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I was going to come on here and maybe write something clever, or something from a different angle. Then I saw the responses that were already here. A few fun snarks, and the rest? Lots of criticism, and some outright ridicule.

So much for not challenging yourself.

Just before my 30s, I was getting knee deep in learning about strategic thinking. The art of making decisions in the unknown. All about Sun Tzu, Musashi, Col. John Boyd. Maneuver warfare. Stacking things up, eliminating the opponent's means to win ... and the will to win. Tried to apply it in Go, and in my martial arts.

Sometime in my early 30s, I found myself in the middle of a spiritual quest. The things that this guy is saying were one of the many themes that I had learned during that journey. The metaphor that clicked for me wasn't tetris, it was mountain climbing. The only person you are challenging is yourself. I had noticed everything this author had said -- inventing difficulties to feel that sense of victory.

I learned the difference between winning by prevailing and winning by making the other guy lose. And yeah, in the end, you play to play.

There's nothing wrong with voluntarily stepping up to greater challenges. However, it's one thing to do that with eyes clear and mind open, and another to do it to make it seem as if you were fighting some big monster, when ... that's not the case.

I don't play too many games these days. My meditation practices are far more demanding and challenging than most games.
> generally agreed upon to be negative

IMO it's worth being very careful in any genetic discussion (epi- or otherwise) before declaring an adaptation to be "negative", especially if it's probably the result of thousands or millions of years of "battle tested" evolutionary winnowing that we can't really see and appreciate. (For example, the side-bonus of sickle-cell anemia is resistance to malaria.)

At best we have to add a big load of qualifiers, e.g.: "For this group in this context during this infinitesimal slice of human history, it didn't seem to help."
When Target opened in my town I went in to see what they had for men's clothing and walked out five minutes later. Nothing.

There were piles of clothing for (obviously) teen girls, a lot for women and boys but for men there was nothing. I'm in my 40s I have no interest dressing like a 15 year-old.

Overall choice for everything else was very limited and the prices were higher than the previous store there (Zellers). Some people who went to Target in the USA said the choices in Canada were very limited and prices were double for the same items.

I bet millions were spent on renovating the local store here alone since it was pretty grungy before Target took it over.

Worse is when Target took over they were the anchor store and demanded all the little kiosks in the main route of the mall be closed. No sunglasses huts, engraving, tobacco or lottery booths either since rumour was Target is owned/started by a fundamentalist religious family(?). Target put a lot of small stores of of business before they even opened the Target store causing a lot of hurt feelings in a small town.
well, that was mostly depressing, but i found the part about mudge and the UL-like initiative encouraging:

"Peiter “Mudge” Zatko is a member of the high-profile L0pht hacker group who testified before Congress in 1998, and since he's gone on to head cybersecurity research at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) before joining Google in 2013. In June, Zatko announced he was leaving the search giant to form a cybersecurity NGO modelled on Underwriters Laboratories."

and above that, a section about a similar "consumer reports" style rating organization. that was also the first time i'd heard of the group i am the cavalry, which seems like a cool idea (in principle, at least, without really knowing much about the actual group).

and i understand this objection to that sort of approach:

"It’s not the same quality problem... UL is about accidental failures in electronics. CyberUL would be about intentional attacks against software. These are unrelated issues. Stopping accidental failures is a solved problem in many fields. Stopping attacks is something nobody has solved in any field. In other words, the UL model of accidents is totally unrelated to the cyber problem of attacks."

it is a very different problem in a lot of ways, but that doesn't mean that an approach similar in spirit or presentation is doomed to failure. and i think it does fit into the broad category of messy consumer information problems that are hard to solve with specific detailed regulation.
In Canada, Netflix is like the bargain dvd bin at Walmart. Never the thing you're looking for, but an endless supply of me-too copies of hit movies.
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How was Bitcoin the best performing currency of 2015?
He lost his job only because he was given an order forbidding him from using the internet. What makes you say that he's "an asshole"?
Only if you have a narrow, pinched, legalistic definition of "free speech" which would be unrecognizable to any of the philosophers and statesmen who created our modern understanding of the concept.

If, for getting into an argument with certain people, you can be punished with being ostracized, fired, prevented from earning a living, demonized by the news media, and put through a years-long wringer in the courts, your freedom of speech is harmed even if at the end of it a judge says not guilty.
The Zellers here Charlottetown was a busy place yes it was run-down but quite a few people shopped there every day.

Walmart did take a lot of the lower end product sales and Sears was similar to Zellers with a few higher quality items but Zellers was still busy.

