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Friday, November 13th is upon us, folks.
This is absolutely beautiful. I'm interested in the comment that high level scrabble playing is more mathematical than linguistic; does there happen to be anyone here who could recommend some related reading?
I am no knife expert but these knives look lovely.

If anyone is interested in Knifes, here is a fascinating article from New Yorker (2008):

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/11/24/sharper

I got one of the Japanese knives gifted to me. I think it is in the same price range as your lineup.

I use a Kyocera Ceramic knife for about 10 years and they have a free sharpening service (which I used once). It has been chopping like a champ.

What I found stunning was the metal knife was lighter (in a very good way) than the ceramic knife. I am a vegetarian and hence ceramic works better (no metallic tang), but I understand you buy lovely knives as the ones you carry for its epicurean value as much as its utilitarian value.

Of all the formats of knives I have, I use the Santoku the most. It hits the sweet spot between a paring knife and Chef's knife.

All the best.
<cough> I really should have thought that line out. :D
So money laundry is legal if you have a banking license and pay the fee (fine). In HSBC's case that fine is less than my credit card APR.
Moonwalking With Einstein by Joshua Foer.
> handles proxyification

what is proxyification?
Very good post, though I disagree on reference checks. I've seen hiring mistakes where a good reference check would have caught issues.
"within a factor of 10" is a curiosity rather than anything of real significance. And even that is based on untested theories. It is possible that the Planck length will end up being significant in the way described upthread, but given our scientific record it seems somewhat more likely that such an idea will end up looking similar to the theory about atoms being the smallest unit of matter.
How do you get into something like that, if you don't mind me asking? What's your specialty, and where were you in your career path 20 years ago that set you up for it?
>The Vietnamese don't seem to hold grudges for very long. For whatever reason, they seem to be a lot less traumatized by the war than the US was. This is despite the fact that they lost millions of people in the war.

Did people in the US hold a grudge against Japan forty years later? By then all the people who were actually making decisions are long dead. In any event Vietnam was involved in a dozen wars during the 20th century. We were just one of a long line of enemies. Also, it's easier to be gracious in victory.
Rather, monads are a conceptual structure into which I/O happens to fi t.

https://www.haskell.org/tutorial/
> What's different with this generation is they don't seem to have much interest in forming families

Do you have any evidence to support that, or are you just engaged in standard Millennial-bashing?

Most people in my peer group certainly plan to raise a family in the future, they're just being responsible and waiting to have kids until they are at a good place career-wise.
Ask HN: Why some websites ask for “username” but actually wait “email”?
Isn't it a bad UX? Even MailChimp does that and everytime I get confused. Is there any specific reason?
It looks like people are downvoting this which is hilarious because it is accurate. If you assume proportionality this will happen.
Thanks. I appreciate the discourse. I'd actually love to hear more about what you would have discovered with the a reference check. Would you mind sharing?
Okay, that's just taking advantage of the way I phrased the righthand side of the inequality, and I knew someone was going to do that, so congrats. =P

The righthand side is not "A future without superintelligent AI" it's "A future where we wait until we provably have it right before letting it out."

Those kinds of ad hoc solutions will never work in real life, because even if someone buys it, all it will cause is a "haha, you got me" and a reformulation of the problem. It still won't actually get someone to pull the trigger or think that pulling the trigger is the right thing to do.
If your procrastination is causing or deepening your depression, consider this book:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Now-Habit-Overcoming-Procrastinati...
It helped me understand and break the procrastination cycle.
YouTube's growing userbase actually means the demise of video content
Hey, thanks for reaching out. Shoot me an email at tjkresch@gmail.com
Thank you hannaxu! It's an encouraging feeling to know that other people are willingly taking a big leap of faith.

My family and loved ones also think I should go for it. Their main reason is:
1. I should accumulate awesome experience right now and do what I love.
2. A big/small income does not have any immediate impact on my lifestyle right now.

I may as well just go for it :)
Any good history of WWII covers this.

"Patton", the movie, shows it from Patton's perspective.

"You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics." - General Dwight D. Eisenhower

More detail than you probably want - Gen. George C. Marshall's comments after the war.[1] See p. 8 of the transcript.

A more modern perspective - "Moving Mountains", a book by Gen. Gus Patronis, head of logistics for Desert Storm. How the U.S. Army built up a massive force in the middle of nowhere and then won a war in four days. This is a useful perspective on "speed". If you want to go fast, having massive resources available makes it work.

