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Way more people with the exact traits you'd describe as being what's needed for success have failed than succeeded.

Do you have proof of that assertion?

I'd tend to largely agree with the OP, although I think he's overstating the point a bit. It's certainly not a great deal harder to get to the millionaire point as an entrepreneur than as a conventional salaried worker - assuming you have the appropriate character traits. If you're a self-starter with a fair amount of willpower and the ability to effectively learn, lifestyle businesses (as distinct from unicorns) are not massively tricky to grow. They're not easy, and there's definitely a learning curve, but it's on the "doable" end of the scale.

(Background: I've built a few, and I teach other people to build them.)

Addendum: we should probably also start by defining "failed" here. If you mean "way more people's first businesses fail than succeed", I'd agree with you, absolutely. If you mean "way more people have started more than 8 businesses following best practice and have had zero successes than have had any success", I'm much more skeptical. It's an axiom - even in the talks by famous successful people mentioned in the comic - that you generally need a few attempts to get the hang of launching and running anything.
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He can only argue for that with a platform because he ended up with 10 heads. So no, it is not an ad hominem, it goes for anybody in that position, but also for Peter Thiel.

What's the last time you met a poor person giving seminars on the world not just being coinflips?

You can improve the odds by hard work and trying to grasp whatever opportunities come your way. But it would be a terrible mistake to assume that that would lead to a specific outcome given the number of hidden variables.
I'm sure the tooling is useful and a lot of it reasonable. I've never approached a Java project that I did not find intimidating, either Android with all the Gradles and XML.

I've never seen a barebones project as you would when using just node+npm without all the extra tooling (webpack and friends). Node+npm is to me as simple as python+pip. Is there a natural counterpart, Java+maven or something?

And to be fair. All my attempts at approaching webpack have been even worse. And most JS-framework seed projects are similarly complex and automagical.
You should have redundancy even for data in memory, if data is that sensitive.
Yes, obviously, but parent asked how!
I found that link in this thread: https://twitter.com/SophieWarnes/status/855115080677117952

See also this pie chart showing voting preference: https://twitter.com/TheBirmingham6/status/855123419133825024

The UK website with information about registering to vote is here: https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

It'd be great if social media platforms ran campaigns to get people registered and voting.
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It's far easier to say "they weren't successful because they didn't try hard enough". You can move the goalposts on "serious" any time contrasting examples come up.

It's not that far from victim blaming, even if not intentional.
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I'd agree with "undefined behavior != the compiler should do whatever it wants" - but I feel I must admit that the standard lets it, that many compiler authors apparently disagree with me, and that even those who do are sympathetic to my point of view or agree with me may have a point when they say that reason about programmer intention is a difficult bag of worms - and that preserving such, while maintaining "critical" optimizations, may not be as easy as it sounds.

There's always -O0.
The meeting attendance functions need some work. And I'd throw cash at a bounty if an attendance "solver" could be added (ala heres who has to come, here's my standard list of rooms, find me a spot which is unbooked)
The "actual unpleasant work" is to a significant extent the domain of entrepreneurs.

For example, cleaning companies - often started by one person doing the cleaning - are an absolutely textbook example of entrepreneurship.

Some of those entrepreneurs then become millionaires :)

(Updating this post: obviously a lot of unpleasant work is done by non-entrepreneurs. But the maxim of "find something necessary but unpleasant and start a company doing it as a high-success-chance play" is also very true: entrepreneurs don't, as a class, all avoid the nasty stuff.

In the UK, the phrase I'm looking for is "where there's muck, there's brass.")
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Really? I'm currently at 1 point.

Though I do notice a lot of innocuous comments get down-voted, for some reason. I wish there was more to hold down-voters to account for unreasonable mods..
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This one is also great:

http://www.wisdomination.com/what-is-survivorship-bias/

By far, the best explanation I've ever seen !
That was an anecdote since the previous poster raised the point about security. I'm definitely not claiming robots.txt should be for security nor was designed for security!

I said following proper security and design practices renders obsolete all the edge cases that people might use robots.txt. I'm saying if you design your site properly then you shouldn't really need a robots.txt. That applies for all examples that HN commentators have raised in terms of their robots.txt usage thus far.

