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> it was known by the British navy that lime juice prescribed to sailors on long voyages prevented scurvy.

Lemon juice. They switched to limes in the 1860s.
http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm

> So when the Admiralty began to replace lemon juice with an ineffective substitute in 1860, it took a long time for anyone to notice. In that year, naval authorities switched procurement from Mediterranean lemons to West Indian limes. The motives for this were mainly colonial - it was better to buy from British plantations than to continue importing lemons from Europe. Confusion in naming didn't help matters. Both "lemon" and "lime" were in use as a collective term for citrus, and though European lemons and sour limes are quite different fruits, their Latin names (citrus medica, var. limonica and citrus medica, var. acida) suggested that they were as closely related as green and red apples. Moreover, as there was a widespread belief that the antiscorbutic properties of lemons were due to their acidity, it made sense that the more acidic Caribbean limes would be even better at fighting the disease.
> we spent months going around Italy to get the best suppliers we could find (italian artisans mostly, which have 0 presence online and that were still interested in selling abroad)

Did you make similar "offline" effort on customer side like going around and talking to the potential customers? It seems you took "active hands-on" approach for supplier acquisition, but you are taking "passive hands-off" approach for customer acquisition.

While online promotion through advertising is good, I will suggest do some offline reach out to potential customers. Consider going around the places and events where people who like high fashion, handicraft, clothing hang out. You need to find a few early adopters who can be brand ambassdors. You need to be in close contact with some of your early potential customers so that you can see their decision making process, hear their comments, etc.

Time for some guerrilla marketing.

[1] If you can identify a few vendors, places, or events, offer to give them at cost all the sale of your line, display few pieces of your clothing with oversize tags on the clothing, banners directing to see more choices at your website.

[2] Ask a few people who mingle in such groups to wear your "attention grabbing" clothing that would potentially spur conversation among people.

[3] Show up at the gatherings of targeted people wearing your own clothing with a small tag hanging out, like you just bought a new piece of clothing and forgot to remove the tag before wearing and going out.

[4] Instead of buying gifts for any occasion to your friends and family, give out pieces from your clothing line as gifts.

[5] Take some of your low cost clothing to a few consignment stores who sell "high fashion clothing" and sell them as seconds. You will also gain insight into pricing.

[6] Hang out on online forums relevant to your line of clothing. Become a subject matter expert on such forums.
Housing in New York City and San Francisco is a problem - MASSIVE. Airbnb has helped many people in those cities find places to stay, make extra income, etc. I'm certain, because of the reasons the problem exists in the first place, that people have and will continue to find ways to use it in ways that are harmful to vulnerable populations.

But if you focus really with any energy on Airbnb as a part of the problem rather than some of the applications of Airbnb as EVIDENCE of the problem, boy howdy are you missing the point. I fear that is what will happen - everyone wants a scape goat, tech is an easy one.
Yet they spend less on marketing then most major tech companies. One could just argue they spend their marketing budget well, but you have to wonder.
Leading 'anti adblock' provider gets hacked- pushed malware to end users
What do you mean they weren't CDs? They weren't "licensed" or they were something else entirely?
A warmer gas can hold more water vapour. If it's started snowing more in Antarctica (a reasonable assumption if the continental ice mass is increasing), that doesn't contradict a slightly warmer global climate at all.
I've stayed at a couple AirBnbs that were pretty bad - including an obvious bedbug infestation at one of them.

Both of the AirBnbs came with plenty of rave reviews and had a high average star rating, and all had a good number of reviews to boot.

Either the typical AirBnb guest has really low standards - where 4 walls that didn't collapse on them in their sleep is an automagic 5-star rating - or there's something fishy going on with them reviews.
Ah, yes, IRC has netsplits. Slack, on the other hand, has "reconnecting...", which I encounter a dozen times a day on it.

I guess it's down to personal preference whether you prefer being able to talk with a partial group knowing that some people are absent, and not being able to communicate at all.
Nice thread. Gotta say, listing all this makes me feel a hell of a lot less lazy! (In southwest China...)

1. Classical Chinese, by translating old texts on Wikisource: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Manshu

2. Just brushed up on technical drawing and woodworking to get new office furniture built.

3. Fatherhood.

4. Event planning. I'm trying to set up a community event to take ~40 party people down to a nearby lake to spend a day in the sun on the lakeshore and go sailing on two Weta Trimarans I transported here last year. http://wetamarine.com/ + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuxian_Lake ... brushed up on sailing a year ago, it'd been 20 years.

5. Winemaking. The focus is on arriving at a process and set of inputs that result in a scalable and commercially viable range of non-grape based wines (cider/perry type drinks, but not limited to apples and pears), then flip it and registered IP to a large and established distributor, and use the knowledge and cash gained to do some small-batch, higher-end organic type stuff.

