it is silently ignored since it's connecting to an older daemon) in this regard. -- this is not the only problem to solve

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> This seems less of a "retort" and more of a validation that most of the issues brought up in the original article are valid complaints.

</comment><comment><USER13> I love how the major issue, that both this article, and the original article warn about is: don't use docker on 'CORE APPS'....

That says all you need to know about the trustworthiness of Docker.

EVEN DOCKER PROPONENTS caution against using it in 'important' apps....

What apps are people investing time in that aren't 'important'?

Is there a coffee machine that is ok to use for a docker app somewhere?

<comment><USER14> > Is there a coffee machine that is ok to use for a docker app somewhere?

Most coffee machines are docker ready.

To guarantee you the best experience, you will need to setup a pair of coffee machines, plus an orchestration system that will be responsible for swapping them automatically when one ran out of coffee.

Note: There are only prototype of orchestration systems. Nothing for sale in the corner shop yet.

\---

More seriously...

Not important: Most internal, development, and test systems

Somewhat important: Web applications, various support micro services. (They all are stateless, with multiple instances, and reactive failover by their respective load balancers).

Critical: Most databases (especially the ones without multi-master mode and automatic failover), trading applications, payment systems, accounting systems, databases with money $$$

<comment><USER13> Haha a coffee load balancer. I love that idea. I'm sure Amazon will have a coffee machine web service they offer for $2000/month. ACS.

This whole ordeal has actually been a really really good lesson for me about mature vs less than mature apps. It's been really enlightening to read the posts and discussion.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER15> > Again, well accepted principle that "thou shalt not run a database inside a > container". Don't do it, end of story.

Sorry, but this is really a bad advice. We have ran and contine to run various databases inside Docker including MySQL, PostgRedis, Cassandra, Elastic Search, RethinkDB even HDFS with proper user rights and configuration. We can maintain the state just as fine. If your only problem is to move the data, all you have to do is stop, export, tar it, move to another server, just as you would do in a normal server. Docker is not a magic bullet to solve such kind of issues. Yes, Docker might have another problems, but just as you could not run someting with state inside Docker does not mean "thou shalt not run" , there are various ways to manage state. Host, IO can get crash regardless of Docker.

<comment><USER16> What problem does containers solve for you for this particular part of your infrastructure? Native storage software packages are available for mainstream OSes that handle dependencies via the native package manager. And since the storage they manage is usually directly attached, nodes that run this software are infrequently migrated. And this software is infrequently upgraded under the maxim "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." It's there to store data on behalf of the applications you write; it is not a thing to upgrade or migrate for its own sake unless there is a bug to quash or a new feature that your application will depend upon; and even then, migrations must be carefully planned to preserve availability for users.

Docker and the like seem like a solution in search of a problem for this particular part of a typical service infrastructure.

Or, to put it more bluntly, just because you've gotten away with it (thus far) doesn't make it a good idea.

<comment><USER15> > Or, to put it more bluntly, just because you've gotten away with it (thus > far) doesn't make it a good idea.

What is your typical server infrastructure? We use bare machines and had kernel panics very rarely (only with experimental MACVLAN). We did not 'get away' with anything. We have been using Docker for over 2 years, and LXC much more and know how to handle mounted directories, it is not a rocket science. We used LXC, now Docker to provide quick isolated mini linux environments. They are just different type of Virtual Machines when you abstract it in your head, and do not expect it to do magical stuff like saving your data and send it to another host upon crash.

> Native storage software packages are available for mainstream OSes that > handle dependencies via the native package manager.

They are often outdated, we mostly get one of the latest builts, and in some cases Snapshot builds, where they are not available anywhere. So ability to run versioned instances of some software independently and isolated is a huge win for us. We do not want to distrub people using the old version. Yes it can be solved with VMs. We use our own bare metal servers. We do not like to "pay" to open VMs, so we turned to OpenStack. It is very complicated for our use case, we like to use bare metal on our own. But, we still need isolation, this is where containers; LXC and Docker came to help and saved us a burden.

<comment><USER17> > They are often outdated, we mostly get one of the latest builts, and in some > cases Snapshot builds,

That's a very usual thing to say about databases. For critical and commercially supported things such as your relational databases, nobody runs snapshot builds. You run whatever builds your vendor supports, and for all those you mentioned (and most other vendors) that is going to be native packages.

<comment><USER15> Native packages are nothing more than packaged software with startup and maintaining scripts, (and tested) so as long as you can manage these, I really don't see I have to stick to what my vendor thinks best.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER18> The HN discussion of the article being retorted: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12872304](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12872304)

</comment><comment><USER19> Re ECR (the EC2 Container Registry), it has one downside that the author doesn't mention, which also applies to Google's own registry.

