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> I have no idea why people include Netflix and not Microsoft.

Netflix pays outlandishly well - which is why engineers include it on their list of big companies.

Leaving that aside Netflix is a giant: $150B market cap as of this writing. The term "FANG" was created by TV stock pundit Jim Cramer to describe tech stocks that have done particularly well over the last 7-8 years[1]. Maybe he felt MSFT's stock performance wasn't that strong or that he couldn't make a catchy acronym if he included it?

1. https://www.thestreet.com/story/13230576/1/what-are-fang-sto...
Zuckerberg fell for the "blockchain all the things" meme? Kinda reinforces the counter narrative that he's not a particularly gifted founder or CEO, just a guy who got really lucky.
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Actually the military is far more about the smaller team bonds SF even more so i.e. don't conform to grooming regs use first names.
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> Basically there are two solutions,” Polanyi wrote in 1935. “The extension of the democratic principle from politics to economics, or the abolition of the democratic ‘political sphere’ altogether.” In other words, socialism or fascism.

This article is predicated on using democracy as a synonym for constitutional representation, which it isn't.

Democracy literally means rule by the people: majority rule. If you can't get married because you're gay, that is democracy at work: the majority doesn't like some aspect of your life, and that's that.

Democracy can be de facto a form of fascism.
Very similar situation as you. Kid will love to hop on my lap and play with the mouse. He's even participated in a few conference calls! Luckily, his grandparents are nearby so I will drop him off every single day. Huge peace of mind and doesn't get in the way of work. I'm considering day care now as I don't want to continue to burden the grandparents (they say they love it, but they have lives too!) Is day care an option for you?
You represent him as taking religion over family. This seems counter. And a false divide. Rather, he seemed to push to use religion to strengthen self. Strengthen self to strengthen family. Strengthen family to strengthen society.

Again, I don't necessarily agree. In large, I think he is familiar with a different nihilism than I am. I grant, however, that he probably knows the topics better than I. I certainly plan to dive deeper on it. In large because I disagree.
Nobody needs a social network anymore

This sort of comment is why people in tech are very often seen as being incredibly bad at solving non-trivial social problems by people outside of our industry. Somewhere between a third and a half of all the people on Earth see enough value in social networks to use one regularly. There are plenty of problems with the way networks work, and what they do to our mental health, but the notion that no one should use them any more is plain stupid.
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The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

I was not prepared to read this book when I did, and its ideas have haunted me since. They have kept me awake many a night.
But is not the case that it inevitable that it leads to large amounts of corruption. As we can see that in the real world many of the most economically free governments are also amoung the least corrupt.

It seems to me that any system of economic organisation that has a goverment will have some level of that problem, its absolutly impossible not to have the problem in concept.

The question is what system would you want where you can effecivly minimise the power of these effects. I would argue that having a small less powerful governmnet that is bound by rules (constiution for example) is the most resistant.

As soon a government gets bigger monitoring gets harder, oppertunity for corruption get larger, negative effects of bad regulation have larger scope and so on.
Do you have anything to back your assertion that the data from the Equifax leak is being actively exploited in this manner?
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> At the same time, measures need to be taken in the office working environment to ensure that individuals can be productive, which means providing quiet working spaces, enforcing do-not-disturb rules, etc.

For me, this is the key point. We do NOT have a quiet working space. We are disturbed constantly. :-(
During my time at Wanderu we set up Filebeat on all app machines, forwarding json logs to Kafka, and then on to ELK and Pipelinedb for analysis/alerting/session killing/ etc.

It worked very well, as there are almost always application edge cases that should not be blocked immediately with Cloudflare or at a FW level.

ELK was used for exploration and/or setting alerts on thresholds that we had found/defined beforehand.

Pipelinedb was used to run continuous aggregates on a stream, augment (pop json log lines off a stream, enrich them with Maxmind, etc) logs in "realtime", and immediately surface malicious behavior. We'd then programmatically kill sessions or add Cloudflare rules upstream, based on the behavior that surfaced in a Pipelinedb continuous aggregate.

