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I am fortunate enough to run a lifestyle business in this space. I market it as personal productivity software that lets you pick what to block and for how long, then prevents you from changing the settings until the time is reached.

It's freemium and only a one time payment for pro (ie - not investor friendly) but I really enjoy being able to work on improving it every day. I sometimes get nice emails from people which helps motivate me more.

My app is called Cold Turkey (https://getcoldturkey.com). It's for Windows and macOS only, because of the security restrictions on smart phones. It uses browser extensions (with native messaging) to do the blocking, but if you disable the extensions during a block, Cold Turkey closes your browsers until you re-enable them.
Can you expand more on what direction your "team" is researching towards?
Did they break the mould or were they just really good at their jobs? Excellent illustrations to be sure in any case.
How is calling someone pure and innocent a personal attack?
I take a similar but alternative approach to music in a loud environment. I install a pair of short stem earplugs [0] then wear a pair of circumaural headphones. Strong broadband noise reduction with some fidelity loss, but effective!

[0] https://www.amazon.com/DownBeats-Reusable-Fidelity-Hearing-P...
As someone with intimate knowledge of console account buying and selling, I can elaborate some.

The main site used for buying stolen/jacked accounts is called ogusers. The screenshots in that article are of ogusers, I recognize the layout.

Most of the people who buy and sell accounts do it for profit and fame. Something among teens these days really drives them to want to be internet famous. Having a 1, 2, or 3 character account name garners attention to these people. 1 letter xbox accounts go for 10-20k. 1 letter social media accounts (twitter and IG mostly) go for anywhere from 10k upwards to 75k. A good amount of the 1 letter accounts on these platforms are bought or stolen, very few original creators own the accounts.

The problem is that people aren't content with getting an account by being the creator of the name. They want accounts by any means necessary. Some of these people do this for a living, they've devised their own secret techniques for gaming the system to get account information so they can game password resets and account retrievals. I know for PSN there is a tightly guarded way to pull the email account and name information from any account. For the most sought after accounts, attackers play the customer support reps like a fiddle. Say the right words and they will happily hand over sensitive information.

Even if you buy an account, there's no telling if you get to keep it. Microsoft has been really trying to crack down on this, and has banned hundreds of original accounts over this. I'm not how PSN handles it. IG has been trying to crack down as well. It is a sad state of affairs. Owning an original account isn't about creating it anymore, it's about how much you will spend to buy that name or who you know that can jack the account. Unfortunately, all these platforms are not setup to handle theft, fraud, and selling. If you lose an account, it is next to impossible in most cases to get it back.

In some cases you can get the account back by providing sensitive account info that only the original owner would know. However, the modern process of 'locking down' a stolen account includes flooding it with fake information to push back the original information past the point of being able to be used.
Rather than the strange threading logic (perhaps using a threadpool executor [0] would be a better idea), I’d encourage you to check out aiohttp [1] instead of requests.

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/library/concurrent.futures.html

[1] https://docs.aiohttp.org/en/stable/client.html
All humans are different - psychologically.
So, same psychological trick may not work with everyone.

& sometimes, it also depends on the type of work
Discord uses Elixir/Erlang VM too!
Works too quickly or gets distracted too easily?

I find I'm the same way, but wouldn't characterize it as more quickly. I can work on something with little to show for it all day. Then I get tired, sit in bed with the laptop and it comes easily. I think this has contributed to me being a night owl, because I just get more done at night.
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‘Secure by Design’ and SB-327. Standards for a Secure IoT?
Remember that burden of proof is on them...

'I'd like my lawyer'
I've worked with 200-300 K8s customers and 30-40 openshift customers.

On K8s I typically see somewhere in the low 20s as the number of pods per node.

Openshift I'll see high 20s or low 30s as the average number of pods across most openshift customers. But we're seeing some crazy numbers for some larger enterprise customers. 100,400,2500 pods per node. This seems to be driven by the way openshift is licensing

The latter is an absolute nightmare to support, and they seem to have trouble organizing internally as well.
Not really. Just tracking the location in an app isn't going to tell you anything about traffic conditions. Seeing that the bus is only a mile from your house might not be that useful if one day it's in gridlocked traffic and the next it's nothing but open road and green lights.
Yep, exactly. It is absurd. Apple has a valid excuse/reason for their notch, even as much as though I personally disagree with their design choice.
Fun fact, their father Martin Lister invented the histogram.
Very cool to see how this is coming along. I remember when you demoed codec-beam and the early version of a gen server implementation at the Chicago elixir meetup. Good work man.

