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Ask HN: Managing Success
I have had a rush of success in less than a year and a half of working in web development - I've gone from entry-level to senior level in that period of time with no CS education, but I've run into an unexpected situation.

It has become difficult to talk with friends about things going on in my life because it contrasts sharply with most professions in the success curve.

There is the option of holding it in and not talking to anyone about it, but it can eat at you not being able to talk about it to friends. It seems like conversation that can only really be brought up with fellow professionals.

Is one just forced into split personas in order not to create awkwardness in conversation with friends? How do others deal with the sudden influx of success?
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This is awesome, but they are not making enough.

I still get MBA types saying: 'can you build this app for me plz?'

I don't think they want it built, else they'd do it.
Interesting. I hope this is one step closer to Apple opening up a "Beta" App Store, where every developer can submit betas without waiting for app review.
I'm guessing that they didn't learn that, but we may get a chance to run the experiment again. Greed is greed. Growing up in Vegas I watched as people lost their savings more than once. The thought "this time I'll stop when I'm ahead" totally conflicted with "this isn't the peak, just a bit more."

I learned to diversify more (event he "bluechip" tech companies had issues in the dot com bubble) and set reasonable performance targets for my portfolio. But mostly I learned that selling when you hit your target or your failsafes is essential to keeping sane.
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The car was incrementally "invented" by a huge number of people, while Ford created alone an entirely new kind of industry.
If you allow your definition of "language" to include those that output the same fixed string for any input, then yes, much silliness will ensue. But of course, this has nothing to do with Kolmogorov, and everything to do with the fact that you often get silliness when you redefine words into meaninglessness.
There is actually a decent open source, third party Go plugin for Intellij that works pretty well. Our team has been using it successfully on a fairly large project.

It's slightly annoying to setup, but absolutely worth it.
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You guys should consider making an API for this. It would be awesome to have an API that inputs images via url and outputs the text of said image.
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For some reason I thought that was where I got the autocomplete from, but as you've pointed out it's totally unrelated.
> In a sense that’s kind of like what a human can do: we can recognize that a sign,

Oh god... how does it finish! I need closure!

(PS: this is awesome)
Well, my initial claim was that Lisp needs macros in a way that C/C++ doesn't. You are now stating that Lisp could have been written in a way that it didn't need macros to be usable. And you're right, it could have been. But I don't think that that's the point.

The point is not that implementing things as macros is a weakness. It's that the language (as written) needs those macros. And C, as written, does not.

But I suppose from your point of view, my argument is a distinction without a difference...
It is considered "edge sorting" because that is exactly what it is. This isn't new, and if you mention the term to any gaming regulator or supervisor they know exactly what you are talking about.
No I mean I already have two physically separate servers; one with the web service (Apache/Nginx + Rails/PHP/whatever), one with the database. The webserver handles the hashing of passwords as they come in, then sends it to the database for storage.

You're starting make me feel odd for not having the database on the same server as the web service now. I feel we've probably got some crossed wires here...
I suppose my main gripes are that moving is not free, you can reuse moved-from objects, and there is no story for checked borrowing of unique_ptrs—you have to use raw pointers or weaken the ownership semantics to shared_ptr so that you can use weak_ptr for safe borrowing. Not to mention that shared_ptr is often semantically questionable and used as an inefficient alternative to a garbage collector.
Isn't GitHub Enterprise self hosted?

I'd imagine the main reason to go with GitLab is that it's free. GitHub Enterprise costs more than Stash (although it offers more).
rahimnathwani is spot on with my interpretation.

Absolutely only start a business because you are driven to make something people want, customers & users love, and to create wealth for you, your partners/ shareholders/ stakeholders involved.

My point re YC is that decision should not be made by weighing the pro's and con's of the money and equity stake you will give up for it (vs other investors for example). The investment money is a tiny fraction of the total value/ resources that YC brings to the table.
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> There is something faulty with that proof, or rather it proves something other than what it is assumed to, but Kolmogorov complexity itself is still valid.

Well, Kolmogorov complexity depends on language choice, there's no way around that and the invariance theorem doesn't say anything different. It's more subtle than that, so we have to be precise.

The invariance theorem shows that given languages L and M, there's a constant c such that for any string x, |K_L(x) - K_M(x)| <= c. Intuitively, that constant c is the program size of an M interpreter in L (or vice versa). It's easy to see how K_L(x) can't be larger than <an M interpreter in L> plus <the shortest M program that outputs x>.

