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Ask HN: Assessing supply and demand for C2B2C platforms?
How to gain traction and find the first users for a 2 sided platform, where I need users to provide content, and other users that are interested in that content? Its a kind of a chicken-egg problem. Whats your experience?
I usually am totally in line with your insights, but not today? Perhaps our viewpoints on this issue are colored by our history and current situation.

I for one am on a contract that's exactly as called out in the OP. Been on the job for 2 months (today), and have precisely one line of useful code contributed to the code base. Not for lack of trying; I've written a lot but its all been rejected out of hand for not being 'in process'.

I've responded by putting my head down, shutting up and doing literally what they ask - including moving that line of code between the half-dozen incompatible source bases repeatedly. I've shunned meetings, reduced my email to terse responses, and begun looking for another contract in every free minute.

You have a startup environment where I can move fast and deliver a feature a day? I'm your guy. But make me rebuild a Gb of shabby code over a slow link a dozen times because of thousands of poorly-written 'tests' that fail intermittently, I'm going to back away carefully and bow out.
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This is a lesson in follow through in pun economics. Well done
I can barely manage 20wpm on my phone, and that's on a good day; the next-keystroke prediction and autocorrect both fail so often that I spend as much or more time correcting text as I do entering it. Meanwhile, I easily hit 120wpm when typing on a real keyboard.

Typing on a phone feels like having both thumbs tied together behind my back, with one finger broken. One reason why I'm so excited by the Gemini PDA is that it might not feel that way.
Yes, that's one of the central moral questions which Christian and other thinkers have wrestled with over the centuries.
I think you independently invented atomic swaps!

Ethereum uses the same signature algorithm; you can sign arbitrary data from Ethereum's javascript library and check it from a contract.

https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/2256/ethereum-e...

https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/710/how-can-i-v...
What you've done here is expose an epistemological problem but not the ontological one under consideration.

My ontological premises are: consciousness exists and it is a neurochemical process.

From this follows: machines which are not instances of this process are not conscious.

Now you have basically said: but we do not know for certain that it is this neurobiochemical process that accounts for consciousness. Isnt it reasonable to suppose that we might encounter things not actually conscious and think they are? YES. Isnt it reasonable, therefore, to suppose that "consciousness" isnt actually ontologically the same thing as this neurobiochemical process? NO!!

The magnitude of human foolishness is no guide to what exists and what it is like: our being able to be fooled by anything tells us little.

Yes, we can reverse the picture for the spinning-top and dog. But this is an epistemic reversal: we can suppose we are being fooled by the dog, but the spinning top is the truth!

This seems highly unlikely for reasons basically summarized as, "science works".

The spinning top isn't thinking and the dog is. That it is possible to doubt this claim, ie., that it fails to be certain, tells us nothing. Almost all scientific claims fail to be certain, that's neither here nor there as to whether they are accurate.

And I am appealing to no ghosts to draw distinctions between dogs and spinning tops. I am appealing to a reasonable scientific inference: let us modify the dogs behaviour and let us modify the spinning tops. Cocaine might well be involved in the former, or neurosurgery -- and in the latter, wood carving.

The distinction between a chisel and cocaine is hopefully clear enough: they act on their target objects in extremely different ways. The way that cocaine acts informs what stuff I take to comprise "consciousness" -- that is how the behaviour of the dog is modified.

> skillful concernful action does not exist. It is merely illusions

I dont know what you mean by "illusion" here. I don't see why the observation that skilllful actions is a bodily process somehow diminishes its reality. Skillfull action is just what people do in order to achieve their goals, we have discovered all of these things are biochemical but that doesnt make them fake.

If we observe the target phenomenon "skillful action" we discover is it biological. This rules out silicon and electric doing it. Or, in other words, to modify the behaviour of a machine I cannot use cocaine. It has no thoughts to disrupt. I'd have more luck with a chisel.
No it doesn't. Protected with a six digit passcode is still quite secure.
”A compiler is a large, complex program”

Writing a compiler isn’t much harder than writing an interpreter, if at all.

Assuming your language can be parsed without running it (Perl, for instance, cannot, in general. See https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=663393), it is just a matter of doing that and emitting code for every statement, plus some bookkeeping in order to fix up branches. If the language you are compiling is simple, that’s not hard to do.

The result will not be the fastest possible, but it will be compiled code, and it will be faster (sometimes significantly so) than interpreting the program.
Ask HN: Do you feel like your coworkers don't even want to work?
Using a throwaway account to keep company/employees anonymous.

Just a feeling that I have in my day to day job.

