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Thinking of the recent reproducibility crisis in psychology, I'm wondering how you can prove this without the placebo effect. How does someone try not sleeping without knowing if they are not sleeping? Or do you compare with people doing something else that is known to be useless? like a sugar pill. Thinking about how different colors of placebo in antidepressants have more or less intense effects, I wonder if the fact that using a placebo so different from the actual thing makes it pointless.
How do you think that could be falsified? (Honest question, I have tried to come up with a way to falsify this theory, but haven't figured out anythig.)
Further than that, the manager tells their employees "I've made myself too busy to ask you about what's important to me, so it's now 100% on you to do so."

That's like expecting your relationships to go well with no upkeep on your side, only a "tell me if I'm doing something wrong"!
Intro to python numpy
Funny, coming from Steve "you're-holding-it-wrong" Jobs.
Now imagine you as a parent are robbed of any authority over your children: not even so much as calling time-outs, sending them to their room, groundings, suspending electronic devices, or whatever. You're as good as an officer who can't discipline his own troops. Responsibility for outcomes when you have no control at all is no way to run a family, a military unit, or a business, yet many businesses happily create such situations and expect us to suck it up.
They are on opposite sides of the keyboard, but on the same symbol page. But yeah, if you aren't looking closely, it's very easy to hit the wrong one. Surprised this hasn't been noticed by the Gboard team yet.
He's not wrong.
That is covered quite a lot in that discussion very early on
> pls stop hurting muh feelings
Why not? I've seen worse comments on Hacker News.

Although I would agree that we shouldn't link directly to 4chan because the threads disappear - archives like the one posted elsewhere here should be preferred.
This talk is actually pretty good. Contracts in consulting are critically important to have in place as they establish expectations. Without a contract, you'll be surprised how many companies will no-pay or try to wiggle out of financial obligations.
A visualization of chaos
I didn't find it to be sensationalized, at least not when judged relative to other media.

I think carfentanil actually poses a unique challenge, because it's extremely potent and it's hard to accurately portion out such small doses.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona Bay.
At first I was really resistant to reading this. "No excuses" sounds like something someone who has never been responsible for impossible engineering deadlines gets to say. But, I really like the way Blank defines it as "be in communication and ask for help so there are no surprises." That is great: I often find myself avoiding being in communication because I'm sure someone will offer uncomfortable solutions. But, those are the difference between a mediocre organization and a superb one.
Not sure why you'd need to upgrade the track (the auto train goes like 60 or 70). Definitely need to replace the rolling stock though.
Chamber of Commerce is an international organization. Networks for local science and technology.
Definitely ironic.

Some of the earliest drug laws in the United States were enacted to discriminate against (primarily Chinese) opium users.
I went through a period of intense study of cellular automata. It it a deep, deep, rabbit hole of interesting bits. One of the things I contributed early was a simple 'two species' variation where the rules for dual species were encoded in three matrices. I used it as a demo on one of the Fred Fish Amiga disks (it used pretty much every Intuition window call in the book on purpose).

The clock has me thinking I need to get out my FPGA based simulator again and to hook it up to a nice 720P display :-).
Should I buy a WordPress Theme or Make my site from raw?
I am an IT student. I have intermediary skills in web development and I have been an anti-CMS for the lack of uniqueness.
Clickbait title, story involved no Moties or space probes
Thanks for letting me know about the flickering. The point of ColorsForCoders is to provide a convenient way for iOS and Android developers to select and integrate colors in their apps. Code for a particular color is copied to the clipboard when clicked. It is meant to be used on a desktop during iOS/Android development.
Ah-hoc tasks/containers on Docker Swarm
> When you get a package of what-should-be drugs from China or Colombia or anywhere, who's to say what's actually in it?

I can almost guarantee, if you get a drug in the mail chances are its a research chemical that will probably get you high, but NOBODY knows what the long term effects are.
It seems like an ironic reversal of sorts in Sino-western opium relations, given the Opium Wars[0], which if I understood correctly, forced China to accept opium trade from the British.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
Here's a good summary bu Yonatan Zunger: https://healthcareinamerica.us/how-to-ask-good-questions-abo...
That's why my suggestion to these guys is to save every penny at their current job so they can skip to a product business.

Forget the sales, soft skills, and making products for other people that will never truly appreciate the craftsmanship that went into it. Just stick to your guns and create the situation where you can just work on your own product.

