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"Short enough?"

Not even close. WTF do you do???

Slack: makes team chat and IM easy

Tesla: Makes electric cars that don't suck

Dropbox: Makes it easy to share and sync files with colleagues

You: I have no damn idea.

It's crucial to remember that any VC (really, any person) you're talking to is listening to BS 90% of the time. You MUST convince them QUICKLY that you're not bullshitting them. Your intro, which I worry you think is engaging, sounds like scammy BS ("I can solve this problem and make a trillion dollars but I won't tell you what the problem is unless you read my rambling wall of text below!!").

Related:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show,_don%27t_tell
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Is there an EMP capable torpedo though? They seem useless in water. Other than the nuclear ones of course...
What materials are you using to study?
Unfortunately, "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"
And most people need them because most people have them.

I know of families in ecotowns that don't have cars. The tram service covers nearly everything they need, and when they do actually need a car, they get a car-share/rental.

The infrastructure where they live is set up for this, to the extent that owning a car is awkward, because you're not allowed to park it anywhere near the houses, but it's fine because there are such good facilities for people without cars in that area.

The point is that we need cars because we don't have good facilities for not having cars, and we don't have good facilities because we all have cars.
Has anyone proven that the recent spate of "apply neural networks to a text corpus" projects produce output any "better" than a markov chain with the same inputs would?
Ask HN: What do you do when you are simply tired of having a boss?
As I approach the 20-year mark of my career, I find that I'm increasingly dissatisfied with the idea of having another person in control of what I do and how my career progresses. In fact, I find the idea of reviews and performance evaluations ridiculous. I'm completely burned out on the idea of "pleasing" someone by doing things their way with the hopes that this will maybe mean good things for me sometime in the future, should they see fit. But I don't know what to do about it.

I'm starting to feel the pressures of ageism though my skills are just fine. I have extensive experience in $hot_technologies in $hot_startup_market with all the buzzword trimmings. I've managed teams of up to 10 in the past, but I don't particularly like (or dislike) management - I just want more authority, more responsibility, more money, and less people telling me what to do.

Recently I've been working for smaller startups where the founding/management team is kind of set; never grew to a size where they needed more management. I realize I was more of a "hired gun" in those situations. Now it seems like I'm getting branded with the dreaded "IC" scarlet letter. I'm too senior for a LOB/middle-management role, but I haven't made that jump into 2-level (Director/VP) management yet.

I've never consulted before. I wouldn't even know where to start. Which discipline to choose, how to get clients, etc. Also re ageism: it feels like an employment gap could be much more devastating at this point in my career should it not work out.

I have a family to support. I have some savings, but I was hoping that if I ever had to burn through it, it would be a much more promising situation. Like if I ever mange to get around to building one of the many great ideas I have and I need to get through "ramen profitable" :)

So HN: do you have any uplifting, motivational stories about how you took your career into your own hands (especially at a stage where the risks were high)?
There are voices that matter.
Why is the tcp socket set to busy poll for 1 microsecond?
So you seem to make some really valuable points about how money is not just printed out of thin air, and is actually backed by bonds etc.

However I think what you need to understand with Bitcoin is that it isn't a finished product or in its final state. That is one of its strengths.

People are constantly working to improve it. It is literally always under development by the community that uses it. Eventually improvements will be made to improve transaction times, transaction anonymity, efficiency etc...

But even without those improvements Bitcoin is being adopted quite seriously by some significant institutions as a means of facilitating transactions. One of the largest retailers in South Africa (where I happen to live), is experimenting with accepting Bitcoin at the till.

So I suppose I am not here to preach the gospel that Bitcoin is the future and is perfect, but I would be careful of declaring absolutes like 'unless it sinks in as an actual currency of some economy ... there's no reason for it to maintain it's value.'

Mainly because most people that make those predictions (re. Bitcoin) have had to eat their own words.
Moxie is talking specifically about making a secure (particularly, end-to-end secure) federated communication protocol. Making insecure federated communication protocols is pretty much a solved problem, yes.

(And I'm sure some people are very happy GPG users. But the majority of email users are not and will probably never be)
Not really. I was raised without a car just fine, as was most of my generation.
Well, nothing, but my guess is that it needs to work straight out of the box for military use, you can't be hot-gluing buttons and cables on equipment that's used on a submarine.
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>The owners argue as if they create, the do not, they simply own the rights to distribute and take money.

No. Creators are the owners of whatever they create unless and until they sign those rights away. And they sign it away for something they get in return.

It may well be that the media industry is structured in a way that puts creators at an unfair disadvantage in their dealings with media companies. If that is so then it should change.

