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> Can anyone still take the other side in a negotiation (or any other situation, really) seriously if it becomes know that they're trying to pull this parlor trick?

That's why it's so important to know about these things. Once armed with knowledge, it becomes a parlor trick. If you don't know about the techniques, then you're playing at a disadvantage.

I read the author's previous book on influence[1] and it was rigorously researched with confirmable studies. Well worth reading, since it surveys a wide variety of mind hacks people play on us across 8 or so broad categories. It changed the way I thought about all kinds of situations I routinely encounter.

https://www.amazon.com/Influence-Practice-Robert-B-Cialdini/...
I couldn't agree more, and I'd just emphasize that no one likes hellbans, including the people who have to impose them. On and offline, we always seem engaged in some form of distasteful, yet necessary asymmetric conflict.
Good for them! A recall is the responsible option at this point, and I hope other manufacturers do the same.
Getting it right is not what I'm talking about. I'm saying doing the exact same kind of thing. What if his next company would have been building an online store like Amazon. Does he end up building the iPhone from there? Probably not.
Ah, I see, good point. And how would you handle cases (that I end up using quite often) such as :

arr.map(...).filter(...).forEach(...) which allows me to iterate over the filtered result? One would assign the result of filter to a variable and call for...of on that?

EDIT: Also, I never saw any mention of for...of working for object literals (à la `for (let [key, value] of obj`), I suppose that's out of scope, correct?
Yes but he didn't tweet out the wikipedia link he data dumped classified materials.
I'm curious about this as well. Hopefully NYT realizes that the property can help the company build trust with consumers and focuses on that value, rather than the dollars that can be squeezed from it.
Also the link threads are amazing time wasters. I urge you not to click on the link below if you value your life:

http://slatestarcodex.com/tag/links-2/
It seems to me the comparison being made between Ballmer and Cook is not in their characters, but in similarities between the directions their companies take under a comparable set of circumstances.
>can opener, never again oxo

Let me guess. The one that makes a non-sharp cut that requires the strength of a bodybuilder and doesn't work half the time?

But, yes, they seem to do a good job overall. Honestly, for a lot of things these days, all you want is a succinct recommendation for something decent while understanding the basis of the recommendation.
Oops, typo. I meant tapered. As in varying in width. You could imagine a tether that has a 5mm diameter at the surface (in a sort of ribbon shape), but has a diameter of 500mm at the geostationary orbit.

According to this (http://sustainable-nano.com/2014/04/01/space-elevator-a-last...) a carbon nanotube has a factor between ground and orbit of 1.6 or so, and for steel it's something crazy like 1.6e33.
More efficient in producing crap solutions that can be sold by reinvesting time and money into sales and marketing, yes.

Better from the market's POV != better for the people who use it.
Would Whatsapp and Facebook Chat been end-to-end encrypted had it not been for the Snowden leaks? It's hard to say. But personally I believe it wouldn't have happened if the public perception of security had not been altered by his leaks.

Another example that affects billions: after the Snowden leaks, Google scrambled to encrypt their intra-datacenter traffic. Before they did so, those billions of end-users would get the green padlock when visiting Gmail, only to have their data snooped as it travelled over Google-owned dark fiber.

You are right that UX still dominates all other factors. But I think post-Snowden, there have been many significant improvements to security that affect billions of people.
Well all that is is a myth about a certain frequency of A4, not really a conspiracy theory.
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I really don't care about stuff that happened so long ago as it most people that are fighting in todays conflicts weren't even born back then and refugees coming to Europe don't do this because of something that happened prior to 1960.

That's like some Arabs retarded claim that every evil and barbaric thing they do today is justified because of the Crusades! (even though in reality the Crusades were a defensive move against the Arab invasions and thus absolutely justified but that's a different topic)
Very recently I've spent a lot of time on ai.stackexchange.com and electronics.stackexchange.com, so I guess both of those are in contention.

Even more recently, I've been indulging some nostalgia related to my time as a firefighter by spending a lot of time on Youtube looking at videos of structure fires from around the world. It's kind of addictive to play "arm chair incident commander" and sit there going "why'd they stretch a 1-3/4" line instead of a 2-1/2?" or "why didn't the first in engine lay their own supply line" or "why aren't they using elevated master streams here", etc., etc., etc.
It's hard to imagine that it's going to be good; given how much energy it takes to build them, and the risk that they'll be useless due to radical changes in the availability of water in those areas.
That's not really a valid reason to not prosecute people though. If I run a red light and no one happened to be going through the intersection besides me, should I still not be ticketed?
> Apple just makes things harder for their customers with their attempts on privacy.

In addition to Siri, what else would you put on the list of things made harder by Apple's privacy positions/implementations?