I have to disagree that elm should aim for assembly. I think that it is a perfect language to use sparingly to build extremely typesafe systems where appropriate. I've found that to be the case on the front end, where I normally use elm alongside vanilla javascript. For me, it is often quicker to develop with regular JS (esp. when need to take advantage of "native" features) but its nice to have elm for certain parts where I want to take advantage of type system. Maybe I'm biased as an elixir dev, but I think you could apply the same logic within our erlang/elixir systems. The existing "type system" (specs + dialyzer) leaves a lot to be desired, so I see room for a typesafe language that compiles to beam. As for using serverside elm outside of the erlang vm, I'm not sure I could sign up for that. Part of what attracts me to elixir is all the erlang erlang ecosystem that we have available to us.

Also, pine was a good name! but I respect the practicality of the rename.
I think you approached this completely backwards and failed due to bad product market fit. If you did look into research for things like positive reinforcement, and tested your ideas with users before investing resources in building the wrong solution, you have a better chance in uncovering insights into solving the addiction problem. Even looking into alcoholism, gambling addiction, drug addiction etc etc would have yieled better insights for viable products.

One insight is that you have to separate yourself from your addiction with minimum effort possible, so getting the addiction enabler, whether phone, bottle of alcohol, masturbation, or drugs, out of your hands is half that battle because it reduces urges when the opportunity to relapse is removed from reach.

And since I want to help instead of just criticize, because tech addiction affects me and my loved ones greatly, the only solution that has ever worked for me literally to put my phone face down and on do not disturb mode and tell everyone to leave a message.

Also, if you make the equivalent of Self Control for mobile I would happily pay you for it because the UX is dead simple, you don't have to mess with VPN only enter your Mac password and it blocks all websites in a blacklist, even with computer restart and you can't do anything about it until time is over. This is easy to use and dead simple for mass user adoption.

https://selfcontrolapp.com

Let me know what you think about SelfControl.

Thanks for trying to help stop tech addiction, it truly is a problem worthy of solving.
Of the suggestions on this list, only the "precrastination" one makes any kind of sense to me. In fact, most of the others are anti-productive for me and I have tried them.

When I was young I read a quote that basically said, "you aren't ever going to feel like it." This struck me immediately as true: given any list of tasks, basically, there is always a fraction you won't want to do or which some form of constructive procrastination will prevent you from doing _even if you are otherwise productive_. This realization has been incredibly helpful for me in my career.

Later on, years ago but years after I was already pretty senior, I ran into the blog that Robert Hodgin used to have where he made a point that just plotting the first pixel was the hardest part of any of his projects.

So .. plot the first pixel, write the first line of code, write the first sentence, do the first set of squats, walk down the driveway, ... forcing these simple first steps make it substantially easier to do the next steps.

TL;DR: the most valuable solution to getting things done when you don't feel like it is to _start_.
> Since the Korea war nobody challenged the high tech equipment in meaningful way

Le Duan tried to in Vietnam, the Easter Offensive. Despite fighting to a strategic draw, he under-estimated the effectiveness of US airpower and lost 100,000 men on the field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Offensive#Aftermath
Who cares if it violates the dmca? And honestly it is simply easier to just pirate the content vs ripping it, there are literally no consequences. And yes it is trivial to rip from streaming services.
I think Google is trying to go after the premium segment and try to achieve Apple-like margins by focusing on software. If you look at the the phone specs you'll be completely unimpressed with the Pixel phones. Plenty of cheaper phones have better specs. This is why the Android phone market is so brutal: most OEMs are undifferentiated and are being squeezed because consumers largely see them as interchangeable. Google is the exception to this. So I don't think evaluating them purely on volume is a correct way to assess the health of their business.
@jonluca, did you try sending the password an array of all passwords? [0001, 0002, ... 9999].

If that works, you can probably use a binary approach to split the set out.
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Ask HN: Who are the big names in Open Textbooks?
I'm looking to build something cool to accompany open education content.

(a) Who are the big names in open textbooks?
(b) Are there textbooks where the source is open to contributions and not just the final product?
(c) How does the CC license work with the Practice problems at the end of open textbook chapters?

Open Textbooks
[1] https://cnx.org/
[2] https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
Mixed Textbooks
[3] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/online-textbooks/
[4] http://composingprograms.com/
We always make the best decisions we can with the information we have at the time. The more time you have to make a decision the more information you will acquire to make it. Procrastinate and use it to build and balance a healthy anxiety before you start your work. Sharpen that axe until you really need to start cutting and the task will seem significantly easier with the right informational tools to perform it.
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I think Calico is only used for network policy on the AWS VPC CNI plugin.
I don't think anybody is obliged in any sense of the word to work a job that is the best return to society or themselves. Society can encourage people with certain talents to go for certain jobs, but people should be able to refuse such encouragements and instead do what makes them happy. Isn't the purpose of life to do what gives you satisfaction and makes you happy?
Thanks for sharing.

