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I failed to climb Cotopaxi -- I got to about 5,400m. I could have gone a little further, but doubted I'd make it to the top at the time, and I don't think I was wrong.

It probably didn't help that the refuge was being rebuilt, so we had to sleep at 3,500m and start the climb from the car park below the refuge, which added on 500m to the climb. But more realistically, I live at ~20m and had only spent about 5 days in Ecuador before trying the climb.

Do you think 50% of people successfully climbing is true? From asking people before and since, I think it's more like 5-10%.
Unfortunately, the 'rich kid' advantage starts ~18 years before they take a free online SAT prep class. Reasons are vast and entangled with race, geolocation, socio-economic status, health, and even fundamental differences in brain development during adolescence. But, the problem is most certainly not as simple as having access to the Internet and a free online course (this is also fraught with its own perils that are easily overlooked).*

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2014/08/07/335285098/rich-kid...

[2] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/poverty-disturbs-c...

*Edit: Other comments have pointed out the difficulties in just having Internet access, skills to use the Internet, awareness of free online training, cognizance that training can improve your SAT outcomes, understanding that SAT outcomes are tied to many other positive life outcomes, etc.
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It is a small thing, but it throws me off everytime i see it, and then it takes a few seconds of looking around before it dawns on me what happened.

The "user" in me would love a language aware diffing (and merging) system, but the developer in me is already groaning about how much work that would end up taking for arguably not that much benefit.
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I'm more interested in this from the hiring side of things but I was curious to see the experience from the employee side. For something that emphasizes things being anonymous it sure does ask a lot of identifying questions about you that may deter individuals from signing up. It asks for: LinkedIn URL, Full Name, Country, Current Company, Current Position.

I imagine the intent was that things would be kept anonymous in regards to your data being exposed to the companies looking to hire. But I can't help feel like individuals would feel more comfortable being a bit more anonymous with Woo.io itself.
Assessment testing is not a common phrase. In the recruiting industry it means something very specific and I wanted to make sure it was explicit that I am talking about that type of testing and not just testing for whatever other reasons you might test someone.

Years of programming I guess have made me an explicit cross referencing kind of guy. I find it far worse when your not explicit at times. Misunderstood communication can lead to bad things...
By making Windows on Azure significantly more expensive than other technologies they create a negative incentive to develop new software to run on Windows. With time, this will hurt their own relevance. For this example, it's $375 per server that Windows development would need to be cheaper than nix. If development costs the same, a .nix-based solution would be able to use that $375 for a higher-capacity compute node.
You're being really harsh on this site. It's just a collection of drum loops from Youtube, which vary greatly in quality. For instance, this one is actually analog drums played by a pretty decent drummer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ulV4KTNIbU
I think that was the most straight-up and honest answer I've ever seen a chip company CEO give to questions on their policy decisions.

The interesting bits for me were 90% of the problem is "cheap arduino clones" and "we've never had a problem with large distributors".
> Effective immediately, this company’s values are:

> #1 Operate with integrity.

> #2 Put the customer first.

> #3 Make this a great place to work for employees.

I wonder what the values were before the transition.
I can recommend the book Darkness at Night by Edward Harrison [1] for a detailed look at the history of this paradox. An enjoyable read, and ties it in with several closely related historical debates in cosmology.

[1] http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674192713
I have to agree here. What's wrong with disclosure? It seems to me that the judge ruled on the implementation and missed the concept- and may have set an unwitting precedent.

Suppose Microsoft used a small bit of your unused processing power for some of their own work in order to increase their profits. It's likely few would ever know of this. Is that ok? Somehow I would feel...violated. Like somebody else just took rights to something I thought was under my control.

Note: I don't use gmail, and I view ads on google. The reCaptcha I've seen has been on third-party sites. So their doing this seems to be outside of the 'contract' I have with them. I'm not doing this to pay for a service of theirs that I use- at least not directly.
It was good enough for Shakespeare. There's "Malvolio," the discontent from Twelfth Night. "Horatio," the even-tempered observer in Hamlet. "Elbow," the drunken constable in Measure for Measure, and "Dull," the slow-witted constable from Love's Labors Lost (which also features the empty-headed schoolmaster "Holofernes"). "Prospero," the artist-magician who makes all right in the end of The Tempest. "Hotspur," the (actual) nickname of the irascible warrior from Henry IV Part I who could think of nothing but riding his horse into battle. (Of course, that was a real historical name, but it's no wonder Shakespeare latched onto it.) And who can forget "Mercutio," another hothead, the short-lived hyperglot from Romeo and Juilet? Not to mention "Posthumus," who all but dies to set right his folly at the beginning of Cymbeline. And then of course, "Falstaff," also from Henry IV, that great monument to the art of deception.

