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I once tried to measure my own pupillary distance using the ruler-mirror method.

I failed and the glasses I ordered were unusable. In the end I brought them in to my optician's office where they precisely measured not only my PD but a couple of other metrics that I think described the frame/lens position on my face.

I sent all those measurements to the vendor (https://www.warbyparker.com) and the second glasses were perfect.

These other self-measure methods look better than the ruler-mirror method that I did, but if I ever buy glasses online again, I'm going to take the trial frames straight to the optician's for proper measurements.
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You have a few counter examples to that : Wordpress, Ubuntu or CentOS. I guess it's unfair to count Android and Chrome here.

For a lot of companies, open source / community edition is a great way to do efficient marketing. For some it does work pretty well, people test your thing, they like it and end up needing services around that. Acquiring users / customers is such a tough job that getting it done through open source is a bargain for a lot of them.
Amazing kid. This chart is part of the reason why he is so good at such an early age: https://www.evernote.com/l/AAFt4ZWu6dFFYL6WYa7oy_QeybxSiJYcq...
Someone's building a commercial product for you for free? Before reserving any equity for a potential CTO (who really sounds more like the developer who's supposed to finish your product) you should consider compensating them for their work first.

If you and your future CTO will be equal partners with equal responsibilities the remaining equity should be split in half.

"Non-technical founder" often translates to "the idea guy". This might or might not be the case here but you should definitely ask yourself what you'll be bringing to the table before bringing a partner into the game. If he or she will do most of the work while your contribution mostly is the original product idea that's a recipe for trouble once business doesn't run as smoothly as you wish (which it inevitably will at some point).
Many places human live today weren't considered habitable until A/C was invented.
Here's a pretty good blog post / tool for figuring this out: http://blog.gust.com/cofounder-equity-split-framework-object...
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If you care about audio quality, why would you want to use the headphone jack that has to go through the DAC? Even back in my iPod days I had a 30 pin adapter that would give me line out support to the stereo system. Now I use a USB cable to connect to the car audio. I have three ways to connect my iPhone to my cheap car - a 1/8 inch analog audio port, Bluetooth and USB. Two out of three of those don't involve going through the relatively poor amp in the headphone jack.

5 years from now, I doubt high end phones will have an analog headphone jack.
This only works when the bodies are very close together, right before they coalesce. For most of the lifetime of binary BHs and NSs, the gravitational radiation is negligible.
So the CTO will be the one actually determining if it's a success? Upwards of 51%.
I think the furthest north you can drive is probably Whitehorse in Yukon [EDIT: not BC] on the Pan-American Highway. But presumably you were looking at the eastern end of Canada.

[ADDED: As someone else noted, you can keep going north of Whitehorse with the Pan-American Highway eventually crossing the border with Alaska or the Dempsey Highway.]
I wasn't aware that broadband meant Fiber. There's plenty of broadband providers in the KC metro area.

It's clear talking to Google Fiber installers and reps the reason why it failed was cost.

It turns it it was just more expensive than they thought to go and lay Fiber to all these sprawling neighborhoods.

In my opinion, they also miscalculated the "size" of Kansas City. Talking about it like they're including all the residents, even suburbs from the get-go. Not realizing they had to get those Fiber lines easily accessed in the city out in every direction 15-25 miles.
What sort of value are you gaining from the MVP? Can you make money now from it? Is there substantial market learnings to be gained from it (outside friends and family usage?). If not any of the above then you'll need a CTO who can build a production-ready service. Personally, i've seen some pretty shitty MVPs and would probably build from scratch.

Start at 50/50. Its on you to justify more for yourself.
What exactly is "American bread" in this context? Are you saying that bread made by Americans is just worse than if made by a European?

You do realize there are bakeries in the US where you can find handmade bread, right? You don't have to buy mass produced bread.
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> ...MVP made for free from friends/contractor.

> I currently own 100%...

This is not a reassuring combination of facts. You should start by giving the people who built your product some compensation.
Dutch Bread: not as bad as US bread but still horrible compared to French or German.

My baker backs once a week on Friday, transports it Saturday mornings and sells it in himself. On Saturday I cut the loafs, pack the loafs in a ziplock and freeze them at -35C. The whole week we enjoy delicious bread and never waste a slice. Sandwiches brought to work that are leftover, we eat the next day and taste good.
I'm not sure I understand the question. It's not like the NSA is going to shoot a tennis ball at your head if you fail to pay attention to wide-net surveillance.