But using this issue to justify completely unrestricted copying of all content regardless of what creators want is a cop out. Invoking the big business bogeyman as the sole response to all copyright issues is unconvincing, insufficient and ineffective.

What we need is a form of DRM that guarantees fair use rights and doesn't give draconian enforcement and surveillance powers to copyright owners.
I became a registrar for .fi because I was tired of dealing with other registrars. I only provide domains for myself and my friends, but it's still easier, cheaper, and more secure than going through some third party.

That being said, I have no personal experience with other TLDs, but based on a bit of searching some do seem quite easy to become a registrar for.
> think tanks

I'm not sure what you think a think tank is, but they're basically either (a) PR organisations, especially the ones with opaque funding or (b) some guy with a letterhead and skill at getting articles published. They certainly aren't impartial in any way.

I'd much prefer my policy research to be done by civil service bodies which might at least nominally be impartial.

I don't think it's feasible to impose a boundary between science and politics. If scientists think that something is both true and important, then why should they not speak up about it? Especially if they believe that doing so will save lives.
"or the past 12 months of my life, I paid the bargain price of $1,250 per month to sleep diagonally in a bunk bed in a 10ft x 10ft room that I shared with a 32-year old man. Because I am 6ft 4in, sleeping diagonally in my undersized accommodation was the only way I could make it through the night without getting cramps."

I do not get this, why would you pay 1250$ a month to live in a bunk bed for 12 months when you can find actual rooms with roommates for 1000-1300 in SF in less trendy neighborhoods (Sunset, Richmond, Bernal Heights, ...) ? That is, if you aren't lucky to just find one in one of the trendy ones.

Sure hacker houses are fine when you just arrived and you have no money, but living there long term ? That sounds just insane to me.
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I know... every time I hear/read that it raises a red flag that maybe this person hasn't done much reading on the subject to begin with and just heard it through the luddite grapevine.
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Bikers are more an annoyance than killers.

The fact that they don't kill doesn't mean they don't cause accidents though. If a biker hits ones hand or arm or topples someone over the accident won't show up in those statistics you cite.
why does it have to about who we 'blame'? Why not go back to the CIA and how they wanted to undermine the social & political revolutions of the 60s & 70s? why not go back to 'reefer madness' and the how it was based almost solely in fear and racism, or how William Randolph Hearst's paper & publishing 'empire' was threatened by hemp? does any of that matter? Not really.

We have a problem now that we need to fix. We don't need to dwell in the past or blame people. We're more knowledgeable now - so we need to use that knowledge to fix the problems - or at least work with / around them to the betterment of people.
1) I don't really understand this criticism - why would a bespoke milspec controller be any more likely to be around than a widely documented consumer controller?

Which do you think is easier to replace today, or get a manufacturer to remake: a model M from 1984, or a custom machine keyboard from 1984.

Hell, wind the back another 10 years - I worked in a hospital with a really old bit of kit. It was a Siemens EEG machine, and the keyboard was capacitive metal tabs. No travel at all - they simply registered when pressed by a finger but not other things (like a modern smartphone screen). I'd much rather dig up a common keyboard than one of those curios.
What is the problem with Mastodon? It is the most populus federated network I have seen. (Other than the Internet, if you count it as one) It's striving among several interest groups around the world.
I love the irony. Moving 2 tons to buy 1kg of bread ;) delivery services as an alternative? It would work out if people wanted to...
Questioning Signal's crypto is gross?

Why Telegram crypto is a complete question mark but Signal crypto is unquestionable?

Maybe otherwise, Signal backdoored to US intelligence?
I don't think anyone's worried about getting killed by a bike, they're worried about getting hit and being hurt. I totally understand, since a lot of bikers ride like maniacs and don't seem to give a shit about the rules.
Telephony is federated, in some senses. But not as is generally accepted when speaking about internet communication protocols. Compared to SMTP or IRC, the average person can't start their own telephony service provider - to do so is highly regulated and involves organisations such as the ITU. I'm sure, given such an infrastructure, Signal could be relatively easily moved to a "federated" set-up. But that wouldn't solve the issues that people who complain "Signal isn't federated" want fixed.
Mostly the original papers on Logoot[1]/LSEQ[2], RGA[3], and Causal Trees[4], as well as some source code analysis (Swarm, Y.js), some tangential papers concerning comparative algorithm performance, and as many blog posts, articles, and lectures as I could get my hands on. For reasons of efficiency, most CRDT research is focused on operation-based CRDTs (i.e. CmRDTs) which tend to rely on a central server, whereas I'm more interested in state-based CRDTs (CvRDTs) that can be freely used in a P2P environment, so I'm a little on my own when it comes to the implementation.

