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One of the hardest parts! Marketing and sales are big time consumers that take away from my ability to build great products. And to be honest, my skill sets lie elsewhere.

I’m hoping that this app can help developers with the sales, and with a few successes and iterations on the idea, help with marketing too.

Initially I’d like the app to be very clean and focused, which is why it’s limited to connecting only dev and sales for now. So many other apps have too many options and are focused on “building teams” or finding “co-founders”. This app’s goal is simple:

Let’s get dev some help, and give sales some side hustle opportunities.

They both have incentive to help each other out, bring great projects to life, and make a few extra bucks while they’re at it.
Back in 1999, I would've found it absolutely inconceivable to not chat with my HS classmates on ICQ.

In fact I still have my ICQ # memorized (there were numbers not screen names or email addresses).

Before that, IRC :)

All they needed to die was something new and shiny that people felt could be a credible alternative.
1/2 an onion, potato, or lemon works. You can also take some tinfoil and wrap it around the end of your grill tongs to scrape the grates.
Logistcally getting in/out of Gaza is far more difficult than the West Bank. A western passport means you get get to places like Ramallah by simply driving there, some checkpoints you barely need to slow down, others they stop you and check your passports, but even late at night at Qalandiya, a British Passport works wonders (Different story if you're from the west bank of course)

Gaza on the other hand requires a ton of permits to get in
Rails + intercooler.js gives you most of the functionality you need with a minimum of complexity.
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clearly the alternative is a startup for self cleaning grills.
> I travelled to Hebron and Bethlehem last month. Crossing the checkpoint was very easy

What's your ethnicity, what passport are you traveling on, and what's your family's religion (not your own personal religious beliefs, but your background)? Based on your username, I'm willing to bet that your situation isn't particularly applicable to the concerns OP expressed.

Israeli security is no joke, and they perform a degree of profiling that is explicitly illegal in the US (and some European countries, though to a lesser degree). There's some recent pushback against this and a few recent victories in Israeli courts for Muslims and non-Muslim Arabs, but the degree of profiling that occurs legally within Israel is still way further than what most other countries practice.

People who are from the US and Europe - particularly if they're white and especially if they're Jewish - generally have a good impression of Israeli security because they're rarely subjected to the most intrusive parts. People who are Muslim - especially if they're dark-skinned or Arab-looking - tend to have much worse experiences.

I know this will get downvoted because it's not the experience that most HN readers will have, but it is the experience that slim expects that they'll have, as evidenced by the very question they asked.
"not be affected by laws"

Are you kidding? The will make ISP blacklist yuor IP ranges faster than you can spell decentralized. This is the fundamental issue with any "decentralized" service that it runs on a system that is controlled by governments and corporations. You can fool yourself into believing that this works but in practice they can stop you so many ways that it is not worth the effort even trying. Step 0 for any decentralized service is to create a point to point network that is fully operated by end users and there is no dependency on anything that is controlled by a government or a ISP/corporation. Good luck!
It's not fully zero sum - the air that water is taken out of gets humid again when it goes over the sea.
To be fair, most processes are slightly more complicated than turning a screw. Most processes maybe monotonous but are sufficiently complicated to require concentrated effort to get right. For example a turning operation or a milling operation.
>The big thing in this one is the LLVM upgrade, which has been a long time coming.

This is great news. I just ran my usual benchmark and it seems a performance regression has been fixed and some performance added over that. I'm measuring the speed of loading a Sony A77 raw file in rawloader[1]. That includes TIFF parsing and then a tight loop that processes every pixel. Here's the version history:

1.17 - 95ms

1.18 - 80ms (-16%)

1.19 - 79ms (-16%)

1.20 - 80ms (-16%)

1.21 - 79ms (-17%)

1.22 - 79ms (-17%)

1.23 - 79ms (-17%)

1.24 - 84ms (-12%)

1.25 - 74ms (-22%)

I believe the jump in 1.18 was LLVM 4.0 and now LLVM 6.0 is giving me a new performance jump. No idea what happened in 1.24 though but it seems to be fixed now.

