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I've been doing digital consultancy for about a year now in my own firm. Me and my co-founder started with a client from connections we made when we were salaried consultants, and took it from there.

Here's what I've learned since I started that I haven't seen others mention.

- Paid networks are great. We pay about 2-4k USD / year for gold memberships. The companies there only send their executive branches or other people with deciding power, so you'll meet relevant business contacts from the start. We've gotten business worth ~35k from these in two months, so 31k+ with ten months to go of the year for a 4k investment.

- Being able to speak in front audiences will give you leads. We generally just speak about digital stuff to our paid networks.

- The more people see you as a friend, the more likely you are to get big referrals. I go running with the CEO of large company in our field and we've become friends. About 200k coming from his referrals this year.
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Tl;dr: they stapled a 6-layer bi LSTM to Wavenet. Good to see IBM admit that deep learning is better than "Watson".

Also, with wavenet in the mix, no way this is used in production.
The network recalculates payoffs based on the hashrate. If electricity becomes cheaper, hashrate goes up, and the payoff per hash goes down.
There are a lot of things that you need to do to start your own consulting firm.

One of those things to do needs to be:

* Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3RJhoqgK8
Seems like curing pain in your foot by hitting your thumb with a hammer.
This is superb except for one small thing at the end; thank you so much for doing it in a browser window! Especially loving the connection between abstract resource management in combat and choice of weapons/armor.

As others have pointed out:

- It's hard to distinguish / remember the colors in Game of Thorns. (Pro tip: disable anything like f.lux that might drop out the blue values at some times of day.)

- Hitting command-left went back in browser history, and when I went forward my game status was gone.

- There really ought to be a way to annoy one of those knights at the end into combat, so you can clear the way to kiss the princess. Having that Kiss menu option for every single encounter but never actually being able to use it was the only thing wrong here.
This requires i give some service push access to the repository holding my website. This seems to remove one of the major advantages of static websites -- no ability to hack into a dynamic webpage and corrupt my website.
> BTW, is it offensive to use the word Jew? If so, how should I have called them?

This is one of those things where the delivery matters more than the word. It's fine in this context but could be used in an offensive way.
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> If a Turing-complete programming language can't be expressive enough without a Turing-complete metalanguage, then it's probably not designed very well.

What is your proposed alternative to the Paterson conditions (described in the top comment)?
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the source was submitted just 20 min earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13846378
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It definitely doesn't make the web accessibility guidelines obsolete. there's a lot more to web accessibility than just getting Voiceover to read the text under your finger. It is essential to have descriptions for images that are links, and appropriate use of headings makes finding the relevant information far easier.
That would be interesting.

They certainly have more incentive than other bodies.

It's been a long time since people have thought of insurance as cool.
I feel a little skeptical. One of the hardest and important parts of management is maintaining trust between you and your team. It's very easy to communicate something in a way that's misunderstood, and kills the morale. What then happens is that few people leave, and overall productivity of your organization plunges.

Note that he spent about a third of the post explaining `I didn’t mean “deliver or else.”`. It's an indication that it's hard to pull off.

I have no opinion on this this strategy as such (i.e. I think it sounds pretty good), but please don't try this in your org unless you are very experienced, and feel confident that you can communicate it well.
Ask HN: How should I do customer development for a SaaS product?
Hey there,

If I want to make a SaaS product for SME's, where do I find online their owners and talk to them about their pains and how my product could solve them? Is it LinkedIn?

To be honest, I don't have a clue about how should I approach customer development for a SaaS product that is targeted to SME's.

Any help is highly appreciated!

Thanks!
No you could use more coarse grained representations of distant objects or less frequently observed objects. If our Universe is a simulation, for example, given that the speed of information is limited, there's no reason to completely simulate, say, whatever is happening in the Andromeda galaxy right now. If we send an observer there, the simulation could just lazily produce more fine-grained renderings.
Have you tried learning assembly? It's not hard or anything.
Is it possible to make these scriptable? I think it would be fun to try and visualize magnetic field lines with these.

Also on the clock front, can you change it to segment the array into different digits. Then just do a full right hand rotation of the clocks in that segment untill they get to their correct possition?

So if you have to update the single minute digit only those clocks spin and they only spin to the right untill they fall into their correct possition. If you needed to update hours and minutes then all of the clocks would rotate to the right untill they fall into position.

Would be faster and I think it may look cool.
One day you'll find the time.
> and some patience.

