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As sure as it's still a developer's market and FB controversy doesn't erase technological accomplishments of individuals. Those accomplishments are easily untied from the politics of the situation.

You may lose a small amount of jobs that would come your way, but you'd still likely have dozens of offers to choose from from companies that don't view you as 'tainted'.

Software engineering doesn't have the same ethical consequences and motivations as other fields (medicine, law, etc.). It doesn't make much sense to punish the engineers when you invent ethical standards after-the-fact.
"the Noldor, the kindred of the Elves among whom were numbered Húrin and Túrin Turambar"

Um, not quite. Hurin and Turin were men, not Elves, at least according to The Silmarillion.

Speaking of which, has anyone who has read the Silmarillion also read The Children of Hurin or Beren and Luthian? Are they the same stories with more detail? Do they change the basic stories told in the Silmarillion?
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With hacker news you can't be productive, if you use it whole day. Also avoid the trap of productivity porn you have to decide for your own self what pace and things work for you nobody else can't. You are just being an information junkie by reading article like this.
Does CoinTracker support ethereum (smart contract) multi-sig wallets?
That depends on case by case. You might have been lucky
Unfortunately, very few people have the option to only work on things they enjoy. Even professors get stuck doing things they don't want to do, and that aren't valuable, but there is no choice unless you have at least a few million in the bank.
If login becomes quicker and less disruptive it might make sense for websites to default to expiring sessions a lot faster. If all you need to do is scan your watch or press a button on your USB token it doesn't matter if you have to do it 10 times every day. If that's still not enough websites could ask for confirmation for every potentially sensitive action.

Of course there's only so much you can do if your hardware is compromised, you can just try to mitigate the issue as much as possible and hope for the best.
Also good points - plus, it's not very compassionate to let a knee-jerk negative opinion color my view of other peoples' actions without having heard their opinions.
Agree. I think Pinot (from Linkedin) and Druid would also provide a good solution.
webauthn helps with phishing in the same way that U2F does: by binding the keys to specific domains/origins. A phishing site hosted at gmailsecurelogin.com can still steal your password, but the security key is not going to produce anything that's usable on mail.google.com as a second factor.
I think APL is for "a programming language", not "another programming language".
Learning just the js language takes one day if you are an experienced programmer. It's a very small language.
When has it ever happened before?
Even more so for USB-C. Strange world when a cable is not a cable.
But your browser already does that.
Agree to disagree. These might not be production ready, but any novelty has to start somewhere before it becomes matures enough for wider adoption.
I see no conflict.
I'd like to agree wholeheartedly about reading articles makes you feel like you're doing something wrong. I feel this way about almost all non-technical work books and articles and tend to avoid them.
People who come from DSLRs and then whine about Sony ergonomics should give film cameras a fair shake. I think it's a familiarity thing, and most people shoot zooms from what I've seen. After shooting film cameras predominantly for over a year, my transition to a Sony a7 has been amazing. It's so tiny that it fits in my jacket chest pocket. Small camera means I have it with me more often and can take more photos. In terms of size and balance, I find it similar to my film kits.

Try shooting prime lenses instead of zooms. By cutting down your lens, you have to change your image by walking around instead of zooming, and I find it to be a more pleasant experience. Besides, primes have a faster max aperture than zooms, so they are amazing in low light. Zooms are distracting, heavy, and obnoxious. Useful for sports and potentially some journalism, but for portraits, art, and street shooting, a few primes are my favorite way to go. 28mm, 40mm, and maybe up to an 85. But I tend to stick with 40mm and 57mm primes for a day out on the street. Quite compact, especially the 40mm.
Interesting view. IMHO your approach also maximizes 'productivity' as the output of your approach is a 'product' which has high utility to you but may not have same utility to others. If the utility it generates for you gives you more fulfilment than the utility which 'productivity' in traditional sense does so be it.
So let's get rid of security questions and we can just carry on? There should be no harm in disclosing information which is already known by dozens of people, like your mother's maiden name or your first pet. Going around and telling everyone "keep your history concealed!" is just silly and will get you the tinfoil hat label, making any future security advice useless.

