HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

cgm616

66 karma · joined September 7, 2015

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/cgm616; my proof: https://keybase.io/cgm616/sigs/UGRlSkcWF1qdxflfKVXwhAsvxdAPc9Ppp8ZzwL8Telo ]
submissionscomments
cgm616··on Ask HN: Good hacker backpack?
These look really nice and I want to get one, but shipping to the US is $40. :/
cgm616··on OneDrive has stopped working on non-NTFS drives
As far as I can tell, Microsoft told nobody. A blog post and an email to OneDrive users would have sufficed, neither of which use telemetry or happened.
cgm616··on Nano to remain in GNU
This is exactly what I use it for. When I'm ssh'd into a server without my vim config, I prefer to use nano simply because I'm so used to my own vim. Using any other vim config is actually difficult, especially since I'm not actually that knowledgable about vim.

Nano takes the cake in this situation. It's everywhere, it's easy.

cgm616··on Show HN: Apple – Every Second
Possibly ad revenue payed out to content creators?
cgm616··on Why Young Americans Are Giving Up on Capitalism
The software market, the Internet market, the entire ecosystem, it's working because the price of entering is lower. This isn't because of lesser regulation or a lack of standards and oversight, it's because over the past decade it has become so easy for anyone with an Internet connection to contribute. Not necessarily make the next best software business, but contribute to open-source (a decidedly un-capitalistic idea), provide opinions and give insight, and share.

This ability for anyone to connect and share with thousands of other people exactly as we are now is exclusive to this internet platform. That is the driver of success, of innovation, of technology and future. Every other media, every other market, is prohibitive to newcomers. There's a reason that disrupting a market is so praised, because it is something most everyone who tries, fails.

On the Internet, in software, disruption is the name of the game. It's a brand new sandbox that anyone can play in.

cgm616··on About rel=noopener
Same here on Firefox for iOS. Both links show the "hacked" text.
cgm616··on The Fight for the Future of NPR
I am "Lara" in this article's sense, and I love NPR. Being able to listen for any amount of time and still get news that I haven't heard before is nice. At the same time most of the segments I hear are interesting, heartwarming, or really sad. Nothing on NPR seems outdated, but maybe that's simply because I've grown up with it.
cgm616··on Show HN: English syntax highlighter using part-of-speech tagging
I can really see this being useful for any language.
cgm616··on Ask HN: What would happen if Apple removed Uber from its App Store?
I think anti-trust also requires a non-privately administered market. In Apple's App Store, they own the servers serving the app market, giving them control.

I don't think the government could force them to keep an app on their server and continue to serve it to consumers running their software if they didn't want to.

cgm616··on The Daily Mail Stole My Visualization Twice
I don't think (not a lawyer) that they could do anything if you put a disclaimer that it is a parody of their "creative work."

That should allow use of slightly changed (LessAdsDailyMail) trademarks, and proper citations could handle the rest.

cgm616··on So you want to write a package manager
These were my thoughts entirely while reading the article. If I want a command line utility, I really don't want to install npm then mess with any problems with that. I want to simply 'brew install' everything like that and be done.

Sure, if I need the source of something for compilation or testing, i.e. 'pip install numpy', then having that handled by pip + virtualenv makes sense.

Besides that use case, brew should handle everything to reduce conflicts.

cgm616··on A collection of tweet-sized D3 creations – to add yours, just tweet the code
Mobile Firefox too.
cgm616··on MIT dean to start new university: “No majors, no lectures, no classrooms”
In my experience, there are three groups of kids in high school, at least concerning future studies/employment.

One group maybe wants to do something because it pays well, with no motivation because they aren't passionate.

The next group is very passionate about one or two things, and have lots of motivation. However, they seem to view that as the only option, even though more likely than not it will change and shift.

The third group has motivation to do work that is interesting, but they have know idea what to specialize in and have a few things they don't want to do. They aren't necessarily good at it all, and it's overwhelming to think about plans for the future because of the open-ended nature of that question to them.

This is what I've observed. And of course, people change between these groups all the time.

cgm616··on In defence of the hamburger menu
I disagree about the pause button. It works equally well without context. This is anecdotal, but I have seen it successfully used in charades to mean "pause."

Now, your comparison to the hamburger menu does make sense, and I agree. However, the context for the hamburger menu might be "button that's alone" and it just means "menu." I can see that catching on.

cgm616··on Paul Graham accidentally explained everything wrong with SV world view
That's assuming that the vast majority of employment can be automated away at a low cost at this point in time. Which isn't true. Even if it can be in the US or other developed countries, that in no way applies to everywhere.
cgm616··on A native Python IDE built for data science
I am desperately trying to get this to work with my pyenv-virtualenv anaconda installation, but I can't get it to work out.

I also tried setting the path the ~/.pyenv/shims/python, but that didn't work out either.

cgm616··on A Moss Girl’s Guide to Japanese Moss Viewing
Very interesting: reading this on my phone, the header image moves with a parallax effect when the phone is tilted.
cgm616··on Recurrent Net Dreams Up Fake Chinese Characters in Vector Format with TensorFlow
I know people that draw two circles, one on top of the other.
cgm616··on How not to report on the encryption ‘debate’
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/05/10/we-kill-people-based...
cgm616··on ERegulations – a platform to make regulations easier to find and understand
This is a perfect idea to make government more transparent. I couldn't find if anywhere in this website there were the regulations put in simpler terms. Allowing more people to understand them and not only access them seems like the way forward.
cgm616··on How not to report on the encryption ‘debate’
"We kill people based on metadata." - former head of the National Security Agency Gen. Michael Hayden

“metadata absolutely tells you everything about somebody’s life. If you have enough metadata, you don’t really need content.” - NSA General Counsel Stewart Baker

cgm616··on Office Papermaking System That Turns Waste Paper into New Paper
This seems very useful for schools, who both need lots of paper (still even now) and who need it only for a short time.

Schools have the space and resources for such a machine, and they could potentially save lots of money and paper that otherwise goes into the trash at home. It all depends on the costs of the system.

cgm616··on Jury Duty
In this article, and apparently this happens a lot, jurors are not allowed to research the laws they are supposed to reach a verdict on. Also, the jurors cannot get the court transcript or ask the prosecution to repeat the charges.

How is this the best alternative? Why can't jurors learn what they are incarcerating for?

cgm616··on Jury Duty
It's interesting to look at if this article is fiction or non-fiction. It is certainly amazing writing with a strong message, but seems to be so strange to be non-fiction.

Then again, I knew about some of this from the excellent Illustrated Guide to Criminal Justice, so I wasn't totally surprised.

In the end, does it even matter if it happened?

cgm616··on Entering Public Beta
The big thing for non-login websites is the threat of the information being tampered with on the line. Someone could easily MitM your http connection and insert whatever they wanted into the website, making you think that website had said it.
cgm616··on Did I Just Give My Permission? The Hashtag as Consent
It's more like pinning a photo on a pinboard you share with a group of friends. Mailing it would be like sending it to them directly.

I think hashtags are more of a way to share to a group, where as mentioning with @ is a driect way of communicating that you want to give them the picture.

This is because hashtags aren't owned by anyone, but usernames are.