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Hopefully NASA works to make certain the launch area is clear of small critters in the future. It's really not good PR to be blasting frogs (or anything) with a few hundred thousand pounds of rocket exhaust.
Perhaps you mean efficient rather than effective? It does seem to be quite effective, despite the superficially amusing fact that a very tall tower is being used to form a very small product.

Though whether it's inefficient in any other sense is, I think, open to question: The up front expense and difficulty of the tower is a one-time cost, and I'd think maintenance on it would be fairly minimal. I'd think other methods discussed in these comments would almost certainly incur significantly more overhead, particularly over the life of the facility.
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Wait.... so I shouldn't go to that "modeling shoot"? 0_O
Interesting. Do you use some kind of visualization framework for the skills, similar to this website? I'm asking because I'd like to implementing gamification for new hires at my workplace.
It should be noted that the two moderators issued a "what the hell were you thinking?" statement and apology immediately after the hack was presented.
It doesn't work how you want it, fine, don't use it. It's super brief for the rest of us.
I'm hoping you either didn't quite grasp it or you're joking. Arrington is CrunchFund's founder. He was on the judging panel AND an investor in the company which won. This is a conflict of interest on the level of NBA referee who gambles on basketball games.

Even if Arrington didn't vote on Layer directly, it's still ridiculous. He could still easily influence the outcome. Some suggested in the TC comments that he grilled COTA enough to raise doubts in other voters' minds.

Any investor wants exposure for their portfolio companies: either to grow the user base or attract more investment.

I guess I'm not shocked that TC did it this way–just shocked that everyone else sees no issue with it.
With a 12 factor app, you don't need virtualization. The entire app is stateless, all state is pushed off to various resources. All you have to do is pull the repo and run the service.

12 factor is not a requirement for Docker. You're perfectly free to violate 12 factor by storing state in the file system, config in your code. Heroku makes you implement quite a bit of 12 factor through their ephemeral filesystem, but it cannot enforce following of the entire spec.

Virtualization, in my opinion, has become a crutch we lean on to avoid having to restructure apps. If you need, say, a cron job, instead of doing it the 12 factor way and using beanstalkd, you'll just run cron on your container. (not sure if that's possible but you get the idea)

Virtualization and 12 factor aren't quite orthogonal, they do overlap a bit. The former is an 'easy' solution, you just build your app however you like and as long as it will run in a container, you're fine. The latter is much harder, you have to make your app totally stateless.
No fun allowed. Ever.
> "Don't want ads? Don't use the service. Go pay for a service that will use your money to build a site without the ads that bug you so much."

Where possible, I do exactly that. For example, I have a Netflix subscription, but don't watch regular TV.

The reality is that many services are simply not offered in an ad-free model. Most people are ok with ad-supported services in exchange for not paying for them, so the business case for creating an ad-free version for the minority that isn't ok with ads doesn't always exist. But those who don't want to have their browsing experience polluted by distracting and space wasting ads for irrelevant products aren't suddenly going to change their minds because they're in the minority.

Personally, I would be willing to pay a small monthly fee for an ad blocker (I did make a donation once) and have a portion of that distributed to website owners whose ads were blocked. It's probably not a very realistic scenario, but the bottom line is that an ad blocker is something that many people find useful and which some would be willing to pay for if there weren't ample free alternatives. The adblocker provides a service to me 100% of the time I visit a website with ads, whereas an ad is only useful to me if I find it relevant and choose to act on it (0.000001% of the time).
Only work on contract. Only bill by hour, day, or week (depending on how good you are). I don't believe in loyalty to a company or scene. I'm here to make money to fund my own life, that's it.
I consider my profession fantastic, with a lot of beautiful and exceptionally smart people. I haven't encountered this nearly as much. It must be happening more in Silicon Valley and NY more, but generally I can't see sexism as a part of culture in our profession. I am in Chicago if that matters, as a consultant I changed a lot of companies.

On other hand, developers, both male and those few females are not the most eloquent people, however women were always welcomed, especially developers.
I found the apps to be puerile, offensive, and inappropriate.
That said neither was sexist or misogynistic. It's not like they were called "How Dumb Was She?" or something.

We've come around to the idea that anything crude is sexist and misogynistic and this just isn't the case.
That concept in and of itself is sexist, because we (men) assume that women are too delicate to handle this stuff. We haven't stopped telling the dirty jokes at work, we just look over our shoulders to make sure the women aren't around before we do. Which creates an environment of exclusion.

Instead we should just stop telling the dirty jokes at work, because they aren't appropriate for work.

