skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>People buy the X because it's a status symbol and they want to be seen with it.

I find this aspect of the tech industry so gross that I'm considering changing careers. Building a new tool that makes people's lives better is great, but much of the time it just becomes a status symbol. No one should feel bad for owning a machine that's a few years old but does everything they need. I'm not convinced that consumer gadgets fill a real need any more rather than just being new and shiny for the sake of being new and shiny.

Unless we as a society can get over showing off by buying things we don't need, I think we're in trouble.
Nice idea.

but i people would not want to give you permission to see their google drive files - may be add another option like, have people make their slide public and use that url to create GIF.
In what sense? Unless you mean the MRA/PUA bullshit about 10% of men getting 90% of the women.
> A funny thing is that a fully static LTO processed and inlined app is extremely hard to crack once ASLR is in play since you get no returns and get to mess only with what is inside.

How often does that actually happen? On macOS and Windows the answer should be "never" since the syscall ABI is not stable...
It’s funny, you failed to mention the group with the real power there... politicians, specifically, Congress.
> We Can’t Reduce User Experience To A Single Number

Growth is a single number, and NPS is measuring growth, not UX.

I'm no big lover of NPS, but this analysis is awful! He claims it's bad because he doesn't understand it. That's not very scientific either.

I'm not sure NPS works well at all, but the idea behind it is obvious. It's a growth metric. The goal of NPS is to tell you how many new customers an existing customer will refer to you over the lifetime of their account.

This is just like population statistics. NPS is trying to measure your customer birth rate by asking how many customers are (or intend to be) pregnant. It's not an accident that there are only two thresholds, and it's wrong to conclude that these thresholds indicate a problem with the method.

If a customer recommends less than one new customer during the entire time they're with you, then you have a replacement rate less than 1, and you're losing customers over time. If you have a replacement rate between 1 and 2, and your customer lifetime is long (say, years) then you aren't growing fast. If your replacement rate is 2 or higher, and your customer lifetime is short (say, weeks) then you are growing more than 200% month over month virally, without the need for marketing.

What the people who designed NPS did, I am sure (meaning I'm speculating, but giving the strongest possible interpretation), is measure some responses and compare it to the number of actual referrals, then drew the lines where the referral rates cross from negative growth to neutral grow, and from neutral growth to positive growth. That's what I would do. And it seems plausible that people who give a score of 6 or less won't end up referring anyone, on average.

Sadly, the article doesn't conclude with any real alternatives for measuring growth. Since NPS is an indirect growth metric, the better answer may be to simply measure your growth directly. That means understanding engagement and activity, not just counting how many accounts exist, but other than that, counting your active customers is a single number that will reliably tell you growth, and can't be gamed by your customers -- it can only be gamed by yourself and your team.
Everyone would agree that right now and the US dollar is experiencing about 2% inflation, and the number of bitcoins in circulation is increasing about 4% per year, yes?
And when you're in Berlin, whenever you see your bank's ATM, you know you must get some cash. Soon you'll need it and the nearest ATM is broken, so you must spend a considerable time to find another one.
> If practicality is the #1 priority for phone shoppers, they will simply buy a 7 or 8.

Yep, Apple is slowly filling in price points below the top end. They will not ever be budget, but they have iPhones starting at $349.

I'm confused about all the hubbub around the 1k price tag. Top end phones with the next storage option were already ~1k. Additionally, most people buy their phone using the free loan from the carrier so the price goes from ~$40/month to ~$50/month if they wanted the X.

I think Apple beats earnings and successfully raises the ASP across the iPhone line using the X.
I think the methodology assumes that only a small fraction of people are pedantic enough to do that
And for patient transport the NHS does use private drivers
Surely shipment figures trumps your personal travel observations?
If I find it, I'll post it. I did just find this, however, and it touches on the same concepts (and may lead you to relevant content): https://medium.com/homeland-security/the-sexual-origins-of-t...
I think Apple might have missed the mark by not adding some kind of incentive for the wireless operators to continue offering subsidized phones. Wireless operators helped create the market when the $500+ iPhone was considered costly:

http://fortune.com/2017/01/11/death-of-the-199-iphone-wirele...

Additionally, phone market is reaching maturity slowly. First few generations had real changes in terms of hardware and capability. Sure, there are new capabilities but none of them are in the category of "Must Have".
No way Obama is remembered. He is too insignificant. He did noting that will impact life in 1000 years. You are viewing the future with 21st century rose colored glasses.
I read that Electrum recommended you move your coins (both BTC and BCC) to a new wallet after getting your forked BCC.
> There are boards with all that.

