skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really odd misreading. That's a lineage of teacher-pupil relations, not genetic. If anything, it points in the opposite direction of what you're claiming, though in reality it's either just a statement about the clubbiness of mathematics or a statistical likelihood because of how trees work.
Yet even more unusual than Adam for girls.

1 in 220,489 girls (http://www.babynamescience.com/baby-name/Adam-girl)
Would you have any insights on why other places are perceived to not to be able replicate Goldman's success (since you mentioned failed projects) ?
Is it really the tech, and not because of GS's business practices instead ?
I think a lot of people use it for tracking... I am personally excited that I can use it as a lap counter now for swimming - counting laps for 90 minutes is a pain. The fact that I can track running as well, start wearing a watch again, and get notifications, is just icing on the cake.

Lap counters have existed for a while, but having it integrate with my phone seamlessly is great for record keeping.

Still mind-boggled that I get to wear something so awesome on my wrist.
I was with you until the individual stock purchase and leverage bit. For most people this is NOT a wise strategy as they have neither the investing experience nor savings to gamble like that.
Nice tutorials. I've been playing around with React, and I like it overall... But I can't wrap my head around Redux. Could someone explain it to me so I might finally see the light?

My problem is this: I just can't understand why I'd want to manipulate state in an unsightly switch statement like this one from Chapter 4 of the original post:

switch (action.type) {
case 'CHANGE_LOCATION':
return Object.assign({}, state, {
location: action.location
});
case 'SET_SELECTED_TEMP':
return Object.assign({}, state, {
selected: {
temp: action.temp,
date: state.selected.date
}
});
case 'SET_SELECTED_DATE':
return Object.assign({}, state, {
selected: {
date: action.date,
temp: state.selected.temp
}
});
default:
return state;
}

This reminds me of Win32 event loops with their window message handler switches... And that's a scary association.

What's the point with dispatching these fragile "stringly-typed" selectors, when you can just have real functions doing setState() updates on the relevant component?

I'm not trying to be snarky -- I know I'm missing something major here.
Do they no longer teach critical analysis in literature classes anymore? I remember rolling my eyes, and being forced to learn about author's lives, as the author's live experiences may impact their view point.

I would think this is even more important with authors that are trying to impact public opinion or policy.
I am compensated, beyond normal salary, for every hour of oncall outside of normal working hours, up to a cap of 15% salary.
My favorite was D stand for Diploma...
When I read "Slack is so last year", my first thought was "Oh, so Ryver is just this year's Slack." That's not a win, because I already have Slack and I don't need this year's trendy new version. That ad might have a high click-through rate, but you need something better than click-through to sell an enterprise client.

Pitching new features would be more appealing, but you have to actually have new features that are good. Task management is nice, but there are lots of Slack-integrable options already going.

As is, I'm really not sure what this pitch is supposed to say: "our well-established competitor is well-established"? Sounds good to me.
It is an interesting question, I disagree with just about everything in the article.

The question is this, if you have to essentially identical goods, and neither price nor features are sufficient to differentiate them, how do you change market share?

I spent some time embedded in Sun's marketing group and that taught me that classically this is called product positioning. It is marketing's task to create a system for "scoring" the products, contextualize this in terms that the market accepts as legitimate, and then shows how the product scores better than the competition (positions it ahead of the competition). When you are effective at this, you can "drive" your competitors, by forcing them to spend time creating competitive features which you already have in order to counter your marketing message.

So for chat programs I'm surprised that Ryver (already at a disadvantage with a crappy name) doesn't try to define some new standard of excellence and then market leadership in that standard, say "we encrypt all of your chats so even we cannot tell what you're talking about." or "pre-built integration api in more languages" Etc. Some features that then can use to say they are better than Slack when using that score. Looking at the Tuft & Needle example the article uses, the billboards get the attention but the positioning is "the competitors rip you off and we don't."

The Ryver positioning is "We are free for things that you have to pay Slack for."

Which might be effective except there is a trail of people with scars where they used some 'free' component of something, and then it was suddenly "not free" or "no longer available" as the team was acqui-hired. So "we are more free" is in fact a big red flag to a lot of people that the company is clueless and has no future. To make the message more robust, it would need to be something like "We are already a profitable company based on these other products we're selling, as a result we can offer you the same thing Slack charges for, for free."

But I doubt they could do that. It is likely that somewhere there is a data scientist who has a spreadsheet that says "x% of our free customers buy y% of our upsold products, if we could get to 'z' active users, and the ratio holds we will be able to continue in business." But anyone who has been in a startup or watched a startup knows there is unlimited demand for 'free' and just boosting the MAU numbers with "tricks" rarely boosts the sales rate. This is because the tricks don't bring in customers who are genuinely hearing the message, it brings in customers who fall for the trick. And those sorts of tricks are the things that make "growth hacking" a pejorative in some places.

