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> Can't agree with that.

You don't have to. When I first found out about the suckless project, it seemed completely inaccessible, due to the lack of in-depth documentation. After reading around a bit, it seems intentional. My impression was that suckless doesn't aim for quantity, but for quality, even among its userbase, hence the lack of documentation is an entry barrier, a minimum of technical literacy required to get in. Look at the source and you don't need a wiki. My gut reaction says, that's quite elitist - which itself is negatively connoted when everyone aims for widespread adoption and usability. In the end, I agree with this idea. Software is supposed to serve a purpose. It doesn't have to suit everyone. It can be for a selected few, and still be a great project. What changed my mind was that dwm doesn't use configuration files. I came from openbox and more than once broke the menu because of a syntax error in the xml-based config. In dwm, you change the source config and recompile. This way, any and all errors are returned to you, you can fix it and try again, without ever risking any configuration issues or breakages. They do the same with st, their terminal. I'm absolutely convinced by this approach.
It seems to be worse with the modern f.lux mode than classic f.lux.
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Ask HN: A Non-Hacker has an Idea
Hi hackers,

I have been researching about startups and the tech world and I came across your wonderful community. I do not have a background in technology (non-hacker here), but I have always been fascinated by tech changes and I have made an effort to be up-to-date with your world. I now have the chance and the means to pursue my ideas and I would like to know from you: is it practical for a non-hacker to start her own tech business? I have found a great team of coders and web-designers I can hire to help me with that, but is it possible for a sole founder to get funding without herself having the technical knowledge? Anyone in a similar situation? There is an answer to a question on the FAQ page which suggests that at least one of the founders be technical (in order to both be successful and get funding I’m guessing) but this is currently not an option for me.
Thank you in advance!
> the market wants what Amazon is selling

You say that as if it's an immutable fact, as permanent as the laws of nature. Market demand changes all the time.

> no amount of blasting VMs is going to undo that.

I wouldn't be so certain, especially if you have strong performance and ergonomic arguments to back you up. Even more so if you actually have a better alternative to offer.
What you say is true, but the proposal is to reduce the height of the human species as a whole. Thus the cross-species comparison might be applicable here (i.e. humans at their current height vs. a smaller derived species).
Oracle's ZFS encryption is susceptible to watermarking attacks: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2013-Sept...

The "more advanced" claim is certainly disputable but OpenZFS has a larger and rapidly growing user base. The ZFSonLinux and OpenZFSonOSX ports in particular are bringing loads of new users to the table, and that means more testing, more contributors, and in the long run more features. (I've also become an occasional ZoL contributor that way.)
A cartoonish description of cognitive behavioral therapy would be encouraging people to tell different lies to themselves. I think it might be hard to learn to effectively lie to a therapist without accidentally believing some of what you are saying, so I would not be stunned if that ended up having some effectiveness.
As you can clearly see from your example, power is entirely different from being amendable to tooling and static analysis. This whole thing is just a false dichotomy.
I suggest you educate yourself about Bell's Inequality.
I can think of like 5 different ways that you could define "a wandering mind," yet the author just takes it for granted and acts like we all "get it," even though the definition you choose might change the conclusions she reaches and the nature of the discussion.

It's just that vagueness that characterizes discussions about consciousness or subjectivity. It makes me think we have an incredibly long way to go before we accurately model the human subject, which is a prerequisite to any meaningful AI.
Sure, some people may spend most of their time on Facebook, but it doesn't mean it is all of their time.

The same people who spend most of their time on Facebook would probably be very annoyed if all of a sudden their online banking would need to be done through Facebook with a Facebook-approved bank, or if they couldn't book airplane tickets on a third-party site or check the weather and so on.

That's the problem with internet.org; it's not that people wouldn't spend most of their time on Facebook, but it's that it makes it harder for non-Facebook entities to get access to these users, essentially building a Facebook-branded moat.

For example, say that building an ISP to reach these users has a fixed cost of x. This means that if that ISP has n users, the costs of building that ISP are spread out amongst those n users (ie. x/n); however, with internet.org, this would lower the demand for this ISP (because n will be smaller, due to some people not interested in having anything else but Facebook) and because the price of getting actual internet will be higher.

It's definitely a good move for Facebook, but creates large negative externalities for other people. A better move overall (but less so for Facebook), would be to give free access to the actual internet but let them access Facebook on its own merits. If Facebook offers such value to these users (and it definitely does for a lot of people), then there is no need to wall these users off of the rest of the internet.