Problem with these: I can never be sure what level of acceleration for video playback is supported - and in what quality. The Pi is pretty rock solid in that department. Also, the Pi has by far the biggest community and extensive documentation, and I can rely on there still being Pis available in years, compared to the Chinese outfits where no one knows how long they'll stay in market.
[2009] or eight years old "news".
The fire department has started billing farmers in my area for burning their fields on high wind days
It may be true now, as modern block buster lipsync is atrocious (at least in France). But 20 years ago people cared a lot about it.

I remember distinctly this wonderful line from the 5th element:

- Are you classified as human?

- Negative. I'm a meat Popsicle!

Which they translated to french into:

- ...?

- Negatif. Je suis une mite en pull over !

Which has not relation at all to the initial line, and literally translateds mean "I'm a moth wearing a sweater".

But it's equally nonsensical, definitely as funny, and the beautiful thing is, the lipsync is near perfect.

However it's a lot of work, requires very talented people to achieve, and is mostly useless in the eyes of the right owners: money will come anyway if the movie is average, so why bother making it better ?
> Also, if there is a defense against ROP and other exploits that makes it possible to do away with ASLR and ESP please let me know.

Memory safety.

Everything else (ASLR, DEP, CFI, heap hardening, etc.) is just fiddling around the edges -- it's not an engineering approach that produces reliable or safe software.
An ambulance is a van and actually not very comfortable to travel in speaking from experience
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Why not ask Apple to replace the battery and see if that helps?
> People buy the X because it's a status symbol and they want to be seen with it.

I think Apple may have overplayed their bet on this point. Unless their top end clients are going to buy the 8, then dump those on the market and start buying the 10.

If it is a status symbol, then those people are going to want the latest iphone, regardless of cost, right? In that case, many of the people who are already flaunting their 8's will have to make the decision of either holding onto the 8, or moving to the 10. I'm sure those pure status symbol seekers will indeed move to the 10, but doing so could create a large increase in stock on the 8 and driving down its price.

Do you think the way they positioned it was done on purpose with the $1000 price tag so they're not losing their shirt when their market starts to cannibalize itself?
Why broke millennials love “Rick and Morty”
I thought credit reporting agencies already provide this data?
Kinda cool to see the cutouts on that. He wasn't so good at experimenting that he drew these all together. It looks like he cut and pasted them together in this format.
But we have HAML and PUG for this already (HTML preprocessors)
I don't disagree with you about what people should do, but the reality is that consumers have been this way for a long time, the only thing that changed is that phones shifted from commodities people bought for performance to fashion accessories. People pay more for cars, bags, clothing, etc. to elevate their feeling of status, now we can add phones to that list. Perhaps this has been Apple's greatest contribution to the hardware industry.
Think of who is remembered from the years around 1000 AD. Basically war generals and scientist. So my top contenders are Einstein and Hitler.
Amazon and Microsoft staff used company emails to buy sex
I imagine this is similar to the taste difference between corn-fed and (strictly) grass-fed cattle.
Hey, I work for Peer5 (I'm pretty new) mentioned above (YC2017), we're definitely the most affordable way to scale your video to petabytes of traffic.

It doesn't work everywhere (for example if you need sub-second latency) but it's heaps better than stuff like webtorrent for live/vod video (something I checked before I joined). We can typically offload 90-98% to P2P meaning we can offload 90% of the traffic to P2P.

We don't typically talk about cost savings (we talk about improving quality of experience for end viewers of the video) but cost savings is definitely there.

This is the first time I'm talking about my job here (usually I'm all Node.js and JavaScipt in HN) but if you want to talk business shoot me an email at benji @ company name.com and mention you're from HN.
The thesis of this article is that the artificial shortage of females ends up inspiring men to commit violence. The distress caused to women doesn't result in violence, generally.
DuckDuckGo broke through 20M searches last quarter
Ramit Sethi and Patrick McKenzie on Why Customers Are Happier If You Charge More
For your last 3 paragraphs, that's absolutely terrible. I'm in the US and none of that mirrors my experience at all.

> diabetes usually shows itself, hypertension is a silent killer though.

Diabetes does not always or often show itself until a major issue has come up.

> i'm not arguing against check ups, but I could imagine why they are not as effective as you might think.

I have this sense that medicine is in some kind of "PTSD" from ...something...? right now. I don't feel like I can mention things to a doctor without them feeling like they absolutely need to do something about it. For instance, there is this one doctor at my child's pediatrician who will prescribe things (for instance she prescribed a nausea medicine when my kid had a stomach bug) that my wife and I are like really; it doesn't help that she doesn't communicate anything about the meds. (Yes, we've mentioned her to the other doctors at the practice.) But that's an extreme case, but little things in the same vein do annoy me.

I don't think yearly checkups are a cure all, but there are chronic diseases that our socity lends itself too. Changing social patterns (e.g. what we eat, how we get around, &c) would probably do more than any amount of medicine could.
Humidity will make some parts of the world unlivable in 50 years
The reason that government writing (and institutional writing in general) is often so bad isn’t because the people writing it don’t know how to write plainly, but because they don’t want to.

