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smgoller··on Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods
If you hate Burger King, more power to you. But it's not just about putting real food out there, it's also about making it accessible to people who are lower on resources like money and time. Apparently it's super hard to do that. Even this rollout, which I applaud as getting healthier food in reach of more people, can be financially daunting to some families at an extra dollar per burger.

There's a food truck by my house that sells Impossible 2.0 burgers, and they charge $4 extra for it over meat burgers. If I can get something even close to that burger for half the price, I'm there, because it's that good.

smgoller··on Did Australia Poke a Hole in Your Phone’s Security?
I for sure believe this is the proper course of action. I also think companies that operate websites with sensitive data should block Australians from using their services because of the large possibility of being accessed by compromised devices. And if you want to go really all the way to full paranoid mode, Australia's peering points should be blackholed/shut off due to security concerns.
smgoller··on Never Struggle with Node.js, PostgreSQL, or Express.js Again
Your "Keep Me Updated" button does not currently seem to be working.
smgoller··on Launch HN: EnvKey (YC W18) – Smart Configuration and Secrets Management
How would you compare EnvKey to something like HashiCorp's Vault?
smgoller··on The Vanity Fair 'Brotopia' party was way worse than it sounds
The author explicitly states that he posted in order to corroborate what aspects of Jane Doe's description of the event that he could. The more people that provide evidence about a thing, the more likely others are to take it seriously. So there is everything to see here. (edited to fix verb tense)
smgoller··on Concourse CI
I second what wlamartin said. We have pipelines that do integration tests that spin up 30 instance clusters in AWS. Trying to spin up something similar inside a concourse worker just isn't worth trying.
smgoller··on This low-cost device may be the world’s best hope against account takeovers
Authenticator Plus (https://www.authenticatorplus.com/) has both apple watch and android wear support.
smgoller··on Hearth Stone: How many packs to get a full collection?
550 packs costs 55,000 gold (100 per pack). If you win 30 games a day (max) that gets you 100 gold. the daily quest gets you minimum 40 gold. That would be 393 days worst case. However, if you play arena and can 'go infinite', that is, win at least 7 games in a given arena run, and you are guaranteed to get back more gold than you put in. You also get a free pack with every run regardless, so even if you only make back 50 gold you've at least broken even, plus you'll get dust to craft cards. I believe there are streamers out there that have full collections without dropping a dime on HS. In any case, if you are that adamant about not paying for HS it's possible to achieve a full collection within a year. Personally, I am not that adamant, and have happily spent money on the game to support it.
smgoller··on Hearth Stone: How many packs to get a full collection?
You can easily earn those cards without paying cash for them, the wings can be unlocked with gold earned by doing daily quests and arena. (which will turn a profit if you're good enough)
smgoller··on 'Expendables 3' Flops: Is Piracy to Blame?
It could also be evidence that people started watching the rip and decided that it was worth going to see in the theater instead.
smgoller··on Beets – Command-line music manager and auto-tagger
Crap. I just realized what I said was completely ambiguous. What I meant was, does it deal with FLAC images of albums? (whole album stored in a single file with cuesheet.)
smgoller··on Beets – Command-line music manager and auto-tagger
Does this deal with FLAC album images properly?
smgoller··on Google Registry
I've been told it's $25K/yr ongoing.
smgoller··on Show HN: I built a local/fast marketplace for used gadgets, games
Someplace mid-peninsula in the bay area would be nice too, like Mountain View, Palo Alto or similar.
smgoller··on Show HN: I built a local/fast marketplace for used gadgets, games
CoinBase might be a good integration point for Biitcoin support.
smgoller··on History of Emacs & vi Keys (Keyboard Influence on Keybinding Design) (2010)
This doesn't work for me in Chrome (28.0.1500.71). Other apps work fine. Is there something that needs to be done to get it to work?
smgoller··on Show HN: Embark SF – A new Bay Area transit app
No VTA support?
smgoller··on Going Colo
They just opened Phase 3 in Fremont2. All the racks are 36" and there is tons of available space. I agree that power is expensive, but the bandwidth cost can't really be beat.
smgoller··on Curicon Launches Social Network For Collectors
How do you add things? In the console category I notice that both the original Xbox and the Xbox 360 are missing.
smgoller··on Nokia Reverses Course
This is completely bogus. Fry's has grey market imported these phones. They also sell GSM Galaxy Nexuses from (I believe) South America.
smgoller··on Apple charging 9x market price for MBP RAM upgrades
I bought 16GB of ram for my MBP for $135 at Fry's. Almost (but not quite) beats the 24GB I bought for my desktop for $100.
smgoller··on A human review of the Kindle Fire
Maybe I'm missing something, but I got mine and I like it just fine, for what it is. I have an iPad, and a galaxy tab 10.1. It's a tablet designed to work with Amazon content. That, it does just fine.

I streamed some Amazon Prime video content, and it did okay. I agree that volume control is wonky (it couldn't have been that hard to put a volume scrubber under the time scrubber, could it?) but performance wise it was just fine. Netflix streamed with nary a hiccup at all, perhaps Marco's network was a bit clogged at the time?

Music worked great. I didn't set up email because I use Gmail and I know all the Google services integration has been ripped out. I also have enough other things to read email on that I don't need to acknowledge notifications in yet another location.

Honestly though, I'm surprised that Amazon didn't do something like throw in more Prime membership time (A month doesn't seem like enough)...or maybe subsidize the membership price (make it $50/yr if you own a Fire)

In the end, if I could only have one tablet, this wouldn't be it. But I think it's well worth the price I paid.

smgoller··on Home server build, part one - specifications
The ethernet port on that motherboard is horrible, especially if you plan on streaming video or moving lots of data onto or off of that server. I strongly suggest you get either a different motherboard, or buy an Intel card. Given your design goals, it's worth it, as you'll see significant performance gains in throughput and cpu load.
smgoller··on Poll: What is your experience with EverNote?
I use it a lot, it's great. Use it on Mac OS, Windows, iOS and Android. I scan all my receipts, bills and statements into it. Quite handy.