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Five-hour startup work day is impossible
A German startup that develops websites, apps and e-commerce platforms, has a five-hour day work policy. Employees come to work at 8am (apparently 8am is not even strictly enforced) and leave at 1pm. That's an hour after noon! Apparently productivity is kept up by cutting out the fat - cell phones are turned off, company emails are checked only twice a day and meetings are kept to 15 mins. The company was profitable in 2018, its first full year in business.
A San Diego startup experimented with five-hour work days and after two years limited it to the summer months only. This is all reported in the WSJ.
I've been a founder and a CEO. I've represented startups when I was an I.P. attorney, and later consulted for startups on the business side. I just don't see how it's possible to do a 5-hour day. I am a devoted husband, father and son, and am just green with envy if this is really working for some startups.
I have a heck of a time cutting out work after 10 hrs a day.
I doubt this 5-hour work day thing is a publicity stunt by these startups. It seems genuine. Comments?
Can someone explain what this telemetry does and what its role is supposed to be?
I actually talked to my cities recycling center, and they will degauss/destroy the drives with NSA certified tools. And they will provide a cert that it was done. All for free. I have 75 drives. I am still on my first drive with CBL Data Shredder.
It's appropriate to blame Republicans if it's actually their fault and they are actually trying to disrupt the impeachment process. Or do we suddenly not care about the security rules now it's not "her emails"?
It often seems like UX teams can’t help themselves and that the urge to destroy useful in favor of some idealized UI that doesn’t solve the task at hand comes with them. The UX industry is terrified of expert users or having to understand the product.

I hope this doesn’t happen to grafana.
Didn't 'MODE MONO' need a Hercules graphics card though?
I'm confused why they're running a v2 onion address -- v3 has many benefits in terms of privacy and DoS resistance. I get that the onion addresses are longer, but you can run both in parallel.
I thought the consensus was that law enforcement can "crack" Tor these days (a la tracing the illegal traffic back to the source, not just the exit node)

Is this not the case, or is it not a black/white answer?
You can also just do "youtube-dl U7VwtOrwceo"

No need to tell it best quality; it does that automatically.
Legal professionals don’t want version control because they don’t want their mistakes to be visible to anyone else.
The "government" is not one coherent entity. Also, its primary goal is the oppression, intimidation and subjugation of the masses, not logical thinking.
|bohemian artist communities
Do bohemian artist communities still exist in San Francisco? How can they afford to live there?
https://sourcehut.org is looking better and better all the time.
SpaceX aims to provide consumers broadband through Starlink by next year
Specific circumstances as in, what's in the paragraphs above.

The exceptions are (1) if the title includes the name of the site or (2) if the title begins with a number. Neither apply here.
My phone never leaves my sight. I don't do mobile banking of any kind. I can sign out/remotely wipe the device via the web. It would be nice to remotely turn ON the GPS to find my phone but Android has since removed the remote GPS ON feature.

If only I can find a smartphone for talk/text/web/GPS, I'd be switch in a heartbeat. I'm seriously getting sick of the all the security features that tend to bloat the device and slow it to a crawl.

That being said, if my phone was vulnerable to theft or I wasn't so careful, I would lock my screen.
This would imply the only thing he uses his phone for is to type in his passcode.
Contrary to popular belief, cyan is better for night vision. Your rods are most sensitive to cyan, so you can use much dimmer cyan light than you can use red/orange light.

http://stlplaces.com/night_vision_red_myth/
> Summers are brutal

Summers in the bay area are not even remotely brutal.
No difference really, but fourth party scripts are the worst :-/
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This is not open access. The Berlin declaration states it quite clearly. It is about usage rights.[0]

Publishers really love co-opting the OA movement. Scheming up increasingly convoluted colour OA categories. Or deluding the concept with campaigns like this.

[0] https://openaccess.mpg.de/Berlin-Declaration
Six Memos for the Next Millennium is outstanding
Honest question for the people who feel strongly about telemetry: What is/are your concern/s?
Do the new street lights only have LED's, or do they also have cameras and microphones like the ones installed in San Diego and a few other cities for machine learning?
The potential consequences of breaching security don't change because of someone's politics.

They are adults, they know the rules, they chose to bring their phones.
A write up like that and he did not mention the cloudlfare policy to inspect the traffic and log the words read / said and send info about things people have read / said to various gov agencies..

I must assume that he does not know this, and if this guy doesn't, then how to calculate the odds that X percent of Y (how many people are sharing what they read through cloudflares pipes everyday?) - how many people don't know they are being spied on and info about them is being sent to others because a host is routing through cloudflare?
Senators ask US intel to determine whether TikTok poses national security risks
I grew up in the South, and worked in the Bay Area for 9 years, 7 in SF. Summers is SF are most assuredly not brutal.

