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_fson Coronavirus deaths of Wikidata notable people

Don't bother. People making statements like this have already made up there mind. You are not going to change his.

_fson Yelp lays off 1000, furloughs 1100

It appears that Middle managers are downvoting you in force.

_fson New COVID-19 cases reported across Japan

Would it be fair to assume Japan may be downplaying the outbreak so that they do not risk losing the 2020 Olympics? It's quite a large investment that would get no return if it were to be cancelled.

_fson Essential shutting down after failing to launch ‘GEM’ smartphone

Maybe thats why I have not purchased a phone since the Iphone SE came out. Can't stand large phones. I must be alone in this thinking, because so far, no manufactures are going back to small form factors.

I want my phone for music, driving directions, calls, a pocket camera, and occasional texts. I do not need or want my phone to be my primary media device. I have an ipad for that.

_fson Ask HN: What's your cross-platform PDF / ePub reading workflow?

You can get the technology a bit cheaper in a [Boox Nova Pro](https://www.boox.com/boox-nova-pro-3/). A bit smaller form factor, but I enjoy using it as my primary reader with pen support

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_fson Work on these things

Are you saying that you don’t enjoy the 4 page life retelling story intermixed with countless ads and the same staged photo from 5 different angles and 4 different focal points when you just want to see the recipe? Luckily, there is an extension to parse all that out.

https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter

_fson Sydney Opal Tower: Thousands evacuated after 'crack'

Fascinating post by a structural engineer who actually inspected projects by this firm is over in the reddit discussion. https://www.reddit.com/r/sydney/comments/a91wit/opal_tower_s...

_fson Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software developer?

My favorite, along with about everyone else in the office, is https://hackaday.com

_fson YC’s 2018 Summer Reading List

The three body problem:

I found this book fascinating how the cultural revolution was weaved in to the story. It really highlighted my ignorance of recent Chinese history, and many times found myself turning to Wikipedia to learn more of the specific events mentioned. The English translation also includes several lengthy footnotes and see-also's when historical characters or events are mentioned, as I'm sure many western readers are less familiar with the details of the events and historical characters.

Without giving away anything, I also found the Egyptian scene truly awesome.

_fson CoinTracker raises $1.5M to make tracking cryptocurrency investments easy

I tried it before and found https://cointracking.info/ much more useful in nearly all comparisons. Better tax info and preperation, better syncing, more supported sync targets, faster updates, more tracked coins, and better stats pages. And this is all on the free version of coointracking. If you pay the yearly fee, the auto syncing and auto-wallet sync is a huge standout.

_fson Juicero Plans to Lower Prices and Cut 25% of Staff

Can we not do this? This is not reddit.

_fson Bose Hearphones

I've tried this in the past. It gives me about 5 seconds of quiet time. Just enough to realize how loud my tinnitus really is :(

_fson Bose Hearphones

I really wish someone was working to solve the problem of tinnitus. Would it be possible to generate anti phase wave out of these things to cancel out tinnitus? I would pay anything and/or wear any goofy device in my ears to live life tinnitus free.

_fson The Long, Remarkable History of the GIF

I know we are supposed to be commenting on the article, but why is this headline "* is dead, long live *" so overused[1] on hackernews. It is so tiring.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22is%20dead%20Long%20live%22&...

_fson The Eighth Dirty Word – “Just”

I firmly believe in Linus's Law, stating that "given enough eyes, all bugs are shallow". Because of this, I welcome any "can you just" when I feel that I am stuck debugging a bug that cannot be found. Often times it is outside intervention that pokes and prods my mind down a different path. The outside input may not even be correct, but its enough to nudge me into a new, unexplored view on the problem.

Try not to take outside input so personally. Give your ego a little break. (Hopefully) your coworkers are all here to solve the same big problems.

_fson Show HN: PlateJoy (YC S15) – Algorithmic meal planner with integrated delivery

Anyway to export meals to myfitnesspal?

_fson Detecting stack overflows on an embedded system

Interesting. I believe this is the same as the hardware watchpoint I mentioned. I'm not usually working with ARMs, so I do not know for sure.

How would you deal with multiple tasks running? Do you have multiple watchpoints you can set with an ARM, or would the watch space need to be changed when switching tasks.

_fson Extreme Methods for Breaking Bad Habits

Not to mention 3/4 of the article is just rephrasing Derek Sivers' post [1] on the same issue. This author even stole all the artwork.

[1] https://sivers.org/compensate

_fson Using GCC's Stack Smashing Protector on Microcontrollers

I implemented something similar on a coldfire cpu. I was able to protect against the skip over problem you describe by combining the hardware debug point with -fstack-check to create a "canary" zone at the bottom of every stack. This prevents a huge buffer that goes past the bottom of the stack (which would not normally hit your single watchpoint) from overwriting code far outside of the stack space.

_fson Using GCC's Stack Smashing Protector on Microcontrollers

True, but you can use -fstack-check with a well-defined canary space and correct probe interval to prevent the jump over attack you are describing.

_fson Let’s Encrypt client will transition to a new name and a new home at EFF

SSL is a dead protocol that has major vulnerabilities. It no longer has support and anyone still using it should really move on. TLS is the recommended replacement protocol that is still secure. HTTPS can be thought of as secure http, regardless of protocol.

