skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience is pretty similar to the author's. The number of distractions that exist in my life have been pretty constant since I started using dial-up BBSes in the early 90s. I could chat with friends instantly, download games/porn, war-dial and find new systems to (unlawfully) play with.

However, when I was away from my computer I was less distracted and could get a lot of (high school) work done. Cell phones are pretty much the only technology that has made distraction ever-present. That giant box with the 12-lb keyboard that used to sit on my desk at home is now shrunk down and within arm's reach at all times. It does pose a problem.

Also, the modern office is a place of distraction; especially open-format offices. I work in one of these and I generally avoid coming into the office if I have some detailed work I have to do. Managers don't seem to realize what an awful place those types of offices are for actually getting work done. High ceilings that bounce noise, inconsistent temperatures, seeing frequent movement out of the corner of your eye, people goofing off two rows away.

I've already picked up some of the behaviors the author details. I don't use social media (except LinkedIn, very infrequently). I silence my phone while working. I take breaks every 90-120 minutes. I keep a calendar of all my appointments and meetings, in and outside of work.

One other suggestion I think is good: have a "work" computer and a "play" computer/device. If you have a work laptop, then this is pretty easily done. I equate this to the advice given about beds. Beds are only for sleeping and sex. Don't study in a bed, don't eat in a bed, don't work in a bed. I find when I'm in front of my "work" machine, that I'm more naturally prone to doing "work" things and not "play" things.
Revoking certs doesn't ascribe accountability to the CAs, it ascribes accountability to the end users. Which isn't a bad thing, per se - it's just not one we're set up for right now. (If, for instance, the CAs started spreading FUD about each other getting revoked and encouraged users to buy and configure two certs from two different CAs, they'd make more money and we'd be in a better place security-wise.)

Preventing the CA from taking any new business ascribes accountability to the CA.
Do you realize how despotic that is? Whether or not you and Sam Altman share the same goals I'd consider it deplorable if he used his power to punish Peter Thiel for his political views. Just because you agree with the underlying root issue doesn't make it any more just -- consider the reverse, if you would. Should Thiel remove acquaintances who support Hillary?
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even simpler open your browser console and just start typing, I've found new ideas by letting the autocomplete there guide me
Pretty interesting stuff! I'm kind of keen to play it now
Facebook runs the Web version of messenger on messenger.com

This is just the chat function - no need to edit CSS or anything.
You can decide to read what Sam Altman says and say "but maybe he doesn't really mean it", but that's a bit of a stretch. Just read their actual thoughts on the subject. tptacek is not misrepresenting what they are saying.

From Altman:

"His racist, isolationist policies would divide our country, and American innovation would suffer. But the man himself is even more dangerous than his policies. He's erratic, abusive, and prone to fits of rage.

He represents a real threat to the safety of women, minorities, and immigrants, and I believe this reason alone more than disqualifies him to be president.
[...]

Trump shows little respect for the Constitution, the Republic, or for human decency, and I fear for national security if he becomes our president."
I wanted to talk "market size increases" in response to your comment. If you're now postulating that a market size increase occurred w/o effecting the chains, I find that even more implausible, but am not sure what to say.
Only if it's to filter out Republicans.
Shame on all of you for daring to criticize a person's freedom of speech and participation.

And I'm willing to bet the majority of people posting in this thread are Americans, which makes this whole conversation even more head-shaking for me.

Not a Christian, but "pull the plank from thine own eye" seems to be the most appropriate thing to say to every last one of you here.
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Me too - for me the difference is early retirement isn't really feasible in Europe. The exception being maybe get a remote job in the US and then move. Haven't succeeded there yet.
The GP says they wouldn't use physical products made in China, then says "informational products are another thing", so is his point that he would use those? The comment is self-contradictory.
That moment when https://xkcd.com/1357 gets taken too far and people are afraid of voicing anything but the current, popular, politically correct opinions for fear of losing their careers.
This is the physical object and service distinction.

I don't want to use services based in China because they're ultimately subject to the will of the Chinese government. I don't really doubt the technical ability of Chinese CS professionals to create a quality product, but this is orthogonal to why I would avoid them.

And honestly the same is becoming true of US based services when it comes to data security and privacy. Google makes a nice product, but I wouldn't store any data on their servers that I believe has any chance whatsoever of being used against me -- either by my government or private entities.
From a cryptocurrency perspective, if custom hardware (ASICs) gives a mining edge, then mining power will concentrate to those who build custom hardware.

If commodity hardware is competitive for mining, then mining power is more likely to be distributed amongst a network of users, rather than owned by a few big players.

