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This is an odd direction to take it. The entire thread of conversation has been premised around the unspoken law of 'you are an adult when you feel like an adult', and we debate under what conditions that feeling will truly settle in.

Since its self determined, someone can be quadriplegic, and feel like an adult; then they'd explain to us why they do.

It's not up to us to determine if they are.

Someone could be in the same situation and feel infantilized by the fact they can't feed themselves, despite being successful in every other aspect of their life. We could try to tell them they're still an adult, but in the end... we can't force the sensation of adulthood on them. No one can.

The person you are responding to was speaking about themselves, in their own feeling as a woman. Perhaps some women would feel utterly different, but that's no reason to take offense. I personally think the original posting of 'being an adult means you are the only person responsible for you' is western-culturally dependent.

In my culture, people will hound you about your behaviors till the end of time so long as you share a last name or a bloodline with them because as far as they are concerned family is responsible for everyone, always. Thus independence has nothing to do with adulthood. Adulthood, is rather the capacity to give more to the family than you take away from it.
Not sure if you're an American or not, but the guy you're replying to probably is. In the US, "liberal" has a different meaning than it does elsewhere. Privacy, freedom of speech, and personal liberties in general are core tenets of American liberalism.
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Sell a few of them and buy a copy of this:

http://amzn.to/1PjrGpY

Or skip that and just stick to index funds in the future. Also, check your 401K and make sure the expense ratio is low compared to something like a Vanguard index fund. If not, make some noise.
Pseudorandom means the choice is deterministically chosen by according to the state of hidden variables. Bell's theorem says there are no hidden variables that completely explain the predictions of quantum mechanics.

A many-worlds interpretation (which is consistent with QM) is basically the same as saying the result is random, because you can't predict exactly which branch any particular interaction will follow.
It would impact the likelihood of someone else winning as well, which does affect the amount of money you get.
It's not quite that simple. Owning a trademark doesn't automatically give you the right to seize the corresponding domain names. ICANN has a dispute resolution policy that sets out rules for how such situations are handled: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/policy-2012-02-25-en

Basically, if someone snaps up the x.org domain, and can make a case that they have any legitimate purpose for it other than impersonating or extorting money from the X.org organization, they get to keep it.
> If we had just one artifact: a specification that executes, then there would be no concept of proof any more.

It is possible for an executable functional specification to have unbearably bad performance for production use. In that case, the programmer has to reimplement the program in a more efficient (but perhaps less obvious) way and supply a proof that the reimplementation is functionally equivalent to the original executable specification.

Proofs aren't going away anytime soon.

> There is only the question whether the specification that was expressed is the one that was intended in the mind.

If other people can't bother communicating what they really want, that is absolutely Not My Problem (tm).

> Plus, there is the external question of whether a specification has unintended consequences.

If other people can't analyze the logical consequences of what they wish for, that is absolutely Not My Problem (tm). The most I can do is point at contradictions in the requirements.
When you realize that commercials are targeting you.
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It is pouring with rain outside; as it often does in every part of the UK where the BBC are based. It may be that in some parts of the world people do need to start drinking each others urine; but unless the climate changes here; I think we can probably stick with the stuff that falls out of the sky.
You might know the tech better, but do you know what people will buy? That management will take care of the tech well? That they've hired the right accountants and lawyers to deal with financial and legal issues?

I don't think people as a whole should avoid buying individual stocks...but I think it's probably a good rule of thumb for people. Sort of "don't buy individual stocks unless you actually know what you're doing. And 50% of you that think you do are wrong."
It depends on the chemical.

Protein-based drugs, such as oxytocin or insulin, are likely to be consumed and recycled into component amino acids.

Most molecules left out in the environment will eventually be oxidized, have an important bond cleaved by UV light with enough energy, or undergo thermal decomposition.

As sunlight, dissolved oxygen concentration, and temperature can vary wildly just by moving a few meters away, and the chemicals themselves have different stability, it is very difficult to predict how long a pill that was flushed down the toilet will persist in the environment.

Generally speaking, certain drugs are only useful because they take longer to degrade inside the body. It wouldn't do you much good to get an injection of a drug if your body's proteases chop it up to uselessness in the first ten minutes, or if it zooms right to the liver and gets methylated, or whatever it is the body does to clear foreign chemicals. In those cases, microbes will also have a hard time turning them into something else.
Not displaying 'Price' as a sort option, or no sort options, in this case, would solve the problem and be good UX.
Awesome site! I like the Clint Eastwood "Color Picker" :)
I have solar panels on my house. During the summer when they produce more than I use, pretty much all the excess power goes into my neighbor's house. So if the utility says "you pay retail when the meter spins forward, but get wholesale credit when it spins backwards", then I could make a deal with my neighbor to run some power lines from some of my panels to his side of his meter and charge him just below retail. That way my neighbor and I both pay less for power overall.

