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Launch HN: SheerlyGenius (YC W18) – Indestructible Tights from Bulletproof Fiber
I’m Katherine Homuth and I founded Sheerly Genius - indestructible sheer tights made from bulletproof fibers. We just launched our product on Kickstarter (http://www.2e.go2.fund/tights).

Every year $8 billion dollars worth of sheer tights/pantyhose end up in the landfill after only one or two wears. Ripping sheers is as easy as accidentally catching them on a fingernail, or simply pulling too hard while putting them on. Our goal is to replace these disposable products with Sheerly Genius, which has been tested to last up to 50 wears.

We have been working on this for about 12 months so far and it has been quite an adventure. When I started out I didn’t think we’d be developing our own fiber and machines, but that’s what it ultimately took.

The first fibers I looked at were aramids, like kevlar, which of course were attractive for their strength. To be considered sheer (as opposed to opaque), a pair of tights needs fibers that are 30 denier or less. Denier measures the thickness or fineness of a fiber. I quickly learned that the lowest denier kevlar came in was 1000 denier! So it was a non-starter.

It turned out that none of the fibers on the market today were both fine and strong enough to make an indestructible sheer product. Ultimately we had to develop our own fiber: a finer, colored version of the non-dyeable polyethylene fibers used in higher end bulletproof vests and climbing equipment. To use these fibers we had to retrofit circular knitting machines with new feeding systems and blades, because the fibers are so strong they break typical knitting machines!

My background is in software and manufacturing - building and selling two companies prior to Sheerly Genius. But this is my first journey into textiles. In my last startup I worked directly with many hardware companies, but became increasingly skeptical of the trend in IoT towards “connected” anything. One thing I love about this project is that we’ve been able to innovate in wearables without being connected.

Fun Fact: Half of our backers on Kickstarter so far have been men!

I’m looking forward to talking manufacturing, textiles, and crowdfunding. Can’t wait to hear your ideas and experiences in these areas. Also happy to answer any questions about our journey in developing the product so far!
Loyalty Program in Open Source
Try to live there for 1-3 months if possible before moving so you don't get suprised (ex: a lot of people hate you in Paris for not knowing french, while I can handle it, it breaks my balls etc)
When a 40ish hacker and high-pressure startup founder dies unexpectedly with no announced cause of death, the chance is about 80% that they committed suicide.
Basically, because I do feel like it is a mostly-harmless lie that is quite funny. I get that it is eroding people's sense of trust, but I'm guessing his intent was not to mess with his own following but to mess with the general reddit community. The fact that this went viral seems to have pulled in some of his fans, but I doubt it was intentional.
Interesting. I guess it must be a product of my age (born in '91). Thanks for the insight.
IIRC one of the big things about dtrace vs systemtap is that dtrace could trace a process from userspace to kernel space and then back again. Can eBPF do this? How else do they compare?
Germany heavily subsidised solar power in the 200x timeframe, and was probably the driving force behind the Moore's-Law-like improvements the technology has seen.

The result is that now solar + batteries is actually cheaper than coal (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16258419).

So that seems to be among the most rational and farsighted political decisions, ever.

Nuclear power is politically impossible to sustain in Germany. It's also vastly more expensive than any other major source of power. Those are facts just as hard as any natural science. The world has moved on, and the supposedly irrational environmentalists and politicians have dramatically improved the technology, while all the science fiction enthusiasts are still fetishising nuclear power long after it has become embarrassing.
I was using KeyCDN until I discovered bunnyCDN at $0.01/GB.
Kanban can support this, though it's not exclusively used for that. But the proposed approach is at a higher level of abstraction than Kanban.
>assembler-to-Java project

Where's my gif of that guy who looks skeptically at that thing he's looking at? You know that one.
It does create incentive for people to try to figure out the usefulness, if any. I agree with that. It also creates lots of other incentives that have no pro-social value.

