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> Fair play, rule of law, fare and impartial courts, etc. are not partisan issues.

"State's rights" of the kind the person you're responding is joking about are a partisan issue in the United States.
My most productive time is when I am thoughtful of what I want to accomplish and write it down before I start. It’s really helped me using a script wrapped around Tmux sessions to achieve this. Two simple questions:

What are you working on?
What did you work on?
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That is really nice of you:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/3e69Wu54k

changed the link to:
https://buymeacoff.ee/igork
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Cool! BTW, there is so much LISP on HN, I just wish it could actually get some momentum in the real world of production programming...
socialist lies

Socialists were the first and the main critics of Wage Slavery. More recently, you have the Situationist movement, which coined the slogan "Ne Travaillez Jamais!" (Never Work!) and has a body of work criticizing this model (both in capitalist and in marxist-leninist countries).

Anyone saying you "only need 105k" is not a socialist.
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Somehow we started with a single dollar in a string, and now I am dealing with sql, here docs, and TDD?

There is a place for everything in life: for small helper makefiles, which I write simply to support me in my workflow and even to remember some interesting commands that I need to run for a certain project, I can assure you that making some simple assumptions helps me staying halfway sane.
Good. Redux was never necessary for the vast majority of web apps, but too many people promoted it as such.
The book is: New Sales. Simplified.: The Essential Handbook for Prospecting and New Business Development

https://www.amazon.com/New-Sales-Simplified-Prospecting-Deve...

I read it in January and found it really helpful
Those are erroneous transactions, different from what was being discussed. I'm referring to party A transacting with party B, and B doesn't know A is using illegitimately obtained funds, why should B be penalized?

Obviously this is different in the case of things such as vehicles and houses, which have titles and legal checks that can be done to make sure they are legitimate, but even then as long as the buyer has done due diligence, they shouldn't be penalized otherwise trust in the market will erode.
Great advice. Thanks for this.
That was my first thought too. Neural networks are stochastic by their very nature. I've been reading about binary neural networks for embedded devices and FPGAs recently because I'm convinced machine learning is about to get a whole lot smaller and more distributed, so this article really piqued my interest.
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Not even if that app had a splash page at findjamsessions.com totally tailored to your jamsession needs and a special category and mode inside it called "jam sessions" with guitar pictures in the background?
Apparently they can’t hear male voices. Their hearing is sensitive to higher frequencies than most male voices and the usual human range. I usually chirp or make other high pinched noises to get their attention-though still get ignored much of the time, of course.

Also apparently they’ll attack whats in our hands as they think they’re helping us hunt.

They really are great. I was lucky to have a cat part of my life for 2 months shy of 20 years. I learned a lot from him and still miss him absolutely every day. He knew many human words - would come running and even let us hold him up to swat at whatever bug was flying around, if needed.
> Age1's pather's A* implementation was outright broken (the open list management was flawed, so the cheapest node wasn't always expanded upon during each iteration)

What is left of A* if even that doesn't work?!?
Is this for any contract? If someone steals $20 and buys some food, does the food merchant now have to return the $20 and suffer the loss?

I've never heard of any situation like this. Usually, this type of liability is in events such as vehicle, house, land, or business purchases for which there is title insurance. But if the buyer does the due diligence, and they're not aware of any illegitimate funds being used, how much should they suffer? How much should the person who it was stolen from be liable?
There are good points here, but I'll present the other side.

If you have MVP but no customers, funding, or employees, 98% of risk is still ahead. There are important, identity defining questions about the business ahead, from how you position yourself against competition when marketing, to your recruiting process, to a multi-stage financing strategy. From experience, it can REALLY help to have a co-founder who is motivated at the "I'll make this business succeed" level to discuss those things and to implement them.

Is this that guy? It's smart to complement yourself with sales experience, but is he someone you want to have holistic business conversations with? If so, give him the co-founder title. If not, look for that person... going alone as a solo founder will be much harder if you are more of a builder than a seller.

Equity is a different story. Put both of you on a vesting schedule. Start your own vesting earlier, so that on day 1 you have 100% of vested equity. Make the _rate_ of vesting roughly match the [responsibility split / contribution to value / endurance of risk] going forward. If the positions are roughly CEO / COO or CEO / CRO, his rate could be 25-50% of yours (corresponding to a 15-35% of fully diluted grant).
I just did some teaching of A* on my stream on Tuesday night in golang, tonight we make it fast by implementing a proper priority queue from scratch.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/233560937

Much simpler case since it is on a grid and turn based!
> Before reaching any conclusions, would you let us know how specific is Technology X? Is it like a library or a framework? How uncommon is that?

> If it's something commonly used by lots of developers and needed by lots of companies, I think it'd be fair to think of it as a bad signal at least.

