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I would recommend reading through the entire blog archive, all together it's about the same length as a book. You can skip over articles on things that aren't interesting to you, for example I don't care about real estate.

My personal philosophy is a combination of all the different sources I have been exposed too. My main influences would be the mustachian thought sphere (MMM, The Magic of Thinking Big, Stoicism), secular western buddhism (Buddhism Plain and Simple, In the realm of hungry ghosts, The magic of tidying up) Game theory probabilistic thinking (Poker background).

When I first started reading MMM I was already a very tribal person. The us vs them mentality really appealed to me because I was used to strongly identifying with minority tribes (atheist, vegan). After I started studying buddhism I've been able to let go of some of the tribalism of mustachianism , but the frugality and the powerful self belief have remained. This is an example of my personal philosophy forking from a monolithic belief system.

I also have a couple dieties I worship. MMM is the god of frugality and not being a wimp. RNGesus is the god of accepting random bad stuff. I'll spin up/down dieties to put on my altar depending on my current priorities/ needs.

I know recommending you a bunch of books isn't really a proper response, but a proper definition would be the length of a book and I haven't written that yet.

What I would recommend to everyone is to study different belief systems and roll your own religion. Our brain is designed to consume faith-y belief systems. It's arrogant to believe those mechanisms in your brain won't latch on to something. It should be something your consciously decide on and design.
"...with little forethought".

Wow. I tweet very infrequently, and agonize over exactly what to say and how to phrase it so that it is intelligible and interesting in 140 characters.

Then again, I only have a few hundred tweets and endeavor to make each one count.
Everything at some point has a physical manifestation that can be broken down further and further until we explain things with (according to many physicists) strings.

Every thought, idea, dream or lie could be described as neurotransmitters moving between neurons, but that's very rarely the level of detail we use.

Yes, corporations have physical manifestations. And if we use a formal or legal definition, you could maybe break that down to some database entry at some government branch or paperwork in a cabinet etc. Very real and physical.

But then I could hack the database and insert a new company and fake the paperwork, and arguably the result is not a real company. Or delete a real company and destroy the paperwork, but arguably the company will still exist.

If we imagine I could create or delete a company perfectly in all its physical aspects, documents, electronic records, inventory, products etc - but not modify anybodies thoughts or memories -, you would be very clearly be able to tell if the company is "real" or not.

If nobody knows about it ("believes" it exists) and nobody works for it, it's not real. The office, machines, computers and a bunch of (fake) employment contracts do not result in anything if nobody shows up.

If everybody still believes it exists and just continues to work, they might need a few new staplers and other things, and at some point get the paperwork corrected.
Serious question: does Amazon lean right in the way that Youtube/Google leans left? Or do you just think the competition will force both to have a more open platform?
I think invest is the wrong term. Investments have some kind of builtin return like interest or dividends. You're buying bitcoin in the same way you buy gold or a lottery ticket. Maybe you have some solid reasoning on why price will go up but you aren't getting any returns like in an investment.
I didn't think it was antagonisti, it certainly wan't meant to antagonize anyone. I apologize if it comes off that way.

I've simply grown tired of the perpetual Cloudflare marketing machine and the lack of citation of the figures they throw around in these regular marketing posts.
VMware Fusion 10
Hello HN,

I’m Wenbin, a software engineer in San Francisco & the maker of Listen Notes.

Listen Notes is a very simple “I can build this in a weekend”-ish project. It crawls podcasts RSS from iTunes, indexes podcasts meta data in ElasticSearch, and provides a simple web UI. No AI. No speech-to-text. No audio search.

Despite of the simplicity of this project and the little development effort, I find that this project is actually good enough for my personal use — some of my friends feel the same way as well. Example: https://www.listennotes.com/search?q=Carmelo%20Anthony&sort_...

As an engineer & 1st generation immigrant, I’m very practical. I always prefer “spending 10% time solving 90% problem”-type solution. We are not building a pyramid (or making an iPhone). Software projects (especially online services) can always evolve. There’s no need to get everything right all at once.

I’ve been working on some side projects on and off for several years. Listen Notes was one of my side projects in the past several months. However, I had never worked on these projects full-time (e.g., several work days in a row). Things changed recently. I just left the company I cofounded on Sep 15, so I got a chance to work on my side projects full-time. In the past few days, I rewrote the web UI, refactored a big chunk of backend code, and laid the foundation of future fast iteration of this product. I’m curious to see how big Listen Notes will become before I run out of my personal savings in a few months :)

I’d love to get some feedback & I’m happy to answer questions!