Furthermore, the incentive may be much higher than is actually required, and creates a lot of collateral waste in the process.

Every bit of time, energy, and resources spent in this speculative endeavor crowds out other activities. And a large amount of this effort is just spent on a cybersecurity arms race over these hypothetically valuable tokens.

I realize you were trying to make a point about speculation in general, such as with futarchy. Any kind of speculation over things related to real production, including bets about CEO performance, would have some obvious informational value. But bets about sports do not.
"On the internet, no one knows you're a dog."
Then there is some minimal unit of functionality you want to deliver first.
Google has 2bn users. How on earth would they provide support for that? I feel your pain but we have to be realistic. If support is of essence you don't sign in free services.
I wanted to do the same, but I feel a little threatened by the DS clause (That I had to had a course on the topic) - Did you have previous knowledge or just went through?
The autobahns do have limits that change dynamically from "infinite" to "some value less than infinite" due to weather, construction, congestion, accidents, etc.

And there are speed cameras in some of these stretches. I have nasty collection letters from Hertz and Avis to confirm it.
Shaun White Wins 100th Winter Olympics Gold for US
Hey there, @timewarrior! I work on Azure, and would like to hear more about your signup issues so that we can resolve them and improve the experience.

Could you please send an email to Paige.Bailey@microsoft.com?
I did not mean to imply that I LITERALLY just collected business cards and spoke to no one. Of course, doing so at recruiting events would be absurd.

So, I don't think it's a common misunderstanding. I think it's common sense that you're supposed to speak to the recruiters and build your network.
It's definitely a diminutive form, along with -lein, which operates the same way regarding gender and umlaut.
PS: The goal of Windows is not to create an OS the goal of Windows is to make Microsoft money.
What he says about escalating fame and using less reliable sources as social proof to get covered by more reliable sources does seem to play out in the world.

There are all sorts of "awards" ceremonies for things like best employer, best company in IT, etc. but frequently to get into such awards you have to pay money (surprise surprise) and the entrants get to nominate themselves. Then when they win, they take the story to the local and trade press, and on and on it goes.
From wikipedia The lowest yet market share of a company considered "dominant" in the EU was 39.7%

Google is dominate for sure.
That's remarkably different from Sweden (where the income tax varies by County and Municipality)

For example, these are the top and bottom municipalities. This is just the county + municipality take of the income tax:

http://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/statistik-efter-amne/offen...
Just imagine if this new system was converted to groovy or scala. That would be pretty amazing.
Some linguistic trivia: the word origami is a Japanese compound of "fold" (折り - ori) and "paper" (紙 - kami), literally translating to "fold paper" (折り紙 - origami).
Millions of Americans can't stay home with the flu, so it spreads
Coffee, but there's obviously a limit as to how often you can do that ;)

I'll normally alternate coffee, soft-drinks, and snacks for a couple of hours, then bail out, grab lunch, and afterwards head to a different shop. It's not a hugely regular thing for me, as I mostly work from home, so I guess I can afford to spend a little more than the serial coffee shop dwellers.
Bamboozling redditors is a really low bar to set as a life goal
So its like AOL homepage era dial up?
You're describing a monopsony, not a monopoly.

And while Google has monopsonic power, it isn't the sole player in the market so it's not a true monopsony. Facebook, Twitter, and other channels have control as well. If you still disagree, look at how widespread Facebook's open graph standards are as proof of the market catering to these companies' purchasing power.

Or just look at the header on the article: https://i.imgur.com/XlGgTaw.png
What Happens When a Major World City Runs Dry?
(I'm the author.) This whole setup is built for a comparatively low traffic blog, so DNS caching won't help much. (On normal days I get ~100 visitors.) This is compounded by the TTL which is 60s to account for node failures.

