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This is pretty much exactly my project Darch is/does, except that it is truly completely native.

https://godarch.com/

Here are my recipes: https://github.com/pauldotknopf/darch-recipes

You can use either Ubuntu/Arch/Debian/VoidLinux.

My entire operating system is stored on DockerHub. I run "update-machine" from my terminal, grab a snack, come back, reboot, and my machine is updated.

My entire OS has a tmpfs overlay, meaning I can reak havok, and a simple reboot will wipe everything clean. I use "hooks" to mount disks at certain spots (/home, /var/lib/docker, etc) in the initramfs, before chroot.

Also, you can try it out really quickly in VM with a pre-built image: https://pknopf.com/post/2018-11-09-give-ubuntu-darch-a-quick...

I run the same exact image, bit for bit, natively on 3 machines I have (laptop, home and work). Together, with Darch and my dotfiles, my environment is consistent, wherever I go.
Dennis Johnson, Creator of a Rediscovered Minimalist Score, Has Died
Here’s how I managed Scope Creep as a professional project manager
In Australia it goes further - any image that "appears" to be, will be covered by the laws.

An example, there's a cartoon image of Bart Simpson performing a certain act. As he's a child, that is covered by Australian laws.
I’m listening. Couple of comments.

The fact that cows must produce babies in order to produce milk was somehow lost on me. That’s unfortunate. I had assumed it was injected hormones that faked a pregnancy. But you did send me on a cow rabbit-hole.

> intense emotional pain for both

I did not find objective evidence that this is common, nor do I think it is easy to evaluate whether a cow is experiencing “intense emotional pain.”

> lonely terror

Yes, the worst milk producers do that. I buy organic and that means the cow absolutely must be pastured.

> video evidence available online

Yes, of the worst possible conditions, taken at the most offensive and least ethical milk producers, and posted to blogs with a clear vegan bias to rationalize. Surely. :P

> no way this demand could ever be met (unless ethics is sacrificed)

I would like to see evidence for this assertion
===== REMOTE ONLY ===== Elixir, JavaScript, Ruby developer (6+ years experience) =====

Location: Melbourne / Bangkok

Remote: Yes (only interested in remote)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Elixir, Phoenix, Ruby/Rails, Java EE (but I'd rather not), PHP, Node, TypeScript, React/Redux and Aurelia using modern JS (but I like to write vanilla JS where it makes sense), Redis, Azure, AWS, Heroku (some time ago), Linux (CentOS and Ubuntu), Git, and many collaboration, project management and source control tools. All the usual suspects.

Résumé/CV: http://zen.id.au/cv.pdf

Email: z at zen dot id dot au

=====

Some code samples (for obvious reasons I can only really show open source stuff):

- Domainatrex (https://github.com/Zensavona/domainatrex) is a TLD parsing library that I wrote in Elixir, it uses the Public Suffix List to create a bunch of functions with a macro and pattern match on domain names (getting a TLD from a domain name is not regexable). It's a small and satisfying piece of code in my opinion. (see: https://github.com/Zensavona/domainatrex/blob/master/lib/dom...)

- Domain Scraper (https://github.com/Zensavona/domain-scraper) is a fairly hacky web scraper/crawler that looks for expired domain names on big websites to sell to SEO guys, the testing situation isn't great, although the README explains how it works and there are some slides from a talk I gave about it.

Website: https://zen.id.au
Twitter: https://twitter.com/zensavona

I have Australian and Maltese (EU) citizenship, and I'm 100% happy to charge as a freelancer / contractor. Right now I'm living in Bangkok (GMT+7) but I'm perfectly to work evenings as needed for the right company.
My son and I try to visit the cockpit every time we fly. This last trip included an AA 767-300.

After being in the glass cockpits on the newer aircraft, the 767 is a real throwback. It feels almost military in it's apperance and setup.

Compare the 767: https://imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/1/5/9/0247951...

To an A340: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/A3...
So how did he got customers?

