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The Kickstarter finished October of last year.

Printers have already been delivered to the first, second, and third tier beta testers.

As of the latest update, printers for the first (Jul), second (Sep), and third (Oct) tier version one have been "pushed back" but there's no indication by how much. I believe this is the first schedule push back, so I wouldn't expect it to be a massive one. They did not sell-out their third tier version one, so I would assume anyone who orders from their "coming soon" store would expect delivery shortly after, or at the same time as the third tier version one Kickstarters.

A little more than a decade ago, I had to do research on capital punishment for a college ethics class. In the United States, at that time, the cost for a death row inmate was several times greater than it was for an inmate in for life without parole.

Additionally, there are the questionable convictions and the legal convictions that are subsequently found to have been innocent but for which innocence is no longer considered (e.g. dobbsbob comment about Rob Will - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7822471).

The link takes me to an empty HN page.

The comment you are responding to has been deleted. Based solely on what you said, Maya Angelou was definitively never a "United States Poet Laureate" but the argument can be made that she was a "poet laureate". A United States Poet Laureate is an official, appointed, and titled position that is typically held for a length of time [1]. However, at Clinton's request she did compose and recite an inauguration poem, so in the general sense that she was officially appointed by a government official to compose a poem for a special event [2] the argument could be made that she was a "poet laureate".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Poet_Laureate [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet_Laureate

[I have used VA healthcare, I have several friends who work for the VA Health Administration, and I have many friends who use VA healthcare.]

When the VA system works it treats the whole person. For example, if you have PTSD it may exacerbate conditions that may appear unrelated. In theory, all care-givers (MDs, therapists, etc) meet about an individual vet's conditions on a regular basis (every 2 weeks if memory serves correctly) to identify and develop longer term treatments for co-morbid conditions (I can only confirm this for one VA hospital).

Even if there weren't an attempt to treat co-morbid conditions, there are so many combat specific injuries that it might be a moot point. For example, I have a friend who is a Vietnam Vet that suffers from agent orange related illnesses; these illnesses exasperate more common conditions, namely diabetes. Throw in PTSD and anxiety, and now you have someone dealing with such a plethora of different symptoms - symptoms that are common in the veteran community but not in other communities. Would a typical GP have the expertise to handle this? Most likely not.

Occasionally a user is particularly invested in an online conversation for really valid reason, e.g. area of expertise, Show HN, etc. So having a hard limit in a large scale (x comments in an hour or y comments in a day, as opposed to z comments in 60 seconds) may actually abruptly lock-out a particularly valuable contributor.

When I bought my house, one of my absolute requirements was that the house be in a UTOPIA city. If I were a business owner, I would have the same requirement.

mikeash, you are not alone. If text alone doesn't quickly and adequately convey what the product is or at least seriously pique my interest then I'm not going to spend time watching any videos.

Metalsmith (metalsmith.io) actually uses consolidate.js as a template manager. consolidate.js supports 24 separate template engines (https://github.com/visionmedia/consolidate.js). So Metalsmith's "templates" entry that only lists "Handlebars" is extremely misleading.

I suspect there are other generators on staticgen.com that also use consolidate.js and suffer the same misrepresentation. (I just don't know the other generators well enough to know off the top of my head which ones use consolidate.js.)

Of course, an error such as this makes me doubt all the other information presented on staticgen.com

Good to know!

Interestingly, there is an Australian corporation, Macquarie Capitol Group, that may take over the administration of UTOPIA - http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/57282051-79/macquarie-uto...

Utah already has something like this called UTOPIA (http://www.utopianet.org/about-utopia/). The participating cities run fiber optic lines. The city pays for the fiber optic lines (lots and lots and lots of political controversy about this!) then subscribers can pick and choose what services and from which providers they want. I'm in a participating city and love it! Unfortunately politics, both the governmental and the organizational types, are constantly threatening the viability of UTOPIA (http://www.utopianet.org/press/).

>UTOPIA (Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency) is not an Internet service provider. UTOPIA operates on an open access model, which means we own and manage the infrastructure, but lease the lines to private Internet Service Providers, who then deliver services to subscribers. This allows you to choose the provider that best meets your needs.

edit: added press link

I've debated doing just that, but in the end the environment and expectations have become completely toxic, so it's more important for me to find another job. Unfortunately, as I mentioned earlier, there are a lot of constraints, so I'm putting my energy into my own start-up.

Ahh, if only it were so simple.

The program manager wasn't initially aware of the arrangement. When I mentioned it to him, he basically threw a professional fit along the lines of "To get work done I need you here when everyone else is here." He'll even readily admit that I got plenty of work done while contracting and setting my own hours and location - enough that he and the company wanted me salaried - "but it's not the same now". The execs that I negotiated with don't have much backbone and won't stand up to him or our owner. They are well aware of the situation, and when I go through them and leave the PM out of scheduling, they're always okay with whatever I say I'm going to do (I don't even bother asking, I just tell them); after the fact, he'll huff and puff for a while, but he never actually says anything explicitly. Unfortunately, he and I work very closely together, so I don't often have the opportunity to go through the execs.