I typically agree with him but this just seems like attacking the wrong problem.
Instead of being wowed by Sam Altman's title (president of Y-Combinator), you should look through his previous posts to gauge whether his advices are worthy.

some gems from before:

On China: "The other stark contrast is how much harder people in China seem to work than people here, and how working hard is considered a good thing, not a bad thing."

http://blog.samaltman.com/china

On Speech

"Earlier this year, I noticed something in China that really surprised me. I realized I felt more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing than in San Francisco"

"but it’s possible we have to allow people to say disparaging things about gay people if we want them to be able to say novel things about physics"

http://blog.samaltman.com/e-pur-si-muove
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This is in the pipeline. I wanted to gauge interest in the app before investing into too many features, so I just built the bare minimum feature set for it to be useful.
I will pass on a resume that includes Facebook.
What would the light source be?
Tetrachromacy does not necessarily imply the ability to see UV colors. There's a non trivial number of women that are tetrachromats[1] and they can just see more shades in the same color spectrum as most people.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140905-the-women-with-supe...
Because the Web Authentication API is built in to the web browser and uses unique credentials for each origin, it's not possible for a user to authorize a login session for a domain that's different from the one they're _actually_ browsing at the time.

If I visit g00gle.com and sign-in using the Web Authentication API, my browser is going to use my credentials for g00gle.com, not for google.com; unlike me, it _can't_ be fooled by similar-looking characters.
I think you mean that we'll come to accept it, correct?

Much like we accept that most people say 'USB' when they mean memory stick, or when someone says the word 'microwave' we assume they are talking about the metal oven that cooks their food.
BEAM is the virtual machine for Erlang, for those who were completely lost reading this like I was.
> Fasting is tremendously helpful to productivity. Nothing will hinder your performance like a huge meal in the morning (especially one high in carbohydrates)

This seems to be really getting popular. What's the science behind it? I'm curious if this is mainly anecdotal or if you did some research before jumping in.

My 2 cents: as an endurance athlete and student of nutrition, skipping breakfast seems like a bad idea. Those calories get burned and put to use relatively quickly, at least compared to a meal later in the day, like dinner (with the caveat that this does depend on your metabolism and when you're most active).
Thankyou, my friend ;)
If you set an income standard, sure, it's relative, but you aren't "relatively" starving, or "relatively" infected with parasites because you have no shoes. Those are real problems that have nothing to do with how society choses to view innequality.
Sure you are. But I dont pat consultants to learn on the job. Those people were consultants and while I'd rather fire someone who didn't learn anything during a year internally, I'm definitely not paying a consultant to learn what s/he has been sold by his firm to be an expert on.
About time to remove the non political correctness about this subject.
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Some presentations and/or papers:

[1] 'Introduction to JPEG XS - The New Low Complexity Codec Standard for Professional Video Production', Fraunhofer IIS & intoPIX SA, https://www.ibc.org/download?ac=3823 (pdf)

[2] 'JPEG XS, a new standard for visually lossless low-latency lightweight image compression', Fraunhofer IIS, http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/N-479925.html (login and/or paywall) (pdf)

[3] JPEG XS workplan from 2016, JPEG, https://jpeg.org/downloads/jpegxs/wg1n71031-REQ-JPEG_XS_Call... (pdf)

Essentially, a low-loss, partially-wavelet video format heavily implied to be applicable for pro video, in the vein of VC-2/Dirac.
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I'm in at 9 or 10. In our remote offices, the devs are often in by 8am (partially because that's the only time of day when our hours overlap, and thus the only time when live communication is possible).
In-place writes invalidate checksums. It is theoretically possible for an in-place filesystem to have data checksums, but maintaining them would require reading the entire block to regenerate the checksum on every write (I consider reads from cache to be reads). That largely defeats the purpose of doing operations in-place, which is to avoid that overhead. Maybe it would make more sense on btrfs (because it’s metadata structures can become horribly unbalanced) than it usually would on a convention in-place filesystem. However, the code would need to do gymnastics to achieve that without risking subtle reliability issues. That is something that I would not expect many filesystem developers to want to maintain. The btrfs codebase is complex enough (more so than ZFS despite having fewer features) without adding that.

By the way, partial writes from power failures are impossible to correct on in place filesystem designs without writing everything twice. CoW has performance penalties, but not so much as in-place designs when it comes to ensuring integrity. The complexity of doing CoW is also not that bad. It is how virtual memory works in every modern computer system, minus some rare embedded systems and ancient/unikernel designs that lack it. Doing CoW in storage is not a particularly strange thing.
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Given how popular it is for politicians & the general public to lambast the entire financial industry (esp. post-2008 crisis), I'm honestly surprised that the criticism of Silicon Valley didn't begin sooner.

