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This is what a lot of us have figured out and stopped using facebook. I briefly checked in last year and was overwhelmed by the number of engagements, marriages, newborns, relationships. The eerie thing is everybody's life looked very similar from one another, happy, smiling instagramed filters where they momentarily pose for selfies.

Then it hit me. I know what makes me disappointed about society today. It's that we consider the image of success more important than reality. For example, the mainstream collectively considers steve jobs as the ideal entrepreneur, when when we knew he made billions off the backs of children and women in horrible working conditions in an authoritarian government. How about Bill Cosby, Mel Gibson, Lance Armstrong, Trump, Weinstein? How great did you think those people were before revealing themselves to be a complete hoax? Especially when society has been reduced to spamming a running commentary of bullshit masquerading as insight, our social media faking as intimacy. Or is it that we voted for this? Not with our rigged elections, but with our things, our property, our money. I'm not saying anything new. We all know why we do this, not because Hunger Games books make us happy but because we wanna be sedated. Because it's painful not to pretend, because we're cowards.
real curious to know if the husband works at uber
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Watching TV last night, I saw three ads for phones. One for the $1k iPhone, the other two for competitors, each of which in the fine print listed starting prices of $949.

There's a market. Don't hate Apple because it went there first.
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> What would YOU do if you had free power?

Build and run a factory that made more solar panels. Enough solar to power civilization, any expected consumption growth, as well as power to capture atmospheric CO2 and sink it underground.
Bytether is doing what you want https://www.bytether.com/
I've read another comment saying that actually produces more toxic fumes?
I have a cutting machine that’s pretty much a plotter with a blade (though it can also take pens) which uses a similar design. It doesn’t take paper directly, it has an adhesive plastic sheet you stick the paper to. I assume that’s to provide a higher friction substance.

It seems pretty accurate, to within a couple of millimeters.
I don't think that expression applies to a picture of a thousand words.
A lot of apps are just read write update to a database, and binding the data to views. I think "programming" such apps could be simplified, eg SQL++ where you make queries by talking to the computer ...
Your snark is noted. However, unlike those that come here to delay their day's tasks, I come here to learn and be exposed to new things. As such, humor has never been a quality I seek from HN, and it detracts from the point of being here, for me.
Perhaps(!) there is something inherently superior about Western nation's ability to innovate, but who's to say we must continue to innovate? At some point, will we not reach a "good enough" point for toilet design after which cost is the more likely determining factor? And can not the same thing be said of many things, such as televisions, cell phones, etc? Is this a possible direction the future could take? Keep in mind, the US wasn't always on top, just because Japan didn't take over doesn't mean China can't, sometimes things do change fundamentally.
Could also be worth 100x less.
When I had my WiFi router in the basement I placed it in an aluminum oven dish, so that the reflection went towards the ground floor. It was a small but noticeable improvement.
That's the market perspective, but there's a value perspective as well.

Entire libraries have been written about and many, many careers have been based upon the notion of "the value of something." It's actually a very, very complex idea. The minuscule mass-energy of the electrons and photons oscillating in various wires and fiber optic cables to bring these words to you have virtually zero market value as individual particles. However, the same quantity of mass-energy could just as well be worth $1000 or $10000 as a different arrangement of mass-energy forming a digital transfer of money. (Not blockchain, as that's a bit heavyweight, but one of many different forms of value transfer.)

"Why are things worth what they're worth?" is the same order of complexity as "Why do things fall?" Your layman's dismissal of value is something like a medieval peasant dismissing the question of why an apple falls from a tree as an idiot's question. It's not. It's Issac Newton's question. If you ask such a question and you look underneath the surface, there's an entire world of complexity unto itself there.
> ... would you complain about the language being ..

I'm not sure there was a complaint there. To me, it read more like an interesting side note.
Here's a preview of what I'm working on that I just published to YouTube:

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I'd love to hear more about what problems any of you are facing with Jenkins so I can be sure to address them in the work I'm doing.