[1] http://marshallfoundation.org/library/wp-content/uploads/sit...
Twitter hosted a frat-themed party for employees, complete with beer pong
People don't seem to like it when something they cherish is reduced to symbols. I got a good laugh out of this comment at the Guardian:

"I think it renders the whole thing pointless. It ceases to be a word game. I think that, as in tennis and cricket, there should be the right of challenge, and if the person doesn't know the meaning of the word, the go doesn't count and the word is removed." ~ MichaelBulley

I am sure Mr Bulley would prefer it if Chess players could challenge their opponent to prove he or she is a either a Monarch, a Lord, Knight or at the very least a commoner who lives in a castle.
> Housing and education are more expensive, but food and entertainment costs are way lower.

While that's true, it's certainly not "a wash." Housing and education are probably people's two biggest lifetime expenses. Even if housing prices doubled and food prices were cut by two thirds, the outcome would be higher overall expenses.

Personally, rent in a small apartment is more than all my other expenses combined.
"The rich are different from you and me." -- F. Scott Fitzgeral, "The Great Gatsby"
Yeah, "aligned" is not the right word. But it's not part of the US either. It's not a state. It's in a weird protectorate gray area.

By historical standards the most accurate appellation would probably be "colony".
From what I understand, Cortana is built using a combination of Web technologies including Node.js, which makes it easily portable to iOS and Android.
> "WE DON'T SELL BULLSHIT. EVER."

I am sure some people will object to that being on the front page, but it gave me a great feeling as a potential customer. And, being that such blunt language is pretty rare on a customer-facing landing page, it immediately created some memorability that wouldn't have been there otherwise. (Somewhat the same as if I had said out loud, "Buttermilk Supply. Buttermilk Supply.")

I advise that you keep it, even though many will inevitably advise you that it seems unprofessional.

As a dilettante home cook with a somewhat deficient ratio of financial responsibility to disposable income, I find myself buying fairly high-end kitchen knives online often. I just like using them, even though my 'cooking' really mostly amounts to slicing tomatoes and cucumbers to eat with (Ajinomoto MSG-coated) salt.

That may not be what you are going for in terms of your customer base, but if it is, I would additionally recommend solving the sharpening problem, and the cleaning problem, really well.

I never graduated beyond stuff like the Shun knives commonly available on Amazon, and those things were a big reason why. (Shun offers easy mail-in sharpening.)

Sell the knives with a cardboard return shipping box for sharpening, and then send them back with a shipping box that can be re-used the next time.

And if you want to get fancy, include a simple knife cleaning tool. I historically would never consider buying any kitchen item that can't go in the dishwasher -- except a knife, because I like the idea of a blade so sharp that detergents will damage the molecular structure of the super-fine edge.

Still, I confess to saying "fuck it" on many occasions and putting my $150 Shun santoku or paring knives in the dishwasher. That is because I sometimes find myself looking at a gross dishpan full of dirty dishes in brackish water, and the sponge is somewhere in the bottom... I just don't always feel like sticking my hand in there.

I finally curbed that habit by crafting my own knife cleaning tool from a nylon-brush dishwashing brush and a folded-over sponge, that I keep separate from the normal dish washing gear. It is janky, but you could actually make something along those lines pretty cool and very cheap, and then include/sell that. And the cleaning tool itself would be something you could throw in the dishwasher whenever needed.

Good luck! I will remember your site on my next birthday.
I have trouble with Selenium's failure rate too. End up writing a test engine in Javascript. It handles async js func call with js function callback when finished to get rid of all the sleep-wait-retry type logic in Selenium.

Works very well. I can run the 100+ test cases in all IE/FF/Chrome/Safari, ios/android browser without change one line of JS/Test code. Runs fine with desktop with wire connect to cellphone browser on cell connection.

It tests out all the app backend db logic also. The time/pass/fail info are submitted back to the test backend db.
Clang is not a good example... It was adopted by Apple for its technical merits over gcc rather than its license. And, in fact, Apple tried to license clang/llvm under the GPL as a contribution to gcc but was rejected:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTU4MzE

That clang is not GPL is more an accident of history than a preference of licenses:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00...
It is not entitlement, it is the human way of communicating. You are not the other side, you are just representing the anti-intellectualism that is not too popular on HN.
>This is a clear user freedom that is guaranteed by the GPL.

Yes, and that freedom is being guaranteed to fewer and fewer end users of GPLed software because of those feelings you're dismissing.

Linux is probably the success story for GPL, and even in that case Google has bundled it with proprietary software (Android now outnumbers all other operating system installs, IIRC). Yes people can make their own distributions, but they're for the most part irrelevant to 99% of users of Android devices. Probably 99.99% if you include people who never install Google proprietary apps (the Play Store; Google Maps; etc.) on their devices.