I see someone working on his own project all week long, we even discuss about it often.

Another coworker tells me she is bored all the time, but when I suggest a couple projects/tasks they could work on, they would just straightly refuse to work. (The tasks are far from being boring btw) I believe they might think it's too hard for them.

When I'm talking with a closer friend, she would tell me that 2-3 other employees are also bored and do nothing most of the time...

I'm working for a startup, and these 5-6 people represent maybe 3/5 of the engineers.

I'm not a manager, it's not really my problem, but it actually discourage me as well.

How are other companies ? How do you guys prevent this from happening ?
Spaces. We're both on the same page.
To be fair, not being able to attribute problems to their underlying cause is a fundamental problem.

People strive for simple systems at least partly to seek property in their system.
Data rates might be higher to the US. ;)
Having a job is not even close to a "stake in the business". If you want me to act like I have a stake in the business, give me a stake in the business.

To be clear, that's stock with dividends and voting rights. Something like democratic control over the workplace would do wonders for morale. Then managers answer to the body of employees as a whole, not the "boss."
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I don't think they are the same thing. "We will" is a stronger statement in intent than "We are going." "We will elect Trump!" versus "We are going to elect Trump!" may refer to the same election, but the former would be followed by a stronger statement:

We will elect Trump! It's great!
We are going to elect Trump! I'm excited!

I don't think it's a hard and fast rule, but if people use the future tense, it's more of a personal or indefinite statement, and the present tense is more universal and definite one.

"We elect Trump tomorrow." is something that misses this. You remove the individual ability to affirm or weaken the statement. I don't know much about Dutch and English, but I'd wonder if many Dutch people fluent in English have problems with getting taken too definitely or being seen as pushy.
> make it easy for less tech savvy users

Does a prompt for TouchID/FaceID affect usability?
Surely it is not just battery size. Do you work with any distros to optimize for battery life?
I'm not aware of an index of “ponziness”, but I'm equally pretty sure somebody must've defined a bunch of them and that they can probably be calculated. I just can't think of set of keywords that would allow to search for them in the literature.
Scientists have created a silicone beating heart
Interesting project - it could be taken further and apply some form of txt speak dictionary (E.g. Great->gr8 etc)
Well, you do have to give a shit. But giving a shit about doing a good, honest job, is not the same as believing the business or the product. It's like this saying - one should be able to understand an opinion without believing in it. Similarly, one can put their best, honest effort working on a product while at the same time believing the product is generally pointless and waste of space on the market.

(Of course if one is deeply cynical about a business, one should consider changing jobs - but that's not always easy or possible; in fact, most people are in position where they need the money, whether they actually believe in their employer or not.)
This is no accident, please see exhibit 'A' as evidence:

https://imgur.com/a/Z3tq7
I think that the main reason people don't learn another language fast is the fear of making mistakes. Kids don't have this fear yet so they learn fast, so the more shameless you are the faster you will learn, besides consistently practicing and wanting to improve.
I've worked with programmers who have specialized and stayed in one (non-tech) industry for long periods in their career and they're often behind on the tech and lack the benefit of cross fertilization of ideas from other industries.

That might be the right trade off if the domain knowledge is a lot more valuable than the benefits of the newer tech, but it's still a trade off.
how do I get the code running easily? I'm familiar with python but not with ipynb at all. Maybe somebody can give me some easy to follow instructions, thx.
> There are some alternatives that are absolutely more secure

Probably, but silent circle isn’t one of them. Silent circle is just a generic Chinese android phone without carrier bloatware. Instead, they ship a bunch of their own bloatware. They haven’t really made any fundamental improvements to security over what you can get with any other rootable android phone.

iOS has a generally much stronger hardware security model than Android, although it’s not perfect either, especially given that it’s closed source and not auditable.

I’m hopeful that Purism’s librem 5 cell phone will represent a substantive improvement in smartphone security. Runs standard Linux, isolated baseband, hardware kill switches, etc.
German here. Board games were never gone so I'm not sure what the article headline is trying to say. I guess this is an American perspective? Most of the "innovations" the article mentioned sound mostly like they're responsible for Americans developing a new interest in board games.

"Legacy" games, while somewhat innovative, sound like they're borrowing from pen and paper games (where characters might come back for new campaigns) rather than computer games (although CRPGs were heavily influenced by pen and paper from the start).
I think you missed the point there.