> As I mentioned, my first lead/opportunity came from an introduction. That was made possible when I took a couple friends (who are salespeople) out for drinks to tell them what I was working on. Afterwards they both said they would try to think of people to refer me to.

> My next two customers came from a less obvious channel. A friend told me about a service called Growth Geeks and suggested I create a profile for my service. I was hesitant at first because it seemed like a distraction, but I signed up nonetheless.

So basically he sent an email to the founder of that website like this https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5706d181b09f95e331b21... saying that the author (a bit confusing to figure out as both are called Mike/Michael) can grow your sales with no marketing.

Then this happened:

> He responded that day and asked if I had time to speak on the phone.

> On the call I learned that he had a customer who needed 2,000 leads a month and they needed 2,000 leads a month for themselves. I used the same sales process as my first call and closed two deals in 30 minutes worth $3,000 / mo (25% of the $4,000 in revenue went to Growth Geeks). Suddenly I went from $1,000/mo to $4,000 / mo.

My question is now, how he manages to make 4k leads?!

> Later that week I decided it was time to double down on this side project. I spent a couple nights writing email templates and planning outbound email campaigns. By May of 2015 I had sent over 30,000 sales and marketing emails so I knew how to get high response rates (see play #1).

So now he says he sent over 30000 emails (I assume he has a mailing list of 30000 and sent an email, but that doesn't match what he says, he seems to have sent multiple emails). So let's say he has 30000 email list and a click-through rate of 13.3% (which I think is very very high, maximum I got was around 3-4% and was only once) then he would make 4000 leads.

First thing I think is strange, is how he got 30000 emails? That's kind of the most important part of the guide, without this he couldn't make any lead.

Then he says this:

> I sent emails to about 500 people over the course of a month which resulted in ~20 free trial sign-ups. Two of those free trials converted within the month and by the end of June, I had $5,000 in booked MRR.

Note that this is another customer acquisition source. So he has an additional 500 emails.

I mean how can a person reproduce this guide without these mailing lists?

So even if he says how he did it, you can't really do the same unless you have:

- Friends that can sign up for your product or refer other people
- Big email lists
- Create leads from ???

I feel like all these missing points leads directly to his startup https://getsimpledata.com/ - So I guess is more about marketing.

Anyway, I think the post was interesting, but not too much I can do about it because I probably know about:

- Focus on a problem that already exists
- Work on your pain point
- Outsource to a cheap country
- Positioning in the market

Some types for the author: Philipinnes
>Military doesn't decide the budget either.

This relies on the (wrong) assumption that military leadership doesn't hold sway in the government. Historically, when the pentagon asks for more funds, the USG provides.
I too remember. I still play Myth II at lan parties, and I'm just as terrible at it now as I was when I was a MoG. The day when Microsoft bought Bungie was a dark one indeed.
I've just started on Chess after not playing since I was a kid. And I didn't play much back then either. lichess has pretty decent tutorials, puzzles, etc. which will definitely help you get to a point where you can play like a novice ;)

There are endless resources on YouTube including lectures from grand masters on various topics from various chess clubs.

I've mixed lichess training, actual playing, and their tutorials with YouTube videos and I'm having a lot of fun and improving slowly. I can recommend Ben Finegolds' lessons as fun and instructive and various other members of the club he belongs to also have good lessons.

Just be warned, it's very addictive!
The truth is, there is no 5-10 hour work week for 99% of people. Even if you make something like this person did, if you don't continue investing a lot of time into it, eventually competition will break you to pieces. Why? Because your competitor is hungry and working a lot more than 5-10 hours a week.

I know this, because I've built two side income businesses, sat back and collected money only to find competitors had taken me over. They weren't big by any means but the $3,000 a month I made off one and the $1,000 a month off another was quite nice. I could've quit my job and traveled, but instead I paid down my mortgage and banked/invested the rest. This left me with a lot of money (for me). I eventually sold both businesses when I saw the writing on the wall with various competitors and industry changes.

I did end up traveling for a while though. I did that with a remote job. Sure I had to work during the day, but that left plenty of time to explore whatever city I was in at night and do bigger adventures on the weekend.

