skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drowning can have bad reasons: you are not ready, your product is under-priced, your product is trendy based on an point-in-time event/PR/whatever, ...

And it can have bad consequences: your customers might get unhappy because of delivery delays, lower quality, you might try to adjust the product/price loosing early customers or making a mess, your thinking and doing will be in a hurry, ...

Overall, the trend might not last, and others might get into that market in a better shape than you.

Market-fit is more about the long run: being able to have regular steady growth, of customers, of the revenue, being able to learn and adapt to it, having positive feedback again and again and again, ...

I think this "drowning" idea is a pure bro/VC one: you demonstrate in a short time that you can attract a lot of customers, you get good press (for that short time), investors, millions (or billions) of money pours in, and it's not really about the customers or the long game of making a product.
While there's a lot that could be written about what decentralization even means, or how to measure it, no reasonable definition would require a decentralized system to be entirely outside of the influence of everyone all the time.

For instance, Satoshi told people something that all participants considered reasonable, and so the participants reacted accordingly. Systemic reasonable behavior is not inconsistent with the principle of decentralization, it's a consequence of it.

The origin of systemically-reasonable policy is orthogonal to the idea of decentralization, unless that origin is structurally mandated.
Arguably, your connections know more about you than your interviewers would. Maybe that's the meritocratic way to do things.
My one complaint:

The keyboard is just too delicate. I’ve owned a 2016 MBP without touchbar since January of 2017 and I’ve had 5 keys get faulty on me. Previously I’ve owned one MBA and one rMBP (2012 design) and never had issues with the keyboards on those.
Pilot isn't "more bookkeeping software", it's "hire this company so that you don't need to worry about getting into the weeds in QuickBooks Online every month, because you have a person who will do all your work in QuickBooks Online for you (assisted by our software)".

It's not that bookkeeping is rocket science or totally unlearnable (you can definitely learn it), the question is really whether it's actually the best use of your time to master it (when you could instead be focusing on running your business).
Foodora fires courier for refusing to quit workers' chat group
"He and his parents have spent more than $400,000 on legal fees" for doing the right thing https://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-whistleblower-shook-th...
Not convincing reasons. We can assume from their question they are happy to use their phone for most if not all of what you list.
I know, I couldn't believe the chief of a major software product at Apple would talk smack about the previous team. It's what a newbie might do when he has screwed something up. Classic dodging.
I can see phones replacing/merging with wallets long before something replaces phones themselves
I use it for these things, they're ok. I occasionally try to get it to control an app, it usually fails, but that's my dream state: I'd like to be able to say, "Hey Google, open app X and do Y task."

But I don't know if there's enough incentive for apps to add an assistant interface. How easy is it to add commands on your app that it will accept via assistant? Are there common APIs or structures for this to shift the incentives, allow it to proliferate app by app, rather than waiting on the assistant developers to manually do each one?

After that we need to go back to Aza Raskin's project, uh, Ubiquity? Anyone could build little scripts, verbs, that helped build a natural language input from the ground up. That's how we get to stuff like, "Hey Google, take a screenshot of news.ycombinator.com and email it to Joe."
That would still constitute insider trading.
It's a little unclear to me how this is comparable to the Ellen Pao situation. Admittedly I haven't followed it as closely, but it sounded to me like she had some different ideas about where reddit should go and mishandled a key employee change. One can criticize those choices, but they hardly amount to being terrible at her job or fraud or not deserving the position in the first place.

I think a stronger case could be made that she was mistreated than that Elizabeth Holmes was. I don't know enough to have a position on whether that's right or wrong in Pao's case, but I can see the argument. I think Holmes was pretty clearly being attacked for all the right reasons however, and not for being a powerful woman CEO/founder.
https://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2017/10/1/saupload_g...
Same way strings in python are immutable yet still allow you to delete and recreate. Git repos are not blockchains
Even from a C amateur point of view I feel the same way in my learning of the language. I can’t speak to multithreading or very large applications yet— but the view from the ground looking up is that C is relatively straightforward. The small size of the language is something of a relief.
Yes, I turned off Siri when I got an Echo and turned off the Echo when I got a Google Home
Alas, Digg Reader is shutting down at the end of March
Apparently so 50% chance of walking after
Any good replacement recommendations?
How to Develop  Interview Intelligence
For traditional retailers, e-commerce is an upstart that 'steals' sales from established geographically-based territories. To support the e-commerce project is to betray all established players. It cannot gain support until it is much too late.

This is true of almost all 'disruptive' technologies, and is the reason that startups can win so big.
Forbidden Feeds: Government Controls on Social Media in China
Technical Interviews are not a straight line. It’s a zig-zag. It’s a maze. It’s a treasure hunt. We’re always lost with no GPS.

