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> it's better than lugging wires around like it's 1990.

That's just like, your opinion, man. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but bluetooth kind of sucks. If I have two devices that just stay paired together forever, it seems to work fine. But if there's ever any change, I usually have to spend 30-60 seconds fucking around and turning BT on and off, or re-pairing, or selecting output devices or something. Wired headphones are simple, don't need recharging, and they work when I want them to. So much like non-smart-light-bulbs, I do think sometimes 1990-style things are better. And I don't think I'd use the word "lug" to describe carrying something that weighs an ounce or less.
LastPass Fixes a Major Exploit
Many people who are "self-taught coders" don't perceive themselves as "engineers", often because many other forms of engineering have certifications. They expect that "engineer" requires a certain level of knowledge that they do not have; it's an unknown unknown kind of thing.

I know someone who, through using a lot of Goole Sheets, managed to re-invent SQL joins. She'd never identify as an engineer, but she did manage to get some software to accomplish her task.
absolutely. pandas is just something i put up with to be able to use everything else in python, i'd drop it in a heartbeat.
very nice collection of components!!!
New device generates light with help from the darkness of space
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There's only one "uncommon" employee benefit that ever actually made a difference to me: providing the time and (sometimes)money toward continuing education.
Also reading that. One per day. I would say one every 5 or 6 meditations I find very valuable stuff.
I know a few people who have entrepreneur Marco Polo support groups- asynchronous but still seeing actual faces and human expressions.
I did indeed.

https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/kubernetesclu...
That was the wonderful realization I came to a few months back. They're not even close to the only game in town. It's pretty amazing that they marketed this attitude that they were the de facto online marketplace, based on the goodwill of "free" 2 day shipping, and a highly-curated catalog (at first) for so, so long, until the problems have become more hassle than I'm willing to deal with. I've dropped Prime, and just avoid the whole thing now.

At this point, I'd literally rather drive over to a physical store than try to decipher whether I'm getting crap from them, and whether that crap is coming on a slow boat from the orient, every, single time I try to buy something. The future is CURATION. That's what the physical store does for me, by nature of the fact that their shelf space is limited. Amazon would be wise to throw 90% of the items off their platform, and stop being a storefront for every jerk with a computer and some junk lying around. Leave that crap for Ebay!
That makes it all the more impressive.
Elwyn Berlekamp wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwyn_Berlekamp
He died in April this year.
Cars are modular, but manufactures want to abolish the aftermarket like Apple.
> They do that to boost streaming and data charges...

Which phone manufacturers make any money from streaming and data charges?
Except its not just the lower prices that are important -- the quick order processing and shipping are a huge reason why Amazon is succeeding.

Living near a metro area, I can get items from Amazon items within 24-48 hours (with Prime). Sometimes it even arrives later the same day.

Plus the whole free shipping (as long as you're Prime) thing..
To be fair, Bernie is a supporter of a carbon tax as well. In the past he has said it's "the most straight-forward and efficient strategy for quickly reducing greenhouse gas emissions".
Sure. It's around $700/month for me + my wife.

I wish I could've known more practical info about starting a company before I quit my day job, e.g., how much for insurance, what company credit card to use, how to pay tax, where to find lawyers... Online articles / advices are mostly focused on big picture or very abstract concepts or fortune cookie type words :(
Google was fined several billion dollars by the EU for prioritizing their own products in search.
New Proof Solves 80-Year-Old Irrational Number Problem
On their mid-range "Enterprise series" systems (Enterprise 3500, 450, etc.) it was much worse. I remember it taking a good 2 or 3 minutes just to get through firmware initialization...
Congrats on the private beta launch! I look forward to doing some tire kicking when it's in open beta ;)

There has been momentum around this kind of idea (personally I've used WolframLanguage, Anvil) - pros and cons to each approach. I'm excited to see where this goes!
What's the consensus in the US about Trump? What if you sample just the Democratic debate audience? What if you sample just a Trump rally?

Even at 90% you know very little without something close enough to a representative sample. It's true that it's a strong enough signal that it's not accounted for by small biases.
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For sure. Even when they went online the experience was _bad_. Ordering would almost never ship when it said it would and one time I ordered something for pick-up at a store and when I got to the store an employee their said another employee took the tags off of what I purchased and sold it to a customer.

