skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple, mistakes, quality, innovation, etc.
Just get a high quality filter. I bought an RO and love it but there are other high quality filters out there.
Apple might be interested in having that sent to their laboratory for analysis, as assessing how products have failed is important for improving them. Philips asked this, when I complained about a failure of an iron.

(Or Apple might not care, as it's pretty obvious that the power cord is less sturdy than on every competitor's products. Presumably a cable grommet would ruin the look...)

Edit to add: you can buy a cable grommet for an Apple charger from various retailers, for example http://www.thefrayfix.com/ or https://www.thriftcat.org/upc/100001018599/85w-magsafe2-prot... )
This is so true. One day a couple years ago I decided I would work through the pain of sitting up straight. I think it only took around 2-3 weeks of sitting like this for it to become comfortable.
Well, no wonder why battery life isn't significantly better on the s2! I just love that feature.
It's much more convenient though. Hauling liquids isn't fun, even though I live just a block from a grocery store.
We moved GitLab from the Netherlands to San Francisco. Some things I noticed:

1. In the US we got to see more other startups that were going really fast and that pushed us to go faster ourselves, Y-Combinator helped with this.

2. It was easier to find people that are experienced with modern sales and marketing practices in the US.

3. Customers in the US like to buy from a US company (and pay by check, these took 2 months and cost $70 to cash in the Netherlands).

4. On average companies in the US adopts newer technology sooner.

5. There was better advice and investment available in the US, Y-Combinator helped with this.

6. In the US there are much more success stories, this raised our ambitions.

I know many impressive startups and incubators in the Netherlands (shoutout to Adyen, 3ax Cycling, AppSignal, and Utrecht Inc.) and we have some awesome Dutch customers. The above examples and talking about the statistical average, there are awesome organizations and people everywhere.
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This is the best answer. Even in a place like Flint, it would be so much cheaper to put a top of the line whole house filter in each house rather than some of the crazy things they were doing like bringing in bottled water.
I think that servicing 98% is not the same as 98% market share, and that anti-trust cares about market share. All it means is that 490/500 companies bought at least one Dell/EMC product. I'd assume most also bought at least one IBM/HP product too.
Why doesn't Firefox ship with third-party cookies disabled? What would it break that isn't user-hostile?

(edit Chrome, IE, Safari, I understand, but privacy is one of Firefox's main differentiators.)
I don't see a bunch of well known YC companies here such as Heroku and Reddit. What's the criteria for this list?
Sorry for being dense, but can you expand: Why was it snake oil ?
Lean the chair back slightly. Adjust the lumbar support (I hope you have one) to support your lower back.

This works for me at me desk and in my vehicle.
They're not necessarily the only company those 98% use... I'd guess that Dell is already a supplier for at least nearly that high of a percent in some regard.

In the end though, just because you have a near monopoly doesn't mean you're violating anti-trust. EMC already had that reach, even without dell.
I have a feeling that "funny tasting" is all what you're used to. I'd bet that if you drink it exclusively for a month anyways, it will taste normal again.
I think the reason is that the versioning tooling is 1% of the work, so making it 0.5% would not be "twice as effective", it would move from 100% to 99.5% work to be an openbsd dev.

Diffs mailed between devs still look the same, oks for diffs
are still a social construct that needs persons and not programs.
Farmers do this for a number of reasons:

- Constantly feeding livestock antibiotics makes them grow bigger. The mechanism for why this happens is not understood (but who cares because bigger livestock means more money).

- It is costly to deal with an animal after it gets an infection rather than just being preventative.

- Farmers are scared about diseases sweeping through their herds and causing issues where they are forced to kill the whole herd (e.g. mad cow disease -- though antibiotics don't prevent prion diseases).
Nah, I forgot which top flight physicist (Nobel, I think) wrote in a book that he had explained to his mother that there were indeed very dumb PhDs, thanks to mere "sitzfleisch".

Most anyone in the business knows cases.
I may be biased, but I think YC Fellowship companies should be on that list, too :)
In some cases it's because stability and repeatability are more important in many aspects. At the level where enterprises are buying components to interface directly with people on a regular basis (e.g. workstations), having a slightly more powerful workstation (20%) generally does not compute into a person that is 20% more productive, but having a workstation that fails to function 20% of the time can definitely lead to a near 20% loss in productivity. Large enterprise providers leverage knowledge of failure rates over vast quantities of almost identical (comparatively very variances, at least) computers to ruthlessly identify any weak links in all parts of the computer, because their service contracts often make them responsible for these problems. This goes as far as creating their own mainboards and BIOS, RAID firmware, etc. Enterprises take advantage of this for both their initial good stability rate and ease of replacement when there are problems.