Often the most significant challenges during the interviews come from our inability to read the interviewers behavior.

We misread their feedback and react in the ways that cause more confusion and damage.

Remember that your every word will have an impact on the interviewer and they will unconsciously emit signals about their satisfaction level.

If you can train your mind to decode this feedback, then you can immediately correct your direction during the interview.

Train your eyes, ears, and mind to understand the interviewer's reaction. And then adjust your behavior accordingly.

This is called interview intelligence. And it could be the only option to rescue you, in a messy situation during interviews.
True democratic and transparent electronic voting system is a legitimate use case for the block chain.

The fact it's hard to not only implement correctly, but to promote to society does not mean it's not relevant.

Good things take time.

Remember that people thought for some time that general relativity and the Law of large Numbers would never have practical applications.
Mobile license pilot study to allow police to 'ping' cellphone for a license
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Without open mindedness about the type of success you may encounter, your startup is doomed. And without humility about the limits of your knowledge, your startup is doomed.

I agree with most of the article, but gosh, why do people always have to make these kinds of absolutist negative statements? Frankly I find such a tone quite condescending.
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This is actually incorrect. Courts including the Supreme Court will take into account "legislative intent" when interpreting a law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_intent
That’s only true if you need to make all of your money off of the original hardware sale, which is why Android phones tend to fall out of support much sooner than iOS since Apple still benefits from iCloud, iTunes, App Store, etc. sales but Samsung, et al. don’t have an equivalent revenue stream.

Your last sentence isn’t often correct either: I have a 2012 Toshiba TV. The hardware is in great shape but of all of the apps it shipped with only the Netflix and Vudu apps still work because everything else broke when Google, Yahoo!, etc. stopped SHA-1 support. I agree that no new features is a reasonable policy but at a minimum you need basic security & compatibility support for 5-10 years.
> A good example of this is that many engineers are known for a just-the-facts, no-frills approach. This is because engineers tend to prioritize facts and correctness over aesthetic and emotional value.

And yet engineers are over-represented (compared to people with other degrees) amongst Creationists and conspiracy theorists and, I would guess, terrorists. I think engineers value simplicity and direct causation more than facts or correctness.
There's a rebuttal too

https://twitter.com/Dagk/status/974047743596404737
You can read more here: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2371516

A new e-mail appears in my inbox explaining that zombies have invaded Georgia and are
trying to eat the brains of the data-center technicians there.
The zombies have severed the
network connections to the data center. No network traffic is going in or out.
Lastly, the e-mail
points out that this is part of a DiRT exercise and no actual technicians have had their brains
eaten, but the network connections really have been disabled.
Deep Learning in Medicine: how to segment vessels when you only have 6 images
A framed house is about the safest building you can be in in an earthquake. They are small enough that they just flex with the earthquake.

It's masonry buildings that are the most dangerous.

Either way, you should not be trying to exit a building during an earthquake because the greatest risk is debris falling on you, not the building collapsing on you.

In fact, framed houses are so safe that the current advice is that if you are in bed when an earthquake occurs, you should stay in bed. You are more likely to get hurt trying to get out of bed and find cover.
It's good business to have a contingency plan in case your main headquarters falls into the earth, though. Surely a technological focused area like Silicon Valley would consider these potential existential threats to the bottom line. At least the larger orgs.
I keep hoping Siri will work on something like "How long is <Store/Restaurant> in <City> open?". I don't know if Google or Amazon succeed here either.
Primum non nocere. Like so many things in life, life in general usually becomes dramatically easier when you first do no harm. It's even Warren Buffett's first maxim of investing, first don't destroy capital. Progress in life compounds dramatically faster if you manage to avoid going backwards whenever possible.
Propane/LPG is problematic in boats - it's heavier than air so it sinks down into the hull and pretty much stays there unless you actively ventilate it. It's not an insurmountable problem - petrol/gasoline fumes have the same "builds up to explosive concentrations in the bilge" problem too, and lots of boats use that as fuel (at least down in recreational sizes, not so much in ferry sized vessels I don't think) - but I wonder if the combination of propane buildup in the bilge combined with the possibility of sparks from very high power electric motors and controllers is a showstopper in these cases?
The thing I find interesting about these stories is: the 500$ watch, is in essence a flip phone, plus an iPod Shuffle, in one.

A flip phone and an iPod Shuffle cost me 100$, and a 25$/mo plan, unlimited talk/text, almost 15 years ago.

