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> Management, of course, eats up the "better versions of the themselves" talk, but if the goods aren't provided, our necks are on the line for not talking management out of it.

Management, of course, is the purchaser -- "you" aren't.

"this is a stupid ad" means "you" are not the target market.

I find most car ads annoying, yet BMW is still in business. I am not the target market.
Because it's a cute one word term?
Ask HN: Who is funding/Who needs funding?
If you are looking to invest small amount in a project for small equity/share or
If you are looking for small funds to run your project, post here.

Please note, its more like 'seeking freelancer/seeking work' thread.
Can't you export your contacts? Most of them come with the email too.
Ha thanks, I just want to see if people are just AntiFacebook or not because reading your post the third and fourth paragraph really resonated.
This article talks about type 2 diabetes, but I'm wondering why a non-invasive continuous blood glucose monitor would not be just as useful and desirable for type 1s as well. A friend of mine has type 1, and more than once, she's expressed hopeful anticipation for a future combined non-invasive blood glucose monitor and insulin pump -- effectively an external artificial pancreas to take over the functionality of her broken natural one.
Generally you don't refer to the time dimension when talking about local/global optima, you're talking about "points in the space of possible parameters" or here "particular combinations of laws/rules from all the ones possible".

Probably not obvious for folks not into machine-learning (or other compsci areas with similar terminology), I know... not the best cross-disciplinary metaphor :)

What you refer to I would call "current/local reward" vs "total (lifetime) reward", or "punishment" if you take the negative.

And, by "local optima" I mean that "any small tweak/modification to the current set of laws" would result in worse systems, even if there probably are combinations of laws/rules that would make a better society further away in the space of possibilities. To get from current state to a higher local optima (or to an imaginary global one), would involve going through much worse intermediary states - things like near destruction of civilization or other stuff nobody would want to live through...
Security for Small Business: Secure Architecture
Yeah, but then you have to have those terrible, bastard ALPS switches. Sorry, strong personal preference here.

I use Topre anyway.
Beats me, but if it comes down to a choice between reengineering people's behavior or reengineering their tools so they can do the same thing they've always done but not get such a poor result, I know which one I've seen to work and which one I haven't.
Could use some help here. I have years of experience as an individual contributor, manager, technical lead and founder at a medium-sized not-unicorn-but-not-too-bad-either VC-backed startup.

Say I were to exit one day, is there anything I can do for say, 20 hours a week, that would still pay the bills? I wouldn't expect to make as much as I do working 60 hours, but I wouldn't ever want to do that again tbh.

I can see myself being extremely valuable as an advisor or a part-time C-level person, but I don't know how frequent or how well paid those positions are. Also it's completely not obvious if anybody would be willing to pay for an entrepreneur's time if that person is not.. entrepreneuring, the people who need our advice the most can't actually afford it. Any advice?
Yeah, the patio11 fervor has always been a little mysterious to me. I think he is a fine HN poster who has some helpful blog posts. That's all well and good, but it doesn't justify his celebrity status. It puts him in the category of like the upper 15% of HN posters (and yes, I know his karma). I think the fanfare is a little overdone.

I assume that HN just thought it would be cool for "one of their own" to be raised to celebrity status and Patrick was right-place/right-time. And who can blame him for enjoying it?
Interesting that early on people didn't wear bathing costumes and bathed naked. A Bathing Machine seems to be a good idea in that case, where you can enter and leave the water in full nakedness.

It seems that a hundred years later, people were also wearing costumes, and as this was right when the lower classes were flocking to the sea for their vacations, going into the sea straight from the beach, I imagine, and when the machines became stationary and then turned into beach huts (still reasonably common on many UK beaches)
I don't see the correlation. The disappearance itself doesn't seem to be the problem, but the accumulation of consequences of even the process of it disappearance that are the problem; not least of which is the cost of adaptation.
> Facebooks creates false endorsements for products from you to your friends without revealing this to you.

Not sure anything guarantees they'll stop doing this after you delete your account.. They knew your name before you created it, and they'll know it after you close it.
> With Pepsi, the customer usually already knows what it does for you ...

make you fat?

(I love pepsi :-) )
re: Trump, this was written in 2008, and the blog post is from before the election.
> 1990s? That's when being a "company man" ended.

Yep - The Dilbert Principle came out in 1996, and had entire chapters devoted to how companies had abandoned long-term loyalty in favor of stock-boosting job cuts. Even by then, people were mocking the transparency of euphemisms like "rightsizing" and "reengineering". If an idea is a naive laugh-line in popular culture, it's probably not also a cutting-edge insight.