Jon
I was a regular dev that got promoted to a position that made me consider getting out of the business for good. I was running on fumes, and fantasized about getting a job as a cashier somewhere.

Quit my job, sold my place and my stuff, bought a one-way ticket to Mexico as the first leg of a one year trip around the world. Been here for 4 years now. Got married, got a bunch of dogs, a kid, a really cool job, and regained my love for coding and life.

Edit: Since this got upvoted a bit I will add some back story.

I was well aware that I was experiencing burn out, and I tried the regular things. I changed my unhealthy eating habbits, I started working out and got the muscle tone up and fat down, I took extended vacations to exotic places -- and while it all did work to stave it off, it was not enough. I returned from a 1 month trek in South America, and when I sat down at my desk at work I knew I was done. I had gained the confidence and perspective I needed to rip the band-aid off.

So while my story above seem drastic, there was a build-up period before I made the big change.
That's your claim. What evidence do you have for that? What if it is just (or majorly, like 95%) just getting lucky?
A key difference might be, Hutong stays as Hutong because the government specifically wants to preserve it as a homage to the city's history.
TBH if you have a side project or a company a prenup is pretty much a must it’s the only way to ensure you remain in control over it regardless of how financially successful it is.

I’m not particularly wealthy (as in millions/not have to worry about working for the rest of my life) but have a high income and had a few side projects and I would never consider a marriage without a prenup to protect both myself and my partner from vindictive practices and petty behavior.

The divorce scheme today is simply too messy without prenups.
I only mentioned wars since the article was about wars.
> this is impossible.

I wouldn't be so sure.

> pump and dump it forever

That doesn't work.
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I've been seriously, actively interested in building a tech biz or startup since 2003.

In 2003, I started selling chat bots on the Internet.

In 2005, I cofounded an affiliate marketing website that cracked the Alexa top 10k

In 2007, I built an app that scaled to 100k MAUs and was acquired for $20K

In 2009, I started a SaaS but couldn't break $~600/month in revenue.

In 2010, I built a business that ran for over 5 years and supported me entirely for two of them, but probably grossed less than $100K total revenue. But it couldn't grow, as I struggled to find a repeatable and predictable customer acquisition channel.

In 2013, I got involved in Bitcoin. Finally one home run after a portfolio of mediocrity. [I am choosing to omit various projects from this list, but between 2003-present, there have been a lot.]

In 2013, I also started doing stock market research with ruby. In 2015, my work had attracted enough momentum to bring on an outside angel investor and even piloted the strategy in the markets with $1.5MM. Didn't perform that well; investors withdrew their capital.

In 2017, I started a SaaS that is currently doing ~$2800/month in revenue. I also did consulting. I grossed about $190K this year from my business efforts - note, that's nearly 10 times faster (in terms of growing revenue) than I was 7 years ago. I also fixed a major hole in my previous business skillset, i.e., predictably acquiring customers - something I could never do for the biz in 2010. Furthermore, I have a lot more emotional maturity than I did 7 years ago - though Sam Altman was precociously mature, with the "emotional maturity of a 40 year old" (Paul Graham, on meeting Stanford undergraduate Sam Altman).

So I can tell you definitively, that:

- My skills are expanding due to systematically resolving the deficiencies in previous attempts.

- These improvements are a result of deliberate practice.

- Some people may have the ancillary skills, resources or characteristics that position them to perform better from early on - YC seems to be adept at identifying these people, but also credit them for making 1,500+ bets.

- My best success to-date has been as a result of luck.

I'm 30 years old now.
Trump is a hoax? People overwhelmingly enjoy working for him and he's made tremendous progress on his campaign promises.
It doesn't necessarily need to be a fashion accessory to justify that price. You're not just getting aesthetics for the money, you're getting performance, battery life, display quality, etc. I'm using my phone a lot on a daily basis, so it's worth paying a bit more to get the best available. There's nothing functionally different about a $2000 purse.

