awendt

This! People need to get a life. I wouldn't have any trouble keeping myself busy after retirement. I do not have nearly enough time for the things I really WANT to do beside work.

This is a great idea but I'm not sure it will work out.

Numbers are touched up all the time, both in politics (e.g. few governments will admit to lowering the employment rate, if things are not working, usually a new way of counting the unemployed is introduced) and in large companies (managers who report "everything's fine" up the chain until it's too late).

Applied to your idea, donors will have to come up with KPIs to meet. Whatever the situation, the KPIs will magically look good. And if there are no KPIs, nobody will dare take the job.

It may be readable by them but their life (as a business) does not depend on the content of your conversations. That's a big difference.

I'm wondering if they'd make more money with very cheap subscriptions (a.k.a. "long tail") and no legal department.

Don't panic.

Users sometimes post bad content on websites

that are normally safe.

Someone came up with http://unmaintained.tech/ for exactly this reason. You can add a badge to your README.

Note: Most of these links have "Man does X" in the original headline. In only two cases, the "man" part has been added by the HN submitter.

My thoughts exactly. This "Woman does X" is unnecessary and might turn the discussion in the wrong direction.

same here

Compare this statement:

"Interns get a lot of experience," says Ahmad Fawzi, head of the UN's information service in Geneva. "First-hand knowledge about how the international system works: it's invaluable for them, and they have fun."

(while not paying your interns) to Article 23 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.

OP here.

If you already have a working Ruby environment, it's not a lot. If you have to start by installing Ruby, then yes, don't bother.

BTW, this does more than "cat", it supports editing and toggling parts of your config (using --include on files that would normally be excluded).

This was my original use case: Switching between setups for remote and office work.

In an age where everybody talks about cloud infrastructure, I find it a very interesting decision to spend $30k on servers up front.

Apart from reducing operating costs, I never thought about servers as assets. Essentially, using things like AWS for operations makes the money go away as soon as it's spent. That's a very real risk if you're striving for a sustainable business that doesn't run on ads and you don't yet know where this is going.

Given that the owner originally wanted $100k, $33k seems like a steal.

You get sent an OTP that expires after half an hour. So in order to attack someone, you need to gain access to your victim's e-mail account beforehand. Which is quite hard if if the victim has MFA activated.

If you gain access to your victim's e-mail account, even if you find any passwords in there, you cannot use any of them because they are not working anymore.

So it's not only a stronger, non-recycled password. It's:

1. an OTP

2. that expires very soon

3. that cannot be recycled

4. in a place that's likely to be well-protected

EDIT: 5. that place (#4) is in widespread use

This is beyond a "password manager" which barely covers #3 (it incentivizes not to recycle) – and maybe #4, if you're careful.

This is still nothing more than a password

No, it's an OTP. And that's so much more than a password...

Yes, this. Excellent point.

Also: This is the same Apple that put the Stocks app on everyone's iPhone.

I'm not saying I don't want both :)

All I'm saying: If budget is the issue, I'm all for kindergarten. If it's not an issue, make everything free.

I'm surprised no one brought up the bigger picture of which types of education Germans pay for and which they don't.

While going to university has been free for a long time in Germany (and will be again according to this article), German parents pay for kindergarten and day care.

In most countries, it's the other way around and I'd gladly pay for my kids to go to university than pay for the much more basic education before primary school. I paid up to 500 Euros a months for my son's kindergarten. (This is is maximum amount, but that's another story...)

This is why I don't get that students were so eager to demonstrate against the introduction of tuition, claiming education is then reserved for rich people. The same argument could be brought up against payments for day care, but no one will acknowledge that. (I guess this is because students are willing to plan for family after the degree.)

Reversing this situation would result in better integration of kids from families with immigrant background which is a far better goal than to make higher education more accessible, regardless of money.

OMG, are you serious?

Ok, let's play a game then: Here's a group of 100 people. Your assignment:

1. Find 10 women who already track their cycle because it's important to them.

2. Find 10 people who already track their poop because it's important to them.

You'll probably need to ask about 10 women to finish assignment #1, maybe 12. You'll never be able to finish assignment #2.

None of these women had children or had to worry about pay discrepancies.

Every woman has to worry about pay discrepancies. In every industry, at every job level. That's what this whole "gender pay gap" is all about, you know?

And it's everybody's job to fix this!

This is now fixed.

The score depends on how fast you can get from 1 to x. A stopwatch is started when you tap 1 and stopped when you tap the last number.

If you improve in each level and remain a constant rate, you get more points in higher levels. Suppose you take 1 second to finish each level, your points in all levels will be: 320, 500, 720, 980, 1280, 1620.

See https://github.com/awendt/memory-chimp/blob/master/game.js#L...

No, it's not. Should I start the clock right when the new level is displayed instead?

I saw this game in an exhibition about monkeys, and it stopped at 9 numbers. The limit is arbitrary and could be increased. But at some point, the algorithm drawing the numbers may run out of screen estate.

You can take any time you need to remember the numbers, it does not matter. However, I'm planning to add more levels that only show the numbers briefly.

The very first lines in the video refers to intelligence:

The scientists […] have devised intelligence tests for chimps. One test is for what's called working memory.

Thanks. However, I'm having layout troubles with that. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8329031 for details.

Thank you for reporting this, I've create an issue: https://github.com/awendt/memory-chimp/issues/1. To explain why I do this: There's one write to localStorage, to persist your personal best across sessions.

In my defense, I did read the guidelines before posting this and it explicitly said:

HN users are comfortable with work that's at an early stage.

This is my first "Show HN." I'll put "graceful degradation" on my list for next time :)

Y'all need to help me with the next levels I have planned: The numbers will only appear for a limited time...

From http://www.livescience.com/7444-chimps-numbers-humans.html:

However, they discovered the three young chimps could remember many numerals with a glance, with virtually no change in performance even when the numbers were flashed for just 210 milliseconds

I could use some help over at https://github.com/awendt/memory-chimp

I'd like to use a fixed-width layout like 2048 has but cannot get it to work. The code is in a feature branch, https://github.com/awendt/memory-chimp/tree/fixed-width. I'm having trouble that the viewport is scrolling horizontally and I don't know why.

I was hoping to get rid of the zooming bug using a fixed-width layout together with the meta tag "viewport". That new layout could also be a chance to suggest users to try it on touch devices.

Darn, I've heard that before. But it never happened to me so I forgot all about it.

Can you send a pull request or give me any pointers how to prevent it?