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K-Wallon We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)

Everytime this pops up I immediately think of this classic: https://www.cartalk.com/radio/puzzler/flavors

Can't wait to see this story used on some growth hacker / seeking new opportunities LinkedIn post talking about planning for success.

K-Wallon A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels

Most Walmarts that I've come across at least have other stores nearby. I can't help but wonder how these will impact poorer, rural areas where Dollar General is king.

DG already has already faced lawsuits related to their advertised pricing vs price at the register. Surge pricing in a food desert sounds like a Late Stage Capitalism wet dream.

K-Wallon Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?

I've been bitten by the Meshtastic / LoRa bug. It's fascinating to see how far these little inexpensive units can reach.

This weekend I was able to reach my home node from a state park 8.2 km away and have been giddy since.

K-Wallon PC wakes from sleep when changing clothes

Or the my car has issues based on the flavor ice cream I purchase.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cone-of-silence/

K-Wallon Ask HN: Entry to Hacking for a 5yo?

Not a father but a "fun uncle" to my buddy's kids. I bought them a snap circuit set and they absolutely loved building out the projects in the booklet. In a couple years (the oldest was five at the time), I hope to revisit the snap circuits and introduce how this all works.

K-Wallon New bill would ban autoplay videos and endless scrolling

The unit I'm affiliated with was tasked by the university to run replications and ultimately assist with the retractions. This was all done by my colleagues but I heard about it quite often. Past that I am going to refrain on commenting more as I'm unqualified to do so.

Two published replication studies (used for retractions) can be found here:

https://cisermgmt.cornell.edu/go/PHPs/catalogSingleStudy.php...

K-Wallon New bill would ban autoplay videos and endless scrolling

I wouldn't cite Wansink... the guy had 15 retractions in the past year for making shit up.

K-Wallon A year with AirPods, or, how my AirPods fell in the toilet and lived

I really enjoy my pair of BeatsX. They have the same W1 chip as the AirPods which makes pairing simple. They do have a cord between the buds but also have an inline mic and volume / music controls.

They aren't as sexy as the AirPods but I was able to pick them up on sale for $75 so I have no real gripes.

K-Wallon Migrating 1200 databases from MySQL to Postgres

Semaphore as a service Slack Chat bot.

K-Wallon The Sound of Silence

I also agree with her and have had similar instances in my life where I chose to be silent.

My interpretation of this silence is an evaluation of opportunity cost. I choose to be silent even though I might have something to say because I value the time saved avoiding a pissing match by forgoing any benefit of speaking my mind.

I might be totally missing the mark on her intended meaning. Regardless of my interpretation, it is pretty disheartening that advancements in various areas can be stalled due to people reacting (read wanting to be offended) rather than listening, processing and engaging.

K-Wallon Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month

Awesome story! Just as a heads up with uBlock Origin in Chrome on macOS one is greeted with a header followed by a white page. Everything loaded with once I shut it off.

http://i.imgur.com/Ovbi0ic.png

K-Wallon I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.

Not to derail the conversation but this whole discussion on "productization" reminded me of the plot line of a Black Mirror episode. When I originally watched it I found it mostly absurd but now in the context of this thread it makes a whole lot of sense.

Here is the episode I am referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back_(Black_Mirror)

K-Wallon Startups, let’s act: Make Nov 8 a Holiday

I always wondered why we only have a single election day given how long the candidates spend campaigning. Is there any reason why a 3 day window (or more) couldn't be used?

K-Wallon Languages Which Almost Became CSS

Jade comes somewhat close but opts for the offside rule rather than brackets and abbreviates class and id with . and # respectively.

K-Wallon Amazon Fire 7 $49 – Is this worth hacking?

I picked up this little device for $39 when they ran that sale a couple weeks ago. I ended up downgrading to Fire OS 5.1.2 and then rooted and flashed on ASOP. Basically have a Nexus-eque device on the cheap and have been enjoying it thus far.

All in all it took me 45 mins to complete the root / install but this was mostly just going slow and reading up on the process. The actual flashing and rooting portion of the job only took 15 mins.

For those interested I have bookmarked a few links that guided me through the process (this was my first Android device. Yes I am late to the party).

XDA Index Page: http://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/general/index-am...

ASOP Guide for Fire 7: http://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/orig-development...

Firmware Download Page (Used for Downgrade): http://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/general/unbrick-...

Handy Video Tutorial from Root Junky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZjD4ME4wlI

K-Wallon Push.js – A minimalist JavaScript library for desktop notifications

I too had this issue. I appears that notifications don't show in full screen mode. When I returned Chrome to a windowed app on my Mac the notifications appeared.

K-Wallon “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)

This is one story I always enjoy when it is brought up.

K-Wallon Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics

Skype is even more fun to watch in Little Snitch with all of its p2p connections. I regularly have 2k+ connections being opened to sync online state.

K-Wallon DataGrip: Swiss Army Knife for Databases and SQL

I tested out DataGrip back during the open beta (when it was called 0xDBE) and I enjoyed it. Shame the JetBrains pricing scheme changed as $200 for the first year for something like this is pretty steep.

K-Wallon Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

Oh I knew that going into it.

K-Wallon Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

Scat!: https://getsc.at Issue tracking utility for Slack.

Still a work in progress but with Scat you will be able to use Slack commands to create and manage issues. The command will respond with a bot to list out issues based on the initial prompt. The goal is to have nearly everything related to an issue built into Slack commands and off load some of the editing to a lightweight web UI.

I'm sure something like this already exists but it has been a blast so far playing around with the Slack API.

K-Wallon Show HN: Git-khaled – Khaledify your commit messages

While a fun project I can't see anyone wanting to use this. Why would you want your commit history filled with messages unrelated to the code changes?

K-Wallon The mystery of Kawasaki disease

Never expected to read an article about this on HN. I had Kawasaki's and was extremely lucky that my doctor recognized it from another case they had with a boy from the next town over.

K-Wallon You Don't Need JQuery

Zepto might be what you are looking for.

http://zeptojs.com/

K-Wallon Ask HN: Alternatives to Google-Apps Custom Domain Email Hosting

If you sign into the admin panel of the grandfathered domain you can add the new domain to that Google Apps Account.

Granted any settings will effect all the domains associated with that account.

K-Wallon LogMeIn has acquired Meldium (YC W13)

Slightly off-topic but I first read that as LogMeIn, Inc. has acquired Medium and was very confused.

K-Wallon Buckets is an Open Source CMS built on Node.js and MongoDB

Might want to include the video you have linked [1] on the front page. Otherwise the homepage shows us nothing but a description.

[1] https://assembly.com/buckets

K-Wallon A better alternative to Rust and Go

Curious choice of name. I expected satire from a language called Nimrod. I don't see where this is a better alternative to Rust or Go.

K-Wallon People choose electric shock over being alone with their thoughts

Recent discussion on this topic:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=electric+shock#!/story/past_month/...