Does anyone need to guess the profession of Mistress Overdone, Mistress Quickly, or Doll Tearsheet?

Lesser characters: Shallow and Slender.

Not as sure what to make of Touchstone, Caliban (an anagram for "cannibal"?), and Bottom.

Dickens was just imitating, and in many ways bettering, his master.
No doubt because you reacted dismissively to the title alone instead of engaging with the specifics of the article.
The Falcon 9 Heavy, which should launch later this year, will be the heaviest lift rocket since the Saturn 5.
I feel like making these questions more wordy leaves a lot of room for bias in the questions. For example, the phone repair one, while easy enough for me to parse, seemed to rely on the basic understanding of how a repair/maintenance company might work. Again, really simple example that I don't expect people to mess up, but I think it shows that there could be a problem.
If you invest $5K USD each year in an equities-heavy index fund, with compound interest and average market returns, you'll have your Mars ticket in ~25 years. Additional funds invested each year speed that up.
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I don't get the "running out of fuel" argument... If the universe (as assumed in the text) is infinitely old and infinitely large, why should there be any scarcity of nuclear fuel?
Ask HN: How to get into consulting services?
I'm currently looking to get into software consulting work. I've always worked for small startups, so I am very much a generalist as opposed to the industry leader of a single area (that said, I am very proficient in many areas of development). Most of my friends also work for small companies who can't afford consulting services or don't currently have any needs for it.

What are some tips/strategies you all have picked up to get into the consulting ring?

My reason for wanting to get into consulting is to 1) try something new, and 2) work on a bunch of projects over a shorter time period to get some interesting experience

I appreciate all tips, but I am mostly looking at how to get business more than how to bill/charge/etc right now.
There really should be a rule that when a press logo is present, clicking on the logo brings you to the article mentioning the startup, especially since the site itself is relatively sparse.

I could only find 2/4 of the press articles:

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/02/09/woo-lets-you-find-a...

http://www.cmswire.com/social-business/new-platform-promises...

Both articles were released 7 hours ago, which implies that this is a coordinated marketing strategy and not organic buzz.
That looks like it could have come right out of a math book; and having it structured in such a manner makes the difficulty of the problem much lower for any one with some English reading comprehension problems. In fact its so simply stated that Wolfram Alpha has no problem with solving for x.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=836.50+%3D+6.5+*+x+%2B...

Wolfram Alpha is awesome as long as you know how to properly define the question, and when it comes to "word" problems that is 90% of the work. So this new version of the SAT just makes me think they want to make it more challenging for people who have reading comprehension problems. And the test being in English doesn't do one bit to help with that; case in point all of the discussion here about how the questions could be interpreted.
Out of curiosity, I thought there were a few blog posts about how Parse is written in Go.

But based on this blog post, it looks like you are re-implementing https://github.com/ParsePlatform/parse-server as a node app. Why not open source the original code?
After getting the invite and signing up, I no longer see the link to my LinkedIn profile anywhere in my account. I'm thinking that they ask for the profile only to get the invite (maybe a verification step for them?)
Hmmm. A studio for 2700-3000 in that area of MH is basically market rate for existing, 400+ sqft studios if not even a little bit high...kinda defeats the purpose, no?
It doesn't exist. I think Martin called this out because of the fundamental impossibility to guaranty consensus asynchronously, i.e. with auto-release.
That's really interesting. Often in the past 20 years I've considered such a move, largely in response to the trends in US politics and policy.

As a Michigander I think I have a fair sense of what it'd be like to live in the climate of the Great White North, but not as much feel for the economy or the culture. It'd be fascinating to hear from folks who have made that move, especially with a view to assimilation: Canadian citizenship.
The proof starts from two sets of equations:

1. Newton's second law (first year undergraduate)

2. Commutation relations in QM (2nd or 3rd year undergraduate)

To make the desired connection, one must have seen Maxwell's Equations (which some first year undergraduate physics textbooks include).

There is no need to assume graduate level physics; someone having done a B.Sc. in Physics should know more than enough to follow this derivation.
So, your offering a job rewriting the internet...that's pretty cool. Oh, right it's just another CRUD job. Also, why not write all your interview questions down on a piece of paper and leave them for an hour with internet access. If they still can't answer your questions then you have a problem. And, if there a gaps maybe train them a little bit. I think if everyone stopped wasting so much time looking for ninjas, experts, and unicorns and started hiring people the world would be a lot better off.
Imagine an infinite series of nested hollow shells of equal thickness around Earth.

