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> The further you go in writing the more alone you are.

I took a creative writing course not too long ago, and I find this to be true. The best writing I have done is when I am surrounded and embodied by my aloneness/solitude/silence. It’s a place where you feel your room/life is full of yourself.

I remember vividly being in front of my computer, writing a piece on iA Writer. I would drift off into these imaginary places in my mind, thinking about what I want to say and how I want to say it, then I would recall a line from a book where I would then draw inspiration from. Ultimately it was: writing, dreaming, talking to myself in my mind, rereading out loud, rewriting, going to get a glass of water and walking to my backyard for a breather yet still full of myself and the piece I am writing, etc.

But it takes a while to get into that state, a place where you are full yourself. Some people may call this state, the flow state. I find it easier to get into that state late at night, a time where I open the window, the air is cool and fresh, and the crickets are chirping away.

Otherwise, I wish Albert Camus had done one of these Art of Fiction interviews.
I highly recommend reading the excellent draft document from Usenet at the URL I posted, particularly the example of the "Western Wisconsin Computer Company". It is much clearer than my comment and my examples of the simple concept explained therein are probably not ideal (maybe even wrong).

As for cjdns,

https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/blob/master/doc/notes/cry...

From only a cursory review, I see cjdns as a network where one does not need a third party to: issue a name, issue a key, check a key against a name or a name against a key. Each user creates their own private key, their own public key and finally their own address from their own public key. Unless I am mistaken, users get public keys and addresses from other users, not from a third party.
> Op, if you can not run a cable, maybe look into a mesh network. Repeaters "loose" about half of the bandwidth anyway, a mesh might be good alternative.

Mesh network simplifies setting up many repeaters, but it "looses" bandwidth the same way (unless you connect it via cable/other frequency band) as repeaters.
They generally do for their direct end-customers who announces their own address space.

The problem is when peering with other Tier 1's and large ISPs, with multiple downstream customers. How do they keep and update a list of the other ISPs customers and the routes they should expect from them?

Once someone manages to get a bogus route into a large ISPs table it tends to propagate further.
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I am starting a project to provide Code Reviews to people learning to code. If you are starting on the path of software development and is building something as a way to learn, you are the kind of person that I want to help.

My idea is that Code Review is a great learning tool that wanna-be developers do not have access to. I want to start something that offers that.

I wrote a blog post about the idea: https://rodrigohgpontes.github.io/#educational-code-reviews

(but no need to read it all, as it is mostly about the concept of CR as a learning tool and less about this project)

So, if you want to receive code reviews on your learning project, let me know. Email in my HN profile or fill the form in the blog post.
X ^ 1.01 is still exponential. But, I understand your point.
Sound-based QR codes, imperceptible to human ears, but can be analyzed by phones
Agree with you. The execution could've been much better. To start with, it always make sense to do a validated questionnaire experiment than come up with a new survey like we did.

Talking about Milgram and similar experiments, though they are known to help achieve unbiased observations about human behavior, it actually doesn't rule out the validity of a well executed questionnaire experiment. Good questionnaires take care of authenticity using a lie score that tries to detect if the subject is trying to make himself / herself look good with the answers.
> I can't believe people have already forgotten what CDO has done to this economy.

Good news, crypto is still two orders of magnitude smaller
> How does consensus work in an enterprise blockchain?

It doesn't, because blockchain doesn't solve consensus problem.
Is this still applicable?
I've been hearing seed funding is dramatically drying up.
You should care about these terms while building and marketing software in the space. I'm not saying you're being deceitful, however, almost anyone who read your description assumed your offering to have feature parity with AWS SSO, but the feature list probably is closer to AWS Cognito. An open alternative to Cognito might be sufficient for most, but is still not the same as a comprehensive SSO manger
I think their key concern is this:

>It is especially troubling when the promoters of these offerings emphasize the secondary market trading potential of these tokens

So let's say we had an ICO for participation in a rare book club of the month. And the books themselves were trading on the secondary market. That would be ok as I interpret this.

But if the token itself is being traded and is the asset, I think that's where the SEC gets involved.