These jerks should never have even CONSIDERED presenting this app, because it's offensive. Offensive to women, men, people with devout religious beliefs, investors who took the time to listen to these presentations, and the list goes on.
12 hours would be pretty bad for me. My 4S purchased on launch day (so nearly two years old now) gets unplugged at about 8AM, stays unplugged all day, and usually gets plugged in at 11PM with ~50% battery remaining.
drink(tequila) or die();
> No, the arrows work (should work, may be a problem on some terminals/terminal emulators, but that's common for console editors)

It's not common in modern times for any of this to be either necessary or justifiable. But now that we're no longer discussing how inefficient vim is, but discussing tricks meant to minimize its acknowledged inefficiency, I think we're done.

> > I wold pass the mouse cursor across the desired characters, thus selecting them (any subset of characters or words or paragraphs, and very, very fast)

> Well... I would like to measure this somehow.

You can measure it by noticing that most modern computers since 1980 have control keys, and mice, and nearly none of them have vi or vim installed. People have voted against terminal editors with their mice, and with an absolute minimum of keystrokes.

> We - Vim users here - can probably show you shorter and more efficient counterpart to any example you'd come up with.

This is the most astonishing conversation I've had in weeks. I can also show you more efficient ways to push a rock up a steep slope while wearing a hair shirt, but the risk is that some spoilsport may mention that the entire exercise is unnecessary.

I started out using vi. Then I wrote Apple Writer, which was more efficient by far. Then I dumped Apple Writer for a more efficient editor that supported a mouse. Then I dumped that editor for a better one, ad infinitum. Lazy? You bet -- I have better things to do with my time than remember vim's arcane ways to avoid the use of the keys that are on all modern keyboards, or the pointing devices that have become popular since 1970.
Yeah, I don't think low-cost 3D printing is yet where it needs to be for this purpose - but PLA definitely is the wrong choice. I wonder if the sinterized metal/ceramic printers have higher resolution. (Admittedly, I have little knowledge of this class of printer. And, generally, I still prefer subtractive machining for precision parts.)
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Sure wish the prices broke out the taxes and VAT in the fuel price.

Germany, for example, is listed at $8.01 USD per Gallon, or about €1.62/L. The germans pay about €0.70/L in fuel taxes on top of the 18% VAT. The true cost of the gasoline is pretty close to what Americans pay.

(Granted, I'd gladly pay that much in fuel tax to get the quality of roads they have there)
(Although bearings are made cold. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6374786 )
It exists! http://trashwiki.org/en/Main_Page
Per their apology, the two guys had a different idea for a hack (hence the name issue) that didn't pan out, hence their Hail Mary in order to get free Disrupt tickets. (You must present to get a ticket.)
Thanks! I totally agree. Glad I could get you back on the philosophy kick, I think it's really useful for entrepreneurship.
A masturbation joke being sexist? ...stop giving pious people a megaphone
When the metal is hot, solder remains melted, flows onto the metal and bonds to it. In fact, when soldering you should heat only the metal parts first and not the solder directly, and then apply the solder to the metal parts where the soldering iron touches them. You never heat solder directly with the soldering iron and expect it to stick to cold metal.

When the metal is cold, the molten solder freezes up as it touches it, making electrical contact but not really sticking. So sometime later, as a result of thermal expansion or mechanical flexing, the solder joint becomes unstuck. This is called a "cold joint".

It's also essential to use flux when soldering. Most solders used in electronic hand-soldering have a rosin flux core in the middle. The rosin melts first onto the metal you're heating, preventing the heat from forming an oxide layer so the solder can bond to the metal. (I think the flux also helps break down any existing oxide layer, not too sure on that part.)

This teacher's technique would result in unreliable cold joints all up and down the pins.

Search for "cold solder joint" for more information and photos of cold joints.
I did miss the point of Dokku. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that until after I'd already burned 3 hours on it.
Best comment on the article from Bob Costas...

For years people (and yes, mostly guys) who were involved in the tech industry and engineering in general were shunned and dismissed by culture at large to be losers and sexual non-entities and therefore lacking in social currency. As a result of this mass dismissal and social rejection, and since most women aren't raised or brought up to deal with rejection and social stigmatization, while some actively participated and reinforced the stigmatization, women in general didn't feel comfortable being in or pursuing a career in a field that garnered such negative attention for a very long time.

To this day people in the tech field are often marginalized and in order to attract women to the field companies like Google have to produce promo videos that try to convince women to join the industry by suggesting that there aren't that many weirdos in the industry and that most people in the industry are "normal" as opposed to celebrating the beautiful weird male personalities that achieved great things because of their weirdness not in spite of it and helping women realize and embrace the male nerd ethic the went into building this new world:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Notice the attention given to showering and how they gloss over the fact that in reality, the current leaders in the tech world didn't bath regularly when they were building their companies. Bill Gates comes to mind.