Similarly, the cases where wide-net surveillance has had a detrimental effect on people-- the case of the Stanford student who accidentally got added to the U.S.'s no-fly list comes to mind-- there was probably nothing at all the person could have done to prevent getting screwed.
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Since it's not part of a prescription, my opthalmologist just gave it to me over the phone.
Sure but the person I responded to made was making a point about basic economics and, at least to my reading of the comment, seemed to be of the opinion of let the market decide. Sometimes the market decision is not a good one.
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Brutal(ist). I like it.
How about supply management of wheat like Canada's dairy board?
Yes, I should be able to sign on at least 10 paying customers ($500-5000 in MRR). It's actually in a really good place, tech and build wise.
> I'd suggest first and foremost subsidizing healthier flours and seeds/nuts

Huge Pandora's box right there with California nut farmers. Basically, way back a bunch of people bought cheap land and then bought politicians to build the water infrastructure to make that privately owned land commercially viable. Now that water supply is unreliable, there's a movement to force the California taxpayers to boost the nut producers' profits, which some people disagree with.
> It's shorter than writing "source-to-source compiler"

Brevity isn't everything. But more importantly, "transpiler" (like "source-to-source compiler") does not say what you are compiling from, and what you are compiling to. In order for the term "transpiler" to be useful, you need to specify those things. Anything you think you imply by using the term is not, in fact, implied.

If you compare the lengths of "JavaScript to Pascal compiler" and "JavaScript to Pascal transpiler", you might be in for a surprise!
5th amendment is the wrong argument here, he should be arguing 1st amendment right to free expression. Typing is a form of speech, and the government can't compel speech under the first amendment. It cuts out all the unlock / password / vault metaphors which are irrelevant. You can't compel a person to say something / type something under the first amendment. The "right to remain silent", fifth amendment is redundant after the case law that says the first amendment protects the right to be silent.
I'm at all sure that follows.
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I love the way you keep things really simple and to the point. It's actually great for marketing ( the hard part) and gaining attention for your projects ( eg. They'll read what you write).
Why not both?

MKUltra took place inside the United States and Canada.
It was a good friend of mine that was 50/50 partner, but ended up choosing to work on another project instead. I was left with 80% of an MVP, so I hired a contractor out of pocket to finish up.

I'm a VP of Sales at a startup, and have done the design, product fit, and selling. Literally everything aside from coding.
I agree. She raised this concern as a private citizen and debated it on national tv and radio with the ballot bureaucrats who initally dowplayed the issue. If it hadn't been for her, probably nothing would have been done about it.
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> wasted water from farming excess wheat being one

As a wheat farmer, I am curious to know what water you think is wasted? Wheat is normally harvested at 14% moisture, so what water content the crop has taken on by harvest is minimal. Otherwise it seems like the rain is going to do what the rain does. What am I missing?

Do you mean that the rainwater could have been used to grow some other crop? The primary reason I grow wheat is for plant and soil health reasons in order to sustainably grow the pulses and other legumes that the consumer demands. There is not much money in wheat, but it is hard to argue with the ecosystem benefits that it provides. Crop rotation is a necessity for good farm management.
If you can get the customers to pay before get a CTO, you can give him 10-20% and a good salary. If not, at least 50% and you will have a hard time convincing someone good enough to help you achieve success.
You won’t weasel out on this that easily. You still have not provided anything other than the usual BS reasons for why threads require extra effort.

You know, drawing stuff to the screen also requires effort. As does file I/O. It’s computing - people get things wrong. The interesting question is: are threads so unusual in this regard that your whining makes any sense?

We have lots of threads but except when we are in the middle of something big and concurrency related like concurrent GC, we have very few bugs of the sort you describe. Most of the bugs that bother me right now are in the compiler and runtime and they are not concurrency bugs at all. It’s true that if someone is deliberately trying to increase concurrency, they will fix some concurrency bugs along the way just like a person writing compiler phases will fix compiler bugs alone the way. We haven’t given up on compilers just because they are might have bugs.

Finally, you said: “WebKit needs tons of extra effort to keep it from being a twisted mess precisely because it uses threads.” You seem to have now significantly walked back from this statement since all you can come up with are reasons why threads are hard that are not related to WebKit or any specific software package. Sounds like maybe you just don’t know how to use threads so you spread FUD to avoid having to learn them.
Especially if it is called a "Canoe Trail" one would assume there is not a lot of hiking.
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No, I'll be the one performing web demos and selling customers. I've gotten pretty far with product market fit, now it's figuring out marketing and selling.

CTO will come on to make updates to the product and make it even better/fix bugs.
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You don't have to go really far for good bread in San Francisco or any of the coastal areas of California. Most restaurants in SF, even dingy hole in the walls, serve ACME bread of Berkeley. Whole Foods here carries ACME.

