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The most helpful thing for me (after years of working on projects alone) was to find a partner!

It's hard to show up every day, by yourself. When there's no one to cheer you on and no one to be accountable to, it's easier to give up.

For years, I tried building projects on my own. But I had to limit myself because I didn't have the technical expertise to bring all my ideas to life.

Then I met Jon at XOXO festival.

Over the years, we became friends. We collaborated on a few projects. And then, we decided to work together on https://transistor.fm (a podcast hosting and analytics platform).

Jon is a gifted software developer. He has a good eye for design.

My expertise is in customer research, marketing, and product development.

Combined, we've been able to build Transistor into something much greater than we could have achieved on our own.
I'm more interested in the publicly stated reasons.
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I submit as evidence

a) pretty much every case where a "may issue" permit is required to engage in business (these mostly happen on the state and local level and incentivize corruption).

b) Regulatory capture (e.g. the current FCC).

c) The war on drugs (I can come up with other examples of unnecessarily criminalizing things if needed).

And on the other side, the movies/music/video games/tv rating system sure isn't perfect but it's a great example of an industry coming up with a solution that doesn't involve regulation. Various other professional organizations (ones that are not given special protection via legislation, i.e. not doctors and lawyers) are also good examples. The AWS comes to mind as a pretty good one.

Legislation is hard to get right and harder to change and I'd rather only use it when other options have been exhausted (e.g. I support making ISPs utilities and a public option for healthcare).

Personally I find the knee jerk reaction to legislate whenever anything bad happens quite dogmatic.
> The proposal of Marxists is that they take things away by force.

Capitalism is not possible without state application of force and coersion.

Consider land ownership, for instance. It is completely predicated on the use of force. The only reason you 'own' your land, is because someone a long time back used force to take it away from someone else (Or, if they were the original settler, used force to take it away from the commons).

"Ah, but now that we've divided all the land into various lots that people own, we can divorce ourselves from the original use of force! Going forward, we won't use violence to secure new ownership of land!"

Well, under Marxism, after a one-time use of force, whereupon productive property is transferred to the ownership of the state, it can also divorce itself from the original use of force. After all, going forward, it won't need to use force to seize productive property, either - because it will already have an owner - the state.

All ownership requires force. Ownership of personal property typically requires a continuous personal application of force. Ownership of private property (Land, productive enterprises, etc) requires a continuous application of state force.

Force is a red herring.
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This works for many people, but one of my challenges has been that I mostly write end-user software - and end-users have much shallower pockets.
I live in the EU (Sweden) and here it's definately legal to record a video of someone in your own apartment. With or without their consent.
>When you look at all the stars in the vicinity of the sun, they move relative to the sun, the sun moves relative to them, but only one in five hundred stars in that frame is moving as slow as ‘Oumuamua. You would expect that most rocks would move roughly at the speed of the star they came from. If this object came from another star, that star would have to be very special.

If we're to assume that this is something that was expelled from a remote solar system, wouldn't you then also assume that there had to be some explosion or collision to get this thing on its current course? And wouldn't that account for a speed that doesn't match nearby objects?
Well, if functioning and fluorishing is defined by conformity, this doesn’t seem very meaningful. Some personality disorders allow a high functioning career and social life.

To be clear I am trying to illustrate the idea that a disorder seems inherently devilish to define.
Really?

I'd give the Les Paul the nod to rock. Either that or the Stratocaster.

Off hand I can name some pretty iconic rock names attached to both the Les Paul and the Strat. Hell, Angus Young even uses an SG. But I can't think of anyone who I associate with a Telecaster.

Not that they're bad guitars, just that I don't think of them when I think "rock'n'roll flipping a middle finger to everything".
I love little effects like this. Skeuomorphism might’ve been a bit overbearing in iOS 6 but I’d really like to see it find its way back in a more reserved capacity. “Flat” and even the newer “flat + depth” is very dull.
The reason YC is always talking about finding co-founders is because Paul Graham had co-founders. Had Paul Graham gone at things alone, YC would probably be preaching the virtues of flying solo.
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thank you Dr. Loeb for giving this the attention it deserves. oumuamua demonstrated that we aren't equipped to respond fast enough to these types of objects. we need plans in place that addresses the latency of fast moving objects so that we can prioritize them for study and not be left wondering...
Something like this happened to me as well.

I skipped a toll station on the highway; which should be fine. A sign tells you that you can pay online within 7 days by searching your license plate. The next day I searched my license plate to pay what should have been $3-$4 in tolls and nothing came up. A month later I got a letter in the mail telling me that I owed the state around $100 for the tolls I "failed to pay" with nearly $90 assessed in late fees. The whole system is scummy.

