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I don't think what you are doing is ridiculous at all, in fact I myself strive for that myself but in a different way.

The reason why many people love it (me and my family included) is that they don't think of it as technology but as a product.

In my family we are two grown ups, a 7 year old and a 3 year old. Google Home understand us all first time in most cases. The ones where it doesn't are so rare it's note even 5% of the time.

I look for technology which:

1) removes the layers of abstraction when it comes to interacting with it.

2) Helps with banale tasks such as weather (can't be underestimated, when you have kids), starting some random music (Play smooth jazz, play Pat Metheny, Play dance music), play latest episode of "Startups for the rest of us", play the news, timer when you cook, add things we need to buy, ask something we are unsure about.

3) Gives us back some of the tangibility of the physical products.

All these things can be done via your phone, but once you have a voice interface you realize how much faster and less intrusive it is.

These voice interfaces are not yet good enough for really detailed needs but for our mostly simple needs.
>I have never been on or even heard of a wifi network that always works.

Well, I work from home, and my wi-fi network (different routers across several homes, mostly Mac clients) has always worked.

The only thing that had issues was the DSL connection crapping out (usually once per 2 weeks or so) and having to restart the router to re-sync.

But no wi-fi issues, or machines disconnecting etc.

That said I always lived in single floor apartments (but with concrete walls). So I never had to try to e.g. bring wifi to the basement or so.
Horrible Firefox performance on OSX was a symptom of a bad stick of RAM on a Mac at our company.
But you can give Whatsapp a Google Voice number instead of your real phone number. That way if they decide to sell it as part of your profile, you can easily change/cycle it (or apply better filtering, DND, etc.)
I speculate it's extremely unlikely the person tweeting this conducted a meaningful study. First off, they call it A/B testing, but unless they were sending the same patch with a different pseudonym, then they're incorrectly using the term.

Second, how did they determine pseudonyms as "male" or "female" sounding? If you want to study unconscious bias, you'd need to know whether the things that supposedly trigger it actually do so.

Furthermore, did they account for their own unconscious bias? I can imagine, using the same unconscious bias theory, that they sent self-assessed lower quality patches with "female" pseudonyms unconsciously, to prove their theory correct.

Lastly, the 100% is very close to unbelievable, having an implicit assertion that identity politics are the primary driver of motivation in the developer team, way above any coding merit. To me, this is more likely to be projection from an identity politics activist(for whom, by definition, identity politics are the primary driver).
They can only rule on the matter before them, Snoopers Charter isn't law yet but will likely end up in front of the same court.
Next-Gen 2018 Nissan Leaf Would Kill Rivals on Price
>A lot of these problems beg the question. Is Mars really the best target? Sure it's close but there are moons around Saturn that are interesting as well.

You seem to imply that the issue of radiation should cause us to reconsider whether Mars is worth it. But the same, and worse, problem people will have with Saturn too.
> That said, I also have LastPass installed...

That's your problem, right there.

I've been told that the main version of LastPass currently available from addons.mozilla.org has known problems that cause the browser to lock up and hang indefinitely.

Instead, if you click through to list all releases and select the latest 4.x version, those problems should all be fixed:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lastpass-pass...
>Human psychology is another, perhaps even bigger problem, also independent of destination. We've had various experiments with prolonged isolation, but none where the subjects know that they're never coming back to Earth.

Who said they're never coming back to Earth?

>no perfectly rational, mentally healthy human would volunteer for such a mission

That's an easy problem to solve, as there are no "perfectly rational" and/or absolutely "mentally healthy humans", and have never been anyway.

And people can still be quite rational and mentally healthy and yet cherish the possibility to take such a mission, even if there's a possibility to die, etc.

In fact, it's needs no more troubled people than those that go to the army and are OK to be sent to war, or people that dive and explore the oceans, etc etc.
How the brain helps us understand spoken words in noisy settings
It is very good news that this is being challenged; I was appalled when it passed through parliament almost unchallenged, and it's heartening to see that there is actually a plan by the opposition to do something about it.
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The paper states that the acceptance rates are only higher when they are not identifiable as women

> However, women's acceptance rates are higher only when they are not identifiable as women
Ask HN: Does HN play rimworld?
You should definitely consider the matrix protocol (https://matrix.org) that is used with riot (https://riot.im).
Matrix allows for a complete decentralization and both the the protocol and the client are open source. There are even many other clients as matrix also works with for example weechat.

