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Show HN: Automagical responsive typography, built on PostCSS
The satisfaction of flying an airplane into jQuery.
The OP article is criticizing the claim from the original piece that this sort of ad is typical. (From original piece: "Asian-language newspapers are rife with classified ads listing manicurist jobs paying so little the daily wage can at first glance appear to be a typo.") If it's true that most ads list nothing, and that vast majority that do list wages list more than $70/day, then I'd say the original reporter is clearly being disingenuous.

Incidentally, here's the reporter saying that the OP article claimed the $10/day ad didn't exist:

> The ad that "doesn't exist" according to @R_Bernstein & @nybooks who calls me a liar & didn't bother to interview me

https://twitter.com/SarahMaslinNir/status/625085019199934464

But he never says that right? (Certainly his inability to find this ad speaks to his not being thorough.)
Ask HN: “Next Generation” Free Cross-Platform Text and Code Editors
There are exhaustive articles discussing load times, memory footprints, edge-case limitations, and the underlying frameworks of projects like Atom, Brackets, and VS Code.

What I'm more interested in is a more subjective opinion in terms of investment of time: time to master a system, time to develop plug-ins, time to teach others, and so on.

That becomes more of a factor of community adoption, corporate backing, and other less tangible metrics.

Which environments are likely to be standouts a year from now? 5 years from now? Which would you bake into a development machine installation?
There definitely is a market for CSRF RCEs in common home routers.

(The prices are absurd due to the fact that nobody has been selling these for very long)
How would you replace nginx??
Because it is "the same statute", as they accurately say.

And it's even a similar kind of interpretive abuse: stretching its definitions to rack up steeper potential penalties against a lesser-resourced entity.

So no, not every lawsuit. But yes, if an expansive interpretation of the CFAA is deployed against someone, I think it's OK for them to remind the audience it's that law.

(Your exaggerated paraphrase here, "that's just like what killed Aaron Swartz", is far more "manipulative and grotesque" than the actual wording of their small aside.)
How I went from 0 to 8-figure revenue in 18 months
Thanks for introducing me to /r/retrofuturism -- this is incredible.

In particular I love the retro ads for Facebook, Skype, and Twitter:

http://imgur.com/a/ab39f
> What we get in exchange for the higher cost is a decade of life expectancy.

It's not quite clear that the extra decade of life expectancy comes from the more expensive medicine.

(I agree with the rest of your arguments for what it's worth.)
What I find hilarious is that their products are just another unoriginal, knock-off "optimizer" apps that have marginal utility, and yet they complain about being scammed. That's some pretty hard-headed cognitive dissonance.
I believe you. How are those bugs monetized by the buyers?
There is also the whole regulatory capture side of GMO. The ownership of all plants on Earth by a few corporations. That part is also worrying because it brings all food under the control of a few corporations under the patents regime.
Succeeding founders where perseverant, but being perseverant will necessarily make you succeed. It is a correlation, not a cause-effect relationship.
So to make it explicit, this article is suggesting that Netflix would not make additional money by disallowing account sharing, that the new accounts wouldn't make up for the lost "good will" or something?
> "the rate was confirmed by several workers" to suggest that the Times' reporter was using the workers to confirm that such ads were all over the place when the reporter intended instead to confirm that this was a common rate in the industry (regardless of the ad).

Actually, the NY Times isn't quite claiming that. They were just asking around to confirm that this particular ad was correct, and not a typo.

> @SarahMaslinNir confirmed w/ workers themselves was to make sure it was not a typo and a real wage.

https://twitter.com/michaelluo/status/625083693363785728

Indeed, from the original article:

> Ads in Chinese in both Sing Tao Daily and World Journal for NYC Nail Spa, a second-story salon on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, advertised a starting wage of $10 a day. The rate was confirmed by several workers.

