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>To be perfectly blunt, it sounds like you're trying to criticize something that you have an preconceived notion of, but no direct experience with, which is exactly why I was recommending you read Mankiw in the first place.

I don't believe it counts for much but I do have an B.S. in Econ which is to say I have crawled through Macro 101 books and 102 and 200 and so on so I'm aware of what's in Mankiw's book. I would also say that I have no idea of your economics education and I'm not trying to measure dicks here. You may well know more than me, my argument is purely about how to get laypeople to better understand a field I love.

>All of these questions are easily answered with macroecon 101 level knowledge

No! Absolutely not.

>Is government debt bad? ... How do taxes affect the economy? Do different taxes have different effects? What are the arguments for and against using tax policy to encourage saving?

Specifically these questions, the ones in your list that are most likely to come up in casual political conversation are not answered by Econ 101. And other incredibly common political topics like antitrust, minimum wage, other tax questions, wage gaps, welfare, international trade will get no meaningful answer from 101.

Economics is the one field of study in America today where someone who reads three blog posts thinks they're an expert, someone who reads one book, and so on and so on (NOTE: I am also not claiming at all to be an expert. I actually believe that undergrad econ is, unfortunately, a waste of time). My point in encouraging my books (I'm not sure I have the correct language for the point I'm trying to make here so forgive me) is not to make a positive correction and "get people to actually understand economics now" because it's not that simple and frankly 99.9% of people will never understand it because they'll never put in the time to. My books are to encourage a negative correction where people are willing to say "I don't understand economics" just like they'll admit they don't understand programming or physics or psychiatry or anything else. Because there's a lot of people that don't know dick about econ and they're unwilling to admit it. People need to be exposed to complex market failure after complex market failure after complex market failure so they understand the simplified understanding they gained in Business Economics or mises.org is not the real world. Noah doesn't overstate his case he states it exactly right (and much better than I have here).
Gladly. We're big fans!
I don't know. Javascript is pretty slow as it is, and clojurescript is even slower. There is an inherent problem with compiling a dynamic typed language to another dynamic typed language...if your target language doesn't have the same semantics as your source, you end up having to embed a bunch of runtime code into your compiled output, or sacrifice compatibility. [0]

With a strong statically typed language like scalajs or elm, you have a lot more static reasoning that can be done at compile time, allowing you to omit a lot of runtime support.

[0] http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/FromfirstprinciplesWhyIbetonScal...
In addition to diet, some of the big things are: I do my best to limit my exposure to plastics, gasoline fumes, etc. I gave up my car and I walk everywhere. I quit my corporate job and I do freelance writing.

I am an environmental studies major, so it sort of stood out to me that some of the infections that people with CF get that normal people are not typically vulnerable to are microbes used to clean up petroleum spills. I came to believe that CF predisposes people to hanging onto certain kinds of chemicals and this makes our tissues vulnerable to infections that normal humans don't typically experience as dangerous pathogens.

Giving up my car helps protect me from exposure to gas fumes and plastic off gassing, but it also means I walk a helluva lot. Walking does a great many good things for the body. You breathe better while walking and it moves lymph, which is how the body cleans its tissues.

Freelancing instead of having a corporate job helps protect me from exposure to germs and gives me a higher degree of control over my environment.

I have done a whole lot of other things, but those are a few that are, I think, easily explained and the value should be easy enough to grasp.

I have run some of my thoughts past a man with a PhD in Chemistry and another man with a PhD in Biology was kind enough to answer some questions for me. He indicated that given what the CFTR does, my thought that people with CF misprocess certain chemicals, including metals, is not simply nuts.
First, talk this over with your wife. She deserves to know what's going on with you and you need her counsel and strength.

Second, recognize that an acquisition is a change of life - that can certainly make one feel anxious and depressed, no matter how much you may have looked forward to this milestone.

Third, nobody is indispensable. If you died in a car crash today, the company would find a way to continue.

In your place, I'd go through with the acquisition (and do my duty to my investors & employees). When the dust settles (3-6 months), I'd go to my Board of Directors and tell them I need to change roles at the company. That would include dropping all my day-to-day responsibilities and dropping back from full-time. Be explicit that you're on a transition out of the company, and you want it to be orderly (for the company's benefit) and time-limited (for your benefit). When the time expires, leave with thanks and go live your life. Good luck and congratulations!
I was an accommodating person until I realize what people value is not you doing what they want when they ask you. But it is when you doing something with them or for them with a motivation from within yourself, just because you want to or just because you feel like to or just because you think they deserve it or something like that.