A Docker registry has own authentication system. So does AWS (and GCloud). So what you end up is one wrapping the other: To access the ECR, you have to run an AWS command to get a token to put into "docker login". Google has "gcloud docker login" for the same purposes. Both produce temporary credentials that time out, so can't be used for long-running things.

This means that any tool designed to work with a Docker registry needs to support this particular workflow. For example, this affects Drone [1].

It also adds complexity. GCloud is particularly heavy on the authentication complexity side already (compared to AWS's comparatively simple keypair approach), and with SSH, GCR and Kubernetes on top it starts to stack up in ways which can make users' head spin.

Straight Docker Hub is refreshingly straightforward by comparison.

[1] [http://readme.drone.io](http://readme.drone.io) (not to be confused with drone.io)

<comment><USER20> At least with Google's GCR, this is no longer the case. They have a Docker credentials helper [1] which transparently handles authentication for regular interactive use, and service accounts with permanent keys [2] for use with CI servers etc. I find both of these to be fairly straightforward to use.

[1] [https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/docker-credential- gcr](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/docker-credential-gcr)

[2] [https://cloud.google.com/container-registry/docs/advanced- au...](https://cloud.google.com/container-registry/docs/advanced- authentication#using_a_json_key_file)

</comment></comment><comment><USER21> Previous article: "This is nowhere near ready for those who just want to get the job done."

This article: "It'll be better in the future, you'll see!"

The former is verifiable, the latter is a hypothesis.

<comment><USER22> No what I was saying was its ready for today in certain use cases. But only if you look at it as a long term transition and not a short term project

</comment></comment><comment><USER23> As an example of Docker in production: Expedia are moving lots of their legacy infrastructure into Docker containers. My third-party contracting team that works on projects for Expedia (we're brought in so the rules and bureaucracy don't apply to use, allowing us to rapidly iterate and experiment in ways the core teams can't) have been using Docker end-to-end (local development through to autoscaled production deploys)

While there were teething issues, this article does a good job of pointing out the flaws in the original article, I think. It's been easier to get our team up to speed on Docker and it's gotchas than nearly any other configuration management, server management, et al. systems that we tried!

<comment><USER14> Short version: Nope :p

Long version: I met the DevOps guy who [I believe] is responsible for pushing Docker at Expedia and we've had long conversations about it.

They were lucky to have had a particular environment and a specific version that worked, and got it pinned down and frozen very early.

I suppose you are on the dev side and not aware of all that. (Hell, maybe, you're not even in the same subsidiary of Expedia). I'm glad it all worked out for you as a dev, my devs are also happy with Docker. (We're probably used as an example of Docker success story at times).

In the end, there is no free lunch. There is dirty work done and more to be done. Some of which is invisible.

<comment><USER23> Sorry if I didn't explain it correctly!

We're an external team (completely seperate to Expedia) that is brought in to build certain products :)

And yeah, definitely. I spent a couple weeks debugging the ECS issues we had with the Wotif guys, which was fun, but none of the issues were insurmountable!

We were one of the first adopters for the new ECS deployment, and while some parts of it weren't fun (Splunk still drives me mental) for the most part it went smoothly: that's down to how good the ops team is, I think.

Our specific case was somewhat special, in that because we're outside of the rest of the infrastructure, and had extensive experience with Docker in production for other clients, our apps were basically ready to rock from the get-go. I think we were the first PHP deployment within the new ECS deployments!

Should send me an email, it's in my profile, would love to chat sometime!

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER24> Can anyone comment on how rkt compares to Docker regarding the issues from this article ? And how does rkt compare to Docker in production in your experience ?

I've been using Docker in production for a single server website and have had very few issues. I do like how easy it is to reproduce a working environnement with a "docker build" though.

That being said, I think that just using Ansible on a server is probably an easier and more reliable solution. Ansible is battle tested and allows to have reproducible environments too.

<comment><USER25> Is ansible still python 2.7 only?

<comment><USER26> Yes, and it will still stay so until RHEL 5 is EOL (next year I think), so the Python 2.4 support requirement can be dropped. This is the main showstopper.

There is also work in progress:

[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/python_3_support.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/python_3_support.html)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER27> Related question, what happens when a docker images gets pop'd.... how do you keep it around for investigation, does it get imaged for later forensics? Every time I have asked people in IRL doing docker, they seem to focus on updating/patch... on how easy that is and moving on... but that is not always an option for every client. Do you just image all docker images before they get terminated/migrated?

<comment><USER7> All the containers are available after termination, yes, so you can investigate.

</comment></comment><comment><USER28> > So the point is valid, but there are some big names invested in solving it, > so I'm optimistic we'll see some stability in the future

And it will still be valid if someone forks Docker. In fact, that would validate the criticism.

