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Thank you for this post/link. I have been side eyeing Bitwarden since they started ensh*ttifying the desktop UX last year to make it more like everything else and take up too much space. It had been working perfectly well for browser autofill - super fast and staying out of the way. Now it is bloated white space, slow, standardized UX elements like any SaaS built by AI. Will check out Vaultwarden, Proton Pass, Keepass, I guess. But sadly - yet another tool that worked perfectly well that was ruined in contempt of its own users (LastPass, Authy, Google Reader, etc - the list goes on)

https://archive.is/9DYOZ

Maybe she can throw some percentages into her next article on human interaction to make HN happy

My first computer as well! I remember typing game code from a magazine and saving it to the cassette tape. My big Christmas present the next year was the giant expansion box with the floppy drive.

Insignia TVs from Best Buy - they have a 43-inch and a 40-inch that both work great.

Second this. This product sounds amazing. But hard to believe it without seeing it. What can you charge for that enterprises/funded entities would pay for, but side projects wouldn’t need until they start making money. Like: Electron, Oracle/SQL Server support, Exchange integration, etc. Good luck! As someone who has been “working” on a SaaS project for a year, would love to try this. But can’t shell out $400 out of pocket for something I can’t touch.

Well. This article conflates three different complaints as one problem. That their browser supposedly mitigates. There are good articles about the open web vs closed for-profit ecosystems. This is not one of those articles.

I haven't worked with Perl in 20 years, but obviously totes:

Perl++

amirite?

joking

Maybe this should be an "Ask HN" - but what do you think about the VPNs mentioned in this article and the use cases described? I also have researched VPNs and basically threw in the towel...gave up...how can you possibly know if you can trust ANY VPN provider?

https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ seems objective, but it is infrequently updated and insufficiently comprehensive, not to mention a bit of a usability nightmare.

There is also the factor that different users have different use cases. A VPN that is perfect for Glenn Greenwald may not be what Joe Schmoe who just wants to hide his porn habit from his ISP needs. It does feel like the market could use some way to figure out which VPNs can be trusted.

So, the questions are:

- What is your VPN of choice? - How did you choose your VPN? - Do you trust your VPN? - And how could you objectively trust your VPN? What would give you that feeling of security?

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/04/how-effective...

Key point for this discussion: "In 1993, New South Wales, Australia, commissioned a study to see if a new helmet law for children was increasing helmet uptake. It did—but the researchers also found 30 percent fewer children were riding to school. In New Zealand, where helmet compulsion was introduced in 1994, the number of overall bike trips fell 51 percent between 1989–90 and 2003–6, according to one research paper."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/do-bi...

"Meanwhile, it seems that bicyclists wearing helmets may encourage riskier driving by motorists."

Just to be clear, I'm not advocating against wearing a helmet if you DO commute on a bike. As someone who fifteen years ago cracked a helmet instead of his head after falling on some jagged pavement, I appreciate what a helmet can do for you. And there may be statistical support for wearing a bike helmet as well:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/sep/22/bicycle...

However, I think the OP's basic point holds. Being sedentary is a greater health risk than riding without a helmet.

When you use numbers, it's referencing the lines between sections, not the sections themselves. So a grid of 4 columns will have 5 line numbers.

@vinrob92 - This is great of you to put this discount code here. I am strongly tempted, but it is unclear on the website what the value proposition of the "premium" service is. Looking side by side, it just appears to add "logo, branding, and illustrations" to the basic plan. But wouldn't that fall under "graphic design" in the basic plan? Can you explain here what "premium" means in your service offering?

This is great! I nominate Google Play Music Desktop Player (https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/) - a great app that is totally free and open source.

Thank you for this link. Worked well and quickly. I haven't maintained my yahoo account for years, it's good to actually get rid of it.

In fact, it happens on all sides...

Great reframing here - now, it's not a discussion of how abuse on twitter is an issue, but a discussion of how abuse happens both from the right and the left. Good job of deflecting the actual point, very alt right of you.

To my knowledge, nobody is receiving hundreds of credible death threats.

"Credible" - so, as long as the death threat is not "credible", it's ok. Uh huh. "I hope you die" does not contribute in any meaningful way to discussion. And hundreds of "I hope you die"s do not provide an abusive and suppressing environment? Suuuuure, bro.