Edit: formatting.
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Not from the US. In the US you dial 011 and then the country, so if my family calls me they go 01144...
IIRC the product is not longer called internet.org anyway; it's now called "free basics."
>Of course, since these are internal DSLs, it's often hard or impossible to isolate the code written in the DSL from the rest of the program

Exactly, but that is also why you lose basically all advantages of DSLs. I don't think internal DSLs deserve to be called DSLs at all. They are simply libraries that tend to use a lot of operator overloading.

The whole point of DSLs is to formally restrict what a given expression could possibly mean. That's what allows inference, optimization and sensible error messages that use the terminology of the DSL and not that of some underlying much more general language.
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted, beyond the fact that it challenges the popular narrative.

The Harper government didn't muzzle scientists because it had an inate hatred of scientists; it muzzled scientists because it was afraid of what they would say and the potential for lost votes. Canada's new government doesn't have that fear, so they have no reason to muzzle government scientists -- but that doesn't say anything about their principles. A commitment to openness is only tested when there is something you want to avoid having said.

(Incidentally, I think the "muzzled scientists" issue is somewhat overblown. Nobody complains about legal-advice privilege creating "muzzled lawyers", and exactly the same rationale applies to government scientists: If governments avoid consulting scientists because they're worried about the contents of their consultations becoming public, we're all worse off for it. This isn't to say that I think government scientists should be completely muzzled, mind you; but I think there's a reasonable middle ground between "completely open" and "completely muzzled" which nonetheless allows for governments to seek confidential advice from the scientists they employ.)
We have plenty of radical christians. We just don't call them "radical christians", we call them "far right extremists". The media aren't hiding their activities. You might recall Anders Breivik or the "Döner" murders, but there are also regular smaller scale right wing terrorist attacks (eg someone setting fire to a refugee home a while back in Styria, Austria). We don't perceive this threat as dangerous, since the attacks are probably unconnected acts of individuals, and for some reason we don't see right wing networks spreading facist propaganda quite as threatening as islamic hate propaganda.

Also, my comment concerning wage was not about raising minimum wages as much as ensuring that people are actually paid minimum wages. Most of the unemployed people I know aren't actually unemployed; they just have very irregular jobs (no contract, no insurance, irregular hours, etc)
CyanogenMod has something equal to f.lux already built in. It's called LiveDisplay.
You can see the full list of (larger) improvements since the Oracle ZFS/OpenZFS split here: http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Features

But basically tons of improvements to the L2ARC and volume management (async destroy is a god send for example).

Lack of encryption and no clustering support is a bit of a bummer but both are easily worked around, the performance improvements in the OpenZFS branch however are very dramatic and well worth running it over the Oracle branch where possible.

There is also all the inflight stuff here on the main page: http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page
The comparison to the Library of Alexandria is misleading, I think, because even if GitHub goes under, almost no data will be lost. Every bit of code that is hosted on GitHub is being stored locally somewhere by someone and and in many cases by more than one person.
Actually a bed mode will make a substantial difference.

Looking at phones or laptops or whatever screens at nighttime suppresses melatonin, which leads to people not feeling sleepy when they should, which makes them much more likely to continue looking at their screen than if they became as tired as normal.

It’s certainly possible to stay up doing something without blue light (e.g. reading by candlelight or a dim incandescent flashlight), but blue light makes a huge difference, and actively fights people’s ability to exercise self control.

Working to change habits is all well and good, but instead of telling someone who habitually binges on candy and cookies to stop eating any snacks at all, period, it would be a more successful intervention to take the candy and cookies away and fill their refrigerator with carrot sticks.
To be good at escapism and at creating it (e.g. poetry, music) one may need first a desire to escape.
The whole thing?
At least when the snow melts it returns to the rivers and streams where it came from.
Except smoking is harmful even if only done for a short period of time, while he alleged harm in these services only happens if they're around for a while.
What if you phrased it differently: “the roads were designed under different assumptions”?

In the past it was often assumed that most people would stay on major roads because only locals memorized chains of streets and even the people who planned routes (Thomas Brothers maps were a hallmark of the SoCal commuter, after all) would chain a few routes together but generally still kept it to what a human could remember since you couldn't safely read a map while driving.

