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I know I shouldn't quote it all, it's too long, I should just mention the title. But I so want to quote at least some of it, and it's all in one piece. So against my better judgement, but in a spirit of sadness and concern about "the world" as it seems to be going for "since like forever" and a sense of melancholia about not being a child anymore, rather than, say, snark about SV etc. -- one of my all time favourites:

Blight

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give me truths;
For I am weary of the surfaces,
And die of inanition. If I knew
Only the herbs and simples of the wood,
Rue, cinquefoil, gill, vervain and agrimony,
Blue-vetch and trillium, hawkweed, sassafras,
Milkweeds and murky brakes, quaint pipes and sun-dew,
And rare and virtuous roots, which in these woods
Draw untold juices from the common earth,
Untold, unknown, and I could surely spell
Their fragrance, and their chemistry apply
By sweet affinities to human flesh,
Driving the foe and stablishing the friend,--
O, that were much, and I could be a part
Of the round day, related to the sun
And planted world, and full executor
Of their imperfect functions.
But these young scholars, who invade our hills,
Bold as the engineer who fells the wood,
And traveling often in the cut he makes,
Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not,
And all their botany is Latin names.
The old men studied magic in the flowers,
And human fortunes in astronomy,
And an omnipotence in chemistry,
Preferring things to names, for these were men,
Were unitarians of the united world,
And, wheresoever their clear eye-beams fell,
They caught the footsteps of the SAME. Our eyes
And strangers to the mystic beast and bird,
And strangers to the plant and to the mine.
The injured elements say, 'Not in us;'
And haughtily return us stare for stare.
For we invade them impiously for gain;
We devastate them unreligiously,
And coldly ask their pottage, not their love.
Therefore they shove us from them, yield to us
Only what to our griping toil is due;
But the sweet affluence of love and song,
The rich results of the divine consents
Of man and earth, of world beloved and lover,
The nectar and ambrosia, are withheld;
And in the midst of spoils and slaves, we thieves
And pirates of the universe, shut out
Daily to a more thin and outward rind,
Turn pale and starve. Therefore, to our sick eyes,
The stunted trees look sick, the summer short,
Clouds shade the sun, which will not tan our hay,
And nothing thrives to reach its natural term;
And life, shorn of its venerable length,
Even at its greatest space is a defeat,
And dies in anger that it was a dupe;
And, in its highest noon and wantonness,
Is early frugal, like a beggar's child;
Even in the hot pursuit of the best aims
And prizes of ambition, checks its hand,
Like Alpine cataracts frozen as they leaped,
Chilled with a miserly comparison
Of the toy's purchase with the length of life.
It's easy to complain and identify problems, I don't really understand why these posts are so popular, but one seems to crop up on HN every month or so. It's kind of tiring to see all this negativity towards something that's done a bunch of good for the world and is fading away. Not everything lasts and that's okay.
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> The value isn't in providing a "right" number as much as turning a zero-information situation into an information-positive one

This should be the slogan for all market research companies. Good way to look at it.
Sean just made this awesome much more real world usage example of a TODO MVC : https://www.dropbox.com/s/um29z2793ta7s9l/todomvc_state_repl...
I've received nothing but disregard from their terrible support as well.
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Neither of them provide value people are willing to pay for, so that's unsurprising.
Soon this will be outdated, since Windows users will be able to use the same instructions as on Linux, using Windows Subsystem for Linux.
I clicked "flag" because its basically a comparison of modern progressive SJW viewpoints and 30s 40s fascism. Which is interesting and accurate but rather off topic for HN and the political discussion will be tired sloganeering.

Its not a problem with the (late) author, he's an excellent writer, but this is a selection of his work that does little than trigger traditional SJW perspectives.
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No, it very definitely limits freedom of speech, it just fails to infringe the constitution.

And a "privately-owned platform" that is open to the public, used by a nontrivial amount of people, advertised by the owners as a place for public discussion, quoted in the media, etc etc etc isn't so "private" anymore.
We use various resources (public data, information from VCs) to figure out the base market rate for each position. Even though the base salary is less because our information says the market rate is less, we don't think developers are more important than SREs. The same benefits, equipment, remote work, autonomy, opportunities to speak and contribute to open source, etc are the same.
Plot.ly looks very nice! (on Linux, at least)
Steam is only available via sideloading now. You have to go to a website and download the installer and run it manually. This is how Windows has always worked. UWP will allow the same, but is simply a more secure application format which can't easily contain malware. The only difference is Microsoft now also offers an app store.
Not all of von Neumann's architectures were von Neumann architectures [1].

That is to say, not all of the architectures he invented [2] ended up being given the name "von Neumann Architecture". His 29 state cellular automata rule [3] for implementing a universal constructor [2] was "non von Neumann" in the sense of [1].