What this means is that given sufficiently large and complex strings x, K_L(x) is very close to K_M(x), because c is constant and finite, while you can construct a string x with arbitrarily large K_L(x). This gives us confidence that K_L measures something "real", even though our measurement is relative to the (arbitrary) definition of L.

Of course, for short programs, the constant factors dominate. You won't get a shorter Ruby program for your 30 character string by implementing a full Perl interpreter. In this case, the constant difference c is so large relative to |x| that the invariance theorem, while technically correct, is basically pointless.
Well maybe my example is unlikely, although one could argue that the YC brand is worth something in that it will let you raise more from other investors. However, it doesn't need to be so extreme, just that companies that are further along are less risky to YC and it seems strange for YC to artificially offer higher than market prices to said company thus lowering demand. Why would YC want fewer lower risk companies and more high risk ones? The incentives don't seem rational to me.
But that means for every legitimate mailing list you're on, you get one spam. And you lose the legitimate mailing list just because their token got compromised.

Dunno, I feel like we should just charge for mailing lists too. Or use usenet!
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This. A previous article stated that Ivey and his friend talked the dealer into rotating some cards (6s 7s 8s and 9s) prior to the first shuffle.
But see, that's more or less my point.

In Lisp, you can write it in an afternoon. But in Lisp, because the language (sans macros) doesn't give you much, you have a bunch of things that you have to do that way. In C, because the base language gives you more, you have enough that you don't have to write the features that you need. (Granted, this doesn't work if your goal is to reduce boilerplate code to zero...)
Just to be clear, these are people with either a BS or a BA in Computer Science, right?
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I wouldn't want to limit the password a user supplies. Any password should work, including 1 byte or 1 gb passwords. Restrictions of any form have always just caused more problems than they've solved.

But the solution I've favored is hashing the user's password on the client with a hash that provides enough significant bits that your key derivation on the server is not weakened. This way you get the benefit of not needing to deal with differences in transmission size and the user's plaintext password is never exposed to any listener (regardless of whether the connection is secure, or believed to be secure).
Right, I just deleted what I could, which I tend to do when I disagree very strongly with the community here on some specific point. I emailed you answers to your remaining questions, happy to continue there.
This proof doesn't show that Kolmogorov complexity of any fixed string is 0, it shows that Kolmogorov complexity of any fixed string is constant (which is trivial). That is obscured by an abuse of notation which makes arguments about Kolmogorov complexity easier to parse in 99% of cases. So, imho, this post isn't very substantial - it's essentially a garden variety "1 = 2" sort of argument.
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Having to switch to the other side of the street or having to circumvent a dangerous block is a loss of freedom, a kind of coercion born of inequality, normalized by the very inconsiderate and self-serving illusion that everybody starts life with a similarly equivalent set of cards.

Yes, I think so too.
A use-case is "some people insist on making large commits". In a perfect world, maybe otherwise, but not this one.
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There's also the case of the passionate but incompetent. I'm not sure if this is what you're talking about, but I can think of one person I worked with who had the best of intentions and was highly motivated but was just utterly, hopelessly incompetent.
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The rich have begun to work longer hours than the poor?
Yes, exactly. I think the difficulty is that the invariance theorem talks about any two fixed languages - then we can bound the difference between them - but the article here talks about all possible languages. If you consider them all at once, things do seem peculiar, but it's meaningless: Considering any one is sufficient, and the invariance theorem justifies that by showing that no other one would be better.
I've described the safe (to angels/ some hesitant investors) as effectively an option to invest at the next equity round at a fixed price.

or more accurately a valuation ceiling.
Hah, there was a similar case in Vegas where the face cards had a darker back than the non-face cards[1] and some players noticed it, and started exploiting it. Of course no suits were filed, they just told the players not to come back.

[1] The mechanism was root caused to printing the front of the card first, then the backs, the card company did this to save money (fronts were all the same but the backs were different) but all of the face cards were on one side of the sheet so as the sheet went through the rollers the face cards (which have more ink on them) slowed the cards down slightly giving a slightly darker back (I couldn't tell the difference but folks said they could)
Any chance of getting custom template editing for the mobile sites?

Would love to add some buttons to page and what not.
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It would also be helpful to have resources regarding the type notation that he uses. I imagine that the notation is the same regardless of the language you use to apply it, but I'm not in a position to be sure. E.g. http://learnyouahaskell.com/types-and-typeclasses
No, because “blurriness” (low local contrast) may indicate something besides a particular depth.

