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This x 10000. A salesperson is not a task where mediocrity is acceptable. Without sales nothing else you do matters. A great salesperson and crummy product have a chance at success. A great product and a crummy salesperson are doomed to fail. No product or service can outrun bad sales.

Your friend isn't a salesperson. If his pedigree and smarts can help then fine. But he isn't a salesperson. Candidly, you are the salesperson until you have 7 figures of revenue. I'm serious. No one knows the product like you. Find other people to do the other things and dive into selling.
> In short, if this trial is to find that the British can all retain their EU status, regardless of whether the law is correct on doing so, it would mark the end of the European Union in very short order.

The idea is to find out if EU citizenship is independent of national citizenship.

I don't think this would lead to the end of the EU, because if all the member states decide to leave the EU, and all their citizens decide they want to keep EU citizenship anyhow, have they not just demonstrated that the EU is then the democratic state with sovereignty over that territory?
what percentages of skill would you say were transferable to and from your independent and professional work?
Eat less for lunch.
Close, but they were more the "older" style Bic pens from WAY back in the days. These:

http://www.bonvan.com/images/up_images/officepen/229.jpg

The end of the piece that sticks out from the cap worked just like a tiny plastic shovel
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Well, you as an individual would be given the shorter stick, I can see that. But I feel Europe as a whole would be richer for it, just as Britain have benefitted from immigration (despite their refusal to acknowledge this).
In addition, as certain elements in Britain hijacks the process and tries to distance Britain more from the EU than even the Brexit vote mandates, showing the British people that we still consider them part of us, despite the shortcomings of their government would be better than play the eye for an eye game.
In addition I feel it would facilitate Britain rejoining the EU which I hope happens sooner rather than later.

I can understand why you would not share this view though.
Never forget Guy Kawasaki's method (paraphrased here) for how to value a startup.

For every engineer, add $1 million.

For every MBA, subtract $250k.

What's -$250k in startup valuation worth in terms of shares?

My offer to cofound your venture is still a far better deal because I pledge I will not lend my name nor contribute any work. That makes my contribution to your startup $250k greater than the other guy, so I should get $250k more worth of equity.

Just my nickel's worth of free advice.
Well, near infinite time is ideal if you're trying to survive the death of the known Universe?
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Clickbait title. This is out for community review, nothing is final yet.

https://www.icann.org/news/blog/data-protection-privacy-upda...
It would be nice if it were able to import (or sync some bookmarks with some tag etc.) with pocket.
If somebody attacks and takes down the central server that your apt-get is hosted on, your won't be able to use it (without changing your servers). If somebody attacks the central server of the token devs, the existing token network continues to operate, even if you can't get an "official" update from the original location. So it isn't really the same thing.
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Netsuite comes to mind. Enterprise software. Charges hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. It tries to be everything to everyone which makes it really slow. And the menu has 500 options so it's hard to navigate.

For what it's worth, it has made me say "Wow, that is really cool and useful!" more than a few times but also very often "WTF! Why does this take so long! This is a common operation!" and "Why is this so unnecessarily complex!"

The API is SOAP and routinely takes 5+ seconds to do a common operation like "Create order" - and ad hoc searches can take minutes.

Business people like it because it gets them every critical piece of business operations data they need at their finger tips but also hate it because of the hundreds of thousands they ultimately pay consultants to deal with the complexity.

Runner up: Jira

A lot of people say Wordpress but I think a lot of the Wordpress UI is good design. Which is part of why it's popular. It is just really slow (unless you spend a LOT of time optimizing). So Netsuite wins for being both slow AND poorly designed.

Edit: That said I can't say that I wouldn't recommend Netsuite. If you are a multi-national corporation (or even a large domestic one) and sell or manufacture a physical product, and have the time and money to pay the licensing fees and the consultants it does everything you could possibly want and more. If someone asked me for a recommendation I'd say: "It's great but don't expect it to be perfect day one. It will take a year with possibly multiple full time consultants to get everything where you want it to be."
> "We can learn truths about the universe through observation of matter and reason."

I'd strongly disagree that this is the general premise - many scientists would already cut you off at "We can learn truths".

And yes, in this case the particular phrasing is essential.
In my defence when I replied there were 3 throwaway replies and nothing through provoking.

I do stand corrected though :-)
Don't eat pizzas or anything with too much carbs for lunch, never ever. If you did try eating half a teaspoon of cinnamon. (google cinnamon and sugar processing).
Very nice! Reminiscent of Michael Gondry, on what must be a minuscule fraction of the budget. Compare with Gondry's "Come Into My World": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63vqob-MljQ
Ask HN: How has Bitcoin/Crypto/Blockchain affected your life, if at all?
I'm curious, with all the rage about cryptos going on, how has it actually affected your life?

