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Joel Spolsky has written a great article on software pricing: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-... This article was part of the reading list at Stanford's Startup Engineering CS184 course.

Another resource with lots of actionable advice: A Gigantic List of Psychological Pricing Strategies: https://www.nickkolenda.com/psychological-pricing-strategies...
> Many programmers in the tech community know that half of the listed time (12 hours) of solid work is enough to start to slow your decision-making and reasoning ability.

I don't think it's fair to compare doctors who have a rigorous medical school and academic path to 'programmers' which includes a wide group of people some of which haven't even graduated college. This is simply a different group of people at the core. And even within that group there are those (in medicine) that choose what appears to be an easier path (let's say psych or family medicine) vs. surgery which might involve standing in an operating theater for 9 to 12 hours and having to be attentive. Along the same lines it is a bit different to make the grade to fly a small single engine airplane (get training) and be able to fly and land fighter jets on an aircraft carrier.

Not taking away from your point of slowing decision making and reasoning but quite honestly not everyone is built from the same bolt of cloth and is impacted the same.

One small example. My wife would take call overnight, get woken up regularly, and easily get back to bed and be fresh the next day at the hospital. If I get woken up (and I am not a programmer) I can't fall back to sleep and would be a wreck the next day. People are different and in some cases the career path and training separates the type of people that end up being in the profession.
In other jobs you get paid double-time after 12 hours. If the cost structures were right it would still be cheaper.
Ask HN: Which products made their first dollar on HN?
Which products acquired their first paying customers on HN? How much did you approx. make? What's the current status of the project?
Probably by optimising for battery life, rather than the specs & price.

A lot of the things that people on HN like about non-macbooks like 32GB of RAM or a real GPU or a 4k screen, all use extra power.

I'm not an Apple fan by any stretch, but these things aren't free from a power perspective, and throwing a larger battery at the problem isn't always enough to make it equivalent.
That's the entire plan? Drop them off in the forest and drive off? There's a bit more to homelessness and surviving in the country.
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wow, better roguelike than I could make in a month
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I had hard time reading with the formatting of the site even with various "reader" extensions turned on (maybe I'm the only one?). So I looked at the HTML source to figure out why my extensions still couldn't format well... it is 1999 HTML. Tables for paragraphs.

Even copy and pasting to a text editor yields pretty terrible results.

td {
padding: 1em;
}

Made it somewhat readable for me. Not a criticism but just in case someone has the same problem as me.
Angel ran from 1999 to 2004. Dollhouse ran from 2009 to 2010.
Two things have made a huge different in my ability to finish/ship:

1. External Deadlines. I'm a career teacher, mostly self-taught Python/Django developer, and am applying for dev jobs. The school year's over in June, and I want to be able to step into a new jr position in July/August. I'm planning to resign my position this spring, and cannot be out of work. My benefits and salary will stop in September. I'm f'ed if I'm not working by then. The need to ship projects (if only into my portfolio) is high.

2. "Deep Work" for time management. Ideas from Cal Newport's book "Deep Work" have been foundational in my getting more done. It's hard to find the energy to build my side projects/portfolio after wrangling eight year olds all day, so I started getting up at 5 am solely to work on my projects. I make coffee and toast then get to my desk. I close all applications except Atom, Dash, and Firefox; turn on Do Not Disturb; look at my to-do list in my notebook; then get to work. Having 75 un-interrupted minutes before my wife gets up allows me to get a huge amount done, and it's become gratifying to watch the 6 am commits pile up on my github punch card. I've also found that exerting discipline in this facet of my life has had a positive knock-on effect in other areas.
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The handoff stuff is at least fixable in principle, whereas sleep deprivation is...not (at least not sustainably).
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Thanks, sent! :)
Does anyone know if doctors on shifts like this are given ample breaks to peruse polyphasic sleep? A 24-28 hour shift with 3-5 hours of polyphasic sleep doesn't seem quite as bad as just staying awake for 24 hours+
I'm an indie publisher of utility nonfiction (i.e. how-to guides). Close to 90% of online unit sales are print. This number has actually risen in recent years as print has grown and ebook sales have remained flat or declined. There are lots of theories floating around on why this is so, but I have to say that Google and Apple have really dropped the ball while Amazon continues to blaze forward on many product and service fronts. For example: at one time the iPad ebook experience was vastly superior to the original Kindle, now with the Kindle Fire and Paperwhite (not to mention the Kindle iOS app) Amazon is in front.

For an analysis of trends in the industry check out the Author Earnings reports here: http://authorearnings.com/
Nah, you can't use forum threads as proof. You need to do the analysis scientifically, which based on the feedback, it sounds like you need to do. You don't bother quantifying the ability of you and your interviewers, you just assume you're great.
It's a very small market. And at the higher volume lower end (cheap scopes for newbies) you can't compete with chinese mass production.