TLDR; 5-10 hour work week doesn't last.
HAML for HTML is still around.

SASS is nice for CSS.

ClojureScript + Reagent/Re-frame is amazing though! (See Hiccup syntax)
I think the two terms used by you and the parent don't always overlap neatly: "your family" and "those you love"
I have yet to find the right gui nethack for me... what are your suggestions?

Also - any good tower defense suggestions?
Haiku uses home/end to jump to beginning/end of line like Windows/Linux does, but you can rebind those keys.

There is also only one clipboard, and none of the "primary paste buffer / selection buffer / etc." nonsense, either.

So ... the dream is alive on Haiku, anyway. :)
Emails seem to be ending up in recipients' spam boxes
Hi all,

I run a startup and emails from our business address seem to be flagging spam filters most of the time recently, which it's starting to really have an impact on our ability to perform basic business functions.

I have done a lot of research online and it's not getting me anywhere. There are lots of tips for avoiding blacklists and spam filters proactively, but not much advice on what to do if your emails are already blacklisted. The issue doesn't seem to be with our domain (we tried calling GoDaddy and were told our domain is not flagged). GoDaddy suggested we contact our email host to see if our email has been flagged (we signed our email up separately through Office365). Office365 customer service created a ticket and they have yet to be helpful.

We aren't sending spam. We did use yesware to send a couple of business campaigns a few months ago, and I think the problem started then and has been getting increasingly worse since. Unfortunately, found out after the campaigns that you are supposed to "warm up an IP". Since then, we haven't sent anything except individual emails, and have been asking anyone who says they noticed an email go to spam to mark it as "not spam". The problem is such that sometimes mid-thread, where a client and I have exchanged multiple emails, I am told that my response is sent to spam.

Does anyone have experience with this/suggestions?

Thanks!
There's a reason gameplay mechanics aren't copyrightable. This is how game design evolves. I'd hate to live in the world where ID software permanently owned the rights for making first person shooting games

Wasn't there a problematic patent on The Incredible Machine that kind of killed that genre for a while?
Ours were niche constraints (legacy hardware still in-use), as I bet much of the world is. Oh the tyranny of libc...

I would, however, like to question this wisdom of always having to run the latest and greatest. Yes there are security considerations but properly hardened, old software and runtimes run fine. You need an actually security guru, though, and not some startup promising turn-key solutions.
its usually spun as "consumers love more relevant advertising"
I have worked with TI boards in the past and agree they have great documentation also.
One pitfall I did run into however was that the development boards are sold at a very low price but when you get into production quantities, I found the prices were higher.
Sort of a loss leader business model.
But yes if you want something to hack around with and are looking for great documentation and tool chains TI is definitely worth considering.
That's because they tried and failed miserably (kind of, they weren't tech-literate enough to even know what they should try, but they certainly tried very hard to try).
You are a good person. Money is really good to keep separate though at least for many people I think. I've done similar things like loaned my older brother enough to get through nursing school as he was stocking at Target at 33 and I thought this was a better path. I was better off then but not well off and this cause some strains. When he was doing better it was hard to get him to pay back anything even at 0% interest (I eventually gave up and made it a a gift though wasn't the original intent).

I also loaned my dad basically my life savings to bail out his company which the great recession ended bankrupting him anyway. This caused a strain with our relationship mostly because he felt and continues to feel extremely guilty about it even though I was able to rebuild my savings since then. Now I pay half his rent and try to avoid tying my finances too closely to him to try and avoid his creditors and possible future medicaid clawbacks. Money and family can be tricky.
The generic name for these types of solutions is DLP or data loss prevention. DLP solutions are common in regulated industries with finance typically having the most extreme forms of DLP solutions implemented.

1) DLP solutions for email and cloud storage: Office 365 and GSuite both have a bundled DLP solution. 3rd party solutions are also fairly comprehensive.

2) DLP solutions for workstations. This can range from sharing being disabled via MDM to DLP monitoring software (sometimes bundled in anti-virus) to some type of Desktop as a service solution (See techjuice's answer for more info on the last choice).

