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Yes - branding drives perception which can drive consumer decisions. Consumers can also drive a brand.

Certainly skewing old wasn't the only factor for Cadillac but it definitely was a component and they are trying to spend their way out of that image (both with ads and with more performance-minded cars).

I agree that Apple is an expert at hip but their time dominating is limited. It gets harder to be hip when so many people, especially those much older have them and mom/dad/grandma/grandpa all want to Facetime you. Younger people have been migrating their time away from Facebook because of the saturation.

I disagree on Android and the data doesn't back up your statements. Android is comparable with younger demos [3] and has more market share [1] (esp. outside the US) [2] so they don't "have a monstrous hill" to climb with younger people. Android and device manufacturers are positioned quite well.

It's going to be a challenge for Apple to continue to ask for a premium price when they no longer have a compelling quality argument and Android OS and devices keep getting better with many outperforming the iPhone. People are also getting tired of Apple's closed systems. They are "The Man" but most consumers haven't realized it yet. The squeezing they do with storage is ridiculous.

[1] 52.8% market share in the US, Jan 2016 - https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Rankings/comScore-Reports-...

[2] 80.7% market share globally, 4Q2015 - http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3215217

[3] 52% of millenials have an Android device vs 44% for iPhone, 2014 - http://www.techtimes.com/articles/15084/20140908/draft-andro...
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I wouldn't pay $5 a day. I would pay $30 a month. Mechanical turk, with a note that the picture needs to contain some sort of scale (and a request to manually scale the item if you didn't include one and it's not obvious), would probably take you pretty far.
It was the only browser that I ever saw an ad in TV prime time.
Is that "Assistance Executive...", or "Assistant to the Executive..."? I imagine that would change the salary, no? lol ;-)
According to Wikipedia, Sentinelese is apparently (based on other encounters) ,not mutually intelligible with Onge, which does seem to be an inconsistency in the idea that she heard them asking for coconuts in Onge.
I think that MSDS sheets have their limits. Its basically just for acute exposure.
Yes, but it has grown a little too inhuman in practice in a country that's 5% of the world's population but has 25% of the world's inmates.

(Plus practices like the death penalty, private prisons, abuse of solitary confinement for long periods, down to contractors overcharging 10x for prison phone calls. One would compare that with the 3rd world, not the modern Western world).

If anything it needs more limitations to prosecution and uncertainties that work in favor of the state, not less.
> The majority of a long haul trucker's job is interacting with legal authorities at weigh stations, dealing with loading crews, performing required truck maintenance on the road, etc...

In other words, the parts that don't have to move much. You can keep a much smaller, more local staff that costs far less per volume of goods flowing. A single agent at a weigh station that handles hundreds of trucks a day, instead of a truck driver per truck. A set of contracts with local mechanics that get paged if a truck breaks down along the route. Loading crews can load trucks without a truck driver, And so on.

You don't need someone to attend the trucks -- you just need people at key points along the routes.
I'd definitely recommend doing this only with someone who has experience and is reasonable. On one of my last camping trips I saw two girls doing mushrooms which ended with one of them running around naked for hours screaming for help and attacking people she thought were demons. This only ended when a park ranger arrested her after a chase through the bushes. Her friend was just watching and smiling.

I am not opposed to drugs but you should know what you are getting into.
Great move, RethinkDB folks!

I'm looking forward start prototyping some apps using Horizon. On a first look seems very promising.

Congrats!
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Oh, that's a good point. There's really something to be said for hovering a link and getting more than just random numbers and letters. And I know this as a user, but I never thought about the stuff I make in this light.. thanks!
Changing the zoom on this page is trippy.
I have a couple of Ansible playbooks under development to do this -- but it's a very specific topology that may not work for you.

If you are interested, I could post them when they are done.
I agree that her/she needs to cite evidence. But biology majors can take chemistry, right?
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Reminds me of "Right now, your government is doing things you think only other governments do."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wU92eycwmxY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_XPoint
Ask HN: Project-based postgraduate degrees in CS or HCI recommendations?
I am pursuing Nanotechnology masters degree and I was thinking that maybe not all degrees have a focus on writing review/research papers and that they focus instead on learning by working on projects.
Our highways will probably last centuries if not millenia once cars and trucks stop banging on them. The Romans would be envious.
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The law was written too broadly. It happens, and it's certainly not insanity. One of the problems with enshrining things into law is that it locks it into its current state. I'm sure when the law was written, African hair braiding was the last thing on anyone's minds. But society changes, and unfortunately case precedent like the one demonstrated is typically how law evolves with it. (A more proactive approach by legislators would be the preferred method.)
Isn't it an underlying principle? It's meant to prevent detainment without proof of guilt. Otherwise, people could be held indefinitely for no reason. Now obviously there is a gray area between "hey we can't hold on to anyone until the courts say so" and "I don't like the look of that guy, lets put him in jail." But I don't think it's unfair to argue that handcuffing and pointing a weapon at someone who has not posed a threat and is only under suspicion (unreasonably in my opinion) of stealing a laptop is an over reaction and in conflict with that principle. To me, the level of detainment is not commensurate with what is reasonably required in order to investigate or protect the public interest.
I doubt it was from the brush alone.

