Racket-On-Chez Status - <AUTHOR> https://blog.racket-lang.org/2018/01/racket-on-chez-status.html <comment><USER2> WOW this just makes it one of the best implementation of scheme, though i would love to see the chez backend version to produce executable binaries like chicken scheme or current raco compiler does. The current chez scheme supports only fasl binaries which require a scheme interpreter to be distributed. The only hacky way currently is chez-exe.

<comment><USER3> Note that raco doesn't make static binaries unfortunately (b/c Racket is LGPL.. which is a bit unusual for programming language)

<comment><AUTHOR> The license will soon(ish) change:

[https://github.com/racket/racket/issues/1570](https://github.com/racket/racket/issues/1570)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> Very cool. I have been enjoying Chez since the licensing changed, I even started an application book using Chez (which may never get finished), but having the full Racket environment on top of Chez will be great when the re- write is finished.

</comment><comment><USER5> Looks like there is a fundamental tradeoff for startup time here which might prevent using racket directly as a subshell (there are ways around this such as making the racket process a daemon). I'll be interested to see if the 'rough unscientific benchmark' numbers can reach the chez levels and to see some more scientific benchmarks (I've been trying to get the r7 repo to build to run some personal benchmarks, but haven't really had time).

Fantastic work and looking forward to what the future holds!

<comment><USER6> Note that the Chez startup time isn't that good, and even the current Racket startup time is not great (node is still maybe 5x faster to start up). We'd really like to improve this as well, but it's hard if you don't want to have your whole standard library linked into the binary.

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> Racket is one of my favorite languages for personal projects. Thank you Matthew Flatt for your dedication and work on this wonderful language!

</comment><comment><USER8> Great news! With this and Gerbil, Scheme has a very bright future.

</comment><comment><USER9> Glad to hear this hasn't stalled.

<comment><USER10> On the contrary. The racket7 repo is full of activity. In fact, I have many times wondered whether mflatt is a code producing robot. Just racket7 seems like more than a one-man job at times, with non-trivial patching of chez and lots and lots of new code.

<comment><USER9> I was just referring to going to Chez as the backend...happy it is moving along.</comment></comment></comment>


Flash CS5 will export to HTML5 Canvas - <AUTHOR> http://www.9to5mac.com/Flash-html5-canvas-35409730

<comment><USER2> HTML and Javascript are object code at last.

As far as I can tell, people use Flash because the development tools are fantastic, not because they're married to the SWF output. This seems like the best of both worlds.

<comment><USER3> I wouldn't describe the flash IDE as _fantastic_. The only reason it's passable is because it's really the only game in town. It's slow, its UI could use a lot of cleanup, and its code editor is particularly slow and lacking features (as compared to XCode or Visual Studio).

I think people use Flash because it's the best (major) browser-targeted tool that handles animation design decently.

<comment><USER4> the IDE isn't fantastic, but Flex is actually one of the nicer UI frameworks. This could get really interesting for developing "thick" clients.

<comment><USER5> Flex definitely won't output to FXG. FXG is simply a declarative graphics specification. Don't expect ActionScript to port over to JavaScript reliably using this tool.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> With this as an (awesome) reality, I can see Adobe Flash CS5 merely being an authoring tool for web animations and interactions. The end technology is largely irrelevant as long as most devices (mobile or otherwise) can access it.

Adobe as an IDE only in the future?

<comment><USER7> exactly, this is what adobe (macromedia) should have done 10 years ago. Instead of trying to lock everyone to the swf format, become the best publishing tools for web content.

better late than never.

<comment><USER8> Except this wasn't possible until very recently?

<comment><USER7> it would have been possible 10 years ago if swf was an open format and not a closed plugin.

<comment><USER9> Even if SWF was open, I doubt browsers would have implemented it since SWF doesn't really fit the spirit of the Web.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> Wouldn't SVG be a much more natural target for Flash than <canvas> is? What is the benefit of <canvas> over SVG?

It seems like it would be easier to do effective hardware acceleration for SVG than it would be to do the same for <canvas>.

<comment><USER10> I found the answer in [http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/FXG+1.0+Spe...](http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/FXG+1.0+Specification). The HTML5 Canvas support is just a Javascript-based interpreter for these FXG files, as you can see when they zoom in on the source code in the video.:

"When initial work on an XML-based graphics interchange format began, the natural first thought was to use SVG. However, there are key differences between SVG and Flash Player's graphics capabilities. These include core differences in SVG and Flash's rendering model with regards to filters, transforms and text. Additionally, the interchange format needed to be able to support future Flash Player features, which would not necessarily map to SVG features. As such, the decision was made to go with a new interchange format, FXG, instead of having a non-standard implementation of SVG. FXG does borrow from SVG whenever possible.

"It is important to note that this specification follows much of the SVG specification format organization as well as copying related concept prose. The SVG specification is available at <http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/.>

</comment></comment><comment><USER11> This is great. Now maybe if people can get as upset about Microsoft not better supporting HTML5, in particular the canvas tag.

[http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/03/internet- explorer-9-shows-u...](http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/03/internet- explorer-9-shows-up-faster-but-still-lacking/)

IE9 is a big improvement for Microsoft. However, if they included more support for HTML5, developers could get "all their wood behind one arrow."

<comment><USER10> Why do you need <canvas>, if you have a high-performance SVG implementation?

<comment><USER12> Different use cases. It's like why there is a need for both Illustrator and Photoshop.

SVG is great for vector graphics but for fast bitmap-based graphics you need <canvas>.

You _do not want_ to handle bitmaps where each pixel is an object.

<comment><USER13> Flash isn't bitmap-based though. SVG is more like Flash in so many more ways that would make the implementation easier and better (scalability, for example).

<comment><USER12> Flash can do both vector and bitmap graphics (which is BTW _much_ faster than current canvas implementations, even in fast browsers like Chrome [1]).

Adobe used canvas probably because you can redo vector graphics with a decent performance in canvas, while it doesn't work the other way around.

Flash exporter to SVG could be marginally better for vector parts of what Flash can do, but it would lose all bitmap capabilities, while Flash exporter to canvas can potentially replicate everything what Flash can do.

\----

[1] Flash bitmap graphics is fast enough to do pretty decent full-screen 3d graphics with textures and shading:

<http://away3d.com/>

<http://dailypv3d.wordpress.com/>

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> Did you notice that the demo was basically an animated banner ad? Think about what this means for ad-blockers. The nicest thing about Flash is that you can install Flashblock/Click2Flash and most animated advertising goes away. If Flash animated advertising turns into <canvas> animated advertising, how will we block it effectively? For many sites, disabling Javascript isn't a realistic option because they also use Javascript for useful functionality.

The Flash CS5 IDE might generate easily-blockable HTML5 animations, but I expect that lots of tools will come out soon that will make it nearly impossible to automatically differentiate advertising from other content on the page.

Who knows, this could be the beginning of the success of the "pay to get an ad-free experience" business model.

<comment><USER14> > If Flash animated advertising turns into <canvas> animated advertising, how > will we block it effectively

I think you would need to analyze which <canvas> elements are using Adobe's JavaScript library. This is more computation intensive then searching for Flash object embeds, and I think if you did it right - you could sell this plug-in.

<comment><USER5> To whom? Apple?

<comment><USER15> I think that the grandparent meant that you could sell it to end users.

<comment><USER10> No, I am saying that soon there will be easy-to-use tools for publishers to obfuscate ads, making ad-blockers much less effective. Consequently, "pay to turn off ads" website subscriptions will become somewhat more viable.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER16> Now this is exciting. We've been pining away for a while that there are no good authoring tools for canvas as good as the flash tools. Hopefully this just makes that problem disappear.

</comment><comment><USER17> It looks to me like this only exports animation, which I can certainly see how it might be useful, but isn't really that exciting. The menu they ran the export from is all JSFL scripts (a way of automating operations in the Flash IDE to a certain extent) so they're probably just analysing the timeline and exporting the shape and animation data as JS.

I don't expect to see any kind of Actionscript combined export any time soon though, performance is too much of a hurdle in the near future.

</comment><comment><USER14> I will reserve judgement until I see the HTML5 output, as generated code has a track record of being either a) unmaintainable, unmodifiable or b) doesn't work very well.

<comment><USER18> Good point. How easy will it be to edit the output to add the different browser "hacks" to make sure it renders similar across different browsers?

<comment><USER19> If you consider the output "object code" there would be no need to edit, let alone roundtrip. You don't edit the object-code or byte-code from your compiler either.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER20> Precisely this should have been Adobe's response to the lack of Flash plugin on some devices. Instead of all the FUD-ing, blaming, whining, and even insulting that has been going on recently, Adobe should have said in the very beginning - we are working on a better mobile version of the Flash plugin and wherever it is not available, but there is HTML5 support, you can use our authoring tools to do so-and-so.

</comment><comment><USER21> It's not inconceivable that Adobe would then have motivation to contribute to existing open source renderers, so that the exported flash animations run faster. This would be a win/win situation for everyone! Or are my dreams too utopian?

<comment><USER22> It's already happened, check out Tamarin: <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/>

</comment></comment><comment><USER23> What about Flex apps? Can those be exported to HTML5 too?</comment>


The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook - <AUTHOR> http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/

<comment><USER3> This is exactly the kind of visualization that we should have to _manage_ the privacy settings.

</comment><comment><USER4> Wonderful visualization.

Also worrying. With each new iteration, I try to go over my settings and make sure my profile remains as private as it was in '05, but there so many fucking changes and settings, I might just quit one of these days.

<comment><USER5> You can deactivate your account when you sign off, then reactivate it whenever you want to do something with it. That way you are hopefully less vulnerable to their bugs and random privacy changes.