You might ask why the network of users doesn't just buy the custom mining hardware. But the economics of it doesn't work out in the long run. If you can build a machine that prints money, why would you sell it to me for less than its lifetime money-printing value?
Yeah so you are willing to accept the collateral damage of those who don't stand to benefit and whose lives are being destroyed from that. This is just another version of the same. Not better, not worse, just different.
Basically, just like booksellers and other vendors, the move to online caused Newspapers to compete in a global marketplace, where the unit is the story. And the more outlets, the bigger the competition.

This is the result of all that. They are now all chasing a fixed advertising pie, but the barrier to publishing has been greatly lowered

I suppose the same could be said of the printing press getting more available with time. But it was hard to obtain the mass distribution network that the internet gives nearly for free.
When you have fact-checkers that try to claim that Trump was talking about actually putting bleach on emails, I really have a hard time any of these have to do with 'facts'. It's more like, an opinion on what was said.

Also, why the complete bias with the Trump picture? When Trump says the 'system is rigged', it's because of the blatant bias the media has toward the DNC and the recent Wikileaks that shows us that it's so much worse than any of us thought.
89%, which is to say roughly double (from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12732978)
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> I'm deeply considering going to live on a few acres and go full subsistence to avoid this rat race. Software isn't fun anymore, our generation probably won't retire.

Have you ever actually worked on a farm? Its not fun either, its actual hard work. Most farmers don't retire either. The historical way this worked was as you got older your family helped more on the farm until one of them took over. You worked till you died though.

> The worst part is that crippling medical bills and college loan repayment are destroying us financially.

You think your medical bills are bad now, wait until you start dealing with industrial machinery and hard work. Not to mention the fact that your insurance will come out of your pocket directly instead of being employer provided. Your college loans are a pittance compared to what it would cost to buy an economically feasible farm in the USA right now.

> I think I'd be happier surviving what I can do myself than to keep doing this bullshit much longer.

I'd recommend trying it for a summer before you burn your bridges in Software (which for the record, might be the cushiest way to make a living of all time).
Google BigQuery has a Streaming API specifically for this reason. Up to 100,000 rows per second per table, available immediately for analysis. Interestingly, with BigQuery batch or stream ingest uses different resources than query, so your query performance doesn't degrade due to ingest.

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This may not be the news world we need

But this is the news world we deserve :)
The bias and incompetence is getting old as well.
I don't disagree with you, man, but you also have to realize this wound never fully healed after our Civil War ended in 1865.

You look at a map of the "red states" and they are very much what is remaining of the Confederate States of America. The red states in the west are where these racist losers fled to after the war to get away from all the freed blacks.

The fact that Trump is calling the election "rigged" and essentially egging on an armed rebellion after election day - well that just might happen because it already did a very long time ago.
Political viewpoint should never be in my opinion a contributor towards dismissal. The problem here, is that I can easily see some of the Trump-style racial discomfort that he exploited leading to being fired from a job / removed as a partner, or at the very least hindering advancement, for actual non-political reasons.

In any internationally exposed company, Muslims and Mexicans (and other nationalities / religious groups, but these have been the focal points of the Trump campaign) might be your customers. They might even be some of your employees. Now, say you are one of those with said Trump-exploited racial discomfort and you quite often babble about how evil the Muslims are or how nasty those Mexican immigrants are etc. One can certainly infer that one does not really want to put this person anywhere near any job where they might be on a team with actual Muslims or Mexicans, let alone exec type of positions where you may be visiting Muslim/Mexican employees or customers directly.

I really don't care for Marco's attempt to strong-arm YCombinator based on a political candidate (not all Trump supporters are supporting him for the racial discomfort type thing anyways). But I do sometimes wonder whether those holding racial discomfort viewpoints do in fact have a potential barrier to life progress and even whether this sort of thing is a potential contributor to the inequality gap. The challenge to me is how to reduce this without resorting to the often condescending / insulting / I'm-holier-than-thou type responses you frequently see in discussions about this topic.
The one-million-acre secret in the US no one is visiting
That's a lot of hand-waving high-minded rhetoric. The problem is that Trump does not represent those 40% in any significant way.

- "free speech" is a protection against the government, not against Marcos/YC/whoever no longer working with you, which is also a form of speech.

- Trump is not and has never been part of the white, male underclass that makes up his support. He connects with them on exactly one level: hate. Hate against the "other", from foreigners, non-whites, or women, to people with a college degree and actually to poor people ("losers"). He has spent a week in a vendetta against some woman who apparently gained weight or something, less than two months before an election to the most powerful office in the world. I'm a big fan of nuance and complexity and I usually mistrust people with strong convictions. Here, this one time, it happens to be warranted.

