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> But if they're not already using the product out there with the most X, you shouldn't believe them.

Maybe if they're not using it, it's because they value Y, Z, and etc. more, and the product they're using has Y, Z, and etc. The market opportunity can still exist, but the more features you add, the more niche your product is likely to be.

Also, hopefully you have some substantial competitive advantage on X. If you don't, then your competitors might just add X to their product, or a variant thereof, and you're gonna have a bad time.
Apple confirms Shazam acquisition; Snap and Spotify also expressed interest
Prodigy: AI/ML annotation tool powered by active learning
Doesn't that really depend upon the way that you treat the problem? If you're just looking to pass, what do you have to gain? This isn't a course in College.
Reading a bit into it they never say the word Ajax but that is what it is. Something used for years they are pitching as something new and exciting.
I was finishing up the second year of a computer engineering degree when I discovered Project Euler, and after a few months of solving the problems I realized I wanted to study math instead, so I switched my major to applied math. Honestly I learned more from solving PE problems than school. Now I'm working in industry on AI.
IBM releases code for easy-build AI, blockchain and chatbots
Ask HN: Catch 22 question – What causes post on HN to reach the front page?
I've been wondering about what, besides the post's content and blind luck, influences the odds of a submission to appear on the front page of HN?
Customer feedback should be just one of the data points a product planner/owner uses when deciding on what to do in the next version of a product. Sadly, in an effort to become "customer-focused" many people forget this fact.
There was an interesting article a little while ago about those sorts of challenges in a New Zealand town which started to 'use up' its volcanic activity through power generation and just good old runaway private use of the 'free' hot water:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/plugging-in-to-a-vol...
Containers can be just as much of a pain in the ass to set up as anything else. I’ve had instances of much better experiences setting up software running out of container than in container.
In your example, it's still modifying behavior to produce a specific result. It also introduces thoughts that may arise subconsciously, like thinking "Kleenex" when my nose is running.

That fits the definition of "mind control", as I was using it. Your definition might differ from mine.
Musk sells $600000 of Boring Company hats, changes Twitter bio to 'hat salesman'
This is a great response, explaining the problem with any UBI in general.

I think the only way it could work is when the rich actually CAN gain something for the goods flow going to the poor - that something can be a sum of "moral satisfaction from charity", "diminishing the chance of the poor majority revolting against the rich" and "statistically helping young poor geniuses (and creative people in general) to join the rich in the future".

For each rich person, the ratio of these will be different, but multiplied by a portion of their worth they are willing (or being forced) to give, will in the end define the total amount of UBI available.

My theory is that after automation is widespread, it won't really cost much to support the poorer portion of humanity, just as now there is a surplus of basic goods made of plastic (clothes, everyday items). In the future this will extend to food, shelter and connectivity.

But at the same time, the rich and poor will be further separated, as there will be no incentive for the rich to interact with the poor.
You have an incentive for 1 to many trades makes sense. What possible incentive does someone have for making that trade with you though when they can go anywhere else and get 1 to 1. This only becomes a problem if everyone ignores 1 to 1 entirely.

If 1 to 1 breaks and it is known, the system could collapse and the coins would now be worthless.

Even if you secretly broke 1 to 1 and managed to find someone willing to take the short end of the stick, you could also be identified and people could simply blacklist all new coins from you and avoid trading with you. There's a lot of risk in failure.

I still don't see the incentive/means for breaking 1 to 1 once implemented. And again, I'm not saying adoption is easy.
Calibre is a great piece of software.
Looking back, I never understood why it didn't win the database wars in the 90's against MySQL (in the famous LAMP stack)? Was it that it was harder to administrate?
It's not very hard, and it's a good exercise if you have time.
Apple has bought Shazam, the music recognition app
It is WAY less than 1GB to process.
My understanding is you are always outspending on energy costs because of the energy inefficiency of personal computers for mining vs. a dedicated machine. So the chance of return would be more or less 0%. More like, "If I pay $5 for a lottery ticket where the max I can win is $4, what are my chances of profiting?"

But again, not an expert. Just the articles I've read and people I know who mine bitcoin say you can't profit that way.
You should be ashamed of yourself for this comment. This is the sort of discourse I would expect to see in the comment section of an article about something tied to identity politics, not a discussion about support for a digital currency.

Is it really impossible for you to believe that someone could see value and potential in bitcoin while believing that the current price is not a an accurate representation of it's value?

Maybe they are skeptical of any community that dismisses well-measured criticism with cries of "FUD". Maybe they see bitcoin as cryptocurrency v1.0 but it would be foolish to think that the first implementation of such a technology was the best possible implementation. Maybe they are skeptical of the way many bitcoin-holders seem to prioritize their personal net worth increasing over bitcoin's use as a currency. Maybe they think the future lies in a more extensible platform like Ethereum.

