skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> every time they strike me as quite simplistic.

Sure but the whole "we need guns as protection against the government" argument is equally simplistic.

> many may be reluctant to go to war against their own country

Perhaps but the enthusiasm with which e.g. ICE officers have turned against their own country does not give optimism here.
Airborn is solid! Graphite is decentralized, where Airborn is not. But that's not to say Airborn isn't a great project.

And for what it's worth, Graphite is also operational :)
If it wasn't for the cats we had when I was a kid, I'd be a different person today :')
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Depends a lot about the data you are collecting I suppose. Not a Lawyer, don't know the use case. Can't really venture a guess on where it'd fall.
Exactly. There's a huge difference between a theoretical algorithm in a book (that performs 1 search) vs having 120 real time units all trying to walk together, or even worse, through each other.

In the 80's and 90's you were lucky to dig up docs from BBS releases that had math and graphics tutorials in them, it was very hard to find anything practical.
There's a huge difference between:

Hi, your service as it is would not be adequate to my use case, here's why if you want to know and possibly change it.

and:

Can't believe you do X instead of Y, what a waste of time, this doesn't help me at all.
https://buymeacoff.ee/bebna

Will keep it in reserve, I have some personal projects in the pipeline who could go over the free tiers of some cloud service providers. Perhaps the users want help me with that.
They admitted to banning bots, which is what they did. If someone doesn't like the fact that bots inflated propaganda that they happened to believe in doesn't make it censorship.
Congratulations on your launch, this familiar tipping model warms my heart as a musician who occasionally busks in NYC subways.

I'd love to see a "Music" category as well as support for recurring donations.

You advertise that it's free, but do Stripe and Paypal's fees get added on on the buyer's side or the receiver's side? Seems unclear. (During checkout is a $5 donation billed as $5 + whatever percent to the donor?)
What are the best VPN servers available on Ubuntu's repositories?
I'm giving up coffee for lent, you just made me miss it a lot more :(
I think Warren Buffet put it best:

"Beware of geeks bearing formulas."
Absolutely go ahead and do it for yourself.

Just don't be surprised if the useful common parts aren't already available as a gem or something.
Nietzsche and Wittgenstein worked to show many (most) of then current philosophical problems weren't. Bias and language were such a big part of problems that when substracting them, they were rendered hollow. So the subject, as it was until XIX century, could very well be called a problem and yes, it was solved.
The ability of the government to temporarily detain and question essentially anyone at any time through traffic stops for minor violations seems like a bigger problem. It seems weird to try and restrain abuse of that power by keeping the police under-informed rather than just eliminating that power directly.
Also

However, fast forward to 2018 and React.js is the popular choice for React.js development.
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Contrary I think to most of the rest of the audience here, my most productive came when I was directly (in the same room) working with people on a specific project.

I find being surrounded by people working on different elements to bring something together much more motivating and productive than banishing all outside disturbances. This might be because marketing is less in need of "the zone" than programming, but frankly, having that direct accountability of working with other people on pulling a campaign together really gets me focused and firing at 100%.

When I'm doing that, I don't seem to get distracted by notifications, bloated software, my phone, Facebook, HN etc...

My most productive period where I was managing a campaign launch, but working with my peers. It skews a bit if you're either managing from atop or below, because when you're at the same level there's camaraderie that makes it just click (great colleagues being a requisite, of course).

[This isn't an extrovert/introvert point either, I'm the latter, and whilst this way of working is draining from that perspective, it seems to be highly productive for me.]
Our rights to EU citizenship are worth fighting for – despite Brexit
You can now deliver your propaganda in war-stricken countries with limited bandwidth. Neat.
"However, fast forward to 2018 and React.js is the popular choice for React.js development."

Huh?
If you asked me this a decade ago I would have said 2003, when I was working 80 hour weeks. But looking back now, in terms of what I accomplished and produced, it was a lot less than I do now in terms of rate-of-production.

I’m writing this on an iPad Pro, which is my computing device for recreational things. I don’t have social media. The niche sites/forums I belong to I can only access from this iPad or my phone. My workstations are for work only and Hacker News and other sites that I frequent are blocked. I disable notifications—no messages, no popups, no email—just work!

In terms of time spent during a week, I spend more time as a single father than I do as a software consultant. My time working is focused and productive but short. On days that I don’t feel productive I tackle the low hanging fruit. On days that I am productive, I go for it.

Sounds like you’re taking the right steps.
Unfortunately (or fortunately) I am flat, but my strategies are not really competing with the broad market... Actually my losing years are at the bottom of the market cycle for some reason...
If I remember it correctly MPEG-2 patents are supposed to expire this year. So maybe it's time for JSMPEG2? (Ok just kidding, the whole MPEG-2 spec looks huge).
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When I was in college I did a startup. It petered our but my schedule was excellent: Friday’s were for girlfriend and social life; Saturday’s were nonstop startup work, and Sundays were for me. I was also taking an obscene amount of credit hours, but I made sure to only deal with that during the week.

