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The best thing we've done in the last year was start marketing, period. Previously, we made all our sales through essentially an enterprise model—get one national customer and pick up all their local affiliates. The sales cycle was long, and most growth happened word of mouth, but it wasn't fast. We had zero marketing presence aside from going to the relevant trade shows.

Last fall we finally hired a marketing consultant, built out a marketing website with a contact form, and are trying out some different pricing models. We've seen fairly consistent interest, which I'm reading as pent-up demand.

Lessons learned: I think the word-of-mouth angle was good for us at first. By keeping a closer control on our customers we were able to really make the product solid and understand the customer needs in depth, and how to segment the market with pricing and features. I wish we'd flipped the switch on the marketing website sooner, but there were benefits from waiting. The number one lesson if you're going to do that is give potential customers who hear about you a way to contact you—otherwise word of mouth has zero benefit. (I realize these probably seem obvious to most, but our market is a little niche and knowing that we wanted to market primarily to the national customers instead of their local affiliates pointed us in certain directions early on.)
But that's not what H-1B visas are for. They are intended to allow companies to hire for specialized skills that they can't find domestically. The are also objectively not Americans.
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There is already a consequence to lying as a witness, it's called perjury prosecution.

It's unfortunately infrequently pursued when the perjury occurs in a civil case, but if you want to agitate for consequences, agitate for prosecutors willing to enforce the law.

(Or for a civil cause of action for perjury, but that would have to be carefully crafted to prevent an infinite regress of lawsuits.)
Britain has a culture, despite being composed of the English, Scots, and Welsh nations as well as many immigrants.

One can, of course, feel entirely free to use words in arbitrary ways. But to correct someone (who clearly understands the correct usage of the term nation) with the nonsensical notion of a nation imposing taxes is odd.
"jury of one's peers" is in reference to "an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed" from Article VI (criminal prosecutions) and preserved through Article VII (civil suits). It has been interpreted to mean a broad representation of the population.
A comparison between this and Vault would be super useful.
I think he is saying if someone skilled and knowledgeable in the area of the expert witness' testimony shines a light of truth on such testimony it must stand up to the scrutiny. If it does not then you are not being true to your knowledge and are being misleading on purpose to get paid. He argues all such testimony, good or bad, must be a part of your public record so we have that opportunity to examine your body of work. This seems reasonable when your work has the potential to deeply impact groups of individuals or the public.
About half the damages followed from infringement of ZeniMax's software copyrights. The other half came from the NDA breach.
> But he has also dusted down his four-year-old Apple MacBook Pro and upgraded his Windows 7 desktop to the latest version of Linux Mint rather than Windows 10. <...> Despite their idiosyncrasies, Macintosh and Linux have never looked so attractive.

Linux gets refugees both from Windows and MacOS because MS just keeps messing Windows up (seems to be happening every other version), and Apple simply lets MacOS rot by not giving it any attention.
They displaced blight, not expensive downtown land.

Overall I think you are right, but it seems like a non issue in a (relatively) stagnant depopulated city.
> - one byte has CHAR_BIT bits;

Can you link a reference to this? Seems backwards/weird.
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Can you explain that point on cabinet-level departments? I don't understand where Elizabeth Warren fits into that.
Well, one answer is that it resolves the measurement problem, and variants like Wigners friend, in a coherent way and without the additional issues posed by those other interpretations (although collapse interpretations aren't quite "interpretations" in the same sense). As I understand it - being neither an expert or advocate, just interested in quantum foundations - the QBist attitude is that all those no-go theorems point to quantum theory being little more than a dutch book of the universe. The whole idea is you're barking up the wrong tree if you want to give a direct physical meaning to the quantum state. If you're already welded to the notion that a quantum state corresponds to an external reality then you'll probably never find QBism very satisfying. And that's fair enough.