[1] https://github.com/pedrocr/rawloader/
> You can check it out in nightly here https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/arch/

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/simd/ deserves mention, too, because it leapfrogs C and C++ (whereas std::arch brings Rust to parity).
They will when losing that data actually hurts them enough. We're far from that.
Ohh no, the Japanese work wayyyy more than 8 hours a day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salaryman

though things are changing nowadays.
I'm including both corporate chains like TGIF and Chipotle, in addition to:

* that sushi restaurant in the strip mall, that serves you rice cooked with fluoride water and soy sauce with sodium beonzoate

* that "gourmet" deli that serves you sodium nitrate-laden on top of pesticide- and preservative-laden bread with a yellow #5 pickle.

* that coffee shop that pours a hot beverage at 140F/60C into a plastic-lined, plastic-lidded cup.

* that cafeteria in that corporate office that heats up frozen soup in a plastic bag before pouring it into the serving pot.

* and so on

Our food system resembles a Brave New World-esque intelligence test that most of us are failing.
I just read the book “1491” which covers a lot on this theme. Recommended. Short answer: it was always politicized, in various ways, for various ends. Most of those ways downplayed the size, scope and sophistication of native cultures.
I have trouble with that article due to the tone. There’s no reason to refer to people as ‘potheads’ or mention Jerry Garcia with bitterness and disdain, or at all. It seems the author has an axe to grind with the remnants of 60s culture.
Hemp can grow places trees can't, like high altitudes. And hemp is such a fast growing weed that few other weeds can catch up during the growth cycle, making it less work for the farmer. http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/00-067.htm
How Not to measure latency
While I agree with you 101% I think that politics play a huge factor on this: no administration wants to do its homeworks, only for the next one to profit from the shiny new infrastructure.

I believe this is a stronger factor in countries that have a maximum amount of mandates per administration.
> As a senior dev, I keep asking: would I apply to my current application? I have to answer that no, I wouldn't.

Looking at it from the other point of view, are you getting enough candidates that you are comfortable with via your current application? If so, the question becomes whether it would be enough of a benefit getting "you" (people like you) to apply to your current job... vs the cost of having that many more people to filter through.

Just like the code you deliver, the application process doesn't need to be perfect (because being perfect has a large cost associated). Instead, you have to weight the tradeoffs and pick the solutions that best match the resources you have available to the outcome you want. You need "good enough" (I hate that term, it sounds like "bad" to my ears, but it's literal meaning is correct here).
I can only support the recommendation. It not only has good insights on systems thinking, it also pays a lot of attention on communicating systems thinking and recommendations based on it to others since, as a rule, to get any meaningful changes done at least half of the work is convincing other people.
Probably a ceramic coating.
Snowden: "I’ll just namecheck Qubes here, just because it’s interesting. I’m really excited about Qubes because the idea of VM-separating machines, requiring expensive, costly sandbox escapes to get persistence on a machine, is a big step up in terms of burdening the attacker with greater resource and sophistication requirements for maintaining a compromise. I’d love to see them continue this project. I’d love to see them make it more accessible and much more secure. [You can read more about how to use Qubes here and here.]

Something that we haven’t seen that we need to see is a greater hardening of the overall kernels of every operating system through things like grsecurity [a set of patches to improve Linux security], but unfortunately there’s a big usability gap between the capabilities that are out there, that are possible, and what is attainable for the average user."

https://theintercept.com/2015/11/12/edward-snowden-explains-...
Seems to me like we're where we are now precisely becuase we've learned what can be done with all that data, and we don't like it.