I remember having a conversation with a friend a few years back about how many people in the tech/startup space have embraced the exact same elitist culture (i.e. "We're smarter than you so we can do whatever we want") that made people highly critical of Wall Street. This conversation was in the wake of a startup literally dropping cash into the streets during a tech conference.[1] Despite this, startups & big tech companies alike were getting a free pass from the general public because they make "cool products" that people like to use every day.

My friend told me, "You know how much people love to hate bankers? Silicon Valley is next." Prescient words.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/dreamforce-15-salesloft-shoot...
Seems very unclear if you could "instruct" true AGI to do something.

So you are claiming that by making this statement you are not assuming that it is impossible to control an AGI?
"TENS differs from traditional operating systems in that it isn't continually patched"

Uh-oh. They argue that this is not an issue since the drive is read only, preventing any persistence of malware between sessions. However, this still means that there are known and fixable holes in the system which are exposed in using TENS; just because the malware goes away when you reboot, doesn't make it ok to allow malware in in the first place.

Also, what about literally any hardware security threats, like physical keyloggers or any evil low level software (bios, eufi, etc)
I used CoinTracker this year to help me figure out how to report cryptocurrency on my taxes, and felt like it was a total ripoff. $50 for a two line csv file? Give me a break.
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Deleting your account is not sufficient; even having never created an account in the first place is not sufficient. Facebook will compile and maintain a "shadow profile" on you regardless, using data uploaded by other users and gathered from external sources. (See https://gizmodo.com/how-facebook-figures-out-everyone-youve-...)

At some point Facebook stopped being a social network and started being an intelligence agency.
So, what you're saying is that you find it hurts your productivity to read productivity articles, so you try not to put yourself into the position where you have to read them?

On a more serious note, I feel like "maximizing" "productivity" on things you are passionate about is largely wasted effort (unless the thing you are passionate about is "maximizing" "productivity")...
What I like about this list is not so much the content, but the underlying message that Altman got to this point by experimentation and iteration.

There's sometimes this hidden cultural idea that wildly successful people became so successful simply (by luck and) by being super good at what they do. I think Altman classifies as successful by most common measures so I find it refreshing that he apparently wasn't born a super disciplined mega productive robot machine person but that he improved on his flaws by iteration and reflection, and that he still has productivity issues that he's unhappy about. I bet this holds for many "famous" business people even though they're usually not portrayed that way in magazine articles.
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Tresor means safe in german so maybe he is a german that substituted the z in trezor
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As long as I am fairly happy, I optimize for impacting the world in a positive way. This is because I think this a good proxy for long term deep-rooted happiness. I have found in myself and in others that optimizing for happiness is hard to do without focusing excessively on short-term happiness which leads to hedonic treadmill effects or even in some cases addiction.

Given that you are fairly happy already, optimizing productiveness will allow you have a greater positive impact on the world. I think this is why other commenters have mentioned that optimizing productivity can be a proxy for optimizing long term happiness.
> At minimum, when I have to run blacklist filters to avoid my third party web traffic ending up logged on Google or Facebook servers

But you just admitted you can route around them. Let me know when you route around your ISP.

Your line of thinking is basically the ISP narrative of "Hey web companies are doing lots of bad stuff, why can't we? And why can't we do so without building any product or anything anyone wants?"

ISPs could build or help fund products that protect your data from Facebook/Google etc more easily, and those will pop up independently. But ISPs don't actually want to protect your data, they lobbied to get access to it without innovating or building products, they just want your data not them, it is a dangerous game that could really backfire on them.
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In case anyone else was curious like I was, these have been compiled by Tolkien's son, Christopher Tolkien [1].

Of all the fantasy authors I've read only George R.R. Martin of the ASOIAF series spends nearly as much time world-building. Even then, Martin is still a world apart from Tolkien in my opinion.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Tolkien
That's great that you've got a set of principles that you live by, and are able to stick to them. However, your principles are not everyone's principles, and what you consider moral and ethical is not universal. Grellas had a great comment on working for the military industrial complex a few days ago, that I think is worth a read:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16759324
The Church of Productivity strikes me as a very American kind of religion. I personally value being productive on things I care about, but I've worked hard to unlearn this general protestant-work-ethic, no-moment-wasted, anxiety-driven desire to be a Very Productive Person.

