skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've already established that the main thing to know what makes your customer tick so I'm surprised this isn't mentioned yet:

Your first MVP is simply a static website describing problem, solution and signup, with Google Adwords and analytics.

* Given that your target market are going to be ideally using Google to search their problem or solution, with Adwords, you can test exactly what they are actually searching for when they are looking for your product.

* Analytics will be powerful to measure the engagement of the user to your desired product. Have buttons or measure scroll for engagement. Do they read your problem and leave? Obviously not relevant. Do they continue onto your solution but leave? Wrong market-product fit. Have options on the website for easy A/B testing to figure out your demographic.

* Static website is super easy to change and make pretty as so many templates out there, and even if you don't use A/B testing tools, you note when you make changes, so you can compare sets of user analytics data.

This approach was popularised by lean startup methodologies, but what I love about it is it takes a couple of hours to setup, and an hour each week to tweak and monitor, and you'll know early on whether it's worth even developing the software from the very beginning. The saved time is worth the adwords cost (you can set a budget per day on their dashboard) and cost of static website hosting.
It's one thing to turn a foreign country into a police state, when you need to actually be a productive society that simply stops functioning with large scale unrest.

The problem is not direct force of arms, the problem is society needs a vast number of soft targets to continue to operate. If large numbers of people chose to simply take down power lines there is almost nothing the police or military could do. City's water supply pipes are similarly easy to destroy and difficult to replace. Roads are harder to destroy, but easy to prevent most civilian traffic.
Yeah there's adapters but they're pretty spotty and pricey. I actually looked pretty deep into converting to Sony from Canon a while back but keeping my lenses(I can't give up Canon's 35mm F1.4 and 135mm F2.0, they're not an equivalent in Sony's system). However auto-focus didn't work or was really slow on quite a few lenses so I ended up going with a 6D instead.
> 1. What your programming set up is.

Interesting choice of question. When I do have tooling problems, I find that SO is often the first Google search result and I do use it in those cases. However, I don't find that tooling make up a frequent set of problems that need to be dealt with. Thus, while I can't say I've never used SO, it is a rare stop.

More frequently, the problems I run into, and am more curious to see how others have approached them, tend to be tooling agnostic. If you're using C++, Haskell, or Javascript, vi, Notepad, or Visual Studio, the problem remains the same. Computational problems, not tooling problems, if you will. I find (which may just be my failure to find them) in these cases, SO more often than not has nothing of relevance.

> 2. What you do when there is an issue?

Still Google, but the results are more often personal websites and academic papers.
Why not seduced by technology ? As a engineer we create new technology and try our luck if it makes business. If we compromise on that basic fact, we end up as that one of avg business guy
Even if it doesn't drop off, you can make money by investing into businesses who give you better long-term growth and (related) dividends than the one that everyone else is buying through index funds which you know isn't doing well.

This would require a long-term view similar to how Berkshire Hathaway is acquiring businesses. If active investors' short-term price speculation were reduced in favor of long-term bets, that might be a good thing for businesses and the economy overall.

And of course, if this situation actually becomes commonplace, chances are the market for index funds is going to self-correct since a well-performing stock needs either solid dividends or above-average growth. A market with 100% indexing can not give you above-average growth, and dividends depend on actual business performance.
A commute from Connecticut to NYC is easily 2 hours and change one way. Some of my coworkers do this and it sounds horrendous.
That's not what active management is. "We believe that our active engagement demonstrates that passive investors don’t need to be passive owners."

https://about.vanguard.com/vanguard-proxy-voting/
Yes, it does... whether you can see it or not.
Struck by this para:

"The native app teams discovered that using GraphQL came with the additional overhead of building queries by concatenating a bunch of strings and then uploading those queries over slow connections. These queries could sometimes grow into the tens of thousands of lines of GraphQL. Also, every mobile device running the same app was sending largely the same queries.

The teams realized that if the GraphQL queries instead were statically known — that is, they were not altered by runtime conditions — then they could be constructed once during development time and saved on the Facebook servers, and replaced in the mobile app with a tiny identifier. With this approach, the app sends the identifier along with some GraphQL variables, and the Facebook server knows which query to run. No more overhead, massively reduced network traffic, and much faster mobile apps."