Your whole argument is based on a misdirected premise anyway. In fact credit reporting and health care are very heavily regulated industries in terms of how that data is stored and what can be done with it. Facebook saw no such regulation, and look where we are.
The "extended mind" seems to me to be an extension of Richard Dawkins' idea of the "extended phenotype".
Restaurants of some kind ha. Technically not even many takeaways use packaging that may or may not increase phthalate content.
Much less utensils.

The other question is how much and why does it matter?
Came here to ask if this was a zero sum game (verbatim, actually). So, thanks for this.

Given how much human conflict has erupted over access to rivers and other water sources, I can't imagine it will go well if a lot of countries start to do this at scale...

It's also fascinating how we muck-up water management in seemingly contradictory ways. I live in a temperate climate with a good amount of rainfall, but my town is already jockeying with its neighbors for the last remaining access points on the local water reservoir. Meanwhile, every time we get a heavy downpour, local creeks overflow due to excessive runoff from parking lots and what not and end up flooding all kinds of places (the local mall floods pretty much once every year or two, it seems). Fascinating how we can have not enough fresh water and too much fresh water all at the same time.

Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink.
The NASA Systems Engineering Handbook is one of my favorites: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/nasa_sy...
I have to disagree there.... I think Git integration in the Jetbrains IDEs are amazing. There's a general attitude the command line gives more power and flexibility than fancy graphical interfaces, and I'm with that 99% of the time.
For me, Git integration is the exception.

I've found in many shops that people memorise a few favourite Git riffs and then just try to make any VCS task fit those regardless.

I find the Webstorm/IntelliJ Git integration to be very flexible... the Log view gives a lot of useful options to reason about the state of the various branches when there are several features in flight across the team simultaneously.
Selective log view modes and the ability to group/visually reorder commits is useful too.
I get a lot of use out of the Branch Compare tool (which is integrated with the diff merge tool), to show a snapshot of the differences between any two branches at any point of time, and to selectively merge across any small pieces of code interactively when a cherrypick of an entire commit would be too broad a brush.

I expect there are ways of doing similar things in the CLI, but I find the Jetbrains IDE implementation gives a lot of clarity and confidence in what needs to be done and what's about to happen. Certainly more so than most dev shops I have experience of, where it's a small set menu of pull/commit/ push, merge, and optimism.
Banning bristles is unnecessary as long as they are used correctly, which is only before further cleaning.
But where will they train their Sardaukar?
And again, this miniscule phthalate level increases matters why? (Even cumulative.)

Please answer with solid evidence of morbidity. Guardian did not do the homework. The studies on phthalates are quite tenuous for adults. There are a few which link to developmental problems.

This is a very different case from children chewing on phthalate containing foams or sleeping in such. Which has been quite clearly linked. The risk is mainly for pregnant women then?

Regardless, most of the problems would be related to packaging. Ditch styrofoam and plastic. Use ones certified phthalate free.

Oh and Guardian published this some years ago in a better way. Misrepresenting evidence then too.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/10/phthala...

Sounds like some sort of agenda.

The other quotes border on conspiracy theory.
that's not what is being removed. It's 3rd party data that FB is purchasing not, that advertisers are providing through Custom Audiences for Lookalikes.
New Beginings
That's fine, my objection is to the framing of it being impossible to tell businesses that are already heavily regulated how they are to clean their grills.
Kalyug Ka Haryana – कलयुग का हरियाणा – Very Heart Touching Video – UK Haryanvi
We have found at http://8-food.com/ that sanitation systems are basically the core tech in robotic food prep.
I think if any of the wire loops break you have the same risk.
The first step in legalizing marijuana federally is removing hemp from the controlled substance list? That makes no sense, given that smoking hemp isn't going to get you high and how many states have already legalized marijuana, either medicinally or medically to great public approval (the waters have already been tested, and they're fine).

It also makes no sense given that less than 3 months ago, Sessions rescinded the policy of non-interference with state laws.

I mean, I'm sure people believe that, but I'm just saying, it doesn't really follow...
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> Are there any advantages over Visual Studio + Visual Assist, for C++ or C# languages?