To put this in another perspective, the vast majority of people buy factory model cars, maybe with the occasional dealer add-on. People could buy custom made cars, and if it was common enough, they might actually achieve a cost lower than MSRP of what Ford, Honda, Toyota, etc sell, by slapping together the freely available parts (from an industry which would look more like the PC parts industry). The average quality would be a big question though, and I'm not sure a lot of people would be willing to deal with that for their workhorse vehicles, that need to be relied on to get them from point A to point B reliably.
It's been available outside Goldman for a long time. Cantab Capital had based their systems on it as long ago as 2006. The founders were ex Goldman and wangled some kind of deal where they could use the GS systems.
To be fair, this is a spin-off (or elaboration) on an earlier post, where (if you follow the Author's blog) she specifically talked about how she'd like to write her own zine. The style is the point of it, I think.

If you want less cutesy, here's the related post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12059156
High quality knockoffs are the entire business model of stores like Aldi.

In some cases, it's the original manufacturer also producing the knockoff. It's a way of selling to a market segment that would otherwise utterly ignore them.
> Not only should every country stop using antibiotics in healthy livestock

Antibiotics are not used for healthy livestock in many countries. The US is a very notable exception.

It comes down to cutting costs. In the US, it's not typical to clean the facilities between batches of animals like chicken. This mean that the new batch would contract any bacteria left behind the previous animals. It's not even that big of a cost, I'd call it borderline negligence.

I agree with you, this practice should end. Giving antibiotics to livestock at all is harmful and it should never be done as a precautionary measure.

On smaller farms, isolating or just killing the sick animals would be fine but that will not work in industrial scale.
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Here's the thing: Slack already won. Slack won before you were even on the scene. Slack has won so thouroughly that it's winning converts from IRC, which is largely the hardcore crowd, and is somewhat outside of Slack's target market (team chat).

Bashing Slack isn't going to win you much in the way of customers, because all it tells them is that you want to be Slack. They already know that. Everyone on the playing field wants to be Slack, except IRC, which mostly doesn't care. Instead, show your customers all the ways Slack is better. Ask them if Slack has your awesome new feature that will increase their productivity tenfold.

If you want to kill the leader in the field, you have to give us a reason you're better. And "they're so last year" isn't a reason, unless you're a fashion product.
Makes a whole lot more sense to maintain separate filters for drinking water. How can we expect our toilet and shower water to be the same quality as drinking water. A filter for drinking water makes a lot more sense.
Both Heroku and Reddit exited: see my comment.
> people are wising up to the perils of being on call

I did too late.

It started with being asked to sleep in the guest bedroom while on shift and only got worse from there. Take it from me: it takes active investment to keep a family healthy while on call, especially when you're on call at a shaky startup with several pages per day that require extensive remediation.

I'm not stupid and I know on call was not the reason in itself, but it was a significant catalyst and debit upon my time and mental health -- not sleeping adds up. Be aware of it lest you end up like me, finally off call with an empty home to show for it.
Hello. I read the lies published by Y Combinator. Misleading!
Doesn't mean they won't, too. I see a lot of smartwatches on the train.
Dash is really minimalistic. In its default mode, this is the only call to ioctl it makes on standard input according to strace:

ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_NEXT_DEVICE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0

Notice that it's merely calling TCGETS and that icanon is set, which means the "canonical input" mode with the default ^W/^U keybindings is enabled. Bash disables icanon so that it can enable line editing. Interestingly, dash seems to have vi and emacs editing modes, but they don't seem to cause dash to enter raw mode, so I'm not sure they do anything.
My tap water does not taste good. I drink it most of the time but there's no fooling my taste buds; the bottled water tastes better.
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It's also a signal as to who's in control of the development process. (Hint: Not the developers.)
I mean, this essay raises some questions about the "straightforward" claim.

When I hear "creative pricing", I don't think a company is artistic, I think they're scamming me. Similarly, "free" is not "freemium" is not "competitive enterprise pricing". I get what they're saying, and I like pay-for-new-features way better than pay-for-unbroken-functionality.

But when your business model is literally TBD, it's hard to take refuge in having a straightforward offering.
$1 for enough bottled water for a month? Where did you get that number from?

We were living away from our home (and water filter) for a few months and bought the cheapest bottled water we could. It was $1 per gallon. Where is this magical bottled water plant that 60 gallons of water for $1.
I have a water distiller which I fill up with tap water and it takes 6 hours to produce a gallon by evaporating the water that then goes through a filter.

Cost me around $200 and I get to see the remaining contents from the tap water at the bottom of the distiller. I believe it uses 20 cents of energy to produce a gallon. It's cheaper than bottled water and more environmentally friendly (no plastic).