The optimization level is in the sub 1 second range, so not having to pay one large RTT penalty for a DNS lookup is quite important. I've measured 300+ms RTT to Australia on the previous box I was using, that impacted the load times quite severely.
The problem with that approach is that your product becomes cluttered and looks old as years go by with only small enchantments and fixes. Here is a middle ground: continuous improvement with yearly strategic planning.
https://medium.com/swlh/how-we-develop-products-for-3-2m-use...
> Assembler is like Shakespearean English. It’s dated. A shrinking number of people can deal with it. But it’s also elegant and highly functional.

What is considered elegant and functional about assembly?
Sounds like a great reason to simplify our tax system!
For the images to human interface, sure. But you can use pretty much anything small and fast enough to take pictures - neutrons, neutrinos, various ions, phonons...

Now, taking photos is inherently photon/E&M based.
Conversations with Tyler Cowen: Matt Levine
My thoughts kinda echo this, but I don't think it's outlandish for a junior dev to know a lot of this - what's less reasonable is knowing it with enough depth that they can bring it all to bear without prep in an interview. They've had fewer opportunities to put these things into practice, so I'd only expect them to demonstrate proficiency if they knew ahead of time to study those fairly specifically.
At this point in time, I am honestly surprised at the lack of balance in this conversation. While I'm writing this, the entire discussion is a bunch of pile-on for Google without any consideration of the actual facts in this case.

Today is a sad day for the internet.

In phone book terms, the business model of this couple was roughly equivalent to plastering stickers with their phone number over all the other entries in the phone book. Any end user wishing to get the information they wanted had to go through an unnecessary step. Any destination, had to fight to prevent their content from being overrun.

I am both a European and an American, and the fact of the matter is that the European Commission is attempting to stifle American business. This ruling does not protect users, and does not protect valid businesses, it protects spammers.

Instead of trying to legislate our way into competitiveness, I would like to see our countries focus on actually attempting to stimulate tech businesses, because attempts like these just hurt technology companies overall. Sure, it hurts American companies more than Europeans, but they're also in a better position to shoulder the burden. This makes it tougher for smaller European tech shops.
Wow, now that I did not realize... do you know the reasoning behind making it so difficult?
The key difference between methamphetamine and adderall is that meth is neurotoxic at clinical doses, while adderall is actually neuroprotective. Meth use also causes negative side effects like dry mouth, dizziness, etc much more frequently and powerfully than amphetamine. Users also report that meth tends to hit much "harder" compared to amphetamine, increasing its addiction potential. It mostly is the high doses that cause the side effects, but because of the impurities in street meth, it's nearly impossible to properly weigh the amounts required for adderall-like usage(5-10mg), and even then, it's still neurotoxic. This means that most street users use large doses that cause those effects.
https://www.delibr.com
I found Knuth's Art of Computer Programming a bit too dense for me, and I have a high tolerance. There's definitely a wide world inbetween the fluffy Skiena and the concrete Knuth.

(I did enjoy Concrete Mathematics.)

Knuth is a bit too imperative for my interests.

But if you like strong stuff, Schrijver's "Combinatorial Optimization: Polyhedra and Efficiency" tells you more about P and the boundary to NP than you ever wanted to know.

http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/ is reasonably accessible so far for me, yet still manages to teach me new hard things.

None of the books mentioned are bleeding edge. It's easier to get that out of papers.
NPM dispute process for marked, a markdown parser and compiler
Transmission losses for sending electrical power across the large diagonal of china is <10%. That's the worst case scenario, because in reality most of China is densely populated and hydroelectric plants weren't build somewhere where they had to wait for bitcoin to come around to find demand for their electricity.

Considering hydro power supposedly consumed by mining would be generated no matter what (the costs are largely fixed), almost all the power used by mining is ultimately produced by coal plants, which are the main source for adjustable electrical generation in China.
I found this, plus the ICE link, pretty close to processes I've had to develop for a recent engagement:

https://hackernoon.com/why-i-stopped-using-product-roadmaps-...
I would argue that the kind of person with the skill to navigate into a position, is more likely than the person not, to be able to pick up things faster. So the fact that you may not hit the ground running does not matter so much as your attitude and ability to learn quick. Well done.
Wow, what a cool project to work on: working out the logic flows in assembler and breaking them out so that they can be translated into a higher-level language.