6. Improving my poetry: I am part of a very international poetry group which meets once every week or two and reads and discusses poetry in English and Chinese, with occasional additional languages.

7. Modern history. I joined a Marxist reading group and am learning a lot about the history of late 19th century/early 20th century Europe as well as various shades of communist/socialist ideology. (Previously, living in China, I have stayed consciously ignorant of such things, which I had never found particularly interesting.)

8. Philosophy of mathematics. Currently reading Pi in the Sky which is an awesome book which I would particularly recommend as a very readable, tangent-laden ponder for programmers without a significant background in formal mathematics who like history, mathematics or philosophy.

9. Documentary filmmaking + new software. Currently working on a social documentary of foreigners living in this corner of southwest China. Although I'd done some since analog days, this is my first major project and I'm using the new Lightworks software on Gentoo Linux: http://www.lwks.com/ .. also planning to finish by end of year.
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I may be wrong on this, but I believe they are legally required to stop auto-playing every so often, so that it still counts as on-demand streaming and not simply a TV channel.

In fact, that's probably not correct, not sure where I picked that up.
As David Beazley [1] is the goto guy for anything related to python concurrency (His outstanding material on the topic was what finally made python generators / coroutines tick for me). This makes me much intrigued by this!

[1] http://www.dabeaz.com/
Risks Related to Reliance on Big Data
I'll add that the book has a good amount of exercises, both theoretical and implementation-related. It's worth noting that the book also includes the Haskell implementations of the data structures. Not that Standard ML is difficult to understand but hey, it's a plus!
Are Robo Advisors Following the Path of Internet-Only Banks?
> buyer's agent should (in theory) make sure the buyer pays the lowest possible price.

this is not true, even in theory. A buyer's agent (properly clled a "Selling agent" in some jurisdictions, reflecting the role) has a duty to serve the client. Getting the "lowest possible price" is not a requirement. Getting the client a property they want to buy, and properly informing the client of important information, is the agent's responsibility. Getting a good price is a point of competition maybe, but not a responsibility.
Probably because they can't afford the backhaul. They pay $900 for 100M.

According to the network diagram in the article they do not appear to run a mesh topology. They run a hub and spoke topology. Each repeater has multiple radios.

Even so, they have serious problems if they can't sustain their 30 Mbps peak usage with their wireless equipment.
How very decisive of you.

And you'd take on the burden of constellation of comparable services as opposed to a white label hipchat because....?
Despite the fact that it's the same information? There's no distinction, in the example, between information that it's OK for Big Mouth to disclose and information that he can't disclose. Such forbidden information might exist and be known to Big Mouth, but Shylock didn't receive it. How can the only problem be that it was disclosed outside business hours?
Yes, I think the comparison to HN is especially apt.
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This is more truthy than actually true.
That's exactly my point. userbinator suggested that scheduling things would be easier if everyone used UTC. I'm saying this wouldn't actually improve anything, because you'd still have to check a local quantity (business hours, local time, or whatever) for each person.
Some of the features mentioned here: persistent log, powerful search, comment editing, easy onboarding and invites, code blocks; some even ask for thousand of users in a chat room and moderation tools! Wouldn't this communities be better served by a modern forum, like Discourse instead of a chat?
If it's just infra management you want, then use Hipchat. It does the same things Slack does, at $2/user/mo instead of $8. Slack is ridiculously expensive.
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It's only single node, multiple GPUs, though, which already exists in other frameworks.
I am, at least, philosophically libertarian. But I'm not an activist and don't participate in electoral politics.

Here's the first problem: the word "libertarian" is a huge umbrella term that encompasses many different philosophies. Reasonable uses of word go from "fuck you, got mine" all the way to "no coercion, please." I've seen plenty of folks self identify on various parts of this spectrum, so I'm not even including derogatory senses of the word. And of course, many would consider this to be a "right wing" usurpation of the word from traditional leftists. So despite the broad spectrum, one could still consider it wrong in a variety of ways.

With that said, I personally identify close to "no coercion, please." Notably, I largely see this as entirely orthogonal to what it means to help others. In contrast, "fuck you, got mine," is a clear statement that "helping others" is to be looked down upon, and that those who are poor are weak or lazy.

The "no coercion, please" is also easy to conflate with "don't help others" because such a position often entails an argument in favor of defunding or abolishing many of the social welfare programs we see today. Often, this argument is made without any attempt at providing an alternative, so it's easily dismissed by conscientious individuals. However, many of these arguments are not based on the proposition that the poor are weak or that helping others is somehow bad, but rather, that these social welfare programs are predicated on the use of force (as us libertarians see it, which is not necessarily how others see it, because certainly not all people think that taxation is coercive, but I certainly see it that way). Since they are predicated on the use of force, they are generally incompatible with libertarian philosophy. However, the part where social welfare programs help people is, to me, not incompatible at all with libertarian philosophy. For example, there are uncountably many privately run charities in the world. These are of course organized voluntarily, and are therefore compatible with libertarian philosophy.