You but something at Walmart it falls apart in six months, Sears lasts and stands by what they sell, Zellers was in the middle.
Twilight is just a red overlay. If you want the real deal like f.lux or redshift, there's Cf.lumen (requires root) which works great and even offers a "freeloader" option for pro features.
Because a lot of us are hammering on our laptops at odd hours and get a much better night's sleep as a result of f.lux and redshift. I can say without reservation: this simple little piece of software significantly improved my life. It's probably more important than something like emacs in my quality of life.
The article doesn't say any of that - cite please?
The recommended fiber intake for men is 38g. Oat flour is 0.13g fiber per gram, so 240g * 0.13 + 7g fiber from psyllium husk = 38g fiber. Honestly though, I've adjusted it based on my BMs, and 38g is good for me
LOLs. A bit mean for an easy target.
You could also say that the aio interface, which has aio_read() and aio_write() calls, is missing an "aio_transfer()" call.

Just a quick idea, would mmapped files, combined with the aio_write() interface not give us the same functionality as sendfile()?
I don't think that Target spent enough time researching Canada. Perhaps if they had hired some Canadian executives, the result would have been different.

My favourite example has to do with winter hats. In Canada, we call them toques (it is not pronounced 'toke'), yet in Target, all the signage said 'hats'.

That sounds really small, but it was my most memorable example of a company that genuinely did not get Canadians. They treated us like Americans and, while Americans are cool, we aren't Americans!!
Leaving aside the fact that as a non-USian this all sounds completely insane...

> Once you get it, always pay your balance before statement cuts and let only 1%-9% of the balance report to the bureaus.

...what does this mean?
Are these western names used in western countries for Japanese products or so the names also get used in Japan?
NOx causes a significant amount of health issues due to low level smog. I don't think a comparison to HCN is a good reason for not calling NOx poisonous.

As an aside, diesel exhaust does actually contain cyanide compounds!
Anecdotal evidence is bad evidence.

I started praying to this cool rock I found, and the moon is in Sagittarius; guess what?! I've lost 5 pounds and am getting performance compliments at work!
Are you using React in production, or limited to side projects?
This is essentially the "last mile" problem in automation.

What's the value of a fridge that warns you when you're running low on something? Almost nothing. What's the value of a fridge that prints out a shopping list based on what it currently has? Some. What's the value of a fridge that automatically orders those things, has them delivered to your door and/or restocked inside it? Significant.

Why? Because we've already automated the basic 25-75% of most tasks (somewhere in the 1920s-1980s). The modern value proposition is binary: having to think about "it" any amount vs not having to think about "it" at all.

Saving time at "it" is more or less worthless at this point, because we've already automated most of the raw time away.

Or in other words: time spent in mental context switching dominates, and can only be avoided via 100% automation.
I feel obliged to share a lifehack my mother taught me regarding the laundry.

After removing the laundry, take your t-shirts and stretch them yourself, one by one, when they're still slightly wet. Grab them with two hands symmetrically, stretch horizontally, moving your hands down along the shirt. Do the same vertically, and with the sleeves.

Do not use a machine dryer, just a regular standing dryer like [1].

Put your t-shirts carefully, symmetrically on the dryer, and once dry, put them on a hanger. If you follow this, you will not have to iron them at all.

Source: been doing this for 4 years and I didn't touch the iron since. I have all t-shirts 100% cotton (though I buy only high-grammage ones) and they all seem brand new and ironed (the only exception being one particular brand whose collar looks bad unless ironed, I stopped buying that brand). YMMV of course.

[1] http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41oWjx2Q-mL._SY300_.jp...
It's an anecdote from me personally, but there is a large wealth of research that's easy to find on the subject. I encourage you to do more reading if it interests you.
I live in Texas and I'm as surprised as the parent. It's not that I think the state is "full of idiots" as you say, but because the oil and gas industry has the state by the balls.

edit: judging by the downvotes, apparently this is a controversial statement. weird.
Every time I read an article about Target, the only people who come out looking good in the end is the Hudson's Bay Company. While I loved Zellers and shopped there on a regular basis, it was worth more for its locations than the actual business. I worked at Zellers briefly in the years leading up to its eventual dismantlement and the question on everyone's mind was really "what is going to happen to all of these stores?" HBC made out like a bandit by seducing Target into buying them in one fell swoop.
Yes: this is actually amazing, thank you. I'm 6.5" and way 175 pounds. No. Shirts. Ever. Fit. Me.
I am from Myanmar and my mom still lives there. My mom, in her late 50s, uses facebook everyday and I actually set up an account for her a few years back (opened a gmail for that, but my mom never checks her gmail, so she's entirely reliant on me to retrieve her account info if she changes/loses her phone).

Facebook certainly is the king of mobile and social in Myanmar at the moment (another popular app is Viber). All my friends from high school and older people of my relatives have fb accounts. That got me thinking how in the world they set up or use facebook whereas a majority of them don't even use/have emails. Now, this article explains it all. :) It's fascinating that people in my country (at least in my social circle) care very little about securing their account because for them, facebook accounts are dispensable/replaceable.
I use IRC, but come on. It offers a lot more than IRC right out of the box.