They missed the internet and when they tried to get into it, they just failed at every turn.
Frys is one of the few retail places that consistently beats Amazon. I recently built a PC and almost every part was cheaper in Fry's than Amazon.
It's worth noting Microsoft's own email offering is third on a Bing search for "email": https://www.bing.com/search?q=email
I used a bit of serverless Javascript (Firebase functions) in a previous startup, and it actually worked really nicely for small self-contained tasks - saving files to S3, triggering customer emails, triggering notifications or webhooks in other services (and ofc in Firebase, actually doing things with the database, but it's not a fit for everything).
For low light situations, the latest phones can make a big difference over a budget phone like Moto G6. Faster photo taking, better stabilization, do make a difference when taking anything moving.

FWIW I used Moto's for a couple of years and really like them. I used to get my wife's iphone for picture taking but now my pixel 2 is all I need.
I feel that is likely coming at some point - but who knows... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20411992

Also with the recent postal changes in the US I think that will hurt AliExpress, Banggood and help Shopify and Amazon.
Shopify isn't a homogeneous marketplace that is comparable to Amazon.com. It's a SaaS ecommerce platform. I've seen these comparisons made lately and I don't understand it. What am I missing?
Yes, many people do it all the time.
Not shootable in the foot in terms of pointer arithmetic, but shootable in the foot in terms of unchecked dereferences of nil. As a C++ programmer historically, I think of references as not being nilable.
Just finished "Get a financial Life". Pretty good stuff if you want to improve your financial skills and learn about investments, real state and tips on many things related to money.
Maybe like a "rubber bullet", it can inflict some damage but shooting oneself in the foot bears very little risk.
> they would not care one bit about this as long as X is in their party.
Does it really mean that Shopify is selling more than eBay? There are lots of indie entrepreneurs who open a site with shopify and pay for the Shopify subscription only to discover that they don't have nowhere near the the number of sales or even visitors they hoped.
Well, there's no mainstream candidate who is both against gun control and who believes global warming is real. There's not even a mainstream candidate who's against gun control, actually.
Researchers build microscopic biohybrid robots propelled by muscles, nerves
$40 would get you three or four full seasons of any individual show on Amazon, if you're lucky. There isn't anywhere that $40 would get you what you want. Disney+ is probably going to be the future, as much as I hate to say that.

Edit: I pay for netflix, I pay for amazon prime, and I'm a member of a really good tv piracy site. My wife is happy with the TV access we have. My thing is video games so I don't actually care about TV.
I don't see numbers in the article -- an increase in temperature of 1 degree Celsius would cause life expectancy in the U.S. to decrease by X years. I suspect that such numbers are not included because they are very small. Life expectancy has declined slightly in the U.S. in recent years, but because of "deaths of despair", including drug overdoses, not because of climate change.
Years ago Joel Spolsky on his site "Joel on Software" had a "Business of Software" forum where a lot of very small ISVs hung out and discussed items of mutual interest. Anyone know where those kinds of folks hang out now to discuss things?
Bluetooth is perfect for you if you like going back to pre 1985 audio quality. Some of us like CD quality, and it's kind of funny that in 2019 the only way to get close to that (without a headphone socket, anyway), is using aptx-hd supported phones/headphones.
> the important thing to realize is that changing the lifetime parameters in a function will never change the user-visible semantics of the code

To reiterate: the lifetime parameters are used only to check the code for errors, they are discarded after that and don't affect the code generation. There's even an alternative compiler for Rust (mrustc) which completely ignores them and the rest of the borrow checking stuff, assuming the code is correct.
That's how it is. I worked with Pixel Union, an agency which serves Shopify customers pretty much exclusively. They built British Columbia's online cannabis store on Shopify. They built countless online shoe stores for notable brands. Sunglasses, women's fashion, men's fashion, watches, rental services. None of them look like they have anything to do with Shopify.
> As team of one, you have to be very judicious with your time. You often have to have a philosophy of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Yeah they could burn a week or two switching over to lambda and whatnot but is it going to have a higher ROI than all the other things they could be working on?

Timeframe has to be considered. If it only takes a week, I'd strongly suggest biting the bullet. A week's budget can be quickly spent troubleshooting issues, scaling servers up and down, installing software updates, hardening systems and whatnot.

It will most likely be much cheaper to run too. Which, in a single-man operation, may be worthwhile.
It’s an e-commerce platform. It’s completely white label so you could buy from a Shopify website without ever knowing it.
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OpenShift on GCP?
Have anybody successfully deployed OpenShift 3.11 on GCP?
Terraform scripts/github project would be great.
> No public official at any level of state or local government shall make, participate in making or in any way attempt to use his official position to influence a governmental decision in which he knows or has reason to know he has a financial interest. [1]

A government official has a financial interest in the employment of their spouse (who in this case, also more than likely has stock/stock options/RSUs from his employer)

Edit to add: my spouse was a small time elected official in California, and there are lots of rules and required disclosures. Complying with the gift policy can be tricky -- if you meet your friends at their cabin for a ski trip it's allowed, but if you plan to meet them, but they were unable to make it, you can't stay there without them, it's not allowed to stay in their cabin without them.