When you’re reading something from an institution that seems unnecessarily obscure or indirect or passive, there is usually a reason, and that reason is usually that if they had stated the plain truth, it would make them look bad.

There was a great geeky essay about the language of the video game portal that went into this:

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/114904/Analysis_Portal_a...

And of course the classic Orwell essay:

http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit...
Consumers have this in them, but it’s conditioned by a couple of centuries of marketing.
I’m from Germany, and there’s a lot of effort spent on lip syncing, but it’s not even close to what you get with the native language.

As child (due to deafness until I was almost 5) I relied a lot on lip reading, and it was very noticeable if something was dubbed.
Why I think machine learning-enhanced software systems are the future
> Additionally, phone market is reaching maturity slowly. First few generations had real changes in terms of hardware and capability. Sure, there are new capabilities but none of them are in the category of "Must Have".

I've been saying this for years. I'm starting to see family and friends holding onto their phones for two, sometimes three years now. The prime movers to upgrade are slowly disappearing like you said.
If the shipment figures were fully disclosed, sure. But the linked article is purely heresay and unsubstantiated speculation.
People still believe the shit "analysts" say?
>We Can’t Reduce User Experience To A Single Number

This is the crux of the issue - CEOs do need a simple metric to summarize performance in each of their business units in order to evaluate performance and prioritize company resources. Metrics are only useful for decisions if they are easy to understand, and consistently measured. Just as Earnings is used to measure profitability, and Revenue is used to measure growth, NPS is the best they've come up with so far for customer experience. Of course none of these 3 metrics is perfect, but they still need to be measured and complimented by more detailed reporting. To better understand Earnings you look at changes in the component parts, revenue and cost. To better understand NPS you look at the mix of scores (1s, 2s, 3s, etc) and follow up questions like actual referrals, which differ by business (unlike NPS which can be applied more broadly).

The author devotes most of the article pointing out that there are areas where follow up questions would give a richer understanding of customer experience, which of course all NPS proponents would agree with.

What he could do a better job of is trying to convince us why executives shouldn't even attempt to summarize their company's performance in customer experience, just like they summarize lots of other complex activities to report to shareholders. Too many companies focus only on hard metrics like revenue and profits, which is why they find NPS a helpful way to steer the company's focus back to the customer.
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I bought it because $1000 is not a large expense for me and I use my phone all day long so I prefer to have the nicest experience possible (for me that means the best iOS device, for someone else it might mean the best Android device on the market).

For middle class people in the first world (and upper middle class people in China), spending $1000 every 1-3 years is not enough to make a meaningful dent on finances.
> Security to me seems like a sales pitch - Apple is just as sensitive information greedy as Google. And I deal in this area with Google as well as I do with Apple.

I was scratching my head when I read this part of your comment. It makes me wonder if you ever owned or used an iPhone. iOS is end-to-end encrypted, and Apple doesn’t store any data on their servers, save for iCloud. And you don’t need to use iCloud to have a functional phone.
Rampant, ignorant speculation:

Was the Ancient Egyptian term for sky related to words for "heaven" (the domain of the gods, and/or the place to which souls travelled after death)??

Seems that if it were there's many possibly etymologies. The page linked appears tentative about it, which seems reasonable. For example a Pharoah who wanted iron for themselves could declare it "of the heavens, and so only to be used by Pharoahs", which would make it "heavenly" to a people who associated sky and heaven. Or, perhaps chondrite was seen, as it is by me, as looking like a piece of the Milky Way fell down - association with "sky" but for unscientific reasons. Or ...
Making More Money with Value Pricing: Robert Middleton Interviews Alan Weiss [pdf]
I use Kill Sticky Headers for those, and if it fails, reader mode, and if that isn’t available, the back button.

https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
Very good book, and very informative. Glad I am going to read this.
China simply doesn’t have very strong rule of law, so the notion of illegal isn’t meaningful. What is deemed corruption is up to official discretion, and so you’ll be “made an example” if you step out of line; likewise, if you are too clean, you won’t get promoted because you can’t be controlled like this. There is no independent judicial system, no separation of power to carry out independent prosecutions, no independent media to do investigative reporting independently to cause public outrage (and when they do by accident, the punishments are severe). You are either safe or you aren’t as china has basically rejected rule of law (and constitutional law) as a western imperialistic concept.

This has nothing to do with democracy. Singapore is relatively undemocratic (opposition parties are slapped with libel suits on a regular basis) but lacks significant corruption as they have very strong rule of law (the Lees are benevolent tyrants).