Besides, comparing iPhones to purses is basically the same sort of cringe-y argument some Android users have been making for a long time. "iPhones are for basic white girls". What's next, are we going to say the iPhone is the Pumpkin Spice Latte of smartphones?
There’s a lot wrong with this piece, starting from the subhead:

> unfriendly German efficiency.

Aldis are some of the friendliest grocery stores I know. Their employees always seems happier than employees other places. And my guess is because they treat them well. The stores close at a reasonable hours, are always closed on holidays. My guess is they pay employees reasonably too, because the job postings always list decent seeming wages.

> In New York City, the company’s only location (for now) is on 117th on the banks of the East River.

Unless Queens is no longer in New York City, there has been and Aldi in Rego Park for years now. It’s a pretty good one too, right by Q train and Queens Mall.

> If you are at Aldi, it’s because you needed groceries and you went out to get them, not because you were tempted in by a cute box of chocolates,

Nonsense! What a bunch of BS this line. They sell awesome seasonal assortments of cookies and chocolates of all varieties, imported from Germany or USA local.

> The fact that Aldi is only starting to make concessions to US norms

What norms? Like giving all your money back to the man as soon as you get it?

And on and on and on this article.

The Awl... :( everything they touch is classist. Here they survey the poors who shop for food and their sad grocery store. Gross.
Ask HN: Do you feel a need to save good engineering content?
Since the past few months, I've felt a need to save good engineering content I've come across the web. So that I'm able to come back to it later easily if required. Do you also feel a similar need?

If yes, how do you do it? What sort of tools do you use for this? EverNote Web Clipper?
The article does state in the reliability section that booting was very unreliable
Maybe I'm just too ruthless, but I don't see how I, in the wife's position, would ever agree to this. Especially considering there's going to be a huge amount of temptation for the husband to cheat now; at least get paid if he gives in and things go sideways.

Too harsh?
Good question. Many thought the music had stopped in 2014, when the price crashed from $1200 to less than $200. (Previously in 2011-2012 it crashed from $35 to less than $2, which was pre-ASICs, so you really couldn't mine at a profit)
>When Rich Hickey invented Clojure, he kept the gems of the LISP tradition, but jettison much of the muck.

That's the myth that Hickey loves to pass around, but is a totally baseless claim.

>This is why Clojure has first instead of car and rest instead of cdr.

Just as Common Lisp also has "first" and "rest" if one feels like using them instead of "car" and "cdr".
Not really for an automatic trading algorithm. Write once, use for quite a while. Say a week of work (40 hours) for returns say 1/10th of holding is still quite worth it. Both of those numbers are quite conservative.
If you don’t see anything better to do then stick to your job. It will not be better if you resign and take something worse. Instead try to change your attitude or take few months off and try to live like an unemployed, just to appreciate what you have now
Replying to myself, it seems they haven't avoided it, and here is a recent proposal to fix it: https://groups.google.com/a/groups.riscv.org/d/msg/isa-dev/J...
As far as personal harm during the actual soldering, it's not hard to use lead solder safely.

You have to breath it or ingest it for it be dangerous. In soldering it does not get anywhere near hot enough to vaporize, so really all you have to worry about is ingestion.

As long as you either don't touch the solder, or are careful after touching it to not touch anything that may find its way into you until you can thoroughly wash whatever parts of you touched the lead (or were touched by parts of you that touched the lead), you should be OK.

The biggest health risk during soldering is going to come from the flux. It's the flux burning that produces the smoke you see and smell during soldering.

Here's a document from LBNL on safe soldering practices that goes into the components of solder (leaded and lead-free) and their dangers: http://www2.lbl.gov/ehs/ih/pdf/safeSolderingFinal.pdf
Soekris[0] and RouterBoard[1] are specifically for Routers too but at least Soekris is a more general purpose SBC.

