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Ask HN: How would you market an innovative product in 2018?
With the dynamic changes of many major platforms, how would you go about promoting an innovative product in a 2018 digital context?
The article's format and tone remind me of a US high-school speech and debate "radio" speech: http://www.msdlonline.org/radio-broadcasting.html. Not good or bad per se, just a familiar style.
Cool, and a great programming tutorial!

I was thinking I might see Go in a device-control application, but alas not. The program uses a modern computer's video system. The original Space Invaders code likely had to shift pixels out to the video display in realtime. So a different programming feat entirely, but still cool!
Sure, but the OP isn't saying that 2017 was better than the 1950s, he says he believes it to be "probably the very best year in the long history of humanity". Which means it's better than 2016, 2015, 2012, etc. Is it possible all those other years had similar continent-level crises that make them less bad than 2017? I get that his larger point that Western suffering is a small part of the equation. But it seems to me there was a lot of suffering elsewhere too. Not Holocaust or Spanish Flu levels of suffering, just maybe enough to make it less great of a year than others this decade.
It is saying "are shipped to India each year" so that means it is coming from abroad, right?
A related problem is that international stage is a market by itself. Nations compete for the business of large corporations. Which leads to creation of ridiculous tax exemptions and loopholes.
> Card-readers are “trust your bank with information security” black boxes.

Well of course I trust my bank. No escaping that. The point is not to have to trust the vendor.

> online banking

I wasn't suggesting a payment system based on signing-in to online banking.

Your complaints about online banking security may be valid, but aren't the same issue.
Yes, especially if it’s just to occasionally recalibrate an inertial guidance system.
The weird thing about browsers that tries to protect your privacy is how many website will get broken because of this.

I managed to disable cookies by default using cookie whitelist, and I counted many website that broke down.

I applaud firefox for daring to break website for the sake of privacy, but I'm waiting for websites to react.

Firefox should be even more strict regarding privacy: ask the user if he want to set a cookie, never save history etc.

I'm using the extension that compartmentalize website usage on firefox, and this should be made default.
If it's anything like "Learn to Program with Minecraft" then it's a waste of time. "Learn to Program with Minecraft" is too simple to be fun or useful.
How cryptocurrencies are being used to evade sanctions – Axios
While being correct is a great start, it is necessary to also explain why one is correct. PS. Deep Learning aficionados, take note.
The enormous value that the technology provides is anonymous, distributed consensus. It enables digital asset ownership. It enables self-organising permissionless networks. It enables humans to organise and transact without any central authority for the first time. That's the real value.
> But then the corollary is, sometimes the data is good.

Yes. but in my limited experience with ML, "the data is good" usually isn't the

>> most likely

explanation :-)

> This is what happens with loan or crime data sets, and it made plenty of noise in the news recently - but only the kind of noise in which people say it's obviously the algorithm that's broken, because it doesn't fit the "polite fiction" they'd like to believe.

People say the algorithm is broken because it's illegal to discriminate on the basis of race, and these algorithms were sneaking "discriminate by race" "in through the back door".

Calling the law a polite fiction won't get you very far when the judge issues an injunction against using your product because it's racially biased.

And the judge doesn't care how machine learning researchers define bias. He cares how the law defines bias.

So, if you're diddling around on your computer in your own time, then I guess the algorithm isn't broken. But if you're building a product you want to sell to courts or insurance companies, the algorithm very much is broken.

That is, unless you think "the law is a polite fiction and bias means only what ML researchers say it means" would be a winning argument to lift an injunction against your product. If you're going to make those arguments in front of a real judge, let me know; I want to see the bulge in that judge's forehead :-)

No. People say the algorithm is broken because it obviously is broken.
I think that you can call yourself a libertarian and still be in favor of the state compensating for negative externalities.
Perhaps you could have cut some running costs by not using images with 12MB (displayed as 461x151 px) on the main page?
I'm not surprised the novelty of this wore off quickly, it looks like it'd be agonisingly slow to make anything with this. Is this even intended to teach anything technical? It just looks like a generic platform builder with a really tedious interface
> Immelt talked about making GE a “top 10 software company”

I thought this was interesting in particular. After years of cutting back on R&D, Immelt makes a top-down push in a direction that GE had allowed to lie fallow for decades, into a market already dominated by strong competitors. Why not play your strengths? GE's days as a computing pioneer are so long gone, they're practically lost to memory.
How does this compare to Webstorm's autocomplete functionality (as it's one of the primary reasons I started using WS years ago)?
I've found the same. Bought robot turtles, lasted a few hours. Scratch is cool but too hard for my kids to envision a "finished product" beyond, "make the thing walk 3 steps and fart" (I have 2 boys). We also tried the whole code.org thing which has minecraft and star wars themes, not interested.