Yeah, well that would be one way of handling it, but unfortunately the real world has terrible issues with not impeding my progress on that front. Not that I'm anti-learning, at all, but - personally - I'm fighting a losing battle against learning German, Swiss-German and Swiss-German Sign-language whilst also being a walking-talking-english-lesson :D

Taking the slow way, with dictionary in hand, is as you point out, an exercise in frustration (especially if the talker/signer is 6 years old).

Yes, I share your dream of something google-glass-like that can add subtitles. There are people working on this (mostly in the UAE, if memory serves). Interesting times ahead - hopefully I won't have to wait long, otherwise I'll have to do it myself and that really would take a while ;)
logic is culture written over the carefully cultivated emotional state of certainty. It doesn't even have coherent transferrable meaning from one real world context to another, let alone across the cosmic multiverse.
And the headline - which is specifically what I called out - is overwrought and clickbait because it makes the false claim of 'let employers demand'.
Petrol is very cheap in Venezuela and some other countries.
Thanks for the offer, but actually have access to plenty of CI-wearers (son at deaf school, lots have CIs.. go figure ;) )
Chat / audio / video and related comms software seems to be a lemon market.
Feel free to point me in the direction of a react native app - I would be happy to test it with Voiceover and let you know how well it works.
Yes, in theory OTP requires perfectly uniform uncorrelated random input. However, in practice, you can use a randomness extractor… at which point, yes, we can't prove that someone with unbounded computational power wouldn't be able to crack it. But all known computational power is bounded.
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> This is completely uncontroversial

I think it is still intuitively surprising that some infinite sets somehow have more elements than other infinite sets. The powerset operator is very special because it can create this difference.
Your handwavy fix is almost completely unrelated to the research. These were large companies. They generally always buy phones through third parties. And when work gives you a phone how will you figure out who touched it?

Rather than giving people a lengthy and arbitrary list of purchase caveats, why not ask why it's so difficult to secure an android phone through the supply chain? And what, if anything, are other phone manufacturers doing that might be making the problem much more secure?
True. Actually I was referring to the manufacturers of ASICs who are running huge mining operations. I'm not sure if they operate in their own pools or if they distribute their efforts across multiple pools. But they do have a critical mass of hash power.
> Quantum computing will defeat RSA, DH, ECC, asymmetric crypto, but it will only weaken symmetric crypto (eg. AES) by a factor of two.

That's quite a bummer. I finally managed to convince someone to use gpg and now I learn that this just makes sure your emails will be read/analyzed by anyone who has an interest in it in the future.
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Snopes specifically says that employers would not be able to demand genetic testing results, while the headline says they would. It's a pretty clear cut case of a false and clickbaity headline.
You didn't read the article linked by GP. The Syran Jewish community was using it as a slur against the Ashkenazi
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I don't think that's true; traders in the stock markets with no racial or familial ties regularly make such deals, especially in the days of open outcry markets.
Politicians lie all the time, it's what they do. Bernie cannot sit on a moral high horse when it comes to lying, just as no politician can. They phrase their lies as political truth. Which is kind of like obi-wan's "true from a certain point of view".

Trump doesn't do the typical political lie methodology which is why people freak over it. So let's call it something different like, shit-talking. That's what all the examples in the post can really be classified as, simple shit-talk and bluster. It's very common to see at all levels of human interaction, but it's uncommon in public politics because were used to "statesman". Instead practiced politicians tend to be more graceful in their rhetoric. Listen to what gets caught on open mics or in what is expected to be private meetings. Both sides do it.

A lie with actionable weight behind it, such as lying to cover up criminal violations, lying to start wars, and so fourth. Those type of things deserve something done. Shit-talking braggadocio should be ignored. Like all braggards, its for attention, whether positive or negative, getting attention is counted as success. If you want to do something effective deprive a braggart of attention.
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To chime in among the other comments, most of which don't address the article either:

I was a night owl + stimulant fiend until I started working out in the morning. Decided to pull the trigger on a daily 9am Crossfit habit.

Now I'm too tired to stay awake past 11pm or so.
I am using the Fractal Design Define XL R2 (what a name) for my Supermicro dual CPU mobo, I drilled one extra mounting hole and the mobo mounted just fine.

Very quite and solid.
Never did my homework.

I'd rather stayed at school an hour longer than doing homework in the afternoon.

Lowered my grade in every class, but my free time was totally worth it.

In the end I still got to study computer science, like I always wanted, so I don't see their point in retrospect...
My favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8
Man, sweet app! However - could you add an option for not showing it in Dock? It's a typical macOS menu bar app, the dock icon is just superfluous and annoying in my opinion. If I were you I would also increase the saturation of the icon a little bit, I think it's looking a little faded/dull/wrong gamma now.
"anyone who has an interest in it in the future" is a very vague term. I'm confident lots of things will happen in crypto centuries after I die, but that's not in my threat model.
This reads like a thousand other articles over decades, like moral panic. There's always some new drug that's coming along, whether meth, this, bath salts, whatever.