It could be possible that more than Roundup was sprayed. No one told me. I should have guessed why the bushes were brown!
So you're saying you have to have a four year engineering degree to be an engineer, and you don't count a computer science degree?

Did you know that MIT, Stanford, Berkeley and Harvard do not offer Computer Engineering degrees (only Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or EECS).

Also you've completely discounted self taught practitioners, some of whom are often far more competent than people with actual Computer Engineering degrees.

Hence, it really isn't "put to bed" yet.
Abstract, etc.: http://eccc.hpi-web.de/report/2015/119/

Paper (PDF): http://eccc.hpi-web.de/report/2015/119/revision/2/download/
I agree that sentences in the US are across the board too long but am not sure what that has to do with compelled decryption of hard drives.

The court system didn't make sentences too long. They were dragged there, kicking and screaming, by a polity that overwhelmingly demanded tough-on-crime statutes and tough-on-crime prosecutors, and passed laws to ensure that the courts complied.
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Estimated salary: $80,465

Is this a synonym title for PR associate (not PR manager, not PR director), or maybe Junior Communications Manager?
:-)
> do we really need regional variations in math textbooks?

I think there is value in having our population exposed to a diverse range of textbooks. I can't prove it, but I suspect that a homogenous education system would be detrimental to our economy. One of our national strengths is innovation, which comes partly from having a number of people looking at the same problem in different ways.
I'm continuously impressed by Rethink. When I first used it, I ran into a few issues with changefeeds. Since they work in the open, I could quickly look at the Github issues and see that the fixes/features were already slated for future release milestones. To me, that's a huge win.
According to this[1], 51% of one of their roundup products is "Other Chemicals", so less than half is Glyphosate. It says to try and keep it off skin etc. Wouldn't surprise me if most formulations have... other ingredients.

[1] http://www.monsanto.ca/products/Documents/roundup_transorb_m...

It also says:

Skin irritation
Rabbit, 3 animals, OECD 404 test:
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FIFRA category III.
It is required. You can't graduate with a biology degree without at least a year of chemistry.
Ultimately, everyone wants to make user experiences like this. But along the way, some short-sighted MBA or marketer gets involved, who's job success is measured by email subscription numbers or another metric, and the whole thing gets messed up.
"causes a rash" (which is in the data sheets for the product - you did read those before you started working with it, right) is different to "kills you on skin contact" or "kills you if you drink it".

Worldwide very many deaths by suicide are caused by people drinking weedkiller, so moving to glyphosate should stop some of those.
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They are required to characterize the material in question. They don't say a bit of glyphosate and some other stuff we had around, they list the ingredients and give the proportion of each ingredient.
I know there's been an effort to use the word "Cannabis" as a way to sound legitimate, instead of pot/weed/marijuana. Do you react better to 'cannabis'?
After the initial package with the standard vesting schedule, everything else is flexible and at the discretion of management (almost always the C-suite and Board of Directors). You can try to negotiate and it may work depending on the company policies and the stage of the company. Some more established startups will have a defined policy for this to make everything uniform among employees while young companies are super flexible.
Running "dnf" doesn't call any of that, same as running "yum" as did the OP
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You're thinking of the Guardian ... the DM love the royals.
What is the problem with those for you? Komodo supports refactoring.
CommonCore is the Solution to these 20 different MATH text books across USA.
40 States are onborad with CommonCore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Core_State_Standards_In...

This gives the WHOLE Sotry ..
How Bill Gates pulled off the swift Common Core revolution

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bill-gates-pulle...
I agree, and give mushrooms some credit for motivating me to make some of the most positive changes in my life.

For a life changing experience hike a few days into a national forest and drop some shrooms.
And with my level of education, they're pretty much all unknown.
In this case. In the general case, like it happens in the UK already, they can end up just demanding a password.
Have you read the filings? It sure seems like he has.
A return to science...
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I'm not basing my argument on what could in theory happen, but rather on what appears to not to actually be a problem.

