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shanevon Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff

Radio Shack should buy Maker Faire.

shanevon A history of tea, the second most-consumed beverage in the world (2017)

Here's the original TED-Ed video on the TED site: https://www.ted.com/talks/shunan_teng_the_history_of_tea.

shanevon Launch HN: Withfriends (YC W19) – Memberships for Small Businesses

Congrats Joe! Wouldn't have thought I'd see you or the mention of Silent Barn on HN!

shanevon Jack Dorsey says it’s time to rethink the fundamental dynamics of Twitter

I think it's impossible to re-think Twitter and satisfy everyone. I completely switched who I follow (using Lists) twice already based on my interest changes in technology. First Rails, then iOS, now "crypto". I was early enough in the first two communities to know who the movers and shakers were. However it took me a while to find who is worth following in "Crypto Twitter". So I personally welcome any attempts to show me relevant content from folks I don't follow yet in the field.

shanevon Andreessen Horowitz is opening an office in SF

Atlassian is based in Sydney, Australia.

shanevon Ask HN: How did you decide what problems to solve in your lifetime?

May I ask why you want to work on energy? If it’s because of climate change, it may surprise you that the #1 thing you can do to reduce total CO2 is to educate women and girls, and family planning:

https://www.drawdown.org/solutions

Update: Yes I know these aren’t the same, but they’re related.

shanevon Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

I started this route after being influenced by GOPATH. Can’t imagine anything else now.

shanevon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)

At TruStory, we are building a platform for validating and verifying content, starting with the cryptocurrency space. For an example of what this could look like, check out our forum posts on claims made about Ethereum: https://discourse.trustory.io/t/tuur-demeesters-ethereum-cla....

Our stack is React Native / Typescript for mobile, and Golang for the blockchain backend.

We are building TruStory as a decentralized app, using Cosmos SDK, a next-gen blockchain platform.

Contact shane+hn@trustory.io for questions, or apply directly at https://boards.greenhouse.io/trustory/jobs/4070176002.

shanevon Ask HN: Which tool do you use to create beautiful diagrams?

Github employs a bunch of designers. The diagram in this specific example looks like a custom job to me. Probably Sketch or similar tool.

That said, my old standby is OmniGraffle. Makes it super easy to create any type of diagram on macOS.

shanevon Just tell me how to use Go Modules

Today I had to write some deployment scripts and the value of a fixed GOPATH really dawned on me. No matter which machine I use, I always know my code will be at GOPATH/src/...

I didn't have to fiddle with any paths or env vars in my scripts. It made my day easier. This is an example of something that seems like a good practice only after you've gotten some gray in your beard.

shanevon Richard Stallman: We Can Do Better Than Bitcoin

Original article: https://www.coindesk.com/free-software-messiah-richard-stall....

shanevon A Raft implementation in Haskell

Care to enlighten us without resorting to a personal attack Dave?

shanevon A Raft implementation in Haskell

There’s Tendermint: https://tendermint.com/, which is gaining popularity in distributed systems projects. It’s Byzantine fault tolerant, unlike Raft and Paxos.

shanevon Small robots may kill the tractor and make farming efficient

Aren’t paper and cardboard biodegradable compared to styrofoam and plastic? The atmosphere and soil know how to handle it.

shanevon Small robots may kill the tractor and make farming efficient

If farming can be done more mechanically than chemically, it'll be better for the environment in the long run. We'll need less pesticides, and have less top-soil erosion.

shanevon Long-Awaited Study Results on Vitamin D and Fish Oil Supplements

"The study, which was also a randomized clinical trial, tracked participants for an average of five years. The volunteers took icosapent ethyl, which is sold under the brand name Vascepa and was developed by the Amarin Corporation, which funded Bhatt's research."

Because if they spun the study as a success, the funders of this study, a pharmaceutical company, wouldn't be able to promote their drug.

shanevon Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia

This is exactly what Zcash is building.

shanevon Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great Engineer, and Happiness

> You joined Google because you were deeply interested in Linux. Is there a technology you're equally excited about today? This is a question which I would be curious for someone else to tell me the answer to! The closest thing I can think of is Bitcoin and crypto. I'm pretty sure they would have captured the attention of 21 year old me.