Don't get me wrong here - what you're saying is a very valid criticism and probably what most people have against QBism. I myself find it difficult to see what value it adds, unless you already have a certain approach to scientific knowledge. I was just trying trying to clarify some of the points your original post made. There is a lot of literature about how QBism relates to various results and other interpretations. Chris Fuchs' own writings are very entertaining and worth a read.
I ordered an item from Amazon and was initially happy that it was being sent USPS. I live in an apartment building without a doorman. UPS and FedEx can't get inside the building but USPS has a key in order to get into the lobby with the mailboxes. But somehow the package delivery arm of the USPS is different from the ordinary mail delivery arm and I got a notification that they couldn't deliver the package.

Something like having agreements with all the landlords to get keys to all the buildings is a major advantage that the USPS has over its rivals. It should take advantage of that.
What if

jury_of_peers = random12(peers(defendant) + peers(prosecutor)) OR random6(peers(defendant)) + random6(peers(prosecutor));
peers(X) is declared/set by X. num(peers(X)) >= num_citizens/10 so that corrupt X cant set 12 yes men.
This would incentivize X to be good to peers(X).
How much time does it take to understand something with sufficient depth to make a sound judgement?

It would be nice if the answer could somehow always be a short expert witness testimony, but the reality seems to be that in some areas it's months or years of study.

In your example, you'd have to explain what source code is, what a graphics library is, methods of representing and comparing source code, and how the applicable laws are supposed to function. Sure, you could probably give them a vague impression in a short time, but not enough to decide something complex.
> enough food is produced around the world to feed 10 billion people. However, because 70% of the mono crops which are grown are feed livestock intended for slaughter, a distribution problem exists.

No, the distribution problem is largely political - in fact modern famine and starvation is almost always a problem with local government, or the warlords that pass for it.
My favorite conference talk is about the multiple facets of Erlang that combine to make it such a great language. Take an opinionated language, an opinionated VM, and a focus on a specific problem space, and magic happens.

Take one or two features from Erlang into another language, and you have meh.
> Only when [X happens] will it make sense to no longer discriminate.

Problem is, no one can agree when X happens (or has happened).

"Only when we're safe will it make sense to no longer spy on all our citizens."

"Only when our enemies are defeated will it make sense to no longer have Emperor Caesar."
People may disagree but if the function valid_command_message already bounds checks x, isn't the case statement redundant? Do you really want the same bounds check in two different places? Maybe in embedded programming you do for safety but it seems like a simple if test is sufficient.
Historical misconception: Rome was not destroyed by barbarians at the gates, it was destroyed by barbarians inside the gates, hired as mercenary replacements for military regulars. Once the gold dried up, they sacked their former clients or simply left to find other work, leaving many Roman regions sparsely defended.

You analogy does not hold up.
I'm not so sure diarrhea beats dying of hunger. That's a quick way to die faster.
Ignoring the idea of a corporation being judged by other corporations, the idea that "peers" should be judged more strictly (i.e., limited to "people in similar situations" monetarily, professionally, etc.), I feel like you would run a very clear risk of creating juries that function similarly to "good-old-boy networks" that are unwilling to judge too harshly.
I've used QTPass. It provides support to encrypt password directories to multiple keys. It allows for multiple profiles as well, so one can have a team password store as well as a private one. It can also auto push/pull. Plus it has a nice cross platform gui.

Can you elaborate on the differences between how gopass and QTPass accomplish these things and why one might want to choose gopass instead?
I wonder if Google is starting to get worried about services such as ProtonMail.
> If you want to hire, say, an interpreter of a specific foreign language to work on a community in rural Alabama temporarily, a $100,000 minimum wage would be absurd.

Thats the POINT. Today it would be absurd, but a successful multipronged plan to bring both manufacturing as well as constricting supply of people with specialized skills, would raise the salary demands of the whole US population.

The H1B salary part of the system hasn't been modified since 1989. $60,000 in 1989 is equivalent to $120,000 in today's dollars. Does that influence your opinion at all?