A fully-extensible, flexible environment which anyone (even a secretary!) can easily extend.

> About text editor features, your workarounds have flaws compared to good GUI.

They're not workarounds; they are the features. emacs has a GUI. I repeat: emacs has a GUI. Tooltips in a GUI display as you'd expect. Folding in a GUI displays as you'd expect.

> Another text editor feature hard to do in text mode is spell checking for strings and comments. Color is already used for syntax highlighting, so wavy red underlines come handy.

Terminals support underlines!

> But visual studio is more than an editor, it includes a build system, debuggers and profilers, package manager, and many more related features.

Have you ever used emacs? It's more than an editor; it connects to build systems like make, maven, gradle, ant, what-have-you. It has its own elisp debugger, connects to gdb, SLIME provides an integrated Common Lisp debugger &c. It has a profiler. It has a package manager. It has a best-of-breed git interface, Magit. It has a best-of-breed personal organiser, Org-mode. It has multiple email clients (rmail, vm, gnus & notmuch come to mind, but there are probably more). It has multiple web browsers (emacs-w3m, eww, w3 & a new experimental WebKit-based browser). It has multiple image viewers. It has multiple terminals & its own shell.

Emacs is far, far 'more than an editor.' It's probably the single editor which is the furthest from being just an editor. Don't trust me: give it a shot! It really is a wonderful experience.

And yes, it has a GUI. Images, scrollbars, menubar, toolbar: the works. Runs on X11, macOS & Windows. And it also runs perfectly well in a VT100 terminal. You can use the same emacs locally and remotely, over SSH. It's pretty awesome.
In case of Eos, you need to own the tokens to run smart contracts on the network (mire you have, more % of processing power you get).

In case of Ether, besides being used for transaction fees, it will be used for providing security/governance (token holders kind of voting on what the next blocks are), but also as an underlying store of value (e.g. as a collateral for tokens pegged to fiat currencies - see MakerDAO)
> if I am ever in the middle east, I'm not stepping out of Israel.

Can you elaborate on this?
Can someone explain why riders are even allowed on a budget bill?
A meat tenderizer?
I agree re. tree views, but was merely noting that they exist, if one really wants them. rms may be doctrinaire, but emacs is not!
I'm happy to see the above summary of the principal benefits and motivations behind such trustless, private and decentralised systems.

I think it's worth talking about the fact that the discussion too often degrades to "good people don't have anything to hide" or similar arguments. Such an attitude demonstrates incomprehension of just how much power these little pieces of data surrender to the upper tier of our stratified society. Examples of that would be banal, especially today.
> Of course hemp is not marijuana

I think I know what you mean, but cannabis sativa is both hemp and marijuana. The US gov't just defines the distinction via THC content.
> Here's How to Avoid It

Stop using Uber.
"and Here’s How to Avoid It" Quit using this horrible company since day one's app?
Chinese smartphones have become a force to be reckoned with -- offering equal functionality at half the prices of more status/international brands.

Xiaomi in India is a classic example.
> If I wanted to host servers, I'd host them somewhere else, not on my home internet connection.

But why? You probably have a tens to hundreds of megabit connection that is always on. You have powerful computers that wouldn't even notice a webserver running. Buying a domain costs $8 and pointing it at home is as simple as changing the DNS entry a couple times a year or using DynDNS services.

And what you don't have is a need for all the complexity and requirements that most automatically assume they need just because they're drowing in them in their day job.

Hosting from home is more than enough for a personal website. It cuts the gordian knot of deciding what types of speech and content will be allowed on any given service. It prevents the perverse incentives of spying and selling users. It allows you to add things to your site on a whim just by copying a file to your web directory or opening an text editor. All the tools of your operating system, this refined and extremely usable software is now just there. Now you don't need a database. No need for a CMS. No need for scaling or containers or 99.9999% uptime.

