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I've noticed that a lot of headlines on HN are intentionally vague, to pique reader's interest. I'm not sure what being intentionally vague for an entire article is supposed to accomplish. What is it that is barely halfway d
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That was the statement that caught my attention too. If the environment really is how the NYT article, and many HN posters say it is, then Bezos' offer sounds a lot like US whistle blower protections. Sounds good on paper, not so muc
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...its figures appeared to be based on the assumption that people eat "nothing but Soylent everyday, 365 days a year, forever" Maybe they got that impression from the marketing image in the article with the text "What if you
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How would you handle potholes and other abnormal road conditions?
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This price has come down by 66% in just a couple of years. A company I used to work for sold these for $1500. The reason people are willing to spend this money is because these are geared toward drag racing, mainly for weight reduction.
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Don't forget the fact that they sell the same items for different prices in different areas of the store, and take the default position that you've stolen from them until you produce your receipt as you leave.
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The testimonials remind me of infomercials that exaggerate people's struggles to do everyday tasks like cracking eggs or retrieving items from shelves. Who frets about 100MB on their hard drive in 2015, and why wouldn't these myth
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Something I've thought a lot about at my current job is the relative nature of the 10x engineer. Half of the developers on my team consistently require over a week to accomplish tasks that would take me half of a day. That's a 1
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Not just an admin. YC alum and cofounder Alexis Ohanian. This conversation tells you everything you need to know. They aren't sorry. This wasn't bungled. They are doubling down on their lack of communication.
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Why would someone actually worth this rate need to essentially cold call the internet? Shouldn't a webpage trying to sell web design/user experience be attractive and engaging? Can you describe your ideal client, along with why th
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I think the inherit nature of bubbles means that it's almost impossible to accurately predict the fallout. Sure, there were investors that bet against credit default swaps, but it was still a bet, or calculated risk. If such predictio
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That's a far more difficult prediction: what technology will be developed in the next several hundred years. What sticks out as some problems with building a planet are where do you get all of the material, and how would you manage it
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The chances of finding a preexisting viable alternative actually make the prospect of developing all that technology seem trivial. Life has evolved over hundreds of millions of years, influenced by the earths environment, which itself has b
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The earth is not likely to die for billions of years. Its ability to sustain human life on a large scale is certainly at risk. What I'm saying is that the technological advances required to make even the best candidate planet a super
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(4) - The driving force behind space exploration is the idea that Earth will eventually be made uninhabitable by climate change. However, for any planet or moon in our solar system to be a viable alternative, we're going to have to in
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So, drop out of school, become an author, podcaster, and an accredited investor. Nothing inherently wrong with any of those professions, except very few people are successful at them. Not to mention the prerequisite of a high net worth to
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A boost converter is a very common circuit. If electronics manufacturers could extend the battery life of their products they would. Many products are regulated to require certain number of years that their batteries must last. Smoke alarm
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The push is completely driven by time/resource concern. The thing is, I'm almost certain that I can convince them to keep the work in house, and it makes everyone look good. Halve the future maintenance required. No time spent o
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Ask HN: Negotiating with my boss to take on project about to be outsourced?
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The same is true for Illinois. Close to 80% of the population lives within 50 miles of Chicago. Almost everywhere else has a much lower cost of living. Only four towns outside of the Chicago metro area have more than 100,000 people, and
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I contend that the brackets always make the code more readable, without exception. It's the normal case. All other variations make you think "something special is happening here, I'm going to have to parse this carefully&qu
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But tying everyone to a single IDE is never going to happen. The language is out there. It's going to stay backward compatible forever. How could the presence of braces cause a worse error than no braces? Code compiles when you comp
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for, if, and while without curly braces for single statement blocks are easily one of the worst things about C. It bites you in the ass every time. The balance between its utility and its capacity to cause bugs is so one sided, I don&#x2
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The way I think of abbreviations is this: if you would use the abbreviation when describing the code in plain English to another developer, then they are fine. Otherwise, don't abbreviate. Trying to make everything the same number of
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I really like www.w3schools.com They go through HTML, CSS, JS, JQuery, and a ton of other stuff. I'm sure they're not the only site that does this, but I found the "Try it Yourself" feature to be extremely helpful. Eve
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The commercial value of the solutions to some of these problems are multiple orders of magnitude higher than the prize money. In that sense, the prize money isn't really much incentive to develop a Tricorder, or a process to remove gre
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The board doesn't have to be near the fire. Even the fan is separated. I 3d printed a fan mount that threads onto a pipe that runs into the firebox. The board' temperature range is 0-70C, so freezing temperatures would be a proble
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I'm an embedded developer, so this has been my first experience in HTML/CSS/JS/Websockets. Here's a general overview: The Python server periodically reads the thermocouple chip over SPI and sends a JSON object over
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I have a related project that I've considered commercializing. I've built a temperature controller with an embedded linux board that serves a webpage and runs a python websocket server that updates the page. I've also got a
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The difference in MMA is that as soon as a fighter is not intelligently defending themselves, the ref stops the fight. There is a much lower standard for a technical knockout. There are many stoppages that occur after "flash" kno

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