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On their own the tips are okay... It's clear they're based on experience, and they reflect my own experience as a marketing consultant.

Unfortunately they lose their practicality when put in an arbitrary list like this. Here's why:

1. No founder has the time to execute on all 10 of these tips. And if they do, then each of the 10 tactics will only get a half-hearted attempt and yield few results.

2. Perhaps they recognize they can't split their attention on all 10 things--plus the 10 things from another article, and the 7 things from another, ...--so they decide to focus on just 3. Now the problem: Which 3 do they choose? The tips vary in their practicality, so choosing the wrong 3 can result in a big waste of time and money.

For example:

> Customize your site with geo-specific elements.

Maybe it will result in "double-digit conversion lift," and maybe (most likely) it won't... But the same can be said for the 1,000 other conversion optimization tips.

There are too many better uses of time for an early stage startup--some of which you mention, such as experimenting with channels and measuring costs per acquisition--to be tweaking a word here and a button color there.

3. Two prescriptive paragraphs on a subject as broad as "paid advertising" can do more harm than good. I've seen too many companies flushing money down the drain on AdWords without even realizing it. In one case, a company meant to advertise to python developers but instead was using up their entire budget on clicks from people searching for snakes.

4. Some of this is easier to say in retrospect than actually do in the present. For example:

> Define value proposition early.

Startups lack a good value prop not because they didn't think to do it sooner, but because it takes time to figure out what exactly is that value prop. As you said yourself, it takes many iterations and many conversations with users before you can reach the "a-ha" moment and figure out the magical sentence.

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All this to say: You obviously have great experience and a desire to share your knowledge, but you're doing yourself (and others) a disservice by diluting that knowledge into clickbait listicles.
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Floppy disk is a straw man argument.

But hey, Apple can now impose the change from the position of power. And they have Beats who will follow this change...
> it makes people less likely to want to contribute to the project, because they probably feel like they are being taken advantage of or losing some right

I think it depends who the copyright is assigned to. I imagine people will have strong reservations about transferring copyright to a private company or individual.

But if the copyright is assigned to a mutually trusted organisation like a FLOSS foundation then I can't think of a good reason that a contributor would withhold copyright assignment.

They have nothing to lose and the project they care about will gain. There are even tools nowadays like CLAHub to make the process more convenient.

One exception might be corporate restrictions on contributors. Like if you need permission from your boss and it is denied.

I think the bigger issue with FLOSS projects is that often people are not always able to agree on an acceptable organisation to own the copyright let alone the kind of license to have.
One of the reasons would be that it isn't used that often and won't allow access to your network with commodity hardware.
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Fair. But being one of those we fear are doing the buying and selling, I'm not so sure its any consolation.
Spotify is down too. Didn’t they move to Google Cloud recently?
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If enough people keep getting stabbed in San Francisco, maybe the tourists will stay away! Only slightly not serious. Web search for "stabbing" and "san francisco"
Spotify is aware of this. Naturally.
I keep wanting to create an implementation of R in Racket (called Arket, because R is a PIA to google). And then I never quite get around to doing it.

As an aside, I too mostly code R but love Racket. Learning a bit of Racket is what unlocked R for me.
Why 70 years, or why 1946? Tried Googling but didn't see answer. I had thought carbon dating was pretty inaccurate anyways, didn't think it worked on such small time scales. Maybe this is a joke that went over my head.
That's not what happened though. He dictated where the police were capable of having a word with him, and they chose not to do so there.

It's totally possible that there are legitimate reasons for that (if you already have enough evidence to convict, there would be no reason to 'interview' someone except in an arrest-friendly setting), but it's still a worthwhile distinction. This isn't someone calling up the police and going "I'll talk to you, but only if you agree to meet me at Starbucks." It's someone leveraging international law to leave the police with only one option.
>> Why not? It seems at this point
>> you are assuming something that is
>> generally deduced as a consequence
>> of the FTA.

> According to the OP, this result
> does not rely on the FTA -- he
> claims to derive it from the
> Euclidean Algorithm.

Yes.

> I can't do that, so I'm taking
> his word for it, but that doesn't
> make the proof circular.

But you should say that you are relying on this. As it is you are simply making an unsupported assertion, and so your proof is incomplete.

See other comments in this sub-thread for more explanations.
The comments in the article link to this: https://github.com/HQarroum/awesome-iot
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I've seen multiple commercials for thermostats, smart refrigerators, a smart doorbell, and a bunch of IoT lights and light switches.
Bluetooth LE is open for use on iOS devices without license fees, AFAIK it's the only one.
No, it's not, and I specifically quoted the part of Gower's Answer 3 that mentions it in my original comment.

