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Reinventing the Tour: A Little Company with Big Ideas Defies Conventions
Tour guide Cristina Lombardi is re-imagining what a walking tour can be.
“These aren’t tours,” she explains, “They’re adventures!”
Lombardi’s new business, Follow Me New York City Adventures, is built on the idea that tours can be more than leisurely strolls filled with standard talking points. Instead, they can be more experiential and entertaining.
“Our guests are looking for something outside the box. They want an authentic, memorable experience they can brag to their friends about later. And that’s our specialty. We’ve got lots of tricks up our sleeves.”
Four Adventures are currently offered: Greenwich Village, Wall Street, Times Square and Central Park. But more are in development with future programs emphasizing encounters with a variety of people and cultures.
For more information or to purchase a tour visit www.followmenycadventures.com, call 718.673.8414, or email info@followmenycadventures.com
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What I mean is, I'm constantly copying passwords to my clipboard, both to generate them and to input them. This is an app which remembers clipboard history. That means all my passwords will be stored in this history, which makes it incompatible for my use case.

The documentation is less than clear about whether it can ignore apps:

By default, Alfred ignores popular password applications like the macOS Keychain Access and 1Password, so that you don't inadvertently copy a password to your clipboard.

I don't want to prevent apps from copying to my clipboard. I want to prevent Alfred from storing the history when I copy from a specific app (my password manager).

I may as well just try it and find out, though.
Jenkins is fantastic because you can plug it into just about everything, and trigger your job that does $whatever either on a timer, manually or with an HTTP GET request. When I started at this company, Jenkins was nothing more than a web server used to launch an all-encompassing build script on SVN commit. Since then, I've redesigned all builds using plugins such that Jenkins now manages the whole process (previous admins had reinvented so. f*cking. much. stuff Jenkins does natively) and we're using Jenkins to automate just about everything we can plug it into.

This and Powershell, which although its syntax is mind-bending and in some cases just outright appalling, is a decent attempt at a scripting language with exceptional power over Windows.
Several folks on /r/datahoarder have 100+ TB stored there without issue. You'd have to try pretty hard to run into any soft limits they've set.
I completely agree, a DUI is serious business. I went dry for 2.5 years after that incident. I was 0.09 just above the legal limit. The accident was caused by me having a seizure behind the wheel (epileptic). So they labeled it as a misdemeanor and put me on the fast track rehab program. Community service, fine, and expungement.

After that I won't let friends drive while intoxicated. I'll grab an uber, or find some other way. Make them stay with me etc.
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For me, Keyboard Maestro[1], which is probably the one app I couldn't live without.
With it, I can do things like highlight any git sha (or any sha range) in the terminal, press a keyboard command and it will launch my diff tool with the diffs for just that commit.
I also use it to do inline transpiling of different code. I have keyboard commands for transpiling my highlighted Sass or ES6 code and replacing it with the result.

It's so powerful, there's very little it can't do.

[1]: https://www.keyboardmaestro.com
Nothing about other languages transpiled/compiled to JavaScript? No Clojurescript, Elm or Purescript?
Do you have some examples for tools to handle the deobfuscation stuff?
> Why is that less wrong?

It compiles.
Congrats on the launch.

Did you address the issue which came up multiple times last time when this was on HN about cloud indexed code by default?
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Tesla's battery packs have liquid in them, not air.
All of the automation tools out there always felt clunky to me. Ansible has been working fairly OK so far for my usage, but I can't imagine using it if I was managing hundreds of machines.

I considered using saltstack, but despite spending a few hours reading their doc, I'm still very confused by all the lingo.

I recently started reading and considered using NixOS, but the still relative newness (it's 14 years old!) makes me worry about missing packages and updates.
Inscrutable Amazon Bill: Behind It, a $1M Savings
If I didn't have to work for shelter and food, I'd be an artist. I'd be a photographer [0] and a podcaster [1]. I do both already, but I feel that I never have the time to do both thoroughly and as often as I would desire. I'd need some money for travel actually, so I could photograph and interview people who are interesting but do not live where I do.

[0] https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeena/albums/72157677196990660
[1] https://jeena.net/pods
If I'm making a step forward, and keep doing the same thing, it will lead me to different places.
I use the Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro. Noise cancelling really only works for static noises (like air conditioning, engine roar), which can actually make workspace noise like talking and voices stand out more.

In-ear headphones don't provide enough comfort for extended listening day in day out, so over-ear headphones are the best choice IMO.

