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Excellent! Great update. I run F.lux all the time, day or night. I recently attempted to switch to Night Shift but it's much less effective.

May they manage to find a rewarding and stable business, they've done my eyes and I an important service. Before F.lux, I had strained "computer eyes". It was a drain on my energy and made me grumpy. It is no more.

Many comments in here make the dialogue feel like a roiling cauldron of over-work and burn-out. Whether you're nomadic, working in a start-up, working at a mega-corp, working at the the grocery store, balance in life is crucial.

In knowledge work, how can one really spend more than 40 hours producing quality output? It becomes an unhealthy compulsion to sate a hyper-stimulated existence instead of a strategy for creation. Whichever way you choose to work, focus on health and ample rest. The rest will take care of itself.

Of all places to be cynical, a den of code-oriented and clever people with the ability to propagate major social change shouldn't be one of them.

A commendable and inspiring effort. Cicada is bafflingly ambitious; any system that proposes a 7billion person user base is hopefully geared to fight a very, very long and arduous battle.

Good luck! I will happily root for anyone brave enough to tackle the inevitable problems of the future with an open and articulate vision. Shoot, maybe I'll even throw in a PR or two.

Phew, tough crowd. We use Ghost for our company blog. It works great! Spun the new editor up locally and it's pretty slick; I'm excited to use it.

Nice work, Ghost Team. Only gripe is the electron-desktop application; Byword integration with Ghost would be preferred, or a method of using a well integrated non-electron native application, if Ghost isn't too keen on cooking one up -- which, I understand.

While it may not fill an urgent need, have you considered finding a comfortable and stable remote job? Hackernews 'who is hiring' is a great spot; weworkremotely.com, remoteok.io.

You seem to have experiences, which is excellent. In the short term, if you're in the throes of an emergency, perhaps get some help from love ones while you get your feet back on the ground.

Looking for a project under stressful circumstances feels like it might create an uncomfortable environment to do good work and sustainably remedying what you're going through.

Good luck, whatever route you choose!

It's like a modern Zombocom.

This is wonderful for Canada. Vancouver tech has already seen a nice bump from the American political hostility towards immigrants.

Cool. :)

Apologies for leaning into the negative aspects; the site struck a cord. I'm deeply, deeply passionate about gaming. I think they need a loving, gentle-touch and less of the hyper-masculine spirals of darkness.

May you use your powers of community forming to nurture comprehensive and accepting goodness and less in stoking the truly boring, raging fires of gaming negativity and elitism.

Cool! There's definitely a need for something like this. I played competitive Counter-Strike in my youth, and one thing that no one has successfully replaced was the vibrancy and engagement of the irc communities of the time.

Griping: Massively unimpressed with the presentation and branding. Gaming has a ton of work to do to be considered a generally accessible and comfortable place for people of all form. In your hero image, two of your images show toxic commenting by people in the team channels and much of the wordage comes across brusque-y.

... "So tired of laning with bads"...

... "Map talk mittengard is terrible"...

... "Why do you want to join Rage Force?"...

... "You decide who makes the cut"... "Talent on the market"...

Look at Discord for an example of capturing the fun, whimsical spirit of gaming and exploration.

Guilded appears dark and intimidating. I am not at all encouraged to explore and my desire for play is far from stoked. In fact, this is the kind of energy that has sent me packing to the quiet confines of single-player gaming.

My partner works at Olark. It truly is a human-focused business. I love that she is there. The intention that their team and leadership have applied into creating a safe environment is deeply rooted and honest.

As someone who struggled with depression for two decades, while ultimately thwarted, it was a hopeless, numbing plague. As a coping mechanism, I developed my career working remotely. I was unable to function within a typical office environment. At home I could steal away to my bedroom and hide from the black under cover of blanket, when I needed to.

It's encouraging to see the silent struggle find words and champions. May others who are going through the darkness find supportive and loving environments; any change to find them is worth it. You are the author of your journey and the hero: write a happy story.

That's really great feedback. I wrote something about API building a couple weeks ago without specifying I was referring to a _web_ API. I'll try to be much more conscious of this going forward. Thanks for the expression.

Thanks, ultrasandwich. I have fixed this in the OP.

You're right! Whoops. I have fixed this.

Nice comment. I just wanted to clarify that Canadian right-wing is much, much different than what's considered right in the US.

I currently use cryptostorm. It's "more difficult" to use than most, but it seems trust worthy. ProtoVPN, their service, looks interesting. Perhaps worth checking out, but it would need a solid flock of regions in order for me to consider it.

Nifty! A few years ago, a friend and I created an application that allowed users to import their own MP3s. We scraped the frequency data from the mp3. Once imported, you could then pick two different headphones; for each headphone, we scraped frequency data from headphone.com.