Bitcoin and the blockchain are very interesting technologies full of potential but I don't understand why their proponents seem to take everything so personally.
hmm. a lot of exercises but how hard will they be? I like codewars kyu levels.
I, too, think that I'd be more creative if I was unshackled from the workforce but I'm hesitant to change an entire economic system just to fund my startup. There are various options available including loans and savings/investments.
Most of the sites charge a 10%-20% cut of the job, restrict direct communication, ban people regularly for stepping out of line, and are designed to make the owner a bunch of money (instead of the freelancer making good income and the client getting a good product).

I want to build a site by developers for developers. I would make money by doing contracts myself, as would all developers who worked on the site.

We would all benefit by cutting out the middle man and offering a premium service where we can't compete today.

The overhead of a site like this is minimal and bandwidth costs would be paid on a volunteer basis (sponsored by developers/freelancers like me).
If you are not on a team and don't have any budget requirements, then sure. Do it all from scratch and in your own arbitrary flavored-way in your basement, then write documentation later and put it on hacker news as the next great js framework to use out of plethora already there, then someone writes an article like this and places it on hacker news, then repeat the process again.
There is also a national security issue to make sure a nation can feed itself. The government's responsibility is towards long term sustainable food supply for it's citizens.
Hey, I'm one of the guys working on this. These are just our notes and drafts, and even though we are at ~97%-99.3% the goal is to get to 99.9587% or higher because out of 3-4 billion letters that is still significant. Here's a cool non-technical magazine article about it https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/922315550054793216
I have a stainless steel, insulated French press. Stainless steel because I broke ~3 of the glass ones while dumping out old coffee grounds. Insulated because I love my coffee to be hot.

Here's the process for how I actually brew a Fresh press:

0. Heat up water in electric water pot.

1. Dump a couple of scoops of coffee (I eyeball it, no formula) into the FP.

2. Slowly pour hot water onto coffee in FP in a somewhat circular fashion. "Somewhat" because I make adjustments to make sure all the coffee is getting wet and mixed in.

3. I take a long spoon and stir/whip the coffee, so that there is a rich foam at the top of the FP.

4. Put the top on the FP.

5. Wait 2-20 minutes, depending on the day, then slowly press the strainer down.

The coffee is then ready to drink.
Oh nice, just upgraded everything yesterday.

Side note:
I find it a pity brew upgrade webcalls google analytics.
While true, be careful how far you take this. My understanding (I don't know how to verify it) is that McDonalds knew all long that their salads would never sell well enough to pay for the costs of having them. They however rolled them out nationwide, and advertise. The salad itself isn't worth any of this (even though some of their salads are good and with the right dressing healthy), except that in an office there is often "that one person". By having something "that one person" will eat the rest of the office will have go for a team lunch at McDonalds. Thus the salad caused 4 other people to buy a big mac who otherwise would have eaten elsewhere.

When trying to decide what to sell you need to consider these hidden details.
Kafka perhaps?
My biggest concern would be browser support. However, with many browsers on desktop and phone getting regular updates, this might be less of an issue than it use to be.
Why learning Smalltalk can never be a waste of time
I would love a reading room with a projector that turns a blank wall into a bookcase. It could interact with software on a tablet to "pull" books off the shelf and browse them on the tablet. It could even be responsive to gestures to roll, sort, etc. It seems like we have all the technology to something like this; calibre, Kinect, camera and projector?
The title is misleading since this is basically a TuboLinks article and doesn't really explore the problems of building an SPA without a framework.
Well, why would you go to McDonalds for healthy food? That's like going to Vegas to work on your meditation practice.

Another example is the MINI Cooper, which has somehow kept growing and now there are models just as large as the SUVs they were making fun of in their early marketing.
It can affect it, but commodities like food are an international market. More importantly, a basic income increasing the pocket money of regular individuals is likely to raise residential rents, but may have no effect whatsoever on agricultural rents. Only a small portion of UBI recipients are going to be speculating on agricultural real estate.
You can disable it if you aren't comfortable with it (they document this clearly multiple places).

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Turn on/off Homebrew's analytics.
I purchased Bitcoin to escape what I believe is a financial system based on fraud. Who are you to say what my motivations are for purchasing Bitcoin? Who are you to speak for everyone else deciding to purchase Bitcoin? It takes quite an ego to presume everyone buying hasn't researched what they're buying and are just mindless sheep hoping for a payday.
>We provide huge rewards to a small number of people but why?

Thats what I asked you. How many indie authors have you supported by buying their books and spreading the wealth. Or do you have a better way to spread the wealth apart from the government taking it by force from whatever class it deems as enemies of the people this week?
“Speaking at Local Meetups” – [Episode #101] Make Money Online
It’s just clickbait link spam.
Muslim clerics just declared that owning Bitcoin was compatible with Islam
MySQL had faster reads and better clustering out the box.