When will culture come to its senses and realize that humans like to get high and that this will never stop?

Let's just focus on giving users accurate information and pathways out of usage, and skip the moral panics and claims that X is "sweeping the nation".
Could you elaborate what you mean by your last line?

I think firing someone for it once is on the harsh side, but if someone repeatedly doesn't share key information, how can you keep working with them?
Dyson spheres are not free to construct and the energy they provide is limited.
You can try some OCR, and the DJVU format can handle text data linked to character positions in scanned text.

http://djvu.org/resources/embedding_transcripts_in_handwritt...
Also, these are cost prohibitive to use in apps widely or without limitations. Currently, Google Speech to Text is relatively cheaper at $1 for 166 messages. Source: https://cloud.google.com/speech/pricing
Lou Prado is an excellent electronics store name though.
I thought this was an interesting review though I'm not familiar with the poet in question.

However, I reacted negatively to criticisms like this:

> Her closing lines are often summaries that feel tacked-on and avoid placing the scene in a larger context

Must poems "place scenes in a larger context?" Is that necessarily the goal of poetry?

> A striking aspect of Bishop’s early poems is that they rarely seem to go anywhere

Again, why must poems "go anywhere?" I often find myself appreciating poems that specifically don't go anywhere. These poems, I find, are often more emotionally evocative than poems that seem to be searching for "deeper meaning" or belong in a "social context."

> In short, many of her poems lack the spiritual or philosophical underpinnings

Again, I find myself wondering: so?

> Bishop largely ignored politics, charitable work, and the communities around her, living as a non-participating observer

This just feels nasty. Again, I see no relationship between these observations, which feel more like accusations, and the quality of a poet's work.
Ask HN: Weird, curious or bizzarre subreddits that you would like to suggest
Sometimes I like to rediscover the good old days of the Internet, and I think I can find some of the frontier spirit on reddit (or maybe other communities like 4chan?).

What are the subreddit (or other forum) that you sometimes follow and that you would like to suggest to the HN community?

They can also be super niche but not necessarily inherent to technology or computer science.

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"[Steve] Jobs imagines his garbage regularly not being emptied in his office, and when he asks the janitor why, he gets an excuse: The locks have been changed, and the janitor doesn't have a key. This is an acceptable excuse coming from someone who empties trash bins for a living. The janitor gets to explain why something went wrong. Senior people do not. "When you're the janitor," Jobs has repeatedly told incoming VPs, "reasons matter." He continues: "Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering." That "Rubicon," he has said, "is crossed when you become a VP."

https://www.macstories.net/news/inside-apple-reveals-steve-j...
This is the quote from your original post that I find odd:

> so they subconsciously collude in cultural movements which make work seem scarce, and life scary and chaotic.

I agree that business owners will offer someone lower wages, because the job they're providing is very stable. (i.e. my friend had a choice between being an assistant manager at a chain sandwich shop, or being a manager of a new restaurant in a different city. He's taken the low-risk option.)

I also agree that there are structures that exist that encourage the drug war to go on. The iron triangle between: Politicians passing drug laws and other harsh criminal laws, DAs who want perfect records, police & prison guards who want more overtime and toys, and the unions that represent police and prison guards and lobby for more laws.

It's the business owner -> drug war link that I find tenuous. I know several business owners, of multi-million dollar companies. They aren't consciously thinking like you say they are, they are simply thinking "who do I need to hire to get this job done".

Admittedly, maybe I need to be talking to the CEO of a company that primarily employs retail or blue-collar workers.

You also make the claim that it's subconscious, so I don't even know how to collect evidence in regards to that...

I don't think your theory is falsifiable. Because you're making conjecture about someone's subconscious, and about a small group, it's nearly impossible to prove or disprove.

What kind of evidence would you need to change your mind?

//edit and I have to give credit to the other replies--- the prison workforce is a great counter-example to why the drug war would be useful from an evil capitalist perspective. I feel embarrassed that I missed that :/
Sounds very similar to one of my old bosses. He had one rule and one only: no surprises.

