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> If you're wealthy, highly employable, and culturally compatible it's easy. Everyone else gets a big fat "no".

From what I can US the US still says no even if you meet the above criteria.
Do you need a Mac to use this? The getting started guide says you need Xcode.
Around here, bootstrapped companies with a successful, but not world-shattering, income stream and business model are referred to--sometimes pejoratively, sometimes not--as "lifestyle businesses." I'm not aware of many aside from Atlassian who, in the purely-tech software-y space, really would have the kind of income streams to suggest HN's definition of "startup".

And those kinds of business are much more my thing, so I am not throwing shade, but there is a difference.
Some consider it an ideology called “Economism”
Depends on the project. Yes, some take decades.
Harvard's Insane Attack on Police
Judging from the commentary surrounding the piece, it seems like it was mostly tongue in cheek. I think something productive to take away from the piece is to sincerely ask whether any of the points he raises are valid, and I think some of them are.
I think it's patently clear who is telling the voters how to vote. People usually call those by "the media" or something like that.

It is also clear who is telling the media what to say.

The one thing that is not clear at all is how much the media actually influence voters. I don't think there's as much influence as the OP was trying to convey, but well, as I said, this is not clear.
He does, but you're so distracted by the fucks that you didn't notice ;)
it depends, if you have experience with similar style of language than learning syntax and starting to contribute is easy may be 1-2 days. However "knowing" involves learning how it is implemented and how the tooling works underneath. Which can easily take 2-3 years.
>The only thing I got from this post is that I want to seriously avoid working with a person who expresses themselves in such an unproductive way.

God forbid somebody's frustration with BS isn't productively expressed!
Absolutely. I lived in China and Spain, and am about to move once again. Those experiences have given me perspective on the world and on myself, gave me self-confidence when I was able to succeed in a foreign environment against international competition, built my character and drive. It ultimately gives me a non-negligible advantage over my peers when it comes to job-hunting. It does have downsides because leaving Family & Friends is tough at times, homesickness, etc.

My personal 2 cents is, think about your motivations. Don't do that just because of a calculation.
Why humans need stories
I thought the point was more that the types described in the article were all about consuming self-help or experience books, like Gladwell or Lean Startup, and weren't books by Dostoevsky or books on business case studies or something that actually required critical thinking skills.
HA HA, I thought you are talking about real language. Anyway, I have learnt to read japanese in 20 days, in order to read novel in japanese. Today, I still don't speak fluently since I didn't particularly interest anything other than some reading.

It is pretty similar experience to learning a programming language. You can cram yourself to be productive on a new language in a week. But to master a language, you have to expose yourself into different situation when use the language. You can be good at using python to write some machine learning code, but how about a web application? How about writing qt? And also different size of a similar project need dramatically different architecture.

English is not my first language, so it is pretty similar situation. I can talk professionally as a software engineer. I can write a HN post that anyone can understand (or maybe not). I can read news, article about technology etc. But when I try to read literature such as novel, I found myself I don't have enough set of vocabulary in this setting to comfortably read without constantly checking dictionary. I cannot flirt a girl in English whose first language is English. So, obviously I don't claim myself mastering in English because I cannot use English effectively in all situation and social settings. But who does anyway if it is a second language? Similar to programming language, you just cannot master a language without knowing all or at least most aspect of different application and pitfall on implementation. Even the language inventor can't do that I believe.

So, the point taken is use a language to be productive enough on your setting is enough as a goal. You can aim to adopt more different situation if you want improvement. But perfect is the enemy of good.
I'm in Qc too, in Québec city. May I ask what language do you guys use ? Thanks.
Went to China at 30, became fluent in mandarin, saw the unbelievable transformation of the nation, started 3 businesses, studied martial arts, met hundreds of new people, including well known luminaries, and met my wife and had a kid before I came back to the US after 8 years. The experiences there forged me into a much better person, with the skills to land a very rare job opportunity here in the states.
Gödel and the unreality of time
Just because you don't have a co-founder doesn't mean you can't talk with other people about your startup.

I am a solo founder and I spent a lot of time talking to friends in my industry and early employees.
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(1), (2), and (3) are true of Certificate Transparency.

(1), (2), and (3) are true of a system where a single trusted coordinator gets to order (and perhaps reject) transactions. A slightly less anonymous version of any electronic stock exchange would count.

(1), (2), and (3) are true of the Debian apt repository.

(1), (2), and (3) are true of any game without secret information, like chess or Go or Pretty Pretty Princess.