[1]: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/inria-00432368/document

[2]: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00921633/document

[3]: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8470/ae40470235604f40382aea...

[4]: https://ai2-s2-pdfs.s3.amazonaws.com/6534/c371ef78979d7ed84b...
A submarine's hull acts as a faraday cage. It's inherently quite well shielded against EMPs.
Reserved instances are really a cultural hack. It's easy to get open budgets but capex is a different, harder process. Reserving strays into Capex.
Is it available yet? My phone still claims iOS 10.3.3 as the latest available update...
> "scientific consensus"

> I am very troubled by this phrase -- it's almost an oxymoron.

Yes, so if scientists do reach consensus, it must mean something special, and you better take note.
Totally agree. I am of the generation that grew up without a car and life was pretty tough on public transport and it meant we couldn't do things like shop efficiently and price consciously because we had to think how we would carry our purchases home.

I still use public transport as much as I can, and the traffic in London is such that it's often a viable option, but a car is also a necessity.
It's been the 19th of September for over twelve hours here (Italy) and still no sign of it. Is anybody having any better luck elsewhere?
The overwhelming "defaultness" of the whole thing makes me think these were actually intended as conversion adapters or something else that wasn't purpose-built for pump skimming. The complete lack of code protection (setting it is literally a single checkbox in the programming utility --- and almost all commercial products with an MCU will have this protection enabled), leaving the markings on the chips (I've seen more legal devices with them scrubbed off), and default password unchanged are the most noticeable.

Googling "bluetooth magnetic card reader" also yields quite a few results like this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Deftun-MiniDX4B-Wireless-Bluetooth-Co...
XBox controllers are super inaccurate and have lot of random noise. They could have used remote controllers for drones like FrSky and plugged it in as joystick. It would cost $250 instead of $25 but, gosh, you are in $100M sub!
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And yet you can't create your own small phone network, assign whatever numbers you want to your users, and expect others to interconnect with you or honor your numbers. Telephony is federated within an internationally regulated system, to claim that this in any way supports federation in a similar manner as what is being discussed is to fundamentally misunderstand how the system works.
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'lifetime use' could have also increased due to people not being afraid to admit past use after decriminalization. Was there a control for that?
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Perhaps because your goal isn't blanket, end-to-end privacy?

To work on end to end privacy one really needs to control the experience end to end; trusted clients and a solid protocol, plus trusted discovery.

Email is not that thing. Email is postcards.

At a technical level, email works well from the perspective of "the mail must get through", although practically speaking, spammers ruined things to the point that most people are feudalised because defending spam raised the bar of technical expertise too high for most people.

And the small number left who can run their own infra are often locked out by the feudal overlords (big 4 + every isp ever) because an untrusted ingress is basically a spam loophole.

Ironically the closer you get to spam free the more you have to police, because the value of a spam injection point goes up commensurably when most people are no longer exposed to it.

Overall, the war on spam was won, but at the cost of freedom for the people who would like to run their own infra but aren't technical and patient enough to do it in today's environment.
Perhaps you should hawk your minimally-tested, 'just trust us', generic pre-designed handles made out of cheap steel to NASA, and tell them what a bundle they'd save. If it works then you'll be on a gravy train.

Well, a limited-run gravy train, for 50 or so units.
I personally doubt that scarcity will be too big an issue with Xbox 360 controllers for the foreseeable future — development of new 360 hardware only ended in April last year. I can think of no piece of consumer electronics cheaper to source and repair than the 360 controller.

I'm sure, though, that both 1. and 2. are concerns the US Navy will have given ample consideration before making this move.
You're right. Privacy is good enough and apps do not suck.
If you look at how WSJ treats any subject, particularly bitcoin, you'll see that they are just a media company catering to their paying advertisers/audience. The substance of what they write is often questionable, if not out-right wrong.

With respect to bitcoin, WSJ was slightly curious, then quite suspicious, then outright negative, then cautiously optimistic, then very bullish, then "DO YOU HAVE A BLOCKCHAIN?!", and now reigning in some of their foolish enthusiasm (about how blockchains will revolutionize _everything_).

Like any successful politician, telling different stories at different times will satisfy more people.
Wait, you guys don't use card readers for online payments?
Edit: My bad, just realized you use credit cards instead of debit cards we use in europe. CC here also don't use ccard readers for online payment.
1. This is easily solved by buying enough supply of controllers right now to last for 33 years.

2. Are you sure the non-commercial version come from and doesn't have embedded processor, and how do you know it's really good quality and not just very expensive because of low quantity production?
The UK system has the weird and politically contingent "forgiveness at retirement" element, which means that theoretically it has a lifetime cap and behaves a bit like an income tax on graduates.

The catch is it's something like a 9% income tax!