From GP:

> I'd list the tech here by name, but it's so specific I'm afraid of it being linked back to me. It's not something most engineers would run into.

GP specifically said it it isn't something "something commonly used by lots of developers and needed by lots of companies".
Sounds like you're working in a bank or old school corporation.
I did - seriously. Think about it: Single, living in Pittsburgh (reasonable CoL area). I had a cute apartment that I enjoyed coming home to, went running in gorgeous parks or cycling in lovely outlying hills almost every day, worked my butt off at a job that was challenging as hell that I enjoyed, and was putting away enough in savings that it was clear I was on a good trajectory for long-term FI. It was great.

Oh, and the better kicker: I was even happier in grad school when I was earning $24k/year. One of the happiest times of my life. That doesn't apply to everyone's grad school experience, but for me, it was awesome. Lived in a shitty apartment above central square in one of the more expensive regions of the country (hi, Cambridge, still love you but glad I don't have to deal with your housing market). My roommates and officemates at work have become life-long friends.

I will indeed tell you that having 2M in the bank has been a much smaller factor in my happiness than almost anything else, particularly the effect of the people in my life. My day-to-day happiness is much more affected by whether I got a good night's sleep, whether my children are healthy, whether my wife and I are communicating well, whether I'm healthy and able to do the things I like or whether I've once again managed to injure myself pretending I'm 24 instead of 42. :-)

(I'm not unsympathetic to the desire for FI, btw -- quite the opposite. But I've noticed that I want it primarily in a theoretical way, for the comfort in knowing I could quit, not because I actually want to quit. Yes, I'm lucky that I have .. multiple .. jobs that I absolutely love, but I've also chosen to accept a 66% paycut to work in a job I love instead of blasting to FI in industry, and I'm good with that. Sometimes it annoys me and I go do some consulting or bitcoin mining to help make up the difference. :-)
That's a great point about the illusion of climbing which in reality is just adding nodes (rubes) beneath yourself.

Rank speculation-- at its core, every mlm depends on not paying people for their time. E.g., want to make a "home visit" by abusing my web of trust? FU pay me. Want me to "attend" a sales pitch? FU pay me. Want to invite me to dinner and use my social time to sell me on vitamins? FU pay me.

Am I right about this?
Transcript of Sam Harris and Eliezer Yudkowsky on “AI: Racing Toward the Brink”
French prisons have currently a big problem of a number of inmates way above the stated capacity, radicalisation issues and a lack of financing. The problem were grave enough that the guards did a long strike last year, blocking the access to the prisons.
The last day before bachelor thesis deadline. I peaked that day!
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While I find the Discovery Weekly (and other editorial features like Genre collections) fantastic personally, I think the thing that keeps me from making Spotify my end-all-be-all music solution is licensing.

There are plenty of songs which I've added to playlists, only to find a year or two later are no longer available due to expired licenses. Some of my favorite artists and labels - Drag City is a big one - aren't available on Spotify at all (usually due to objections to the royalty structure). Many live albums, and more obscure and vintage releases are often nigh-impossible to find, or only have one or two songs from the album: likely those that have been licensed previously for use on TV etc.

Spotify is great, but it will forever be fighting the friction of music licensing and fair monetization.
Thank you for your thoughtful response.

I agree with you on MBAs.

I think when it comes to sales, he is not very confident so he talks himself down. I suggested a sales book for him to read and we shall see where he comes out on that.

I feel like he is personable and gets on well with people. He's also a hard worker. So I think it could work but I acknowledge it's a risk.

Also I don't want him just for sales. I have a lot to do between tech, finance, legal, sales etc. If he could come in and lighten the burden that would be great.

He doesn't have domain knowledge so I would have to get him up the curve on the industry and the product. Good point.
2012 when I started a business with a friend. We moved out of the city and into a small town in the mountains an hour away and lived off of our savings. I wrote more code that year than ever before and I wrote almost all of it from scratch, making my own crappy but perfectly suited framework. Because I wrote it all, I understood it all and productivity was phenomenal. We self organized without sprints, or stand ups, or any other processes, and we made some great stuff. Many a day was spent writing code and then mountain biking in the afternoon, some of it was bliss, some of it was horrible but overall a valuable experience.
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I see no mention anywhere, on Graphite or Blockstack, about how the encryption actually works.

I’ve checked the following resources:

* The Blockstack whitepaper: https://blockstack.org/whitepaper.pdf

* Each of the System Design documents listed here: https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-core/tree/master/do...

* Blockstack General FAQ: https://blockstack.org/faq

* Blockstack Technical FAQ: https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-core/blob/master/do...