One of it's biggest strength are the support for bridges to other messengers like slack, irc and gitter.
I personally haven't yet tried group calls or video chat, but considering that those also use end to end encryption just as messages and attachement and that this encryption has been fully audited, I could barely be any less hyped about all this.
As the author of this article pointed out, all of skype's flaws are more or less inherent of big centralized messengers and this is exactly what we get around with matrix. It's really amazing in what a great state it already is. Sure there is still lots of work left, but to me it appears to be the currently most promising project.
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Interestingly one of the MPs who brought this to the European courts was David Davis, the cabinet minister who has the title 'Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union'
I'm mainly talking of the tools estate agents use to build their websites as well as manage their properties, clients etc.

You are right that getting listings is the primary pain point but I would have thought standards about how properties are categorised etc would help with this. In particular as real estate becomes more international it would really help for a broker in Mexico to be able to send details of a property to someone in Russia in a format that can be mutually understood.

I can also imagine a demand for open source tools that can help in the communication between all the different parties to the transaction. I have ideas about how such a tool could monetise and I'm surprised that no one else has thought to do it.
This is just peoples way of scaring others away from property investment, which personally is good for those of us that know the truth. The reality of getting a late call is not all that common, but I can't say it never happens. The clogged toilet, does happen, but guess what, that is why you hire a local handy man and get to know him/her. Cause for $15-20 they take care of this little stuff and you never deal with it. This is also why you background screen your tenants and how you choose your investment properties. There is a science and an art to picking the types of properties that attract the right people.

As for a REIT over direct property, REIT's are not bad but they don't compare to direct investments and as @aliston point out you miss out on appreciation. Overall from what I have seen a decent REIT might get you 10-13% annually, which isn't bad. However, it is quite a different type of investment that is also subject to the stock market turns, interest rate changes and other financial market forces which have negative changes more often then does the raw property investment. Hence, unless you have substantial amount to invest, getting much out of a REIT will take a while.

As for rentals, they are not a get rich quick scheme, but over relatively short times they make you comfortable and give you security in passive income. Over the longer term the property values along with some rehab projects can make you "rich" and then if you keep at it, mixing in some commercial property is always good, you have the possibility of becoming wealthy.
People use Chrome because Google (Alphabet?) advertises it heavily including a nag screen on google.com. Also Firefox goes through noticeable cycles of being awesome and being a buggy slow mess.

Chrome came out when Firefox was in a noticeable slump. Remember that in ?2008 being better than IE was the yardstick browsers were measured by and Firefox had passed that many years earlier, so I think they had lost their way a little bit. I remember Firefox 4 was noticeably bad on OSX and it took a long time to fix.

PS I use a browser salad daily (Safari and two channels of Firefox so I can have two instances open at once, and Chrome for Facebook / flash / testing).
It can be argued that those sites going bust is actually a good thing. So the payoff matrix favors ad blocking both short and long-term.
7-Eleven beats Google and Amazon to the first commercial drone delivery service
> Here we go. Tell me what's wrong with Breitbart?

Every story they run on climate change is a pile of innumerate, scientifically illiterate crap? Those are the only stories I see from them as they get quoted for amusement value sometimes on the Sea Ice forums.

But maybe their sports coverage is good or something. Who knows.
>GitHub Pages sites have a limit of 10 builds per hour.

I didn't know this. It seems one should work locally with Jekyll and only push once everything is done and tested.

Couldn't this be relaxed via/for incremental builds?
BTW, did you find this post under the "Ask HN" section? When I browse it I cannot see my own post.... :(
Last year I discovered a bug that allowed you to call someone's phone and remotely activate it's camera and mic by disconnecting the call while it was ringing - the target's device would simply call you back as if it were a dropped call.

They fixed it, but boy that was a doozy.
My blog gets about 19k uniques a month for which linode shows bandwidth as 39GB. I have a side project (https://www.findlectures.com) that got 60k page views this month, but only because it was linked in lifehacker & The Next Web. Between scrapers and HTTP requests that do feature detection, the number of requests would easily be 10x the number of users.
RandomBook: A Nifty Chrome Extension to help get your next book
It should be noted that this ruling is related to the predecessor (DRIPA) to the current Investigator Powers Act (IPA), however it sets a precedent for the IPA to be challenged.

The ECJ has agreed with the British High Court's previous ruling on DRIPA, so should still carry weight regardless of Britain's status within the EU (unless further legal amendments are made post departure, such as the replacement of the Human Rights Act).
The problem is that the jugde is trying to read the case two ways at the same time. Golden Nuggets argument was that a non shuffled deck removes the chance element, therefore the game wasn't governed by CCA at all. If you're pointing at a section of CCA and telling somebody they breached it, then by definition you're saying the game falls under the conditions of that act, and the remedy must therefore also be the one defined in that act (CCA 5:12-115(c) specifies for a $50,000 fine for an individual).
Well, I know them, but they belong to the same category as ad blockers - external tools you use because the service is not good enough :).
Ask HN: What was your top thread in HN 2016?
I'm sure every hire at Google signs exactly the same contract, since that totally makes sense.
There are a lot of places to look outside of California. Pick some of the states near you that went through the bust badly. If you are in CA, then look to AZ, NV, TX. If you don't mind the cold, MN, MI, IL. And if you like the southeast, throw a dart there is tons of stuff down this way.

