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There's a little more on the chemistry from this story in an email sent to K&L (bay area liquor store) by the distiller: http://spiritsjournal.klwines.com/klwinescom-spirits-blog/20...

FWIW, I'm a bit of a rum nerd and have been super impressed by the Lost Spirits Navy and Polynesian rums. I also noticed Longitude, a newish upscale Oakland bar by a veteran Tiki bartender, was using the Navy rum in a drink, so there are at least a few folks in industry who are believers as well.
I work out of a co-working space but I also work for myself rather than for a company.

I could work at home but the social monotony would get to me. I need to be around other people shooting the breeze, catching up, networking, or getting help on a programming problem. I'd become too depressed being home alone all the time.

I'd recommend it. It can be pricey though (I pay $400 for a reserved desk in Brooklyn).
Amazing science ... I can't wait to hear more (assuming more can be gleaned by this spacecraft).

The article also gave me a chuckle - "after an errant cosmic ray". If that cosmic ray had behaved itself and gone where it was told we wouldn't have had any problems!
You can adjust effective penetration depth by the "density" (read, mass per unit cross-sectional area) of the projectile.

You could go anywhere from an osmium needle through to a Mylar disk.

Another relevant XKCD: https://what-if.xkcd.com/20/
If all a domain-validation SSL cert means is that the certificate issuer could reach you via admin/administrator@domain.com - that's nearly all they do, besides ask for some payment information - why not automate that part of the process?

That is, the certificate presented by the site should be signed in a fashion that proves that whoever signed it owns the domain.

How do we know you own the domain? Because you control the DNS. If you control the DNS, you can control the domain in so many ways, including receiving the DV email, so it seems like a proper way to verify it.

If you control DNS, you can set a TXT record and put a public key in it.

So why not have browsers actually just ensure that a certificate is signed by the public key stored in DNS? Is there a good reason not to do this?
Including war zones?
How can you simultaneously promote respect while ignoring disrespectful behavior?
And it works the other way. If you are in the office all the time, but no one knows about you or what you are doing or were you are at, the same thing can happen.

So being at home is completely irrelevant to this story, except that it may make it slightly easier.
As another commenter pointed out, hydroelectricity can compensate for fluctuations in other types of renewable energy. Pumped storage power plants (a form of hydro where you use gravity as a gigantic battery) can also help smooth out any remaining fluctuation.

This could, however, change the balance of power between different regions of the world. Fossil fuels favor coastal flatlands where it's easy to transport bulk materials. A civilization that depends on hydroelectricity, on the other hand, might favor a more mountainous terrain. The capitol in the postapocalyptic world of The Hunger Games is located somewhere in the Rocky Mountains, powered by hydro.

Our usual concept of business hours might also have to disappear, if we're going to rely on hydro to smooth out fluctuations in other energy sources. We may no longer be able to afford peak usage at certain times of day, and therefore spread out power-consuming activites across all hours of the day and night. This helps eliminate the rush hour, which is itself a terrible waste of energy.

If push comes to shove and we need to ration power, I suppose this will put more pressure on battery technology. People will have to store up on power at certain times of the day, and use it until the next charge-up time. It will be a bit like fetching water from the well every morning.

But even under such circumstances, some people are clever enough to put a tank on the roof and install pipes/faucets to simulate a constant water supply. Batteries are to an intermittent power supply what a tank is to an intermittent water supply. We as a species can't tolerate inconvenience. We'll find a way to make life as convenient as possible, no matter what the circumstances. Intermittent meat supply? Brb, gonna store up on ham and bacon during the hunting season.
- What's the one thing that needs to happen for this project to succeed? If there is one key thing, that's good. If there are five or six key things, then you have a domino rally business, and that's bad: http://redeye.firstround.com/2006/09/domino_rally_bu.html

- What's the engine of growth? The best businesses basically start with the engine of growth and then work backwards to find a product. If the product doesn't have a built-in mechanism of virality, then you should be asking yourself how easy it will be to get leads, since that's the most important determinant of CAC. Again start by finding a great source of valuable leads, and then build the product to match.

- What are the assumptions, risks, and unknowns? Specifically in the areas of user engagement, growth, design, technology, and monetization. If this list is less than, say, three pages, then you're probably not engaging with the idea at a deep enough level yet to be capable of successfully executing.

- Is this a good idea for you? In the above section I'm assuming there isn't any significant founding team risk because you're doing a startup that's well-suited to your skillset; if not, it's not a good idea for you. Remember, everyone is capable of running a successful business, even if it's only a hotdog stand; the trick is finding an idea that's just at the edge of your current skillset.

- What are the key metrics I need to hit for a seed round, series A, series B, etc? And similarly, what are the key assumptions, risks, and unknowns that I need to figure out before each of those rounds?