I think the US is large, and to generalize and pigeonhole the US as a whole is unfair to cities like LA, SF, and NYC, because there really is a rich baking scene. I mean, do we expect Oklahoma to have great artisanal breads when the state is suffering on several levels of Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
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you should skip this post. it is full of anti-patterns.

anti-patterns

(1) implicit wait. this will create subtle differences in behavior between drivers. it will also create long pauses when you test for negative conditions.

(2) clear. selenium has built in support for clear[1]. in addition to clear you can send the null key[2] if you want to clear the input midway through a sequence of characters.

(3) time wait. this does not make any sense to me. seems like a clever way to add time.sleep.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver/#element-clear

[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver/#element-send-keys
You might be a bit early (especially in the USA), but I think helping people implement LoRa will be a massive market. (Bigger than setting up WiFi networks for companies back in the day.) It covers a unique niche between GSM and WiFi that just couldn't be solved until now.

I think your segmentation is way to rough. There is a ton of space between the farm with a few hundred nodes to manage, and Nest with a few million nodes.

People are just learning best practices to manage a few thousand web servers. Managing a few thousand brickable devices with KBs of RAM is more challenging.
That's what I was thinking. I won't be able to afford a "good salary" for a while, and it's still part-time only. I was thinking ~15% and then salary once we're there.
Furthermore the pre-packaged bread in the USA has an eerily long life.

Most Eurobread is suitable only for toasting by the second day, and inedible by the third, whereas the loaves we bought in Jewel's and Dominicks were still soft after a week. Bizarre.
> I'm guessing that they would have brute-forced it.

In an era before digital computers?

That still isn't any different. Nothing stops the police from hiring someone to break the encryption. They may not be able to do it but that is no different than before. Many ciphers that are broken today were not broken decades or centuries ago -- good luck brute forcing even 56-bit DES in 1975. It's completely plausible that AES will be considered insecure some years in the future even if nobody can break it today.
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I'll preface this by saying that my views don't necessarily represent a mainstream position here:

Humans already accidentally invented AI at least a few times, sort of. To talk meaningfully about this topic, I think it's better to step away from the topic of "intelligence" and instead speak about "reasoning ability". It's still fuzzy, but seems to sidestep a lot of the "can submarines swim" arguments.

Things like societies, governments, corporations, economies, etc all show similar features to machine learning algorithms and reasoning animals in their ability to dynamically problem solve -- the main difference is that they run on human computers instead of electronic computers. (Or photonic, quantum, etc computers.) Well, in modern times, they're actually sort of cyborgs, but that's a side issue.

The quest for an AGI is more about translating the notion of a corporation (or government, etc) meaningfully into fully electronic computer terms than it is in replicating the human mind. We know enough about the supra-structure of the corporation to meaningfully bound the search, and it's much more prudent to spend a decade on bruteforcing each component of a corporation than it is to navel gaze about reinventing minds. The truth is that human brains (or animal brains) aren't the only general intelligence that we know -- so reinventing them isn't the only path to AGI, though it's a worthwhile project in its own right.

I just worry that many of the meaningful contributions of the people working on reinventing minds will be lost on the birth of the actual first AGI through corporate cyberization. (And that many of us will fail to recognize corporate cyberization for what it is -- an AGI. Any (successful) corporation which can act fully by algorithm must be a general intelligence.)
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You’d be better off not slicing the loafs and storing them properly - freezing bread ruins it.

[1] http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/06/does-refrigeration-really...
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They have to convince a court beyond reasonable doubt that you know the password, AFAIK. An extreme example would be pulling the power plug on a computer you're using as the police arrive: you'd be hard pushed to convince a jury beyond reasonable doubt that you don't know it. Of course, shades of gray, etc.
I don't see the point of having a "select" verification on social networks. It should be for everyone, like a bank where you verify using ID and a webcam... it could even be a paid service.

Making them exclusive and intransparent is shady. Just like username colors on social platforms where people pay $15,000 to make them look special.
I've heard exactly this about the book, audio book > text
That will work for some of it.

Quite a bit of industrial stuff is one offs, were you have the only one(s) in existence. I've made devices for industrial use were the customer only needed 1-5 of them.
I wonder if it's a leavening thing. What I like most about French, for instance, is the lightness.
From the article:

I tried it out. Eight times. With eight different photographs. It measured me from a 61mm to 65mm PD. So call it accurate within ±4mm. How bad can that be?

I'm no mathematician but shouldn't that be ±2mm? And if so, then the following paragraph (where he says that glasses should be within 2mm to be usable) confirms that this method would suffice?
There are few things at play. And this time is a little different.