<comment><USER6> Pro tip: some settings reset to defaults when reactivating, so double check. A while back I found all of my notification settings reset to "email on everything" upon reactivating, and I think some privacy settings were different too.

<comment><USER7> This needs to be more widely publicized.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> I fully expect wall posts to start opening up significantly this year. That is where most of the 'real time' information is and given their need to imitate twitter, it would not surprise me in the least if we start seeing less privacy here.

<comment><USER6> If wall posts are forced open despite my current 'friends only' setting, I'm gone. It's the only thing I am still comfortable doing there. Might as well twitter otherwise, no ads there yet.

</comment></comment><comment><USER9> That should be 'devolution'.

<comment><USER10> Evolution has no direction, no intended goal.

<comment><USER9> There is a difference I think in how people use evolution in the English language sense:

"evolution can refer to any sort of progressive development"

whereas in the biological sense you are right.

Since this is not about biology I figure we can safely assume that a 'progressive development' is meant and the article linked very much supports that.

The word 'devolution' is probably not used properly here, but I tried to indicate that I don't think this is 'progress', but rather the opposite.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> I've got a question.

I really am starting to think Facebook went through my Gmail contacts without me even authorizing it to do so. In the past hour, it's suggested three people I

1) Don't have any friends in common with 2) Never searched for on Facebook 3) Never contacted other than through Gmail and 4) never even worked with

One guy, I used to play Team Fortress Classic with, who only I've talked to through email showed up in my suggestions. Has anyone else experienced this?

<comment><USER12> The contact importer works both ways; so if A has emailed B, and A imports his contacts, A might get recommended to B as a friend. This is the usual explanation for mystery PYMK suggestions.

That said, the algorithm for finding candidate pairs uses a lot of features, including past employers, schools in common, graph features other than just distance, etc. Occasionally it has a surprising success like this.

</comment></comment><comment><USER13> The good news is that the eviller Facebook gets, the more of a market it creates for the "kinda like facebook, but not evil" competitor to come along.

I'm not sure how you could get traction, but aiming it directly at people who are disillusioned with facebook over privacy and stupid apps would be the way to go... position it as a "clean" and "sophisticated" alternative to facebook, and make it super-easy for people to control what information goes to whom.

<comment><USER14> "I'm not sure how you could get traction..."

I think one way to get traction would be to expand a profile or messaging feature of an existing site that has a reputation for trustworthiness with user data, and then fork the feature after it reaches critical mass.

</comment></comment><comment><USER15> I have been trying to come up with a design for a Open Social Network. Something you can host yourself or use from a "trusted" third party with the ability to seamlessly connect with each other.

The idea is:

1) You take your data where you want

2) You control you privacy

3) Seamless integration with different installation running all around the world.

4) Open Source (So it can be peer reviewed)

5) Tools for migrating from facebook and other Social Networks

6) Dead simple and user friendly UI. Built for people who can not differentiate between facebook and readwriteweb

<comment><USER16> I'd love to see something along those lines which is exactly why I kicked some money to the Diaspora project: <http://www.joindiaspora.com>

</comment></comment><comment><USER17> Half the features on this graph didn't exist in 2005, for example: photos. There was basically no privacy initially, everyone at your school could see everything, which wasn't much.

<comment><USER18> Photos were introduced in 2005. I was on Facebook in Sept. '04, and there were absolutely privacy controls at that point. You could find people in your network through search, but you couldn't see anything other than their name and class year (even profile pictures were opt-in restricted). It's possible that at the very very beginning there were no privacy controls, but my school was whitelisted-in very early (if I recall correctly, we were the third or fourth after Harvard).

</comment></comment><comment><USER19> The acceleration is what worries me... What's next: July 2010 - <USER2>

<comment><USER20> Nope; Skynet had intelligence.

</comment></comment><comment><USER21> What made Facebook great at first, is what is missing now...</comment>


Instagram buyout is not a bubble - <AUTHOR> http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/opinion-baio-instagram-trend/

<comment><USER2> Nope, and the AOL purchase of ICQ wasn't either.</comment>


How to use empathy in design (without killing millions of women) - <AUTHOR> https://medium.com/fluxx-studio-notes/how-to-use-empathy-in-design-without-killing-millions-of-women-5a9e84b2e424#.rmljxuukc <comment><USER2> >People who can understand the world view of another with no emotional connection are psychopaths. If the cheetah were human we'd be considering custodial sentences.

 _groan_

Can we please stop repeating this myth?

Psychopathy is the lack of empathy or remorse paired with impulsiveness. Psychopaths are self destructive as much as they are other-destructive.[0] The ability to feel empathy (and whether people do in practice) probably varies significantly between people and not having significant amounts of affective empathy doesn't generally lead to psychopathy.

Moreover, cognitive empathy can absolutely be used for good ends. Affective empathy can lead to pathological cases when it's misdirected or overly sensitive. It's important to remember that when somebody feels affective empathy, they're not magically feeling what the other person is feeling. They're feeling what their brain is telling them about the other persons condition. This can justify all sorts of abuses and horrors in the name of 'somebodies own good'.

It's a fairly common story for narcissists to make a point of how much their sense of affective empathy means they're being hurt by the people around them having emotions.

[0]: Look at the DSM criteria. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorde...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder)</comment>


Ask HN: What's the fastest way to release a mobile app today? - <AUTHOR> Imagine I want to launch an Android/IOS mobile app so my users can access a subscription to a magazine which contains pretty much only text content.
What would be the fastest way to get that done today? I know React Native is heavily used, but it seems like too heavy and complex for such a simple set of requirements.
What can I use to get a simple application out in a few days? <comment><USER2> Depends on how the content is generated and updated. Is it hosted already on a website? If so, the fast way would be to do either a mobile app that is essentially just a web view for your content or to use something like Cordova to pack up the website and deliver it as an app. I honestly do not advocate for either of these options but they are options.

Personally for any app I want to get out quickly on both platforms I have been using Flutter and find it is a good compromise, better than React Native (IMO) and quick to iterate and simple to still keep a native feel for each platform (and still have performance). Still the best way is to create a native app for each platform, but for what you are doing that seems like overkill at this point.

Really it all depends on how your content is updated and where it is at today that would drive how I'd likely approach it.

<comment><AUTHOR> Today all my content is hosted in wordpress and all articles are basically a title, a body with just text and an audio file.

I'd like to make a mobile app so users can consume the content while offline so the webview is something that won't work for me in this particular case.

A friend told me about Flutter and it seems like something I need to look at. Also, people mentioned Microsoft Xamarin.

Really, what I need is what the web used to be. Text and a list of articles, but offline.

Thanks for the suggestion!

<comment><USER3> You could also look at adding a service worker to your website so it works offline in the browser. People are less used to that though.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> I had a similar mission recently -- subscription data that I want to allow access to offline. I have done native and Cordova in the past, and didn't want to use either.

I was able to hoist something in Flutter quickly and painlessly. I was pretty impressed. I hope I never muck with Cordova again after working with it. :)

Worth an hour and a hello-world tutorial to see if you're keen on it. I liked it.

</comment><comment><USER5> Building a website. Why do you need an app?

<comment><AUTHOR> I need an app to offer offline access.

As I'm writing this I'm thinking I could do a PWA and wrap it into some native framework. Would that work?</comment></comment>


Ask HN: How do you build your founding team? - <AUTHOR>

Hello HN community.
I am very excited, since this my first "AskHN" post on HackerNews. I am not sure if they ever get noticed, but I will give it a shot.
During the past six years, I co-founded 3 startups. They had all failed at the founding team level. So, I've decided to create a service to help startup founders and young entrepreneurs build their founding teams and get expert advices along the way.
I would like to get an objective opinion from other geeks/hackers/creators whether it's a problem you've experienced. I am very interested to know how startups build their founding teams right now and where do you find your dream co-founders? By the way, I need one also!
You can find more info about my startup at http://flou.io
Thank you and have a great day! <comment><USER2> I have tried using "match-making" sites before without much luck, but I personally feel that the best founders are folks who know each other (college, work etc) and have been in the trenches together.

<comment><AUTHOR> Yes, I have also tried a number of matchmaking sites, but they didn't help me :/</comment></comment>


US to increase funding for 'hackivists'; aiding Iranians - <AUTHOR> http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/07/26/us_to_increase_funding_for_hackivists_aiding_iranians/

<comment><USER2> I wonder how long it will take before the US will learn that every dollar they have ever spent 'aiding' the 'good guys' behind the scenes has in the long term boomeranged back tenfold or more in damage done to the US or its allies.

\- korea

\- vietnam

\- afghanistan

\- iraq

Besides giving the Iranian hardliners another reason to claim rightfully that the US incites trouble within its borders I find it hard to see how money will empower the populace. What will change the tide in Iran is another revolution, and it should be manufactured by the Iranians to avoid a repeat of history.

Iran could only become the state it is today because of the foreign support for the Shah.

<comment><USER3> Right, but all intervention is not equal. The US in striving to stop the "reds" has helped some awful people and it's amazing there are no Chilean or Argentinian terrorist, god knows there are people from Latin America that could claim good cause.

And maybe this will fire back too, but at it's core it's decentralizing, anonymizing tech, used against government control. And I happen to think that's a good thing.

<comment><USER3> Don't mind being down voted, just curious:

1.Isolationists disagreeing with my "not all intervention is bad" position?

2\. Against anything that might weaken government control?

3\. Outraged by my suggestion that someone who's family was disappeared by Augusto Pinochet might turn their anger at the US?

