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I completely agree with you, but as someone as have gone multiple times for 10-day courses what I like best about that is the organization/community as a whole, I learned a lot from serving maybe even more then just sitting actually my first glimpse of Jhana was while serving, you also have access to a very experienced teacher to talk and ask questions, and that its all free and the food is excellent, so really helps a lot. If you are able to do a course by yourself I have no doubt it can be a much deeper dive into reality.

Something that is in the core teachings of Vipassana for me is that everything is just a matter of perspective, there is that no-judging perspective where you find equanimity everywhere.
Right. Bots aren't going to pay. But a user might pay $9/year for all websites. Websites don't have to pay for the service either. The more websites that use the service, the more cost effective it is for users (since they pay once for all sites), and for websites (since the likelihood that the user signing up already has a RealPerson account and doesn't need to pay anymore).

This is the primary way to prevent bots, but there still are secondary means like IP address, credit card, behavior pattern than can be used to detect bots. But with estimated millions of bots operating on Twitter and Facebook and elsewhere, the bot operators are not going to spend millions of dollars on RealPerson accounts.
Sure they are still important, but isn't everything that CAN be made into a web application made into one? Just because there are so many advantages: The applications travel with you, no need for manual backups, more secure (I try to completly avoid clicking on exe files on Windows), no installation/maintenance required.

And don't young people use YouTube/Amazon Music/Google Play to listen to music these days?

I'm a developer so of course I still use a lot of desktop apps, but for the normal user, the only thing that rivals the convenience of web apps are Android/iPhone apps, but nobody enjoys writing those.. So perhaps they will get replaced by something based on web technologies too one day.
If you make it foolproof, the world will just create better fools.
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Actually that makes a lot of sense, it's not that we need to have RSS replace Facebook, we need a resurgance of forums to take back from Facebook.

Perhaps if forums could talk to each other you'd have an experience more like mastodon, but in concepts that more people understand.

Something like an open source Stack Exchange network. So you can log-in to one of them but then easily create an account using the credentials of the original forum that you signed in from.

Edit: I know discourse [0] is kind of working along these lines, but I don't think they're designed to have activity between forums.

Perhaps it could just be called 'Friend Forums'.

[0]: https://www.discourse.org/
Was in the US a few times, can confirm. Mostly in conference spaces, but, things like breakfast / lunch was heavily sugared bread / pastries, mid-afternoon snack was corn chips (the name escapes me atm, doritos?) covered in sauce (which I assume must've been intended as melted cheese?), that kinda thing. A colleague ordered a salad at a restaurant, he got a huge bowl of pasta salad.
You want an “intimate Internet” with its own search capability to restore the feel of the early web? Probably we should make sure it’s easy for less technical people to use. Needs a good story around mobile and rich media.

Oh dear, we’ve reinvented Facebook!

Seriously though, I think this is more about community than technology, and more about channel saturation than centralization.

I think the best shot for what you want is the re-distributed web and niche social networks (subreddits?). The peer-based web stuff will give you that feeling of being ahead of the masses on tech, and subreddits for your favorite hobby will let you connect with people who care about your random thing.
Maybe not, but that quickly becomes an hour long + lunch and usually people don't take more than half an hour for lunch - because if they take longer they have to work longer.
Routers and NAT only protect against incoming connections. If someone can force your computer to make an outbound connection there is no protection.
Every layer of abstraction introduces additional complexity, and more significantly, possible error cases. Observe how the given code has a path to handle JSON encoding/decoding errors. If you use a plain binary protocol, that's not even a consideration.

I know it may be a contrived example, but what happens if you try to send it several MB of JSON, well-formed or otherwise? Examining the code more closely, I notice that it only reads up to 4K at a time, and there is no message framing, despite using stream-oriented TCP. It's going to get very confused if it gets more or less than one exact JSON "message" per socket read. If you modify it so it does do framing, then the question above still holds... what happens if it runs out of memory, etc...?

All questions which are completely avoided by a simple "read 4 numbers from the socket and set positions" protocol. Code in which error cases simply cannot occur, has no need to be afraid of even a fuzzer feeding it input. KISS, YAGNI.

(The larger point I'm making is that simplicity is often surprisingly easy to apply, yet rather undervalued in these times of preferring more abstraction. Of all the easily-exploited IoT out there, I bet the majority of them would not be so if some simplicity had been applied to their design.)
This article [1] has been posted on HN before but not everybody has read it so I thought I'd mention it here. If you scroll down there's a paragraph where Dan talks about 144 Hz gaming monitors. Shocker of Shockers (not surprising to me, actually) the Apple ][ has far lower latency than a modern PC, even with one of these monitors. When actually measured with a high speed camera, a CRT refreshing at 60 Hz still has lower average latency than a 144 Hz gaming LCD.