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I’ve known Garry since 2010. Even though he didn't know us at the time - he met up with us to help us hone our YC pitch. He later became our adviser. Awhile after, when I showed him our growth numbers, he offered to invest, which then triggered a round. He didn't need to follow anyone else to decide. When we had an announcement, Alexis helped get us press. There are tons of helpful moments like this.

When I talk to other founders, I keep hearing how helpful they are. This is one of the most talented and genuine groups of people in the valley.

Congrats on the raise!
For me its most compelling use case was as a gaming table. At Origins I got to see it used for D&D. Quite fun, but too expensive an option for the average gamer (who isn't already buying Geek Chic furniture).
I've posed a question because I'm interested in a thoughtful answer. You can change my mind... I want to know why I should be thankful for this guy's actions.
AFAIK that's not correct, which is why it doesn't work offline.

See e.g.: "[Nuance rep] said that Siri has both embedded and cloud technology for voice recognition, but that the feature is overall a cloud solution."

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/05/30/nuance-confirms-it...
But then a murderer can still be in the list and receive an organ before some innocent kid.
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Oh I didn't realize that. I assumed that const means immutable.

Now I am going back to change all the object declarations to const.
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> low-interest rates make it economically nonviable for a company to act in its longer-term interests.

Lower interest rates express a smaller time preference. Ceteris paribus, lower rates encourage risk taking. Longer-term bets are higher in risk, particularly when one considers principal-agent aspects.
I posted a list of them a while ago. For several years I was interested in alternative worldviews -- grand sweeping theories of reality. Here's my list:

http://ribbonfarm.com

https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences

http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.co.uk/

http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.co.uk/

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/

https://meaningness.com/

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/

Enjoy :)
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…and what are the thousand? people in the division doing for years at a time?
> Agreed. I'm having trouble thinking of any product category where Apple was actually first to market

The dirty little secret is that the first company to market with a new product category almost never succeeds. No one really knows what the market wants or what will make the whole thing come together and take off. Most of the time the discovery never even makes it to market because no one can figure out how to make a real product with it. Execution is as important as innovation.

The iPod was transformative because it was paired with a music store.

The iPhone was transformative because it was a pocket computer that happened to make phone calls and it broke the carrier's stranglehold on hardware and software.

The Mac was the first widespread easy to use GUI. Yes, Xerox had the Alto. So what? They had no idea what to do with it and it was never terribly successful.

When you take an ultra-reductionist approach you can dismiss anything. Dropbox wasn't the first one to sync files over a network. Oh Uber, it's just a fancy way to order a taxi. Airbnb: just a fancy version of classified ads. Instacart? I can pay anyone to go buy my groceries, rich people have been doing that for years. Stripe? We already have a million payment gateways!
I imagine there were a lot of angry calls from Washington and Beijing over this. I don't think companies are magnanimous like this without external pressure.

No one in Washington or Beijing with diplomatic credentials and contact with the other side even knows what DNS is or that there was an attack on Friday.

A lot of Chinese companies are both privately owned and awash in money, and that gives them the latitude to behave in ways that aren't strictly about achieving maximum Pareto efficiency.

These guys are doing the right thing. Please don't try to minimize that.
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I respect the amount of effort and time that goes into videos like these. It's the best part of internet.
I've been employed at places where that email trail is ignored or used as "evidence" against the engineer.
I'm struggling to understand the point your making?
I like the idea, despite enormous time we were promised for implementation.

However, I am worried, that the plan does not allow any kind of back out. Considering very high price and 10+ years execution time, I'd like a clear strategy for cancelling that if situation on the road changes significantly due to self-driving.
> It really gave me an appreciation for how hateful and deplorable some people can get when they can remain anonymous.

Back in 2004, Penny Arcade wrote a comic that articulated this better than anything else I've seen (https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19)

Normal person + anonymity + audience = total fuckwad

The caveat being that some people only need an audience to completely lose social inhibitions and act inappropriately.
Why would that make it "ridiculously large"?
They haven't managed to release a flagship Windows phone for more than a year, Windows 10 is still a disaster, and Surface Book's execution was incredibly botched.

Yeah, there is some good stuff for developers, but their consumer-facing segment is still in shambles.
Though I'm happy we got top billing in the headline, Reddit wasn't actually impacted directly (though of course many of the sites we linked to were).
Plenty of people have left and found a better life, I'm not trying to say otherwise. I just hate it when people use the weather and the government as reasons to move because every country has its problems.
A large number of Icelanders move to another country sometime during their lifetimes but a large percentage of them move back at some point. That tells me that maybe things aren't so bad over here.
1) There is a Wiki for almost everything you can imagine. I am pretty sure you can spend whole weekens just clicking around in some random GoT, LotR or Harry Potter wiki

1.1) My current favorite is reading about the Warhammer 40k universe: (http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Warhammer_40k_Wiki and http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Main_Page)

2) reddit.com is a never ending source of entertainment if you know how to use it:

2.1) Go to any sub which kind of interests you and sort either by "top" or "controversial" for "all time". "controversial of all time" is especially interesting if you apply it to subs like /r/relationships (if you are into that kind of thing).