I've always thought that this type of government work should be open to bids from anyone. If the government is worried about trojans, malware, etc., then they can easily hire an auditor to audit the code and vouch for its authenticity. The fact that only very large, well-connected corporations get a crack at these types of problems is insane and a complete waste of taxpayer money.
Automation, Artificial Intelligence, and the Changing Role of Building Managers
Same here. Cloudfront was ridiculous. KeyCDN works great for us.
> Wang was working under streamlined critical pay authority the agency has had since its landmark 1998 restructuring. It gave the IRS 40 slots under which it could pay temporary, full-time employees higher than GS rates. Former Commissioner John Koskinen pointed out Congress did not re-up this authority in 2013, despite his entreaties to former Congressman Jason Chaffetz’s Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

> He says he applied to become a GS-15 or Senior Executive Service member so he could see through the assembler-to-Java project. But his approval didn’t come through until a week before his employment authority expired. By then he’d accepted another job.

(GS-15 is $103k-$134k. https://www.federalpay.org/gs/2017/GS-15)

So, basically: the IRS can't fix its software because it can't pay market rates for software engineers. It can't pay market rates for software engineers not because it lacks the budget for it, but because Congress won't let them. This is how it ends up with huge armies of bureaucrats doing things that could be easily automated.
Bonds, stocks, and real estate are all collapsing as we speak. Have fun with that mindset. I've happily holding my bitcoin I've had for years, even buying more.
I like this. For more complicated scripts, I use Visual Studio which has a full debugger with breakpoints and watch capabilities. For small scripts I do use print and this would be useful.

I'd like to be able to easily remove all calls to ic from my code though, since I share my scripts with my team and try not to use non-standard packages so it works on a default python install.
I've always thought the formatting kind of lends itself to a little bit of visual elegance. Since its always 1 instruction per line, various instruction fields tend to line up nicely.

But yeah I don't see how it is elegant in any way that's useful
Of course it's dockerized, it has to be cool, right? :)

Ansible is running docker-compose up -d on deployment an Traefik is doing the magic. I want to extend it to host multiple sites in the future. (Btw. Ansible ran from a central location is painfully slow because of the large latency to the edge nodes.)

The content itself is deployed using rsync, Ansible was just too painfully slow for that.
Yet across the Polish border developers are relatively well paid versus the suits and it's actually an attractive profession for people that are career oriented. I always see more women working in IT where the job actually pays well, including the US.

I know well paid developers as well, some niches pay pretty well. SAP for example. Or simply people that have domain knowledge that's irreplaceable and know how to negotiate. But something average like C#, RoR or Node development doesn't really pay well in The Netherlands. It's a decent salary but nothing to brag about.
Sure they can: https://imgur.com/ag2kNr9
Only if they plan on losing massive amounts of users to Firefox. The advice, "Google stopped allowing ad blockers because they're an ad company. Switch to Firefox and you'll be all set" will spread like wildfire.
Funny how it's always the same companies producing code for the government based on political relationships - but the outcome of government software is always so bad.
I think the Agile Manifesto is still valid and a great guidance. Also, the principle that between features, delivery date and staffing you can plan for two ahead only, but but not all three.

Unfortunately "Agile" as practiced is almost the opposite in most cases. With traditional waterfall at least people thought about things upfront. With the way a lot of companies do Agile there is no place left for thinking, it's more like mini-step waterfall without upfront design.
Why would any allocator split a cache line to multiple threads, and why would a program use dynamic memory allocation for something so small it would fit in the L1 cache?
> Assembler is like Shakespearean English.

