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I am a cofounder of a small company that has a patented process for removing oil spills. We are not in the green yet but the only reason we could hold out against the big oil companies in the face of any attempt to take over our technology was the patent. Patents are not the best option, but for truly innovative approaches to problems an inventor has very few options.

The above patent in the OP is egregious, and I can't really support it.

To your point, innovation may happen, but the inventor may not get compensated along the way. Patents try to bridge the gap. They are not perfect, but they do seem to work, in my opinion.
If your startup succeeded, I wouldnt call it overconfidence. Still, if you subscribe to the lean startup philosophy your confidence should be based on cohort analysis and data not gut feelings.

In his book Thinking Fast and Slow he talks about the way we believe things.

When encountering an idea our system 1 believes it automatically and than our system 2 considers the consequences of believing it and decides if you should UnBelieve it.

They found that when system 2 is tied up or exhausted you are more likely to believe something thats false because your system 2 didnt consider unbelieving it. This is why late night commericials and infomercials worked so well.

The danger you describe is in a case of uncertainty having confidence...Daniel Kahneman is talking about a case where you could know forsure but because of a cognitive bias you are overconfident without relying on statistical evidence which may be to the contrary.
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People born between the years of 1957 and 1965 had an average of 11.3 jobs between 1978 and 2010

Lightweights! I've had 88 jobs since 1972.

Once a recruiter told me that everything on my resume was excellent except how often I switched jobs. How could that be?

I told her that was because as soon as anyone gave me undue shit, I quit.

No regrets. On many of them, I probably exercised too much patience and should have left a lot sooner.

(You get one life to live. If it's not the life you want because of your job, do something about it. Time flies.)
It's the only one where vacuuming becomes kind of fun because it actually works
Someone's getting a divorce for Xmas!
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Although in this case, Pao isn't resigning from anything she put blood, sweat and tears into. Rather she showed up to a fully functioning project, kicked a hornets nest she had no right to kick based on a personal worldview of how people should be nice and more notably, profitable for her shareholders on the internet, then she got stung and ran away crying. I'm all for the type of quitting that this article talked about, but I doubt that "routine career failures recast as 'damsel in distress harassment', stemming from rather dubious claims" is what we should aim for. Pao is no role model for me.

Separately, this is just bad writing. If a college student turned this in to me I would write 'good start, delete all the irrelevant stuff about Pao and either use an example that supports the main thesis or don't use an example at all'. The threads linking this paper together are very weak.

I'm guessing 'Pao' and 'reddit' are to drive traffic. Ugh.
When I was coming up as a programmer I had a manager who took a "belts and suspenders" approach to software development. Adding types to JavaScript is not necessary, but I sleep better at night knowing my code is that much closer to being correct.
Imagine private pictures and messages not published. Then, full name, address and credit card information are actually "just" metadata, by the definition we've often heard from the officials. And publishing that is more than enough for those involved to really worry, that's the idea behind the message.

Moreover, the article states "the company didn’t provide information on how much data might have been compromised." Where did you get the info that private pictures and messages are available?
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Well said. I've also reached the point where my job - or any job - feels more like it gets in the way than anything else. In some ways my current gig is a dream job. I get to work from home, part time, doing stuff that's in some ways the culmination of stuff I've been working toward for a long time. As the tech lead for the next major release, I get to explore the best that the project has to offer. Nonetheless, I can only work up a few rare moments of genuine excitement about the whole thing. Working on a large and old codebase, on an infrastructure that's in even worse shape, still subject to someone else's priorities and schedules, is still more draining than energizing. I look forward more and more to the day when I can toss it all and do my stuff my way on no particular schedule at all, without having to worry about whether it makes me any money. Soon.
Plenty of human languages get by with a palette of dark/black, light/white, and red. It's likely that the only we have such a large palette of basic color terms is that we have a large dying/painting industry and can thus compare specific shades easily. Guy Deutscher has a great chapter on this in "Through the Language Glass".
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Look at the last frame, "Title Your Guide". The website/app doesn't provide it's own keyboard wudgut. Why the fuck does it have 3 wudguts to enter a date?

NoGUI.
>Also it stills remains one of the simplest databases to setup and use making it still my goto for hacks/spikes.

Eh, more complex and less secure the sqlite which if you want can store json as string values and provide full text search.
It's a little more subtle than "getting away with sex"

A lot of people in the US proclaim some sort of moral purity and or authority. Others, do not.

This breaks down roughly along party lines, with one party running on moral purity and or authority and the other running on a more general concept of social justice and equality. And that's just for visualizing how it works. There are strong purity factions everywhere.