<comment><USER2> Foreign policy is not HNs visitors strong suit. Corrected the downvote, but I'm sure it won't last :)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> 1) It's "Hacktivist," not "hackivist."

2) I appreciate the sentiment, but this is a bad idea on a few fronts. It's more proof that we (as in the US as a state) don't know how to engage, manipulate, or antagonize an opponent properly.

It's very tempting to just go ahead cowboy-style with technology, as it's politically pretty innocuous. No soldiers in harms way and no collateral or even property damage make for very few apologies. But, they're still playing with fire they don't understand (and in capitol hill's case, can't even see or hear).

Then again, outside of a full-on war, state actions seem to follow an "everybody do their own thing and only worry when we conflict between departments" pattern that's depressingly familiar.

</comment><comment><USER5> My first instinct is: ``Physician, heal thyself.''

It's great that the Obama administration sees Freedom on line as important. They can begin by making sure there is no online censorship in the US...</comment>


Updating Your Utility Belt - <AUTHOR> http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/10/updating-your-utility-belt.html <comment><USER2> "every self-respecting geek has one"

I realize Jeff's just being...poetic, but really it's just an excuse to buy toys. Spend your money on what makes you happy. If more gadgets, or that 6th purse, or 20th pair of shoes does that, great. If you want to define [part of] yourself by your possessions, do that. But don't judge others by the lack of theirs.

<comment><USER3> I am not so sure.

I draw a joke distinction between a geek and a nerd like this. A geek is someone who loves technology and toys. A nerd is someone who gets utterly obsessed by a particular topic.

I usually bring this up when explaining to a fellow programmer that I'm a nerd but not a geek. Which fact I then demonstrate by pulling out my flip phone.

If they proceed to doubt that I am a nerd, I'll then offer to explain something esoteric. A good example is the differences between the Riemann integral, the Lebesgue integral, and the Generalized Riemann integral. And why if the last had been discovered earlier, we might not have needed to develop Lebesgue integration at all!

<comment><USER4> Seems like irrelevant categorizing that doesn't make much sense and isn't very useful. Who cares what you are in terms of dumb categories like that?

<comment><USER5> Because you can be one without the other, and people frequently assume that because you're one, it means that you're the other--and predict your actions based on that (for example, by buying you stupid geek toys when you are merely a nerd.)

<comment><USER4> So, why not eschew those categories altogether and reject them outright?

It seems to me they are too, well, mushy to be really useful.

<comment><USER5> I don't understand what you're saying. The reason it is useful to make this distinction, is to explain to people that _don 't_ see the distinction (and thus assume that, for example, someone who likes math watches Firefly; or that someone who collects MTG cards will be able to fix their computer), that in fact there _is_ a practical difference between the two categories, and that they should keep them in mind so as to not offend people that aren't both by assuming they have traits of a group they don't.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> I used to respect Jeff a lot, partly because of his stackoverflow fame. However, these days I find him annoying, as he has just become part of the "noise" we all find unproductive. This post just strengthens my point, where he buys useless bling to show off and everyone applauds him for being a materialistic prat.

I'll probably get downvoted but I've just had enough of this 'utility belt' bull.

<comment><USER7> He's been doing this post since 2005, so I don't think much has changed.

Plus you can buy the entirety of his 'useless bling' for $35, and it seems pretty obvious to me that he actually uses these tools on a daily basis.

The only thing I didn't really like were the affiliate links without disclaimer... but it's not that big a deal.

</comment></comment><comment><USER8> I really miss carrying a knife, but since 9/11 it has been almost impossible to actually, you know, go anywhere. I have had multiple times when I simply forgot to ditch it before going out and wasn't able to get into places, particularly museums. Having one attached to my keychain? I'd never remember to take it off.

Plus, carrying that thing around in your jeans pocket looks uncomfortable, I can barely manage a wad of keys.

</comment><comment><USER9> "And there's also a nail file, on the other side of the screwdriver, but what is this obsession with nail files on multi-tools? Who are these people filing their nails all the damn time? I've never filed my nails once in my entire life! Can anyone mansplain this to me?"

Jagged, unfiled nails are viewed by women (accurately) as a major sign of sexual inexperience/ineptitude...

<comment><USER10> > Jagged, unfiled nails are viewed by women (accurately) as a major sign of > sexual inexperience/ineptitude...

Holy sweeping generalisation Batman. However, as I'm not even one woman, let alone all women, I won't speak on their behalf.

</comment></comment><comment><USER11> This is just one giant amazon affiliate link.

</comment><comment><USER12> My "everyday carry" is the remote fob for my car, my phone, my license and two credit cards. I have no need for anything Jeff considers essential, including keys -- HomeLink in my car opens the garage door to get in and out.

Some day my phone will be able to pay for my purchases (not everywhere has NFC terminals yet) and start my car. The only thing that doesn't seem to be on the horizon is ID. I suppose I would leave the license in my car, but I'd worry about being hassled by police, who don't like to hear you have no ID when they ask for some.

<comment><USER13> What happens when there is a power outage at your home? How do you get in then?

<comment><USER12> With a hidden key on the property. I think most homeowners have one. Just don't put it in a fake rock near the door or under a mat where it's obvious.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> Recently updated my utility rack. Now it's full of heel irons, welt irons and a few flat irons. I'm a moonlighter shoemaker, and I don't spend zilch on (not sure how to define these things!) "techno tools." My most recent advanced gadget-related purchases have been:

* A set of 18 shoemaking tools, second hand. Currently cleaning and restoring each one * Macbook Air (a needed update to my Early 2008 White Macbook) * Portable HD (I needed a few extra GB) * Circular slide rule (because I always wanted one and it's a beautiful little and cheap geek gadget)

That's it. I'd never think of spending money on a combo tool: I have a beautiful workshop where I have one of each of these tools (or many of them) in perfect condition. Also, I'm of the opinion that a good tool should do one job perfectly (except emacs, that's it.) This is why I have a dumbphone and and iPod Touch. Actually my dumbphone doubles as flashlight, which is pretty cool because I'd never remember where my flashlight is.

</comment><comment><USER15> I used to have an old Linux professor that taught class on the weekends. He was a network engineer at his day job and there was never a day where I didn't see him with his fisherman's vest. Every pocket was occupied with some weird gadget, and his zipper had a keychain bottle opener. He had a single pocket entirely dedicated to candy bars and always made sure it was properly stocked. The man practically never left his house without his emergency candy rations, and as far as I could tell he didn't have diabetes or anything.

I guess you never know when a candy bar might come in handy.

</comment><comment><USER16> I have had the light for a few years and really like it. I have both the single mode version and 3 mode version and like the 3 mode a little more. the tradeoff is that the head is slightly longer and the high isn't quite as as bright. the extended runtime and practical use of low output is what I use most.

[http://www.amazon.com/Light-Version-80-lumen-Keychain- Flashl...](http://www.amazon.com/Light-Version-80-lumen-Keychain- Flashlight/dp/B003BM5GQ2/)

</comment><comment><USER17> Haitz's law is interesting. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitz%27s_law](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitz%27s_law)

Is it possible to calculate the theoretical maximum number of photons that can be produced from a fixed small electron source?

Just curious how close we are to maximum theoretical efficiency. 50% ? 80% ?

</comment><comment><USER18> i've owned many Fenix lights over the years and many more custom LED lights before this. (any CPF members remember Arc LSH-Ps?, rare-binned Luxeon stars and low dome optics :)

my current EDC (every day carry) is a Fenix LD01 - it's amazing what a single lithium AAA can deliver with current regulation circuitry (pun)

[http://www.fenixlight.com/ProductMore.aspx?id=50&tid=10&cid=...](http://www.fenixlight.com/ProductMore.aspx?id=50&tid=10&cid=1)

interestingly, i also carry a pocket USB3 SSD since all my apps are portable/truecrypt and i need those low latency 4k random writes.

[http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme-Flash-Drive- SDCZ80-032...](http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme-Flash-Drive- SDCZ80-032G-AFFP/dp/B008AF384W)

</comment><comment><USER19> When I was into martial arts I used to hang out with guys who would carry around knives or kubotans everywhere. Funny to see that programmers also have their own "everyday carry"… although I have to admit to being skeptical of the actual real-world usefulness of either one.

</comment><comment><USER20> I am the only one who read this article and immediately thought "Did he really have to worry that someone would try to make copies of his keys from a photo"??

Makes you kind of sad that people have to fear other people's cruel intentions so much

<comment><USER21> Would you leave a password or IP address unscrambled in a blog post? It doesn't seem unreasonable to obfuscate that which can be used against you, whether or not _anyone actually will_.

I did wonder why not just take the keys out of the photo, but my guess is that it serves to show how bulky/not-bulky the stuff is.

<comment><USER20> it was not meant to be a knock on jeff at all, in fact I was impressed he thought of that, it was more of an observation, upon first seeing it I actually took a second look and had a thought about whether or not that's actually what he was doing

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER22> Anyone know the story behind the engraving on the side of his Leatherman Squirt? It must be significant, because he also added it to his updated Squirt.

<comment><USER23> Maybe it just goes with the wallet[1].

[1] [http://www.bmfwallets.com/](http://www.bmfwallets.com/)

</comment></comment><comment><USER24> I am genuinely curious: if I carry an iPhone everywhere, why do I need to carry a flashlight, too?

<comment><USER12> If you ask me, you don't. If you're asking Jeff? He answered that in the article.

