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Apply HN: Fringe- Simplified Scheduling for Groups
Problem: 1) Scheduling a dinner with a group of friends is a nightmare. 2)It takes 30-50 texts for 3 or 4 people to decide on a time. 3) I hate polling apps...it's a spreadsheet that shows all my guesses of when I hope people are free.

This is where Fringe comes in. It takes less than 5 taps to know when you're group of friends (6 or less) can ALL go to dinner. We are in a public beta so please we need beta users and tons of feedback.

How it works:

You pick the friends, location
We'll suggest the best times that work for EVERYONE.

It's sent to your friends like a paperless post with a personal note from you.

Fringe is like an automated doodle and the personal touch of paperless post.

Would love any and all Feedback!

to download:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fringe-simply-get-together/id1093362316?ls=1&mt=8
As a veteran with PTSD, I can say without a doubt this was probably helpful to the guy who got the DUI. Every veteran knows the "hole" story, and it is absolutely true. When I was in a dark hole myself after my last tour, I came home and just laid on the floor in my living room drunk. I couldn't do anything. Couldn't leave the house. Couldn't do anything but just lay there on the living room floor and drink, staring at the ceiling. My best friend in the universe (a legit BFF, if you will), he came and laid next to me on my living room floor. It's hard to describe what that means to someone that's never experienced it. But I will tell you without a doubt that both of those guys got something worthwhile out of sitting in jail together. We spend years sitting in holes in the army (or some other kind of shitty situation), and it becomes natural to draw strength from the unity of having a buddy in the shitty situation with you ("We are experiencing this shitty thing together"). It is pretty important I think to have the same opportunity as veterans after leaving the service. I've since done very similar things for friends of mine, and I encourage any veterans reading this to do the same for anyone you know going through similar trouble.
Well, the site controls are. The item descriptions usually aren't.
> What mechanism of paying for roads would you propose?

There are two purposes of the gas tax: (1) To pay for roads and (2) to provide incentives to conserve a valuable, limited resource (gas).

If we switch over to electric cars, taxing electricity makes sense from the standpoint of (2) because it's the valuable, limited resource that's being consumed by driving.

From the standpoint of (1), literally any source of government revenue will do. You can tax electricity. Or you can tax property (a lot of land's value, especially commercial / industrial, goes away if it isn't connected to a good road system). Or you can just use the general fund (basically everybody benefits from the enormous cross-industry economic gains of having functioning transportation infrastructure, so everybody should pay for it).
> Kind of odd, though - if the panels will so clearly pay for themselves, why did they have to be mandated?

Whoever builds the building isn't usually the one paying the electric bill.
I got tired of having to remember how I set a project up each time, so I figured I would turn it in to its own repo.

It is opinionated and doesn't cover every need, but I figured this would save some time for others making their way into ES6.

Feel free to offer any feedback or pull requests.
People manage to hide being gay, heroin addicts and other things. Hiding depression is easy.
On Objective Morality
I believe he meant it as a joke. At least that's how I interpreted it :)
I'm not angry, just disappointed.
The point there is that, say humans were largely the same but instead we naturally lived a very long time, e.g. a thousand years. Then someone comes to you and says, "Hey I have this great idea with lots of societal benefits: Why not kill each person before they reach 100 years?"

We would say no, that is insane and pointless, why would we sacrifice hundreds of beautiful years off of everyone's life? Indeed, consider that environmental improvements and medical technology have more than doubled the human lifespan. Would you voluntarily choose for your children to live until they're at most 35, rather than their current "natural" lifespan?

Whether or not death is "natural" doesn't seem like it ought to have much bearing on whether or not we want it. If life is good, then loss of life is bad. A beautiful mind that ceases to shine, is something I'd just as soon untruncate.
I had fun reading this. How dare game programmers complain about their privileged positions in the entertainment and tech industries?

I almost thought he was serious. But even if he was being serious, the reading was fun and informative.
Deriving trivially provable algorithms in a test-driven way, by trial and error, hoping that no edge cases are missed? Sounds really, really depressing. The future of software engineering is very bleak if this approach is a new norm.
It looks like only glot-www is Haskell.

glot-snippets and glot-run are both erlang APIs, and glot-code-runner is a go application.
Isn't this what the '.min' versions of these is for?

jquery-2.2.3.min.js is only 86KB for me. For the amount of functionality it adds, sure seems like a sweet deal.

Part of the problem (IMHO) is the growing requirement for larger, alpha-channel-using image formats like PNG, that then need to be expressed in a Retina format - I mean, shit looks terrible on my retina MacBook Pro that isn't properly Retina formatted. (Here's looking at you, Unity3D...even the current beta which supports Retina displays is extremely unstable and half the graphics (even stupid buttons on the UI) are still SD...)