_fson Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)

NetBurner | http://netburner.com | San Diego, CA | ONSITE | FULL TIME / INTERNS

Interested in joining a team of doers? Our small embedded devices are network enabling hundreds of thousands of products, experiments and hobby applications around the world. Join our company and get the chance to help design, implement, and show off your ideas on our hardware and software platform. We have multiple positions, as detailed below.

Students! We have summer internship positions available. Come and join the team in San Diego for the summer! Our internships are very open ended and allow you to develop and show off cool technologies utilizing our hardware. Please have a look at the past projects below and our website to get an idea of what you would be interested in developing and submit your resume and a short list of a project ideas that would interest you.

Last summer, our internship projects included:

Bitcoin ATM - http://www.netburner.com/learn/insert-coin-receive-bitcoin

Black box network packet sniffer - http://www.netburner.com/learn/live-packet-sniffing-with-an-...

Robotic arm - http://www.netburner.com/learn/intelligent-robotic-arm-with-...

Open Full Time Positions:

  Technology Evangelist / Content Marketer
  * Generate interest through social media and SEO
  * Create site content through examples, video demonstrations, and articles
  * Market research to understand and utilize latest technologies
  * Work with business development team to find new markets
  ---
  System Architect
  * Develop and maintain GCC based cross-compiling tool-chains runnable on multiple OS platforms.
  * Develop and maintain GNU Make based build systems
  * Develop and maintain Eclipse based IDE including QT-based development applications
  * Maintain our C.I. implementation based on Jenkins
  * Ideal candidates should be proficient in C and C++.
  ---
  Software Test Engineer - Design and create example applications for end customers to demonstrate product features
  * Develop, maintain and execute software and hardware test plans

If you have any questions or comments about any of our positions or technology, please reach out to me directly fstanley @ netburner (dot) com. No recruiters please.

_fson Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)

NetBurner | http://netburner.com | San Diego, CA | ONSITE

NetBurner provides all of the hardware, software and tools to connect new and existing products to a network. Our small embedded devices are network enabling hundreds of thousands of products around the world. Join our company and get the chance to help design, implement, and show off your ideas on our hardware and software platform. We have multiple positions, as detailed below. Ideal candidates in software positions should be proficient in C and C++.

* System Architect - Develop and maintain GCC based cross-compiling toolchains runnable on multiple OS platforms.

- Develop and maintain GNU Make based build systems

- Maintain our C.I. implementation based on Jenkins

* Software Test Engineer - Design and create example applications for end customers to demonstrate product features

- Develop, maintain and execute software and hardware test plans

* Marketer / Graphic Designer / Web Developer - Work as part of our business development team to reach new markets

- Administrate our Joomla install

- Research and write about new topics and technologies to generate interest in our product.

If you have any questions or comments about any of our positions or technology, please reach out to me directly fstanley @ netburner (dot) com.

_fson What Your Microbiome Wants for Dinner

One topic that was not mentioned in the article that I have found fascinating is that your gut microbiome can actually affect your cravings. (1) Your microbiome accomplishes this through a host of mechanisms including changing the expression of taste receptors, making certain foods taste better; they may release hunger-inducing hormones; or they may manipulate the vagus nerve (which connects the stomach to the brain) to control their hosts’ eating behavior.

Are you sure you really want that extra side of chips? Or has your gut biome decided it wants that extra fat, and influences you to eat it.

Additionally, you can "reseed" your gut biome by changing your diet. Do you crave greasy food? Go vegan for 2 weeks. The new gut biome that develops and takes hold may soon have you start craving healthier foods. A change in diet can change your biome in as little as 4 days. (2) You can witness this phenomena in the movie Super Size Me. At the start of the movie Spurlock is disgusted by eating McDonalds for every meal. But, by the end of his experiment, his gut biome has significantly changed, and you can literally see his mood darken when he is not eating greasy fries and burgers. He craves, or should I say, his microbiome craves those happy meals, and is influencing both his taste receptors, health, and general mood in order to manipulate him in to a trip to the drive though.

1. http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/08/your-gut-b... 2. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-guts-microbiom...

_fson California Coastal Records: Aerial photographic survey of California Coastline

How is this legal under california law? http://www.californiacoastline.org/cgi-bin/image.cgi?image=2...

_fson Unhealthy Fixation

First of all, I don't think anyone has a serious objections to GMOs that are modified to increase output or resist natural predators

The only fear of GMOs that I have is knowing that certain crops have been genetically modified to not die when they are caked in pesticide. Good for plants, bad for me, as I have not been genetically modified to eat crops with layers of pesticide on them.

_fson The Extraordinary California Drought of 2013-2014

Well to be fair, we are not living paycheck to paycheck. Are water reservoirs and dams function as our emergency fund. We have (had) years of water stored within these reservoirs. And many years in unregulated groundwater. The problem is, even if you plan a large emergency fund, during an epic drought, the emergency fund is eventually going to run dry.

_fson Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API

If you are already using Alfred, I'd suggest having a look at the new workflows available, in particular layout, which covers a lot of the features of spectacle.

For instance, typing 'layout left' in alfred will push the window the left side, topleft for the corner, etc.

_fson LinkedIn’s Bad Terms of Service

When will you bloggers learn that full page popups that ask me to join your newsletter after reading an article for 2 minutes = instant page close + never coming back. Please, say no to full page popups.