The number of stars in each shell is quadratic relative to the radius. The brightness of each star is inversely quadratic relative to the radius of the shell. Thus, each shell has a constant total brightness, as perceived from Earth. An infinite number of these shells add up to infinite brightness.
You know you can customize the diff colors, yes?

From the git book itself: `git config --global color.diff.meta "blue black bold"`
Yeap, typo
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No, the discrepancy was only on a timing message for determining UTC. This is not used for determining position.
What isn't true?
I tried to sign up to check it out and got some bullshit about... "Your request to join Woo's closed beta has been sent."

I'd want to use this site as a hiring tool (and wanted to see what the experience is like from the person signing up), but if they aren't even allowing people to sign up without going through some 'beta' process, I can't see how they would have anyone using their site.

Why is this at the top of hackernews?
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This isn't about innovation, it's about production. It's been almost six years since the first Falcon 9 launch, and volume production hasn't started yet.

The Minuteman-I missile was first test-fired on 1 February 1961. All 800 Minuteman-I missiles were delivered by June 1965.
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My scariest travelling experience was in Quito. I was walking up the steps to the statue of the virgin Mary, which the guide book recommended gave a great view.

About a third of the way up, some girls aged about 10 shouted some Spanish to me. I only understood "tu muertas", and after some confusion returned to the hostel.

Apparently, the path goes through a slum, and it's pretty dangerous -- the police don't go there. My guidebook was out of date!

An Ecuadorian tourist I met didn't have a camera, since it had been stolen shortly before his holiday. He seemed to think this was pretty routine.
I use this in my ~/.gitconfig

[diff]
algorithm = patience
> In other words, you're saying no one should have input on it? There should be no rules at all?

I don't think any political organizations should have input. There are rules though, they're the local laws of Twitter's users. If a user posts illegal content then Twitter is obligated to take it down.

The potential beauty of Twitter is that you could in theory see the full scope of an argument, good, bad and ugly. What we have instead is a platform where people with controversial ideas can leverage agreement from within Twitter to censor opponents.

> I would support adding civil libertarian organizations to the mix of advisors, as a sibling comment mentions, for a variety of reasons. One reason is similar to why we have an adversarial system in law - if most people support an idea, such as free speech, in principle, but nobody is really dedicated to defending it and the easiest way to accomplish other goals is to compromise it, the slippery slope can easily become steep without people really noticing. Another is just that it's easy for these issues to be overpoliticized, especially when you have a physical presence in Silicon Valley.

You hit the nail on the head with this.

> But all that said, there must be rules. If you don't like that, go somewhere else.

Twitter must still adhere to at least US law. It seems like a good idea to not try to duplicate the legal system (minus checks and balances) internally.
This seems similar to what Startup Digest did years ago with their Startup VIP program.

If the focus stays on helping quality talent connect with quality companies, then it should do well.
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My personal approach to this balance is to stay in hostels/home-stays and use standard local transportation, but still go to expensive restaurants/shows/tours on occasion.
Thanks, @j2kun for your contributions to the math scene! :)

I agree! I think that many people have interesting ways to communicate where they see the excitement in math. Your blog lets you scale your impact through the Internet, which is great, and it's even more powerful when coupled with the in-person experience from guest lectures. :)

Indeed, when thinking of effective ways to scale up the in-person outreach efforts that I was engaging in (as National Coach + teaching at CMU + expii.com), I started posting my weekly math enrichment discussion topics onto the Internet. I think that's the way that we'll ultimately be able to completely level the playing field for everyone in the world.
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The people you want are still out there, but either you are not filtering for them, or some filter is keeping them out.

For junior candidates we use a written test followed by a phone screen to avoid inviting time-wasters and resume spammers into the office; We're sometimes flexible on that for candidates who clearly have relevant experience.
Either way you are definitely troubled.
As someone who lives in a Tiny House, its cute until its not. Your life grows, but your place doesn't. Its like being planted in too small a pot. By the time you move on, market rates for larger places to live have gone up a lot.

