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emartinellion Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML

Right click on the tab -> "Mute site".

It works for me for Chromium on Ubuntu.

In Brazil we have this http://www.cataki.org/ (pt-br) an app that connects waste pickers to people who want to dispose reusable or recyclable materials.

According to this site 800,000 waste pickers in the country and 300 registered on the service.

emartinellion A picture got my PostgreSQL database to start mining Monero

FWIW: "The name Postgres is an accepted alias for the PostgreSQL project. However it is an alias or nickname and is not the official name of the project."

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/ProjectName

emartinellion Why is there no “Who's Hiring” for Dec 2017?

Check the profile description of 'whoishiring'[1]

> This account automatically submits a 'Who is Hiring?' post at 11 AM Eastern time on the first weekday of every month.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring

emartinellion Advent of Code 2017

If you want some Graph Theory challenges to solve there is a track at HackeRank

https://www.hackerrank.com/domains/algorithms/graph-theory

emartinellion The Autocrat's Language

This reminds me of Orwell's "Politics and the English Language"[1].

A timeless work about language misuse in Politics.

[1]http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit...

emartinellion Extreme Commuting

I live in a neighbor city of São Paulo city, Brazil.

I have a 2hrs+ commute , 4hrs+ a day. I take a train (~1hr), a subway(~30min) and another train(~30min), I work next to train station.

The train use to be crowded with no seats to take. I try to make the travel as pleasant and productive as I can, I read news and books - almost finishing Uncle Bob's "Clean Code" -, listen to podcasts and music, watch movies etc..

I am SW developer in a big electronics vendor, we are not allowed to work from home, I lived some time in São Paulo during graduation and working full time, but it was expensive and lonely for me, I live with my parents and near of all my relatives now, but I am thinking to move back soon.

We have no many jobs in my city, so even people that no have skilled jobs use to have long commutes.

emartinellion Brew commands send data to Google Analytics

In another comment in this thread by @mikemcquaid (Homebrew lead maintainer):

> (...)and have been trying to find people who will provide us with non-Google hosting but: we're chronically understaffed and underfunded[1]

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13035438

emartinellion The Controlled Natural Language of Randall Munroe's Thing Explainer [pdf]

I remember when I was studying English in the U.S. with other foreign students some years ago, when the topic was phrasal verbs the grades decreased for entire class. I am Brazilian, the class was composed most of South Koreans and Saudi Arabians.

emartinellion google.com/humans.txt

Try: https://www.google.com/killer-robots.txt

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7988924 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7979909

emartinellion Ask HN: How do you debug your code?

IntelliJ debugger for Java, VS debugger for C#, print for Python and Perl, and console.log and Chrome Dev Tools for JS.

emartinellion Powerful Political Forces Are Aligning Behind Minimum Income

Actually, in theory Bolsa Familia should be kind of step to reach UBI. The referenced law talks about gradual implantation, initially by poor people.

emartinellion Powerful Political Forces Are Aligning Behind Minimum Income

Yes, I am, Bolsa Familia is a national program. We have a city (Santo Antonio do Pinhal) that seems to have implemented UBI, too (I don't know much about that one). This article[1] (2013), in English, explains the current scenario and the law that I referenced.

The original proposal seems interesting to me, but I don't see government efforts to implement it as defined in law.

[1] http://www.basicincome.org/news/2013/06/opinion-a-three-step...

emartinellion Powerful Political Forces Are Aligning Behind Minimum Income

In Brazil, we have a law[1], from 2004, implementing UBI, but it is not nearly applied for all population. This law determine a gradual implementation and I believe that the the full one is far away. There are some benefits for poor people, unfortunately there are frauds and IMHO some mass manipulation from government.

[1] http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2004-2006/2004/lei/... (Portuguese)

emartinellion Facebook is the new Excel

The B2B Facebook solution: https://work.fb.com/

emartinellion Venezuela president raises fuel price, devalues bolivar to tackle crisis

It was (it is?) a common practice to smuggle gas from Venezuela to Brazil, where the prices are relatively high.

[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/07/world/americas/07brazil.ht...] - old article (2006), but the disparity, at least before this annoucement, persisted.

emartinellion Industry Data Models

It is working here. Maybe this site is just not prepared for Hacker News front page.

emartinellion How-To-Prevent-Scraping: The ultimate guide on preventing Website Scraping

Originally posted as an answer[1] at StackOverflow, which was too long[2] and become a blog post.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/34828465/2751621

[2]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/316012/2751621

emartinellion Gene Amdahl has died

CS degree in Mackenzie - Brazil, the law was mentioned in Parallel Computing course. I took this class last year.

We have used C/C++ with MPI and OpenMP.