jerhinesmith

Especially on long distance trips, I try to avoid layovers because of the uncertainty it introduces. If I could be guaranteed that my first leg would leave and arrive on time, then I'd happily book two legs with a break in-between over one long flight.

Listening to the live radio communications on a flight was eye opening. Turbulence aside, I can usually feel when the plane is moving to a new altitude (either up or down), and while I always assumed it was planned, being able to hear the process of the pilot asking for clearance to move, getting clearance, and then feeling the plane rise or fall took all of the fear out of it.

As an internet user, I really enjoy reading about all these performance improvements in V8 / javascript.

As a ruby developer, I'm insanely jealous.

No need to apologize - I kind of do that already with texts, but my last vacation was in Japan, so the timezone thing gave little overlap and it would have been nice to have something a bit more asynchronous.

I have similar concerns, but I was just on vacation for 2 weeks and would have loved a way to check-in on my cat / cat-sitter to see how things are going.

Are there products that would permit me to do this while still avoiding privacy concerns?

I feel like piracy is going to continue to be an issue until we get a spotify/tidal/apple music-type service for video content. Netflix seemed a lot closer to that several years ago, but it feels like we're moving backwards.

I think it was Netflix that said that:

https://gizmodo.com/5980103/netflix-the-goal-is-to-become-hb...

It goes on for pages. My guess would be someone phished an admin account and changed which subreddits are included in /r/all.

I've been struggling with this a lot. Granted it's pretty much all speculation, but if it is a state actor that is giving Wikileaks this information, and if said state actor was trying to influence the election, I question the responsibility of Wikileaks. It could also be (and I'm aware of this) simply that they're exposing information on "my" candidate, in which case maybe I'd feel differently if was the other way around.

I'm glad this was posted on HN, because I'm looking forward to a (hopefully) more informed discourse than I found on Reddit.

JSON API seems overly verbose to me. It feels like like a direct descendant of the SOAP / WSDL era -- or maybe I'm just scarred from having written and consumed SOAP webservices.

Yep, working now. Thanks!

Sounds really interesting, but I'm getting a 503 from their site. :(

Having grown up in the midwest where everything is a 10 - 20 minute drive, I absolutely love it here. It's literally life changing.

If you're only visiting LA, you're going to run into traffic. LA has arguably the first or second worst traffic in all of the US. As a counter-anecdote, I live in what could be considered an Oakland or SF suburb, and I can get everywhere I need to go by either walking or taking bart. I sit in traffic maybe two or three times a year.

Agreed. Top Thrill is great for the "thrill" of hitting 120 mph and dropping ~400 feet, but it's over in a matter of seconds. I think they nailed it with the drag race metaphor. There's very little anticipation, and the payoff is immediate.

I switched from will_paginate to kaminari when I made the move from rails 2 to rails 3 and haven't looked back. It's a great library that works as advertised.

I set up my first rails app on Linode about 5 years ago and used to scoff at people that went the "easy" route with Heroku.

Now I'm using Heroku and wonder why I wasted so much time before worrying about disk space, permissions, rotating logs, etc. I definitely get it now.

While I'm not disagreeing with the intentions of the quote, it's worth pointing out that there's no actual evidence that Einstein ever said that:

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/einstein/bees.asp

I was literally going to post the exact same article. Up until I read this a few days ago, I would have jumped into a debate with "desalination! just do it!" -- turns out it's much more complicated than that.

I really appreciate what the omniref guys are doing, but I find these "posts" (maybe not the right word?) incredibly difficult to follow. I can't tell if I'm supposed to read the left pane, the right pane, the bubble? Do I click the quote bubbles? Does the left pane "track" the right pane?

This was just posted a few days ago -- here's the discussion for anyone interested:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8594769

RVM/rbenv/chruby are generally discouraged on production servers.

Yep, I played around with different GC settings for ~2 days before I gave up and reverted back to 2.0. I keep hoping pressure from other hosting companies will push heroku to up the default dynos to 1gb ram (current is 512mb).

For the person who wants to put time/effort into investing, where you suggest they start?

I'm really interested to see if the r-naught is sustainable in developed countries. This paper (http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=2...) projects it as between 1.0 and 2.0 -- the nurse in Dallas makes it at least 1 for the first US case, but it could be a few more weeks to know if she was the only one.

Well, interestingly enough, it seems like you lose 2 close friends for every new romantic relationship:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/sep/15/price-love-cl...

I don't believe severance pay is required by law in California. In that case, asking someone to sign a non-disparagement agreement in exchange for helping them land on their feet seems like a reasonable request.

I don't think you're forced to sign. That point is also lightly touched on in the comment - "the non-disparagement we asked you to sign" and "Even if you don't sign the non-disparagement".

I've signed these before, and I was under no impression that I was being forced.

What do you use to cook sous vide at home? Do you have an actual appliance? Or do you use one of the "improvised hacks" I've seen on blogs, etc. ("improvised hacks" is not meant to be derogatory, by the way -- just couldn't think of how else to describe them)

Well, I share my desktop machine with my girlfriend. I could easily get by with a clean desk at home and just the MBA -- that said, it's not completely up to me. :)