To them I am just an all nice fellow who is kind to everybody. I earned their gratitude but not their love and in the process I hurt people that truly care and love about me.
Really wish everyone was as hard working as you.
> This therefore means that the second amendment must contain the right to personal self-defense not in service of the nation.

No, it just means the second amendment doesn't prohibit that.
Interesting angle. I can't imagine not telling my wife (or her not already knowing), but at the same time I know she would proactively work with me on solutions rather than just provide comforts and doses of sympathy.

I guess it depends on the type of personality and the strengths of each person.
For many people their spouses are their best friend. I don't support your advice. Transparency while trying not to overburden your partner is essential imo.
It depends on the country. In the UK it's very common, and relatively easy to do the 'premium sms' that you describe.

It's not at all common in the US, and Twilio doesn't seem to support it anywhere.
This reminds me of the "doomsday" seed vault in neighboring Norway, which "was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the world’s most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure humanity’s food supply forever."

It flooded a recently, after only a decade of operation.[1]

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14377988
Another vote for speaking to a therapist - Also please don't give up if the first person you talk to doesn't gel. It took me three tries to find the right therapist, and it is SO worth it.
I see many founders manage themselves out of their position. You hire a VP or Director to replace yourself in the day to day and then you transition out to the point where you can just go do whatever you want inside the company. Want to go back to being an individual contributor? Go for it! Want to just do skunkworks projects? Go for it!

There are many routes to happiness while maintaining your company.
> The product is just too complicated (tons of domain knowledge required) for someone to come in and take over.

Are you sure about this, beyond a reasonable doubt? Reading your post, this sounded to me like the kind of story I sometimes tell myself to boost my self-esteem when I feel like I'm in a bind.

If you are in fact irreplaceable, that means you're unique and one-of-a-kind. Feels good, doesn't it? Everything is hard, but at least you're valuable and unique.

At the same time, if you're actually replicable, that means you might not be as unique as you think you are in this situation, but fortunately by admitting that, you're on the way to solving the problem.

It sounds like you're in a generally good situation, and maybe there's someone smart and ambitious out there who would be willing to step up and help you make yourself redundant?

Good luck!
> v4 systems can only talk to other v4 systems.

That depends on what you mean. A v4 packet can only be delivered unaltered to a v4 stack. But one can build a proxy server that tunnels TCP and UDP from a v4 network to a v6 network, so data can be passed from a v4 system to a v6 system without any software changes at either end.
You're describing an enabler. We're talking about his wife.
If you liked the writing/ideas here you'll love Seneca's On the Shortness of Life.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97412.On_the_Shortness_o...
Ask HN: What portfolio items are most impressive to you when hiring developers?
Have you checked the Wayback Machine at archive.org?
I think notadoc meant to use the term "mental gymnastics".

(I agree "cognitive dissonance" seems to be misused lately. That's how language evolves, unfortunately. And to add to your definition, it's the stress from with holding two opposing thoughts, hence the dissonance.)
I thought programminggeek was making a joke. There's a high level language called Assembly? If so, it's 100% unsearchable. Or are you joking too? Got any links?
Those could qualify:

- Satoshi Nakamoto (bitcoin creator(s) ~1.5M btc = $3.5B today)
- Roger Ver (reportedly bought >$1M of btc in ~2010)
- Winklevii (reportedly owned ~1% of all btc in 2013 = ~$2B now)
- Ethereum funder(s) (bought >$1M of ether at 2014 crowd-sale @ $0.25, today @ ~$200/eth)
- Chinese btc/eth mining farm owner(s)
the only reason i didn't like spacemacs was the 3 keystroke combos for everything that I do with 2 strokes in vim.
> A NAT router is not enough. Suppose the v4 side wants to initiate the communication.

The router would also need to act as a DNS server and translate v6 responses into dynamically assigned v4 addresses. Routers routinely do this sort of thing today for captive portals.
That's FU money. Even 25% of that would be FU money.

Invested with reasonable money managers, you'll never again have to trade your life for a paycheck.

Finally, train your replacement(s).
I've never understood why this is so complicated. Just do a week-long auction, hide bids on the last day (blind auction) to prevent bid sniping, and charge around the 80th percentile of bids to prevent winner's curse and ensure resale value. No bots, no problems, pretty much completely transparent.