* Blockstack Repository Readme: https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-core

* The Graphite FAQ: https://www.graphitedocs.com/faq

* The Graphite Features: https://www.graphitedocs.com/features

This is a red flag. “Encryption” is far too unspecified. I’m looking for specific primitives, constructions, algorithms and design decisions. I want to know how key exchange happens, if a library like libsodium is used, whether you’re using AES-GCM or ChaCha-Poly1305, etc. I’m looking for an architecture diagram to understand which of these questions is coherent. Is key derivation used? Under which algorithm? I’m assuming your IDs are SHA-256 hashes, but is that correct? I don’t know.

Basically, aside from saying there are “ECDSA private keys” in passing, how precisely does encryption, key exchange and digital signing work? Maybe I missed a pretty obvious explanation in here - I was reading quickly (though pointedly). However, if that’s the case then mea culpa, and it should be easy to rectify by pointing out where exactly I missed this documentation.

For reference, here are examples of documentation I’m looking for[1]:

* Restic, under “Keys, Encryption and MAC”: https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/100_references.html

* Wireguard: https://www.wireguard.com/protocol

A basic overview of each primitive with a brief explanation of why it was chosen would go a long way here. I understand if Graphite is too young for this (though this should be a priority), but Blockstack should absolutely have something like this documented poignantly. If Blockstack does have this documented, Graphite should really link to it (poignantly).

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1. I have no affiliation with either of these, though I personally use them, and they’re not competitors anyway.
They're income like everything else?
What is your purpose in posting this comment?
This whole article is full of misunderstandings and blatant mistakes. Hurried writing on between conf sessions?
No matter how much you put your emphasis on the technology, this does not make the human factor go away. Reactors are too complex to build and run without human supervision and maintenance. Thus, incidents and accidents based on human error will happen eventually.

Also, you leave out one aspect of nuclear power generation: really long term storage is required for the fission waste products. This has its own troubles and unsolved problems.

An old salt mine in Germany was converted into an experimental long term storage facility for nuclear waste. Originally, the site was judged to be geologically stable enough to contain the waste for a couple of millenia. However, it turns out that the amount of water that was seeping through was underestimated badly. Now, they are scrambling to get the waste back out. But noone has an idea how to do this safely with badly corroded, damaged and burst containers down there.

No other site has been selected for another attempt to put radiating materials into a safe long term storage. In other words, no spent fuel rod has been put into any kind of long term storage yet.
Perhaps this is subverting the type-theoretic (in a CS sense) point being made, but in C++ you could quite reasonably write a function:

template<typename T>
T fn(T t){
return t * 2;
}

fn(4.2); //fine
fn("foo"); //fails

because the inability to multiply by 2 isn't a problem until an incompatible type parameter is instantiated. Is this not the case in rust?
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Sales guy here. I like being paid in cash because having ownership runs counterintuitive to my work.

Better, I get cash compensation and other benefits but not ownership/equity.
You'll have to build reputation, which takes time.

Be there for your team and your boss, so you can expect the same in return.

Be blunt and don't sugar coat it with everyone, so as your time/reputation grows inside the company, people will know about you... essentially you would want your reputation to precedes you... this will help you avoid a lot of politics and BS...
There was a week last year where I did a huge amount of work on a mobile game. I was in a state of "flow" the whole time, and it felt like the time was just flying past. RescueTime tracked over 100 hours. Many other weeks were around 60-80 hours, but I was having a lot of fun and learning tons of new things. It's not too healthy though, and I took a long break after launching the game.

I can sometimes get into that state when working as a contractor, but it's very rare.
> What makes me most productive is when I truly love what I'm working on.

I suspect that's true for almost everybody, hah. I can really grind it for a month when I've stumbled upon an intriguing new side project
Reminds me of myself, last Friday. Just arrived in Vienna to learn I had a presentation coming up. Had to plan my day, the presentation, type it out, draw graphs, sleep, with not too many hours available. Plowed through successfully but decided to start with a nap. Good luck!
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Is it something like Tokio Rust?
It's not dumb. The C++ ecosystem is still crap even though it had decades to catch up.
The fact that you don't need to optimize something doesn't mean you shouldn't.
Why would he not be a cofounder?

At the moment, I have an idea and an MVP. I have three advisers who I brought on in a semi-formal capacity. Two are senior investment managers and one is a serial entrepreneur having started companies in the same area. I speak to them maybe 1-2 a month to get advice and they are listed on my website.

In reality I have zero revenue and it will take 5+ to build this company. I've barely started.

I also read this article on YC: https://blog.ycombinator.com/splitting-equity-among-founders...
IANAL, the law I was looking for I can't find - can just locate this which isn't directly related[0].

Perhaps I need to look more at the proceeds of crime. Interesting point you raise. I know the police can confiscate the proceeds of crime, and if I buy a car that is stolen it's not legally mine, however as to whether if the money used to purchase the item was stolen, well. Would it be fraud then? If so, I'd still think obtaining goods by deception would cover the car being reclaimed if possible.