Firstly, what query could be 10k lines? Secondly, if you're defining the query just by an id, how is that then any different to a fixed REST endpoint or stored procedure?
I think the other commenters hit on the important points and anticipated my distinctions. Note that I said "on a significant level". That did not imply blind or absolute faith. There are other investment options to match your bullish outlook if you think CAPM and EMH are wrong to the approximation that suits your involvement, knowledge, and risk profile, but you chose an index ETF. Why?
That has been available for several years. iPhones 6 and above (for example) include "focus pixels", which is Apple-speak for PDAF.

http://www.dailytech.com/iPhone+6s+Focus+Pixels+Are+Already+...
Do you think that this result is available to everyone willing to work hard? If you come out of high-school and don't achieve this level of success did you fail or are people this outliers? We should try to make a path for success at all levels of education provided you are willing to work for it and not put all our hopes on high-performers and or lucky people.
> We need less people to do stuff.

A thousand years ago there were 400 million people on earth. Today there are 764 million jobs in China alone. So, on a literal basis at least, that's not turning out to be true so far.

Your supposition is that this time it's different than all the other times people have claimed that automation and technology will make everyone idle.

But maybe it's not different this time. Maybe technological advancement proceeds relentlessly and has for awhile, and today only looks special because we're in it. Maybe the mechanisms by which economies achieve full employment don't work in the way you're describing.
But 20 fps isn't that much. Why not 60 or 120?
There is a risk, but it is averaged over hundreds of equities instead of just a few, as with directly buying shares (unless you can afford to spread a lot; if you do, you can afford a wealth manager).

If just a few equities are decreasing in value, it'll balance out. But if they all loose, like on October 19th, 1987, when the S&P 500 lost 20.47%, you'd be much poorer.
You think this because you've bought in to media hyperbole

I love it when people make evidence-free assumptions about other people they know nothing about. That's what makes this society great.
So no-juice-for-you when the internet goes down. Brilliant.
"This link has an autoplay video with sound."

Are we really getting this finicky now? Like, I'm usually on the more compassionate side of listening to people's concerns, but being offended by a video playing is just... sissified to the max.
The problem that GP is getting at is that while, sure, the article factually doesn't have any problems, it's quite disingenuous to imply that now that white America is faced with these issues, this is a serious problem - even though these are issues which have been historically pervasive in many minority groups.

It may not fit the traditional idea of Jim Crow style racism, but the article's implications are certainly there.
Surprised nobody mentions it. The #1 rule i needed to learn:

> Willingness to pay

Most people see it "charge as much people pay"

But the real lesson here is a different one:

You create a value. The value - costs is profit. Someone along the chain makes this profit. Might be the people you work with, your boss, might be the person sitting at your client looking smart for buying in cheap or your client's boss. Someone does. People are ok to pay as much as long as it's less than the value provided (and comparable to the rest of the market - sidenote: specialization)

Someone makes the money. Stop charging in hours. Charge based on the value. (obviously it should be more than the hour costs otherwise dont take the project)
Some industries have incredibly long sales cycles and you will use up all of your savings and then some getting your first customers.

If I were to do it again I would focus on the creating a solution to the smallest subset of the problem I am solving and trying to sell that. Program that one feature and do not start on the next feature until you have a paying customer for the first one.
Yes! to say this is a racial social context issue is so far off the mark as to make this blatantly racist. Compare mortality directly with economic markers, obviously a group of people who historically have been less economically disadvantaged are going to regress to the mean faster then a group that has been living with it for generations.
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Some do, particularly when a parent is already in that trade, the child is on good terms with the parent, and the child shows some promise. These family businesses tend to work out well if the business is already successful.

But when the business isn't successful, the resentment builds on both sides. Blue-collar trades are not considered societally desirable and working in the parents' business or career some interpret as a lack of ambition. These factors combine with geography to greatly affect the dating pool for such people, further restricting an avenue of social mobility whose availability was more widespread historically.
Sony is better at being Apple than Apple is.
Here's my hope for this product.

1. From within Outlook, I can mark an email to disappear from my inbox and re-appear at a set date (e.g. similar to Boomerang).

2. For any email I "boomerang", have that show up as a to-Do in the To-Do app on that date (while also re-appearing in my inbox).

Essentially, hope they integrate To-Do with Outlook.

edit: typo
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Yep, wildlife too. Sports and wildlife have been the weak points of Sony kits due to AF speed and lack of long native lenses (they announced 100-400mm lens today too).
All the false positives from perceived success.
This 2 random cache scheme reminds me a lot of the 2 random load balancing scheme laid out in "The Power of Two Choices in Randomized Load Balancing" https://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~michaelm/postscripts/mythesis....
Which shows an exponential improvement in choosing the less loaded of two randomly chosen servers over just random.
Yeah, that's a valid point. In a breakroom there is a commons and unless there's someone who maintains the commons it will get dirty and the refirgerator will get filled with rotting crap. Keurig side steps that by not needing cleaning or messy supplies. Just add paper cups and you don't even need a dishwasher.
Yes, no medication whatsoever seems like a much better option compared to randomly taking things and hoping for the best.
But then I am chained to your office location. What if I WANT to live in the woods in the middle of Alaska, but still work for your company ;)
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I wrote a little about the QFG1 vs. QFG5 inspirations in my blog entry.

