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lancefisheron Show HN: Fossa-cli – Fast and reliable dependency analysis for any codebase

This is a GitHub limitation. I get around it for other services by making a dedicated GitHub user account, granting that user read-only access, and then connecting to the 3rd-party app. It's a somewhat annoying workaround, but it works.

lancefisheron Microsoft again forced upgrades on Win10 PCs specifically set to block updates

Have you tried settting your internet connection to metered? https://www.howtogeek.com/226722/how-when-and-why-to-set-a-c...

lancefisheron Lost Art of Bending Over: How Other Cultures Spare Their Spines

I like Patagonia’s “performance” denim. http://www.patagonia.com/product/mens-performance-straight-f...

lancefisheron No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore

I used to drop my used clothes off at Goodwill, but my wife started selling them on ebay. It’s really surprising to see some shirts and pants sell for up to $20 or $30. And they’re easy to ship.

lancefisheron Cinemark announces $8.99/mo. subscription to fill more seats, take on MoviePass

I think the end game for Movie Pass is them buying/building their own theaters.

lancefisheron Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable housing strangles hiring

I'm late to the party, but if anyone here is interested in opportunities in Missoula, I'm happy to talk. I work at Submittable (YC S12) and we'll be hiring more engineers in 2018.

I have been back in Missoula since 2001, and worked a number of different tech jobs here from local government to remote to public companies and startups.

The tech scene has grown a ton here over the last 15 years. There are good opportunities. The biggest hurdle I've seen is being able to find good work for your SO.

lancefisheron CircleCI trusts 8 analytics companies with your source code and API tokens

When I need more granular access, this is how I set it up:

1) Create a new GitHub user: e.g. (circleci-builder@example.com) 2) Grant read-only access to specific repositories to the new user. 3) Configure CI to use that user.

lancefisheron Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text

I remember “brackets come before parentheses” alphabetically ;)

lancefisheron Tetris for TS100 soldering iron

Each time you lose the game the soldering iron tip temperature increases by 10 degrees.

Yikes!

lancefisheron Maurice Sendak Picture Book Discovered

Also the author ;)

lancefisheron 300M Freely Downloadable Pwned Passwords

It's not ideal to send every new user's password to a 3rd party service.

lancefisheron Backblaze lost over 13TB of my data

Backblaze should be able to handle 17TB of data.

lancefisheron Mackinac Island Stone Skipping Competition

Last year a friend of mine finished work on "Skips Stones for Fudge" (mentioned at the end of the article). This is a documentary about competitive stone skipping. The world record was broken a couple times during filming. Some of the same guys in this article are featured in the film. The fun part was after the premier of the film in Missoula, most of the "stars" came out on stage and did a Q&A.

It's really fun to see people who take things like this to the limit. The film is worth a watch.

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/skipsstonesforfudge

lancefisheron BART takeover robbery: 40 to 60 teens swarm train, rob weekend riders

>The images cannot be shared publicly, she said, because the suspects appear to be minors.

Really? If you're old enough to rob a train, you should be old enough to have a wanted poster.

lancefisheron “Millennial savages me on Glassdoor for giving constructive feedback”

Pro Tip: Don't give feedback to people that don't want it.

lancefisheron Bob Taylor Has Died

If you're not too familiar with the story, Where Wizards Stay Up Late is a good history of the beginning of the internet. https://www.amazon.com/Where-Wizards-Stay-Up-Late/dp/0684832...

lancefisheron Burger King TV Ad Asks, Hoping Google Home Devices Answer

>Asked whether he was concerned that consumers might find the spot invasive, he said, “We think about our guests’ perception and their perspective on how we interact with them, but on balance we felt this was a really positive way to connect with them.”

This paints their president as clueless about positive ways to connect with customer. FWIW, I don't think the president should be evil or incompetent.

lancefisheron Burger King TV Ad Asks, Hoping Google Home Devices Answer

Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence.

lancefisheron Jupyter Notebook 5.0

This looks pretty good for handling diffing/merging of notebooks. I'm just getting started with jupyter, but it seems like somewhat of a pain to have to ssh into a server to manage versioning with git while I work on the code in the browser. I'd prefer if I could do all of my jupyter work directly in a notebook, and commit from the notebook webpage.

I'm not sure how others work with this stack, so there is likely tooling I don't know about. I'd love to hear suggestions.

lancefisheron Supreme Court sets higher bar for education of students with disabilities

A voucher would divert money from a public school, but it would also divert a student. If it costs $5,000/year to educate a student at a public school, grant a $3,000 voucher, and the public school would come out ahead since they have $2,000 dollars without a student.

lancefisheron Abstract Algebra (2016) [pdf]

That's the 5th edition for $18. The 7th edition is $180!

lancefisheron Abstract Algebra (2016) [pdf]

Gallian's Contemporary Abstract Algebra is the book I used. I really loved the subject. I had an awesome teacher that did a lot to inspire, but this was a good book. https://www.amazon.com/Contemporary-Abstract-Algebra-Joseph-...

lancefisheron Ask HN: Is S3 down?

Looks like the RSS feed hasn't been updated for an hour and a half.

lancefisheron Show HN: s3-lambda – Lambda functions over S3 objects: each, map, reduce, filter

Smap for S3 map. :)

lancefisheron Things Developers Should Know About SQL Server (2013)

Cool! Thanks. I'll definitely check out the video. We use MSSQL at our startup. Initially, because that's what the founders were familiar with, but it really is a nice database to work with.

lancefisheron Learning Advanced JavaScript (2008)

This is fairly old. It goes with John Resig's book "Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja Released" which was released at the beginning of 2013 [1]. I remember seeing this site up well before that. He started the book in 2008.

If you can work your way through this tutorial you'll gain a decent grasp of ES5 prototypes and functions.

[1]: http://ejohn.org/blog/secrets-of-the-javascript-ninja-releas...

lancefisheron When her best friend died, she rebuilt him using artificial intelligence

Caprica, the prequel to Battlestar Galactica, uses this idea as a major plot element.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprica_(TV_series)

lancefisheron How Dropbox securely stores your passwords

To be clear, they aren't storing your password. They are storing an encrypted hash of your password. This is so they can verify your password when you use it. The alternative is to not have passwords in one fashion or another.

lancefisheron Using molecular codes, plants cry for help, ward off bugs (2013)

A few months ago, RadioLab had a similar story, but the trees were found to communicate and cooperate across species through a network of underground fungus tubes in what scientists named the wood wide web.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/from-tree-to-shining-tree/

lancefisheron Keep a Changelog

Its not over until I can embed video in github markdown files. ;)