2.2) Start with this post on interesting subs: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/28il5s/what_is_a...

/r/UnsolvedMysteries and /r/AskHistorians are by far my favorite subs at the moment

2.3) /r/ThreadKillers/, /r/DepthHub/, /r/goodlongposts/ are also a good sources of interesting posts

3) If you are into DIY, building boats, woodworking, metal lathes, surface grinding, scraping, and stuff like that, then you will and endless supply of videos on YouTube.

/r/ArtisanVideos is a good source for interesting videos. If you want to find your own content you should have a look at this list: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtisanVideos/comments/3v264a/meta_...

My favorite channels are This Old Tony (his newer videos are incredibly well made and very funny if you like dry humor. Check out his video on how to cut threads on a lathe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb_BURLuI70), Abom79, Clickspring, Keith Rucker, Keith Fenner, Stefan Gotteswinter, Walter Sorrells, ...

4) Reading trip reports on https://www.erowid.org/ is also a good way to waste a lot of time
* Unusual religions on wikipedia particularly Scientology.

* Rogue waves (it is not that deep of a hole but for some reason I find it interesting).

* Knot theory and category theory (again not sure why).

* Social Psychology on wikipedia

* Ben Thompson's Badass blog (more for humor and a little old now. not sure if it is updated) [1]

* If you are an older mid to late 30 something like me X-Entertainment [2] used to be an awesome rabbit hole (no it is not a porn site). Sadly it is very very broken rabbit hole with collapsed tunnels all over. The author's penchant (Matt) for 80's crap ultimately succumbed to complete utter disorganization and proper backups. It is a 404 wasteland. I recommend googling "x-entertainment and he-man" (yes it is scary to google such terms but trust me)

[1]: http://www.badassoftheweek.com/list.html

[2]: http://www.x-entertainment.com/index1.html
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Check out the SM64 parallel universes video if you really wanna get your mind blown.
For me it's simply the "I don't really want to think about this, but don't want to buy something bad" factor. I don't really care enough about TV to spend hours researching it, but I can probably rely on The Wirecutter to make sure I don't buy a POS. I might spend much more time researching a phone, on the other hand, and don't look at it too much.

There's a lot of value in that offering, because there's a huge gap between "enthusiasts reviews" (Anandtech, for example) and "consumer" (Consumer Reports). One is done by enthusiasts for enthusiasts and the other is done by consumers for consumers. The Wirecutter seems to provide "by enthusiasts for consumers".
This comment made spending my whole Sunday on it worth it.

The idea came from an example from a talk [1] I attended, and I wanted to see how far I could take it.

[1]: https://github.com/mikaelbr/proxy-fun/blob/master/examples/g...
I've only recently started using them. I bought a bluetooth headset and gaming headphones from their recommendations, and I consider these two to be great purchases, with quality/cost ratio much better than the cheap stuff I used to buy before.
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Is there a relatively easy way to see what devices in your house are visible to the Internet?
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My favorite from an information perspective is The Great Leap Forward (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward).

Another honorable mention is that I've been having a great time learning about AI techniques competing at codingame.com. It's something that's easy to get into, and hard to leave, for me.
This made it to the front page of HN a couple months back, but it's worth posting again:

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lake-nyos-the-deadliest-l...
They aren't directly comparable, but they are comparable. A 500 DPI printer is going to produce better text on an A4 page than a 1 PPI A4 sized display, right?

Do you think text on your 165 PPI display is as sharp as even a low end laser printer?
When we were shopping for a baby cam to keep an eye on the baby, I opted to get a simple RF cam [1] instead of the more popular IP cameras that allow you to use your smartphone and monitor from anywhere.

The lower tech approach means you can park a van in my driveway and probably pick up the signal but that's a lot harder (and more obvious) than scanning an IP range from anywhere in world and finding vulnerable devices.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Foscam-FBM3501-Wireless-Digital-Monit...
Whilst I agree tech has blended with lifestyle, I don't see it as "sad", its perception being more akin to other aspects of personal identity isn't to be seen as derogatory but celebrated as it's expanded the market and the media interest in reporting on it.
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Thanks! We had a lot of fun with it. :)
I'm not sure he learned much at all.