The point of GPL wasn't to serve the 1%, but to expand software freedoms to everyone. To start a revolution in software, and to supplant closed source and restrictive licenses. Look around, though; most people are ignoring what freedoms they are offered and basking in proprietary software options.

Open source is beautiful when it works. But freedom to redistribute something without value is about as relevant as debating whether a tree falling alone in a forest makes a noise.
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OneSignal (YC S11) is hiring a back-end development lead
So in some weirdly ironic way this is Searles Chinese Room in action.
Using Capybara alone one gets most of the stuff they had to implement (page, with, retries, ...) but I'll look into those gems you suggest.

Maybe the Scala ecosystem is still immature on the side of integration testing. They could implement them in Ruby if they are familiar with the language. I don't feel OK about using two languages but at least it could enforce strict separation between integration testing and the application.
Where will they live? Legitimate question; there's no room in SF. Are they going to build some new mega-metropolis and get the water from... somewhere?
Implicit in this discussion is the fact that the matrix is positive definite, no?
You can ask the "scientist" behind it - http://engineering.tamu.edu/biomedical/people/fink-rainer

Frankly, he sounds dangerous. If he honestly thinks a magstripe can repel insects, do you really want to use other biomedical tech he's had anything to do with?

I guess Texas A&M give degrees out like candy... can I have one? Need firelighters.
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Maybe the harmonic mean?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_mean
not on windows for some time, but i recall F4 also does that on all languages. i think ^L just focused the address bar, F4 focused the address bar and already opened the recently typed dropdown.
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Hi. I like the site, well done. It was clear within 30 seconds of visiting your site that you are passionate about knives and stand behind what you sell. That impression is very clear and a very positive sales pitch. I trust you.

I am not in the market for a knife at the moment but I'd be happy ordering from your site.

One question: is there any issue shipping knives internationally? I live in Australia and know we have some fairly strict import laws around explosives and sharp things. If customs decide your item is prohibited it can be a real headache getting it released.
This is pretty impressive. Is the source code available somewhere?
I do, I do start random conversation with muslims, christians, blacks, whites, females, males, Chinese, Korean and even with animals. Most of the time it is welcome, but more recently I discovered that some people in USA are considering this micro-aggression, so I am dialing down wanting to talk to here at all. I hope you are happy.
It's F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the quote is actually from another story of his, The Rich Boy. http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/13/books/l-the-rich-are-diffe...
The card comprises a unique matter-free pocket universe. Or at least it had better, or they're lying.
Anecdotally speaking I used to think microaggressions were utter BS.

Then I got into an interracial relationship (I'm white, she's black) and the way I was treated when with my girlfriend and alone were very noticeably different.

I noticed being physically tired after going somewhere with my girlfriend as well as many looks, weird tones people took with me I'd never experienced, and generally ruder people.

> Like when they say white male. Oh, nevermind that does not qualify because it is against whites and males, so it is ok. Sorry a little confusing here... :)

I experienced microagressions as a result of being in a relationship with a black female, so it is possible.
Sandra Bland arrest video has continuity problems, anomalies
i always pressed back, middle clicked the link i had just clicked ... /facepalm
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This reminds me of my international student friends in college with perfect SAT Verbal scores but very poor writing/speaking/listening abilities. Boy were those guys smart.
There are two factors that determine how much money you have. Being "at a good place career-wise" is only half the equation. Your career better be going to a really, really good place if it requires living in an area with $4500/month rent.
For a knife noobie like me, I can't really see the difference between the your knives and those you mentioned in here[0]. Would be nice if you could add a couple of the major differences to your post.

Having said that, your knives look amazing from an functional art perspective. Well done on sourcing these knives.

[0] - http://www.buttermilksupply.com/what-kind-of-knife-should-i-...
It seems rather unlikely that if people were selling books of magic on the internet which actually worked we wouldn't know about it. People would talk about it, and they'd have the results to back up their talk when other people called them nuts.
In life, it's often about picking from what's available to you at the time of making the choice, instead of what's optimal. Especially true of young people.

Many engineers that come to me for interview training (http://InterviewKickstart.com), have been at their workplaces for several years, mostly since college. When in college, you just want a job and a job in a brand name company like Cisco is amazing. It's usually too late until you realize that you were in a team that nobody cared about.

Then you try and interview to get into a good startup, only to realize that interviewing landscaping has shifted. Your only option then, is to go join an also-ran startup because they paid no attention to the interview process. It's a vicious cycle.
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What are the political implications of automatons with unbounded geographic reach?