When the purity people get caught out as unpure the shit hits the fan! When others get caught out, the purity people go nuts, others may or may not have cause to comment, depending on how they evaluate the scenario.

President Bill Clinton is an example of the not running on purity person getting caught in some sex. The purity crowd moved to impeach and we spent a lot of money. In the end, he was not impeached, and the real judgement from the non-purity crowd was he was stupid, got caught, and his wife didn't deserve any of the shit that came of it.

The purity crowd declared him impure, and deserving of the worst.

Wide stance Senator Stevens, "the series of tubes guy" is an example of the purity gone bad. He, along with others, have run on an anti-gay platform, more generally "family values" and got caught soliciting gay sex. Of course the purity crowd went nuts, and so did a lot of the nation on that one.

Reason: Claiming purity while failing to say what one does and doing what one says. Hypocrite was the judgement from the non-purity crowd, and impure, deserving of the worst was the judgement from the purity crowd.

It's important to see that dynamic to understand how bizzare the USA is about sex and related things.

The majority of us are more sensitive to hypocrisy than we are any violations of purity, and the worst is generally to claim high purity, then not actually demonstrate it in how one lives their life.

It's a wonder we got the gay marriage progress we did!

But there is something instructive there. Don't lie about your own moral sensibilities. It's better to be impure and honest than present as pure and not be. Much better.

As more Americans work through this, we see more honesty regarding sex and with that, less overall insanity.

But it's going to be a long while for that to play out more favorably in our society. It may never actually, and that's due to religion. It's not a particular sect or faith. It's just that our First Amendment has the effect of amplifying religion. Given there is no State sanctioned one, religious people see the USA as a free state, ready to be claimed, or saved, or some other thing.

Or, if it's not that, there is just a lot of freedom to get the word out, and so there are a lot of people getting that word out.

The media will play to this because eyeballs mean revenue.

And perhaps that is the last thing I would say. Most Americans aren't so wound up on sex. Enough of us are to present that way in media, because it makes money.
Uh, so if I'm interpreting everything correctly indie developers for Windows/Phone 8/10 can use community edition. The only feature really missing is TFS/Code Lens). That's pretty great! no need for me to keep paying for Professional.

(The Windows 10 stuff won't be available until July 29)
I would not call it a performance hack, it's just a readable way to write an algorithm - most important part of my original suggestion was actually to use x.charCodeAt(i) instead of x[i]
Someone correct me if I am wrong but isn't that last snippet where he returns std::move(localObj) essentially returning an rvalue-ref to a local object? That's like a big no-no because the local object destructs after foo(1) returns.
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The article claims "it’s usually that access to money which allows them to take risks." The article also uses the term "barrier to entry". This is what I was disputing.

The article does also discuss a correlation between people being white, male and highly educated. I don't dispute this correlation. This correlation does not imply that family money is even useful in starting a business; most people who are white, male and educated have no family money.

If you simply want to claim that there is a correlation between being unwilling to live like a college student and not being wealthy, go for it. All you are suggesting is that wealthy people are more willing to deal with adversity in the pursuit of goals than others.
I think she speaks English, French, and Esperanto. IIRC, many of the English words came through Tok Pisin, and English-based creole of New Guinea.
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If you are wondering about intuition, google's deep mind and a number of other companies have applied deep convolutional neural networks for playing go. That is probably the closest to human intuition. Although I am not sure how you play a game on pure intuition, but I'm not a good Go player so I shouldn't comment.
When Uber purchases self-driving cars you'll see that side of things improve.
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This is great for sure. I just wish Linode/Digital Ocean/etc would take notice how much work people are willing to go through to use openbsd on their platforms and provide official images to make things easier. It's obviously a minority of people, but they're also loyal customers willing to go out of their way to run what they want on your platform. Seems like a great move to build community good-will.
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"Actually, I was asking you if you wanted to see a play with me. It was your sick mind that went straight to fucking. I can see that I don't really want to have anything to do with you anymore, since you don't know how to have a normal human conversation. See you in class."

Have some self-respect, man.
All parties involved can be at fault. And lots of people will think that privacy, while very important, is not quite at the same level as marital fidelity.

It's like hearing that a vicious murderous mob boss had his leg shot off. Yes, the person who took his leg ought to be sent to jail, but we might not have much sympathy for the mob boss since his terrible actions led directly to those consequences.
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That idea (at least in the form you mention) becomes redundant when the factories are full of robots.
I looked too, and solve's comments all seemed to be either at the bottom, or below every comment that wasn't downvoted or dead. Do you have a counterexample?