Now we have a flip phone + shuffle on your wrist, for 500$, plus you almost certainly have an iPhone - 50-100$/mo plan, plus what, 200-500$ flat fee for the phone? Oh, how much are those airPods? Add 150$ to that bill.

The same functionality from 10-20 years ago, should cost less, not more, if we are to use a little common sense. It feels like Apple's fantastic feel for aesthetics and horrid android offerings, have led people to believe it's reasonable to spend roughly a thousand dollars a year if not more, to do the same things you did 15 years ago for 1/5th if not 1/10 the cost. We're getting the same functionality, in a SLIGHTLY more convenient (arguable) wrapper, and it costs way more! This is the opposite of progress.

Before anyone jumps out and tells me how useful their 'smart'-phone is, let me remind you the most used apps on there are pure empty entertainment (social media, games), with very questionable long-term costs (I predict an epidemic of neck and shoulder problems hitting the developed countries in the next 20-30 years)
Let’s stop copying C (2016)
If you're using Python as the back end of a web server. There are many other reasons.
You just said the same thing he did, added a Wikipedia link, and called him incorrect.

There should be a name for this. A "triple HN" or something.
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For some of you who use Supervise.ly to annotate images: now you can train & run neural networks to build AI faster. And it's still free!
I don't know why it's there, but it's breaking my HN client app on iOS :-/
I am probably the most bullish person I know about them. I love the convenience of USB-C, they run cooler than any other model I've owned, great screen and trackpad, etc.. but.. it's the keyboard. I find it fine to type on but I have to lever up keys and blast with air very frequently. It feels so fragile.
Leonidas would be proud of you
The reality is that in basically all profressional domains you are expected to be able to use, at a profressional level, the software required to do your job.

For developers that includes version control and package managers, amongst other things.

Do you need to know how git is implemented? Of course not. No more than you need to know how your compiler converts source code to executables.

...but understanding the basics of the tools (eg. what paths and layer groups are, to compare to photoshop), isn't something you can just wave your hands in the air and say 'not my problem'.

Its your job to know this stuff.
The reference was to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pao_v._Kleiner_Perkins , not the reddit situation.
There’s a difference between capable and convenient. The watch is a great way to have less disruption for many of those tasks.

One example: I never use siri on my phone - it’s too slow and flaky and typing is so much faster. I use Siri on my watch all the time because they apparently have a better QA team and I don’t need two hands to use it which is really good on my bike or as a new parent, especially now that our son is jealous of attention going to a phone.
https://feedbin.com/ is really good and not miles apart in the interface
Isn't that enough time to start to slow BART trains?
This also directly contradicts one Steve Jobs' management principles:

> "Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering," says Jobs, adding, that Rubicon is "crossed when you become a VP."

> In other words, you have no excuse for failure. You are now responsible for any mistakes that happen, and it doesn't matter what you say.

http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-on-the-difference-...
Another site of which I'm aware, Sinfest, has passed 18 years:

http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-01-17
glitchy, especially when power is low

touch bar is useless and gets in the way

individual keys can go out

touch bar Contrast and Volume require more keypresses than dedicated key versions

escape key is in different position than dedicated key version
It honors the passing of someone important. In this case, that person is Stephen Hawking.
Your expectations are arbitrary though.

I expect my Rolex to last a hundred years and my Apple Watch to last as long as my phone. Especially since technically that is what it largely is. A small phone on your wrist.
The problem with Reddit is this... not sure how to fix it.

I like to play a game where I make up sort of believable 'true stories' about minor celebrities. I always make sure they are VERIFIABLE FALSE to someone who did the tiniest bit of fact checking.

Sometimes they only receive a few up votes... but a lot of times they get thousands. Eventually someone will call bullshit, but that person is just crushed by the avalanche of up votes. Lying about minor things isn't something most MODS will ban you for, or even delete your comment, so most of them still stand.

There has to be some mechanism where one person who can prove they know the truth, has more voting power than the general visitor who does not. It's just like something Sheryl Sandberg said to me at a women's leadership conference. "It takes a lot of people working together to build something great, but it only takes one asshole to fuck it up."
Many believe that when it comes to certain issues (like fraud) it is society that determines what justice is, and it has the right to force its members to comply.
Broken Angels is also my favorite. Kovacs is an extremely complex character. He's been tweaked so much, in becoming an Envoy, that he's fundamentally an AI. He's somewhat like the vampires in Peter Watts' novels.

Also, I'm very impressed by Morgan's skill in writing action. Maybe that's what you mean by "pulp".

