Hacker News Reader

slayed0on Californian fed up with stolen mail sends Apple AirTag to herself to catch thief

I had the exact same question. This seems like a much bigger crime than the story is letting on. Also, shouldn't this be handled at least jointly by a federal agency? I didn't see any mention of federal charges.

slayed0on Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet

You're mixing beliefs with tactics/behavior. The behavior you described is "toxic" no matter what your beliefs are. I agree that the lack of repercussions and social feedback online lead to an increase in people acting like this and it is a problem for pretty much all public forums. However, it is neither constructive, nor is it truthful, in my opinion, to attach this behavior to a single group, side, or set of beliefs. All you'll end up doing is driving moderates of said group further to the extremes. You can call out ideas you think are bad and you can call out behavior you think is bad, but "other-ing" an entire group based on the worst actions at the fringes of their membership just isn't going to change any minds. It only widens the divide.

Edit: The exception, of course, is if the behavior that is at issue is actually encouraged by a foundational belief of the group.

slayed0on Stream PirateBay movies directly from CLI

Who knows. Their point is that they now have control over the content and aren't subject to the whims of an external body. I have felt the pain of this as about 25% (!) of the videos in my youtube favorites list have been removed either by Google or the original uploader over the years.

slayed0on Tesla autopilot stops a collision [video]

I do both simultaneously. Both have saved me. There have been times where I immediately hit the brakes and horn when I saw someone doing something stupid (about to pull out into traffic, about to merge into me from another lane, etc) In some of these situations, the horn causes the other person to stop what they're doing and a collision that could not have been avoided solely by me braking, is avoided.

slayed0on Show HN: CV Boilerplate – Easing the Process of Building a CV Using LaTeX

Are you making hiring decisions at the company you're at now? Can you share the name of that company either here, or via e-mail? I, and I'm sure others, would like to avoid applying there.

slayed0on Twitter Names Jack Dorsey Chief Executive

why?

slayed0on Amazon Flex

I don't think the drone plan was ever a serious short term consideration for 99.999% of Amazon's business

slayed0on 14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School

"Ahmed, for his part, wanted to bring the clock to show an engineering teacher. Because it consisted of a board with a digital display and a tiger hologram on the front, the teacher recommended he hide it from the rest of the staff."

This statement implies there was a conversation with the teacher before bringing it in and that the teacher told him to bring it, but to not bring it out in other classes/in front of other teachers.

Your other points are not even worth replying to and border on trolling. You're upset that he didn't invent something new at 14? Building a homemade clock is too simple for his age and only 8 year olds should do it? This is one of the most insane posts I've ever seen on HN.

slayed0on 14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School

"things like this"

Please clarify. Things that are relevant to what you are studying in school and have been approved by your teacher for you to bring into class?

For someone who is speaking out against ignorance, this statement sure comes across as... ignorant.

slayed0on 14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School

Not asserting fact here but merely providing my interpretation:

The engineering teacher may have advised the student to bring the device to school but to not pull it out in any other class. This could have been done to avoid distracting other students or attracting unwanted attention from other teachers. This seems like a straight forward request that may have been taken out of context. I have not seen a quote that uses the word "hide", which really changes the connotation of the statement. I highly doubt the engineering teacher thought specifically that the device could be seen as a bomb.

slayed0on Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10

Doesn't turbotax provide just that? I did my taxes with them last year and never left the browser.

slayed0on Oil Falls Below $40 for First Time Since 2009 as Glut Grows

The other way to look at this is that if the price is able to find equilibrium at a low enough point, it will not be economically feasible to extract certain types of oil from the ground (e.g. tarsands). The real question is how much of an effect low prices will have on demand.

slayed0on Ship of Theseus

There's a good conversation about this, humans and cell regeneration specifically, in the movie "Waking Life" (as well as many many other great conversations about a variety of philosophies)

slayed0on UberEATS

Oh good, more cars blocking traffic in SF with their hazards on for justification.

slayed0on Monkey the Cat Hunts for Dinner

Do these sources include premature end of life from accident/injury/predation? It seems, at least intuitively, that these factors would significantly drag down life expectancy for outdoor cats. However, I think it would be useful to see the estimates with these factors excluded (noted of course) to just compare life expectancy assuming death from natural causes.

slayed0on Postgres Guide

Here's a good write-up on the difference between postgres and MS SQL.

http://www.pg-versus-ms.com/

I've been collecting links from this thread for my own personal learning so thought I'd throw in the only one I came here with.

slayed0on What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea

I'm sure it would cost a shipload...

slayed0on What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea

Or just buy a dredger and make one

slayed0on Show HN: Spot the Drowning Child

When I've been required to wear a life jacket in the past (as an adult) it's typically been in a situation where there was a chance of some other sort of injury occurring that would render you unconscious or unable to swim normally.

slayed0on Show HN: Spot the Drowning Child

I always assumed my friends who spent their summers lifeguarding had a simple carefree job. I never gave much thought to just how attentive you have to be as a lifeguard. Thanks for putting this into perspective (literally) for the rest of us.

slayed0on Nike Missile Sites of the San Francisco Bay Area

Ha! I do this ride nearly every week and I'm not sure I would describe it as "short and very pleasant" to a general audience. Unless you have a decent road bike and are fairly fit you will likely be walking up hawk hill.

slayed0on Kids in India Are Sparking Urban Planning Changes by Mapping Slums

It looks like they're building legends on these maps. I wonder if the legends are standardized. It'd be cool if whoever is reviewing these, or someone involved in the process, could scan them in and make a public repository.

slayed0on NASA announces discovery of Earth-like planet with earth similarity index 0.98

Now can you link one that uses the ISO 8601 date standard, for those of us who also dislike date juggling?

slayed0on An Identity Thief Explains the Art of Emptying Your Bank Account

It sounds like you're describing paypal

slayed0on YC startups that are hiring

Somebody better call Al (Merrick)

slayed0on What Happens When a State Is Run by Movie Stars?

As was Schwarzenegger

slayed0on Project Fi Review: Cell Service from Google

I do the same but in the last few months I have noticed strange latency on my Hangouts calls. There seems to be a very short delay that causes conversations to be more difficult than they need to be. It's probably my home internet (since this is the only place I use Hangouts to call) but I am pretty sure I have a good connection. I haven't tested latency thoroughly but on the bandwidth side of things I have something like ~80mbit/5mbit through Comcast.

slayed0on Project Seen

It would be nice if a few of the people upvoting this came into the comments section to explain what they liked about it. I personally find absolutely no value.

slayed0on Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules

In regards to your software development comparison, that happens all the time. Someone decides, this system is already so complicated it would be a mistake to try to bake in all this additional complexity. A more sensical solution would be to design a different system for handling these or deal with them in one-off cases if they are infrequent enough.

Vague metaphors aside, this happens occasionally in the industry I'm in (finance) when we trade small lots of non-traditional products. These products don't follow many of the rules that all of our other traded products do. Instead of re-writing our systems to deal with these(totally impractical), we manually shimmy these in to the database until they expire or are traded away, at which point we can forget about them.

slayed0on Uber CEO Says He’d Buy 500k Self-Driving Cars From Tesla Motors

Read the parent post again. I think you will find that you are actually in agreement with it. You're just using the word "manage" differently. (For the record I think your usage is more correct)