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> The marketing strategy was the product itself

And we see how that worked out. Pricing is an important component of marketing, but it's not a marketing strategy in itself.
Does anyone else think like me this might be a one time failure that is caused by the replacement phone being dropped or mishandled? Or, perhaps, a setup by the competition?

Unless I see statistical evidence that replacement Note 7 is catching on fire (random, different circumstances), then I do not see a reason to believe Note 7 replacement is b0rked.

Unfortunately, most people do not reason like that. Samsung's reputation will suffer, even after this single "Replacement Note 7 on fire" incident.
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Boarding an airplane they mention to turn off the Samsung Note 7 for the entire time on board.

Samsung will have to release a Note 8 soon. Note 7 users will have a hard time even in future and it's bad for Samsung's brands.
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I work at a steelworks in Australia. The economic conditions are not identical to America but a lot of the same pain exists.

Australia also has worse Anti-dumping protections then the US. China is dumping steel (i.e selling below cost) into our market - see: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-28/china-trade-arrangemen...

The government deciding to build a submarine fleet 'in Australia' was a huge election issue. The local unions around here are campaigning on forcing state government to use 'local' steel as a condition of their tender process for infrastructure projects. I think they have a point somewhat, it is pretty absurd that they built a sports stadium about 2km up the road from our huge steel plant and imported all the Steel for it.

I don't think there is an easy answer. Throwing the industry the odd submarine or two to supply material for isn't long term sustainable. However If it is enough to kick-start a ship building industry though who knows...
Technically, it was Theranos that was after our blood.
> Google ... forbids OEMs ... from supporting competing digital assistants.

~Wow, that kinda makes all the ire — including the comments on this page — directed towards Apple for its "walled garden" and "not allowing choice" seem a bit unfair.~
Suborbital flight is a stretch, but I agree Branson seems to be an inspiration for Zaphod's movie depiction.
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True, all airlines I used last week had such a warning, to turn it off for the whole time on board of the airplane, even while still on ground.

One of the airlines last week shorted the warning to "Samsung 7 phone".

Bad PR for Samsung.
Disney is out too:

http://www.recode.net/2016/10/5/13181704/disney-twitter-buy-...

Tomorrow is going to be an interesting day for TWTR.
Only in the most literal sense they could be called spaceships. They are no more spaceships than a swimming suit is a boat.
You're wrong, it used to be $5 per domain: http://m.imgur.com/sXonmsy

Good job in the downvoting.
> `curl ... | sudo bash`.

That is the herpes of the Linux world. That is one of the worse things that someone can suggest to install something.
Hopefully technology (robotics + machine learning) will improve this a lot in the future. Rather than needing to keep dairy cows in a shed they could graze, and some robotic contraption could roam the field milking them, etc.

Already in production.[1] The cow's view of a competing robotic system.[2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hojnPpvI6-I
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Q1LoxK5mE
I think you still don't get this whole "git" thing. Commits are just read-only collections of diff chunks plus metadata, nothing more. It's up to you to define where the boundary is for "bad commits shouldn't be here". Git commits are nothing like SVN or CVS commits (or whatever they're called).

Trying to use some other arcane or error-prone mechanism for getting changes onto test machines is exactly what will leak bad code, because inevitably people will end up sending around zips full of code from who-knows-where for who-knows-which-change.
Mercury was capable of staying in space. The rocket that put it on a suborbital flight is a different thing.
I own an app that pays social media celebrities to respond to fans, we pay them 60% of our profits. Apple broke their own app store rules stating we would be disqualified from IAP and forced us to use it. So after we pay out our partners of which our entire app exists, Apple are making 3x more money than we do from our own app. And take 2 months to pay us. Oh, and provide no transaction id's for unique customers so if one of them requests a refund or does a chargeback we have no way of tracking it back to his account. To say there's a culture of hatred towards Apple in our team is an understatement.
Back in 2014 I was consulting FoundationDB on marketing and customer acquisition. After FoundationDB was acquired by Apple, I got introduced to RethinkDB and was excited about the prospect of helping market another promising DB company.

Unfortunately, after a short while I stopped hearing from them. It doesn't look as though they ever brought in any marketing help since then.
It is weird how people who never worked on an assembly line go on and on about the desirability of manufacturing jobs.
I'm not sure what people are so pissed about (unless they are investors). A little help here?

