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I kind of skimmed the article, mainly because I can't be bothered to care about the topic, but I didn't see where Theil "fears" _Star Trek_. But let's run with that: why does Mr. Theil fear _Star Trek_? Because that world doesn't need Peter Theil. If you think Ayn Rand is an insightful novelist, then ST:NG probably isn't going to be your preferred brand of entertainment.

But it seems to me the article misses the mark in that it assumes Theil to be a "tech guy". Meh, I dunno, I kind of view him as a "money guy" who happened to bet on some tech companies. It's a cherry-picked (by me) quote, but:
"In 2011, for instance, he told George Packer that he did not consider the iPhone a technological breakthrough. 'Compare this with the Apollo space program'"

The Apollo space program, which ended before most people were born (or thereabouts), affected our lives in a peripheral manner if at all. Tang, Velcro, and a big swinging "if we can put a man on the moon, we can put an ICBM on your capitol" dick to show for it. Umm, thanks, I guess. Too bad there's no real follow-through fifty years later. The "super-computer-in-your-pocket", OTOH, changed the way people live their lives (and, granted, not all for the better). I don't ask for directions, I don't have a land line, and any question I might have ("what octane fuel goes in this car?", "where's the fuse box on this thing?") can be answered instantly.

So I guess I don't care which side Theil takes in the "Star Wars/Star Trek" nerd battle.
Consider mix any you chosen with a standing desk setup.

Before I sit all day (I work form home). Then I change, use only a fatigue mat and DIY "standing desk" made by my large speakers and flat wood.

Now, I can't stay sit for more than 1 hour and feel good! This way, I must alternate between the 2 modes, and feel better.

BTW, To easy the change, I use a bar char alike:

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Adjustable-Synthetic-Leather-C...

So I can rest for being up easily.

BTW: All up not good, All sit not good. Mix good!
I can address some of these.

Sequencing today is done mostly using computational methods. Think of DNA as a couple long strings (Number of bases is effectively the character count of those strings, each string is a "chromosome" in higher organisms), so the problem is how do we read these long, physical strings. It turns out that parallel processing is way more effective, so we break the really long strings into much, much smaller strings that overlap (Millions of characters long to hundreds often). Because the strings overlap, we can construct a good portion of the actual sequence computationaly by exploiting this overlapping feature of our small strings.

The physical way they do this is by using machines (Think GPU vs CPU) that are effectively a bunch of parallel microscopes specialized to read those short strings and by "attaching" colors to each of the characters (DNA bases). Initial DNA sequencing methods lacked both the computational and physical devices to do this, so they were done by hand. The move from doing sequencing by hand to doing it computationally is why we see the significant increase in characters read (Number of bases).

Your last comment I think is the most interesting, as it effectively asks "Why do mice have a larger string size than us, which means they contain more information on an absolute level?". The answer is just because. The number of bases, or even the number of blocks of information that produce proteins (These blocks are called genes, and a protein is another chemical construct that mainly focuses on doing actions in the cell), is not strongly correlated with the complexity of the organism. The key is how those bases interact, not necessarily in how many there are.

If you have any more questions or need some clarification I'd love to address them, it is a wonderful time to be alive.
Most of the Don'ts are going to come from folks who have been there and done that. Listen to them.

By all means, you'll learn from your mistakes. That doesn't mean they aren't mistakes. You can learn even more by building something that's viable and not being flat broke when your first iteration fails to gain traction.
It absolutely is a thing. Culture isnt just about someone being good at their job or being respectful, it's about how the company and teams mesh overall. You can have a boring but civil workplace or a super fun one that's also respectful. I know that's vague but I figure giving a breakdown of the culture at my workplace is a bit overkill.
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Neither Star Wars or Star trek go into very much depth of how their societies actually work. Star Trek doesn't tell us how their economy is managed or their internal politics. Sure they have replicators, but their are still things that need to be done by people, and resources that can't be replicated.

Star Wars says it's capitalist, but I don't believe it. In many of the scenes you see people doing jobs that could easily be done by droids. Even their wars are fought with droids - or manufactured humans that are treated like droids. Droids are generally intelligent and can basically do any job people can do. Why do they need people at all?

Star trek has that problem too. How often do the characters ask the computer to do pretty complex tasks? Why do they need a crew of hundreds, when almost everything is automated?

All science fiction paints a 20th century society with a pretty futuristic backdrop and props. But things like AI and replicators would radically change the way things work. And create a society very different than what we know. Quite possibly one without humans. What would really happen if any lunatic could replicate parts for WMDs? Or if robots that were really smarter than humans appeared?
Humanity can cope with the effects, and do so with relative ease.

