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Let's Build a Browser Engine in Swift, Part 2
The article is from one year ago. Very relevant today, but an year old.
Nice list. I would only add three advices to stay productive:

- stay at each place for minimum of three weeks. It takes some time to find stores, internet connectivity, meet people etc...

- make list of stuff you are not going to do, it simplifies your choices.

- consider to travel with luggage. I carry old 22" display in my :-)
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> Stickman's audience is not really digital nomads

That's an understatement if I've ever heard one.

I skimmed the linked page and this little gem jumped out:

"Some support a Thai partner and kids, perhaps their own kids, perhaps their partner's from a previous relationship. Throughout Pattaya, Isaan and the north thousands, maybe tens of thousands, fit this profile - and they could be shut out."

I dont profess to be an expert on all things Thai, but after 2 years here, that sentence tells me plenty. You could equally describe exactly the same group of foreigners with much fewer words: "retiree sexpat".

> Anyone who wants to legitimately live in Thailand or work here can jump through the hoops

This is absolutely true. I went through the process while the protests + failed election were going on, and the biggest hassle was departments being closed/relocated, and road closures while heading to meetings with our lawyer in BKK.
This seem like another form of Princess and Tiaras. They do this in Hong Kong for years already and I can't say it's turning out too well -- Kindergarten battles: How far would you go to get a place? http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/30/world/asia/hong-kong-kindergar...
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looking at this whole thread starting with lifeisstillgood's comment ("[...] what we want from government (and yes Americans, that means healthcare)") at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8214708 it would appear that you are the one trying to change the subject from affordable health care to "obamacare".

toomuchtodo said "The majority of Americans have spoken, and want affordable healthcare.", at which point you started talking about "Obamacare".

btw your attempt to incite a quarrel is funny since your statements agree with lifeisstillgood's and toomuchtodo's statements.
A 747 isn't a spacecraft travelling at supersonic speeds, so it's not really the type of craft relevant to the discussion. Cars, buses and boats also aren't loaded with self-destruct mechanisms for obvious reasons.
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Kindergarten battles: How far would you go to get a place?
FWIW, from his Twitter profile [1]:

Astronaut, part-time dad, professional voice actor, F1 driver, liar.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/stavros
Apple Opens Battery Replacement Program for Affected iPhone 5 Units
And that's the whole problem. They're trying to manage kindergarteners.

I find the attitude that I assume must be driving this agenda to be so presumptuous as to be infuriating. In order to test something, you must know what it is you expect that thing to be at the time of the test.

The very notion that we can codify these expectations of 6 year olds really drives me nuts. Let them be whoever the hell they want to be, without worrying about whatever society thinks it needs from them, a little longer.
">>Has Ycombinator come forth with a statement they are not under the spell of the NSA?"

Considering the existence of "Gag orders", would they even be allowed to tell us? It's not like HN even has any private data really. It's not an Email service, it's not Facebook with privacy-settings. All our comments are very public and as far as I can tell pretty anti-NSA. It would be crazy to think the NSA isn't watching this site. HN, Reddit and Twitter are like the most likely places an uprising would start from.

If you're worried about the email-address you signed up with on HN, just assume the NSA has it(and whatever IPaddress you login from) and go from there.
> Strange that the military seems to think most of Visa runners are English teachers, though

Probably just the most visible. From what I understand, plenty of schools rely on foreign english teachers but aren't prepared to hire them legally.

I'm still not really sure why they don't go the legal route - maybe the extra effort involved, or maybe because they want to pay less than the mandated minimum salary for foreigners.

For those not familiar, minimum salary is not standard across the board in Thailand, it depends on nationality. For most "western" foreigners it's 50K THB/month, whereas for Thai citizens it's about 9K THB/month.
> How is this statement anything other than a simple untruth on the part of the Guardian?

This article is from last year - IIRC this was the stance of those companies at the time.
In the Netherlands, children are 5 or 6 when they enter class 3 and thus start learning to read and do arithmetic. Is this considered too young by some?
No, the point in the redesign of the protocol would be to eliminate the need for a 'USB condom'.

A data channel isn't a data channel. USB is designed to be widely used by many industries, as such the standard has provisions for many use-cases. A battery data channel is only for the charging equipment to communicate with the battery's chipset a limited amount of parameters. The data being transferred is incredibly limited, and can thus be sanitized easier when compared to USB.

A protocol designed in such a way would also be easier to test, as the scope of vulnerabilities would be much more limited than a general purpose data channel.

Regardless, it was merely a possible answer to

> If you disconnect the data pins, how can any device (apple or anyone else) get more?"

and really wasn't meant to be a valid product or concept. Just a fleeting thought.
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A rocket going far off the designated trajectory. It would be a catastrophe for a space launch rocket to fall into a civilian area.
It's not so absurd because all NSA articles dive off the front page when about 15 comments (or something of that nature) are reached.
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Dude, the entire subject of this post is Obamacare. The majority of Americans do not favor Obamacare, nor have they ever.