Saying corruption in china is similar to corruption in the states is like saying their air pollution is similar.
I get a new iPhone every 2-3 years. This year I spent $10 a month extra to get the best possible screen and camera on a device I use hours every day. Not because it’s a status symbol. And very happy with my purchase.
I wish the author went deeper into the topic. For example JWTs have a pretty straightforward structure and if you use just a subset of the spec they look like a clean and simple solution. But did the author check Macaroons? Did they consider SSL Client Certificates?
> Virtually every single thing you consider a positive can be traced to ideas that came from religion. (e.g.) Charity, helping your neighbor, community, law, proportional punishment...

You mean judeo-christian morality. The prevailing theory, as I understand it, is that this morality evolved from the play circuit that exists in mammals - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI9n2yC14fU

A quote of his, which I cant find, sounds something like "For all the flaws in Catholicism, it's probably the closest that humanity has gotten [to an optimal moral framework]".

I think that's overstated. The enduring religious orders that have survived thousands of years, do have a some sort of claim to such a thing. Generation after generation responding to archetypes (repeated in non-religious culture) is compelling, to me.
Two limitations here are worth keeping in mind:

- Throughput is not stellar (less than 1 mbit/s in a realistic setup);

- This is not a real IEEE 802.11s mesh, but rather some clever mechanism on how a node can select an "uplink".
Ask HN: Any recommended books on developing mental models?
Too expensive? It’s $10 a month more.
Ah, I missed that. Ya, Hubei would have been a huge stretch, though you might be able to attach that to chongqing.
14%? I try to aim towards 0% as much as I can.

It's a numbers game. While the industry buys and sells impressions, only a tiny percentage of people actually buy things. Why in the world can't THE TYPE OF PERSON that tolerates online advertising be their target, instead of the rest of us innocents?

You ever take a taxi or Uber and have the radio blaring, including commercials (which last many minutes at a time, sometimes a huge percentage of the ride)? I have, in fact most of my car rides. THAT is the type of person that tolerates ads.

If the entire ad experience were opt-in, maybe they could charge higher for impressions. Those impressions would actually matter, because the chances of trying to forcefeed and forcibly distract a concentrating nerd reading a news or tech article and the latter getting annoyed would be much smaller.
PC inventory software
Pay-per-click doesn't need to be part of the arrangement.
There are products I love but which I never promote to my friends. I provide the company with revenues, but will never contribute to their growth. On the NPS scale, that’s a solid 8.
When you do an irreversible computation, the “destroyed” information has to go somewhere, producing an increase in entropy, which has a cost typically paid in energy. Expel less information, expend less energy.

We usually expel our waste bits as heat, so my understanding is that reversible computers could also be run without so much need for cooling.
> If practicality is the #1 priority for phone shoppers, they will simply buy a 7 or 8.

Clever or particularly frugal shoppers may note that the SE has the same chip as the 6S (the A9) and can be had for $250 unlocked and in mint condition.
The part that irritates me is, I am actively punished for being someone who doesn't behave this way.

It used to just be the hidden surcharges that phone companies tacked onto my bill to cover the cost of the "free" phone, calculated from the assumption that I'd get a new phone each year.

Those surcharges are now gone. But they have been replaced with constant nagging to update the OS to a version that will harm the performance or battery life (or both) of a >2yo phone. They have been replaced with apps that will eventually refuse to stop working if I don't upgrade to a version that doesn't run on the older version of the OS that I used to use. They have been replaced with mobile sites that flat-out don't work on my older device's smaller screen.
People are still paying monthly, just not in obscure plans their wireless providers keep interesting lace far too long.
When the response during meeting discussion is always "let's take that offline," then it's a waste of time. First off, no one is "online," stupid buzz-speak, but more importantly it's useful for some issues to have a small group of people work it out together so everyone is on the same page.
Sorry, I'm not an economist but I'm not seeing a connection. It seems like you just may not like the idea of capitalism and are trying to connect it to something else which you consider to be bad.

Turkmenistan's recent history is as a (Soviet) socialist republic and it ranks very, very low on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_Economic_Freedom. I'd need further convincing that this practice is reflective of a culture which embraces capitalistic ideals like free markets and voluntary exchange.
Very cool! I'd never of thought of doing this, that way.

I've wondered before if you could measure alcohol ABV using a fuel cell alcoholmeter.
> I find this aspect of the tech industry so gross that I'm considering changing careers.

What career are you considering? There are even high-end supermarkets. This is a human condition.
FWIW sometimes I'll do an emdash -- which allows a conceptual aside -- by using two hyphens, but always with spacing so as not to confuse the usage with word-joining.
A Lesson on Elementary Worldly Wisdom (1994)
I appreciate the equivalency, but that is markedly untrue by any objective measure.
United Bitcoin also seemed like an overly-elaborate attempt to encourage people to spam the Bitcoin chain (which has been running close to capacity) with junk transactions by promising them tokens if they did.