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Setting aside the moral question for a moment, this seems like a terrible idea from a business perspective. Say nothing of the potential revenue they're turning away over their (bi…

It is using JSON (or XML), but the underlying data model is largely carried over from V3 (or more specifically, the RIM). The problem with HL7 isn't the data format itself, but how…

How would they track pull requests? I agree that it would be nice if it wasn't just restricted to github and the kinds of projects most likely to be hosted there, but it does simpl…

I've worn hearing aids my entire life and manufacturers seeming to focus on miniaturization at the expense of capability always frustrates me. This isn't just driven by business in…

Thanks for sharing, and forgive my sounding skeptical. I lucked out because the aphakia and myopia sort of cancel each other out, I still need glasses but they're primarily for nea…

What is your specific visual condition, if you don't mind my asking. Most people who I'd characterize as "debilitatingly blind" are lucky if they get any benefit from conventional …

The fact that the airline technically didn't do anything illegal here really speaks to the lack of consumer protection laws in this country.

I admittedly haven't explored it in great detail, but when I've asked on their Slack channel a lot of people seem to just use the ingame tools which are "good enough".

A lot of comments here are focusing on the pricing and ignoring the 'sandbox' part of the game's description. There is a leaderboard you can try to climb but it is reset monthly an…

This is correct. If you buy it on Steam you get access to an offline/local server, in addition to being able to play in the persistent universe for free but with a severely limited…

Some high level "What" comments are useful though even if just for yourself, especially for code that can't be easily broken down into modular units. Even if the code itself is ver…

I'm in a similar boat. I have a CS background but only took one "Computer Organization" class which wasn't even that good but it gave me a starting point. I wish I'd at least minor…

I have a hard time believing this. The correlations they point out aren't enough to support the conclusions they're drawing. While it makes sense that evolution would select agains…

Agreed though I find that as a professional I'm not as motivated to see side-projects through to completion because I'd rather spend my free time doing other things.

They are both great platforms. The Pi can in theory do everything an Arduino can while also allowing access to a full Linux based OS (or RISC, but I can't comment on that). If you …

Yes this is what I was wondering. Some brief searching on similar devices suggests it's a combination of precise sensors and algorithms to tie everything together.

I'm curious how it homes in on the tracker.

I wish the article had explained how the individual regions on the map are determined. It probably has to do with how the searches are geo-located but it seems like it could've ske…

I discovered Microcorruption thanks to another HN post and I love it. It's one thing to read about things like buffer overruns and stack smashing, but another thing entirely to do …

No matter how many times I encounter this it never ceases to amaze me. Maybe it's because I played these games growing up, or maybe it's just my interest in low level bit twiddling…