Consider, for instance, a head-on photograph of a print of a shallow-focused photo. The region that print embodies will have plenty of variation in contrast, but exist at a single depth. Also, consider that blurring increases in both in front of and behind the center of focus; how could we tell which depth the blurring indicated?

Something similar to what you suggest is, however, done in software autofocus, which can take repeated samples at different focal distances to clear things up. Maybe that’s something to think about, e.g. for a static subject. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autofocus#Contrast_detection
"estimated 31 billion pennies that are still in circulation"

"The Finance Department of Canada estimates that melting down the metal from the pennies and reselling it in the industrial sector will bring in $42.5 million in revenue."

So, they're going to buy $310m worth of pennies, melt them down, and sell them for $42.5m? That doesn't seem like a worthwhile exercise.
It's way clearer. Is there a book or a resource on the web to learn about startup funding?
That works but it's not exactly an easy upgrade path.
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Scott writes very well. And he writes some of the lengthiest technical posts I have read. I find writing one paragraph of technical writing akin to chewing diamonds. Don't know how he does it. I have been lurking on his blog for some time and I have learned a great deal.
This scheme, also, was imperfect: it made a few high-value cards look different, but only over time (and I'm not sure the dealer's indulgence rotated every card, or just some).

Even if all the high-value cards were the only ones rotated, it didn't reveal exactly which value would be next, only that it would be one of the more-interesting ones. And that much information didn't guarantee a win, just a better chance of a win, when all the other (unpredictable) cards came out. (There are no choices in this game other than how much to bet, on either the 'player' or the 'dealer'... so only one card's worth of extra info, the top card in the shoe, at the beginning of each round.)

So it's all still just statistical.

Also, apparently Ivey never touched the cards: he requested the dealer reorient them, and under the full observation and assent of the casino. (It wasn't a secret side conspiracy with the dealer.)
No, the very essence of anonymity is have no tie to one's physical identity.

No reputation or information is a recipe for meaninglessness; as a reader I have neither the time nor the tools to fully evaluate every statement ever made to me; I must use heuristics to aid my reading (e.g. I will almost certainly ignore anyone who claims the moon landings were hoaxes; it's not worth my time to investigate his claims).

I'm actually very excited by the idea of anonymous reputation, as it could enable all sorts of the things needed to have a well-run global network without enabling physical assaults on persons.
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1. Yes that's what they said. The average included those who accepted job offers.

2. After paying $20,000 a year and/or going in to debt.
Amazon currently describing these as "issues affecting a small number of instances". Anyone else had a server down for over an hour now?
How much "fixing up" can you do in a long weekend and still find time for all the other activities?
Ah, I see! Thanks.
> "It's a sad but basic truth that we need identity and ability to accumulate reputation to be able to hold a meaningful, informative conversation."

Not true. We do not need to accumulate reputation to have a meaningful conversation. For example, I've seen informative conversations on Secret with the only identity mechanism being the icon they're assigned (presumably at random per thread).

Edit: I also don't recall usenet having a mechanism that 'kept score'. Slightly before my time so I may be wrong about this.
I was such a happy camper when the Mac version of Stacker came out. That was the one thing I envied about my DOS friends.
Seeing increasingly large #'s of comments like that in the App Store from 4 and 4S owners.
Actually the HN community is politically deeply divided. Complaints about its bias thus tend to contradict one another. For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7630388 says much the opposite.

Many flags on political stories and flamewars come not from users with opposing politics but from users who, regardless of their politics, don't think HN is the place for them. It's a "pox on both their houses" thing.
Because all of my thoughts are represented someway in the physical world. My thoughts are just neurons interacting.

Now, if you are suggesting that my thoughts are somehow outside of the physical world... well, it still wouldn't work with a deterministic world.

If the universe is 'deterministic', that means that given the current state of the universe, there is only a single path the universe can progress down. Every future state of the world is 'determined' by the current state. For example, the location of the water bottle on my desk could be 'determined' if we had perfect knowledge of the state of the universe. However, if I had free will, I could choose to move that water bottle to somewhere else. The universe is no longer deterministic.
I have a feeling that if you just make the OCR better, a lot of users are going to use this for entering CAPTCHAs...
A couple notes that aren't related to the content of the post:

1) The graphs are not presented in a way that makes them easy to consume. The font is too small, the bars are too densely combined, the axis labels are not descriptive enough ("percentage of emails posted"), and there is no discernible ordering of the bars (alphabetical, by value, etc). Presenting your data in an a way that is easy to consume is just as important as having worthwhile data to present, because a general audience like this isn't going to struggle to parse those plots, they are just going to move on.

