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Finally learning, playing, and enjoying a sport - Squash! I have successfully gone from just about 0 activity (aside from walking everywhere - NYC), to playing squash 3+ times a week.

Growing up, I had never had interest (or natural ability) playing sports. Like many here, I'd prefer tooling around on computers, reading, etc. Likely, this became a self-fulfilling prophesy about "not being a sports person".

Well last year, after some thinking of - "if not now, when? When I'm 40?" I went to a gym, bit the bullet, signed up, bought 10 hours of private lessons for squash (first racquetball, but I switched immediately after trying squash once). It is probably some of the most fun I've had in years, maybe decades. Met so many great people, actually feeling fantastic shape for thr first time in my life.

I'm 34, and am actually a "sports person" now. Laughing even saying it in my head. I've used this achievement/habit also to become more of a morning person (by deliberately scheduling games with people at 7 or 8am), and also to do different activities at the gym (e.g. high intensity interval training group classes; running, and even some weight-lifting). It's even propelled me to think more about the food I'm putting into my body, cook more, etc.

If you have never heard of squash, check it out. It's intense (1000+ kcal per hour), easy to learn, low risk of injury compared to other sports, and is often cited as one of the healthiest sports out there. It's tons of fun (even if you're terrible), has a nice long and rewarding learning curve, is very strategic (the chess-like aspect of it appeals to my technical brain), and again - just tons of fun.

A trusted technology friend passed on the advice to try it to me, so I'm passing it on to you all! Try some squashing!
Haha that's part of it. Some of the big players like mailinator, 10minutemail, Guerrillamail etc... seem like they have so many people using it they don't mind if companies flag/block their temporary emails. There's a lot of other devs out there that make sites like this (not naming names) but it's really just them practicing their coding skills. They're not putting a lot of time and effort into making a sustaining business service for people to use in the long run.

We're so tired of people thinking that they have to give their personal email address every time a company asks for it, so we're spending a lot of time and resources making a service where the email addresses work for any site.
You can measure the amount of data it's sending so you can at least verify it's not uploading vastly more audio than expected.

They could do sneaky stuff like upload the audio after the wake word + a few seconds BEFORE the wake word. The cost benefit of this doesn't seem high especially if you consider that Amazon says all the time that they want to 'earn customer trust'.
C++ is a horrible language
This was written in May. Apparently the situation has gotten exponentially worse.

It went from "Hey I hear Venezuela is really beautiful and the people are friendly. Maybe I should go visit, my dollar will go a long way there, and they'll be happy for foreign currency" to "Holy crap the State Department can't even guarantee that they'll be able to get me home if thing go really badly."(https://twitter.com/OSACState/status/809519262150918145?ref_...)

It's such a shame. At this point the government and military are already all-in on repression. If they allowed democratic change at all, there will be a lot of bodies hanging from lampposts. So they just keep on trying to stay in power any way they can.
Then, presumably, it would quote the applicable segments. Or it would, at the very least, contain a link to the whole article.
I rarely like The New Yorker writings, but this is actually a good one. Importantly, because it starts with short description of a whole, and then goes into the detail. Most The New Yorker writers consider it ok to start (and continue) the article with something like: "On a warm sunny autumn day he was sitting in the park, wearing his grey merino-wool polo shirt and khaki pants".

The only thing I'd like to be explained more thoroughly: what actually is this dam? I.e., how does it work? Going to wikipedia I see a whole list of different types of dams, and it is not clear to me, what does this specific construction in the article actually do, and how its failure would cause a tsunami-like wave.
Built a (Rails) platform for discussing research with my cofounder: https://www.projectcredo.com

Example: https://www.projectcredo.com/wsf246/the-best-research-on-ant...

Source: https://github.com/projectcredo/projectcredo/

To be honest, it's the first notable project that I've shipped.

I learned that I have a lot to learn, even if I'm comfortable with the stack. It's interesting balancing the migration between what we know right now and where we want to be. For instance, jQuery -> Vue -> SPA (?) + API.

We're also learning Docker, testing (frontend and backend, and CI / deployment. We've got a long ways to go, but I think if we're patient, we can figure out a solid foundation.
With Cyanogen dead, Google's control over Android is tighter than ever
I bought a OnePlus One largely because it had Cyanogen. Despite the schism I continue to get regular OS updates, and it's still one of the things I most like about the phone (the non-slip covering on the back being another, oddly).

So I agree - Cyanogen had a competitive advantage, and could have been the Red Hat of Android. Signing any kind of exclusive deal killed any chance of that, and also alienated their open-minded community.