Personally, I am in Florida and it is quickly recovering now and you have to look harder to find the right rehab if that is what you want to do, but good rentals are easier to find. And frankly, I am loving that the younger generation is renting far longer then in the past, this is helping to keep rental rates good and driving demand for now.
But not for custom domains, sadly.
Also, he's installing Fedora (w/Wayland) on Apple hardware, and using NFS.

There's quite a lot of things that can go wrong there compared to the less adventurous Linux experience of, say, Ubuntu LTS on a Thinkpad/XPS/Zenbook.
I guess it's a bit a matter of taste, but to me "x: &Foo" seems unambiguously like dynamic dispatch (given that Foo is a trait). The only thing you know about the type of your parameter is that it is an instance of Foo, therefore you need dynamic dispatch, whereas the T: Foo, x: &T reads like "x is of a specific concrete type that's an instance of Foo", which gives you static dispatch.
I wouldn't say that they've avoided marketing, they're active on Twitter. I made the switch over a single day by sending a message to all my contacts informing them about it and then proceeded to delete all contacts from my list. The people I speak to regularly were quick to switch, others have switched over the months. I still have to use Skype from time to time for conference calls with certain people, but I avoid it as much as I can and don't consider any conversation I have on Skype as private.

Wire has also open-sourced their clients and a lot of components, so even if they were to vanish as a company, all work is not lost.
> a little less than a req per second

There are 86400 seconds in a day. At a little under a request per second, you're going to hit 100k some time around 3am on the second day, depending on what you take "a little under" to mean.
Is this not a chance for github to make some money? I'm about to launch a site on github pages (simple html site, no backend) and there's a tiny chance of it going viral. If it were to reach the 100k limit for requests I'd be more than happy paying github to keep it hosted there.

I already have hosting with the likes of hostgator but they probably couldn't even handle 100k like github would.
http://www.casinotop10.net/edge-sorting has a pictures of the Borgata / Gemaco cards.
Mobile GPU vendors seems to be firmly in the "make some games and common apps work and to heck with the specs and all the rest"

AMD and nVidia seem to have this better worked out
For those interested in using RHEL-based distros for a desktop use-case, this blog post may be helpful: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/centos-7-perfect-desktop....
It seems author consistently is using "GB" when he means "TB". I don't believe he's running 4-bay NAS with 8GB of total disk space in 2016
Were these cards used to run other games in the casino? Is the casino now going to take steps to refund all the players that partook in games with these marked cards?
Somewhat similarly, "The Great Suspender" for Chrome and similar extensions unload unused tabs after a configurable timeout, requiring a click to reload them.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...
Apple allowed other companies to produce computers running the Macintosh OS from 1995-1997. Steve Jobs ended the program when he returned with Apple's acquisition of NeXT.

The program was generally not well received: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clone
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And since you mention Linode, which has no free tier, you must be able to afford to host your site somewhere other than Github Pages. So that works out quite well!
First off, they call it A/B testing, but unless they were sending the same patch with a different pseudonym, then they're incorrectly using the term.

This isn't true. As long as the patches were IID (e.g. she generated patches and randomly chose which name to submit them as), it's a legitimate A/B test.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_and_identically_di...
Yeah I saw this as well and actually scrolled to the top of the page to check what year it was written :P
Your tax dollars at work. This sounds a lot like the movie "Brazil".

It's good that you had your family around you. The system is too big to understand you on a timely and personal level.
Lync (Skype for business) has been The Worst support that I've ever dealt with.
A 14% return on properly selected and executed rehabs is very easy to do, in fact I'd be really disappointed if that is all that came back. Do this 2-3 times a year and it is easy to grow the money. But to get 14% consistently annually out of the stock market IMO is tougher without some high risk, which depending on age may not be a big deal.

But you have to study the local market some and talk to realtors about what is selling where, and why it is selling over other properties. Then ideally team up with another investor/rehab person for 1-2 and get a feel for how to be successful. I say that cause doing it wrong can be a recipe to losing money quickly too.
Use CloudFlare to proxy-cache your Github pages and it should be fine as long as you set correct caching rules.
Ask HN: How do you deal with the down periods of running a startup
It is a rollercoaster running a startup - how do you deal with the down periods?
I agree. The precision with which they are made is great. Also those blocks will still be around for your grandchildren.
The new law received royal assent at the end of November and is now a done deal, though it hasn't actually come into effect yet and there will inevitably be legal challenges.
Rails' ActiveRecord has both

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Locking/Opti...