What I did find, though, is that by taking something they're really interested in and finding a tech way to enhance their experience has been the key. I am putting my money on just constant, positive exposure to tech and how it can solve their problems or answer their curiosities.

The thing I'm teaching my kids the most right now is hard work. You want to be a youtuber? great, do the work. Write a script, storyboard your project, plan it out. Don't just turn on the camera and start mumbling about minecraft. I have found that it's 100x easier for them to put in more time on something that doesn't feel like school.

I know not everyone cares for Disney but if you and your kids have been to the parks, these two books have been amazing to my kids:

Walt Disney Imagineering: A Behind the Dreams Look at Making More Magic Real
https://www.amazon.com/Walt-Disney-Imagineering-Behind-Dream...

The Haunted Mansion: Imagineering a Disney Classic (From the Magic Kingdom)
https://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Mansion-Imagineering-Classic-...

Just really fun for them to understand all the work that goes into that magic they love.
Madness. Code is so much cleaner when developers drop "this" from their code.
By that definition, I think every single human being would describe themselves as "pragmatic libertarian".
Tesla will sell solar panels and Powerwalls at Home Depot
Not really... I’ve been holding a small amount of crypto since 2013. It’s still about 10x the (small) amount of money I put in.
see also:
(infinite) Minesweeper is turing complete
http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/R.W.Kaye/minesw/infmsw.pdf
I think there are also significant risks involved when facing the hyper-rich. SMEs are a dime a dozen. If some get sacked for skirting or breaking the rules, nobody cares. But if you piss off a large megacorp enough to make it e.g. build its new factory elsewhere, or move its business away entirely, then suddenly your political career is on the line.
Ask HN: Is software development measurable?
I'm especially curious about measuring multiple aspects of development based on source code repositories.
Problem is enumerating all the possible code paths that could break at the current line.
Maybe because it's a ridiculously vague and abstruse question that presupposes a set of ideas that libertarianism, or any political philosophy for that matter, never set out to directly answer?

Libertarianism is simply a political framework which we can use to see and interpret the world. It can be combined with other frameworks to help us reach even deeper levels of understand (or perhaps not).

The right-libertarian could argue that the best solution is a competitive marketplace that will fuel hyper-economic growth, and accelerate the rate at which we develop technologies that allow us to ween off of fossil fuels.

A left-libertarian, maybe someone with a strong civil libertarian persuasion, could argue that the non-aggression principle is being violated by the emissions of greenhouse gasses. They would then establish an "emissions rights" framework, and perhaps a marketplace to address the issue.
People won't change unless the incentive structure (monetary or in the shape of social pressure) is in place to make them want to do it.
Is the colistin even being manufactured by pharmas? Or is there just some chemical plant pumping it out?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colistin
I have not worked at a place where the workflow was so holy and important that it couldn't be captured in a near default JIRA install

JIRA out-of-the-box is surprisingly sane - most people who hate JIRA really hate the custom workflows their own organisation has inflicted on them.
NIS Directive: EU directive on security of network and information systems
They call this dystopian, but I don't get it. Why keep a slacker around when you have limited slots for workers? Why not measure and retain good workers?

Somebody please try a little to see beyond the linkbait title of the OP. Knee-jerk anti-the-man comments aren't very helpful in digging into why this is a good or bad idea.
In Lithuania/Europe, testing center provides standardised car for the exam. You're not allowed to take test in anything but provided vehicle. Which is clearly marked and equipped with extra mirror/brake for examinator.

Driving schools have their own vehicles as well. Big part of their fleets is usually same as exam vehicles so you could get used to those.
I think he's being fair. The real difficulty in making an ASIC is justifying the huge price to start production. The good old "the first chip is worth $10 millions, the second is worth $5" or something like that.