This arbitrage shows that only crediting wholesale prices is the wrong price.
What's the problem with a cat on your desk? Just jugvgvoHWwapo fvvfv GET OFF THE KEYBOARD, YOU STUPID FLEABAG!

Anyway, it's really not... HEY, STOP CHEWING ON THAT!

As I was saying, just keep a laser pointer on your desk. When the cat gets on the desk, shine it on the wall where the cat can see. Wiggle it a bit. Get the cat to chase it, and use it to lure the cat off the desk back onto the floor.
Just a quick add (thanks for the great convo) - Psychologically, to me it is a matter of thinking that even if you don't bring money into the relationship you still have full and equal rights to it (family money is family money, source is forgotten). To me, it's weird (but understandable) that you don't think money he earns is your money too and vise versa. But I think both interpretations are equally valid.
And how you write them. Given the storage density of modern Flash memory you could store quite a lot in a 3X5 inch chip...
John Nash fairly famously refused medication (although this is not portrayed in the movie).
Yahoo News and its associated content portals are absolute monsters in online publishing.
I was going to make a similar comment about UI, but deleted it.

However, thank you for telling me about Blynk. It's the app I've been planning to write for so long!!!
It looks like I was thrown off by the "Amazon Original Special" for The Farmer's Llamas.
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Wikipedia->CTO: A chief technology officer (CTO), sometimes known as a chief technical officer, is an executive-level position in a company or other entity whose occupant is focused on scientific and technological issues within an organization.

you: 0 $us until we get funded... save some money and eventually become an entrepreneur.

If you accept a major role in a society, conscious of losing money and time, and you're willing to use your savings in the hope that your work will bring results within a specific time ...

Wiktionary->entrepreneur: A person who organizes and operates a business venture and assumes much of the associated risk..

you: And apparently, they saw my "enthusiasm"
me: if you're willing to work for free between now and May, the enthusiasm is not the first thing that they noticed.

Should I accept a CTO position without much experience?

my answer is Yes! but prepare yourself to an experience that will make you grow up in many different ways ...
Thanks for the detailed assessment. Sounds like a high quality, Beta to me. I also like the good things I keep hearing about the quality of libraries, etc.
how much equity is about to be given up? will original co-founder and wife get over 51% equity? do you have the option to forgo some pay to maintain your equity position in the company?
Didn't realize it was so obtrusive; I've removed it now. Thanks for the feedback.
It's not just fine print and fees. That's the least of our worries. It's more about the misuse of debt (line of credit for a vacation), taking on too much debt (furniture and appliances on layaway, and other such things), and inappropriate investment vehicles.
If he's not trying to piss people off, he sure does gloat a lot about how much he loves pissing people off.
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There are companies that do each of these steps better than you can possibly do it. Search for a smaller problem within a tight community, so you can take it over and expand from there.

E.g. if you want to do something about resources or packages, fix a problem that npm has, take the whole community, do the same with pypi and so on.
You can have the best testing in the world and the test will still only detect substances that it was designed to detect. By definition, it can't detect anything we don't know about or are looking for.

The natural filtration process has been around since forever and we know it works well. There is no reason not to use it.
Whoa, I'm still working on spending $100k...

Spent $62,630
Won $5,793
Win/loss $56,837

Hovering consistently just below losing 90 cents on each dollar.
The simple answer to your question is the obvious one: Manually. Use a text editor that has a "draw mode" or "draw mode plugin" emacs, or sublime text for example.

If you would like to create them programmatically, some languages have modules that help you create them easily. Off the top of my head PrettyTable in python works quite well.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PrettyTable

Hope this helps.
That's totally possible for the founders of not-yet-public companies such as Dropbox and Airbnb, where the Y Combinator connection is highly relevant. You're right to add that to the conversation. At the same time, lots of other numbers for companies with public share prices and proxy-disclosed ownership data should be exquisitely accurate.

My issue was mostly with PG's presentation style, where he offers up data, dismisses it in a footnote, and then says it will do anyway. It's a weird way to make an argument. On an intricate issue like this, I appreciate exposition that is steadily nuanced, rather than battling self-made contradictions.
Using mutt is pretty easy once you've set it up.

Configuring it to use pgp (way before gpg existed) was a bit of a challenge years ago. I certainly wouldn't recommend it to most people today. At the time, most email programs required some technical knowledge to setup, so the difficulty is relative.