Why is it profoundly stupid to let autonomous machines operate freely on open roads?
This.

having just traveled overseas, i was shocked that nobody, and i mean nobody!, had a iphone 6 or macbook.

all i saw (in a middle to upper class setting) was moto E phones and asus and toshiba laptops. The better off people had Dells laptops and samsung phones.
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I prefer to go by this definition of racism:

"Racism, however, describes patterns of discrimination that are institutionalized as “normal” throughout an entire culture. It’s based on an ideological belief that one “race” is somehow better than another “race”. It’s not one person discriminating at this point, but a whole population operating in a social structure that actually makes it difficult for a person not to discriminate."

Racial slurs not backed by institutionalized racism are just laughable. For instance if someone called me "Cracker" I'd laugh about it since there isn't a huge past history of people lynching, raping, and harming my race while they chant "Cracker".

You can't say the same about the N-word however.

0: http://racismschool.tumblr.com/Racism:Definitions
> It is not pinned to Windows or Service Pack releases like IE was historically

and chrome was on android pre 4.2. though it was called "stock browser" then.
I don't know about the website, but the mystical side of the runes is very old. In fact, the story about how the runes came to be is that Oden hung over the Well of Mimer (Mimer was a giant well versed in magic) for nine days and nine nights. In the end, he lost one of his eyes, but received the runes instead. The runes describe the world, so the world can be altered through the runes (the idea goes). Each rune describes an aspect of the world, like the Is-rune being both the sound "i"/"ee" and the concept of "ice".

I may have the details wrong. I read about it in school after all. I love the story though: http://norse-mythology.org/tales/odins-discovery-of-the-rune...

Edit: like I wrote above, this is the STORY, ie the cultural myth about how they came to be. The STORY shows how they were THOUGHT OF as more than a practical language.
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I think it's important to keep in mind that stereotypes about women not being as intelligent as well as black people not being as intelligent as non-black plays a (large imo) part in this as well.

Add the two together and there's an even higher likelihood the next person you see will think you couldn't possibly have the same major as them, are incompetent, didn't earn your way to your position, or generally don't belong.
For every company that employs personals that refuses to use the best tool for the job a competitor will employ a employee that will and the market will give the more agile company success while the other will fail.

Basic market principles. Religious stances don't save money nor will it produce better goods. Understanding what licenses is suitable where, when and how means being able to compete in highly competitive areas, and only if the market leans towards monopoly can inefficiency survive.
^ same situation, but the big difference is that i am in a country where the annual salary can be around $12k, and its the big Q instead of G, i have already started the job but will be applying regardless, hope to quit if accepted, if anybody has any views/opinions on this then let me know
Apple Loses $62B in Minutes
Huawei smartphone sales jump 39% in first half of the year
Interestingly, these charges are published on the same day that the first decentralized Bitcoin exchange opens its public beta [0]. And, yes, the whole point of a decentralized Bitcoin exchange is to circumvent the laws that the FBI accuses Coin.mx of breaking:

Coinffeine takes advantage of the P2P model to avoid accepting deposits in bitcoins or fiat money, making it unnecessary to identify users or fulfill costly money laundering laws in each country. ... “Not having to identify users or enforce KYC laws has allowed us to design a much more scalable exchange model. [...]”, said Alberto Gómez Toribio, CEO of the company.

For good and for ill, one of Bitcoin's core value propositions will always be its promise to vitiate governments' attempts to control their citizens' money. It's hard to tell who's winning so far, and harder to tell who's likely to win in the end.

0. http://blog.coinffeine.com/2015/07/21/coinffeine-launches-wo...
Learning the word + the meaning just grows the size of the set you need to memorise.

But actually that'd be a fun variant.

A spelling bee where you choose the word based on the constraints of scrabble.
Ruby's Capybara encapsulates Selenium and waits until elements appear on the page (the default timeout is 2 seconds). So you can write simple sequential code like

click_link('bar')
expect(page).to have_content('baz')

and it will work even if the baz element is injected into the page by an Ajax request to the server triggered by clicking on bar. I've been using it for many years but I didn't check how they implement it. Maybe a callback from a MutationObserver? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MutationObs...

Documentation at https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara#asynchronous-javascript...
> Your career better be going to a really, really good place if it requires living in an area with $4500/month rent.

There's no requirement that you stay in the same place which made your career.

My personal plan is to work in NYC for the next ten years and then take the accumulated savings to buy a house outright in a nice town.
It's not about being able to do harder and harder things. It is about making hard things easy. When you help others like that, you will realize the value of your work.