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Meta, Response to sub-comments[meta enough yet?]: Ah, that makes way more sense. Sorry for labelling the parent a troll. This was clearly my mistaken interpretation. It was weird. As I tried to check out the math on the parent's assertions, they came out an order of magnitude too high like 3 times in a row. So I concluded that the parent was intentionally inflating the relevant costs to misdirect the discussion. However, it was really just my failure to consider the perspective of the parent, aligned with a loose enough situation that the mistake was possible. Again, I apologize for the misapplied label. I'll leave the original comment below so as not to rewrite history on how I was (due to sincere misunderstanding, I maintain) kind of a jerk :/

A couple grand? 500GB hdds have been less than $100 for a long time now, certainly since before Amazon Glacier was a product.

Just because you can formulate a large valuation for something doesn't mean that it's a reasonable valuation.

Even $10/cd is a ridiculous estimate of the cost of blank CDs. If you insisted on using blank CDs for backup, you could do 200 CDs for $40.

Edit: And what are CDs... 640mb? that's like 12 CDs, not 200... I'm realizing that I've fallen into a troll trap...

Meta: I guess I'll leave this comment up as a cautionary tale.
can try different front pages

i would try:

i would talk more about 1 type of coffee (say the most popular, or your favorite), convince someone to drink 1 cup in a paragraph and put that on the front page.

try just put 1 cause on the front page with your blurb "support multiple causes" or "choose" or whatever

(this is like a/b testing right, so whatever sells more we go with, improve and test again, if it doesnt sell more revert)

i read a nice blurb from a advertiser, he said he tested selling watches in New york times. most advertisers put 5 watches. he put an add with just 1 watch, and sold 1000% more watches than the other ad.

a good thing about a business like this is you can rebrand it and have 2 websites 2 company names and ship the same product. set up a site with a diff name and no cause stuff, and try to just sell the coffee. (tbh i like the cause stuff, but this is an idea, maybe its something else also)

you can get feedback from a few customers if possible (just send a hand written email? if you feel like it you can offer discount or free month for response or something.)

i would ask what made them purchase. and then i would ask someone to visit your site and tell you why they wont purchase.

one thing that i dont like so much is the outside pics. i dont associate the poor black kids and the dogs with drinking coffee, so maybe a lively pic of a wonderful home kitchen with some coffee. or maybe a pic of a coffee shop would sell better.

the website is very nice and call to action is clear though so gj. many business struggle for the first 12-18 months as far as ive read.
Looks like they were trying to trick him into paying 50% for this year? I'm sure a lot of people would go "oh damn, better paying full price 'cos I'm not using it".
Well played, Adobe!

I learned some new moves today.
i will probably sub if project comet is better than sketch
Not to mention those of us with cell phone plans that have bandwidth restrictions. This could be very bad for our phone bills.
Assuming one wants to tread into challenging waters, do you think it is possible to write a bulletproof, beyond-criticism essay?

I think it's impossible to write a bulletproof article, even something longer form, unless it says something trivial like "the sky is blue on some days". Even then, someone form Beijing would argue ;)

PG chose a really difficult subject, tried like a developer to break it down into constituent parts, and got criticized as if he was saying the problem didn't exist, rather than it is more than one thing. I think that is criticism that he can build dialogue on (a positive), rather than a flaw in the original article.
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If you think this is bad. Make sure you never ever ever get SiriusXM even if it's just free with your new car.

They still call me almost weekly.
This is why I refuse to buy software-as-a-service. If I run software on my own hardware, I want to own it. When Adobe introduced recurrent billing, I decided to switch.

Fortunately a bunch of affordable, non-subscription competitors to Photoshop and Illustrator have sprung up in the recent years.

For example, Affinity Designer is a great replacement for Illustrator, and its cheaper than the academic Illustrator license I got years ago.

Maybe if I was a full time designer, I could justify renting Adobes tools, but for an occasional user they are way too expensive.
I love reading comments on these insanely high priced items on Amazon. Makes for great entertainment.

"WOW. Stunning quality, worth the price! It was either saving up for retirement or buy the tv, but it wasn't a tough decision. Amazon Prime shipping only took 62 weeks considering it had to be flown in by helicopter! Added bonus: it came with a huge box which I live in now. No disappointments"
The global economy is in a transitional period, computerization has made inequality rise, but also Women working has led to higher inequality among families, Robotics and further automation of current industries will make things much worse for the people currently alive. There isnt a clear solution, what will ultimately happen is people working less and a higher percentage working in higher skilled jobs.
Life was better for everyone when we had a demand side economy. The working class and middle , had some money to put back into the economy, even after they paid there bill's. I was only a kid in the 60's but I had eye's, and society was more equal and better for everyone.
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Not really. The rich are far more invested than anyone else in "the system" (that made and keeps them rich) being "inclusive, equitable and sustainable". Especially the sustainable part. That effectively means "keeping themselves rich".