Anything of good build quality in the $150+ price range is likely worthwhile, assuming you don't go for the overmarketed brands like Beats. I chose the DT 770 Pro because they are studio-quality, meant to last, and Beyerdynamics even supplies repair parts. They are meant to last through heavy use while providing studio level sound quality.
Audio Technica ATH-50X with velour replacement pads. Blocks a fair bit of noise while remaining cool.
Which European country has the best atmosphere for startups, in your opinion?
Looks cool but now I have to rename my project. I was going to use the cappy namespace on PyPi.
Speechify
Does Kite still send all your code to Kite servers as you type? I remember that being an issue the last time someone talked about Kite on HN.

I'm find with an editor or sidekick that can search stack overflow or duckduckgo or google quickly with a hotkey-- maybe keep snippets you can tag and easily reference-- but sending all my code as I type to a web service is something I'm not willing to do and something most companies won't allow.
They are making money at multiple points:

1. Charging you per-minute for use of the service.

2. Charging you a per-DID fee per day of use. Why? You are already paying for the service, and for the VOIP termination. BTW at Amazon scale, the DID numbers are either free or less than 10 cents/month per DID.

3. Charging you (in the USA at least) for the actual VOIP calling.

With 1) and 3), a USA call costs you 0.0048 cents per minute on inbound. Under usual circumstances, inbound calls to USA numbers are free.

They will also (should you request it) record the calls and store them in S3...
> We don't have even sustainable use of the Earth resources, even if the Earth is actually suited for human life, but you somehow imagine that we'd be able to do better on Mars, which isn't suited for life at all, having no magnetosphere?

Is a magnetosphere the only way to shield from radiation?

> The basic assumption of all "Mars colonies work" theories is the functioning Earth civilization that supports it, paying a lot for it (at least in resources and work) to support it.

Supply ships are essential for the bootstrapping of any colony, but Mars does have everything we need long term.

> The argument for having a Mars colony is "in case something happens to Earth." But "in case something happens to Earth" the Mars colony dies. It's that simple.

It's not simple, it's actually quite complex and interesting. Read up on Mars exploration, everything has been addressed except for the will of the people.
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Because I would like to be an acquaintance, but facebook doesn't have that option. Crushing feelings of friendly acquaintances who didn't do anything wrong doesn't seem like a nice thing to do.
You should still use CSS and general programming best practices even if you define your styles in JS. For me, the big win is that I get access to proper variables, constants, dead code elimination, minification, template strings, destructuring, spreads, real computed values etc. out of the box and in an language I'm very familiar with as a programmer. That it eliminates half the build toolchain is also a plus.
If someone can figure out for me if adding support for webRTC VIDEO is viable, that would be amazing. I'm driving 6 hrs and can't research it.
Agreed. A pickup based on the Volt technology would be fantastic. Electric can allow crazy good torque. And you have a nice big battery, backed by a quiet and efficient built-in generator that only needs to run occasionally, to run power tools off of.
https://domain.opendns.com/kite.com doesn't show any unusual categories, we might be pulling security blacklists from another source.
I use CopyQ on Linux.

You can set it up to ignore copies from your password manager.

I have it currently set up to ignore KeePassX.

https://hluk.github.io/CopyQ/

https://superuser.com/questions/1112970/prevent-clipboard-ma...
No, I'm staggered by the wonderfulness of modern networks. It's just that taking the Internet to the masses is slightly less staggering to me than getting from POTS (analog telephone) to the Internet. And I do have some idea what is involved.
Ask yourself, honestly, if you would be making this statement if the blog post were written by a man. I suspect that you would perceive it differently.
> We want to give you some guidelines (...) save you time in building something that will not be approved during the App Review process. While this isn’t an all-inclusive list (...) don’t violate our Terms of Use, Brand Guidelines and the App Distribution and Services Agreement.

So encrypting data from the customer side could make some app be blocked in the future, making me lose all my customers and perhaps their data? That doesn't sound good, why would I take a chance by using Amazon ?
For those blabbering about build quality. Well compromises. I cant stand the shitty infotainment systems in any car be it cheap kia or high end bmw. All of them suck and are ridiculous because they are made by conservative people that do not understand consumers.
Software is the new king and this is where america has such an incredible advantage compared to traditional european manufacturers that it is almost unbelievable. Interior and the choice of materials can be changed and improved but building a good sw experience and ecosystem is so incredibly hard even for IT companies (Samsung for example) that people are afraid of any incestments.We are in an era where a lot of people simply can ignore some squeaky dashboards but buying a platform for convenient data consumption will be a deciding factor for many future customers.
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Yep. As an example, you can see that there are 137 chargers at the Facebook campus.
You also get the benefit of it the jobs being built on a shared environment. If developer A wants to build a job, $THING-A and developer B wants to build a their job, $THING-B, there's no having to look through code for environment variables or other differing, machine-specific issues, that might pop up when building with something like, for example, Terraform.
The article is doing a worst case interpretation, there's no indication that it's part of some broad policy.