I don't think it's just hindsight that makes this sound really dumb, but it would be fascinating to find why they thought an exclusive deal was the way to go.

Now I need to find a LineageOS phone...
> it keeps popping

:)

Yup, it "just popped on its own", I didn't do it. LOL
Writing a large build system with GNU make
Is it possible to run WebRTC in a webworker?
I finished my PhD in neuroEconomics. I learned that I don't want to spend the rest of my life writing (most rejected) grant applications, so I left academia and founded a startup.
The major automakers lobbied politicians to prevent mandated front seat collapse prevention that would have cost them $1 per vehicle and saved many lives. They're scum and deserve their downfall - and please next time let's not change bankruptcy laws temporarily to bail them out!
I think it's easy to lose perspective of these luxuries that we now see as commodities. We've been marketed to that cars are status symbols of wealth, and that not owning a car means you're somehow a deviant, or too poor to own one - both of which are seen in a negative light.

The problem is that personal car ownership with our current technology does not scale up, when taking into account of environmental impact. Nor when you reflect on just how much public right of way we've given up to infrastructure for cars. Nor when you think of how many people die of automobile accidents. Nor or the impact cars have on living in social communities.
No, everything non-Chrome is Internet Explorer.

Oh wait...
That's awesome!

Btw I use your static site generator for my blog, so thanks for your OSS work!
The website's front page doesn't tell me too much. Is it *nix compatible? Something entirely different?
Millions of Websites Vulnerable Due to Security Bug in Popular PHP Script
> Perhaps its an intelligence test to cut down on support costs, you must be this smart or smarter to mess with our data or go away.

I like this design choice. I'll keep it in mind ;)
Got my weight down to its lowest since my adulthood.

Climbing helped a lot with this. In the process of getting more fit, I realized more what I want in life.
Seems like even more effective than fronting as google.com would be essentially to front as a random domain, perhaps selected from the top 1k domains popular in that country...

To boot: Systematically defeating the ability for a country or ISP to block traffic to a specific domain would be a universal win for free speech.
Were on you on shark tank? Sounds/looks familiar.
Just a tangential point, it cannot be accidental that many programmers list JavaScript, PHP and C++ as languages that suck
Probably their tendency to stick to anything and everything when static electricity is involved.
The ubiquitous availability of smart phones gives public transit riders more freedom and control than was ever previously available. The ability to easily read news, listen to podcasts, watch movies, etc. makes bus and rail ride much more tolerable and arguably better than driving.
Static makes them really sticky.
I agree.

Also, this reads like a list of 2014-2015's fastest growing technologies and trends.
In my early sysadmin years I knew absolutely nothing about algorithms while untangling infrastructure messes spawned by the educated. Most of the good ops people were scratch-and-dent smart people who came to the field without the benefit of any kind of CS education.
> That's true except our 16 bit support is nonexistant at the moment :)

If you pay attention to your usage statistics, I'll bet you drop 32 bit support before the May 2025 deadline we were discussing in the other thread.
Entirely different, but with a *nix compatability environment (not unlike Windows' lxss or Solaris' brands/zones)
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096438/
That was the purpose behind the creation of B-Corps, which allows the company to have some public beneficial goals as part of their legal obligations, besides increasing shareholder value.
> Engineering in the real world is maybe 30% calculations and typical "sciency" work, the other 70% is documentation and communicating to people.

This is why I spend at least time coaching public speaking skills when building engineering teams, nominally in the context of giving tech talks within the team -- followed by specific, actionable, and kind feedback.

Presentation tools exist for good reasons, but are generally disliked because they are seldom used to convey information effectively.

But when you figure out your personal speaking style, and can stand in front of a room and keep them engaged during the course of a presentation... that's a game-changer.
It works surprisingly well as cheap insulation. Put the bubble side to the glass and limit accidental popping. Ideal for garages and sheds!

Even seen it recommended for cheap double glazing for those of limited means or renting.
If we're talking about the same thing, I see electronic component vendors like Digikey/Mouser/etc. using that paper mesh a lot.
The server doesn't know which certificate to present to the user unless the user provides some hint as to which endpoint is desired.
Maybe it's worth it just on the basis that, in the unlikely event that you do have the gene, you may be able to contribute to research into the disease?
I am willing to bet you would get different results if you broke the people up into groups of people who watch eyes and people who read lips. I think the eyes were way more convincing than the lips. People who lip read could tell something was off. I also wonder if it would work better if they superimposed human lips onto the cgi face.
It does, but I'm very skeptical the NSA has the right "defense" culture. Throughout most of its life it has been a very offense-heavy agency.

