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I actually meant to say there are no experts in the field of HN participation. I accidentally dropped the no and didn't notice it before the edit window closed.

On a different forum, the lead moderator retired, but then stuck around and de facto retained a small unpaid staff role. I think it has had a poisonous effect on the site.

It would be wonderful if pg could continue participation as just a member without it going weird and problematic places. But I don't think that's very realistic and I feel he did the right thing for the health of the forum.

Though I certainly understand why some people miss him.
Last year’s model.
This doesn't answer OP's question.
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I'm not sure what Silicon Valley has to do with this apart from headline clickbait. The TL;DR is "China is trying to integrate HK, Macau and the rest of the coastal economy into a single conurbation like Kansai or BOS-WAS but it's hard"
Yeah it looks like its trying to compute thousands of filters stacked on top of each other. Photoshop would take a while to do that too. But safari shouldn’t be able to out of memory so hard it takes down the device.
>if the startup is successful you_might_ make $10m

if the startup is the next facebook, sure. But usually an employee doesn't make 10 million, even for 100 million dollar(+) acquisitions. Founders do, but that is a different game.
It's the speakers that is the limiting factor, by an extremely wide margin.

A cheap DAC can produce around 16 bits and 20 kHz. It's not difficult. A pair of $10 earplugs is much more limited in what sound it can physically play.
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Native iOS and Android Apps:

iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hackernews-yc-reader/id13423...

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fynally.ha...
>But Apple isn't the top selling phone any more. It's the Galaxy models.

The iPhone rarely was the top selling phone and never had the majority of the market (though it was of course a single company against 4-5 other companies anyway).

It was the phone that caught most of the top end (pricy) market and almost all of the profits, and it remains that.

That said, not sure what's this "isn't the top selling phone any more" is supposed to mean. The headphone-jack-less iPhone X killed it in the market:

https://www.cnet.com/news/iphone-x-was-best-selling-smartpho...
Point is, that in relative terms, Gates' donations absolutely _don't_ cost OP more than they do Gates.
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> Also stereo pics are still cool

Not so much when they're in the stare-into-the-distance configuration rather than cross-your-eyes, and the images are uncomfortably far apart for your inter-ocular distance.

FTFY: https://i.imgur.com/jBhWrUY.png
#brightprospects: Generation Z is already having an impact on the economy
Yes. It's Gmail.
Google. In a few years you’ll have a million in the bank and then you can afford to roll the dice on any startup that catches your interest, if you still want to.
I don’t think there was just one, because what anyone contributes is a combination of a few abilities and efforts.

Steve Jobs has himself repeated several times during his career that it’s the intersection (or marriage) of technology and liberal arts and humanities that makes Apple’s products great.

The first core competency was this vision — combining liberal arts and humanities with technology — explains the what, why and how of Apple’s most liked products.

The second core competency he had was a deep attention to detail, though it can be argued that there were several bad products/issues and releases despite that.

The third core competency was communication and presentation. Here too, one can read about the effort and attention to detail that goes into preparing for keynotes and product announcement events.

To sum it all up, these enabled him to make technology seem like magic but yet relatable and useful in enriching people’s lives — whoever they were and whatever their profession. One example of how broad this has been treated is the emphasis on accessibility in Apple’s devices and software (compared to competitors). It wasn’t about the size of the market or market share alone.
I gather OnePlus is removing the jack in the 6T though.
This is the best guarantee any company ever gives.

For smaller companies if something becomes too expensive or hard, they just go out of business. For larger companies, they have to draw the line somewhere. You won't get stronger guarantees from anyone, that would be insane.

Google definitely has a history of turning down free services when they're proving unprofitable, but that's only free services. There's no history of Google turning down paid services without good notice that I know of.
Really cool!

Similar but to be solved programmatically is the codingame.com marslander.

https://www.codingame.com/training/expert/mars-lander-episod...

Good luck on the 2018 js13kgames competition!
Can you give out referrals?
I wasn't talking about you specifically. The people I'm referring to are self-proclaimed CTOs of companies that don't have funding, nor a board.
How do you find todoist vs other to do list products? I've been looking around for a while for one to settle on. What is your usage like?
It's a good example, but it's a better fodder for argument if you take out the word "intimate"

I don't want my grandchildren or anyone else to have or reproduce intimate photos of me, sure, but I do want the progeny to be able to freely make copies of photos of me in my glory days, for a school project or shrine or whatever. Meanwhile, say, I would like to be able to tightly control distribution of my own image as long as I am alive.

