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It seems like most people come to this sort of thing to improve their lives. If your life is already fine, learning for the sake of learning is great. Most people whose lives need changing are stuck in habits and, speaking from experience, learning can come to replace the time spent on bad habits.

Which seems great, but it never gets applied, and your life continues to have the problems you set out to solve. It's easy to get stuck in a loop: If I just click through to this one article, maybe it'll have the answers...

Personally, I had a breakthrough in the last few weeks when I did the following:

* Instructed Firefox to not save history. Not being able to immediately jump to my go-to distractions with two keystrokes helped break the cycle, and not having sites in history adds just enough friction to keep me away. I also make heavy use of reader mode. This means I'm better able to focus on what I do end up reading.

* Switched to Microsoft Launcher, removed the Bing box, and installed DuckDuckGo. Stories disabled (they're getting rid of it soon anyway), JavaScript disabled. The abundance of sites that completely fail without JavaScript is a great habit breaker.

* Stopped saving articles to Pocket. Now I decide in the first paragraph if it's worth reading now, which is different from deciding whether it's worth reading. Farnam Street (https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/) has been tremendously helpful here because it's almost all good. Still, it's easy to get stuck in a loop reading it. Too much of a great thing is just as bad as too much of a good thing. If I were advising myself four weeks ago, I would suggest reading only the 10,000 or so words of their page on mental models: https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/mental-models/

* Started using Thunderbird's feed reader. It's more tedious to manage feeds, which keeps me from piling every new site I find on to it.

* Mindfulness meditation. I'm not very practiced at it, but saying (in my head) "break the cycle" while focusing on my head helps a bit.

* I make extensive use of Evernote's Windows 10 app. It's fast, and having a place to put ideas I have and read saved stuff keeps me away from the browser. This is one thing I want to have as fast as possible. The longer it takes to access the system and structure my ideas go into, the less likely I'll do it, and the less likely the thought will survive long enough to record.

Basically, I choose my frictions. I put orange cones around the stuff I want to avoid and try my best to clear the way to things that keep me moving forward.
I agree that the latter part sounds very excessive, but I still can't understand how protecting one's legal status in the country they are in wouldn't far and away be the most important thing on their calendar.

Given how long everything takes when dealing with immigration, it's not exactly surprising that they aren't able to accommodate people's schedules.
Wait, they made roton quasiparticles, not actual exotic matter, right?
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They can detain you indefinitely even if you're a US Citizen, but afterwards they will be sending you a rather sizable check to settle the lawsuit you file for getting your civil rights violated.

Unless you commit a crime crossing the border (like getting caught with drugs), CBP does not have the authority to detain a US citizen without probable cause. Refusing to provide a password is not probable cause.
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Southern New Hampshire realistically wouldn't be a terrible spot. Manchester has phenomenal infrastructure, an airport, and the space to support the growth. I hope that they take your suggestion.
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This comment reminds me of the “big fat greek wedding.” Is that accurate?
I didn't claim banking is a scam, I said that people have different ideas about it. You'll get different answers depending on whom you ask. As for me, I don't know enough about finance to judge one way or another.

I am open to the idea that fractional-reserve banking is a scam, because of my experience of human nature, especially when money is involved.

Certainly the history described in the wikipedia article makes it sound like a clever trick the old goldsmiths came up with, and no one the wiser until time and custom had rendered it respectable.

> the goldsmiths observed that people would not usually redeem all their notes at the same time, and they saw the opportunity to invest their coin reserves in interest-bearing loans and bills.

The trick works fine until it doesn't.

> If creditors (note holders of gold originally deposited) lost faith in the ability of a bank to pay their notes, however, many would try to redeem their notes at the same time. If, in response, a bank could not raise enough funds by calling in loans or selling bills, the bank would either go into insolvency or default on its notes.

This activity is different from mining, or farming, or manufacturing, or shipping, or goldsmithing. It's a kind of consensus hallucination (or a hoodwink) that worked and kept working.

Now we could argue all day whether the bankers né goldsmiths deserve to make money this way, but I'm not interested. If it really bothered me, I would start a bank. ;-)

I'm not financially sophisticated. To me, if there's more cash than gold, something's fishy. :-)

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edit: (Apparently I have nothing better to do this morning.)

Let me see if I can clarify my position:

Long ago my friends got into playing Magic the Gathering. They tried to get me to play and I said I would but I was going to make my own cards. (Make photocopies of the real cards and laminate them and play with those.) To me it seemed totally obvious and reasonable. After all, in D&D no one tries to make you only use the official dungeon modules, eh? But my friends wouldn't hear of it. I got kind of mad at them and told them, "You know there are no real wizards at Wizards of the Coast, right?" But they were baka as the Japanese say. Fools.

For what it's worth, this is my attitude to banking: Neat trick, I can't believe people go for it, but whatever.

