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k26dr··on I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK
The Politico website on Android has this issue. Can't login so can't read articles. Had to download app, but would prefer web page.
k26dr··on Text-Based Google Directions
hey guys. love the service. paypal donations are down. wanted to donate and couldn't. just a heads up.
k26dr··on Programmers Should Plan for Lower Pay?
If you've ever tried to hire a developer its pretty clear why they're paid so well. Very good ones are a huge boost to your business and hard to find.
k26dr··on Uber proposes policy that would pay drivers a minimum wage of $21 per hour
This is a completely reasonable take. You don't have a right to live in a city that requires $50/hr to live comfortably. $21/hr is an amazing pay rate for what is essentially unskilled labor
k26dr··on WTF Happened in 1971?
A version of the gold standard with the dollar pegged to gold for international trade partners was reintroduced in 1945 post WWII and that's what's Nixon suspended. Just like a true gold standard, it put a check on how much dollars the government could print
k26dr··on How ACH works: A developer perspective (2014)
Makes you pine for Bitcoin
k26dr··on First Cable-Free Elevator Zooms Horizontally and Vertically Using Maglev Tech
In this case the eletric current creates the magentism though. Turn off power and poof, gravity is back
k26dr··on First Cable-Free Elevator Zooms Horizontally and Vertically Using Maglev Tech
I'm guessing there is a mechanical failsafe in place, but I want to see test data proving it works before I get in one of these
k26dr··on Uncensorable Wikipedia on IPFS
The following command will allow you to pin (ie. seed/mirror) the site on your local IPFS node if you'd like to contribute to keeping the site up:

ipfs pin add QmT5NvUtoM5nWFfrQdVrFtvGfKFmG7AHE8P34isapyhCxX

k26dr··on Built-In Vim Autocomplete
This whole time I had no idea vim could autocomplete
k26dr··on Areas near Sacramento evacuated as Oroville spillway collapse feared
To clarify, the emergency spillway is 30 ft below the top of the dam, not 30 ft high
k26dr··on Areas near Sacramento evacuated as Oroville spillway collapse feared
The emergency spillway has never been needed before, so it's never had a chance to be tested by the looks of it
k26dr··on Hollywood as We Know It Is Over
This is the best entrepreneurship TLDR/ELI5 I've come across. Thank you, I plan on quoting this in the future
k26dr··on Amazon has made its first drone delivery to an actual customer
Anybody know how much it costs them to make one of these deliveries? Is it cost-competitive with a delivery truck?
k26dr··on 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV
Is it possible to heat non-leather seats without a fire hazard?
k26dr··on Ask HN: What is your goto resource for learning about big data, ML, AI etc?
The scikit-learn documentation is solid:

http://scikit-learn.org/stable/

k26dr··on A Quantum Leap for the Web
Doesn't Chrome/Chromium already run as multiple processes?
k26dr··on Shame on Y Combinator
Despite my disagreement with him, Peter Thiel has a right to hold an opinion on which candidate he supports, and the right to donate to the candidate of his choice. It's a presidential election. You can't call it a fair election if as a society, we're threatening to punish people for supporting one candidate over another.
k26dr··on Only 7% of Office Workers Are Productive
Didn't there used to be a way to flag misleading headlines?
k26dr··on A federal carbon tax is imminent in the USA, and Exxon is pushing it
I'm fine with Exxon benefitting from a carbon tax. They have the political clout to push a bill like this through Congress, and it benefits the country as a whole to have carbon legislation in place. Seems like a win-win to me.
k26dr··on Computational and Inferential Thinking – The Foundations of Data Science
Thanks a bunch, I've been looking around for a good data science text to read to get an intro to the field, and this seems like a good place to start.
k26dr··on In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery
Anybody else find it suspicious that 2 quanta magazine stories were the top two stories on HN today?