I would rewrite my OP to make my point clearer but sadly I no longer have the option to edit it.
Outlook doesn't validate email addresses correctly. Their validation is a complete failure. Even # isn't allowed in addresses. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.4
Haha, nice try.
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If you're interested in front-end development, there are a few companies which focus on that:

- Apollo/Meteor: https://dev-blog.apollodata.com/

- Auth0: https://auth0.com/blog/tech/

- Chroma: https://blog.hichroma.com/

- LogRocket (my company): https://blog.logrocket.com/
Cloudflare has an absolute stellar interface for handling DNS. I have used many paid services as well but they all lag hugely behind Cloudflare in terms of usability. Really good to see them stay on top of their game.

A few of the other big players do have reasonable interfaces but we are currently seeing quite a centralization of services. I hope more players in this field will up their UX/UI game as I much prefer diversity in the market.
I should have raised this issue long time ago but why should I do so, after all its not like they're paying me to fix their shits.

I basically moved from Skype to Zoom.us with all my clients
The whole story could have a way better outcome if you replace SVG with an area of expertise that helps companies create value :/
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> This isn't hard to do

Yes it is. Or someone would have done it by now.

> When receiving mail, store the sender's public key

You mean "the public key associated with the inbound email". You don't know anything at this point about how it relates to the person you're intending to correspond with, because the key could be MITMd.

Also, this approach does nothing to solve the fact that most people would prefer webmail and mail synced across multiple devices, which is an even more painful key management problem.
http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/07/14/cloudflare-we-hav...

If you're interested this guy has a really good response to exactly that question
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A milliard.

The word is still used by countries that use the 'long scale', which has the nice property that a billion = (1 million)^2 and a quadrillion = (1 million)^4 etc. If you can count in greek this also means that an n-illion times an m-illion equals an (n+m)-illion.
> That is a deeply philosophical argument. We can obviously agree that -- all things being equal -- a human's life is worth more than an animal's life.

Normally I would agree, but, for example, if there is news that an Elephant trampled a poacher to death you won't find many readers rooting not for the animal.
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This guy is so full of himself - almost disgusting how he tries so hard to come across as a humble and reflecting person.
Notice the poster selection bias on this thread?
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It's funny that some people say that about Inkscape usability. As a quite graphically-challenged person, it's the only graphics program I have been able to learn to an acceptable degree, and in an acceptable amount of time. Fireworks, Corel Draw, GIMP, etc. look like impregnable fortresses for me and I always end up using Inkscape.

Maybe people like me who are just bad at graphics have different needs. Something like visual basic vs. real programming languages, I guess?
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Same - blurred patches, and generally very low resolution :(
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Anyone knows why this was downvoted?
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Just take a look at the average YC batch. If anyone is set up to succeed, it is those guys with coaching, resources, and connections. Most of them don't become wildly successful and are only successful in any sense because of the ability to pivot, learn lessons, etc. (see Schwartz's Infogami -> Reddit transition). Or check out small business failure rates. More anecdotally and less scientifically, watch retail/food locations which have business after business after business open in them.

A successful lifestyle business takes a lot of learned knowledge, and by virtue of building a single one you've had more success than most. Just beating the odds on one was your survival, once you did that you had a lot of advantages.

Bigger serial entrepreneurs often have similar patterns. One success allow you to make another which allows you to make another, all with varying degrees of success and with failure effectively subsidized. See Mark Cuban, Ev Williams, Pewter Thiel.
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> NM rats are cancer free yet live like one.

Well you know what they say; if you can't beat them, join them.
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I have an aging grandmother who is in her last weeks of life, though the doctors don't know why her body is failing despite strong heart and brain.

She is up for trying most anything and would probably be up for experimenting in herself.
Your usage of the term 'rhetoric' is interesting. Are you suggesting that the perspective we should have is that it isn't a problem until the water looks like a sewer?
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I believe that success does largely depend on capitalizing on lucky breaks. However, I also believe that each and every one of us gets lucky breaks. What matters is can you spot lucky breaks,and when you do spot them, how do you react? I think it's very possible to train yourself to have the awareness to be able to analyze situations, recognize lucky breaks frequently and just run with them. In a word, you could call this approach "opportunism."
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FastMail is the most efficient one I've found. GSuite was offering multiple domains the last time I used, but interface was cluncky, and you couldn't add different addresses for different domains IIRC.

