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Ask HN: How to ask companies about problems they are facing?
I have a hypothesis about broad problems companies are facing which I am planning to solve. In order to validate it, I need to ask many companies about if they are facing similar problems and if they are willing to discuss it. I have already reached out to my network and got responses. Apart from that, I am mostly cold emailing companies hiring for positions to solve these problems but haven't got significant responses to cold emails. What would be good way to ask about it?
or an ebike, with all the connectivity onboard. power meter included and aero compartments.
Exactly. It seems to me like the audience on Alibaba crowdsourced the manufacturing of his product. Now he has multiple manufacturers to choose from (something he admits he didn't even figure out yet) and can purchase at a wholesale price ($10). He will still be able to make plenty of profit selling these at the original price of $40.
I'm trying to say that when the time comes, you won't have to!
You write that as though its not a paradise?
> In 20years we will have fusion. Then everything solved. That's what I learned when I was a child in the 1960s.

This is fascinating. I was an 80's kid, and we learnt in primary school that by the year 2000, major cities will be underwater due to the greenhouse effect from CO2 emissions. Not that climate change isn't still a threat: it's just that we seem to forget the hype the media often builds up around legitimate concepts.
I've tried a couple of times. Gearing up for another attempt soon.

But there's one thing I've found interesting. I'm still stuck in Chapter 1.2: the infamous Mathematical Preliminaries section. I am not proud of this. From what I can tell, the various aborted liveblogging attempts I've seen also all get stuck here. Knuth himself recommends skipping it if you get stuck.

But even though I haven't yet managed to finish that single part of the book -this part which comes before any actual computer stuff- I STILL come out of it a much better programmer. Every. Single. Time. I haven't yet written a line of MIX or MMIX, and I have STILL been able to use this book to level-grind, just by getting further in 1.2 than I was able to get before. It's awesome. Even when I fail, I come out stronger.

I do eventually plan to blog my own attempt. My plan, though, is to not actually blog 1.1 and 1.2 live: I will do these chapters, write the articles on them to give myself a buffer, and only put up the blog once I'm already through The Big Filter. I figure this will give me a much better chance of actually succeeding once I start.
Perhaps you live in the future, for the rest of us who don't receive benefits its not a privilege but a necessity. We are not "contributing to society" because we are overzealous altruists, its quid-pro-quo.
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I was one who called the other guy lazy. You are different, and I know there are many others who are in similar situations as yourself.

The current opiate epidemic and crackdown is also unfortunately affecting people like you, who are legitimately in pain.

I don't really have anything, besides saying that we as a society should do what we can to get you healthy, but I feel that when there's people who are healthy enough to train for the army, and mentally capable, and still refuse to do anything, that's when society in general starts feeling "why do we have welfare?" and, essentially, their behavior hurts those who actually need the help.

I wish you the best.
I mean Dave Ramsey is horrible, but AAR for the S&P 500 is in fact 10%, it's just that there is a large volatility to returns.

Although average real returns are much lower due to inflation, but that's another beast, though arguably more important beast.
And that's the S&P 500, based on American stock exchanges, which have probably had the best & most consistent returns over the past 100 years than stock exchanges everywhere else.

The past 100 years witnessed the rise of American domination of global business. Even if American business stays dominant, there's probably less growth from #1 -> #1 then there was during the rise to #1. And that's a big if.

In other words, the future returns of the S&P 500 is probably going to look more like the returns of a basket of international stock markets over the past 100 years than it will look like the returns of the S&P 500 over the past 100 years.

Many people believe that since the S&P 500 has never lost money over any 10 year period that it's never going to do so. It may be highly unlikely, but if you keep rolling those dice eventually you're going to come up snake eyes.
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it's called curlbashism.
You missed the part about GURPS Cyberpunk being a "hacker manual".

Ah, Operation Sundevil.
There are a few types of microscopy probably being used here, but effectively we can detect color insofar as we are using a light wavelength. The Abbe equation describes the maximum resolution (The distance at which two points look like one) of a microscope based on wavelength can have (Around 200-250 nanometers for light), though the 2014 Nobel in Chemistry was awarded to scientists who have developed techniques that cleverly subvert this (Achieving resolution under 100 nanometers). Many of the pictures also use electron microscopy, which can achieve significantly lower resolutions. These images have been post-processed significantly.

Something that was shocking to me when I first performed fluorescent microscopy was how much "prettifying" is done on these images. Many fluorescent microscopes output a single brightness value that you interpret to be the color you are looking for, meaning that you could literally color your image however you wanted. This was especially useful because red and green were commonly detected colors, but a lab member was color blind.
> What Facebook could do to really help the world is turning off it's platform for one day each week.