Wanderu: https://www.wanderu.com/
Filebeat: https://www.elastic.co/products/beats/filebeat
PipelinedB: https://www.pipelinedb.com/
have been working from home for almost 5 years. i travel 2-3 times a week for meetings so try to schedule all mtgs during those days. doesnt always work, sometimes have to travel for a half day, or do random calls throughout the day, but nowhere near as distracting as random interruptions working at an office

i track my productivity and am doing productive work ~65% of the time. i used to use pomodoro method but now sort of do extended pomodoro (45 min on, 10 min off), with 1.5 hour break midday to exercise and eat lunch

my gf lives with me but works away from home. when she gets home i either stop working or go to starbucks (small apt so not really fair for me to enforce silence / no distractions while i work)

i just have a desk and a monitor / keyboard / mouse from my old job. but ive had months long stretches working on a coffee table with just a laptop which is generally fine. just use iphone and default headphones for calls
I more or less have ONLY worked from home for my entire work career, so my experience might be different than most.

Like many of the commenters here I think the following are key:

#Creating Time for Work (work hours)

- This could mean setting hours for yourself, closing a door, getting yourself in a certain mindset. Setting clear expectations for others in your life that you are 'mentally' at work even if you are physically present, this is ESSENTIAL.

#Creating Space for Work

- I've worked at home through remodels, nannys, and guests. If you have a one room apartment, and a few kids, working from home is likely impossible. However, if you have at least two rooms with some separation of space. You can close a door, go to a coffee shop, or generally find somewhere where you won't be distracted.

#Creating time and space for NOT WORK

- This is probably more of a challenge for startup founders and work-a-holics but if you don't. You will not be productive. period.

#The ability to focus and prioritize work

- I am blessed with the ability to block out distractions when I am at home, and be very focused on what is going on, on my computer. I have no idea how to describe this to others, but I can often miss comments from my wife, text messages, etc when focused on a task.

#Some basic nuts and bolts:

- You need good internet
- You need backup internet (I have both a Verizon hotspot, and LTE on my iphone)
- You need an employer and coworkers who understands that working remotely requires a vastly different set of communication protocols than working in an office.
I guess same with Amazon they are trying to make brands commodity so that they can extract maximum value out of their supply chain.
Yes, I did spend time writing a comment about a topic I care about. I do not want to spend time circumventing a site's desired mode of operation for an article I am only moderately interested in.

>so we could waste more time that that reading it

No need to be nasty about it.
Thanks! A system after my own heart, it even uses a Merkle tree instead of a blockchain <3

Does this have a system that allows users to keep ownership of their personal data?
I just received a message back on Twitter saying that the whitelist wasn't the fix and they are still making more changes.

This is seriously denting my continued belief in Google's security chops. I know they have some of the finest security researchers on the planet but this was handled in a ham-fisted and ineffective way so far.

And best of all: without 'partner' status you won't be able to check if has been fixed.
> anything decentralized is diagonally opposite to what FB is, not sure how they will pull it off

Exactly - when you have the might and connectivity of Facebook, and everything you could want to do with a blockchain you could do much more easily with a centralized SaaS-based currency like steam credits or MMO gold, why would you strap yourself to a difficult to administer and control public blockchain architecture?

Blockchain is a thing that makes sense when you have no central authority for tracking state. There’s zero overlap between that and Facebook.
You could always turn on do not disturb and allow calls from your contacts.
Quick question - what are the terms of the $100k funding? (grant, SAFE, equity, loan, etc ?)
This bums me out. I always liked the idea of two companies in complementary spaces working together toward something and maybe merging some day far in the future.

Instead we’re trying to make each other trivial.
Yuval Noah Harari's books, 'Sapiens' and 'Homo Deus' really changed the way I look at things.
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That disables notifications.
Some of it is just a matter of associating the name “Telemarketer” with a phone number. I still see those calls, but can immediately identify them.

Stuff it’s more confident about gets blocked outright. I think they’re automating what they’d do if you went into your account and manually blocked a number.
Not every. Facebook has particularly good circumstances for launching one.
1) When competition is allowed to enter the market, we eventually have an equilibrium where the right number of competitors is producing a good or a service at the best price and highest quality possible. That is capitalism. When concentrations of wealth are leveraged into political power, you have cronyism in the government. That's not a fault of capitalism itself.

2) The wealthy cutting their taxes does not necessarily mean the social safety net has to be dismantled. You can have lower taxes and a high safety net. It all depends on what your tax revenue is and where you spend it. The US has trillions in tax revenue coming in every year, and yet we had something like 60 billion dollars of medicare fraud in a single year, exorbitant spending on useless military ventures, etc. If we slashed wasteful spending and fraudulent activities at the governmental level, we could afford a lot more safety net with less tax revenue.

