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*Marketing - not CS

Location: Boulder, CO

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Digital marketing, analytics

Résumé/CV: linkedin.com/in/npatrick1 - Student graduating in may '16, currently at a digital marketing agency, experienced in digital marketing, startups, and data!

Email: nathan . patrick at colorado dot edu

If anyone in marketing/related places has advice or wants to chat about my career path, please shoot me an email too!
I hope to make that easier with Fisherman. You can install any "package" or snippet if you have an URL. There is also the Fisherman Index with packages you can get by their name.

Sorry, but I like this one https://github.com/bucaran/shark ^^
> Every aspect of the field comes down to asking questions about physical resources and their uses.

Nope. Moving 200 million in rock or 200 million in a paper check (or even a promise-based conversation). The extractable amount/usage of Labor and Resources outstrip the human ability to account for it. This has less to do with physics and more to do with "accounting". Without accounting you cannot have negative wealth, for example. This is not tied to physics. This is based on social contracts...all the way down to the currency.

I am a little interested in this physics-based economy you speak of.
Diary of a Disaster: General Magic Goes Poof (2004)
Donald Trump is going to save us from self-interested billionaires?

This isn't a story about how the political power of billionaires is failing, it's a story about one billionaire winning against some other billionaires. The underlying problem of wealth inequality and its effect on the political system remains.
I'm really excited for 0AD because I want to play AOE2 but only have OS X and Linux.

Thanks to the 0AX devs for all your hard work!
China's wrong, but maybe China would be better off with no search engine than with one which attempts to bias public opinion toward the party.
Job seeker: "Your company's employment test is stupid."

From the article: "Instead, Smith says, Collins should have started with a list of companies at the beginning of the test period and then used 'plausible criteria to select eleven companies predicted to do better than the rest. These criteria must be applied in an objective way, without peeking at how the companies did over the next forty years. It is not fair or meaningful to predict which companies will do well after looking at which companies did well! Those are not predictions, just history.'"

In the actual research on company hiring procedures, the correct research procedure is used by giving tests BEFORE job seekers are hired, and then seeing how they do as workers over time. Industrial and organizational (I/O) psychologists have been doing this kind of research for about a century, in countries all over the world, testing hundreds of thousands of workers in numerous job categories in hundreds of workplaces in dozens of countries. Hiring job-seekers based on work-sample tests and tests of the job-seekers' cognitive ability reliably improves worker performance over the long term. There is a FAQ on this topic[1] with links to the research literature you can read for more details.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4613543
If the genetics did not change, then something must explain their past performance. Perhaps the environment.
Great work. That's doing it right. Another good one tried in separation kernels was safer runtimes for imperative languages like Ada. A networking stack and firewall in one like that would be an interesting experiment as well.
You don't have to prove that ideas won't lead to the deaths of millions at all. Right now there are a bounty of ideas floating around, many the basis of whole civilizations and governments which very possibly could lead to the death of millions if left to finish course. And nary a peep.
Thanks for commenting -- I've had that feeling too, of frustration on struggling with some wodge of formulas bedecked with indices and weighted with implicit assumptions of unclear scope. Modern programming languages can usually express these things about as concisely, with the great advantage that you can engage with the code and it'll push back. You wonder "why isn't it this way?" and just try it.
If you have written up any memories/folk lore from your days building this game, I would love to read it (and I'm sure many others here would too).
I've never heard someone put all three words together on the reservation I work on (used to live on [no housing on reservation these days]).
Do you have a reference for why it's "completely insecure"?
no, plastic is generally safer. One of the most important safety innovation in cars is the plastic gas tank (as a side note, we are looking for something as transformative for batteries in electric cars), it bends way further than steel before leaking.

Normal trucks are not stupid, it's just that past a certain size, only steel can hold the static force of the liquid. There are contradictory factors, you want the cargo to be held firmly in place when you brake, but you want the tank to be accepting a lot of deformation before breaking. I'm not sure, but a secondary concern might be contamination, I'm not sure you can switch liquids in a plastic tank, while you can clean a steel tank.
The Imperiled Bloggers of Bangladesh
Initial FreeBSD Core Team comments on concerns about harassment in the community
I certainly don't remember having trouble with that part.
There are two components of private property. 1)the raw materials (or land) 2)the labor (or improvements).

I agree with your stance on component 1. The raw materials, the land, they do in fact manifestly belong to everyone.

On component 2, the labor or improvements, I don't think those do belong to everyone. They belong exclusively to the creator who can transfer title. In fact, society has no moral claim on this component at all in my estimation.