I honestly have trouble working out how Taleb thought about that idea enough to specify a date and still got it so badly wrong.
Mount Everest's famous Hillary Step destroyed, mountaineers confirm
True. Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) takes about 6 times the energy as much as flying with a wing. Companies are racing to add VTOL to winged aircrafts: https://lilium.com/.
The Deaf-Blind Can Now 'Watch' Television Without Intermediaries
Type Class Patterns and Anti-Patterns
The biggest challenge I think for designers in ML is, we are very often one step behind engineers who build ML algorithm. Without a good understanding of the capacities and limitations of machine learning, it’s hard for designers to envision opportunities and be involved in the early strategic conversation
Those are all reviews for Aukey products, not Anker. Is Aukey another brand Anker sells under?
AI Networking
Hmm ... this is a blog post listing the three usual free Haskell books. Why change its title "Master Haskell Programming with Free Books" to Open-source? First, this is against HN rules and second there is nothing open source there, these are free books.
Do you have a source for Anker and Aukey being the same company?
This is why Anker is successful imho. Not because they offer a better battery / charger / cable. But because they free users from having the think about it.

Most people don't want to have to think about USB power delivery handshakes and resistors. And they don't want to research what they need to look for in a USB 3.0 cable vs that USB 2.0 cable they bought years ago.

Anker seems to be technologically on the ball, but above and beyond that it's a "we promise not to @$^# up the accessory we sell to you" guarantee. Which the Chinese fly-by-nights seem incapable of grasping.
AKA shipped by air?
> You can't mandate factual reporting and still call it a free press as those enforcing the "fact" standards now control the press. You seem to think that you can't lie with facts, but it's quite easy, watch fox news they do it all day long

They're often quite non-factual actually. And you can't call it "press" unless it's factual, free or not. You can't just ignore one factor in favour of the other.

Furthermore, you seem to be assuming quite a bit about what I mean when by factual standards. Anyone can broadcast whatever opinions they like, so free speech remains intact, but to call yourself a news organization requires satisfying stricter criteria on fact checking, data sourcing and biased presentation.

Perhaps one thing that's ignored a lot: equal time/space should be given to retractions due to factual errors. That better aligns the incentives to get things right the first time.
Using a study of programmers in the 1970s (where not punching the wrong hole in punch cards was a critical skill) for programmers in 2017 may not give you the most useful data.
Just raise your hand: How Glitch helps
> However in both projects I discovered there were various severe dysfunctions that didn't really have anything to do with what the IT produced.

This is very common and it's not funny, it's tragic. IME the problem always comes down to personalities in upper management. They're incompetent, and give rise to incompetent teams.

I once worked with an old mainframe programmer who had re-created himself to be a process evangalist by going off and getting a ph.d from some no name univerisity. When I worked with him he was hired as a senior business analyst. I was very intrigued by how he perceived his role and value add. He used to say his job was to get the right people in meetings to talk to each other, and they would make the decisions. And that's all he did, organize meetings, for the full year he worked there.

In the end he was very adamant about not taking on any other responsiblities and was fired. Luckily, the company was smallish and wised up. Looking at his linkedin, you see a similar pattern, 6-12 month gigs all over town. Maybe he'll land in a suitably Big Dumb Corp someday. My take away was, for that type of role, you really need to DO something. Banal, I know.
Yes, but not all. For instance, Microsoft and Apple aren't.
If you only have to work 8 hour days, consider yourself very lucky.
It would help if the Anker site didn't still list the Astro products alongside PowerCore.
But can multirotors do that too? N-copters seem to have pretty small propellers; will they be able to store enough kinetic energy for autorotation?

Also, AFAIK electric motors directly connected to propellers don't exactly have "idle" mode - they either use power or generate power.
We have an open floor plan, and it works like this:

* Desk area is for getting work done. Everyone agrees on this.

* We have "phone rooms" for small discussions. But we limit those usually to 1:1s or discussing office politics.

* Try to limit all discussions at the desk area to 5 people or less.

* If someone sighs loudly as they put on their headphones when you're having a discussion right behind them, then that is their signal to you to keep talking loudly, as their noise-canceling headphones will eliminate any trace of your conversation.

* You can usually carry a conversation at your desk at any volume, because other engineers will let you know if you're being too loud. Engineers tend to be extroverted and won't hesitate to let you know if you're bothering them.

* When someone first sits at their desk, it's polite to immediately engage them in a 30-minute conversation about their weekend or what they did last night. It eases their transition into work.

* A person working without headphones on, signifies that it's ok to tap them on the shoulder to ask them a question.

* A person working WITH headphones on, signifies that it's ok to tap them on the shoulder to ask them a question.

* If someone usually works off in quiet parts of the building, one should always remind them "you're never at your desk" with an accusatory tone.
Well if it wasn't for someone buying <star>.com back in the day, we probably could have them. Oh and then buying <star>.<star>.com after browsers banned that one, which led to RFC 6125 rule clarifications and restrictions.
I don't see how a loophole is substantively different than this approach.
you can get o-rings to dampen the bottoming-out of the keycap.