There is a very clear through-line connecting all the Jobsian products: an aggressively streamlined approach to features, a fascination with high-quality materials and novel industrial processes, and an aesthetic sensibility derived from Bauhaus/Functionalism/Dieter Rams. All these elements are just as present in his misses (Lisa, the original Mac, the NeXT Cube, the G4 Cube) as in his hits (iMac, iPod, iPhone).

What separates his age of mostly misses from his age of mostly hits isn't any change in his design philosophy; it's the passage of time. His misses mostly came early, his hits late.

What this implies to me is that his later success wasn't due to him changing, so much as the world changing around him. In 1984 and 1990 and 1995, he was trying to sell objects d'art into a computing market that was dominated by business/enterprise purchasers, who didn't care if the machines they bought were ugly as sin as long as they were functional and interoperable and cheap. By 2005 the market for tech had shifted away from those buyers into the consumer market, where the priorities were completely different, more like those of the fashion business than of the tech business of old.

Suddenly the Jobsian approach stopped being a liability and started being an asset. But that's not because he learned how to aim better, it's because the targets moved so that they were all neatly lined up in front of him.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EA9EbfnydAmmU_lM8R_uEMQ-...

That's the planning doc for v8 optimization of ES2015+ and an interesting read.
The order isn't terribly important, especially since Cialdini revisits the contents of Influence in Pre-suasion.

If you want the best bang for your buck, Influence has a higher idea/page ratio. It's still a pretty bad ratio — Cialdini isn't the best writer, and the accumulation of anecdotes gets boring quickly, and you can get most of the substance by looking at a couple blog articles about the 6 "weapons of persuasion."

It's important to also note that all of his theories are built on shaky ground, but it's a useful inspiration source of A/B testing ideas if you're revamping a landing page or something similar.
75% isn't very large?
Ok when I said "they" I meant the manufacturer(s). Look at Samsung and their inability to do a proper recall for the Note 7. A lot of the stores from Aliexpress disappear after one year of existence. I think the proper thing to do immediately is to reverse Mirai and force a password reset on the affected devices.
As a Canadian, this is astonishing. All our governments spend around $4500 usd per capita on health. That's about $6000 Canadian.

That's for full coverage. No deductibles. Only things not covered are dental, vision and prescription drugs.

I have dental, vision and paramedical insurance for $1000 us annually. This covers most of my expenses, and also covers some things like massage therapy and physio. It's also as business expense, and avoids the need to pay into my provincial drug plan. So I more or less break even on this.

Prescription drugs? Depends on the province. In Quebec, if you have no other insurance, the public plan will take around $500 per year off your taxes and give you full coverage.

Personally, I have full coverage through my private health plan (the one that costs $1000 per year). I got it by being, among other things, a writer. That lets me get the group plan for writers. Most professions will have such an organization. Failing that, en entrepreneur can join their chamber of commerce form $150 or so a year, and get a similar plan for similar rates.

I would have been knocked out of business 3-4 times over without this. Major health issue that required surgery three years ago. Cost me $0. And in my first year I had to get my wisdom teeth out: fully covered by my plan. There's been a few other expenses, and also the ability to do physio et al for RSI due to computer work.

I can't fathom doing it the American way. My taxes are somewhat higher in Quebec, but the difference in health costs more than makes up for it.

In particular, I can't believe that with all those medical costs, you still have to pay large deductibles.

Oh, and the services here are good, and fairly for for things that aren't elective. And a private system exists too if you need to go faster.
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> Ellen Pao had all those issues prior to joining Reddit.

Which made her a terrible choice for CEO of Reddit.

Things were blowing up before the firing of the mod. That was just the straw that broke the camel's back.

There are a lot of communities on Reddit that focus on media coordination. There was a huge push from most tech media to be pro-Pao despite a total lack of evidence to support her story. I see that as the main intersection between her and the Reddit community. She was a Reddit story that became the Reddit CEO then went on to make questionable decisions (mod firing, banning salary negotiation...).
It makes a microservices architecture less painful to set up. Nothing is going to make one easy to set up, and even less so easy to run.
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Does the NY Times have a history of usurping acquisitions and milking them for money? This is a company who leans on its reputation a great deal, so I would think that they would recognize its value. But like you say, money will talk.
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when monitoring a network, and faced with choices of where to tap the network, a tap which captures a wider view can be advantageous. For instance, capturing at a WAN link can provide a better view of attackers.
Ah, you're actually answering my question from above. I was wondering if there was a way to emulate the behaviour I've gotten accustomed to in Ruby vis à vis `Enumerable#each` where the (key, value) are yielded to the block passed to each. It doesn't seem to be possible to do that with object literals in JS, but you mention that Map would do (and it actually does, see [1]). Nice.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Referen...
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