- What skills would I need to acquire to successfully run this business? E.g. if it's a web startup you need to know how to code, if it's a biotech startup then you need to know biotech, etc. In order for the business to be viable you need to have the skills to do the hard part yourself, for whatever that means for the given idea. You can hire more people to help you do the hard part faster, but you can't hire them for something that you don't already (mostly) know how to do yourself.
With your solution you can only restart the load balancer at the rate of the longest running connections

Well, perhaps I should have provided more detail. Our ansible deployment script actually counts the port up until it finds a free one (we keep a port-range reserved for this purpose). So if there are multiple changes in rapid succession then more than two haproxy instances may dangle around for a while.

The "port discovery" is a shell-task that registers the port to be used as a variable, which is then used by the templates of the haproxy and iptables roles.

The cleanup is done by a 15min-cronjob which kills all haproxy instances that have no connections in netstat and don't match the haproxy pidfile.
Just in case you weren't aware, "hysterical" is a word that has a heavy sexist history: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/21/female-hysteria_n_4...

You do have influence on the subtle sexism that creeps into your language, like they word "hysteric" just did. Now you know! Not using it again is a specific thing you can do to make the world a better place.

I suspect that the author of the manifesto felt negatively about her experiences as well. Perhaps you should take those negative feelings and go do something productive, like donate money to a women-in-tech charity, or help a female friend who's unhappy in her career find a new job at a healthier company.
If i go from at rest (0m/s) to walking at 2m/s, I've completed an acceleration of 2m/s.

Delta-v is common in orbital mechanics, which is often referred as "an acceleration".
Women are leaving your tech company because you don’t deserve to keep us around
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So it's ok for you to use demeaning language towards women, but not ok for them to consider that sexist?
There's potential (no pun intended) in pyroprocessing to allow extraction of uranium only, leaving behind plutonium with the rest of the HLW that is hazardous to try to steal or be sneaky with.

For clarification, it's traditionally been PUREX (chemical separation) that is considered a proliferation risk.
You have demonstrated that nobody can reasonably claim that sexism in tech is not a problem.
Caramel colour is widely used, but some whisky enthusiasts are opposed to it:

(2001) http://www.just-drinks.com/analysis/caramel-addition-may-pro...
(2011) http://www.masterofmalt.com/Blog/post/Can-you-taste-Caramel-...

It's definitely an enthusiast/purist attitude, but common enough that some distilleries now specify "natural colour". Even large whisky producers like Diego have natural colour product lines:

http://www.diageo.com/en-row/ourbrands/categories/spirits/Pa...

The actual impact of artificial colour on taste/aroma/overall experience is likely negligible, but I wanted to point out that it is an issue to some.
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That seems unfair; just because he presented the criticisms in a manner which you disagree with doesn't negate the criticisms themselves.

Also keep in mind that just because you don't notice something doesn't make it any more or less valid. The typography issues were pointed out and as a former print designer they are very valid albeit a bit subtle (in my opinion anyway).
Interesting to see HBR posts thriving on HackerNews.
Bad signs.

Fatal flaw: the red / green bars have no context because the the hours & days text is unreadable except up close and hour/days change from sign to sign.

EDIT: also impossible to read when driving / stopping by in your car. You'd have to roll down your window or maybe even get out to read everything.
A more interesting idea would be accelerating someone to the point where they meet the end of the universe.
No one cared about anything until we discovered/identified a better way to do said thing.

If you're doing it infrequently this is even more of a reason to use a reproducible system, otherwise recreating the environment when the inevitable happens is even harder (you don't even have the benefit of repeated steps to aid you in the process)

I know some of the existing tools are a massive overhead for small operations - that doesn't make the goal in general any less worthy.
But not from 10 feet away like these ones.

Current signs are legible 50 feet or further - and more important legible while you're still in your car.
It's trivial. I'll do it later ;)
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In mathematics you don't understand things, you just get used to them -- John von Neumann

The "actual solving skills" you speak of are a product of talent and application, in various proportions. What I know of the psychology of expertise speaks strongly against your thesis. Experts see things effortlessly that others have to really work at, and things others can't see without massive handholding because the basic chunks of understanding they work with are so much larger than those of novices or the merely competent.

Problem solving skills are developed. You are not born with them. Some people have talent, they learn faster and most of them hit the wall where they have to grind later and some people have sufficiently little talent that trying to learn a topic or skill is a waste of their time but everybody has to work at it.
I'm rooting for this project. I have a product in mind for when hardware is available. I know it will be a while, but it will be worth it.
5. Describing software or algorithms as “sexy”, “hot”, etc.

By sexualizing something that does not need to be sexualized, you’re creating a college-frat-boy type environment, as well as implicitly conflating quality with sexual attractiveness. If I work with you, I want to know that you’re enough of an adult to be able to appreciate something (or someone) without wanting to fornicate with it.