I have been able to leave an office job and now live fully off my crypto income. And of course, I gladly share how I do it with anyone who is interested. I have the freedom to pursue passions and projects that I've always wanted because of this.

Are there any similar experiences you guys have to share? Would love to hear!
Oats are mostly starch, starch is how plants store sugar. A bowl of oats has a fairly high GI score.
Yes. The title to the property never transfers away from the original victim.

If I steal a pen and sell it to you for $1, the owner can compel you to return it, and you need to go after me for your dollar. Obviously in reality the hassle is often not worth it.

This is one of the reasons that banks and companies are so obnoxious and seemingly overreactive to risk.
I wouldn't call 37.4% of the electorate a majority.
Especially anything sugary.
Is there objective evidence published in the scientific literature to suggest that the foods you eat impact your problem solving skills on a day-to-day basis?
Naive Bayes Classification: how does it work?
Agreed. Reciprocity, simple.
Immigration is an entirely different subject.

British citizens are very welcome to immigrate to the EU, and commit, and get citizenship.
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So for every project you implement solutions to common problems differently?
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...then I'd have to actually buy a membership (you can get in to the cafe without one). So I guess they never really had my business :p
Yeah, I have plan to create add on for Chrome and Firefox. The rest API for saving bookmarks is already there, so I think it should be easy enough to do.
"X should just get naturalised" is an argument that makes my blood boil though. Becoming a citizen is an extremely difficult bureaucratic process that can often fail or be delayed due to no fault of your own.

Case in point: I've lived in UK for 8 years now, fully legally as an EU citizen. On paper, I should be able to apply for British citizenship tomorrow and get it without any issues. But I can't, because the Home Office completely disregards EU directive on the freedom of movement and the right to settlement - and yes, I have spoken to many immigration lawyers in the UK about it and they all say that Home Office is breaking the law in this specific case. There even is a case going on against the Home Office in the ECJ - but in the meantime, the reality of the situation is that I can't get a citizenship despite calling this country my home, paying all my taxes and being a law-abiding citizen with 8 years of residence here under my belt. Does that mean that my rights should not be protected, just because I don't have a British passport in my pocket?

I'm sure it works exactly the same way in reverse - there are British people who lived in Netherlands, Spain or elesewhere in EU for years, but for many many different reasons they can't become naturalized, because rules are what they are. Doesn't mean we should be suddenly stripping them of the rights they have been able to have for decades. Telling people to "just get naturalised" is not the solution.
C99 is supported but it is not the default.
Actually if you read closely it's not about gaining EU citizenship, it's about not losing it if you're British.

There's only two lines in that article that refer to what this people are actually fighting for:

> The shared assumption of the European Union and the UK government is that Brexit will mean British citizens will automatically forfeit these rights. But this is being tested in a case brought by a group of UK nationals living in Amsterdam

> “there is reason to doubt the correctness of the interpretation of article 20 that the loss of the status of citizen of an EU member state leads to loss of EU citizenship as well”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_biscuit or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_whiskey ?
You don't need a third party to vote out a shitty republican or democrat. I firmly believe there can be valuable politicians in both parties.
The Brexiteers don't actually want to stop EU citizens visiting the UK, they want to stop them having the automatic right to settle and work in the UK and gain UK benefits. This is the crux of it.

I'm an anti-Bexit Brit and have benefited hugely from the right to work elsewhere in the EU and travel throughout the EU without a visa. Several of my employers probably would not have been based in London without that right, they'd have been based in Paris or Berlin. It's crazy to me that we're putting that in jeopardy.

However I don't think this will affect current EU citizen residents in the UK, or UK citizens currently resident in the EU. From what I've read, both the UK government and EU leaders are agreed that existing residents should have their current rights grandfathered in.
That's a lot of eclipses no?
A 45-day off-the-grid vacation after several years of burnout. The result was Filter Forge 2.0, which included a lot of new systems (Lua scripting, HDR colors, ambient occlusion, non-seamless filters etc.)

The key was to get off the grid, shed all responsibilities, take long walks in the woods, avoid dopamine loops, and let my mind wander without purpose.
A quick search yields this, for example: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S152550501...
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It could make this illegal for sure. On your second point, remember GDPR requires opt-in.
It’s extremely highly transferable, which has already saved my butt twice. I mainly work on games and game engines, as a hobbyist and professional.

But, like, why oh why could I not have had a passion for bingo cards and money ... sniff.
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Always interesting to find 'local-only' chain things. For what it's worth, I think the brats are at the Milwaukee and Green Bay Costcos as well.
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I agree. It sounds like you are asking this because he seems like he's almost the perfect fit, but you know he isn't and you want us to tell you he is not so you can feel better about it.

