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lost_my_pwdon Readme.so – Easy way to create a README

A few more more, depending on the nature of the project and one's goals:

  how do I report bugs
  how do I build from source
  how can I help/contribute

lost_my_pwdon Meta plans to lay off 10k employees

I think they are referring to this: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Soydev

Appears to be a derogatory term that, by diminishing the efforts and abilities of others, is used to make one feel better about one's self.

lost_my_pwdon Ask HN: When coding, how to do remember what you were doing the previous day?

Long ago I was reading about Ernest Hemingway's approach to dealing with writer's block and one thing he said has stuck with me and proved quite successful for both "coder's block" and remembering where I left off from the last coding session:

  I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day…

lost_my_pwdon Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app

Give AppPolice a try: https://github.com/AppPolice/AppPolice

lost_my_pwdon US Workers Are Highly Taxed If You Count Premiums

Oh it can get even more ridiculous... yesterday I got yet another $300 bill for an ER visit from October 2017. Now I have figure out whether it will cost me more in lost billable hours than to just pay this bill, knowing that contacting my $1700/mo insurance company to help sort things out will prove to be fruitless.

lost_my_pwdon We Pay You to Learn to Code

Way down at the end of the page an "oh, by the way..." disclosure:

  After the program graduates pay 15% of their income for 2 years if they are earning over $40,000, capped at $30,000 total paid back to Modern Labor.

There is also the implication that a potential starting salary is $91,476:

  $91,476 The salary of an entry-level front-end developer (Source: PayScale, 2019)

Assuming that was somehow true...

  %15 * $92K * 2yr - ($2K/mo * 5mo) = $17.6K total cost of tuition

Looking around, ~$11.4K is the average tuition for a coding school, so this proposition works out to be a rather high interest loan (that can't be paid off early):

  $17.6K - $11.4K = $6.2K in interest
  $6.2K / $17.6K / 2yr = 17.6% APR

lost_my_pwdon Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music

Any thoughts about making the client-side "seed" saveable?

Would love to be able to save/replay/share sections that I really enjoyed (e.g. bookmark the seed(s) + offset/range).

lost_my_pwdon Gpu.js – GPU Accelerated JavaScript

Caution: this just hung Firefox for a ~30s and then my MBP rebooted.

lost_my_pwdon Yarn's Future – v2 and beyond

Humans are not always the consumer of error output. Distinct error codes simplify parsing and eliminate ambiguity.

It also makes it easier for developers look up a specific error in the documentation, assuming it's been documented.

lost_my_pwdon Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe?

There's a good Planet Money podcast all about the Jones Act: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/08/05/488869138/epis...

lost_my_pwdon 'I’m not having children because I want to save the planet'

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

lost_my_pwdon Who and what is Coinhive?

"But according to Troy Mursch, a security expert who spends much of his time tracking Coinhive and other instances of “cryptojacking,” killing the key doesn’t do anything to stop Coinhive’s code from continuing to mine Monero on a hacked site. Once a key is invalidated, Mursch said, Coinhive keeps 100 percent of the cryptocurrency mined by sites tied to that account from then on."

This is where I think Coinhive ethically crosses the line; perhaps legally, too. The mining scripts should stop when contacting Coinhive and determining that the specified key/ID has been disabled due to complaints or fraud.

lost_my_pwdon Home-made drones now threaten conventional armed forces

Which reminds me of Runaway (1984): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088024/

lost_my_pwdon Zero-Width Characters: Invisibly fingerprinting text

That same type of "content transposition" tool would also be a way to ensure obfuscation of content source if applied to copied text.

lost_my_pwdon An introduction to North Korean graphic design

In the US in the 70s-80s this used to be a thing:

http://gbnfgroceries.blogspot.com/2014/01/from-misc-foods-ai...

There were actually a few no-brand brands from supermarket chains like this that I can recall.

lost_my_pwdon The Fictiv Open-Source Motorcycle

Looking a the sideshot, it just appears to be an older style Ducati Monster with the trademark trellis frame replaced and a switch to a twinshock rear suspension.