More importantly, people don't fear his "policies", whatever they may be. There have been enough Republicans with trickle-down fantasies that we know it won't work, and probably kill a few poor people at the margins, but the republic will live on. The unique quality, setting him apart from GWB or Romney, is the damage he's planning to do to the sausage factory itself: he has explicitly advocated the jailing of his political opponents, laws making it illegal to criticize him, bills of attainer etc.

That's playing with fire, and it's past the point where people can agree to disagree and tolerate it. Even Republicans, some of them retiring and therefore free to follow their conscience and nothing else, are scared of him.

So no, there's no right to be spared the consequences of you words. That's actually quite a strange idea, considering speech without consequences seems useless. There is however a burden to push back against proto-fascists burning the constitution and wrapping themselves in the flag.
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90% have health insurance? Are you kidding me? I'd love to see where you pulled that figure from.
Is it wrong to think of you as really secure, off site salt provider? At the end of the day you are just providing a really good source secure random bytes that are stored for the user.

What is the security benefit of sending you the actual hash of the password? Why not just the hash of a unique user token?
I would also like to hear more about this!
Politics creep into every news aggregate out there. I kind of like the idea of Hacker News not being one of them.
Another good reason to not do the nonstop upgrades that FF keeps coming up with. I'm hanging in the upper 40's until this shakes out.

I understand SHA1 is an issue, but I'm also confused by some things. Happy to have web pages be encrypted to keep my personal information from being captured. Not really sure why we are encrypting video streams from Youtube. Is a cat video something that we need to make more secure?

And I agree with the comment that the problems are now coming back to the plethora of CA's that have popped up in the last few years.
Following the USA campaign from far away, I hadn't yet heard of similar examples. Could you please elaborate a bit, or just post a link? Thanks in advance!
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Their biggest mistake was reducing the quality and increasing the price of their product simultaneously while facing greater competition.
No matter our differences, our The Apprentice candidates all sound the same
The minimalism he talks about still largely depends on other people helping out. I'm far more interested in decentralized minimalism. Growing your own food, cooking at home, building your own tiny house, solar panels, composters e.t.c

Like Gandhi says "be self sufficient"
> "why run exactly one unit of the work? why not run a hundredth of that unit to validate the proof?"

Because it is a solution in search of a problem in many cases?
The small batch multi-layer boards haven't been as affordable. Also, many of the board houses won't work with small batches for anything above 4 layers. Now this isn't an issue when you're running a full business (assuming said business is large enough to have the capital to invest in a large enough order of boards).

This is great if you're running a small prototyping lab or doing some one-off or freelance work, since it'll be much easier to get these multi-layer boards in small enough batches.
Well, the author was talking about happy couples in that list. In my interpretation it says that there were no happy, gay couples before our time. That is both wrong and ignorant. The author was too busy minding his obtuse style to pay attention to meaning I'd say.
The corruption of government begins with its secrets. A truly free people keep no secrets.
If true, it would also mean there was an increase in bookings on AirBnb relative to hotels. Which would imply:

> Option 1. They didn't lose market share across the board, and instead cherry picked non-representative markets for their 13 region hotel comparison.

(from higher up this comment chain)
I'll tell you exactly why I think Trump is dangerous to democracy. He is acting in a way that has historically, as far as I remember, led to the downfall of democracy in other countries.

Things he is doing in that vein:

1. Saying that he'd put his political opponents in jail.

2. Saying that the election is rigged.

3. Encouraging the idea that if he isn't elected, the election was illegitimate.

These are the facts. If you still disagree, I think it has to be because of one of these reasons:

1. You disagree that Trump is doing these things.

2. You disagree that they historically have lead to the downfall of democracies.

3. You disagree that them having lead to the downfall of democracies means that it is good evidence that this is a danger to democracy.

I'd appreciate if you could tell me which of the above is your stance?

(Obviously, if I missed another possibility, I'd be happy to know about it!)
Touchwiz > All of that!
I'm not sure if that would satisfy the legal requirements of the wistleblower statutes. Plus, I don't see how that protects you once you do come forward as the source. So likely you'd end up with all the downsides without any of the upsides.
Its quite possible OP doesn't believe anything in the linked to article

By OP I assume you mean me, ie: the guy who submitted the article to HN, not the author.

First, I'm not out for attention, but thanks for that unprompted attack (dick). I submitted this as it seemed wrong that it kept being censored/flagged off HN. Honestly I expected it to be flagged off again, but hoped at least a few more people would get to see it.