The truth is somewhere in the middle, and not everything is what it seems.

Everything is not what it could be, if it was different than what someone said something could not have been, when all the parties involved might or might not contribute to the problem, even if it's not an issue for all sides to understand equally when some parties are unconcerned with the facts as they lie in the instance of how it should not be in the world today.

In other words, I think your vague bullshit generator is working great.

Pipe down, Skynet.

This is a great tool, thanks for posting this! I had not seen this before, and I will find it very useful for prototyping.

I would strike Seattle from this list. Just over the last couple of years, home prices are up 50% or more. It's not SF/SV prices but it's 80-90% there...unfortunately. It is, however, easier to build in Washington, so hopefully this will be a bubble and not a permanent trend.

I am not affiliated, but I thought the questions were interesting. Hopefully there's a good follow-up post afterwards...

"...It'll be quicker and you'll learn more...." - Not to be snarky, but yeah - it'll be quicker to write up front, but you'll learn more...from finding and debugging all the edge cases the library authors may have already dealt with. And there goes the time you "saved" up front.

The author is "Maria Konnikova"...seriously? ...hmmmm...

Woo-hoo! Party at Comet Lovejoy tonight!!! Who's with me? (Go to the Alley Door on the Comet, you'll see the bouncers at the top of the stairs. Dress warm, it's chilly inside)

LifeSpan TR1200-DT3 - $1000 everywhere.

http://www.lifespanfitness.com/workplace/treadmill-desks/tr1...

Hands down, the TR1200-DT3 is the best treadmill desk out there right now. Their bluetooth app is crap, but as a treadmill actually designed for office use, this is perfect. Read this amazon review for ways to customize the programming to be less annoying:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R3C358XW4LPBS7

LifeSpan also has a more heavy-duty model, the TR5000-DT3, $2000. If you're buying for an office setting where multiple people will be using it for more than 6 hours/day, get this one.

http://www.lifespanfitness.com/workplace/treadmill-desks/tr5...

iMovR will have a new unit coming out, the ThermoTread GT Desk Treadmill, that MAY be just as good or better, but you won't get it until the end of the year at the earliest.

http://www.imovr.com/imovr-thermotread-gt-office-treadmill-d...

That's kind of the state of the art in treadmill desks right now. I imagine there will be more options in a year or two, but the LifeSpan models are by far the best options today.

I played poker online back when it was legal. Ran my bankroll from a couple hundred up to a few thousand. Got really, really bored playing poker during all my free time. Ran my bankroll back down to zero a bit before the crackdown, semi-on-purpose. Haven't played since 2010. But it sure was fun for a while. The feel of winning, of knowing exactly what another player will do before you bet, of stringing someone along with a made hand...nothing like it. If it gets legalized in the States again, I'd take a peek.

What do you mean by 'The word "literally"'? I don't understand.

Gee, it sounds awful. On recent tax reform: "Especially surprising was the lack of opposition from the upper strata of Uruguayan society, who would almost assuredly pay more taxes as a result of the reforms.... There are few associations or organizations that unite the country’s elite even today, and Uruguay’s political parties tend to develop broad “catch-all” coalitions that refrain from aligning to closely with the wealthy and alienating the majority of voters. Thus, the economic elite tend to have very weak influence on political decision making, including tax reforms." http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/Uruguay_Taxation_201...

Immediately searched for "moving to Uruguay" after reading this. The thought of a sane politician is so refreshing.

Buy the bundle if you can possibly afford it. Not only are you getting six ebooks for a great price (that you set!!!!), but you're also striking a blow against DRM by proving that people pay for quality digital content.

Also, if you've never read The Last Unicorn, it's actually really funny and self-aware. You may have seen the animated movie some years ago, but IMHO, it's even better as a book!

Love it! Signed up immediately, imported my Google Reader no problem, and so far very quick in use. I've tried a couple others over the last few months but this is, by far, my favorite. Bookmarked.

Really this post helpful and inspiring. As a long time developer/tinkerer who has struggled at times to find good designer help, I'm inspired to spend some time seeing if I can get back into doing my own designs. At the very least, I bought the first book in your list!