What? Are women not sexually aware now? Or are men the only ones who act immature?

I like some of the points, but this one is coated so thickly in irony I can't even tell if there's any substance at the bottom.

Honest to God, what's inherently male about calling an algorithm sexy? Why couldn't a woman do just that? Isn't the mere perpetuating of that idea exactly the type of "oh no think of the poor women" thinking that the article tries to dissuade?

Or is the irony all on me?

Truly I don't understand this one.

EDIT: Just to clarify: I'm not trying to advocate "calling algorithms sexy." If you don't like it because you think it's immature or unprofessional; well, it's not my cup of tea, either. But don't put that in a list about sexism. Conflating the two is precisely the latter.
If you wanted more females in engineering then you'd listen to their complaints about what's keeping them from entering it and address them. You're being sexist through trivialising their objections by saying they 'do nothing but whine about the stupidest things'. What position are you in to argue whether their objections have merit?

You could argue, as others have, that some of these objections aren't inherently sexist because they can apply to both genders (i.e.: sexualising things is a trait performed by both genders), but dismissing this list as you did does nothing except undermine your own statement of wanting more women in tech.
I think equating the so-called "dark patterns" in user interfaces with sexism is a little far-fetched, but the rest I can agree with (other than #13). I have yet to hear about any "hot and sexy algorithms", however.
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Personally I find that HN is a nice place to get away from the non-technical side discussions that take up so much space on Reddit, Google Plus, etc. Discussions about sexism fall into that category for a technical site (elsewhere they would certainly not be side discussions).

While they're important, I have other places where I know that non-technical discussions will include those topics (and they often do on a daily or weekly basis). In the end, a site about technical and technology news should avoid controversial topics, much like a political site should avoid technical topics.

Just my $0.02.
For those outside the US, it seems acetaminophen is the same as paracetamol.
> 1. Using “guys” to mean “people”.

Everytime I see this sentiment I always wonder how the author, and others like the author, feel about Spanish speakers and the language.
>USA absinthe is nothing like the real thing - it is more like drinking Pernod. In Switzerland, where Absinthe originates, the thujone level is 100x (?) what you get in the u.s.

Sorry, but this is not close to being correct. Thujone is largely left behind by the distillation process as it's a heavy compound. Tests of decades-old pre-ban absinthes gave the same results. Modern tests by GC-MS (required by the Feds for US absinthe approval) prove the same thing. The idea of heavy thujone content is largely a marketing tactic, used to hype some Euro absinthes. The quality of US absinthes is very high. There are some one hundred of them distilled in the USA, and many are based on traditional French recipes from the 1800s.

Source: I distill absinthe.

List of USA absinthes: http://realabsinthe.blogspot.com/2008/07/list-of-absinthes-a...

TTB Circular regarding absinthe: http://www.ttb.gov/industry_circulars/archives/2007/07-05.ht...
you're removing something which people basically understand the concept of - passwords: keep them fucking secret/safe - and trying to replace it with something that is built on top of a system never meant to work that way. If your system routinely sends out OTP emails, all it takes is someone to intercept those emails on their way from your SMTP server out to the wider internet, and every fucking user is breached.

The only reason password reset links are at all acceptable is because they are used relatively rarely and it's not predictable when they will be used.
Ask HN: I accepted a job offer, and then someone offered investment, what to do?
I am about to graduate from a university, and I have worked three years solo on a startup. As it is my senior year, I accepted a job offer at the last possible day, received the sign on bonus (but didn't spend it), and start in 4 months.

Then, the same day I receive my sign on bonus, I get an offer from an investor I showed my startup too several months prior. They're offering me a few hundred thousand dollars, the money I need to finish the product (and then some).

The startup is where my heart is at, but the company is a big name company, has been really good to me, and I really feel torn about what to do.

I am concerned about tarnishing my reputation, and burning bridges if I accept the investors funds, return my sign on bonus, and work on my startup. Will that big company forever put me on a blacklist, perhaps even to other companies?

Is this a valid fear?

How would you handle it?
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My gut feeling is that this approach can be prone to silent misbehavior that they cannot detect.

There's no reason not to patch HA to reload it's config and reapply it.
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I think your ceiling here is made more of glass than concrete. Look for new opportunities outside of your current employer. If your skill set is truly as strong what you think it is, you can even find US companies that will hire you to either work remotely or come work here.

If you've truly hit the salary ceiling, you should consider other pursuits in life that don't involve making more money. You're already making more than enough.

The answer, at least in the US, is "if you can't make more where you are, leave."
Ugh, that looks overly complex especially if you want to read it before parking (or at least getting out of your car). Solar powered LEDs are really cheap; we actually have a bunch of lights around my way that are entirely run off of solar with batteries for night. Why can't the schedule be programmed and a crude digital sign display where you can park and for how long? Maybe say loading and unloading only at times?

