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fluxsauceon Original Source code for the Furby [pdf]

That guy is incredible; I've been a supporter for a while. He's also a hardware, not a software guy, so I strongly doubt he'd make use of it. He'd respect its existence and any derivatives or interfaces that might come out of it, though!

fluxsauceon Show HN: ASCII line chart with console, HTML and image outputs, written in PHP

Good point, but I was specifically talking about the ╭ ╮ ╯ ╰ characters; those were added in 866, and they're not included in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character#DOS or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437

fluxsauceon Show HN: ASCII line chart with console, HTML and image outputs, written in PHP

Nicely done! Glad to see the explicit shout-out to https://github.com/kroitor/asciichart

FYI, the original calls itself ASCII chart because it limits itself to ASCII - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII

However, the curved shapes are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_866 which originated from the USSR and was used in DOS and OS/2 to write Cyrillic script.

I honestly didn't know until I searched for it; I was curious and didn't recognize the characters.

fluxsauceon HTTP 418 I'm a Teapot

That's actually a legit status code:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7725

451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons

> This status code indicates that the server is denying access to the resource as a consequence of a legal demand.

fluxsauceon Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress with Mugshots

> but Amazon says it recommends at least a 95 percent threshold for law enforcement applications where a false ID might have more significant consequences.

That's not in https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/faqs/ - while that threshold may minimize false positives, I'm curious if it was in any documentation that the ACLU saw. Or, to the bigger point, is it in any public documentation?

fluxsauceon Electronic Circuit Simulator in the Browser

Thank you, I'm just at the stage where I'm learning schematics and this looks like a fantastic tool!

Username: fluxsauce

fluxsauceon Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager

If you were curious about the Open Source part (I was) - https://github.com/bitwarden/

fluxsauceon Smart TVs Track More Than What’s on Tonight

That's a really good idea.

I fairly recently ended up with a TV with a large amount of features that are just ignored because I don't ever connect it to the internet, instead relying on an Android device I have more trust in. I'd rather not have things that I don't use. I won't be buying another for quite some time but I'll keep commercial displays in mind next time or when asked for a recommendation.

fluxsauceon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)

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If you have questions, email jonpeck at the domain cnemedia.com

fluxsauceon Cool Retro Terminal

FYI, there's an anti HN referral script happening that redirects to a rude image on imgur.

fluxsauceon Aircraft concept shows a hypersonic vehicle for passengers

http://www.boeing.com/features/2018/06/hypersonic-concept-ve...

It's a concept that is 20-30 years off. Neat, but not real yet.

fluxsauceon Show HN: Point your repos to their new home

And for the users. Given that it's fairly technical software, it's reasonable to expect that folks would search the issue queue before submitting an issue. If the issue queue was split across multiple sources, issues would exist in one system and not the other.

Sorry if you disagree, but giving clear instructions about how to report issues and limiting vectors is fair, logical, and incredibly common and a best practice.

fluxsauceon Show HN: Point your repos to their new home

As someone who runs a couple small projects with large userbases, having multiple issue queues across multiple platforms is a massive organizational hassle. Having one canonical place for issues makes life easier for all parties.

With that said, if you disable issues on a system, make sure you have prominent documentation that says "Submit issues to XXX". Otherwise, it's confusing.

fluxsauceon Show HN: HTTP Status as a Service

Neat! I wrote a similar project for Drupal once - https://www.drupal.org/project/generate_errors - I found it to be a good way to learn about HTTP status codes and their meanings. Currently, you've got a finite list of HTTP status codes and don't have definitions. You may want to consider grouping them and including labels. Or don't, I'm just some guy on the internet :-)

Cool project!

fluxsauceon YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon

> maybe they'll buy up PornHub and add PornHub subscriptions to the stack whether you want it or not, just to make your recurring monthly payments a bit stickier

Purely from a payment processing point of view, unless Google wants to fight Visa, MasterCard and other institutions this will never happen. There are a lot of restrictions around content and payment processors that you would assume is covered by freedom of speech that in a practical sense isn't.

fluxsauceon YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon

I've been a Google Play Music subscriber from the beginning, which means I've enjoyed the grandfathered $7.99 price. That has also extended to YouTube Red.

