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I heard a couple of founders pitching the other day, and answered a question from a VC with (and I paraphrase) "We'll implement this, and then figure out what problem it solves".

To an extent, you can work by simply building a basic technology and, as William Gibson said, "The street finds its own uses for things". But doing that requires a fundamental new tech.

Likewise, you can work by simply getting a bunch of smart, powerful people in a room and seeing what happens. But at best, the street finds its own uses for things. At worst, it's a venue for networking and a free catered dinner. If you don't bring them a problem to solve in advance, they'll just do what they want, which probably won't be useful to anyone but themselves.

Looking at this, though, the one thing that does stand out from all the mush is the idea of getting different generations to work together. Which is (I say this as an old fart) stupid. A bunch of entitled college kids complaining that the old people who run the world don't listen to them or let them "innovate" solutions? Feh. All those old people were young once, too. They remember being young. They remember being absolutely certain that they understood how the world worked, and how to solve all the problems, and they remember knowing that the main impediment to saving the planet was all the old people who were running everything not listening to them. The reason the Boomer masters of the universe don't take Millenials seriously is because they've been around long enough to know just how naive kids are, and that there's no wisdom in being naive.

But I rant. Anyway, this is BS. Nobody is going to solve any problems by getting the stupid old people to listen to the brilliant young people.
Just some feedback - it drives me nuts when services aren't clear what their pricing is. If it's free, fine. If it's paid, fine. If it's free now but you plan on charging later for premium features, fine. But IMO you have to be upfront about it.

There's nothing on the homepage, no pricing page, nothing. It makes me nervous to sign up without this information.
I am constantly reminded of that 90's movie Weekend at Bernie's where, in order to keep the party going, two guys drag a rich dead guy around and make it appear as though he's still alive in order to keep the party going and have access to all his stuff and wealth.
> But capitalism needs to keep everyone working at a manic pace, boosting productivity endlessly and recouping none of it in real wage growth, and that requires the concept of the loser.

Academia in the US is not capitalism.
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I find it interesting that Dropbox isn't building these types of utilities themselves. This looks pretty cool and also seems like a really good way to up-sell Dropbox storage later.
"California law says I've got right-of-way in crosswalks"

That's for the safety of the pedestrian in order to avoid confusion and make liability strictly fall on the shoulders of the party with the 2 killing machine.

Regardless of my legal right-of-way, though, I try not to be a jerk about it.
I don't think that is a valid concern in this case. From what I understand, "dark patterns" is hardly an euphemism, and implies that the perpetrator of "dark patterns" is acting in bad faith. The only reference to it that I can find providing a definition (http://darkpatterns.org) says that dark patterns "are not mistakes, they are carefully crafted with a solid understanding of human psychology, and they do not have the user’s interests in mind".
It's not that hard to install Linux on a Macbook Pro these days. Still no touch screen though.
There's no question that it's a major factor. Even well-heeled individuals/couples don't take out mortgages on the order of $800,000 if they don't get minuscule rates on the order of ~3%. Banks wouldn't be able to hand out those rates for spans of ~30 years unless the government gives them access to cheap money and guarantees the loan.
What Lisper said may be correct, however he really doesn't mention the application of the null-hypothesis in this experiment. To a skeptic it would seem the null hypothesis might be susceptible to the confusion of correlation and causation.

Edit:

The correct interpretation is that the model, the foundation of the null hypothesis, didn't fail yet.

Part of this model is backed by more experiments: "The reason that we focused on SWA is that it is the only sleep characteristic that reflects the depth of sleep" [1].

The model doesn't consist of a single variable. 11 people choosing the same 7 numbers out of 49 by chance is rather unlikely. The null hypothesis would include that there are only 11 people picking, that they don't cheat, and that random chance is indeed a thing. If now 11 people would indeed all choose the same, then the experiment could be repeated, e.g. to show that they are cheating or to increase the significance.

[1] http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2816...
Agreed. The state of my health is between me, my doctor, and maybe my fiancee. AND NO ONE ELSE. Certainly not my employer, or anyone connected to them.

They may claim they protect the privacy of your information, but recent history has shown that those claims generally aren't worth the electrons they're written with. There will be leaks, and hacks, and all manner of subterfuge.
In the US the suggestion that voting require an ID card is met with all the reasons people can't be bothered to get an ID card. Things like it's too far to go to get the card. Or it costs too much. Or they can't prove they are citizens.

If states were at all serious about voter verification through ID, they'd make every non-constitutionally guaranteed service require a photo ID. Then when it gets back to SCOTUS they could readily report that every resident in their state already has a photo ID.
I have a feeling you process the data at the client.
I'm a Brit so not my business, but hey it's the internet.