One of the interesting things to me is how long this has been a part of American history. In the excellent history podcast Backstory, one episode covers time and sleep. [1] I had known that before the electric light, most people spent time awake in the middle of the night, sleeping in two sessions ("first sleep" and "second sleep") of a few hours each.

But what I hadn't known is that part of what drove the change to one-shot sleep was moralizing busybodies in the 1800s, known as the "Early Rising" movement, who thought it was slothful to get that second tranche of sleep. They were sort of like the temperance movement.

[1] https://www.backstoryradio.org/shows/on-the-clock-4/ and in particular the "'Til Morning is Nigh" segment with historian Roger Ekirch.
For me, it's not so much that they cheapened anything but that I never found them terribly interesting. Both The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings were great stories (for the most part) set in a richly imagined world. But that doesn't mean I want to plod through hundreds or thousands of pages about the background mythology in great dry detail.
Why this pressing need for productivity? Ambition. If you have ambitious things you want to achieve, they're probably going to take more than just ambling along.

An athlete who wants to win races is going to run at a faster pace than he'd find comfortable if he were just going for a run.

This pattern holds true when your only opponent is the difficulty of the problem.
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This was that best I could find from a few minutes of searching.

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This is from Apple's Repair Terms and Conditions: https://www.apple.com/legal/sales-support/terms/repair/gener.... It doesn't say that the product will stop working, but it does say that Apple isn't responsible for fixing it if it goes wrong. I'm not sure if that could be extended to them not having to support your third party component in software, though.
I feel similarly. I've had basically all my data on ZFS/ZoL for 8 years at this point and have not had any problems except occasional system lockups when scrubbing. This has not happened for the last year or so.

For a while it seemed like ZoL was working hard to catch up with the "official" ZFS feature set, but at this point I hope they take it slowly and carefully and really beat on new upgrades.

The more stable you are, the more important it becomes for a FS to not screw it up, since the consequences get larger with a larger user base...
Oh man, someone advocating for right to repair but linking an AMP article on HN? Surely this will lead to some fun discussion
Your comment made me wonder how deleterious it would be to a top university, say, Harvard, to add an extra student to each major track every semester that expressed a strong genuine desire to attend but could pass no admissions threshold. Lets say the costs were covered by me, personally. Would 50 majors * 8 semesters = 400 extra students† who didn't pass entrance muster really negatively effect the operation of the university or change existing student's access?

Your point about gatekeeping of resources that don't cost anything (perhaps for prestige?) is very striking.

† There are ~20k matriculating students at Harvard currently according to google so this increases the load by 2%. Also I totally made up the 50 major tracks figure. Just a guess.
Sure - you can absolutely still just write an index.html file and toss in some script tags. You can even do that with React (see https://raw.githubusercontent.com/reactjs/reactjs.org/master... ).

But, most modern JS apps have some kind of a build step, and the build tools themselves are all written in Javascript. So, you need Node to run those tools, in the same way you'd need the Python runtime to run an app written in Python, or the JRE to run an app written in Java.
In addition to all that I don't think there are non-addictive pills that increases non-REM sleep. That's the most rest full phase of sleep. I would be so happy to be wrong.

Sleeping pills gave me the feeling of being notionally asleep but actually conscious and awake underneath. Lot of REM sleep but hardly any of the non REM variety. That's why I gave them up very quickly. They only made a bad situation worse for me.
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Structs on the stack I pass by value. Structs on the heap I pass by pointer. It's a mental thing that I find helps with large codebases.
It's definitely anecdotal as-in based on my own personal experience.

I fast for a few reasons:

1. Breakfast is not necessary, so skipping this meal saves me time in the morning. I already gotta worry about getting ready, feeding the dog+antibiotics, taking him out to pee, etc... one less thing to worry about.

2. Fasting for extended periods while in a ketogenic state accelerate fat loss. (the primary reason I fast)

3. I have noticed performance benefits with skipping the meal. (the cherry on top)

Really excellent guide: http://burnfatnotsugar.com/intermittent-fasting.html
I wouldn't know where/how to start with benchmarking nghttpx, nginx and Caddy; but it would be great to see performance benchmarks of the 3 in relation to h2/gRPC.

I wouldn't mind switching back to nginx as its config was easier to manage.
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If one link of the chain is broken, it's game over. While this is a good effort, my point is that not considering the entire system as a whole simply transfers problems from one part of the domain to another.