Some will say, I miss out on minerals from the water but I believe that my diet covers them.
Dropbox for syncing between computers
S3 for backups and photos with mirroring to Google Drive (For faster restores)
S3 for blog/static sites
Water in Orlando, FL is pretty terrible. It has a sulfuric and metallic taste and smell. It's perfectly safe to drink and bathe in, the smell doesn't stay on your skin, but it's gross. Do a quick google search for water quality in orlando, or sulfur or smelly water in Orlando. You'll find tons of results on travel forums from people visiting Disney ask if it's safe to drink the tap water at parks or in their hotels because of it.
This was a pretty interesting article that hits very close to home (I'm an SRE at Google). I think the central thesis (that developers are better at running rapidly changing products because they are able to find and fix bugs more quickly) is a bit flawed, however.

The reason is that I think the most valuable contribution of the SRE is not in responding quickly to outages, but in improving the system to avoid outages in the first place. SREs tend to be better at this than developers because (a) they have better knowledge of best practices by virtue of doing this kind of work all day every day and (b) they are more incentivized to prioritize this kind of work.

Because of this, the dynamic I commonly observe is that SRE-run services have fewer and smaller release-related outages because techniques like canarying, gradual rollouts, automated release evaluation, and so forth are deployed to a great extent. On the other hand, developer run services tend to have more frequent and larger release-related outages because these techniques are not used or are used ineffectively. So even though the developers can diagnose the cause of a release-related bug more efficiently than SREs can, the SRE service is still more reliable.

In my view, the main reasons to have developers support their own services fall into (a) there aren't enough SREs to support everything, (b) the service is small enough that investing the kind of manpower SRE would into implementing these best practices would not be cost effective, and (c) SRE support can be used as a carrot to get developers to improve their own services.

Edit: I would add that if the roll of oncall is expected to include only carrying the pager, and not making substantial contributions to improve the reliability of the system, then the author is absolutely right that having an SRE or similar carry the pager has next to no benefit.
To get the benefit, you need the securities models…and the data to feed the models…real-time prices…covariance matrices…volatility surfaces…at which point you're living in a very Goldman world. Not that that's a bad thing but it creates a lot of lock-in.

Also I'm not sure what the upside is to letting people run on-premises, vs. providing cloud APIs based on it (they make it sound like the former).

Just the software, without the models, data, strategists, is kind of like providing a proprietary environment of Microsoft SQL + R.
Coiling the cord by hand causes the wire to twist, which in turn causes fraying.

See this video for more details:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEd7ru24Vx0
From the subhead: "government agencies remain unwilling or unable to impose reporting requirements on a healthcare industry that often hides the problem"

I ask as someone who is quite a novice when it comes to knowledge of what is the expected reporting requirement: That subhead is a blanket assertion, but when applied to the death-by-MRSA issue, do the public have access to accurate, up-to-date information? If not, isn't that assertion partially correct?
Anyone know what galaxies are in the "Colliding Galaxies" image?
> it's almost always safe

When is it not?
While I love gadgets, the idea of wearing something on my wrist whose sole purpose is to interrupt me with notifications (most of which I would not want) and that offers an extremely bright display is pretty much the last gadget I'd want.

Even with the new color temperature adjustments on the iPhone, looking at the screen in the dark is quite unpleasant.

I would much prefer an e-ink smart watch.
I struggle with this a lot myself. I think time to pursue some thing that just makes you happy makes you better at what you do in your day job. The pressure to constantly preform and grow. The growing difficulty of maintaining a middle class family. All these factors push you to always be earning. Some days I just want to be standing in a river throwing bit's of feathers and fur and not thinking about stress-causing real life.

First world issues, I know it really is but I personally find our modern Western capitalism driven lifestyles to really be missing a connection to anything important. I think one of the uses of hobbies that helped to smooth that over. We worry about making a new startup to "change the world" and ignore the river on fire because of pollution. I think that most hobbies in the post war era helped to tie people to something they valued, history, nature, or sport. Given our requirement to work so much I think people are driven to this new model to include that in there live.
I doubt it's a nocebo effect when you can even smell the difference. I have a reusable metal bottle and can tell when I've refilled it straight from the tap vs. a filtered water source.
Ah didn't see that when I started writing. So this has neither successful exits that continue to operate nor unsuccessful ones that exited to the graveyard?
This is not the practice everywhere worldwide. The US is particularly bad when it comes to antibiotics in livestock.

It's a harmful practice and should be outlawed. Even if it means paying more for your food.
Discord is Skype or Teamspeak, plus a bit of Slack.

It's largely targeted at gaming, as a way to put together a chatroom, a group call, and Steam integration fluidly. I could actually see it as a work client, but mostly it's the easiest group-gaming-chat product going.
>But us not ever being able to understand it does not mean there is no reasoning behind it.