The poor are not very invested in the system (they should be, of course, since without an economy their fate would be far worse, but human nature means you're not going to be happy having less than everyone else, even if destroying the system would make sure you have much less). This is the basis of Marxism, and of course it's true. In a way jealousy gets in the way of rational thought.

This is one of the really good parts of capitalism. It concentrates power with people who want and need the system to succeed and who have very little power to use force to secure specific outcomes.

You may agree to this to varying extents, but just compare China's attempts to stabilize it's currency with the US ones. China : 208 people in the financial industry (and counting) "disappeared", a lot of them with reports of the police asking for them right before their disappearance. US: so far 1 person arrested, and a lot of people agree that it's for a good reason, not just the government. You might say "but the US gave boatloads of money to the banks/rich !". Well, yes. But there's no difference there, so did Europe, so did China ... [1]

[1] http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/4568598e-8731-11e2-9dd7-00144...
Wow we've allowed these companies to implement horrific consumer practices, holding us hostage, making canceling incredibly inconvenient. We need new consumer protections, this goes beyond trying to keep a customer, it is borderline harassment.
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> I am an Adobe Creative Cloud customer and even I am aware of how their billing works.

To my knowledge, this is exactly the same as to how any subscription works. They always auto-renew, although some let you opt out. Heck, it's part of the definition of the word "subscribe".

Without timestamps there's no way to be certain, but this entire conversation could have taken place over less than 10 minutes and it's highly unlikely it took much effort to type "no thanks, please cancel" a few times into a text box.

Considering that it didn't take much effort to cancel it, why is customer service dissuading someone to cancel a subscription worthy of discussion?
Agreed...the gifs were ill-chosen and distracting...added nothing...not a good fit for the thrust of the article...
So they tried to keep a customer? It's not like they refused to do it outright. They just tried to convince him to stay. Cool.

Y'all remember trying to cancel those AOL trials back in the day? Now _that_ was a nightmare.
Thanks so much for this feedback. We will definitely put most of these on our immediate to do list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_sovereign... can/will provide impetus to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility
When it comes to food on the table, or material wealth in general, that's the only kind that matters.
> Since when is it the legislature's job to enforce morality

Our laws are a constantly shifting mirror of our ethics (through the prism of "everyone" and "political reality")

Look at divorce, abortion, women's property rights, environmental obligations etc etc

The GP is well placed to say if a company is acting legally but unethically changing the law is often fastest and simpler fix -most eapecially for whole industries (hello banking)
does the customer service rep get some negative points if an account is cancelled by them ?
The reason we find ourselves so helpless in this fight is because our society's money has shackled us. Think about it: the rich only have power because people submit to their power. People accept their money to do harmful things because they can use that money to get whatever they want from almost anyone. This is the flaw in our money that makes our political system degrade from democracy to capitalism. Votes can be bought, so counting votes is a charade that disguises the fact that the tally of money on each side of an issue matters most.

To fix this, we must fix our money. When someone spends money they got from wealthy people for manipulating our politics, the person who accepts it is fulfilling the promise the money held in the first place. We must refuse to empower money used in this way. As individuals, we must reject money in our own lives when it came from political manipulation so we can remove the incentive to participate in political manipulation.

This is merit capitalism. The technology to make it work exists today, and it doesn't require the impossible task of winning votes in a Congress we can't afford to buy back from the rich. It requires tools to make it easy to reject dirty money and spreading the knowledge that rejecting dirty money is even possible. These are things that we can do. These are things that you can do.

http://meritcapitalism.com
I hate Ikea and everything it represents.

When I make something and look at it I notice every little flaw. When I look at something from IKEA I notice its made of painted compressed particle board and held together with pegs and plastic cam screws.

Maybe people should care about the quality of what they make and how it looks.
Among the 1% I bet the top 1% are weighting a lot too and so on. IMO the issue is pointless, it's just a statistical mirage, discussing about that won't make you richer or poorer, just time wasting. AND among the 1%, the majority of them would think about the same injustice back in the days they worked hard to earn, until they got the "chance" of being rich themselves.
> Building an NN and hoping its brain-like structure will start to think is like building a flapping machine and hoping its bird-like structure will start to fly.

But... you're replying in a comment thread that has explicitly stated that "NNs" don't at all qualify as "brain-like".
Wow, how do you manage in the real world?

Copy, paste, "No interest". After a point, escalate. Boom problem solved.
"Please take me off your list" seems to work on legitimate businesses.