If you guys are kicking ass at your current firm, you should be being paid for it, i.e. making enough to save some some money. There's your ticket. Be patient and wait it out while saving money. Plan out your upcoming product, and do all the preparation that doesn't require deep immersion, so from day one after quitting you can deeply immerse yourself.

ps. how's 7 years as a remote freelancer so different from a consulting firm? It's not. Just more developers, bigger projects. You already know what that life is all about. Do you really want to go back to that, now with the burden of supporting more engineers? Keep it simple. If you have the skills and confidence, your product idea will work out. Just create the space and time to do it.
I know you acknowledged that's anactodal, but we lose an hour at the end of flu season. You're more likely to be sick during this time of the year. The clock change has nothing to do with it.
It's the spiritual successor for Java running on servers - supporting Linux and OSX is all that's necessary.
All that and he only got eight years? Jeez.
Maybe after too little sleep at least you notice you feel bad, whereas without any sleep you don't even notice anymore. If your memory doesn't function right it's no surprise that your temporal perception inherently relying on memory would be impeded. Since the hormonal system is rather complex, enthusiasm can be a byproduct of trying to stay awake. Likewise, the sport mentioned in the OP is at least as likely to cause happiness, not to say that I doubt the headline altogether.
I used it for 10 years till 6 years ago.
kudos for it!!
So if telecoms can't legally sell the data, doesn't that mean that there is no need for the services of PIA?
You seem to be thinking of /pol/. This thread is on /n/.
Actually, I’ve calculated the costs – if you only need to build for one special case, even with redundancy you tend to be always ~3-4 times cheaper than the AWS/Google/etc offerings for the same.

But then again, you have only one special case, and can’t run anything else on that.
> When will culture come to its senses and realize that humans like to get high and that this will never stop?

People who become addicts don't like the highs and lows of the emotional roller coaster they're on, but it's the only way they know to cope with their emotional/physiological angst.

I've met someone who'd used cocaine 'recreationally'. His attitude was "been there, done that, don't need to use again."

Most of the street pharmacy's customers are self-medicating emotional pain. My mom didn't get hooked on the opiates her doctor recently gave her for her broken arm because she has a supportive environment.

The friend (who I've written about here before) relapsed on cocaine because she was depressed. Then she relapsed on heroin, supposedly to treat the high blood pressure cocaine gave her (but probably more because she needed something to 'numb' emotional pain). This was the summer before she met me.

Really I think she just must've been lonely. This week I found a copy of a book she gave me for my birthday after we met. She inscribed it, in part, "my heart melted the moment I first heard you speak."

I think I've successfully bullied her current court-ordered mental health providers into recognizing the mistaken diagnosis made by their colleagues in the other county. The earlier psychiatrists just thought she was "persistently disabled" because they didn't try to figure out why she'd become psychotic in the first place (doctor-administered depo provera birth control injections made her suicidal -> street pharmacy -> psychosis).
No. I think Clojure and Elixir slowly "killing" Ruby.
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+1 - I think this is key: "be in communication and ask for help so there are no surprises."

The title of the article would probably be more palatable as "No surprises" since by "No excuses" he really means no bullshit excuses a day before the deadline. Then again, an article titled "No surprises" probably wouldn't have gotten this many upvotes.
Sometimes I do wonder whether there are areas in politics where decisions made by random number generators could lead to better outcomes. Obviously, they can't make informed decisions. However, they don't get swayed by all those biases humans are susceptible to.
I can't understand why the c/o sign would be considered important enough to go on a phone keyboard, let alone on the same page as percent. Do people often write c/o? I might write it on a physical letter once or twice a year. Is it a cultural thing somewhere?
> How much safer would 'recreational users' be if they had a legal, clean (pure), supply and a place to use it where they are monitored?

I don't have any stats to provide, but if your interested (as far as heroin) check out the Netherlands. Last i knew they had a program.

Edit: I believe the Netherlands have had their program since sometime in the 90's, so there should be data available.
If the government can't do anything positive to improve train travel then they should just get out of it. All they have to do is guarantee the easements for routes -- and there should be no prohibitive taxation and inordinately burdensome regulation on these easements and there needs to be plenty of them covering all parts of the country for both freight and passenger. Private industry can work out the rest.

But, if the government would like to do something proactive, they could start a big project to build-out double-wide high-speed rails across the country. It would be a huge boon for our economy.

Unfortunately none of it will ever happen because oil and airline lobbyists have their claws far too deep into our congressmen.

(P.S. Example of how government regulation is the problem... ever take a train from Florida to Texas? Would you have ever have guessed the route goes thru Chicago? By law.)
Hadley Wickham of R-Studio and ggplot fame did a great talk on data plotting using his tinyverse tools. The dataset was from the DEA and one of the interesting things is almost every seized shipment of drugs was cut. Purity is rare. I know addicts by definition have little or no control but this sounds like a fool's game to me. One with potentially deadly consequences.