I've been there, having an almost perfect fit immediately available is the easy path, otherwise you have to hunt and do dirty work and it can take awhile and you want someone you know well and you want it now, that is understandable. It doesn't sound like the guy wants to do what you want him to do, and it doesn't matter if you think he'd be awesome at it if he'll never do it, or only do it half-assed and begrudgingly.

You can't be a cofounder with one foot in the door and one foot out. He's gotta be all in. I've had promising startups that relied on co-founders with expertise, but they wouldn't take the leap and good advisors said the same to me, so I bailed and they never went anywhere. A cushy job is very addictive.

You have a need so the best thing you can do is find someone who will specifically fill that need with a passion. You probably don't have money to pay them, so you are looking for another way to compensate, but that's the rub. Good sales people will want to get paid, unless they are insiders who know they can make it work and just want to suck the equity from you and try to make the startup theirs. You could almost make that work, but good luck with that scenario.

It's hard to bring in a cofounder this late, especially if they won't go all in, you are looking at giving away at most 10-15% if they really are awesome, all-in, and stay for 3-4 years (and probably not getting paid). If they are bringing money with them to invest, then it changes a bit.
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thanks for sharing.
This is a nice approach, thank you for pointing it out.

I'd argue that you are building a separate state machine for the two players, but there is some reuse possible in this approach.
I wish you were right. However, read this comment elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16492116

I can't speak for the accuracy of that comment though.
Have you seen this list for discord servers?
What worked for me is using 'smart drugs' to help my mind in critical periods. I experienced with a couple of offerings, but weirdly 'Lion’s Mane' and 'Cordyceps' mushrooms were the best. Your mileage may vary.
Thank you very much.

To clarify, it won't download the full HTML, only the content part of the webpage. It works by using go-readability[0], which strips unnecessary elements from a webpage.

[0] https://github.com/RadhiFadlillah/go-readability/
Scientific resources online seem to disagree about sound range, which is both wider and more sensitive than human hearing or voices.

http://www.lsu.edu/deafness/HearingRange.html

Cat sensitivity is a good 6 dB more sensitive so even if they're peakier in treble than humans, they still hear human males from further away than humans can hear them. Somewhat intuitively this makes sense, lots of human powered evolution to make dogs work well with males would force excellent hearing of male voices.

Also you can run a reasonably intelligible for all voices telephone service off 300 to 4000 hz for a century or so, so no point debating 50 hz cutoff vs 75 hz or whatever, its vastly wider band than telco standards either way. Something kids under 30 will never experience is before digital vocoders and high bit error rate cell phones, telco voice service was somewhat hi-fidelity almost AM radio sound quality. Maybe someday voice communication will be that high quality again.

Cats of course are very intelligent and can train humans to do all kinds of stuff that is likely very amusing to cats, as per the anecdotes of them training their humans to perform in singsong voices and whatever.
Does this work both ways? So that if British citizens has the right to live in EU, then EU citizens also have the same EU citizenship right to live in Britain?

EU would benefit most if it cooperates with Britain.

According to Prisoners dilemma which is a theoretical game theory construct both EU and Britain will benefit the most from cooperation. Otherwise both EU and Britain will loose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma
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> This system is completely stable—I double-checked with computer simulations.

I would think that's a hilarious joke if the author didn't seem so serious.
To my mind, a co-founder is someone who directly contributes to not only developing the solution to the problem you're facing, but choosing the problem as well. You've already decided on the problem domain (investments), how you're going to solve it (SaaS), and have an understanding of the potential growth models you'd look for (bringing someone in to ramp up sales).

Of course, if you're open to someone only working one day a week on it to come in and challenge all of that and potentially pivot into something else, then they might be a co-founder. But from what you've described, they're a very senior hire (and might not be right, with sales you want to hire for passion, rather than academic smarts), rather than your co-dependent.

I was employee number 3, but I certainly wasn't a co-founder.
And a lot of collisions, resulting in formation of bigger planets.
There’s really not any strong evidence to suggest that was happening. And you can’t test it because all it takes the accusation of racism and some pseudoscience and you’ll be shut down.

The closest thing to evidence referenced in the article is this study: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2016....

It makes some weird comparisons. Why have the heat map of drug users? Police are much more interested in drug dealers, and particularly drug dealers who are likely involved in gangs and violent crime. Unfortunately, those individuals are over represented in minority communities, as are violent criminals more generally.