The issue is that cronyism in government results in government only ever being satisfied with getting by with more funding and more budget, and never less.
Look at the vocabulary and reading level used to determine the target. It pushes a narrative right out the gate and uses a story format with fancy fonts to reinforce it.
But those small increases aren't apparent unless you're using the product many times a day - chicken and egg. The issue is that for many products in this class, churn is so quick that you need to be convinced to stick around long enough for the decreases in friction to actually have time to accumulate. Hence marketing spend.
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That's not an issue though if we're talking about the browser UI, as there's no way for a website (malicious or otherwise) to obtain secret image data from the browser.
H[acker] and non-H are the U and non-U of the 21st century!

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> but it's also clear that most families are run as communes

Hunter-gatherer groups also operate on a cooperative basis where food sharing is an integral part of their social organisation. The trouble is whether this sort of model scales beyond Dunbar's number, something that few political models seem to take into account IMHO.
Mm... no. Retry to change the title. If it doesn't work write to the mods: hn@ycombinator.com
Sure, but HN is civilized, Reddit is not.
> Get cut off, select another ISP (or mobile data).

Comcast customers would like to have a word with you.
Well guess what. Your "sense" of what "should" be in them has no place in computer SCIENCE.

Computer SCIENCE is that ugly thing that tells us that three-valued logic gives rise to 19683 distinct binary logical operators, while two-valued has 16.

Computer SCIENCE is that ugly thing that tells us that if you want a computer language over a three-valued logic to be expressively complete, then you need to implement all of those 19683 logical binary operators one way or another. In the worst case, that's 19683 operator names for the programmer to remember. And you come here claiming that it's "trivial" because you have a "sense" of what the results ought to be ? That proves just one thing but site policy probably won't allow me to spell that out.

(In case you were wondering what the 16 names are in two-valued logic : they aren't needed because the system being two-valued gives rise to certain symmetries that gracefully allow us to reduce the set we need to remember to just {AND OR NOT} (or some such) which beautifully parallels the way we communicate in everyday life.)
"Too many" is subjective, but I would say they are quite few. Gmail has over 1 billion users. We hear stories like that, what, once year? Sometimes twice?

I'm not opposed to government regulation (I support the GDPR, for example), but I really don't see Gmail bans as a problem needing intervention.

YouTube banning videos is more concerning, but how would you regulate that? And which government decides what rules apply, considering that YouTube is international?
I wish there was more data on the subject of alternatives to capitalism to make comparisons. Really it's most likely any conclusion is in vain with only half of the picture. The best we have is china and the soviet union and those are faulty sources at best considering none of them actually had a socialist economy. Any other systems come from small societies without known large nation scale examples.

Maybe democracy is a fragile construction at its core or maybe all political systems have an inherent fragility to them.
I'd rather stay home in that weather ;)
> Quiet environment doesn't exist at open offices. :(

fixed that for you
A pair of these: https://www.amazon.com/Bose-QuietComfort-Acoustic-Cancelling...

...and this: https://www.simplynoise.com/

Works great at the office too, or on the plane/train/etc
i don't have to worry about the distractions so much, my wife works from home now also, but we have separate offices.

barring that the one thing I would advise is trying to get out every once and a while. since I have an infinite amount of work, and cook meals, its entirely possible to spend a week without leaving the house.

I find my productivity goes down pretty drastically just sitting the in same spot day after day.

taking a 30 minute walk in the afternoon helps alot

if I get up and do something else involved, I may not get into the right mood to start working again afterwards, which is another hazard.

still working that out
Those who have power can freely take wealth e.g. taxation but those who have wealth cannot freely take power. Corrupt politicians might treat power as a free market commodity; but that's still corruption and not a market.
Gladly. But I am not a scientist or start-up founder who may have a better insight into the subject.

When I registered with social networks at the beginning of the Web 2.0 hype, it was all exciting and new. There were many offers and most companies (MySpace and Co had no idea how much potential was available for advertising and marketing). After that came Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc. That's when it all got more professional. You went from a user to a customer, from a customer to a record with which you could earn money. It's getting around and everybody's jumping on the $$$-train. Youtube is like a TV channel, only that runs more advertising there and Instagram can also be seen as a advertising portal. Facebook dug its own grave because it became too greedy. Since only old people hang out on Snapchat, nobody wants to go there anymore. Not even my little nephew wants to join a social network and that's the point where I see it as a bubble that burst.

Social networks are like alpha versions of open World Crafting Games on Steam. there are hundreds of offers, but nobody wants them anymore.
Sometimes tweaks like these might only save 10-20 cycles, which in a vacuum doesn't sound like much, until you consider that before the tweak, it started at 26 cycles and is now 6 cycles, and it's called 50 million times every second, which is a savings of 100 million cycles per second.