A new administration is coming in, websites are being reworked, some previously available data isn't currently available.

However people were warned and nothing has been lost. There's no call to personally blame Donald Trump.
I've always thought - and described PC's as mini mainframes.
Even the software we run on them is mainframe derived - Unix and VMS.

The mobile/tablet is truly the first "personal computer", which we've barely tapped yet. I am hopeful, but at the moment we haven't gone much beyond what we could do with very efficient punch card sorting.
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By that definition, in the real world you never do the same thing twice. Your environment always changes (in fact there are several natural laws dictating that it does).

From the pedantic viewpoint the quote may be true, but then it doesn't say anything useful anymore.
But... why? If you wanted to express their equation in terms of tau (that is, 2pi), you could just set the first term of the right hand side to 10/phi instead of 5/phi. In fact, throughout their derivation there are points where a tau-based version would be a bit cleaner (though of course there are other points where tau might be a bit messier).
Replying a second time since my first response was killed (it is now "dead") - why was it killed? What did my comment say that was illegitimate for discussion? I made valid points and used original sources. Did somebody just disagree with what I had to say?
There is evidence that cannabinoids inhibit tumor growth and kill cancer cells.

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/patient/ca...
The built-in examples for method use are a really cool feature. I hate having to jump to MSDN, etc just to find an example snippet when the argument comments are unclear.
I'd be very interested in hearing more as well. Email is username @ gmail. Thank you!
I care a lot about outcomes at the individual level. I worry that with these systems, generally health will improve because there will be a level of standardization, but specifically it will get worse. An analogy for me is with furniture, but you could also substitute financial advice. In furniture we can get a 'quality' table from Ikea for a couple hundred bucks, and we can make 10s of thousands of them. But it's much much harder to get a reasonably priced custom table. 200 years ago when a lot more people spent time building wooden ships, it was much easier to get a carpenter to build a table/furniture at a relatively affordable price point. Now that comparatively orders of magnitude of fewer people are in the practice, the price for that furniture, or custom cabinets, etc. at the same quality level has skyrocketed. In financial advice, the rise of algorithms doing things like asset allocation has caused an entire generation of financial planners to never be hired, and therefore never trained. The old financial planners who do much more than asset allocation are becoming rarer and rarer and no one is replacing them. In 20 years, I firmly believe the specifics of my tax situation, etc will be more difficult to solve than today because I will have a harder time finding this kind of specialized expertise. I see the same in medicine and every other field which low-end machines doing the low-end work. We're not training the future high-level practitioners because they need those 10,000 hours or whatever to become super experts. How long will it take before the machine catches up with the best humans is really the question here.
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"The whole point of advertising is to make something popular that isn't already or to maintain popularity for something that would otherwise decline in popularity."

You can't push on a string. Consumers buy bigger cars when gas prices are low, and more efficient cars when gas prices are high. It's why Toyota (which has built a brand identity around fuel efficiency) does worse when fuel prices go down.

Marketing can influence consumers' affinity for brands and perception of product quality. It can't change economics.

"Tesla will be perfectly fine on the demand front."

I'm sure there's a market. After all, Lamborghini is "perfectly fine on the demand front", too. But will the demand for electric vehicles justify a valuation on par with General Motors? That's the rub.
When I've seen his website in the past, the crazy religious stuff has always been there, which I can look past, but now it seems like the crazy racist stuff is way way more prominent, which I just cannot.
Nor worked with modern computers.

I've had many experiences where doing "the same thing" results in a different outcome each time. Of course, that ignores the whole ton of context that isn't immediately obvious - the state of the program, the state of things running in the OS, the state of the data in the database, etc.
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Facebook is trying hard to make Messenger a separate product from Facebook.
Noo, builds shouldn't rely on Jenkins. I root for the previous admins.
The established nature of the market may be a mixed bag for Square. There is strong competition, but there's also a very large market. Square don't have to convince anyone of the merits of mobile payment, just offer a better solution for some portion of the market. They already have lower transaction fees than Paypal and iZettle for most users; they could gain significant ground by salami-slicing the market with better features for particular niches.
Christ, come to KC for your surgery. I paid just over $3k for my eyes to be done a few years ago. Was one of the best purchases I've ever made.
An efficient brain-computer interface would require a good understanding of the inner-workings of the brain. So any effort in building such interface would motivate neurobiological research to get such understanding. I personally believe that once we have an accurate model of the brain, that is one that explains how thoughts, memory, emotions, consciousness and so on arise from brain activity, we're literally done.