The article says this:

> The NSA also has a defensive mission — to protect the government’s classified networks — but is better known for its role in conducting electronic spying on overseas targets to gather intelligence on adversaries and foreign governments.

So even the very tiny defense focus it has now (protecting classified networks), while ignoring the vast majority of networks and databases of the federal government is still overshadowed by the fact that its main purpose is to spy on everyone in the world...(gather intelligence on "adversaries" and foreign governments - good joke, WashPost!)

If the U.S. government is actually serious about "cybersecurity" then it needs a new agency that is in charge of implementing modern security best practices and keeping all systems up to date from the least important government network to the most critical infrastructure that would wreck havoc if it was to be hacked.

The NSA is definitely not the agency to do that. And it also lacks the culture to do so. For instance, implementing backdoors should be a big NO-NO in the culture of such an agency. The NSA seems to prefer backdoors and secret access over strong security, because its main mission is spying, not cybersecurity.

So all in all, still a good move that the most ruthless of US government's cyberattacks won't benefit as much from NSA's vast spying capabilities, which could lead to less abuse in the future, but it does nothing to increase cybersecurity in the US (unless you believe the "deterrent" argument, but so far I haven't seen it work at all when it comes to cyberattacks, and the deterrent is useless against random hacking groups anyway).
The cell counts seem to be off by one in the Appendix examples (REVERSE and SUBST lambdas). I count 35 and 40 conses, respectively. :)
I finally wrote a book. This book is about how to break into consulting, and it's addressed specifically to programmers. I feel like people were always asking me about how to break into consulting so I just sat down and knocked out a book over the course of four to six weeks. Details and an exclusive discount for the HN community is available in my profile.

Also, I learned conversational Swedish and traveled to Stockholm twice. Fun times!
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Speculative Bitcoin Adoption/Price Theory
Hah! For the longest time I had one of those bouncing around in the bottom of my bed stand drawer. Once I realized that I didn't have a 5.25" floppy drive to read the driver, or a parallel port on any computer I owned to drive it, I tossed it out. These days however it would be interesting as a hack to write an driver for it for a small ARM chip (like the M0 or M0+). Get your 10 megabit tastyness :-) Oh and the SPI port runs faster than that buy hey ethernet right?!
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We did the other things. You are correct.

Care to go back to that porch in the Appalachians that LBJ sat on when he declared his war on poverty -- a war that has cost trillions -- and take a look at the results?

Or heed Bono, when he states the obvious that dumping money on things because they are politically important is a counter-indicative factor of success of the effort. In fact, just look at the evidence.

Political systems exist for political reasons.

The danger, as I have outlined it, is that instead of spending money in some kind of mathematical way, we behave as humans always have, and spend money based on immediate pain or rewards.

That's fucked. We need to leave. Now.
Easy solution: require companies that produce waste products to also fashion a waste recovery arm. Force them to build externalities into their business models from the get go. I'm sure they'll figure out the most efficient way to manage it.
I'm curious on your reasoning here. What makes you think truly random search will be sufficient to change their behaviour? frequent enough means not always, hence, they can simply send multiple parties and then odds might be good enough that not all of them will be caught by the random search (again, depends on the frequency of search you left undetermined). What kind of odds do you think will stop a person willing to blow him/herself up?
FWIW this happens in other Arab countries too. In Dubai the same carrier Etisalat got a ban on the audio functionality of mobile apps - no calls on Whatsapp, Viber etc. You can still text though.
You're either lucky or inexperienced to have never been in a professional environment by 2016 where you and/or other men had to grit their teeth because they couldn't criticise a woman's ideas because of your gender (and her's). We all know the tactic of emasculation you're using: "are you not man enough to handle competitor from women?!" As you can see by the other comments in this thread, you can see most men have learned to ignore the ad hominem in these cases and focused on rational cause-and-effect approaches.
2015 was a pretty rough year for our family. A miscarriage, several relationships ending in painful ways, etc... Our motto coming in to 2016 was "Well... it can't get any worse!". Our hubris was 'rewarded'...

In February, my wife was admitted to the hospital, 25 weeks pregnant with twins, because one the babies was not getting enough blood flow through the umbilical cord. The doctors were hoping to get another week or two before his condition deteriorated to the point that delivery was necessary. Things did not go downhill as quickly as expected, and we were able to put off delivery by two months, to 33 weeks (technically one day shy...). While this was a huge blessing, it still meant my wife was in the hospital for two months, leaving my as a 'single parent' of our three year old, while still providing the support my wife needed (spending two months in the hospital is pretty rough on anyone, let alone someone coping with the stress of a high risk pregnancy).