Author has no idea what assembler is.
A couple of lids, trying there hardest to get fined by the FCC by trolling hams. I have an SDR here:

http://64.136.200.36:8073/
This is one of the best summaries of software development practices I've seen. It's maybe even the way it should work.
Numpy Tutorial Part 2 – Vital Functions for Data Analysis
You are exactly right. You must adjust the java heap size on Elasticsearch.
Don’t Let Criminals Hide Their Data Overseas
You can't build something from scratch that way especially if there is a lot of research and unknowns involved.
IBM Patches Spectre and Meltdown for Power Servers – Infosecurity Magazine
It does not even define how it measures the "size" of someting in the web. I own a website where most files are by intention not clickable from the home page (I would call them "private). By definition, is it "dark"? How do we measure how much the website is dark -- by the file size, number of files or information entropy? And how can it be measured by anybody except me?

"Dark Web" is just a buzzword to sound scary and fancy, nothing more.
How many women hired would be enough to satisfy those roles you mention?
Facebook Wants to Set Up Your Playdates
Hacking Maritime Blockchains
Question for the OP-

I haven't ever worked on chat services, so this may not be reasonable. Would it be possible to use some other termination endpoint that sits in front of the service, that allows you to maintain persistent connections to the clients, but make for more transparent swaps of backend services?

So, for example could you leverage nginx or haproxy as the "termination" point for the chat connection, with those proxying back to the kubernetes service endpoint, which then proxy back to the real backend service. So, when you go to swap out the backend service, nginx / haproxy start forwarding to the new service transparently, while still maintaining the long-lived connection with the client.

If this was doable, it would mean you'd only have to drain if you needed to swapout the proxy layer, which is likely a less-frequent task, and thus allows you more agility with your backend services.
Solaris developers have an unhappy history with CLAs, you are unlikely to see them in that community ever again.
Show HN: Pinned – Maintain API Versions in Go
SpaceX gets U.S. regulator to back satellite internet plan
Can the Earth Feed 10B People?
Kanban is definitely much better than Scrum.
The big trick is the proposal itself. Writing that is only possible if you are already tied in at all kinds of levels. I've seen some of these tenders up close, the companies that land the deals submit phone book sized proposals to tenders that are officially open but actually closed unless you are in a very select circle already. It's not uncommon for the proposal writer to then pass on the actual work to a whole slew of subcontractors at substantially lower rates.
Yes I really like Inbox.

It works really well as a 'TODO' list for email, plus with niceties for travel and what not.
Downtown Portland used to have free public transit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fareless_Square
Next in retail? Walmart hires 50 robots to scan shelves
He's using this horrible thing called the growth gap. It is this made up metric that assumes economic models are correct ahead of actual reality. It essentially measures actual growth against opinion. Its the old quip "It may work in practice, but it will never work in theory."

Potential GDP is defined as what the economy is capable of growing at. How is that determined? By a model. And if we are growing faster than the model says, it is assumed to be growth borrowed from the future. And growth below expectation can then be seen as storing up for the future. Under this incredible strange up-is-down interpretation, you'll see how far below expectation the Obama administration was. Some how not meeting expectations can now be a good thing.

1- So even if this were true, the above and below periods should balance to zero over a long enough time. If they don't, then there is a problem with your model not predicting growth properly. In the second chart, growth is often below expectation since the 1960s (as far back as the chart says) and almost entirely below since the 1980s. Something is clearly wrong with the potential growth model.

2- if it were true, why is this not a rebounding from the previous below potential of the last couple decades? In that case we aren't above potential just catching up to it.

3- using the output gap as a strong/weak signal doesn't even pass the smell test: it would show the economy of the 1980s as being inferior to the 1970s. In fact, it would show no economy being as magical time known as the 1970s!

Curious who this guy is, it is a terrible article, i found his academic page: "Evan Horowitz is an assistant professor of English at the University of North Texas who specializes in Victorian literature and culture."
Do you have any other book that can be considered as an alternative with some rigor but still be approachable to a beginner?