Once we reach this point, I think humans will eventually replace their brains with artificial ones, either gradually (Moravec transfer), or in one-go. There will be various motivations : immortality, mind-performance improvements, etc. The end-result will be the same : we will turn into machines. It won't be a merger, it'll be a plain replacement. The scenario where AI robots kill us all will only be different from a subjective point of view.
Oh, it's all good. I was mainly just wondering if anyone had any thoughts.
I have a question for the anthropogenic climate change doubters and deniers out there.

You say either that it is certain that human activity is not having a significant influence on the climate, or it is not certain whether or not it is.

My question is, it there any sort of scientific evidence that might be discovered in the future that would lead you to change your mind, and if so what would it be? Or is you view simply fixed for now and the future?
Video games might not be the best example; they aren't commodities, and the games which are produced as you described often feel like assembly line productions. Compare Ubisoft's flagship Assassin's Creed or Far Cry games to Ubisoft's arthouse Montpellier studio (1). It's astonishing what a difference culture makes with creative works. Their works are smaller and less consistent, but they have a few enormous successes (compared to how much they cost) among those.

But with a commodity like paper clips, where you can buy 100 from anybody, that might not be the case. You get a paper clip no matter how the workers are treated. I guess that might have been what you meant by 'specialized roles,' though.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubisoft_Montpellier
Actually its not - Frank Lutz, a GOP operative, claims to have come up with the team 'climate change'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b1GCZWQF-M
They recently rewrote the tutorial, which is available here: https://docs.saltstack.com/en/getstarted/

The easiest way to learn Salt is by starting with execution modules (https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/modules/all/index.h...), which are just Python modules that abstract the commands underneath and you can blast to machines, such as salt 'web~' pkg.install httpd to install Apache on all servers named web. You can send shell commands directly using cmd.run - salt 'web~' cmd.run 'yum -y install httpd'

(Note: I replaced asterisks with tildes in the above example due to HN formatting.)

On top of execution modules are state modules (https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/states/all/). You define a state in YAML and tell a host to execute the state with the state.apply execution module. States consist of an id (a unique string identifier), the state module to use, and arguments, like so:

base.packages.stable.install:
pkg.installed:
- pkgs:
- git
- zsh
- mosh

The other major components are runners (https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/runners/), which are scripts written against the salt API that perform actions on the salt bus, and engines (https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/engines/index.ht...), which are child processes spawned by the master that listen for and react to events - like the Slack bot I use. One of the included engines is called reactor, which makes it easy to script events in YAML.

There are more moving parts I'm not covering here, but I hope this helps you get started.
I felt the same way about Saltstack. I've worked at shops that use Puppet (with and without Hiera) and CFEngine. In my person projects I've used a lot of Ansible.

Out of all the CM systems I've tried Ansible feels the most sane. It still has a some things that annoy me, but overall I've found it the easiest to deal with.

My current shop puts everything in Docker containers and runs them on DC/OS scheduled via Marathon. I don't touch the CM parts anymore, but I think our DC/OS team provisions the actual nodes via Puppet.
If the majority of issues were left to local politicians to determine based on their constituency, local news would be more relevant than it is. In the United States, the fact that the federal government now controls vastly more things than they did 100 years ago, means that national (and even international) issues affect local issues way more than they used to.
Are there any plans to support Vim/Neovim ?
busted? Getting privacy warnings and 403 forbidden errors.
Working at home lets me use speakers or open headphones most of the time, so Hifiman 400i, but when I need isolation I use either Oppo PM-3 or Etymotic ER4p
Nope.

Watch this 30 seconds! Mesh networks, smart intersections, connected sensors ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SmJP8TdWTU
>You can get paid whatever you want, but if you're miserable for 50%+ of your waking time, you're going to burn out.

I can see what you're saying - the money may be secondary. But I think it's a big mistake to even momentarily indulge the idea (even as a hypothetical) that one can get paid "whatever one wants" when that decision is structurally not theirs to make.

>burnout, which is fundamentally about the psychic impact of daily exposure to the same significant stressors.

Do you have any sympathy for the notion that these stressors are reduced or eliminated when workers and managers cooperatively decide what to make and how?
Have you found any good resource on setting up the debugger for rust in VSCode? I've been having issues getting this running smoothly and have found very little support online
As though decades of increasingly partisan coverage had nothing to do with the industry's problems.

When someone gains an advantage for their point of view by consistently associating it with professional, reliable journalism, I consider it an advantage well-earned. A point of view that isn't compatible with that advantage doesn't deserve it.

Much worse than having a point of view is trying to avoid the perception of having a point of view, which leads to vapid, passive, easily exploitable schlock journalism.
> It's not a free lunch. They paid the admission fee with their health.

You're using the word "paid" in a sense that isn't relevant in context.
We're in agreement on that, and that's why this quote is terrible and amounts to nothing.
True. Silly me.