As long as anyone can open a bank and get in on the "scam" I can't really condem it. Consenting adults and all that.
> It's kinda violating a social contract. Everyone's the product of thousands of people over thousands of generations who chose to have kids.

It's not actually so clear cut. In all times there was a huge sways of people who won't have kids.
Handmaids, sailors, mercenaries, servants, slaves, etc, etc. Some of them could have children but it was never guaranteed.

This was offset by other people who'll have more children. Sometimes it wasn't. At all times a lot of lines will wither. Some vast tribes will be reduced to a few dozen families.

Social contract is XX century construct and obviously unsustainable at that. Once children stopped being source of labor but labor sinks, it tried to also became unconscionable contract. As in, everybody tries to slack off their duty while praising it to other people. It's like with conscription.
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It looks or sounds like one of the us-east1 regions is having issues with the new m5 series hosts... they die and can't be rebooted.
Hydroponic doesn’t taste as rich and earthy as organic soil-grown, but it is not considered substandard. You can get a very high-quality product hydroponically, or low-quality in soil. The people who are concerned are connoisseurs, like the same crowded that would buy local organic heirloom tomatoes and get craft beer on tap.
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I'm the author of the article. As I wanted to point out, I'm not assuming this was something Let's Encrypt did wrong, but rather assumptions in the specification which was not equivalent to the reality.
I am really happy how this all was handled by Let's Encrypt.

I've been thinking about this issue with domain validation for a long time. It is not a solved problem yet. There is no standard for it. There are clearly overlapping techniques from the 10 blessed being used in the wild (Google being one) but the adoption has been really slow.
tl; dr:

1. Joel Spolsky, co-founder of stack-overflow, and well-known software commentator disavows twitter/facebook.

2. Theorizes that twitter's low-character limit leads to misunderstanding, which leads to conflict, which leads to drama, which is addictive to our "rubber-necker" tendencies. Cites personal experience and hashtag wars in a comedic example.

3. Furthers that facebook's machine-learning is (advertantly?) accomplishing the same effect, by selecting for things that elicit a strong response (mistaken as "engagement").

4. Proposes that facebook uses "intermittent reinforcement" to ration out its good content slowly, forcing users to spend excess time on the site to get to the small amounts of interesting material they enjoy.

5. Proposes that these naive attention-optimizing algorithms can lead to much "shriller" political battles. Raises a moral obligation to engineers to acknowledge the large-scale social consequences of simple algorithms.
> It's a huge lesson in selflessness and humility.

We can all use more of these lessons.
> Bind event handlers for the render method in the constructor.

Why not do it right in the body of the class with an arrow function?
Ask HN: Would you pay for a better note-keeping solution?
I know there are dozens of half-decent note keeping apps out there but I'm not satisfied with any of them and I have a dream of creating one that doesn't bother me the ways others do. I feel like this is the best idea I have going and I have it generally mapped out as to how I want it to look and function. I would love to create it and work on it for a long time to come but that would mean customers that pay to use it and I'm really clueless as to how many people out there care enough to open their wallet. I know I would if the product filled my void, and maybe that says enough...

Am I right in thinking that there does not exist a "just right" note-keeping application, despite this being one of the earliest needs of computer users and untold numbers of failed attempts? How many of you would be interested in switching your system for something better and would you be willing to spend $5-10/month to keep and organize all the information you want to keep and reference later if it was fast, easy to use, instantly synced, and pure convenience to pop in, drop some data off, organize, and reference later?
This is a string of non-sequiturs.
Same in France (or at least close).

We have regions and départements. These are formal structures/entities but are never used in addresses (you get a hint of the département in the zip code).

The foreign web firms do list them, usually correctly. Sometimes they mix up the regions and the départements (usually using île de France, which is a region around Paris, and the rest being départements).

This is not harmful (and ignored during delivery) but shows a one size fits all approach
As I am trying to say in the sibling post, though. Metaphors aren't necessarily lazy. It is quite literally how many people think through these problems. Easily put, your best to help them may be to get common footing using one of these "lazy metaphors."

And again, I'm just cautioning if you are offhandedly dismissing metaphor. Tone can be lost in forums, obviously, so don't think I am "correcting" you. I do not intend it that way.
I want to be able to buy devices and CPUs without these so called management features which about 100% of them turns out to have security holes.

If it can be hacked it will be hacked.
0.98 x 73 x 25.75 = 1842 kcal, not too far off
That’s what should be focused on. The primary reason that there are illegal grows causing harm is that there is a mismatch between government cannabis policy and cultural and market reality.
Spot on with the final point. I have 3, now aged 22, 19 & 16. I like to joke that I have parentdar: it's like gaydar, I just know if someone is a parent or not without them telling me. There's a selfcentredness about the childless that gives itself away in a thousand minor tells. It's more pronounced in women than men.
There's no shortage of humans on this planet, and by the time we're retired, automation will have advanced considerably.