The key wasn’t focusing on productivity, it’s balance. When you feel like you’re spending the right amount of time on the people you care about, the work you need to do, the work you want to do, and most importantly, yourself, the productivity will happen. Otherwise, your body is trying to tell you that something is off balance.
There was no paid tier. I created it for the good of the community.
There is no winning strategy. If there was one, you could use it in both direction and get infinite money.
Does someone know how it compares to Wallabag[0] ?

[0] https://wallabag.org/en
Trying to trample opposing political views by force won't end well.
I use https://kanbanflow.com to manage my week.

Instead of classic Todo - Doing - Done, my board is divided into Todo - Monday - Tuesday - ... - Sunday - Done. The board contains both work-related and private tasks. If a new task comes up randomly during the day, I just add it to the board and immediately resume whatever I was doing. Since I've scheduled the new task for later, it's not occupying my mind anymore.

The app has a built-in pomodoro timer. I don't necessarily use it in a strict sense (100% deep work) but I don't do any non-work-related tasks when the timer is on, so it helps me fight procrastination and schedule my breaks.

I've blocked most sites that I identified as time-wasters. My phone is in my drawer on "silent" and I usually don't pick up the phone at all during my working hours.

I've noticed that one of the most important things for me is gaining momentum. If I work 2-3 pomodoros first thing in the morning, it's usually going to be a productive day overall, but if I start with procrastinating, the whole day often ends up not very productive. So I pay much attention to how I start the day.

On a not strictly work-related note, going to bed and waking up at the same time significantly improved my overall life satisfaction. During my last holidays, I took measurements how much sleep I naturally need (~7.5h) when there's no pressure to wake up early. Then I started taking care to always be in bed at a set time (11 p.m.) and get the right amount of sleep.
> I cringed when I read OP's comment where he spammed "I'm completely blocked" in the chat without asking for specifics.

You actually expected that what I wrote was a literal quote from the only thing I ever said during those days? It probably was something more like:

"Tried to run project X but kept getting error Y. I tried to figure out where it comes from but it seems to missing some kind of value it pulls from somewhere. Tried every step in the README and installed twice. I think the information in the README is incomplete and there's another step. Nobody else had to use this repo before here so the guys here can't help me out either. Can you help me out @colleagueFromTheUS1 or @colleagueFromTheUS2?"

After 48 hours I get very specific about being completely blocked and that I have exhausted every way thinkable to get it running. So nobody would be living in the fantasy the problem was going away by just ignoring it long enough.
Ah DRM. Copy music from computer to phone. Try to play music on Chromecast. Nope, "side-loaded" music can't be played on Chromecast...

But you can "upload" all your MP3s to Google Play Music store (like Apple)... somehow they don't ask how you got those MP3s, it's like cleaning up your (perhaps illegally gotten) music...
My History of Visual Studio
> You can always bring in your friend later on when you need a "management role".

Also worth keeping in mind that general purpose managers (as opposed to subject matter specialists taking on managerial tasks) is probably at least ~25 hires out. There's simply not enough to manage to sustain a full time position before then.
It started as one though, IIRC, and later they wrote a new consensus protocol
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Chemotherapy was accompanied with steroids (to help with sickness) which made me stay awake almost all day. Instead of taking more meds to help with sleep, I had many productive nights working on an iOS hobby project.
In the future, JS libs will be popular for 15 minutes.
Most jobs I've been at if you're the first new hire in a while you are going to experience something like this, and it's important that you spend a lot of time adding to the documentation to make it easier for the next new hire.
>Let them go to voat, it was specifically founded for the alt-right [...]

Except it wasn't. It simply experienced more and more waves of users from banned subreddits (which were mainly alt-right related ones) coming in and eventually making an hard right turn on the main website culture, driving out most existing center/left users. It did serve me as a lesson on what external influences can do to existing communities tho.
Very nice to see some activity on the server side of things for Swift. But it would be important that major players really get on board and create some kind of standard. I would love to see something like the Phoenix framework for Swift.
I don't think calling an all stop would necessarily help. Usually people just ask for help at standups
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I cannot recommend anything concrete, all authors are selling either ideas that do not work anymore or just selling the dream...

No one will publish a working trading strategy and even someone crazy enough to do it, it will be arbitraged pretty quickly...

The best way is to buy stock market data and start testing ideas until you find your edge...

