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> "The kettle had caused the trip. It was no longer safe to use the kettle"

If the kettle still works, then problem solved.

If the ($10) kettle is broken, then I'm going to say that it's entirely possible to consider that quality of components, design, and build may account for the difference between a $10 and a $40 kettle.

I often end up spending more on something if I have reasonable evidence it will last longer and/or perform better. And I don't write long articles about how I resent spending the "extra" money.
I assume every single one has bias of some description. Problem is, they are all written by humans. I think most are an attempt at some sort of honesty, but with the best will in the world, they are always going to problems....

Hang on... Have I been whooshed? Was that meant to be amusingly naive?
An over current situation would trip the branch. A grounding issue would trip the main switch. If water came into the electric circuit causing a grounding of the current, then the main switch would trip. Nothing wrong with the house wiring.
Sure, and the question is how you achieve those aims. If you can read an op-ed by one of the most highly respected progressive economists in the world, whose message is:

> Rent control in SF has had perverse consequences for tenants. Don't go in for rent control.

and your conclusion is

> Maybe we should go in for rent control.

I'm not sure what else to say.
Hmm. This seems a bit premature. There's nothing yet on OpenBSD-Misc. And, even if this does go through -- not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but what OpenBSD was looking for was an ongoing, long-term commitment from someone, probably a business, to simply inherit the electric bill, and this would not be that.

It's a little strange that a copy of some IRC logs are all that's needed now to make news.
Perhaps you should rewrite your post in Go.
We know that we've reached gender equality when both men and women have the same possibilities, but for that to happen, each individual has to realise that just because you're a man doesn't mean that you can't work with girly products and vice versa.

Good article, I think you're right on target with the issue.
Is there a CoreOS and Docker equivalent on FreeBSD?
> why are people constantly complaining about not being able to afford living in San Francisco?

Think of someone like a cook who has lived in SF for years. They came to the city, honed and practiced their skills, and in their own small way helped make SF one of the best food cities in the world. And their reward is "MOVE OUT", or at least live in a crappy situation. And that change happened really fast.

It is human nature that someone in this situation would complain.
Pirates of the Silicon Valley is the movie, not just about Apple, but it involves Microsoft too, and according to Wozniak on several occasions, is quite faithful to true events. At least, a lot more than this new film.
I'd guess it was the result of a manual data-entry error after a previous telemarketing call. A rep meant to press a 'remove' button, adding a note - but the note wound up instead as an address line of a still-active entry.
Rebecca Solnit

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary
The entitlement argument is completely stupid, and really is only made from a perspective of entitlement. This is a matter of history and establishment.

Back before the tech boom we see today, these people, who are now facing eviction, were just moving into their neighborhoods in the city. At this time, they did not face a choice of whether to rent or buy, as some stupid people on HN may be arguing. They only could afford to rent, and rent they did for decades. But these people didn't just park themselves in a bed at night, they established themselves in the neighborhood, building a vibrant community and culture. They opened businesses and started sports leagues and cultural preservation groups. They had kids here, who are now in the local schools. They gave the neighborhoods the very soul that is now so attractive to us tech workers.

Fast-forward to present day, and they are facing challenges from all sides and are fighting to defend the roots that they've planted and communities they've worked hard to establish over the decades, it really has nothing to do with entitlement at all. This isn't a fight over whether someone gets to keep land, regardless of whether they own it or are renting, this is a fight to defend what they've worked for. Really I see the other side as the entitlement fight. We techies think we're entitled to the communities these people established only by paying higher rent. With this attitude, soon enough these very neighborhood we talk about will have no culture, and won't be as desirable.

Really the only solution to this is to build more, so go yell at the people blocking new construction. Screaming entitlement is just making you look like a moron.
That's some feedback I've heard a couple times now. I was going for simple, but just having the search box only addresses the case where the user already knows what hike they want to find (and actually is pretty useless at the moment, since there are only a handful of hikes on the site).

Putting some more info on the homepage is a good idea, whether that ends up being the Discover page... I'm going to mull on it for a bit. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Considering that Telsa brought in $116M in revenue in 2010, I find the 2010 count suspect.

http://www.teslamotors.com/about/press/releases/tesla-motors...
If I comment on his blog, will he give me access to download his blog database?
Last time I bought a PID I paid $12 +shipping for a no-name Chinese one. And that was with a case, display and controls. If I just wanted the core components, I think they where about $5.
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I find it interesting how the SF's rent control seems to not be well understood by many.

For example, people quote the ellis act as a frequent way in which people are evicted, and hold it up as proof that long time renters have no security.