We're not some small tribe in danger of going extinct. It's a terrible argument to say someone who doesn't reproduce is a freeloader. We need less people on this planet, not more. We're on pace to have 10 billion by mid century. That's going to be a challenge to support that many people while not ruining the environment in the process.
I'm not trying to be facetious but what if they do ask and you say "sorry I don't have any cloud services" or more realistic "what are cloud services?"

I'm no digital security expert and I haven't ever, and don't ever want to, travel to the US but if I was to travel there any devices I took would be blank. All data I needed would be in the cloud. How are they going to know?
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We were thinking to get target companies list first and then use linkedin search to find companies where we have good 2nd degree connections.

To provide some more context, we are searching for our first private beta batch and we have've got some good leads from 1st degree connections, but we may exhaust them soon. With the number of 2nd & 3rd degree connections it is much harder to target the right people/companies.

Knowing our state, would you still advice us to invest in content vs exploiting 2nd & 3d degree connections to get first customers?

Thanks for your help!
Shipping, in general, does not work well in Africa. So much stuff is stolen, lost, or late. Nobody wants to hear those facts because it might mean something negative about blacks.
Might as well just travel with wiped devices.

If you're a U.S. person the worst case scenario is they keep them anyways.

BUT! if you're NOT a U.S. person do keep in mind that CBP takes wiped devices (and lack of devices) as suspicious in itself, and may deny you entry.
This is fantastic advice. I wish I had followed it.
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> I could see this as educational language for kids.

In Greece we had (and maybe still have, but it has been almost two decades since i was there) programming lessons in high school. For the most part it was laughable (and TBH almost everyone ignored them) but what i personally found interesting was that someone went and designed a Pascal+BASIC hybrid where everything is in Greek. There wasn't any official implementation since this was supposed to be theory only (one of the laughable parts - how are you going to learn programming without actually doing it in a computer?), but some people decided to make their own implementations. I was one of them, but mine never went beyond a simple command-line interpreter which i gave to some of my classmates.

However there was a professor who went the extra mile and built an entire interactive IDE with interpreter, debugger and a full reference (the name of the language is simply "LANGUAGE" and the Greek word for that is the same as for tongue so the icon is a tongue :-P). Apparently he even got some certification from the government about it as being usable for actual learning in schools. You can see screenshots from it at [1]. It is in Greek of course, but it has a fairly simple UI (it actually looks a bit how QBasic would look if it was a Windows program around the late 90s/early 2000s :-P). The main window is an editor, at the bottom there is an "Execution" panel where you see the program output and interact with it, a watches panel for the debugger and at the right you can see a panel with all available commands, a panel with the variables (when in the debugger) that you can inspect and edit and a panel with an input file (IIRC the language doesn't have I/O support beyond some predefined files - it wasn't needed for the educational purpose after all).

There was also a Greek compiler for another Pascal-like language during the late 80s or early 90s (this was unrelated to the "LANGUAGE" i mention above which AFAIK was designed in the very late 90s). It was made for DOS and it came with an IDE that looked a lot like a Turbo Pascal 5.x (but in monochrome UI). This one generated actual standalone executables. I found it on a coverdisk much later but i don't know what happened to that and i can't find it today (thanks to the "LANGUAGE" having such a generic name all searches in Google give me that instead of what i want :-P).

[1] http://alkisg.mysch.gr/screenshots/
>"This simplifies some things since you can allocate and access any physical page without creating new mapping."

I am curious what types of things does this simply for the kernel? When is a physical page allocation ever done that doesn't need to be entered in into a page table entry?
I'm really confused by this : surely if you want to make a data set that has Internet speed binned by county surely the way to do that is as follows:

1. Go to a large Internet services provider (Amazon, Google, Akamai, Netflix).

2. Ask them to statistically sample the TCP flow rate observed in client traffic, by source IP address.

3. Get a data set that geolocates IP addresses to ZIP code (Amazon for example has this data).

4. Join the two.
Sure, if the government in question has the funds on hand or can borrow them. But they can't just literally increase the number of Bitcoin by a factor of 5 [1] in order to give trillions of dollars to people who have demonstrated their incompetence at handling that money.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BASE
Fascinating to read the text and know this was done nearly 120 years ago. Such an amazing genius.
I worked remotely a lot when my kids were young. Awesome taking them to the park at lunch, dropping off and picking up from school. Its just not natural to travel for an hour to sit in a box. Plus I was in the best shape having time to go bike riding or running at lunch.
How robust can a blockchain be if a single wayward service can cripple the network?
This bums me out so much. I really, really love my 2015 MBP and 2013 MBAir and I'm afraid they were some of the last good releases. I hope apple can get their shit together before I'm in the market to get a new laptop.
If you're invested I wish you the best. But here is why I think all cryptocurrency is worthless: It is backed by nothing.