Now that that has completely changed, it's probably true to say that the majority of local roads and traffic flows need to be reconsidered to see whether the signage or structure should change to enforce the way it was previously assumed they'd be used.
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> This assumes the existence of people who have phones but can't afford internet plans.

If such people didn't exist, neither would Internet.org.
One about:config setting and it is disabled.

But it is a disturbing commericialization of an open source product.

I suspect there will be (more) forks with the radical upcoming extension changes.
This isn't about seeking the contents of private conversations between scientists and politicians - this is about access to facts learned through tax-funded government research, and the "muzzling" of scientists in order to promote "message" over facts (and indeed, to promote falsehoods where facts are inconvenient).
Who are Kardashians? Googling gives me result about some obscure photo model. Is she leader of some clickbait company?
Dangerously so?
It's still a "project of Internet.org", alongside Facebook's Internet-providing drone things.
I think it's tongue-in-cheek or a publicity stunt. Among other problems, this would only increase the carrying capacity of our planet. It doesn't miraculously solve the problems of inevitable overpopulation or excessive consumption.
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It's called the power off button?

Seriously, what is wrong with people, turn the thing off.

Future "news": Food needs to stop being so tasty so people don't eat too much.
Switching languages may solve one problem while introducing another. If it were so simple, no one would use Python.
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What's the one thing you actually enjoy doing that does take your out of your recursive depressive thinking for a minute?

Do more of that thing every day. Do less web surfing and less rumination.

It's all about mental habituation.

Allow me to randomly speculate that in your mental world, reading some Intellectually Fascinating Article has an extremely high priority, whereas eating dinner is just some stupid thing your body demands, and so because of this configuration of like/dislike or attraction/aversion you tend to chow down whatever is easiest so you can get back to the Fascinating Article.

That habit becomes deeply learned by your neural networks, reinforced by daily training. Fortunately your species has evolved the mysterious capacity of thinking and willing, so you can in fact make decisions that are counterintuitive to your own neural training.

You may find that you need some violent tactics such as temporarily cutting off your internet supply. That snaps you back to reality (oh, there goes gravity). Makes it way easier to focus on prepping veggies.

Isn't part of the problem that electronic or thought-based stuff moves too fast, is infinitely elastic and offers too little real friction-based resistance? Which leads to a stagnation of patience with actual passing time and physical reality. So I suggest doing whatever requires and encourages patience. Cooking is a great example because if you try to do it as fast as possible you will burn your garlic and that can very effectively train your neurons to chill out and do one thing at a time.
FreeNAS looks interesting, but I found the hardware requirements a bit prohibitive for home use. Renting storage in the ”cloud” feels more cost-effective.
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As a longtime programmer of Python, C & C++ (and a longtime appreciator of your FQA Lite, by the way), my preference until recently was also to use CPython & fall back on extension modules for speed.

But I grew weary of writing all the Python C-API boilerplate -- especially checking parameter types and managing reference counts properly.

So I created (and recently open-sourced) Pymod, a Nim+Python project that auto-generates all the Python C-API boilerplate & auto-compiles a Python C extension module, to wrap the functions in a Nim module: https://github.com/jboy/nim-pymod

As a pragmatic Python programmer, Pymod may be of interest to you too...

(As someone who learned C++ in 1999 and spent most of 200x working in C++, I also grew weary of staying on top of C++0x's new features & new gotchas. So about a year ago, I switched from C++ to Nim-lang and haven't looked back. To me, Nim combines all the best features of Python & C++, while avoiding most of the worst: C++ speed, C++ static types, C++ generics, C++ operator overloading; combined with a clean Pythonic syntax & Lispy macros.)
What exactly causes the blue?

I recently discovered that the people/subjects I don't understand frighten me. And that causes load of other negative feelings. Exploring those subjects removes the fear at some point. And they are also often lot less negative in reality.

So personally I've found that "ignorance is bliss" only works as long as you are not at all aware of the shit. Once you are aware, it's best to go all in.
> As Andrew Stanton, director of Finding Nemo and WALL-E, put it: "My strategy has always been: be wrong as fast as we can... which basically means, we're gonna screw up, let's just admit that. Let's not be afraid of that. You can't get to adulthood before you go through puberty. I won't get it right the first time, but I will get it wrong really soon, really quickly."