Our sons were born 7 weeks early, weighing 3 lbs, 14 oz, and 1 lb, 13 oz. The bigger one spent three weeks in the NICU, and the smaller one was there for almost two months (coming home just before his original due date). So, at one point, we had a three year old at home, a newborn at home, and a newborn at the hospital (and my wife still recovering from a c-section).

Everyone is doing well now (the little one is lagging behind his 'little' brother (younger by 1 minute), but still within the normal range, and on the right trajectory).

So, my greatest accomplishment was managing to set aside more or less any concern I had for myself and spending every waking minute, for four months, either working or taking care of a family member. In the process I learned just how fortunate I am that, generally speaking, I have a tremendous amount of freedom in how I spend my time. Being in a position where every moment is consumed in the care of others is exhausting, both physically and emotionally.

Our motto for 2017 is "It'll be what it is"... (why tempt fate again?)
Extending my JavaScript parser and beautifier (written in JavaScript) to also support TypeScript, C#, and Java.
Here's the HTML version of PDF, video presentatiom, PDF of presentation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13232756
some of those pilot contributions were filmed in 77.
Out of curiosity, and if you are allowed to, could you elaborate on this ham-radio related project you are working on? I am genuinely curious about what a university might be interested in coding for a ham-radio.
I think the previous posters point is that the risk incurred by an Amazon Echo is the exact same as any modern smartphone. That iPhones and Android devices have supported Ok Google and Hey Siri for a while now, are also already always listening, and already get OTA updates.

Your claim that "these microphone devices are new" seems to imply you're excluding almost every smart phone we already have in our pocket, with the exact same network attached hot mic concerns.
No it wasn't.

It was CGI over a mo-capped live actor.
Where I live (in Canada) they tend to use balls of dough in the middle of the pizza to get the same effect, instead of the piece of plastic I've seen elsewhere.
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Agreed. To reinforce the comment I just made above to the parent. Someone willing to blow him/her self up will take any odds pretty much, and then kill whoever he can in the line once he/she is selected. I guess some kind of protocol can isolate individuals from the rest while the decision of being selected or not is made? that could just slow things down anyways though, so not sure how would something like that would look like.
I'm sure your environmental impact of having food delivered to your door by a courier is much greater than a single box anyway.
TLDR; Scott Adams (age 57) has a 28 year old girlfriend/model.
I'd love to be involved in something like that. I feel like most helpful innovation is hardware based or science-research based. I'm not a trained weather data scientist, for example, I'm just a boring backend developer. Have you seen much philanthropy positions for backend devs or any suggestions on where to look?
Is there a way to specifiy ordering on specific packet types?
Amazon ships a huge box, then loads it halfway with paper or air bubbles. Everything shifts around, so it protects nothing in transit. They often ship non-delicate items like clothes in cardboard boxes, where plastic bags would be less wasteful and more protective. Overall, the result of their shipping is that I spend a lot of time deflating plastic, breaking down boxes, and moving lots of garbage to my garage and, subsequently, the curb. Then a truck hauls it some more. All for packaging that ultimately protected paper towels, or that was so loose that the box rattled anyway. It's worse than worthless--it destroys value, takes time, is inconvenient, and hurts the environment, all for no useful result at all.

And Amazon does not seem to care. It is so bad that I have shifted purchases offline to Costco in part so I don't have to deal with all this shipping waste. Costco doesn't even give me a bag.
It's not that there's code, it's that word and HTML are document formats while PostScript/PDF is a vector graphics format. Generally, if you remove the formatting tags from HTML or word (leaving just the text) the characters are extremely likely to be in the same order as the rendered document (sans things like running head and page numbers). Furthermore, HTML and word both explicitly delimit things like paragraphs while PostScript just changes the drawing position.
Also WebRTC is inherently p2p . So you can connect directly to the other peer without server getting involved expect for connection (STUN and TURN). Basically message via the LAN even. Latency improves in many scenarios.
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Most modes of transportation have distinct advantages. For example: trains and busses give you freedoms that cars simply cannot. Ditto for cycling.

Besides, car culture tends to create an environment where the advantage is theirs alone. Cities that have good public transit or encourage active transportation tend to adapt to people's needs while still accommodating private vehicles.
Right, the NSA should be focused solely on the defense of American (public/private) networks whereas the US Cyber Command should be used solely for offensive purposes. That way the NSA cant justify going on the offensive to probe for targets or meta-data when they should be focused on securing infrastructure.