Here is my idea. Stop funding society by taxing labor. It's counterproductive. It's morally wrong. Tax material and land use. This is what society truly has a claim on and how society should fund itself.
> The FreeBSD Core Team acts as the Project's "board of directors" and is responsible for approving new src committers, resolving disputes between developers, appointing sub-committees for specific purposes (security officer, release engineering, port managers, webmaster, et cetera), and making any other administrative or policy decisions as needed. The Core Team has been elected by active FreeBSD committers every 2 years since 2000.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2014-Ju...
That variadic expansion happens at compile time, so it's still O(1) access. In my experience, the effects of something like this won't be immediately visible. You might start to notice compile times creeping up as the project grows. YMMV.
If you want a side income then your goal is to find people who are already paying for things you can build. If every single idea you come up with is already tried by someone else, then it means you are coming up with ideas for which people are already paying for. That's fantastic! To your question 1) If someone is already offering same product and paid customers - ask yourself - do they have 100% market share? If not, whom are they missing? Can you reach those whom they are missing? To your question 2) If you just came up with the idea, how do you know the market is thinly spread? To your question 3) Those are a very tiny tiny tiny tiny slice of all the majority of SaaS products. Is this something you are well and truly interested in? If not, go back to your question 1 and figure out who has the most customers.

worth watching -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY
Hedonism is as true as any other. Plenty of people, even if they are not familiar with philosophical terms and wouldn't self describe as such, are living according to hedonistic values. Plenty of people are living according to all sorts of different codes. Any system that defines value in a way that doesn't allow for these people, for example by saying that coffee doesn't have value, is a faulty one.

Economically, if a person is willing to spend $5 on coffee then coffee is worth $5 to them. Trying to attach solid philosophical reasoning behind that may be a fun thought experiment but it's hardly the solved one your responses seem to imply that you think it is.
> 2016 is my year of no longer contributing to HN.

This sucks. I'll miss your comments.
Wow, first upvotes, now downvotes. And all without explanation.
Location: Taipei, Taiwan

Remote: YES

Willing to relocate: YES

Technologies: ECMAScript ES6, JavaScript, Python, Swift, DBA, math

Résumé/CV: https://dosaygo.com/~cris

Email: 234789562348@dosaygo.com
(a) It's in regards to this: http://blog.randi.io/2015/12/31/the-developer-formerly-known... which I had not previously heard about

(b) What the hell is up with that formatting.
It's very rare you're going to come up with a never been done before idea and even if you do it can probably be quickly copied so you'd be back where you started. Get to know your competition and draw up a table on their pros and cons, and pricing. You may be able to find a niche that hasn't been explored e.g. different target audience, easier to use or more advanced, different platform, alternative pricing, different API, better integrations.
http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/wealth-havi...
"Why do we use an english word?"

Also because many members cannot speak their tribe's language. Its a real push to get the language(s) integrated into pre-K through 12 and college. Some tribes are much more successful than others (up to requiring fluency to hold tribal office).
Compete on providing the most value you can with the smallest feature set possible. Really figure out what the core issue is and then solve that. That's what will make a product salable - that you fix the most important problem for the person who is looking at your offering. Standard offerings or price don't matter if you don't solve their most pressing problem. Same the other way, if you solve their most pressing problem a business will pay way more than you as an individual would consider feasible.
Useful Resources for the Test Anything Protocol
Many hedge funds do invest in IPOs. They also invest in all sorts of debt: corporate, municipal, sovereign, emerging market.

It's true that hedge funds and mutual funds also invest in the stock market, which is a secondary market where the money doesn't go to the original issuers. However the existence of a healthy and liquid secondary market is what gives primary investors the confidence to buy stakes (or lend) to start-ups in the first instance. Who would want these assets if they literally had no choice but to hold onto them forever (or until maturity or acquisition or bankruptcy).
You can use Sidekiq in many environments where somebody has written libraries, eg. Go, Elixir, JavaScript (https://github.com/loopj/node-sidekiq) .
I use to play AoE 2 as UConnBBall and wrote for MrFixItOnline. Sadly the website just came down a few years ago. It was an awesome run with that game for me.
Is the Drive for Success Making Our Children Sick?
Isn't California the wealthiest State of the US? people buy war vehicles (MRAP) as week-end toys there. Money is not an issue at all. You just have to find 30 wealthy weirdos with a welder to drawn those trucks.

And frankly, maybe I would do it too in some circumstances, it's DIY, the tank has exactly the size and shape you need and you live only once, so I might rationalize the risk (on the other hand, I don't think I would ever do a custom roto-casting or blow-molding of a significant size, that looks like a pain in the butt and a lot of tooling for a one-off).
What are you referring to when you say "past performance" specifically?

Are you talking about the Great Leap Forward, which killed tens of millions?

You realize we're discussing individuals getting hired in a job market, not genocidal dictatorships in Asia 50+ years ago, right?
> Please show me a quote where PG makes this argument.

Once again, how many of PG's essays have you read? This is like asking someone in your English literature class to show you an example of Shakespeare making a joke in one of his plays.