Where I am unclear is if I have a presale for the Rare Books, and the means of currency for the future delivery of the yet-to-be-acquired rare book is a token, and that token may rise in value and transfer ownership is that a security? All the token provides me is the right to receive a rare book in the future.
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The irony of the source name here is wonderful.
A couple points. First, I did not claim that the experience of things or even consciousness require appeals to anything immaterial or non-physical. I merely said that a Cartesian materialism as a metaphysical position cannot explain these things, and this appears to be the way that many contemporary philosophers and physicists _in_their_philosophical_moments_ understand matter. Modern physics actually departs quite a bit from that kind of materialism. This is not a question first and foremost about the experience of color but the nature of color. Cartesians reduce color to an experience and locate that experience in an immaterial mind. Materialism, without reforming the account of matter inherited by Descartes, does away with the material mind and is now left with a desiccated account of reality that cannot even _in_principle_ account for color understood as experience. The solution is not to return to Cartesian dualism but to embrace a different metaphysics that can account for things like color, not as experiences, but as real properties of the world. After that, it is possible to talk about what it means to perceive color. (Indeed, a fatal flaw of modern philosophy is that it prioritizes epistemology over metaphysics, but that’s a topic for another day.)

Second -- and this is not the main thrust of what I said, but it is in response to what you wrote -- you are begging the question when you presume that everything can be accounted for physics. Consider the concept of Triangularity. In the world, we have concrete, triangular things that instantiate Triangularity. We perceive them through our senses. One triangle may be an isosceles triangle, another might be equilateral, still another may be a right triangle. Of these, each may be large, small, drawn with thick lines or quickly sketched on the board with a piece of chalk. However, none of these triangular things are themselves Triangularity or else only one triangle could exist. Furthermore, none of these concrete instances are perfect instantiations of Triangularity. The lines composing them are never fully straight. They are only approximations, and yet we still know what Triangularity is, its properties (like the angles summing to 180 degrees), and so on. It exists in our minds, and in the mind it exists, by necessity, completely apart from any particular, concrete instantiations of it (we may have images of triangles in mind, but the images themselves are not Triangularity itself, something all these images share). It follows that because Triangularity isn’t concrete or particular, there exists in the mind something that isn’t concrete or particular, but universal. But because physical things are necessarily instantiations of universals and not universals themselves, then we have in our minds something non-physical.
29000 people != the whole planet

I don't mean to say that it isn't terrible that any people die because of transport emissions ... but the alternative was to emit more CO2 ... we don't know the exact human cost of that ... but it is not zero.
Do not think it is Google fault they run so much of the Internet and also have most browser and mobile phone share.

Google using the standards process to release new things is exactly what we should want and see. You make it like it is some nefarious behavior. Geeze.

Google has offered things for standards which were changed by the standards group and Google adopted the change.

Google could just keep it all closed if they want. Honestly wonder if they will not in the future with posts like yours. Why do it?
I honestly do not believe that. If it was a good idea, it would be possible to create it in a non-scammy way.

My point is that there is no reason to not have the disclosure and reporting regulations in place. You really have not countered that. And claiming that there is a narrative about protecting people from themselves really doesn't work when we're talking about regulations designed to disclose the information that would allow them to make those decisions.
This reminds my of the most cringeworthy recruitment video I ever saw for a tech company https://youtu.be/CscRkjZ6zDE
Do we know if pinkifying works? I mean, of course as a male I find it hard to support increasing the number of purple headings in the world but presumably people do it because they've had success - right? Just because mature, grown women (who have already been selected for liking the paint tech already has enough to learn about it) aren't motivated by pink and flowery stuff doesn't mean it can't be the weird glitch in young girl's brains that toy corporations have optimized themselves to exploit so well.
Allegedly it tried to buy Casper for $1B but the company declined to sell and had Target invest instead
https://www.recode.net/2017/5/19/15659562/target-casper-inve...
I mistakenly thought the cloud key ran a lesser version of unifi than the distribution found on their website, however googling around implies it's the same version. So I suppose budget for a cloud key or a pi. A raspberry Pi 3 is 64 bit, runs Fedora natively and can serve up other functions beyond the key. So I lean towards the Pi but if they're functionally equivalent I suppose it's down to personal preference.
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It's not the same people. Different people care about different "features".
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We used to call them 'lockers'.
I don't think it's that ridiculous.

When you have tweets like this [0] from politicians it gives the impression that people do actually think like that.

[0] https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/705171336381923328
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Thank you for your answer.

Thanks for sharing your Toptal experience. I was looking at Toptal as well. I don't feel that I am bringing value to the marketplace of Toptal, maybe I am wrong.
As a Software Developer I am very focused on software quality, good coding practices, maintainability; basically I always try create the best and most maintainable solution, over the fastest hacked mess but done (I know it's black and white and reality is not always that easy).
I don't see many businesses looking for that.

Yes I am considering remote work, I see a only few interesting job positions for remote work.

Sorry, but if it is not asked too much, can you name a few portals (or the main one) on which you compete with "tons of other companies", I am looking on https://remoteok.io/ .