Bottom line, I get the whole "if nobody knows you exist, nothing else matters." kind of mindset that will lead to creating awareness, but it only works if you can effectively position your product to take market share from the incumbent. That seems to be missing.
Clickbait, shame on you! "Sign up or login"....
Thanks, we updated the submitted title from “All the YC Companies”.
Does it?

Dev Ops is focused more on operations (tooling around releases, monitoring, etc) as well as doing initial triage for system problems to figure out where the problem is, and if they can't fix it themselves, determine which engineering group can help resolve an issue. Most of the Devops staff does development, but more around operational needs, product features are implemented by Dev.

Dev Ops means different things to different companies.
It's a one button platformer. Maybe Nintendo can work their magic but it's a very limiting game design. At least it appears to not have any DLC; a rare but welcome feature on a mobile game.
How would we know if we were in a real universe or a perfectly accurate simulation of one? If we were in a simulation, how would we know whether it modeled the same rules as the host universe, or an imagined fantasy universe?

If we are living in a nonfictional simulation, mass data are stored in a colossal server farm. If we are living in a fictional simulation, the mass data are stored in a thing we cannot possibly comprehend. If we are living in a real universe, mass data are not "stored" anywhere, in the same sense that consulting a map at 1:1 scale is indistinguishable from actually visiting the landscape it represents. Storing that data elsewhere is neither useful nor necessary.
The new quantitative journalism
"Marketing is war. You are fighting for your company’s life, by way of attention and sales. If you aren’t willing to go to war,
you might as well surrender and go home and knit cat stuff for Etsy."
I just use ansible to configure my raspberries :) But great tool in my opinion. Good to see windows version present.
We shelled out for a private company for an autopsy, but post-mortem, lots of things happen to the body that make identifying a source of an infection really hard – basically, it didn't tell us anything new :(
There may "always be more to be done" (even that is questionable) but demand is limited by personal income.
Same here but for me it's more that I'm a very shy person. It seems that the world can only have one kind of person in it and that person has to be ready to say hi, shake hands, and invite the other person/people to dinner every other weekend; no alone time allowed. Honestly, I just have to wonder what a kid with a similar temperament like me is feeling. It really has to be a terrible situation tbh.
Fine, but the gaming market is what it is. The model that would work for mass adoption would probably look something like: sell a console with 1 VR headset and 1-3 games for $700, take a loss on it, and turn a profit later on more games and headsets.
The F-16 is close to 40 years old, and the F-15 has been in service for 40 years as of 2016.
"The best way to attack a competitor is to find their soft underbelly and tear it to shreds with tooth and claw. Ideally, it’s something they are not able to change in response to your attack. Slack’s soft underbelly is their pricing model. "
> I suspect that Ryver is now the third best-known brand in the new category of Team Communication.

Am I the only one that hadn't heard of Ryver before this post?
Are you me? Pretty much same story here, except in Arizona not California.
Does this, like SGX, require signing by AMD itself?

This is a major letdown for SGX adoption, making it essentially useless for anyone but maybe niche markets trying to protect IP on cloud services.

If a master key COULD be loaded by the OS early at boot time (and cannot be replaced until CPU reset), it would be incredibly useful to create software-based TPM services that provide trusted isolation where needed.

It seems as if intel/amd are doing this 'just because die space is cheap, and why not try "ip-protection-as-a-service"' instead of a truly generic solution.
> However, if you think the USA can provide drinkable water, you'd have downvoted the "yuck" comment, because it is incorrect, and then this one as well.

Brussels sprouts are "Yuck". However, they're also perfectly edible and healthy for you. If the US started a national food program that delivered incredibly cheap and healthy food straight to your kitchen, but San Diego was stuck with brussels sprouts as their food option, I would not find that "really and truly sad".

Drinkable does not mean tasty. The comments are making two completely different points.
It comes down to fixed resources and reducing operational costs. Yes, you could write your own iSCSI driver, running against a large distributed drive system, or other interfaces, but people don't. There's also a significant cost difference in manufacturing a run of 10k system boards vs 1M of them. Tooling alone is very expensive, and retooling more so.

EMC in particular is fairly custom hardware and software and still tends to deliver better value and consistency than the competition. EMC offers NAS options that has always been ahead of its' competitors. I say this as a passive observer as I've been in software development more than anything operational for the better part of two decades, but I remember in the mid-late 90's that what EMC offered simply had no competition at that time.

Today, it's entirely possible to build a software system similar to what S3 does in-house, but that isn't always what a given system/application, especially legacy systems, require. Not to mention a black box that's mostly closed vs needing specialized software management in-house. There are operational costs to this.