(Actually, I wrote some FAQs: https://www.listennotes.com/about )
The EU has some issues, but their decisions (both of the commission and the parliament) regarding tech monopolies have been quite sane.

The EU countries are also much better than the US at punishing companies for abusing personal information.
1991 Honda CRX HF has 40 mpg in city driving when new. https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/noframes/7474.shtml

A 2017 Prius has 58 city mpg.

You can beat that with an efficient driving style. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy-efficient_driving

So, they really are significantly better.
Thing is, most of the time there is simply no chance for win-win here. If someone can manage developers himself - why hiring a company - just go and hire developers directly. If someone can't, he will be scammed by a company no matter what, because that's what these companies exist for, they can't make money otherwise (as developers can work directly and if they were any good, they would do so).

This is also why it is so insanely hard to find contract for a company: clients are not fools. Not most of them, at least.

Caveat: companies also know that and learned very well to pretend to be individual developers since recently.

In essence, my experience leads me to conclusion that custom software development is evil and should not exist. There is no space for it to be win-win.
That was my thought. When I worked in large open "bullpen" office I certainly did "take a sick day" from time to time just because I could not stand the thought of spending 8 hours in that environment on that day. I was never actually sick any more often than normal during that time.
they are not going to mea culpa and send me the refund too

Isn't that exactly the author's point? In that scenario, the IRS has taken harmful action against you to make up a cost they incurred by falling for someone else's fraud, and they get away with it by calling you the fraudster's victim, not theirs.
This perfect - thanks for sharing.
I looked at nginx alternatives like traefik, envoy and haproxy and none of them have an equivalent of auth module http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_auth_request_module.h...

So with vts I can finally replace last instance of haproxy which serves as a core LB between all services (because it has stats).
...and then I can watch Amazon Prime on my Chromecast.
Perhaps the person you're responding to is referring to Microsofts old business practices that involved trying to segment open source projects with the intent of making them inferior to Microsoft products?

Open source, free software, call it what you want. In either case I don't think it's a good thing if Microsofts (or any other company) is trying to hurt the quality of software that is already available to everyone (with or without permissive licenses).
I must say, I have a small Leica camera running Android and I totally adore it (CM-1).

It meets 9.5 of the 11 features the author is requesting but those aren't why I like it. It's also why I find his argument to be flawed.

The best parts of owning it aren't any of the authors points. It's that it solves a class of problem not addressed by the market. It fits the bill for: "ultimate international travel camera". It gives me: 1] nice photos (raw, 1" sensor) 2] that I can process immediately (runs Android, Photoshop, Lightroom, Instagram) and 3] publish directly (4G connection, WiFi N) in a 4] compact form factor (bit thicker than a smartphone). I'm sad to see this category not take off but I'm glad I have one for myself. As an added benefit its great for China and Taiwan where I can still have my primary iPhone and use my camera as WiFi hotspot to get cheap data with a local sim.

It was done as a design exercise with Panasonic similar to the Hasselblad True with Motorola. It's far from perfect (design exercises usually aren't).

But. And that's a big 'B'. This camera let's me solve my photo problem (How do I take nice photos and share them while on the go) in way fewer steps and with less equipment than the mainstream camera solutions and with better quality than smartphones. (I want the photos to be "Nice" remember? Also 1" sensor! Raw! )

The author is in effect pushing for more features. That's not how you solve your users problems. What the camera industry needs to do is diff assumptions made about how camera's were used when these platforms were created (D series, EOS series) and how they are being used today - then solve for the new problem classes that emerged. Not tack on more features and higher performance as the author is suggesting. In the former case you push for the ability to run Photoshop and Instagram on the camera and publish mobiley, in the later case you push for faster bus speeds and more stable camera mounts.
...and maybe I'll get to watch Amazon Prime Videos on my Chromecast.
Not a bad metric. After about 4 people or so, it might as well be "open office". That is the chance of each one of those people being distracted by someone from outside the office, or a phone, or two of them talking about something is pretty high.

(Worked in a cubicle farm, 4 person office, 3 person office, 2 person, then my own office, now at home in my own office).

Top choice is work at home. Then own office. Then 2 person office. Once it gets to 3 person office, I'd pick a cubicle with high sound insulated walls.