If you like you can link your company website, I like to have a look.
LaTeChi?
The internet works by organisations "announcing" the IP ranges they're allocated to other networks (ISPs, other large companies etc.) Networks that receive an announcement will route traffic for those IP ranges to the network that announced them.

The protocol by which this is done is called BGP. The original version of this was created in 1989 and back then everyone involved trusted each other. So there is no security built in to prevent a rogue company announcing addresses they don't own, and therefore pulling in traffic people send to those addresses.

Organisations can and do put filters in place to try and stop this, but because it's not a core baked in feature of BGP not everyone does, and issues can happen.

Sometimes these things are just mistakes engineers make, re-announcing routes they've learnt elsewhere. Sometimes they are deliberate hi-jacks.
The magazine is great as a "New Yorker for Sience," but its non-payment of writers is a shame. Moreover, as Jeremy Kun out points below, quality is bound to suffer for it.

I, along with others here on HN, subscribed earlier this year to help Nautilus with its financial difficulties, so it could pay writers. And yet, many writers are still unpaid.

Is there anyone here from Nautilus who can explain what the heck is going on?
No, hasn't been true for years now.

Putting aside sites like Wix, you can easily start a wordpress site these days in a few clicks.
> Packets delivered to the ISP at an exchange are equally free.
> There is nothing wrong with ISPs engineering traffic to be delivered to them via the closest exchange possible, they just don't get to abuse their monopoly over their subscriber's line.

I don't think the ISP's problem (opportunity) resides in the scenario you're describing. The problem is the top .0001% of Internet destinations congest the ISP generic network interconnects. Hence, these larger vendors (Netflix, Akamai, Cloudflare, Amazon, Google, Apple, etc) either pay the ISP for direct network peering or server hosting to sustain acceptable performance. However, this typically leaves the cost of growing internal network backbone capacity on the ISP. I believe the scenario you are describing would allow ISPs to offset this capital cost to both the big content providers and the biggest consumers.

> Which is solved by discriminating between services how?

The point about torrents and bitcoin is that these applications are particularly burdensome on routers because of the amount of connection requests as compared to a fairly manageable HTTP or RTSP session. As I mentioned above, server co-location and direct network peering is already a thing that many larger ISPs offer on a non-discriminatory basis. However, most new businesses will piggyback on existing cloud hosting (AWS/Google/Azure) or CDN (Akamai/Google/Cloudfront) arrangements.
Pi 3 is 64 bit and natively supported in Fedora.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Raspberry_P...
Related, "How to Ask a Question" [0]

Features always need to be put in the context of the problem(s) they are solving. If a product team is implementing customer feature requests in an open-loop they are doing it wrong. The product designer's job is to synthesize multiple requests, find the root causes of the problems and come up with a compact composable design that knocks out multiple FRs at one time. Simply implementing FRs gets one into a wall of buttons.

[0] http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Always a tricky question for me as a Swiss. It great to think we are awesome with our defenses and stuff like that.

However the reality is that luck has more to do with it. The large scale European balance of power and geography made this possible.

Switzerland is bad for going North to South and if you move East to West its better to stick with the North European plain.

Comparing Belgium and Switzerland before WW1 shows this. Both were ready to defend their borders, and you couldn't just walk in.

However it just so happens that Germany was fighting France and Russia.

In the Napoleonic wars some action was happening in Switzerland (Russian armies in Switzerland) but even then it was limited.
I disagree that this is awesome news for the team at Shipt. The best exit is not always a buy-out; they seem to have been doing great as an independent company. Now they're tied to Target.

I'm mostly worried about what will happen to their existing stores:

> Our shoppers fulfill orders from your favorite local stores in the cities we serve! It varies by market, but we currently shop at your favorite local stores:

● ABC Fine Wine and Spirits

● Central Market

● Fry’s

● Harris Teeter

● H-E-B

● Kroger

● Meijer

● Publix

● Western

> More stores will be offered as we grow! [1]

Given that, I don't see a good reason for Target to have bought Shipt. Why not just sign up with them like these other retailers? Unless they plan to cut these partnerships.

I certainly hope that they follow through on their claim from the article that "It will continue to operate independently and plans to expand its business with other retailers" and not have Target attempt to cut these partnerships.

[1]: http://help.shipt.com/how-shipt-works/what-stores-are-suppor...
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The article seems to say both these things:

- net neutrality is a regulation on ISPs that is bad for business

- ISPs will not take advantage of repealing net neutrality

How exactly is repealing it going to help them if they won't change anything?
Thank you for sharing you experience.

