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The iphone sold in those numbers even before there was an App Store.
> I think I'd vote for McKinsey, Bain, or BCG to manage the executive branch instead of our current Presidential candidates

Why not just give them whatever money they ask for and be done with it?
> So, the possibility of things like, say, a researcher not mentioning something that is standard practice in their lab

I'd suggest a different formulation: "standard practice in their field"

Standard practice in general cooking? That's ok. Standard practice in my kitchen? That's a problem.

The research is IMO like a meal recipe a knowledgable chef should be able to reproduce.

Though it is understandable why one would forget to mention something. Especially if they thought it was general practice to do something their way.
I did things that didn't scale. #ycfirstprinciples

I put our promo cards at coffee shops and laundromats, emailed meetup groups, went door to door, bought people coffee to demo our product at Starbucks, walked around farmer's markets and gave people coupons and samples, and literally pounded the pavement.

Then, you follow up with them personally. Do they want to order again? Why or why not? What would make them order again? Are they willing to let you visit them in person? What patterns are you noticing in the early feedback?

High level: first you develop a small core user base, then you learn everything about them and communicate with them constantly to find what is secretly working and not working. I would go to people's houses and talk to them and watch them eat dinner multiple times per week. That led me to our 10-minute dinner kits. The AirBNB founders went door-to-door to people's houses and helped them take the right photos to market their homes. This grit is the difference between the want-rapreneurs and the entrepreneurs.
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My Chinese history ain't so sharp either, but checking, the three dynastic periods you're referencing start about 1115, or some 700 years after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The barbarian invaders in each case are the Mongols, whom I'd mentioned (along with the timeframe) above. So this largely proves my poiont.

Whilst yes, there are multiple Chinese dynasties being considered here, there's pretty much a single cultural tradition, as opposed to the equivalent period of Western history which spans Egypt, the Phoenecians (or Phillistines, from which Palistine comes from), Minoans, Greeks, Macedonians, and Romans, as well as the Persian, Syrian, and several other cultures from what's now considered the Middle East.

The whole quesition of why China's progress stopped where, when, and how it did is a fascinating one. It's actually what Joseph Needham was getting at, and is termed "the Needham Question". It's strongly related to the parallel question: why did the Industrial Revolution emerge in 19th century England, and not elsewhere, or earlier, or later? I've been exploring that and could venture some suggestions.

In aaddition to Needham, there are Karl Polanyi (The Great Transformation), Kenneth Boulding (The Meaning of the Twentieth Century), Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs, and Steel) and many of the titles in the series the Princeton economic history of the world (http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=hotseries&q=se%3A"Princeto...).

Vaclav Smil's Energy in World History explores the question somewhat, though I'd suggest mining the excellent bibliography for further reading (I've got a scanned copy that's not handy for extracting refs at the moment). http://www.worldcat.org/title/energy-in-world-history/oclc/3...

I can see a few influences, some of which are pretty well developed by others, some perhaps not. Geography, politics, trade, uniformity, writing system, philosophy and theology, population, and environment all quite probably play significant roles.
yep, politicians say what their voters like to hear (and do what their donors want to be done :). For example California politicians don't talk about manufacturing, instead they talk education, environment/climate change, security, minorities rights, some talk agriculture, etc... some even talk UFO/aliens (if you didn't read the official CA booklet listing candidates and their statements for this year race for the US Senate Barbara Boxer's seat you missed a lot of fun :)
Thank you for that very thorough answer!
You can use D on platforms LLVM amd gcc support. Some libraries work, some don't. Stick @nogc on main and you're guaranteed to not use the GC. Besides, on constrained systems you're not going to be wanting many dependencies.
That may be true at first, but when they have a huge part of the market... they could argue: "without our customers, you wouldn't have that many users". Kind of like a chicken and egg situation. When they already have such a large slice of the pie, they start to care mostly about the bigger app developers, and the small ones are just something they need to show big numbers, but they are not that important anymore...

(Just to be clear: It's not that I think they are not important, it's what I perceive as their attitude when things like this happen)
Factories do not scale as well as service because they need are limited by natural resources. Service can literally be created out of thin air. For example, an AI could create an infinite number of movies or books or insurance contract. A factory making widget will be limited by availability of raw material.