Open office would be a nightmare for me. I'd get set just from stress of not being able concentrate and get my work done.
Agreed, it's a very good book, and Graeber is a very interesting man.
I still shoot film using cameras and lenses built when my dad was a kid.
Is it an article? I think I just read a very lengthy eToro ad.
No, it shows that you don't provide any proof for your "theory" (there is not much theory to begin with), and therefore its one of the many conspiracy theories floating around. Occam's razor, please.
I disagree. The fact that the brand has changed hands isn't super relevant to what they are saying this box can do.
Been said many times before but I’ll say it again:

If money could buy great products, Microsoft would still be relevant.
If Microsoft dies or abandons maintainership of some code they've released, then the free stuff is great, because we can pick up where they left off. If they just throw it over the wall and you have no hope of getting your fixes into the tree, then you have to maintain a fork of it alongside theirs, merge changes, hope they don't change anything that would cause problems for you, etc.

Source is better than no source, but I can see why people would complain about the way they're handling things right now.
Poe's Law...
He probably did as well as he could given his risk preferences and overall level of, uh, insanity, for the lack of a better word. By "insanity" I mean that which allows a person to do something like always doubling down on successful investments, risk of ruin be damned. It's a sure way to get absurdly rich if you don't end up losing everything you have along the way.
> Yes, I think you could do what you're suggesting (though I don't follow 100%).

I was thinking of sharing a Git directory, directly from my computer instead of using any centralized provider such as GitHub/NotABug.

> Hypercore can store any kind of data and is really great for streaming data

is there any web "bridge" available. I'm thinking in particular about streaming data over the P2P network, but also accessible on the web (for example for streaming a video).
...sounds like a fun project to trigger an external flash on manual from the iPhone flash! I wonder if those lightning triggers would be sensitive enough.

Ah -- but the iPhone would need manual exposure settings or you'd likely overexpose.
Please comment substantively here instead of this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Wow, 100 miles would not get me to work and back on a single day (Bay Area). Germany sounds nice :)
> maximizing control over markets and maximizing rent seeking.

This is typically called "crony capitalism" -- it's a "false calitalism". To the capitalist faithful, rent seeking and monopolies tend to result from impurities in the system (usually government intervention) and tend to iron themselves out without that intervention. A little starry-eyed for me, but worth understanding the viewpoint.
Kind of, but I think it was more of an "accident" and not something they purposefully set out to do when they were getting disrupted, because they already had their own mobile division, so they probably made the decision to make sensors for their own division way before they decided to sell to companies like Apple. Once Apple knocked on their door with a huge bag of cash, they decided to take it and then they saw there could be real money in it.

But Canon and Nikon never had a mobile division to realize that they need to do that, too.
That's location, not execution. Effectively Google is preventing 3rd party apps from running persistently in the background by limiting location (because that's how some apps would "cheat"--you could get around a user explicitly stopping your app if you registered for background location updates, similar scenario on iOS until they added the extra status bar informing the user when apps are using background location). Because play services can run persistently (how do you think GCM works) it doesn't really affect their stuff.

But it's good to see Google closing that gap because it's one of the ways naughty apps would piss in the pool for everyone else. And it's one of the criticisms a lot of people had against Google's upper hand.
Which Bitcoin?
Wonder what model he's actually using. Pixel most likely?
We should replace the term with something like managed function or server / cloud function.
> - go fmt / go vet

rustfmt (will be coming with rustc soon)

> - go doc

rustdoc (comes with rustc)
> shake off their Indian stink

This is really outrageous. You need to gain some perspective. You've had a single very bad experience and you think that entitles you to not only generalize about all software companies in India but also the entire Indian people? The only thing you'll convince people of is your own lack of insight.
So, your own well-being, as well as well-being of your closest relatives, is just as important as well-being of people on another side of the globe?

Clarification: I know that it's not what you meant. But if you answer "no" to this question (as any reasonable person would) then I can show that from that, it logically follows that well-being of people in your own country is more important to you - because those people can affect you and people close to you more than people on another side of the globe.
I never worked in an open office (not for long, we had an open area) but worked in a 4 person office and agree with you. The stress of being constantly interrupted and not able to finish the work, can reasonably be assumed to lower the immune system and make people sick.
I've been reading his blog for a few years, and he does some have some insightful advice on shedding unnecessary expenses and living on a frugal spending diet. I've been able to get down to one car that is almost paid off, and double my savings and investment portfolio. My favorite article from him is living close enough to work to bike (although working from home is most ideal).