It's just so amazing what he accomplished with his mind, a pencil, and a piece of paper, without the use of computers, which he also helped invent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_universal_construc...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_cellular_automaton
How do the huawei P9 and oppo R9 have almost double the battery capacity than the iPhone 6s, when they're around the same weight?
So what, when you gain over some arbitrary amount of followers, you're not allowed to ever tweet about another person? What's the magic number at which you're not allowed to speak about anything but generalities?

That's an plainly insane rule. How about Twitter actually ban people who actually break the site rules, act with some small measure of maturity, and stop moderating with a political bias that a child could see?
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> No, it's using tools to craft a work of art.

Stopped reading right there
> The only "safe" way to use Twitter now is as an echo chamber

"Echo chamber" is a deliberately pejorative term, which I think is unfair here. If you use Twitter to discuss your beliefs, then, yes, it functions like an echo chamber, and that can be a bad thing because when your beliefs are wrong, they won't be constructively challenged.

But I generally use Twitter to discuss my interests. Sure, the line between the two is fuzzy, but I think there is a difference. I love pixel art, and follow a lot of pixel artists. Does that make my feed a "pixel art echo chamber"? I guess so? But that seems to me about as harmless as joining model railroad club.
Why not a 900 number (remember those?), pay per minute.
> I now really notice the diesel smell and the fumes in central London.

Completely agree, the noise is pretty bad, that said you can tune it out or sound insulate your home. I find the fumes from traffic the real pain point of city living.

From what I understand ozone and particles with sizes of 2.5 microns or less (PM2.5) are a key part of it and are damaging to our bodies. Some of these particles are small enough to cross the air/blood barrier in our lungs and disrupt cell function. At a minimum you'll have increased inflammation of the respiratory passages which makes things like pollen and pet allergies wrose.

I'd recommend anyone living in a city to invest in a good air purifier from BlueAir or IQAir (if you can afford it).

It's amazing how bad particulate counts (which inflame our respiratory passages) get on certain days of the year.

Few great sites to track pollution in your area are:

London specific:
http://www.londonair.org.uk

International:
http://aqicn.org/city/london/
Awesome and great! Love it, it's going to be awesome.
It's never made a profit.
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Sometimes you do have to blame the user though. As an extreme example; if I take a hammer to my computer and when it eventually fails can I blame the faulty hardware?
>Milo had tens of thousands of flying monkeys to troll and harass people

your claim. I was reading his tweets and you're wrong. It's simple. you don't have a leg to stand on. And thanks to twitter, we don't have the records to look at either. But since I was reading them I know, so I don't have to take your claim into consideration.
> Then he raped some people.

Some people claimed that Jake raped them. Up to now it is his word against hers.
I just altered my trimming style of cutting too short, to leaving some actual nail there. Problem solved.
It also would have been a lot heavier. There is certainly an excessive fear of nuclear stuff that pushes for space missions to use solar when RTGs would be more suitable (Juno may be an example of this) but this does not seem to be one of those cases.
I don't know if he actually said that but isn't all innovation incremental? I understand he put his heart and soul into it, but there has been tons of people who have worked equally hard before him to get to where he got (Apple itself copied it's UI from Xerox). Apple has also blatantly copied and consumed many companies in the past.

There is so much code copied around these days. This is all just the way it is and how we have decided to move ahead as a society. Making judgments on others is uncalled for.
> That was likely Squeak, not Pharo. Pharo has muted a lot of the UI colours to be more appropriate for a business environment.

I've used both. Yes, Pharo is considerably more professional-looking, but it's still rather ugly and alien (as in, it looks very odd when juxtaposed with the other applications running on the host system).

> Avdi Grimm has written a few books about Ruby. He records his experience trying Pharo in "I make you hate Ruby in 7 minutes"

Does it normally take 7 minutes to write "hello world" in Pharo? If so, that doesn't sound productive to me at all. Really, the only thing I saw in that video that made me feel envious in the least was the exemplary method search. But you don't need an environment like that to have exemplary search; I've been told Hoogle offers something like it for Haskell, for example.

Apart from that, I was pretty unimpressed with most of what I saw in that video, to be honest. The class browsing didn't seem particularly different from what Eclipse has to offer (which should be unsurprising given Eclipse's heritage in IBM VisualAge Smalltalk). The debugger didn't seem to be anything special -- it looks like a debugger. Going further, the heavy reliance on the mouse and the floating/stacking model of window management seriously cramp my style and slow me down.

Even as a language, I don't see what Smalltalk has to offer the programmer when compared to other languages. Yes, it's nice- and clean-looking. Yes, it was hugely influential. But it forces you to build your entire application out of nothing but objects and methods belonging to them, and cannot offer the flexibility of a multiparadigm language. Even as a strictly-OO language, it limits you to single inheritance and single dispatch. What other tools does it offer for creating and composing abstractions beyond its degenerate notions of objects and methods? Perhaps in 1980 it was an excellent choice, but we've had better choices since the 90s rolled in.