> I also flirted with the idea of dropping the standalone flashlight and > relying on my smartphone camera flash as a flashlight, but in my testing > smartphones make weak flashlights.</comment></comment>


Cannabis and psychosis: what do we know and what should we do? - <AUTHOR> https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/cannabis-and-psychosis-what-do-we-know-and-what-should-we-do/D09D5E6B7A77D475B3BD63D81462BF7A <comment><USER2> > CBD appears to counteract Δ9-THC-induced psychotic symptoms and cognitive > impairment, and may even have anti-psychotic properties.

It's not good that cannabis on the street has almost nonexistent CBD content. Even worse is synthetic cannabioid epidemic that we see. Legislators are to blame here. Make it legal and educate people about medicinal values of CBD instead.

</comment><comment><USER3> Invest in anti-psychotics stocks.</comment>


Are we on American Idol? - <AUTHOR> I always felt pitty for those poor souls being crushed after they are told that no, they won't be winning American Idol.
It felt weird because the chances are so slim that one would assume that not winning should not come as a surprise or a shocker. Still they cry. Most seemed to be convinced they were "destined" to win. That clearly can not be the case.
Now, the 14,000+ companies that applied to Startup School made me think that I might be inside a similar reality distortion field.
I know that in the "unicorn contest" there can be multiple winners, and that is a big difference, but at the end the chances are still so slim... <comment><USER2> > It felt weird because the chances are so slim that one would assume that not > winning should not come as a surprise or a shocker. Still they cry.

I've read an interview with ex-assistant on one of those shows and it was part of her job to routinely rile up contestants just before they were put in front of the camera. In this specific case, it was a "Top Chef" kind of show, and she was telling everyone that the celebrity chef running the show has just tried the contestant's dish and said that it's utter garbage etc (while in fact the dish was fine and they were not close to elimination) - everything to get them shaken and close to tears for the show. Very nasty business.

<comment><AUTHOR> Hope this is not the case with VCs! Or is it?

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> I would attribute a lot of that to survivorship bias - we usually only hear about successes. (Nobody likes to talk about failures.) That leaves us with the impression that successes are a lot more common than they really are.

Also, hope and optimism are very deeply entrenched in human psychology. Even when we know the odds are hopelessly stacked against us, we refuse to "stop believing in ourselves".

<comment><USER3> A similar example comes to mind from Stephen E. Ambrose's book "Band of Brothers". He interviewed WW2 veterans who talked about how every soldier going into combat for the first time believes that he's going to survive. It's only when he actually starts to see his comrades fall that he realizes "I might actually die here". As he is exposed to more and more death, that gives way to a feeling of "I'm _going_ to die here".

We have to see others fail to believe it to be a realistic possibility for ourselves.

<comment><AUTHOR> Love the analogy. Thanks for sharing.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> This is actually a great analogy that I'll use in the future when I meet people who think they're the next Mark Zuckerberg.

Statistically speaking, I'd bet someone entering American Idol is more likely to win than a startup is likely to become a unicorn.

(Also -- it's fine and normal to cry if your startup fails. For many or most, it will even result in clinical depression.)

<comment><AUTHOR> I cry sometimes and my startup is growing :')

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> You don't have to play the "startup" game. You can build a practical business with software.

<comment><AUTHOR> Yep. And as a singer you don't have to go to AI.

</comment></comment><comment><USER6> If you aren't having enough fun on the journey then you might not be cut out for it.

<comment><AUTHOR> Sure, sure,... but you read "The Hard Things About Hard Things" and you take a look at the Pmarca's blog and some many other first hard sources/accounts about how it's really like to run a Startup and the common theme is not that of fun. To me it has been grueling. So I can really relate to those stories. In my case is more about the challenge, not so much about having fun. Cheers!</comment></comment>


Alabama immigration: crops rot as workers vanish to avoid crackdown (2011) - <AUTHOR> https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/14/alabama-immigration-law-workers?CMP=share_btn_fb <comment><USER2> 95% of tomatoes in California are machine-picked. Farms that use toughened tomatoes can use very high powered machinery.[1] There are gentler machines for more fragile varieties [2].

Now in test, picking robots for more fragile fruit.[3]

[1] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3EpFTyN26E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3EpFTyN26E) [2] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YeGOv87JE4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YeGOv87JE4) [3] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS0coCmXiYU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS0coCmXiYU)

<comment><USER3> Seems to make sense with something like tomatoes, where you can destroy the plant during harvest like that. But looking at the apple one, I'm not sure if it's as fast as a human being, and if it would be cheaper than human labor.

<comment><USER2> The apple picker is a prototype, from Abundant Robotics, an SRI spinoff. It suffers from being a Silicon Valley R&D effort - the computer technology is cool, and the mechanical parts are too flimsy. Somebody needs to get those guys some hardass mechanical designers from John Deere or Caterpillar or Ponsse who know how to make machinery work reliably in the field. I think they're still at the angel investor stage. They'll need another funding round soon, and if they're lucky, their funder will know who to put in there to get the thing out of R&D and into production.

<comment><USER4> > some hardass mechanical designers from John Deere or Caterpillar or Ponsse

Since all those companies are doing really badly, there should be plenty of those to go around.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> California voters roundly approved a similar law in 1994. It even passed in Los Angeles County.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_187](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_187)

</comment><comment><USER6> So crops rot. The price goes up. Now they can make more money selling crops. So they can pay people more. What I am missing here?

<comment><USER7> So many things.

In a first approximation: You can't sell crops that did rot. And the next harvest is next year.

Then there's of course the fact that almost nobody (with citizenship) actually wants to pick crops, no matter what you pay them, because it's back-breaking labor. Yes, there'd be a price at which they would, but that's not a price the public would pay for your crops.

Of course, if you don't give a shit about people and treat the world solely as an economics textbook, sure, this is perfectly normal and the market is working.

<comment><USER8> >Then there's of course the fact that almost nobody (with citizenship) actually wants to pick crops...

This is complete bullshit and needs to quit being touted. Americans are not afraid of hard, back-breaking labor. I grew up in the Midwest surrounded by corn and soy beans (and not too many illegal or legal immigrants). Tons of my white, middle class friends went out into the field to pollinate corn in the summers or went down to strawberry fields to pick when they came in season.

What a sheltered life you must lead if you've never met an American that does manual labor or works in a field...

<comment><USER9> It's not "complete bullshit". Even at the height of the Great Recession, with unemployment through the roof, American citizens were turning down field work in droves.[1]

I've seen it myself. Some of it's cultural -- manual farm work is seen as "beneath" people -- but most of it's economics. Nice that you grew up in a time and place where a citizen could afford to work in the fields, but those days are long gone. If you're not single and sharing the rent for your three bedroom house with 10 amigos, you're not going to make ends meet on farm labor wages and hours.

[1]: [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/despite-economy-americans- dont-w...](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/despite-economy-americans-dont-want- farm-work/)

<comment><USER10> Missing from that article is how much it costs people to take those jobs. Travel expenses, lost benefits, etc.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> I remember this. "Be careful what you wish for" is going to be a running theme for the next couple of years. I suspect a lot of folks are going to be wishing things had just been left alone.

<comment><USER12> No. I would rather automation replace the abuse of illegal immigrant labor.

<comment><USER13> If it was more cost effective, that would happen already. Produce prices will likely rise if this becomes an issue.

<comment><USER14> ... rise to a level that reflects a _fair_ and honest competitive market, as opposed to one where the labor pool has two populations following two sets of rules. Sounds like progress to me.

<comment><USER13> Yep and people will buy the cheaper produce from South American markets boosting the economy down there.

Similar to how people buy Chinese manufactured products in Wal-Mart then complain about manufacturing being overseas.

<comment><USER14> Sounds good to me.

* consumers would be paying a fair price with rational decision-making

* there would be "made in the usa" marketing for local / national produce

* voters would look much more carefully at minimum wage increases

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER15> What happened in Alabama since? Would love to read a followup.

<comment><USER16> Most of HB56 was eventually struck down in court or settled out of existence, and cops stopped trying to enforce whatever is left of it. It was a huge embarrassment for the entire state, and likely contracted the state economy by as much as 6% the year after it passed, most severely in agriculture, construction, and hospitality. In subsequent years, investment stayed away, because few outside the state wanted the blatantly racist and xenophobic policy to rub off on their PR. But Alabama politics did not learn from the experience; people in the state still overwhelmingly supported Donald Trump in the 2016 elections.

Supporters of the measure _still_ believe it would have worked if it was just allowed to operate as intended, rather than being blocked by the courts at every turn. To be fair, it did cause many of the prohibited aliens to leave the state, but it also caused their permitted and naturalized friends and family to leave with them, and it turns out all those people are actually a significant net benefit to the economy. Fewer crops have rotted, because farmers don't plant what they can't harvest.

In short, the state is still ruled by bad hombres and nasty women that shamelessly pander to an ill-informed populace.

[https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/what-alabamas-failed- anti...](https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/what-alabamas-failed-anti- immigration-law-can-teach-us-about-donald-trump)

</comment></comment><comment><USER17> See also the documentary 9500 Liberty. I believe you can find it free online legally.[0]

TL;DR:

Prince Cook County in Virginia instituted a similar check required by police officers to ask for legality if there was "probably cause." The Police Chief was against it but when it was enacted, enforced the law. This caused a bunch of the immigrant families living there to leave, thus nearly crushing the entire county's economy.

You get hot takes like "9/11 was caused by illegals" and people saying they wanted to get rid of those who are, "Speaking Spanish, playing Latin music, owning a chicken, growing corn, not having health insurance"

And also a whole bunch of people essentially saying, "i'm not racist, but..."

[0] [https://vimeo.com/128386646](https://vimeo.com/128386646)

<comment><USER4> You also get a lot of people saying that the lax immigration is specifically designed so that farmers (and restaurants, and even private persons) could exploit labor instead of paying livable wages.