If I used one of the DRM mechanisms available today to add a technical protection preventing unauthorized reproductions of my image, ... I don't think I have to say any more, you get the point right? Whatever incentives you have today, Copyright was never meant to protect them exclusively, forever (but the current law, since DMCA and Sonny Bono/Mickey Mouse, does essentially allow for this, protection in perpetuity and without exclusion.)

Fair Use was a protection introduced in 1976 extension of US Copyright law specifically with the idea of preserving for posterity and other uses with a social benefit in mind.

Until much more recently, honoring posterity was always an explicit part of the "social contract" provided by copyright protections. After a reasonable span of time has passed, those protections should expire so that future generations (or even sooner, other cases provided for by fair use) can benefit from the work, in a historical perspective, or any other "fair" context.

At one time, nobody could stop you from traveling across a border with a copy or original of some artwork without physically standing in the way. There was also a time when "exploding copies" were science fiction, or maybe the stuff of spy movies. None of these protections for public domain are effective now in an era where these capabilities are real and available to the masses for general use.
Old =/= obsolete
similarly: wireless microphones for blogging.
Many of the products Google has already shut down would easily have passed a reasonable good faith judgement that they were too expensive to keep running. I don't see how this would be any different. I know that "reasonable good faith" is a legal term of art, and I'm saying that I don't think Google would struggle to meet that standard if they needed to shut one of these services down.
This. He was a scammer even for small amounts, even when he didn't really have to be.
What support have you required? Will they tell me why an email for marked as spam? Because it marks my domain which clears all ham tests as spam...
Some more resources for learning more about tmux:

- The Tao of tmux [0]

- A minimalist guide to tmux [1]

- Benefits of using tmux [2]

- tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet [3]

[0] https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux/read

[1] https://medium.com/actualize-network/a-minimalist-guide-to-t...

[2] https://blog.bugsnag.com/benefits-of-using-tmux/

[3] https://gist.github.com/MohamedAlaa/2961058
Google (and any MegaCorp) will siphon out any love you have for your profession. Go startup.
And neither do all the other replies saying "use fastmail" or "use gmail"

At least this one is furthering discussion
I don't because 23andMe didn't flag it in the first place, disconfirming it was an order of magnitude cheaper than his interactions with the supposed adults turned out to be and didn't involve any catch-22s or bullshit reasoning (a geneticist should know that family histories can be wrong and de novo mutations exist, and anyone with 2 brain cells to wire together should realize the incredible value of learning you have early-onset AD rather than paternalistically dismiss it as useless data), and the DTC companies are approaching 10 million customers with few major issues - not that this could be called a major issue in the first place.

> implications on the already strained healthcare system?

The healthcare system didn't do squat. That's kind of the problem here. In fact, if we're going to discuss the system as a whole, I would point out that not sequencing everyone is immensely costly and a major failing of the healthcare system, as testing would pay for itself just in terms of better dosing of drugs like warfarin. There shouldn't even be a question of learning whether you have early-onset AD, it should already be known.

> Meanwhile 23andMe makes billions selling the data to pharma?

They don't. The deals are in the low millions as far as is publicly known (and if you're referring to GSK's recent investment in 23andMe, that wasn't a sale). And if they are, it's not clear whether that makes 23andMe even net profitable (they're at >$1b in total VC), and even if they have revenue, that doesn't mean their investors have made 'billions', and finally, if they did, good for them, because that means they created value by subsidizing DTC testing for almost a decade, cut through the regulation, and created a large useful database on par with the UK Biobank, which wouldn't've happened otherwise. (If you don't believe me, ask someone how useful the Million Veteran Project has been compared to 23andMe or UKBB; or just do a site search on biorxiv.org...)
I only started using tmux like half a year ago, and now it is the first thing I start when opening my terminal.

Really improves development with cli tools.
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I wish there could be a transition period of, say, 3 product cycles on the phones where they had BOTH lightning and USB-C ports. It would be a little ugly and take up space (presumably side by side), but would make the transition a lot less painful. No real chance of Apple doing this, though.
The smarmy answer would be "because it's working".
I highly recommend the Telegram API - it's simple, robust, and you can definitely build something simple and educational within ~100 lines of code.

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api
I never saw the need to configure tmux.

I have tried to configure bash for better use it (including launching it automatically) but then gave up due to not enough gain. But I never saw a need to configure tmux itself.

I can't say the same about screen. At a minimum, there's an inherent incompatibility between it and emacs.
Does Google really pay that well?
Where did you base that "10 rays are more than enough" on?
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You aren't owed a full airing of and engagement with your views in the venue and on the topic and terms of your choosing.