Most of the microclimates in the Bay Area are disgustingly peaceful, but as the parent notes, there is a distinct lack of seasons (there's approximately two: dry summers, wet "winters") and real weather (I greatly missed thunderstorms when I was there).
More like a brain fart and a lack of proofreading. Be charitable.
Not everyone read Time and Newsweek cover to cover back in the day. But, quite a few did.
(Especially if they were constipated.)
Ask HN: What are your favorite note taking and to-do list apps?
What apps are you using for taking notes and planning your to-do list?
This may sound ignorant, but how did you know it wasn't just the exercises?
Director of UX here. This year we rewrote a lot of the data flow plumbing in grafana to allow streaming with the very goal to enable sensor and other high frequency use cases. More to come soon
NYC's bodegas confront a new, 'revitalized' future
The reason why the backlash is so big:

* Devs are very sensitive to tracking. Especially opt-out rather then opt-in. We know what kind of data companies sit on. And opt-out is invasive.

* Gitlab is perceived as a developer friendly open source company. An alternative to the bloated/"enterprisey"/milk the customer stacks out there

* Self-hosting should come with a promise of privacy

* Disabling API/UI access without opt in is just a really bad move. You should have seen the anger coming from a mile away.

* The claim that you can't get insight into how Gitlab is used without client side telemetry is very dishonest.

You have a wealth of data in the DB and web server logs. True, you won't know how long a user fiddles with the mouse until they click a button. I understand the urge to optimize the UX. But user studies go a long way.

And let's be real: this isn't about optimizing button placement, but about showing some nice engagement graphs to investors.

Also, the whole response both in the issue and here was quite poorly handled in my opinion.

The back and forth here... Copy-pasting a reply to each commenter in the issue... (really?)

Just re-consider and put out a unified response.
> but I'm not sure why many are even remotely surprised by these sort of escapades

I don't think people are surprised that these things are possible in the context of "EaaS". It's surprising because they're causing massive problems for their users by making the change so quickly. The relative gain of waiting one month before the change wouldn't hurt them that much, but it would help their customers a great deal. So the surprise is seeing how indifferent they seem to the users. (I know they're revising the decision now. Maybe they can avoid most of the bad PR.)

The free or partially free dev tool industry is extremely competitive and you need a lot of goodwill to stay alive. They're completely free to screw their users, and their users are completely free (except for some lock-in) to hop to the next provider. I don't understand why they would throw away that goodwill.

But maybe I'm wrong and the friction is higher than what I expect.
Yup!

We also have a lot of other open source jsonnet tooling:

https://github.com/grafana/jsonnet-libs
https://github.com/grafana/tanka
I'm happy for stripe, they made the logical decision.Now hopefully the incompetent administrators of San Francisco will feel some consequence for their actions.
Internet social media are merely 15 years old. We just don’t know yet what kind of toxic and pathological consequences there might be. To use an analogy, places where people use social media intensively and the people themselves soak in certain digital „smell” which is tailling them afterwards.
Apparently the author is not aware that delivering a box of microfiche cards instead of a fat paper printout was a common practice back then. It had nothing to do with spooks.

You find that mentioned in Brooks's Mythical Man-month book: everyone working on OS/360 got a box of microfiche representing the current state of the OS, each morning. Without a terminal, how else would you look up what a system call actually did? Printing one copy of all the source, and then optically reproducing it to more acetate, was obviously more efficient than printing it hundreds of times.

The old listings would be burnt to recover the silver.
Nice!

I actually approached this problem from the other side a few years ago and made a service which let brands purchase the rights to users' Instagram photos. It was definitely an interesting experience, but this is a great way to help the users a bit.
If they collect it themselves, without 3rd party script, it's more secure than including 3rd party scripts in the page, which is what Gitlab seems to want to do.
Relevant: https://vim-adventures.com/
> (in the end, you just pay and form another site like it, it's not like we can't make new ones).

Just imagine the fury if a Democrat compromised a secure site and then said "It's cool, just make a new one."
> These fucking corporations or wannabe corporations doesn't give a fuck about you or your data.

They don't give a fuck about individual users but they sure do care about their data.
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The project is on github here: https://github.com/OpenMined/PySyft-TensorFlow
Not sure where you're shopping, but on tesla.com I can order any Tesla without Autopilot for $6k less than one with it.
I often notice this at gas pumps. There are always cameras at gas pumps. If you pay at the pump, then you enter your pin. I shield mine very carefully, but I watch other people and they just punch in their pin without shielding. It's weird because people often shield their pin at a checkout counter because the clerk is right there (sort of) watching. Maybe these people feel at gas pumps, no one is watching... but the CCTV definitely is watching.
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You're likely right and it was just my parents and police scaring me into keeping the doors locked. He wasn't arrested until the next day (had no idea he was a neighbor, he lived a few blocks away) when the police realized who he was.