I would expect the NES to perform similarly to the Apple, since it has the same CPU (6502) and also uses a CRT display.

[1] https://danluu.com/input-lag/
Ask HN: Should you fund your own startup?
I was reading this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16798887) as I'm in a vaguely similar position... numbers aren't the same but relatively speaking it's the same situation. I've recently quit a high-paying job to co-found a startup.

In short, we weren't happy doing what we were doing - too much management BS, had drifted away from doing the real tech stuff, so when an opportunity presented, so we did it.

We've no doubt made a ton of mistakes already... we by no means either have financial security yet (mortgages/young kids and are in an expensive location.)

We're currently bootstrapping by contracting (pretty much the old job without any of the fluff) until we have enough in the bank that we can 'do it properly' (i.e. paying the bills 80% of the time, 20% of the time spent on building our own stuff which will hopefully in time become the business.) and can fall-back on savings if we need to.

To the point: in the comments of that thread, someone said:

"... [you're] starting a business completely the wrong way, you never use your own money. This is what investors are for..."

We're fairly well known in our area (non-US financial centre) so when news of us leaving the old company got around, we had a fair number of suitors - pretty much just offering us a ton of money to go and do something... anything. There is only a small tech/investor thing going on here but there is a strong desire and decent government backing.

Ultimately we decided we didn't want to be owned by a fund and have to report to shareholders so early on. That's what we were doing in the old place. Our preference was to wait until we had a tangible thing that we could take to these investors and get them to back that rather than them effectively buying us.

So... are we doing it wrong way as the comment suggests? Should we take the investment, ditch the contract work and pile in to the startup, and protect our own savings?
Sorry about that. I figured most would get it was a lighthearted reference, and not groundbreaking quantum research that would change the world as we know it. Even so I made the first words after the title be “I might have the definition of “quantum entanglement” wrong.“, to try and make that clear. Oh well, I’ll get it right next time. Thanks for the feedback.
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Again you keep talking like insolvency was inevitable. It wasn’t. It happened because politicians misused the funds.

I’m bored of arguing with you though. It serves no purpose because you are just regurgitating right wing talking points.
Except that everybody knows that the "fake" phone number prefix is 555: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_(telephone_number) ;-)
Side note: If there's one tech support job for friends and family I don't mind doing it's helping them replace the slow modem their ISP is "renting" them.

I was paying $60 per year for a DOCSIS 2 modem. Replaced it with a DOCSIS 3 for $90. Huge speed boost for almost free.
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The problem usually lies in UX.

Most projects attempting to "fix the web" as admirable as it be, suffer for pretty bad UI. Usually because the UI designer was also the developer.

I'm also guilty of this.

A recent project that got around this was Mastodon and Pleroma, both have pretty decent UI/UX.
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My team (me + 3 others) are distributed around the world, everyone is in a different time zone, and most are opposite me.

A few simple rules makes it work:

Only hire “self starters” who you trust to get the job done. This is most important.

Then small operational stuff:
Don’t ask to ask. Don’t ask to call. Everyone has Skype open, if you have a question, just call. If you can’t take the call immediately IM back straight away, or call back straight away.

Everything in trello.

Everyone has a “downtime” card in trello. These are tasks that you can go on to if a clients work is waiting on something, or you’re held up. These are kind of like your 20% time things. Can include non-coding activities (swimming, biking, whatever)

I’m gonna push you to grow, that means you get autonomy, mastery and purpose, but I expect excellence in return. Give me the best of you, and in return, I will help you grow and achieve whatever life goals you have.

Have fun! We joke and laugh a lot.
Text is a way to build an AST.

GUIs are a way to build an AST.

You can add, remove, transform those changes, and track that history. Music software, Unreal Engine's blueprints, and other node-based programming environments have been doing this, in some cases, for decades.

Saying that 'you can't do data science is a GUI' explains more about the speakers lack of understanding of GUIs than it does about their knowledge of data science.
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> Is Excel not a GUI?

Yes and Excel is horrible for Data Science. You have hidden data and to be honest almost every complex spreadsheet has at least 2 errors in it. https://www.forbes.com/sites/salesforce/2014/09/13/sorry-spr...
Maybe this[0]? I'm unaffiliated but have found use in it.

0: https://www.careercup.com/page
> Sure, but the way I look at it is if the application runs on the desktop, server or mobile OS, then it's not a web app.