However, this announcement muddies the waters a bit.

> If you are a subscriber to Google Play Music, good news, you get a YouTube Music Premium membership as part of your subscription each month.

Cool, I guess, except I don't go to YouTube for Music. I really am incredibly interested in YouTube Red. I mean YouTube Premium, I guess.

> To extend the features of YouTube Music Premium beyond the music app, we’re soon introducing YouTube Premium, the new name for our YouTube Red subscription service. [describes YouTube Red] If you’re already a YouTube Red (soon to be YouTube Premium) member, don’t worry you’ll still enjoy your current price.

So, if you have Google Play Music, do you get YouTube Premium?

fluxsauceon YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon

> And if you use Google Play Music, nothing will change -- you’ll still be able to access all of your purchased music, uploads and playlists in Google Play Music just like always.

fluxsauceon Startup Wants to Replace Cars and Subways with Elevated Pods

A modern monorail? Literally, looking at the mockup imagery.

This is personal transit, not mass transit and I don't see it solving problems in major metropolitan areas.

fluxsauceon Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”

My takeaway is a large cloud storage plan that's cheaper than what they had before.

fluxsauceon You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS

That doesn't seem like an active project.

Looking at https://galliumos.org/download

> GalliumOS 2.1 was released on 2017-02-28

https://wiki.galliumos.org/News

https://wiki.galliumos.org/Special:RecentChanges

Is there another resource I should be looking at?

fluxsauceon “We shut down Richard Spencer's Altright website.”

There is no constitutional right to incite violence.

fluxsauceon “We shut down Richard Spencer's Altright website.”

Freedom of speech does not give the freedom to violate terms of service. The first paragraph of the complaint states that the site was not compliant and apparently GoDaddy agreed.

fluxsauceon Pocket Casts acquired by NPR

I haven't experienced the sync problems, but I believe you. Also, I use mobile the majority of the time so it's entirely possible I just don't use that feature enough to experience that pain.

> find the words inside the audio of any episode

Woah, that I didn't know about!

fluxsauceon Pocket Casts acquired by NPR

Can you clarify what features are missing?

I use both the Android and the Web versions of Pocket Casts and it syncs, trims silence, does speed adjustments, and so forth.

fluxsauceon No, Teachers Are Not Underpaid

This is a biased article from authors with an agenda.

> Andrew G. Biggs is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

FYI, the American Enterprise Institute is a conservative think tank known for attempting to bribe scientists to critique Climate Change 2007, the Fourth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

fluxsauceon Accelerating Deep Neuroevolution: Train Atari in Hours on a Single Computer

The question isn't about fault, it's about accessibility and availability of commodity hardware. Consider the position of someone who made a financial decision to go with AMD to build a workstation and didn't have the budget to swap out the video card later.

fluxsauceon Random Darknet Shopper: A Live Mail Art Piece

"To Serve Man" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_%28The_Twilight_Z...

fluxsauceon Electric scooter companies will require permits in San Francisco

There's also a need for better hardware security on the scooters themselves; I saw at least two in SOMA this morning missing their batteries.

fluxsauceon ReactOS releases 0.4.8 with experimental Vista/7/10 software compatibility

> I wonder why Microsoft never did.

I'm assuming it's because of the size of the codebase, available engineering resources, return-on-investment calculation, and a business prioritization of new features over refinement.

Most engineers can look at their own work or codebase and think, "well, that's a bit shit but it works well enough." I can't imagine their backlog. I'm sure it's lurking in an issue queue somewhere.

fluxsauceon The Secret to Better Social Media? Fewer Friends

I've found that casual chatrooms with a small group of friends is pretty effective at keeping in touch without the noise.

There are many common options like Slack, IRC, Keybase, and others. The hardest choice is finding a technology folks can agree upon; convenience and inertia go a long way towards maintaining a successful chatroom.