If you think this is a restatement of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, maybe you think of the FTA as obvious after all. ;p
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I already use my phone's charging port for charging. I'd find it very annoying if I couldn't charge and listen to music at the same time (without buying some sort of USBC hub).
Sure. I'd agree that the OP is arguing that basically no one should employ this guy. I don't quite agree with that, but I also don't think that it's a real concern because someone will employ this guy whether it's a good idea or not.

Regarding power, I don't agree with your assessment. Positions of power exist to provide social structure. Yes, positions of power are relevant to mating, but humans would have power structures even if we started reproducing asexually. If you put a dozen people in a room and ask them to accomplish something, leaders will emerge, because the alternative is disorganized, undirected, and wasted energy.
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Can you explain this a bit better? I'm curious.
This was answered in the same comment tree before you posted the question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11953790
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If I had to pick any single example of C code to put the fear of god in young programmers and make sure that they never wanted to touch C in their life, the example on this page would be it. That is the single ugliest piece of C I have ever seen. C can be a beautiful language. This is not that. I take it this is Microsofts fancy new checked C?
What did Lightning cables usurp that was as ubiquitous as the 3.5mm audio jack?
Yes that is the description of an illiquid potential future asset and a liquid current asset. both things that were addressed in my above comment.
It's cheap, but currently there are 649 supercharger stations, and 3906 superchargers[1], and he gives that power away for free to Tesla owners. Buy cheap sell free doesn't really scale, unless it's subsidized in some other way (and reducing cost even more may make that more palatable).

There's also the powerwall play. I imagine a lot of people that signed up for powerwall will want solar at the same time, if they don't have it. Maybe this is actually a way to hedge against powerwall coming in at cost (or a way to get an installation network). If most the installs come with some solar installation as well, maybe they can see the device at a loss and meet cost expectations while still not losing money.

1: https://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger
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Title should read "USV..." not "USB" I think.
You can do that with USB2 as well, but hardly anyone does, because they aren't forced to do so.

Most people don't want a higher quality DAC than the one built into the phone. High quality DACs are cheap. If the one in your phone isn't good enough for you, in two years you will get a new phone -- pick one with a better DAC, since now you know that's important to you. In the meantime, your $1000 headphones from four years ago will still work on all the phones with 3.5mm jacks, and so will the $6 pair you picked up on the boardwalk when you realized that there was no way in heck you wanted to wear the good headphones out on the beach.
It depends.

If it has "no clear copyright owner" because it comes from an entire community and has a ton of copyright holders for little bits of the code here and there, then it means that every copyright holder can sue for breach of copyright.

If on the other hand it has "no clear copyright owner" because it was written by one person under a pseudonym and that holder is almost surely never going to come forward to prove that they are the person intended... then it's de facto public domain even if that's not its status de jure. If you really want to push it in court, you can say that you met the person in-person at a conference and that they verbally told you to do anything you want with it: unless they stand up to say "that's a total lie!" there's no way of proving, because just because some code C has been licensed to a million people under the GPL, it doesn't mean it hasn't been licensed to one other person under the WTFPL.

As for how this could happen... It could be that everything suggests that they never want to come back, like the apparent disappearance from Earth of Satoshi Nakamoto; it could also be something with more stake, for example if Ross Ulbricht had gotten out of the Silk Road business and GPLed his code as the Dread Pirate Roberts before he was caught; in that hypothetical universe, nobody would want to prove that they were the DPR until some statute of limitations for running the black market had passed.
I don't understand this push to get rid of the analogue headphone jack.

It's a solution in search of a problem--like removing physical buttons from the Kindle...the alternative (touch screen page turns) is more high-tech, but not as pleasant.

I'm sure audophiles would appreciate a digital interface for their headphones, but everyone else is perfectly content to use cheap $5 earbuds for their highly compressed audio files.

Yet, we're now supposed to believe that the general public will enjoy paying a premium for new gear that replaces their cheap and perfectly functional headphones?

Just because a technology is old and low tech doesn't mean it's antiquated.
I recall many frustrating days in college when I first learned vim but not enough to configure it (or was to lazy to). The arrow keys inserted control characters in edit mode on the basic Linux install I had at the time and on the school's computers (circa 2000-2004). It was annoying. It turned me off to vim for a while, but emacs and I were a better fit anyways.
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If you just have a handful of servers you can still get a lot done with the free edition, not useless at all by any stretch of the imagination. Paying a few quid a year to keep up with the updates is peanuts compared to the extra productivity we get from it.
There are a lot of cities between SF and Madison in terms of software companies, and all of them are cheaper than SF.
Very well articulated.

