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People don't read TOS, Agree the terms and then complain. If this kind of privacy is really important for people, they should at least read TOS.

https://code.visualstudio.com/license

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Ask HN: What's your working day like?
I'm curious about the details of the usual working day for different professions/positions (not necessary technical).
Examples of professions/positions: UI Designer, CEO, Sales, CTO, Welder, Trader (online/offline), Recruiter, System developer/administrator, Web developer, Civil Engineer, Quality Assurance Engineer, Teacher, Professor, Astronaut... Anything.

I'll start:

Profession/position: Security Engineer - full time

Workday:

- Wake up & prepare myself.

- Some meditation (around 15 mins.)

- Drive to work, motivated.

- Join a 10~15min call with my team.

- Start working on assigned issues, usually for 1~4hours.

- Catching up with emails/team conversations.

- Reddit, YCombinator time!

- Repeat until calling it a day, usually 7~8 hours with 1 hour break.
Maybe the family investor indulged him, because family.
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There's a trick to luck: find the best set of dice for you and keep rolling them. The bums are interesting, but more so the ones that end up millionaires or billionaires.

I've learned that a lot of millionaires are not very intelligent; they're just incredibly persistent. They can do the exact same thing, despite failure, for nearly a decade and end up gathering a reputation for it. Whereas most people would just give up and change careers in the middle. There's also an element of luck here - Bubba Gump comes to mind. But sometimes luck is just being in the right position at the right time, and there is a methodology to being in that position.
I thought this article was written by Nassim Taleb initially but it sounded too harsh even for him.

Like the author of this article, Taleb also discusses stupid people in several of his books... Often drawing attention to "the educated idiot" which is basically a person who is highly educated, knows a lot of stuff and who is perhaps productive or successful in society but they get caught up in social thinking trends (group think) instead of coming up with their own conclusions - So in essence, you could say that these people don't actually think; they just mindlessly follow popular opinion - Therefore they're idiots.

For example, if I did not see any irony in what I've just written above, then it's possible I could be an idiot too; mindlessly paraphrasing a thought leader...
I won't negate any possibilities :)
I don't think they are irrational. Black people, for instance, constitute 13% of the population, but are responsible for 50% of the violent crimes. These are the official police stats.
I know people that work in the high end restaurant business in Portland and I've heard them talk about how and why they have had to close things they really cared for.

He's right about the razors edge in the biz he chose to get into. Also, with the judgement he shows about other things in the article, I'm not sure if his family investor is the actual utility he says he is. Propping up 'family' and '10 years' doesn't really say anything about track record. I've got family that have been in things for 10 years and they are still middling or just straight up bad at their jobs. Some of them have even made a lot of money at jobs they are bad at.

This is a high stakes and risk endeavor that not only is OPs dream, but it's a dream he's stapled his name to. To me, it sounds like he took himself on a ride with an inheritance and had poor cherrypicked counsel or he ignored them because he was 'the leader of the band'. Even if they were good, the entire article is about how the environment he chose is the problem, not his own judgement. I think he'll come around to what really happened eventually and I bet he's going to try hard/weird shit again because this is a really crazy idea packed full of hubris. The guy dreams big dreams.

To say his family investor 'with nearly a decade in the biz' was an insulator against failure is like saying that having the best Wingsuit Skydiver in the world showing you how to jump the first time will keep you from turning into a crater.

I think it's good practice to almost never work with family on building commercially melded creative dreams. Their goals, by relation, are inherently stacked against you because what you need in a hostile creative operation is sober and careful partners that challenge you to stretch your abilities. Family cannot, by definition, be that. They care to keep you safe and similar.

If you do engage with family on that level, you really have to be aware that you might permanently damage an important relationship that you might not get back and treat it with that respect. Close family and friends are something you can't recreate by meeting a replacement. You can always start another biz. Any family that might engage in a business/passion idea with a caviler attitude could be taking your familiarity for a ride that you don't want to go on. Intentionally, or more destructively, ignorant as fuck to the consequences.
There aren't any specs. This project is to design and build a privacy-oriented phone; it's not at the point where anything is settled on yet (afaik).
But the decision between probation or a custodial sentence is based partly on the attitude, risk profile and situation of the offender. Surely that's going to skew the statistics?
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yes, OP is not the author, I've sent a link to the original author to comment
I'd really like to know this as well. I have the same impression, but recently someone here on HN, who had experience owning a restaurant, wrote that the opposite is true.
sort of related: it drives me crazy when people use a question mark to show doubt, (sometimes sarcastically), instead of to ask a question. i've never seen (?) before, but i see "i think mark said he was done?", a lot.