It also throws around phrases like "historically over-policed communities" without ever actually explaining what that means or why it occurred. There seems to be a general pattern of taking "systemic racism" and equating that to racial discrimination when the two are not the same. There are problems within minority communities which are significant in driving these disproportionate outcomes, and if we just say "racism" and don't look any further that isn't even going to be considered.

If we want to reduce mass incarceration of people for nonviolent crimes, we ought to be reforming the laws, not reducing enforcement just to produce conviction stats we like more. That will almost certainly get people killed.
Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14764125 (91 points, 32 comments)
They pulled them out of AD&D second edition for this reason [1]. In third edition they brought the words "demon" and "devil" back though, and they're still there in the latest edition.

[1] https://archive.org/stream/DragonMagazine260_201801/DragonMa...
Please, no. Just no.

Religions are remnants of the dark, primitive ages of mankind, when lightning was a divine force of wrath, and illiterate masses were easily convinced/forced to lies that would make common people these days laugh. The times where broken/weird albeit convincing people fed the masses things they wanted to hear, although today most of them would end up in insane asylum. We're not out of those ages yet, just look at the daily news.

Mankind will be much better off without them, albeit I realize this is unrealistic dream for next few hundreds of years. All of them are based on emotions, the stronger the emotions the more devout the follower, and reason and logic needs to be left in the drawer.

I see so much little damage done on personalities of the people who were brought up in strict religious environments regardless of which religion, and the brutal crash with modern way of life, freedom and priorities.

People who are damaged for life and torn between feeling guilt for not adhering to something they have been indoctrinated with since childhood by their parents/grandparents, and just simple plain common sense that is really hard to ignore long term.

New religions will come as old will die, it has happened already numerous times and current ones are definitely not first nor second wave. It's a built-in feature of weak human mind, and requires serious mental strength to avoid consistently, especially with indoctrination from childhood.

That said, I respect all people's right for religion, in whatever externally non-harmful shape. Just that any time I look at any of those, I see them as net loss for mankind and every day brings new proofs for this statement (I don't count mainstream Buddhism as religion, more like a life philosophy. If I would be forced to pick one with a gun next to my head, this would be it).
I wouldn't consider this class a state machine in the sense described in the paper.

Any class managing state exclusively is an implicit state machine, no?
I thought I had seen this before....

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14764125

It even links to the same site and the blog was posted by the same guy. I wonder why he's recycling content.
>> Intended as a simple clone of Pocket

Finally, been waiting for so long for this. You have to pay premium to search with the tags....seriously
You don't need to worry about being too soft on the UK, we seem to be driving ourselves off a cliff at the moment. If anything the EU is probably more worried about having a basket case on its doorstep.
> Why use JSMpeg?

> WebRTC is not supported on iOS.

No longer true.
let's connect that with their gene pool and there you have another way of spotting super humans. although i'm not coming from india, congrats!
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The other part that's worrisome, and this could just be me reading too much into it, but it feels like Blackstone4's perspective is slightly paternalistic towards this potential cofounder. He's younger and recently graduated. He wants to push him into a growth area. He talks about giving him equity rather than how much equity the cofounder should get or deserves. But nowhere in the description is what this potential cofounder could bring to the equation. What is the startup missing that this cofounder would add? In what area would this cofounder be the authority because he's more capable than his cofounder?

That makes me wonder whether this person would be an equal in the endeavor or would he always be a second. A cofounder should be someone that covers your weaknesses and can support you during the trying times, because very few startups don't have those times. You should be wary of a dynamic where one person is more of a mentor to the other.
Here's something I wrote just for this purpose a number of years ago. Yes, a CGI script, in BASH no less, producing an endless stream of domain names for your startup.

https://gist.github.com/Yetangitu/83fc77acf3d381a32c40a8f89f...

It even tells you whether the generated names are still available in .com, .net and .info, feel free to add even more specious extensions here.

Running it with a good-sized list of adjectives creates... well, just about the same nonsensical drivel as that which seems to be produced by many other similar tools. This one is free though...

EssentialDuck
AssuredPig
BelovedFrog
ProfitableMonkey
FrontLizard
ColorfulGator
InfiniteDuck

(what? No ...Fish names yet?)

GrandFox

(sorry, taken for .net and .com)

VivaciousPig
FunctionalPig

(for all you Haskell hogs out there)

SuperiorMonkey
RegularMonkey

(taken!)

IllHippo
StarryHound
DiligentGator
IncomparableDonkey

...

Well, you get the drill. It is interesting to note that the list of taken domains seems to be smaller these days compared to when I made this thing, back in the heady days of dot.com.boom. Maybe folks have wizened up to the fact that all those nonsensical names started to look stale fresh out of the wrapper?