2) Considering you are doing data analysis with Python, you should check out pandas (http://pandas.pydata.org/). It will not only make the data easier to work with, but it will do plotting for you with better defaults than you have chosen, and you will drastically cut down on having to write matplotlib code (a worthwhile benefit!).
I can easily concede that NIF results are too recent and still under scrutiny. However, JET's peak output was 65% of input, and these are results solid enough to justify scaling JET up with the ITER project. 65% is on the same order of magnitude, not four orders of magnitude away.

Reference:http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_power

I know it was for a short period, but 0.5 seconds is enough to prove the concept, and this was the objective then. They did another experiment at a quarter of the output for five seconds, and both were limited by the design of the tokamak not targeting long runs (it's a scientific reactor).
I have to wonder in such cases as what you describe, and the lawsuits against Gemaco: who owns the card company? Or who might have compromised the company's manufacturing and quality-control?

(There was another lawsuit against Gemaco, for not providing decks that were pre-shuffled as required: http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/atlantic-city-casino-loses-law... )
IIRC at one point the AIM server started doing a challenge: "send me N bytes at offset X of the aim.exe binary". I recall the open-source AIM clients themselves set up a service that would return substrings of the binary so that their open-source clients could continue to login without needing to ship a copy of the binary.
Time is not as relevant as energy when we are talking about people whose jobs have a huge strain.
On android, my display jumped around about four times before the pop-up. And then I was done.

I wish responsive ui did not mean draw things as quickly as possible so that you can redraw them later as the user begins to interact. </rant> </sorry>
Why wouldn't it? The author of the file will be the copyright holder by the virtue of authoring it. If she does not get rid of it, she still remains the copyright holder. Copyright does not switch owners purely by the virtue of distribution with another piece of work.

IANAL.
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If you're making 6 figures as a sophomore, have you considered putting in apps to transfer to some of the top tier selective colleges? Couldn't hurt.
I don't think any dealer or casino would agree to a total re-orientation before the first shuffle/game.

My impression from prior coverage was that the rotation occurred as the cards were revealed during play, so that on each next shoe, more and more (potentially all ) of the intended cards were reversed.
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It's pretty clear on the west coast of NoDak.
*edit:
After looking at it for a tish longer, I can see all three borders quite clearly. Being a North Dakota native may help.
Well, if they take $310 million in currency out of circulation, they can mint (say) 310 million loonies without devaluing the currency. So if the metal in 100 pennies is worth more than the metal in a loonie they make a profit.
question is: does it fix the infamous kernel_task problem?
I wish posts like this reduced their content to more concise descriptions so more people would finish reading them.
GitHub isn't a 'single point of failure' due to the distributed nature of Git. I.e. it's pretty easy to push your codebase to another server anytime you want.

If this service backs up submodules for 3rd party dependancies this might be useful but as it stands the landing page doesn't give any further information. I don't feel incentivised to login with GitHub OAuth.
oh alright thanks
Basing a concrete definition of Kolmogorov complexity on the lambda calculus rather than Turing machines has many advantages.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_lambda_calculus for a concrete definition, and a proof that the complexity of the prime numbers is at most 167 bits.

This language can be implemented in only 25 lines of C.
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They'll save money in the long run in not printing the pennies at a loss.

Also, by buying them back from the banks it's the government that takes the hit for the cost of de-circulating the penny, rather than the banks or the consumer. If private industry were taking the hit, people would fight tooth and nail against retiring the penny.
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Actually the HN community is politically deeply divided. Complaints about its ideological bias thus tend to contradict one another. For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7626420 says much the opposite.

You're right on the important thing, though. It's too much to expect HN to "objectively assess a topic that is under heavy propaganda from all sides". Objective assessment requires time, calm, reconsideration, and a high ratio of information per conclusion—plus a discourse in which people respond first to what is true in others' comments rather than to what is false in them. That bar is too high for an internet forum, or at least this one.
I don't think they're buying them back, just re-circulating the currency in larger denominations.
As someone who used to dabble in Hotline servers, you could make enough bank to pay for your internet with those "find this word" directions. Most people would do it if they really wanted the stuff on the server, or they could pay, or they could upload. Really, it became a self-sustaining system.
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