Anecdotally the issue of potentially fatal heroin doses from fentanyl adulteration came up in a citizen's police class I took in Houston. One of the officers there claimed drug dealers don't mind accidentally killing the occasional customer because it puts word on the street that the dealer has really potent product. Who knows if that's really true but it's an interesting theory, anyway.
Have you thought about a free version with ads?
This has already been implemented in some European countries, I know they opened what's called a "salle de shoot" ("supervised injection site" in English) last year in Paris.

I don't think there's any data out yet, but the idea was to prevent overdoses, but also provide clean syringes to avoid HIV transmission.
This is bad advice, imo.

If they start a consulting business there's a much more stable path to revenue from day 0, if they follow your advice they'll spend all their savings and possibly be in the reeds for ages. All the while they'll still need the sales/bd talent.
Jews have disproportionate amount of influence in government, media and banking. They promote Multiculturalism and diversity in foreign country but want close open borders for Israel. Why do they have dual morality? Open borders for the west but closed nation for Jews.
Give me a break.

It's not often stated so explicitly, but I can't count the number of times I've seen valley based HN users express the same sentiment towards other parts of the country.
Sounds to me like the real problem is that Steve Blank does not have a system to get enough context from individual contributors to know that a project is slipping well before the deadline. This is a management problem being cast as a individual contributor problem (we need to fire those lazy, incompetent employees who don't ask for help when they should /s), what a bizarre inversion of reasoning.

Edit: Management should be the ones held accountable for projects slipping their deadlines. The individual contributors don't just auto-assemble into on-time results.
Yeah, that's a great way to destroy moral, ie, have your underlings hate your guts. Parents do this kind of crap to their kids all the time, too, then wonder why them don't get respected.
So you think you'll just be sitting at lunch with your female coworker, and she'll say "Hey Ralph, did I tell you the funny story about last week when I was with a client going over a report and he told me my tits would look even better in a low-cut shirt? Pass the salt." Nobody wants to talk about being humiliated, especially by someone they work with. At the very least they're humiliated again by talking about it. At worst you actually make a fuss about it to someone and they may suffer consequences to having told about it.

Women have been speaking up for decades, at various times in various industries. This is not new. What is new is that women are starting to realize that a lot of men are bewildered when they learn what's been going on right under their noses, or that men are outright denying that it's happening. This pisses women off. So they have started to be more vocal, both inspired by their peers and as a rejection of the indifference of men.

Yes, it looks like bandwagoning, because it is a form of bandwagoning. Really it's a classical information cascade. These are very common, and the comment "Why would this change now?" is an indicator of one. The simplest way to explain it is that people feel more emboldened when they aren't going to be the only one in the street fighting for their cause. The more women that share their stories, the more women are inspired to tell theirs because they don't fear the humiliation and repercussions as much.

And nobody's saying you shouldn't be chewed out if you do a bad job. What they're saying is women have to work much harder to gain the same respect a man gets. It's a very old, common trope that i'm sure you've heard before. To put it in perspective, have you ever been asked if you had sex to get your position, or if you're single, or had someone comment on how you look? That is _one_ aspect. The others are the lower pay, the higher scrutiny of your work compared to your peers, the smaller representation in management positions and fewer opportunities to be promoted, and being talked over like you're invisible. If you don't think it's a common thing, ask all the women you know each of these things and tick off the boxes.
That depends on whether it's priority is to be a clock or a piece of art first. As an artwork, it more than succeeds. In it's current form, prioritizing art seems the correct choice. It takes up a fair chunk of screen real estate. It's the kind of thing you pop up for a bit and look at as a novelty. To be primarily a clock, it will need a more dedicated display. Even if that's just an LCD monitor connected to a Raspberry PI.
Mbed TLS 2.4.2, 2.1.7, 1.3.19 out; remote DoS, mem corruption (CVE-2017-2784)
> The only reason you don't see it is because there is a good chance that you are one of the lucky ones if you do things by yourself.

Or maybe because I have less complexity in my stack, so it’s easier to guarantee that it works.

Getting redundant electricity and network lines, and getting redundant data storage solutions is easy.

Ensuring that of 3 machines behind a loadbalancer at least 2 work is also easy.

Ensuring a complex system of millions of interconnected machines, services which have never been rebooted or tested in a decade (see the AWS S3 post-mortem), none will ever fail, is a lot harder.
Those aren't analog clocks. Analog clocks don't have a state where both hands of the clock are horizontal, or where one is pointing south and the other pointing east or west.
So you have an issue with Android's permission model? Fair point, it could be more granular. Are permissions more granular on iOS? Because I'd like to block access to the Internet for some apps that display ads. I'm guessing probably not.
Literally? Where do you live that lions would be a problem?! I'm joking, and sure there might be a trade off between higher and more basic brain functions, but I suppose those only really work for a short while, after which either will be impeded by exhaustion.