> Stay hungry, _stay foolish_

It is funny, how smart people think alike ;)
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If you allow your eyes to adapt, the yellowness really isn’t a big deal, unless you’re doing something color sensitive like making art. Just stop worrying about precisely what colors are on screen.

Even if you’re casually looking at photographs, watching a television show, or playing a game, your eyes can compensate pretty well for a significant reduction in the amount of blue light, and you can have a perfectly acceptable experience.

Note, you’ll also want to dim or turn off other lights at night. In particular white LEDs of CCT ≥4000K are terrible at night, both wrecking night vision and disrupting sleep rhythm.

If you’re in an otherwise dark room, you can turn your display brightness as low as it will go and turn f.lux to its orangest possible setting and still browse the web, answer emails, write code, etc. perfectly fine. At such an extreme setting you might not be able to effectively enjoy photographs or movies anymore, but maybe right before bed isn’t the best time to look at photographs anyway.
this is about access to facts learned through tax-funded government research

It's rather more narrow than that. University professors were never muzzled, even if all of their research funding came via federal granting agencies.

The muzzling of scientists was limited to government scientists, i.e., those belonging to the federal civil service -- the ones whose jobs exist precisely for the purpose of giving advice to the government.
Your joke is sort of true. Snack foods generally have an excessively high ratio of palatability/satiation.

(I'd like to see it change because individuals make the choice, not by fiat, so let's not have an argument about it)
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A better source of energy solves any limitations on water and food. And "waste carrying capacity" is another term for pollution - as I said there are better ways to manage pollution.

Yes that takes technology, but the problem is mismanagement of resources, we aren't running out.

"The situation we’re in isn’t a looming wall that we’re doomed to crash into. It’s a race – a race between depletion and pollution of natural resources on one side, and our pace of innovation on the other."

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http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-limits-of...
The USPS operate their own police force[1] because federal laws are handled by the federal government.

[1]: https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/
Sadly the lakes are often lower down the mountain which requires a lot of not very environmentally friendly pumping to get it up. Here's one set up https://www.skiroundtop.com/how-snowmaking-works
In my experience, using a screen colour app just encourages me to use my phone more not less. Even with these apps a phone will still emit a large amount of blue light and having the light source so close to my face I still notice it disrupts my sleep.

If you believe using your phone late at night is harmful to you at all then why continue to maintain a that behaviour? Wouldn't it be much more beneficial to your health to avoid screens altogether at night? I'm not saying that it is easy but I believe it's a good healthy goal to aim for just like getting exercise and eating well.

To your point about unhealthy eating habits I totally agree. I just don't see phone addiction normally talked about as often as diet and exercise which is why I wanted to mention it.
London Underground doesn't yet have CBTC on the complicated lines, though it's in progress and due to be completed in 2022. The cost is over £5 billion, which based on the numbers in the article doesn't seem a likely level of investment for NYC.

They try and explain it to the public: https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/tube-improvements/behind-the-sce...
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> If you believe using your phone late at night is harmful to you at all

If you’re asking about me personally, I don’t use a smartphone at night. I thought we were talking about what actions smartphone vendors could take to help their customers’ health.

> Even with these apps a phone will still emit a large amount of blue light and having the light source so close to my face I still notice it disrupts my sleep.

If you use f.lux on a Mac, you can make it incredibly orange almost completely blocking out the "blue" channel on the display. It also includes a "darkroom" mode which inverts the display colors and turns black text on white into red text on black.
Indeed, and that's why Apple discourages the use of a contextual menu as the sole means to offer functionality as well [1]:

Always ensure that contextual menu items are also available as menu commands.
A contextual menu is hidden by default and a user might not know it exists, so it should never be the only way to access a command.
In particular, you want to avoid using a contextual menu as the only way to access an advanced or power-user feature.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/UserEx...
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Do you realize you do exactly what you say shouldn't be done? You just defined "a good place to start" by negation. Idiot.
Conversely he did try to cover this with the statistics - the message was found much sooner in the sequence then the statistics would dictate were it random.
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I'd skip the "Debian" part if possible.
Can we not post videos ?

its really hard to skim the material and decide if i want to read more in depth.
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German is far ahead in weirdness compared to english. It is the 10th most weird language in the world. English is only on place 33. See

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Of course I agree that it was bad, but up to 20 years looks way to long for this crime.
Does Canada have no protections for freedom of speech?

As an American, the idea of muzzling a scientist is strange. I had thought Canada was more free than this.