I'm pretty sure the Times has no evidence that this is anything like a typical wage.
Charge money when something is debt free? I'm interested in learning more about that, please.
It was a very nice, if under appreciated OS. A number of robot enthusiasts used it in their robots as it was a much more reliable multitasking 8-bit platform OS than MPM was which was around about the same time.
£4.62 = $7.16 http://www.ebay.com/itm/171749696878
£6.96 = $$10.80 http://www.ebay.com/itm/131532641773
ebay search : RTL2832U R820T -Connector -Adapter -Angle
They generally enable AT LEAST full MITM access, so ad hijacking and espionage.
Two years ago, I was in the US for a month and volunteered to chauffeur two Chinese students to a Celtics game as an outing (I was working for a homestay/education consulting company at the time).

On the way back at night, driving through a small town in central Massachusetts, I passed a cop car, going at the speed limit. The cop immediately pulled out and began tailing me, but did not turn on his lights.

I tried to maintain a constant speed, a couple miles above the 35 mile per hour speed limit, since I know cops treat excessively slow speeds as an indicator of drunk driving.

Eventually, after 15 minutes of being tailed, I hit my foot a bit too heavily on the gas, and went to 45 miles per hour. He instantly turned on his lights, and pulled me over.

The officer was extremely skeptical when he got to the car, especially since the name on the car's registration was my company's, not mine, and I had two minors in the back. After some questioning and prodding about where we had been and what we had been doing, he let me go with a warning.

I shudder to think what would have happened if I had pulled over in the same situation, but black. The officer was serving no sort of duty except to troll for problems where none existed.

I haven't returned to the US since: it turns out there are many places I can live where I don't have to have nerve-wracking interactions with hostile law enforcement, ever.
Once again, please explain what these "steep penalties" you're referring to are, specifically and in detail. The CFAA is a very short act, and it's not hard to read. Moreover, the civil cause of action in CFAA is a tiny part of the overall statute. I don't think it supports the argument you're trying to make. In fact, I think it contradicts it.
> My zlib implementation for example is consistently 25% faster than the reference version, despite me simply "hand compiling" it straight from the C source.

Yeah, but that is a very CPU bound processing pipeline. You would expect that to maximize the impact of any inefficiencies in the compiler.

That you can hand tune for better performance is conceivable. That you can get a 2x win over some pretty tuned code suggests that there is something larger at work than simply tuning lots of little things.
Not directly related, but for completeness sake: Java 8 lambdas only generate classes for capturing lambdas, and even then, only at runtime (a class file isn't generated). Kotlin can't quite do that because it relies on method handles and invokedynamic, which are missing from Android.

Also, there are few compilers anywhere with optimizations as powerful as HotSpot :) And HotSpot compilation is only getting better and better. Java 9 will even let us use Graal as the optimizing compiler (i.e. instead of C2), which can do this: https://twitter.com/ChrisGSeaton/status/619885182104043520
OS-9 was a great OS.

I ran it on a Coco III with 512k and a hard drive that I got surplus from a DEC guy. I learned C on that system.
If I buy coffee at Starbucks with a $5 bill, and you come in later, pay with a $20 and get my $5 in change, in order for the government to follow the money like that Starbucks would have to scan every bill and correlate the scans with individual transactions. Even if people were okay with that (which I doubt), it would be a costly imposition on businesses and a huge time waster for everyone.
Jessica identified a correlation, not a cause-effect relationship.
1880 US Census: population 50,189,209

2010 US Census: population 308,745,538

The population increased 9.7% between 2000 and 2010.

Eventually a country must limit immigration. The alternative is the squalor of places like Haiti and Bangladesh.
In Texas, all state agencies other than those listed in the state constitution will be automatically abolished at some future date unless the legislature extends their mandate.

Prior to each agency's expiration, the Sunset Commission reviews their purpose and effectiveness and then makes a recommendation to the legislature to abolish the organization, continue with modifications, merge the agency under review with another or let it expire.

Agencies subject to sunset review: https://www.sunset.texas.gov/reviews-and-reports/agencies

Since the commission was created ~40 years ago, they've abolished 79 state agencies.
ah --

"licensed eyebrow plucker $75, start after 3:00, apprentice base pay $10"

Would you happen to know why this ad is in simplified characters (except the 拔) while the other one is in traditionals?

