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Ask HN: How Did You Setup Your Windows Machine to Do Linux Related Development?
Some people (including myself) want or need to run Windows as their main OS, but I'm a strong believer that some things just work best or are easier on Linux: docker, databases, web servers, etc...

I'm in the process of revamping my setup to improve my "linux on windows" experience and I'm not yet completely satisfied with any of the setups I've tried which include:

- running a vm on vmware: it works alright and it's the one I've used so far. it's not a seamless integration though, you have to spin up the vm each time you need it. also unity mode has been discontinued

- running a vm on hyperv: Ubuntu Desktop runs awfully bad in terms of graphics, I'm now currently trying out Ubuntu Server and I'm planning to use it via ssh. I'll see how that goes

- WSL: is very early stages IMO, most of the things might work but I've noticed daemons generally don't work. I've tried docker and postgres and they both don't work. I need Docker really bad. Some people found a fix for this but docker-compose is still not working. WSL looks like the worst choice so far.

So I was just curious to know if there's someone out there that is doing this kind of linux-on-windows integration and how they set-up their environment.
Content Processing Pipeline: Backbone of India's Largest Social Network
My fingers hate that and I always, always get it wrong. Always.

Fortunately the error messages are very good.
> Also, considering that google and facebook support these "reforms", how are they "aiming" it at them?

Huh?

"Google, which has lobbied against both features and has even suggested that it might pull Google News from Europe, said last week it would study the text before deciding on its next steps."

That does not sound like support to me.
> by having it run on a disconnected network

This is only a temporary solution to the problem of devices phoning home against your wishes (or knowledge). The "system-on-a-chip" CPUs used in embedded ("smart") devices with an integrated cellular (LTE/etc) modem have existed for years[1]. The hardware that can simply bypass your local network and phone home over the cellular network already exists. The people that want to spy on everyone for profit will no longer ask for internet access through your LAN when someone finally negotiates with the carriers for some sort of low-priority/off-peak access they can use to batch-upload their eavesdropping ("analytics").

[1] random example from "Q4 3014" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exynos#List_of_ARMv8_Exynos_So...
Most things I have read previously showed that more money generally only makes people happier up to a certain point, somewhere around $80K. At this level it is possible (in most places) to not live paycheck to paycheck and have some savings and financial security. Above this level, nothing really changes except how expensive our things are.

Find meaning in your hobby or in your volunteering or your exploration of nature, not your work or your income bracket.
I was in this camp for a while but the current political reality has shifted me towards viewing the normalization and acceptance of such hate speech as a negative to society. When I was growing up nazis and white supremacy were always framed in a negative light to make it clear they were wrong (this is mostly relevant in the developing years, less than 14 or so where children don't have a developed moral compass) now a days the extreme right is being treated as just another opinion you can have, normal adults recognize the danger associated with unrestrained nationalism and hate speech but young people are unexposed or unfamiliar with what it can lead to.

This stuff is dangerous, it can warp the way you view the world, any information glorifying it should always be accompanied with explanations and warnings as to the hate it is imbued with... It is un-American to hate another person because of their origin or their religion, it's also un-American to squash an open discussion on that topic but... that discussion needs to happen between mature adults in a setting that makes it clear how unacceptable it is to lean on racist tropes.
Twitter Is Designed to Embarrass You
Nice work, and thanks for not polluting the svg with unnecessary information or links.
Moving Forward on Android with GraphQL
Ask HN: Move to SF or Start a Lifestyle Biz?
I'm in a mentally tricky situation.
(1) I have an offer to join a Bay Area payments company (ex. Stripe, Square, etc.) I would earn ~200K/yr + 500K in units (over 4 years) but this is a fairly lateral career move for me. Moving to the Bay Area is the main appeal here (from Canada). I've already accepted the offer but having second thoughts.

(2) I've already resigned from my current job, where the comp was similar (but in CAD).

(3) My wife is on contract until Sept this year. I have a window from now until Sept to really try to start a lifestyle business. I would absolutely love this and if I didn't have an offer already I wouldn't have applied right now.

(4) After Sept our plan is to travel for ~6 months. If I move to the Bay, it would be pushed back a year or so.

(5) We're both 30, no kids, financially stable. Financially, doing my own startup wouldn't be a risk right now.

I'm struggling to justify the opportunity cost in either direction. I feel like if I reject this offer I may not see similar comp again (but that sounds silly as I even type it out). I also really want to move to LA in the future, not really the Bay but this felt like a step closer. It's worth mentioning that I work in Product (although have a CS degree). I've also started and sold a company before but that was VC-funded, not a lifestyle business.

