Hacker News: avenoir

New comment by avenoir in "Soviet-Era Industrial Design"

avenoir — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 05:08:55 +0000

VAZ, the manufacturer who produced Ladas was/is situated on the Volga river, and based on my understanding (I lived in a city nearby), the word Lada came from word Lad'ya which is a type of ship that sailed on Volga river. At least that's how I remember it.

New comment by avenoir in "Two Decades of War Have Eroded the Morale of America’s Troops"

avenoir — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 16:48:50 +0000

A lot of people at the time were likely first or second generation immigrants and the tyrannies of the "old world" were still experienced either first-hand or through the eyes of their parents and grandparents. I think, this, in a lot of ways, influenced the founding fathers. And similarly, I think this is why many immigrants in this country become successful people in the modern times.

New comment by avenoir in "CoinTracker raises $1.5M to make tracking cryptocurrency investments easy"

avenoir — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 20:54:39 +0000

I am too interested in this. It'd be a massive stack of 8949s.

New comment by avenoir in "Show HN: Check whether an email address exists"

avenoir — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 16:16:41 +0000

Worked for my person email attached to my domain. I agree with others in that explaining how this works would be very nice.

New comment by avenoir in "Finding Dmitry: The Magical Story of a Russian Boy's Photos"

avenoir — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 17:40:28 +0000

Heartwarming story. That uniform was still in use several years after Soviet Union collapsed. The only thing that was missing was the poineer scarf. I have pictures of my "first bell" at school wearing the same uniform in 1992.

How I Upgraded My iPhone Memory 800% – In Shenzhen, China

avenoir — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 03:22:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHP-OPXK2ig

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16790069

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

New comment by avenoir in "Middle-Class Families Increasingly Look to Community Colleges"

avenoir — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 17:23:08 +0000

This is a great plan and what I personally did 10 years ago. Some states also have high school programs, like A+, upon completion of which your college experience becomes tuition-free as long as your GPA stays above a certain point average in college.

Ask HN: Is it legal to scrape shipment tracking information?

avenoir — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 23:51:51 +0000

I've checked out TOS on a several postal service websites and not finding anything preventing this in TOS. Is this a generally legal?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16783738

Points: 1

# Comments: 4

New comment by avenoir in "Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier"

avenoir — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 13:58:14 +0000

I agree. I think this technology needs smart roads to succeed, whatever this entails.

New comment by avenoir in "You have options – Why we left the U.S. and moved back to Europe"

avenoir — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 21:33:12 +0000

With all of the options he had he decided to move to ex-soviet republic... Let's see how long you'll manage to stay there before ludicrous levels of corruption at all levels of society start making expensive healthcare in the US seem insignificant in comparison. I say this as Ukrainian/Armenian who was born and lived in the USSR and seen my father, who's a brilliant engineer, stagnate in the professional culture that pushed him aside because of his ethnicity or because he became a threat to some old bastard who's been warming his seat for 40 years instead of retiring.

New comment by avenoir in "Ask HN: How did you start your business?"

avenoir — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 17:12:43 +0000

+1 for .NET. This'll be a killer thing for us!

New comment by avenoir in "In Praise of ADHD"

avenoir — Sun, 18 Mar 2018 02:50:02 +0000

There is a hypothesis that ADHD is a condition caused due to humans still evolving out of hunter-gatherer societies and those folks living with the condition retained the hunter characteristics/genetics. More on this here [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_vs._farmer_hypothesis

New comment by avenoir in "Repair cafés waging war on throwaway culture"

avenoir — Sun, 18 Mar 2018 02:43:24 +0000

Some home improvement stores in the US, like Home Depot and Lowe's, will gladly take your old equipment upon delivery of new one, as long as it's of the same type. At least this has been my experience.

New comment by avenoir in "Ask HN: I'm teaching my wife to code. What direction should we go?"

avenoir — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:13:53 +0000

I don't know why you're getting downvoted. You can teach anybody to program, but they're still going to struggle if they don't know how to logically approach issues and software design tasks. I've seen people struggle and move on to other things because of this.

New comment by avenoir in "Show HN: Investment Calculator – A simple retirement calculator"

avenoir — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 21:10:13 +0000

Very cool. This reminds me of the retirement tool I've seen in Betterment. The things you can do to earn more money or cut out of your daily spendings is super nice way to visualize some common ways to make or spend money.

New comment by avenoir in "Images of Los Angeles when it was covered in wetlands"

avenoir — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 16:26:51 +0000

I'd wager that Agriculture has eliminated more natural habitats than any population sprawl. I'm reminded of this every time I drive out of Colorado and into Kansas.

New comment by avenoir in "Images of Los Angeles when it was covered in wetlands"

avenoir — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 16:18:52 +0000

Wetlands and desert are hardly the same thing.

Mystery of the Somerton Man

avenoir — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 19:39:03 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamam_Shud_case

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16511119

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Comma.ai - Ghostriding for the masses.

avenoir — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 22:49:56 +0000

Article URL: https://comma.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16478792

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by avenoir in "Goldman-Backed Circle Buys Digital Exchange Poloniex"

avenoir — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 17:58:57 +0000

I tend to agree, but I am afraid we're just going to end up with another Wall Street here once major financial institutions put their hands on it.