even though it drives me crazy, it shows that special punctuation is unnecessary. people can just keep doing that awful thing, and there's no real ambiguity.
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Thanks for nice comments all. I couldn't try things like Vibram, was painful for me. Roads also mattered, hard concrete was tough on me, whereas others were not so. At home I keep off any footwear.
>>Rather than that, I'd prefer a three-strikes-you're-out

Why are you jumping to the third strike? Put someone in jail for a crime we all have committed (I'm 99% sure that you have committed a crime https://reason.com/archives/2009/10/19/were-all-felons-now ) they lose their job, become broke and essentially have nothing to lose. Not to mention the Crime University training they got while in jail.
Well I read [1] [2] that they do have gravity... which is probably a more direct answer to what you're asking. I'm not sure what counts as "mass" for a photon per se, except that I assume there's an effective mass via the energy.

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-does-a-photon-exert-gravitational-...

[2] https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/22878
Television, on the other hand, is something I'd class as addictive. Wouldn't you?

This is clearly where we differ. No, I wouldn't. The word addiction has specific meaning. The fact that lots of people enjoy something a lot does not make that thing addictive. I am surrounded by people who have TV sets and who do not spend much time watching TV at all. I myself have a TV set and feel no particular cravings to watch it, ever. When I choose to, an hour or so is sufficient and then I may well not watch any for weeks. I consider this normal behaviour.

I think you're far too liberal with the use of the word addiction.

What's opera's equivalent of Instagram Stories?

Heh, how about the fact that it's very expensive and only occurs at specific times of day, meaning you have to structure your entire day around getting to it by the start? You've never seen someone literally running down the street because they're late for the opera or theatre? Running to the dealers for their fix!

No no, that's a very forced analogy. Opera isn't addictive even though some people can spend hours on what seems to me a very pointless activity. Instagram Stories is a great example of why Instagram is not designed to be addictive - it's simply a reaction to the success of Snapchat, i.e. a very strong message from users that they value transiency and don't actually always want their photos to go into a never ending history accessible to all, for ogling and possible exploitation years later.

Given the highly transient nature of photos usually posted to Instagram feeds, the desire for them to disappear after a while makes perfect sense from the perspective of the uploader. The fact that this gives downloaders limited time is - once more - not a deliberate attempt to addict people to anything but rather a natural consequence of the users own requirements.
Location: Wellington, New Zealand

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: For the right role, maybe!

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, PHP, Backbone, Angular, React, Knockout, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, plus the million billion other fiddly ones we all brush past/through in our own work

Resume/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/q5ns9swubqu5baf/CV.docx

Email: pineutrino@gmail.com

I've been in professional web dev for over 11 years, 6 of which have been remote contracting. It's great fun! I've been the lead programmer / CTO for several startups. I'll also happily pootle around with devops/sysadmin tasks, chat with non-techy clients, troubleshoot their troubles and help un-bamboozle them about horrendous tech issues, mentor junior developers and designers who might find our million billion sub-fields of programming a wee bit daunting, and host a mean beer o'clock on Fridays.

Here's a bunch of references: https://www.dropbox.com/s/803ckfhdnnpzl69/references.zip

And here's a bunch of case studies: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dbxy06nhq1xged3/Case%20Studies.doc
Should we care? They introduce problems we didn't have before -- namely how do they pay their hosting bills -- and then make us pay for those with ads.

It's their problem, not ours. If they can't manage, be very sure somebody else will gladly come along and replace them.
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"Tony would pick one of his hardworking employees and sell him a franchise, loaning him the money through a 10-year mortgage. He’d work out the math so the former worker could make a decent salary in addition to covering all his costs, including making his note payments with interest to Andrade. After busting his butt for 10 years, the former employee would own an investment that today is worth $1 million or more."

https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2014/09/17/the-secret-w...
I think individualism is a respectable philosophy. Thank you for sharing this article.

I think however that a reasonable person would also consider that social policies may have great benefits for herself as an individual.

For example:

- If stupids don't have access to war weapons, maybe it will be more difficult for them to mass murder ME.

- If the stupids have to vaccinate and can get healthcare, maybe they won't spread viruses and diseases to ME.

- If the stupids have a degree maybe they can create value instead of ruining ME through welfare taxes.
Ever heard about cooperation and developer agreements between companies?
It's amazing how much better we Software folks have it when it comes to starting a business.