This was something I wrestled with for a long time, in part because I've had a lot of great personal relationships in which hashing everything out and making sure both sides get really heard, etc, is the norm. And it simply doesn't work on a public forum.

Another thing I did for a long time was just reply to everyone who replied to me. I felt that was the polite and respectful thing to do. In meat space, it is unconscionably rude to refuse to reply to someone who has addressed you directly.

But this isn't meat space and in practice it often winds up looking pigheaded, obtuse, fighty and like one is refusing to back down when you do this on the internet, in part due to lack of voice tone, facial expression, etc.
Are you already using it? Looks great - I'd like an invite if so.
Sure it does. Get loud, ask what value the seller provides, all while suggesting to anyone nearby purchases made here are dubious at best.

They will deal. Always do.

Yes, doing that is not nice, but neither is inane profit seeking and finger pointing.
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- Director, Drivetrain, Melbourne, 1 employee on LinkedIn

- Director, Glass Echidna Pty Ltd, Melbourne, 3 employees on LinkedIn

- Director and CTO, Snaploader, 4 employees on LinkedIn
I was going to switch to this, but they don't have integrations for my companies email. I really can't wait to try this out though.
That is bad ethics, not bad technical skills
I have to buy PSN credit off eBay or get my parents to buy it because I moved from Ireland to the UK. I stopped playing world of Warcraft when I moved because I couldn't find a way to pay battle.net after I moved. It's insanity.
Works on iPhone SE w/ iOS 12 latest public beta.
Apparently, Bundles will be added as well to Gmail.
I was totally on the hate train with how ridiculous it was to remove the headphone jack, and how unnecessary Bluetooth headphones were...

...but once I got my first pair of Bluetooth headphones and realized I never need to deal with tangled/frayed/broken/caught wires again, I'm never looking back. Charging turned out to be, surprisingly, a non-issue.

I'm totally convinced Bluetooth headphones are the way forwards, and it's silly to have a jack for old tech. And for the small x% of the time or x% of the users where things like latency or line-out are needed... there's a dongle, it works perfectly, and it's fine. And if you need to charge at the same time, get a dongle that charges at the same time.

That's the whole point of dongles -- a smaller/simpler device for 90-99% of people, at the cost of a tiny bit more expensive/complex solution for the remaining 1-10%.

Feels like the right tradeoff to me.
The iPhone SE has a headphone jack, and is affordable. A great little phone.

Now Apple is killing it.
Shutting down Inbox was the last drop in an already full bucket of Google failures that pushed me to start migrating everything Google that I am using currently to other services. For email/calendar/contacts, I am currently evaluating Fastmail. I like it for now, simple and fast and I like the multiple domains and aliases feature that I need. I also like how they represent them, they are just providing service for the money, nothing else is happening with our data, no ads, etc..
Let's be clear - CTO stands for Chief Technology Officer. If you break the title into sections you'll have a clear picture of what that means.

Chief -> Top, big cheese, main dude (or dudette)

Technology -> Like computers and stuff

Officer -> Simple definition: "Officers are responsible for the management and day-to-day operations of the corporation." You know, like making decisions and helping the company be successful.

If you fit into that description, even if you don't have that specific title, you are acting as a CTO. Lots of VPs of Engineering fit into that title. So do lots of CEOs of software companies.
When an application queries the screen size from ncurses or some other lib, what value do you expect it to get?

I don't think it's a reasonable requirement.
Both Bitcoin and Jordan Peterson's ideas require serious investment of effort to understand them in context. Unless you get cypherpunk, it takes time to get what's the point of Bitcoin. And unless you read Carl Jung, it takes time to get what in the hell Jordan Peterson is talking about in his lectures.
It's simple, elegant, it works fast, and available on both Mac and Android.

I depend on reminders for those tiny pieces of information that I don't want to forget, and I need them to jump back at me at a predefined time - so that's what it's going to replace.

I have like ~50 items going on at any given moment.
I would be interested to know if there are any free alternatives to g-suite/custom domain email. I'm not sure what Inbox was, but I've been using gmail/g-suite for many years without any real issues. I'm only using it because it's been free, however the free edition is no longer available to new signups. I've been recommending FastMail or Office 365 depending on who's asking me for advice, and I really would like to have a free option as many people I talk to are non-profit, charity, or simply resource limited.
> and in both cases due to rare strains with resistance to both drugs.

So then it is only a matter of time before we have 'super' HIV strains that are resistant running around. Perhaps it's not such a great idea to have large numbers of people exposing these drugs to the virus regularly, else we'll end up with more resistant strains..
I love this question. Mostly because what seems like should be a simple thing to answer, isn't. There are certainly strong opinions and much data that support both sides, however.