For games, this can mean a higher frame rate. For data processing, it can mean the data gets processed significantly faster. It's especially important for things like video encoders, where even a 1% savings in CPU time can translate directly to 1% more potential revenue for the same operating cost at a company that relies heavily on video encoding.

Yeah, saving those cycles doesn't really mean anything to a beginner, but they can be a huge savings for high performance computation applications.
Does it come with a 3rd party API? :)
To be fair, it's arguably easier to do anything right if you have a benevolent dicator who knows what's best for society and doesn't care too much about whether people disagree.

The problem is finding anyone who's truly 'benevolent' or would stay as such once they've got power. It's the same issue we see with a lot of systems; in everyone was a perfectly rational, decent person who only did what was right they'd be a utopia, but that's never the case.
The New Testament along with some history of the early Christian church in Rome.
> It is a similar thing with the EPA and FDA, if a corporation meets their requirements, you can't sue them, even if they are polluting your town.

Do you have a citation for that? States, cities, and individuals sue all the time. Saying you met the federal standards may be part of the defense but it’s not immunity.
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Is this sarcasm? I can’t tell. If it isn’t, I want to cry or laugh or both one after another.
Vagabonding and Tim's book planted the seed that is responsible for my immigration to Mexico.

I'm not yet successful on the front of making money off my own projects, but I was successful in pulling the trigger and finding my own adventure in life instead of feeling like I was slaving away.
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> In capitalism, people are given the ability to create value to their fullest extent.

In capitalism people have the ability to create value to the extent they have the capital to do so, a requirement which excludes most people from achieving what they could.
They have a single process which manages IO, you communicate w/ it by passing messages. There is never any contention because it's never shared. Of course, there are trade-offs involved with this decision, but it's a really nice architecture.
Are there sources for that claim?
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Yeah, I feel you. Used to read a huge amount. Found myself zoning out and reaching for my phone to check (ironically) HN, or my email. Solved by turning my phone off and leaving it in another room. Checking it becomes more effort than not checking it - habit quickly broken.
What we have today throughout the world is a mixed economy: a blend of intervention and freedom. You're exactly right that laissez-faire has never been fully tried: we've come close at various points and various places.

There have been industries that were free of corruption and meddling even though the larger society was rife with corruption. I'm thinking of the Scottish banking system in the late eighteenth century because it was completely unregulated. Its example showed what laissez-faire might look like in that sector.

Silicon Valley in the 80s, 90s, and 00s was similarly left alone. We all saw how it flourished and almost entirely stayed out of politics.

The American constitutional system provides an excellent approach to limiting corruption through checks and balances and enumeration of powers. It has plenty of loopholes and those have been exploited from inception on.
What model of TV is that? I've been looking at going to a larger 4k screen for a similar reason, but am wary of the increased input lag all TV's seem to have (the dreaded molasses feel of the cursor).

Would love to find a screen around 43" or so without the lag.
how would this work? if users own their own data, do you have to query them for data every time? would this be horribly inefficient ? I mean this as a technical question about how blockstack works. if you start caching or storing users data, then there is nothing stopping you from mischief with it, right?
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The big difference being that right wing extremists routinely kill people in the US, while black activists don't?
Ha! That's funny. :) But not entirely accurate. The word "democracy" comes from the word "deme" which essentially a group of individually weak people who band together to make sure that they're all represented against other groups.
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew Crawford.

I've often questioned if spending 8+ hours a day writing software was the right thing for me to do, when I get so much more gratification from physically manipulating something. It was a welcomed read.
That's pretty cool - do you have a picture of the setup?
Aguilera might want to use their own site from time to time, seeing that the links in the middle of the page point to localhost:8888
Just chiming in to agree with the other posters. This behavior can be corrected.
Somewhere between a third and a half of all the people on Earth see enough value in social networks to have signed up for one at some point.

Somewhere between a third and a half of all the people on Earth use a product designed to addict them.

I agree in general though - they can be useful, and they can fill a real purpose.
Do you use FB to share those moments? Wouldn't be other tools better for that? Even when is owned by FB seems to me that WhatsApp would do a better job at this.
" but you can train your children not to bother you"

It really depends on the age, I'm struggling to get my child to poop in the toilet, I'm not sure he's ready to learn not to barge into the office when he knows his dad is in there.