I've got enormous respect for the likes of Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, L Peter Deutsche, and their whole crew at PARC. They certainly made history and have had a great deal of influence on our field. Notwithstanding, they were not alone in their innovation, and their product was not and is not perfect. Perhaps nothing will ever be perfect, but I feel as though Smalltalk has been surpassed at this point in time.
True as this may be in legal and business terms, facebook is also by its monopoly position a de facto news source and filter and ought to be held accountable for such to public standards of transparency.
Y'all must be using a different Twitter than the one I'm using. Violence[0]? I mean, I hear tale of it. But I don't have any examples that come to mind [1].

Maybe it's because I'm not a celebrity of any kind, but it really seems like you get out of Twitter that which you put in.

[0] disregarding the misapplication of the word here, for a minute.

[1] Unless we count that time Zed Shaw called me an evil capitalist war monger or something like that.
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Very, very little direct effect. While the EU might part-fund the ESA, it's not an EU body.

The effect will be indirect, mainly due to reduced funding to UK science and less collaboration between scientists in the UK and those in the EU.
No doze? Any idea why? Seems like an odd thing to be missing (and an awesome feature to boot)
Are there approaches like silent bans or usage of degrees of separation that would help matters?
My beliefs are all right now though, so I prefer an echo chamber.
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Every single package that you listed has a vastly superior option available on Windows or it's not even necessary. There are very few genres of software where the Mac options actually exceed what is available on Windows. Utilities is not one of them though.

To me, Cyberduck is meh. I don't know why you'd want to when you have mIRC available, which has a ton more features than Cyberduck. However, what exactly do you think makes "the Mac version" of Cyberduck a better app?

Windows has a launcher that works so I don't need to replace that, Windows has a firewall that works too so I don't need to replace that. Why would I need iStat when I have the Task Manager? Don't need Bartender at all. I don't need to replace the Windows terminal at all since I hardly use it, but if I did there are plenty of high quality options that pretty much kill iTerm and WinSCP is absolutely more robust and useful than anything available on OS X.

Meanwhile tons of OS X users have to install things like HyperSwitch, HyperDock, BetterSnap/TouchTool, things to replace the terrible and broken Finder that hardly anybody seems to enjoy using, etc. etc. etc. the list goes on and on since there are so many features missing or poorly implemented in OS X. (Like being able to turn off an external monitor without physically powering it down....which you need a 3rd party utility for on a Mac.)

I add one utility to fix Windows and one to add a missing feature. Those are: 7+ taskbar tweaker and AutoHotkey.

Let's talk about common end-user software though, like Outlook. Every OS X mail client sucks compared to it, including Outlook for Mac. Visio vs OmniGraffle? Xcode vs Visual Studio? There's simply no comparison here. Even when the software has a Mac version (such as in the case of AutoCad/Excel/etc), the Mac version is severely limited.

> Decent user interface is a high priority to me though.

Me too. That's why I prefer Windows software. OS X is just plain ugly to me. It looks like it was inspired by an 8-track player from the 70's.

Decent to me also means having features are easily discoverable. Windows software has that in spades compared to OS X where all the features are hidden behind label-less icons and secret handshakes.
The inverse can also sometimes work. If you're a newsworthy public figure (say, the President of the USA), you get away with violating the rules, shilling your product, etc: https://www.quora.com/Whats-it-like-to-play-basketball-with-...
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Why is this post flagged, and why is the usual "vouch" option missing?
My suggestions:
If your server has confidential/money related info. take down the server.
If not , wait because even if you bring up new server. How do you know , he won't crack it again?

- Check your /var/log/messages & audit.log & ssh/d.log

- Check lastb & last command outputs

- Take dump of network connections. (netstat)

- find out his 'tty' and spy on him! with something like sysdig or using strace (http://serverfault.com/a/423666)

Most importantly do these after turning off bash_history.So that attacker won't see you are gather information.

I assume you are running Linux server.
I left recently specifically because of Twitters failure to promptly remove obvious bots and users partaking in harassment.
I think the author was less interested in describing the ideology from a historical perspective, and more interested in pointing out warning signs that could signal an ideological movement is trending towards fascism.

His point is that a future rise of fascism might not look like the path from the Pan-German League to the Nazis, but it will have some ideological hallmarks that we can detect.
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"The man deserved what he got"

If Milo deserved to be banned, then so does 30-40% of Twitter. He did nothing wrong, and certainly nothing worse than this: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/756219192878268416
Are they not able to make Win32 APIs private and only allow access to a chosen few?
> Solar drones seem a much better fit

Does that mean you could have a drone permanently hovering just above the clouds, taking constant video or photo surveillance, periodically sending data to whomever, all of this powered entirely by the sun without ever needing to come down or stop?
I was a huge naysayer about the Facebook model that Joi espouses in your story. Facebook ended up being very successful with their users first approach surprising everyone.

