Hacker News: schmidtc

New comment by schmidtc in "“Car Wash” test with 53 models"

schmidtc — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:10:39 +0000

But, there is a clear incentive to answer the question incorrectly. The wrong answer is funny and will give the human some level of pleasure thinking about it. I would certainly reply with "walk" just for fun and apparently 28.5% of people agree with me.

New comment by schmidtc in "Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWars and Others"

schmidtc — Thu, 02 May 2019 23:52:06 +0000

Going back to your slippery slope argument, where does it end?

Is HN not a public forum as well? Are my constitutional rights being violated when a moderator deletes something a post here on HN?

What about all those shadow banned users, are they entitled to their free speech on any website that allows comments?

New comment by schmidtc in "Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWars and Others"

schmidtc — Thu, 02 May 2019 20:46:56 +0000

It's always fascinating how quick people are to jump on the slippery slope bandwagon when it suits their ends.

Your suggestion that privately held malls are subject to free speech protections is misleading. See Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner. There are counter examples of course, be these apply only in niche situations.

Regardless, Facebook is not a public space. It's very much a private space. Suggesting that Facebook be treated as a public space is a pretty radical idea.

New comment by schmidtc in "Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWars and Others"

schmidtc — Thu, 02 May 2019 20:24:24 +0000

The actions are policed and no one here is suggesting thoughts be policed. These individuals are free to shout their ideas in the public square. Facebook is a corporation not a government agency and they have the right to control their own products. Facebook isn’t refusing people based a protected status. Should a baker be required to make a cake promoting a hateful cause?

New comment by schmidtc in "Mosh: An Interactive Remote Shell for Mobile Clients"

schmidtc — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 08:24:41 +0000

This is old, but I just discovered it. Makes a slow ssh connection feel like a fast one.

Mosh: An Interactive Remote Shell for Mobile Clients

schmidtc — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 08:19:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsIxNYl0oyU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17660517

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by schmidtc in "Why Is 'Affordable' Housing So Expensive to Build?"

schmidtc — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 01:09:01 +0000

I was expecting this article to provide some insight in regards to the title. It does not. The article should be titled, “Here Are Some Examples of Expensive ‘Affordable’ Housing Projects”.

Ask HN: How to participate in the general strike as a startup?

schmidtc — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 19:48:50 +0000

A general strike has been proposed to Feb 17th. I'm thinking about shutting down our site for the day. What's the best HTTP response code for this situation? 307, 417, 418, 503?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13553885

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by schmidtc in "Safari Technology Preview supports 100% of the ES2015/16/17 features"

schmidtc — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 19:41:54 +0000

Hot keys for Bookmarks in Favorites Bars (Command+Option+N).

New comment by schmidtc in "Ask HN: Kubernetes vs. Nomad vs. Mesos vs ..."

schmidtc — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 00:05:14 +0000

I run a small 4 node mesos cluster. So far it's been great, took a day or two to setup and has been running for about a year now with little to no maintenance. (I should probably update). I launch long running services through Marathon and crons with Chronos. I use haproxy for service discovery and load balancing. It's mostly used for data processing, but does serve data to a production web environment (~40k req / day).

The things I like the most about mesos is that it is light weight and removes a like of the friction in deploying new services. So I can test out a new idea without a big investment or f*ing around with the giant monolith. I found container based approaches too resource intensive for my budget.

New comment by schmidtc in "Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?"

schmidtc — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 15:23:16 +0000

> "it's only a `git grep` away"

Off topic, but how did I not know this was thing? You never know what you're gonna learn reading hn comments.

Show HN: Avoiding distractions with /etc/hosts

schmidtc — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 03:31:02 +0000

Last week I discovered slither.io, and it nearly ruined me. If you don't know what it is, turn around and continue about your day. However, if you've had the unfortunate luck of stumbling upon it, please read on... I've logged countless hours attaining leader board status to display my politically antagonizing username only to be killed by some punk name joey. The glow of dead snakes clouds my vision when I'm not playing this terribly terribly addicting game. My family looks at me with distain when they see me playing it. My work is suffering, my personal life non existent.

Today is the day I killed slither.io

According to toggl, it took me 2 hours and 17 minutes to do so (including this post). If you too suffer from an addition to slither.io or any other web based distraction (perhaps even hn?) my solution is available to you for the low low cost of the time it takes you to edit a txt file.

Open up /etc/hosts in your favorite text editor (vim of course) and add the following...

  104.131.217.198 slither.io

Windows users (do they still exist?), you are on your own. Beside you probably need a good distraction to avoid bashing your computer with a hammer the next time that pleasant little paperclip tells you what to do.

Upon future visits to slither.io you will be greeted with a friendly reminder that you are not working. Your life will be saved.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12370813

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by schmidtc in "[dead]"

schmidtc — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 16:48:19 +0000

Thanks, never thought of that.

New comment by schmidtc in "Geoscore open sources mapping code"

schmidtc — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 00:46:57 +0000

Creator of geoScore here. We're looking for contributors to help get this code out and help with documentation. I'll do my best to answer any questions. As far as the javascript client, it is almost ready to release, but I'll be a lot more motivated to put the hours in if there's interest.

Geoscore open sources mapping code

schmidtc — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 00:42:26 +0000

Article URL: http://geoscore.com/opensource.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12005891

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by schmidtc in "Counting Things in Python: A History"

schmidtc — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 05:29:20 +0000

just for fun...

  import itertools
  colors = ["brown", "red", "green", "yellow", "yellow", "brown", "brown", "black"]
  dict([(color, len(list(grp))) for color, grp in itertools.groupby(sorted(colors))])

  dict([(color, len(filter(lambda c: c==color, colors))) for color in set(colors)])

...because sometimes job security is important too.

New comment by schmidtc in "Performance in Big Data Land: Every CPU cycle matters"

schmidtc — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 00:43:37 +0000

Thank you

New comment by schmidtc in "Frequent Social Networking Associated with Poor Functioning Among Children [pdf]"

schmidtc — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:02:28 +0000

Is frequent HN consumption associated with poor functioning among programmers?

New comment by schmidtc in "Why we travel"

schmidtc — Sun, 16 Aug 2015 17:34:41 +0000

That's not entirely true. Travel can be done on the cheap, many people don't even explore their own city. People who don't travel find a million excuses, but it usually boils down to fear of the unknown.

New comment by schmidtc in "Apache Kafka, Samza, and the Unix Philosophy of Distributed Data"

schmidtc — Sun, 09 Aug 2015 02:04:36 +0000

Can anyone provide a legitimate criticism of Kafka? "It sucks, doesn't use it" isn't very helpful or productive. The closest thing I can find is http://engineering.onlive.com/2013/12/12/didnt-use-kafka/ which is more critical of zookeeper then anything else.

I'm evaluating Kafka for a new project and it seems to be a perfect fit. I've contemplated building something from scratch in python, as my reliability and performance demands are pretty minimal. However, it seems that a lot of thought went into Kafka's design and it's feature set is perfect match for my problem. Specifically the unlimited buffering, log compaction and the ability to replay logs from arbitrary offsets.

If there are any viable alternatives to Kafka what are they? Bonus points if the JVM isn't involved.