Without some way to generate revenue, people aren't going to publish recipes (for Google to scrape into their AI.) Maybe we could live without more recipes being fed into the machine, but there are many other types of…
I find many software developers are solution-oriented instead of problem-oriented. Because that's a common theme in my head it's what I see here, whether that's what was intended or not. I believe that developers who…
I had a great experience using Kaitai in a previous job. We were decoding proprietary binary messages from Teltonika OBD GPS trackers. The online editor, https://ide.kaitai.io/, is really nice for developing and testing…
The All The Music project is something like that, but for melodies. They created all possible melodies of a 7 note diatonic scale and wrote them to disk as MIDI files, copyrighting them in the process. The melodies were…
SwearySkyscraper: A startup that develops novel and personalized swear words to help people better cope with pain, and integrates these swear words into a liquid damping system to stabilize skyscrapers during…
Berlin's Museum of Natural History (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin) has a nice app for identifying plants and animals called Naturblick. It's available in English.…
"I have nothing to hide" really misses the point of what privacy is for. I don't close the door when I'm taking a crap because I have something to hide, I do it for privacy. Also, blackmail isn't the only way to have…
When working as the head of engineering at a start-up, I would get dragged into this process on the sales side. I would sit there cringing at all of the bonkers crap the Sales Engineer or Solutions Architect was spewing…
> The standards of driving in Australia is terrible. I think this is common in many places where a significant portion of the population lives in low density areas (eg: American, Australian and Canadian suburbs.)…
This makes me think of going to chain restaurants. Everything has been focus-grouped and optimized and feels exactly like an overfit proxy for an enjoyable meal. I feel like I'm in a bald-faced machine that is optimized…
> a collection of half-finished documents that are always out of date I think of company wikis as a place where information goes to die. A useful feature, which I'm sure exists somewhere, would be "freshness" checks on…
I worked with a guy who introduced himself by saying "Hi, I'm firstName and I'm the world's best Java programmer." He would say that while shaking your hand and looking you in the eye like an otherwise normal person. I…
That was my thought. Somewhere on the planet there's something that has a sexual explicit name and the take down is based on that.
> The Starbucks this piece occupies is no longer a community hub – its capacity to function as one has been filtered out by profit-seeking decisions To be fair, I think the reason that it formerly sought to be a…
> Face it, Zuck is an accidental billionaire who had the advantages of Harvard but is now completely out of his depth and lacks a crystalized vision as to where to go from here. It won't be long before Zuck is shown the…
You can consider porting your landline number to a VOIP service (I use voip.ms) and after that it's nearly free. I bought a basic Linksys modem (SPA2102) so that we can still plug in our cordless phones in an use them…
Thank you for putting a brief description of the product at the top of the post. There are often posts on HN for new versions of software that I haven't heard of. I click on them out of curiosity only to find a post…
I think having an extended application process is the point. It selects for people who are good at university, rather than people who were good at high school.
That's the best case scenario. Worst case is that they get nothing back and own nothing. (Based on the quick summary of the deal above; I don't know more than what's here.)
Speaking of the browser extension UX, for those who don't know, the keyboard shortcut for filling in your login details is ctrl-shift-L.
fd instead of find (fast, good defaults) https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
Maybe Asimov didn't think that the described scenario would be the state of the art for UX at the time, but that there would be other reasons for that UX. Maybe without some sophisticated ritual and human involvement…
I couldn't land without crashing but luckily the terrain was perfectly flat so I could just drive where I wanted to go. I did a few long distance, cross-country drives by pointing in the right direction and setting an…
Detroit going bust is bad if all of your property is in Detroit, but if you have property in 100s or 1000s of cities then the individual booms and busts become less relevant.
If you haven't read the article yet you can test yourself. (I've copied and pasted the questions in random order. I don't know how they were presented to the original participants.) "If you had to guess, what percentage…
Without some way to generate revenue, people aren't going to publish recipes (for Google to scrape into their AI.) Maybe we could live without more recipes being fed into the machine, but there are many other types of…
I find many software developers are solution-oriented instead of problem-oriented. Because that's a common theme in my head it's what I see here, whether that's what was intended or not. I believe that developers who…
I had a great experience using Kaitai in a previous job. We were decoding proprietary binary messages from Teltonika OBD GPS trackers. The online editor, https://ide.kaitai.io/, is really nice for developing and testing…
The All The Music project is something like that, but for melodies. They created all possible melodies of a 7 note diatonic scale and wrote them to disk as MIDI files, copyrighting them in the process. The melodies were…
SwearySkyscraper: A startup that develops novel and personalized swear words to help people better cope with pain, and integrates these swear words into a liquid damping system to stabilize skyscrapers during…
Berlin's Museum of Natural History (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin) has a nice app for identifying plants and animals called Naturblick. It's available in English.…
"I have nothing to hide" really misses the point of what privacy is for. I don't close the door when I'm taking a crap because I have something to hide, I do it for privacy. Also, blackmail isn't the only way to have…
When working as the head of engineering at a start-up, I would get dragged into this process on the sales side. I would sit there cringing at all of the bonkers crap the Sales Engineer or Solutions Architect was spewing…
> The standards of driving in Australia is terrible. I think this is common in many places where a significant portion of the population lives in low density areas (eg: American, Australian and Canadian suburbs.)…
This makes me think of going to chain restaurants. Everything has been focus-grouped and optimized and feels exactly like an overfit proxy for an enjoyable meal. I feel like I'm in a bald-faced machine that is optimized…
> a collection of half-finished documents that are always out of date I think of company wikis as a place where information goes to die. A useful feature, which I'm sure exists somewhere, would be "freshness" checks on…
I worked with a guy who introduced himself by saying "Hi, I'm firstName and I'm the world's best Java programmer." He would say that while shaking your hand and looking you in the eye like an otherwise normal person. I…
That was my thought. Somewhere on the planet there's something that has a sexual explicit name and the take down is based on that.
> The Starbucks this piece occupies is no longer a community hub – its capacity to function as one has been filtered out by profit-seeking decisions To be fair, I think the reason that it formerly sought to be a…
> Face it, Zuck is an accidental billionaire who had the advantages of Harvard but is now completely out of his depth and lacks a crystalized vision as to where to go from here. It won't be long before Zuck is shown the…
You can consider porting your landline number to a VOIP service (I use voip.ms) and after that it's nearly free. I bought a basic Linksys modem (SPA2102) so that we can still plug in our cordless phones in an use them…
Thank you for putting a brief description of the product at the top of the post. There are often posts on HN for new versions of software that I haven't heard of. I click on them out of curiosity only to find a post…
I think having an extended application process is the point. It selects for people who are good at university, rather than people who were good at high school.
That's the best case scenario. Worst case is that they get nothing back and own nothing. (Based on the quick summary of the deal above; I don't know more than what's here.)
Speaking of the browser extension UX, for those who don't know, the keyboard shortcut for filling in your login details is ctrl-shift-L.
fd instead of find (fast, good defaults) https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
Maybe Asimov didn't think that the described scenario would be the state of the art for UX at the time, but that there would be other reasons for that UX. Maybe without some sophisticated ritual and human involvement…
I couldn't land without crashing but luckily the terrain was perfectly flat so I could just drive where I wanted to go. I did a few long distance, cross-country drives by pointing in the right direction and setting an…
Detroit going bust is bad if all of your property is in Detroit, but if you have property in 100s or 1000s of cities then the individual booms and busts become less relevant.
If you haven't read the article yet you can test yourself. (I've copied and pasted the questions in random order. I don't know how they were presented to the original participants.) "If you had to guess, what percentage…