It did a lot of questionable things to get that (mostly MyISAM, innodb is better) and it was a lot more tolerant of shoddy data modelling (again questionable).
If you don't know how to even get started, what do you have to gain from just being stuck?

When I started on the assembly track, looking at others code to figure out how to get set up for the first challenge allowed me to do the rest on my own.
IIRC the Visual 6502 talk, it's just visual so basically each simulation (it's not emulation) step can be a GPU compute dispatch.
Henry Ford said "If I had asked people what they wanted they would have said a faster horse".

Your job is to figure out what the customer need and sell them that. Sometimes the customer knows better than you do so you need to ask. However you have to beware of letting the customer jump to a solution. Figure out what their issue really is and you can revolutionize your industry. Give them what they say they want, and you take your chances.
The world’s first legally compliant cryptocurrency backed by oil reserves
"Don't Ask Customers What They Want" still gets it wrong. It's not that you shouldn't ask customers what they want. It's that you need to intelligently examine customer feedback and decide

A. If a problem needs fixing at all

B. How to solve that problem or customer desire without doing away with what you got right the first time.

Customers often don't know what is practical to achieve or what the tradeoffs are. It is the job of the business to look at those things and find solutions that will make customers as happy or happier with the product/service.

The flip side is, some companies go out and design products based on their own desires and assumptions, and sometimes get that wrong too. The latest Macbook Pros are a good example. Yeah the product is slim and pretty, but slim and pretty is not a good thing to optimize for at the detriment of powerful and useful. The new Macbook Pros aren't a flop, but one has to think they would've sold a lot more of them if they sacrificed a bit of thinness for significantly more computing power.
I find the comments here depressing. Like everything, only a small portion of people are addicted to something. I use social media every day. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc. If I read the comments here, I should be alone in a dark room envying other people's lives. But last Thursday, I met some of my friends after work for a 5@7, Friday I had dinner with my wife and her friends. Saturday, a friend couple from another city came for an event in our city and we went walking and stopped to take a beer in an Irish pub. Then Sunday, 2 friends came home for brunch. Yes people checked their phone 1 or 2 times, but nobody was "addicted"...

Most people go on with their life while enjoying social media.
Clink: Powerful Bash-style command line editing for cmd.exe
I usually brew on an Aeropress - ~20g coffee @ medium grind (~18 on the Baratza Encore), inverted, no stir (maybe a wiggle), about a minute of contact time. I bought an Able Disk mesh filter but lost it, I don't really miss it.

In terms of beans, I usually go for Blue Bottle (Three Africas is always a solid option, also their holiday Oakland Lights blend is really good right now). That said, Trader Joe's Lys Kaffe blend is like $6, it's like 80% as good as specialty coffee for half the price!
I think that it would be realistic to think we will never get back to theses times. Tech has already been pushed too hard into new generations.
In your opinion it is the least compelling argument.
I'm not sure why you think Bitcoin is so trustworthy. Personally, due to the extreme volatility, obvious price manipulation, and outright theft of bitcoins with no recourse to get them back, I find it extremely untrustworthy.

I have no idea if this personal currency will be more trustworthy.
Having use intellij ultimate and datagrip, pretty much, datagrip was a DBA orientated product built around the excellent database tools in intellij.
Traditional variant calling, that is bayesian methods, have gotten very good at detecting point mutations, that is single letters. But have hit a wall when it comes to more complex structural mutations, we wanted to build this for example to focus on driver/passenger mutations in tumor/normal samples. (check out the "Preface" post for our LSTM version, and the logic behind this)
A little nitpicky here, but the original claim is "shouldn't be used for anything serious" which is an entirely subjective statement. I don't know if proving something subjective is false is really possible.
Manual vacuum used to be a pain on Postgres.
What My Cat Taught Me About Product Design
No, but the customer did ask for cheaper phones. They asked for water proof phones (to infinite depth). They like the way slimmer phones look. All of these conspire to push manufacturers to make the changes you have listed.
Or more X comes at the cost of A and B. Car companies have a terrible habit of making options packs where you have to choose between stupid arbitrary things such as:

- Auto-dimming rear view mirror

- Compass

- Blind Spot Information System

OR

- Heated seats

- Heated Wing Mirrors

- Decent sound system

There is no reason you shouldn't be able to have all of these things together on your vehicle, but they say "Hey, you can have one option pack or the other, no compromises!"

Would I want a vehicle with more X? Absolutely I would. I would have one in a heartbeat if it also came with A and B but it does not. And given the asinine requirement I must choose, I will take A and B over X... even though I really want X.

If a vehicle came with A, B and X, I will take it over any vehicle that is missing one of those features.
Ajit Pai being an ass is not news.

