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I understand the goal (I've been woodworking for 20+ years).

Wood does not react to average humidity, it reacts to current humidity.

Defects occur because of sudden changes the wood cannot "handle" (IE it's not elastic enough, etc), not because the average is too high or low.

Over decades, the likelihood of that happening seems quite high.
Anybody who has actually been to China in 1998, 2008, and 2018 would.
I always have a Twitch stream running on my second monitor. The live chat is what makes it different from on-demand.
The book should be titled, "How to create a successful one-person online business."
Um, it had no effect on quality nor productivity. Yet they still recommend it? What koolaid have they drunk?
True, but I believe that so far Amazon has a glow of trust (maybe people think online retailer of that size don't need to resort to tricks). Not sure how long it will shine.
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Yeah same. I've found there are a handful of games that are fun to watch rather than play. League of Legends and MOBA games for instance are super freaking boring for me to play because I suck at killing creeps (too tedious for me) but watching pros play is pretty satisfying because the higher level games are faster paced.

Also agree with the TV thing -- lots of things I don't enjoy watching or maybe if its an episode, I don't have an entire hour to watch so rather not start one if I'm not gonna finish it.
Why is this better for Pinterest and/or Instapaper?

In the 2016 blog post announcing the acquisition:
http://blog.instapaper.com/post/149374303661

> All of these features and developments revolved around the core mission of Instapaper, which is allowing our users to discover, save, and experience interesting web content. In that respect, there is a lot of overlap between Pinterest and Instapaper. Joining Pinterest provides us with the additional resources and experience necessary to achieve that shared mission on a much larger scale.

Is that no longer true? Was it ever true?
It’s the same thing that’s happened to Steam sales. Start them off really strong then every year after slowly make them not as good but people come back for more anyways.
It redirects to : https://www.instapaper.com/gdpr
I may never have disagreed more with a comment on HN than this one.

TDD does absolutely nothing to hinder your creativity. All it does is help you to think about your code's behavior more thoroughly and catch inadvertent bugs. Nobody has so much talent they don't write bugs.

For music composition: composers generally start out with an idea of what they want to achieve, whether at the scale of the symphony, movement, section, passage, phrase, or bar. Then they try different solutions until they satisfy the idea they want to achieve. And ensure it flows with the overall structure. And repeat.

Beethoven didn't write out symphonies fully formed. He spent months and years experimenting with ideas until they satisfied what he wanted, e.g. the "test".
A "crisis" would imply that:

1) we don't get increasingly bigger and more powerful systems

2) we're behind some previously existing "no crisis" state

Both (1) and (2) are factually wrong.

Projects running over-budge, over-time, often not meet requirements etc, are not a crisis in the actual meaning of the world.

It's just a normal state of affairs.

And despite that we have got from the laughingly primitive software in the 50s and 60s, to the software "eating the world" today, and have systems with 10 to 100 or 1000 more lines of code, and way more functionality -- even in our pockets.

If only "crisis" looked that way in other domains too.

It's not a crisis, it's just unrealistic expectations.

Even if we could do 100x better in the _future_, it wouldn't justify the term crisis for the state we're in, and have been for decades.
Actually, no, it's a very very very well thought out resource that has references to where the research comes from and citations for it's data.

It may come as a surprise, but this really is engineering.
People have been studying wood as an engineering material for a very long time, and there are a large number of published studies on pretty much anything you can think of from drying rates to density to you name it.

Take a look at https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/products/publications/several_pubs...
Is this better than honey Chrome extension?
Is scaling the real reason there are no useful applications?
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There're games I enjoy but not very good at and streamers that play these games that I find entertaining to watch.

I usually keep Twitch playing while I do some housekeeping churns or cook. If there's a playthrough I particularly enjoy, I play VOD over a course of a few days for about 30 minutes at a time (usually one or two sessions a day). Otherwise I either watch live if one of my channels is online or pick a VOD from one of them.

Basically I treat Twitch channel as a YouTube channel or a podcast with an added bonus that they often broadcast live, too, and I can interact with the channel host.
According to CCC, most of what I want will be on better sale at back to school.
I agree that many red lights don't make sense for cyclists in an ideal world. But given the double standard being applied to cyclists, I don't want to give hateful people any more excuses.

In Austin, TX, they added signs to certain intersections saying that cyclists can use the pedestrian signal. In effect, this means that cyclists can often legally run a red light. Unfortunately I fear that some drivers don't pay attention to the signs and will think basically 100% of cyclists are illegally running the red light at these intersections. So I usually will wait for the green light, even in this case.
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There's a distinction between PDF and PDF/A. I agree with favoring HTML over just any PDF, for all the reasons cited in the article. But for certain kinds of documents you'd want PDF/A over HTML or perhaps in addition to HTML.