Don't assume that all countries have the same resources. Two thirds of the world population live in developing countries. How exactly will they cope with the effects of climate change remains to be seen.
> more discretion

Discretion is a big part of how we ended up with "three strikes" and mandatory minimums. People have not forgotten the outrageous abuses of discretion that were common in the '70s and '80s; activist judges abusing their discretion are not a figment of the right wing knuckle dragger imagination and it was routine for some judge to create a headline with lenient sentences that offended all sensibility.

The problem extends to prosecutorial discretion as well; this [1] sort of headline from this past Wednesday -- again illustrating the failure of the justice system and reinforcing our current state of affairs -- is still very common and does not escape notice, no matter how much you might wish it would. Then you have the abuses we see on the national stage regarding "prosecutorial discretion" in immigration policy, selective prosecution of violations of classified information handling we've seen recently, and many, many others.

It only takes a few activist judges or prosecutors to polarize an electorate. Right or wrong that's the actual world we live in and ignoring that reality won't ever work.

[1] http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/drunk-driving/thirteen-t...
>> Unfortunately, the everglades are sunk, and Florida will become increasingly unlivable,

Can we put up a wall to keep the alligators out during the flooding?
I just hit CTRL-U to read the pages source which contains the text content. Now that I think about it I wonder if reader mode would work. Hey, maybe you can just set your user agent to Google Bot.
I was about to post exactly the same thing :)

Six months ago, I quite my dev job to work on my own startup ideas. Finished the first product, spent a lot of timing polishing it and ended up getting exactly 0 customers.

Then, we 'pivoted' and I created another product. Now we have some users but the growth is slow (marketing is waaayyyy tougher than I had imagined). So having finished the MVP, I am now looking to get a job and use the income to find somebody else to me promote the product.

I should've read Adam Smith more carefully...
I really like my swiss kneeling chair. I got this one: https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Furniture-WL-SB-210-GG-Ergonomi...

I've had to do lots of physical therapy for the problems developed from sitting in a chair at the computer. The kneeling chair has been a huge improvement.
Steelcase leap is by far my favorite
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> The largest single problem with PRs is the implication that we all have git repositories with a shared authentication mechanism. It's very difficult to enforce this sort of thing in a developer environment as diverse as these large projects have.

Why? Can't you just set up a GitLab instance and require that PRs should be submitted through that system?

> Sending patches via SMTP is arguably the most inclusive possible development model and I really value its availability in projects to which I contribute.

So just keep that option available for those who want it. Set up a bot that opens PRs automatically for any patches it receives by email. Doesn't seem like that'd be terribly difficult.
Steelcase leap is by far my favorite, and the only one I'll use.
Would you pay $100 to post an ad? looking into beepi,vroom,shift carmax. but all those guys BUY the car and flip. I'd need a LOT of money to flip teslas and don't know the first thing about selling tesla's. I want to thank you for your feedback, i really appreciate it just one more! As a seller what would you want to know?
Most non-plant organisms I can think of are around 15,000 - 25,000 genes.
I really like the Steelcase Leap I use at work. I find it much nicer than the Aeron I was using before.
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Standing desk has been the best for me. I don't like chairs because I'm always at a whiteboard writing things. If possible I would recommend you try going chairless.
There isn't a single reputable one that I know of.
Wow, He actually has a good point in that staying on a cruise ship is usually cheaper than staying at a hotel.
Consider two functions (excuse my Scala):

val str: Function[String, String] = s => if (s.length > 3) s else null

val num: Function[String, Integer] = s => if (s == null) -1 else s.length

With Optional, you receive different results depending on whether you call map twice, or combine the functions first:

scala> Optional.of("Foo").map[String](str).map[Integer](num)
res12: java.util.Optional[Integer] = Optional.empty

scala> Optional.of("Foo").map[Integer](str.andThen(num))
res15: java.util.Optional[Integer] = Optional[-1]

This is incorrect and violates the functor law.
The technology is almost certainly there to very aggressively monitor "eyes on the road" and quickly blare alarms if they aren't. It's probably fair to say that would be a very unpopular auto feature.
> what general practices various applications follow when they install to my Ubuntu instance

Run:

$ man hier

It describes the file system hierarchy.
$25 MM at $1820 per ton (prompt price on LME) yields about 1170 cubic feet of aluminium. So a 10' x 10' x 12' rectangle of metal. Of course, these things come in standardized ingots... so a bit bigger.
Any book about operating systems should be a good start..you'll learn about drivers, virtual memory, file systems, task switching and a lot of other things and how they work together.
From the open letter on http://technosociology.org/?page_id=1687 :

> The behavior described in your article is not a backdoor in WhatsApp. This is the overwhelming consensus of the cryptography and security community. It is also the collective opinion of the cryptography professionals whose names appear below. The behavior you highlight is a measured tradeoff that poses a remote threat in return for real benefits that help keep users secure, as we will discuss in a moment.