The $10 probably is per day; $10 / hour seems high for an untrained, unlicensed worker (and $75 / hour seems high for a licensed eyebrow plucker, too). On the other hand, the apprentice can apparently expect tips just like the licensed worker, if the reference to "base pay" is anything to go by.
It's my favorite library for building small video games for fun. I recommend it to anyone who wants to build a 2D web game. It has good docs and the code is fairly simple to read and write.
In the 1970s, he did designs for Playboy of futuristic environments for the single guy. Cars, (he did a lot of vehicle designs), a "land yacht" RV, and some interiors and exteriors. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts had a show of those a few years ago.

Big Syd Mead image collection: http://imgur.com/a/s9Oyr#0
To understand all of this, a great FB page to follow is CopBlock (disclaimer: not affiliated with them but a great news source). The way the police in America act today is borderline Orwellian, or perhaps it's already crossed that line.
The 80-19-1 Rule
I completely agree. The behavior of that officer was egregious. Engaging in dominance games is stupid and petty; doubly-so when you have weapons, training, and legal authority.

I thought I addressed the stats about danger, though not deeply:

> While police work isn't particularly dangerous compared to fishing or logging, people can't internalize that fact. And in fairness to intuitions, much of the risk is compressed into short moments such as traffic stops.

I know police work isn't particularly dangerous, but I also think that during a traffic stop, it would take superhuman willpower to not be more prone to violence than the situation merits. That's just how people are wired. There might be some training or technology that could ameliorate this, but I don't think it exists yet.
Interesting spelling of 'phantasies'. I hadn't seen that before.
3000 words isn't much for the typical college student reading 100+ pages a week
A single working class income can easily support a family of 4-5 in the sort of housing a family from the 50s/60s would have lived in, with the number of vehicles a family from the 50s/60s drove, etc.
Can someone in the know please explain the importance of this?
One-Syllable Poem in Chinese: Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den
Heh. I once joined an early stage startup that had a big bowl of spaghetti code, no source control and no framework. My first insistence was source control. Then after a year in which we hired several developers, I insisted we move to a framework so the learning curve wouldn't be so steep for new people.

It was a monumental effort that took more than a year to complete, and we did the "brain transplant" (as we called it) at the same time we were moving to a new data center. Launch was shaky but overall it went very well. One of my fondest memories is of the "war room" on launch day as we triaged incoming bug reports. The team worked great together and at the end of the day we felt like we'd really accomplish something.

Sometimes of stress can be very rewarding.
It's unfortunate but the reality is that manufacturers are too cheap/lazy to segregate devices on to separate L2 segments, deploy fw or keyed A3E until forced to by exposure of hack demos. In cars (and IoT), standards make everything cheaper but easier to hack without sensible security measures.
I think maybe the HLS can get you a core design but then when you try to use it and integrate into an FPGA you will have to deal with the low level issues of registers and combinatorial logic. This is fine for the experienced HW person, but not for the beginner. In other words, the HLS is better for the experienced HW designer than the beginner even though it looks like its easy.

Unfortunately there is no infrastructure for you to build onto. It's like a blank slate. All the I/O needs to be done right. It's very seldom just instantiating wires unless your design is blazingly simple. And if it were simple you wouldn't need an FPGA in the first place. A generic coprocessor would kick most FPGAs butts.
People might recognize what this influenced: http://static1.squarespace.com/static/4f209325d09a4f024c85b0...
Flickr Pro Is Back, and It's Selling Quality Over Quantity
I'm having a tough time trying to understand what you're proposing. First of all, in Haskell there's no real concept of having functions "attached" to objects (in the OO sense). The closest analogue is a type class, which relates a type to a set of functions. For monad, that looks like

class Monad m where
return :: a -> m a
(>>=) :: m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b