I think it's reasonably likely that rank-banning is real and that solve is rank-banned. I think it's unlikely that ve was rank-banned for pointing out YC's reversal on their stance about board members; but plausible that ve was rank-banned for other reasons, in a comment where ve did that.
> Secondly, I'd wager that many of the users sign up to use Ashley Madison for the thrill of the idea and probably aren't actually cheaters themselves or hooking up with other cheaters. A lot of the users are probably into the idea of roll playing or something similar.

The site charges money to use most of its features. The people who just signed up out of sheer curiosity and have no interest in using it probably aren't paying customers, and as such, don't need to provide personal information.
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How did this make the front page? Isn't this just jquery.draggable()
View all images on one page as a gallery as well:
http://imgur.com/a/Wbu9c?gallery
It may sound odd, but Bulletproof coffee does not work for me at all; maybe the fatty acid profile of butter vs coconut oil are too different, but for me, coconut oil works and butter doesn't.

Note that I have a primary mitochondrial defect, so my nutritional experiments results are always "weird", for the lack of a better word.
> If I try to zoom, it is already a demonstration that your design does not work for me on my device

What? There's plenty of reasons to zoom even if the design is perfect.
To be fair, that they were shot by an officer does not imply that they were killed. Of course I haven't read the statistics in detail, maybe we're only investigating these cases because they were cases where the person was killed. </cynical outlook>
Used for what purpose?

You can probably meet a stranger and exchange some pleasantries on a hike together. You won't write a physics textbook. But languages can be used in different functional domains, and that's fine.
Uh, that's a timeline.

How could the author use the words 'visual history' in the title without at all attempting to display the lineage of languages?

I expected a picture of a tree, or web--not a line.
Two points:

1. Encrypt all database data, decrypt in application.

2. If you only do perimeter defense, you're doing it wrong.
how opinionated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_%28programming_language%2...
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previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9916460
Great plugin. I created something similar but for Twitter (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/emojitwitter/figia...), the only issue I found was the emoji-font or the way to show emojis inside a textarea tag (see extension sample images). OS X and iOS have a great compatibility to show this, but for Windows and Linux I found weird looking emojis.

What could be a good solution for this?
It's pretty simple on Vultr.

https://www.vultr.com/docs/setup-openbsd
Where 'quit' == 'being asked to resign' :-)
Typical.

Free speech! (Until I hear something I don't like!)

Equal rights! (Except for people that are not like me!)
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9915155
If you're on 32-bit systems, you're even more out of luck. With the release of version 3.0, MongoDB dropped commercial support for 32-bit systems. You can still get binaries, but without commercial support they'll probably stop making those for 32-bit systems soon enough.
That's how you should do it, yes. But the OP was talking about increasing privs in the forked process, which would defeat the security.
You're right; I saw the initial story and then stopped reading everything about him, so I missed that the more polite elements were scrubbing his name. My mistake.

If an HN mod sees this, could you anonymize that for me? The comment is no longer editable.
You suggest that when you go to another currency region you're ready to spend without giving much thought to the actual amounts you're pulling out of your pockets? Because if you do care about costs you're presented with, there is no way around the aforementioned "mental arithmetics" (due to the exchange rate, of course).
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What suggested to you that the target audience was “normal persons”?
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I know trans people and spouses of trans people who have done this.

Typically, one of them will come out and begin transition, but the other is 100% straight. They don't want to divorce, since they're still in love, but one of them isn't going to be attracted to the other anymore, so they agree to an open relationship so they can continue to be sexually satisfied while still remaining a couple.
Huh. I have a Dyson vacuum; it works really well vs the other vacuums I've had. Might be a case of "have not bought decent vacuums before", but it does work.
I really like this! But I expected to see some code samples or something next to each description because of the title.
He's making a joke about the NSA
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Ah, good old dehacked! Man, that brings me back...

http://www.aspectsweb.co.uk/dehacked/index.html
That's definitely not possible as that would be an incredibly privacy violation.
It contains .NET 4.6, which is stable and not .NET 5. AFAIK, .NET 5 doesn't exist?
Heh. Some people aren't up to it.
I'm really surprised that there are no technical specifications that would include, say, colour temperature. I've yet to see an LED bulb that produces light anywhere close to the warmth and spectrum spread as a halogen bulb. At $649, I'd definitely need to see that in person.

I'd also be in favour of a 37 year payment plan at $17.54/year.
The arm-chair morality here is mindblowing. Reminds me of when homosexuals developed aids in the 80s; "Serves them right."

I think people need to really stop it with the revenge fantasies for behaviors they dislike. If anything, AM reflects something that might change in society, namely if life-long monogamy makes sense. Many would argue that of course it does, but not too long ago these were the same people calling homosexually immoral as well.