Neoclassical microeconomics (mostly like what one sees in mid-level undergraduate courses) suggests a minimum wage gives a kink point in individual's budget constraints--implying people may prefer to stay at minimum wage jobs rather than trade time for higher wage jobs, based on preferences. Additionally, if minimum wages rise too high producers will choose to replace labor (people) with capital (machines)--Stigler's argument.

Neoclassical macroeconomics suggests that minimum wage increases may result in inflation (more dollars chasing same number of items), black markets (e.g. hiring illegal immigrants or paying wages under the table), and so on. It is seen as a market distortion.

Labor economics and other sub-fields grant more nuance to these simplistic views. In the simple assessments above, minimum wage policies are at best set up as policies generating economic inefficiencies, at worst painted as immoral policies to support lazy people.

However, we do not live in a neoclassical world. Debates about the economic consequences of minimum wages are still hot topics, decades after they were first engaged, with supporting and detracting evidence. Wikipedia's coverage is a good entry point.[0]

For myself, I tend to come near "Bleeding Heart"/Arizona school libertarian when it comes to social policy--fiscally "conservative" (in that I want to make sure taxes are spent efficiently for the "best" outcomes, which we collectively decide is best), socially liberal, and a foreign dove. The toolkit of analysis emanating from economics does not immediately identify or lend itself to some superior moral framework -- that's on each person to choose themselves. Economics simply helps you identify where waste can occur, whether in the form of bias, inefficient capital deployment, risk, etc. For me, I sleep better at night knowing that my neighbor can afford healthcare and that the janitor I see working tirelessly can put money away for a rainy day.

Some of the more accessible discussions have happened on Barry Ritholtz's blog[1], where one of his contributors defend's Seattle's raising of the minimum wage and resulting impact.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage#Debate_over_conse...

[1] http://ritholtz.com/2016/12/seattle-min-wage-update/
There could be a third option: Find some contract work [1], become a digital nomad [2] for a while, find a great city with a very low cost-of-living and stay there for a few months (or years), work on some of your own product ideas and try the "indie hacker" thing [3].

Worst case: You spend a few years working ~5 hours per week (or a few months per year), and spend the rest of your time just enjoying life and doing whatever you want. You can work on your own ideas and have full creative freedom, even if most of your ideas don't work out.

[1] https://www.moonlightwork.com, https://www.toptal.com

[2] https://nomadlist.com

[3] https://www.indiehackers.com
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There was recently a high court judgment in Norway with Alexander Vik who refused to pay for a large currency trade. He tried for years not to pay and even moved his values over to his family, but at the end he lost in court and the money was claimed from his relatives.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2014/03/05/the-ridd...
What is compensation driven thinking? You mean what execs do when they decide to funnel profits back to shareholders instead of giving raises?

Look, employment is a business contract. Business is about making money.
Yeah, they made a bunch of jokes/roasts about apple removing the headphone jack, and still having one on the pixel, and then just removed it on the pixel 2. Tech hypocrisy at its finest.
I tried every todo app on the planet Earth. I settled for 2DO. Todoist has several limitations that I dislike and 2DO is one time payment vs monthly.
Seems that muting “suggest_activity_tweet” on Twitter removes “%s liked” tweets
There is some old saying about eggs and a basket that I think is appropriate here... but I'de have to google it.
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> How anyone can still trust this black box concept

Its truly awesome that you audited the whole Linux kernel and everything on top of it you run, mind sharing your notes?
It doesn't have to be enforced if they fire you "without cause" (because of the moonlighting)
I don't want to detach my desktop just because I want to check current status on my phone. Maybe I have two sessions on two computers and I, temporarily for a few commands, want to go fullscreen. With tmux I have to detach the other client(s), go fullscreen, and when done I have to reattach the client(s). This for something that takes a command to adapt and again recover in screen.

It is just an inconvenience, nothing huge, but big enough to obstruct my flow.
IMO it depends on the person. I know some people who would thrive in the startup environment but would be annoyed in big corp. And vice versa. Matching your work style to the company style will matter more for your work enjoyment than a bit more $.

I worked in both and met both kinds of people in both kinds of environment. There are many factors at play, but I think the most significant is your uncertainty tolerance and excitement appetite:

- Startups are more chaotic but more exciting.

- Corps will be more boring but will pay better and offer less uncertainty.
Sure, let us just replicate yours 23 years of experience and knowledge in a few days..
DKIM problems were my only contact with support. It's mostly about having them available when needed.