Yes perhaps your definition is clearer. But the point remains that "web technolgies" have expanded tremendously in scope. And that it does not suffice anymore to look at "View Source" to become a web developer.

Because today the field of web development includes things like electron and you want to bring your application to as many devices as possible, with as little development overhead as possible. And this is what users expect, it's just not possible with the 90-style web.
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You say this, but it's currently trendy to vaporize and inhale flavored antifreeze (propylene glycol).
Oh, now that's interesting. So does that mean the app gives full access to all the products and deals available at the bar? Does it include guest beers/ciders?

The reason for asking: I drink real cider and Wetherspoons fairly consistently sells it (most pubs don't), out of a bag-in-a-box in the fridge. But the majority of Spoons meals are now sold on a "meal+drink" basis. How you buy this with a real cider is something that perpetually perplexes their staff, and seems to vary from pub to pub.
I am told that if you back up on it, you hear "Paul is dead".
I recognize this annoyance you have and would say just that everything else that comes up during the retreat (annoying person next to you coughing all the time etc) is part of the exercise. Observe and accept your reaction and keep on practicing. It is all part of the process.
This does not mean that you have to accept all the contents of the discourse as truth or correct or agree. You are listening and meditating, use it as practice.

And no one's going to bust you for not participating in chanting.
Yes, but what you need to be able to predict is how the market is going to value your stock in $N years.
Knowing that you have cool tech coming down the line, or that your colleagues are way smarter than your competitors', etc, might give you inside that analysts lack, but it rarely qualifies you to predict how the stock is going to perform - particularly in a large enough company where the pieces you see are small picture relative to the overall performance of the company.

It's also easy to get blinkered, and deceive yourself into thinking that the company will be successful despite the warning signs that those outside the company might see.

I worked at a bank during the GFC. And it was easy to believe (perhaps correctly, but that's irrelevant) that we weren't really in that much trouble. We were solvent, we were diversified, we weren't exposed to sub-prime, etc. But the market took a beating to us. And it didn't feel like that was justified. But that simply didn't matter. The stock was in free fall, and even if we were right and the market was "wrong", the market is always right because that's what sets the value.
If you could afford to take a long term view, then the price recovered, and it wasn't the end of the world (though there were definitely better performing investment options). But I had colleagues who were leveraged against company stock and were getting margin calls every second day.

Which brings me to my second reason for hating to hold stock in my employer - those colleagues couldn't sell their stock due to insider trading rules. They had to find the money for the margin call, because the fact that they had "much more information and market insight" (as you put it) actually meant they weren't allowed to sell.
Holding (public) stock in your employer is a big risk because even if you see the price crumbling, you may not be able to get out, and you just have to take the hit.
50 years ago people who smoked didn't care about the adverse effects mainly because they didn't know the dangers.

As people who know the dangers of poor privacy choices we should protect those who have not had the opportunity to consider it yet.
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I agree.

Just because a thing exists (the FDA or taxes for instance), doesn't make it a good thing.
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Worse, linking to Amil Dash's article on medium [1], of all things, makes complaining about oligopolization of the Web kind of inconsequential.

[1]: https://medium.com/@anildash/the-missing-building-blocks-of-...
I'd like to also add that not only does Dat / Beaker / Bunsen offer a great way to decentralize the Web for existing users, it also makes it more affordable for billions of other people to browse and host websites because you can sync websites P2P over offline wifi. The use of cryptography under the hood guarantees users don't get hit by man-in-the-middle attacks. It's like SSL for offline.

*Disclaimer: I am a volunteer contributor to Bunsen Browser.
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Where are you getting this treatment from? Did you directly ask for it?
Maybe a "Web Ring" that promotes such sites in honor of old web rings. Stamp your site with the minimalism stamp of approval.
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I'd kinda like to reinvent the "web" as a TUI. Like, every site is just a program compiled to a portable bytecode that interfaces in terminal codes and you'd "browse" it with a modified telnet client. No more bullshit styling you can't read supported by 200 javascript dependencies that refuse to let you click buttons if you have the audacity to be behind a dns filter, no more style over substance, no more animated gifs, no more advice animals, no more endless over-engineering to see who can do the least with the most resources.
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There's already such a thing. Local subreddits, Facebook groups, GitHub issues etc. They all have their regulars. I'm fairly involved in my community with http://allaboutberlin.com/, and I've made a few IRL friends just writing for that website.
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> the pet owner forum doesn't exists

They are increasingly moving to FB Groups. It's a good tool for what it does.
BAH is a leech on the federal government. I’m not even sure what they do, other than sucking $M in project management costs while providing nothing.
And yet a lot of people smoke.
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The cost could be considered as paying for the training and use of their facilities, since it's not a "here's a room full of parts and the manual, now do it yourself" type of thing.
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> The internet in the 90s seemed more fun and more open. Perhaps it's because the only people really participating were not interested in abusing sites or people. It was mostly nerds sharing nerdy things. Once money got involved, and free everything was available, it turned into this soup of bots, trolls, AI, fake this and that, big money, swaying public opinion, and gross content.