Looks like you lived in Maryland too at one time. I grew up in Towson(now in Bel Air in Harford County) and all my family is here. I’d move out there for a dream job; inventing/building/designing interesting tech for a FANNG company. The road to there looks to be thru an acquisition.

Well it was nice chatting with you!
The watermark makes it really annoying to read, but unless it gets refuted by Google, it has to be real, right? (That's how these things work these days...?)
Amazon is one of the best things that has happened to America and they are one of the largest employers in America.

This kind of article and opinion is great conversation starter and its easy to hate on anything successful, but quite honestly the Amazon is an indication of progress when comparing to era before their existence.
To translate: alleviate ADHD > reduce BP + alleviate ADHD > antidepressant > but there's always tomorrow > sounds good to me :)

But did you find the mirtazapine really does counteract any side effects of the atomoxetine that crop up?
Varies quite a bit. Some deployments are high CPU, high I/O, some are basically idle. All are running the same docker image.
3 engineers. I (and a teammate) carried a pager for about 6 months but then Search SRE took over ops; it shared backends with other search systems and was primarily a frontend innovation so the marginal cost was minimal. There was some ongoing AdSales cost for it - basically we built a tool to visualize related queries for your search [1] and then AdSales got a hold of it and said "Woah, we can show this to clients and tell them 'These are all the other queries you should be advertising on'", and then the clients spent a whole lot more money advertising on a whole lot more queries.

[1] https://www.ducttapemarketing.com/using-google-wonder-wheel-...
Again, I have to wonder what divisions in Apple you're talking about. The folks I know working on WebKit practically have zero decision making power. It's all about saving face and keeping Safari viable as the only engine on iOS.

I get the impression that people claiming that companies like Apple are "engineering-driven" are only talking about their new, non-core projects. But then my perceptions are only colored by the folks I know working at those companies, so whatever.
> As an aside, I really loathe the fact that part of the optimal route for finding romance these days seems to be surrendering oneself to a collection of proprietary/black-box algorithms.

I actually love that online dating is now the optimal method of finding romance. The only reason that wasn't the case before is because we didn't even have that option. You're still free to try the older methods, but online dating is far more efficient in my experience. The dating pool is effectively global and you can be as selective and honest as you want without the awkwardness that comes with dating someone in a close circle of yours.
Found an intriguing tidbit when reading about the Pixel Slate's version of Chrome OS:

> You can even run Linux if you’re a developer.

I wonder what exactly this means. What distro? How locked-down will my device be under this distro? Does this mean we now have a real, live Linux tablet?
Just because it works doesn’t mean it wasn’t a poor choice still.

You could have said the same thing about storing your passwords in plain text.
That is surprising to me.
In my country the cost of english degree is totally different than a chemical engineering degree.

Even without the commercial angle , the cost of teaching English is not remotely the same as chemical engineering, you need lot more labs , more depts with different expertise , more courses to cover etc. why is it costed the same ? Unless both are heavily subsidized and cost is a just token amount it doesn't make sense.
"small subset" may be no longer the case, I can't find the chart I was looking for, but I believe last time I checked it was around 40% of all relationships. The numbers may be even higher in 2018.
FreeRTOS also has a nice collection of different heap implementations with varying degrees of sophistication. They are a good read for those interested in such things.

https://www.freertos.org/a00111.html

https://github.com/aws/amazon-freertos/tree/master/lib/FreeR...
Last I checked GitHub actually lets you turn off 2fa if you can use an associated SSH key to sign a message?

Not entirely certain but support staff definitely turned it off for me once I lost my phone number.
How was it illegal? He was inside the club, was given the valid password, and therefore was explicitly granted access.
Murderers the lot of them. If this kind of filth piques your interest perhaps you should question the motives of your king.
It really depends on your budget for context. If you're running a solo side-project where your database costs are $5-15 a month, paying more than double that just for basic support is a big pain. The cost of support for a single service might end up being more than the total cost of the rest of your stack (VPS/DB/Domain). If you're at a business then sure, $30 a month is no big deal.
I'm old enough to be an Engineer living 1k away from Google when it was born.