The night before a particularly harsh snowstorm, I even had a conversation with him about working from home the next day. We talked about what I could do from home, I literally showed him the printouts of the background material (and had digital copies on our office server and on my laptop), and he said he was okay with it. When I wasn't at the office shortly after 9:00am the next morning he started calling me. Even though I had already been working for close to an hour and sent him updated files showing what I had already completed, he wanted me to drive in.

To add to the frustration, we frequently have to travel for work. Of course, no one, including the PM has a problem with work done remotely in those situations.

We all have constraints in our jobs and potential jobs; things such as location constraints (house, family, etc), specialty, and level. In my field, at my level, and in my geographic area, there really aren't a lot of jobs. Even more unfortunate, the 100% remote jobs in my field don't pay even remotely what I'm earning now (they are literally topping out at 1/2 of what I'm currently making). Employers in my field that allow 100% remote do so because they see it as a source of cheap labor, not high-quality labor. I am always looking, but so far I haven't found any comparable jobs that meet my constraints. At this point, my best option is my own start-up, which I'm working toward as fast as I can given my other obligations.

My current company allowed me to set my own hours and location when I was contracting for them. When I went full time, there was a verbal understanding that I would be onsite more and work more regular hours, but that I would still have significant flexibility. In reality, if I come into the office at 9:01 the program manager throws a fit. And if there's a big winter storm and I could either (a) spend 3 hours commuting each way for 2-3 hours at the actual office or (b) doing 8-9 hours of actual work from home, he still insists I come into the office. So yep, the company says it's flexible, but not so much in reality.

"The name is a deliberate misspelling of Murphy's law." - from the linked Wikipedia article; emphasis mine

Quill's WYSIWYG + HTML<->MD bidirectional support (e.g. leeoniya's example) + ShareJS' operational transformation [1] == awesome collaborative JS-ish web editor stack

Throw in a ShareJS script to autosave [2], an it's even more awesome!

[1] http://sharejs.org/

[2] https://gist.github.com/josephg/1341527

Relevant Githubs:

- https://github.com/quilljs/quill

- https://github.com/josephg/ShareJS

Edited: to account for leeoniya's explanation that follows

Does Portable-VirtualBox itself only run under MS Windows?

All of what @ rcamera said.

I really like the current visuals and layout much better than the beta, particularly the contrast and blue links. I also like the favicon to the left of the page title in results.

I actually like the instant suggestions. And I like the "Images" and "Video" buttons at the top, HOWEVER I'm a massive !bang! fan, and will differ to !i and !v. Although I would prefer that both methods go to a generic images and video searches (as opposed to Google Images and YouTube). ALSO, for me when I roll over a link I want to see the url in the bottom of my browser (forgetting what Firefox calls this) and I'm not getting it with the new layouts Video suggestions.

Not a hypothetical for me.

More than a few years ago, I was a manager at a hotel. As such there were several days each month when I had the emergency pager (yep, pager). The only time I ever got a 911 on the darn thing was while I was in the middle of a movie. I've never booked out of a movie theater so fast! I called back to the hotel to find out a fire alarm in a crawl space had triggered.

In the end it was just a loose wire in the actual alarm system, but obviously we didn't know it at the time. And thankfully, the movie staff had seen me in my haste, so when I returned several hours later, they were kind enough to let me watch the next showing of the movie for free.

> So no, my absence from LinkedIn has nothing to do with me being a bad candidate for a job.

- I agree completely.

>If you assume it does, you miss out on a good hire.

- Again, I agree completely.

On the other hand, any company that vets potential employees by LinkedIn, or any single metric or source, isn't a company that I want to work for. So my lack of presence there helps weed out companies that I don't want to work for anyway.

>Gandi has a morality clause in their ToS; there are any number of good, cheap registrars that don't, so I'd say go with one of them instead.

Thank you for highlighting this!

I have learned the hard way that clueless employers should be avoided.

@zimbatm (because there isn't a reply option at this level)

I'm also sure there are screenwriters already working on incorporating such scenes into movies. Likely we'll see it on the big screen before we see it in real life.

Here's his gallery at Fine Art America - http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/jason-padgett.html (aren't search engines an amazing thing! </s> )

I absolutely envy my former colleague's gains and would gladly have my noggin knocked if I was guaranteed to have similar results!

Unfortunately, because they both led ordinary lives, there were no scans of their brains prior to the accident (yes, I asked). And, there certainly weren't any brain related devices recording their accidents. So, I'm not aware of any easy way to identify the injuries with enough precision.

I have met one woman like this and had the opportunity to work closely with another. In both of their cases they were in car accidents. I didn't know either of them before their accidents, but I have multiple friends that had known each of them for years or decades prior. In both cases they were described as pretty average before their accidents. Since their accidents they have both become extremely prolific readers [1] , with drastically better memory and cognition [2], and can't sleep more than 4 hours a night if they try.

[1] In the case of my colleague, she read everything she wanted, at which point she read the first Dewey decimal cataloged book in the local library and then started to read each subsequent book in progression. Less than three years after her accident she had almost finished every book in the local library and was already making plans to get a membership at the state's largest library.

[2] Neither have photographic memory, but it is something eerily close; and they make cognitive leaps that never cease to amaze me.

Examples are available at: http://www.stoic.com/formula

Driverless tractors are already in use - http://www.asirobots.com/farming/