Congress created a rationale back then, the industry merely used the tools available since then. Congress' rationale did not change, they are both adjusting for inflation as well as responding to the direction the industry actually went. The industry's adaptation is incongruent with the will of Congress.

In 1989 salary increases were still keeping up with the cost of housing. Or were still expecting to. For example. And a protectionist America really could do that again.
Ok, what is the aim of the H1B program? You appear to have raised that question, and then shied away from that phrasing in your answer.
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> There is no question that Windows 10 is ... quite the most secure operating system ever devised.

Telemetry aside, can anyone comment on this?
> Of course if you start to fill a jury with people competent in the area being judged, you run different risks, such as bias within the field.

A bigger problem is defining field boundaries and determine who gets to judge qualifications, both of which introduce points at which biases can be introduced systematically.
Would someone please suspend this account already. He is not a "YC tech manager" as his profile implies (assuming he hasn't changed it just now). Based on comment history, he appears to be a troll that has hijacked a dormant account with high karma.

Frankly any account that falsely suggests a YC affiliation should be suspended without warning.

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That is John's point, though, that you don't have to lie. You can use non-scientific abstraction and obfuscation to testify any way you want. Sort of the post-modern interpretation theory where anything is true, as long as your truth is told more charismatically. This seems pretty obviously true to me.

It probably isn't even perjury. Even the law has some room for interpretation. That is the whole point of case history. Technology is so new and fluid that the legal system may never catch up to or well define the things a crafty obfuscator (expert witness or lawyer) can sling out.

Skilled practitioners in the area of science or engineering will immediately identify the obfuscation and unreality of it, but that does not make it perjury, which does have a much more specific and well defined case law meaning.
Can we please get past the hype over this "currency" which acts more as a ponzi scheme then as an actual currency? [1]

Now the blockchain I will admit is a great idea, I just think bitcoin overall is a terrible one.

[1]:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/08/bitco...
Good choice on CVG. I live in cincinnati and ever since they started signing exclusivity deals with delta, service options have declined, forcing other airlines out, leaving a biggly(largely) vacant airfield.
> There is already a consequence to lying as a witness, it's called perjury prosecution.

Except that this is an "expert witness", and not a regular witness. The expert witness offers his/her opinions.
> Preeeetty easy to check, WSJ.

How can I trust your nit-picky, pedantic complaint when you believe the article is in the WSJ rather than the Economist?
You didn't miss any free window, you can still just download the image from Microsoft and upgrade. Upgrade to Windows 10. Windows 7 is archaic, especially for gaming as its primary use.
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> You're being intentionally obtuse

Side note, but every time I see someone online accusing someone else of being "intentionally obtuse" I stop reading immediately. You know nothing of the intentions of a stranger who's obviously willing to openly discuss an issue with you.
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Expert witnesses is kinda crazy in this country. One of the most famous cases had to be the father wrongfully executed because of it[0].

Law enforcement are also trained to talk about their years of experience and how they're an expert when giving testimony regardless of facts and juries love it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Todd_Willingham
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> If the implementation uses a form of jump-table then this [switch statement] has the benefit of giving you an O(1) performance based on the messages, whereas with the if-else-if chain, the commands will be checked and processed before status and errors.

The reason for using a switch statement in the first place was so that you'd have constant performance. The argument against the simple implementation was:

> Let’s assume in v2.0 of the system we want to extend the message set to include two new commands and one new status message ... the if-else-if version will handle the change without modification, whereas the existing switch statement treats the new commands still as errors.

Treating the new commands as errors is a feature of the switch statement style, not a problem. They need to be added to the jump table, not implemented with reduced performance.
Learning from the mistakes of others is a good thing.

Though counting by hand has it's own issues (waves at Florida)
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Good for London Fintech stuff
Carbon food print. Less storage and transport and middle men. Green lungs for the city. Many urban farms have minimal fossil fuel needs. There is a case to be made here.
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Hmmm I both like and dislike your argument.

The overall point is good - that there's nothing that's actually free (as in beer) once all costs are accounted for.