I also loved the "A Land Fit For Heroes" trilogy. I hadn't read fantasy for years. And from that, I discovered Joe Abercrombie and Matthew Woodring Stover.
My experience is not mandatory for anyone else. I use the phone to actually talk 90% and quickly look something up/kill time when on the go 10%. I also like to keep interruptions to a minimum, so smart watches just don't have any purpose for me.
> You pitch "The best automated way to do X!", but in actuality you have a horde of people doing the work initially to figure out the problem before building the actual automation.

It is plain dishonesty.
It's so interesting that putting someone else down to make yourself look better almost always does the opposite.

Surprising that a person at his level wouldn't be mature enough and self-aware enough to realize that.
The issue with that is that he would need to transfer the IP from the UK entity to the US entity, right? And, at that point, that would be a taxable transaction for sure.
Maybe there's useful data in the aggregate of all signals.
Apple fell behind in voice on Jobs' watch and prior to the Siri acquisition. In fact, it's probably more accurate to say that Apple was behind on iOS progress and facing a ho-hum 4s launch. Hence, the quick 8-figure Siri buy and hurried integration that put them behind the 8-ball on voice ever since.

The broader context is that Apple doesn't seem to get: "It's the 'AI,' stupid!"

As an aside (OT), it's interesting the way Mashable essentially republished paywall-protected content. If there was new reporting there, I missed it. But that's the nature of modern media.
I lost my value in most books in 2010 ... my feeling about books is that lots fall under motivational porn and they provide instant gratification then things you can apply.

Plenty of great fiction exists, too, you know...
> in git, for example, why can’t i switch branches with uncommitted changes? it makes no sense why i can’t do that, but yet, there it is.

Because the working tree having uncommitted changes being blown away would be terrible data loss or a conflicting merge, so when that could happen, git prevents it.

Use `git stash` to stash your uncommitted changes before switching branches and you'll no longer have data loss.

If you want to apply those changes again use `git stash pop`.

If you don't want those changes use `git stash drop`.

Why isn't there a commandline option to checkout a branch and do a stash operation at the same time?

Because no one has needed it enough to add it.
I have a couple of Echo devices in my home.

I use an Echo Dot on my nightstand to control my LifX lightbulb, adjusting its brightness between 1% and 100%, as my wife and I prefer extremely dim lights right before bed. When my daughter was younger, I also used the same Dot to set timers when we were trying to give her a few minutes to get herself back to sleep when she'd wake up crying.

I use a full-size Echo in the kitchen to set kitchen timers, to populate shopping lists, and to check the weather occasionally as we're going out the door. I also sometimes play music on it.

Recently, I've started using the Google Assistant on my phone to start music in the car (so as to avoid physically touching my phone while driving), and I've started to decide that it's easier to say, "Hey Google, navigate to 123 main st" instead of using the touchscreen, even when I could use the touch screen.
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If the Siri infrastructure is so bad I don’t understand why Apple doesn’t already have several skunkwork teams trying to create a fresh alternative for the past few years.
How many employees have left?
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Ahh, Protracker.

But let us not forget Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedball_2:_Brutal_Deluxe)

And forget the Blue Screen of Death... Amiga gave you Guru Meditation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation
Yes use the Google assistant all the time and it is excellent.
I often wonder about this. I know founders that have instantly taken $100k off the table on a $1M angel investment. but such is silicon valley life i suppose?
First, fix your attitude. You don't use it and you think it's the "most useless piece of electronics you've ever seen." So you've committed to your position before even giving the product a chance.

I'm still using my Series 0 on a daily basis. I use it for:

1. telling the time (duh)

2. as an activity tracker

3. unlocking my Mac

4. Apple Pay

5. Discreet notifications

As for battery recharging, it's a minor inconvenience but not a deal breaker. I thought it would be an issue but it isn't. A non-tech wise old man said "I'll just follow my routine and charge it by my bedside every night". Even if you don't follow the routine and forget about charging it, it recharges relatively quickly.
I carry the RATS tourniquet in my range bag, and with my bmx race gear (with other first aid craps). In the cars are trauma kits with celox. I should add celox to the range bag. I’ve taken a few first aid classes, the wife has training in how to handle medical emergencies from her time as a 911 dispatcher.

I keep trying to get a buddy’s former ranger nephew to give us some “classes” based on what he experienced in Afghanistan.
Except a Ponzi scheme repays old clients with new client funds. In this case he was paying them out of his own pocket.
No, in this application cards are all distinct, not merely half red and half black. There are n! permutation of a deck of n cards, and a uniformly chosen random permutation contains entropy equal to the base 2 logarithm of n!.

Both choosing a random permutation given a supply of random bits and, as noted in the parent post, extracting random bits from a given random permutation are nontrivial computational problems leading to interesting algorithms; shuffling cards or tiles is a good practical shortcut to obtain a random permutation more directly.