> An equatorial platform eliminates this weakness, and I strongly recommend one

Agreed. You own a dob, just get a platform already. It's even useful for astrophotography.
If I go into hospital I hope I'm not being treated by the doctor on hour 22 of their shift.

The problem with handovers is bogus - doctors can't work for weeks at a time so there have to be handovers. Figure that out.
That seems better actually, considering "more" doesn't really make sense when the things you've already gotten may have shifted in the mean time.
And you don't find that important? Don't you think seeing these stories constantly is a necessary part of eventually ending them? If we flag them all and they disappear, will we have helped end oppression, or helped perpetuate it? ("Neither" is not an option because flagging is taking direct action)
If it is SaaS based, the guys over at Price Intelligently are a smart group to work with..
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A lot of times what's leaked is the passwords themselves (encrypted).
Because you forget the damn "X" button closes you back to the search results rather than gets rid of the AMP view meaning you bounce then come back -- if anyone else is like me anyway
This is very useful information. They should have this guidesheet in every airline seat back.
There are small examples of people doing well working outside the system. The Surgery Center of Oklahoma is the biggest one I've heard of.

https://thinkprogress.org/how-one-oklahoma-hospital-is-drivi...

http://reason.com/reasontv/2012/11/15/the-obamacare-revolt-o...
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Pricing sounds so simple but it is a surprisingly complex thing to get "right". I read an article from Sequoia recently that I thought was very well written. Not sure if it's relatively new or if it's been there for ages. I recommend it anyways, great read.

# The Sequoia Guide to Pricing
https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/pricing-your-product/
The FIRST study found that increased scheduling flexibility (including allowing longer shifts) was not worse than forcing shorter shifts (in terms of patient outcomes).

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1515724
Make sure to go back to your home country as fast as possible, and then just ignore the bills. They'll have a very difficult time collecting on a debt in a foreign country. Don't come back to the US as a tourist after that.

This reminds me of college, where sometimes the police would come looking for students who were foreign nationals, because they had gotten credit cards and then racked up huge balances buying stuff, but didn't bother paying the bill. When the creditors tried to have them served, it turned out they had already graduated and left the country. Good luck getting some guy in Indonesia to pay off his US credit card balance. What were these creditors thinking?
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You are most welcome, hope you enjoy it!
It took me the longest time to start watching it because I had it classified as a teenage girl tv series. It does get crincy in some places, but it is definitely awesome.

There is an episode in the first season with a demon inside a computer, and they have to figure out if one of the cast is at home, so they call her landline(!) because if they don't get a busy signal, she isn't on the internet - talk about a blast from my youth.
Just take the equilibrium point for the Marshallian demand curves of the 'industry' you are located in.

Of course, once you achieve monopoly status, you can set the price at the intersection of your marginal costs and marginal revenue to maximise profits.
Now tell us what you think of taxes or public education.

My thoughts: I benefit from your children being educated on my dime. You and I benefit from infrastructure we both use maintained on our dime. It's not theft, robbery, murder, or bad or fetishize collectivism.
An optometry program lasts four years, so that is equivalent to the schooling needed for an MD. (After schooling there is a state and national examination in order to get the license.)
Always appreciate the feedback.

Like most companies, we used an agency and gave them a brief containing benefits we want to convey, which they turn into a script and produce. We learned that getting closer to the ads is quite important. We don't work with that agency anymore.
Part 1 is also good, it gives a great explanation of anti-virus techniques.

https://pentest.blog/art-of-anti-detection-1-introduction-to...

While I'm commenting, I'll also say that I found this article from "Inside Security" newsletter, which I find to have consistently interesting stuff I don't find elsewhere (I'll admit I am not on every security newsletter).
Dollhouse production didn't start until years after Angel ended; if any set was shared, it was sets from Angel used for Dollhouse.

(Or Joss had access to an actual time machine, which seems unlikely.)
Lots of doctors who are attendings get paid for what they bill. But this change is for doctors who are 1st year residents/ interns. They haven't graduated to being an attending yet. Residents do not have a medical license yet and must operate under the supervision of an attending. In theory, they are getting paid a salary to learn / sharpen their skills in their chosen specialty (ie family medicine, internal medicine, etc.). But in reality, they are more like low wage labor as 1 attending can supervise many residents.
Many thanks, looking forward to seeing what you create with it!
The other challenge is that this study is comparing 28 hr shifts with >28 shifts.