Designing a bitcoin mining IP is not exactly difficult, it's basically two rounds of SHA-256. It's still some work of course, but as far as ASICs are concerned it's very low on the difficulty scale.
I tried not to make it too golfish, but dispensed with niceties such as error detection and somesuch (which aren't there in the bash version - still autodie will catch most snafus). I also joined a few lines to make it closer to what's happening in the shell version. No doubt experienced golfers could make it tighter/shorter, but methinks that's not the point of the exercise.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use English;
use autodie;

$OFS=$ORS="\n";

sub f { my $h ; opendir($h,$_[0]) ; print "--",(readdir($h)),"--"; closedir($h);}

my $out;

open($out,">/tmp/out.txt") ; select $out ; f("/tmp");close($out);
open($out,"| wc -l ") ; select $out ; f("/tmp"); close($out);

select STDOUT;

Would I use perl/python to write this kind of stuff? 'course not. Why would I go through the opendir rigmarole, if all I really need is 'ls'. But there are zillions of (non application) tasks where bash's syntax gets very quickly unwieldy (think filenames with blanks, quoting quotes, composing pipes programmatically, having several filehandles open at once...) while perl shines. And you can still throw the occasional

@ary=split("\n",`ls`);

around if you feel so inclined.
Are you kidding me? Loopholes like that don't exist. The tax code starts from the assumption that you owe them money, but for very specific reasons allows you to deduct or credit from that amount owed. They simply do not naively put in deductions that shouldn't be there. The idea that "loopholes" are unintentional vulnerabilities is completely disconnected from reality.
Amazon Posts Largest Profit in History
Could someone tell me how antibiotics promotes weight gain in livestock? Is the use of antibiotics only a necessity because so many animals are kept in close quarters? What about antibiotics causing weight gain in humans?
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You don't magically get or lose celiac disease. You have it or you don't.

And 1% is not huge no matter the context. That's sort of the entire point of percentages...
I apologize (that goes for both you and mainly for ComputerGuru), this was not my purpose here. Please do delete this comment thread as it clearly goes against what HN stands for. Negativity isn't one of my values and I'm sorry for it. As you said, the annoyance bug bit me hard.
Dorker.io adds automated Bing hacking for pentesters. Shodan next?
I see a ton of imprecision in technical discussions here daily, and that's a topic on which one would expect some expertise here. And yet the pedantry that receives is far less annoying than the inevitable tax avoidance cliche-rants.

Why? Because there the pedantry is at least topical. Here, it is arguing language in order to grind an axe on a side issue almost completely unrelated to the Ikea founder.
> It will directly increase shopping on Amazon.

Is there any evidence to this speculation?

Linked article has a link that just points to the sales of the device itself as proof.
Since when does checkout needs to be an "experience"?

I'd much rather trust Paypal than a company worried about losing track of me or that I might see a different branding.

That different branding is the very reason I'm doing the transaction in the first place: I trust Paypal way more than any company's self-hosted checkout.
"They seem to think morality is an individual action radically isolable from cooperation with others"

Morality is allways individual action, as we are all individuals.
Also if we individuals decide to form a group, for example for insurance and help those in need.

"If one company refrains from pollutants, it is "donating" profits to a moral cause not persuasive to other businesses"

Unless it openly adverts about this practice amd people who do care, are therefore willing to spend more money on this company.

This is happening a lot right now with organic food and other things (sure, some might only do it, for themselve - better food quality, but not all and even those still feel better, as they know they also help biodiversity and a enjoyable landscape)

edit: and those laws don't exist there, because people don't care there. Laws are just another way of expressing the will of people. I just prefer laws to be the last way and not the standard.
Why Microsoft Office is a bigger productivity drain than Candy Crush Saga
Are you prepared to wear a bracelet when you work?
This kind of makes sense. I mean, sure, never breaking backwards compatibility is a great way to get popular, but you also end up with systems that are inflexible and hard to maintain.

Also, Microsoft Office 2019 somewhat looks like the title of a science fiction thriller.
Because people aren't robots. That's not how the brain works. People can't concentrate 100% for 8-12 hours a day every day consistently.