Did you transition to remote work or did you try to move into the consultant direction?
I agree with this, girls that like coding aren't usually very interested in girly stuff. I don't think you can lure feminine girls into coding just by pinkifying it. All of this is just demeaning the profession.
"YOU NEED TO TRY HARDER TO APPEAL TO MINORITY GROUPS."

- 2 seconds later -

"STOP USING STEREOTYPES TO APPEAL TO MINORITY GROUPS, IT'S OFFENSIVE."

I mean, I understand the sentiment, but I can also see why many industry professionals begin to think this sort of thing is a catch-22 where smug criticisms will be levied, regardless of conscientiousness.
Yes a user space thread pool which is what node.js does on top of libuv.
It's outdated enough that even the Enterprise vendors are starting to look at OpenID Connect to replace it.

The draw with SAML was definitely for enterprise requirements -- the main one, as I understand it, was the requirement of sharing metadata out-of-band between the IdP and SP to establish trust. While that sounded like a good idea at the time, it turns out that if your organization ends up needing to trust and exchange metadata with more than a few other entities, managing all those certificates and properly validating them is enough of a pain that metadata aggregators have sprung up to handle them.
I see, that is great advice. Thank you!
Radiological weapons like Russia has used for assassination are different from nuclear weapons.
https://nikhilm.github.io/uvbook/filesystem.html

> The libuv filesystem operations are different from socket operations. Socket operations use the non-blocking operations provided by the operating system. Filesystem operations use blocking functions internally, but invoke these functions in a thread pool and notify watchers registered with the event loop when application interaction is required.
Wow, this is amazing. I've seen kids being told off for NOT having a mobile phone on them at school so they could reach their parents in case of urgency.

It's amazing how mindsets can be so different in different places (and I'm saying all this with no tone of judgement).
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I’m curious. How would it bring about global inflation since almost all of bitcoin is not really used for getting goods/services and people need to exchange real dollars/yen/etc to drive up its price? Doesn’t it actually suck out liquidity from other assets and drive down inflation of other assets?
Thank you so much for all the resources.

"Focus on particular industries or categories of business problems rather than specific technologies."

I understand, thank you for that great advice.
Based on what do you rate equality between the sexes?
Can you elaborate on why you feel this is grasping for straws? From my admittedly limited view point, they see the writing on the wall to compete in the future and know that they will become irrelevant if they cannot offer a competing service. They basically thrive on being "Not Walmart", so it's probably good that they also create a form of same-day that meets and exceeds whatever Walmart ends up with.

I'm curious how this is grasping.
Incorrect. You can on your end but Google stops the people in the middle which is what we want.
Side comment, but I started working for Uber recently. Someone on my FB friendslist unfriended me because of that. Irony was that she works at Palantir. Pot meets kettle
If you lived in Canada or followed their operation here you’d probably take a different view
Many large universities (ones that operate like enterprise-sized companies) also use SAML for SSO within and across institutions.
Note that the transaction sizes, in most cases, do not represent amounts of money moving between parties. The reason for this is because of how Bitcoin transactions are structured. Suppose you have 5.0BTC at an address, and you want to send 0.1BTC to someone else. The transaction that gets recorded to the blockchain has an input of 5.0BTC, an output of 0.1BTC going to the recipient, and an output of 4.9BTC going to a "change address" which is also yours. But if you don't know anything about the addresses then there's no way to tell, by looking at the blockchain, which address is the recipient and which is the change.

(Also, the very biggest transactions represent exchanges and other deposit-holding institutions moving coins from new deposits to cold storage and from cold storage to their hot wallets to service withdrawals.)
Thanks for the link.

It says "ON THE BACKLOG" since October 01, 2014. You have a pretty long backlog, if you didnt implement the second top voted request in three years, out of backlog ;-)
It is interesting to see the trend in the machinery: while the factory is in China, and the brand is Swedish, all the precision machinery, instruments, etc. come from Switzerland and Germany. Güdel, ABB, Carl Zeiss, Kuka, etc.
The more I read Nautilus the less I like it. It seemed good initially, and now it feels like bad pop science. Maybe that has something to do with paying writers. I prefer Quanta Magazine.
This is exactly how our team likes to operate :)

Taking only 'requests' leads to a whole range of potential problems:
- Feature bloat with random one-off buttons and gizmos
- Product teams getting in the habit of ignoring requests if they know that most don't quite fit
- Really complex products (both for customers and internal teams to understand/troubleshoot)
- Unclear roadmaps
- Wasted time. For example, I had a request to build a notification-silencer for specific executives at a company. I recommended that the executive set up email filters instead