This sentiment brings to mind the movement to Design for Time Well Spent[0]. I don't know how the movement is doing. But I like to keep its principles in mind whenever I inflict things upon others.

[0]: http://timewellspent.io/
I agree that their intentions are good, but you have to draw a line somewhere between cost and safety. Nothing we do is completely risk-free. You can get choked eating food, you can get into a car accident, yet food and transportation industries haven't been regulated to death. Why should nuclear be singled out, when it's already the safest form of energy of all time?
I had a discussion with OP in the past [1]. It basically boils down to him believing society has advanced to the point where not every one has to work (due to automation etc). Basic income (BI) should therefore be implemented and the societal perception of idleness/laziness be removed for people who don't work. The OP's motivation for this stance seems to be partially to justify his stance for ceasing search for work. While OP's circumstances seem to work for him (living with parents, welfare support), he does not understand that it wont work for the majority of people. He is basically wanting society to already behave as if BI has been implemented.

I can understand that the OP is getting tired of job hunting. It makes sense he believes working is not necessary and I actually agree with the OP somewhat. However, I think the only reason he has this stance is because of his difficulty in finding a job.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11322640
True. I would expect most of the outsider contributions to an open source project to come from organizations that use the product heavily, to the point of having an internal support group responsible for it. That group is likely to have the expertise, time, and motivation to make actual updates to the product.
Thank you for the info, I missed that part.
Because if you bust your ass, you can put more then food on your table.
Well, take any problem from a user regarding Linux - and it will not be Linux problem.

No hardware support? Not a Linux problem.
Crappy drivers on Linux? Not a Linux problem.
No Photoshop on Linux? Not a Linux problem.
Sure, it does not cost much to say that. Cost and risks are a relative thing, and 'through the roof' is subjective. You have to compare with the other possibilities. No energy is clean. With PV, the cost of treatment of wastes (silicon tetrachoride for instance[1]) and the risks associated with their pollution if not treated are also a problem, especially if we want to make PV substantially more used than it is now in proportion.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03...
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I can name a few differences, even if I don't think it's impossible.

Phones were ready for a natural complete upgrade from brick phones to smartphones. The mobile environment was there, all the network components were coming online to make it a really useful device, processors were getting to a good stage for mobile usage where it made sense to make the jump and the jump was right into what Apple already knew pretty well. The phone part of smart phones is pretty minor, quite honestly. Smartphones weren't so much an evolution of dumb phones, they were a complete redesign and replacement thereof. The technology that puts an OS in your hand just did the job of being a phone better than a brick phone did[1], and it came with a bunch of extra features that people didn't know they wanted.

Cars are a little different. Fundamentally, a self-driving car is still a car with an OS attached. It's not so much just figuring out the OS part of it, it's also getting the engineering on a vehicle right, and I'm guessing with autonomous cars there's a lot you have to take into consideration when it comes to the mechanical aspects. It's not quite like the phone situation where you just replace brick phone with smart phone - a smart car is fundamentally the same as a dumb car except that you don't drive the smart car (and in some models, you do). There's a lot more to take into consideration, a much larger spectrum of rules and regulations, and honestly the car part of smart cars is pretty involved. It's not that Apple doesn't have the money to throw at car R&D, it's just it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to do it.

Again, I don't doubt they could do it, but the barrier of entry just seems higher here, and it's not as natural of a segue for Apple either. They're not just building a tiny computer with an iCar, they'd be building a car with an Apple computer.

[1]I realize that many prefer the brick phones to smart phones and that smart phones are pretty bad at the phone part of being a phone, but ultimately between the myriad of communication apps available, you have more communication options available in your hand than you do with a brick phone, and more ways to do the communication thing.
man lxc.conf ... this is your dockerfile equivalent.
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Not to mention that Chernobyl and Fukushima are far from the worst case scenario.

An active power plant or a nuclear waste storage facility being destroyed (e.g. as an act of war) and dispersing a large amount of fuel/waste in the environment would be orders of magnitude worse.
Sure I contradict myself, and I know that.

My issue is how people have been transformed into labor machines. Being rated by a salary is meek metric to begin with. That's a problem of principle.

> I think the majority of people would classify you as being lazy, and I would say they are right to do so.

And they would, but until you can find a good reason for me to contribute to a society, I would call that relatively low motivation. If I have to beg to get a job, and if it is literally work to find a job, then it is not going to make a lot of sense to me since I am not legally obligated to work. If there is actual unemployment, but there are no simple jobs to do, then maybe laziness is not the problem, maybe it's something else. It's so biblical to call somebody lazy.

