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ElectronShak

1,201 karma · joined August 9, 2017

I'm a lone ranger, and a lost soul, on a lonely path, but my soul is free.
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ElectronShak··on Facebook Zero
Anyone on HN used this, I actually liked this stripped down, very minimal version of Facebook, worked really well given our EDGE/GPRS connection at the time. Any Facebook Engineers here that worked on this, this was really good at the time.
ElectronShak··on Your brain runs your body using something like a budget
>Do you have a source for this? Is this actually a teaching of the Law of Moses, as you call it, or just something Christians think Jews believed?

Well, If you are familiar with the book of James (a Jew) in the bible, he says this, "For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it." The law is a single unit.

> God made a bunch of laws about how people should behave, presumably because there's right and wrong and the particular things God cares about matter

Sin precedes the law and not the other way round. The law was given because of transgression. Look at the law as a guardian, a schoolmaster, to protect, and to preserve for a time, till the Saviour should come. God did not intend to relate with man through the law because by the law, is the knowledge of sin.

>... it's all cool. Jesus paid your debt, go sin.

If anyone is living in sin and claims that he or she is living under grace, let me be the first to tell you that this person is not living under grace. How can he or she be when God’s Word clearly states that “sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace” (Rom. 6:14)? Based on the authority of God’s Word, a person who is under grace will not be dominated by or want to continue living in sin.

He Who Is Forgiven Much, Loves Much.

ElectronShak··on Your brain runs your body using something like a budget
You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.

Look, If your debt was paid, and no one told you that the debt was paid, or you had no knowledge of it, would your conscience be free of that debt? No.

The Gospel is preached to bring man to the knowledge that they are free, and live freely therein.

ElectronShak··on Your brain runs your body using something like a budget
> The obvious question is: why? Why was it ever necessary, if God is omnipotent?

To answer this, God is a just God. If the penalty of sin is death, then surely someone had to die to pay the price. God could have just swept all mankind's sins under the rag, and acted like nothing ever happened. But such would not be considered integrity or righteousness on God's part.

Also if by one man (Adam), sin came into the world, and all men were considered sinners, then justly, by one man (Jesus Christ)'s death and resurrection, the price was fully paid, all men (mankind) can now freely claim the gift of righteousness.

>Why was it so late, so that people living earlier had no chance?

Well just like you stated, God is omnipotent, and not limited by time and space. It's never late or early in God's eyes. We would not explicitly say they had no chance, then or now, goes back to God being Just.

ElectronShak··on Your brain runs your body using something like a budget
True, great point! thanks. Also key to note, Abraham was, before the law was given. Paul in the book of Romans, does explain that by considering Abraham the father of the Faith or Forefather, the point is missed when we forget that Abraham was justified by faith and not by works.
ElectronShak··on Your brain runs your body using something like a budget
True, although I do think that in the Old Testament, this relationship was based on works, and on what you did to fulfil and not break the law. In the New Testament, this relationship is based on Grace, the free gift of God.
ElectronShak··on Your brain runs your body using something like a budget
Religion fundamentally gives you a set of rules that you must follow to achieve acceptance, or the ultimate goal of a particular "religion", usually getting to their definition of "heaven", after life on earth.

The law of Moses in the Old Testament for the Jews was such that if you broke one law, you broke all, essentially making it impossible for anyone to achieve salvation by following the law or by working for it.

The Gentiles (non Jews) who do not have God’s written law, show that they know his law when they instinctively obey it, even without having heard it

Enter New Testament: Jesus Christ of Nazareth, comes not to abolish the law, but to fulfil it, such that every man (being) receives the FREE gift of salvation, and eternal life.

Now this life bears good fruit in all that believe.

ElectronShak··on Your brain runs your body using something like a budget
Christianity, in the mind of God, is NOT religion. Read the New Testament.
ElectronShak··on Facebook Is a 'Super Spreader' of Election Misinformation
More accurately, algorithm simply responds to initial user engagement on the article. It is not designed to "propagate misinformation".
ElectronShak··on Cloudflare Radar
More surprising for me is Mobile vs Desktop at 35% to 65%. I thought it was closer, or more like 50/50.
ElectronShak··on Social Cooling (2017)
yes, you can deactivate your facebook account and still use messenger, see https://www.facebook.com/help/messenger-app/1526848634305688
ElectronShak··on YouTube launches TikTok competitor, Shorts
How easy would it be to build such a tool, but directly using Youtube's API instead? A while back I tried to build an android app that uses youtube's RSS to follow only a few news channels. Issue on Android was that you cannot embed a Youtube player in a Custom View. The API is able to detect this by measuring the distance from the player container, to the edges of the screen.
ElectronShak··on Show HN: Discover shared videos and live broadcasts from Reddit
Wow, thanks for sharing, great work on the UI!
ElectronShak··on Why it’s hard to kill the Bloomberg terminal (2019)
Exactly. The accuracy made me laugh.
ElectronShak··on Why it’s hard to kill the Bloomberg terminal (2019)
> Dating sites, for example, are unstable because the most attractive prospects pair off, lowering the quality of the remaining user base until the site can’t recruit new users.