Literal highway robbery.
Tracktion/Waveform also has a Linux version, and they've made the older Tracktion 7 available free (including Elastique stretch) [1]. I gather Tracktion was developed by Julian Storer (of JUCE & ROLI fame), then purchased by Mackie, now spun off as its own company with Storer again.

Renoise also works on Linux, but probably doesn't count as a major DAW since it's a tracker interface (even though it supports VSTs, VSTi's etc). [2]

[1] https://www.tracktion.com/products/t7-daw

[2] https://www.renoise.com/
Yea, but I don't even understand how it became dogma to begin with. The evidence was never that good for it.
Every company must have a logo with four colors -- some variant of red-green-blue-yellow. It should also fit into a square, and the colors must stay separate, splitting the square into 4 parts if possible.
More interesting for the HN crowd I think is the article from the actual design company that did the redesign: https://www.pentagram.com/work/slack
im wondering how we define the threshold for ideological propaganda vs simply misenterpreting the details in the course of editorial discretion.?
> in Europe - where even the lower middle class seem to get taxed heavily.

This is because, at least in Sweden, the first ~25% isn't strictly taxes, but fees for public benefits. Like 10% pension and 2% parental leave.
Isn't this the "no true Scotsman" fallacy? Socialism would also have worked, we just didn't implement the _true_ kind.

I think it's only fair to judge the entire reality surrounding an economic system.
It definitely feels like it was written by someone used to writing an ABI or library rather than a set of command line tools.

Certain tools are organized by what code goes together rather than by what user functions make sense to go together. It's part of what makes it confusing.
Have we just defined conscience as a mental disorder?
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The problem is that "consent" isn't a binary, it's on a continuum. When people are bombarded nonstop with advertising for video gambling, eventually some of them will take the bait. And those who do will be the ones more susceptible to the inherent lure of gambling, and as such the ones most likely to be addicted to it.
vrbo.com works for renting large places too.
I was trying to break into web programming from desktop programming, so I was willing to start with a relatively low salary to get my foot in the door.

The interviewer asked what I expected as salary. I replied, "I'll accept peanuts to get started in web". A voice then rang out from a random cubicle: "Well that's exactly what they pay here!"

Another time an interviewer asked, "can you work well with difficult people?" Of course that set off a yellow alert in the back of my mind. Unfortunately, it was just after the dot-com crash and I couldn't be picky, so took the job. There was indeed a very good reason they asked that question.
The fish rots from the head, and there's a pretty big precedent at the head of the US government in terms of conflict of interest.

It's also worth noting that the US maybe 20 years ago was somewhat exceptional when it comes to conflicts of interest. In other cultures, personal relationships and personal vested interests that we would consider "corrupt" are a load-bearing part of the social structure. So perhaps we're reverting more to the global mean on this point.
This new logo is a departure from their old art style that was everywhere in their old project, the game Glitch. (Interesting that it was exactly 11 different colors, like the 11 Giants in Glitch).
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I saw the favicon change and I thought a plugin was messing with the page.
This. I hate hearing all this co-founder stuff all the time. While I'm sure it works for some people, I've found the whole co-founder thing to be a terrible idea. The only positive benefit I've found is having someone to talk to about what you're working on, but I haven't found co-founders to be helpful other than that in the cheerleader department.
It's a good test for "Advertising targeting techniques are a hoax" - which is the claim people in the thread are making.

I'll also note there's very little scale in direct ad buying - very few niches have scale that matters for any audience smaller than "interested in business". That said, programmatic outside of FB and Google is indeed trash and the NYtimes did well to drop it. But pretty much everyone in the thread conflates Facebook and Google (Again, 90% of spend) with the 1000s of random ad tech firms out there of dubious quality.
This is the guy that believes aliens created a solar sail-powered pancake-shaped spacecraft 600,000 years ago just so it could fly by us and say hi, right?
Sometimes I feel the anonymity aspect of the Internet brings the worst out of people. If we didn't have anonymity to begin with, people would have not tried those kind of harassment. Or if they do, it'll be a routine case for the police as opposed to requiring substantial FBI involvement.
I would suppose this https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jan/3

I thought Debian wasn't affected? Maybe I'm missing something.
too complicated. The mind goes to the left and stays there. Not that "slack" is not read but still
> Laying everything on this thick just doesn't increase credibility for me. It makes me suspicious.

Counterpoint: if you've gone through enough hardship, your self-esteem can tank so much that you start thinking in black-and-white -- "I blew every single question" etc.

Every once in a while someone's gonna go through something really bad: "perfect storms of woe-is-me" do come by, and our selection bias of upvoting those specifically means that we're disproportionately more likely to see really horrifying stories.
I think he's just saying that things like the Flying V or Explorer are seen more in metal.