This is probably the best that can be done without totally reworking the hospital, but it's not exactly a sensible test: data from lab experiments shows performance cratering well before that.
Put water bottles on the interview table and offer the bathroom at the end of a stage of the interview, not as a "how ya doin', need anything?" introduction.
>That's my point, really. If you think you know better than the user how to pick a password, then just do it. Otherwise don't get in my way, you don't know how I generate my passwords.

Only they don't need to know how YOU generate your passwords. Just how most of their users generate their passwords. The suggestions and rules are not there to protect computer scientists from entering bad passwords...
I believe I completely understood his point and my comment responded to that the price does not approach infinity, because no one will logically pay a price approaching infinity. The root cause of this is that I will only purchase something if I think the utility obtained from having it is equal to or greater than the utility my currency could purchase elsewhere. I don't have a perfectly inelastic demand for electricity.

Even if a good is quite scarce (Such as electricity in a blackout), the price is dependent on demand. Low supply does not inherently make a good expensive.
Yes, you're right. There was a high level of commitment by the overwhelming
majority of the population (~80% of the population was in favor of impeachment
vs ~12% against), but the reason people kept showing up weekend after weekend
for the demonstrations was due to a lack of faith in all three branches of
government, i.e. it was to keep public pressure on the legislative, judicial,
and to a lesser extent the executive branches. The day the most people showed
up (2.32 million, Dec. 3rd, 2016) was the week before the parliament passed the
impeachment bill. People really wanted to express their determination and anger
as even some opposition party members were balking at the idea of impeaching
the president (we have 300 members of parliament, 200 votes were needed for the
bill to pass, and 234 voted in favor).

> Do you know if anything will be done or can be done to prevent that from
happening again?

My understanding is that in a democratic system, there is always the risk of
putting someone like Park (or a more dramatic example is Hitler) in power. A
sign of a well-functioning democracy is whether appropriate social mechanisms
exist so that people can freely exercise the power to take back and undo what
they think is a mistake. I think history shows the only thing that works to
prevent these kinds of mistakes is an informed public, educating the masses,
and taking an active role (however small) in social and political matters.

> How crooked is the system on Korea compared with the US?

During the past 10 years in Korea (which was under a conservative government),
transparency indices dropped dramatically across the board, e.g. social,
financial, political, freedom of press. Transparency International
(http://www.transparency.org/) puts out a report every year on government
corruption, and in 2016 Korea placed 52nd out of 176 countries (out of the 35
OECD countries Korea placed 29th). For comparison, the US placed 18th and the
UK 10th out of 176 countries (Denmark and New Zealand tied for the top spot for
being the least corrupt).

The charges ex-president Park faced in the impeachment trial (held in the
constitutional court) are different than what she will now be facing in a
criminal court. The constitutional court confirmed charges of extortion, abuse
of power, and leaking government secrets, which were the basis for upholding
the impeachment. Now, having been forced from power and no longer enjoying
immunity, the criminal court will decide whether she's criminally guilty of
these charges as well as bribery charges from Samsung, Hyundai, SK, Lotte, etc.
which carries a minimum of 10 years to a maximum sentence of life in prison.
Doesn't surviving any landing guarantee you'll be disabled for life?
Needs the same for lenses. I'm very eager to try optics.
Hey Omar,

Just email me - cory@oppsdaily.com, and we can post it for the list!
Longer shifts reduce the numbers of times a patient is passed from one provider to another. Reducing those "handoffs" is good for the patient (that tends to be where things fall through the cracks).
The larger the mirror the more you'll need it.
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I thought in Gattaca they manipulated multiple embryos and let the couple choose the one with the most desired characteristics? I don't recall any mention of single genes doing anything, just embryonic manipulation. The main character was a natural birth, so he didn't benefit from a selection/manipulation process, and thus was born with less optimal genes.
If you have enough time, would it be worth it to take off your shirt or other clothes and try to use them as a parachute of sorts?
Uncivil rants and personal attacks like this one are not allowed here, including posthumous ones, because they're destructive to the community.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13839139 and marked it off-topic.
That isn't the same article, it's just the same economist.
I assumed I had missed something, so I went and looked it up and it spoiled half that seasons arc. Still a great show.
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Are you aware of any ways to actually estimate demand curves? It seems like a really powerful way to price products, but no one appears to do it.
Generally people ignore changes that don't directly affect their life within a short timespan. Global warming will cause far more disturbance in the near future than anything else will and people seem to be mostly oblivious to it. Extraterrestrials would provide a brief philosophical shift and when people realize they are not coming to visit us and we really can't say anything concrete about them they would continue their life mostly unaffected. Says I.
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How does HelpScout compare with Zendesk ?
Do you have customers who value and use the product/service now? Do they value it? Consider talking to the customers who need and value it.