I chuckled at this line.

ElectronShak··on Coronavirus Came from Bats, Can Infect Cats, Ferrets, WHO Says
> And saying that WHO should be dismantled because of some errors on Covid handling (while working with early and unreliable data)

I think they should know better than to publish, what will largely be interpreted as facts, based on what they clearly know is unreliable data.

ElectronShak··on Coronavirus Came from Bats, Can Infect Cats, Ferrets, WHO Says
February 1st to be specific, that was when they tweeted that it doesn't transmit between humans.
ElectronShak··on DNSSEC root key signing ceremony postponed because they can't open a safe
>so that when you visit, say, theregister.co.uk, you eventually reach one of our servers at network address 104.18.235.86.

More like you reach CloudFlare's CDN

ElectronShak··on “Why Using WhatsApp Is Dangerous“
I think this helps prevent spamming, If I could add anyone manually, spamming a set of random phone numbers would be easy.
ElectronShak··on Show HN: Hover on a Hacker News username to see their bio/profile
HN Card lets you quickly glance at a user's profile without leaving the page you're on. You can quickly see a user's bio, karma, account age - plus quick links to their comments and submissions. Plus, if they have an email address or Github account in their bio (providing they've set up a Gravatar or Github avatar), you'll see their avatar too.
ElectronShak··on Shared Cache Is Going Away
>Unfortunately, a shared cache enables a privacy leak. Summary of the simplest version:I want to know if you're a moderator on www.forum.example, I know that only pages under www.forum.example/moderators/private/ load www.forum.example/moderators/header.css.,When you visit my page I load www.forum.example/moderators/header.css and see if it came from cache.

You would expect fewer requests to www.forum.example/moderators/private/ than to, for example, www.forum.example/public. If you look at caching from the server load angle vis-à-vis security, then it could be inexpensive to not cache www.forum.example/moderators/header.css so you would simply not allow browsers to cache this resource.

If site A thinks that allowing the user's browser to cache a certain resource puts them at a security risk, then this resource should be treated as not-public.

ElectronShak··on New ventures should focus all their efforts on problem-solving
Most of the examples in this article are more of "Do things that don't scale", to solve problems as they arise and not "Forget about the Technology".

If you are a Tech startup, do not forget the technology.

ElectronShak··on YouTube was launched as a dating site
This was great. Thanks for sharing!
ElectronShak··on Show HN: Given a Sentence, Extract topic(s)
True, you must be talking about Summly, I prevoiusly read about it too, a great app.
ElectronShak··on Show HN: Given a Sentence, Extract topic(s)
Yeah sure, I use it in a news app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jaziir.and...) to analyze a set of headlines and determine what topics are mentioned most (trending). It works well enough, so I figured out someone might find it useful too.
ElectronShak··on Show HN: RSS News Feeds Using the Stories Format – For Android
Hello HN, been hacking on this idea for the past 3 weeks, and I'd like to share it with you guys. its an Android app, the idea is news RSS feeds using the social stories format.

Would like for a few to try it out. All feedback is welcome. Thank you.

Previous Post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20440230

(learnt that it's better to share a page describing the project, and not a direct google play store link)

ElectronShak··on Show HN: Given a Sentence, Extract topic(s)
Hey HN; This is a simple lightweight (2.3 KB) node module that i use to quickly extract the main topic, or an array of topics from a string or sentence.

I think someone else could find this useful for a project. Thanks for checking it out.

EDITS: grammar

ElectronShak··on Living In A Van in Google's Backyard
> “You guys need to take care of it, like ASAP,” he said, lecturing the young couple living in the vehicle. “I’m not going to tow it today, but tomorrow if I come out here and it’s like this, it’s getting towed!”

As he delivered the ultimatum, a self-driving car rolled past.

ElectronShak··on Show HN: jaziir – RSS meets Stories
HNLurker2, thanks for the feedback. Yes, mobile responsiveness is the first item on my to-do checklist.
ElectronShak··on Show HN: jaziir – RSS meets Stories
Hi HN, jaziir (pronounced 'jaza') is an experimental twist to an RSS news aggregator, think Stories meets RSS, thought I should share it with you, and see what you think of it sofar. Thanks HN.
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