My point is that these solutions have existed for a long time, even in what many would now call the "earlier" years of email. Even decades ago it was common to have the setup within and organization handled by IT.

// mutt still wins over more "modern" email software in a lot of ways
This is a very loaded perspective. Have you considered the possibility that it might be wrong, if not for you, for some people?
that missle was never close to going anywhere it was a false alarm from eol sensors.

also the nuke loss in canada could never have been detonated. it was just a bunch of uranium that was dropped.

cant really compare with a fully armed 4 megaton nuke that fell out of a plane. for reference, Hiroshima yeild was 21 kT.

that's 21,000 vs 4,000,000
Have you tried, uh, googling? "Ascii table generator" seems to give several relevant hits.
This is very misguided. You might know that razer makes absolutely terrible products (and they do) but do you know their financials? Do you know their distribution and their profit margins? You can buy their shitty equipment all over the world.
AWS KMS does not use HSMs. Amazon says it runs on HSAs ("hardened security appliance"), but they don't provide a lot of info on what that means. I would presume that the only thing keeping a limited number of Amazon employees from accessing your keys is policy.

I agree that using AWS KMS is the same architecture as using some other KMS that you run yourself, you just garner the benefit of their software and operational capacity and you buy service; this is the same as any other PaaS service at Amazon or some other vendor.

What's the value of Cryptex, though? Why not just store KMS-wrapped secrets in your config file and have Amazon unwrap them? Then you wouldn't be dependent on any local crypto implementation and you could use other KMS features, such as AEAD.
I hope you are right. FCC lauds BingeOn though and T-mobile might argue that it's a customers choice to degrade videos of non-zero rated partners.
T-Mobile's behavior has officially entered the "Tyson Zone" for me.

Seriously, what could Legere possibly do in the next 24 hours that would surprise you?
Maybe worse over the long term, but wouldn't you have the same odds for any given draw.
I was talking to a coworker about this. She is 26 and I said "you honestly don't change, like ever."

Granted, I skipped the part about changes that are surprising, but mentally, we are who we are and that feeling of youth never really left me (nearing 40).

I think that there is only two phases. The day you stop reinventing yourself and exploring possibilities, allow yourself to live in a rut, spend more time in front of a TV than out exploring the constantly changing world, and have nothing to show for the past year's effort but a beer belly, is the day you die. I wonder if that is what was meant by adulthood at one time in the past.

As for feeling "younger" than younger people, well, I've always been sort of an old soul, but I think most people would consider my somewhat childish because I don't think about or talk about my experiences too much. I try to live in the moment and don't feel like I should share some aged wisdom. Life is more interesting and insightful with laughter, IMO.
I bet most people would consider stephen hawking an adult.
My first thought was: "Get a bunch of folks with affinity for x.org to variously try and pick it up when released, and then gift it to them."
I think that in a healthy relationship where one spouse stays home, there's no concept of asking for money. All resources are assumed to be shared, and discussions will of course happens about spending money, but not permission.

I agree that the scenario you're imagining sounds undesirable, but I don't think that's necessarily how one-spouse-stays-home must be.
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It is only legitimate if you change the specification first.
>if you know a company well and you know they are doing great and will be doing great in the next year you should buy their stock

This is a truthy-sounding and extremely common belief about the stock market, but false. Buying stock is not a bet that the company will do well, it's a bet that the company will do better than other market participants currently think it will.
Most startups are worth nothing, you wont convince Yahoo's activist investors to throw money away on longshots that probably won't pan out.
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There is a hypothesis that universes with reversible time can't exist. Or time travel of any kind. Such universes, the hypothesis goes, can't have any meaningful cause and effect, like we know it. Causality is an extremely important property of our universe. And it's really weird that our universe has it, if the hypothesis isn't true. The space of possible universes without causality is much larger than restricted subset that obeys that rule. This is difficult to explain, so see here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/fok/causal_universes/
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Ask HN: How to provide useful professional feedback?
January is the month for the yearly performance reviews in some companies.

What tips do you have for providing honest and comprehensive feedback for colleagues or higher-ups?
could be very useful for tailing audit logs to a "security team" channel or something like that.
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really? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10866884
>> we're already drones. If i wanted to be an ant, i'd join the military.

>Author is talking about ants as they are (which are really awesome!) rather than ants as a poor metaphor for mindlessness.

it is exactly the same. Just painted with different sentiments. Self-organization by the way of deciding what to do just based on the current state of the local context is exactly the military way - you carry your order without taking in and analyzing the global context of that order. I.e. mindlessly. It is a _good_ thing there.