The application allowed you to benchmark headphones in real-time, revealing "how accurately" your music was being recreated; you'd pit two headphones against one another: clash of cans!

Ultimately, yeah, there's the uber-uber high-end, the really clear low-end, and a +-$900 muddle of everything else.

Given the support for major gaming engines, Steam VR, and changes within Metal 2, is it wrong to be optimistic for Mac gaming?

If the takeaway from this WWDC could be potential gaming parity with Windows, that's a really big deal for me. Me being the segment of Pro users who need to work on a Mac and want to game natively on one, too.

I'd say an external GPU introduces pretty significant upgrade potential.

Why do you assume that heat ventilation will be an issue with the iMac Pro?

That's hilarious! I did something similar. No idea where that massive chunk of ETH went to. C'est la vie!

At Compose (YC, S11) we had a two part hiring method. The first was a blind work-sample. You had unlimited time to complete it. Identifying information was obfuscated and graders would yes/no objective criteria. The best samples proceeded to the "work day".

During the work day, you'd join is in Slack for 8 hours. You'd need to ask probing questions to mock-up our infrastructure and pitch a feature based on "how we work".

One could try to cheat on the first part, but there is no chance one could have bamboozled us during the work day.

For our technical writing positions we had some instances of outright plagiarism, but no instances of anyone trying to cheat the coding sample.

The solution is effective hiring. Work sample or project based hiring methods get people to demonstrate their skill-sets. I once had a candidate refer to resume/conversation based hiring as 'ritualized lying'. I think that's bang on.

This isn't directly in response to your comment, but...

There's an elitist under(over?)-tone within HackerNews that asserts any less-than-engineer technical role is inferior and attracting of undesirable character. There's a particular disdain for project managers, often for good reason. Few things are more aggravating than a poor non-technical PM. But, in many organizations they're essential and valuable members of a team. Skilled people can have an immense degree of technical talent and no interest in programming or engineering culture.

Disclaimer: I work with Fly.

We're building something a lot like that! https://fly.io

Currently, we support AWS Lambda, Heroku, and self-hosted backends. Bringing things to the edge can give some major benefits; a smart proxy, too, can give developers a lot of power with minimal effort.

I've been part of a few acquisitions. Given the amount of nuance in each sale, it would be tough to give useful advice without having more information.

However, I will speak towards questions you should ask of yourself. Ultimately, when you sell your company it is no longer yours. Are you ready to say goodbye? Have you taken it as far as it can go? Are you doing right by each human being in your working group? Could you handle seeing your unique culture assimilate into something bigger over time?

It's a deeply personal experience; don't forget about your own heart and your own feelings.

An interesting parable... I am well acquainted with many people who work with plant medicines like Ayahuasca in the indigenous Amazon.

In one such instance, a fellow was under the tutelage of two renowned Maestros (master shamans). He, after learning how to converse with them, asked them how they cure ailments like depression and anxiety.

The Maestro's had no idea what depression and anxiety were. They were only accustomed to healing physical ailments; they had to work with the Westerners to develop a modality in which they could spiritually heal anxiety and depression.

I reflect on this story often, as it is a reminder that to those whose only concern is their next meal or the snakes in the grass, they need not fret the ghosts of the future or the past.

I belong to the pro market, but I love video games. I am eager to hear some details around how they view Macs in the gaming world.

The limited gaming available on a 5k iMac was great while I had one. Civilization, World of Warcraft, Diablo, Starcraft... Jaw dropping, but barely scratching the surface of what Apple could do if they gave some love to the market.

Fellow from Fly here, nice to meet you.

We do serve our own site. Right now we run multiple applications on our domain.

The landing page that you see on http://fly.io is hosted on GitHub pages, which explains Fastly. Our /docs/, too. You are hitting our Load Balancer first, though.

The assumption here is that those people are part of the public and are not shilling a 'more correct record'.

I will continue using Swiss cheese and hungry mice as my metaphor for global network security.

Nyughh. Sad. This hits me right in the heart. I have been to the Amazon and it is lush, beautiful paradise. It changed my perspective on how valuable natural life is on our planet.

It is not just the net loss of plant matter. The indigenous are under constant duress and we risk losing a unique part of our world; medicinal plants and esoterica, wild-life, and access to limited resources, to boot.

There are groups working with those impacted by this. I am contributing to an NGO called the Alianza Arkana which is doing some work to aid the indigenous and the rainforest.

Contextual plug: http://alianzaarkana.org .

I left a grand paying, comfortable tech job to try to make even-a-small difference. I hope this devastation is not a part of my generation's legacy.