PDF/A can certainly accept, and a government policy can require the use of, accessibility features and also even digital signatures.
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I work for Twitch but I'll put it in old man terms: I have a subscription to MLB.tv. I watch EVERY SINGLE game of my team each year, that's 162*3 = 486 hours a year. That's 27% of a 1800 hour work year. If you go in season, that's 54%. It's on all day every day that I'm at my work desk. I watch Twitch the rest of the year.

Do I watch it intently? No. Do I know the score and what's going on? Generally. Do I feel I followed the season, YES. Though I have noticed that since I DVR (I watched the world series DURING spring training) a lot I don't keep up with the day to day discussions I actually know less about the team than my brother who watches few games but reads bleacher report constantly.

Why do I do it? Well for 8 years I worked in a heavily paired environment, then went to a job with private offices and felt under stimulated. Started watching baseball / twitch just so it felt like others were in the room. Also I have ADD so these things likely help keep me at neutral input levels.

I'm sure you have some garbage ass tv you just toss on as well. Home remodel shows, golf, blatheringly repetitive cable news. These things are mildly connected to your interest and are either there to be in the background or they're there to let you just zone out and decompress.

When working with amazon I often have to have this conversation with people... it usually goes like this:

55 year old business lead of some VP vertical: It's really wierd to me that people watch hours of other people play video games. It's got to be incredibly boring.

Me: I notice you have a "Masters" hat on. Do you watch that?

55: Yes.

Me: You realize that like 99% of people think golf puts them to sleep.

55: Touche, how much revenue can we make?

Me: XXXXYY

55: I'm interested.
I mostly watch Twitch during a big title release, just to see if I am interested or not. I also like watching big events like Overwatch League and other competitions. To me it is relaxing to watch people that are very good at the game play because I also learn from them and do that myself in game.

some just don't have the money to buy the game they want so they go into Twitch to watch that very game and get their fix until they can purchase that game.
All metaphors melt if you push them loudly enough.
I'm a person with a mailing list in this space who has recommended other people's products, so I can maybe offer some insight on how this world works.

The typical person working in this niche is a solo creator who maybe splits there time creating free content and doing paid consulting projects. The business model is usually something like "write a lot of regular free content to build up a giant mailing list and then occasionally sell something to your mailing list to pay the bills".

The problem is that it takes a lot of time and effort to create good content. You are often so drained creating your "free" content that you don't have enough time or energy left to create enough "paid" content regularly enough to pay the bills. So you find friends who have created great stuff that you really like and you help each other out by cross-promoting.

In almost every case, it's a direct business relationship. The typical deal in this niche for reselling electronic content is a 50/50 split. So you help your friend sell extra copies (which is just free income to them) while you also make decent money to sustain your work.

Of course once you get "magic internet money" coming in this way, it's very tempting to abuse your audience and oversell. But then you lose subscribers quickly. Some people are very cynical about this and literally have spreadsheets to maximize how much they can sell while minimizing user attribution, but I'm not a fan of that. It just feels gross.

So yes, it is indeed a small, interconnected web of people who agreed to cross-promote each other. And sometimes the recommendation isn't authentic, but often it is. But in almost case, it's not an exchange of free recommendations, but it's literally an affiliate split between the authors.

As far as long-form sales copy to sell books, it is definitely very hokey. But the counterpoint is that most other approaches just don't convert. A cold lead who finds you via Google needs to be convinced that your stuff is worth money and long-form sales copy is one way to do that. I also hate it and completely avoid it, but I understand why people do it.
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The question is what can we do about it? Are we stuck in the game of attention engineering forever?
I admit I'm rather hoping they go back to something like the pre-Pinterest "Premium" model, or perhaps better yet, just charge everyone a modest amount across the board.
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It's not necessarily that "getting a good deal" is the reason that people shop at Amazon. Personally I think their customer service is pretty top-notch compared to most anywhere else and I know I'll be in good hands 99% of the time if I have any problems with a product. That's worth any minuscule price-disadvantage compared to competitors to me.
I can only imagine they dropped the $2.99/mo fee when Pinterest bought it b/c the numbers were inconsequential.

Now that they will need income, they must be betting on the numbers being robust enough to support a team of 5.

But I'm genuinely not sure if I'd pony up when they start charging again.
Launch HN: Dinesafe (YC S18) – Crowdsourcing Food Poisoning Reports
My name is Patrick Quade, and I’m the founder of Dinesafe (https://dinesafe.org) and Iwaspoisoned.com (https://iwaspoisoned.com). We crowdsource food poisoning reports, and help detect and prevent outbreaks.