If you see someone playing a Les Paul, it could be anything. If you see someone playing an Explorer, good bet it's metal.
Nah, I think people complaining about those mobile frameworks are the same group as people complaining about Electron. I'm definitely in both groups, and mostly for the same reasons: bloat, bad performance, and being inconsistent and not interoperable with everything else running on the machine.
The problems with any law or system against 'fake news' can basically be summed up as follows:

1. As said, how do you prove intent? Everyone is wrong about something, and some people are literally insane. Any attempt to prove it beyond the most obvious cases (aka admissions of lying/trolling) would be exceedingly difficult, likely catch out many otherwise legitimate media outlets and end up basically punishing people for making mistakes/being dumb/being insane.

2. Who determines what's fake and how do they do it? Any censoring system is ripe for abuse, and will be co-opted by political fanatics to 'punish' the other side at the earliest opportunity. Don't think many people would trust the Trump administration to make this sort of judgement. Nor would anyone sane trust any sort of government institution.

3. Even if you do somehow get a neutral third party, you get into the question of what counts as 'fake news'. Satire is obviously fine, but pretty much every site classed as 'fake news' now claims to be writing satire.

So you then get stuck trying to decide what can 'legitimately' be called satire and how that should be identified. Do you need a giant label on every satirical article now?

You also get stuck in heavily contentious areas where the 'truth' isn't exactly some obvious thing that all sides have agreed on. There's a pretty big spectrum between saying something that's objectively false (like, the Earth is flat) and something extremely contentious (X religion/belief is right, here's a explanation of the causes behind the Arab Israeli conflict, etc).

Some stuff is so heavily debated that people could give you a dozen studies, anecodes and case studies for any argument you want.

Either way, it just seems like a bad idea that has the potential to cause more problems that it solves.
I don't think it's unreasonable to want to eat real food, the same we've eaten for thousands of years, or to think it's the healthiest option for us. It's common sense, which doesn't require years of indoctrination in high school and university.

On the other side of the coin, it's also not surprising that people who do not know much about something might feel threatened by it -- not exactly a groundbreaking discovery. That said, I have a strong scientific background and still find the idea of genetically modified food to be inhumane and abhorrent.

Anecdotally, it's kind of funny that many of the scientifically "ignorant" people I've met have better values and ethics than many scientists.
When you read about the litany of issues that guests have, as evidenced here in these comments, does anyone have better experience with competitors like HomeAway?

If not it's a gap in the market. For example, for delivery services in the States you have Seamless, which is like an AirBNB or Uber for restaurants for delivery (I think only recently Seamless offers delivery people, but before it was the restaurants that have to provide). But there's now Caviar, which a) provides excellent customer-first customer service b) curates the restaurants carefully c) provides their own drivers with meticulous tracking and of course, the kicker d) costs more.

I would pay for better customer service and proper curation. Yes, even if it costs the same or MORE than a hotel, I prefer to stay in an apartment when I travel. I've definitely had a few surprises in AirBNB, but I've had a lot of delightful stays too with top-notch customer service provided by the host. But it's a crapshoot! I'll pay more for it not to be a crapshoot. The ratings system is a joke in my experience. Fine, take away the ratings and let me pay you more, future Silicon Valley company, for your people to verify the apartment meets standards and to be available on the phone 24/7 with onshore staff. I'll pay.
> On April 14, 2017, at 14: 55: 52, the email address "rlincc@gmail.com" was accessed from IP address 199.38.233.169, an IP address owned by WANSecurity, a Kansas VPN service. As discussed above, this Gmail address is directly attributable to Ryan Lin and was used to communicate directly and openly with Smith and her roommates, including when he first responded to the Craigslist advertisement to be their roommate.

This type of information couldn't be provided by VPN logs due to gmail using TLS encryption. If they gained physic access to a device that he was currently logged into, they just needed to look at the gmail account activity. Anyone can look at all the IP addresses they have accessed their gmail account from. They could have also just got a warrant.

> On April 14, 2017, at 15:06:27, the email address teleportxf@gmail.com, provided by "Ashley Plano" to Rover, was accessed from the same exact WANSecurity IP address, 199.38.233.169

This is more interesting. It doesn't seem likely they caught him logged into this account, or that would be all the evidence they needed. I suspect they issued a warrant to Google for this account and got a list of IP addresses back. I can't imagine that the VPN provider allocated a unique IP addresses for each subscriber. This seems like a really weak correlation unless they are leaving out some important information.
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> Both have the same result, but the ratsnest is always faster.

I simulate as much as I can (e.g using LTSpice) and then go straight to circuit board (DIY at home laser/LED printer toner transfer). Mucking around with unreliable breadboards isn't much fun.