Since lax immigration's net result is a serious deterioration in labor conditions, it shouldn't exist. And frankly, let's just not pretend this i meant to increase the chances those people have in life, therefore it should not be done.

These people would generally be referred to as "leftists". And please just don't make the argument that people should "allow" themselves to be exploited if they want to. It should simply not be possible to exploit labor. That means no illegals and strict enforcement of immigration laws, especially against employers.

Immigration laws protect people, among other things, against competing in a global labor market. Why ? Because global labor conditions are disgustingly bad.

Global median wage is $18000 PPP dollars (yearly). There are 2 terms that require definition. Firstly median means 50% make less than that and you should generally expect to make slightly less than that if you're not exceptional. Second is PPP dollars. The "real" global wage in real dollars is about $3000, but because bread is generally cheaper outside of developed economies. To put it inaccurately but easily, you can buy $3000 worth of iPads with PPP dollars, but $18000 worth of bread.

If you are unwilling to work for a yearly wage of somewhere between $3k and $18k, and you think the law needs to prevent such a situation from arising, then part of that law needs to be that illegal immigrants can't work in the US. Otherwise such a law is crippled/sabotaged.

I get that the "gig economy" cannot exist under those conditions. And that you will have to walk 200m if you want pizza in the weekend, or pay 40$ or so for that pizza. That's what it takes for everyone to be able to live, and the gig economy, frankly, deserves to be laid waste.

</comment></comment><comment><USER18> they should call trump and as for the national guard

<comment><USER19> IANAL, but I believe that the state is the only one with the authority to deploy a national guard within its borders; the president can only deploy the army domestically if the insurrection act is invoked.</comment></comment>


'Big Law Killed My Husband': An Open Letter from a Sidley Partner's Widow - <AUTHOR> https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/2018/11/12/big-law-killed-my-husband-an-open-letter-from-a-sidley-partners-widow/?slreturn=20190611210557 <comment><USER2> Non-practicing lawyer here. Practicing law sucks for most lawyers. The level of alcoholism and drug addiction is very high.

</comment><comment><USER3> Criminal trial attorney. The problem is the rules attorney must follow make it very difficult to step away, even to know how to step away.

<comment><USER4> Could you elaborate?

<comment><USER3> Attorneys are regulated internally, by the bar itself. So the bar has set a number of ethical rules/regulations that attorneys must adhere to, otherwise be sanctioned/lose their license. For many attorneys, they must practice without help and without the option to stop. They cope by drinking/drugs.

One rule speaks to zealous advocacy of clientele. An attorney can't "quit" without doing so carefully, lest they face sanctions from the bar for hurting a client. Even when done carefully, many states won't let you out of a criminal case because you need out. Someone's freedom is depending on your availability. Complicating this is the fact that some areas of practice are not conducive to building large firms. Criminal defense, for example, is not the kind of practice where you can build a large firm. Most practitioners are solo attorneys. Generally, these attorneys practice without backup and without the ability to stop.

Another set of rules speaks to attorney client confidentiality. A disgruntled client now has infinite platform to complain (check out avvo.com which behaves a lot like Yelp does in every way), while attorneys have no recourse for most public complaints, lest the bar consider their speaking on the subject a breach of client confidentiality.

Bars in most states have tried to reach out with hotlines for lawyers. Seriously.</comment></comment></comment>


Ask HN: Self-marketing? - <AUTHOR> How much time and effort do you spend on marketing yourself? (Mainly interested in devs)
Do you have a website? Run a blog?
How important is your online presence to building your reputation? <comment><USER2> I spend a wee bit too much time on the Internet, and much of that is sort of dual use for my personal enjoyment and marketing. I have participated in HN and a few other forums for about fivish years now, and that has been a great opportunity to meet people. I try to get out to conferences and meet ups to meet folks outside of the massive Ogaki tech mafia. I also have a blog which has been fairly popular.

The most important thing I do for marketing is helping people, frequently. It opens a lot of doors. It also means there are a couple of... thousand, maybe? (crikey) ... people who will say nice things about me even when I'm not in the room. That has lead directly to consulting work (and business opportunities) in the past.

Can I say one heretical thing? Contribution to OSS is not by itself marketing. It is a fairly low ROI way to reach decision makers unless you are identified with a popular project. (You can easily spend many hours on a commit that no one but you or the mainainer will ever know you wrote. Spend the same amount of time directly solving a problem for someone and you have a fan for life.)

P.S. I truly love Github, but would not host my OSS on it, because it encourages use patterns which are extraordinarily suboptimal for marketing oneself. YMMV.

<comment> s-phi-nl In what way might you host your OSS that would be more optimal for marketing yourself?

<comment><USER2> Put it on your own website, and actively market it to people who need it (including productization steps that OSS often doesn't take like having a logo, an install guide, etc). You'll be identified as the relevant expert.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER3> I'm a developer, and to be honest, not a ton. For better or for worse, I spend the majority of my time building cool[1] stuff. Some things, like Forrst, have taken off and garnered me some nice exposure. Other things have ended up being duds. Other than that, I do blog[2], albeit infrequently, but I'd like to change that; I think it is important to speak up if you feel you have something thoughtful/insightful to add to your community/industry. However, I've found that I much more enjoy the passive recognition that comes as a result of creating neat stuff, because it feels much more "real" than trying to promote myself for the sake of it. I really don't care /that/ much about my reputation[3] insofar as I'm not out to be the #1 anything; I'd rather build amazing things than worry about what top 10 list I'll (never) end up in.

[1] at least to me

[2] <http://kylewritescode.com/>

[3] that's not to say I don't care about it generally speaking; I do strive to be thoughtful, helpful, and someone that people respect.

<comment><USER4> Just yesterday I listened to your story in the pipeline podcast :)

Other people, Forrst story is quite interesting, hear it if you like podcasts <http://5by5.tv/pipeline/41> ;)

<comment><USER3> Thanks a lot, I'm glad to hear that. Hope it wasn't too obvious I used iPhone headphones. Dan knew immediately :)

</comment></comment></comment><comment> DanI-S This is a great question. I've been spending a lot of time recently building a personal landing page, getting more established on public social media, etc. It's incredibly time consuming and I feel really torn - I'd much rather be learning new tools and languages. However, I've definitely gotten the impression that if I can't somehow advertise the tools and languages that I already know, I may as well not bother. Offline presence is also really important - but I recently turned up to a meetup without any business cards to swap and won't ever make that mistake again.

I moved from an academic background in the UK to the startup world in California, so I feel like I've been born naked into a new world. I didn't even use my Twitter account until recently. I'd like to hear from some "veterans" about this - who has gotten a real impact as a result of their self-marketing efforts?

</comment><comment><USER5> Heh.

The key is this: realize that everything you do is marketing yourself. Any time you interact with someone else, it's marketing yourself. Every time you post to HN, every time you tweet, every time you blog... it's all marketing.

Now, that doesn't mean 'be dishonest,' or anything like that. Reputations are incredibly important. Just be aware that you're doing it all the time, even if you don't know you are.

</comment><comment><USER6> That's a pretty good question. I spend most of my time doing client work, so my self-marketing is mostly limited to:

1) Posting code and rants on my blog whenever I feel like it

2) Contributing code to open-source projects that I use

3) Chatting with people at the bar or going to tech mixers (also at the bar)

4) Posting on various websites like HN

I get about 70% of my client work from #3, 25% or so from word of mouth (friends, family, or past clients), and 5% or so from posting online. #1 is mostly just vanity and #2 is out of necessity, but they probably help too without me directly seeing the effects. I've never advertised or gone trolling for clients since I started freelancing.

Also, my company website is terrible and hasn't been updated in about 4 years, but it doesn't seem to matter. I'll get around to it eventually :)

Edit: I forgot to mention giving talks at Ruby groups and Ignite and things like that. I've gotten a couple of clients from that but it's mostly just challenging and fun.

</comment><comment><USER7> I'm a SysAdmin, not a dev, so things are somewhat different; still, the marketing is probably pretty similar.

I wrote a book about some of the things I more commonly SysAdmin. By far, this was the best marketing I've ever done. (It's also the most expensive marketing I've ever done. No-starch paid to have it printed, but god damn, that was a lot of work to write.)

Now, as for an online presence, in my field, being visible on mailing lists and the like is pretty important. A nice website? much less so. Of course, if you are a frontend dev, the opposite probably applies.

Eh, I do think that contributing patches back is pretty important. Good decision makers consult good technical people before making such a decision, and having some patches on public mailing lists shows that you know /something/ (which is usually good enough for a SysAdmin. Nobody expects me to be able to re-write apache, but I am expected to sometimes make some small change to mod_auth_*)

Still, writing a book (and having it published by an established publisher) might not be the cheapest way to reach decision makers, but it's one of the more effective ways to do so, I think.

</comment><comment><USER8> Although it garnered no comments, I posted something about this subject a couple of weeks ago:

<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2155253>

Direct link:

[http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SellYourselfSellYourWork.html?...](http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SellYourselfSellYourWork.html?HN2)

</comment><comment><USER9> It's something I've been trying to fix lately. It's not only about your online reputation, you should care of your offline reputation as well. I don't mean it in a tricky way, by deceiving people : You should try to provide value for others via your blog, etc... Do some projects, talk about them.

It's important because, as a developer, you usually don't make a lot of connections with others. If you don't do anything your only connections will be your peers and little bit a variety is better. Even if you and I would like to be valued on our technical knowledge, it won't bring you very far. If you don't talk, nobody is gonna to know you.