You could call all of these "blockchains," but I think that makes the term so generic as to be useless. If you want a national public ledger, that sounds interesting, but please call it a national public ledger, not a blockchain.
Canada's done all right in terms of music exports. I don't even know Western popular music all that well and I can name Bryan Adams, Shania Twain, Celine Dion, Justin Bieber, and Drake - I'm sure there's many more.

Hollywood and American TV has a ton of Canadian actors, which reminds me of the Canadian brain drain article from yesterday - maybe that's not restricted to tech :-)

"Asia (outside of Japan)" I can only speak to India. I'd say yoga and various forms of meditation (TM and some others) are pretty big in the West, as is Indian cuisine. People typecast Bollywood as this exotic industry that churns out musicals with no kissing scenes (both outdated info) but its exports are reasonably influential in the Middle East and parts of Africa. But yes relative to its size, India hasn't had much cultural influence upon the world in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Yes and Yes.

I've written a bit about it here:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/a-western-kid-living-in-communis...

Later followed by a 5 year stint in Canada that I've yet to really write about and another 2 years in Bucharest, Romania.

Original base is NL.

What's been good/bad about it could fill a book, and it changed my perspective on life in so many ways that each and every day it still surprises me.

For one thing: in every country people take stuff for granted that elsewhere is hard to impossible to achieve or come by. Those things are simply 'normal' and nobody thinks twice of it. And elsewhere in the world people are dying or hardly able to function for lack of those 'normal' things.

Remember this whenever you turn on the light, up the heat, open a tap and clean water comes out or go out to vote on election day.
> the win probability will always be >0.5 so long as the "prior" probability distribution has a nonzero probability of being between Alice's two numbers.

Wow. This is the key piece of information that makes the problem interesting, IMO. That's quite unintuitive.

If you know anything at all about how your opponent chooses numbers, you win in the long term.
One way to see what he sees more often is, whenever you see something that sounds like causation, ask yourself whether it really is correlation - reverse the direction of implication, or consider if there might be a third reason that explains both.
I’m currently in my final week of a semester exchange program in Singapore (from Midwest USA). Even though I’m a student I might have a little different perspective.

As background I’ve already traveled quite a bit with 15 countries and 45 states so I knew a little what I was getting into.

I generally have loved to travel, but this 6mo period has actually made me find some limits and has been pretty tough. I really found some things that make me very uncomfortable culturally and realized I can’t live anywhere I want like I thought I could. I’ve ad some not as good experience here due to several factors, but I’d do it again even knowing that. You really find your limits and the world opens up a lot more. One of the major things for me is even though you can make friends anywhere, if I lived abroad longer I’d have to go where I know at least a friend or 2 already to help me establish roots there. Friends really make or break wherever you are.
F*ck ranty clickbait tech bro stories on Medium?
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Yes. After checking Wikipedia I was referring to the edge flipping operation which is described in the “flip algorithms” section. So there's also a divide and conquer algorithm in the article, but it needs extra steps to fix the divide edge. Was that what you were talking about?
I'm from southwestern Virginia, but I spent a month at a time for several years with my family in Italy in my teenage years, mostly in the same small town, and later lived in Lausanne, Switzerland for five years while working for the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Mind you, my parents are from the US, went to grad school in England, spent a lot of time on the continent, and my (homeschooled) education reflects that, so it's hard to say the effect on me.

I think the most valuable aspect has simply been experiences and viewpoints that serve as counterexamples when I am thinking about how society is organized.
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I think if you take away the f words, all he is really doing is describing the startup culture, company he works in, nothing more. Albeit in a weird humorous way, maybe to get quick popularity on medium or raise up the coolness factor? In the end he pretty much sums it up as, thank you for making me one of you, just worded differently. Some people just like attention..
How many non-engineers would you expect to take the interest/time to investigate rainbow tables after this? Also, if you follow the link to the actual presentation (https://sudo.pagerduty.com/for_everyone/#hashing for the lazy) then you'll see the author DOES indeed call it hashing, before switching to "magic" so as to make it easier for individuals without a technical background to not have to constantly think about what the term means.

Also, if you continue to RTFA,

> That said, I didn’t want to mislead people. So we chose to be clear to them that there is a technical term; it’s just not going to be important for the rest of the content.

If it's someone job to provide reports/updates on something related to the concept, yes they should know it, for anyone else in a non-technical role, why does it really matter?
Why do airline seat headrests seem designed to crank your head forward? That's the single most uncomfortable thing about them for me, and these new designs look like they do the same thing.
Linux Sucks. Forever – Filmed Live at Linux Fest NW – April 28, 2018
To quote one of Akin's laws which were on HN yesterday, "better is the enemy of good".