And it's up to the particular instance to determine how those functions are implemented. For example,

instance Monad Maybe where
return :: a -> Maybe a
return x = Just x

(>>=) :: Maybe a -> (a -> Maybe b) -> Maybe b
maybe >>= f = case maybe of
Nothing -> Nothing
Just x -> f x

The definition of the State type, and its corresponding Monad instance, is a little more involved (I suggest this blog post for an explanation [1]):

newtype State s a = State { runState :: s -> (a, s) }

instance Monad (State a) where
return x = State $ \s -> (x, s)
m >>= k = State $ \s -> let (a, s') = runState m s
in runState (k a) s'

I'm honestly not quite sure what you mean by the rest of it (for example, "ignoring the function requirement", "specialness" etc). But the bottom line is that you can do any typesafe thing you want to, within the rules of how the language works.

[1]: http://brandon.si/code/the-state-monad-a-tutorial-for-the-co...
The article is claiming that account sharing among Netflix users is almost entirely at the household level among family members, a sanctioned use of the service, as opposed to genuine freeloading between friends or strangers.
Still , Cx - lang is having a real hard time to find customers. So what's missing ?
This is live!
Probably the best article I read this year!
What is HACKING TEAMs motivation for publicly sharing all of this seemingly private underworld information?
The Rise of the Data Natives (2014)
>The use of the word "illegals" to describe human beings is dehumanizing at best, outright xenophobic at worst.

Nope. It's just descriptive.
Apple today makes products which are the "whole package", a well built tool for power users that isn't the absolute top shelf most amazing product available but in its niche is a solid choice well worth the investment where nothing is broken (great battery life, solid metal shell that can take a bump, SSD, quiet and stays cool, components that don't break after 2 years, BSD-based OS with a wrapper that allows you never to reboot, brilliant screen...). It costs a lot of money to go from '95% of products don't break' to '99% of products don't break AND the 1% is replaced at the shop immediately, with the defective unit fixed, next day free shipping, etc.' Apple gets that no, it's not worth squeezing an extra $10 margin off the battery by halving its effective life or $2 by buying crappy hinges that will break after a while (since the warranty is over in a year anyway).

"Just enough" isn't a MacBook Pro or even an Air, it's a 3-4 year old machine you pick up for $150 on eBay or maybe that $200 netbook you picked up on a sale at your local supermarket. Could be the machine you got for free when your neighbour updated. This machine can go on the internet, display your emails, show you the occasional movie (and if you're a particularly sharp average user, allow you to download them illegally) without crashing too often. That's the world normal people live in, in the first world. In the third world, a crappy no name 4" Android that takes 30 seconds to load any web page over the local 3G is what you deal with and a branded phablet is "luxury" (and an iPhone is like a Ferrari Italia).

In clothing, "just enough" is Primark or H&M - cheap, replaceable stuff without much thinking behind it. Uniqlo is doing very well because it's offering (much) better quality in that range at the same price point, especially regarding "taste". In cars, it's the Camry or the Accord, which can last a good 20 years with little servicing, gets you from A to B with decent fuel economy, and can be had second hand for a few thousand dollars. Car guys will think that a 3-series is "normal", but it isn't - it's the 5% as seen by those in the 0.5%.
It's a federal, searchable database to see which companies have given money to medical/dental (and other?) providers. The idea being to allow people to understand that there could be influence from that company on the provider.
it's verbose because he uses examples from a specific reading. this was originally in print; had it been written for the web, with shorter expectations of length, it could be summed up pretty concisely.

his disclaimers are hot garbage though. "NONE of this advice applies ... if you’re otherwise operating in a discipline where close reading is centrally important to the way the discipline thinks" and goes on to say "my advice is most useful in ... literary or cultural criticism" - derrida would like to have a word with you about how you think literary criticism doesn't involve close reading

disclaimer: i skimmed the article
>Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

You know that's just a poem on a statue, right, and not actually codified in law?
I never thought about detecting proxies and VPNs this way, very clever.