The point is that coding during an interview, whether digitally or physically, is a stupid practice that solves nothing and needs to stop.
yup, this is a good resource for beginner

and related udemy course free offer ends today, see author's post for details (https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/7fxq5o/im...)
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If it became popular, then there would be a cottage industry in doing it for people. Charge them say $20 for the labour of opening the thing up, running the tool, reassembling and testing it.

This already exists for "chipping" games consoles and the like. I think it's just that the average person can see the cash value to them of pirating games while the ME has no effect on their daily life.
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Are there any good sets with variety of connectors. For example circular, angular, multijoints, cross joints and so on. Standard bricks are so extremely limiting.
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For a start I would recommend to listen to this podcast:

http://www.se-radio.net/2015/01/episode-217-james-turnbull-o...

And then for a more technical and practical view I would recommend this course:

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920051350.do
> I don't know if Lego is getting weaker

Yes, the new Lego is definitely more brittle than than the old, and also less capable of dealing with tensile stress. I have a couple of examples of very recent bricks that spontaneously broke along a side wall simply by being stacked on other bricks.

The first formulation (Cellulose-Acetate) tends to deform and warp, the first generation ABS bricks are as good as indestructible unless you use main force.

At the moment Lego produces both in Denmark and in various locations around the world and there is a real difference in quality between batches from different locations.

You can also tell by holding up bricks to the light, the more transparent ones (relative to other bricks of the same density and color, best to test with yellow, white and red) are the weaker ones.
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Agree

Most people tend to overestimate the quality of the majority of meat consumed - it's not filet steak

It's ground beef, sausages, pressed shredded chicken, thin strips, etc, etc
Produce the content yourself. First it solves the "where do I get content problem?" Second it allows you to tailor the content to the consuming users. Third if you have a platform that allows users to post content you will need to moderate the content so creating good content yourself reduces the amount that needs to be moderated and insures that the content is not entirely bot spam.
> There is a lot of wheel inventing going on in the Excel world.

There's usually more people who know Excel than people who can create systems. Meaning, the inefficiency is not that important. Some things just cannot wait or depend on a much smaller amount of people.
> Worse of all, though, his concern that “We aren’t building the right thing” will be replaced with “We aren’t building the thing right.”

To be fair, part of an engineer's job is to give her opinion on when you're not building the right thing because you're building the right thing in the wrong way.

Building something with 10-100X more cost, unacceptable bug rates, or a pivot-unfriendly design means losing money in many (most?) contexts.
I think that's right. The OP is on an English site written in American English; the audience is likely that.
It seems that most distance/online masters programs are money mills- there's an expectation that ones employer will pick up the tab.
I used to track phone locations for prosecutors. Defenses need better resources
In many cases, I expect customers are getting subsidized by both VCs and by drivers who don't have a good handle on their costs.
As though the invasion of privacy might be acceptable depending on who's committing the act... and how much or how often they do it and for what reasons. If it unjust, it's unjust; it doesn't matter if its China or any of the Five Eyes members doing it, it's still just as wrong.
Start with namespaces and cgroups. Once you realize that docker is basically a management interface over those, everything will click.

I’m trying to find a really good blog from years ago but having trouble. This looks good though: https://ericchiang.github.io/post/containers-from-scratch/
Can someone put their results and explanation in laymen's terms please?
If you're ok with second hand stuff I can probably help you out.
No but might Uber and similarly sized financing rounds be taking money from people who typically invest in seed/A/B? So those investors' funds flow away from the seed rounds? Just postulating.
You could do this quite easily with Amazon rekognition or Google image APIs.

Both I believe give you the position of text in the page.

If you place 3-4 known words on a page you can determine what manual input fields other text relates to.

I have been playing around with this for paper order forms as I sell to an industry which is sometimes somewhat backwards...
It can always be debugged in the next sprint! Just pick up another item from the board and keep coding; if we get behind we'll just hire some more college grads.
> Transparency is a consequence of how light interacts with objects. There is no "transparent gold". And being transparent is not something we can program gold to do.

Your remark made me research this, and apparently transparent gold exists, we can create it, and you can buy it [1]. The trick appears to be making the gold thin enough.

> Line up everything in the known universe that is conscious and you will find that it engages in a highly specific biochemical activity that requires a whole set of highly specific chemical interactions.

Line up everything in the known universe that engages in this highly specific biochemical activity, and you'll find a whole lot of things that most people wouldn't call "conscious". So the biochemical activity can't be enough on it's own to create "consciousness". If you compare those "unconscious" organisms with "conscious" ones, you'll find that that the "conscious" organisms have a large amount of cells with this biochemical activity arranged in an intricate network structure.