They both share the same limitation at the end of the day. At the end, the human being is relatively static. You can sell widget and services that free more of his time, and then you can sell widget and services that occupy that free time, maybe at a stretch you can sell him something to free the time occupied by other stuff he bought, but there is a limit at 24 hours attention span per human.
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"Aging has not been a priority yet, because the vast majority of people die of something else..."

Also aging is a _very difficult_ problem. We are only now collecting the tools to understand it, much less fix it.
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It may seem to be getting harder, but in reality it's not. Rank based measures of mobility are stable. Since income inequality is up, absolute mobility has also increased.

https://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/chettyetalAERPP2014.pdf
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They are dependent on developers as a whole, but not on any individual developers (with perhaps a few exceptions).
We could, but we gain nothing but more work.

We can't not consider current timekeeping. There is exactly 0 chance we can get everybody to change in the same instant and even if they did history is still there. Education, and thus civilisation's shared consciousness, will include the old timekeeping until the renaissance, industrial revolution, the inventions of computers and space travel and the near-ELE cataclysm of the final death knell of religion are all historical footnotes. Computers will need to understand the old timekeeping forever. We won't reduce the amount of bullshit humans deal with, we will have increased it. And with all that, the earth's orbit still won't be 1000 days.

And all for what? So I can count the hours in a day without getting my feet cold? Woo!
> "we produced consumer surplus by lowering transportation costs via automation" doesn't roll off the tongue as well. :)

Yeah, but "check out our shiny robot trucks" seems to be an acceptable brag these days. :)
Nothing about the time frames or even production costs justify the disparity in how proprietary and closed hardware manufacturing is. For the exact reason hardware and software are different open sourcing your patterning toolchain has nothing to do with your competitive advantage in actually having built foundries with functioning lithography. The cost is in the later, the former is just abuse of position for power over the end user.

If anything, it hurts your bottom line. You would probably get more third party interest in having print outs of custom hardware if the toolchains were more open. It is not a question of price, its a question of exposure.

I'm not even talking about the 12-20nm stuff. It is still crazy expensive because the hardware and software R&D was huge and these companies are hoarding their toys like preschoolers because of a prisoners dilemma in regards to competitive advantage. But older 45-100nm plants are often still in use but are still just as inaccessible as ever to most hobbyist hardware enthusiasts.
I don't believe the chip has enough I/O for a 10Gb nic.
Why are politicians so obsessed with farming and agriculture?

The reasons for both are not dissimilar.
It's not trivial in C, it's a pain is what it is. I'd put it another way: if someone can't write C++ 3x faster than C they're not a very good C++ programmer. Maybe they're writing C with classes.
Heh, in my mind it made perfect sense.

CloudFlare is a anti-DDoS and CDN network. IPFS is a CDN protocol that anyone can join or put files into. It doesn't quite hide the endpoints, but anyone can inject data.

It does what CloudFlare does, but better. And as more people/nodes get online, free and ubiquitous.
The "just send work email there" bit seems highly inaccurate. It seems pretty clear that the intention was for this server to be used for unclassified communication. You can't even send email from a classified to an unclassified network without clearly marking it as such.

Now clearly it is at best highly naive to think that a server handling the kind of volume of email that the Secretary of State would receive, much of it from people handling classified information, is going to be able to stay 100% free of classified contamination.
I was thinking about this just yesterday. It would be great if email providers made tools to painlessly create encryption keys and get them synced up to all your devices securely. From there each email you send can include an automatic signature of where to find your public key. On the other side when you receive emails from others with such a signature you can then choose to have the email reader fetch the key and let you start trusting it with a single confirmation click. From then on your emails to that person will be encrypted without you having to think about it.

For almost all users getting a message from someone you personally know containing a message that they would legitimately send would be sufficient to trust the referenced key. If you are a little paranoid you could ask them over the phone or in person to send a specific message that you would then trust, or just ask for the URL itself. I believe that in-person key exchanges utilizing large trust networks are overkill for the vast majority of people sending everyday communications.

Make it so simple as 1) one time key creation and copying to each device 2) one time trust per other person that is completely streamlined by the software. If the gmail team implemented this for example other email providers would soon do the same and it would spread like wildfire. Very quickly a huge amount of email would be encrypted. Of course this would require an open design that anyone can implement.

Maybe there's a fundamental flaw with this idea that I'm not seeing. If so, please say so because otherwise I'm going to just be disappointed in five years when email is still 99% unencrypted.
> Former Yahoo employees told Reuters that security staff disabled the scan program after they discovered it, and that it had not been reinstalled before Alex Stamos, the company's former top security officer, left the company for Facebook last year.

