Hacker News: night815

New comment by night815 in "Ask HN: Possible to go/live underground to cool off?"

night815 — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 00:19:56 +0000

Instead of building underground you could use earthen materials but stay above ground.

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

New comment by night815 in "Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong"

night815 — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 16:52:46 +0000

Exactly, isn't the point of research to publish your findings which explains the WHY?

New comment by night815 in "Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion"

night815 — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 16:04:09 +0000

HEY also has a spam filter which every email hits before it hits The Screener.

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

New comment by night815 in "Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS"

night815 — Tue, 21 May 2019 12:15:03 +0000

I think MS is making money elsewhere so they don't need browser market share but they do need to provide a browser.

New comment by night815 in "Employee Wellness Programs Yield Little Benefit, Study Shows"

night815 — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 10:50:25 +0000

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.

New comment by night815 in "VSCode January 2019 (version 1.31) released"

night815 — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 13:12:44 +0000

She keeps popping up: https://twitter.com/iamdevloper/status/1090617583433404416

New comment by night815 in "Open Source is Not About You"

night815 — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 14:25:53 +0000

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?

New comment by night815 in "Babel 7 Released"

night815 — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 13:41:52 +0000

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.

New comment by night815 in "Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?"

night815 — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 12:38:30 +0000

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.

New comment by night815 in "Show HN: Write every day, measure your progress, achieve your writing goals"

night815 — Thu, 31 May 2018 13:25:56 +0000

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.

New comment by night815 in "Google’s new conversational AI could eventually undermine our sense of identity"

night815 — Thu, 10 May 2018 15:26:55 +0000

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.

New comment by night815 in "Ask HN: Best project management practices in 2018?"

night815 — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 19:14:15 +0000

https://m.signalvnoise.com/how-we-set-up-our-work-cbce3d3d9c...

New comment by night815 in "Two Ex-Googlers Want to Make Bodegas and Mom-And-Pop Corner Stores Obsolete"

night815 — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 16:57:27 +0000

"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.

New comment by night815 in "Tesla and SpaceX Share More Than Musk"

night815 — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 19:08:32 +0000

SpaceX cannot hire non-US Citizens because of ITAR.

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

New comment by night815 in "Ask HN: One thing you wish would happen in the next 10 years?"

night815 — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:23:19 +0000

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!

New comment by night815 in "Ask HN: One thing you wish would happen in the next 10 years?"

night815 — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 15:35:18 +0000

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.

New comment by night815 in "Netflix expected to spend over $6B on original and acquired programming in 2017"

night815 — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 12:46:49 +0000

What are some shows you like and don't like that Netflix made?

New comment by night815 in "SpaceX Halts Rocket Launch 10 Seconds Before Planned Liftoff"

night815 — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 18:50:26 +0000

Looks like yes.

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

New comment by night815 in "Mark Zuckerberg Hired Obama and Bush Campaign Managers"

night815 — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 18:31:25 +0000

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.

New comment by night815 in "I've removed all ad network code from my blog"

night815 — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 13:47:55 +0000

"Most of them seem to be run by good sales people and not so good IT staff."

Sounds like a good solution to me.