However, his blog comes with a bit of smug (calling himself a "cult", or "Good news, there's a recession coming"). His faithful mantra of "retiring at 30" is a pipe dream unless: (1) you have a big income i.e. $200k per year by the time you are 25, (2) have a software engineer wife that makes as much as you and have no kids, or (3) inherited a large sum to begin with. All of his case studies are about him and his wife who were pulling $100k before they "retired", or the lawyer who was pulling in $160k a year at 26. Kudos to them, but good luck trying to retire as a welder or car mechanic making $50k.
I talk to these people all the time. Them: "I KMOW stock XXX is going to be at price YYY in time Z." Me: "How much have you invested in stock XXX?" Them: "Oh nothing yet".
YT has also been demonetizing videos on one of my favorite veterinary channels for being too graphic. It's a shame because they use the funds to provide care to abandoned animals. They always warn when videos contain surgery footage, even though it's relatively tame imho.
I couldn't tell what it was at all, and 'Everything that matters' isn't enough for me not to click away.
Is this sarcasm? There's already a big demand for competition for YouTube and this seems to be a move that makes this possible.
Thanks for the heads up. Fixing now.

https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-stream/
Ask HN: Is there any web service that aggregates past and ongoing token sales?
Essential has sold just 5,000 phones since launch
Just strikes me, immediately apparent: Whats With All The Capitals In Headlines? German influence?
Ballmer meant the GPL, but he literally [0] said "Linux is a cancer".

[0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_...
In particular after they launched Youtube Red...
It depends on whether or not the CEO is feeling poopy that day.
There have been CPUs with multiple datastacks e.g. https://bernd-paysan.de/4stack.html is a VLIW ISA with a very dense encoding and "just less ports" to the register file than a classic DSP.
What is my guarantee on that? Cloudflare has done it once, and I really don't know what political views would set the CEO off again. I hate what the stormidiots spout, but I'm pretty sure I don't trust Cloudflare anymore as neutral ground.
Do we need to stop Akamai, AWS CouldFront, MaxCDN, Rackspace, et al, too?
Because nobody knows. This has literally never happened before.
It's also important to figure out which of our built-in behaviors are ineradicable, so that we can develop systems that help route around our worst impulses. Much of conventional society and its norms was geared toward this and it's something we do a really poor job of understanding as we tear those walls down.

If cult behavior is built-in, then directing that energy into reverence for Mr. Money Mustache seems like a positive to me.
I would consider it for my kids who are just approaching driving age. Would easily get them to and from school and extracurricular activities.

My concern with any car that small is crash safety. Just not room for any kind of significant crumple zone.
"The term ‘Identity Theft’ implies, and its usage accepts, that the person whose identity is being stolen is the victim. They’re almost always not."

What.

If someone uses your information to take advantage of your good credit and get a car loan, then defaults on that loan, guess whose credit score just got hurt? Guess who's going to have a harder time getting a loan for one's own new car?

The whole article stems from the assumption that stealing someone's identity doesn't make that someone a victim. That assumption is blatantly false, and therefore so is pretty much the rest of the article.

Call it what you want, but fraud committed in your name still harms you, and thus still makes you a victim.
> Cult involving biking to work, good.

Just to be clear, in case you;re confused. Biking to work doesn't involve you being forced to cut off ties and communication with family and friends who don't bike. Neither does it require you to hand over a large proportion of your income to a church.
I don’t think people really want or need that. A big pro DSLR is a big investment, it will last 5-10 years easily. Any SoC will be ancient by the time it’s 5 years old, and no one will want to support it.

And who would want to edit photos on a big, heavy DSLR when they have a much more convenient smartphone, or iPad with a better screen?

The battery drain is also an issue. DSLRs use a mechanical shutter, which is sort of antiquated today. But it means one camera battery can last for hundreds or thousands of shots, and days of standby since the main screen is rarely on.
> If 95% of the work you need done is too obvious and simple, maybe you don't need to hire as good of programmers as you think you do, and why are you trying to make things in the interview artificially harder than the work that needs to be done?

If these high-priority and hard 5% were easily separable from the tedious 95%, this logic would be correct.
Yes. This net neutrality principle should apply to everyone.