But that's also the thing- we had no idea what his intent was. I do recall the police that night seeming less concerned because the door was unlocked and I was chided quite a bit. I do recall them telling me what I said in my initial post but I also understand criminal intent. Personally I'm glad the guy wasn't wrung up with a felony if he was just on some ambien sleepwalk bender or whatever he was on.
How worthy is it for anyone at all to study quasars if the knowledge they gain is not disseminated?
A solution I've found is to listen on 1.7x speed. Originally I bumped to 1.3x, but over time your brain adjusts and has no problem following along at faster speeds.
Depends on personality, but compare it to other climates where for parts of the year you can't comfortably go outside. Northeast you get snowed in regularly, 40 straight days of darkness and rain in northwest, 90+ days of 100 (ish) degree weather here in Austin.

Probably grass is always greener type thing.
> There were many more concerns than we expected.

So they expected some, but still went ahead anyway?
You threaten that and they say “go pound sand in the courts”. And even if you “win” in the courts you still lose because “the process is the punishment”.
Considering the city already spends around $30k per year per homeless person it's pretty obvious money is not the solution.
> opt-in by default

So ... opt-out?
You merely mentioned fairness, but you didn't mention which aspect.

Jack has been vocal about wanting to pay tax by revenue (or whatever way) to the city. The point that he objects is that Square pays tax more than Saleforce, when Saleforce's revenue is way way more than Square's.

This is an example of US political debate.

Everyone immediately accuses the person of being evil (i.e. not wanting to pay tax and of hating homeless). But nobody actually answers why it makes sense for Square to pay more tax than Saleforce.
Kind of depends if you believe that representation depends on people vs party. The party apparatus is controlled in a not-particularly democratic way, which strongly affects who gets on the ballot, and historically it was possible to win a major election with about 2% of the population of the district voting for you.

There was another proposal a few years ago to make local elections non-partisan.

Random ballot elections are the most representative.
Nothing wrong with that in general, you can't make everyone happy.
No, I know because that’s what I do and I had this fail on me when I migrated to a new phone. I switched to a different app that does backup keys when you use an encrypted iTunes backup.

Edit: oh you wanted to restore on the same device. Well that might work but it doesn’t help when migrating or if your phone is not available.
I have been living in Amsterdam for about half a year. Met lots of locals. The red light district is not liked. It’s full of trashy people wanting to do drugs and have sex. Sure if you find those to be pleasures of life then be my guest, but the locals hate it: imagine having an entire neighborhood ruined by these kind of people, who let me tell you are not the most respectful kind.

But the real issue is that none of the girl prostitutes are locals. Not once I heard of a local Dutch girl doing this. And it’s also mostly lots of people that need he money. If the brothels were full of dutch-rich women then I’d be fine with it... but reality is that it’s not and it encourages poorer people to participate in the activity. And in a way it exploits these people even if it’s their choice.

Also let’s not forget the immortal rule: wherever there’s money, there’s corruption.

So unfortunately I don’t favor the red light district. Maybe if it was far from the center and if it was done in a way where you would be 100% sure where nobody was exploited, then yes. But reality is that nobody can know for sure that exploitation doesn’t happen.

But then there’s also the other side of the coin that if you make it illegal it will anyway happen in a worst manner... on the streets and with more exploitation.

So maybe having something organized and outside cultural city center seems like a good win-win situation.
Would it be worth hiring someone at this stage?

Actually that was what I was curious about reading the title of the question. If you are successful as a one person business, it makes sense to scale it past a one person business.
I personally don't have a problem with telemetry when the product is free and what you collect and how it's used is clearly defined. If people are paying, it should be reduced or eliminated if the monthly fee is high enough.

I think a big problem is that it was so unexpected! Especially the API changes, where people probably are wondering why things aren't working today. Some advance notice would have helped, probably.

I've used Gitlab in the past and will continue to use it here and there, though I host all my own repos at home with just regular old git and use Github for work, so take what I'm saying with a grain of salt because I'm technically not a heavy user of your service.
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It’s a national issue because people are mobile and will go to wherever the services are best. If San Francisco decides to house every homeless person who appears on its streets, it’s going to have to house every homeless person in America.

Coordination at the federal level could even out geographical imbalances in services and also prevent all services from having to be delivered in the few places where it’s most expensive to do so. Doing all the free housing in the most expensive market is crazy.
You can tell a company has totally lost their heads up their asses when you get the, "Whoa! We totally weren't expecting <product decision> to upset so many people!"