</comment><comment><USER29> Are these breaking changes problems caused by Docker itself? I was contacted by Docker and was considering applying, but it sounds like their engineering management doesn't know what they're doing. Is this depiction accurate or is it overblown?

<comment><USER8> I would recommend investigating the matter yourself, and making your own opinion. What specifically has been broken in past Docker releases? How have they handled it? How would _you_ have handled it? If you do decide to interview with Docker, make sure to bring up your findings, especially areas where you think they screwed up. This has two advantages: you can see how they react to constructive criticism, and they can observe that you are capable of making your own opinion and providing constructive criticism.

If you _really_ want to impress your interviewers, back up your criticism with a pull requests fixing the issue. That will automatically put you on top of the pile of resumes.

</comment></comment><comment><USER30> Anyone know why Erlang doesn't run well on containerized Docker?

<comment><USER7> What issues are you having? Containers are not really different from non containerised environments. Have you filed an issue?

<comment><USER30> It's something I read in another HN thread

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER31> if I am using mount Volumens to export my data, can I bypass the aufs/overlay implementation/logic ? do I need to pay attention only if I don't mount the volumes? thx

<comment><USER7> Volume mounts do not use the aufs/pverlay drivers, no. These are used for build, and for constructing the rott filesystem for running containers so files are shared.

</comment></comment><comment><USER32> Docker seems very limited when it's unsuitable to run databases.

I've never seen this limitation with other container solutions. What is it about Docker that makes it problematic?

<comment><USER19> Nothing. It's bad advice. Lots of companies run databases in containers.

</comment></comment><comment><USER33> Good retort. The original article seemed clueless, the part about aufs was just wrong, the complains about the apt repo exaggerated. Running docker on Debian ancient is kind of brave, though. And software is finished after five years, maybe in the financial industry. Currently development has such a pace, I'd say after five years it's abandoned and replaced.

</comment><comment><USER34> "The internet has been a wash with a well written article about ..."

Typo: a wash => awash

I know! The content is more important than the quality of the writing, but it's a little surprising to see such a mistake jumping at the reader at the start of an article. We should go back to the first days of the Internet where "updates" were possible. :) I would have loved to suggest an update quickly.

<comment><USER22> My googling failed on this account on the correct grammatical term.</comment></comment>


Keep Out – A WebGL Game - <AUTHOR> http://www.playkeepout.com/ <comment><USER2> Nobody has said it yet: It's incredibly fun to play. It's not just a good demo, it's simply a good game. The enemies are so smart. Like the nearly invisible ghost. The animations are also great. You want to do something all the time. And it looks just incredible!

<comment><USER3> Thank you! We did try to give each enemy a unique behavior/attack pattern to create some gameplay diversity.

<comment><USER4> I only played 3 levels (gotta work), but that's some awesome work.

Quick question: is it possible to use multitouch to have movement controls on one side and direction controls on the other? Or, is that not doable, and that's why you guys decided to put all the controls on the left?

<comment><USER3> Yes, it's probably possible to do as you suggest. However, we're already using the right portion of the screen for player actions (use weapons and potions).

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER3> Hi, I'm one of the developers of the game. Feel free to post questions.

Also, be sure to try the mobile version with your phone or tablet.

More info on the project here: [http://littleworkshop.fr/keepout.html](http://littleworkshop.fr/keepout.html)

<comment><USER5> Game is practically unplayable in Firefox Developer Edition on OSX. The first key I press works but then triggers 'Find' and focus shifts away from the game screen to the 'Find' input field. Any workaround?

<comment><USER6> Go to Preferences -> Advanced -> General

Uncheck "Search for text when I start typing"

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> Love this!

I uploaded a recording of Level 13 here, not sure what the max level is. This is from my first play through: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF2TaK3s4fc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF2TaK3s4fc)

I think it's fun and has a lot of potential. There's some fun combos I started to be able to pull off in the video the more I played. I think this could lead to some really interesting multiplayer combat. If you look at what people have added on to Minecraft as PvP game modes, I think a lot would carry over well to this engine.

I would really like to remap the keys! I can dodge strafe left but not right because of muscle memory. In the video, you can see this makes me attempt to fire the bow when I should be strafing right.

A few suggestions, if you want to develop it further:

) Have an experience point system that grants you access to other skills (could be as simple as faster walking, more hps, regen, etc)

) By level 13, I had no more need for gold because I purchased everything in the shop already. Maybe add on extra purchases like increased inventory space for arrows, etc...

) Add a shield to help block some of the ranged attacks (the physical non- magic attacks)

) Harder AI as you level up would be nice, you can see in the video that creatures don't attack me even though I'm near and they should be able to hear me attacking their friends.

