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sergeyfilippovon The Flower Man: An Artist’s Life on Skid Row

Nowness is my Netflix, glad to see its content on the HN

sergeyfilippovon Apple Threatens to Remove App 'Hey' from App Store over No In-App Subscriptions

you can see for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCeYTysLyGI

sergeyfilippovon Ask HN: How to disagree with the rest of management?

"Difficult conversations" [1] would be the best direction, to my knowledge. It is written by creators of Harvard Negotiation Project that deals with conflict resolution.

Audiobook version [2] is narrated by authors, and it's great.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Difficult-Conversations-Discuss-What-...

[2] https://www.audible.com/pd/Difficult-Conversations-Audiobook...

sergeyfilippovon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)

Just repl it. Seriously, there is a command line.

sergeyfilippovon I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something

The Dream Machine by Mitchell Waldrop [1] is an exceptional book documenting the early times in computing. Being a scientific journalist (Science and Nature magazines), he provides an unbiased account—which is not an easy job, to distill from first-person recollections—from Alan Turing up to the Mac.

And you will read it like you don't know how it's gonna end. Because that's how things happened.

(Really appreciate Patrick Collison and Stripe Press for re-publishing it)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Machine-M-Mitchell-Waldrop/dp/1...

sergeyfilippovon Ask HN: What are you learning?

thanks for Disney's Imagineering-in-a-Box!

sergeyfilippovon Mathematics for Machine Learning [pdf]

How would you compare this book to the first part of "Deep Learning" book (by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville)? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262035618

sergeyfilippovon The Homogeneity of Instagram Travel Photos

...and even more amazing one by Ari Versluis (also Dutch): http://www.exactitudes.com

sergeyfilippovon The Homogeneity of Instagram Travel Photos

loosely related, but here is an amazing project by Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom (20 years in the making) that explores the topic of 'homogeneity': https://www.citylab.com/design/2014/12/20-years-of-photos-sh...

(the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0714867152)

sergeyfilippovon Keep your Identity Small (2009)

> Politics, like religion, is a topic where there's no threshold of expertise for expressing an opinion. All you need is strong convictions.

I like how in this context it sounds obviously flawed, and yet, funny enough, we still have no better political system than for everyone to express their opinion and then count them — no expertise required

sergeyfilippovon Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video]

How to measure the clickbait coefficient of the headline:

A: imagine the situation the headline literally describes ( Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia)

B: read what the article describes (A cottage that’s heated for free with bitcoin mining)

clickbait_coefficient = the distance between A and B

sergeyfilippovon Front-End Checklist

Just keep a boilerplate handy

I've helped a friend to publish a one-page website over the weekend, and I believe it follows most of this checklist

sergeyfilippovon Ask HN: Non-tech books that have helped you grow professionally?

"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius

https://www.amazon.com/Emperor-Rome-Marcus-Aurelius-Meditati...

sergeyfilippovon Counterintuitive Behavior of Social Systems (1995) [pdf]

"We may now be living in a “golden age” where, in spite of the world-wide feeling of malaise, the quality of life is, on the average, higher than ever before in history and higher now than the future offers."

sergeyfilippovon Airbnb's Ritzy SF Offices Are Surrounded by Homeless People

Well, all offices in SF "Are Surrounded by Homeless People"