3) DLP server solutions, these can monitor for and disable certain sharing protocols. Most of the solutions are commercial (opendlp being an exception) and relatively rare out in the wild.

4) Network-based DLP. This can be a MITM proxy which all traffic goes through, common in financial firms. This can also include more basic solutions like firewalls blocking certain types of traffic or websites

5) Security monitoring solutions. This can be a SIEM solution which aggregates logs and looks for suspicious activity. Similar solutions are user behavior analytics systems which correlate historic user history, user roles and system information to look for suspicious activity. This type of system is essentially what Google's BeyondCorp Proxy is doing in the background.

6)Audit logs. This is primarily for tracking down who leaked data, but can serve as a preventive measure
Even if PUBG was Unity and not UE, Epic could have made the game.
And those are just the ones that make it explicit. It's also pretty easy to mask usage of GA via a reverse proxy[1], or indirectly use GA via services such as Segment[2].

While both do create a degree of separation between your device and Google's servers, it still underscores your point of getting away from Google entirely being far more difficult than just avoiding Search.

[1] https://medium.freecodecamp.org/save-your-analytics-from-con...

[2] https://segment.com/
Child porn laws are stupid and driven by emotion rather than logic. Why else could a child face legal consequences for taking pictures of their own bodies? That is something that could only come into law by having a culture where saying “no” to anything vaguely anti-cp is social suicide. The same goes for typing “kid porn” into bing.

There is a reason why people are generally casual about gore content but emotional about cp content. It’s brainwashing. I once saw a bbc reporter (the uk is hyper-brainwashed about this issue, imo because they actually have tons of pedos) who was in japan doing a documentary about sex dolls. While looking around the
I wonder what a court has said about this, or if there are laws or regulations at the federal level about this.

I always thought a contract had to include "a meeting of the minds," and I cannot see how that is possible if one party can change their mind for any reason at any time without any discussion or renewed agreement.
I think it's the difference between what comes first, the work or the luck and what's the dominant force.

If you study hard and get good grades, you might find yourself in a position where someone needs to hire for a role that you're already prepared for. Sure, there's luck in bumping into that person, but you worked hard to be able to take advantage of opportunities, so I'd say luck had very little to do with your success. If it wasn't this lucky break, there would be another one.

If you brush off school and happen to get hired by a boss that could care less if you do work of any quality, that's mostly luck and probably not repeatable.

Sure, Gates and Bezos experienced luck during their careers, but I'd be willing to bet that the dominant trait in their growth was hard work and intelligent decision making. Some people like to think of them as happening to be in the right place at the right time, but I think they worked hard to prepare themselves with the skills necessary to see those massive opportunities and were obsessed with moving as fast as possible towards their goals.
> Just as a nitpick: communities can (almost) never "get its act together", as they are comprised of people with different preferences who do not want to abandon their preferences for some abstract common good.

That seems to be a defining characteristic of Linux communities, anyway. Not sure how you can say "all" communities are like that.

> Example: Ctrl-Z. In a terminal, it suspends a process. In most GUI editors it performs undo. Shall we force a global standard?

Haiku uses Alt instead of Ctrl for shortcuts (similar to macOS and the Cmd key), so Alt+Z does undo and Ctrl+Z suspends a process, both in the Terminal. (If you want to use Windows-style keybindings, then it's the reverse, of course.)
Exploring San Jose's abandoned mental asylum
I have explored that approach, using Ansible, and I think it is promising. I earlier tried an approach with Vagrant and Virtualbox but the non-nativeness of my environment were causing more problemn than it solved.
And what's Boeing selling? 737 variants. First flight in 1967. Cabin diameter hasn't changed. The Greyhound Bus of airliners.
https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/aekw67/exploring_s...
Donald Knuth – The Joy of Asymptotics (2000) [video]
Yes, almost all folks at Moffett (NASA Ames Research Center) are US government employees, just as at NASA Goddard. They will be on furlough unless their job is essential.