I'm using FastMail with 17 domains, each with different addresses, different catch all addresses etc., and no problems so far.
You too could nail it. Just give up your job and draw stickman comics 3 times a week.
Aren't metaphors and analogies representations that allow us to extract patterns?
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I don't feel right immediately leaving a new job, but I don't know how long I can surrounded by these guys without losing my mind.
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Because it's not immediately clear, this is a project developed by Coinbase, but under its own brand. The demo, which is available on the Apple Store and Google Play store uses TestNet Ether for now.
Interesting how many people here are asking for trackpad quality.

I always use my laptops with a mouse plugged in, and disable the trackpad (and pointless touchscreen on my work computer) as one of the first things I do.

I would love to have a laptop with no trackpad at all (or maybe just one of those tiny nubs), leaving more space for a better keyboard.
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Digital Ocean has some quality posts I've found from Google, though I don't actively follow the blog.

https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/
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Sure but time of use is _far_ less volatile than actual spot pricing. Hell, in WA and QLD it's not unknown for AEMO to post _negative_ energy prices.
Agreed. When we were setting up a server at work we found their how-to articles particularly useful.
Seeing e.g. the original source in the disassembly window is useful. And the same info lets you do things like: https://gcc.godbolt.org/

Taking that information into any sort of "yeah, this still represents the original intent of the author" highlight/lack of highlight/summary as it sounds like azinman2 wants might be a little more difficult. (After all, if you can implement that, why not have your compiler only emit 'sane' code in the first place?)
>MIT recorded a set of Calculus video courses back in 1970s that they have since made publicly available.

Could you please post the links to this videos.
Maybe I am not getting it but ethereum is way to complex to make it successful - and because it is decentralised it looks deeply fragmented. As I said, I am probably not getting it.
Except ETC is hard forking in a few months to change their coin issuance for no reason other than to make their own pockets richer.
I would find your pitch much more interesting if you didn't go from "look at this very cool technology" to "look how we're changing the world for the better for these poor people in Africa".

Be realistic. How many Sub-Saharan Africans are using Token or working on it right now? You're first-world devs working on first-world tech and wrapping it up in humanitarian terms because it makes you more attractive.

It's kind of exploitative. It's all about money at the end of the day, isn't it?

I apologize for the rant. Just had a semester of classes on faith and development and law and development and this stuff is often very complex and a type of unintentional colonialism often runs through it.

"Hey, check out these people! Check out how much they need our help! Wouldn't things be so much better if we did X for them?"

In many cases, yes, but in a lot of ways it is impossible for people who aren't on the ground to properly understand culture, context, and needs. Does the team have anyone on the ground? Is this informed by research on the topic? From a less critical perspective, a portion of the site dedicated to such research (and thus informing the goals) would be really cool and useful.
I think it's cool. Not everything has to look like Stallman's website
Amazing picture, thank you.
YC companies are, to the best of my knowledge, mostly looking for unicorn-style plays. That's a very different game to a lifestyle business, and one where I would agree 100% that the failure rate is extremely high.

Small business failure rates: well, for starters, the usually-quoted numbers have been updated as of late. A quick Google shows that most sources are converging on around a 60% success rate for small businesses at the moment. (I think that's actually unrealistically high - I'd estimate more like 40% and guess they aren't accurately polling online businesses, but hey.)

Secondly, there's a significant difference between small business failure rates and small businessperson failure rates. As I mentioned above, most people's first businesses will fail. That will obviously skew the numbers in favour of failure: indeed, given that it's surprising the survival rates are as high as they are.

You're correct that it's (sometimes) easier to build a successful business after you've already built one. However, you don't mention the secondary point, which is that it's also much easier to build a successful business after you've already tried really hard and failed at one.
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It's technically not a "jet". They're using a large number of ducted fans for propulsion.
This comment just shows the power of the survivor bias. Face it; you're a survivor and your friends are survivors too; you're all biased.
Maybe you know wealthy investors, maybe you live in the US - You cannot take this for granted; very few people have these things.