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
The Magnitskiy Myth Exploded
How did you get started doing this? Did you have a lot of money saved up and just decide to go for it for a certain length of time?

I've had an idea that I've been working on part-time but it really needs some full-time love. At what point do you decide to go for it full-time?
It would change the Authoritative server's TTL but it wouldn't necessarily propagate to caching DNS servers.
The alternative is rule by non-elites. America has been an aristocratic democracy; when that aristocratic ruling culture is replaced by an anti-elitist culture, it might look worse than you think. I'd argue that the "elite" culture is less self-serving and more noble than the alternative.
You are right that cyclic mutable graphs are very hard to model in Rust.

But very little code actually looks like that in reality. A lot of code looks like that by accident.
It's crazy, that we still do not have something like "Cash" on the internet.

A simple, anonymous way to pay 10 cent or so. To use a website or read an article.

That would make the world so much better for indie developers.

Currently, an indie dev makes orders of magnitude less money per pageview then Google, Facebook and Co. Because those have all that advertising technology and ecosystem that indie devs don't have. If users would pay directly, that would change.
What a strange article. A very workmanlike review of a very interesting book bookended by two paragraphs each of filler verging on nonsense.
What do you mean by 'the right job' and why would it 'force' people to leave their communities?
> Many e-books vendors frequently reduce their value by limiting access to a specific app/reader, or limit how useful the functionality you describe can be

Yup, this is why I'm a fan of the likebook/boox type e readers. They all run stripped down versions of Android and many of them have SD card slots too. I use the likebook Mars (~$200) as my daily reader only (bigger ones are nice if your budget allows) and it is so much nicer than the Kindles imo. Default reader can handle all formats, you can dump your own fonts and dictionaries on it, and you can run the Kindle, kobo, libby, etc apps if you want to (since you can use Google play). Ofc being a cheap Chinese e reader it isn't exactly something that can run real apps at more than a couple fps but it's great for static content like books.
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Appliance Myths That We All Believe Are True
(author of this blog post here)

The hardest part of building this business is to keep motivated for a relatively long period of time. I'm still early in this startup journey. This is only the 2nd year of me working full-time on Listen Notes.

I think it would be helpful to surround yourself with like-minded people (online or offline) -- we are social animals. Indie Hackers is pretty good: https://www.indiehackers.com/

I live in San Francisco and I used to work for companies, so at least I can often hang out with some friends/former coworkers who are doing startups or working in tiny startups.

In my coworker space, people from different companies rarely talk to each other...
Yeah, that's what I susp3too. It's is a bit of a hype.. I guess shopify will run out of "dreamers" in two years or so.. Then they probably go from flat to "pay per article" or so and call it better customer service and pricing :)
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Is this YouTube but for podcasts? Sounds like a good idea actually.
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> I doubt I'll live long enough to see the results of states that knock out the underpinnings of common culture. Perhaps they'll build their own fresh ones, perhaps it never mattered.

I think the elites of the world are steadily converging toward a common culture, which is exactly what gave the Roman empire its identity.
Many cars disable Bluetooth pairing while the car is in motion, so you couldn't even "be the DJ" if your phone was not already paired with your car/truck beforehand. It's fine if it's just you and you are pairing just your phone, but if your friends wanna participate on a road trip and just want to use their phone it could be a problem.
For an example of this library used in production: https://blog.discordapp.com/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-1...
So this is typically where high net worth individuals (HNI) come in, aka, angels but not your typical tech angel and not seed funds IMO. I would argue a very large unreported, under discussed part of funding for traditional businesses is done this way, but it doesn't have the sex appeal of tech angels and VC's so people don't hear about it and the press doesn't cover it.

It is not rare to work with a HNI and they infuse you with say 50-500k for growth based on your business metrics. How they structure the deal can be very different, it can be anything from a "loan" with monthly payments starting usually after some number of months or it could be as ownership via shares or Units (for LLC's) and quarterly or annual distributions based upon an agreed to valuation. But there are almost an unlimited other numbers of ways this gets structured.