Now why do you think it's not this structure that creates "consciousness"? Why do the details of the biochemical activity matter beyond being a particular physical realization of some differential equations? Why would a machine made out of silicon, when it precisely emulates the behavior of that biochemical activity, be unable to replicate it's large-scale properties (including "consciousness")?

[1] http://www.reynardcorp.com/products/optical-components/coati...
> Perhaps our viewpoints on this issue are colored by our history and current situation.

Might be.

I'm not disagreeing with the article about how programmers can be completely discouraged by the treatment they (or you here) described. Maybe I shouldn't have jumped straight to ignoring the core point and commenting on everything else that the article said, that I believe exemplifies pathological issues that hurt the culture in the company.
That's a common statement but somewhat inaccurate, as it omits the fact that what most of us think of as Spanish is Castillian, which has a heavy influence from Arabic languages.
http://www.lord-enki.net/king_james_ltc.txt
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If you're just sorting ASCII English it's pretty trivial, as long as you assume ASCII ordering throughout.

But for all possible data types, in all (okay - most) written languages, with full unicode support, dealing successfully with all possible localised edge cases defining postal/delivery address and date/time formats - very hard indeed.
e.g. when reading in data one cell at a time instead of reading in a range at once. Basically inefficient programming. It's probably not that much about Python vs Excel but more difference in knowledge/expertise/capabilities.
People are conscious (actually self-aware?) because we say we are. Which isn't actually evidence. I'm doubtful there's anything to explain.
Ethereum's consensus model makes the same security guarantees for contract operation that it does for the built-in currency; given the value of Ethereum-based tokens there's a very large bounty for anyone able to poke a hole in that.

Of course this is only a guarantee that contracts will run as written, not that they're written correctly. There's a lot of research on applying high-assurance techniques to contract development but it'll be a while before that stuff is ready for production.
That's not capitalism unless the people making emotional investments are doing so strictly for monetary gain, which doesn't appear to be supported by the article.
I thinks its do or die time for me to have kids. postponed it too long. I don't want to die alone, old age is loooong.

Reading this article and watching this random video put me in high key stress mode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0Zxvr2NjDA&feature=youtu.be...
I'm not sure it's worrisome but putting your money in asset classes with low appreciation potential is still an improvement over setting it on fire.
I closely knew a man who was a 'second generation World War II victim'. Outwardly a normal person but utterly unable to normally function in society. The government recognized his plight and put him on a lifelong pension which he used to try to do as much good as he could in the neighborhood where he lived (and where he was hugely popular).
Is there a trade journal in your domain that you can team up with? Most of the conferences and trade shows in my line of work are owned and run by magazines.
Another way to think of it:

Convnets are a method to speed up learning by sharing filter-coefficients. In other words, one could just as well train the network by replacing the convnets by fully-connected layers, except that of course training would take a lot longer.

If one views convnets as purely a computational optimization, then the approach of the paper can be considered a "hack" that only works because of this optimization.
While a case can be made for whether the products taste equivalent to real meat, the controversy is on whether a non-meat substitute can actually use a meat name. I personally think if they are famous for what they do, then there is no deception. In which case the Dutch politicians are acting foolish.
Yeah, it mostly happens when you have a server which runs an abnormally large task or payload, causes the heap to grow, and does it in a way that Go can't release the memory back to the OS due to heap fragmentation.

I haven't looked at this for a while but I believe it's still an issue.

https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/2007
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18896
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14045
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This has happened before. When the herbal crowd started putting 'tea' in the name, but there was no actual tea in the product, there was some politicking. But the relevant committee decided that herbals were helping people buy more hot-water-based products across the board, so they relented.
This helps me makes a lot of sense on why German is ranked longer than all the romance languages. Most of the learners in the data set we're probably already familiar with a romance language, and probably with a higher level of formal training than their mostly intuitive knowledge of English.
You can also use a full-blown keyboard password. That's what I do, since it's so rare that I actually have to type it in.
The main difference between the Arch/Debian approach and that of Nix and Guix is that Nix and Guix "normalize" the build environment using containers, whereas Arch, Debian, and others aim to achieve bit-reproducibility in spite of differences in the build environment.

Thus some of the issues that apply to Arch or Debian do not apply to Guix and Nix, but many apply to both (timestamps are an obvious example.)

For Guix we are currently at ~80% reproducible packages: https://gnu.org/software/guix/news/reproducible-builds-a-sta... . That's not an entirely fair comparison because, for example, Python packages in Guix include .pyc files whereas on Debian they don't (not sure about Arch).