Do any of you know a way to hinder/defeat these detection techniques?
A Python wrapper for the 3taps API
You can already mandate negative interest rates by creating inflation.
Wasn't it that assumption ("lots of people are looking at [it]") that lead to the current state of OpenSSL?
> should I also focus more on getting things done instead of trying to find the best solution?

This question can only be answered in the context of the project's life cycle. Is it in the early stages? Are there many downstream users relying on its stability? How clearly is the distinction between internals and interface communicated to downstream users? How technical are the end users?

> the fact that ffmpeg has more features and its devs fix bugs and security issues more quickly seem to suggest that ffmpeg is more maintainable

Or it could just be that ffmpeg has people who are willing to dedicate a much larger amount of time to their maintainership duties. Often differences like this have much more to do with nontechnical causes like corporate support.
They didn't share it voluntarily, they got hacked and 400GB of data from their servers turned up in a data dump.

http://leaksource.info/2015/07/07/hacking-team-hacked-400gb-...
How do I get my test stimulus into my simulator? And where is my checking?

Hypothetically I wrote my tests and checkers in Chisel. I now want to run a gate level simulation of my tests. I asked the same thing to the Clash guys. Can it do that?
Sam Altman shares his morning ritual on VB
No, a Craigslist judgement on CFAA grounds wouldn't trigger a federal fine. But any activity that wins damages on the civil side could also (at federal prosecutor discretion) be prosecuted criminally.

A civil precedent on what counts as "exceed[ing] authorized access" under the CFAA also affects who might be subject to the full range of federal criminal penalties, in future actions. So Craigslist's interpretation winning, compared to EFF's, ultimately means more people threatened with 1-10 years in federal prison.
Thanks for the feedback!

Yes, not having all exercises based on repetitions is something I definitely will do, it's been in the TODO for some time. And while it is already possible to have multi-week-cycles, that you could not find it shows that it could be made more obvious.

Having complex rules for routines and weight increases is also something I have been playing with, but there are many corner cases that need to be considered once you start thinking about the details (specially when you add failings) and I didn't see the payout at the time.

Having a "test suite" with templates is an interesting concept that's going to the "ideas to think about"-list.
I see, thank you for the context!

So then my next question would be what is this person hoping to do by publishing the info like this?
Wait, you actually had Valve do customer support? I think that's rarer than getting Google customer support, to be honest.
Haha, I was a vegetarian for 20 years -- 15 to 35 years old. For 4 of those years I was vegan.

I've mostly done some form of fitness and athletics all my life. That certainly helps.

Though, when I was vegetarian it was hard for me to build muscle.

That changed when I started eating meat and switched to a mostly paleo style diet. I suddenly built more muscle and found it easier to maintain.

The one thing that being vegetarian all those years probably helped with is it helped me be more conscious of food. Also, it helped me skip a lot of the bad dietary habits you form in your 20s and pay for when you get older.

I see a lot of my 20 something friends making that mistake and putting off the effort to form the right habits now.

It'll catch up. I'd say start getting the right habits in place immediately.

Anyhow, I caught a lucky break there.

In terms of losing strength, I don't think so. I might be in better shape than in my 20s.

Squats are pretty consistent at 150 - 170kgs. Bench is still strong.

One thing I'm big on is the habits and routine.

I mostly work from home everyday and work in pomodoros (30 - 45 min focused sprints) with 5 - 10 min breaks.

I keep a 30kg kettle bell and another free weight in my office. So when the timer goes off - take exercise breaks.

I also work most of the day standing, which helps a lot.

I'm also pretty competitive, so things like sprints at the track and basketball help with the cardio side.

The last full body analysis I did in Bangkok at Bumrungrad Hospital, it took me 13 minutes to hit my target heart rate on the treadmill.

And, I drink too much, smoke too much shisha, go out too much, occasionally dabble in substances I shouldn't and dance too much. lol

So, who knows. Find a balance that works for you I guess.

Saigon, by the way is a great place to find that balance.

I found the lifestyle optimizations from the food to fitness and fun easy to sort out here.

One reason I decided to base here.
Understanding the battle is three halves the battle.