[0] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/crossheading/of...
I think this is a fair comment, but a couple of things give me pause based on the original ask:

- Unwillingness / hesitation to do sales - In an early stage startup, and especially as a co-founder, you need to be willing to do what needs to be done, even if it's outside of your comfort zone. As the technical co-founder, you're still going to be involved in the business, and probably even selling yourself. People who are more interested in managing or high-level strategy than getting their hands dirty is a big red flag in my opinion. What would you think if your first dev hire was really more comfortable being a manager, but was "willing" to develop software for the time being?

- Commitment level - if he's working a couple of days a week for an indefinite period of time, that's an indicator that he really doesn't have "skin in the game". If you want to go forward, I would consider something like bringing him on as a consultant, and making him a co-founder if and when he's fully ready to commit.
If we afren't looking to rehabilitate then we should focus on reducing the cost of capital punishment & begin executing inmates
The week before exam and the days in between.
I was trying to work on a side project but could not get a lot of work done. But a week before my semester exams I was very productive and full of new ideas. I completed most of the work on side project before the last paper. I was highly productive and creative before exams. This has happened twice.
"With Future Fetcher Dan Abramovich pushes for interacting with objects and it's methods directly rather than."

Rather than what?

In fact another article linked ends pretty abruptly too.
Project Pluto was abandoned for many other reasons too. Cruize missiles didn't have to be powered by a nuclear ramjet.

Although at the time there was no defence against them, there is now. Developing it will be expensive, and the system will have a rather low hit rate, but modern electronically scanned radars, UAVs and AI-based target detection can easily be tuned to take down cruize missiles regardless of the payload.
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Hey all,
Gathering data for a potential blog post.
Modernity != progress. This is not to say that the Hasidic mode of life is right (or wrong), just that the term modern is being misunderstood here. When people use the word modern in a context like this, they usually mean to say that a movement could not have existed in a previous era in time, that it is as much an artifact of the 18th-21st centuries as the Enlightenment.

I do think that arguing that Hasidic Judaism is modern and thus good is a dubious argument, I just think the author of this piece is conflating several terms.
Hah, I ruined myself in exactly the same way, except that I was writing a poker bot. I loved it so much that I did not hold a job for longer than a year since.
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same 4 myself :3

my 1st cat was killed by neighbor's dog when I was 4 years old

life never was the same since then
I usually feel like it's yesterday :)
How do you avoid the mid afternoon slump? My afternoon are pretty much a write-off until the early evening. I have tried avoiding carbs and sugars for lunch and have a pretty good bowl of oats for breakfast. Ive just come to accept that its my Circadian rhythm and such plan my productive hours around the early mornings.
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Those applications may not work together with each other, but they do work together with user space libraries such as glibc. Linux distributions aim to provide binary compatibility with those applications. It's tricky because these libraries simply don't take binary interfaces as seriously as the Linux kernel developers do. While you can upgrade the kernel and expect programs to work afterwards and if they don't it's a kernel bug, the same is not true for user space libraries.

The distributions themselves are also a source of binary incompatibility. For example, one distribution may use symbol versioning while another may not, and this means users cannot download a random binary meant for one distribution and expect it to run on another one even if the versions of dependencies are the same. Compiling from source ensures the resulting software is binary compatible but the source is not guaranteed to be available since programs may be proprietary.
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Perhaps referring to react compatible libraries?
> There are some tactical things (eg, the dropdown for country should have USA at the top,

Just do it alphabetically and perhaps provide a search-based dropdown function. Damn patriots.
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You can also use free rclone[0], where you can mount all kinds of storage targets and encrypt your files.

[0]: http://rclone.org
In addition, I take a b6 vitamin along with zinc and magnesium.
There's this program called make...
-fresh MBA
-no existing network
-hesitant to join
-wants to moonlight

All bad signs but you seem to think he would be a good person to work with so ultimately you have to decide. It sounds like what you need is 1 or 2 rich angels who have the connections to get your first few contracts, or an old guy like 50+ with actual connections and sales experience. (Pay him commissions.) Ideally you should be able to land your old employer as customer #1. Let your MBA friend strike while his job ticket is hot and get a stable job somewhere. Honestly sounds like you don’t know the industry too well either btw.
> 70 or 80 percent of candidates who say on their CV that they can code, and have convinced a recruiter that they can code, can't write a class and a couple of functions.

I work for a large non-Big-5 and our failure rate at that level is far lower. Is this only or predominantly for juniors?
Oh, and I resolved to take a day off work a week to walk London and write. So I work a four-day week and do just that :)

Also, the script proved immensely useful at debugging appserver crashes.