Have you tried asking them to not call you again?
It's very clearly an exponential curve, 0.001% probably has a disproportional share of 1% and so on.
A hopeful explosion, considering the circumstances! This particular failure would have happened even with a dry-land landing, and future flights will be using the upgraded landing leg design that landed successfully back in December rather than the older one used on this flight (for scheduling reasons). The good news is that, for the first time, they managed to do a soft landing on the barge -- and they did it in nasty weather, with huge waves. Looks like whatever improvements they've been making to their control software are working well.
feedly is fine once you configure it a little.
> I'm guessing Adobe doesn't officially condone this behavior

Mate, it would be in the script. IT was clear the consultant was going through a checklist of offers.
That’s what legislatures do all day. (And economists are generally theologians masquerading as scientists.) For instance, capitalism requires enormous legislation and bureaucracy. Starting with a property regime (so I can "own" natural resources), police to beat those who disobey, throw people off their land so nearly everyone has to obey capitalists/managers all day, and so on. All backed by a bizarre morality.

(And the more you get closer to so-called pure free markets, the more bureaucracy there is. Take Graeber's "Iron law of liberalism": "Any market reform, government initiative intended to reduce red tape and promote market forces will have the ultimate effect of increasing the total number of regulations, the total amount of paperwork, and the total number of bureaucrats the government employs.")
Explain China? Or Japan? Or Vietnam?

The world is not the USA. The world is 7 billion people, in countries and cities of varying economic outcomes. While income inequality is rising between inhabitants of the first world, global income inequality is shrinking. Specifically, the gap between Brooklyn, Beijing and Botswana is shrinking, even as the gap between individual citizens is rising.

And the biggest gap of all - the gap between 21 meals a week and < 21, is shrinking rapidly. As much as we bemoan great wealth compared to middle-classness, this gap - the gap between the never-hungry and the sometimes hungry - is IMHO the single biggest gap of all.
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Ah. See, I have this vertigo too, but it's always on. And I stumbled on escalators a couple of time already, so that increasing my vertigo with 30-50 meters below me doesn't feel like a particularly good idea.
On Long Island, NY:

I just barely remember something called "Watergate" (but I was 6 in 1974).

House had asbestos shingles. "Regular" leaded gasoline was a convenient cleaning solvent: you just siphoned some from your car (suck with your mouth to get the gas going through the hose).

Chlordane was used to control termites- it worked great!

In 1975 people were really starting to dump their tube electronics. This was a great source of parts. Also Lafayette electronics was awesome. TV service was still common.

You helped your dad with replacing brake shoes on the 1972 "Super Beetle".

We still had milk and eggs delivered. But you could also pick some up from the drive through Dairy Barn: http://patch.com/new-york/portwashington/the-barn-a-new-spin...

Grandparents soon moved out of the city to avoid the crime.

Touch tone phone service cost more!

Girls had strange spherical radios: http://long70s.tumblr.com/post/86188100212/the-panasonic-pan...
Reinforcement learning is not strictly what is considered supervised learning in ML, but it's very much in the same vein. And a supervised learning algorithm doesn't have any "knowledge" of the domain it's learning about either - it just adjusts its parameters based on training example and class/output pairs. RL attempts to find the best actions to take to ultimately maximize a measure cumulative reward, i.e. a signal which provides an objective measure of performance (much like the class or target output of a training example used in supervised learning).

RL is definitely not unsupervised learning, which in contrast, attempts to find some structure in unlabeled data.
You can use this to your advantage with a bit of upfront wokr. I have a bunch of stuff I have maneuvered to expire around the same month each year (stuff like insurance etc).

Each year, I pick a day just before expiry and do the call rounds and negotiate a better price. This is either by threatening to cancel, or insisting on being upgraded to new plans that only "new" customers are eligible for - there's always an angle.

Worst case, most things you pay annually for in your personal life are a commodity with low switching costs, so its even practical to actually swap things like energy (cuz they are just retailers) every year to keep getting the best deal.
Really appreciate your feedback. I will definitely look into implementing some of your pointers.
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> The post is a useful cautionary tale, and he's not alone in getting burned by Glacier pricing. Unfortunately it was OP not reading the docs properly.

Well, it was that and also the docs being knowingly and deliberately set up to trick incautious readers. The user does have a responsibility to read the fine print, but that doesn't excuse Amazon being openly evil about it. This is no different than ISPs that advertise "up to 50Mb/s" when they know very well that their network won't deliver more than 5.
This seems to me to be very close to what Pythran [0] is doing (since 2011), except that Pythran includes some type inference and bridge with Python code.

So view through that lens I'm not really seeing the novelty right now?

[0]: http://github.com/serge-sans-paille/pythran/
Performance metrics sound like their empirically great, but as we all know, it's more complicated than that.