The reason why you get push-back from males from the industry when it comes to involving more women in tech isn't because they have some "jock, locker room, and frat" mentality that women are somehow mentally inferior to males and aren't capable of understanding tech. Actually, women in science and engineering classes at major universities tend to be the top students in those classes. Its because they don't think women in general have the fortitude nor the willingness to not shower for days and be content with not going outside while living off cold pizza. While most tech experiences these days don't involve this sort of lifestyle, the anti-social behavior and culture that are associated with the lifestyle still exist and instead of women decrying these prevailing attitudes in tech they should embrace these traits.

Case in point, Elon Musk's ex-wife. Instead of dealing with his borderline autism for what it was, in her blog she attacked him being arrogant and uncaring. Elon Musk is a weirdo and natural introvert who forces himself to be an extrovert to be able to do the interesting and unique things he wants and needs to do in life.
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They had moderators who apparently decided this didn't need stopping. The problem, unfortunately, is bigger than you think.

That said, I agree. I don't want to have to apologize for my profession.
Ask HN: Denver HN Meetup?
Hi, HN Community -

I'm thinking of hosting a Meetup for Denver-based Hacker News members in early October (right now, I'm thinking Oct. 1,2 or 3, starting sometime around 6). I posted about this some time ago, but unfortunately other stuff came up and this fell through the cracks - I apologize for that. I'm thinking someplace in LoDo near the Market Street Station - that makes it readily accessible for folks from Boulder who'd like to ride RTD, and is otherwise central to the Denver area. I'll shell out for some appetizers and obtain the space. Would anyone be interested? Please let me know in this thread or by e-mail (it's in my profile).
> It's a fascinating cultural shift, and the religious right is fighting hard to stay in the 50s

Which "50s" are you referring to?
I bought the mac app and got to use it for a grand total of 6 months before Google Reader shut down. Since then there has been very little communication about what would happen with Reeder (other than "we're doing something" - not the most reassuring).

I think releasing a new full-price version should have been communicated far more smoothly.
Sounds great. Maybe make a meetup.com group.
"my Page had 338,050 Likes, my Support Group had 13,360 members, and my Interest List had 1.47 Million followers. But all of that work was wiped out in an instant when Facebook decided to shut it down without notice."

"Not only did they remove the page, but they also blocked my personal account from posting anything for 12 hours (I can’t even Like anything). They also did the same for anyone who was an Administrator or Moderator of the Page – including my wife’s personal account! Members of the support team, who generously volunteer their time to help users, have been shut out as well. They did one big sweep, I guess."

I came here to post this story, it is unfortunate that this news is not getting more visibility. If possible, check "tell facebook what you think" and try to help Matt since he has worked very hard on this app
Sonderklasse
I think you may both be right.

Feudal serfs were bound to the 'land' in a sort of debtor-lendor scenario, and could be sold along with the land beneath their feet. They just couldnt' be sold as individuals.

However, knights, squires, barons, etc. were bound to serve their superiors by oath. Its the oath that kept the political and military structure together.
So disable all background services and don't access anything that uses data on your phone and see what the carrier bills you? Unless you believe that Apple somehow has secret arrangements with every mobile operator... in which case you could simply get a MiFi and tether all your smartphone traffic through that, problem solved.

In the end, if you really believe something malicious is happening in this regard, you can either prove (if said data is actually transferred over WiFi) or prevent (if it's only transferred over mobile data) it, rendering mere speculation about this issue useless.
> The placebo effect is sometimes stronger than any antibiotic.

When it comes to depression, the primary factor isn't really a "placebo effect". It's true that most of the treatments do no better than a fake pill, but they also do no better than doing nothing at all and just waiting.

Moods have cycles. You tend to go to the doctor for treatment when your mood is UNUSUALLY BAD. Some random time later, you'll probably feel a lot better. Maybe the seasons will change and you'll get more sunlight, or things will get better at work, or just...random fluctuation.

If at your MOST DEPRESSED you go see a doctor who believes in treating depression with pills, he'll assign treatment A. You try that a while; it doesn't help. So he has you switch to treatment B. Still depressed. Treatment C. Now you start to feel better. A believer in medicine takes that to mean "Drugs A and B don't work for you, but C cured your depression!" But you were certain to be taking SOMETHING when you got better, so maybe it's just a coincidence that you were taking C at the time that happened.
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The religious right? That makes no sense. It's the religious right that often encourages marriage at a young age. I've never heard of members of the religious right "shaming" teenage dating.
Women and philosophy
I've been using Dropwizard. It provides a nice way to lifecycle manage other objects, so I've used it as a platform for Thrift services with Jersey resources serving debugging information.