But ok, I'll play along. In the subject essay, PG describes himself as a "manufacturer of economic inequality". How is he manufacturing it? By teaching people how to get rich by creating wealth: "Not just by helping the 2400 founders YC has funded. I've also written essays encouraging people to increase economic inequality and giving them detailed instructions showing how."

So PG obviously is arguing that allowing people to get rich by creating wealth will increase economic inequality. How? By amplifying the variation in productivity between people. And there's no way to get rid of that without getting rid of wealth creation: "Variation in productivity is far from the only source of economic inequality, but it is the irreducible core of it, in the sense that you'll have that left when you eliminate all other sources."

As for the part where wealth creation is what fuels economic growth, do you really need a quote for that? I would have thought it was blindingly obvious. (In fact, I would say wealth creation is economic growth.)

> I doubt Steve Jobs would have created more wealth if he were allowed to pay 10% lower taxes.

I doubt Steve Jobs would have bothered to create much wealth at all if he hadn't thought he could get rich from it. Which is much more to the point.
Don't compete on price, unless it is by raising it.

You do not have to compete on number of features to make your product saleable. Most customers do not buy most products because they have more features than competitors. There's some minimum quanta of utility your product has to have. Almost all SaaS entrepreneurs overshoot on that -- by lots in many cases.

I'd suggest, broadly, finding a take on the market that your competitors don't have yet, whether that is a use case, a customer group, a channel, etc that they haven't utilized, and build that.

Strong recommendations that you a) try soliciting customers for your eventual software before it exists to see whether you're able to find customers for it, b) not build any software you cannot find customers for, and c) pick something with a price point which gets you to at least $50 a month and hopefully as far above that as you can. This is from ~10 years of experiencing the brutal, brutal math of trying to count to $10k in increments of $30.
Thanks for share this.
That still doesn't matter. So much of the work is being done in python that you're benchmarking the overhead of python, not the numpy speed.

I mean this is a terrible benchmark. Comparing to pure python, the numpy code is about 4-5x faster on my machine, whereas in reasonable real world benchmarks, numpy is hundreds of times faster than pure python.

For reference my benchmark was

%timeit [sum(row)/len(row) for row in mat]

and it completed in about 900us, given mat was a python 2d array.

These results are as valuable as the ones pypy gave me:

pypy -mtimeit -s "[sum(row)/len(row) for row in [[range(100000)[i*j] for i in range(100)] for j in range(1000)]]"
1000000000 loops, best of 3: 0.00101 usec per loop

Edit:

In other words, because the code returns a python array of length 1000, what you're benchmarking is python's speed of array instantiation vs. Ds mathematical speed. Its obvious that D will win. The only fair way to benchmark the mathematics here is if you compare the D implementation of O(n) algorithm that returns a single value, or an O(n^2) algorithm that returns a 1d array or single value etc. Otherwise the python overhead of creating O(n) objects will overshadow the actual mathematical calculations on those O(n) objects.
Technologically it's relatively easy: just link the brotli library and call its decoding functions instead of zlibs when you encounter a file with brotli compression. It's getting everyone to implement that which is hard. This is already what I wrote in my first post.
> Welfare discouraging work has largely been refuted

Did you read your own link? Your own link says: "There is little doubt that welfare can discourage employment, particularly when recipients lose benefits quickly as their earnings from work rise. Still, the effects are muted."
On the other hand that uninvested cash should help more companies weather the storm in times of crisis, which should save jobs.
What are your thoughts on Colwell et al's analysis and suggestions for improving i432?

You're obviously more in tune with the project than I am. I never worked at Intel, but a lot of my friends did (mostly in implementation rather than architecture).

As for Colwell's critique, Intel must have liked it so much that they hired him. :) I attended a number of Colwell's public presentations on various x86 chips, and he seemed like a smart, approachable, down-to-earth guy.

As for improving the 432, my friends were worn out from struggling with it, so they were overjoyed that the 960 was a relatively simple RISC. The only concession they needed to make to its legacy was the 33rd memory bit, the tag bit.

It would have been interesting if i960 had done better. But, even at the time, what I mostly heard about BiiN was "billions invested in nothing". Apparently the Siemens group that was initially involved wasn't their main computer people, it was some other division. So I'm sure there was lots of internal politics going on at Siemens also.

One other thing that confuses me with various wiki entries of all this is that Wiki mentions Fred Pollack more prominently, whereas the name I heard more was Justin Rattner.

mocking ... i960MX's without realizing how much more advanced, reliable, and secure they could be

Now that Intel seems to be struggling to produce meaningful improvements to the x86 (whoopie, 15% faster!), perhaps something more architecturally advanced should be considered. Who cares if it's only 25% of the performance of the x86. The tradeoffs in terms of security etc might make it worth while. At least for high reliability applications.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i960
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BiiN
> for an interval [a, b], multiplying two numbers c, d within that interval will be within [aa, bb]

This only works when a is nonnegative. For example, the range of [-1, 1] under self-multiplication is [-1, 1], not [1, 1].
China cracks down on terrorism
>You are suffering from the just world fallacy.

