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beachstartupon How Ikea's Billy bookcase took over the world

seems like the way ikea classifies their furniture is merely a suggestion. for example i've always used their dining tables as desks, as their "desks" are too small and flimsy and relatively expensive.

beachstartupon Brazil’s Love Affair with Uber Has Been Ruined by Kidnapping, Robbery and Murder

a lot of rich people in brazil drive cheap/lower end cars because carjacking and literal highway robberies are a huge problem.

beachstartupon Ask HN: How do you deal with loss of motivation?

it's supposed to be negative. it's shit talk on the internet.

beachstartupon Buffett Assails Money-Manager Fees as Berkshire Reports Profit Rise

> why people agree to those terms is beyond me.

rich people are susceptible to the same herd/exclusivity psychology the rest of us are.

to those who don't know, fund management firms have plenty of sales people, except they're not called sales people, they're called VPs, managing directors, partners, etc. but their job is to sell their services and bring new assets (MONEY) under management. they do this through social interaction and posturing. a lot of these people don't even actually manage the money, they just outsource it to hedge funds and banks with high end management services. they're constantly being wined and dined by bankers and traders, people they claim to hate yet they keep shoveling money in their direction. hmm.

why else do you think they have "minimum" asset requirements? there's no logical reason to have one -- once your client's money is in your pocket you can shift it around from a single pool of capital no matter how big or small the transaction. which is basically what an ETF is. there's software to keep track of all the individual deposits and returns. the truth is they market that exclusivity and they sure as hell don't want to talk with anyone who doesn't have millions of dollars. i can't say i blame them.

one thing they all have in common is they all look down their noses at "retail" financial services. it's just a big social game played by very smart people, like venture capital.

beachstartupon Snapchat Founders’ Grip Tightened After a Spat with an Early Investor

the promise of future (or one-time "special") dividends or buyout or merger or some other action resulting in a swap for stock that does pay.

it's pretty tenuous, but real nonetheless.

beachstartupon List of Sites Affected by Cloudflare's HTTPS Traffic Leak

this is another data point that supports my personal, hare-brained theory that the expectation of privacy on the internet is simply naive, a fool's errand. it never existed, and never will.

this is despite (or maybe because) of my best efforts to secure systems as a major part of my job.

beachstartupon Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory

it seems to me you'd have to know at a minimum:

1. every tag pattern that triggers the bug(s)

2. which broken pages with that pattern were requested at an abnormally high frequency or had an unusually short TTL (or some other useful heuristic)

3. on which servers, and at what time, in order to tell

4. who's data lived on the same servers at the same time as those broken pages

to even begin to estimate the scope of the leak. and that doesn't even help you find who planted the bad seeds.

beachstartupon Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory

requesting a page with a specific combination of broken tags, when done through cloudflare, will cause neighboring memory to be dumped into the response. op suspects this is due to a bounds checking bug on a read or copy. one can imagine this can be potentially kilobytes of data in one go.

since anyone can put a broken page behind cloudflare, all you need to do is request your own broken page through cloudflare, and start collecting the random "secure" data that comes back.

beachstartupon What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike

david chang agrees with you:

https://youtu.be/ikr5wVxzpjk?t=95

beachstartupon How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global spy network

i'll say it again, just in case you didn't get it the first time:

illegal aliens are different than legal immigrants, and should be treated differently under the law, and in society.

frankly, i don't care what the republicans or steve bannon think about it, that's apparently a major concern of yours, but isn't one of mine.

beachstartupon How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global spy network

i'm saying that legal and illegal immigration are two different things. the fact that steve bannon dislikes both types and probably (almost certainly) dislikes non-white people has nothing to do with my point.

let's say all your worst fears are true, and bannon secretly is literally hitler. does that change the fact that legal vs. illegal immigrants are different, and should be treated differently, with a different set of laws and social acceptance? because i would say that even if he is literally hitler and mussolini combined, that would still hold true.

i mean, what is your actual point here? that you don't like steve bannon? okay, great.

beachstartupon How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global spy network

wow, i must suck at writing because you just made the same point i did.

namely: legal and illegal immigration are completely different things and anyone who says otherwise is disregarding law and social norms.

beachstartupon How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global spy network

they deliberately conflate legal (skilled) immigrants and illegal aliens. to them, there is no difference.

it is a hyper-egalitarian interpretation of the word 'immigrant' with no basis in law or social norms.

beachstartupon PuTTY 0.68 has been released

with putty i would be surprised if most didn't run it straight from the desktop. i would be a dirty liar if i said i haven't, countless times.

beachstartupon Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters

that's absurd. you should name the price you expect, and not go below your minimum.

would you hire a plumber that refuses to name his rate, and then when pushed, tells you a number 5 times higher than normal? why do you think any other employment negotiation is any different?

if you "never name a number", the person on the other end is going to know you're inexperienced and operating on cargo cult mythology, and will simply take advantage of you.

beachstartupon Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters

refusing to tell your prospective employer how much you want to get paid is a 'negotiation tactic'?

beachstartupon Carbon fibre makes Australian debut

in commercial production it can be cured in an autoclave.

i believe there are also thicker sheets that can be vacuum-bagged onto a surface, so you don't need to layer it.

beachstartupon Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?

i survived my road warrior years thanks to redbox and the whole foods salad bar.

beachstartupon Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?

put an ssd in it.

beachstartupon Street Life in London

i recently started brushing/flossing/shaving/etc in my kitchen, which has a better view, and is larger, and usually pretty damn clean.

my tiny bathroom is now for showering and eliminating only.

should have done it years ago. it makes way more sense in an apartment. did you notice nice/large houses usually have the toilet separated from the sinks?!

beachstartupon Getting started with vim

you search and replace by hand?

... are you serious?

beachstartupon 'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments

i didn't see any value judgments in the gp. it's common knowledge these days that a career could very well jeopardize your physical and mental health. i think that was the exact point gp was trying to make - women exhibit less sacrificial behavior in pursuing their careers.

beachstartupon Getting started with vim

in your editor, without leaving the keyboard, how would you search-and-replace using a 2-variable regex, only between lines 275 and 1305, and then turn every instance of 'TEST_' into a lowercase, but only on the lines that didn't match?

beachstartupon Getting started with vim

speed and efficiency.

some people don't care about those things, some people do.

beachstartupon Sleep Debt

you're eating foods that spike your insulin in the afternoon, and probably not getting enough exercise.

beachstartupon Goodbye, Eastern Europe

none of the stores listed in the first part of the article are American.

beachstartupon What makes the perfect office?

after transitioning to 100% remote, i've come to the conclusion that the perfect office is the one you build for yourself.

corollary: commercial real estate is a ripoff.

beachstartupon Zuckerberg removed a line about monitoring private messages from his manifesto

i can't even tell if your post is satire.

beachstartupon Software developers who started after 35, 40 or 50

that's commendable, especially since a grocery manager can make a very good living in an affluent area (it is a pretty demanding management position after all, with P&L, scheduling, logistics, distributor and vendor, payroll, 'up-management', probably even real estate related responsibilities). i'm sure it was pretty good experience for his current job.

beachstartupon 40% of foreign students in the US have no close American friends on campus

in my experience the split has to do more with east/west cultures than nationalities. americans are friendly and like to joke around, be sarcastic, and not take things too seriously unless you are dealing with personal safety or a lot of money. if you aren't like that, you're going to have a really hard time.

for example, in the first couple of years, a spanish (from spain) person is going to do a lot better than a russian.