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Locking/Pess...
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Crytek closing five studios, will refocus on ‘premium IPs’ and CryEngine
EU Court slams UK data retention surveillance regime
Why? I like the content of some tweetstorms, but the UI for them is just so bad I feel they'd be better off as a blog post if they're written contiguously.

(Exception I suppose is the live tweetstorm, where someone is just getting on their soapbox)
Great article. I remember when I tried toying around with fedora A while back, I thought that redhat would surely have a better product than debian. Its not just fedora. Ubuntu also has some frustrating issues in 16.04. I dont particularly want to install a nonfree operating system and I dont really imagine myself spending weeks trying to get an arch perfect. But sure do waste a lot of time in ubuntu :/
Mods removed "(They don't)" or similar from the title. Before they did this I think it more accurately reflected the intent of the original author as this is the prominent subtitle on the page. Without this it makes the article sounds much less interesting.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not...
What they mean with 100.000 Requests / Month? Requests are normally every file access, not a user visit.

I have small OS-Projekt with ~20.000 Visitors / Month, 1 Pager with some Scripts and Images. This page has more than 100.000 Requests and less than 2 GB Traffic.

I know that github pages are not their primary use case, but then they should better drop the support completely or add a support plan. (i would pay for it)
I've seen multiple amateur projects handle the Reddit hug like champs because they were static front-ends hosted on GitHub Pages with cautious AJAX calls to backend APIs. With a limit on 100,000 requests per month (which could be consumed in a few hours in such case) I guess this era is over.
Thanks, this is the relevant part of the paper for that claim:

> For outsiders, we see evidence for gender bias: women’s acceptance rates drop by 10.2% when their gender is identifiable, compared to when it is not (2(df= 1;n= 18;540) =131;p < :001). There is a smaller 5.7% drop for men (2(df= 1;n= 659;560) = 103;p <:001). Women have a higher acceptance rate of pull requests overall (as we reported earlier),but when they are outsiders and their gender is identifiable, they have a lower acceptance rate than men

Accepting arguendo that this is clear evidence of a gender bias, its effects are not as clearly pronounced as the tweet tries to imply they are.
> and yes, Linux often feels like magic land.

Yes, the browsers (Chrome, Firefox) work noticeably worse than on Windows for me. Also they tend to freeze the computer completely at some point (after taking all the available RAM for themselves).

Browser performance seems to be pretty much as random as printers these days.
It was abandoned long ago
I'd bet they are filtering them out not for failing to have the verbatim skill set (though that happens), but because they're be too expensive or (in larger companies) too good.

It's been repeated many times that companies mainly look for those who smile, look the part, comply, bow, and are willing to work endless hours for pennies. It's also been repeated that management typically freaks out when someone talented shows up, then become obsessed with stomping them out, drowning them in BS, etc.
Sun purchased a souvenir set of the purple Gemaco Borgata (with the punched hole) from the casino, so it sounds like these cards are in regular use by Borgata. Probably they use several different patterns, and Ivy requested this particular pattern for play.
Browsers are slow because objective metrics of quality (e.g. performance, usability) are irrelevant to the common user, despite what individuals may claim. People are very susceptible to branding and growing trends, and it's a hard pill to swallow.

Back in the day when I was writing on the forums "guys, forget Firefox and use Opera, it's fast it's usable you have everything you might want in a browser with undeniable proof", the reply would eventually be "yes but Firefox has _this_ webdev extension and I can't do without it". So Firefox would get installed in their families' and friends' PCs, because that's what the web developer used. Also, the "safer faster better" marketing campaign, although that slogan would have been much more appropriate to Opera than Firefox.
Fast forward a few years. Google Chrome comes out and everyone stops caring about those damn extensions; suddenly performance becomes a huge decision factor (nevermind Chrome was a resource hog compared to Opera, nevermind the horrible lack of features, nevermind the bad usability). I could go on, but you get the drift.

There's no incentive for large market share browsers to significantly improve because the (mediocrity+marketing=success) recipe is proven to work, over and over. What would it take for Chrome to lose market share? A new hot hip popular company with lots of money thrown in advertising, like (extremely unlikely example) Tesla, with a new cute interface. Because people like new and shiny trinkets.
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Not sure you should be proud given the basic issues he is experiencing: non-working keyboards, non functioning WiFi and no display after unplugging a monitor from a laptop.

It's a bit like being proud that someone compares your Lada to their Bugati :-)
In the past, I used Evernote but recently switch to Quiver and Unclutter.

I also have a real notebook in my desk to sketch diagram and flow, I find it very effective.
the fact that his username is INTPenis ... doesn't quite elucidate it either, actually.