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Hi there HN'ers, I've been working remotely for a few years now, for various companies and clients. One itch I needed to sratch is timezone conversion. It's always a mental effort …

tl;dr: governance is hard, there's no silver bullet, every system may be tricked. "good blockchain governance" would rely on gathering the result of multiple "coordination flags" l…

Since I couldn't find any explanation on the article: > Snaps are containerised software packages that are simple to create and install. They auto-update and are safe to run. And b…

Interesting "we must learn/accept/fight to cohabit" view, It's super American - Westerners centric though, what happens if decentralised currencies take off in emerging countries?

I like the idea, I'm miss one thing: the minute someone says "I'd buy 100NIL for X ETH", the IFO becomes an ICO no? We just added an extra-step.

Thanks for sharing, I'm curious to see these circles lighten depending on project activity (releases, conferences, etc).

I want a similar platform with reproducibility built in: your paper gets in the blockchain, if and only if, its results can be reproduced by other members ("Proof Of Reproducibilit…

Exactly my cliché of the Clojure community: a discussion about simple things like testing and tooling becomes a place to brag about some random features of Clojure. Insulting my pa…

You mean complex is easy, simple is hard?

His experience matches most of mine: I've been learning & trying to use clojure(script) for ~2 years now. A few things I miss in every other languages: - The REPL: I usually don't …

You may not know: on Unity you can saturate / desaturate the windows. I set them almost black and white and increase the saturation when I need it (shift + brigthness up / down). I…

You miss the point, they want you to do more mental maths :)

I'd love to get a thoughtful explanation for mid-2012, I understand it as a rewrite + removing "wrong" design decisions made in 2009.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13104807 Click on the eye icon. You won't be able to run the notebook code, which would be a surprising thing to allow without some sort of aut…

Unread status is managed remotely (sync'd between devices), so you should be able to query it with an API like https://api.slack.com/methods/channels.history I wouldn't want such a…

> CPUs turn watts into performance. A 45W CPU will deliver 3x the performance of a 15W CPU. Can you provide a reference for this? I'm pretty sure a CPU turns watts into HEAT and PE…

Actually some kinda does: "Garbage collection is simulating a computer with an infinite amount of memory". https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20100809-00/?p=... We both a…

I can't speak for the others, but I did install Ubuntu on my 2014 MBP, to ease the transition to a future non-Apple machine.

They took 95% ownership of Aldebaran Robotic a while ago, and it's a huge success in Japan. I'm no expert but isn't that building a vertical? AFAIR the robots are running on Intel …

[0] could be an XKCD joke. Ho wait... it is: http://xkcd.com/1700/ In the last Windows 10 update, if your username contains nadella, the spying services are disabled and your machi…

I've spend 5+min on both and couldn't figure out which countries are covered.

Tor Browser... You mean Loki?