When I ran my consulting business, I was always afraid to raise the price. I discussed this fear with one of my customers, and he told me that I was too cheap, and that I should raise the price by 50%. He depended of the service, and wanted me to stay in business. I did raise the price 50%, and I don't think I lost a single customer.

To answer your original question, I don't know of any specific tools for pricing. How a company decides to price a service tends to be pretty confidential. It's also normal to base pricing on how much competitors charge. For something new, it is tough. Get customers interested, sell it for more than it costs to make (before you run out of money), figure why customers like it, and eventually you'll have a pretty good idea of what to charge.
Every time AMP comes up it shows itself as a massive mistake. Yes, it makes sites load faster. Publishers could already do this themselves since it's just HTML optimization. And Google was in the perfect place to force this by penalizing search traffic based on load speed - they even have the entire pagespeed and mobile readiness test suites for this.

Also many sites are slow because of ads - and Google runs the biggest and slowest ad network of all with DoubleClick. AMP is probably the most convoluted solution for all of this, likely created as an experiment by a small internal team but then expanded by management that should've known better. Now sites have to spend limited dev resources on maintaining a proprietary fork of HTML just for google traffic rather than working on better universal sites. After all the noise about optimizations and responsive design, this is a big step back.
But the rich ruling class is richer and more powerful in the US. Thus, the US way is more successful (for the aristocracy.)
I don't think I can say I really know English, tbh
How do you get that they need to grow to 3 billion based on raising 442 million? At an annual return of 10 percent they would need to hit 1150 over ten years.

Hitting 3 billion over ten years means getting more than 20 percent growth year on year ten years in a row...
Richard Feynman on why mirrors flip horizontally but not vertically
..? Jack Handey != Al Franken
I've been exclusively using Linux (Antergos) on the XPS 15 since mid-February. Installing was remarkably easy, though I haven't had time to mess with the fingerprint reader or GPU switching due to work.

My only complaint is that the glossy screen somehow seems more reflective than my Macbook Pro and iMac--and FWIW I'm typing this with all three machines on my desk right now. However, I'm not too bothered by it. IIRC the 1080p configuration of the 9560 is matte.
I totally agree with your interpretation of the relationship between unethical/ethical behavior and bad PR, but you seem to be ignoring the opposite side of that coin. I hope this doesn't come off as combative, but I felt the easiest way to illustrate my point was by rewording your post:

> The only way ethical behavior affects profit is when it causes projecting the appearance of being an ethical company to become less expensive. To whatever extent that "people" prefer doing business with companies that they see as ethical, what they see is a company's image and branding, not their actual behavior. The balance is between ethical behavior and PR costs, not ethical behavior and unethical behavior; and that's even a gross simplification, because unethical behavior doesn't immunize you from good PR.

Maybe the effects of good PR can be less easily measured and felt than the obvious and immediate repercussions of bad PR, but the effects are certainly real and build up with time, so reasonable people can disagree as to what degree a company should pursue building up goodwill through ethical (likable) acts. Ethical decisions and behavior is the foundation upon which good PR is built. Even the most obviously opportunistic PR stunt must have some backing in an action the company has taken that can be construed by their audience as doing good.
I've written a longer, more detailed comment in this thread, but long things are hard to remember so I decided to condense my advice into a paragraph:

Falling from a plane, you have a minute to land after waking up. You can move laterally 2 miles by controlling your body. That gives you 13 sq miles to land. In this order, aim for: snow, swamp, glass skylights, large bushy trees (but not redwoods.) Water is almost guaranteed death. Stay "flat" until right before impact, and move to a standing position. Relax and go completely limp. If you follow this advice your odds are good.

My more detailed comment, with sources/numbers, is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13840660
I read this yesterday on the BBC, and was struck by, among many other things, the fact that this woman was put into this position in the first place. Most of all, that she was essentially turned into a criminal through the failure of the state. I also hope that people can read that, and understand the trap that so many addicts find themselves in. Instead of medical treatment they're referred to 12 step programs or told to "kick it", unless of course you can pay, of you're lucky.

The system is set up to create failure and re-offense, although I'm not arguing that it was designed that way, the result is the same. All of this comes down to a single root cause which can be addressed: the "war on drugs". It's insane, it's wasteful, it's already going to have generations of negative impacts around the world. The sooner we stop it, the sooner we can start to heal the damage.
The real ethical concerns are what lies beyond just removing nasty inheritable diseases, which is the possibility for designer babies. But also the possibility for weaponizing CRISPR, either to create nasty viruses, or make a gene editing weapon. But beyond all that, it's the worry that a few people get to make a decision that will impact the genes of future generations. And with a gene drive, you could guarantee that all descendants would have the desired modification.