Teenagers have bought sodium hydroxide and hydrogen peroxide and heaven know what other nasty chemicals and plastered it in their own and their friends hair at home for decades, and there's no epidemic of permanent disfigurement from chemical burns (if there was, we'd have people up in arms over these chemicals being sold freely).

In other words, the putative argument for requiring hair dressers licenses is solving a theoretical problem.

Before you start doing business with someone, spend a few seconds evaluating the place. Maybe get a recommendation. If it's busy, that's a lot of other people vouching for it, it's probably at least OK. If it's a repurposed lemonade stand in a back alley, it's probably not (even in a jurisdiction that requires licenses!). It's really just basic common sense.
Here's an MSDS for a Monsanto product. We can see it covers acute exposure, and repeat exposure, and chronic exposure.

http://www.roundup.ca/_uploads/documents/RoundupUltra2Liquid...
> I don't see anything indicating contact with the Sentinelese except the caption to the photo, is there any documented evidence?

While in theory a similar looking beach could be anywhere, and the native people could be of any tribe, in the first photo the visitors are standing in water, offering coconuts. The other tribes live in the mainland of Andaman island, so when meeting them you would more probably arrive on foot on land.

This is some, perhaps indirect, indication that the visitors arrived on a boat, and the photo really is from where the caption says it is.
Should this work in the same way when other "data" is in the possession of the accused? Say, a murder suspect is considered by the judge as knowing the location of the victims body, and by refusing to tell the court, the suspect is detained as being in contempt of court.
Could you given an example of such a law?
I'm downvoting you (pretty much everywhere here) because you haven't provided any links to substantiate your dismissals and further you've come off rather uncivilly.
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> It probably did help that his name was already a household brand in the comedy world.

This is something that the author somehow overlooks. Louis CK does not need to "sell" to you, you're basically just buying. There's a lot of sales fluff that most other websites need to go through because either the product is not unique (a lot of cheaper/better competition) or the product is not dead simple.

While the general premise is correct, it will fail to produce such drastic results for products which actually must compete in the marketplace. There is no "other" Louis CK, and I think this applies to most artists in general. These ticketmaster sweeteners/lock-ins are not needed; the venues/performers likely only use them for convenience and as a promotional and organizational turn-key solution.
Apologies, I wasn't trying to infer an opinion either way.

More an opinion that the decision to provide the worst possible UX has a likelihood of being highlighted by the populist media.
Really odd how articles criticizing a weed killer rile up such emotion.

Your response is a good part ad hominem and emotional attacks. Do you have any facts to back up your claims? Seralini is a fraud according to who? He is well respected and has won awards from the German Federation of Scientists. He has actually won court cases against special interests that have attempted to libel him. Seems that you were influenced by this libel.

And why should I trust your judgement over WHO on carcinogenicity?

Talking about "riding dicks" doesn't help your cause either. You come off as immature and it hurts your credibility. I'm surprised you've been voted to the top.
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What if customer experience was the only metric that mattered? We find that our clients who focus on this as the main metric see sales double... which is really what all the suits care about.
> Well, they insure people with licenses, of course. It's an elaborate scheme to transfer money from one insurance company to another.

I think that's missing the point (at least the point in theory; the point in practice might be different). The idea is that, if you're licensed, you're sufficiently unlikely to make mistakes that an insurance company can profitably insure people like you without having to charge any individual one of you too much money. In essence, it's a way of converting the concept "People who know what they're doing are less likely to screw up" into something the market can quantify and deal with and reduce variance on.

In theory, the amount of money the building owners pay their own building insurance company is exactly equal to the chance of their building falling down times the cost of that building (plus the overhead of calculating that risk, etc.). If you want that cost to do down, the most efficient way is to convincingly lower that risk. Assuming the market is reasonably effective at transmitting information (which is a big assumption), insurance seems like a perfectly reasonable way to use the market to calculate.
I wonder how the economics would work out for something the size of a bus, but with much better aerodynamics? (Perhaps with laminar flow boundary devices?)
Or even simpler, have the self-driving truck, but keep the "driver" to do all the normal non-driving stuff. Would be a great opportunity to get a lot of reading done, for example.
Firefox became faster than Chrome quite a while ago already. Not sure what you were measuring.
I don't have access to a gas spectrometer.

You would think that someone would have tested it, but I cannot find the information anywhere. An MSDS sheet will not list trace ingredients.