With bandwidth costs declining [1] and basic RAM increasing [2] is there a particular reason a Web application should be much smaller than a typical desktop application? We have caches for a reason.

[1] http://www.networkworld.com/article/2187538/tech-primers/exp...

[2] http://en.yibada.com/articles/118394/20160422/macbook-air-is...
The campaigns already have an opportunity -- they can create an account, and some services like Reddit give "Verified" tags in the site
The numbers aren't in the article. The article links to the study -- the numbers are in the study: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db241.htm
I don't think I would do an assignment that takes me several evenings. That's what probation is for. But I am probably not a good candidate anyway.
There are few positions that merit a hiring background check more than ones directly involving the financial transactions of a company. Even if it costs a lot of money, it is absolutely money well spent.
80% of the US is affiliated with a religion.
The TLDR is that they are essentially "arresting" the property because it was used in a crime, regardless of who did the crime. The fact that it belonged to someone, often times the person who committed the crime, is sort of irrelevant in the government's opinion.
In the abstract, one could believe that an electric car would be uncomplicated. But that doesn't seem to be true.

For example a few days ago we discussed the BMW i3. Electric means simple? No. Someone in that discussion posted a link to a 40 min video of the i3 production line. I had no idea of how much effort was involved. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11532982

Yes, electric cars are inherently simpler than internal combustion vehicles. But they're still quite sophisticated, with quite a lot that can break or become obsolete.

There's a whole like more than the battery that needs a "technical revolution". People have been embracing recent developments such as automatic crash braking and Apple CarPlay. It would be difficult to retrofit all the sensors needed for automatic braking and lane change warnings.
Background checks are a common requirement on insurance policies and such, so the background checks usually aren't fake.

If you're counting on them being fake, expect a nasty surprise.
As long as they don't misrepresent themselves

An astro-turf user is by definition misrepresenting themselves. They gain credibility by presenting themselves as unaffiliated with the candidate.
The hypothetical part was that somewhere, out there, someone is posting this. Obviously, we don't have the actual posts, just the money trail that paid for them.
Your analogy fails because death is not something which is necessarily a conscious action taken by one against another. If we were discussing why murder was good and complementary to life then it is more applicable, but we're not.

Your inability to parse why I see life and death existing in a sort of balance is similar to my inability to have the same clarity that you do that death is inherently bad and should be eliminated. It's certainly something I'm going to think about.
We have the technology to build high rises that can withstand very strong earthquakes, and they have been proven multiple times in such earthquakes. "Earthquake" zone is not a reason to stop building.

SF could improve greatly if they made the minimum height limit to some standard european city size, such as 6-8 stories vs. 4 stories. 2000sqft Apartments on top with stores and large sidewalks & trees on the ground floor replacing the current 2 story standard 1940 sunset district house. It's very pleasant.
So this is from a personal point of view, my dad choose euthanasia.

1. Yeah it's suicide. When you live in constant pain, lie in bed, get meds that make you hallunicate and have no realistic hope for improvement that seems like a reasonable option.

2. Suicide usually has some form of emotional component in it that is shared in the environment. That's why we call it euthanasia, it's not really comparable other then the very general "choose to end own life"

3. Sure mistakes will be made. One such controversy in the Netherlands was euthanasia on baby's with an open back (not sure about the translation). If they had a lot of pain or not. In general there are some pretty rigorous procedures in place to ensure we learn from mistakes, and making sure it are honest mistakes.

So point of this reply, it's a two way street. If you have seen the suffering in the end stages of life euthanasia is not a bad thing. Are there drawbacks sure, we're talking about ending a life, no matter what you do there's a stigma involved and because actual human beings are involved it will not always go the way it should.
At the end of the day, the ideal of someone being able to tell the world enough is enough and empowering them to execute that decision, on certain criteria, is a better world then letting someone die in their own feces hallucinating that worms are digging into their feet due to meds and not being able to move due to advanced parkinson. And yes that's the way my dad was in the end before the docter decided to cooperate with his euthanasia.
It would make the conventions irrelevant. The national party chooses the candidate to place on ballots using whatever rules they set for the national convention. If that wasn't the case, there wouldn't be all the procedural nonsense that we see put towards trying to win the national conventions, people that thought they had a serious shot at getting a plurality of votes would organize to get themselves on ballots. We'd have a ballot this fall with 10 names on it, not 2.5.

Click to show the partisan requirements here and note the huge disparities with independents:

https://ballotpedia.org/Ballot_access_for_presidential_candi...