I use my blog more like a platform to share stuff I made, or thought, or to clear my mind about some idea. It's also something I can point potential employers to when I'll need it. It doesn't really matter if you don't have readers, it'll put your resume apart in most interviews.

Also I added many local folks in my twitter, and it leads me to some meet up that gives connections with new peoples around me. I live in a medium city in the south of france, if I can met people there, you can probably too.

</comment><comment><USER10> My startup hasn't launched a website yet (we've very, very young). When we do, there will be a blog where we post the nastiest challenges our team has faced, and the solutions we devised. The work we're doing is highly technical, but there's also a strong artistic component, so we'll have a broad range of topics that should be accessible to many. Ideally, by exposing our struggles and how we've overcome them, we'll be benefitting others who face similar woes, and opening up the discussion to include their solutions. Ultimately, I feel that the best promotion will come from creating value for others, especially if we can get our blog's readers to offer value of their own.

On a personal level, I engage in other projects in other industries (music, web comics, computer animation) and use my communities there to cultivate interest in my startup.

</comment><comment><USER11> I spend a lot of time at it, though hopefully not too much. Maybe 5-10% of my working day.

You absolutely _must_ start with a blog or a website for your home base. Then you go to YComb, LinkedIn, Stackoverflow, and ask and answer questions. Be sure to use the same user name for as many sites as you can so you become recognizable. First initial, last name is actually preferable - when dealing with your field you don't want to hide behind an anonymous user name (like AnM8tR - groan....). You can use fancy user name for movie sites.

I use <http://clubajax.org> to write my blogs, and while they are informative blogs, I learn an incredible amount; because I do research before hand to ensure that I'm giving correct advice.

</comment><comment><USER12> Personally, I've found it difficult to get much attention online. I guess I've just been off doing weird stuff for too long to interest most programmers.

Every time I hear stories of so-and-so making a website that caught on like wildfire overnight, it's often times attributable to a good network of contacts who already knew that person and all tweeted for him.

I think having contacts is very important, and those people who can conquer that fear of sharing too much are the ones who'll build the best relationships, and by doing so, have more frequent successes.

</comment><comment><USER13> I think this issue is at the heart of why many devs (me more than most) fail to live up to their potential. The mindset that makes for a great developer is very different from that of a successful marketer, as is illustrated in this recent post:

<http://joeyroth.com/charlatan-martyr-hustler/>

The commercially successful devs are those who manage to balance these two essential challenges. I think it's also one of the key reasons why sole- founder startups find it harder to win funding.

</comment><comment><USER14> I've had a web site since 1995 and a blog since 2005. I never really thought of it as marketing, but of course it is. Online presence has some importance in terms of finding out who your peer group are and acting as a starting point for discussions. Probably most of the jobs I've held though have had no connection to what I've published online, although in many (but by no means all) cases employers tend to view personal open source projects positively.

</comment><comment><USER15> Not as much as I should.

Yes and yes. But I don't spend any/enough effort on them.

Very. I live in a pretty remote low-population part of the USA. The people I want to work with will probably only ever get to know me online, until I move somewhere more in line with my goals. Offline presence is important, too, but there's not much opportunity for that here outside of the 3 or 4 possible programmer workplaces.

</comment><comment><USER16> IMO your offline presence is more important than your online presence, but maybe I'm just old fashioned :)

<comment><USER10> Old fashioned? I'll say! Startups these days don't often have offices, and at this rate they won't even have humans for much longer! Get your head into the clouds.</teasing>

In reply to the main topic: promoting myself (as a person distinct from but representing my startup) is an opportunity I'm weighing carefully. Given that we're a rather small shop, we have the luxury of exposing the personality of every member of the team, given they've got something charming to expose. I see this as a great way to differentiate ourselves from the larger corps in our industry. As I see it, ever member of our team has the occasion to be a hero, someone our fans could be interested in as an individual. Especially so, if a connection can be made between their personality and their contributions to our product. In a larger company, most employees won't ever get the opportunity to say, publicly, "That! I made that!" and have customers respond, "Yeah! That makes sense, because you really love ______ and it's always reflected in your work."

For example, every hardcore Apple fan knows Jony Ive's aesthetic, and Jobs' sense of perfectionism. They're the heros of Apple, and Apple has a bit of a "hero" culture, but they're too big to make everyone a hero. In a startup, you have the unique opportunity to make everyone a hero, if your products are good enough to win hearts.

I see well-considered self-promotion online and offline as a great way to expose the heroic qualities of each team member. It's a risk, of course, but taking on such challenges is why we're starting a company in such a competitive industry.</comment></comment>


Show HN: Text Analysis API Demo - <AUTHOR> https://www.summarizebot.com/text_api_demo.html <comment><USER2> Eh, the sentiment analysis doesn't work too well. I tested out, "This is excellent!" and it gave a neutral comment. Also, it looks like your sentiment analysis is case neutral and is insensitive to exclamation marks.

<comment><USER3> According to the sentiment analysis, your comment is _positive_.</comment></comment>


Ask HN: Is there a software to visualize and modify a graph? - <AUTHOR> In the past year there have been multiple times where I really needed a tool to visualize and modify a graph. Ex: visualize a complex build pipeline, visualize c++ include graphs, visualize inheritance graphs.
It would be great if the tool also enabled me to have some sort of way to see properties of each node/edge in the graph.
Things I tried:
Python - networkx is great but the rendered graphs are not dynamic. Only static pictures.
Gephi - great for some analysis, but does not support layouting of the graph (for example a tree). Also seem to crap out of realtively small graphs.
Boost graph - Same issues as python networkx.
Visual Studio - really poor rendering performance. If you move a big graph it takes sometimes minutes for the graph to re-draw. <comment><USER2> Maybe

[https://support.google.com/docs/answer/190718?hl=en](https://support.google.com/docs/answer/190718?hl=en)

?

<comment><AUTHOR> Graph as in [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_(abstract_data_type)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_\(abstract_data_type\))

<comment><USER2> Sorry I miss-understood what you were looking for, this is beyond my comprehension. I did find something called yEd which might be along the lines of what your looking for, good luck in your searching. [https://www.yworks.com/products/yed](https://www.yworks.com/products/yed)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER3> I have used networkx_viewer with networkx. It's a straightforward tool with the kind of things you're looking for

</comment><comment><USER4> Graph-drawing is one of the hardest theoretical problems in computer science. You're asking a lot more than you may realize.

[https://xkcd.com/1425/](https://xkcd.com/1425/)</comment>


James Tenney's Wake performed by William Winant Percussion Group - <AUTHOR> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY_FAqKs6Yw

<comment><AUTHOR> ".... Listen to the increase in rhythmic density caused by the longer and longer snare drum rolls till they circle around from left to right before beginning to overlap. When they fully overlap the process ends and the players hit simultaneously."

The youtube comment is helpful in trying to figure out what is going on here.</comment>


Muse: the brain sensing headband - <AUTHOR> http://www.choosemuse.com <comment><USER2> A $300 consumer product that promises to help one be more "mindful" & "present" more "efficiently" than plain old meditation. What is sad is the irony in all of this. What's sadder is that I want to buy it...

Might be brilliant on their part. Corporate consultant gurus are making quite a nickel telling execs to be more "mindful" & "present". Might be an opportune time to break into the market and displace some spiritual advisors with a little technology too. Maybe Verison 2.0 will help you down the 8fold path faster and without years of meditation & conditioning.

<comment><USER3> Two things:

1) A recently discovered very strong correlation (needs further longitudinal study) between mindfulness practice and a reduced decline in mental performance with age.

[http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnagi.2014.00...](http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnagi.2014.00076/full)

2) I had a demo -- the device is actually very responsive and seems to really work. The science (not conclusive but interesting) behind it is a well known correlation with meditation and brain alpha waves. YMMV.

<comment><USER4> I have been doing zazen meditation as 2-3 hours per day for 10+ years.

The way I see it, mindfulness practices and meditation gives long term effects because you are doing the effort yourself. It's not the mental state you are in during the meditation that brings the long term benefits. What works is your constant effort to look at your mind and notice what it does, even when you are distracted or feel vexed and especially then.

When you do 7 day zazen retreat where you meditate 10-16 hours per day, you feel pain in your legs, periods of intense drowsiness, agitation, strong emotions, boredom, etc. all this while sitting and looking calm outwards. Within all this internal storm you are just looking at what happens your own mind at the current moment. Attaching yourself to pleasant mental states you get in meditation is just waste of time.

The way these EEG devices work is by giving you feedback loop that gets you into relaxed state. That's not same as meditation. It can have good effects, but it's not the same.

One person drives with car 10 km every day and other person runs 10 km every day. The amount they travel correlates very closely, but only one person gets exercise.

<comment><USER5> But meditating for 2-3 hours PER DAY seems a bit excessive, no?

Then meditating for 10-16 hours per days seems really excessive.

It's almost like you're saying, these people who meditate, they don't really meditate, they just pay lip service. To meditate you have to be dedicated and spend 2-3 hours per day doing it if you're going to it correctly.

<comment><USER2> A bit judgmental aye? Reads to me like the comment is based on the meditator's experience and isn't an injunction on other, but an observation based on experience.

I think it's an important observation to point out to that this device may intact hinder the desired effects of (at least) zazen.

People watch TV or play games for mutiple hours, meditating 2-3hours seems hardly excessive in light of that.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> I'm having a hard time searching for this thing as "muse band" on Google :)

<comment><AUTHOR> [http://interaxon.ca](http://interaxon.ca)

The company behind Muse.

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> I've been waiting for a basic device that just tells me roughly what brain state I'm in (alpha/beta/delta/theta/gamma dominant) with bonus points if it has a feedback mechanism to make it easier to train one self into a certain state.