But that's not exactly 100% of the truth. Sure Ellis act can be used to do a owner-move-in (for a new owner of a rented house for example), and in theory can be used for condo conversion, BUT San Francisco strictly regulates condo conversions. Specifically buildings with > 6 units cannot be converted to condos:

http://www.andysirkin.com/HTMLArticle.cfm?Article=2

Which means that, for all intents and purposes, renters in a larger building, are just as secure as any property owner.

There are guys in my building who have lived here since the moon landing. One was telling me he had to buy a black-and-white TV to watch it! In our building!

Amazing history here in SF.
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My libraries are mostly in Haskell, so depending on them is a matter of adding a line to a standardized build file. I have not yet received mail from a user asking me to change a license because they wanted to actually include code in their works -- it's almost always a misunderstanding of copyright.
Jobs is a designer. Using existing pieces to create a good product. While this is an important skill to have, it is nothing I would idolize someone for, moreover, Jobs only was capable of focussing on design because countless Wozniaks did the plumbing (and really awesome hacking). This is _division of labor_. You just cannot build products alone.

While Jobs did his job, he certainly was arrogant and a few times too often humbled those people making his products possible. This is not cool at all. I refuse the viewpoint that a manager has to be that way to implement his vision.

Since the era of Romanticism in the 19th century, we like to think in terms of "Geniuses" and look out for them to admire them. This is pretty sad, because it should be well known by now, that only with collaboration real products and inventions can be delivered.
Thankfully, I have Ghostery installed. However, as a result, their site looks like total shit. Well done on designing your site without JavaScript.
There is nothing about programming computers that is gender specific; in fact it seems kind of weird and awkward that we have to discuss this at all.

Given that so many of the foundational figures of the field ( Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, etc. ) were female, the fact that programming and IT became an almost entirely male-dominated profession is suspicious, and should make us question the attitudes and social constructs that brought this about.
unexpected to see an old bookmark of mine here, not that it isn't a great tool! Looking forwrd to the rewrite, and thanks for making this!
An easy way to get temperature controlled water with a standard kettle is to figure out how much cold water you need to add to the bottom of your mug before filling it with (just-boiled) water from the kettle. If you want more accuracy, you can use water from the fridge (which is better at keeping constant temperature than your cold water line).
I hope this article goes viral. I can't believe we're still not over these stupid preconceptions that intellect has anything to do with our reproductive organs. It shouldn't have anything to do with luck, but still: Best of luck to all you girls out there!
This seems like it should be addressed more towards non-technical founders who should learn to code, not specifically women.

Otherwise, it's built on the assumption that most females on Hacker News don't already know how to code, which may or may not be the case.
> water has ONE boiling temperature – 100 Celcius

This is not correct. The boiling point of water is a function of atmospheric pressure [1]. Weather changes the atmospheric pressure by up to 50mbar, which translates to a couple degrees of variation in the boiling point.

The pressure variation due to height is even more severe [2]. At an elevation of 3000m the atmospheric pressure is typically only 700mbar, which means that water boils at 90 degrees.

How does the basic bimetallic strip know the outside pressure and the boiling-point-curve of water so that is knows when to stop the kettle?

I don't think it knows anything about that. Instead I assume once the water starts boiling, the bubbling steam-"padding" around the heating element lowers the heat transfer rate from the heating element to the liquid. This means that the heating element will quickly get a lot hotter until it reaches the threshold temperature of the bimetallic switch.

[1] http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/boiling-point-water-d_926....

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_pressure
"If I would have known I'd hit the front page of HN, I would have added more content"

You did submit it, so not much of an excuse! ;)

No downside to adding loads more content, whether for a Show HN or for the general well-being of the site regardless of HN. Go for it. Would be great to have more photo-oriented hiking sites out there.
My guess is that "daughter killed in car crash" ended up in the field where someone's position would usually go.
I live in the Truman Show. (His life was fake reality TV but he didn't know.)
If you were Truman in the Truman show, would you work? It would kind of ruin your motivation.