Its a bad solution all around.
It's interesting that HN changed the title (not that it matters; it's just curious). The title of the article as displayed on the page, as appearing in the HTML <title>, and as submitted is,

* 5 Ways to Clarify and Strengthen US Cybersecurity Law

HN automatically changed it to,

* How to Clarify and Strengthen US Cybersecurity Law

Is HN just tired of all the counting headlines? (I sure am.)
git diff --word-diff=color

provides a really nice word diff with coloring similar to this project. Just setup an alias in your global gitconfig:

[alias]
cdiff = diff --word-diff=color
For a qualified American, I think a NAFTA visa makes a lot more sense for the potential wave of American "trumpfugees" - first requires them to get a job (and still want to accept it after doing the conversion back to USD :) and also have an easier path to the realization that Canada is actually a different country with a culture that they may not be willing to embrace.
I've had a lot of positive experience with Amazon SNS. It's reasonably priced ($1/million push notifications) and makes sending notifications as easy as hitting an HTTP endpoint. We deliver a couple million notifications a month and have had no problems.
If you could just tell my why it's perfect then, give me something to work with.
isnt the answer that most of the stars are inside galaxies that are for the most part moving away from us and for that matter from each other (due to space itself expanding) with the speed of expansion or their apparent motion away from us proportional to their distance from us. This means most of the star light reaching us is red shifted (due to doppler effect of light) and since we humans cannot see this red shifted light, the night sky appears dark to us. anybody with a physics background can point out where I got this wrong, but I thought this is why the sky is dark.
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This didn't mention the expansion of space at all. The universe may be infinite in size but we'll never see the light of stars that exist so far from us that they are beyond the distance at which space expands faster than light can travel. That's why we have a dark sky and it will just get darker as more things we see now eventually expand beyond that barrier. One suggested end to the universe is the Big Rip in which all matter eventually separates in this way such that the distance between all matter is infinite:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rip
It's a pretty standard studio size as far as I know... I live on roughly 40m with my gf. Having 25m to myself would be perfectly fine. My brother lived on 16 as a student, although the kitchen was shared in the hall, otherwise it was his own unit. Anything above 20 would be fine, 25 nice and anything above great, for a single person studio. And this starts at 24 up to 33, with a nice modern fit and space-saving furnishing, too.

Guess they really liked the whole 'micro this micro that' branding, it's sort of a theme in housing right now and generates more buzz than 'new Manhattan studio's for sale'. I mean really, there's no way in hell we'd have a HN article on a new bunch of studio's in Manhattan if it didn't carry the word micro apartment with the theme 'new regulations were needed for micro blabla'.

I mean I appreciate the discourse, don't get me wrong, in various cities the regulations stipulate minimum building standards that don't fit today's world anymore. Yes it sucks to raise a family on a small footprint, particular in a world where books, a TV, music player etc take more space than a laptop, phone and tablet. But using the word 'micro' is a bit silly.
There is one more complimentary answer, which is that the night sky is not as dark as it seems, but our eyes cannot see all the wavelengths of light that populate the night sky.

If we could see deep into the infrared, we might see more faraway stars and galaxies, whose light has been red-shifted by the expansion of space.

If we could see wavelengths in the single cm range, we might perceive a dim uniform glow in the night sky: the cosmic background radiation.

If we could see radio waves we might see all sorts of light sources in the night sky.
Not all children have YOU as their parent :)

Seriously, parents matter. That's why it bugs me when parents are used as an excuse for underperforming students. As difficult as it may be, schools must take full responsibility for their students, and not share it with their parents. That is the ONLY way those students will get what they need.
I don't know that I've ever read a statement where something like "209 salads and drinks" meant 209 of each and not 209 total.
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"nearing completion" is an enormous stretch, if not just plain wrong. The very first phase is still under construction and only consists of 2 miles of a planned 8.5 total.
That's a helpful perspective, but hopefully you already have workarounds on the color issue. This is simply making diff pieces easier to copy / pasta -- which I for one have needed to do. Change my mind on a refactor midstream, need to restore part of the file, etc.
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I have always found Google's way of getting data at the same time as some other activity pretty clever. Offering a free 4-1-1 (directory) service for phones so that you can collect millions of minutes of voice recognition code with various accents? Seemed pretty brilliant to me. Using a security technique to fix hard to fix otherwise OCR errors? also pretty clever.

When you think like that, all sorts of interesting things come out. For example, something I don't think anyone has done but could be pretty amazing, put a camera in a store which tracks gazes, set up a set of mannequins with different looks and compare male and female gaze time. Sure it used to be you could change the window display and count sales, this is so much more informative than that.

So are you using their interactions for your own benefit? Sure. Is this a new phenomena? No. I totally think the judge called it on this one.
A bit ago, I had indicated this script should be more accessible than copying two separate files out of my dotfiles repo: https://github.com/paulirish/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/diff-s...

Steve took the initiative to put this in it's own repo. Seems okay; I was being rather slow to ship it for real.
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