The worst thing is that the three big national parties(+) all have their fingers on this, so I'm not sure who you could rely on to fix it. And whether it might have to come with rationing to a certain fraction of the population being able to get free university.

Not to mention that education is a vital export industry which the Home Office keeps trying to destroy.

(+) The third largest party by MPs is the SNP who only stand in Scotland, where they have ruled out tuition fees
I like the pricing if I'm understanding it right. $10 gets me 5000 submissions. No monthly subscriptions or silly feature limitations. Good luck with your business. I'll keep it in mind for the next time I want a form handler and not have the resources to run formspree myself.
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Theoretically, the not-100% rule is meant exactly so that the receiving state won't spend the money in completely wasteful projects. Unfortunately, this isn't a full assurance against the long term stupidity/short term greed of local politicians and voters alike - this happened in Southern Italy too, and surely in many other places.
I mainly use it on my desktop, running debian stretch

The interesting thing is there's a learning period of a few weeks where I kept the sensitivity low on the analog sticks. I have the sensitivity lower on the left stick (for packages like inkscape or blender). I gradually ramped up the sensitivity. I often use it one-handed (right hand) and control with just the right analog stick. I have the analog pad clicks set to the right mouse button. The 'a' button is my left click, x button is 'enter', 'b' is another right click. The dpad is up, down, left right keyboard buttons. I use the left and right bumpers to switch between by workspaces (lb switches workspace up, rb switches down). the triggers enable middle mouse scroll up or down.

I still use a keyboard so entering text isn't much different, and I'm a vim user so the mouse isn't a big part of my workflow when coding or entering text.
Typical ASR vocabulary size for English is about 64K words.

If you are unsatisfied with these, use Finnish or Turkish. The vocabulary there is unlimited, for all practical purposes.

Even English can do better than 64K words - use suffixes, as Turkish people do. "Correctless horse batteryness staplenesslessness".

Now you are in the 80 bits for 4 words territory.
No–legalising insider trading would destroy the market, because anybody not in a position to have insider knowledge would be at a severe disadvantage so as to make the expected return of investing negative.

An analogy: It'd be like playing online chess for money, without any way to stop your opponent from using a computer to make their moves. Or like the Olympics where some people are allowed to use performance enhancing drugs.

After a very short time, most everyone will have left the market.

There's also no more reason to legalise insider trading than murder or burglary. The prevalence is very likely to be at an all-time low currently, because the statistical methods used to spot insider trading in market data have improved dramatically. Some quant funds also flag suspicious trades as a sort of by-product of their work and share that data with the authorities.
In the UK we now have at least three alternatives (other than "grey market" import; most prescription drugs outside of narcotics can be legally imported to the UK for personal use):

For OTC drugs with restrictions, online pharmacies can sell subject to asking you sufficient questions (and potentially doing a followup call if you answers raises questions). This covers drugs like steroid creams and the like which may have risks, but are usually ok.

For prescription drugs, online pharmacies can likewise sell to you if they have you fill in a questionnaire and a qualified GP agrees to write a prescription for you. This is increasingly done for low risk but prescription only drugs like Viagra.

The mechanisms above are simple enough that even though buying from e.g. companies shipping from Indian manufacturers is trivial in the UK, I'll prefer UK online pharmacies when possible as the extra hassle is minimal and they're better regulated.

Alternatively there's a service called Push Doctor (I've got no connection to them other than being a satisfied user) that lets you have an actual conversation with a doctor over a video chat (+ text chat and ability to upload images) after which they can issue you a prescription that gets sent electronically to the nearest pharmacy. I've tried it twice - once I got seen within an hour, the other time in less than 10 minutes, and the prescriptions were ready within half an hour in both cases, so I could just wait for a text message and go pick it up when it was ready.

It's a fantastic service - the only downside is it's private only, and while the consultations aren't expensive (28 pounds or 20/month), for more expensive prescriptions it's not great as you'd be paying full price for the drugs (but you do have the option of e.g. use them for diagnosis and go see your GP to get an NHS prescription if they think you need anything expensive, so you at least avoid having to visit your GP for minor things); I'd love to see this service get a deal with the NHS...

With the above setup there's very little reason to take risks as the barriers are low enough for most people to have very little reason to circumvent them.

I do agree with you though that for most drugs delegating it to a pharmacist would probably provide a good enough barrier - at least in the UK, and I suspect most other places too, they're well educated. When it isn't we should ask why. E.g. are doctors looking for signs of any issues? If those issues are simple enough and there's low enough abuse potential, then either let pharmacists do it or standardize a questionnaire.
If nobody is doing general-purpose programming (or at least Web programming) with PHP why are there three popular templating libraries?