Just looking for some opinions and guidance here. What would you do? I also understand how lucky I am to be in this position so am super grateful for that.
No, the size of the output is linear in the size of the input. (The Fibonacci numbers themselves grow exponentially, but the size of the output goes like the log of the number itself.)
I believe it is skewed since many people in these neighborhoods aren't making their money through salary income (anymore), but instead through interest / dividends.

If you sold your company, aren't working at FB/goog/etc and are sitting on a ton of stock holdings, your income is going to show as near $0
You didn't touch a nerve. You're out in bizzaro-land. $15MM in Manhattan will get you a brownstone on the Upper West Side.
To counterbalance this a bit, I'm using it heavily with a large group of (partially non-technical) friends and friends-of-friends, along with participating in public rooms over federation and it's been pretty smooth. Things were certainly rougher a year ago but they have improved a great deal and are continuing to improve at a good pace.
Amen. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Yet we are repeatedly bombarded by stories of this nature and voices telling us that well in this case, maybe we shouldn't have any sunlight because the subject is just too horrible to behold.

A censored public is an ignorant public.
Back in school, I worked part-time for a group that used limited time tracking; you input when you worked and how many hours per project, but didn't have to match hours to tasks. The one minor flaw in this program was that it didn't let you pick your hours worked - it simply asked for a single start and end time each day. Working two hours in the morning and two in the afternoon was impossible to input.

Blessedly, it was an internal tool rather than a way to track client billing; the standing instructions were to just choose some random block of hours corresponding to your total time worked, so that you could get to the project-hours fields that actually mattered. But internal usage also raised the question of why they were voluntarily keeping a tool slightly less effective than a century-old punchclock.
The argument is "private companies can do what they want" which does absolutely nothing to address the fact that most human communication is now carried out in private "common areas". It's an absolute travesty.
The Kinds of Content Platform Users Seek (Or Avoid)
I went through a phase where I listened to a lot of Hitler speeches on YouTube, just because I was historically interested in what the man actually said and how he said it. He's a fascinating person to study - also from a psychological point of view - precisely because of the horrible things that happened. Anyway, after that, YouTube kept recommending me nazi speeches for at least half a year. I remember how on some days I opened YouTube and Hitler kept reappearing on my front page. Now, I'm not a sensitive person so I don't mind, it's actually kind of hilarious. But after months of this, it irked me a bit.
Is Apple the Champion of Digital Privacy?
Early BBS networks used to do this, too.

Around 1984 the ARB (named for its author, Arthur Richard Brock, R.I.P.) BBS system did store-and-forward e-mail from one ARB BBS to the next, covering a good portion of the New England and Mid-Atlantic states.

Back then toll charges were pretty high, but there were gateway nodes that had phone numbers which had free calling that spanned area codes and LATAs.

ARBnet was pretty awesome, ran on Commodore 64's, and was a pioneer in public e-mail, but is now completely forgotten.
I've been trying to figure out if Theranos had produced anything of value. Do you have sources you can share that describe these incremental improvements?
NSBM's a difficult problem. For one thing, where do you draw the line? For every band that are out-and-proud unequivocal neo-nazis preaching race-war, there's another who insist they're apolitical as musicians, another who just want to "explore themes of our national history" (yeah, pull the other one...) and probably half a dozen who just flirt with the imagery because it sells records.

For another thing, this stuff is interesting - there's no two ways around that. Musically, it's almost entirely straight-up bad (when Varg Vikernes is the best a movement has to offer, you know there's a quality problem), but the cultural mechanisms that made it and the social history that feeds it is, speaking with cold clinicism, really very interesting.
MP3 links are in the Startup RSS feed: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/startup

(I strongly recommend starting with Season 1. It's the most honest and vulnerable telling of early startup life that I've ever come across.)
There are plenty of wealthy people living a comfortable lifestyle in rich communities off the Palisades pkwy. with a 20 minute hop into the city. 15 if you drive at entitled speeds.
In fairness, the interest of Facebook is to target ads, so I don't think they really care. An impression on a user with Himmler interest is an impression on a user with himmler interest, a click is a click.

Now the folks monitoring at DHS? Yeah, I think they probably go to great lengths to try to differentiate and segment the population of people who look at extremist material of any kind.
If there's no documentation for Istio other than this, I can't really see this becoming very popular.
> Bullshit. If someone earns $1.2 million per year, they can retire after 2 or 3 years. They have no right to complain. They're weak.

that's the point, lifestyle creep means you hang out only with people that earn that too. it becomes normal, average even. and you can't dare step away
Check out any place after a major event has taken place (concert, fireworks, 420 protest) and I guarantee there will be a large mess left behind.
How Do You Preserve History on the Moon?
Facebook/YouTube's approach to fixing these issues is reactive instead of proactive. Would an open-sourced list of unequivocally objectionable topics work to help companies QA their algos? I'm up for building one.
Evil would be malicious- like if Goldman would hurt people even if it cost them money.