I'm sure I could come up with more suggestions if you want to focus on the game mode more.

Thanks for sharing this with us!

<comment><USER3> Just watched your video. Well played! Thanks for your detailed feedback, I agree the AI could be more difficult but we also have seen a lot of players finding the game a bit too hard. About the shield I would disagree, strafing/moving to avoid a range attack is part of the core gameplay and a fun element, imho. We will definitely work on some improvements to the game in the future.

</comment></comment><comment><USER8> Thanks a lot for letting me choose my keyboard layout! I'm using azerty and using qwerty-based commands is getting really old...

<comment><USER3> You're welcome! As French, we're also often frustrated at qwerty being the only option in most demos/games.

<comment><USER9> Why aren't you frustrated at the continued existence of azerty? I lived for a few years in France and I always had to ask for a US keyboard or my brain would just get too confused keeping azerty and qwerty separate.

Now I'm back in Italy and I still prefer the US layout for the convenient position of brackets and braces, but at least the 26 letters are in the same place as the US keyboard.

Slight variations of qwerty are IMHO much worse than completely different standards like imperial vs. metric units because they are too close to keep separate in my brain.

<comment><USER10> azerty is a cultural thing. You learn to use them as a kid, and so most french are used to them. How can someone feels frustrated by something that feels completely natural?

Pro tip: alt+shift switchs the layout between azerty and qwerty

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> Very fun game, actually surprisingly so. But one niggle, when you are turning left or right, it always seems to turn you one beat too far than you would think it would turn you. It's probably just a feel thing, but it took me out of the flow a bit. But other than that, it's as smooth as better and really nice.

</comment><comment><USER12> I'm curious as to why more WebGL games aren't popular? Is it due to the infancy of the WebGL scene or is WebGL just not capable of creating great games yet?

<comment><USER3> I suppose it's mainly due to the infancy of WebGL. The technology itself is well capable of creating good games, which I hope Keep Out! helps to demonstrate.

<comment><USER13> While this is certainly an impressive demonstration of the WebGL platform, I find the game itself to be not much more than that. Lots of potential, though!

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> This works really great on Android Chrome, it is pretty close to an app experience (not being 60fps is the biggest giveaway). Speaking of Android, FYI the Orientation API is available, so you can lock to landscape and avoid that Portrait interstitial. `screen.orientation.lock('landscape')` at the time of this writing :)

<comment><USER3> Oh, didn't know about this one. Thanks for the heads up!

</comment></comment><comment><USER15> Thank you, thank you, thank you for the keyboard selection. So many cool web game demos assume querty which makes it really inconvenient or even impossible to play them without changing the keyboard layout in the OS, but that's asking a bit much for trying out some game demo.

<comment><USER3> 100% agree. Unfortunately there's no way to detect the keyboard layout with JS, so we had to ask the user to choose their keyboard.

<comment><USER15> Yeah. I know. You could try heuristics and trick the user into pressing y or z early. Then you'll know what they probably have.

But yeah - just asking is better and I'm really happy that you did

<comment><USER16> There's this keyboard selection thing in the Ubuntu installation that asks you to type in a few keys, like "Type any of AZ123...". Perhaps this could be useful here?

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER17> This is one of the best WebGL user experiences i have seen. Any thoughts about a followup on the used software, tools, libraries, gotchas, ... ?

I don't know much about 3D modeling, but i would sure believe you if you gave references to some type of tooling, workflow :p

<comment><USER3> Thanks! We definitely plan to write more details about the development process. About the 3D models, just to clear up any confusion, we did not make them. They were bought from bitgem3d.com which offers amazing assets for 3D games.

</comment></comment><comment><USER18> It's a very good game, fun, easy and addictive. Keep working on it as a side project and this might turn into something really great. A really nice showcase for your agency!

Although i will echo what other people said, once you go mouse look you never go back.

</comment><comment><USER19> Great game.

There's a weird bug in the shop screen when you click left or right more than two times the 2nd+ time it seems to scroll multiple times (it actually only moves you one across, but the animation looks like it scrolls multiple times).

<comment><USER3> Thanks for reporting this, will look into it.

</comment></comment><comment><USER20> The most awesome part is that it works super smooth on my android, feels absolutely like a native app from store.

</comment><comment><USER21> You've done an incredible job with this game. I sat down for a minute to just take a look at it, and it nearly made me late for work an hour later.

</comment><comment><USER22> Looks good. One bug I found though: I have my Firefox window on OSX positioned on the left half of my 2560x1440 screen, and I could complete the first level fine, but when I got in the shop, the screen turned totally black after getting a message about having to buy a sword.

When I made the window only a little wider, I could see the shop interface perfectly fine and continue with the game.

</comment><comment><USER23> Great game! I love it.