I suspect that in 10 years Facebook will be an exception rather than a rule.
> it will never make you wealthy. That's lifetime earnings of about $10m before taxes

This thread has taught me that people in the valley or the HN echo chamber really sort of have no idea how most people live in this country, let alone around the world.
This is why they are moving to services, which continues to grow. They realize they can't innovate a phone every 2, even 3 years. Apple Pay, Apple Music, etc. All help counter the problem of people saying they just make the iPhone along with market saturation.
My quick take on your CV is that while it might be fine for applying for, say, an administrative or leadership position at a non-profit or an NGO, it doesn't read at all like a resume someone would want to see in the tech world.

I'd suggest creating a completely different resume for tech positions you're applying to, mentioning your other positions but emphasizing just the technical side of your skill set. However (currently) meager this skill set may be.

Also, to be blunt, not only does no one in the tech world care about graphic design, or self-assessment of generic personal traits (like being able to work outdoors), hobbies, etc -- making a point of these things (or presenting an over-designed resume of any sort) will quite definitely work against you.

As will mentioning experience with LinkedIn as a "skill" comparable to actual programming or devops skills. That will instantly kill your chances at an actual tech position, in fact (again, to be very, very blunt).

BTW it's absolutely no problem for you to mention your being homeless here, in this forum (I've been on the edge of it myself, and can only sympathize). But I would immediately delete any public postings of any sort where your personal story in this front is associate with your real name. Really, it just falls into the category of "too much information" for 99% of the folks out there who are making hiring decisions -- and can only work against you.
Sure, but who wants to live in that $1000 apartment, shared with other four other people? When you start making those big six figures, no one wants to deal with that crap. You want more luxury. That's the point of moving up right?
I understand Trump supporters probably don't care, but the bigger story should actually be the potential Russian conspiracy to undermine American elections in Trump's favor.
"Mental anguish" and "harassment" (which is also a a crime, and not protected) are a much better terms for things that are not a threat of actual physical violence. However, trying to dismiss all of this as simply hyperbole is... well... dismissive. See http://femfreq.tumblr.com/post/109319269825/one-week-of-hara...
This is a woman who gets vile harassment and actual death threats for doing academic critiques of video games.

Let's be honest here. These tweets aren't a discourse. It's a mob.
Bush and Cheney were much more progressives than conservatives.
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> > I refer of course to the Milo Yiannopoulos situation

You make reference to your first paragraph (see above) as being to do with Milo. The second para is about Milo. That's The majority of your comment.

You sir, are a liar.

Addendum: Presume I'm getting downvoted for calling the OP a liar. It's literally what he did. It's in writing.
It was the reverse of what the OP suggested. Twitter is still free, and App.net charged people a fee to use it.
If two technology changes is an excuse for unimplemented features, that sounds like some pretty unusable software to me. "The rest is details" was exactly the problem the parent was referring to. "Desktop search is finally quick"--I think most users would want it to be quick first, and then the devs can do whatever "technology changes" they want.

I tried to like KDE, but every time I tried it, one of the first apps I tried would immediately crash. Plus it's default looked like a bad copy of Windows XP, which was a bad copy of the Mac, so it looked really bad. (That was a long time ago.) Unfortunately, GNOME looked nice, but had no features, so I just gave up and went to a bare window manager and realized I have no need for anything a DE offers. Then the problem became that sawfish became unsupported, and nothing else had the same customizability.
I also work at Stack Overflow.

I don't think anyone can be _the_ very best and I think that's not a reasonable or attainable goal.

We value T shaped developers, and our salary matrix values both spreading breadth (e.g. as a mobile dev if I up my skills in sysadmin or data science) or depth (which is a bit harder to do if you're already experienced) which fits into that nicely.
That is a tremendous amount of money relative to the market opportunity. Displacing existing providers is necessarily going to be crazy difficult. I would love to hear the VC insight on this one: why do they think Upthere will actually manage to capture consumer mindshare? Advertising what distinguishes it from related services in a way that consumers will care about is a challenge.
When is it not liquid? Sure, it's highly variable and the value could tank, but when has an S&P 500 company had zero liquidity?

Edit: Additionally, salary falls in the same boat. If your stock in your S&P 500 employer tanks, you salary will tank too. Also, I'm talking about a "sell as soon as it vests" strategy, which makes it pretty much just a variable form of salary.
Like-kind exchange? Not exactly sure what the parent was referring to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like-kind_exchange
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There is evidence from past social networks that if you don't hit critical mass of mainstream user adoption, and you've got these lofty valuations, the company is in for a really bad time