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I'd love that. I'll definitely let you all know when that time comes.

This is my project! Ask me any questions if you have them. This was a fun project to work on.

vitnoon Ask HN: How do I learn to use Powerpoint well?

That seems about right for me, assuming it's being used in a presentation.

vitnoon A Map of the World Won Japan’s Prestigious Design Award

I haven't calculated the distortions yet, nor found anyone who has, but I'm guessing it's inferior to dymaxion or waterman, plus it cuts out a little bit of the map to make it fold right.

However, it's a RECTANGLE, that's huge. that means we can use it on screens and that non-map geeks would be OK with it.

vitnoon What has happened down here is the winds have changed

I'm somewhat confused about how they would be doing that. Do you have any references to blogs/papers on this technique?

vitnoon Enough with Basic Income

"there’s a libertarian ideological bias in Silicon Valley that seems to turn people into ignorant morons when it comes to social state-related issues. As engineers, some don’t even get the political stakes."

"So enough already. Grow up now, study history..."

Regardless of the actual content of the article, I found the style of so many unnecessary ad hominim attacks offputing.

The actual content of the article isn't really backed up. It mostly seems to say that engineers are seduced by the elegance of Basic Income and that they should really just focus on making the existing social system have less friction. Not a bad opinion, just not really in line with the many statements that "Basic Income won't work".

vitnoon Show HN: New time and daylight application

This isn't actually accurate with regard to China Standard Time... All of China is one timezone, despite spanning 5 of them.

vitnoon Five Years of Recurse Center

That probably isn't why. I know several people who have attended who were on "company sabbaticals", as in they took time off for a few months then went back to their company.

That obviously won't net RC any money.

vitnoon GoToMyPC has been hacked, all customer passwords reset

There are a lot more words in the dictionary than letters.

vitnoon After ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight

Study after study has repeatedly shown this to be untrue. People who think they "eat as much as they want" really don't eat as much as people who think they "eat almost nothing"

Try actually counting your calories over the course of a week.

vitnoon What is the best part about being a Software Engineer?

Actually, you get payed far more. A steelworker in 1975 made on average $7.11.[1] This is about $31.47 in 2016 dollars. Not bad at all, but I'm still guessing you make more.

[1] http://articles.mcall.com/1985-07-19/news/2489404_1_steel-in...

vitnoon Curing Our Slack Addiction

actually, most channels have logging. I've frequently stumbled across solutions on public (and indexed!) IRC logs.

vitnoon Why some animals have venoms that are more lethal than they apparently need

The title of this article is entirely misleading based upon what the content is.

This is actually an article that can be summed up as "LD50 results for venom are irrelevant, some animals (e.g. hedgehogs) have resistance to venom that could kill [insert large number] mice. That's why the venom is so potent"

vitnoon Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf

ahh. Now I see where the confusion is. Yes. I do mean LC.

vitnoon Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf

The character of Moldbug (which I don't even know if it is actually what the author truly believes, it was always designed as a pen name) is a neo-reactionary. Ex: He is definitely a racist, with the belief of genetic differences in attitude that contributed to slavery. [1]

Now, I don't like those beliefs at all. I do think that LC made the right decision though. Inclusiveness is a good policy, and no matter how certain more authoritarianly inclined progressives are spinning this, that's what this is. Assuming no one is threatened, and he isn't promoting his politics, he should have a chance of going through the (anonymized!) entry process and talking about the really weird and awesome Urbit.

[1] http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.fr/2009/07/why-carl...

edit: One of my main philosophical issues with Moldbug (besides the repugnancy), is that he is internally inconsistent. He might refute that later on. I dunno, he's spewed out literally tens of thousands of pages of text.

vitnoon Bees Making Honey with Cannabis

I'm... skeptical.

Cannabis doesn't produce nectar, so bees won't be attracted to it. They might be interested in resin, so as to make propolis... but I doubt any cannaboids would turn up in the honey.

Disclaimer: I don't keep bees, but I've been looking into it. Someone with more experience might know more, listen to them. It'd be cool if this worked.

vitnoon Leaving Mozilla

Wow, it's the end of an era.

I wish him the best of luck. rr is really awesome and deserves even more attention.

(http://rr-project.org/)

vitnoon Functional Programming at Facebook

This person is getting downvoted... but it isn't.

Lisp, especially in it's early implementations is highly imperative. This is why when people talk about Clojure they always talk about Immutability, it's part of what forces a functional style on the language.

vitnoon How core.async and CSP help you prove your async code works

This article doesn't talk about FRP at all. The title should be changed

vitnoon Announcing Rust 1.6

yes. I would do pretty much anything to work in Rust at this point.

vitnoon Microkernels are slow and Elvis didn't do no drugs

I've helped work some on a project doing that right now, although it's mostly been the awesome cmr.

https://gitlab.com/robigalia/sel4-sys

vitnoon The Final Days of the Bitcoin Foundation?

No, if we are doing analogies, it's more like if Red Hat employed 90% of Linux Kernel devs.

sure, you might be able to do more transactions with an increased block size, but I personally feel the negatives are not worth it. Regardless, having the ability to do things off the main bitcoin chain is a good thing.

Even more so "cripple Bitcoin" it the wrong way of phrasing something that

a) currently how things are

b) intensely disputed in the community

vitnoon The Final Days of the Bitcoin Foundation?

wow. That is really a horrible interpretation of Blockstream. All of Blockstream's work is done in the open, they publish awesome whitepapers, and they work on extending bitcoin to work with cool tech.

They are working with the reality of bitcoin, trying to make it more. Nothing prevents other people from also being able to extend bitcoin. Even if blockstream became dominant in this respect, the system is 100% trustless.

Bitcoin is only one piece of the necessary crypto-currency infrastructure. 2-way pegging is a _good_ way of extending it.

vitnoon Ask HN: Good programmable robot kit for teens?

when I was home-schooled, my dad bought me this https://www.parallax.com/product/boe-bot-robot

It really sparked my interest in CS. I'm not saying it's the best thing out there, but there certainly is no bullshit GUI...

vitnoon Sourcegraph: self-hosted Git service with semantic code navigation/search/review

This doesn't sound like an improvement to me. It actually takes (just another) SaaS product, and makes it feel like it intentionally does a disservice to it's users.

vitnoon Sourcegraph: self-hosted Git service with semantic code navigation/search/review

> Curious, do you write comments like this whenever...

Uh.. I actually often do. I would more, but it generally isn't appreciated and is off topic of the main thread. Here, the software license is a key component of the release seeing as it is a unique component of it.

>Open source is about the source being open plus certain benefits.

It's more than that. The key intent of OSS is the right to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose. The source code is just a prereq for that ability.

I did initially use stallman-esque language, since it's terminology most people are familiar with in this field, but I'll approach it from a different point since I personally have problems with strong copy-left licenses.

The primary thing this license doesn't do is allow distribution in the OSS spirit. This is really just a pervasive license, actually in some ways similar to the Stallman-esque virality except with a corporate intent. It simply masquerades as OSS.

vitnoon Sourcegraph: self-hosted Git service with semantic code navigation/search/review

https://fair.io/

It's made by them as well. It most certainly is not libre/free software. I'm guessing it has minimal legal ability to stand up in court. It is a bastardization of what open source is about... really it's more of a disclosed source setup.

vitnoon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)

I found it hilarious, once I knew why.

vitnoon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)

You work for the wrong companies.

vitnoon The Haskell School of Music – From Signals to Symphonies

Written by Paul Hudak, who recently passed away.