I use green switches with o-rings in a semi-open office layout and the only people who have ever noticed it are other mech enthusiasts. Browns with o-rings would be even quieter than greens.
I feel strongly for point 2; so many things about floating point numbers are distractions that make computers seem unintelligent. (Some of "A.I." is about not acting stupid.)

Compilation speed in 1 turns out to be really important to many users. C/C++ projects with 1 hour+ build times are a reality for many in the industry. PHP beat out Perl on the web partially because the PHP language was faster to parse. Even so, I've seen people very frustrated by a 30 second build process with PHP.

As for point 3, C/C++ metaprogramming is hell because the creators of C/C++ got the math wrong at the very beginning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_lexer_hack

Other forms of metaprogramming are so powerful that they should not be dismissed just because of that train crash, particularly if you don't care how fast the compiler is. Metaprogramming is particularly strong for creating domain specific languages, which especially put power into the hands of non-professional programmers.

Two themes they don't mention:

1. The most significant difference between natural and computer languages is that natural languages are much more lenient in what people call "identifiers". For instance, we can say

"Phil Collins"
"The lead singer from Genesis"
"The guy who sings on the track I am listening to right now"

to refer to something (and you certainly could write database queries to do the same) but programming languages require you to use a limited number of specific terms that appear in the symbol table.

If you opened up the ability for the computer to accept many possible names for things, you also open up the possibility of errors caused by over-eager matches, and resolving that one is a toughie.

2. Advanced programming languages can benefit from IDE integration. Start with the benefits of an IDE such as PyCharm or IntelliJ Idea. Java would be vastly more painful to program in if it did not have automated refactoring tools, thus good IDEs can transform the acceptability of a language. In the case of ambiguity resolution, as mentioned above, an IDE could engage the user in a dialogue about ambiguities in the program.
I also use a hosts file block to avoid tracking: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
Look at his actual arguments and data. He cites sources thoroughly IIRC.
> Better than your 95% number, but not Nordic country levels.

People were talking about the US being "third world", you're clearly moving goalposts.

> Also, shantytowns aren't really allowed to exist in the US.

... so? You're essentially saying that the US government doesn't allow poverty to exist. Virtually all of the US lower class lives in places with a proper roof, proper running water and electricity. Might not sound much but the point is: there's no part of the US that is like a 3rd world country.

> Public benefits aren't very easy to get in the US.

21% of the US participates in governments assistance programs.

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-97....
If I ever finished 8 hours of work in 4 hours, my manager would just give me more work.
Software and Space Relationships to Disrupt the Yoga and Wellness Consumer Industry
Well, the thing with having judgment flowing through Delaware is that whatever corporations have incorporated there have chosen that venue. Specialization isn't bad thing, merely specialization which results in one-sided processes. Delaware already specializes as venue for corporations to incorporate in (why it looks like suits will head there). If Delaware winds-up offering an unfair venue for patent defendants, those defendants can incorporate elsewhere but they'd lose Delaware's other advantages.
I feel like I have been lucky to have not been peer pressured into Facebook because of the brain chemistry aspect. I also avoided class A drugs which have had a similar availablity level - there if you insist, seemingly in general circulation.

Obviously a heroin addiction would not be what you want in life, I am thinking that constant checking in to Facebook is in a similar league of must avoid.
Facial Recognition Helps Parents Find Son 27 Years After Abduction
That's a good point, which further motivates the desire not to have an account or do anything to support the product.

While there are no guarantees, it still helps a little, since your endorsements are less likely to appear as genuine to those who know you're not on Facebook.
> wonder if I should get on Facebook so my family can see pictures of my kids

I had a realization: those who really want to see photos of my kids will simply ask me for them so i never posted their photos (pull not push)...so far, about four people have asked which made me very happy that someone is really interested in seeing them and also that my kids didn't become a source of nuisance for many others.
GATTACA is now 20 years old. It's amazing how memorable it is, and how well it's held up.
I've had the same happen. One of the chargers I bought from them was defective. Got a new one in couple days, no questions or return asked.

Edit: they may have asked trying different cables first, now that I think about it
I think it was buried deep in there somehow, but I didn't really see a great explanation of what exactly they were doing.

TBH there seems to be a ton of "wearables" ideas flooding the poster sessions of the last few Movement Disorders Congresses, but honestly, these all either a) focus on tremor tracking to the exclusion of everything else and thus totally misses the main point of Parkinson's, or b) pour a ton of money onto custom hardware and electronics, yet can't really accomplish more than what you get with a fitbit or Apple Watch,
I agree, gerrymandering is also a big problem. John Oliver did a good segment about the justification behind bizarrely drawn districts, which kind of makes sense, so the real problem is leaving this power in the hands of the people who have an incentive to abuse it for their own benefit.
or as we like to call it these days "smart curtains".
Or privacy badger, from the EFF (0)

0:https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
In other words, they've cultivated a brand of trust through their product lineup (what they offer vs what they don't offer), product design, and packaging design.
If She Can See It, She Can Be It
Hm, sure. Not sure what the best way to get in touch would be through HN, but send an email to my username at gmail i guess.
Tooll2: an open source solution for creating interactive 3d animations
When the author made the mental connection on the matching labeling color from the TPU2 front panel connections the nerd in me did a little jig, I LOVE the level of detail and authority this article conveys.