What real benefits are gained from making it easy for ISP-level attackers to mount man-in-the-middle attacks? Security from your spouse snooping on your phone? What's the threat model here and why are these experts so adamant in minimizing the security risks?

Moxie went as far as to ignore the opt-in aspect of the (very benign looking) key change notification, but he's on the payroll. What's the motivation of the other experts in this sudden "overwhelming consensus"?
I think of Meditations like a daily journal or notebook. It's one of the few books I keep around my desk and occasionally just flip to a random page and read. Individual passages have a lot of meaning so often I'll isolate one and really think about it or talk to my wife about it for a while.

In general, though, I agree it's not very organized or easy to read. If you're looking for a better entry into stoicism I'd suggest A Guide to a Good Life[1]. It's a structured overview of stoicism with straight forward advice on actually using stoic ideas in your own life.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Guide-Good-Life-Ancient-Stoic/dp/0195...
The Guardian headlines (which are still up right now, see https://www.theguardian.com/technology/whatsapp) refer to an "encryption vulnerability" and "security flaw". These are demonstrably false statements, as the letter explains in detail.

The Guardian needs to retract and sanction its editor. The story is journalistic malpractice and puts people at risk.

This is not about word use, but about publishing stories that are already causing people in high-risk places to move off of a secure messenger to SMS.
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>I didn't see where Theil "fears" _Star Trek_.

It was hard to find. Here's where they finally state their case:

"What is anathema to Thiel in “Star Trek” is the notion, drawn from Isaac Asimov’s fiction, that the market is but a temporary solution to imbalances in supply and demand, and that technology and plenty will eventually make it obsolete"

So, he "fears" that capitalism will go away...according the them anyway. They seem to source some of that thought from what they call his "Cato Essay", here: https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
I can't think of any guides. I picked up most of my know-how through using Linux (Ubuntu, specifically).

A couple things for you which may be obvious, but a good place to start nonetheless:

/ - This is Root. Most of your system files are in this directory.

/home/username/ - This is your home directory, a common abbreviation is "~/" (tilde). If you are a windows user, this is the equivalent of the file system you are used to using. In this directory are also many dot files (.ssh/, .local/, etc). these are (usually hidden) system files that are specific to your user. Generally, there are defaults in / (root) and these files customize them for your user only.

Knowing these two things and a handful of basic commands will allow you to get started. Look into the commands 'cd', 'pwd', 'ls', 'sudo', 'touch', 'mkdir'.
It's difficult to measure the value of a brand, and most companies don't bother. It's expensive, because you have to pay actual people to talk to other people in a systematic way, over a long period of time.

Brand awareness is the measurement of the degree to which potential customers know that your product or service is an option when they are ready to make a purchase. You can't measure it from your marketing interactions alone, because the data set of your interactions is biased toward potential customers who are already aware of you. You can only measure it by performing statistically valid sampling of potential customers. The business purpose of measuring awareness is to help you find customers who have never interacted with your brand.

Brand affinity is the measurement of the degree to which potential customers have an emotional attachment to your product or service. A good shorthand is the degree to which a potential customer thinks of themselves as a "________ person." Think of a dude in a pickup truck saying "I'm a Ford guy, they've never let me down," or a person who won't even look at a phone that is not an iPhone. Again--the only way to measure this is by performing statistically valid sampling of potential customers. Measuring your marketing interactions alone will give you an artificially high measure of your affinity.

Design standards are important to both awareness and affinity.

A standard look helps the customer make mental connections between all the various times they've been exposed to your brand--this raises awareness. Comic Sans is not necessarily bad for awareness as long as you use it consistently in an intentional way. Randomly varying your fonts is bad, though, because it makes you "look" like several different brands, which means you will need to deliver more interactions to raise awareness.

Comic sans also might harm certain affinities, for example along the lines of being "sophisticated" or "beautiful." If a customer wants to think of themselves as sophisticated, they will seek brands that also present themselves that way. You're not going to see Mercedes Benz, which depends heavily on affinities of sophistication and elegance, using Comic Sans. You might see Scion, which depends on affinities of quirkiness and irony, use it. But again, the point is to be intentional.

Companies that are good at branding tend to be good either because they measure it compulsively (example: Proctor and Gamble), or because they are good at making internal opinionated decisions that stick (example: Apple).

Either way, the day to day operation of a strong brand does indeed look like a few people within a company telling everyone else what they can and cannot do with design.
Yeah as long as the alligators pay for it.
> Rising sea levels will swallow major coastal cities, not just "beach homes".