One small point to add: Chomksy's interest has been in identifying the abstract characteristics of the language center of the human brain, which, for various reasons, does not seem likely to work like a Markov model.

Analogously, one could look at the inputs and outputs of the human heart and potentially imagine a variety of physical structures that would explain them, and some of those physical structures would be biologically real/plausible and others would not.

Things like constraints on working memory, exposure to input, and cross-language studies have informed the constraints that Chomsky has proposed to determine what kind of model would best capture the essential quality of the brain system.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Language-Nature-Origins-Con...
This is from 2011.
Um, 100 million of them already out there? So locking the barn door after the horse is gone.

I get it; we don't have land mines in first-world countries, and we will have AIs, so AIs are more interesting to talk about. That's why we continue to have land mines all over the world I think. Not our problem.

All the issues surrounding implacable AI killers on the loose are only something to talk about, if you haven't lived with them for generations already. Want to get real answers to sophomoric questions about robot killers? Just ask the people who already know.
We're trying to put headphones, a microphone, and remote controls into this connector. It's already kinda flaky with a 3.5mm form factor, and detecting when something is plugged in is a hard problem that gets even harder when you shrink it.
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I had the same thing happen to me. I now view R totally different after learning Racket and my code changed. My code from a year ago seems like a child wrote it :) R became this functional language and I can see the OO stuff and avoid it now.
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The question implied that the alternative would be to work in another city as well as live in another city...
Yes, I know the proof. The point is that your original proof sketch didn't acknowledge the need for that lemma.
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I have a DAC actually and didn't find it to considerably improve the sound for me over the P2AV2 (my amp). This is on the iPhone 6s. At least not enough to warrant carrying it and the amp between work and home. I do use it at home at my computer. If I wanted to drop the money I could get one for work as well but I don't think it's worth it.

I don't claim to be able to hear all of the amazing details in songs that many people with HiFi gear can but I do know what the music should sound like and what sound I want out of my headphones. That's why I have the nice headphones and part of why they're 6+ years old... I'm a creature of habit and I like the way those headphones sound :).

EDIT: Now that I'm thinking about it. A DAC/amp with a Lightning/USB-C input and analog output would be tolerable. It's something I have to pay more for and I'd always have to use the DAC/amp.

I don't like it but I can see a workaround.
If you plot sales volume on the vertical axis and price on the horizontal axis, you get a line called the price elasticity curve. Very few price elasticity curves are linear. Many have an inflection point beyond which volume falls faster than prices rise. If you raise your price beyond this point, you'll actually get declining revenue despite having a higher price.

Unfortunately, every product has its own curve, and there's no way to know the shape without changing the price and seeing what happens. So knowing that this is possible is not a great argument against raising prices. You won't know until you try it.
Still not up for us here in Amsterdam, and support.spotify.com says: “Spotify is currently not available. We are working on a fix and will continue to provide updates.”
Sorry, I was thing about LevelDB. ANd yes, you are right about LMDB!
vim file_foo

press i for interactive and make changes then press :wq

:) I have that embedded in my brain after all these years.
But... this also means that you don't get security updates.
Agreed. To be honest, I think the colloquial nature of the post is fine in this case.
Apparently there is, because he could.
Has anyone ever classified forms of gullibility before? For example, is there a name for the form of gullibility that will make otherwise smart people believe ridiculous things if it reinforces their belief that they are smarter than everyone else?
Given that Emacs Live has received new interest over here - I've just pushed a new release - v1.0beta28. This has support for all the latest Clojure goodies as well as many other lib updates :-)

Simply do a git pull from ~/.emacs.d to update
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Dual-license with a proprietary license is not allowed by the papers you sign when assigning copyright to the GNU project.

»We promise to always keep the software free. This promise extends to any successors in the copyright, meaning that even if the FSF were to go away the freedom of all users to share in the contributions wouldn't.« — https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2014/spring/copyright-assignmen...

This is the difference between copyright assignment to the FSF and most other copyright assignment.
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I interpreted his message as he did not only want evidence for the internet, but also the other stuff I mentioned, and their effects on kids. I'm sorry if that wasn't the case.
It's not quite table-based, but APL [0] uses multidimensional arrays as it's main datatype.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)
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> And now you can walk with your phone in your pants pocket or purse (or anywhere), without a wire dangling!

