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timmaahon All U.S. National Parks Are Free to Enter on Sunday

Parks and public lands should be open to all no matter their economic status.

Charging more to cap visitors shouldn't even be on the table.

timmaahon Digital Ocean Managed Databases

Someone must have toggled the k8s beta switch for me. It wasn't there earlier.

timmaahon Digital Ocean Managed Databases

I see some DO employees around.. What is the trick for getting access to the new Kubernetes and/or postgres betas? I'd love to use both for my side hustle (Currently on normal DO droplets)

EDIT - I now see the kubernetes option in my DO account. Thanks!

timmaahon Drones that can haul a 20-pound load for 500 miles and land on a moving target

Been tried and working for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethered_Aerostat_Radar_System

timmaahon Three Charged in Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack

A conviction

timmaahon Plastic Bag Found at the Bottom of World's Deepest Ocean Trench

Lead by example

timmaahon Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street

The video mentions she was on a bike and shows a mangled bicycle. Also the line markings on the street indicate there is a bike lane to the left of a right turn lane. Definitely very bad.

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4369934,-111.9429875,3a,75y,...

timmaahon Ask HN: What do you look for in a remote developer?

Hell? I'm out of the loop a bit for sure, but in two hours when we do our sprint planning.. their backdrop is a tiny windowless office while mine overlooks the pacific ocean.

timmaahon Americans are spending less on clothing

I went to Chicago and was really surprised. Nice coats with a huge patch. I thought everyone had added them themselves.

timmaahon Chrome canary (66) blocks symantec issued SSL certificates

https://static.ctctcdn.com/

Console throws up this warning about M70 though.

> The SSL certificate used to load resources from https://static.ctctcdn.com will be distrusted in M70. Once distrusted, users will be prevented from loading these resources. See https://g.co/chrome/symantecpkicerts for more information.

timmaahon Down hundreds of staff, Weather Service ‘teetering on the brink of failure’

“We believe this level is adequate to achieve National Weather Service core functions,”

timmaahon Down hundreds of staff, Weather Service ‘teetering on the brink of failure’

The article does not mention Trump once.

This is all pre-Trump

> An independent report from the Government Accountability Office showed staff vacancies increased 57 percent from 2014 to 2016. The overall vacancy rate reached 11 percent or 455 positions at the end of 2016 up from just 5 percent (211 positions) at the end of 2010, the report said.

timmaahon Down hundreds of staff, Weather Service ‘teetering on the brink of failure’

Congress needs to take some action then. Perhaps replace the head of the organization that believes they are fulfilling their mission correctly.

timmaahon Down hundreds of staff, Weather Service ‘teetering on the brink of failure’

I was just stating the NWS side of it since the headline on HN is biased to labor point of view.

(I'd probably side with labor on this issue as well, but the headline is clearly biased)

timmaahon Down hundreds of staff, Weather Service ‘teetering on the brink of failure’

> Weather Service ‘teetering on the brink of failure,’ labor union says

timmaahon Down hundreds of staff, Weather Service ‘teetering on the brink of failure’

Why is the headline here missing "labor union says"

The actual Weather Service seems to think they are doing just fine.

“Let me state emphatically that we would never take an action that would jeopardize the services we provide to emergency managers and the public,” she said. “NWS is taking definitive steps to ensure the health and well-being of our employees through guidance to local managers on scheduling and flexibility.”

timmaahon 150 days of living and coding in a van

All excuses.

Nature is the best part of this world for me. Everything else is a distraction. I know this afternoon I get to go hike up a canyon and climb the rim up to see a natural arch. On a normal Tuesday. So I'm going to get my shit done when it's a perfect day out with the sun shining in my eyes. Then I get to play.

timmaahon 150 days of living and coding in a van

> In the US there's no cheap and reliable way to park and sleep without being harassed by police.

IF you want/need to live in a city. The west has tons of public land with an LTE signal. I'm hanging out on BLM land in the middle of gorgeous Utah right now.

timmaahon Show HN: Build A Personal Power Plant for $200

Why do the green straps appear to be going directly over the panel? Surely that is not the final mount position?

timmaahon Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

I'd say 90+% of the people pay the lowest option of $10. I doubt lower would bring in many more people. I have a rewrite about ready with the amounts being radio button with the non lowest amount selected. I be this brings in a little more per person without a big drop of in count.

timmaahon Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

Looking good. Nice to see there is a small little market for this type of thing.

timmaahon Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

It does. You will want to search for "Watchman Campground"

timmaahon Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

I'm really surprised how popular it has become. Reserving 11 months in advance leads to a lot of plans being canceled and sites popping up at random times.

timmaahon Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

I screen scrape camping reservations and send out notifications when a campsite becomes available.

http://reserve.wanderinglabs.com/

Currently working on integrating the new CA reserve website. It is a shit show.

timmaahon Verizon and AT&T Are Slower After Adding Unlimited Plans

Sell them... (Though I'm not sure what it takes to do an assumption of liability for those unlimited accounts these days)

timmaahon Travel the path of the solar eclipse

> how appropriate is it for us to park in 'some random place' for a couple of days somewhere up there?

Public lands have certain areas you can disperse camp. Other than that it is usually not ok to just random camp.

These won't be ordinary times though. I'd _expect_ people will be looking the other way or be too busy to worry about running off RV's in parking lots.

We are planning on find a spot in Idaho a week and a half before hand. Hoping the weather holds out. It won't be easy to travel day of from where we picked.

timmaahon American Runners Have Never Been Slower

The "Playing Devil's Advocate" section takes this into account and simply orders all finishes for the year. This still shows the time increase.

> We analyzed the finish times of the 100th, 1,000th and 10,000th slowest participant (separately for men and women) for every year.

timmaahon Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't Inform Customers About

The speed will decrease during periods you'd think there would be heavy usage (mid morning/late afternoon, even slower in early evening). Then speed up dramatically in the late evening when most have gone to bed.

timmaahon Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't Inform Customers About

The towers don't have enough capacity in a number of places. Thus a few degrade the performance for the rest.

timmaahon Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't Inform Customers About

I might be all for it if it frees up some bandwidth for the rest of us.

I travel full-time and quite a few places lately the Verizon tower is obviously at capacity. (Strong signal.. slow speeds)