Like really? Considering what people use your product for, you honestly didn't expect this to upset people? Great. Your product team is hopelessly out of touch.
Good. A gross receipts tax is absurd and businesses should move out of the city in protest.
Bjørn Lomborg's education is in political science and statistics. His analyses, while occasionally thought-provoking, are opposed by the vast majority of actual working climate scientists. He has gotten a lot of attention by simply being a climate contrarian.
I don’t disagree that neighborhoods are fairly delineated, but in the context of this article, everyone rides the same MRT lines. They all sit next to each other too!
I have to routinely use VIM for SSH related in command lines and am pretty comfortable but in no way does it compare to VSCode with the small exception use case that happens to be quite common of hop-in and hop-out of quick changes. Vim shines there. It is just so light weight and quick for that.
Very cool, anywhere I can read up more on this?
You can check out the Product and Technology Keynote
https://conf.splunk.com/#iCpzv3oYWQiqK1jT17dsLG
There will always be concerns from some people. Always.
>I'm not aware of animals being used to perform complex tasks without human supervision and care.

Shepherd dogs did legitimate work with minimal supervision.

Guide dogs effectively supervise their owners.

Animals aren't nearly as dumb as people seem to think based on their interactions with cattle and decorative pets.
This posts builds on the previous HN discussion "Stack Overflow Inc. Fiasco: Timeline" from 17 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21173643
Someone in the post on the Haskell version posted the source to the version of wc used [0], and it was a fairly naive implementation.

0: https://opensource.apple.com/source/text_cmds/text_cmds-68/w...
Btw, I just started reading SICP. How can I use Vim with Lisp code instead of Emacs? Because I did see people telling across the web that I should use Emacs for lisp code.
The problem is that 111111 and 999999 as well as 123456 etc are probably at the top of the list of codes to try before you start iterating brute force.
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> I'm hoping they've implemented some form of localized EMP

What would that do to, say, an artificial pacemaker? Feels a little, as you say, science fiction.
The narcissism of this rant. Good lord. Imagine selling your news outlet to some shady ad tech firm, dumping on your journalists still working there, and using your last day as CEO to brag about how amazing and rich you are while pushing some wannabe parenting Unicorn. CLASSIC.

Pando loved covering the low hanging fruit of techie culture wars while doing everything in it's power to avoid discussing the Bay Area's astonishing levels of income inequality. I don't think they will be missed.
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Apple vs. Google: On-device optical character recognition
Truly awful take. Enough with the "both sides" nonsense. One side is objectively bad. Even accidentally taking electronics into a SCIF can be grounds for losing ones security clearance and getting in major trouble. These people planned it, and executed that plan, for a publicity stunt. Enough has been said about why it wasn't necessary in any way for them to act like this, so I won't go into it, see other responses to your comment.
Think about it as dark side of the moon - an invisible place.
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That places them on the "companies I probably wouldn't be happy working for" list. Certainly there are folks there who tried to speak up about it who were likely railroaded.
Regarding their pricing to low-touch customers, like anyone just signing up on the website, yes, it's a very good margin for a payment processor. But the trick is that nobody processing a million a day + is going to pay that. They'll negotiate, hard, or change providers. I suspect most of them are in more traditional cost plus contracts: 5c-50c take per transaction, even though the entire bank processing fee is counted in revenue. In those cases, the local tax would put SF companies at a major disadvantage vs Adyen, which doesn't pay a tax on revenues.

Given that Stripe is already not a major player for those very large companies, 1% of revenues on merchants that have high average transaction sizes means they might as well not show up to the negotiating table, as their break even point will be more expensive than other's best offer.
This language is the classic "defuse, wait, and try again later" approach to shoeing in unpopular changes. They're still hedging their bets with this language, rather than renouncing the original ideas. Apologising for "bad communication" instead of bad changes is another classic deflection move they've pulled in other threads, too.

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> This is a continuous iterative process that should be going through every developer's head with every design choice, external license, "cloud" service, proprietary internally hosted licenses, etc.

The nature of tech trends will ensure that developers never look beyond marketing material that espouses how easy and cool the new shiny tech is.

I'm watching developers go all in on serverless as if the generous and copious amounts of free compute that cloud providers are granting on their serverless platforms will always flow like water.
There is no misshap.

On the one hand, we (or perceptual psychology) deem red a warm color, probably by learned or ingrained association with fire. And the blue part of a flame is actually hotter, so OP has a point. The very word blue actually stems from a sense shiny, bright.

On the other hand, the watt/lumen ratio of red is higher than blues', I believe, and both are much higher than greens'. Simply put, if lower wavelengths pass less energy, then waves at the same energy but different frequency must have higher attenuation if closer to red. Alas, I'm not sure what velocity means in optics.

This is more illustrative with Music: A bass that you can hear and feel carrying the high tones must have a lot of energy.
Can brave block these js calls
Ask Apple to put it back.

And ask Apple to put pressure on services to support it. They're a large fish and we'd all appreciate them helping out.
Very oddly doesn't align with my eyes.

Along the i5 from Seattle to San Diego the encampments have been growing. There are a few places where it goes away but mostly because of individual city efforts to do something. Source - been driving the route very actively last 5 years.