If you Google this, mostly you only get junk results. Its not easy to find this out. As I said, all I have is what my chemistry professor told me.
Most fireproof boxes are not actually fireproof. In many fires they will just turn into an oven that bakes whatever is inside.
In some niche areas it's really useful. Some people I know recently raised 17M to build software for surgeons. Looking forward to seeing more uses like this.
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I wonder how the salaries are generated. If the titles are a Markov chain, you could calculate the average percentage difference in salary made by each word in a title, and sum them, maybe…?
Tails combined with any encrypted cloud hosting service accepting anonymous payments (e.g. mega.nz, though I'm sure there are ones with better desktop integration) would offer more deniability than any local solution could, though it's debatable if paying is reasonably simple.
I agree. The primary component of that "Other Chemicals" are surfactants.

Surfactants, such as (POEA used in roundup) are known skin irritants. They are used to help absorption of glyphosate in plants.

Skin irritation is a very well characterized reaction to contact with any kind of surfactant.
Why is the burden of proof on the public to show a pesticide is unsafe, rather than on the manufacturer to ensure (and publicly document, explain) that they have reasonable expectation of safety? Why is it hard/impossible for independent investigators to get samples? We're talking about our water (run-off) and food supplies here.
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I'm finding that even electronics are going downhill because of third party sellers and Amazon blurring the line between these two entities. There are lots of people that do not even understand that a review is about the product. While things like how it was shipped, packaging, speed of delivery or color are important someone giving a 5-star review to a product because it was shipped quickly does not make for a good review. Then there are all these reviews where the seller gives a reviewer a free product in exchange for a review. Maybe they received a higher quality product? Maybe they're just shills looking for free things in exchange for writing 5-star reviews on a 2-star product?

In my mind Amazon's consumer experience has been going downhill over the last 2 years. Prime is not nearly what it used to be, shipping times have been slipping greatly and as you say, there are a lot of low quality goods. Even their prices anymore are questionable. I used to simply order a product knowing that even if it wasn't the lowest price out there it would ship quickly and the price would be comparable enough to choose convenience over another store. That's not the case anymore.
Well, it's a bit odd to call something like this which has been isolated and studied extensively "unknown" while giving a pass to the myriad uncharacterized things found in our food naturally.

It's not like being natural imbues anything with any guarantee of safety and wholesomeness, despite what advertising would have us believe. I mean, at this point, poison ivy is a lot more 'natural' in some sense than the average carrot and I know which one I'd rather eat.
>(IARC) declared glyphosate a probable human carcinogen //

You consider IARC to be "quack-science"?
There is a considerable lag when I drag and release the slider. I assume you are doing some intense computation, but perhaps allow the UI to be responsive while you are doing so?
This is an "old" news from Argentina http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27373134 where Monsanto pesticides were used and cancer affected many people in a specific population.
A brilliant contradiction I must say.

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Cool, so you have the mug of tasty roundup to drink. I'll have the coffee - bottoms up.
Agreed that I bet that helped get people to his site to purchase the video download. But I think it is equally important to note that he left the subscribe box unchecked during this purchase, and he still had enough people re-check it that he was able to sell out his live shows ONLY through this email.

That is what I am trying to convey here – that focusing on a great customer experience can be an aid in driving sales, not a deterrent.
> I don't think that coming up with a model that matches historical data ensures that the model is predictive in any manner

How do you think predictive models are built.
"They" don't want you to know about it, but farmers regularly use large quantities of dihydrogen monooxide on their crops.
Without using something like an A/B test it would be impossible to determine what kind of effect this has on conversion rate. I don't doubt removing friction helps get users to make a purchase but "Hey I just did these few things and this time we had tickets sell really fast!" is not a correct approach to optimizing conversion rate, there could have been any number of factors which were not accounted for here as to why tickets sold so fast.
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Ask HN: What are the best practices for opening a single outbound connection?
In a world where most systems are architected to redundantly handle tons of inbound connections sometimes you need to start a single long-lived highly available outbound one.

For inbound, it's pretty easy, run redundant load balancing processes/servers in front of redundant web front-ends.

When you need to open a single outbound connection, i.e. WebSocket to a remote service, how do you architect it on the standard cloud platforms to always have a single one open? Need to both catch closes on the remote side and re-open and failures of the code / instance / hardware on the listening side.

Thinking something about locking a DB row or using atomic DB operations to claim the resource every N seconds and have a cluster of instances all contending for the resource, but feel like there must be a better way.
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