For me the real issue isn't so much that Thiel is Trump supporter, but that Sam Altman and PG have both been very vocal in their denouncement of Trump, so keeping Thiel as a partner (not employee, let's be clear about that) seems incongruous at best, and down right spineless at worst.

Don't get me wrong, Donald Trump is huge cunt in my view, but even if I were indifferent to Trump, I'd still feel Thiel and Ycombinator should not be doing business together with such drastically conflicting values.

It's also probably worth mentioning I'm English and live in the UK, and this whole election reminds me of Brexit. Pretty much everyone I spoke to thought it would be a landslide for remain. Hell, even the politicians advocating leave didn't seem to think they'd win. Yet here we are, £GBP in free fall, and no one on either side seems to have any idea what to do next.

Even if it seems unlikely now, Trump could end up as president, and that's scary for a lot of people.
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My favorite thing about the post* that introduced Yarn, itself a rewrite of a basic component, is that the author(s) unironically began with "In the JavaScript community, engineers share hundreds of thousands of pieces of code so we can avoid rewriting basic components, libraries, or frameworks of our own."

*https://code.facebook.com/posts/1840075619545360?_fb_noscrip...
You keep using that word "endorsing". I think it does not mean what you think it means.

Altman has made it quite clear that he endorses neither Trump nor Thiel's support of him.

"Endorsing" and "refusing to purge" are two different things entirely.

Do you really see no difference between the two?
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> I think it's a very slippery slope to base endorsement on a person's political actions.

Is it though? Let's take it a bit further: would YC be expected to continue to endorse, say, a confirmed and outspoken Fascist?

How about someone who had donated to organizations with an explicit, stated objective of reducing the rights of women and minorities? Or supporting a political organization which intends to carry out ethnic cleansing?

Are we to believe there is no line to be drawn, anywhere on this continuum?
Short version: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, I keep that although I don't use it really, no, no, yes

Different use cases and all, I guess. The first three are irrelevant in my world (and arguably should be opt in - add their Games thing to that list). You follow with yet another IM/chat/voip application. Android Pay? I'm neither interested, nor do I believe that adoption around here is high enough to use it for anything remotely serious. GMail is something I don't really use anymore, but still keep due to my mostly dormant Google account. YouTube is neat, honestly. Google Translate is something I rarely have a use for. If I need that, translate.google.com works fine in Firefox. Why would I install that as an application?

(Update: Only just noticed that you answered in my 'Samsung crapware' thread, I complained about 'Google crapware' in a sibling thread. Maybe we're actually in agreement? I cannot tell if you honestly consider Google's stuff as crap - as I do - or if this is sarcasm)
probably an "awesome" collection should contains some more attributes. You look at the list, click a link and:

- no test are available,

- no dependencies are specified (in .net world today ...)

- no licence

- no type (API, lib, bin)

of course some (maybe many) of those projects contains that information, but the lack of these attributes, makes the list not suitable for the research of an ideal component to include into a project.
scrypt's memory requirements are not hard coded. Choose a value high enough and an ASIC would not be feasible.
I think a key benefit here is the fast and cheap PCBA service over just making the boards (yes, lots of places make boards).
I didn't mean specifically in the comment above, I meant earlier.

'If you do not believe that Trump is an existential threat to American democracy, then, while I implore you to reconsider, I am content to agree to disagree.
But you might take that disagreement up first with Paul Graham and Sam Altman. They do not agree with you. They aggressively don't agree with you. They compare Donald Trump with a fascist dictator. I think they're right about Trump, and therefore that they're very wrong about continuing to endorse Thiel.
I would be doing Sam Altman no favors to pretend otherwise.'

It seemed like you were getting attacked from all angles, so I chose a comment that didn't have much on it. I wasn't trying to attack your argument (from above). I was attempting to put it into a more objective light.
> The reality was always some form of danger, pollution, wasted energy

Sounds a lot like cars.
I don't get why people say this. You're acting like the npm team is desperate for contributions and fixes and the Yarn people are like "No! We'll make our OWN tool!".

It's the literal opposite. npm hasn't been open to contributions or fixes for years.
> proving the memory hardness seems more harduous

In fact, several submissions to the Zcash Open Miner Contest, at

https://zcashminers.org/submissions

exhibit time-memory tradeoffs that were not considered in that paper, invalidating some of its claims.

My own, memory latency bound, proof-of-work called Cuckoo Cycle

https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo

offers $5000 in bounties for invalidating its claims of near-optimal implementations and trade-off resistence.
> Is a cat video something that we need to make more secure?

If the video you're watching is political in nature and you live in under an oppressive regime, absolutely. Youtube's not just cat videos.