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by aptwebapps 6y ago
Even if he had a legitimate interest in science, who cares? There are two huge problems with Harvard allowing him to continue like that. 1. He exploited his connections to obtain a very lax sentence which allowed him to continue to rape chi
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by aptwebapps 6y ago
What will work in a lot of circumstances is to put your custom scripts into empty Django migrations. Then they'll get run as needed. If you're feeling fancy you can write the backwards script as well.
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by aptwebapps 6y ago
This first category is risky: "Migrating Russian eagles run up huge data roaming charges" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50180781
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by aptwebapps 6y ago
Oh, man that's bad. The worst I've come across in the wild was some bank or financial institution (don't remember which one) which did some "sensible" validation at creation time. I.e., your first phone number had t
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by aptwebapps 6y ago
The distinction here is that it was planned, and not just the result of hysteria.
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by aptwebapps 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23857621 gets at what I was thinking but was too lazy to articulate.
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by aptwebapps 6y ago
Wouldn't the naive expectation be that prices would rise somewhat but that if the markets in question were competitive that this would not be severe?
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by aptwebapps 6y ago
Yeah, but it's not like he did something nefarious. He found an account that was inactive and requested it from support and they gave it to him. If the previous user complained, either he would get to keep it or the previous user would
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by aptwebapps 6y ago
Yeah, it might be hard to sell a robot that can do a, b, and c as long as you already have set of devices that meet it halfway. OTOH, if it can do a sufficient set of useful things to get some traction, then you might start to see some inte
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by aptwebapps 6y ago
Oh, I don't have either, I was just using that as the canonical example.
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by aptwebapps 6y ago
Another possible angle is integrations, i.e. robot-friendly appliances. Maybe the washing machine has a powered door and an API that the robot (or some other software) uses to control it. No need to push buttons. Obviously, this won't
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by aptwebapps 6y ago
Wait, the time cost of asking for a refund or the time cost of trying out a service you ended up not using? The former seems trifling, and the latter applies even if there was a free trial.
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by aptwebapps 6y ago
"... especially in the US where people's lives are destroyed and horrible politicians get into office due to supposed authorities calling people names on the internet." For someone railing against unsupported assertions, that
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by aptwebapps 6y ago
I think I have not had good dragon fruit yet. That's the trouble with trying new fruit you see in the market - you never know if it is a good representative.
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by aptwebapps 6y ago
> Jackfruit does not have a "jagged sheath" (that's durian). Durian's spikes are pointier, but you can call both of them jagged.
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by aptwebapps 6y ago
The first time I read this comment I failed to parse what you meant by 'one guy' and thought you were being sarcastic.
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by aptwebapps 6y ago
The Jeeves and Wooster stories are all (or almost all) in the first person, but most of the his other novels are not. Look for some of the Blandings Castle books.
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by aptwebapps 6y ago
Added an after edit. I don't mean to say "you'll be fine, go ahead." But Swartz's case was a bit different that the hypothetical described above.
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by aptwebapps 6y ago
Totally not a lawyer here, but my impression of laws like CFAA is that it revolves around unauthorized access of resources. If the only resources you access are those for which you have authorization, you might be all right. After edit: &qu
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by aptwebapps 6y ago
I've stopped paying attention to battery tech announcements and just wait to see what shows up on the market. There are so many 'breakthroughs'.
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by aptwebapps 7y ago
There are many more people who I am interested in hearing from than I adore. I suspect that is true for most of us. Patrick is usually worth listening to, has a style which appeals to many, and is well-known on HN. That's sufficient fo
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by aptwebapps 7y ago
It's not totally up to the parties. Each state has different laws about how their primary or caucus should be conducted.
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by aptwebapps 7y ago
This is neat, wish I had it six months ago. Is it curated or what? Could it be generalized?
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by aptwebapps 7y ago
I know HN sticks to a very simple UI, but I wonder if giving readers a way to control the mix for their personal front page would work. Maybe a little slider to adjust the threshold somewhere discreet (but on the front page, not in settings
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by aptwebapps 7y ago
If you'll hold off on the criminalization until all the shelters are built, maybe, but the former is easier than the latter and not everyone is equally invested in the two endeavors.
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by aptwebapps 7y ago
I suspect that number is too high. 90 numbers per dial doesn't necessarily mean 90 valid positions. It could easily be 20 or 30 valid positions which comes out to a lot less. Plus, not all combinations of individually valid positions a
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by aptwebapps 7y ago
"How costly it is to guess SHA256 passwords: https://archive.is/vOn9q (instead of 1000 guesses/second, it's more like ~1197962070743187 guesses/second)" He seems to have taken this bit from the link
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by aptwebapps 7y ago
Thanks, I've been using PyCharm for years and didn't know that.
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by aptwebapps 7y ago
The valuation does not come from their operating numbers, core or otherwise. It comes from their last round of funding.
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by aptwebapps 7y ago
VS Code has regions, which look like preprocessor instructions but I don't think they actually have any affect on the code. They do, however collapse while providing a nice label.

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