Quite a fitting location for surveillance advocate.

I'd like to know what went through the minds of the security staff who stumbled onto that find, and how the heck did it stay running for so long?

Nothing goes a long time without breaking in the ops world. I don't believe that they just happened to stumble onto it.
I think it's what Steve Jobs would've wanted and would've done (full control over Apple's computers hardware). So I would like to see it happen. As the article says, with Apple having already switched to weaker Core M chips in Macbook Air, there's a very high chance its ARM chip will be significantly faster than the latest Air. For Macbook Pro it could switch to AMD Zen chips next year, also rumored:

http://www.dailytech.com/AMD+Zen+Processor+might+power+the+u...
Is there some dystopian novel where the majority of workers spend their time taking CAPTCHAs? I almost expect it to happen, as a way to keep the masses occupied in a way that's difficult to automate.
There's a finite demand for goods too. I don't have unlimited room to fill my house with crap, and if I buy more advanced tools and things that replace a multitude of tools, my total demand will go down.

It may be a generational thing, but I just don't see people owning or wanting to own as much stuff as the generation before. A desk full of organization tools like a rolodex, card holder, pencils and notebooks just doesn't exist anymore.
Well, for starters like 50%+ of the first round of phones to go out had touch screen issues that as far as I know never got fixed. After sending mine back 3 times, I gave up.
>Service can literally be created out of thin air.

Not really. It's built on manufacturing base. You need to 'service' something.
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Wish I was still working on genetic programming and digital artificial life. This would be barrels of fun.
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You act like there's a choice -- customers get apps through the app store, so that's where developers have to be if they want to eat.
Politicians are amateurs. I don't mean that in a pejorative way. Politicians are experts at politics, they can achieve consensus in seemingly impossible circumstances. If you pick a random politician, and ask them to design a transmission, or perform open heart surgery, they'd do as poorly as you or me. Yes, there are politicians from all walks of life, and you can probably find a surgeon politician. In general, the thing they're really good at is politics.

It sucks because they're called on to provide solutions to deep problems, with only the skills of enthusiastic amateurs. Manufacturing solved a lot of problems. It's completely reasonable for an amateur to look at history for past solutions to current problems.

For reference, the us congress has a panel of 700 or so experts in all sorts of fields to help write policy. This is in addition to each congresspersons's staff. There's something on the order of 2000 people available to write legislation. And about 10000 pieces of legislation written. So each potential law gets a few months of effort.

It boils down to a congressperson (probably a lawyer), a few enthusiastic political scientists, and a few economists to shape national policy.

It's not that they don't produce good work. They're smart hardworking people. A trillion dollar budget is probably as difficult to produce as a decent compiler. That's the kind of thing we'll see congress try to slap together right after the election. It's not much different than a team of undergrads trying to get their compiler to pass test cases.

It's not inherently bad, it's that sometimes problems are really hard, and they should probably be handled by experts. We don't have a good way of collectively picking experts, so we pick amateurs and hope for the best.
Automation? Oh is that how you see Foxconn employees? That would explain quite a bit...

Most of light and heavy manufacturing is done somewhere else. Electronics. Housewares. Clothing. Tools. Equipment. Cars. Materials, both raw and those undergoing technological processing. High tech. A service economy? That's nice - but there are only so many prostitutes, bank clerks and Mickey D employees required, so what is everyone else going to do? Navel gaze? Fill jails? Starve? More importantly, what are you going to offer the rest of the world in exchange for all that stuff you can't make anymore? Democracy? Or just bomb them? At some point even bombs will be hard to make, due to lack of necessary facilities, equipment, materials, knowledge and experience. Just see how well "resurrecting" last century's space knowledge has worked out for NASA.
This seems out of date. World War II is not going to be repeated. WW II could drag on as long as it did -- giving civilian-to-war conversions enough time to matter -- because there were no nuclear or precision guided weapons. If a no-holds-barred Total War breaks out between major world powers again, it's really hard to see how it would last long enough for factory conversions to be meaningful. And if it's just another big war of choice we're imagining in the future, like Americans fighting in Iraq or Vietnam, those haven't been bottlenecked by industrial capacity either.
Maybe we shouldn't judge Apple until the facts come out. Thank you for the down votes.
Do not assume that the people who are responsible for monitoring such things (at the big banks) have only their employer's purse in mind.