Citation needed. Have you actually used Bluetooth headsets? Unless the phone has unimpeded LOS to the headset, expect the sound to drop samples, or introduce static, or otherwise be shitty and horrible.

Have your phone in a pocket on the other side of your body from where your headphones' antenna is? Enjoy shit audio.

Did someone turn on a microwave in the same area code? Enjoy shit audio.

Did you run by a new Wi-Fi network? You get the idea.
Mercurial went the hard road and asked all contributors to relicense under GPLv2 or later.
One perspective I try to keep in mind is that all media will one day be addressable. That means whether an "ad" is video, social, mobile, desktop, or VR, it will be accessible to marketers. That turns television commercials into video ads and the ads will be powered and purchased in real-time depending on the end user. I agree traditional TV buying will decline, a new more holistic approach (digital buying) will replace it. For the end user this means more targeted advertising. There are several companies that have embedded their tracking into modern televisions.
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> At first, try to determine WHY the caps failed.

In current consumer gear, 99% of the time the caps failed because they are garbage that comes nowhere near to meeting their supposed specification, in designs where the specifications are already cut to the absolute minimum.

In sufficiently old gear, they failed because they were sitting idle too long, and can probably be reformed.
Still pay matters. If the office looks nice, food is free, the project is cutting edge but for-profit, but salary mediocre then quit. Pay matters
I had the great -- and lucky -- benefit of falling into a well established research community -- ARPA-IPTO -- in the 60s with roots going back into the 50s and 40s. They "knew how to make progress" and I learned most of what little I understand about "process" from growing up in it.

Here is a little tribute essay I wrote for this research community in 2004:
http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2004001_power.pdf
Do extradition treaties cover forcing diplomatic planes to land with no evidence aside from rumor that a person of interest is on the plane?
I am not a lawyer.

The strength of the GNU licenses depends on existing copyright laws [plural]. As the copyright holder, GNU is more likely to have standing in an arbitrary jurisdiction when seeking to enforce the license.

Whether or not enforcement is important is another matter. If it isn't, then there's nothing but a fantastic warm fuzzy in choosing GNU over a "do whatever you want" license. To put it another way, license terms like other contract terms should align with what the author is willing to go through the bother of enforcing.
> I'd have no problem with USB-C headphones.

I would. Can you imagine how terrible the sound would be for 90% of the headphone market? We have all of these manufacturers racing to the bottom of the headphone market, offering crappy speakers and microphones for $50. Now we expect them to also include an amp and DAC?

The least expensive, decent headphone USB DAC that I've personally used was already over $70, and it's about the size of an Altoids tin. There's not a trivial amount of additional circuitry to handle the data and power requirements.

Perhaps it's just me, but I'm not really interested in buying yet another dongle for my phone so I can use decent headphones (that I already own) with it. I thought the goal was to reduce the size of phones.
I thought this was sort of funny given the authors published a set of rules.

Conjecture 1: Statistical practice is more than a set of rules.
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I don't know anything about the politics involved, and I don't even use nano (vim guy myself), but I just ran this out of curiosity:

zx2c4@thinkpad ~/nano $ git shortlog -sne --since '3 years ago'
1298 Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
64 Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>
6 Jordi Mallach <jordi@gnu.org>
3 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
3 Mike Scalora <mike@scalora.org>
2 Rishabh Dave <rishabhddave@gmail.com>

Seems like Benno is clearly the driving force behind the project.
Who buys a tesla with tax incentives?

These are both dream projects to change the world. Sure they don't look that good on paper but more power to them, I hope they succeed. They are both moonshots though, if there is any synergy or overlap it might make some sense.
Out of curiosity: how do you launch 20 satellites like this without danger of collisions? I guess you accelerate between deploying each satellite to slightly change the orbit?
That's unfortunate that CIDER doesn't behave with it. I was curious about this because I'm currently using my own tweaked version of the Brave Clojure config, and it's woefully out of date and attempting to update it just broke everything.
Think of it as a zero-capability web cookie. Burden of storage is on the client, so it scales nicely.

If it's symmetric-encrypted, then it's unforgeable, and it's safe to include private information, like IP address or recent video-viewing history, just in case someone posts a screenshot of it on HN.
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If it were done much better ...
NDTV, an indian news channel, just reported that the launch cost was 50% less than spacex. No specifics were provided though.
As an emacs user, it is ironic I mention this tip!

You can use Control + [ as an alternative to using ESC in Vim. This solved my reluctance to reach for the ESC key in the far reaching corner of my keyboard.

This thread does remind me of nano. Maybe it is time to give it a try when editing files on servers.