>What if your supervisor could identify every time you paused to scratch or fidget, and for how long you took a bathroom break?

I certainly wouldn't want to work under those conditions.
Measurable for what? Do you mean in terms of:

* Security - yes

* Efficiency - yes

* Size - yes

* Execution speed - yes

* Accessibility - yes

* Speed of bug fixes - yes

* Speed of writing new features - yes
Considering windows 10 is the only windows that's not in extended support, that's not too unreasonable.
Unlike Java, JavaScript requires "this".

Edit: I didn't realize this would be a contentious point! I'm not trying to advocate for any particular style of JavaScript, just making the point that places in Java where "this" can be omitted, in JavaScript it cannot.
I made no comment on justifying or not justifying particular worries.
Because economy exists to sustain and enrich the lives of humans, not the other way around.
Is enterprise adoption of Windows 10 a real thing? I've yet to interact with anybody who uses it at work, but I don't work for a big company any longer. (Although the big company I used to work for is for sure still using Windows 7.)
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Did that find seem awfully pat? A neat layering of all know tool types found in one site. Its what you'd find if somebody was constructing a myth.

Is this actually atypical? What other sites worldwide compare with this complete history in one plot?
Because, as usual, they're more interested in an emotionally charged image rather than overall effect.
So the best workers will be people too. No worries; folks won't be judged or measured as robots. Not an issue.
Yes. From 7 to 10 (recently or near future) is common.
You're describing competitive intelligence.
Except that the laws are the rules, the rules are publicly published, and everyone has access to them.

If McDonald's is selling a 10 piece McNuggets for $1.49, and a 20 piece for $4.99, then buying 2 x 10 piece McNuggets for $2.98 is a loophole around paying $4.99. If you find it immoral, so be it, but it doesn't change that you're paying more for McNuggets than McDonald's requires you to pay.
Hi HN! This is a Chrome extension I've built between classes. I linked to the blog post explaining the project, but here is a link to the Chrome store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/donate/ejlaogipbpi...

I open sourced the front end (https://github.com/zchr/donate-extension). Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Because you're monitoring someone constantly.

Imagine if your manager sat behind you breathing on your neck while you coded. He has a pack of tic-tacs so his breath is fine.

He crushes the tic tacs with his teeth everytime he thinks you're not working
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Millions of people wear a fitbit. I used to wear a watch (to regulate my work day). How many office workers wear a badge? Most of them. Not a problem
Was skeptical, but the version at the bottom is quite good. Made me realize how much I can improve my logic in the game.
An insightful comment that had to be made - I wonder why people downvoted it.

Indeed, Amazon is probably the best and the worst about the modern tech: an ambitious leader, who manages to create paradigm shifts in areas where he is not a subject matter expert; and a sweatshop-like environment where the low ranking employees are treated like oompah loompahs.
I strongly believe consumers are blissfully unaware of how complex software can be (and what software is by nature more complex than what other software). It's not only a problem with the people you show your independent work to, it's a problem with non-technical management as well. I'd be very interested to understand a few of the ways non-technical people think programming works. If someone would put together some non-trivial demo, and get 100 non-technical people to speculate (in detail) on how they imagine it was made, I'd imagine the answers would be fascinating.
I really hope you're not in a position of management.
There is by now a large literature on the destructive effects of Welch-style "rank and yank" management (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve#Consequences).

Since whoever comes out on the bottom of the evaluation list will be fired, for instance, employees are incentivized to sabotage each others' work to make sure that it's someone else left without a chair when the music stops; and managers are incentivized to deliberately hire underqualified people to fill open positions, so they can protect their good workers by having a designated loser to throw to the wolves when evaluation time comes.
Yet, capitalism and the free market. This is little different from a McDonalds shift manager watching over workers at the lunch rush.
> Finding a loophole in the tax code is no different to finding a flaw in some computer code that gives you some access you were never intended to have.

But the former is not illegal while the latter most definitely is (unless it's your own software, etc.).

Loophole has negative connotations. But it really depends on many factors.

A prosperity gospel preacher buying a second LearJet tax free is not the same as a company hiring contractors to stay under 500 employees in order to retain some small-business benefit.