1. Opteron in the early 2003 to 2004 did have a good run. It forced Intel to lower prices as well as using dirty tactics to compete. Let's not forget Opteron was AMD first entry into Server market. AMD then failed to execute after that.

2. Software compatibility was a thing, and may still be a thing judging by the comments here. But remember Datacentre is now largely dominated by Cloud and Web Host Providers, and most of them depends on Open Sources Software. All of a sudden, Google Amazon and Microsoft have incentives to improve software compatibility, if there is such problem exist.

3. IO compatibility / performance used be a problem for AMD. I am surprised it is not mentioned anywhere. Intel has the best IO ever with their Chipset. From PCI-E, SATA, AGP etc. But now none of these IO implementation are secrets anymore. Thanks to the SoC IP industry you can get the best and leverage the battle tested IP from other vendors. And not to mention the really only IO left is PCI-E. Which is very well defined.

I expect there will be lots of interest to test out EPYC, but the real volume will be Zen 2, when the industry has settled on EPYC being good enough. And I cant wait to see how Intel would react, after all if you look at their recent management teams changes it seems they dont have a clue what they are doing.
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> It's actually in a really good place, tech and build wise.

> CTO will come on to make updates to the product and make it even better/fix bugs.

Let's be realistic here. Based on the statements you've made, it's very clear you're not looking for a CTO nor are you looking for a partner. You're just looking for a programmer. So my suggestion is you cut with the bullshit and just hire/contract someone, and don't give up any equity.
I didn't talk about the discrimination hypothesis group, let's not fall into the trap of a false dichotomy. Did you watch the video I linked? It's a long time since I did but I don't remember the word discrimination being even pronounced.

I specifically presented a third hypothesis, that the primary driver is cultural (in the sense opposed to natural, not the "tech culture") i.e women having internalized since childhood "it's not for me", and men internalized "women have a different brain", like stated in the sibling comment. Different interests is not wrong but it's a symptom, same as discriminations exists but they are more of a symptom reinforcing the cause for me.

I don't think the different-interests hypothesis group is dishonest, my opinion is that they are wrong and that some might instead switch to "my culture and gender roles are fine, don't want to mix things up with feminized men and women having boy's center of interests etc..." (and that's often what comes out when I start digging when debating this topic). I disagree with this opinion but at leat it's debatable (vs some pseudo-scientific genetic predisposition).

Edit: for the other cultures point, I didn't say the gender equity was good, just that more women were interested tech in some.
Presumably paying 15kUsD for a blue spot is worth it for some -fashion industry etc - and the investment will pay for itself.
I never heard of the blue spot being particularly important though, my understanding was that parading an effortlessly fashionable and beautiful life was what got the attention.

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Maybe. But let's be honest here: there's CP on that drive. This is a good case for spinning around on HN arguing about the extent of the bill of rights protections in the face of creative application of the All Writs Act. It's a terrible one for actually defending the perp. I mean, come on.
This individual needs to be avoided. He is running a shady startup and is well known in the Wikipedia universe as a vandal and is blocked from editing.

All in all, take whatever it is he is pushing with several grains of salt. I personally was pushed out of an opensource project years ago after disagreeing with him on a technical issue (which it turns out he was wrong about). A seriously toxic personality.

Also, he has no educational background and is essentially "self taught".
Then walk with them over a road in NYC and accidentally drop them so a 60t truck drives over them. Should thoroughly remove any and all evidence.
To be clear, I meant UBS in London - I assume you're referring to UBS Zurich. It's quite common for Zurich offices to have a +20% cost of living adjustment vs London, so that figure equates about 80k GBP adjusted which is about in line with what most IB perm devs will make.
I don't get it: there is already a widely accepted 'better' Java called Kotlin, that features much more than this: way better integration with IDEs, way better integration with existing Java codebases, better everything... Yet somehow we should start using NEW IDE with NEW language supported by completely unknown company with zero guarantees about its support. I just don't get it.
Hey, please don't judge American bread based on the cheap stuff in our stores (some of which have improved greatly on their own). Of course its not as good as it could be.

Maybe this is just a Rocky mountain, western thing, but when to you live out in the boonies, you make your own. Sometimes with a machine. Sometimes with just the oven. Sometimes just with camp coals in the ground. Even as a youngster I had sourdough cultures I kept alive for years.

The point is there is some bread in parts of America, not made at the store, that I would put up against anything but German or French. I do admit some of the recipes are learned from the better bread places. EG I have a handful of recipes I learned from the Mennonites (German Americans), Mormons, had a family friend from Ireland who finally shared the best potato bread recipe.