One critique, the controls feel a little bit off when moving.

There's a slight jerk when moving from space to space instead of fluid motions. I understand that there might be a need to slow down when moving between spaces, for input actions, but I'd recommend decelerating when landing on spaces instead of "stopping." It has a sort of negative visual effect.

Keep up the good work.

</comment><comment><USER24> Turning with Q and E felt very weird. It got much easier when I realized you could use the arrow keys for turning.

</comment><comment><USER25> Nice game. My first try had me hooked for 15 minutes. I wish there was a way to save progress... :)

<comment><USER3> There is. Your progress is automatically saved in local storage, so if you come back later, you will continue right where you left (except that the level will be regenerated).

<comment><USER25> oh nice! Time to visit again layer today then. :)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER26> Neat game. Point of view seems to snap to 90 degree angles, which is a little... unnatural?

<comment><USER3> Thanks! The locked point of view is part of the classic dungeon crawler genre.

<comment><USER27> 3d view is though is not. it works on a 2d grid but it gets weird when you move in 90 degrees in a 3d game

<comment><USER28> >3d view is though is not. it works on a 2d grid but it gets weird when you move in 90 degrees in a 3d game

From 1980-ish to the mid 1990s this was how "3D" dungeon crawlers worked; anyone who played Wizardry, or the Bard's Tale, or Might and Magic, or the SSI Gold Box RPGs, etc., will feel right at home.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER29> It was sent yesterday, you can find more information here: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10225247](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10225247)

</comment><comment><USER30> It looks nice, I like that I can select my keyboard.

But I feel a bit dizzy after 2 minutes of playing, because of the weird 90° turns. So, this is not for me.

</comment><comment><USER31> Ah, feels like Eye Of The Beholder all over again, nice work! Very polished and I love the graphical style :-) Minor bug report regarding the audio which started off fine but got progressively more and more stuttery until I couldn't hear anything at all, around level 5 or 6 - it was breaking up like a bad phone line. I'm using Firefox 40.0.3 on Windows 7 x64.

<comment><USER3> We'll look into the issue, thanks for reporting this.

</comment></comment><comment><USER32> Fun game. Works really well. However, after playing 4 or 5 levels with Firefox 40 the sound got really stuttery and it never recovered.

</comment><comment><USER33> I still didn't try it because I'm at work right now, but I'd really like to read about the development, I'm using three.js right now on a project and would love to read about your current architecture, how do you manage 3D models, if you use modules and how, etc. As soon as I get home I'll try it, congratulations on the release!

</comment><comment><USER34> I have been playing this game entire day today (holiday here in Maharashtra, India) and it's amazingly performant and smooth. Well done, sir.

Please add some more awesome weapons, otherwise after a while there's no point in collecting coins.

</comment><comment><USER35> This is pretty sweet, great job!

</comment><comment><USER36> Does not work well on my Windows tablet- I assume it presents a touch interface for Android and iOS? It assumes I have a keyboard, and I can't see a way to turn on a touch interface by hand. HP Stream 7, Windows 8.1.

</comment><comment><USER37> Reminds me of Legend of Grimrock-- Nice work, something to be proud of for sure.

</comment><comment><USER38> Really really well done. I am consistently surprised at the level of quality we can achieve from simple web games these days.

Played through to level 8 before taking a break. Very fun and the artwork is excellent.

</comment><comment><USER39> There they go... Thousands of working hours of Hacker News readers... ;)

</comment><comment><USER40> You can play most of the game with one hand on the keyboard, but you're forced to use the mouse instead of the spacebar to close popups and to purchase things.

</comment><comment><USER41> Authors of Mozilla's BrowserQuest still keeping it up!

</comment><comment><USER42> unplayable for me (Safari 9.0 on El Cap Beta). moved a few spaces to the left and everything freezes. Shame, as it looks very impressive.

</comment><comment><USER43> Well done! What about the 3d characters and their animations, did you use Blender, Unity or something like that? Cheers

<comment><USER3> We didn't create the 3D models. We bought them from the amazing bitgem3d.com store.

</comment></comment><comment><USER44> This reminds me of the dungeon crawler in phantasy start I, one of my favs of all time. Also, Eye of the Beholder.

</comment><comment><USER45> Perfect on Nexus 7 (2012) + Opera

</comment><comment><USER46> Throw this on iOS/Android and you will make a _lot_ of money.

<comment><USER47> FYI: This web demo already works extremely well on my Android device.

</comment></comment><comment><USER48> Awesome game! Congratulations to the developers!

</comment><comment><USER49> Great game ! Thanks for sharing

</comment><comment><USER50> very nice game!

