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elmin··on Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers
My Apple TV, Chromecast and Xbox all use wifi flawlessly (with an Airport Extreme). I think your logic is outdated.
elmin··on Altruistic People Have More Sexual Partners
It could be a long series of successful monogamous relationships. Not all good relationships last a lifetime.
elmin··on Male birth control study cut short as some participants experience side effects
Of course they lost the ability to have wanted pregnancy which is a pretty serious loss for some people.
elmin··on Turned down 18 times, Paul Beatty won the Booker
The issue is similar to the black swan phenomenon. Publishers are deciding what will sell based on what sold in the past, but the next great surprise success almost definitively has to be different than those in the past. You need some ability to inject books into the system which don't fit the historical mold.

The best way to do it is probably For publishers to also publish books they think are good, even if they're prospects aren't great. Most will fail, but a few will win big. In a way, it's just like venture capital.

Maybe we need a venture publishing industry.

elmin··on Measuring how bad Twitter is
Yet they've managed to massively raise their r&d expenses.
elmin··on Measuring how bad Twitter is
The general consensus is people need to be laid off to cut costs. He hasn't done that.
elmin··on Update on Soylent Bar
You're wrong because we all get the joke, and are over it. It's a very conscious branding choice to label themselves as counterculture and edgy. It won't appeal to everyone, but it clearly is a conscious marketing choice, and you'd have a hard time saying their marketing isn't going well.

I think your time would be better spent telling MetRx or Ensure to change their names, considering they are brands which are not very successful at capturing the market Soylent is dominating (the bottled-nutrition-by-choice market).

As far as I can tell their only issue is quality control and customer communication, changing their name wouldn't fix either.

elmin··on Tor Users Might Soon Have a Way to Avoid Those Annoying CAPTCHAs
How would CloudFlare know it's a static site?
elmin··on FDA approves Medtronic's 'artificial pancreas' for diabetes
Can someone explain why notifying the device of exercise and eating is necessary? Is it because 5 minutes is too low of an interval, or because the glucose sensor is slow, or because the body relies on other eating and exercise cues to regulate insulin.
elmin··on Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack
Cloudflare has a pretty simple policy. They only censor content when they legally have to, or when it's child porn. That actually opens them up to a lot of heat from people who aren't big fans of the KKK, the Westboro Baptist Church, or botnets. BUT they don't specifically allow botnets as a weird method of promoting them, it's a widely applied policy.

I would bet things would be a fair bit easier for them if they agreed to take things down which most people don't like, but from my position they are taking a very principaled stand for free speech. Are people on hn actually arguing we want more censorship on more places on the web?

elmin··on Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack
Yes, but that's a decision for a judge to make, not a private company.
elmin··on Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack
I can almost guarantee CloudFlare will offer to step into the breach.
elmin··on First “Appstore” for WordPress and Drupal Coming Soon
FYI: https://eager.io
elmin··on Uppy: let’s teach an old dog some new tricks
In general, Chrome fires setTimeout and setInterval slower when a tab isn't focused. Could it be that?
elmin··on Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive
The Slack/GitHub model is to sell visibility to the company. X of your employees are using this, do you want to know how? Do you want an SLA? PCI compliance? $100k/yr.
elmin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)
Eager | Boston/Cambridge, MA/Remote | Full-time/Part-time/Interns Eager (https://eager.io) is a way for non-technical website owners to use all of the open-source and SaaS tools developers use every day. Think of it like an app store for things which make websites better. For developers, we are the Heroku for code which gets deployed onto websites. If you like writing JS/CSS and the idea of building reusable open source components is interesting to you... If you like writing Go and would like to work on the twenty or so microservices which power our infrastructure... If you are interested in working on Marketing/Growth/BizDev in a growing startup which is aiming to change the way thousands of SaaS companies reach their customers... Please reach out, I'd love a chance to chat with you about what we're doing and what you're looking for -> zack@eager.io
elmin··on "Payload to Mars" Added to SpaceX Pricelist
They have plans to land a Dragon on Mars in 2018. They have the vehicles they need.
elmin··on Ask HN: Is the Thiel Fellowship worth it?
The vast majority of what you learn in a CS program was published in the 50-70s. Just because it's a little outdated doesn't mean there isn't a lot to learn. Also, don't forget that you can always change schools, as hard as it might seem, it can be the right call.
elmin··on My Biggest Regret as a Programmer
In my experience Go is a better choice than Node for reliability and stability reasons, rather than performance most of the time.
elmin··on Massachusetts Right to Repair Initiative
In some countries (Australia for one) it is illegal to do electrical work on your house if you're not a licenced electrician. I don't agree with that, but it is a position some people take clearly.
elmin··on When a Self-Declared Genius Asks You to Read His Masterpiece
He's a writer. He used this situation to write an essay examining the literary industry. Like all good writing, there are many valuable things which could be taken from his (well executed) writing. Personally, I found some interesting parallels in how the venture capital industry works, and it helped me to conceptialize how those concepts extent into other fields.

It was written as a blog post because we were the true audience, not Alan.

elmin··on Go-Restructure: Sane regular expressions with struct fields
Why do you avoid third-party libraries?
elmin··on The slowly fading art of flying and maintaining Cold War fighter jets
You can keep anything running if you are willing to put in the work. You just fix what you can, replace what you can find, and manufacture what you can't. It becomes much more tricky doing it under the auspices of an FAA airworthiness certificate though.
elmin··on MH370 search team finds second shipwreck
Because the regulatory system which keeps planes safe also makes it paralyzingly slow to keep them up to date. If plane tech is always 20 years behind what is possible, it's not shocking they don't have continuous tracking.

There are also other historical reasons. It's traditionally the job of the pilots in the plane to keep track of its position, meaning giving them GPS was more valuable than giving position information to the ground. The US is just getting to the point where air traffic control can get GPS from planes, and that is based on ground stations which won't work over the ocean.

Which leads to the final issue, the outdated nature of the rocketry industry (and the intrinsic difficulty of getting to space), has made it very expensive to launch the satellites you need for worldwide communication. They exist, but they are much more expensive than any other way of communicating. Which means, if the airlines can piggyback on ground based comms (which they can), there's not much incentive to make that work over the ocean. Until you lose a plane.

elmin··on Hugo – Golang static site editor
If you need a way of deploying a Hugo site, I highly recommend Stout [1].

1. http://stout.is

elmin··on Founder Stories: Detroit Water Project’s Tiffani Ashley Bell
That seems like a decent policy if the resources are truly so limited.
elmin··on Show HN: AutoAnimations – Animate all inserted and removed DOM elements
In my experience you can change an element with a Mutation Observer before it is rendered.
elmin··on Please petition GitHub to support HTTPS on GitHub pages
This is a little weird to me, because it's so easy to host your site a multitude of different ways. The notable thing about GH is its free, which makes complaining about it not having the one feature you want so odd. If you want that feature, pay the buck or two it will cost to host your site on CloudFront with something like Stout [1].

1: http://stout.is

elmin··on Tesla recalling 90,000 Model S sedans to check seat belts
I think any sort of safety-related recall is going to be a net PR loss for Tesla. Immaterial means the cost is irrelevant, not that it's low. I don't see any evidence that it's anything more nefarious than what they're claiming.
elmin··on Randomized Control Trial of Pre-K on Children’s Skills Through 3rd Grade [pdf]
Remember that the most at-risk students were being selected for the program. It's possible that the education helped a bit, but was ultimately outweighed by the negative factors which made them at-risk to begin with. If so, it would substantiate the idea that the success or failure of education starts in the home.
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