Perhaps more importantly, rising sea levels mean salinity intruding on inland fresh water supplies and low-lying agricultural land, literally salting the earth.
Do you mean the technical details behind how a file system work internally, or how the files and the filesystem layout in a Linux/Ubuntu system are structured?
Original discussion from Neocities' launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5918724

Personally, I don't have any reason to use Neocities but I am enormously happy that it exists. Geocities and Angelfire and all of those weird web sandboxes are where I first wrote code, and what led me to pursue software engineering as a career.
That's correct. If memory serves, it's been >400 ppm quite a few times since.

The earth, and rich (though temporarily diminished) life on its surface will continue.

I suspect there will be a much smaller number of humans to enjoy it.
If you think Ayn Rand is an insightful novelist, then ST:NG probably isn't going to be your preferred brand of entertainment.

I think Rand may be the single most important novelist in recent history, but I love Star Trek:TNG. And honestly, I'm not seeing much connection between those two things. Maybe you could expand on how you think they relate?
Not removed from this article:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/whatsapp-...

And the "Should I stop using WhatsApp?" section is basically exactly what the letter is railing against.
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I find the mesh back and seat invaluable. I've used it for about six years now with no problems.

https://www.amazon.com/WorkPro-Quantum-Ergonomic-Mid-Back-Ch...
Just as there can be inappropriate comments, there can be inappropriate submissions. This isn't some double standard. A proper response is not to be uncivil or troll in kind. If you think a submission is ill-suited for HN, just flag and move on.
I still use me Eepc from 2007

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Basically the only I read this is because it was funny... I happened to accidentally learn a thing or 2 but that wasn't my intention. Please, humor it up!
See, your problem here is that you consider climate change something you can believe in or not, and consider it as such.

But facts and climate processes have no such bias and our understanding of these phenomena have increased greatly in the past decades.

Here's the thing: the fearmongering is not only justified, it is underplayed.

What do you think will happen to the planet when the climate patterns are taken out of a system of stable equilibrium? What happens when the ocean's acidity level crosses the historical threshold under which most of the oxygen-generating plankton on this planet has existed for hundreds of thousands of years?

I'm sorry, but belief has nothing to do with it. We understand very well what the impact on each individual ecosystem this will have, and we have a fairly good idea that the negative interactions amongst each other are going to be even worse.

Recent interviews with most climate scientists have shown that most are seriously depressed, and many have been literally contemplating suicide, or decided to not have children. And these are people who don't have any sort of political agenda in play and would rather live in a reasonably safe and sound world.

The fundamental political problem is that people have difficulty understanding exponential phenomena. Climate change has been very much exponential given the increase in carbon in the atmosphere, and it has been predicted for a long time that the feedback cycles are going to be accelerating things more and more.

Well, we're finally there. A ton of coral reef ecosystems are dying, most coastal ecosystems have changed because of ocean acidification. We're starting to see conditions of permanent drought in the Western USA, and so on and so forth for many different systems.
Only Erlang got it right, not Go. And channels were not even invented for real life programming, they were just an easy notation for mathematicians. But an interesting thing about concurrency is that the Erlang myth is actually true, getting deeper into concurrency always leads to reinventing Erlang. The road typically goes from synchronous multithreaded applications to asynchronous single threaded to event loops to higher-order abstractions around events to wrapping them into killable process/context abstractions to adding message passing and to reinvented Erlang.
I don't run anything like this on my Linux box (just standard iptables), but I was looking for something like this for Windows a while back. The only thing I've really found is Windows 10 Firewall Control:

http://sphinx-soft.com/Vista/order.html

It's nowhere near as nice as Little Snitch, plus it doesn't block the socket call and then allow it after you acknowledge it. The call will fail and the app has to retry the connection.

Are there any better Windows solutions?
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I'm as much paranoid as anyone who is greatly concerned of privacy and specially all information going to one big brother. Seriously, what's an alternative majority of population can follow?
I read the original interview and his comment seemed tongue-in-cheek and aware that it would court needless attention. I don't feel it warrants this level of scrutiny.
>Star Trek doesn't tell us how their economy is managed or their internal politics.

True, but there is this much: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H5uPyU2oKE

Other references: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Money
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Neither was the Johnny Can't Encrypt issue. Now 1/7th of humanity is using E2E encryption. Making that happen involved some "security" vs usability tradeoffs

(see my response here for the explanation of the scare quotes on security: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13445337)
Only a wealthy capitalist could see a downside to their relative wealth being diminished as technology and trade ensures that all necessities for human life are provided as human rights.

But I guess some middle class people always dream of being the one great king who isn't starving.
It may not be a big deal to you but perhaps future generations might wish we had strongly thought the opposite.