<comment><USER51> Makes me want to create my own game now. Impressive job with Three.js. Would be cool if this was multiplayer.</comment></comment>


Ask HN: Is anybody using AWS Glue? - <AUTHOR> Our team is evaluating AWS Glue and Databricks. It seems nobody is excited about glue. Even in the blogosphere, there's virtually nothing! What gives! <comment><USER2> I am also curious about it as I've only recently become aware of Athena and Redshift Spectrum for querying data files on S3 w/o any ETL

Cost control and query performance are big concerns with Athena, as I understand it Glue can help with re-formatting your data for reducing querying costs and performance

Not sure what Databricks the business has to do with AWS Glue</comment>


Pandora plans $231M share offering - <AUTHOR> http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1230276/000104746913009097/a2216690zs-3asr.htm

<comment><USER2> This is a risky investment as it was.

Poor stock holders are getting screwed by this. If you are holding, sell as soon as you are able.

I'm always amazed when a company can have such a high share price when it hasn't proven it has a profitable business model.

<comment><USER3> > I'm always amazed when a company can have such a high share price when it > hasn't proven it has a profitable business model.

It's simple probability. You assemble a database of tech companies and their histories -- what happened to them over time, how they were funded, how their stock fared. Then, when you want to evaluate a new company, you compare it to your database, see how other similar companies evolved. You get a statistical sense of the possible outcomes.

Using that data, you invest in companies based on the probability that they will be successful, and the share price is part of the gamble (and it is certainly a gamble). In fact, if you think about it, the fact that the share price is high means other people are doing the same probabilistic calculation and bidding up the price as well.

It's not an accident -- it't a lot of people betting the company will succeed. Obviously by buying the shares, they're also providing the capital that company needs to grow, so it's more than a blind gamble. It's also to some extent a self-fulfilling prophecy.

<comment><USER2> > It's simple probability.

No it's not.

It's hype, buyout rumors, etc. The stock price will fall hard.

<comment><USER4> If you're so confident, why not short it?

<comment><USER3> > If you're so confident, why not short it?

What? He should tell you his investment strategy? These things are secret for a reason. As William Goldman famously said, no one knows anything.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_in_the_Screen_Trade](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_in_the_Screen_Trade)

<comment><USER4> My point isn't that he should share anything. It's that the market has options for both sides. If one thinks he is a savant and that everyone else is idiots, he should do the opposite strategy. As soon as he started doing that, he'd learn a little about how this sort of thing works.

See, the rub is that Pandora shouldn't be evaluated as a single stock, but as part of a broader portfolio. Only amateurs scrutinize individual stocks in this way. As an example, one strategy might be that the investor has determined that internet radio will eventually take off and kill traditional radio. So, as part of a broader investment strategy, you move your money out of traditional radio and into a diversified pool of internet radio business(pandora is just one). If everyone else starts doing this, the stock goes up. It doesn't matter what pandora is doing individually.

<comment><USER3> > If one thinks he is a savant and that everyone else is idiots, he should do > the opposite strategy.

Yes, fair enough. You've suggested what's called the contrarian strategy -- find out what people are doing and do the opposite. Sometimes effective, sometimes not.

But the real players (and the people I can't stand) are those who take some kind of position in a stock, then either tout or disparage a company or stock without revealing that only they stand to benefit from the advice they're giving out, and the audience only stands to lose by following it. That's what makes me crazy about most people who offer stock or investment advice -- they're not usually obliged to reveal any conflict of interest that may exist.

> Only amateurs scrutinize individual stocks in this way.

Very true. My only advice is meta-advice -- invest in an index fund, not individual stocks, then sit on your investment. In other words, don't play the market at all, just ride the long-term pattern of equities growth. Avoid thinking you can outsmart all the day traders and insiders. More here: [http://arachnoid.com/equities_myths](http://arachnoid.com/equities_myths)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> They're going to need every last dollar they can get once people start using iTunes Radio.

<comment><USER6> What do you see them being able to do, even with a bunch more capital?</comment></comment>


Thorium put to use, kills a few more versions of Supersymmetry - <AUTHOR> http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/12/thorium-put-to-use-kills-a-few-more-versions-of-supersymmetry/ <comment><USER2> "They also added a constant value to their calculations that should throw them off, but the team kept themselves blind to it—this kept their own expectations from influencing how they conducted the experiment."

Well that's a cute little touch.</comment>


Marketing insights from an infomercial consultant - <AUTHOR> http://itreallyworks.tv/articles.html

<comment><AUTHOR> I submitted this under the actual title of the article ("Almost Everything I've Learned about Direct Response Television") and it was [dead]ed immediately. I found the article pretty interesting, and thought it was worth re-posting with a less spammish-looking title.

<comment><USER2> Thanks mucho for this and taking the time to re-add. The "Offers" section gave me three ideas for an upcoming launch. Good stuff.