I don't think they got the pricing right. There are already quite a lot of consumer EEG devices on the market that either do more and/or are cheaper. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_consumer_brain%E2...](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_consumer_brain%E2%80%93computer_interfaces)

<comment><USER8> But none that are as pretty and well tuned.

</comment></comment><comment><USER9> I'd like to dispense just a bit of unsolicited feedback: the website is SO flashy/animated that I scrolled all the way to the end and didn't pay attention to _any_ of the actual content.

<comment><USER10> agreed. the constantly shifting background colors gave me a headache. navigating the site wearing Muse would break the product.

</comment></comment><comment> yoz-y Big issue with this kind of headband is the position of electrodes. Forehead seems like a good place in the first time since the frontal lobe is devoid of hair, however the EEG signal at this place is heavily artifacted by muscular activity (blinks, eye movements, facial muscles).

The most "interesting" brain activity also happens in the central axis of the brain (going from nose, through the top of the head and back to the occiput). It is however a design challenge to get electrodes to this place without the use of ugly caps and gel.

</comment><comment><USER11> Ahh, was hoping it was a device that delivered minimal tDCS. Does such a device exist?[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_direct- current_sti...](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_direct- current_stimulation)

<comment><USER12> [http://www.foc.us/](http://www.foc.us/)

Foc.us does. I have one. Works well.

EDIT: Downvoted for providing a link? I don't work for Foc.us or anything.

<comment><USER13> This sounds very interesting.

I understand this has been approved as "safe", and I doubt it would ever lead to death or harm, but I wonder what the long term effects of frequent brain stimulation could be. It could be good effects, but it could also be bad. I don't believe any longitudinal study has been done on something like this.

How do you feel while you're using it?

<comment><USER12> It doesn't seem to produce any acute effects. The research I've read before buying this seems to indicate it's a chronic effect over time. Unfortunately I don't have the patience to really do a sham/active test cycle, so I've been just alternating pulse/continuous/random cycles 3-4 times per week, 10-20 minutes per session.

Anecdotally it seems to work well. My major reason for investing into tDCS was to improve working memory, as I strongly believe I was rapidly deteriorating in that realm despite near-abstinence from alcohol and other drugs. In that regard, it seems to work well, but it could easily be a placebo effect from wearing a cool helmet.

If I had to guess I'd say I'm 75% confident that foc.us has had a material positive effect on my working memory and cognitive functions. I can't say I am 90-95% confident and I'm not sure I ever will be, since doing a rigorous test is near impossible without a partner controlling the sham effects, and even then it's for personal use and not a research study so to speak.

Not sure I would enthusiastically recommend it but the research out there points in a solid - if not dramatic - direction.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> I'm glad it wraps around the front of the head. It's an amazing visual clue to everyone else that this is the type of person you want to avoid a conversation with.

<comment><USER15> Funny comment but completely out of context since this is not something you're supposed to wear in public.

<comment><USER16> So the picture of the one woman laughing is not having a conversation with anyone, but actually having a psychotic episode?

<comment><USER17> She does appear to be in a padded room.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER18> To give some more information, these tech info and sdk pages are linked from the faq site:

Tech specs:

[http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0348/7053/files/muse- tech-s...](http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0348/7053/files/muse-tech-spec- sheet.pdf?918)

SDK guide:

[https://sites.google.com/a/interaxon.ca/muse-developer- site/...](https://sites.google.com/a/interaxon.ca/muse-developer-site/home)

</comment><comment><USER19> Ooh, these sudden background color changes when scrolling really hurt my brain!

</comment><comment><USER20> Just trying to read that site stressed me out. So they failed before they even got started.

<comment><USER21> Came here to say the same thing. Background colors and text changing without interaction and unpredictable consequences of navigation actions makes for quite the stressful experience.

</comment></comment><comment><USER22> Reminds me of the Atari Mindlink.

[http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/2600/mindlink...](http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/2600/mindlink.html)

It worked via your forehead muscles.

Weirdly, I did consumer research testing for this thing as a teenager. They showed us a video and then let us test it with River Raid (which was an Activision game, go figure). Then one of those group sessions where they interview you all with someone filming behind a two-way mirror. The Atari thing did kinda work. Sorta. Anyway, it was a fun consumer research thing to be paid for.

</comment><comment><USER23> Is this at all different from the Melon[0] headband (a Kickstarter backed project from ~a year ago, and half the price)?

[0] [http://www.thinkmelon.com/](http://www.thinkmelon.com/)

<comment><USER8> You can get it today (or 3-4 weeks rather for order fulfillment).

<comment><USER23> Fair; I'm more curious about the technical aspects / whether the doubled cost translates into anything more than immediacy.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER24> The cynic in me feels that much of what they may be determining is from muscle artifact...i've been looking through some (plain old clinical/medical 32 electrode) EEG data and even that has a lot of artifact. Although I suppose it's some behavioral correlation - the more stressed out you are the more you clench your muscles, I suppose.

At the very least if they've figured out how to get clean EEG w/o having to use smelly EEG conductive goop, props to them!

</comment><comment><USER25> The tagline (the brain sensing headband) is hilarious, I'd love to see the app just respond Yes or No when a person puts the headband on ;)

</comment><comment><USER26> To the best of my basic knowledge (and as mentioned here already) EEG isn't going to be super-useful for a consumer device like this ... HEG (infrared detection of oxygen levels) is a better option in terms of the ratio of easy hookups to meaningful (mass market) results.

</comment><comment><USER27> As of May 14th, they were telling backers (of which I'm one) that delivery is delayed 4-6 weeks.

</comment><comment><USER28> Very little (almost none?) information given.

Talk about the software connected to this..

Anyone spending 300$ for so little information?

</comment><comment><USER29> >Muse uses 7 finely calibrated EEG sensors to detect and measure the activity of your brain. This sensory input is translated into real-time feedback on your tablet or smart phone via Bluetooth. The result is a rich, real-time audio and visual experience.

Calibrated for whom?

<comment><USER18> If you take a minute to read the information available

[http://www.choosemuse.com/pages/faq#using](http://www.choosemuse.com/pages/faq#using)

says that there is a 1 minute calibration period at the beginning of each use.

</comment></comment><comment><USER30> This site demonstrates how the blink and marquee tag look in 2014

</comment><comment><USER31> If we're at headache: the website gives me one.

</comment><comment><USER32> I think I'll stick to [http://www.necomimi.com](http://www.necomimi.com)

<comment><USER6> uhmm interesting _wiggle wiggle_

</comment></comment><comment><USER33> I wonder if someone with migraine somehow could benefit from such a device/training.

</comment><comment><USER34> There should be meditation apps which support this.

Would love to train my focus more.

</comment><comment><USER35> Haven't there been a few of these on Indiegogo?

<comment><USER36> This was one of them: [https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/muse-the-brain- sensing-he...](https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/muse-the-brain-sensing- headband-that-lets-you-control-things-with-your-mind)

</comment></comment><comment><USER37> I wonder when the first real such product will exist. Like any system that synchronizes by waves it can be modified by waves, probably much more than you'd be able to do through chemicals.

So who will make the first heroine headband ? It will probably need outputs as well as inputs though.

<comment><USER16> It seems to just be a biofeedback device. It tells you when you are experiencing the right brain wave pattern so that you're consciously aware of it, but you have to do the work of meditating to alter the state.

</comment></comment><comment><USER38> Given that Jason has funded this startup, also invested in Calm (and I believe in his intelligence), I should not doubt this product. This product has been demonstrated first in the Launch Hackaton and it worked. Coming from the signal processing background I'm always very suspicious how sensors can preform such great filtering on the signal, but looking at the investor profile makes me think there is something there.</comment>


Vulnerable Nations Call for Ecocide to Be Recognized as an International Crime - <AUTHOR> https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2019/12/06/ecocide-international-criminal-court-vanuatu/ <comment><USER2> Here's the definition they're working with[0]:

>Ecocide is loss, damage or destruction of ecosystem(s) of a given territory(ies)… such that peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants has been or will be severely diminished

– definition submitted by Polly Higgins to the UN Law Commission in 2010

0\. [https://ecocidelaw.com/ecocide-law-2/](https://ecocidelaw.com/ecocide- law-2/)

<comment><USER3> It would seem that development of natural resources as well as population growth could result in "ecocide". Whom do they sue?

<comment><USER4> Whoever has deep pockets but is politically weak enough.

<comment><USER5> Norway and their oil fund is my guess for the first target.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> The key is finding pragmatic ways to react to a finding of harm that will result in positive change.

After WWI, the League of Nations was formed, in large part to mitigate the risk of war. Unfortunately, the primary known way to punish a warring nation is with a war.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations)

<comment><USER7> The primary means is sanctions. War is a often a last resort.

<comment><USER6> That hasn't worked out well as one might have hoped in Eastern Ukraine/Crimea nor South Ossetia.

<comment><USER8> That's because you can't expect every country to submit. Russia will not, China will not.

The same way the US would not stop bombing the middle east and Africa or overthrow legitimate governments in Latin America if them, China and Russia decided to sanction America.

<comment><USER6> Exactly -- and the trick is finding a viable way to get even large countries to hold themselves to account for their share in ecological catastrophes.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> I think this should start with a simple question:

 _How many square miles (or square meters) of territory have they lost due to sea level rising?_ This should probably exclude erosion but could be an interesting additional point/counter.

That would establish a) that they've suffered damages and b) the scope of said damages. Identifying the guilty parties would be the next challenge but it's a starting point.

<comment><USER10> Also, will they pay us if it turns out they actually gained territory?