> without you really having to going put in the effort to work for it

In the current system you will get removed instantly if you are not competitive enough or take a little too much time to work on something. That's how capitalism works: only the numbers matter. People are not machines. Competition can be a problem if it becomes more important than cooperation. Unemployment is the failure of cooperation.
I think the same, i've been deploying containers or things that look like today's containers for the past 12 years, i even did a tool that manages containers with lxc that really look like docker, but 3 years before.
Now try counting to 32 using the creases method. You'll beat that time without any practice. I can count on my creases faster than I can count in my head, and it requires little mental effort, which is why you would use an external counter in the first place.
I was going for the example actually as you are saying:

"here are very strong forces out there proactively pushing this mindset on people."

As a human being I personally own land in my homecountry and the best way to spend my holidays on is going to my farm and enjoying nature to the maximum without carying about money or anything. I am very conservative with my wage and what I do with it, as my wife is.

I was just trying to bring up a point about how the way of life has changed, am not self entitled to anything, I've worked from construction in New York to gardner to software developer.
Do you have any source for that, or is it just something you know?
What practical use do you get out of reading "news" such as:

>Breitbart and its national counterparts, neocon blogs, libertarian thinktanks - to sources I think of as pretty neutral - like the simple feeds of press conglomerates just feeding headlines...

If you are feeling such crippling despair from consuming this information, why are you consuming it (Assuming you're not a sadist.)? Especially when you said yourself you know it's not true.

"News" is often like fast food -- it's made as quickly and cheaply as possible, is highly lacking in nutritional value, and is detrimental to health.
Shouldn't this be compared to an alternative like buying bonds or holding the money in an average bank account? If inflation ate up the gains from the index value increase, wouldn't the same be true for other forms of investment?

"The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index has posted double-digit gains for the second year in a row. But the index is still below where it was in early 1999."

Is this true when adjusted for inflation?

https://www.google.ch/search?hl=en&q=Standard%20&ei=EuQEWOaq...
possible irreparable ecological disaster ? Have a look at Chernobyl, its a wildlife haven. Yes there are ecological damage but the fact that humans don't go near it (apart from the still operating other reactor buildings) more than makes up for that.

Chernobyl was the worst nuclear accident ever, and its a paradise compared to say, Manhattan Island.
> Climate change ... extrajudicial killings ... those are simple statements of fact. Those things are scary and fear of them is justified.

The funny thing is though, the anxieties that you see on TV are pretty much fear of anything but those things. You will see big-league fear-mongers using "hit them harder" with more extraordinary rendition and "climate change is a con to handicap us" lines of thought.
Fair enough, these are good points. I didn't state it but what comes to mind for me is that surviving isn't nearly as hard from a physical perspective (At least not in the U.S.), but I think our fear has been replaced. We no longer need to kill a wildebeest by hand to get its food, but we do have to maintain a job to get food.
>You do not have to work 8 hours a day if the job you did could be done in 30 minutes of work.
You can still keep working for 8 hours (or as it common, more) to squeeze even more out you than was possible before.

I agree, 100%. Even if we aren't at that stage now, we will be very soon, with the automation revolution and continued optimisation of the industrial process. Many people will soon have the realistic possibility to do their same jobs, for the same value creation, in 2 or 3 hours 4 days a week. Yet free market dictates that they work 8 hours per day 5 days a week for even more productivity growth, because if you don't you will fall behind, in a capitalistic free market.
Now that 10 has separate desktops, tiling window managers -- I use xmonad -- are the non-negotiable that keeps me from considering a switch back to Windows. Most everything else I use is cross platform or has a replacement. Running my online life from the keyboard does not.
Quite meta! Would be nice to hear csallen's thoughts on it.

Once big difference I think is that csallen is focused on writing specifically for the Hacker News audience as a way to bootstrap traffic from an existing large audience. Product Hunt didn't really use that strategy from what I can tell.

Similarly to Indie Hackers, I wrote my Product Hunt article with the aim to bootstrap off of Ryan Hoover's large existing audience (40K twitter followers at the time, compared to my paltry 100). He was the first to tweet about it after I brought it to his attention and it spread organically from there (26K views currently).

My next Internet Archaeology article is already in the works and I plan to use the exact same strategy as before (bootstrap off of my subject's existing audience).
Well, all I can defend against that, is that it's still "Alpha Software". There's stuff that's very much not for private or secure networks.

But for working with data that's intended to be open, it's wonderful.
AAR for the S&P 500 is in fact 10%

10% is a wildly high estimate of long-term nominal annual returns on US equities. Please see my comments above.
I remember using KDE + bspwm for a short period of time before I decided to go without KDE.