* File uploads

* Embedding portions of links (tweets, images)

* A very good search

* Multi-line posts

* Code-formatting, including multi-line posts, and also snippets.

* A mobile client that alerts you when someone mentions you.

* Scroll-back history when you sign on at any time.

* Syncing between multiple clients.

Yes, you could create a bot or modify an irc server to do this, and then find or write a client that will do all that stuff, and an irc bouncer can fill in for a lot of this.

But Slack does it out of the box. Zero extra work needed.

I like IRC, but if you claim that Slack doesn't offer anything more than IRC, you're either delusional or using an incredibly broad definition of IRC.
How did you actually do the measuring?

The "manufacturing variance" chart jumped out at me as looking fairly unnatural: there's a variation in width or variation in length but very little points that mix. Then I noticed that we're talking about just over half an inch in each direction.

How much of this effect is variation in your measurement?
It is complicated. I only know because I am a friend, so we have to wait till he releases stuff.
This is tge reason I pushed down hard on our design for TV walls and monitoring screens. We have set up a number of TV screens around the office (some as walls, some individuals). I refused to have any of them plugged in to our office network, because I don't trust the smart TVs to either remain secure or not to spy on us "accidentally".

So each TV will be a dumb screen. Output is provided by two Raspberry Pies - one for each of the first two HDMI inputs. HDMI 1 = monitoring, HDMI 2 = office IPTV. The TV feed network is physically separated from everything else, and connected to a dedicated switch. With no uplink to internet.

And to give some context, we discussed our setup with some of the Cloudflare engineers in London. They consider our setup "pretty hardcore". From a company that lives by security, we consider that a compliment.
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The issues you're talking about aren't ones I've seen anyone else complain about (and don't happen for me), so I'm wondering if there's something specific to your configuration that's affecting it.
On Linux I use the 'Negative' Compiz plugin. You can apply it on a window by window basis or desktop-wide. For both modes there are keyboard shortcuts (that's what makes it such a killer feature IMO). People find the screen weird when I enable the plugin but I'm a practical guy and this has saved my eyesight.

I know you can invert colors in OSX but the effect is desktop-wide and you can't use a hotkey to enable or disable it. Does something similar exist for other OSes?
Loved the post, here's a feature request for you:

I organize an annual conference [1]. All of our attendees get a free tshirt. We purchase all of our tees from a single manufacturer (say American Apparel) and let the attendee tell us the size they want before we finalize the order.

The problem is that attendees often don't know what size will fit them, and sometimes guess wrong and end up with a poor fit. Anything you could offer us to help here?

[1] http://2016.cascadiajs.com
Most of the enthusiasts are people on the sell side who've decided it's the next big untapped market. Or the "maker" community with Arduinos and ESP2866 chips. Or the intersection of those on Kickstarter.

But enthusiast IoT genuinely is exciting; people building little things tailored specifically to their needs. Not a multibillion dollar unicorn festival though.

Home automation has been a minority interest for decades, and likely to remain that way.
I use an electric cooker (got it used for like 60 bucks), ingredients go in, food comes out, takes ten minutes to chop stuff and program it, it will tell you when it's done and will keep stuff warm until you want to eat.
Most 45 year olds would not give a flying duck to what 25 year olds year.
When doctors, psychologists, and drug makers can't rely on each other's research
How about don't write shitty software. Just because joes flower shop wants shitty custom database software doesn't mean I can't push the state of art and what's possible.
Back in the olden days (System 7~8) Apple would actually buy out the third party tools they wanted to add to the OS (MenuClock, WindowShade, etc). Then Steve Jobs came back and they just started Sherlocking developers instead...
My wife has a similar trick that we've been using successfully.

After removing the laundry, we fold everything neatly, and leave them stacked on top of each other for 30-60 mins. Than we dry them with a standing dryer.

Haven't ironed t-shirts or jeans since we got married.
"hetero white dude,"

So just curious: what's with referring to men as "dudes" when you're trying to make points about inclusive behavior and language and such? I'm seeing this a lot, and this weird language tic really detracts from whatever point the person is making. You don't refer to women as "chicks," do you?
Circuit theory becomes much more elegant if you start to use complex numbers (conceptually, the Laplace transform [1]). But for an introductory lesson, this page seems nice, though perhaps a bit long.

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Circuit_Theory/Laplace_Transfo...

(If you grasp this reference, then you understand, I'd say, about 25% of what electrical engineering is about)
"He had more problems than a charge of criminal harassment. According to Gregory Elliott’s son, Clayton, the Canadian courts initially sought to detain him for the duration of his trial. This would have seen him jailed for more than three years.
Eventually, the Crown was persuaded to grant bail, although, as part of his bail conditions, Elliott was prohibited from using “the internet and any device with access to the internet.” A graphics designer by trade, this was crippling to his career. Before he even had a chance to figure out how to continue doing his job of 17 years with these restrictive bail conditions, he was fired without cause. Forced to withdraw his pension early, the 55-year old father of four has spent more than $50,000 in legal fees, and still owes a further $40,000."