Naturally, this turns the discussion toward "well private charities provide no guarantees to help folks in need." And yes, that is true. But now you've arrived to the heart of the matter: the only way to provide a "guarantee" is to use coercion. (I personally don't think of this as a guarantee, but government institutions certainly have an air of longevity and stability that isn't often associated with private organizations, so I can understand the sentiment.)

I largely see this as a trade off between freedom and security. Freedom means there are no guarantees; folks in need will only get help if there are others willing to give it.

For me personally, I cannot ethically abide coercion, ever. This probably makes me an absolutist. Of course, in real life, my pragmatism takes over. I don't mind being an absolutist in theory. ;-)
Make existed long before npm and make is the basis of all our package management in our company and our operating systems.
UML - Unnecessary Management Lingo. - @iamdevloper

UML - I know next to nothing about UML - but what I do know is the language was invented first and then people came around and tried to give semantics to the language. Well, in other words what that means is that the language was invented first and it really didn't mean anything. And then, later on, people came around to try to figure out what it meant. Well, that's not the way to design a specification language. The importance of a specification language is to specify something precisely, and therefore what you write - the specification you write - has to have a precise, rigorous meaning. - Leslie Lamport

UML: a language that was invented first and then people came around to try to get semantics. - Leslie Lamport

UML: fuzzy pictures of boxes and arrows. - Leslie Lamport

People use UML, things like UML, to model programs, but it's not clear how to translate them in to sequences of states, for concurrency. If you cannot translate them in to sequences of states, it means you don't understand them, and it may mean that there's nothing there. You know, there are lots of people selling snake-oil, drawing boxes and arrows that make you feel good, but ultimately have no real meaning. If something is really meaningful you should be able to express it in mathematics. - Leslie Lamport

... ie. it's not used much because it lacks precision of expression, and its main competitor is informal diagramming: a couple of boxes and a line on a whiteboard are 90% as effective as UML, and actually function for a general audience. (Quotes from https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup)
OpenBSD's pf does just that.

You get a guaranteed minimum but if someone isn't using theirs, you can have it.

And you can set all sorts of hierarchies if you felt like it. Putting users in say the SSH group and SSH getting 10% of all bandwidth.
Merits of the contents aside, the guy presenting has a very judgmental and condescending tone making it difficult to appreciate what he's actually saying. Saying things like "this doesn't look anything like a programming language, especially if you're coming from the javascript world" or "I will explain shared memory multi-threading in a bit, especially for the front end developers" really doesn't help. I find statements like that offensive, and detrimental to getting good conversations going. I've not finished watching that presentation on these grounds, and I'm not sure I will. It's not out of principle either, but simply because I get too annoyed to continue.

For the record, I identify myself as a software engineer. These days I mostly do front end development, but I have written code in many languages and contexts (asm, javascript, c, python, vb, whatever fits) and been well remunerated for it. I find the front/back/native/whatever splits to be silly, probably fueled by trying to make more efficient job listings. Fine that HR folks do this, but as engineers we should know better.
Again, we don't know what actually happened, but presumably they read what they sent over to him.
The argument you propose could be described as a fairness fallacy - I didn't do something bad, so bad things won't happen to me. Sometimes its worth preventing things we didn't cause, if they will nonetheless impact us in significant ways. An asteroid barreling toward earth would hardly be caused by us, but if we didn't try to prevent it, we'd share fate with dinosaurs.
Good news not all planetary patterns have been altered by humans, yet. Gives us a little more time down there. But we need to cut emissions quickly before this patterns reaches completion and the sea ice lost in west Antarctica causes significant sea level rise due to our burning of fossil fuels. The time to switch away from carbon based energy is now.
Do you find it a hassle to rent out like this? Do you ever have any bad guests? What's your occupancy percentage in a typical month ?
At the beginning of her post, with her explaining why she got into streaming, she almost convinced me to start an account myself; needless to say, by the end of the post and judging from the comments here, there is no way in hell I'd sign up.
Just because the media likes to talk about it doesn't make it true.

It is totally common to skip prereqs. When I say common, I don't mean everyone does it. I mean every year a handful of students do it. In fact, it's probably more common at the top science/engineering colleges (MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Berkeley, etc.). I mean, every year these schools have a couple of geniuses that won gold medals at the IChO/IMO/IOI/other olympiads, have been taking college (not community college) courses while in high school, and/or did legitimate research while in high school (and I'm not talking about the "research" volunteerships that many high schoolers try to get), etc.