Hosting from home allows you to participate in the 'net in a way that is just natural. When there's not 5 layers of abstraction between you and the web you really can participate and build whatever you want.

And since you don't need all that abstraction, dynamic content, and CMS (your OS is the CMS!) the security problems everyone loves to jump on simply vanish.

Say you want to monitor your logs, well, you don't need to go install some dynamic language parser and prettifier full of attack surfaces. You just tail the log and grep. You open it in OpenOffice if you really have to have a GUI. You can set alerts as easily as tailing a log.

You see day to day the type of bots, people, and referers and how they come to your site all without google analytics. You can respond to people using your site in real time; I love adding personal messages to people as they browse my site(s).

This is what I mean by participating in the net. Getting down into it. It's a beautiful thing and it solves so many problems that can't even be approached when you're using someone elses computer and someone else's connection.

And if you're in the USA you completely bypass third party doctorine and actually have an expectation of real privacy.

I just don't get the hostility to the concept I see on HN.
>>will make running campaigns more difficult.

I hope you weren't expecting any sympathy. A camera in our bathroom would also make it easier for you to suggest us a "better" shampoo, but no thanks.

>>this mostly just makes running effective campaigns more complicated and expensive.

Again, that's your problem.

>>The data is still being collected and sold, now you can’t just get it directly through Facebook anymore.

Until the outrage hits a tipping point.
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Here's your answer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYh5WACqEk
Case study: How we've developed custom wear e-commerce platform for a business
That's one thing I have noticed in general. I used to think that as a long time customer you are valued and get better deals. But this seems to have changed to the opposite. Long time customers are viewed as something a company doesn't have to compete for anymore and instead more money can be extracted from them. See cell phones, TV cable, car insurance and others. Almost like employment where now the only way to get a raise is often to change jobs and not to stay.

It's a weird development and I wonder what the long term effects of this attitude will be.
Can you also teach systems with their own resolution about the aliases (Jest, Flow, etc.)
Am I the only one seeing an "Earn up to 1500$/week" Lyft banner right above the header of this article?
>The chambers burn solid fuel to produce silver iodide

seems a little off - most fuel doesn't contain silver or iodine. I expect what happens is the put silver iodide on the fuel and then they heat produced causes it to rise up in the manner of a hot air balloon.

Incidentally silver iodide seems to cost $300-$500 / kg but you don't need very much of it

Wikipedia has "Approximately 50,000 kg are used for cloud seeding annually, each seeding experiment consuming 10–50 grams."
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Overwatch and DBT: Why It’s Time to Teach Boys Coping Skills
TL;DR — avoid compressing secrets.

The PoC is an Nginx module which identifies potentially secret parts of the response using a regular expression matcher, and avoids adding these to the compression dictionary.
Meta-comment : I personally don't trust any information coming from businessinsider / wsj / theverge. Everytime I open one of their articles, I feel like it wasn't really worth reading. I only read the HN comments. At the end of the day, it's always tiring to analyze their articles to get the truth from the buzz and ove-generalization eg "the robot are killing Tesla". They are probably good starters for discussions on HN. By the way, the title on HN is way better than the actual title of the article.
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There is a good book that deals with the question of why it was Europeans that colonized the Americas (and other places) and not the other way round: "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel

One of the main points is that the geography of Eurasia allowed easier transfer of staple crops and useful animals between cultures. More, higher quality food than elsewhere allowed a better division of labor, and among other things it made it possible to send flotillas across the ocean.

(I should add that all the other points made in the book are also non-racist. There is nothing inherent in European humans that made them the explorers and colonizers; it was simply winning the geographic lottery.)
Legislating the problem away won't work in the long run. The fix we need to the internet and web is technical. Too many people want the data. It's too valuable.
This makes me wonder aloud ... why shouldn't we charge people who are more affluent more than those who are poor? We apply this idea already in our income tax systems.

I'm not sure I subscribe to this idea, but I notice I don't feel morally aghast at this story.