The more interesting item is the FCC's implicit assertion that submitting comments under fake names is not against the law.[0] That's the part that should have people overturning tables.

The FCC also said that Schneiderman has not "identified any specific law or legal authority" to support its assertion that submitting comments under fake names violates state law.

[0]https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/fcc-chair-still-...
Making your own tools is a great learning experience but probably not the best idea for production processes.
Yeah, what a disappointment.

In the early days of NoSql, a lot of dev were still shoehorning graphs, objects, or giant look up tables into SQL database, and yes, it turns out that there are some wonderful databases to store and query this sort of data that don't rely on a relational model.

And then... yep, a bunch of magpies decided that SQL shouldn't ever be used. It's important to point out that plenty of people who pioneered and promoted graph databases, object databases, and so forth didn't go down this rabbit hole. When the data was relational, plenty of these folks were all for relational databases.

But I don't think you can claim the "NoSQL => never use SQL => SQL is obsolete" crowed was just a few outliers. This opinion infected a lot of software development organizations, and did plenty of harm.

I love SQL, but let's not get too enthusiastic about sending the pendulum swinging back the other direction, even if tempting to watch it knock a few of the overly zealous NoSql types off their perches. Trust me, I still feel a flash of anger inside when I think of some of the arguments I had to go through when I advocated for relational SQL databases. But I don't want to be that guy myself - plenty of non-sql data bases are really well conceived and designed, and are ideal for the problems they address.
Interesting artile. My opinion, buying a car is a compromise decision. You pick the feature(s) you most value and also factor in how much money you want to spend. If the most appealing feature to you is no longer present in follow up model then the car doesn't have the same appeal.

Personally I don't understand why pick up vans are becoming more curvy. I prefer the more square type.
Still, subsidies given do not really indicate long-term sustainable food supply. The most efficient way to guarantee food for the population is by growing plants directly.

If it turns out that the farmer that uses the water for his grain fed factory-farm animals, then the allocation of that money was useless.

There's much more protein/carbs/fiber calories per energy wasted in vegetables than it is in meat in the case of factory farmed meat.

To me it just looks as if luxury foods like meat have large industry players that have influenced the law and the politicians to get subsidies they need to keep their products as cheap as ordinary poor-man food (potatoes, beans, dark greens etc.).
Can't you email the .epub files to your kindle and it opens them?

I was doing this with a Kindle Paperwhite.
Hmm i have been looking at this one before.

Could you share some user experiences, like how often you get updates, and the start guide has a 'Connecting to a remote PostgreSQL server via SSH' section, without content yet, does tunnelling via SSH work nice/as expected?
The Patreon page says they receive $177 per month. That's too low for a project with such a high popularity and usage.

I read somewhere ( and I bet ) it's used by Google / Facebook / Apple employees.
If it's anything like the TRAPPIST-1 discovery announced in February then we're in for a treat.

http://www.newsweek.com/seven-earth-sized-planets-orbit-near...
Tried this a few months back.. didn't work :(
Right. Because if I trust a bad actor, but others don't then they'll be spending through me and I'll end up with useless currency.
Measuring things like this in terms of surplus/deficit indicates economic illiteracy.
Your link says "red & processed" meat, which is a very different claim than saying that red meat causes cancer. Is there any good evidence that red meat causes cancer?
The Answer: Yes, but use this Front End Framework.
"LIQUi|>" is hands-down the worst name for anything I've ever seen. Do they really expect people to write it like that?
Downvoting everyone answering the title question and not reading the article. You guys should be better than this.

It's not about cowboying or NIH. It's about using a library called Turbolinks https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks to render static pages server-side and swap the content out with js.
German intelligence unmasks alleged covert Chinese social media profiles
+1 for DBeaver, tried most of the alternative clients already, love how you can easily copy and paste a generated INSERT statement based on a selected row, makes easy for "debug cycles".
What did you intend to start? You think something productive was going to arise from insulting people?
Right! As the article points out very clearly, it's not the "more X" that stops people buying the new product. It's that to get more X, those cars gave up Y and Z which were really the most important parts even if customer's didn't convey that to the product research guys.

In this case, if the customers do say that more X is a good thing, then having more X probably would lead to more sales for B -- but B is probably deficient in Y and Z. You have to cover the required essentials for the specific product before you can improve on the nice extras.

In the case of a small car, customers would say they'd like it if it was bigger with more headroom and more carry space. If you solve this by increasing the actual physical size of the body, your product will fail. If you solve this by laying out the existing body to give more room, your product will succeed. Although even if you succeed in keeping the same amount of weight and body size and improving headroom, your car will still fail if it now looks ugly because of the changes.

The key is to consider the entire product holistically and focus on all of the user's needs at the same time. Don't just focus on 'more or less X'.