The 90s had fair share of the above as well:

* bots: I used to write bots to troll 90s HTML chatrooms (I was young and an idiot). IRC bots have been around since forever at well.

* trolls: trolling is older than the web. Platforms like IRC and newsgroups used to be rife with trolls if you wondered into the wrong place or said something stupid to the wrong people.

* AI: this isn't really a web problem but more just a natural advancement of technology. I mean we had bots in the 90s so you can bet if AI was as far along then as it is now then we'd have seen AI then as well.

* fake this and that: this has always been a problem. Let's not forget that Snopes.com was launched in 1994.

* big money: The web definitely attacks big money now, but even in the 90s some businesses were sinking huge quantities of money in the bet that it would pay off big. Probably the most famous example being Amazon, who were founded in 1994.

* swaying public opinion: I agree here. This more recent trend of using user identifiable information to target persuasive pieces (eg what Cambridge Analytica were doing) is very worrying too.

* gross content: shock sites are nearly as old as the web itself. Goatse, for example, is so old it's now part of the mainstream consciousness.

* spam: Spam on forums is less of a problem now than it's ever been thanks to new techniques in user verfication (captcha and similiar, developers more aware to validate users with an activation email, etc). And spam email is an order of magnatude better now that it's been in years.

* sock accounts: To be honest I think this is another area where they were more common then than they are now. This time I think it is due to the current trend of using real world identities. In the late 90s it was particularly easy to create sock accounts due to how easy it became to create a multitude of free email accounts (eg Yahoo Mail).

* very often lose out to the big sites: this is where I think the biggest shift has happened. People seem less interested to stumble on new content than thye did in the 90s. Of course this might just be age bias on my part; I was in college in the 90s so had both the time and the social crowd to stumble upon random stuff online. Whereas these days I'm older and look for different requirements from the web so for me I look to it more as a tool than a toy.

I'm not saying things are better now nor then (actually I do kind of miss the 90s web) but there was definitely still a darker undercurrent present even in the 90s.
It's still possible: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

When I made All About Berlin, it was just HTML and CSS. Nothing complex there. I eventually added Disqus and Google Analytics, but it's still possible to build simple websites.
> He wasn't likely lying as he was under oath, and his very competent lawyers would've advised him strongly against perjury.

AFAIK he was not under oath, but even if he was, that's quite a naive statement. Many statements given to congress under oath are provably lies, and are never pursued.

The hearing was scheduled for one day, with hardly any time for any follow up to any question or any real debate. It was for show, not for discovering the truth -- and given that (and that it was known in advance), I suspect even if he did perjure himself under oath, nothing would have become of it.
I was overwhelm by the answer and had to share it. Sometimes the depth of discussions/answers on stackoverflow baffles me.
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It was interesting to see how it all panned out. A bunch of walled gardens, to openness, and now we're back to some form of walled gardens again.
Sounds like subreddits.
A classic that is relevant today as it was 20 years ago. Thank you for the repost, it's a good reminder to (re-)examine what I'm doing these days in a larger context.

"..plan for growth with help from users. This is a win for you because you have help. This is a win for the users because they get to have their say and get to bend the growth to their needs."

"Parts of the language must be designed to help the task of growth. A good set of types, ways for a user to define new types, to add new words and new rules to the language, to define and use all sorts of patterns — all these are needed."
I certainly hope that people do not get practice braking as hard as possible without locking up the wheels during everyday driving. Everyone 'learns' it when they first learn to drive but without frequent practice it is not going to be your immediate response when you get in a situation that requires sudden very hard braking to avoid a collision. Modern ABS is probably better at braking than 95%+ of people that aren't race car drivers ESPECIALLY in the situations where it's actually needed and people are probably panicking.

What you refer to as ESP is usually known as ESC where I live and it's also been mandatory here for a while, agreed that it is pretty incredible. I can definitely see it giving people a false sense of security especially in low traction conditions like snow/ice/rain.
In some countries in Europe it's already possible for a psychiatrist to request (legally) such preparation from a pharmacy and they will prepare it.
Legend has it some first responders are carrying ketamine nasal sprays as a first help for depressed people wanting to commit suicide. I wonder if it's true.
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Isn't this basically Reddit?