However - Things get muddier (heh) when you consider:
- The supply so vastly outstrips demand ("more than enough for everyone") that the market price would be negligible
- When the "true" per-person cost of "enough bricks" is negligible; only society as a whole needs enough brick to notice the cost.
- When you consider what you are not charged for as a human; in other words, what other people are giving away for free that costs them their blood, sweat, and tears. (Typically, public art and the emotional labor that goes into being a human)

Note - I am very much not saying you're wrong. I'm saying that the real world appears to get waaay more complicated than that.

For example - If the per-person price is a dime, that's negligible, but across a billion people, that's a hundred million dollars. Hardly negligible. Taxes do this now - what's the space program cost each American, on average? A dollar a year? To each person, the space program is pretty much free, but to society, it's not.

For another example - Yosemite. Yosemite is free-ish - it's not charging market rates, that's for sure - and there definitely is NOT enough Yosemite "to care for every citizen". What's going on there?

So you're spot-on that it's not ultimately free, but also missing the point, which is that if society decided it was a good idea, it (probably) could be free for each individual.
It helps if you're clear in you writing. When people say America they refer to the republic, they typically neither mean colonial America nor pre-European contact first nations. But in this discussion, you're using the term for all three distinct meanings.
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fantastic idea. significant chunk of uk gov bills/statements are published online, i may build a scraper for this project
> To use hosted S/MIME, companies need to upload their own certificates (with private keys) to Gmail, which can be done by end users via Gmail settings or by admins in bulk via the Gmail API.

So this is just to give the illusion of privacy and security then?
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There's nothing new here. It's been like this for a long time. One person's despot is another's savior, and vice versa.
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In an interesting twist on the ordinary plot I now code in Windows (picking up C# and want to use standard setup for now) and boot into my Linux machine every time I'm tired and want to play CSGO (often works wonders when I am sleepy) because it seems like I get somewhat better performance from my non-gaming laptop on Linux now
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This particular point worries me. Are we now not going to be able to make a clean room re-implementation of concept? Do we need to worry about our previous employer suing us because we are successful?
There are indeed numerous statistical inaccuracies.

However,

Let's see if we can pick out the good here.

When you say it's a little bizarre, you're right. We are massively estranged from almost all forces that supply our life. Just as the average American has no idea how to host a website from scratch on DO, most don't know where their food comes from, how to fix their car, has no financial literacy and no civic literacy.

After years of animal husbandry, our leaders have moved toward treating the vast majority us like agricultural elements, simply repeating one small action of a larger whole for our whole lives. Projects like this can help get us out of the matrix.

As most people who try to grow food learn, it's not a one-size-fits-all activity. The art of food production has many, subtle, non-sexy details. Real world experience counts for an awful lot.

I'm not saying we must all live in tipis, playing homebuilt instruments around a fire, wearing dresses from from potato sacks, BUT living life out of debt with a strong degree of self-sufficiency and freedom from The Invisible Hand of corporate life will bring us a lot closer to our pursuit of happiness than the apparent Ponzi scheme of centralized economy.
so this intended to be unix focused, not something that could replace lastpass for example? been looking for something better than lp.
... except when performance, memory usage, binary size, predictability are part of the correctness requirement (which is most of the time in the areas C is used).
I suppose many weird things happen in $500m cases, but it'd be really unusual to have trial testimony sealed against the agreement of the parties. Pretrial reports and depositions, sure. Media was apparently there reporting during the expert's trial testimony, and I'd be surprised if they cannot buy a transcript from the court reporter. (http://uploadvr.com/court-oculus-zenimax-last-day/)

A quick look at the docket shows the expert witness at issue is likely to be David Dobkin of Princeton. That name appears on the docket and in media reports. Let me know if that violates HN norms, but expert witness trial testimony is part of the public, permanent record in almost every case. If a witness is excluded for using unreliable methods, his or her value as an expert is ... diminished.