Also Pine64[2] is supposed to be suitable for HTPC (Kodi) usage but I haven’t tried it and YMMV.

I <3 RouterBoards + MikroTik.

[0]: http://www.soekris.dk

[1]: https://mikrotik.com/products/group/routerboard

[2]: https://www.pine64.org
Find a small town in New Mexico and discover you love painting landscapes. Or go engage in some nice poverty tourism in Africa or South America. India, if there is a spiritual-but-not-religious side of you. Maybe take your talents to a small non-profit.

The burnout-recovery process for Tech Executives is a well-worn path. You will be alright.
Oddly, it's the other way around in the US. Trader Joe's (Aldi Sud) is upscale and Aldi (Aldi Nord) is the downscale one (not that it's bad or anything).
> Since it first opened its doors in Iowa in 1976, it has established 1,600 locations across the nation. Over the next five years, it announced in June, that number will jump to 2,500, putting its reach alongside that of Walmart and Krogers.

Ehh, it is currently in the same realm as Safeway (1300 stores). In 5 years, if all goes according to plan, it hopes to be closer to Kroger (2800 stores).

It is not, nor will it even come close in the next 5 years, to being a Walmart, who already has 4700 stores.

Particularlu given the love of the US for membership-based big box stores like Costco I also doubt a budget chain (that, last I checked, still charged you 25 cents for a shopping card), will become quite the “staple” Walmart or any other normal supermarket chain is.
Following up on this... From https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonbruner/2011/10/20/the-high-s...

> At issue is what happens when too much electricity is on offer. The enormous supply of hydroelectricity during spring runoff can push electricity prices to zero—the BPA gives away electricity to local utilities for free when it’s forced to produce more than it wants to. Since wind producers enjoy production subsidies, they can push rates below zero, effectively paying other utilities to switch off their generators.

The key bit in that passage: effectively paying other utilities to switch off their generators

It is possible to turn off wind turbines (though they get annoyed at this because of clean energy subsidies) or send water over a spillway of a run of the river dam (with some environmental consequences).

There is a neat visualization with that peak demand - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvnaiHFT6nQ - its the visualization of the Columbia river being sent down stream (right to left) through each dam (white bars). The management of "turning on some power for peak noon consumption" begins at 5:00 am as the uppermost dams start releasing more water downstream. So, if the wind picks up in a few hours unexpectedly, the hydro system pays negative (thats at issue in the article) to have the wind power turn off because they can't really stop the river (especially if its a spring high water event in there too).
That was my guess as well: his business partner or one of their investors is pressuring him.
Congrats on finding happiness!
You are incorrrect.

That's not quite what the spec says, and furthermore it is not true in practice.

Giving you the benefit of the doubt, I reread the spec, and I tested in nginx.

Works fine.
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Again, this assumes your passport matches, and humans are trained to spot the unusual. Guy with a massive beard he did’t have on his passport, plus a bruise sufficient to fool he camera is suspicious don’t you think? Once again, this also assumes that being recognized is a problem, which is why you’re evading the scanner.

I don’t see how this works.

Edit: Remember, it can’t be a valid passport that actually looks like you in this case or it defeats the point of the disguise. Remember, this only makes sense if you’re trying to evade detection, and it makes no sense to evade the camera by standing out like a sore thumb to the humans.
Comments like this—bilious and informationless—are destructive. You can't post like this here, not necessarily because you owe better to people you hate, but because you owe better to this community if you want to keep participating in it.

Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't post any more of these.
Prenups are fine. Many people view them as just contingency planning.

This is about a POST-nup, which makes no sense to me. The husband is either being an idiot who listens to idiot advice, or the husband is planning on leaving her. Either way, he needs to get his head on straight and the spouse needs to not sign this.
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Lead free solder requires a higher temperature, so ther are more and more toxic fumes from embedded flux and from heated pcb and components.
I don’t know about slowdowns. Of my androids the nexus 4 I cracked the screen and the nexus 5 bricked itself after 2 years.
TA is "Technical Analysis", according to Google. You're telling me those indicators are NOT used by rules-based traders in the stock market?
Yeah, I'd be interested in this too. Something with a lot of discussion, smallish group, to create a sense of social obligation...