Indifference means Goldman would help humanity if it was easier or more profitable.
Not all skinhead bands are nazis. It might be seen as a minor point but I am worried how quickly we make sweeping appraisals based on partial information.

Early skinhead culture and music overlapped heavily with Jamacain rude boy culture.
I just received a phone call from my mom who was disgruntled that the county jail now requires $20 to make a visitation appointment from home. The alternative is to drive almost an hour away to make an appointment for free at the facility, but not a same day appointment (so what previously took one evening, now takes two and a week of planning). For somebody with low income it has become difficult to do something that was traditionally done in one evening with no fee. Now they are charging a premium for 'convenience'. I am dumbfounded that this behavior is allowed. Anti consumer monopolies are totally allowed within jails.

The facilities that use these 3rd party services receive a percentage of the fees. So you create conflict of interest. Higher recidivism rate = more money for the jails.
No, I live in the United States, where health insurance companies are basically a giant bloodsucking leach affixed to a large chunk of the economy. We're also not nearly as good at trains and making watches.
American Airlines Has Cameras in Their Screens Too
This guy NYCs
Cloudflare Access Now Supports RDP
They just need a close relative to submit and they can cross reference things to you.
Uhh, that's what we have been doing the whole time. That's the status quo. We're talking about changing it because it's caused massive societal problems.
How is that supposed to impress stakeholders?
I generally agree with you, and I'm trying to parse through this myself. I think one difference in the modern era is that the Internet and social media have blurred the lines between broadcast speech and individual speech. Historically, we recoil at any restrictions on individual speech. They exist (can't yell FIRE in a crowded theater), but they are generally considered an unfortunate necessity. However, most people agree that broadcast speech should be censored.

Now we're in an era where speech can start out as individual, and then be broadcast. Or perhaps it's better considered a false dichotomy in the first place. Either way, we definitely haven't figured out how to handle this as a society.
Don't hijack scrolling.
fellow econtalk/cumtown (well more red scare) listener here..

The latest feed refresh used to make me feel "Wow how will I have time to listen to all of these!" whereas now its "God do I really want to listen to any of these."

I guess previously we were all starved of interesting long form conversations (or socialist edgelords) but now we're reasonably satiated and like anything else it has to be good to hold our attention.

I still find a good econtalk pod is one of my greatest pleasures - russ & munger episodes particularly.
“It's human nature to try to take advantage of others for personal and financial gain.“

Is it? Or is it the perverse financial incentive structure that leads humans to put financial gain over all other priorities?

Would humans still make decisions to take advantage if the incentive structures were built differently?
Does anyone here have one of their laptops? How does the hardware compare to similarly priced products from mainstream vendors?
What does “bad design” mean in the context of a system that wasn’t designed?

Evolution is a process that involves tiny random changes stabilizing at or near local maxima. Where you end up is largely about where you started.
Yeah that's what I'm referencing. I'm just wondering if there'd be any difference if they measured wealth/surplus income. Like, is someone with a $40,000/year lifestyle happier with $150,000 salary than $80,000?

If you have that kind of surplus you experience a great freedom. You can seek a better job, you can retire early, etc
I would expect some combination of (1) and (3).

Facebook already necessarily employ a small army of moderators to remove illegal and "undesirable" material; they must have supervisors who set the overall policy direction and deal with new, emergent problems.

Companies that use social media on a large scale, and those companies that run social networks disguised as videogames, employ "community managers", whose job it is to understand and communicate with the community, including keeping abreast of disruptions. It doesn't seem that Facebook itself has many of these.

Facebook should get itself some "machine anthropologists", to study the ant farm. They can then get a sense of these problems before they get in the press, and definitely before they get to the Parliamentary committees. And feed the existing algorithms.
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I agree.

I think the only lasting solution to this is to raise a populace smart enough to be impervious to the radical left and right, both fringes being the domain of sloppy thinking and emotionally driven agendas. And in a way that keeps the flywheel of education spinning. We do a bad job of that today, I think.

But that takes time, strength, money, and – most critically – unified vision that I'm not sure America has right now.

So how do you implement education reform that takes 50 years, when nobody even agrees that it's needed, and kids are getting killed and radicalized today?

Do you allow it to continue in defense of the underlying principle of truly free speech? Maybe. To abandon that principle is a terrifying slippery slope.

This is just one of the ways where tech and culture vastly outpace science and regulation.