The USD is backed by the courts of the USA, which in turned are backed by people with guns (law enforcement and the military). The YEN is backed by guns. The GPB is backed by guns.

What is BTC backed by? If someone literally steals your BTC, what recourse do you have? There is no court to go to, no one to back it up.

Even the most hard core Libertarians acknowledge the need of a court system and force to back up contract law.

So I will never invest in cryptocurrency because of that. Maybe I'll be wrong and miss out, but that's a risk I'm willing to take.

Distributed ledger is a good thing, but it isn't a store of value in and of itself.
I've worked to mitigate other vulnerabilities within Google. at least with the vulnerability I helped on, I'm surprised at how good the information containment was.

Based on my area of work and job title, I was notified of the software that was vulnerable and to contact them with further info if we used it. I wasn't allowed to talk to others without explicit consent, so I talked to my central contact to find the right PoC in my neighbor teams to know who I was allowed to pull into a room for any joint strategies.

To everyone else, I simply said "sorry. On call is busy this week. I'm working on mitigating an undisclosed vulnerability." No questions asked. To this day I'm still not 100% sure the vulnerability is public so none of my peers know anything more than the time window in which I was distracted.
RWC was created to be "like Crypto [the annual conference in Santa Barbara] but with talks on practically relevant things". RWC is now bigger than Crypto, as far as I can tell (Zurich had 600+ participants). It doesn't have formal proceedings but it does get input from MSR, google, amazon, facebook ...

Highlights for me: MSR has implemented post-quantum stuff (and it works), Spectre/Meltdown of course, google's TLS team talking about trying to test TLS 1.3 and everything that broke as a result, mozilla using F* to verify their crypto/TLS libraries and learning that "encrypted" aircraft (ACARS) communications use a monoalphabetic cipher with one of around a dozen hard-coded keys.
I guess it's all relative , but we recieved about 7200 unique user sessions in 2 days from HN. Let me know when your Show HN is published :)
I'm a remote developer (FTE w/large out of state co.) who happens to be a 40 year old single dad of two elementary school-aged kids living in a one bedroom apartment.

Yet even if I was able to recreate a workplace with my favorite colleagues, ideal collaborations, and the best on-site perks, I would still prefer to be remote most of the time /at this stage in my life/.

Reflecting on this led me to boiling it down to 2 key reasons:
1. I have a natural drive to want to do my best work. After 24 years of working full time (about 20 doing roughly what I do now), I have a good idea of what that takes.

2. Having children changes you fundamentally in so many ways that a meaningful discussion probably isn't possible without considering what that means.

Working remotely isn't perfect (especially during long school breaks...), but it does facilitate most of what I want given the need to trade my time for money.
>In 2015 they redefined it as 25 Mbit/s down, 3 Mbit/s up.

How can that be? That's the same time we achieved net neutrality. That's not net neutral. That's fast lane on download, slow lane on upload. Asymmetric bandwidth is a prime reason why we all can't host our own clouds and social networks.
I have a question: the attacks were apparently found by the authors of these papers and project zero very close to each other. Why is it that a bug that has existed so long was suddenly found by both groups so close to each other? Are there other papers or ideas that this is based on, or was there some other reason they both tried to look for these kinds of bugs?
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Should we deny treatment to, say, skydivers or skateboarders? Race drivers?
I don't know, anecdotally it seems that if I spent X calories exercising, my hunger will adjust until I consume roughly X extra calories.

The energy expenditure does account for waste, I think only about 20-25% of the energy spent is turned into mechanical output
This article is a bit of a let down. They repeat the same thing over and over again. That there are mothers who regret having children, and how they are criticized by some other people as soon as they voice those regrets.

What the article doesn't address is exactly why they regret having children, and what could be done to alleviate their problems. Or how mothers who regret having children differ from those who don't. Is it a personality trait, or does it have to do with the environment? Probably mostly the latter, but in what way exactly?

The topic is interesting, the article not so much.
Let's say they had your device for 15 minutes. Thats enough to disassemble and copy a bunch of data and reassemble. Unless you have whole drive encryption they only need to copy the user folders (typically).

Or your machine might have been in a queue and only looked at for 2 minutes.

Or they might have not looked at it at all.

Now pick a few different timeframes and you tell me how hard it is to know?
There was a session on blockchains and a few well-placed jokes about them in other sessions. It's not the cryptographers who are riding the hype wave at the moment.
I had a rough upbringing too, and my parents (who would never admit to that) were a lot mellower with my sister, a decade younger than my brother and I am and born when my parents were almost 40, so when I was in my 20s I feared being like my own parents and wanted to have kids in my 30s. I didn't worry too much about it and had no idea that the panic and depression would sneak up on me like this.

In your case I certainly hope you don't suddenly change your mind!