Right click on the tab -> "Mute site".

It works for me for Chromium on Ubuntu.

The problem with that is it mutes the whole domain. I still want to listen to one of the meetings.

Wow that's strange. FWIW Firefox does not do the same domain-level blocking, only tab-level blocking. And as far as I know, Hangouts still works in Firefox.

Ohh, that sucks. You could try running separate Firefox instances in different profiles, then. Domain muting shouldn't apply across those.

In Brazil we have this http://www.cataki.org/ (pt-br) an app that connects waste pickers to people who want to dispose reusable or recyclable materials.

According to this site 800,000 waste pickers in the country and 300 registered on the service.

FWIW: "The name Postgres is an accepted alias for the PostgreSQL project. However it is an alias or nickname and is not the official name of the project."

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/ProjectName

Check the profile description of 'whoishiring'[1]

> This account automatically submits a 'Who is Hiring?' post at 11 AM Eastern time on the first weekday of every month.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring

thanks, looks like I posted this minutes before it auto posted. Good To Know.

If you want some Graph Theory challenges to solve there is a track at HackeRank

https://www.hackerrank.com/domains/algorithms/graph-theory

This reminds me of Orwell's "Politics and the English Language"[1].

A timeless work about language misuse in Politics.

[1]http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit...

I live in a neighbor city of São Paulo city, Brazil.

I have a 2hrs+ commute , 4hrs+ a day. I take a train (~1hr), a subway(~30min) and another train(~30min), I work next to train station.

The train use to be crowded with no seats to take. I try to make the travel as pleasant and productive as I can, I read news and books - almost finishing Uncle Bob's "Clean Code" -, listen to podcasts and music, watch movies etc..

I am SW developer in a big electronics vendor, we are not allowed to work from home, I lived some time in São Paulo during graduation and working full time, but it was expensive and lonely for me, I live with my parents and near of all my relatives now, but I am thinking to move back soon.

We have no many jobs in my city, so even people that no have skilled jobs use to have long commutes.

In another comment in this thread by @mikemcquaid (Homebrew lead maintainer):

> (...)and have been trying to find people who will provide us with non-Google hosting but: we're chronically understaffed and underfunded[1]

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13035438

What are the estimated costs for (something like) this?

I remember when I was studying English in the U.S. with other foreign students some years ago, when the topic was phrasal verbs the grades decreased for entire class. I am Brazilian, the class was composed most of South Koreans and Saudi Arabians.

Phrasal verbs are a hidden problem for estimating English vocabulary competence (as was alluded to earlier in this thread), because they play serious havoc with the idea of "knowing" a word. If you asked English learners if they knew the meanings of "work", "in", "out", and "off", most would say yes at a pretty early stage of their English education.

But that doesn't mean that they'd necessarily correctly interpret (or produce) "work in" 'incorporate (in a narrative or plan), "work out" 'resolve (a problem); deduce (a solution or consequence); deliberately perform physical exercise', "work off" 'eliminate (a debt, obligation, or excessive food intake) through effort'.

And there are hundreds more of those combinations with meanings that need to be learned independently.

Try: https://www.google.com/killer-robots.txt

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7988924 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7979909

haha awesome :]