I have no answers.
US emissions are radically down though thanks to efficiency and moving from coal to nat gas + renewables. We're down almost 20% from 2000.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2017/10/24/yes-the-u-s-...
If you let people pay for an ad free service, you just removed the most valuable users (target demographic) from your advertising pool.
The network effect is strong and if your family is on facebook it can seem rude to post about your life elsewhere where they lack access to it. I'd love to see a government mandate forcing cross pollinization of these networks (perhaps using diapora's node approach) that would allow smaller hosts to compete with the big guys by letting people pull feeds in from other networks. Basically we need XMPP for social media but none of the social media companies have any motivation for implementing it so... ideally the government does sometime.
I was literally about to make the same comment. It's guilt by association. Researching these topics does not mean you are a Nazi. In this case, Facebook did nothing wrong. One can have an interest in history without being a Nazi. One can have a history in Nazis without being one.

This is unbelievably poor reporting, the headline does not reflect the actual content and the wrong conclusions are drawn. LA Times, in particular Sam Dean, should be ashamed.
Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.1
This is nonsense; Travis employees are the polar opposite of "codebros".

Lighthearted team profiles are absolutely not an insight into the employees' "mentality". If anything, your insinuations are in extremely bad faith and you should know better than to slander people you don't know, especially those whose livelihoods got snatched away.

Very lazy and bad stereotyping, 0/10 points, try again.
I think a lot of people tend to see the issue from a lower-middle class perspective (economically speaking), this makes it very difficult to understand some of the different issues that can occur at that level. It is similar to someone living in a less developed nation looking at the things most people in the developed world sees as a necessity.

People make trade-offs, in some cases the perceived cost of making less money is:
* Later retirement
* Longer commute
* Smaller house
* Lower quality of life for the kids (no/limited private school, extracurricular, etc)
* Limited network (which can mean power)
* Decreased prestige in society (yes, society still see money as prestige)
* Lower quality vacation
* Less 'mating' options
* Ability to provide to extend family & friends
* Exchanging a stable income

People are afraid of change, "what if the lower wage means losing my wife?" "what if I realize that my new job wasn't what I hyped it to be and I can't get back to what I used to do?" The more you have (money in this case), the more you stand to lose.
Worth noting: the article's headline is one of those tricky situations where the summary isn't wrong, but should probably include more information.

FB allows advertisers to target at specific topics, and they've been blacklisting objectionable categories. But the blacklisting appears to be manual, so while "nazi" isn't a micro-targeting category, things like Josef Mengele and a white supremacist punk band are.

Manually keeping up with and out-thinking objectionable content keywords is a perpetual arms race. If FB wants to win it that way, they'll have to invest pretty hard in that space if they don't want a story like this every quarter.
>> Which country permits their citizens to disclose highly classified information with not repercussions, however unjust those repercussions may ultimately be?

Yeah, its free speech, as long as it doesn't fall under some bullshit definition of "classified" (how convenient that the classified information also includes unilateral infringement of another country's rights, e.g. the downright creepy snooping on the phones of world leaders who are supposed allies). And of course, you should also understand that you _might_ die saying certain things, but hey, otherwise its free speech. And finally, as long as you understand the "relative" merits of the case (i.e. one rule for me, another for you), we can all agree that free speech is what is being practiced in the USA.
Are there really different ideas about this? I mean, there might be some grey area, sure, but in general? Is there an argument for example that depression is great and shouldn't be touched?
Sorry you're going through that right now. I've been in a similar situation. It can be really stressful and seems to take forever to get out of that hole.

If you have friends or family that want to help out, try not to be too proud and let them (at least as far as accepting free meals and whatnot). I always felt uncomfortable "mooching" off people, but it really helped me get through that period without being totally miserable. I never asked for it, but I did accept it when offered.

As a side effect of what I went through, once I paid off my credit cards I have yet to take out another one (still haven't) years later, and I avoided taking on any new debt as much as possible. I was really hesitant to "buy" a house and bought one a lot later than I probably should have, and thus forewent years and years of building up equity (I only bought a house a year ago, and probably could have 5 or 6 years ago, in retrospect). It really screwed with my head, mentally.
This is great. Would love to see a map marker/pin icon.
Really? I've witnessed zero efforts on behalf of the government to curb free speech. But if you're talking about private speech that happens on privately owned websites, then that's flat out what is allowed by the constitution.

Seems to me that the issue is actually with private ownership being able to censor. Which can only be addressed with, guess what, government intervention.
People say these things all the time, but I always wonder how you'd actually feel if you did the 3-5 year work and saved that 3-5 million you earned. My guess is with most people, you get that 3-5 million and you're going to want more. I'm not saying you specifically, but people in general.

And a clarification, I'm not thinking it'd be because you're around wealthier people which would make you want to spend more to compare to them, but rather having more security, if your passion requires more money.
IPv6 Security in an IPv4-Only Environment
Reminds me of “Cool Hand Luke”.

Boss Paul: That ditch is Boss Kean's ditch. And I told him that dirt in it's your dirt. What's your dirt doin' in his ditch?
Luke: I don't know, Boss.
Boss Paul: You better get in there and get it out, boy.