Despite my general server / hardware comprehension being on the low end of intermediate this article was extremely digestible and helped close some gaps for me about Google's strategy and how/where to think about deploying cloud-ML in the future - love seeing content like this on HN.
Intelligent people: 9 things smart people won't do
I don't think many at Dryden or the surrounding area forgot him. He was held in high regard by colleagues, but apparently this didn't count at NASA HQ
I never got into Facebook. I made an account about ten years back, and I used to check it every year. But lately I can't be bothered. I agree with the article that it doesn't seem to make people happy. Mostly it seems to make them sad and angry.
Subdomains were killed by SEO a long time ago (afaik, Google does not transfer domain PageRank credit to subdomains), so this is not limited solely by the cost of wildcard certs.
I stopped using it just to throw a wrench in your gears.

Grind this thing to a halt!

(...no, actually Elixir is pretty cool.)
But is does dismantle any objective attempt at asserting American Exceptionalism. We are not exceptional when it comes to water delivery, and there is no reason we couldn't be, like we once had been.
We regularly got comments from the interns that we hired that they chose to work their because of the open environment.

It's unlikely that many of them had competing offers from a company that offered private offices, given how few companies actually offer private offices. Most likely they were just indoctrinated / brainwashed into drinking the Open Plan Koolaid and are just parroting a stock line.
This browser extension changed my life for the better:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kill-fb-feed/

I like Facebook, it serves a lot of good roles in my life (including my job) so I can't just quit and/or block Facebook. But I was spending pointless hours a day reading my news feed, disgusted with my own lack of productivity.

This extension kills the home page feed, but nothing else.

I still have access to messages, profiles, events, invites, etc. I can still find everything I search for if I seek it out, only difference is it's not drip-fed into my eyeballs with an endless scroll.

My productivity (and happiness) immediately took a step up.
I have to use heuristics to sort through the enormous volume of information trying to make its way into my head these days. Such blatant bias is enough to send anything from this organization to the mental blocklist.
Justices make it easier for companies to defend patent cases
I like to think of Anker, RAVPower, Aukey, etc as high quality generic goods. They aren't dirt cheap like AliExpress goods but not expensive either compared to well known brands. They certainly seem to have decent quality control is helping build their brand/reputation.
thats why employment is messed up. if youre too productive, you just get more work.

if the company manages to fuck up and generates too much work, you just get to do overtime.

no incentive to be efficient.
When you're paid by the hour bc you're in a union (which I was before even in a corporate research lab).
My usecase is mostly side-projects that I want to take to the market. So I stick to Django.

Why?

* I am already familiar with it's advantages and quirks. So I can get running faster. The knowledge that I have accumulated in my previous projects will be handy to get going. Time to market is important for both validating the product and avoiding a burnout.

* There is a well defined way to do most common stuff. So you need not experiment and reinvent the most basic stuff. All those get out of the way and I can concentrate on the meat of the problem.

* Many libraries like auth, rest framework are battle tested and most likely tested for security vulnerabilities. if you are taking something to market, it is in everybody's best interest to ensure security is taken care of by the pros. Django is solid in that aspect.

* Though python may not be the most performant language (I have been bit by that a lot in data processing) it is still fast enough for websites with normal loads (which is 99.999% of today's websites).

* If I do have a performance bottleneck, there are lessons from pioneers on how to optimize it.

For me, django fits all these needs. For you it might be Rails, Node, Play or Phoenix. I used to want to learn Phoenix and Play.

But I realized it is a no-win situation when you mix a brand new tech with brand new product.

Now I reach out to new tech only if it fixes a sore need that my existing toolkit cannot handle.

For example, I am looking into webpack and purifycss, because django does not have the necessary functionality to trim the fat in bloated CSS, while Node stack excels.

If I work on a interaction heavy front-end, I might reach for vue or react, and that too only if I really need it.

Else, I am quite happy with django/vanilla-javascript/sass/bootstrap(for prototyping)
> I suspect we're reaching peak open floor plans right now

I doubt it simply because it's way way cheaper to have open floor plans than rooms. Savings on materials, easier compliance with fire safety, way higher density.
Introspection, Introspection Everywhere
Thank you! I've been looking for a keyboard like that for years, ever since I had to get rid of my old Zeos mechanical to keep my wife from going insane in our shared office space. The Quiet Pro PC looks absolutely perfect.