It required a couple special rules in the bspwm config but it worked just fine.
Its iOS app seems to have been removed too:

http://appcrawlr.com/ios/clinkle

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/treats-by-clinkle/id45852362...
Thanks for pointing out where the name confusion may have come from.

> I definitely do not have time to check every person's profile when I comment on HN.

At least then we should not make explicit such gender assumptions, regardless.

I have never heard the name "Shawnee" and generally do not assume usernames on web forums are indicative of real-life anything (e.g. you are 'striking', but apparently that is not your name).

I agree 'they' is an awkward construction in English, but for many people the alternative using passive voice is a little more complex to use (cf. non-native English speakers).
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> Our government, in the last 8 years, used remotely operated drones to carry out extrajudicial killings of American citizens -- including a teenage boy.

Not my government, but still I can't help but wonder why it should matter that they are American citizens. A very large multiple of citizens of other countries is murdered in this way and from where I'm sitting I don't see much difference between the two.
It seems like he was happy that he was developing on Linux, because Linux is not the happy case for .NET. By doing so, he discovered a bug he might not have otherwise discovered until he was running his project on a Linux environment.
Perhaps Rolling Stone would like a little introspection given their fear mongering and false reporting about the University of Virginia.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/business/media/rolling-sto...
A reminder that Soviet science used to rival the West's capabilities, or even surpass them.

A pity that Russia has fallen so far behind in this regard.
That right there is an excellent question. I was one of those whose first language was Basic, and I really wonder of Dijkstra was right: was I permanently damaged by learning it?
But the children who are citizens automatically by birth, you don't think they're more predisposed to want to stay here and to improve their communities if they end up staying? Are you suggesting that their allegiances ultimately lie elsewhere? Does that extend to children of immigrants born here legally?

If so, this is the same rhetoric used to discriminate or marginalize the early generations of immigrants in NY last century; my grandparents went through it. Not a lot of fun.

And if this is a ploy to gain sympathy to a particular party, I think that party deserves that continued support. Trust extended to the outsider begets trust as that outsider lays downs roots, and those children and their children would be likely to vote the same way by gratitude or tradition. Even if it distorts the way they would vote without that influence, I think the country overall benefits when immigrant communities feel supported, looking forward, participating in society, not isolated from it. It's how our country changes, grows, adapts.
I think the key words here are "we hear about". It seems like the Apple Iron Curtain is getting more permeable than it used to be.
What I was thinking about wasn't protecting against outright malice but rather mistakes and errors: If you give developers sudo access and you don't have an extremely diligent team with strong system administration experience, you're going to run into problems where people made incompletely documented changes or cause problems while working which aren't caught early enough – ever see someone break out sudo or chmod 777 as their first debugging step or even write that into the install process because it was too much work to do it right? Docker is an enormous win here both because it sharply reduces the number of times someone needs privilege escalation and because it ensures that the end result of their work can be reliably audited and repeatedly deployed.

It's true that Docker doesn't protect against compromised or malicious users with privileged access. That's a very hard problem in general which can only partially be addressed at this level — especially since many of the most damaging attacks don't need it (“The bad news: they exfiltrated our customer database. Good news: they didn't get root on the EC2 instance”). I think most of the answers for this problem are going to continue to rely on existing practices like code review, auditing, getting finely-grained SELinux / seccomp rules into the development mainstream, etc.
Maybe because of media and news websites publishing stories such Jackie Coakley's... and then wondering why we live in the Age of Fear...
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I think the point is "develop on the platform you are going to use". You'd get that error when you were developing on linux, so it'd never make it to production. If you developed on windows, you'd never get the error, cause you have gdiplus.dll. Still you should be at least testing on something matching the target platform, but catching this kind of stuff early is a plus!
> Powering down won't hurt it.

Usually. I see enough students who mess up their machines due to hard poweroffs during updates to say that sometimes it does not work out.
I don't know why you are downvoted, HN is a big part of my news addiction cycle, but I can't help it.

There is a certain satisfaction in reading news, being in the know about new developments - even if 80% of the time it doesn't help you at all/you'll forget about it the next day.

I'm wasting so much time on news sites and other pages that inform me about new developments, it's quite sad.

Most of the time there isn't even any news to be had - it's just "oh, nothing new here, moving on" in a cycle through different pages - then the thought lingers on that there might be something new by now and I start again from the beginning.
Keep your $ and wait. They won't go up but they won't go down. And when everything else goes down, you invest. (Of course this strategy is good only if everything is overvalued and goes down to fairly valued eventually.)