Using a single EMC device vs. hiring 3-5 FTEs making > 80k (120-150K after employer-side taxes) for 5+ years? That's a few million right there. This is often the trade off that EMC offers.

Dell itself offers consistency in broader terms... the same/compatible hardware across all employees... all the same docking stations, all the same monitors, etc. There's value in that as well.
I think there is so much more going on that our systems don't account for and thus fall short.
Scaling in Europe: An easy (8 year) plan
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The RDM is an attempt to maximize database management by the DBMS. What is left only in the mind of users--particularly the kind of users we witness here--is nothing but trouble. Reliance on sheer user discipline--for no good reason, for the only reason that SQL is not truly relational and people don't know, understand and appreciate the theoretical foundations of the RDM is what is really absurd here.

That's the reason the IP insists that ALL information is represented EXPLICITLY and in EXACTLY one way, to maximize soundness, power and simplicity. Whoever does not understand this will get nothing better than SQL.
Moving Storyteller to the CoreCLR and Going Cross Platform
No, because large companies buy computing goods and services from more than one business. There will be significant overlap.
Love the Freudian slip: "You’ll be able to swipe on Pokéstops, see nearby Pokémon in a watch complication"
AAPL.
The insulation on Apple cables is notably fragile in comparison to other cables. It would be OK for a permanent installation, but these are portable machines. Moving around just a bit on a regular basis is enough to cause failure after a few months.

I've gone through multiple power bricks and multiple lightning cables. The experience has made me even more hostile in the face of Apple's long history of proprietary cabling.
He is fond of saying "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."

I've seen a quote attributed to him along the lines of "Cyberpunk as a genre died out because if became real life", but I have not been able to track down any source or proof of that attribution.
The most expensive liquid is actually bull semen. Yes, that's a real product. Dairy/cattle farmers often need it.
Maybe the idea is to get into the private cloud business, in hope that it will grow ?
Dominating the market is not illegal - anti-competitive behavior is. The former is still possible just by being really good at what you do and how you sell.
OK, let's use your hypothetical that if we accept everyone, that they will have equal graduate attainment (regardless of test scores).

Then, we would expect that there would be little correlation between testing scores and outcomes. Especially whether they get a degree. For instance, someone who gets a lower test score will have the same outcomes as someone who gets a higher test score.

But that's not what the research suggests:

> The report, which examined 1,753 studies, found that GRE scores could help predict students' graduate grade point averages, first-year GPAs, ratings from faculty, exam scores, degree attainment and number of citations earned. The specific subject tests were even stronger indicators of students' performance.

http://www.apa.org/gradpsych/2012/09/cover-success.aspx
The set of all possible "Gods" includes deities who punish worship, who lie to their worshippers, who are completely two-faced in their dealings with mortals, who have completely random intentional urgings, who put everyone through the torture of infinite fractal realities, and/or anything else that throws the wrench in trying to rationally deduce the "goodness" of "God".

This is also compared with the possibility that humans are faggots who will talk about absolute bullshit to make themselves feel better. No offense to gay people but I'm talking about the mass of humanity that seeks to "feel" more using ass-backwards strategies because they trust their idiotic culture too much.

I'd prefer to remain silent until overwhelming proof forces me to consider "a being of superior influence on this reality who resides outside of visible reality". It could definitely exist (along with the things from the set of known unknowns and unknown unknowns). But I'm betting more on humans being faggots.
I wouldn't expose your inability to understand if I were you.
If you want to be a better person, find something to do outside of work
This is not the reason antibiotics are given to livestock. A wide class of antibiotics, when delivered in subtherapeutic doses, increase feed conversion efficiency and result in larger animals for the same feed inputs.

So yes, it's about costs, but not for the reasons you cite.
Ask HN: When did the terms Front-End, Back-End, and Full-Stack become prevalent?
I've always enjoyed meeting other software developers. When meeting someone new, I usually ask "what kind of software do you work on". I've asked and been asked this question countless times.

Recently however, I've had several exchanges like the following:

X: So, you're a software developer too?
Me: Yeah!
X: Front-end or back-end?
Me: Sorry?
X: Ah! full-stack.
Me: Not exactly. These days I mostly work on machine vision software.
X: Oh. So you write systems code?
Me: Yes. ...no! Wait! All of the above?

I take issue with being ask, especially by recruiters, "are you front end, back end, or full stack". This question seems presumptuous. It seems rather self-limiting to classify one's self in such a way. Are these classifications a recent phenomena? Perhaps there's a better way to interpret and respond to such questions. Any thoughts?