Last I checked, the profit margins for my single-player SaaS business were somewhere around 90%. And the interesting thing about that isn't even the number. It's that SaaS is so profitable that you don't even have to calculate your margins. To an order-of magnitude, every dollar a customer pays for the service can be considered profit.

Real Businesses have expensive office or retail space. We have "wherever we happen to be living at the moment".

Real Businesses have employee salaries. We have an industry where a single person can plausibly run every aspect of the business from writing the code to marketing to racking servers to high-touch Enterprise sales. That single "employee" can have his "salary" set to (Total Profit) / 1.

Real Businesses have equipment and other recurring costs. We have those too, but they're tiny compared to other types of business. Like, single-digit-thousands per year tiny. All in, for servers, software, dev hardware, etc.

It's almost unfair, how Software wins in pretty much every category against pretty much everything else.

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This is exactly what I'm planning to do, but instead of a van, use a sailing 'yacht' big enough to live on.

As soon as I have enough funding to get the gear, I'm off!
Only the community edition code.
In most European countries your children would be taken away by the responsible institutions if you tried to raise them in a trailer.
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> yet they are all accepting (perhaps that is too strong) or passive. No volition to change the status quo.

The DVD of the film adaptation of Never Let Me Go has an interesting interview with Ishiguro. In it, he mentions that he is often asked about why the Students were so passive and accepting of their fate. From memory, he says that the book is allegorical: the students are no more able the escape their kind of mortality than we are of our (different) outcome. Nobody can escape from their own life.
Your 5 times in 25 years suggests an overhaul every 5 years. Context matters. WPF became mainstream in 2007

WPF, Metra, UWP, and Silverlight in 2007 -> 2017 is 4 overhauls in 10 years or an overhaul every 2.5 years.

Also not fixing bugs in earlier tech creates a compulsion to switch to the next tech.
Trade them in for a newer model.
Only in the US school system, because it isn't used anywhere else.

Even here, most people buy Chromebooks to replace ChromeOS with an usable version of GNU/Linux, just like we used to do with Windows 95/98 back in the day.
Yes, because kindle books are considered content for the application. Its the same for Audible. But the original point was that there is no Amazon Store app on the Play store (which there is) and the other applications are there but crippled.

It is perfectly reasonable for Amazon to not want to give a 30% cut on books to Apple. I wish there would be some exception for this kind of content in the stores.
> and the labour force is ill-paid and therefore not entirely reliable.

Or just in college.

Tbh, I believe age (read: maturity) is the best predictor of reliability. When I worked food service (we all made ~$10/hour) you could bet the adults who had kids to feed would show up. Same with the girl who was busting her ass to go to law school. The college kid living at home? Coin flip. High schooler? Same.

Not too long after I left, the store got bumped up to $15/hour. According to both a family member and former coworker who both work there, they're having the same problem—only worse.

I don't wanna sound all high-and-mighty, because I was in college too. But man, if you make $15/hour, live with your parents, and can't be reliable at work it's not the pay...
Would you no be able to build a version with the telemetry disabled?
Well, here's one account of running a coffee shop that gets into the actual economics a bit:

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/a_fine_whine/2005/12/bitt...
> that effort should be applauded in my opinion

You can applaud their 'effort' all you want, but "they're trying hard" isn't a very compelling argument for using commercial software when the competition is much more mature, and open source to boot.

As for your specific points of 'effort':

> business

Well, they clearly don't have a working business model yet so strike point 1.

> pricing

The whole point of this discussion is "why would people pay for this?", and their pricing is quite flip-floppy at the moment, so strike point 2.

> support

Their "basic" commercial support says:

> We usually respond within 1-2 business days

Wat. Paid support that includes the term "usually" is a giant red flag, even before you get to the idea that you could have zero response for 2 days.
With a good password policy and mandatory 2FA and (GPG) signing, npm would actually be pretty damn trustworthy.

That's too much "friction", though, so I expect it to remain in this sorry state it has been in.
Yeah. That happened to me.
Cannot recommend this. AT ALL.
if you genuinely fear this then go build tons of drivel and make it crash giving them too much to look at.
The idea that MS are busy analysing arbitrary crashing code really suggests they have more time on their hands than sense. Getting people to read code is expensive as fuck.
Please don't quote me on this.
I think it's not a License question but they're taking a different approach. Linux binary compatibility has been around for a while now, at least longer than modern LX zones (I don't know about old Solaris lx zones).