The offline equivalent with e.g. Black Friday is similar, except you pay with time by waiting in line instead of with money.
Part 1 is available now -- https://www.startupschool.org/videos/11
Libertarian porn.
Its a character-driven satire. The plot is ancillary.
All else being equal, it'd be nice if we were all on the same page so that we could get past extremely fundamental arguments such as "should we teach our children science in school, or theology". Because one of those is useful in making our citizens and country competitive on the world scene, and the other is useful in decreasing our reputation on the world scene.

Otherwise, yeah, I don't give a hoot what you want to believe, that's your right. Just don't impose on the rest of us.
Experts are known to be bad predictors of the future outcome of their fields. Many times these predictions obey the Gaes-Marreau law.

In the case of AI, according to one particular study, something similar happens: expert predictions are contradictory, indistinguishable from both non-expert predictions and past failed predictions.

https://intelligence.org/files/PredictingAI.pdf
Wow is this /r/relationships? This is more of a projection than any real advice.
When I was at UCLA, I learned this new architecture called NDN https://named-data.net/. It does not rely on addressable device or host. It give addresses to content. Not sure how industry think of this new idea. I watched several talks about NDN. They all have great stories and believe it's the future.
>> managed myself to do some weigh training this week and in the process have managed to sprain my back

You just described my on/off relationship with the gym.

>> 50-60% through building MVP for my startup - currently alone. But I am going through a state of depression since last 6 months

Did your depression start when you started your MVP? Or did something else change a around the time you started feeling this way? For me personally, I have felt quite crappy when I forced myself to operate in/under some circumstances.

>> Social life: nothing really (answered in another thread)

If you wanna do some remote pairing, or in person if you're in San Francisco,CA, with full permission to vent about whatever you wanna verbalize, I'd be happy to make some time to do that with you. I'll just listen and/or chat about code.

>> How to beat a state like this in life?

It helped me to learn that my feelings didn't need to be coupled my actions. And also accepting that it is OK to be depressed. Looking for smaller solutions is also a heck of a lot easier than trying to escape depression in one monolithic effort. When I am bummed out, big efforts are too hard.
Over 95% of Twilio's users don't meaningfully contribute to their bottom-line. Their revenue is a fat long-tail dominated by outliers. I'd say Twilio does care about every developer because they have no idea which customers will become outliers.
Deliberate poisoning of the training data.
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I could read more about Alphago's functioning to be sure, but alphago cant make a reasoned balance between two options based on strategical considerations, it can only decide between different winning probabilitlies. Thats not strategy, thats tactics. You are making decisions by objectives, not by goals.

For example, lets say you play soccer and have to do a series of penality shots. If you decided that you will kick the ball always at the same corner because you think that you will get better at aiming at the corner in successive hits than the goalie will, you are making a strategic decision "I will take advantage of learning how to repeat a shot better than a goalie can defend it".

If you make the decision because you know that shooting the ball always at the same corner has been prooven to have the highest probablity of scoring, you are making a tactical decision.

Strategy is what you use when the outcomes are very uncertain, and its one place where humans excel. Tactics is where computers excel, and humans faulter.
If your wife isn't your best friend, and the person you can talk to about these kinds of things, BOTH of you need to get some marriage counseling.
isn't the constitution itself a check on the democratic process?
"The product is too complicated", "The product isn't interesting", "it's been hard to retain developers" and the founder is burned out. To my casual viewing, it seems very like the founder is exercising too much control over the product.

Especially if the founder hates their job, and there is a revolving door for the developers -- the problem is not likely to be that the implementation is too boring. The problem is more likely to be that the work environment is stifling -- or there is a lot of conflict on the team.

My experience has been that in this kind of situation, the founder is afraid that the workers will fail. To be honest, this is very likely. However, allowing controlled failure is how you build a strong team. Rather than chucking the whole thing in the bin, why not start planning fun things that the team can fail on? If it kills the whole company, at least you had fun. If it doesn't, then you have built pillars on which you can build a platform of trust.

And yes, open the purse strings for at least 1 senior dev who can shoulder the load of fixing inevitable broken things.
Monadic do-notation in Python
In Clojure, you do not need (and should not) restart JVM to run unit tests. You evaluate them (manually or automatically, from the prompt or a file) inside your REPL.
Quantity is only one aspect. Structure and ability to mentally parse out patterns matters too. I don't mind Lisps and use Clojure regularly, yet I'd still argue your JS examples are easier to read than the Lisp ones.

Heck even Clojure seems to agree, just the simple act of using vectors for various things (ie function parameters) helps with the readability

((fn [a b]
(* a b)
) 6 4)
The main difference is that with something targeted to wider audience you still are enforced to maintain some form of honesty and integrity.