It's really good when one technology is used throughout an organization to achieve the same purpose. At some point, the technology you use is actually good enough, and incremental improvements to "keep up with the times" are simply distractions from the real work. And if at some point you find that your tech has truly stagnated, at least you're stagnated together, and can modernize together at the same time.
Japan has a lot of immigration, if not emigration. Within the country, it is a lot easier to see what is imported into (e.g. Indian food) than exported from Japan.
Its available behind a a flag. angularCompilerOptions.enableIvy

This article had more on it https://blog.ninja-squad.com/2018/05/04/what-is-new-angular-...
Survivorship bias. What we don't see is the total proportion of failed startups.

If 95% of solo-founded startups fail outright before raising any venture capital, but only 80% of co-founded startups do, these numbers don't really mean anything -- you're better off finding a co-founder in terms of raw career success and entrepreneurial potential.

The only relevant information here is that once startups have gone through some sort of basic fundraising filter, solo-founded startups are more common than not. I would hazard a guess that there are a lot more solo-founded startups at the top of the funnel than in stage two. Let's see attrition rates at each stage (Founded, Angel, Seed, Series A, Series B, [...], Exit).

(That said: I generally agree with the statement that you don't need a co-founder. If you have the ability to execute, build and let a co-founder "find you" if necessary.)
British National here: Making use of the EU's freedom of movement, I lived in Finland but after a 3yr stint back in the UK (London) I now live in Sweden and have for the last 3.5~ years.

I feel like I haven't assimilated as much as I should but! to answer your question: it was/is very valuable, to see how other peoples approach life, to see subtle differences between how people handle things commonly- you pick up life tips that make being human a little easier. Simple things that are obvious in retrospect.

However, I'm not sure what the alternative would have been if I had stayed in London.. Without a frame of reference it's hard to know if it's was /more/ valuable than the alternative.
> I understand this argument if you're trying to model the efficiency in nD space (through splines, histograms, moments etc), but that's usually done when you're fitting to n variables, e.g. in an amplitude fit. If you just want the efficiency of a cut on the score from an MVA algorithm, I don't think it matters. What definitely matters is that the behaviour on simulation reproduces that of real signal as faithfully as possible.

You might have a point there.
This is the security culture infosec has been trying to get everyone to do.
Wikipedia cites what looks like a mirror of Nakamoto's original Bitcoin source, which uses "block chain" in the comments of main.h: https://github.com/trottier/original-bitcoin/blob/master/src...
I can't code, but if someone interrupts me when I'm imagining, it's gone.
> Don't do that just because of a calculation.

I'd say that doing it is more important than what your motivation is. Your motivation will last for a very short while once you are confronted with the reality of life abroad, you will need to be able to adapt and find your groove even absent whatever your motivation was or you'll be back in your home country before the week is out.
Right, but cron works everywhere. Also, I can’t say i’ve ever had the thought “you know what cron needs? A steep learning curve and dependency management system.” That’s nuts. Cron isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.
A book a week is easy if you don't have anything else to do. I used to read a book every 2-3 days when I was in highschool. Now with kids and family and my company going nuts I'm lucky if I can get 10 pages in per night.
Agreed. I agree with most of the points in this post, but I can’t get behind this one.

I read 1-2 books a week because I prioritize reading time. Usually an hour or two before going to sleep. I find quiet reading time really helps me wind down and sleep better. And, I read thing I enjoy - mostly science fiction novels, nothing heavy. Reading is my time.

More people should make time to just read.
In Minnesota (and maybe a couple other states) DUI offenders are given a special license plate for their car. They're easily identifiable by their plain white background and the fact that every one of these plates starts with the letter 'W', which gives them the name "whiskey plates".

Police officers in Minnesota used to be able to pull over any whiskey plate car without needing any reason to do so, which was eventually found to be unconstitutional by the state supreme court.

http://www.careydwidefense.com/MN-Whiskey-Plates.html
Second most elegant use of fucks, after the Wire scene.
Ah, cool! That's really quite interesting!
Sandboxing Docker with Google's GVisor
There is a couple that is living on a small boat with kids.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-sun-0802-balanci...
Lived and studied in Scotland for 9 months (I am from Germany) when I was 22. Dunno if that counts as "extended". It certainly helped me to become a bit more adult and a lot more independent and confident. 10/10 would recommend :)

Positive side effect: I now understand Trainspotting without subtitles, which did it not before :)
> pushing to production 100 times a day

Its just automation -- nothing to be bragged about. Silly stuff we all love.
That’s a distinction I never understood but makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the explanation.
Currently going on two years in SE asia. Midwest -> North Africa -> PVD/NYC/Boston area -> SE asia.