There are some more subtle differences like the for BSD Linux emulation is a global setting and 'lx jails' are just jails w/ a Linux userland while branded zones are special kind of zones.
> Can you point out where in the installation instructions I'd find out about this telemetry or do you seriously expect me to read every single piece of documentation this might be hidden in?

I expect someone who cares about telemetry to search for it. It is well publicised, discussed, and available [1]. There is a telemetry warning when first using the tool.

> Considering this was added after the initial release, do you expect me to re-read the documentation on every single update?

No, but I would expect you to read the release announcements. [2]

> Sorry, but even if your argument was correct, this just (deservedly) burns any good will I had with MS, which wasn't much but at least I used to have some for the .net team.

So, regardless of correctness you would have been burned anyway. Microsoft even releases the telemetry gathered under a creative commons license [3]. You can opt out of this completely transparent and well documented option.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/telemetry

[2] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/05/16/announcin...

[3] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/07/21/what-weve...
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According to the article, extracting stupid people from the gene pool won't affect the ratio of stupid people present in society. σ remains constant no matter what.
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> We all know people who are much smarter than us, surely we must sound stupid to them [...]

I believe you misunderstood the article, because the "stupid" it discusses isn't relative. Quite the contrary: the third (and golden) basic law states that

A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
The category you're looking for is 'humour'.

You may not find it funny, but that was it's intent.
> Some idiot somewhere decided that Comma Separated Values in certain locales should be based on semicolons

Semicolons are really better though, because they aren't used as a decimal separator unlike commas in most countries.

I don't know about Excel, but LibreOffice allows very easily to select which parameters to use when opening a CSV file, it works just fine.
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First: Not everyone wants or can have children. Second: You may be back at geographical square one but you have picked up a lot of baggage in the form of knowledge and emotions that probably changed you (hopefully for the better, I'm betting it does) forever.

Also, this life style is nice for getting to know yourself, what do you really want? Maybe you thought you were a city dweller but now you know you feel better closer to nature. You also learn that you don't need much as a human, that is a very comforting though that can get you through difficult times.

Changing your lifestyle may not always be pleasant (at first) but you learn about yourself. For example, I though I was a real backpacker, turns out I get very stressed when I have to get in random taxis and I convince myself almost everyone wants to screw me (in the bad way) and I have constant inner dialogue about why I would care about being screwed for a couple of euros. Now I plan thing differently, maybe I someday really learn to relax. But it won't be by sitting at home, I know that for sure. For now, I have kids and already learn that I don't like my life style to adventurous (maybe I'm not even that adventurous without kids), and I'm ok with that... even though that took some time to accept.
"If I have a friend who squanders their money while I save and build up wealth, are they stupid?"

No, they are probably "helpless". If they actually have a more fulfilling life then they may be "intelligent".

The distinguishing feature of "stupid" people in this typology is that they are the ones who cause grief to others with no gain to themselves. This is not the same as being unintelligent; the intro to the article points out that nobel laureates are just as likely to be stupid as anyone else.
It's hard to say if the civil war was even an upward climb. I've been reading a lot of Ta-Neshi Coates recently and he has opened my eyes. The civil war was started by the south in order to allow them to continue exploiting the labour of slaves. It seems those grievances haven't died.

Racism and, more importantly, white supremacy is an all-American concept which seems to be inextricably woven through the whole society.

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/537909/ - highly recommend this.
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I'm in the process of converting a van to a camper to make weekly commuting cheaper. Lifestyle will be slightly different to this as I will still be running a factory and in the UK winter, however, I am hoping that one day I can do some extended periods somewhere warm and outdoorsy using.
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They can both go elsewhere though. If it truly is a great spot the landlord has the upper hand.
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A few days ago I tried to track people on WhatsApp even if their "Last Seen" was hidden. https://hackernoon.com/uhoh-did-i-break-whatsapps-last-seen-...
Since we're kind of talking about things from an I18N perspective, those characters are written like this on a bog standard Swedish keyboard:

\ is AltGr+?
] is AltGr+9
^ is Shift+^, then space
_ is Shift+-

AltGr is the right Alt key, to the right of the space bar.

So none of those are single keys, which means that combining them with Ctrl to write control characters becomes almost comically difficult. Not very accessible to typical users, I'd say.
>I told myself what I'm sure every single novice restauranteur tells themselves: I'll be in the 1 percent that make it, by sheer will.

I would be surprised if every single novice restauranteur tells themselves that before starting a venue.

Most of them are probably tell themselves something like "If I build it, they will come".

Still, 1% seems to me very low, we are not talking about startups, are there actual statistics on it ?