I have a hard enough time explaining to users how to do simply things on a computer or hell even read directions; this seems like a pain to me.
Why just tech? Are all other industries free of sexism except tech? I'm willing to bet that the socially awkward nerds that compose tech companies are actually nicest and most respectful to females compared to other sectors of the economy. How's being a woman in Goldman Sachs like?

Sexism is just a cheap excuse used to cover up for the fact that majority of females aren't willing to, or are generally uninterested in working in tech.
Some things I agree with.

> 6. Assuming women they meet are in non-technical roles.

Yeah, monumentally stupid. I don't even understand the reason for this -- usually at any event I just straight up ask people what they do. Assuming something is pretty weird.

> 7. Fetishizing “hot geek girls”.

> 8. Denigrating things by comparing them to women or femininity.

Common sense. A desperate man slavering over a "hot geek girl" looks ridiculous, as does a man who talks about "manning up" or "hitting like a girl" in the workplace in 2015. Stop it.

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Some rebuttals, or at least different perspectives on some of these points.

> 1. Using 'guys' to mean people

The majority of girls/women in college do this. In fact, anecdotal, but I have seen this used much more often by women outside the tech field. I cannot count the number of times I have heard "So where are you guys going out tonight" amongst an all-female college group. So I don't think men who use this term are being micro-aggressive, unless you count female usage of this term as a "micro-aggression" as well.

> 2. "Girls" for "women"

Similarly, unless older women are being micro-aggressive when they use this term, I don't see why this is micro-aggressive. One of my biggest surprises was hearing my 50+ female co-worker telling me "I'm a good girl, I pay all my bills on time."

> 3. "Mom" as an example of a non-technical user

I always use my dad as an example, even though my mom is the more non-technical person. But if "mom" is used way more often, maybe I can go along with this. Still, the suggestion therein to use "cat, non-technical user, Ubuntu user" is pretty silly in my opinion.

> 4. Using a default male avatar

How do you decide if an avatar is male? Jeans and T-shirts do not a male make in this day and age. I am not quite certain how you would distinguish between a non-gendered and gendered avatar.

> 5. Describing software or algorithms as “sexy”, “hot”, etc.

According to the author, this creates a "college frat-boy environment". I would argue that outlawing normal adult words like "sexy" and "hot" creates more of an infantilized classroom environment where you are essentially saying "Hey, don't say that bad word in front of the girls, or you'll get punished." Using "sexy" to refer to a well-designed, sleek new website is, in my opinion, perfectly reasonable.

> 10. Using dark UI patterns.

This is a problem for all users. I don't see why this should disproportionately drive women off. If it is, the solution lies in more privacy education and outreach, not bashing people who write the software.
I think these new signs are strictly better than the old signs. If you can make them more betterer then I and the rest of the world would love to see it. Someone random from the internet redesigning signs is how these came about. Let's see what you got.
I take issue with the single-number-type thing. This guy is conflating two different reasons/ways to divide up number types - for transparency w.r.t. machine (optimization) and by conceptual types (integer vs natural number vs fractional, etc.). The first arguably doesn't belong in a high level language. The second arguably is _exactly_ what a truly high level language should have.
Temporary signage, just like they do today. Permits are already addressed.
This thread is just some incredibly nice and cordial and thoughtful discussion, thank you everyone.
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I am male. When I was in school I was on a project with two women. I asked them if the term "guys" bothered them. They both said no. I even used it when there were only women in the group. Guys is the plural of you in some dialects of English.

"Hot" has many many meanings other than "sexy". When not referring to a person's attractiveness, it means "popular, being paid a lot of attention to" or "high in temperature", or "fast" or "contains a lot of energy".
This is the book that really gives me lots of motivation and ideas. A great book to train yourself to be an entrepreneur.
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No. There's a very narrow non-turing complete set of instructions that bitcoin understands. See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script

There's no way to execute arbitrary code on the host.

>Unfortunately, many of these scripts appear to call a rather large
number of third-party tools that likely have not been designed with
malicious inputs in mind.

Bitcoin was designed with malicious inputs in mind.
I think I must be missing something, because this looks to me like a less-elegant reinvention of the functionality of a handful of already extant promise libraries. A library like 'when' already does all of this, and is much more composable. As an obvious example, there is no reason to clutter up your interfaces with specialized things like timeout parameters when a timeout something you can transparently wrap on any promise without changing its interface one bit.
I can't even understand what's going on in #3.

And I particularly like how the one with Cape Cod completely misses the spiral of Long Point by like 30 miles, and just spirals in toward some arbitrary point in Massachusetts Bay.