>When I see SCRUM "fail" in that productivity goes down, it's not that teams produce less, it's that they fail to produce what's actually valuable.

yes, that is one of the ways SCRUM kills productivity by design - many valuable things in software can't be (or much harder to) produced while adhering to the strict latency requirements of SCRUM and thus people/teams produce what they can instead while staying inside those latency limits. Again, it is basic system analysis - decomposing system and introducing interfaces in unnatural places just to meet the artificial requirements of the process weakens the system and leads to degradation of it. As i said - it is funny how supposedly professional system designer/developers, ie. software engineering teams and orgs, fail to see it in many cases.
Basically re-balancing a tree. In this case it required adding a new root now to maintain the optimal branching factor.
From what I have seen, only the hacker types find themselves “fighting” against (executable embodiments of formal) logic.
Presumably, your rogue employee won't follow best practices, and there is not a quality audit trail for such abuse in most setups. I think we're in agreement: this is a hard problem and difficult to solve. In your article, that part of the problem statement is a red herring, as Cryptex doesn't solve it.
> If you work in tech you know more than the average wall street trader about tech companies especially the one you work at.

I have never met a group of people less able to correctly assess a firm's proper value or more capable of self-delusion than the engineers working for that firm.
That perspective is a case by case. From the perspective of a sysadmin who is powerless to make decisions and not taken seriously by his/her management, maybe you're right. From the perspective of a consultant or trusted sysadmin hired to streamline architecture, maybe not.
We used fabric.js as well to create custom laser printed/engraved products. As with you, our first iteration was just standard javascript with jQuery, but fabric.js made a lot of things much easier.
"It's pretty ruthless exploitation"

If Uber drivers are being "exploited", why don't they quit? Because no one else would give them a better job, presumably. But that seems perverse to blame on Uber. All they're doing is giving drivers a better deal than they would otherwise get.

Suppose your father got cancer, and you decided to sell your grand piano to get some money for treatment. All the other buyers offer $1,000 for the piano, and then I come and offer $1,500. $1,500 isn't enough to pay for cancer treatment, of course, but it'd be crazy to say I was "exploiting" you - I'm giving you a better deal than anyone else would. The problem is the cancer, not the piano buyers, and certainly not me.
One possible marker of adulthood is achieving a goal after suffering a major setback. For instance, flunking out of college, then transferring elsewhere and obtaining a degree. Or along the same vein, seeing a difficult project through to the end, when everyone has bailed.
Lest I sound too self-congratulatory, one could say I am too dumb to know when to quit.
No need to scale when there are no customers. Worry about scaling when there is lots of growth.
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Could you name specific things in Graham's essays that you think are straw men?
What about when you are solely responsible for another person -- aka an infant?
>>This is impossible.

You are right regardless of whatever you think. If you thinks its possible, its possible. If you think its impossible, its impossible.

>>One man cannot build and design the 747. The total man hours required exceed several life times.

There are men on this earth who have cleaved an entire mountain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashrath_Manjhi

Like I said, what ever choice you make you are right.

>>It is not a symbiosis. Ask anyone who chose option b.

A person makes the wrong choices in life, but expects all the right outcomes.

>>Tell me, in your life, did you happen to choose option a?

Yes, not the wall street part. Because I'm an Indian. That was just an example of what choices a person can make, and how those will actively shape their lives.

I've seen the socialism rot from quite close. Most Americans have no clue what they are talking about, very simply because the exposure is only through reading stories or anecdotes on internet or books.

In reality there is no such thing called as free. Or worst free in almost all cases is more expensive than the cost you would've other wise played. Socialism also has other problems which deeply stems from motivations human beings have towards doing anything in life. In reality, in a socialist society, the opportunities are always scanty, almost every one thinks everybody else who earns more apart from them owes them something, and they are entitled to endless free stuff. Corruption is common, because opportunities are scanty. People think one-off cheating is perfectly fair.

Good people are always leaving to greener pastures(other countries). In fact most of them are quite tired of the masses calling them greedy for working hard. There is endless glorification with poverty, and rich people hating which after a while looks like excuses to remain poor because the poor are entitled to free money anyway. The wealth generated is consistently on the decline largely because no sees any point in doing some thing big and watching the results of their work taken away, and the good people are constantly moving out. In all this in the constantly declining pool of wealth, people fight for whatever is left with whatever means they can.

Socialism/Communism has failed over the century because it works against the human nature and the way we perceive work-reward scenarios.
> Unit tests? In C?

Why wouldn't you unit test in C? I do and I have found lot's of bugs as a result and maintaining code is much easier.
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Not sure why you've been voted down. I've seen too many lines of C and what you said is true most of the time.

Although developers skipping return value checks is true in most languages.