I launched Iwaspoisoned.com after experiencing a brutal bout of food poisoning from a deli in my hometown of Tribeca, NY. Out of concern for other consumers I called the deli to try and explain what happened and they hung up the phone. That inspired me to create a crowdsourcing platform to allow people to report. The idea was that if it was easy to discover if others were also sick after eating there, that would be useful information not just for other consumers but also for the deli owner.

Foodborne illness sickens 48 million consumers, and kills 3,000 every year in the US, according to US Center for Disease Control estimates. The financial burden is also significant. The total national cost of foodborne illness is estimated at $55 to $92 billion per year. and the impact on companies can also be significant, Chipotle lost $10 billion in market cap from its peak to its lowest point after it’s series of food safety missteps, and the founder and CEO was forced to step down.

We built a mobile responsive website with a simple form that allows consumers to report when they believe they have food poisoning. We moderate every report, with both a back end review, and front end/human review of each submission with the goal of eliminating malicious and inauthentic reports. We then geo analyze the data in real time, allowing us to pinpoint clusters of reporting associated with a single store, looking for multiple independent reports associated with the same store or location in the same time frame. We also store and analyze historial data. We developed an index and benchmarks that enable us to identify brands with negative and positive trends.

With our data, we predicted that Chipotle would have food safety issues ahead of their series of outbreaks, and we detected several of their outbreaks, and many others in real time.

Our business sells data intelligence to industry, focusing on enterprise clients in the restaurant industry. We offer daily alerts, intraday (outbreak) alerts, benchmarking, and secure messaging, plus an API service. We have also had interest in custom email branding/messaging, and "Dinesafe Certification" for those brands that rank consistently well in our analytics.

We now provide daily alerts to over 25,000 consumers, sending over a quarter million emails a month. We partner with and provide daily surveillance services to public health agencies in 6 countries. Within the US we partner with over 350 public health agencies, covering 90% of the US by population. We also provide services to the food Industry, primarily restaurants, but also producers, the grocery and convenience sectors and more. We have over a third of the top 50 restaurant chains in the US on our platform.

We are delighted to be on Hacker News, and look forward to hearing insights from the community. Thanks for your time.
i do that. the watching is not passive, you can discusss with the streamer and affect his actions or get explanations on a specific question. i use it to get better at go game.
>“It’s kind of exhausting playing to an empty room day in and day out with no results,” one Redditor wrote on a now-deleted thread on r/Twitch.

Maybe you should play for the game, like gamers did since the dawn of ...well, Space Invaders and Pacman, and not for the audience.
Examples of things we're sure are safe to insist on for certificates in the public Internet but we can't check in people's crappy corporate networks because the checks would just constantly fail and nobody cares to fix anything:

* The FQDN (minus a trailing dot) of the site must appear either exactly as a SAN dnsName or, with its first label replaced by a single asterisk, as a "wildcard", in the certificate, otherwise the cert is worthless

* The cert should have an Extended Key Usage. The EKU must contain at least 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.1 (meaning this key is to be used to identify a TLS server)

* The certificate mustn't use SHA-1 (or MD5 for that matter) as part of a signature algorithm
That's tough, especially because emacs + org-mode is most usable when combined with a few melpa packages. Even if you could get emacs installed, you'd (probably) want melpa packages to make it more usable.
And only gave the users one days notice before locking them out.

I will never again trust instapaper, independent company or not.
You also have to consider that the average length of a "day" for a popular Twitch streamer is 10-12 hours.

And that those streamers have to stream 6-7 days a week to maintain their audience.

Not worth it, honestly.
Looks like it's using hardcoded word/phrase scores based on AFINN-165[0]
Your example is actually built in: https://github.com/thisandagain/sentiment/blob/251bea96190ec...

[0]: http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/pubdb/views/publication_details.php?i...
It would be great to get insider info on why Pinterest thought it is great acquisition target. I never really understand the point of this deal.
My understanding is this is partly because they had a hard time collecting taxes in the past due to having weak institutions, so local governments raised money from external sources in return for giving those who gave them money a cut of the profit. As China develops it starts replacing these ad-hoc arrangements with more formal ones like you see elsewhere.
Pocket (https://getpocket.com) isn’t blocked and is now owned by Mozilla. I’m an European and a heavy Pocket user and it had no downtime.

That Instapaper blocks EU users is fishy to say the least. What it means is that they are probably selling user data and cannot keep doing it without informing users of it.

I can’t express how grateful I am for GDPR.
rocket league is more entertaining to watch than any other sport
I was a project leader on a successful SAP implementation at a DOW 30 firm back in the 90's. This was a third attempt at it, and I think I may be one of the only people who was on the team for attempts #1 and #2 which failed.