Over here none of our Judges are elected, and I think that's a very good thing. They are professionals, not politicians. The SCOTUS Justices are appointed, questioned and confirmed by elected representatives. I really don't see why that isn't enough.

Voting directly for judges, based on their statements or track record on how they interpret the law, is far too close IMHO to holding referendums on whether people are guilty or innocent. Judges are required to serve the law. Making them beholden to an electorate and asking them to serve both masters is abhorrent to the basic principles of justice. The statue over the Old Bailey is blindfolded for a reason.
I like the way that Japan is. I don't care about disruptive startups, and if you think japan needs or wants "disruption" you clearly don't get it at all. I like green tea that is made by a 300 year old company. Have you actually been there or just watched stupid videos on the internet?
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I've tried to stay the hell away from printers (and their myriad issues) for about a decade, and I feel that my life is better for it. I use the printer at work for the 6 pages per year I need printed.

I understand this situation might (will?) change, since I'm a single young childless guy.
This is a familiar feeling to me as a sailor; when cruising, every place is new, and at anchor I'm never fully asleep the way I am on land. Any little sound, or the cessation of any regular sound I've gotten used to, and I'm up like a shot with the flashlight trying to identify it. Even the relatively slow rotation of the boat around the anchor as the wind shifts is enough to bring me awake thinking "what changed?"
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He hired a world-class PR firm for his web design class?
Orthogonal issue but here is what I think -- While I agree that privacy is of great concern, I do think the way to approach this would be with more frequent health checkups.
Our body is the best marker at the end of the day to measure our healthiness. Everything else doesn't matter, which is also the reason the allure of wearables is wearing out. (It's great, but what do you do now that you have all this data that you have gathered?)
Anyone can start a company under capitalism. You are empowered to create wealth yourself and enrich yourself from that creation. That's a beautiful thing and should not be taken for granted.
People still use Dropbox for this? I guess I shouldn't have stopped developing this 4 years ago.
> force you to make real investments.

There lies the problem. Real investments aren't made, unless pushing the price of housing stock to extract more from renters and to-be homeowners, as well as stock buybacks in large corporations, are the "real investments" central banks are preferring.
Do Americans actually sincerely believe that they live in an actual "free society" / "democracy" / whatever... Blows my mind.
I also found an older post describing how they use Scrum to design the hardware to be pretty interesting: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/designing-the-next-storage-po....

I wonder what limitations the 6-month production run requirement put on design - it would seem you would have to be a lot more conservative in your "definition of done" (a bad decision can be expensive when you buy a half-year worht of gear).
It's Theranos all over again, with lower stakes.
Generally I don't think it does. Magic is an art form, and a love by many. The same fanatical support that artists, or musicians have for their craft, magicians have for theirs.

So quite often magicians do things for the benefit of the whole craft, versus any individual gain.

If you imagine it like other arts, it starts to make sense in my view.
The parts of capitalism that are worth keeping are the least zero sum of any other system. Unfortunately, "capitalism" has come to cover concepts that really don't belong to it.

Culturally, mimetic envy of one's neighbor was explicitly proscribed against in Western systems of though - "thou shalt not covet" - until fairly recently. So what changed? Probably TV advertising.
> I think Apple, MS or someone else must come up with a good printer and kill rest of the printer industry.

They did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserWriter

Everything since then has been garbage.
This is so incredible. Googles lobbyist at its forefront of political corruption.
I'm sorry if I'm completely off but wouldn't the storage of this type of data (public records) be a very compelling use-case for blockchains?
Yet there is also a process. Its impersonal by design. You are not even likely to talk to the same person twice. So the rules are different. If you pretend its a one-on-one relationship, you will be manipulated, lied to and frustrated.

Miss Manners reports trying to get her newspaper address changed. She called several times, but no result. Finally an agent told her that they are instructed to not do anything unless the customer was angry. She politely asked "Would you put me down as having been livid?" He politely agreed.

Did she lie? We all know we're just trying to get the system to work for us. Today, when you can't even begin to talk to a real person on the other end, you have less (no?) requirement to pretend you're interacting with one.
>Lying isn't inherently wrong.

Perhaps not to you. Morality is personal, and to me this comment is abhorrent.
Printers are crap because most people don't need to print much, so most printers that are sold are basically the equivalent of the shaving stick that's sold only to enable the sales of replacement razor blades (ink cartridges).

Ink is expensive because again: Most people don't print much, and most people have printers that that have some very specific ink cartridge and will blindly buy the manufacturer brand ink because it's easier that way.