I have met several very smart people who have done great things but have not been fortunate enough to succeed financially because (for example) some well-funded, well-connected silicon valley competitor came out of nowhere and took all the market share through the sheer force of advertising. Many things can go wrong.
The backstory here is that Thunderbird devs would like to be faster but have a hard time working against the Gecko changes that breaks their build.

Sure Thunderbird kind-of works, as in it's "done", but people find Security bugs in the Firefox base and it's not sure how they apply to Thunderbird to Thunderbird has to take the update and then they have to deal with the breakage and the incompatibility. You can't just stop and be on Firefox 45 forever. That's just asking for trouble.
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And I wrote about recent backend changes to our time series storage: https://blog.serverdensity.com/time-series-data-opentsdb-big...
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The title is really foolish - so out of the two countries in north america, the first one actually being the startup center canada is aspiring to (according to the title) canada is up and coming.

Also, shocking news - I use my left hand the second most often of all my hands.

A better, and overused, title would be "Canada is poised to be the next startup center" or something.
Yep we seriously believe it. It's no more crazy than using crypto for actual money.
Do we have proof?
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To paraphrase what you're getting at with the ~slippery slope argument:

"""
'Free speech' means absolutely nothing can be off limits, ever, because in some theoretical future timeline, that means we won't be able to voice controversial opinions. Bluntly, if oven memes are at risk, then that means we won't be able to have dialogue on race relations or tax policy.
"""

You're right that, in general, this has been the state of affairs on Twitter, and it's a top-3 reason why a lot of people are interested in exiting that platform. Few want to spend time in a 4chan dystopia.
Of course, there's the inevitable risk that the Internet Archive's newfound control over who is allowed to make their past disappear into the memory hole and who has it archived forever will be used for political ends, especially since the ability to manually archive pages is already used this way by staff. (Take a look at Jason Scott's Twitter or that of the Archive Team sometime - lots of conspicuous manual archiving of stuff that's embarrassing to a certain US political party.)

The issue of curators' views biasing the contents of collections seems to be underappreciated in general in the digital age, for some reason.
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This is a great question, as it is the root of CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy). CBT has been proven to improve some chronic pain situations.
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> I want to address your concern but don't really understand what it is.

Really?

It's a question of ethics. You must surely get that?
I would agree. One of the things I tell students is that studying success stories is extremely valuable, but only if you do it the right way.

You're looking for two things:

1) Trends.
2) Ideas.

Not blueprints.

(On the med school survivorship bias comment: I don't know about the US medical system, but every other high-earning profession I'm aware of has a significant failure rate. Don't go to law school in the UK assuming that you'll make partner at a major firm, for example - or indeed that you'll automatically manage to land a job as a practicing lawyer.)
[Self reply because this more or less concerns all replies to parent I have seen so far.]

"sorting is not reversible"/"you can't know [the original order]"/"sorting loses information"

These replies are have two problems in common:

1. They are wrong in the context of reversible gates, because (as I have hinted in my comment) when you sort bits using a normal reversible gate, then the original order of the bits will be encoded in the unused gate outputs. No information is lost, that's why we call these gates reversible in the first place.

2. The heart of my speculation lies in the question if a special irreversible circuit could be integrated into a reversible CPU, which moves bits into order without unnecessarily grounding charges. The more I think about it, the more I tend to think it could.

Edit: To make a clearer point on where I'm coming from here: I view reversibility not as a goal in itself, but a tool to use to get ultra low power compute capabilities. To achieve this, the unused output charges need to be recycled into the system. If you solve that problem, you have achieved the goal.
There is a difference between "complies with the standard" and "is bug free".

There were C compilers before there was a C standard. They had bugs.
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I don't see how this is a response to what I said.
Surface tech support messed me up with this as well. Somehow my personal email which I only never use and made to get minecraft for 10 that I will never play was getting all the emails about my bad dock. I feel bad when I deal with Microsoft it's a bad feeling I wish I didn't have to stay with Microsoft I would leave but where would I go? I'm to old to start over and the kids what about the children?