Personally, I find monogamy questionable and from the few discussions I've had on this subject, many feel obligated to be monogamous only because of social convention. Considering the divorce rate, it seems to be the idea of marriage as this lifelong romantic bond may not be compatible with a modern lifestyle. Some of the happiest and most fulfilled people I know are on their second or third marriage or have non-traditional lifestyles in regards to the social contract they have with their SO(s).

Frankly, its none of our business is someone is cheating. Why do we suddenly feel the need to be busybodies in that regard? There's this sad kind of "I can fuck with you with my hax0r skills and report this to your wife" neckbeardism at play here. I wish we lived in a society where people minded their own business. Funny how HN's libertarianism takes a backseat to its largely Christian-Judeo moral roots. I don't see how cheating must compel someone to whistleblow. It just seems like a nerd powertrip to me.

My only issue here is that sex work is somehow still illegal and that means the ladies on AM can be, and probably are, victimized by pimps, human trafficking, etc. Shame that this narrative won't make the press but "OMG CHEATERS" will.
Is it possible to approximate the amount of caffeine based on the beans weight I use for brewing? Before I take any further steps I'd like to know how close to the danger zone I am.
It's definitely an appropriate use of std::move. When the local object destructs std::move has already ripped its guts out and put them in the object up the stack. The local object is just an empty shell at destruction.
I agree with you, but please don't perpetuate the stereotype that bisexuals are inherently unfaithful or incapable of being content in a marriage. Bisexual doesn't mean "must have relationships with multiple genders" it just means "finds multiple genders sexually attractive". Married bisexuals exist, and they don't feel the need to have sex outside their marriages in any greater amount than married straight or gay people do.
Sure. But I'm just stating which I'd rather deal with. Not claiming equivalency....

Does MongoDB allow SQL queries? I didn't know that, but then again, I guess I don't care either. I haven't looked at Mongo in a couple of years after deciding not to use it. I do recall liking the query syntax from the class though.

I haven't messed with JSON features in PostgreSQL yet and have no idea how they work. That's next.
I like this, it's very very neat and what's cool is seeing how the electrical wires and poles are generated and how at some junctions you'll see them criss crossing in an unnatural way, like a city planner or construction crew messed up. It's neat.
RTM = Release to Manufacturing = full version.
There’s also an “Ariel” lamp that doesn’t appear to have any moving parts, but I imagine those fins would be a disaster…
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You're resume would only be a problem if the company was looking for good little worker bees who don't ask questions and who will take shit all day long and ask for more. It's almost the perfect filtering mechanism for crap companies hahah.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MjXNThXAz_A/T29VMoFcBKI/AAAAAAAAAP...

Why is that the picture for J?
Your preconceived notion of the definition of "hacker" might not be broad enough to encompass all of hackerdom.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html

Even that definition is not all encompassing, more of a guide if anything. To be true, the definition of "hacker" is not something system-wide - it belongs to a process...
shrug I can read the text in the images just fine on my 96dpi laptop screen. I suspect that I'm not the only one. :)

Edit: Hell, they're even easier to read at the same view distance on my 216dpi Gen 1 Nexus 7. I'm using Firefox on the laptop and Mobile Firefox on the tablet.
Has anyone done anything interesting with Roslyn to date (v1 is mentioned in the notes)?
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No, because it would be a lot more traceable. Why do you think cryptolocker and its variants are suddenly popular. Bitcoin's relative anonymity allows it.
"Is it adultery if I'm committing it at one end of a guy and he's committing it at the other end of that same guy?"

(Dan Savage, Colbert Report)
You believe it never works out?
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And my point is nobody who knows what they are doing would build it that way. Nobody suggested it ever work that way. OP's doubt on the subject was rooted in a misunderstanding of unix philosophy.
And there would be much rejoicing.
Yeah, but the point is, once the debt is cleared, by being paid or by bankruptcy, the private sector steadily regains its ability to plan rationally and pass information around in price signals. That's why fairly "easy" bankruptcy laws are usually considered more pro-business, while "moralizing" bankruptcy laws, as more often found in Europe, are actually considered to depress the economy (by simultaneously mobilizing vast machinery to pay out on "bad bets" and heavily penalizing business failure, thus increasing the risk-up-front of entrepreneurship and investment).
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Here's a couple of great videos explaining the Fermi Paradox:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNhhvQGsMEc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fQkVqno-uI
Yeah, I have to imagine that this company (or at least its current brand incarnation) is done. The primary thing that they're selling is discretion. That trust can't be rebuilt.