Not everyone is looking for 10x returns, a lot of HNIs will invest as sort of a paying it forward (they want people to succeed), but don't be misled they are still looking for solid returns. An example, I did one of these deals with an HNI where for every sale we made they took a percentage of the sale. Until the principle was paid back it was a higher percentage but it lowered once principle was paid back and the return was capped at a total value/time whichever occurred first e.g. they could get up to 4x their investment back or it stopped 5 years after the principle was repaid whichever came first, they were also guaranteed a specific return if we sold before either of the triggers happened. This deal worked for both of us, because as we succeeded they got paid and they were incentivized to help us succeed because they could get the max value out sooner the faster we grew.
My daily driver for years has been a Moto Z Play gen 1, with a battery mod. It's robust as hell, I have literally never had the battery run out, and I can go two days or sometimes three if I'm being careful without doing a full charge which is pretty much my top concern on phones. It has a good enough camera for my needs and a headphone jack. When it's time to change, I'm totally staying on this line.
The debate over whether male and female brains are different
> Also, Rust + wasm opens up a great toolset to build faster frontend apps.

Hypothetically. It's yet to be seen (or full applications at least).
Not sure I'd want to be writing services I depend on in a language whose priority is ease of prototyping.

In his post, Real problems with functional languages [0], Paul Biggar creates a false dichotomy: static types help us to write correct programs while dynamic types let us prototype faster. Dark wants to be able to do both.

I believe Haskell allows us to reject outright incorrect programs sooner and allows us to prototype things faster due to its types and inference engine. I don't really see how Haskell is poor as a prototyping language. From experience it's better than dynamic languages as it has allowed me to focus on logic and domain problems instead of mucking up my code with brittle run-time and equality checks... and then chasing down bugs I've made for myself.

No where is it mentioned what type system Dark is using. Will Dark allow a program to be deployed that it cannot reason about? What about higher-kinded types and polymorphism? Does it enforce termination or is bottom a type in every kind? Does the type system enforce linearity in usage? Quotient types? Row types?

This looks like a cool project but I don't think I'd use it for anything without knowing more about how it works.

[0] https://medium.com/darklang/real-problems-with-functional-la...
It seems that darklang goes one step further than your average faas: every new code you write is deployed as you write it without any explicit deploy action, but the design of the Lang/IDE ensures new code is always behind a feature flag that makes that new behavior visible only to you until you decide to expand the audience until eventually reaching 100% of the users.

You can do that with any language and any serverless stack around, but it still requires work. I'm struggling often to make my teams accept that this little extra setup work will let you iterate faster and often it's not that obvious that it would, since the overhead of the process is non-zero (for some value of zero).

I can't wait to try darklang; I'm really curious. I just need to think of a pet-project that would be suitable for the beta.
Wow, I agree and disagree. How to know when the kitchen is on fire? Most revolutions of the past 200 years have been a disaster. We live in a constitutional democracy that supports incremental improvement. The alternative is almost certainly, probabilistically, worse. Entropy and all that.
Since I am getting downvoted: Is this a Continental English vs. American English thing? Because as a native American English speaker, there is no doubt at all what the sentence means in American English.
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Oh, I know... but don't try telling them that.
If we're sharing anecdotes, I didn't write any C++ in over a decade at Google.

But I'm not going to dispute that it's the most-used server-side language, because I've seen the statistics.
I disagree. This isn't Tech Business News or Startup News, it's Hacker News.
You might be interested in this parody social media site:
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https://discuss.bootstrapped.fm
you're right that they will do it under any system of class society, with a minority expropriating class and a majority producing class, such as have existed since the invention of written history. that's why marx called for abolishing classes, absorbing everyone into the working class, replacing the structure with an egalitarian, democratic structure to decide how to invest all resources, as the only way out.

russia didn't have the economic basis to get rid of basic material scarcity in 1917, and also was constantly under attack by capitalism, and so it devolved into an undemocratic mess until it reverted (now everything is even worse there).
Aren't most drop ship sites on shopify? I feel like every few articles and blog is "be a drop shipper" with those three simple services..
E-Books have some convenience that physical books don't:

1. I can pick it up from any device I have at any time,

2. I can pick up any book depending on my mood at that point in time (I usually read one fiction, one non-fiction and one craft related simultaneously)

3. I can highlight and keep notes with the book that's in a form I can just copy-paste later. More than a few times I have now bought the e-book even though I own the physical book.

For me these things make the cost worth it. That said I lament the things you mention above. I want to be able to "own" the book and be able to transfer or resell after I'm done. I also want guarantee that I can keep reading the book forever. Either that or a more Spotify model (Amazon Kindle Unlimited has limited selection so far) that I can just rent x number of books and month and don't have to own it. I'd be fine with that. It's the in between model where I have to pay more than paperback but can't resell it or even give it to a friend that bothers me - if anything as a matter of principle.
That's what primaries are for?
Seinfeld's distributor is Sony Pictures, so perhaps the closer to home competition would be from PlayStation Vue. Maybe a few more adults might buy PlayStations if they moved Seinfeld there.