I didn't mean to imply that. But honestly, the idea that there exist physical systems in the universe that are too complex for the human brain to ever fully comprehend or model (dashing physicists hopes of a "theory of everything") sounds a lot like a higher power in the more traditional sense. I'm pretty sure that's close to the definition of the Tao, actually.
Strange, so that basically refutes the a pretty core point of the article (that it isn't being tracked).

The reason they said doctors don't put it on death records is because they dont always want to wait the 2-3 days it takes to get results back from the labs. So it makes way more sense that the labs record the bugs. Instead of doctors in the field.

Those are the people who are trained to detect the bugs... so they should be responsible for tracking them. I presume they could get indications from the doctors on whether the patients died as well.

Couldn't the doctors update death records after-the-fact? If they found out afterwards what the actual cause of death was, they should really being recording that.
The magnetic power connector is patented. Apple doesn't license it, and a respectable manufacturer won't want to infringe it.
My question is how many doors did this program open up which led to the success they were trying to measure.
I'm waiting to see if this gets traction on HN. In case it doesn't, and so I can propose something only to the few who dig to the bottom of the comments:

The problem is social. A technological solution will not suffice.
https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when also great
Calculus has a myth built up around it on how hard it is. A kindly professor once showed me how it worked in about a half hour, and I was like "is that all"? Of course that wasn't all, but that bit of help served me very well for years of more advanced math.
May have something to do with the reader's ability to comprehend.
You can go all out and get a reverse osmosis system installed under your sink that also has a re-mineralizer. Adding the right minerals back in is important for flavour.
I'm in the study and the long-term tracking surveys they send us periodically have many questions designed to ferret out different aspects and indicators of happiness and success in different dimensions of life.

I can't imagine how I could be much happier in life.

I have a great, healthy family, great career in a field that allows me to use my brain to create tons of business value for my company, take home an appropriate fraction of that, all for doing things that I'd pretty much happily do for free if I could afford to do so.

I seem to recall reading general summaries of the survey that suggest that we are, on the whole, happier than the average for our respective age groups, but I don't have any of those report summaries handy nor could I readily find them online.
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You're making a false dichotomy.

Engineering tradeoffs are very much about costs. I could (well once upon a time I could :-) design a bridge that's stable up to a (not very) nearby atomic blast; more stable than the bedrock it's built on. But that would require an unnecessary level of resources (unless atomic resistance is in fact a design requirement). I could design the most super-awesome web site that scales to 40 billion unique visitors...but it's unlikely to be needed (though if some of the uniques are robotic, perhaps it is). Simply choosing an alloy that's simpler to work with the tools on hand is a rescue tradeoff, and those resources are time and money.

Likewise, the plane (I assume you mean airplane) has only one valuable purpose (transport people or goods that someone wants transported) and that is denominated in money. Make it cheaper and more people can fly, or pay less for their gadgets or fresh shellfish.

It's incredibly naive to to say that marketing is some zero-sum game. If you have an amazing bandage that is cheap and saves lives you still have to get the word out.
Pokemon Go has already peaked. People have gotten bored with it, and stopped playing.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/business/intelligence/peak-poke...
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Why not pay a flat rate for taking the on-call responsibility, regardless of actual work performed?
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> Negative ads can make sense if you're going up against one or two entrenched competitors that own most of the market share.

Like what Gett is doing: "We pay more than Uber!"
In my experience, the frayed cords come from pulling or sitting directly on the cord. Don't pull or sit on the cord. Use the connector directly to manipulate the connection.
By "swim up to 50 meters" does this mean you can only do a single lap of a swimming pool, or is this a measure of diving depth?
Erwin,

To those without a background in logic lots of things can seem absurd.
Bending cables at >90 degrees near the connector will do it.

Yelling at the persons who do that, followed by applying unsightly amounts of tape to make it impossible to do, will delay the inevitable.

(Third step, acceptance: order more cables from sources according to the tightness of your fist.)
If Feynman's IQ was only 126 then IQ is a totally meaningless metric of intelligence.
Kiran worked for Dubno at BAML as well.

It's not common from people to go from bank to bank re-creating the same system. Seems particularly common with people GS though.
> I would much prefer an e-ink smart watch.

Then go get one, the Pebble has been around for years.
AIUI Apple won't license the MagSafe connector/protocol to third parties. So the only third party MagSafe-like chargers are made by small, Chinese (I assume) companies that appear content to disregard Apple's IPR and safety regulations like the CE mark. These companies tend to go for absolute lowest price they can, with the cheapest design and the cheapest components.

It's my hope that future Macbooks and Macbook Pros will all go with USB-C charging. Meaning there can be a middle ground between unsafe bargain basement chargers, and fray-prone Apple chargers.
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