If you print much, pay for a reasonable laser printer, and your experience and cost per page are both much better.
The problem is not, that in "real world" driving they exhaust some more (like 20%) but rather 10x (1000%) more than during those tests. That means, the pollution numbers are not just a bit "optimistic" like with fuel consumption, but completely unrelated to the real life numbers.
Why haven't any Wall Street executives been prosecuted for fraud?
There are an awful lot of people that would like to increase their consumption. Don't expect them to fondly embrace a non growth mindset.

(It's not just people that can't stand life without a yacht either, it's people that want a newer vehicle or a house in a nicer area or more meat or more proactive healthcare or ...)
If they launched on HN I would not call that momentum, just a curious spike in visits. It seems like a normal thing.

Are you affiliated with the site? You're on a new account and it just kind of.. feels like it. The reason I am asking is that if this is the case - why don't you just email the people who signed up and ask them.
Sorry, I'm not a consequentialist. And if harm is your criterion, what harm is done to anyone by calling customer service to cancel your account instead of lying so you can do it via email?
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Nice. Thanks for the Starling-Software classification.

I think Im looking for something that leads the path between n (level 2) and log n (level 3). Especially so in the Computer Science section.

I would also be interested in a path to mastery over Mobile - IOS / Android and Web Technologies Front End(CSS/HTML/Javascript - UI/ UX) and Back end.

For Example Back end could be Language/Framework agnostic.

One way my brain is looking at it is - each language could be mapped to a musical instrument - and then you have various grades of progression in that language/framework. However the analogy breaks down quickly.

In Backend you have 2 interfaces - HTTP protocol interfacing and the data interfacing with the data store (Database). On one hand you have people who create the framework and on the other we have people who use the framework to create products.
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Permission to steal this? :)
No, that's not euthanasia. On that account, sedation without death would count. Euthanasia is when you ask (or in some cases, force, against their conscience) someone to kill you. Compare with "suicide by cop".

We are going to die. Some of us are going to die on the street after decades of physical pain, alienation, emotional abandonment, mental illness, and alcoholism/drug abuse. Many of these have less true hope for a good life than a cancer patient like Pieter, but it would be insane if there were dozens of comments lamenting the lack of voluntary suicide services in homeless shelters (though maybe we're a bit sensitive about that sort of thing not working out too well the last time we tried it).

Humans have something that puts us above being put down like an animal. And we have to suffer for it - like we do for many of the other things that make us human.
Developers still use a ton of commercial software. As an app developer, I'm still using things like Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, Office, etc. So until those come to Linux (or the open source alternatives gather enough traction that designers and such use them too), I don't think a Pixel laptop running Ubuntu would be enough.
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Without perfect information, market participants can act irrationally.

This is why Ethiopian farmers sell their coffee beans for pennies/kilo, while Starbucks charges $5/gram (made up numbers).
This, a million times over.

I went looking... it's not on the site, not in the knowledge base, not on the blog.

There is absolutely no pricing information.

Does Taco not charge anyone? If you do charge, give me a ballpark, a range even... it doesn't matter so long as you give it.

Am I signing up for something without that info? Er... no.
Thanks. From your info, I was able to surface that there could be tax implications (if the incentives are offered as non-fringe/taxable benefits), from an employee standpoint.
Apply HN: Design a healthy and productive daily routine and stick to it
Problem: a growing number of people have to rely on themselves to manage their time. A lack of discipline leads to unhealthy and unproductive behaviour. At the same time the cost of healthcare is increasing for insurers.

Specifically: 95% of people we interviewed experience 3 pains when trying to change behaviour:
1) wrong goals (to high, wrong motivation, don’t work with the rest of your routine);
2) when it’s easier not to change they procrastinate;
3) they start but then life get’s in the way (holiday, health issues, relationship trouble etc.) and don’t start again.

Today: many commit to another person, but they’re not always reliable. Most use to-do lists, calendars or reminders, but they’re easy to ignore. Many do it last minute or not at all, which creates bigger problems down the line. Most people have tried tracking apps, but the vast majority stop using them after a while.

Our users explicitly expressed the desire for more structure and routine in their day-to-day, rather than a desire to change one specific activity or habit.

Our Solution: a mobile life coach AI that helps you design a healthy, productive daily routine and makes you stick to it. It’s smart, fun, and it literally changes your life.

How it works: You tell us what your routine looks like today. We make you do baby steps in the form of levels that ease you into your ideal routine. We give advice on how to best achieve your goals. You commit a cash stake to each level. Complete daily milestones to level-up and win rewards; paid by users who don't. Complete levels to keep your stake and play the lottery. Smartphone sensors keep everyone accountable. The AI gets smarter as you progress.

The big opportunity lies in 1) using the data to become really smart about how to change peoples behaviour, while 2) helping insurers save costs by incentivising users to integrate preventive measures in their routines.