All that said, here are the books I usually recommend, more for motivation and inspiration:

The Asian Saga by James Clavell, reading as a kid on how to rule your life, business and create a dynasty...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asian_Saga

More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby - on how to rule the world :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Money_Than_God

A Man For All Markets by Edward O. Thorp - basically the father of quant/systematic trading and one of the greatest minds of our time...

http://www.edwardothorp.com/books/a-man-for-all-markets/
Seems like a more powerful replacement for the nextcloud bookmarks app which I use. But a bookmarklet would really ease the workflow.
It’s certainly a status game (“of course, I don’t have a Facebook account”...), just a weird one.
Also legal precedent--cloud is not 4th Amendment friendly in the US. Our laws aren't keeping up as usual.
During college I had a semester with 5 engineering classes and was the president of an engineering club. I didn't realize when signing up for classes, but all 5 courses had engineering projects worth 25-60% and still had final exams. I had no choice but to suck it up.

I started something I called "12 hours of productivity". It didn't matter what time I got started in the morning, but from then until 12 hours later I was being productive.

* I wouldn't get on reddit, Facebook, or similar sites.

* I could be doing class work, be in class, do club stuff, or study. I would eventually run out of club stuff. Even if I procrastinated with that, eventually I'd have to move on to school work.

* a few short breaks were included

My productivity soared, though I couldn't have done it for long term (years). It got me through the semester from hell though.
Thank you for your reply! I will do that as soon as I am ready to launch my podcast in a couple of months :)
That's a great point. Computers sure have the potential to deal with spaces just fine. But if textual interaction is a requirement, we can only have one of arbitrary filenames and clutter-free syntax.
To clarify, the problem here is Bloomberg automatically turning YouTube's PR statement into their headline. "Mistakenly" is how YouTube's PR copy wants to describe the actions to soften the impact. A neutral headline would have been "YouTube's New Moderators Mistakenly Pull Right-Wing Channels."

Then, in the body of the story, the reporter can report that YouTube's PR department assures us that this wasn't company policy. Instead, they chose to carry the PR department's water by incorporating their PR claims into the headline.

In all likelihood, the "moderators" ban channels they don't agree with on purpose. It may be against company policy for them to that, but that doesn't an honest mistake make. Clearly, company policy and procedures are not geared towards catching these kinds of "mistakes".

Now, actually do not follow these channels, and I am indifferent to their existence. I am more offended by the reduction of journalism to verbatim copying from PR responses.

What if such moderators had banned Bloomberg's YouTube channel? Would this story have assured us that it was just a simple mistake?

PS: For the record, YouTube has the right to decide what content they will host on their platform.
> I also think two pedigree guys from XYZ asset management firm launching a SaaS company will find it easier to raise capital from VCs than a solo founder.

If you can sign and retain customers at ~$15k-$100k/yr with any kind of scale on a product you basically built in your spare time, prepare for your pedigree to come up ~0 times in fundraising conversations.
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ICANN seeking input on ceding control of WHOIS privacy to governments [pdf]
There is also a great need for a secure alternative to today's cell phone OS offerings as well.
Income is taxed
>The real scandal of bacon, however, is that it didn’t have to be anything like so damaging to our health. The part of the story we haven’t been told – including by the WHO – is that there were always other ways to manufacture these products that would make them significantly less carcinogenic.

>The fact that this is so little known is tribute to the power of the meat industry, which has for the past 40 years been engaged in a campaign of cover-ups and misdirection to rival the dirty tricks of Big Tobacco.

This is why their should be better health regulations on food.

It is unfortunate, when the U.S only spends $5.1 billion a year, which is spent across food safety, medical products safety and availability, tobacco regulation, and infrastructure.
(https://www.fda.gov/downloads/AboutFDA/ReportsManualsForms/R...)

Also,stinks that the budget cut it.
(The American Greed Report: Food safety measures face cuts in Trump budget)
[https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/30/american-greed-report-food-s...]
Ok, Thanks for the support.
Absolutely.

The point I'm trying to make here though, which I lightly implied, is that regressive tax systems and distributive justice lead to overal higher happiness.

i.e., if there are diminishing marginal returns of happiness from money, it makes sense that Total Happiness in a country is optimised through a substantially regressive system. That's one of the interesting things about it.
Funny thing is that a US project of nuclear-powered cruise missile Project Pluto has been abandoned in 1964 among other things in order to "not to provoke" the Russians into developing something similar... "against which there was no known defence".
Probably not a system most people would voluntarily submit to, but I'm glad you made the best of things. Hope you're doing well now.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying.

Getting 100% of your subscription is the same thing as getting 1% from everyone out of 100 customers, where only one person (you) listen to that artist (and exclusively).

That 99% of "your" money went to an artist you dislike doesn't matter if 1% of everyone else's money went to the artist you do like. The money doesn't know where it came from, and the artist doesn't care. Only the aggregate distribution matters.