One cannot rule out... <whistles with fingers in ears>

Someone's going to get vastly improved security whether they want it or not!

Protocols like TLS protect bank customers from fraud. It is the bank's duty first and foremost to protect their every day customers. If Wall Street always comes first banking's primary product will be despair.
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This is an awesome question.

See my other answer about getting our first users and then here is Part II of that answer:

AirBNB scaled product appeal by later building out an entire internal marketplace and international network of freelance photographers to take great photos of all their hosts' properties.

I care deeply about the personal touch of our business and personalization in both our communications and the dinner kits given to each member every week. We have built software and systems that target my direct communications and our overall lifecycle emails in a very nuanced way across our community. We slice and dice our community in different ways constantly for all daily experiments, communications, and backend analyses. I hate sending someone an email that is not relevant to them.

When you do something that doesn't scale, you gain key insights into what is working for your company. You may not be able to replicate the exact same action from the early days, but you can certainly work to build a scalable solution that replicates those key insights and yields the same success.
Thank you for these resources.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12648282 and marked it off-topic. Sorry there was on-topic content that got dragged along, but the resulting subthread is pure distraction.
The students didn't buy the computers. I did.

Edit: And before anyone starts with the "you shouldn't spy on your users" bullshit: Bollocks. If you want that, welcome to laa laa fantasy land where we all breathe sand.

You will use computers or networks in which the operator is recording everything you do. You can either work within that assumption, or you can stick your fingers in your ears and pretend.

And no, I don't use my employer's[+] computer for anything personally-sensitive and I don't install their shite on mine in order to access their network and when I do use their computer I expect they will watch everything I do even if they don't because I'm using their equipment. I do my real work on my own computer or I don't do my work. The employer is well within its rights to suck on it.

[+] There is no reason why the same should not apply to schools, libraries or any other institution in which people are permitted to use items owned or services controlled by others.
> actively resisted it

Honest question. Is this a reality or a degrading stereotype?
I wanted to make a program like that, but considered the ethics of it.
"When compared to 24 middle-income and high income countries, the U.S. ranks 16th in the amount of inter-generational earnings mobility. The relatively low level of mobility in the U.S. may arise in part because low-income children in the U.S. tend to have less stable and lower-income families, less secure families, and parents who have less time to devote to their children."

http://inequality.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/Pathways-...
PS: I know some excellent mechanical hand-writing services and I'll email Kevin a few options ;)
Why can't I buy a toaster made in the USA, even if it is off a highly automated line? Because it's still cheaper to make in manually in China.

Even if it's automated, it will still be cheaper to automate it in China.
An interesting recent complaint about Fiske doesn't entirely spare Kahneman:

http://andrewgelman.com/2016/09/21/what-has-happened-down-he...
> new standards that didn't exist when the work was done

Being correct is not a new standard.

> This is simply not how things are done, in science or in society.

Oh, I say! Positively indecent! A moral outrage! We can't have our morals compromised by scientific objectivity!

> we do not and will never revisit all prior work and formally re-judge whenever standards or policies change.

Have you ever heard of Principia Mathematica?

> nothing can be done about the old papers

Except to try and figure out when they're wrong, as this bot is doing.
I don't think you get to just label every regime you don't like as a "utopia", say "utopianism is bad", and leave it there. After all, many people would say that the status quo today is also someone's utopia, with the important question being whose.

Societies are always and have always been creatures of intentional design. The design might be good or might be bad, but to try to cordon off via, "Designed societies are bad" just amounts to denying the design of your preferred actually-existing society.
Good job. There will be private companies competing for the race to Mars.
It looks like we agree that attacks are not helpful, but freedom of expression can be.

I appreciate that the majority of people in this forum express their opinions in a highly productive manner void of animosity, as you've just demonstrated. The previous's user's remark "Worst argument so far." did not convey this spirit. Whether intentionally or not, antipathy and pure negativity do not bring out the best of people in online forums. It is my hope that those are two things which this community seeks to discourage, but not all freedom of expression. This is how I interpreted the comment which sparked your initial response.
Samsung really needs to cut bait here, accept and admit fully that they made a major engineering mistake, come clean, and forcibly recall ALL the devices, before there is a major disaster.

The time for serious, adult action was several weeks ago. From here on out, they deserve what they get.
Because the numbers show that every dollar of manufacturing investment in an area produces $7.
:-) Thanks for making me laugh :-)