Did they cause actual medical harm to someone?

Had the minilab worked they would have had a functioning commercial service available to test and finetune the process immediately. Isn't field testing and shipping products what's important when developing new products and services?

Sure, there is the chance it's a psychopath bullshit scenario from start to the end but do we have any actual proofs that this is the case?
This is the exact kind of comment I was warning against.

The "it surely can't be the technology!" comment when yes, Shirley, it really can be. Even the best database systems I know (orders of magnitude quantitatively better than RethinkDB) have areas of technical weakness. And not just some areas, but usual gaping valleys. Nothing does everything well, and if it tries to it usually does everything below average.

Time to man up. Performance really was crappy? That only having a float for your ONLY number type really was kind of dumb? Having no native datetime was bad? Saddling timezones on the pseudo datetime was a brainfart? Milliseconds only was shortsighted? Horizon was a bad idea too soon? Document databases are the new object databases - forever 5 years away? Aggregates were poorly done? Nobody really knew how to do stationary time series properly (I read through the GitHub issues regarding this and it was laughable that these people called themselves database experts)? and on and on.

I'm not saying all of this is true. I'm saying let's be straight and not always blame sales and marketing or dumb consumers or C-level execs or everybody but our own crappy code.
Not even get into orbit.
The thing is, this was a replacement Note 7, which therefore includes their fix for the issue. So either they made a second mistake, or this is a very unlucky coincidence, or something else is going on.
By Hadoop, do you mean HBase? Something else? I'm not sure how much overlap there is. Rethink is geared towards ad-hoc OLTP-type patterns (albeit with a document-like data model), whereas Hadoop is oriented around batch/stream processing. A better comparison would be CouchDB or MongoDB.
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Companies make products to make money. As the saying goes, if you're not paying them, you're the product.
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Most people don't reason like that because there is no acceptable reason for a phone to catch fire from "mishandling" or "dropping".

This was even after they thought they fixed the issue, so of course it looks very bad. Not only did they build a dangerous consumer device, it seems they did not actually fix it the second time around.
More than what? Anyone that clicks on your link will see that the paper doesn't compare organic farming to any other type of farming. It just says that organic farming can be a "full-time activity"..... yay?

Edit: words
FWIW, there have actually been fatal aviation accidents because the airline's estimate of the passengers' weight has been off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkmZrsLF6D4

Weight is not something to take lightly (no pun intended) while flying.
Snark begets snark, dang. I didn't perceive the parent comment to be particularly substantive either.

We'll agree to disagree. Voters seemed to agree with my sentiment after all.
The Falcon 9 also can't throttle low enough to be able to hover when empty. It could do it with extra fuel but that's only because the extra fuel would add more mass, it would have to land before it became light enough that it starts accelerating upwards again.
It is a great software. Much better than paid options out there.
I tested it on Mac and Ubuntu. I wanted Windows version too but was reluctant to install it. Is there a portable version of it? I like to keep it on pendrive.

Edit: Don't mind, I loved it so much and I could stop myself from installing it on my Windows machine too.
But I still want the portable version so that I can use it when I don't have admin privileges to install software.
CEOs of pre-IPO companies rarely get pushed out?

What is an investor saying if they choose to fire a CEO? Fundamentally they are saying that they misjudged the CEO... they're a poor judge of character.

* CEO gets sued: bending the rules seems to be totally ok. Just another risk factor.

* Company spending years in R&D: Science takes time.

* CEO runs out of money: There's always an element of risk. Was an interesting play but didn't pan out, NEXT!

Here's the best possible exit for a failing science based startup:

* Acquisition with large dollar value in the press release based on "reaching certain technical milestones".

But anyway... I think in Theranos' case the investors are still... invested.

There's still a lot of money coming in from China, maybe they think someone in China will buy them for a huge chunk of change regardless? (does happen, and acquisition and investment often don't reflect how good the basic technology is).

Maybe there's already a private market in Theranos shares, giving them some liquidity?

Maybe they still genuinely think it's a good idea. Honestly, neither you nor I would have invested in them. But they already DID!
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Well labour participation is down across the board, regardless of gender roles.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/labor-force-pa...