I'm not sure if I believe DNE was exactly about Microsoft, rather a more general mantra. In 98' the founders were running around giving talks about how 'advertising was ruining the internet' which wasn't really an MS things. So I think MS was just one factor, but yes, most don't remember a time when they were so dominant.
It comes across as elitist to keep code fixes in your own private repository to 'punish' those you don't agree with. The whole point is freedom and sharing code that transcends arbitrary human defined barriers.

What if linux was kept in a private repository to punish those he didn't agree with?
It also claimed Apple removed 7000 SuperMicro servers in a few weeks. That seems especially unlikely to happen without at least some explanations to upper management. Sure, they could lie to management about why but either way management can’t then claim no servers were removed without lying themselves.
It seems like an island in the tropics would be a poor choice for something like this. Mosquitos and difficult access to mainland services?
If the motherboards were customized for a particular customer, you'd know exactly who they're going to. That would eliminate the problem of letting the exploit travel too widely as well.
From what I've seen, the Bay Area men who struggle the most with dating really do have defective personalities — at least in the sense that they don't align with what most women want. Some introspection and focus on self improvement would often help them break out of their rut.
Tangential rant: I worked in a computer vision lab around the time ML/neural network was on the rise in the area. The chief scientist there was seriously annoyed by such papers because he got into the field to understand at a deep level what vision is. Neural networks get the job done, but after successfully implementing a neural network you haven't learned as much about how you can infer information about the world out there from images of it, as you do from first principles thinking.
> Might be worse performance for big clusters because it’s still using calico (iptables)

I'm curious why you think that Calico's use of iptables will have performance impacts for large clusters, and what type of performance impacts you expect (bandwidth / latency / cpu / something else?).

From my experience, Calico performs rather well in large clusters (e.g. 2k nodes, appx 100 pods / node, several hundred network policies).
Yeah you might be right. How do I flag this for deletion? Any mods seeing this, could you remove it?
10,000 drones? How big a drone are we talking? They would have to be big enough to carry a weapon big enough to penetrate at least 1/2" steel (at the thinnest, only accessible from the side). If out to sea, a small EMP could drop them all.

Battles won by numerical superiority are usually won by defenders. If it's an invader, it's almost certainly early in the game. Even at the end of WW2, Germany wasn't invaded so much as it lost in France and Russia. The Allied rush to Berlin was an early aftermath. By the time supply chains necessary to conduct a protracted war have been committed, the true cost starts making invaders progressively less interested.

A more interesting concern is the major powers using proxies to demonstrate their new tech. If Russia sold Syria 10,000 drones, that might get interesting.
And who was their sources again that confirmed that these companies were affected, when the companies themselves and now multiple intelligence agencies say they weren't?
> That was what completely killed my interest in any amount of game grind- it hit me mid-game that if I spent that time grinding my actual corporeal self, I'd have something to show for it after.

I wish I could relate to this. IRL grinding seems hilariously inefficient and unreliable, which I think is why people enjoy their gaming grinds so much.
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Isn't this UB?
Some additions to this I find useful:

> - Use the 15 minute rule to get started

I like to take this a step further, and I think I read it in a Brian Tracey book once. If I have a list of things that need doing that I am not especially excited about, I'll go through them doing five minutes max on each. This normally sufficiently unsticks each, but if it doesn't, then do a round of 10m on each.

> - Leave a currently solved code part partially done or leave a compile issue on the area you were working on

One way I handle this is by forcing myself to keep and update a "Next Work" list (in an outliner) that keeps a very current todo list for each project. Generally I'll update it each morning and break down the immediate next work into tasks that only take a minute or two to get that momentum going

> - Motivators and triggers

I'm only slightly ashamed to admit I make heavy use of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6OwnNe9nMU (usually while walking, or very very first thing in the morning -- I downloaded the audio only)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjZ0KbJcav0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmkNKEHC8Pg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjP9r-HU4fk

and Apple's Think Different advert

I also really like writing out the answer to "What'll be different in a week's/month's time due to what you're about to do?"

> - Start the day right, work on something simple or one check in for instance before reddit/HN/news or distractions

Phone goes on airplane mode overnight, and comes out of airplane mode once I've completed my morning ritual, which takes about an hour and a half.
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The Breitbart watermark makes me very suspicious, I would treat it as probably worthless until we see more reliable sources.
I doubt the motive is to punish, but is instead to avoid the unwanted drama of dealing with a "toxic" community.
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Reading that genuinely made me feel uncomfortable but I'm glad you wrote it, I think I needed to hear that. Something about imagining all the other men who are much more motivated than me really gives me a deep desire to prove myself.
And I assume 1491 was not all original research :)
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