[https://phys.org/news/2018-02-pacific-nation- bigger.html](https://phys.org/news/2018-02-pacific-nation-bigger.html)

</comment></comment><comment><USER11> Guilt would seem to depend on per capita emissions, not total emissions. I don't see why the size of the nation would permit its citizens to pollute more per capita.

If so, many vulnerable nations would probably be guilty, which is probably how the law should work, but might not be how they expect. Many small, vulnerable nations emit more per capita than IPCC recommendations [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhous...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhouse_gas_emissions_per_capita).

Eventually, nations will probably make laws against people polluting like they have now against littering. One of the purposes of laws is to regulate behavior that affects others.

<comment><USER12> Guilt should be based on total emissions if the entire country is being considered because that's what matters to the planet.

<comment><USER11> Kuwait leads the world in per capita emissions but has a population of 4.5 million. No problem?

So someone who pollutes a lot can change nationality and pollute more?

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER13> Zoom in on any place on earth where agriculture is happening, like here [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Narrogin+WA+6312/@-33.4993...](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Narrogin+WA+6312/@-33.4993604,117.5214949,37310m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x2a31532b54842baf:0x400f6382479fb20!8m2!3d-32.9311967!4d117.1785277)

and tell me that is not grand scale ecocide.

</comment><comment><USER14> This is an idea whose time is just around the corner.</comment>


US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs - <AUTHOR> http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/131-us-states-renamed-for-countries-with-similar-gdps/

<comment><USER2> I'm sorry, but i really am tired of this reddit content making the front page of Hacker News.

<comment><USER3> I thought this was fascinating.

I know there have been a lot of new users lately, and a lot of us are concerned that the site will go downhill, but this is very interesting to me. I've never seen a more graphic demonstration of the huge size of the US economy.

To think, for example, that I grew up in fear of being nuked by New Jersey...

<comment><USER4> That's exactly why I would downvote this if I could. It's a misleading article that he stolen from someone else (because I've seen this many times on different blogs) and has tons of bogus data that no one checks.

About Russia: In 1987 the GDP was: USA : 5,093,396 USSR: 1,965,457

P.S. nukes don't care about GDP.

P.P.S. In 2007 EU had a GDP of $16,574 trillion and USA: $13.794 trillion. So it would be easier to make a map the other way around.

<comment><USER3> Where's the map stolen from? We can switch the link to the original source.

<comment><USER4> I don't know what is the original source... [http://www.google.com/search?q=US+States+Renamed+For+Countri...](http://www.google.com/search?q=US+States+Renamed+For+Countries+With+Similar+GDPs) I may have been too fast to judge that it isn't the original, because it's very popular and being just another blog didn't seem extremely accurate... I can't edit that out now anyway.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> This mapping surprised me: "Tennessee – Saudi Arabia (GDP #25 at $286 billion)"

I probably magnify the oil economy in my mind. You hear about the vast wealth, the oil sheiks, the buying of US assets, etc. Either my intuition on relative economies is very off (likely)... or GDP doesn't cover some things that impact our perception. Wonder how that map would look if we used GDP per capita.

<comment><USER6> That surprised me too - but I'm guessing its because their GDP is almost entirely from oil, whereas the US economy is very distributed.

Edit: Guess I was wrong.

<comment><USER5> From Wikipedia (probably taken from CIA factbook):

"The petroleum sector accounts for roughly 75% of budget revenues, 45% of GDP, and 90% of export earnings."

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> It would be interesting to redo the map using GDP per square mile, or GDP per capita. For instance Georgia has the equivalent GDP of Switzerland, but it is much larger than Switzerland, geographically speaking. On the other hand, New Jersey has the same GDP as Russia, but is a fraction of the size, both geographically and in population.

</comment><comment><USER8> this is not the right place...

</comment><comment><USER9> 10 points for anyone who can find the 3 G8 countries on the map...

<comment><USER9> Holy crap mods... bad mood or something? It was just a joke...

<comment><USER10> Leave it at reddit.</comment></comment></comment>


Tutanota uses DANE on top of TLS; why doesn't everybody? - <AUTHOR> https://tutanota.de/blog/posts/tutanota-uses-dane-on-top-of-ssl-pfs

<comment><USER2> There's a few things I believe would really help getting DANE rolled out.

As far as I know, there's really no "out of the box" validation for end users. The web browsers will have to make the validation, or failed validation, visible for people to care enough to implement it.

Although DNSSEC is becoming more and more commonplace, it still seems that in a lot of places, you'll have to throw up your own DNS-server to be able to use it. Make it simpler to implement, and you'll probably see a lot more people starting to use it.

Also, just to clarify, DANE doesn't _solve_ the CA-problem. You're now putting all your trust into it being hard to both issue a valid certificate and compromise the DNS chain.

<comment><USER3> It would solve the problem partially. Currently, every trusted CA can issue a certificate for any domain. Registries would be limited to tampering with the TLDs they control.

You wouldn't need to worry that DigiNotar or China Internet Network Information Center start issuing certs for your domain unless you're using .nl or .cn. The TLD itself would be a visible indicator of how much trust a user should offer.

<comment><USER2> Absolutely. I would be a huge improvement.

I'm thinking more in the lines of stopping three-letter agencies from doing MITM. I don't know if it's actually possible to prove the integrity of the root nodes.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> Depends on your threat model. If you're afraid of somebody snooping on your wifi, TLS alone is sufficient. If you're afraid of government surveillance, DANE is useless because it's relying on DNSSEC, which has a government backdoor by design.

</comment><comment><USER5> I have some 'outdated' and 'obsolete crypto' warning in chrome, about their certificate. I am using Chrome 42.0.2311.135 on Windows 7.

Here is the message: [https://i.imgur.com/SnMQWU9.png](https://i.imgur.com/SnMQWU9.png)

Compared to HN : [https://i.imgur.com/5iphbCq.png](https://i.imgur.com/5iphbCq.png)

For a 'super secure' email, this sounds strange ? Why are they using an insecure and obsolete key exchange mechanizm ?

<comment><USER4> Their chain of trust contains a certificate that's using sha1, which is deprecated[0]

[0]: [http://shaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com/](http://shaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com/)</comment></comment>


Do Elevated Viewpoints Increase Risk Taking? - <AUTHOR> http://datacolada.org/82 <comment><USER2> If buying a heated butter knife is "risk-taking" I am in the wrong timeline.

Seriously, just say sales. This is a textbook marketing study.

</comment><comment><USER3> I heard about this from [1], which has some additional commentary

[1][https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/21/some- thoug...](https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/21/some-thoughts-on- another-failed-replication-in-psychology/)

</comment><comment><USER4> If this were true then doesn't that mean being taller increases risk taking?</comment>


Generating specs based on the behaviour of your Rails application - <AUTHOR> https://www.airpair.com/rspec/posts/gert

<comment><AUTHOR> The goal is to generate regression tests which capture the behaviour of your rails application. Consider regression specs which capture your routes and give you feedback about non reachable routes. A further example where generated regression specs are useful are for inconsistent validations. Consider following validation:

validates :attribute, presence: true, allow_blank: true

A simple spec like:

it {is_expected.to validate_presence_of :attribute} would fail and give you feedback as a developer that your validation is invalid.</comment>


Signed distance fields and triangle meshes in Oculus Medium - <AUTHOR> https://developer.oculus.com/blog/medium-under-the-hood-part-2-move-tool-implementation/ <comment><AUTHOR> Part One is here: [https://developer.oculus.com/blog/medium-under-the-hood- part...](https://developer.oculus.com/blog/medium-under-the-hood- part-1-developing-the-move-tool/)</comment>


Capitalism is failing - <AUTHOR> http://rafaelkino.com/essays/capitalismisfailing.html <comment><USER2> Does not look like capitalism is failing or doing a really bad job:

[https://ourworldindata.org/world-poverty/](https://ourworldindata.org/world- poverty/)

<comment><USER3> is that down to capitalism or technology? Inequality has been rising for the last 40 years.

<comment><USER2> > Inequality has been rising for the last 40 years.

Really?

[https://ourworldindata.org/global-economic- inequality](https://ourworldindata.org/global-economic-inequality)

<comment><AUTHOR> Global inequality is clearly not relevant for what I'm talking about. I'm talking about a post-physical society, such as developed countries. And in most developed countries inequality is going up not down. See Thomas Piketty's work. To my knowledge it hasn't been refuted yet.</comment></comment></comment></comment>


Ask HN: Implications of honoring do not track (DNT)? - <AUTHOR> For anyone who's chosen to honor the do not track flag what are some of the implications of doing so?  I'm thinking of using it to disable Google Analytics / Facebook tracking.  The only issue that's come to mind so far is not having the full picture when it comes time to sell the business.  The last time I looked roughly 18% of the audience had DNT set.  Thoughts?  Also what besides removing analytics scripts are you disabling? <comment><USER2> The EFF has an implementation guide I found interesting.

[https://www.eff.org/de/deeplinks/2017/10/do-not-track- implem...](https://www.eff.org/de/deeplinks/2017/10/do-not-track- implementation-guide-launched)

</comment><comment><USER3> Get what you do checked by a lawyer. We had to, to get Google 3PAS certification to do metrics in tracking pixels. So, DNT requires more than just code. You need a web pointer, T&C, you need to be clear what you do, and don't do, with your Personally Identifying Information (PII) which stems from your work in the net.</comment>


American Doctors Are Treating a Coronavirus Patient with a Robot - <AUTHOR> https://futurism.com/neoscope/american-doctors-coronavirus-patient-robot <comment><USER2> Since when is Mark Zuckerberg a doctor?</comment>