Now I don't know how they do their reward distribution, I'm merely pointing out the flaw in your reasoning.
The funny thing is that I knew the answer immediately upon reading the title. I got the flu (the actual flu) about 10 years ago, and was out of work for over a week. It was my very first staycation, and I didn't have any contact with anyone. During that time, even though as sick as I've ever been, I completed and released my first iOS game (a very zippy direct-to-OpenGL implementation) and added a substantial number of features to my desktop game engine.

It was amazing. I felt so alive. However, at this point, I could (somewhat tongue in cheek) credit this week with ultimately ruining my life and career. I became obsessed with recapturing that feeling, and with finding a way to support myself with my own work (as opposed to the company's work). I quit my job one year later and happily worked on my own stuff for the next 2 years. This began a pattern of living on the ramen budget, being a single hermit, only going to work when I'm broke, and quitting after a year or less. Disastrous. Why, as I write this, I haven't gone to work in over 2 years, and I'm broke again and looking for a job. I have unprofitable side-projects and repos out the wazoo though.

What makes me most productive is when I truly love what I'm working on.
It sounds like you are trying to get a sales person onboard without having to pay him up front and you’re trying to pay a friend with equity. Either you business is viable in which case this a a horrible idea or you business is not viable in which case it’s a horrible idea.

Find an employee that is willing to do high cut sales with a low salary. You don’t need a partner for that. If you don’t feel like setting up the sales engine is up your stream find a partner who’s experienced in running sales for a startup and suggest a partnering deal with him. The first thing he’ll do after getting a big equity cut is find a sales person who will do medium cut sales with a lower or nonexistent salary.
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Don't say “Homoiconic”
Intelligence begins to feel like the set of things which no matter how hard you try, you can't entirely pin down which are core, which are ephemeral, and which have to come together in the absence of direct communication.

Say (hah) what you like about different cultures, we appear to be able to perform remarkably consistent reasoned, abstract interchanges with people we can't actually speak to, purely with stick-figure diagrams and hand-miming. Including communicating the idea "thats a lion, this is a parrot" to somebody who might not have actually seen either but has seen the lion king as a video, and watches youtube.

I totally get that animals are now understood to have introspection, abstraction, abnegation, pride, lust, envy, altruism, you name it, we can show in crude form how animals have it. But, in the end, we completely fail and explaining why a subscription to the new york times is better than only reading four free articles a month. No grey parrot, dolphin or very smart dog appears able to grasp what we're saying.

I love animals, and I feel empathetically connected with animals and as a meat-eater, I have some qualms about my a-moral stance eating obviously highly intelligent animals like pigs. But, and it is a crucial but, there is a really narrow band of communication they seem willing to engage with me in, which appears focussed on very direct basic drives of food and reward. they aren't really into higher abstract reasoning that centers on communication. Maybe they have a rich interior dialogue of abstact thought? Could we know? is an fMRI able to say that its not just dreaming, its having intelligent dreams?

I think they don't actually want to display intelligence to me. I think. I probably believe they can't but I really doubt they even want to. Maybe they're smarter than they look?
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"There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little."
- Charles Bukowski, The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
If it's stored on Google Drive, why not use Google Docs?

If it's stored on Dropbox, why not use any local editor?
Thanks for the other clarifications but this part leaves me confused.

> mostly fund channels with larger nodes because that brings better connectivity (you don't want to have a channel with starbucks, mcdonalds and burger king, you want single channel with a node that invested in having a lots of channels).

Lets take an example. Bob wants to pay Starbucks for his coffee. Alice is running a node which has a channel open to Starbucks.
Now he can open a channel to Starbucks directly and pay for his coffee. But that is time/fees consuming so he will pay Alice, who will then pay to Starbucks on his behalf?

If that is true, doesn't that put too much power in Alice's hand? And if there are some nodes which have heavily invested in cpu/io and coins to their channels, wont they effectively control a large part of the transaction volume and hence make the network more decentralized?

> you will rarely be opening and closing channels, just like you're rarely opening and closing a new debit card.

I get confused every time this analogy is brought up. Sure, I don't need to open/close debit cards but those cards are loaded automatically when I get my salary/income. And the money is not tied, I can move it around as much as I want.

On the other hand, again, as per my understanding LN requires me to commit an amount and I have to make do with it until the amount runs out. So, its more like a prepaid gift card with fixed commitments and a reload feature.
I once walked among London's canals and parks for 8 hours in a day and wrote a script I'd been meaning to write for years that visualised in ascii the degradation of server threads from log files.

Every time I got stuck, I stopped and walked again. I think I only did about 2 hours of 'work' that day, but it would have taken me weeks to do under normal circumstances and distractions. I slept like a log that night.