So not only is there the huge well organized machine you mention could easily collect signatures, there is also generally a much easier (and tightly controlled) path to the ballot.

edit: It's quite likely that the president would be selected by the Electoral College, but personally I'd prefer that to the current process where the president is selected by the superior voter targeting strategy.
Not at this time; apparently the operation is just getting started according to this documentation.

If the group does their job well, then - partially kidding here - there should be a representative coming by relatively soon to correct my perception of what the group is motivated to do and how it looks in real life.

As in, the burden of transparency isn't on my suspicion, but rather in their actions. To correct my suspicion, they should have no trouble showing all the cases of non-propaganda-resembling "corrections" they've performed. Then there'd be no reason for a person like me to suspect gamesmanship in the endeavor.
Voter apathy, single issue voters, two-party system, and lack of campaign finance reform amongst many other things.
What's best as a society is to fight. What's best as an individual is to conform.
I too came back here looking for the git repo, would be very helpful to be able to fork this for my custom bootstrap themes
Check another similar tool BitRun - https://bit.run/
Very good for rapid prototyping.
how SLC handles a lot of their homeless problem... given the homeless bus tickets to AZ, NV, NM, etc... effectively making it someone else's problem.

SF does the same thing. Citizens of nearby cities like Turlock, Modesto, and Stockton complained about it. Now SF requires homeless people to demonstrate that someone will pick them up in their destination city.

In the mean while, SLC has started giving houses to homeless people: http://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chronic...
That Kevin Smith story is pretty hilarious. I don't begrudge Prince wanting to control his distribution. He wasn't some greedy executive trying to increase his bottom line, he wasn't cheating people out of what they paid for. He was an artist. Art is not completely different than any other resource, in that scarcity makes it more valuable, and not just in the monetary sense.

To me, it's not much different than Bill Watterson exerting such tight control over Calvin and Hobbes, including refusing to license his artistic work for merchandise or creative spinoffs. As consumers, we think about how we're getting screwed out of not getting to experience more of what we loved and respected. But we aren't able to perceive how our love and respect for something would likely be diminished if that thing were commoditized.

Think about the average respect people have for Peanuts...Peanuts merchandise and spinoffs have so flooded the mainstream market that it's unfathomable to me how it became one of Bill Watterson's most powerful inspirations.
It was undeniably impressive 60 years ago, but I can only imagine the glee Disney himself would have felt to realise that out outcome of such technological evolution was available to so many today (but not yet everyone, sadly)
> Would you describe vandalism as a "market failure"? How about shoplifting? If not, why are they a different problem from littering?

Yes. This is exactly why we don't expect markets to take care of these issues: instead, we have a public police force.

> If there is a problem with plastic bag litter, it is the fault of the litterers, which is a subset of all users of plastic bags. Shifting what should be the liability of the polluters onto the entire population of plastic bag users doesn't right any wrong--in my view the wrong is even greater.

The problem is that enforcing this liability is somewhere between impractical and impossible. It doesn't matter how much ideological sense your proposed solution makes if it can't actually be executed.
Indeed. Using tribal signaling when trying to reach a wider audience requires at least a small amount of skill.
Sounds like classic meritocracy for me: the awards go to those classes who can afford the merits.

I'm also interested in knowing more about Heian era Japan -- my knowledge is limited to reading about the Heian Self Defense Force in Urusei Yatsura and that's probably dodgy.
They don't have to carry enforcement all the way through to a sentencing; merely charging citizens is a huge annoyance and threat that'll loom over their heads.
> increases suicide risk in one's family twofold

What is the baseline here? Could you provide a source?
What about users who don't claim to be working for the campaign?

The problem isn't overt campaigning. The problem is covert astroturf campaigning.
Would be a problem with renting, where the renter pays the cost for the panels, and the rentee pays the utility bills.
The "We expect you to do this work for free to prove your worth to the company" interview model tells a lot about the company, in my opinion. If they'll ask you to do it once, they'll ask it a thousand times.
Are Google's New Play icon stupid? or Its just me?
Do you find the new Google Play Icons stupid?
Did you bother to read the posts where I offered old accounts and/or the fact I cycle through accounts?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440951

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11377425

I mean if you are going to accuse me of being a liar, you may want to at least check to see if I mentioned having other accounts first.

Also, you may want to consider the OP was posted in 2013 to HN and I've said publicly I've been around on and off since 2010.
What? You do not need to know anything at all. The very wording of this problem is already a solution. No thinking required. No prior knowledge required.
Or just block the sources of abuse while everyone else enjoys and can act on the content. Or just block comments from anonymous nets so they can at least read. Comment sections that are Wild West hurt branding too much for it to be an option.
>If your model contains infinities, it's automatically unhelpful; that takes you into Pascal's Wager territory. If the damage is infinitely bad, then it it would justify draconian measures against even trivial risks of too many plastic bags. But however bad they are, they're not infinitely bad. Such a model would justify arbitrarily high bag fees, not some piddling ten cents with the hope of changing long-term consumer behavior.