Good: Cheaper cost of living, meeting people from all over the world, observing/learning the ways of people and cultural feedback loops.

Bad: always takes some adjusting to, esp language.

Hasn't really changed my perspective of various parts of life, even through the differences, people don't really behave imaginably different esp wrt most going along with the status quo of their local environments.

Valuable? We all have different functions for evaluation of such when it comes to anything in our lives.
NB (from lobsters)

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/garnet/+/master/go/src/nets...

The network stack is the same one used in Fuchsia.
As much as I hate Disney these days, I've always wondered why they've had extremely limited success stepping into Nintendo's domain -- and why they haven't tried to partner / aquire.
"baked" and "arbitrary": that about sums up SystemD (because software that hobbled deserves to be camel cased) development.

> I can't imagine using a legacy solution anymore.

Good thing sane people are improving on the legacy space then, with mcron--the subject of the link before someone had to mention SystemD--being a case in point.
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Thanks, sqlbot is great.
Why do you have a problem with the company buying people a beer on some days? would you also object to a company meal put to celebrate a major release.

I've never seen people forced to drink alcohol at social events BTW.

In the real world you have to realise that not everyone is exactly like you and how to get along and work with people from different backgrounds and cultures.
Where in Germany did you end up in? Doing consulting or got hired fulltime? I moved to Germany (Berlin) from Estonia a few years ago and yes, it's been a great experience. Other than the constant paperwork and getting used to the high taxes. I'm a java, python & go developer/product builder/consultant. Feel free to contact to stay in touch.
The farther/further u go (and for at least 2-3+ months, better 6-12+, relying mostly on your self), the more you will know about yourself and your compatibility with the new, and the old place. Things that have been protruding a lot, in your "eyes" (both as negative and positive) at old place might later seem negligible, and other things to become the true highest mountain peaks. Same for the the new place, but only after u move elsewhere/back.

Note: "farther" is not just geographical notion, cultural distance might be a lot more overhelming. Think

https://geerthofstede.com/culture-geert-hofstede-gert-jan-ho...

https://www.hofstede-insights.com/product/compare-countries/

(Where to and from : .bg .au/3.5yr .bg/10yr .au/3m .bg/+, with few 1-3month stays in other places in asia/europe)

And beware, after staying 3-4+years elsewhere it seems difficult to move back. Some psychological frontier i guess.. YMMV.

have fun
It's all your fault, sorry. I have kids and family and a company too.
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> Voters wanted wars and a surveillance state after 9/11.

It could be argued that voters were manipulated towards that point of view.
For me, the value came from learning the customs of the others. Challenging what I took as obvious opened my eyes to the lines along which societies can vary.

One example was to see different ways universities operate in respect to undergraduate students, for example the amount of socializing they are, incidentally or on purpose, forced into. The differences in prestige boils down not to the level of teaching, but to opportunities students are given, becoming a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy.

Living in another country means that sooner or later one will crash into beaurocracy and the health system, which works differently everywhere, giving appreciation to things that one might have hated before.

And finally, there's the pure "feel" of the place. Admittedly, it's possible to live in places with different "feels" without going abroad, and get most of the variation, but it's even more pronounced when the demographics, general approach to the world, weather or legislation are different.

In the very least, moving around helped me understand what is important to lead a happy life. Totally valuable.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, but the very page you link to contradicts what you're saying. The author of this piece has made no error, you're just misunderstanding.

As your linked page explains, "otaku" was an old honorific that became slang for anime/manga/sci-fi geeks in the 1980s.

>The word is closer to "geek". How would 銃オタク (gun otaku) fit under the media umbrella of manga, anime, or video games?

Because, again as your link notes, over time the term expanded beyond its original association with media to mean intense fans of anything. Hence, "gun otaku".

You may want to reread your link, as you seem confused on the subject.
People do it anyway for giggle value.

I was using "Pentia" as the plural for "Pentium" soon after the original chip dropped.
The author of the article is a professional translator that has lived in Japan for 15 years. It's hard taking this criticism seriously when your authority here is Wikipedia as opposed to living in-country for a decade and a half.

His statement was in reference to the origin of the term, whose meaning has evolved over the years. Wiki isn't wrong, but neither is the author.