Also they falsely accused him as pedophile (while they knew he was not guilty for what they were accusing him).

One of many sources : http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2015/11/19/a-life-ruined-by-fe...
Anyway, here's Wonderwall.
Operating the TV over the internet is useless .. but operating the PVR over the internet could be very handy. And operating the TV over the LAN from a smartphone could be handy: scroll through the EPG without disrupting the current programme.

(I spend an hour this afternoon trying to get tvheadend+Kodi working to do almost exactly this, to replace my Windows Media Center PVR)
> I feel obliged to share a lifehack my mother taught me regarding the laundry. After removing the laundry, take your t-shirts and stretch them yourself, one by one, when they're still slightly wet. Grab them with two hands symmetrically, stretch horizontally, moving your hands down along the shirt. Do the same vertically, and with the sleeves.

Interesting, I never considered this a hack. Noone told me this, but I always do it. Ironing is never needed. I do it with pants too.
When I was lifting three times a week and running three times a week I would eat much more than that on an average day. If you're working hard to gain muscle you can consume a surprisingly large caloric intake.

4kcal is about right for an average person on a gain diet. Source: http://www.muscleandfitness.com/nutrition/gain-mass/eat-mass...

At the olympic level some people consume 8kcal/day or more.
I own an online apparel company that I launched on HN three years ago, but before this, I built tech companies, so maybe I can weigh in with what I've found (and have been really surprised by).

Fit is almost a philosophical decision. Most companies only have five sizes (XS-XL) and the goal is probably to accommodate as large of a % of your customer base as you can with each of those five sizes. Most designers either use themselves to build their sizing from, or use a fit model, someone that literally is paid to stay the same size year round and give input on the fit.

After the decision on who, exactly, you want to design to, you need to decide how the individual garment should fit. eg. some streetwear might have a 4" longer shirt from the high point shoulder than mine, if they like that long, baggy look. Some styles, like James Perse, may want a laid back, beach vibe, or cater to an older demo that might want a more forgiving shirt, so they'll want a few extra inches around the waist.

In our case, I'm a very consistent medium -- almost every brand I'd expect my friends to buy from fits me well at a medium -- so I tailored our shirts to myself. We then started with what is a fairly standard grade rule to go up and down the sizes, and then after many, many batches, fine tuned each size to feedback from our customers.

So -- a lot going on. There is no way to standardize what a "medium" is across brands (and some companies don't even use the same terminology!)

The frustrating part, as a consumer, however, is when a brand doesn't have consistency between batches of the same style, colors within the same style, or between styles!! eg. I have a pair of Levis (huge fan..) on right now that I have the same exact wash, and style, but the 31 waist is MUCH bigger than the 32 waist. In this case, they were probably sewn in different factories, and they don't have tight enough tolerances in QC, or something. Between styles happen because a big company like Nike, for instance, may have 100 designers, who may not want to re-use design elements/blocks from one style to the next - and would prefer to fit / design their new tee how they see fit. But as a consumer, I expect all Nike medium shirts to fit the same, so that is frustrating.

Turns out, sewing things by hand, and dying, pre-shrinking natural fabrics, etc. is really hard. We've been working on our processes for three years, and are incredibly proud of what we've built... but we learn new ways to improve every day!
Disclaimer: I used to work on Cloud Foundry buildpacks, several of which are soft forks of Heroku's.

So obviously, my recommendation is to switch to Cloud Foundry. Each release has a single, fixed set of components which are predictable. You can also upgrade buildpacks independently of the overall CF installation.
The 30 point game is beautiful.

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> I find that most of the arguments put forth in favor of UBI seem relatively narcissistic in nature (Your startup fails and you end up on the street? Yeah, not my problem actually, nor would it be my problem if you spent your entire paycheck on losing powerball tickets etc).

I look at this from a different angle: right now, startups skew heavily towards founders with significant risk-tolerance (young, healthy, good educations, family money, business connections, often partnered with someone who also has high-income career options, etc.) for whom the worst-case outcome is probably something like taking a job at BoringCorp and hanging out in cube-ville until they build up their reserves.

There's nothing wrong with that but there's an argument that society is missing out on a lot of ideas which won't grow out of that fairly homogenous subculture. If we provide a basic cushion, it makes it less intimidating for someone from a less comfortable background to take a chance. That could be particularly beneficial to society: someone coming up with some business ideas which are viable in, say, a factory town or agriculture has the potential to affect a lot of people who are largely ignored by Silicon Valley culture.