It's too easy to make mistakes and bad connections in breadboard layouts. Then if it's not working, you have to figure out whether it's the circuit, a mistake in the assembly, or a bad connection.

If I'm going to go to PCB anyway, might as well route that and use it from the get go.
that is what wtvanhest is talking about. If everyone has your social, its no longer considered a secret (like a password) its more like a unique identifier (an email address) just like it was intended to be.
I've actually hired three people like that over the years. Seemed OK but had bizarre mispronunciations. Clearly they hadn't gone to the right schools.

Each of them turned out great, because it was a signal that they "read a lot and learn from it".

This was three different companies over decades. I wish I ran into more people like this, but, as is attested in countless HN stories, as well as elsewhere, the "right schools" networking is really powerful. And this is despite the fact (and I am a graduate of one of the "right schools" myself) that a significant number of those grads aren't great developers either.
> I think that the vast majority of people (narcissist or not) will never do something unless they personally benefit from it in some way.

I tend to disagree, and would recommend that you read https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/altruism-biological/
At first I thought this was interesting, mainly because of all the design talent that is at Slack already. But then I realized, it was probably just an easier move to get an outside company to do it and make it a lot less political than had it been done in-house at Slack. And well, Pentagram is also huge, to be fair.
Former Systems Librarian at a University. My budget was over $80,000 per year just to gain access to the journals. Before this happened we had journals out on racks and boxes with previous journals behind them for as many as I could cram there. Then I had these journals in a backroom which I would have someone go get something for a student maybe two times a month.

Usually the new Journals are not even available in digital for anywhere from 12 to 48 months. So we still had to buy the journals at full price (Looking at you Nature (It's over $100 a month) then pay thousands to get access to journals that would not have ever made a profit before.

Main reason I left the field is Librarian would defend these parasites and bad mouth Open Source projects. I would pay $150,000 for my content management system and portal for version releases and about $40,000 a year maintenance fee. It averaged about $0.50 a year per book to have them in a maintained database and public portal. These systems were absolutely garbage technically (I had to reboot my servers daily according to contract) and the interface was backwards. So glad I left what should have been a position to champion for fair use and equal access but found out that librarian for the most part were the police of copy right and closed source projects. Rant Over
I rather simply not worry about any videos that may be floating around out there.
What are you trying to say? In order to understand which of your own behaviors are abusive and which behaviors are healthy, you must first be able to identify abuse in general. It is not an exercise in assigning blame.
In other words, you're better off with affiliate links and content marketing than you are with algorithmic banner ads.

Heck, even Google AdSense scans your site to match ads with the content (source: I've tried using AdSense). They just don't rely exclusively on the content for ad targetting.

for actual comparisons: https://thomashunter.name/posts/2019-01-09-generic-banner-ad...
And what counts as "foreign aid"? How much of that "foreign aid" was paying for massive projects completed by largely US contractors rebuilding things that they blew up in the first place?
> I agree with you. Another way of saying this is that corruption is a property of human nature.

Although this may be correct, it could also be the case that some systems nurture such "corruption" more than others. Changed societies produce changed people. For example, the widespread desire for fame only arose around the start of the 15th century but it really does seem quite natural to us now. A famous economist once wrote,

>Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are artificial institutions, those of the bourgeoisie are natural institutions. In this, they resemble the theologians, who likewise establish two kinds of religion. Every religion which is not theirs is an invention of men, while their own is an emanation from God. When the economists say that present-day relations – the relations of bourgeois production – are natural, they imply that these are the relations in which wealth is created and productive forces developed in conformity with the laws of nature. These relations therefore are themselves natural laws independent of the influence of time. They are eternal laws which must always govern society. Thus, there has been history, but there is no longer any. There has been history, since there were the institutions of feudalism, and in these institutions of feudalism we find quite different relations of production from those of bourgeois society, which the economists try to pass off as natural and as such, eternal.
That's not what he said though.
All it would (need to) be is just a ELisp interpreter.
Drummer Steve Smith did a great dvd called "History of the American Beat", where he argues that all American music is derived from African rhythms. Swing, shuffle, and backbeat grooves are all expressions of a three-against-two polyrhythm, the simplest possible polyrhythm, and the essential character of west African music is polyrhythmic, while polyrhythms are rare in European music. If it rocks, swings, or shuffles, it's African in nature.

It shows up in melody, too. Anything blues-derived, as opposed to diatonic, has African roots. Diatonic harmony was Europe's contribution to American music. Blue thirds and sliding sevenths were Africa's contribution.
Did they identify more like a gazelle, jaguar or leopard.
Would someone drill air holes in this guys head, it's clearly overheated.