One of the simplest things an SAP implementation team can do to promote their success is to strictly limit the number of ABAP developers on the team. Developers are going to develop and while some customization will be needed, with a team of 10 or 20 ABAP developers you are going to generate way more customizations than you will with only 3 or 5 developers. Resource and skill scarcity will drive the discussions of "do we need this?"

More rare is that you also you need an exec sponsor at a CxO level (other than the CIO) who has the intestinal fortitude and leadership skills to tell their employees "we are going to conform our process to what the software offers" rather than the opposite. Your unique methods of fixed asset management and accounting (to take one example) are not where your company needs to invest in being different from every other company, much as your accounting manager who rails "this is how we always have done it because of our special situation" will complain to the contrary unless the CFO is telling them otherwise.
You can split the encoding across 32 cores:

https://bitmovin.com/constantly-evolving-video-landscape-dis...

https://bitmovin.com/bitmovin-supports-av1-encoding-vod-live...
> we re-engineered our processes to fit SAP.

That sounds just about like the most revolting and negative endorsement you can make for a business solution.

Every company is special and the flexibility to adapt to a changing environment is what keeps a company alive during those times of crisis, that always come. "We can't do this because the system does not allow it" is great and expected at the warehouse worker level, annoying at the branch manager level and catastrophic at senior management level.
> I think the "scientific consensus" you describe never existed.

I appreciate the correction. Thanks.
Try pointing to the part that is the key that unlocks it, and you will see. (-:

Yes, strictly speaking the headlined article is likely talking about door bolts not locks.
Emacs doesn't have to be installed on Windows, strictly speaking... you can run it out of a subdirectory without using an installer. IIRC the Windows installer just sets up some registry keys that make life a bit more convenient, but they aren't blockers to actually running the application.
What I came to realize after reading all these insightful comments is this: whenever a company buys SAP, they also buy an ERP or whatever system but, most often, they buy first and foremost safety. Safety that everybody else is using the same system (social proof). Often this includes the personal safety of the CIO for not getting fired if anything goes wrong...
Nice, I don't do much Scala so I never thought about using traits for that! Is that a common pattern?

It seems similar to traditional OO dependency injection, except without all the ceremony of adding a constructor parameter and corresponding class member to hold it.
Logging with computation expressions:
https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/computation-expressi...
Presumably they don't block [.] however, and since gmail ignores it, you can always just use t.estexample@gmail, then te.stexample@gmail, etc.
Unit test that cover complex regression scenarios are difficult to identify up front and are missed frequently.
On Languages, VMs, Optimization, and the Way of the World (2013)
One is a weapon of mass destruction and the other is not. Next question please.
Thanks for providing some perspective! I appreciate it.

And I completely understand that long form sales copy is often what converts visitors into customers. It just doesn't convert me. But it would be totally irrational for content creators to waste time on landing pages that'll convert anti-long-form grumps like me. :)
When I got sick (doctor), when my car broke down (car repairman), when the shower broke (plumber), when I was too lazy to exercise (fitness coach), when I couldn't bother doing my taxes (accountant) and many more.
+1 Instagram is (well it was) my everyday core app, something I can't really live without. I am paying like 30 USD/year for RSS reader and I would gladly pay same amount just to be sure the app is going to be alive in few years.
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Lived in CA my whole 30 years and your last few sentences were on the money. I wish I could say the state government was a good “value” for what we pay for it. Not there yet unfortunately
just tried it, honey is about coupon/deals while camel is about price charts (my 1min summary)
The article focuses on how standard an accent is, but to me the main factor is whether it's familiar enough to the listener for nuanced conversation to be understood. All English speakers are familiar with the Western US accent and British RP. But faced with an accent they haven't heard before, they miss nuances.

By 'nuances', I'm not talking about literary subtleties. For instance, when you ask if someone can do something and they say "Okaaaaaay...", there's a lot of content in the inflection of the aaaaaay that tells you how likely it is to happen. That content is different for different accents.

Since it's a hopeless cause that everyone will learn to speak with the same accent, people working in global businesses should learn to understand the major world accents. It seems like an order of magnitude less work to understand an accent than to speak it.

In the tech world, it's pretty useful to be able to understand Hindi, Mandarin, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Australian, Singapore, Israeli, and Filipino accents.
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I have it on my other monitor while I develop. I don't divert full attention to it, I'm just listening then periodically tune in when I'm in thought or need a small mental break.
The further down you scroll the more the negativity becomes hit or miss.
I am fine with paying a reasonable subscription fee for Instapaper. Privacy – if guaranteed – has its value too. (At the moment, Instapaper blocks EU users because it’s obvious violating the GDPR, that’s troublesome …)
Turntables are not just for reversing. A turntable also moves cars (and engines) between multiple tracks and storage facilities. Two-car sets need to be moved even if not reversed.
> Similarly, if you're still living in the past

you mean like when privacy was still a thing?