But here is a video of the QFG5 dryad dance which will probably start making it clear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2dTxSCGeNE

And this is from QFG1, which is where the concept of dancing and personality of the fairies originate from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYpN8Uii6ng

I don't remember if that clip shows all the dialog, but they talk about how they rule the forest and make rainbows and "fairies just want to have fun". They like to dance and don't know if humans can dance.

This video does show you making them mad by walking into the fairy ring (because the human smell is impossible to get rid of). So they make you dance to your death as punishment.

The last fairy message at the end of the credits is also borrowed straight from the game. When you leave the screen in the game, a fairy will fly to you in the next screen to say a randomized good bye message before flying off.
Perhaps that's because most of the electorate think recent governments have struck a good balance between civil liberties and security.

The results of surveys on this issue are interesting.

A clear majority of people in the UK do typically back some of the stronger surveillance and security measures, when (as is almost always the case) they are presented as giving the police and security services greater powers to prevent serious crime and terrorism. I mean, who doesn't want to prevent serious crime and terrorism?

On the other hand, when presented with more complete information about the actual laws that have been passed, such as the much wider range of government departments who have been given such powers, or when questioned in a way that demonstrates they themselves are subject to the same intrusions, many more people express concern and a lot object strongly.

Surveys also show pretty consistently that the vast majority of people don't know even roughly what the actual situation is, and assume it is more the former than the latter. For example, many people didn't even know about the increased surveillance powers granted a few months ago. Popular support is based on trust in our government and public services, rather than knowing the facts.

lets face it if we believe that we have to argue the case before the public

Unfortunately, the political party with the most credible basis for arguing in favour of stronger civil liberties seems to have decided they want this election to be about exactly one issue, Brexit. Whether or not that strategy works out for them over the next couple of months, it makes it highly unlikely that other important issues like this will even make it into the public debate at all.
Nikon and Canon dominate the pro space for more than just the tech specs of their products. The support is amazing - check out this blog article to see. I thought B&H was close to photographers heaven but I've never seen anything like this.

http://blog.jeffcable.com/2016/08/a-very-rare-look-inside-ca...

Producing the camera that has the best specs doesn't necessarily mean that pros will be using it. (Depends on the size of the gap of course)
I think $10k MRR is a good target. It's basically a limit of ramen profitability for a small team of 2-4 (depending on the family etc. responsibilities of the team), plus a little bit of extra to run the business. When you hit that, it's possible to commit full-time without extra financing and you don't run out of your savings.
This comment misses the point - that by focusing specifically on white America, there's the subtle implication that now that white America is facing issues that minorities have faced for generations, this is a problem that we should care about.
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I hope technological progress in avionics is grounded in something a little more solid than "Facebook googly-eyes work good enough".
Canon glass is fine if you're a professional, Zeiss and Leica is superlative but it still depends on focal lengths. I still have my Contax mount 50/1.4, because nothing save for some Leica lenses exhibit the same qualities on 35mm format. If I were a sports photographer I'd probably go with Canon though.
Woah not trying to insult you, was just browsing /new and saw the title. The post contents were fine. Any title that sounds like clickbait either doesn't get upvoted or will get changed by the mods.

Your title amounts to a longer version of "click here to see what happened next!" Instead of a summary of what actually happened.
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Luckily for Moore he didn't say anything about clock speeds.

He spoke of the number of transistors per area in a plane doubling every year. He didn't specify silicon. He didn't specify photolithography. He also said "at least for the next decade" in 1965.

In 1975 he revised it to every two years. In 2015 Gordon Moore himself said "I see Moore's law dying here in the next decade or so."

So let's let poor Gordon off the hook. He's being attributed things he never actually said.
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Submissions are mostly discouraged, but a civil discussion has no reason to be. It can easily go off the rails, but a lot of that is also based on how it's originally framed. This seems fairly open to discussion in a positive way, so I take the stance the mods seem to lately, which is "wait and see". We all have the tools to try to suppress the flames (or fan them, but that's where a little personal responsibility comes in) as needed.
Says who? Who determines what professionalism means?