Soon as anything is a potential issue raise it, find a mitigation and move on. Simple and works surprisingly well both on an individual basis and at scale.
I suppose I really meant "why should one expect that f might be injective anyway?" Once you're no longer in the context of a set like N which is very familiar, there's just no obvious reason for the theorem to be false.
I don't know about that case, but if you falsely shout "fire" in a crowded, dark theater, I'm pretty sure you will be breaking the law. It probably would be breaking the law if you did it in a well-lit conference hall. (Whether you are arrested or just thrown out probably depends on if anyone gets hurt, physically or financially.)
There's no problem with coming in at 7. It's the leaving at 3 after you've put in your eight hours that tends to be the sticky wicket.
There is a dedicated team at Mozilla currently who only work on identifying memory leaks and usage. There's a mailing list too if you want to help or check in with the discussions.

[1]: https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-memory
Please don't.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13836588 and marked it off-topic.
It's a possibility that it'll be a great threat in the near future. Remember that Babbage's Analytical Engine was designed on paper in 1837, and nothing similar was constructed for over a century.

If it's not the near future, we might move to post-quantum algorithms (or quantum cryptography, a field almost entirely unrelated to classical cryptography which involves carefully moving entangled pairs of particles around) before quantum computers become any good at cryptanalyzing realistically-sized encryption algorithms.
If you cannot see why people knowingly living in dangerous areas that have local governments that aren't accountable for preparing for these disasters and then relying on a federal government is faulty then you're not looking at it objectively.

We've seen it unfold before where the federal government is too late and more people die than should have given the circumstances. It enables states to defer the safety of their own people it depends on to function.

Most things should be at the state level. And you're wrong about libertarians. It's not about things "went well for me screw everyone else". It's about pushing responsibility to the states where it's supposed to be which is what I was proposing. Your rude stock response just means you aren't open to a discussion and are consumed by your own biases.
As usual with business people, the author seems to believe their [simplified strategy] (no excuses) is what caused the outcome they describe. I think it's more likely from the article that the organization simply became more efficient as a result of said "no excuses culture", but it isn't actually the lack of excuses that did much. Why isn't it OK to just say "it's complicated; here's what we did" instead of trying to reduce it into some meaningless phrase.

I think this pretty much says it:

> By accountable I meant, “We agreed on a delivery date, and between now and the delivery date, it’s OK if you ask for help because you’re stuck, or something happened outside of your control. But do not walk into my office the day something is due and give me an excuse. It will cost you your job.” That kind of accountable.

---

What's an excuse? Most dictionaries define it as some variant of "justifying" an event. Some editorialize and use words such as: apologizing for, or making light of. Let's just take the essence, justification.

Therefore, a "no excuses culture" is a culture in which there's no justification for events. Such a culture will likely fail in the long run as it fails to acknowledge the blind spot it's purposely ignoring. I doubt any business people would be proud of not knowing why they're missing targets...
They still haven't open sourced the server afaik. The thing that is a problem with Telegram is that they market on their security, but it's not secure by default, or on group chats. Moreover, it stores chat histories, and if you add someone to a group chat they get access to the historical data. A lot of folks use it without thinking about this, or understanding the implications.
Ditch the ego, focus on the inspiration; you'll be happier.
From personal experience, sleep deprivation can be likened to alcoholic intoxication.
Blue port coming out tomorrow?
It's like they were actually trying back then.
There's an extremely simple method which is to onion multiple algorithms. If you want to add the promised security features of a new algorithm that hasn't been battle-tested it's well worth the effort.
Common sense doesn't sell ads though, and news sites need to hype fear to drive viewership / readership.
It seems that original problem was that importance of deadlines was not communicated to the team. For example: "the January ad had to be moved into February because my graphic artist was sick, but I didn’t tell you because I assumed it was OK." does not sound like an excuse to me. It sounds like the person genuinely did not seen the event as important and may be surprised over this being big deal suddenly.

It sounds to me that previous management did not valued deadlines and did not even made deadlines possible, so naturally employees did things previous management valued.
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> a researcher from Britain’s University of Oxford
> presented study results that [...]
> Men need an activity together to make and keep a bond. [...]
> like school or military service or sports."

Yes, this matches my own experience, and I've heard it elsewhere.
So...pandora?
> Most of their userbase likely still doesn't care about security

Teen Vogue just suggested people should use WhatsApp instead of Snapchat because it does end-to-end crypto. I don't think it's true any more that the general public doesn't care about security, if it was ever true.

http://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-keep-messages-secure
Me and a fellow open source contributor just started offering services around a real-time open source project we created/worked on and we've seen an increase of inquiries recently.
See http://socketcluster.io/#!/services - Maybe get in touch (email form is linked from the bottom of the page) - We're looking to build connections with people who have expertise with real-time systems. We're literally at the very beginning so anything is possible.
For updates, you can use the latest Sparkle implementation, or something like it. It works with Sandboxed apps.