He's the one that's trying to equate it with some magical, mythical "affordable healthcare" system that does not exist in real life.

Nice try, though.
Notice what an insipid first sentence the author chooses, for this of all articles!

New Yorker articles are a good place to learn about how to pull people into your writing quickly. No disrespect meant to the Mother Earth News, of course.
This is not true of most chargers. It is true of some devices that they look for the data lines to have some voltage rather than be left floating. There are 6 different 'standards' for this so you end up needing an IC like this[1] to detect which one the device is using.

Note: USB-PD changes the game a huge amount. You do need to speak USB to upgrade power there. But I've yet to see USB-PD in the flesh.

[1]: http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/slvsby8b/slvsby8b.pdf
You really shouldn't treat your family that way.
The point about the type of work you're willing to accept is critical. In my experience freelancing, the clients that pay the best and offer the best projects will want to meet you occasionally at least. They'll also want commitment of a number of regular hours.

So seeing as that's out the window you'll probably end up having to fill the in between good project time with jobs from Elance etc . Be prepared to deal with some horrible code :)
This puts "move fast and break things" into a whole new perspective.

I'm glad I can joke about this because nobody was hurt. Saw the headline at the top of the frontage and it immediately brought back memories of seeing Challenger on the news when I was 9, which rather changed my perspective on space travel at the time.
We didn't have marks until the third grade( age 9-10 ). Until then you only had written observation from the teacher about your behavior and development.

There were no tests or pressure. We were very carefree.
It's probably the result of a lot more than a simplistic single explanation that conforms to your worldview. There are a lot of different actors involved in education, way more than just testing corporations and representatives in congress.
It's clear that the government is hiding a big tentacle attack to earth from inside the japanese woods. The Army of Darkness approach sounds good enough. :p
GitLab B.V. CEO here, ask indicated by the author of Penflip in the other comment, GitLab is indeed a good start to build something like this and we welcome initiatives likes this.
http://talks.golang.org/2013/bestpractices.slide#25 =)
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So lets say you are a manager for a normal 9-to-5 company, and head to Thailand on vacation. If you receive a phone call from work would that technically be illegal since you are doing your paid work from a thai beach?
I'm talking about internal communications, which are kept internal.

I have no assumption about the privacy if something leaves my network, even if it's over SSL (PKI is broken).
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Icon was actually one of the first programming languages I learned, way back in elementary school. Thank you for reminding me of this.
Pace – Automatic page load progress bars in pure CSS
found this on producthunt - really love it

disclaimer: i work w/ producthunt (but would credit it anyhow)
One of the things that got me into ansible was simply doing

ansible all -i ./ansible_hosts -m command -a "cat /etc/issue"

From there I started going trough the possible options I could pass instead of each time doing a command, such as checking the network speed using a script etc..

As it might be useful for some I have next aliases set:

export ANSIBLE_PATH="$HOME/web/clusters-servers/mycluster"
alias a="ansible -i $ANSIBLE_PATH/hosts"
alias ap="ansible-playbook -i $ANSIBLE_PATH/hosts"
# for vagrant testing machines where I test playbooks before deploying
alias atest="ansible -i $ANSIBLE_PATH/vagrant/hosts --private-key=~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key -u vagrant -s"
alias aptest="ansible-playbook -i $ANSIBLE_PATH/vagrant/hosts --private-key=~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key -u vagrant -s"

On of the (slightly) annoying things is after bringing up a new node you have to "bootstrap" the node so you can issue ansible commands on it, I have a simple script [1] for doing so but I'd love to hear how others do it!

[1]: https://gist.github.com/larrybolt/85b59f47615be9fcb643
> This and other "the human body is immune from the effects of thermodynamics" arguments are... well, wrong. Otherwise there is a breakthrough in physics waiting to be found and potential unlimited energy.

I think you misunderstood me. I was simply saying that food is more than the sum of its caloric content. I am not implying that the human body is magically immune from the laws of physics.
Gruber does mention his rationale for not using a resolution that's close to this. Under "Other Resolutions" he says:

1564 × 880 is feasible for a 5.5-inch phone.
That’s what you get if you maintain the 326
pixels-per-inch density and @2x scale. This
would increase area — the number of points
displayed on screen — by a whopping 89 percent.
But it wouldn’t increase the size of what you
see at all. I think the sweet spot for a
5.5-inch phone requires you see to more content
and to make what you see at least a little bit
bigger. So that’s why I’d bet against 1564 × 880.
(1564 × 880 would be implausible for the 4.7-inch
phone: it would render UI elements and text 15
percent smaller than all previous iPhones.)
What browser? I had no problems, FF 31.0, cookies denied, ABP in place, flashblock running.