Personally, I've seen important programs, such as primary care-based depression screening and management that are proven to work then be turned into checklists and given to teams that are about checklist first, and less focused on mission/impact/caring. And I've seen patients respond that they are not helped. The therapeutic value of perceived empathy and attentiveness is unknown but should not be underestimated.
Don't you still need to run the WPAD "server" on port 80?
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>Extrapolating from the last few years’ progress, it is enticing to believe that Deep Artificial General Intelligence is just around the corner and just a few more architectural tricks, bigger data sets and faster computing power are required to take us there. I feel that there are a couple of solid reasons to be much more skeptical.

On the other hand there are reasons to be optimistic. Human brains are built from networks of neurons and the artificial neural networks are starting to have quite similar characteristics to components of the brain - things like image recognition (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9584325) and Deep Mind playing Atari (http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-02/25/google-deepmi...)

The next step would may be to wire the things together in a similar structure to the human brain which is kind of what Deep Mind are working on - they are trying to do the hippocampus at the moment. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X-NdPtFKq0&feature=youtu.be...)

Also we are approaching the point where reasonably priced hardware can match the brain, roughly the 2020s (http://www.transhumanist.com/volume1/moravec.htm)

It'll be interesting to see how it goes.
Equally however people who attempt large projects will accomplish at least a number of small successes along the way, each carrying value as a learning / growth opportunity. Many times those small accomplishments could never have been had with a small or even medium size project.

People learn and engage differently. Some people will gain a lot from starting at a fundamental level and working their way up. Others will be much more stimulated at the macro level, and let's be honest the goal of learning is rarely to create a true product but for the sake of learning itself.
> I would not call this "strong arming" just a sales consultant trained to try and keep a customer from leaving. This not something unique to Adobe, it happens when you try cancelling a phone plan, when you try switching utility providers and plenty of other things.

How is that an excuse? "Yes, we're assholes, but so are all these other people?" We need to stop letting corporations whittle our standards down like this.
There's a few similar process. Shedskin, Nuitka, Pythran, etc. They are all pretty cool projects, and worth looking into just to learn new techniques.
No. It has the speed of smalltalk and the type safety of C.
Focus on your customers, not the site. You're solving the wrong problem.

Traction isn't about your site design, its about YOU UNDERSTANDING YOUR CUSTOMERS.

So, do some (~100) customer interviews. Then you'll know what to build - and why. Money will follow.
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I canceled Creative Cloud recently as well after losing my job. Yes, the customer service agent did make a bunch of offers to try to keep me. I assume they are required to do that by management, so I don't really hold it against them.

They were pretty polite the whole time, though, and when it became clear I didn't have any valid card to pay with, as is needed on overdue accounts before any changes, they actually canceled me with no fee even though I wasn't completely done with my subscription yet, after management approval.

So, yeah, it sucks getting bugged when you end your subscription and just want it ended. But sometimes they come through for you too. I was just expecting another bill to pay in the end, but hopefully less than keeping my subscription, but ended up being free. Will definitely buy Adobe again in the future.
>I wonder what has prevented designers of different styles from copying Ikea's model, which clearly works and scales.

"Works and scales" may have everything to do with Ikea's shady tax structure[1], not its flat-pack furniture.

[1]https://www.fastcodesign.com/3035734/infographic-of-the-day/...
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After this post, everybody is going to negotiate Adobe down by threatening them to cancel the subscription :)
I see the EE T.5,XS422 had a successful engine reheat last year for FFA designation ~ http://www.lightning422supporters.co.uk/ and http://www.lightning422supporters.co.uk/docs/pdfs/so_far.pdf
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>No. It took a sharp fall in the BTC price

And the trigger for that was your medium article the other day. :-)

And since, block size/scalability was the key point in your post. Would you be willing to re-join Bitcoin, since what you wanted would be achieved? Even if its Classic and not via XT.

Perhaps, my question may come across as naive. But looking at it from outside (reading /Bitcoin & /btc & etc), it would definitely clear a lot of air, and be good for Bitcoin.
"Google makes deployment much easier by using static linking..."

Unless you only are referring to only the Go compiler, can you provide a cite for this statement?

I also use static linking as much as I can. Sometimes it requires quite a bit of work due to how open source developers structure their build systems. I wonder if some folks at Google have also spent significant amounts of time unravelling idiosyncratic build systems found in open source projects to make static, portable binaries.

I often see commenters on HN and elsewhere making commments against static linking. It would be useful to be able to cite to Google's internal practices; these commenters also seem to attribute superior knowhow to Google staff.
Why would anyone need two jobs? shouldn't one pay a living wage?

Maybe the problems run deeper
They always are.
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