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night815··on Ask HN: Possible to go/live underground to cool off?
Instead of building underground you could use earthen materials but stay above ground.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuQB3x4ZNeA

night815··on Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
Exactly, isn't the point of research to publish your findings which explains the WHY?
night815··on Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion
HEY also has a spam filter which every email hits before it hits The Screener.

https://hey.com/features/the-screener/

night815··on Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS
I think MS is making money elsewhere so they don't need browser market share but they do need to provide a browser.
night815··on Employee Wellness Programs Yield Little Benefit, Study Shows
The problem with only working 3 days is the first day back will be mostly spend getting back in the groove / remembering what you were working on.

I am a fan of 5 x 6 hours and 4 x 8 hours.

night815··on VSCode January 2019 (version 1.31) released
She keeps popping up: https://twitter.com/iamdevloper/status/1090617583433404416
night815··on Open Source is Not About You
How do you know when you are interacting with one of "those people"? Even better, how can I join a conversation without being written off as one of them?
night815··on Babel 7 Released
From Western New York, when I was 15/16 I got a workers permit to allow me to work at a pizza shop (Mark's Pizzeria) but it had a lot of restrictions like limited hours on a school night. This was over 15 years ago so I am not sure what the laws are now.
night815··on Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
I wonder if we will ever see support for white-hat botters. I imagine the game publisher/creator would have a separate server which you could request access to. It could have a bug bounty type system where if your account/bot is able to fool the system you will be rewarded for explaining how you did it. I think there are a lot of gamers that would spend time on this so they don't have to put up with so many bots.
night815··on Show HN: Write every day, measure your progress, achieve your writing goals
Ideas: Allow users to specify which days of the week are writing days and only track that streak. For every certain period of time (14 days?) completed, the user gets a vacation / skip day. This way the user can keep the streak going without having to write every day and can take days off when needed without losing their streak.
night815··on Google’s new conversational AI could eventually undermine our sense of identity
The problem this is solving is that there are businesses with no internet presents. If they could get businesses to sign up for something like OpenTable this wouldn't be necessary.
night815··on Ask HN: Best project management practices in 2018?
https://m.signalvnoise.com/how-we-set-up-our-work-cbce3d3d9c...
night815··on Two Ex-Googlers Want to Make Bodegas and Mom-And-Pop Corner Stores Obsolete
"An app will allow you to unlock the box and cameras powered with computer vision will register what you’ve picked up, automatically charging your credit card."

From the second paragraph of the article.

night815··on Tesla and SpaceX Share More Than Musk
SpaceX cannot hire non-US Citizens because of ITAR.

http://www.pmddtc.state.gov/regulations_laws/itar.html

night815··on Ask HN: One thing you wish would happen in the next 10 years?
Yes, these discussions need to start happening on a personal, 1-on-1 level. Having these conversations on twitter or on some tv/radio talk show is too intense.

What would be interesting is reading a discussion by two thought leaders that could happen over email (read: slow medium of communication) and edited to bring out the best of each side. Heat of the moment discussions don't help anyone.

Going to take a look at Crucial Conversations. Thanks!

night815··on Ask HN: One thing you wish would happen in the next 10 years?
Civilized discussion on hard topics -- There seems to be a large amount of shouting matches going on right now. We need to be able to discuss things in a calm and respectful manner even when we strongly disagree with the other side. There are a lot of buzz words that get thrown out that to me have lost meaning (racist, sexist, etc.). These words do have meaning and there are absolutely people doing these things that need to stop. However, lets stop name calling and start sharing our stories with the intend to do just that, share. When the only goal is to get everyone to believe what you believe, it likely won't be a productive conversation.
night815··on Netflix expected to spend over $6B on original and acquired programming in 2017
What are some shows you like and don't like that Netflix made?
night815··on SpaceX Halts Rocket Launch 10 Seconds Before Planned Liftoff
Looks like yes.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/832995083519614976

night815··on Mark Zuckerberg Hired Obama and Bush Campaign Managers
What if it's for everyone instead of just one person. Perhaps Facebook wants to build a better platform for all elected officials as a way to combat the fake news outbreak.
night815··on I've removed all ad network code from my blog
"Most of them seem to be run by good sales people and not so good IT staff."

Sounds like a good solution to me.

night815··on Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars
http://www.spacex.com/mars
night815··on Visual Studio Code 1.6
I can see the list of extensions doing this but trying to install gives "Server returned 407".

UPDATE: Turns out I have to include my username and password in the URL. I don't install extensions often so I will do this temporary when I do.

night815··on Visual Studio Code 1.6
How do you work with proxy? I can't install any extensions without manually downloading and installing.
night815··on [dead]
That sounds like an awesome first expansion!
night815··on Why Did Google Erase Cooper's Beloved Literary Blog?
https://xkcd.com/1357/
night815··on How I Accidentally Captured the SpaceX Falcon 9 Landing
I never finished watching Season 3...

("Pink stars are falling" is a reference to Under the Dome)

night815··on When we take turns speaking, we chime in after a culturally universal short gap
They talk about this in one of the special features on the DVDs. The average script length for a typical "hour" show (42 minutes, running time) is one page per minute. Gilmore Girls episodes were closer to 80 pages. They even talk about bringing in a speak coach for the actors so they could learn to speak faster while still being clear.
night815··on Google breaks 2005 promise never to show banner ads on search results
The full quote is still true.

"There will be no banner ads on the Google homepage or web search results pages. There will not be crazy, flashy, graphical doodads flying and popping up all over the Google site. Ever." -Marissa Mayer

That "banner" is not a "crazy, flashy, graphical doodad". That is pretty much the company's logo.

night815··on Google can use your name and photo alongside online ads
My understanding is that Facebook uses random peoples name/picture to promote anything they want.

Google uses your Name/picture to show that you have reviewed/+1/etc. something.

Facebook is lying, which is Evil. Google is showing your friends things you chose +1, review, etc.

People keep throwing around the word evil as if it's anything that they disagree with.

night815··on Privacy is not dead
You make two assumptions: 1. all spies work for a government 2. government employees follow all the rules and guidelines. that is, they follow the law themselves.
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