I think you're projecting. He is saying the world is harsh and unfair, and people need to work hard to mitigate that. That isn't a fallacy.
I bet he writes as a way of thinking and it makes him happy. I bet he has biases, leanings, and motives too. Some of them are private or even subconscious.
I consider myself center-left and I like Krugman a lot, but you can't deny he's just as biased as Cato/AEI (on the right), and the Brookings Institute (on the left). They are all biased. That being said, they are all reputable enough not to outright lie or distort. At worst they selectively omit, or their opinions/editorializations/analysis are wrong or speculative.
There is some stuff: https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/mips

But no pretty Web UI. And Im pretty sure FreeBSD will not use the possibly existing network acceleration instructions that exists for example in the oceton soc.
Yup.

> largely

> the effects are muted
Scriptural law, for example. Each religion enforces its own law. This solution may not be ideal in every possible respect, but to the extent that it puts a halt to the invention of new man-made laws, it will certainly mitigate the problem. Every man-made law represents a reduction in your freedom with the purpose of serving the interests of someone else. Therefore, I am in favour of any alternative solution that will put a halt to people inventing new laws.
Interesting perspective. Thanks.

Companies like Apple do not happen in a pure deregulated neoliberal market paradise because markets don't have the kind of strategic intelligence that can fund projects like Whirlwind, TX-0, and the original Arpanet - all of which are essential steps on the road to making an Apple or a Google.

Going even further, corporations themselves do not happen in the absence of regulation, and I think that the granddaddy of entitlements -- liability limitation -- is necessary in order to gather enough capital to form great ventures like chip manufacturing.
>Honestly, does it even matter?

It matters because, if Trump says he wants to deport all Muslims, I should be able to say thats a terrible idea without fear of reproach.

Despite the fact that all politicians may be lairs (although I personally believe thats horseshit), there are people who take the word of them very seriously.

>The amount of denial and cognitive dissonance going on in general population's interaction with politics is so great you could fuel a power plant with it.

Bull fucking shit. Just because Obama didn't end up closing Guantanamo, doesn't mean its all a farce. Political groups have a real effect, or we wouldn't be talking about this. Were the people who fought for gay rights for the past 20-odd years, living in denial? Are those pushing for marijuana reform, living in denial? Are the lobbyist pumping billions of dollars into the system living in denial?

Despite the fact that the system moves a snails pace (which may or may not be the intended goal of the system), the system does have very real effects that are caused by the tiniest nudges in certain directions.
I think you are describing the upper middle income rich. The ultra rich are nothing like us in the main.
It isn't about only the plasmodia. Insects, all animals, have a an acceptable parasite load. Too many and the host dies. Wild animals live pretty close to that limit. So even if there isn't an exact swap-in replacement, by eliminating malaria some other parasite will step up.
* What if I own a house but have no cash? Will I have to sell it and live on the street to pay the taxman?
- You do that now. Property taxes.

* What if the ultra-wealthy buy property and then mark it down?
- People lie to the IRS now, system still functions.

* A 3% wealth tax is still less than the growth rate of many financial assets.
- Not necessarily. Safe stores of huge amounts of money yield very little. I don't know all the implications on interest rates, etc.. but it's an interestng idea.
> At some point your bug tracker becomes noise and you just never deal with it.

Judging from the graph it looks like Jira is the tracker in this essay. There's so much horrible UX in Jira it's very likely to be part of the problem. Coping with any volume of bulk data in Jira is a nightmare - for a PM or engineering manager you end up having to most of the prioritization in your head.

I'd like to see issue tracking tools on the market that take what we've learned about data visualization in fields like data journalism. Some of the UI elements of OpenRefine, for example, would be huge step forward
What would one need to use c or c++ to write a julia package? It's as fast as native code so no need to use multiple languages.
Not rare at all.

There are a lot of chinese students walking around MVB. You just need to walk up to them and start talking !

What would be difficult is finding a chinese person who shares the same amount of passion in your project.

MVB is the optimal place for finding that person !

Tell me about it - Uni halls are super noisy. Don't you have a friend who lives in a quiet place ?
No, that isn't what he said.
In the spirit of PG's essay, his response would likely be that the fact that economic leverage affects politics substantially at all is the direct cause of distorted preferences, and wealth inequality is the indirect cause. So what you really want is campaign-finance reform (and other reform for areas outside of politics like higher education, etc.)

EDIT: emphasis added.
It's not enough, just as going to the Moon was not enough.
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