Thanks for the feedback.
Peak Pokemon Go was back in mid July:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=pokemon%20go
On call is justified in my opinion only if someone will die if the problem isn't handled. Or if compensation is dramatically increased and agreed upon in advance.

What if the company will die if the problem isn't handled? Many companies (mine included) provide a service that needs to be highly available 24x7 (customers run automated tasks 24x7 against our service). If our site regularly went down for hours at night (or even for an entire weekend) because of a software problem that no one could fix because the developers weren't picking up the phone, we'd lose customers and eventually, the company would go out of business.

Even a 10 minute outage is a significant event and requires a full RCA for customers. We try hard to architect for high availability, but bugs do happen.
Apple's AirPods are smart wireless earbuds with a new W1 chip
A ghost fleet of cargo ships with nowhere to go is running out of food and water
Dell will fail because of a systemic problem of hiring poorly skilled and educated engineers. An analogy to cancerous cells in the body multiplying and spreading is not such a stretch. Dell needs a very invasive treatment to eradicate gobs and gobs of worthless engineers and do-nothing mid-level management.
There is nothing more frustrating than being responsible for software you didn't write or had no part in writing.

I don't get why management finds this so hard to get. I know there is some spreadsheet somewhere with my name next to this application, but I have never touched it and until now didn't know it existed. Please don't expect me to figure it out in an emergency situation.
> Slack is so last year. Now it's Ryver

The me this ads makes me think that Ryver is claiming that all these services are disposable products, to be thrown away for for the latest glittering gem.

While this may be true to a certain extent, I can't imagine that most companies want to think that the pain it took getting everybody over to Slack was disposable effort, and that now they should be happy to move to Ryver, and some other glittering ball next year.

To me, this makes me think Ryver itself is admitting it's just aiming to be the latest buzz, and it expects some other buzz to be around next year.

...but the article claims it's their most effective ad, so I must be in the minority there.
I have an "analog" personal laptop and a "force touch" work laptop. The analog one is _so much better_. I understand that they need to do this for waterproofing, but the real button just feels so much clickier.
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Apparently I was blinded by the spark video!

Interestingly I went back and looked at it again, and my eyes see the big pictures of the complexity, the warning is under that those pictures but not part of the conclusion. So my reading went right past it. I'd suggest that you move that paragraph under the Conclusion header (I think it can be justifiably considered part of the conclusion, do you?) then it pulls the attention right to it.
No, it wasn't. That's because the certificates we're talking about were intended to substitute for Google's. They were for enterprise networks, some of them with legal requirements to monitor outgoing traffic (Google Mail in particular is a big problem at regulated financial firms.) The CA=YES certificates were housed in DLP and proxy appliances that ran only on the borders of their own networks.

Enterprises wanted these certificates because the alternative to them is installing additional root certificates on everyone's desktop machines, which is a logistical pain.

I'm not excusing that CA transaction. Issuing CA=YES certificates as a convenience for enterprise security teams is terribly irresponsible, and never should have been allowed.

But, at the the the Trustwave thing happened, it was not expressly black-letter against the rules, and so Trustwave didn't get the CA death penalty for it.

They would, supposedly, if they did it again.
He is saying he has been credited with genius, that is intellectual power or talent, not that he has been credited with being "a genius". The former is now an archaic way of using genius, the latter was pretty new in Hamilton's time.
What's interesting is your auto comparison... At around $80k, having something custom built/rebuilt starts to become an option... At over $150k it's absolutely an option.

Though the majority of cars on the road have a street value of under $25k, and/or are under financing. Getting financing for a one-off isn't really possible unless you don't actually need the financing.
> Even with the new color temperature adjustments on the iPhone, looking at the screen in the dark is quite unpleasant.

It's annoying to turn off and on but there is a fake night mode that you can use. Go to General > Accessibility > Invert Colors (or Display Accommodations > Invert Colors). It's like a fake night mode which is great for reading in bed.
Why would a person who had had a "Cesarean Birth" choose to eat more? This raises more questions than it answers.
Reminds me of the trope that the choice should ALWAYS be left with consumers. Every consumer is a 'rational actor'. Reality is most humans have too many things going on, too many choices with not adequate info and are emotional actors.
Alexander Hamilton was definitely super smart. Read his biography, it's nuts how young he was while he was writing treatises that shaped world events
If I had to speculate I would say that they grow bigger since the animal requires to spend less energy in its immune system, resulting in a surplus of energy that is spent in growth.
the best hope is google itself doing it, since most users probably won't look at the secure vs secure-but-not-quite unless it's a scary warning page. Ranking websites lower though and the marketing departments will start calling.
They service those companies as well. Most of the fortune 500 don't buy one server or one storage system. They buy many of everything, and reward the best vendors with larger portions of their data centers, not exclusivity.
Thanks for a constructive reply.