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Simple is not available in Canada, which is what the above poster is referring to. Few (no?) Canadian banks offer email notifications for debit (Interac) transactions.

Yep. This is going to be the next cold fusion - the device will soon be debunked, but we will still be hearing about it from conspiracy theorists for decades.

Avoid the new gTLDs. Most are mismanaged crap. The gTLD system was the greedist and worst decision ICANN ever made. Stick with tried and true domains - ideally .com, but your count…

The consensus standard for this sort of test is IEEE 1528, and you are absolutely correct. The test uses a gel phantom (the standard provides a few formulations for different frequ…

Agreed! But that wasn't the message that Bay Street took from it.

There is the new Canadian SBIR analog (Innovative Solutions Canada [1]) which looks like a big step in the right direction. It's having some issues getting off the ground though, i…

There's no contradiction. Two things are happening here. Foreigners in the US (H1B applicants) are heading up to Canada because the immigration policies are more lax. Canadian citi…

That already happened, to a degree. Canada's dot-com darling was Nortel, which at peak accounted for 1/3 of the total valuation on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Then the bubble burst…

It was not the Bay Area, he was working in Seattle.

I think it's more a case of VCs not being calibrated to the real cost of doing business. Canada is a first world country with a GDP per capita not much less than the states. There …

The real fix is to provide appropriate incentives to build a technology industry. Unfortunately, programs to date have been rife for abuse and mainly only benefit those who know ho…

If Canadian companies were willing to offer a competitive salary, maybe Canadian grads would stay. It doesn't even have to be 1:1 with the US, even 75% would be nice. As it is, the…

> But USB-C isn't limited to 5V, power delivery is at 20V. That might explain what's going on here (since the user reports 20V on the output) - it thinks that the peripheral is a p…

As an electrical engineer - I think incidents like these are a pretty solid argument for incorporating overvoltage protection into 5V USB peripherals. Even something as simple as a…

Ultrasound processing is actually pretty niche: you have a whole bunch of channels with a very high sample rate (tens of MHz). In the case of medical ultrasound, a typical handheld…

I'm not talking about serious violent crimes like child molestation or aggravated assault or murder. Those sorts of things should show up forever. I'm talking about things like pet…

Again, that would be similar to a credit report - here in Canada, for example, the bureaus are legally mandated to not report certain credit events after a prescribed amount of tim…

I think the intent of a background check in the context of employment is also to predict future behavior. An employer really shouldn't care that an applicant was busted for drug po…

I don't know why criminal record checks aren't treated similar to a credit bureau report. There is a legal time limit as to how long a bad debt or bankruptcy can stay on a report, …

It's pretty amazing that some coworking spaces manage to have bad WiFi. Like, there are three requirements for a functioning coworking space: desks, meeting rooms, and internet acc…

Quick back of the envelope calculation: Wing area of a Cessna 172 (representative GA aircraft) is 16 m^2. Best-case insolation on a sunny day with no clouds at high noon is around …

Related to this story from a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16853203

Keep us informed. I'll chip in.

In this case, most of the documents were public, but there were a small number which had confidential information and were inappropriately stored on the public portal.