It's down for men:

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.CACT.MA.ZS?locati...

It's down for women:

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.CACT.FE.ZS?locati...

White/Black/Chinese/Hispanic ... all down.

There are racial/gender differences, for instance, men and blacks seem to be worse off than the other groups, women and Chinese people are better off (as are immigrants in general), but still down. Of course you only get to be an immigrant if you have a job, so not much of a surprise there. It's down across the board. The only exception I could find is people who should be pensioners (men 55+), or at least near pension, but clearly people are hesitant to start their pension.

Which brings the real question. How can it be in the US that unemployment is essentially fixed while the number of people with actual jobs varies so wildly ? The only explanation I can find is that the government must be actively denying unemployment benefits to people who are in fact unemployed, or otherwise fail to count them. I am curious to understand what the actual mechanism is here. I have heard that the US essentially fails to count long-term unemployed people as unemployed, but I haven't put enough effort into verifying this. If this is true, maybe we should assess what the real US unemployment rate is. It's the reported unemployment rate, plus let's say 80% of the jobs lost since 2001, which comes to about 8.9%. Add another percent to account for people who study in order to avoid looking for a job, or who've otherwise resumed study because of getting laid off, and we're close to 10%.

That would mean that what the Fed says is nonsense, and the reason there is considerable slack in the labor market (no wage growth) is simply that at this rate, the US labor market will only have recovered from the 2008 losses around 2022, nor was it recovered from the 2000-2001 job losses in 2008. The odds of a recession between now and then making the problem worse, however, seems to me to be essentially a certainty.

The story here is wrong to focus on men. Men have it slightly worse than women, but not much. The problem is widespread and has little or nothing to do with gender.
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No, they really only rolled dice to determine their results anyway, so there was in fact no blood needed.
Samsung has issued a forcible recall for all the devices. This was not one of the recalled device, it's a new model without the original flaw. This must have been something different.

Which begs the question - given the hundreds of millions of smartphones with out there - how many, even without a manufacturing flaw, end up smoking/catching fire? 1 in a million? 1 in 10 million?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
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You are right and I appreciate the correction. I meant to write LASIK (the surgery) not lasix (the drug, furosemide)
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5 years in China now: WeChat is my primary connection online. I check email once every 2-3 days, Facebook once every few months and usually just to turn off notifications that never seem to actually stay off. WeChat allows me to pay my utility bills, Call taxis, buy a soda, send out promotions for events, publish my photos, stalk friends, find movie tickets and reserve seats, buy a box of avocadoes, find a group of expectant mothers, and the list goes on and on. This is the social network that Chinese people use and folks in the West don't get how pervasive it is.
Then again, software is one of the few industries where you can do quite well without a formal degree or license.

This makes it unusually open to the uncredentialed, if not the unskilled.
This is after several papers were published on inherent inaccuracy of small blood volume based tests..
Rice is an architect of the Iraq War. It reflects horribly on Dropbox that they would have her on the board.
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Right - the parent was saying if you have the absolute latest flagship phone, you're likely to know it. The type of people who don't know the model of their phone are those who aren't buying the "Just released in last 60 days and is the most expensive in it's class" type smartphones.
> They only spend a small part of their life there. And they're cows, so they're not used for meat.

Yeah right, being separated from your mom at birth, enslaved from your first day, raped and made pregnant once a year is not such a bad deal. At least you're not dead...
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I'd say the core skill of politicians is to get elected.