I went to Berkeley, and the EECS department let you skip any prereq by taking the final.
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I'm watching a lot of videos and tutorials trying to learn how to build social networking site.
https://www.livecoding.tv/video/enfrbuilding-a-social-networ...
Even handed? You're talking about "greedy" landlords without citing specific examples of greed.

You may think, they're are all sleazy and greedy so what's the difference? Fine, but you don't get to then label that lazy thinking even handed analysis.

Edit: Not a landlord, no affiliation with Airbnb or landlords.
It seems I stand corrected.
Smaller than JS, faster, uses Abstract Syntax Trees... sounds like the Juice project. Oh, how much better web apps could've been.

https://web.archive.org/web/20000830093908/http://caesar.ics...
SaaSS? Seriously? The FSF's use of that is about as childish as Microsoft with a dollar sign. Is getting your taxes done by another party Accounting as a Calculator Substitute? Is taking your car to a shop Mechanic as a Toolbox Substitute? Slack has a lot of useful parts that go beyond just chat. Having a simple way of sharing snippets, saving history, using shared file repositories, all of which are easier if you don't strip out metadata and just throw a bare link into the channel. Finally, your false equivalency, that making money is always antisocial behavior, is ridiculous. Slack fills a niche that IRC doesn't and can't, and the developers decided that they would rather prefer a way to work on the project full-time without having to beg for donations.

Times do change, and tools do get better. Yes, it means having to change yourself, but stagnant work habits probably mean that you're missing other toolings, other methods, that can make you more productive. Sometimes, you do have to pull yourself out of your comfort zone, even if it means using eeevil software made by people with a salary.
> Are you familiar with physical internet infrastructure pricing, or are you just assuming?

Yes, I am familiar and no, I'm not just assuming. I actually RTFA and I checked their upstream providers service offering terms.
Does an Apple Watch Discount Point to Flagging Sales Numbers?
Personally I'd bet that a majority of their revenue is attributable to units that are not owner-occupied for several reasons:

* people using a dwelling limits how much hosting they can do

* how hard they've fought to avoid forcing these professional landlords to obey the law (viz nyc, sf, etc); would they have fought so hard (potentially endangering their whole business, see current prop F backlash in sf) if this were a small fraction of revenue?

see eg http://www.sfchronicle.com/airbnb-impact-san-francisco-2015/...

My back-of-napkin rough estimates are 40-70% of revenue is not the face of the anti-prop F campaign, ie someone earning a little extra money from the odd weekend guest.
I'm rather surprised by this. Internet connectivity in Boulder is really quite good[0], since the University drives a lot of traffic.

[0] Spent the last 11 years in Boulder.
> Most people don't care about global commerce

Only the ones with money.
In AWS t1.micros don't really exist anymore (they do, but you have to use oooolldd images), and except for legacy accounts, a default install puts you into a VPC where the instances are never going to have 6667 open to the internet unless you specifically open it (well, that's more of a Security Group thing) and possibly don't even have a public IP address. :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10477485
Not an expert here, but for registered, I would think that you would monitor changes from major nameservers. Wouldn't return 100% of the domains, but probably ~90%.
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You misunderstood. I am saying IRC would be as easy as slack if the slack team spent the time working on IRC. Their investors would never let them even if they wanted to.
And we used to think x86 was a bad design of native code.
It seems to me that this finding means that the "pattern" is not what you think it is.
Not sure if I'm missing something about your question, because this seems obvious. It's increasing the demand (by allocating a whole new population of short-term tenants to the market, who would otherwise either not visit or would stay in hotels and hostels) and constricting the supply (by incentivizing landlords to take entire properties off the rental market to service those tenants).
One piece of feedback about the website itself: the actual reading area is unusably small when viewed on a mobile device. Here's a screenshot:http://imgur.com/yvOGc02. Note that the menu doesn't hide, so >50% of the screen is occupied by a static menu that's irrelevant to the actual content I'm trying to read.
This optimization problem you're conceptualizing is a very strange one indeed. It's like the only outcome we care about is achieving some perfect architecture.

In a dynamic optimization problem, where we have to take into account the current state of the world, and our ignorance of the future, sometimes the most efficient use decision is going with what we have, since it's good enough.

I'll put this another way: I don't think there's some terrible shortage of fundamental computer science research out there, nor is there a shortage of competing architectures.

One more spin on this. The fact that we have fewer competing architectures than we used to is itself a sign that existing architectures are pretty good. First, they are the survivors, and have out-competed the rest. Second, more importantly, if less research is being done to develop competing platforms, that means researchers are less optimistic about their ability to improve on what we currently have.
Isn't observation exactly the same as experimental evidence?
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I think that they just gave you some ground for some legal action.