Can relate so much with this article. Maybe because we’re around the same age. Crypto reminds of me of Linux and the early days of the Internet. I see the potential and that’s why I’m working in it.

shanevon Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

I’ve had three misses of similar magnitude. No regrets.

shanevon In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most passionate users

My favorite feature of Inbox was the organization of Trips. Thankfully there's still TripIt.

shanevon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)

The Internet lets anyone, anywhere broadcast a message to the rest of the world. It connects the 4 billion people on the Internet to one another. It’s undoubtedly the greatest invention of humanity. But the ease of sending information unfortunately also allows misinformation to spread. How do you reconcile these two opposing forces, openness and trust? One solution is to hinder or to censor. But that’s been tried before and miserably fails. But imagine if information policed itself by the people creating that information.

At Trustory, we're looking for full-stack engineers to help build this for the world. Our tech stack is primarily Typescript, React Native, Node, GraphQL, and Go (Golang).

We value ethical, curious, and passionate people. We don't care about your grades. We don't care about your pedigree.

We are building TruStory in a decentralized manner, using blockchain platforms like Cosmos SDK and Ethereum. You’d be one of our first hires, and get a chance to work with some of the most experienced engineers and advisors in the industry.

https://www.trustory.io/careers/

shane+hn@trustory.io

shanevon Dietary carbohydrate intake and mortality: a prospective cohort study

“There are limitations to this study that merit consideration. This study represents observational data and is not a clinical trial; however, randomised trials of low carbohydrate diets on mortality are not practical because of the long duration of study required. Another limitation of this study is that diet was only assessed at two time intervals, spanning a 6-year period, and dietary patterns could change during 25 years.”

This study is based on a 66 question FFQ (food frequency questionnaire) spanning a six year period. Do you remember what you ate last month? A year ago? Six years ago? Maybe a more modern version of these types of studies can be done if the subjects are required to take pics of everything they ate instead of reporting from memory on a questionnaire.

“LMS receives grant funding from the California Walnut Commission”

Oh?

“SC reports grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and personal fees from Novartis and Zogenix”

Novartis and Zofenix are in the business of making statin drugs.

shanevon Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness

First point is incorrect. Night Shift's color temperature is adjustable, which includes the blue level.

shanevon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)

TruStory is a platform for users to discover and validate claims that people make, whether in a blog post, whitepaper, website, or social media post. We are seeking a full-stack software engineer with 3+ years of experience:

- Experience in Javascript, React Native, Node, Postgres

- Nice to have: Experience in cryptography, Golang, GraphQL, Solidity

- Experience in architecting and building complex APIs

- A strong understanding of databases -- both SQL and NoSQL

- Ability to write unit, integration and end-to-end tests for back-end and front-end code

- A passion for writing clean, maintainable and scalable code

We are building TruStory in a decentralized manner, using technologies like Cosmos SDK and Ethereum. You’d be one of our first hires, and get a chance to work with some of the most experienced engineers and advisors in the industry.

Apply at https://www.trustory.io/careers/.

shanevon The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan

FOAM [1] is trying to solve this. They're using a distributed network of radio beacons which offer location services using time synchronization.

https://foam.space

shanevon Launch HN: RevenueCat (YC S18) – Simple API for Managing In-App Subscriptions

Hi Jacob :) Good to see you still building things. I love your optimism but this is something I've heard countless times that almost never holds true. Truth is you eventually get bored of a product after a few years and move on. It's not even always about the money. Also, you're playing in space where Apple could build their own and Sherlock you. I know a thing or two about that.

shanevon Facebook Makes Moves on Instagram Users

I believe the number of people that want a non-algorithmic feed is way bigger than 1%. A ton of people signed up for Vero when it first launched specifically because they advertised having a non-algorithmic feed. It’s a frequent complaint amongst even my non-technical friends.

shanevon The World’s Highest-Earning Airline Route

Newark’s proximity to NYC.

shanevon Advice

I wouldn’t be where I am today without 2600. Hacking (real hacking, not pg’s definition) is what lead me to learn to code when I was a teenager back in the 90s. Many of the folks I met via 2600 may not be CEOs but are extremely successful. Sage advice.

shanevon Scooter startup Bird is seeking a $2B valuation

Lime scooters are already made by Segway.