<comment><AUTHOR> Welcome.

It didn't occur to me just how bad the original looked (really, itreallyworks.tv?) until after it was killed. I thought about running the second submission through a tinyUrl sort of thing just to avoid (quite justified) Domain Name Prejudice.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER3> Pretty interesting, but I hope no company here is ever forced to take his advice.

<comment><USER4> A lot of that advice seems quite universal and useful no matter what your sales or advertising channel happens to be. I think a lot of companies here could learn a thing or two from that article.</comment></comment>


Vaavud wind meter V2.0 with wind direction - <AUTHOR> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vaavud/vaavud-wind-meter-v-20

<comment><USER2> Using Kickstarter again to add and improve on the product after a previously successful campaign is a strong strategy, interested to see if they can replicate their initial success.</comment>


Chinese parliament holds 83 Billionaires (2013) - <AUTHOR> https://next.ft.com/content/4568598e-8731-11e2-9dd7-00144feabdc0 <comment><USER2> I see a similar phenomenon in Vietnam where I am. If you ban market capitalism but the country still needs housing, jobs and the like then the contracts to build that tend to go to the politicians and their friends.

<comment><USER3> Indeed. I get more and more tired of the lazy stream of anti-capitalist sentiment leaking into HN as though all the worlds problems stem from capitalism.

I've spent a fair chunk of my career working in the Middle east or with Middle eastern companies and my wife is Chinese so we have strong connections over there as well. Both have highly centralised, statist systems with heavily restrictions on their economic markets. If you haven't actually been there and lived under non-capitalist systems you have absolutely no idea just how utterly corrupting and venal they can get. It's suffocating, and it's insidious tentacles work their way into every facet of life.

It's true that there is corruption in the west. Big corporations do have too much influence on politics. There are problems with the way wealth is becoming concentrated. But the issues we face pale into comparison to the problem in countries that don't have free markets. In the west we have the 1%, but in non-capitalist states it's more like the 0.1%. It's the difference between systems run according to the rule of law which have some corruption, versus systems run by corruption which have some laws. Capitalism is built on the principles of property rights and economic freedom. It turns out taking those away from people isn't a good thing after all.

<comment><USER4> Corruption is mostly tied to poverty, not economic systems.

I currently live in the Middle East, and I don't see the connection you are claiming. I see poor Indians being brought in to build skyscrapers in Dubai (one of the most capitalist areas of the world) and Qatar, living in shipping containers, having their passports taken by their employers (trapping them in the country); religious laws that protect rapists over their victims. The major sources of corruption here are not linked to the economic systems, but to greed and religion.

<comment><USER5> It's greed. Capitalism only works if you have a strong set of checks and balances. You need everyone watching everyone else.

The United States kinda works. It only kinda works because crooks, blatant they be, in the end, get caught. The corrupt politican will eventually get caught. The corrupt building inspector will eventually get caught. The Doctor who performs unnessary surgeries eventually gets caught.

I don't believe we have the best system, but I do believe we are the best at squashing corruption.

All the wanna be capitalistic countries need to cure corruption before being capitalists. You can't have both. I have always found corruption despicipable. Even thinking about it now infuriates me. I live among very rich individuals. So many of them stepped on others in order to get their wad. All are in denial. And they wonder why their kids look at them with such contempt.

Yes--America has its share of wormy, corrupt, in denial, weasels. We just seem to have less than other countries?

I don't know what the future will bring. I have seen some people do some despicipable things in order to get ahead. I didn't find The Social Network cool. I saw a vile, little man, do anything in order to get ahead. Yes--my generation had Wallstreet. Most of us didn't find it cool. I'm not saying my generation were saints, but we didn't do it all for the paper.

(I got off track with that last paragraph, and expect a lashing from Millenials.)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> Mirror: [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:foI8v8a...](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:foI8v8alIe4J:www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4568598e-8731-11e2-9dd7-00144feabdc0.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us)

</comment><comment><USER7> I can't seem to access the article, so no upvote, but if this is indeed true well... such a shame.

<comment><USER8> Me neither

</comment></comment><comment><USER9> Google News link (no pay wall) - [http://goo.gl/1ha6Kv](http://goo.gl/1ha6Kv)

</comment><comment><USER10> Mods/submitter, can we add a (2013) to this? Post is dated March 7, 2013. Thanks!

<comment><USER11> At your service.

</comment></comment><comment><USER12> How does this compare to Russia and India?</comment>


Open-source spaced-repetition site for developers - <AUTHOR> https://github.com/lakesare/memcode <comment><AUTHOR> Hi! I'm the author, I'd love to introduce Memcode.

Memcode is an open-source flashcards site, created with STEM students/developers in mind.