Targeted ads can be made tailored to you to tell you the exact lie you want to hear to generate the expected outcome.

It can be accepted to certain exempt with products maybe, but what about political advertisements?
Loving someone sometimes means telling them when they're full of shit, or when they need to make an effort to improve. Sometimes it means agreeing to take on a task, like doing the chores, but only if it's clearly part of a plan to get things back to a sustainable state - e.g. "I need a break for two weeks to get my head straight, and then I'm going to do X and Y, hold me to it."

It doesn't mean being a doormat.
Cord-cutting explodes
Heh... Interesting article.

I have a standing desk, and oddly enough, find it much easier to stand on 1 leg than 2. If it didn't take effort to keep my second leg up (in the yoga pose) I could see standing like that for hours. My knee joint locks, and I keep my balance easily with the support of the desk. For some reason, standing on 2 feet is far less comfortable and requires more 'effort'.
Most co-dependency relationships are those in your immediate family.

source: had a father who was an alcoholic and had to learn this myself.
I mean, if you are about the be acquired then just take the pay day and start working on an exit strategy. Seems pretty straight forward.
Wouldn't it be expected to have a firewall with "NAT" type rules anyways? Inbound blocked until an outbound flow is made?

And UPnP seems to get around this right now anyways. At least, every NAT'd connection I'm on, when I run a Bittorrent client, I have no trouble getting inbound connections.
Census: Texas has 4 of top 5 fastest growing large US cities
Hypebeasts trying desperately to get the hot new whatever and coming up empty handed, thereby increasing anticipation for the next drop, is a feature not a bug.
Now let's see them stick GM with similar fines as VW. In fact I would encourage the EU to do the same. Oh sweet sweet quid pro quo.
You said upthread:

> However it's notable that the only VW vehicles that fail are the ones that don't use diesel exhaust fluid (DEF).

That's not "the bulk", that's all. It is also demonstrably false. Your statement that I quoted previously also did not express or imply "the bulk".

> The vast bulk of the controversy was the EA189, which did not use DEF in any form. This is literally a seconds search away.

My Passat had an EA189 TDI and used DEF. "A seconds search" for EA189 DEF resulted in this link: http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2016/02/vw-reportedly-buy...

> Vehicles equipped with updated versions of the EA189 engine that used DEF and SCR systems are considered fixable (this included my car)

So, I ask again, from where did you get the idea that a) only non-DEF-equipped cars were affected and b) that no EA189 engines had a DEF system?
Google’s A.I. Program Rattles Chinese Go Master as It Wins Match
Satoshi Nakamoto likely. I doubt that any Bitcoin Billionaires would announce themselves, though.
the movie onkkalo - into eternity was one of my deepest hard SF experience
>Just like the site isn't done until it renders in IE 11, it's not done until it reads with NVDA.

Interesting opinion. I'd argue that it's not at all a web developer's job to comply with every single accessibility guideline or support outdated browsers, unless required by their contract and paid for by whoever commissioned the work. These requirements are part of the reason that most governmental contracts are overpriced by a factor of 10 (the other reason being corruption).
Open source hardware lets anyone build an electric vehicle
Most, but not all as the other poster is claiming. The proportion of DEF-affected vehicles is much higher in North America as well.
Sounds like you may want to take a sabbatical, which usually lasts 1-12 months and can be flexible. I suggest making it part of your acquisition arrangements.

Many professionals need a timeout to reset. Often they return to their current / new role refreshed, but sometimes they decide it's time to move on.
Hey, Ricky from Twilio here.

In this case, while these environment variables appear to be sensitive, they are ephemeral keys, uniquely issued to the Function as part of running within Lambda. Their associated actions and permissions have been reviewed, approved and are required to run the Function. There is no risk of any Twilio customer’s Function being accessed or modified by disclosure of these keys.

That said, we much appreciate the community raising potential concerns. If y’all ever see anything that looks like a vulnerability, we’d love for you to submit it to our Bug Bounty program: https://bugcrowd.com/twilio
What Self-Driving Cars See
Sounds just like the previous administration and the one before that.

I wonder how bad it will get before this country finally realizes its going to take more than two parties to run this country well. People are getting sick of this shit.
Mark Zuckerberg Harvard Commencement Speech (2017)
OK, so they're effectively reselling Lambda, and creating a new Lambda account for each Twilio customer under the hood?
bumping for interest