Sometimes that's the reality of the situation, there are things that cannot be priced. That's why we don't consider a murder tax an acceptable way to deal with homicide.
This is only going to increase. At 36 and considered successful I dread every day. I resent and seethe constantly. I've seen numerous healthcare professionals and feel like each have failed. I only bother anymore because it's expected of me. That matters less and less every day.

All anyone does is pay lip service to any of this. It will get far worse before it's likely to get better.

Honestly, let it come.
AstraZeneca to sequence 2M genomes to transform drug discovery
Virtual interviews help people with autism land a job
Not quite. I suggest that a CEO should assume his responsibilities. He is quick to trash Bob[1] several times, but I see assumption of any responsibility at all.

[1]

Despite our note to all employees to come into the office urgently, Bob, our head IT guy, the one responsible for security and infrastructure, arrives at 11:30am.

Soon after, Bob decides it’s time for his lunch break, and we don’t see him for an hour, during the worst incident in ShapeShift’s history
If San Francisco improves its homelessness programs, LA will just bus even more homeless up to SF. If there were a federal stipend for each homeless person then that would no longer be an issue.
Even the first NeXT computer in 1990 was 1120×832...albeit greyscale...still...800x600 died in the mid-90s - especially for professionals.
Nope. For my kid's elementary school science fair, the classmates that were doing nothing more than collecting survey answers from volunteers had to file a separate human experimentation waiver form for each of their respondents.

After the informational meeting, I told my kid, point blank, "No people. No animals. Plants. How about a nice experiment involving plants?"
Yeah, but I've seen projects using bootstrap, themes, extensions, and extras... in addition to jQueryUI & Mobile all loaded... as well as 2-3 versions of jQuery in different script tags.

That doesn't reflect responsible, light-minded development. Hell, load a couple of Airline website home pages... I don't think any of them are loading uncer 400kb of JS. that's for the homepage alone. Let alone the number of individual assets being requested (less of an issue once http/2 takes hold.. but still.
Hey - it's very respectable to go out with such dignity, but please don't call feeling bad and complaining about it "bitching" or "whining". The experience varies from person to person and it can be utterly terrifying to some. (Unless this is a reference I'm not getting or something, then nevermind)
I think it's empathy only because of the shared background; I don't think you can truly empathize with somebody who has PTSD unless you've had it as well.
It's hard to tell if the article is just confusing capacitors and batteries, or if the researchers consider using the coated nanowires in a capacitor configuration as a proof-of-concept for use in Li-Ion batteries.

From the article:

"All nanowire capacitors can be extended from 2000 to 8000 cycles to more than 100,000 cycles, simply by replacing a liquid electrolyte with a... gel electrolyte," the researchers wrote in their paper.

The result: commercial batteries that could last a lifetime in computers, smartphones, appliances, cars and spacecraft.
Microsoft pulls out of Google antitrust actions
>would you prefer a society that kills people at a certain age, or one that limits the birth rate?

Neither. I'd prefer one smart enough to understand the demographic economic paradox and successfully raise the standard of living so that the problem of overpopulation solves itself naturally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility
I upvoted both of you but you seem to contradict each other.. now I start to question my clarity.

I think capitalism became very good at optimizing for profit and it pushes aside faster than ever anything that stays in it's path (and now that's more and more people).

>We severely undervalue social value for material value

Unfortunately the market has spoken: material value.
My experience is that the programming exercise never deterred a candidate I really wanted to interview. That might be a little surprising, but I always work very hard to make sure there's a good conversation in the initial phone screen, so I think that helps a lot. Also, programmers (myself included) always underestimate how much time it will take to write a given piece of code, so maybe that helps, too!

I do think it's valuable to talk about previous experience in the ways you suggest -- what do good teams/processes look like, etc. I usually try to do that in a pretty casual way, during the in-person interview, and have those conversations bleed over into the lunch/dinner discussion, too. Basically, I'm interested in learning about how a person thinks about their work. And introspection about team dynamics is definitely part of that.
I also have beefs with the way HN works but I think the easier explanation here is that this isn't especially interesting because it's decades old, it's somewhat political which lots of HN users don't like on HN, and it doesn't really provide anything new. The only reason this article exists is because a state got rid of civil asset forfeiture before a conviction a few days ago. So there should really just be a link to that article, which I believe there was days ago.