Writing good laws is not entirely unimportant, but it is a much smaller factor. And, as you say, they have experts to help out with that stuff.
Thank you. And...hmm. That's an interesting question.
Is there a full curriculum posted somewhere
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I lived in two Utopian experiments, and am trying to create a third. The first was Deep Springs College, a two-year free-ride all-male school founded in 1917 and still operating in eastern California. 13 students admitted per year. The second was a zen center that operated in San Francisco and environs. The third is a startup whose sole constraint is to survive. Like all utopias, come to think of it. One thing you learn about utopias is that they are painful. Because they require changes in behavior, and because you must listen to others, and learn to live with them. It is a long process. It doesn't work if you let the wrong people in, which means that whole nations can't attempt it. Some must be silenced or excluded for a utopia to function.
I lived in two Utopias, and am trying to create a third. The first was Deep Springs College, a two-year free-ride all-male school founded in 1917 and still operating in eastern California. 13 students admitted per year. The second was a zen center that operated in San Francisco and environs. The third is a startup whose sole constraint is to survive. Like all utopias, come to think of it. One thing you learn about utopias is that they are painful. Because they require changes in behavior, and because you must listen to others, and learn to live with them. It is a long process. It doesn't work if you let the wrong people in, which means that whole nations can't attempt it. Some must be silenced for a utopia to function.
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Similarly, I've worked on robotics platforms where we had to down sample incoming sensor data, otherwise the perception algorithms (which are very statistical) wouldn't be able to spin fast enough.
Sorry for cryptic and indirect. Next time, I will be more clear about what I want to say. I understand no one here is looking for putting pieces of puzzle together.
Also needs 2013 designation,

Especially important as neural net knowledge seems to be evolving quickly.

And perhaps someone can explain why paper matters relative to the plethora of papers and approaches "out there".
Pichai Sundararajan has brought some much needed discipline to Google's M&A spree. Good to see that he is not plowing more money into ego driven acquisitions.
And since it's wrong it must therefore be kept illegal.
It's actually not a terrible fit for Amazon. Twitter is basically where breaking news happens already, and it's not terribly difficult to imagine an integration between WaPo and Twitter. Gives them a presence in San Francisco as well, and access to Twitter considerable UX/frontend talent, which they can put to use on making AWS more intuitive to use.

I guess there is the issue of WaPo being owned by Bezos directly though, not Amazon.
> in order to create unnecessary barriers to entry to our proto-profession.

I wouldn't say it's malice. I think they simply don't know better.
The word "most" gets thrown around a lot in political arguments. Do you have some insight into what the majority of people believe that we don't?
> I can't speak to the extreme "big ag" end of the spectrum, but family farms--even large ones--tend to treat their animals well.

This totally misses the point. Big Ag is where most of the supply comes from (and with demand, will continue to come from), therefor the practices in those environments should be the focus, not family farms. Focusing on the potential good does not in any way make the bad disappear. I just can't understand being ok with the proven, horrible conditions of large operations just because there are better examples out there.

We should be judging the state of things based on the worst examples, not based on the best...
If it was really that easy then hobbyists would have found a way to do it on their own by now(e.g. 3D printing). You can't just demand that someone open their billion dollar fabs to amateur hobbyists. It is very likely if the fab is still operating at a certain process, it's because they have profitable business churning through it. If it's not profitable, they retool or close it down. An idle fab is money down the drain, and it's really doubtful hobbyists would be able to fill the gap with a bunch of one-off production runs, while likely needing a lot of hand holding.

Custom circuit boards are coming down in price, maybe custom lithography will come down in price at some point to be accessible to hobbyists / startups.
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The whole company is full of delusional characters it seems... Read recent article, apparently during recent company meeting the entire auditorium of Theranos employees chanted "F... Y.. Carreyrou! F... Y.. Carreyrou! " What kind of mentality people need to have to behave like that? Professional Scientists? Come on. I will not be sorry to see this dirty company go down the drain.
From John Carreyrou,the Wall Street Journal writer who wrote the investigatory series on Therano: "Patients are finally safe tonight. I did my job. #theranos""

Carreyrou will probably get a Pulitzer for his work on this story.
This was my first thought as well. Does Udacity own or have rights to the code developed by students taking this course?
And there's a significant delay between breakthrough and signal in the data he's looking at. The accuracy of the predictions vary greatly with your age.
That's probably the issue (for them). Most of the Twitter data is public and so they don't have that exclusivity like LinkedIn or FB. If Twitter shutoff the firehose and made all their data private like FB (i.e. only followers can see the updates and no scrapping allowed) then their valuation might have be twice or more of what it is now. I think companies like Google should be worried about this. Their new suitor can decide to put up wall to Twitter data and put them at disadvantage. Note that doing this doesn't affect their non-tech users because they continue to follow and get updates as usual.
The great profit margins tend to be in branding though, not OEM work. This is a huge hurdle Taiwan's industries in general have to overcome (HTC and Foxconn are Taiwanese), and probably part of the reason Foxconn bought Sharp.