Cool presentation.
There isn't much in the way of settings that I've been able to find, but I do think that perhaps a sans-serif font would have been a better choice for screens (keep serif fonts for print versions of articles) and with a smaller font size might make the text feel a bit denser. Also, they've been a bit thorough with the spacing between paragraphs and sections. I suppose that with a custom stylesheet you could change that.

I guess there's still the same data and information, but the emphasis on images and lack of information on things like lists and categories swings the balance from data to visuals.
Noscript (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/) - no newsletter signup pane appeared.

Had you not written the above, I would never have known there was a signup pane on the article at all.
No, but it does whole-program optimization.
>body composition (or body fat percentage) certainly won't improve.

It most certainly would improve. He might have a better result with a more reasonable diet, but he would still see a significant reduction in his body fat percentage if he stayed on the diet long enough.
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Yes. If you read interviews, they had stuff like Elon having complaints that they aren't pushing the envelope hard enough since they don't get any crashes.

Maybe they tested the control system's abilities by pushing it over very quickly.

I bet there's people at SpaceX who were involved on the DC-X that did a successful translation to horizontal and back in 1995.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv9n9Casp1o

Hope SpaceX has enough spare hardware that they can get quickly back up to testing again. I don't see any reason they wouldn't since they have produced quite many leg sets already - maybe they were planning to moving to newer hardware iterations anyway and the vehicle was "expendable", or at least the risk with dangerous tests was more acceptable.
I don't know about that. Headphones is headphones, or at least headphones was headphones. Then Beats "brandified" them, made them cool (cooler), make them shiny.

Some speculate that Apple bought Beats precisely their accessorizationability factor (yeah, yeah, it's early, I'm grasping for neologisms to summarize the concept). Basically, Beats figured out how to cost-effectively profitably mass produce many variations on a common product to increase cool factor and consumer choice.

Given ambient noise, compressed audio, and always-imperfect listening conditions, sound quality is definitely not the first thing most consumers look for (notice I didn't write listen for) in a set of headphones.

(I have decent reference headphones for the house, but elsewhere it just doesn't matter.)
Scientists fabricate defect-free graphene, improve capacity in Li-ion batteries
I love this presentation, thought it was pretty slick. Unlike a lot of sites for which I must fiddle with my cookie manager, my ad blocker, and my flash blocker, this one worked great right off the bat, and I really like the multimedia presentation.

Nice job.
I guess, military personnel (that astronauts so far have basically been) are less skittish in that regard than civilians.

Especially since it is understood that space travel is dangerous, while air travel is regarded as safe.
This is great! The hardest part about writing is getting started, and many times it's hard to come up with a non-cliche, interesting introduction. I wish our English teacher taught stuff like this.
"the flight termination system automatically terminated the mission"... by blowing itself up?
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Thanks. To "see more content" is actually fulfilled with 1564 × 880. To "make what you see at least a little bit bigger" (seems he thinks that the icons and the text should be visually bigger when holding the phone in front of you at the same distance as before? why? it's still a phone) results either in needing the new resources or leaving the pixel perfectness (which won't happen for Apple) -- I don't buy it. But let's see if he actually got the insider information about something so non-obvious.
Check here for example:

http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/city_result.jsp?country...

A 3 badroom apt in the city center is around $650 dollars. Outside of center, half that.
Here is what Aristotle had to say on virtue: "the virtue of a man [is] the state of character which makes a man good and which makes him do his own work well." [1] Hence we should praise the state of character, not just the ability to reach and maintain that state.

[1] Nicomachean Ethics, book 2, chapter 6 (http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.2.ii.html)
Unfortunately, this isn't universal.
They really should rewrite their "easy" guide to set up the starter project for prose, it's not clear at all what should be done to get it running.

Harpjs is two steps ahead on this one.
As a counter-example, I've only ever met half of my clients in person. The work is definitely interesting and rewarding, leagues beyond anything I would ever find on Elance.

I think the important thing is to make a human connection... So that you and the client both feel like you're working with another human, and not just some online persona. Meeting in person certainly helps, but so do Skype calls and some personal banter (but keep it professional).

Although I work state-side and only went overseas once while "on the clock," I could grab my 25L backpack, leave tomorrow, and spend the week working from Colombia without any problems.
Epidemic simulations, or contagion simulations, turn out to have pretty wide applications. For example, you can adapt a lot of the basic agent-in-a-grid logic many simulators use to model bushfires[1].

Similarly, if you take the S/I/R model and modify the states and infection functions to model the spread of ideas in a social network. Eg instead of an infection function based purely on proximity, you might also adjust for similarity (homophily) between two agents.

If you want to see a much less sophisticated epidemic model, performed on a simple grid, I wrote a crappy one as a student[2].