God says...
no_more_tears sloth how_high so_let_it_be_written how_about_that
Zzzzzzzz blessing you_never_know honestly snap_out_of_it
This_is_confusing Oh_really one_small_step anger handyman
nasty baffling not_in_kansas_anymore Wow baffling food
little_fish not_the_sharpest_knife_in_the_drawer lighten_up
I_love_you NOT bickering I'm_in_suspense chill abnormal
grumble woot husband rubbish homo no_more biggot not_that_theres_anything_wrong
Hicc_up rip_off why_do_I_put_up_with_this home
Ask HN: How do I delete a submission?
Text says it all, I submitted a link that I want to go away.
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Not quite the same, but I used to receive junk mail addressed to "Jesus Christ" at an old address.
Reminds me of this:
http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/bastard.asp
" They’re just individual people that learned a very boring but high-paying skill," Wait, what?
So, apparently they are testing on bunch of old and/or strange hardware https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7070713
Sent it to my girlfriend, who's a clever pythonista
Trip reports are something I've been thinking about adding for a while. The problem I face at the moment is that they're only useful is you have a very active community. I'm still trying to figure out where hike.io fits into the hiking website ecosystem. Maybe it makes sense to keep it limited to just "wikipedia for hikes" and leaving trip reports to the location specific hikes. I think I'll add support and see what kind of traction I get.

Thanks for the hikr.org link, I haven't come across that one before. And very cool trip tracker of your hikes.
...but the way CDOs were structured made it impossible to objectively value the risk behind the instrument.

The article you link to merely shows that under certain circumstances, a CDO market can become a market for lemons. Everyone already knows this, which is why the standard industry practice was for issuers/packagers to keep skin in the game - sell off the AAA tranches but keep the risky ones for themselves.

If you actually want to learn about CDOs, go read this paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1421837

It was not impossible to objectively value them - they were simply valued incorrectly based on assigning low probabilities to the possibility that house prices go down.

Your claims about HFT are simply ignorant. No one has to pay the spread (which is lowered by HFT), you can always post orders at the bid/ask and use ALO orders if you want to avoid it. People choose not to because they don't want to accept execution risk.
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To the Boys of HackerNews: I am a Male Founder who Codes but no one cares because there's too many of us and that makes us not at all interesting.

Have women have ever been robbed of being able to code like voting? Why does it receive so much attention? What adversity did they need to overcome to be where they are? Is it physical like someone who suffers from carpal tunnel syndrome or glaucoma overcoming their disability? Is it mental like someone who suffers from dyslexia mastering programming? Or was it political like a North Korean who discovered coding while facing imminent persecution for the forbidden knowledge?

I know women who can code just like men and they are great at it but their gender has nothing to do with it, it's just their ability and strengths as developers. Does a person's gender really merit so much of our attention when the basis for the argument is as superficial as a binary label society have placed on people, never mind the the other categories of people that fall in between and who are shunned.
It's simply not possible to "short ahead of you". If I place an order via ETrade an HFT doesn't know about it until it hits their FIX/ITCH/OUCH feed (i.e., after it's already on the order book and possibly after it executed).

They cannot jump ahead of you except by offering a better price.

I wrote a blog post a while back that explains the mechanics of matching engines, you might find it helpful: http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology.html
Nothing, unless the autonomy extends to busses/trains/etc (busses seem like a bad idea), then public transport could get even better.
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Nothing about the 1s & 0s themselves, but most of the environments & presentations where it happens? Those tend to lean stereotypical-male-centered[1][2].

1. http://www.motherjones.com/media/2012/04/silicon-valley-brog...

2. http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-idiocy-of-techcrunch-di...
You seem to be assuming that HOV lanes are the result of some rational regulatory process. In fact, they have been shown in every study to disrupt traffic with little effect on carpooling.
I run a private education organization that teaches kids how to code at a physical facility, and we get a gender breakup of male and female students that is similar to that of the industry (around 80 - 20). Because of the overwhelming male presence, it is difficult to make a comfortable learning environment for the female students, who may often feel uncomfortable, at odds with, or ostracized by pseudo-masculine efforts undertaken by adolescent males. It's at this level that computer education becomes challenging for females, at that awkward stage where not all the boys have yet learned how to shower daily.

Our solution was to simply make a small set of our classes for girls only. This provides girls with the option of learning either in an all-girls or a regular environment, so girls who feel uncomfortable are not discouraged to the point that they drop out.
'its tools'.
The only way to get this done correctly is to have a mobile app. You can take advantage of the mobile GPS and the fact that hikers would love to update their phones with their trip info.

The only downside would be connectivity issues while on the trail.
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It's not even really about our love of tea. I think it's mainly about the US power standard being too low voltage to deliver enough power to boil water in an acceptable time.
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> The internet would be a much cooler & smoother place if all webapp-devs could assume that everyone is using the most up-to-date, cutting-edge browser. I wish Google would enforce this by choosing 2 saturdays every month to simply break Youtube for anyone on an out-of-date browser.