I created it because other spaced-repetition sites I've tried didn't include essential (for me) functionality, such as: \- navigation via shortcuts, \- code formatting, formulas, images in flashcards, \- and easy fast course creation, with course creators as first-class citizens in mind.

Questions are welcome!</comment>


Show HN: Can I Expense It? A web app that visually recognises business expenses - <AUTHOR> https://anna.money/can-i-expense-it <comment><AUTHOR> The story behind the app: [https://anna.money/blog/updates/can-i-expense-it- theres-an-a...](https://anna.money/blog/updates/can-i-expense-it-theres-an- app-for-that)

</comment><comment><USER2> How does it know what is expensable and what isn't ?

<comment><AUTHOR> It doesn't exactly know — it just recognises objects and then asks for your reason to make it a business expense (it suggests a few options for each recognised object). Then you get an explanation of why this object can or can not be legally expensed. All of those options and explanations are pre- defined, so the whole app is more of an applied expression of what Tensorflow.js can do.</comment></comment>


Heptio Contour – An ENVOY powered ingress controller - <AUTHOR> https://github.com/heptio/contour <comment><USER2> Thank you lazypower and Heptio for Contour. Here is how to get the Contour on Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes. [https://medium.com/@ktsakalozos/heptio- contour-on-the-canoni...](https://medium.com/@ktsakalozos/heptio-contour-on- the-canonical-distribution-of-kubernetes-8977b2ac7736)

Keep up the good work.

</comment><comment><USER3> Considering that both use Envoy as a proxy, is Contour an alternative to Istio [https://istio.io/](https://istio.io/) ?

<comment><USER4> Istio is for building a service mesh inside your network of microservices. This is about the front facing ingress to get into your services from the internet. It's closer to Ambassador ([https://getambassador.io](https://getambassador.io))

<comment><USER3> Thanks, I tried to describe the different categories in our scope [https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab- com/commit/f48d5d8a...](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab- com/commit/f48d5d8a096d321aafbbd31d0fca1ec0ea6ba94b)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> Why would I use this over the batters included Nginx Ingress controller?

No SSL/TLS termination should be a deal breaker right off.

</comment><comment><USER6> Initially thought this might be something to do with [https://www.ingress.com/](https://www.ingress.com/) and wondered how it could be played with a controller ...

</comment><comment><USER7> When linking to GitHub, please link to the readme. Without knowing anything about the project, that's what we'll read first, and the additional click needed in mobile is a waste.</comment>


Ask HN: Multi-touch CAD Controller (New Menu designs for the iPad) - Feedback? - <AUTHOR> http://blog.maideinc.com/maide-cad-control-developments-new-menu-for-t

<comment><USER2> Please switch the videos around... without reading the text I looked at the first video and thought "ok, that's pretty basic and seems to be causing problems because the whole device moves when you apply pressure". The bottom video gave a _completely_ different idea and actual usage presentation was awesome.

Otherwise, I like it :) you don't even need full multitouch device for that kind of stuff sometimes. I had loads of fun with touch screens you can buy from ebay for ~15£ for a 7" transparent one. Just plug in via usb and treat it as another pointer device.

<comment><AUTHOR> Done, thanks for the suggestion. Ps, check out the latest one: [http://blog.maideinc.com/iphoneipod-touch-multi-touch-cad- re...](http://blog.maideinc.com/iphoneipod-touch-multi-touch-cad-remote)</comment></comment>


This Woman Invented a Way to Run 30 Lab Tests on Only One Drop of Blood - <AUTHOR> http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/02/elizabeth-holmes-theranos/

<comment><USER2> Absolutely amazing. She took something academics were discussing mostly theoretically (microfluidics on a chip) and turned it into some real.

</comment><comment><USER3> I'd love to get a small device for regular testing at home. I guess this could be one step closer in this direction.</comment>


Obtaining "extended" cell-site records requires a warrant - <AUTHOR> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/08/05/fourth-circuit-adopts-mosaic-theory-holds-that-obtaining-extended-cell-site-records-requires-a-warrant/

<comment><USER2> I'd change the title to add an important detail and better reflect the headline:

 _Fourth Circuit holds that obtaining "extended" cell-site records requires a warrant_

(If that isn't too long.)

The important detail is that this is a ruling by the Fourth Circuit. Because other circuit courts disagree, it likely won't be settled before a Supreme Court ruling.</comment>


Yahoo shareholders approve sale to Verizon - <AUTHOR> https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/08/yahoo-shareholders-approve-sale-to-verizon/ <comment><USER2> holy shit.... this was bound to happen

<comment><USER3> Right! It's like, hey we have one buyer and one buyer only, should we approve this or roll the dice?</comment></comment>