It's kind of a bastardization, but we have a pretty good mix of HTTP and not, so it's nice to standardize.
It does actually. If an OS changes so much that it makes the "cost" of learning just as big as switching to a new OS, then now, for the first time perhaps, can make a real choice.
The only thing I found offensive about this story was the environment in which the app was presented, which was definitely inappropriate. If the app was presented by Daniel Tosh on his TV show, we'd probably all have a chuckle and move on.
Dropbox opening my docs?
I'll be the devil's advocate.

Insightful encryption app developer would hide his identity in order not to be bullied into putting backdoors.
Or maybe the reality is a lot less interesting: a tiny percentage of teens will go off the rails, a tiny percentage will benefit hugely and the vast majority will do stupid things and reach adulthood more or less unscathed.
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These guys are idiots and there is definitely sexism in the IT industry. But every time I see these stories saying there is sexism in IT I think compared to what? Finance (Wall Street!)? Marketing? Law? Government? Military? Manufacturing? Construction?

I guess the disturbing part is what makes these guys think they can be this open about it. Wall Street has rampant sexism but I'm thinking they are smart enough not to show it is a public forum.
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Speech isn't free when one group has the podium, and the mike, and the other not so much.
It is one way to go, but I think it's still important to set limits.

Getting paid by the hour by a company willing you pay you overtime to be overworked still means that there's a risk of burning out.
Regulatory policy tends not to involve "vague undefined gradients", but the trend of replacing the common law process, which evaluates each case on its own particulars, with static, top-down rules and regulations, is itself a bit of a recent novelty, and really hasn't worked out well.
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I never quite acquired a taste for more refined liquors. These are right up my alley.
Who on earth wants banking hours (I'm assuming you're referencing the hours that were outlined in recent articles on HN)? I work in a bank and we're forced to not work anywhere beyond 37.5 or they're liable..

Anyways, I went on trial at one of the few startups that offered to hire me as a contractor. The hours were truly insane. Developers practically lived there, which is why I think startup offices are so much more than the standard corporate office (having video game rooms, lounges, free breakfast/lunch/dinner, other perks I'd rather make $ instead of).

3 of the 5 times where "extreme hours" were outlined, they really have been, extreme hours, hence why I'm so "extremely" turned off from your job so much so I charge a crazy premium to work those hours.
I was having a pretty easy time in high-school, cruise-controlling with flying scores. Then in my early adulthood, I came to feel more stupid and slow. I think the early decline in my analytical abilities came from boredom. Until the end of high school, I had some blind motivation to think and care, I guess from some initial pool of 'motivation'. Then as I graduated, I was left with a very open ended world to deal with and no clear reason to take any specific path. And no true motivation to think through anything.

I went in the army for a while, infantry. It did help make me feel even more stupid. I developed a different motivation toward knowledge, preferring to sharpen action oriented decision making instead of analytical thinking. Might seem odd just said like that, but placed in an environment where all that matters is making roughly good decisions quickly, all the time, does unsharpen your ability to think at length.

At that point, a couple years in the army, I thought that intelligent past I had was gone. I'd look at books I used to understand easily and feel uninterested and unable to grasps anything in it.

It went like that until I found about programming. When I saw my first line of VBA (!!) while trying to make an Excel spreadsheet, I was baffled and utterly confused. I thought I was beyond my reach, but I still tried out of necessity. And eventually more and more complex constructions of VBA came within my reach. And then I understood that my lost ability to think analytically was not lost, it was just untrained. As I realized I loved programming things, I jumped into anything related I could read. All those cryptic things became understandable, now that I had motivation.

Fast-forward three years, I think I'm now much "smarter"/able than I ever was. I also perceive that my smartness has little to do with some magical gift that fades away out of my control. It seems to have much more to do with how motivated I can be about a topic.

All that to say, you shouldn't diagnose your apparent inability to think as a consequence of you becoming more stupid. You might just be demotivated and still very able, given a little practice and warm up time.
"Sorry, Gary. Come talk to me when you have 558 friends. Gare? I'm sorry, Gare, those are the rules. Everyone has to be equal. It doesn't matter if you'll never have 558 friends and I only had to find 32. Everyone's equal! Don't you see, Gary! Gary? Gare? What are you doing. Sic semper what? Aughhhh."