Thoughts?
That's not easy to answer. You need them but you need to limit them as well. Also you have to be cautious of ADD coworkers who introduce new tools every week, 'hey look I found a new Trello integration, ...'

Main rule: avoid anything synchronous as much as possible such a chat, Slack, group chat, Skype, just turn that shit off; if someone wants to catch you he will call you on the phone

You need some project management tool for progress tracking and for enabling good specs, but only one; so get either Trello or Asana but not both; though can have have both for different dept.s and task types
Doesn't that disregard the fact that most Indians who might want to come to the US and succeed can't? You're looking at a relative handful of successes and disregarding all the people who didn't make it.
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From my parents, thanks. I fail to see how it's "necessary" in any sense here. Nobody's going to die because I called the company to cancel my account instead of emailing them.
This.

It's clearly important to treat people with respect, even when they find themselves in a job position whose description goes against your interests.

But you wouldn't be lying to them, as I can assure you the customer service worker couldn't care less whether you're really deaf or not. As an analogy, telling a lie via telegram only counts as lying to the recipient, not to the post office clerks typing and handling the telegram.

In fact you would be lying to a faceless entity that is not a human being, whose charter clearly states that its purpose is to extract as much money as possible from you and funnel it somewhere else. Where to? Into the (ultimate) pockets of people who have built this entire construction in order to be as removed as possible from the moral and legal implications of the faceless entity's actions. Not to mention remaining very well hidden. Cowards and thieves, at the very least.

Whether you believe I'm lying to the faceless entity or to the cowards and thieves who built it that way (which is a valid philosophical point) I have no qualms whatsoever doing either thing.
I would recommend using Opera Mini or GDrives Web Light (http://gdriv.es/l/)
Was it physically easy to raise prices by a penny?

IIRC, there was an account of an issue with Coca-Cola's vending machines and them not wanting to raise prices and finding all kinds of convoluted workarounds, including asking the treasury to issue a 7.5 cent coin.
> mostly hobby projects with some secret keys in them

For that, you might consider using something like git-remote-gcrypt, which encrypts data client-side before sending to the server.
And the machines aren't really competitive against Thinkpads. They are still the standard Linux laptop for everyone I know.
If you needed to (as in a Disaster Recovery scenario), you'd just flip on "On-Demand I/O": https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/on-demand-io . There will be a surcharge of $0.005 per GB of data transferred that goes over the 4 MB/s of throughput (https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing#on-demand-pricing).

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but not Nearline).
For eight weeks, the patients drank a diet milkshake three times daily and ate some 200 grams of non-starchy vegetables, totaling about 700 calories a day.

The average weight loss among participants was about 14 kg (33 pounds). And in many of them, the diabetes disappeared. Nearly half the participants had no symptoms of diabetes for nearly six months after they went back to eating normally.

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Yup, and when you call to downgrade, it's not a quick conversation. They have to try to negotiate with you and try to actually sell you more when you're asking for less. The person I spoke to finally capitulated after about 10 minutes of trying to sell me packages, ask me what my internet was used for, trying to explain why I might want not-their-cheapest thing, trying to tell me it's a bad deal, etc. It was super annoying and a stressful experience honestly to drop from 100mbit peak download to 35mbit service; $65 a month vs $105 for the 100mbit, 100mbit came as a package deal with basic cable which I didn't use since I don't have a TV. It was $10 cheaper than without TV, priced at $60/month for 6 months as a promo, the TV bundled so they can inflate their subscriber numbers to attempt to publicly minimize the effects of cord cutting.

I'd do anything to have a different ISP, but my apartment building has the choice of Comcast or 768k ATT DSL for the same price since I'd have to also get a phone line.
Yeah. No other country in the world does this. None whatsoever.
Quite opposite. It is proved that longer page loading time is less conversion.
Real estate prices are not solely a function of supply and demand. If the value of your money goes down, so too will the price of your house.
Unless a few hours twice a week amount to severe opportunity costs, why not work and do grad school? My brother and I and many of my colleagues took advantage of the benefit that many employers offer to get a masters after work at their expense.
yep, this exactly. if my client has another PM system, that doesn't mean I have to use it. Sure, I might interface with it but that is the cost of being a consultant having to work with many different PM systems, apps, etc.

One of the main reasons why consultants who get paid so much $$ is because they are so flexible. Yes, they can program in many languages, but they also know multiple operating systems, PM systems, and have the ability to communicate across multiple channels. The real $$ comes when you can do it all in English, Chinese and Spanish :)
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They also do goofy shit like ship a touchpad with a driver that can't be merged upstream because it would have to remove a chunk of the standard driver. Like how the fuck would that work?

Don't get me started on the wifi but that's hit or miss.