(So easy to be lazy w/ the infinite world of distractions available.)
lol, I did a year off with 10k.
A friend and I used to joke that a crash was a sale. Stock up while supplies last!
> The no-frills grocery chain is a perfect example of spare, unfriendly German efficiency.

“Spare” was the first indication for me that there was a lot wrong with this article.
'Traveling broadens the mind.' Some people never leave their hometowns, either. I can't speak for you in particular, but generally, staying in our home countries greatly narrows the ideas and experiences we are exposed to. It's a big, big world, and there is nothing in the U.S. which can substitute for Delhi or Tokyo or Vatican City.
Fun trolling :)
I'm sure Trump would vote for it to be moved to Moscow.
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Heyyy, it's that guy who looks down on those of us who don't use our real names!

I remember because you showed a similarly poor attitude in another thread. That attitude was so out of line with what I expect from HN that your username was seared in my mind :)
Do they not have the ability to construct an entirely new economic, once-again low cost manufacturing zone staffed by some of the hundreds of millions of peasant farmers still working the land? Do they not have the population, know how, and political leverage to serve multiple pricing tiers of manufacturing?
This year I've read:

Maxims - Epictetus

The road to serfdom - Friedrich Hayek

De officiis - Cicero

De divinatione - Cicero

Lives of eminent philosophers - Diogenes Laertius

Confessions - Al ghazali

Illiad - Homer

Odyssey - Homer

Influence - Robert Cialdini

Guns, Germs and steel - Jared Diamond

Poor Charlie's Almanack - Charlie Munger - 2nd reading

Andrew Carnegie's Biography - Joseph Frazier

Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Taleb - 2nd reading

Bed of Procrustes - Nassim Taleb

Never Split the Difference - Christopher Voss

The intelligent investor - Benjamin Graham

Autobiography - Benjamin Franklin

I always remember this quote:

"In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time -- none, zero." Charlie Munger
> Oh get over yourself, this video is disgustingly egotistical

Please don't post rage rants to HN. If you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There are no concessions, they are updating the stores in Europe all the same. Pictures from very early 2016:

http://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/handel/aldi-mit-neuem-ladende...
The problem is in perspective, right? She says it feels like he doesn't trust her when asking for the post-nup, but coming from his side a post-nup would enable him to feel more at ease with her, enabling a higher level of trust. Saying no to signing the post-nup is saying "You were right not to trust me".
Apple only report to you the remaining 70%, so the 800k is after the 30% is deducted.

Edit:
It seems the $800k includes Apple's cut. As an app developer myself, even considering that amount is torturing yourself. Apple _only_ report the remaining 70%, especially when you consider promo codes, refunds, etc... - doing a crude sales*price is somewhat inaccurate.

(Fun fact: I'm an Australian developer. Of the amount I get paid, I also need to deduct sales tax for any sales I make to Australian consumers. For a 99c app, I would make 63c for Australian sales and 70c for other countries).
FWIW - I drink nearly an entire pot of coffee every day. No creamer or sugar or anything, just black. It's indispensable IMO.
This is why I was upfront with my girlfriend (now fiancé) from the VERY beginning. I said I would never marry her, nor anyone, ever, without a pre-nub. Period.

Her money is hers, mine is mine. We will forever operate like that.
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Well, take decibels for example. They are a log scale physical intensity, so averaging them make no sense whatsoever (e.g. absolute silence is negative infinity dB). I would argue these scores are more like labels than actual numbers (i.e. a 3 plus a 5 doesn't really equal an 8 in any real sense). You can of course take the mean of any collection of numbers, but I've heard many a statistician lament such careless practices. The median is at least more easily interpreted for cases like this.