[1] http://www.bushfirecrc.com/projects/a51/computer-simulation-...
[2] https://github.com/jchester/ruby-epidemic-model
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There's about 2 sentences describing what Ansible does in this article.
The raw command. Doesn't require anything to be installed on the target host, so you can set up a common playbook which will bootstrap the rest of Ansible.
the thing is readonly, good luck
Remember all the "act-surprised-and-disgusted" posts of these involved companies, right after Snowden had started his revelations? Personally, I remember Zuckerberg's "What the F#ck" post very well.
How else would you terminate an active rocket flying through the air?
this is easy: you only need to wrap your function in the body of a 'with-output-to-file' macro. You can send the output also to a stream, to a string, or use the * as stream name to grab the stdout also if i'm remembering correctly

Is possible.
In many if not most cases, you can opt your kid out of much of this standardized testing - especially all the new Common Core stuff. Your kid should probably take the SAT depending on their circumstance, but you don't have to allow your grade school child to suffer through days of absurd testing.

Edit: Autocorrect

Edit 2: California's opt out form, for example: http://cuacc.org/CommonCoreOptOutFormFrontBack.pdf
I get that you are trying to push the example to the extreme, but it's hardly the same situation.

For a more realistic example: it is perfectly legal for a foreigner to come to Thailand on a business visa (without a work permit) for the purpose of meetings. There is even a specific 3 year (vs regular 1 year) business visa that is specifically designed for this situation (it cannot be used to get a work permit).
Tests are a great way to learn, and a terrible way to manage.

Tests are shown to reinforce learning. High stakes tests aren't, though, because they start to cause too many distortions.
>* I'm probably biased against this sort of lifestyle right now because I have a young family which would make being a "digital nomad" impossible;*

Yeah. You can always try it later, when the kids grow up and leave (I think the guy in TFA mentions he has already worked for "30 years" in normal offices, which would imply that too). Or can go for a month or so, during they school vacations. You work, and the kids have their holidays in the same remote place. Kids can grow to enjoy travel and its culture -- though I wouldn't take them away from their regular school and friends.

>I'm not sure having a huge house with a pool and a maid could really be considered a nomadic lifestyle. :-)

Well, if you have that house each time in a different city / country, I think it still qualifies!
I went to kindergarten in Hong Kong 25 years ago and we had final exams. Don't see what's the big deal about this.
They don't really get grades though.
AFAIK it has never been available in Canada so I have appreciated reading the suggestions here because I really want to use it.
Yes, that's why I now have approximately 4 youtube accounts.
According to Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11 only had a "50–50 chance" of landing safely on the Moon's surface. They're willing to take enormous risks.
An aversion to learning sounds like a debilitating life-scar.
If you want to learn more about Ansible, the article links to the official docs http://docs.ansible.com/intro_getting_started.html.
The USB spec identifies different types of charging ports based on the resistance / voltage connected to the data pins. Here's a chart with the USB spec (on the ends) and a couple manufacturer variants: http://i.stack.imgur.com/gWODO.jpg
If you google 'rapport groep 3' you'll find some grade lists, and there's info on the CITO website about class 3 tests:

http://wijzeroverdebasisschool.nl/groep-3/cito-groep-3/
Link-bait.

The article only mentions that the state of Florida is developing assessments for kindergarten students for the upcoming school year. It does not say that those assessments will take the form of written exams. For all we know the assessments will take the form of a game.

(Edit: http://www.instituteofplay.org/2012/01/embedded-assessment-a...)
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There are important and key differences between "study for the test", "study for the knowledge", "passing the test", and "demonstrating your knowledge".

For example: My wife can pass multiple-choice tests with little of the knowledge [she freely admits this]. She had to study her head off for a recent test in a subject she knew little about, because the test was only partially multiple-choice. She ended up passing, yet if I were cruel -- this subject is something I enjoy learning about on my own -- I could snap-test her at will to see if she retained anything for any given time period after the test, and she could likewise do so for herself in everyday life.
I really love the idea behind this! I think it's a way to disrupt the books industry with all those editor firms. What's powerful about this is that every person could be listened and her book could easily spread around the globe.

I found https://www.penflip.com/ a few months ago... It isn't focused on building a digital library yet but what I like of this project is the good execution. It would be nice to merge them together!
It is GREAT to the crowdfunding of this eclipse their goal! This project is a great example to show that hard work and know-how can produce something truly fantastic.
You don't need an "ironclad law" no such thing exists. You just need to recognize that it's wrong to abuse children. That's like saying you need an "ironclad law" to determine how wrong it is to be drunk when you've killed someone in traffic.

...What? It's manslaughter, wtf are you talking about?
TCP vs. UDP
Stop thinking of things in some petty nationalist sense. Communities can handle their own problems in a much smarter and more efficient way.
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