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I am one of the many that only goes to HN when a major service appears down (usually AWS)

It seems like Japan (not a corrupt government) helped eradicate polio in the country Nigeria in exchange for some amount of debt from Nigeria.

I'd think the Gates' foundation would have paid Japan directly avoiding all of the problems you mentioned.

That's a (self-admitted) assumption made by @Hellchick. The Facebook post in question could have been relegated off of feeds for a different reason.

From about 100 packages, I've had a handful come past the "guaranteed date", one that was entirely wrong (someone else's items), and worst of all, one that was missing an item that took a huge argument with a CSR to get a refund over.

I wouldn't call them rock solid. Even if they were, it's not something that has to, or justifies, mistreating employees.

>As far as wear and tear on the highway...

Right or wrong, I don't think you have to defend that point. The government sets these parameters under which you (or truckers) do business. It's not your responsibility to maintain the highway as long as each truck complies with regulations. And it's not your fault.

American taxpayers subsidise many other things that don't quite make sense (to me), like corn production. You don't see people blame farmers for doing what's best for their farm and family.

Seems to be working fine now.

I also could not get it to work on two separate domains. Everything seems fine, and I was able to renew the certs with LE just now.

I believe all my DNS records look fine, and I have the domain ownership set correctly with GAE. Not sure what else I can change to get it working.

To me, no part of that article was that surprising (impressive nonetheless) except for the $6500 headlight repair from "driving through deep water".

Wonder how exactly that happened, and what damage was caused to the car.

For those who like videos, I would highly recommend utilizing Andrew Ng's Coursera ML videos for step one. I found his lectures to be good high level overviews of those topics.

The course in general lacks rigor, but I thought it was a very good first step.

I think is about new Arduino products not being open source. Source files for old Arduino products are still directly available.

What did you think of it as? In my mind, this store is in no way associated with Trader Joe's, but sells exclusively Trader Joe's products (I've only been in it once); that made it into a kind of Trader Joe's.

I think this debate is more about how one can define "kind of Trader Joe's" than about how one associated it with the company.

The guy clearly tried to position himself as a pseudo-Trader Joe's though. He called it Pirate Joes and only sold products from Trader Joe's. It seems like everyone thought of it as a kind of Trader Joe's.

Even though copyright infringement might not have been his intent, intent doesn't matter. That said, this does look like egregious legal bullying even if the case holds water.

IANAL

That article does not, but for the curious, an investigation into the deaths (involving parties from field experts to local police) has been "essentially closed" and it was determined an unknown toxin led to the death of the two belugas. How the toxin was introduced to the tank was also not determined.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-aqu...

It's not more convenient for Linux/FF/Chrome users to pirate. It can be a "better" option for those users to pirate if they absolutely need higher quality, but that's in no way more convenient than using Netflix.

Personally, I would rank convenience in this descending order: 720p Netflix on Chrome (my browser of choice); 1080p Netflix on a supported browser; piracy.

Maybe for the HN power user demographic the current DRM methodology is pushing users away, but for average joe (many of whom don't even know this is a thing) will happily plug along using Netflix.

Alternatively, decreasing the size of the oven wouldn't make a difference. If that was the case, this recipe would work in a small toaster oven. The inverse square law is factually sound, but incorrectly applied.

My intuition would speculate the recipe works because the dutch oven is a "better" black body than the oven. So the dutch oven acts as a huge heat sink and then more efficiently retransmits by radiation that energy to the bread. As a secondary effect (or maybe this is the primary effect), the dutch oven promotes significantly more heat transfer primarily through conduction to the bread.

Consider actively inspecting each "requirement" for relative importance.

For example, I recently read a job posting where "experience with subdomains" was sandwiched between "required 2 years exp with rails" and "postgresql". For people who haven't touched domain configuration, working with subdomains and basic DNS configurations is an absolutely trivial task.

So perhaps the missing requirement is actually something that could be picked up in a matter of minutes and isn't a deal breaker nor relatively important.

Regardless, you should apply.

I thought mail was firstly directed to a center dependent only on zip, and it's then further sorted. If the zip is correct, but a parcel ends up on the wrong side of the country, the mistake isn't due to a typo but probably physical mishandling of mail.

I believe it was explicitly ruled in the courts that Youtube's automated captions were not up to the standard required by the ADA. Not sure where I read that, but it was probably on HN somewhere.

DigitalOcean's payment model is great for this. What you see is what you get without small charges or other fees. I vaguely remember Lightsail's release being met with poor feedback on HN because they really missed part of what makes DO by complicating the payment model.

Currently DO does not charge for network overages. I guess they would suspend your node for going way over the prescribed limits.

I'm not affiliated with DO, but I just really like the service.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/extra-bandw...

For readers confused as I was, the Facebook post only says they're "looking at" better Linux support. The author buries in a comment a target for flawless Linux support[1].

But I'd expect if flawless Linux support was actually their goal they'd announce it more prominently, which they did not.

[1]https://www.facebook.com/minliangtan/photos/a.11684295504016...

I think a more apt description would be Snapchat was not designed for broadcasting. I wouldn't write it off because it wasn't meant for a purpose, or because its primary use is for interaction with real life friends/acquaintances/family.

Somehow it has become a platform where fans interact with public figures. You could argue Snapchat is a strong platform as it's gained traction even though the user needs the extraneous (and sometimes difficult) step of finding the username of someone they want to follow.

The article might be clickbait, but it looks pretty good relative to other Buzzfeed "pieces" I've seen before.