This sort of attitude really, really disgusts me, as an end-user (and webpage-writer). Many of the things that are being pushed on us, many of us do not need nor want. We want stability, not constant change. Breaking things that used to work is one of the worst things to do. Requiring users to use (and in many cases relearn) newer, more resource-consuming software just creates waste, in the physical and chronological sense.
As an alternative example to what happens when you give the poor a stipend, have a look at the government grant system employed in South Africa, and the absolute misuse and abuse that system is under.

I believe the South African example is a closer approximation to what a society would look like with a basic guaranteed income.
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If you use an exchange, the exchange can be subpoenaed for your identity.
All the BSDs emerged from the BSD (Berkeley Standard Distribution) Unix tradition. All offer a generally monolithic "cathedral" style development approach to the OS as a whole (kernel, libraries, utilities, applications), rather than the more piecemeal "bazaar" style favored by most GNU/Linux distros.

The BSDs in general have fragmented rather less than GNU/Linux development has, though the latter have also captured a far larger deployment base, by most estimates. Adding Android to the mix, Linux competes with any end-user platform. BSD is also the root of many proprietary Unix variants, an intentional characteristic of its licensing model.

FreeBSD in general is aimed at the server and desktop niche with a particular expertise in networking. FreeBSD originated in the "UNIX Wars" of the early 1990s during which AT&T attempted to assert its trademark and copyright over the increasingly popular BSD and 386BSD ("1-800-ITS-UNIX") operating systems. That case was a landmark, with AT&T substantially failing to assert its claims. The ruling was largely sealed, but much of it was subsequently unsealed during the SCO v. IBM trial, greatly damaging SCO's case (also based on copyright claims over UNIX). Arguably the uncertainty generated by the lawsuit provided a toehold for Linux to gain in early critical popularity, though the openness of its development model also likely contributed to this.

NetBSD forked from FreeBSD with the aim of providing as broad a range of hardware support as possible, though arguably some GNU/Linux distros such as Debian have trumped it.

OpenBSD forked from NetBSD with the aim of providing a very high security platform. OpenBSD lags in many high-performance and scalability characteristics, but offers an exceptionally robust security profile and default deployment security characteristics. The project website has long bragged about its security record (presently "Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!"). Notable OpenBSD projects include the pf firewall suite and OpenSSH. There's also been a project to remove all GPL'd code from the OpenBSD release, though attempts by the original pf author to write a specific exclusion into his license for use in GPLd projects (which the BSD license otherwise allows) resulted in that codebase being removed and the suite rewritten from the ground up. Theo's ideological purity is different from Stallman's in bent, but no less strong in my opinion.

There are a few even smaller distros (notably DragonflyBSD), I'm less familiar with these.

Underlying all of the BSDs is the BSD license, which is "permissive", requiring only that the license text be included in derivative works -- those works themselves need not carry source distribution obligations as most of the GNU licenses (GPL, LGPL, GPLV2, GPLV3) do. The result (intentional) is that the BSDs are used in a wide range of proprietary products, not merely dedicated servers. I've found BSD in routers, load balancers, printers, fax machines, settops, and other devices, usually identifiable by nmap fingerprinting scans.
Hi @FollowSteph. You mention that it takes at least 2-3 years to get a good product going. Curiously, how many developers did you have for those initial 3 years?
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To assist you in identifying the parts of your company's checkout flow which are typically referred to as upsells, I have taken the liberty of taking a screenshot and highlighting them for you. The green highlights are what I expressed desire to buy, the red are the suggested upsells / cross-sells. Namecheap no-confirm opts me into one of them.

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4) The screenshotted web page pops up. I reduced to 50% screen resolution to get it all on one page, and cropped to only show the central column, then added the green/red highlighting and my comments. It is otherwise unedited and had no user input applied to it.
This is extremely sexist and needlessly hostile. It's like being male and interested in coding is somehow associated with all the stereotypical male attributes which turns off women from coding. Ah, so we need to have boys acting less like boys because it's clearly why we don't have more women in tech. So we all need to teach teen boys to become meterosexual so it can be more inviting and suitable for females?

I think if you want more women to be coding, you have failed definitely. Why not show that women can be as strong as the boys, can rub shoulders and brain and still come out on top? By segregating based on gender, you only support that women have stereotypical attributes which prevent them from being as good as men, and men are good because of their stereotypical attributes.

Your genitals do not make you a coder, it's really down to the culture and societal expectations of both genders.
I would love to see more girls creating cool stuff using golang; that'd be so cool. I haven't seen any so far.
You sound like you don't believe there is any significant gender bias or sexism in the tech field. Is that what you think?