Edit: what's the word for that state of mind, maybe frenzy?
I started a consulting business about 10 years ago. We're >80 people now and only do full team projects that include design, product management and engineering.

As others have said in this thread it's all about relationships and sales. Technical ability will help you retain clients and build bigger things over longer timescales, but won't help you get clients in the first place. Also, technical ability rarely leads to happy clients - they don't review your code - but a focus on helping the client achieve their mission is the key to success.

You need to start by getting 1 client. Then 2, and so on. You don't need a website, or even the name of a company to do this. I didn't know the name of my consultancy until about 6 months into it after we were 5 full time people.

Subcontracting with other firms when you start is possible, but is mostly based on relationships, not capability. When I started I had a relationship with a design agency and they subcontracted us their heavy engineering work. In reverse, I saw this as outsourcing sales and account management to them.

To grow the business I started a meetup.com group back when meetup was just starting. There were no other groups at the time and I was able to make a good name for myself in the community which lead to word of mouth business. Once a month I would have a different big name company in town host an event where I would bring 50-80 engineer types and do some tech talks for about an hour. It took about 5 hours to organize per month and barely any out of pocket costs since companies were happy to open their spaces to technical types and provide food.

You need to figure out what you're willing to sell. Staff augmentation? Time & Materials? Contracts based on scope? They're all very different in sales process and delivery.

You need to think about account management as a real thing. Developing the empathy and focus around happy customers over "best code" or "ideal features" is critical.

Developing your sales beyond word of mouth is the hardest thing to do. Hiring a sales person alone won't do it. There are way too many small consultancies reaching out to potential customers everyday and you can't distinguish yourself from the noise. If you have a clearly differentiated product offering or services approach that a sales person can leverage to make a clear pitch that's not just "we can do your projects!" then it can work.
It's not difficult to both read the resolution itself (less than a page):
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-re...

And in turn, refer to the regulations to which it refers:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/12/02/2016-28...

The summary at the top is fairly succinct.

Essentially, PIA is correct, despite any incentive they might have to report it.
Then he should call it, "a culture of no surprises and collective problem solving." Calling it "no excuses" is part of the management problem he has identified.

My experience is, there are often other dimensions to the issue of commitment.

There is a conscientiousness that comes from being an owner of a company. It's rare to have an employee who maintains the same level of attention as an "owner." That's just how things are. Demanding that employees increase their attention to their work won't change this, or at least not for long. As the article suggests, you can work on developing a culture where people are more likely to be forthcoming and cooperative, but that only goes so far.

There are some employees who do attend to their work the way an owner would, often to their own detriment. Overwork is a real problem for their own wellbeing, and their overall ability to grow and change. It can be a problem for the employer as well, for lots of reasons, including an over-reliance on a few key people.

You can make sure that everyone has enough of a stake to consider themselves an owner, as in a co-op, but co-ops don't seem to scale. That's fine for plenty of businesses, but not for the kinds of businesses that venture capital wants to invest in.

EDIT: The clip art illustrating the article, Pinocchio, suggests a moral element in the author's world view, it conflates lying with missing deadlines and making excuses and not keeping people informed. If people are lying to you as a manager, you should ask yourself why.
> When the law says money is owed due to the child breaking something, they come after the parents. In the military, if you are in charge, you take the fall when things go wrong, even if it wasn't your fault.

Ah, but these are both situations where, to my phrasing, there could have been "enough planning [to] circumlocute the problem." In other words, the punishment falls on the parents or the officer who trained those who failed, to complete the feedback loop back to their training style. If they had trained their children/soldiers better, the event in question perhaps could have been prevented. And it might be prevented in the future, due to that negative feedback.

A CIO of a large corporation usually would be fired if the company's business halts for 48 hours (losing money) because a datacenter got hit by a meteor. This is not because the CIO could have seen a meteor-strike coming, but rather because they could have put processes in place for fault-tolerance/high-availability, such that any random act-of-god that takes out the data-center wouldn't have mattered to the business.

It's not the CIO's fault if a datacenter blows up, but it is the CIO's fault if "a datacenter blowing up" is able to halt their business, when there is something they could have thought of that and put in place, long ago, that would have interrupted that causal chain in the present.

But a parent, or a military officer, or a corporate executive, usually isn't blamed for what amounts to "enemy action"—where something intentionally malicious out-thinks every preparation you've made and goes ahead and ruins your day anyway. Parents, for example, aren't blamed for what their children do when they've been told to do that thing by another authority figure. Executives aren't blamed for rival companies' industrial sabotage. Generals aren't blamed if a sudden trap is sprung during a retreat, turning it into a rout.
Hacking an individual's phone isn't "easy". It means we've made everything else harder.