STScI/APL in Baltimore, like JPL in Pasadena, are technically contractors. As described nearby, they are still at work like normal due to the float in money already sent (to Hopkins/APL or Caltech, respectively) but not yet dispersed.

Of course, those folks are looking on anxiously as this fiasco plays out, designing telescopes, probes, and rovers like usual, but with uneasy coffee room conversations.
To be fair, a link to real Google Chrome download is also serving malware/adware.
Feedback on my mixing business job posting? Thanks!
I feel like 5 minute blitz forces me to think on my feet and see things quickly. It might end up being self limiting but I can see that my blunder rate has been declining. I get relatively immediate feedback which has to be good for something ;) As a rank beginner that's something. I enjoy it and I don't need a large open time slot to play a game.

I should play longer games I guess. I do much better on puzzles when I have time to think through the move. Donno if the lichess ratings are comparable but my puzzle ratings are much higher than my blitz ratings...
> I'm cautiously optimistic that increased AI use in the military is going to be a good thing for everyone.

> what if we trained an AI instead, and could e.g. hold legislative audits on what that software was configured to target?

You are much more optimistic than me.

If those audits ever happened, they would be held in secret, and have very different goals than most people would consider moral.
This is the problem with articles like this, they never really go into specifics. Generally fluff. Look at me I did this, but I won't give any specifics how except for vague self-help pamphlet jargon like "Monetize your brain".
Assumes a three-button mouse:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513VKV7DZBL.gif

Usually a scroll wheel, now.
>The federal government would "not look like anything" if a permanent shutdown kicked in, Rakove said. Instead: "You can imagine a radical devolution of authority to the states."

Amazing how decreasing the power and responsibilities of the feds is considered radical for a country that started off having a weak federal government on purpose.
I’ve been trying to reach the amulet for 30 years.
Or try the A350, which is just full on glass: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RYQL4QdHzFA/maxresdefault.jpg

767s can be retrofit to that state though, and some airlines have done so. This is a rendering of a cockpit retrofit for a 767 freighter commissioned by UPS: https://www.rockwellcollins.com/sitecore/content/Data/News/2...
Easy way to unlock Google Analytics (not provided) keywords.Legitimate.No coding
The pointer approach allows for brevity and idiomatic swift at the place of use. The verbosity behind the scenes need not bother the user.

Because I couldn't find anything that provides that using the approach you are discussing, I didn't investigate its performance characteristics. For me, dev UX comes first, and I wouldn't personally be interested in reading or writing in a language that requires the "with" construct wrapping every calculation.
Very interesting perspective - many thanks for sharing.
Dup of?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18874400
haha, nice. https://alt.org/nethack/fastasc.html
"If the array’s Element type is a struct or enumeration, Array and ContiguousArray should have similar efficiency."
Zombies Dealing with a Case of Stuck TransactionIDs
globalization only benefits the rich. They can arbitrage labor and then keep the difference in profit. The supposed lowering of cost to make up for job loss and wage reduction didn't happen
Ask HN: Are any startups working on automated ML model generation?
It seems like while there are a lot of research papers coming out about automated architecture searches, including DARTS and NAS, there aren't many products or companies focused on an offering. Is the compute bottleneck really the only reason this is the case?
I feel that automated architecture search is probably the most useful way to democratize machine learning, and can likely be packaged as an API that Software Engineers can easily understand. Am I wrong on this?

I'm aware of Darwin and Google's AutoML, specifically. Anyone else?
I didn't know "visiting the cockpit" was still allowed anywhere since 9/11.
> It is good etiquette to request a resignation in chat?

Not a chance. People at lower ratings screw up what should be wins all the time. Your opponent may be hoping for a stalemate or to run out the clock or waiting for you to blunder.
Sad to hear this.

People talked a lot of shit about Chariot -- "Silicon Valley tech bros got funding and invented a bus route", blah blah blah -- but urban minibus routes are AWESOME when well-executed.

Seriously we were promised flying cars and we can't even get marshrutki.
YouTube red distributes money according to watch time per month.