Because I have a definition that states you use the best tool for the job at hand, rather than choosing (yes, choosing) to complain loudly about poorly-described-and-argued ancillary matters which don't directly impact the operation of said tool.

I reject the idea that "professionalism" means that the cheeky, mischevious humor that has basically defined the hacker spirit for decades must be stamped out or suppressed.
I am a cognitive neuroscientist currently in a post-doctoral training program in autism spectrum disorder.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a disorder typified presence of repetitive behaviors and restricted interests, and by disruption to social behaviors, and yet is very heterogeneous in how it presents.

A first point I'd like to make is that there is no pharmaceutical treatment currently approved for ASD. The drugs mentioned by the article are primarily used to treat disorders such as ADHD, anxiety, schizophrenia, or gastrointestinal irritation, which are frequently co-morbid with ASD. These co-morbid disorders typically have large impacts on the quality of life of people with ASD, and frequently aggravate ASD symptomatology. However, the costs and benefits of treating co-morbid disorders have to be weighed and tested at the individual level by a responsive and knowledgeable physician and psychiatrist. In terms of treating ASD itself, this has turned out to be really really hard.

There is a saying that goes, "If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism." This saying captures the tremendous heterogeneity (aka spectrum) of the disorder. There is not one cause of autism, there are hundreds or thousands of genetic causes of autism. Hundreds of genes are implicated in autism, and no single genetic mutation accounts for more than half a percent of autism cases. While many of the known genes contribute to the same major pathways (e.g. the seretonin pathway, or involved in processes of snyaptic pruning), they effect different parts of those complex pathways. Some genetic mutations will severely impact the function of the pathway, while others just make it less efficient, or different. Modern drug treatments would like to target a specific chain link in the pathway with a pharmaceutical, but such a drug would likely just help a small sliver of those with autism. Hundreds of different targeted drugs would need to be developed and then target the specific cases of autism it might help. That is a very difficult task indeed.

The FDA drug approval process doesn't make this easy. Many drugs seeking approval fail because they only help a portion of their sample, (not enough to effect the overall mean above placebo), and until researchers are able to subdivide their ASD sample into the appropriate subgroups that respond and don't respond to a treatment a priori, the FDA won't approve those drugs for treatment.
Flow root. How did that take so long to become available?
I would like to think so but the political direction that a suffering white middle class is taking us I'm afraid will not improve things for everyone equally.

Growing up in the rural south I have heard literally my entire life how most of our problems are caused by government greed and immigrant, not massive wealth inequality. At the same time on NPR you might hear about the terrible working conditions immigrants deal with, lack of labor protections, minimum wage abuses but as far as many in the white middle class are concerned the problem is down, not up.
This is exactly it. We are all pretneding that this is some kind of racial problem that is a big deal because its white people. This trend has been happening throughout the country for decades and we are to just pretend this is some kind of white person problem that is to be solved by making sure rural citizens have more opportunities to succeed.
What if two people have the same name but their email address is different JUST by the dot in between their first and last names? In this case they'd be sending personal privacy related information to each other. Sounds to me like the very opposite of cutting down on fraud. I could go in and set up a dot/non dot email address to people I know and just wait until I receive an email that was supposed to be for them but now goes to my email account.
> You don't pay taxes working from home?

If you dedicate a portion of your home as a "home office" that you work out of, suddenly you can gain a lot of interesting deductions, based on the square footage of the home office.

It's not a lot (but every little bit counts), and it also depends on how much you work out of the home, but there's various deductions for electricity, internet costs, magazine and book purchases (relating to your work), and other items. So you could potentially lose this if you don't work from home (and if you don't claim the deductions, of course).

This may or may not be what they mean, though...
Al Gore is an "honorable man"?! He is nothing more than a charlatan, dictating to us peons how we should live our lives and reduce our "carbon footprint", while jet-setting around the world in private planes. The man has emitted more carbon dioxide than I can ever hope to do within twenty lifetimes. Politicians are rarely the sort of people you want to proclaim as “honorable”, as by the very nature of their business, they typically sell themselves out like a cheap whores.
What is the “Fix Everything” design pattern?
I'm waiting for the part where we find out the contents of the packets are from bottles of Odwalla purchased at the local grocery store.
Apparently you think that anything other than being at the peak of one's profession is a 'stupid job.' There are large numbers of jobs that depend on people being diligent rather than innovative, and those jobs are certainly easier to automate, but that does not make them stupid jobs. Stop devaluing hard work just because some people choose predictability over risk.