Not my bike as I don't have a picture handy:

http://moto.zombdrive.com/images/ducati-monster-620-dark-10....

lost_my_pwdon Do Not Eat, Touch, or Even Inhale the Air Around the Manchineel Tree

We have to watch out for that in the US too, as well as wild parsnip.

lost_my_pwdon Wells Fargo’s ‘Living Will’ Plan Is Rejected Again by Regulators

> I'm not actually sure about that. Why would they want to encourage this sort of behaviour when it never made the bank any money?

Huge bonuses based on performance metrics? WF executives were given 100s of millions in bonuses during this period of fraud.

lost_my_pwdon Ask HN: Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?

Intelligence, compassion, accountability.

That also holds true in my personal life as what I look for from others and expect of myself.

lost_my_pwdon Remote work: 6 months later

One can set their status to "Away" in slack.

lost_my_pwdon Secret Backdoor in Some U.S. Phones Sent Data to China, Analysts Say

Funny how this follows right after this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/14/china-threaten...

lost_my_pwdon Writing more legible SQL

That matches what I do pretty much with the exception of capitalization. I agree, it's not totally necessary, but it does provide a visual delineation of each section/component of the the statement, which, for large statements, can be very helpful in quickly scanning what it does:

    SELECT
        t1.col1,
        t2.col2,
        t3.col3

    FROM
        table1 t1
        join table2 t2 on t1.col2 = t2.col1
        join table3 t3 on
            t1.col3 = t3.col1 and
            t3.col2 = something_else

    WHERE
        t1.col1 > 0 and
        t2.col2 <> t1.col4

    ORDER BY col2
    LIMIT 100
    ;

lost_my_pwdon A curated list of various freelancing websites

A much larger list was just posted here yesterday:

https://github.com/engineerapart/TheRemoteFreelancer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12775983

lost_my_pwdon Final – A credit card built for the 21st century

I think this is the reason (from their site):

  Want to move up faster?

  Share Final with your friends on social media through one of the links below and jump the line when they sign up.

lost_my_pwdon Noms – A versioned, forkable, syncable database

Wow, I missed that. That violates the URI spec, assuming the author(s) were intending to use a URI.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986 (see "3.3. Path").

lost_my_pwdon Now it’s exploding Samsung washing machines

Has the refrigerant level/pressure been checked? If it is too low evap coils commonly freeze up, esp. in humid areas.

lost_my_pwdon Snapshot of North Korea’s DNS data taken from zone transfers

I think GP means it is notable that, in 2016, the zone list for NK is so small that it can be perused in mere seconds due to its short length (as compared to any other country).

lost_my_pwdon A 'slow catastrophe' unfolds as the golden age of antibiotics comes to an end

There's a Radiolab podcast [0] about the revival of a 1000 year old antibiotic from an old medical text. Towards the end they discuss theories as to why something that appears to be tremendously effective was somehow lost to time and one likely explanation is this "shelving" effect.

[0] http://www.radiolab.org/story/best-medicine/

lost_my_pwdon Show HN: Jam API, turn any site into a JSON api using CSS selectors

A little word of warning/encouragement. I did something similar a long time ago (JSONDuit), which got posted to HN by someone else.

You will probably run into a healthy mix of "that's cool" / "I did that before you!" / "but how will it make money?". Ignore it and do your thing. If you figure out how to monetize it, great! Even if you don't or if you have no desire to, you will have learned and grown during the course of the project. That is invaluable.

Have fun and screw the haters...

lost_my_pwdon Texting and Driving? Watch Out for the Textalyzer

Hmmm... I have asked other's in the car to read and respond to text when I am driving. I can also read and respond (canned text) to texts in my car using voice or steering wheel controls.

Seems like this is either very misguided/flawed, simply a feel-good measure, a way to funnel public money to a connected company, or some combination of the three.